Summary: AP - New outbreaks in China reported Wednesday put the number of children infected with hand, foot and mouth disease above 15,000 and the death toll has risen to at least 28 across the country.
Summary: AP - U.N. officials on Wednesday declared Myanmar's stricken Irrawaddy delta a "major disaster" with corpses floating through flooded waters and enormous logistical challenges hampering humanitarian aid efforts.
Summary: China Aid Association CAA has learned that officials from the Arong Qi Security and Religious Affairs Bureau detained two house church ministers last Thursday
Summary: The House on Wednesday will begin debate on a housing package that would let the government back loans for homeowners at risk of foreclosure - a move many Republicans have opposed.
Summary: Black megachurch leader Bishop TD Jakes said on Monday that he was pained at seeing the AfricanAmerican church portrayed negatively by the media
Summary: AP - A broad housing rescue package aimed at preventing foreclosures would have the government step in to insure up to $300 billion in new mortgages for struggling homeowners.
Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama took a big step toward
the Democratic presidential nomination with an easy victory in
North Carolina on Tuesday, and Hillary Clinton vowed to keep
her struggling campaign alive after narrowly winning Indiana.
Summary: AP - On the rebound, Barack Obama left Hillary Rodham Clinton with fast-dwindling chances to deny him the Democratic presidential nomination after beating her in North Carolina and falling just short in an Indiana cliffhanger.
Summary: AFP - Aid groups said Wednesday they were still awaiting permission to enter Myanmar, where they reported bodies rotting on the ground and desperate cyclone survivors dying from hunger and disease.
Summary: Gordon Browns government will announce on Wednesday whether it plans to reclassify cannabis in a move that is set to draw criticism whatever the outcome
Summary: An investigation was underway on Wednesday after a man was shot dead following an armed siege by police at a house in the fashionable Chelsea area of London
Summary: Barack Obama scored an easy win in North Carolina on Tuesday to take a big step toward the Democratic presidential nomination and Hillary Clinton struggled to a narrow victory in Indiana that kept her faint White House hopes alive
Summary: Military helicopters dropped food and drinking water to the cyclonestricken people of Burmas Irrawaddy delta where entire villages have been virtually washed away officials said on Wednesday
Summary: Russias deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war very close a minister of exSoviet Georgia said on Tuesday
Summary: Thirty guns will salute Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday when he is sworn in as a new Russian president in the Kremlins throne room to replace his longtime mentor the powerful Vladimir Putin
Summary: Disease hunger and thirst pose a major threat to hundreds of thousands of survivors of Cyclone Nargis aid agencies said on Wednesday urging Burmas military rulers to open the doors to international humanitarian relief
Summary: Supporters of Lebanons Hezbollahled opposition blocked main roads in Beirut with burning barricades on Wednesday paralysing the city and deepening a political conflict with the USbacked government
Summary: Jam Bigum a drug addict in Afghanistans impoverished northern province of Badakhshan feeds her threemonthold son opium three times a day to keep him quiet
Summary: President George W Bush made a rare appeal to Burmas military rulers on Tuesday to accept US relief officials and added 3 million 152 million pounds in aid to help victims of a cyclone that devastated the Southeast Asian nation
