Summary: The Texas State Board of Education on Friday gave final approval to establishing a Bible elective for high schools but left specific class guidelines up to local school districts. Board members voted 10-5 to adopt broad standards for the Bible class.
Summary: The Texas State Board of Education on Friday gave final approval to establishing a Bible elective for high schools but left specific class guidelines up to local school districts. Board members voted 10-5 to adopt broad standards for the Bible class.
Summary: AP - Angelina Jolie has left the building. Oh, and so have the twins. Before dawn Saturday, the Hollywood superstar and her newborn twins left the French Riviera hospital where she gave birth a week ago, the hospital said in a statement.
Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama was in Afghanistan on Saturday to talk to NATO commanders
and U.S. troops about the war he says is not getting enough
attention from the Bush administration.
Summary: Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced new $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy.
Summary: Iranian officials ruled out any freeze in uranium enrichment on Saturday at the start of talks over Tehrans nuclear program attended for the first time by a senior US diplomat
Summary: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday on the first leg of a trip aimed at proving his foreign policy credentials that will also take in the Middle East and Europe
Summary: Pope Benedict on Saturday apologised directly for the first time for sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy but victims groups in Australia said they wanted action and not words
Summary: Chinese police arrested a human rights campaigner in the countrys southwest for possession of state secrets after he offered help to parents of children killed in the regions massive earthquake his family said
Summary: Thailand and Cambodia sent troops and heavy guns on Saturday to their disputed border where hundreds of soldiers faced off for a fifth day over an ancient Hindu temple
Summary: Six members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party PKK were killed in a clash with Turkish military forces in southeastern Turkey late on Friday security sources said
Summary: Zimbabwes central bank will introduce new highervalue 100 billion Zimbabwe dollar notes on Monday as part of a desperate fight against spiralling hyperinflation the bank said
Summary: Nepal was set to elect its first president on Saturday from a marginalised ethnic community whose violent demand for a greater say in running the government once threatened a peace deal with Maoist former rebels
Summary: A new round of talks between Iran and world powers over Tehrans nuclear programme will make or break the negotiations a senior Iranian official said on Friday
Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would listen to Irish objections to the EU reform treaty when he visits Dublin next week but that the view of the 23 countries that have adopted the treaty could not be overlooked
Summary: Four people were killed and seven were injured when a massive crane collapsed at LyondellBasells Houston refinery on Friday afternoon a refinery executive said
Summary: Two French aid workers were abducted in Afghanistan after gunmen tied up guards and broke into the guest house where they were sleeping humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger said on Friday
Summary: AP - Tehran on Saturday ruled out freezing its enrichment program, casting doubt over the sense of key nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers less than an hour after they began.
Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday he wanted to reduce British troop levels in Iraq but he refused to set any timetable for their departure
Summary: Chancellor Alistair Darling said in an interview published on Saturday that he was considering reforming the rules governing public finances and expected the economic downturn to last for years
