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: 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
