Summary: AP - Partners of Chinese women who were forced to have abortions are pressing the Supreme Court to make it easier to get asylum in the United States.
Summary: AP - The Olympic flame reached the top of the world Thursday. Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch along with Chinese and Olympic flags Thursday on the top of Mount Everest.
Summary: Three planes loaded with 45 tons of relief supplies remained on the ground Thursday, waiting to fly to storm-ravaged Myanmar to provide a small dose of assistance amid a mushrooming humanitarian crisis.
Summary: AP - Myanmar's isolationist regime blocked United Nations efforts Thursday to airlift food aid to cyclone survivors, U.N. officials said, as the hungry fought for what little food was available and drank coconut milk for lack of clean water.
Summary: Reuters - A team led by a U.S. State Department
nuclear envoy entered North Korea on Thursday to persuade
Pyongyang to declare its nuclear activities as called for in a
six-country disarmament deal, an official said.
Summary: AP - Strapped homeowners could refinance into government-backed mortgages and states would get money to deal with foreclosed property under Democrats' housing aid plan.
Summary: AP - The reaction — or lack of it — by Indiana and North Carolina voters to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's incendiary comments emphasizes how deeply entrenched the racial lines of support are for the two Democratic presidential rivals.
Summary: Reuters - Myanmar's junta has given the U.S.
military permission to fly in relief supplies for the survivors
of Cyclone Nargis, Thai Supreme Commander Boonsrang Niumpradit
told Reuters on Thursday.
Summary: AP - Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus — one of nature's strangest-looking animals with the beak of a duck, a mammal's fur and snake-like venom.
Summary: AFP - A date will soon be set for a seventh round of formal talks between the Dalai Lama's envoys and China on Tibet, an envoy of the spiritual leader said on Thursday.
