Summary: In Chinas Olympic cohost city Qingdao sea breezes that usually bring relief from baking summer temperatures now bring a cloying stench from a massive algae bloom that locals fear will harm the citys bucolic image during the Games
Summary: Police said on Sunday they had arrested four young males and one girl in connection with the knife killing last week of a 16yearold boy on a street in south London
Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged on Monday to resist calls for greater union rights saying full employment would be achieved with a flexible workforce rather than by strikes
Summary: A suicide car bomb hit two diplomatic vehicles entering the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday killing or wounding at least 30 people witnesses and Afghan media said
Summary: A British government report on food policy to be published on Monday says the link between demand for biofuels and rising world food prices needs to be more closely examined
Summary: House builder Persimmon will confirm on Tuesday that it has made around 1000 staff redundant the Telegraph reported on Monday without citing sources
Summary: Israel will begin exhuming bodies of Hezbollah fighters on Monday ahead of a planned swap with the Lebanese guerrilla group which is holding two soldiers an Israeli military spokesman said
Summary: Britons would rather spend less on everyday luxuries than deny themselves an annual holiday despite the credit crunch fear of negative housing equity and rising food and fuel costs a survey shows
Summary: Irans foreign minister on Sunday expressed optimism about what he said was a new environment for talks with major powers over its nuclear program
Summary: Almost half of final salary pension funds have moved assets from equities to bonds in the past year as they respond to market volatility and aim to match assets more closely with liabilities figures show
Summary: Chinas stance on future talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama rests on how he answers demands not to disrupt next months Beijing Olympics an official said highlighting intense anxieties about the Games
Summary: Australias government said on Monday it could delay introduction of a planned emissions trading system expected to boost fuel and power prices as polls showed its record recent popularity slipping
Summary: Climate change could cut South Africas maize crop by 20 percent within 15 to 20 years as the west of the country dries out while the east is afflicted with increasingly severe storms its environment minister said on Sunday
Summary: The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) ? the nation?s largest and most influential pro-life organization ? emphasized the monumental importance of this year?s election during its annual convention Thursday.
Summary: A video filmed using a hidden camera showed how Zimbabwe?s runoff election was not free nor fair as citizens were forced to vote for President Robert Mugabe in last month?s runoff election.
Summary: An LAPD sergeant says that he was punished with disciplinary action and denied numerous pay raises and promotions because of his religious objections to homosexuality, according to a lawsuit recently filed against the city of Los Angeles.
Summary: Lawyers representing groups that oppose same-sex unions have asked the California Supreme Court to reject a bid to remove from the November election ballot a measure that would ban gay ?marriage.?
Summary: The parents of one of the two French students murdered in London a week ago in a frenzied knife attack appealed on Sunday for the killer to come forward and said they would not rest until the guilty party was found
Summary: The Group of Eight rich nations will seek to convince a sceptical Africa on Monday that it is living up to promises to double aid to the worlds poorest continent
Summary: Police said on Sunday they had arrested four young males and one girl in connection with the knife killing last week of a 16yearold boy on a street in south London
Summary: Freed hostage Ingrid Betancourt spoke on Sunday through a radio broadcast to those still being held in the Colombian jungle by leftist guerrillas urging them not to lose hope
Summary: The European Commission is ready to provide up to 250 million euros 198 million pounds in development aid for Zimbabwes worsthit sectors if the country gets a legitimate credible government the EUs aid chief said
Summary: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into a USled coalition air strike that local officials say killed 15 civilians but the US military says killed only armed Taliban militants
Summary: OPEC President Chakib Khelil ruled out on Sunday an eventual oil price fall in view of strong Chinese and Indian demand adding geopolitics and a weak dollar were behind the current spike Algerias APS news agency reported
Summary: Democrats in Hong Kong urged Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to speed up implementation of direct elections on Sunday during his first visit to the city since taking charge of its affairs as a state leader
Summary: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Sunday called on the international community to unite in condemning the reelection of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said the opposition should now come to power
Summary: Syrian authorities said on Sunday they had restored order at a military jail near Damascus after a riot but dissidents said the insurrection was not over and dozens of prisoners had been killed
Summary: Unknown assailants shot dead the Somali head of the United Nations Development Programme UNDP late on Sunday as he was on his way home from saying evening prayers in the chaotic capital Mogadishu witnesses said
Summary: A suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 23 in an attack on police who had been guarding Islamists marking the anniversary of an army commando raid on Islamabads Red Mosque
