Summary: Protesters angered over Chinas crackdown in Tibet marched in San Francisco ahead of the Olympic torchs arrival on Wednesday but Olympics chief Jacques Rogge said there are no plans to cut short the global torch relay
Summary: The top US officials in Iraq will testify on the war for a second day to Congress on Wednesday as the Bush administration makes its case against a big troop pullout
Summary: Seven Maoist cadres have been shot by police party leaders said on Wednesday while another partys candidate was killed in separate incidents of violence ahead of elections meant to map Nepals political future
Summary: Zimbabwes opposition accused President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday of unleashing a campaign of violence since the March 29 elections and called on African states to intervene to prevent widespread bloodshed
Summary: France abandoned a mission to treat Colombian rebel hostage Ingrid Betancourt in her jungle camp on Tuesday after guerrillas rejected the initiative in a setback to attempts to free scores of captives
Summary: Haitians erected fiery barricades and tried to storm the National Palace on Tuesday as protests against rising food prices which have killed five people paralyzed the impoverished nations capital
Summary: Kenyas opposition suspended talks with President Mwai Kibakis party on Tuesday and police fired tear gas to scatter opposition supporters protesting against deepening deadlock over a powersharing cabinet
Summary: The National Christian Resource Exhibition CRE returns to Sandown Park next month with a seminar workshop and special features programme carefully constructed to meet the needs of people at all levels of church leadership
Summary: China has further tightened smoking restrictions targeting schools and day care centres as it extends a crackdown linked to its pledge to hold a smokefree Olympics
Summary: A group of 15 Tibetan Buddhist monks interrupted a statesponsored media tour of a riothit region of western China on Wednesday demanding the return of the Dalai Lama and yelling that they had no human rights
Summary: Robert Mugabe could still redeem himself by stepping down as president of Zimbabwe to ease tensions after elections that threatened his 28year rule Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday
Summary: The UN Security Council on Tuesday strongly deplored violence in Haiti sparked by high food prices but called for emergency aid to relieve hardship in the Caribbean nation
Summary: A former Iranian nuclear negotiator has been given a twoyear suspended jail sentence for breaching national security a news agency said on Tuesday
Summary: AFP - Archbishop Desmond Tutu called for world leaders to skip the Olympic Games in Beijing as Tibet supporters vowed to send their message to China, ahead of the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco Wednesday.
Summary: The father of Dodi alFayed killed in a Paris car crash with Princess Diana in 1997 said on Tuesday he accepted the verdict of an inquest jury and was giving up his legal attempts to show the couple were murdered
Summary: Prosecutors are expected to open their case on Wednesday against three men accused of conspiring with the July 7 suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Londons transport system in 2005
Summary: Portuguese police have asked Madeleine McCanns parents to return to the Algarve to stage a reconstruction of the night their daughter went missing a family spokesman said on Tuesday
Summary: House prices fell sharply in March hardening expectations of an interest rate cut this week and prompting unusually blunt remarks on rate policy from Prime Minister Gordon Brown whose popularity has slumped
Summary: Reuters - Protesters angered over China's
crackdown in Tibet marched in San Francisco ahead of the
Olympic torch's arrival on Wednesday but Olympics chief Jacques
Rogge said there are no plans to cut short the global torch
relay.
Summary: Reuters - The top U.S. officials in Iraq will
testify on the war for a second day to Congress on Wednesday as
the Bush administration makes its case against a big troop
pull-out.
Summary: Tipped that girls as young as 13 were being forced to enter "spiritual marriages," have sex and bear children, Texas officials raided an isolated polygamist retreat in West Texas, according to court documents. The teen girl whose phone call prompted the s
