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: 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: Alabama has all sorts of tourist trails — there's one for civil rights, another for birds and yet another for old churches. The newest one was introduced Tuesday to promote the state's wineries, but Baptists aren't joining in the ...
Summary: The father of a theoretical subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle" says he's almost sure it will be confirmed in the next year in a race between powerful research equipment in the United States and ...
Summary: The younger generation of Christians is embracing music with a harder edge, according to a popular magazine for Christian teens that announced in its latest issue its readers' top music ...
Summary: Actress and human rights activist Angelina Jolie urged the international community on Tuesday to make educating Iraqi children a greater priority
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: The mother of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been charged with perverting the course of justice and child neglect the Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday
Summary: Thousands of Brazilians clamored for a piece of gangster chic on Tuesday jostling their way into a sale of goods ranging from flatscreen TVs to designer underwear confiscated from a convicted Colombian drug lord
Summary: Russian regulators have approved the worlds first cancer vaccine validating an unusual strategy by its maker to introduce the product even though it failed a latestage clinical trial
