Summary: New Oasis Centre to act as parliament for the charity section to enable more effective relationships with government and media around the role of faith groups in public life
Summary: AP - Residents of Myanmar's largest city were plunged into a primitive existence Monday, using candles instead of electricity, lining up to buy shrinking supplies of water and hacking their way through streets blocked by trees felled in a cyclone that kil
Summary: AFP - China's state press on Monday accused the Dalai Lama of "monstrous crimes", keeping up its fiery rhetoric against the exiled spiritual Tibetan leader despite agreeing to maintain dialogue with him.
Summary: AFP - Aid agencies Monday rushed emergency food and water into Myanmar after a cyclone tore into the southwest of the impoverished nation, killing more than 350 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
Summary: AP - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. had offered for the Internet pioneer.
Summary: Reuters - U.S. military involvement in
Afghanistan and Iraq would make it difficult to mount any
attack on Iran, the Pentagon's top officer said in remarks
broadcast on Monday, adding that he would prefer to avoid a new
regional war.
Summary: The Rev Richard Cizik the face of the green evangelical movement was named among Time magazines top 100 most influential people in the world for 2008
