World News
- Putin says Bush orchestrated Georgia crisis
Baton Rouge News.Net
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the Georgian crisis to benefit one of the presidential candidates, a claim the White House calls 'patently...
- No charges for Obama assassination plotters
Baton Rouge News.Net
Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama.
- Obama speech expected to focus on economics
Baton Rouge News.Net
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with "a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric", but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American voters.
- Refugees accuse Russia of ethnic cleansing
Baton Rouge News.Net
Russian-backed paramilitaries are ethnically cleansing villages on Georgian soil, The Times has quoted refugees and officials, as saying.
- Russia condemned by international community
Baton Rouge News.Net
The G7, the seven most industrialised nations, have issued a stinging condemnation of the Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
- Tropical Storm Gustav sweeps Caribbean
Baton Rouge News.Net
The death toll in Haiti from tropical storm Gustav has risen to 14.
- Australian school teachers investigated over orgy claims
Baton Rouge News.Net
St Stanislaus College, in Bathurst, New South Wales, is under fire over child-sex allegations, following which the police sex crimes squad has been called in to investigate the claims involving a former college boarder subjected to alleged late-night sex sessions.
- Obama voted in by delegates
Baton Rouge News.Net
Barack Obama has swept to the Democratic presidential nomination after thousands of national convention voted him in.
- World War II body found hanging from tree in New Guinea
Baton Rouge News.Net
New Guinean authorities, with the help of the Australian, US and Japanese governments, are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II pilot.
- UK minister warns Ukraine it could be catalyst for new Cold War
Baton Rouge News.Net
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has used a visit to Ukraine to warn Russia not to start a new Cold War.
- Australia begins probe into plane crash that killed Indian
Baton Rouge News.Net
Investigations began Thursday into the mid-air collision in which Indian trainee pilot Akash Ananth died after the wing of his Cessna 150 was clipped by another plane and he crashed in the populated Cheltenham suburb of Melbourne.
- Thai court orders anti-government protest arrests
Baton Rouge News.Net
Thailand's criminal court has issued arrest warrants for eight leaders of an anti-government protest group that took over several state buildings to try to force the administration to resign.
- Iraq forces due to reclaim dangerous province
Baton Rouge News.Net
Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar province.
- Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
Baton Rouge News.Net
Nearly 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in coalition airstrikes and clashes with Afghan forces, while four Afghan policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern region on Wednesday.
- UAE president pardons jail inmates
Baton Rouge News.Net
President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has granted an executive pardon to 700 prisoners, both UAE nationals and expatriates, lodged in various jails across the country ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
- 400 Druze cross into Syria through Golan for annual pilgrimage
Haaretz
About 400 Druze clergymen living in the Golan Heights crossed into Syria on Thursday for an annual pilgrimage.The clerics, in traditional uniforms of white turbans, black robes and bushy mustaches...
- Scary bid to crow about
New Zealand Herald
In a bid to break a world record, residents of Hoschton, Georgia are building hundreds of scarecrows. Hoschton hopes to nearly triple its population with 4000 scarecrows and break the Guinness World...
- U.S. hits Ugandan rebel chief with sanctions
USA Today
The United States on Thursday slapped new sanctions on the leader of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army rebel group as patience wears thin with the slow pace of peace...
- Museum defies pope over crucified frog
MSNBC
The sculpture of a crucified frog has sparked a backlash from Pope Benedict, local clerics and politicians who want the work removed from an Italian museum.
- Big guns wheeled into place
New Zealand Herald
Obama makes unscripted Convention appearance Well, it has been a slow train coming, but the Democratic convention finally chugged into some momentum yesterday.On the third day, and with nominee...
- Hillary lacks that vision thing
Jerusalem Post
Hillary Clinton reacts after her call for the nomination of Sen. Barack Obama by acclamation was seconded at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Photo:...
- Riding A Raft Of Junk Across The Pacific
CBS News
... after he and fellow eco-mariner Joel Paschal completed a three-month, 2,600-mile voyage from Long Beach, Ca., in a raft...
- McCain settled on VP pick, sources say
CNN
Sen. John McCain will inform pick Thursday night, sources say Arizona Republican slated to appear with running mate on Friday Tom Ridge, Sen. Joe Lieberman and Mitt Romney are possible picks...
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