Summary: Reuters - South African President Thabo Mbeki said
on Wednesday that outside players like the European Union or
the African Union could not impose conditions for a solution to
the Zimbabwe crisis.
Summary: AP - Katie Hoff and Natalie Coughlin usually dominate their events in the pool. But the indefatigable teenager and the highly decorated Olympian rarely swim against each other.
Summary: Floods like those that inundated the US Midwest are supposed to occur once every 500 years but this is the second since 1993 suggesting flawed forecasts that do not take global warming into account conservation experts said on Tuesday
Summary: The Group of Eight major industrialized countries meeting next week in Japan cannot by themselves set effective longterm world goals on curbing greenhouse gas emissions the White House said on Tuesday
Summary: The World Bank on Tuesday agreed to establish two investment funds to help developing economies switch to cleanenergy technologies to curb carbon emissions and help poor countries adapt to climate change
Summary: Penguin populations have plummeted at a key breeding colony in Argentina mirroring declines in many species of the marine flightless birds due to climate change pollution and other factors a study shows
Summary: Opinion polls show most people believe Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim did not commit sodomy against an aide after he was jailed on a similar charge seen as politically motivated before it was overturned
Summary: We do it about 215 million times a day so humans need to stop shying away from talking about sex and the babies it makes to help avert the global climate crisis environmentalist and author Robert Engelman says
Summary: British Airways has agreed to buy small French business airline lAvion for 68 million euros 52 million pounds and it will become part of its new OpenSkies unit they said in a joint statement on Wednesday
Summary: Retailer Marks and Spencer issued a shock profit warning on Wednesday and said a consumer downturn was likely to be deeper and last longer than previously expected hammering its shares
Summary: When African leaders meet their rich G8 counterparts next week the inevitable smiles will mask bitter disappointment over broken promises on both sides
Summary: Five people were killed and more than 300 injured in a riot in Mongolias capital among people alleging fraud in a weekend election the countrys justice minister said on Wednesday
Summary: Britons are cutting back on trips to outoftown retail parks due to rising petrol prices and doing more of their shopping on the Internet according to the latest retail trends survey from Experian
Summary: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised the selfsacrifice and relief efforts of Christian charitable organisations in China Sunday while surveying disaster struck areas throughout Sichuan province as part of a greater goodwill tour with Chinese off
Summary: European Union trade chief Peter Mandelson said on Tuesday he was being undermined by repeated criticism from French President Nicolas Sarkozy and urged EU states to unite behind his push for a world trade deal
Summary: AP - Republican John McCain planned to tour a Colombian port by boat Wednesday to get a firsthand look at the country's drug interdiction programs, a day after he praised President Alvaro Uribe for Colombia's anti-drug efforts but pressed him to improve t
Summary: AP - A Republican congressional candidate in a majority-white Mississippi district runs ads trying to tie his Democratic rival with Barack Obama's former pastor, seen by some as an anti-white firebrand. Democrats distribute fliers accusing the Republican
Summary: Reuters - When African leaders meet their rich
G8 counterparts next week the inevitable smiles will mask
bitter disappointment over broken promises on both sides.
Summary: Months of misleading headlines and rumors floating in the blogosphere have prompted one influential megachurch to set the record straight about the major changes the church is making
