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Tiny Crawford, Texas, plays supporting role for Jenna Bush wedding

May 09, 2008 - 3:27 pm

CRAWFORD, Texas - So close and yet so far: Tiny Crawford is sort of like a bridesmaid at arm's length from Jenna Bush's wedding Saturday.

All of the action is at President George W. Bush's 640-hectare ranch, 11 kilometres outside this one-stoplight town. The more than 200 Bush family and ...

Barack Obama picks up 9 superdelegates, fresh union endorsement

May 09, 2008 - 3:26 pm

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labour backing as elements of the Democratic party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.

Obama picked up the ...

Aid is on the way to devastated Myanmar but so is heavy rain

May 09, 2008 - 3:22 pm

YANGON, Myanmar - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar, but so is the heavy rain.

A week after cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other ...

Dig for human remains to begin at ranch where Manson family hid

May 09, 2008 - 3:21 pm

FRESNO, Calif. - The sheriff of the remote region where Charles Manson hid after a series of murders in the summer of 1969 said Friday that he will allow researchers to begin digging into the sandy soil in search of possible human remains.

In February, a team of forensic researchers ...

Missouri woman pleads, will be sentenced in stolen baby attack

May 09, 2008 - 3:21 pm

UNION, Mo. - A woman accused of slashing a young mother's throat, kidnapping her newborn and passing off the child as her own for five days reached a plea deal Friday and will be sentenced this summer.

Shannon Torrez, 38, of Lonedell, Mo., appeared entered an "Alford plea" to one count ...

Berlin's Holocaust memorial holds open-air concert to mark anniversary

May 09, 2008 - 3:19 pm

BERLIN - Berlin's Holocaust memorial played host to an open-air concert on Friday, with musicians spread out across the field of concrete slabs and performing a modern experimental piece.

The Kammersymphonie Berlin twice performed composer Harald Weiss' sombre 17-minute piece "Vor dem ...

New Mexico's apocalyptic sect leader released from jail on bond

May 09, 2008 - 3:18 pm

SANTA FE, N.M. - Authorities say the leader of an apocalyptic sect in northeastern New Mexico has been released from jail after his son posted his bond.

The clerk of the magistrate court in Clayton, New Mexico, says a $55,000 bond was posted for Wayne Bent. Bent is accused of sex crimes ...

Rocket fired by Shiite militants hits BBC bureau in Baghdad

May 09, 2008 - 1:11 pm

BAGHDAD - Shiite militants launched rockets toward the fortified Green Zone on Friday, taking advantage of a sandstorm that gave cover from attacks by U.S. aircraft. Some rockets fell short, including one that damaged the British Broadcasting Corp. bureau.

At least seven other rocket ...

Calls mount for Olmert's resignation as Israeli prime minister

May 09, 2008 - 12:44 am

JERUSALEM - Calls are mounting for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation as police probe allegations that he accepted hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars in cash-stuffed envelopes from a U.S. citizen.

The investigation into Olmert's fiscal conduct is the fifth in two years and ...

Guantanamo grapevine spreads call for detainees to boycott war-crimes trials

May 09, 2008 - 12:21 am

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The message travels among Guantanamo detainees in whispers between recreation areas and shouts through slots in cell doors: Don't trust the Americans. Boycott.

Guards call it the Detainee News Network, and it is now prompting inmates to turn their backs on ...

Zimbabwe's opposition won't meet with mediator; Mugabe greets him at airport

May 09, 2008 - 12:03 am

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's opposition says no one from that party will meet with the visiting South African president.

It also says he should be replaced as mediator in the country's political crisis. President Robert Mugabe met Thabo Mbeki at the airport as the South African leader ...

Government, militants agree to ceasefire in Pakistan's Swat Valley

May 09, 2008 - 11:36 am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities and pro-Taliban militants are declaring a ceasefire in the volatile Swat Valley.

Officials say it's the latest bid to curtail an explosion of violence along the Afghan border. The ceasefire follows talks between representatives of the North West ...

Palestinian mortar shell kills Israeli man, wounds three others

May 09, 2008 - 10:39 am

JERUSALEM - Rescue workers say mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip have killed and Israeli man and wounded three other people.

The radio station of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement says Hamas fighters have claimed responsibility for the mortar fire on the southern Israeli town of Kfar ...

Myanmar's military rulers view all foreigners, even aid workers with suspion

May 09, 2008 - 10:34 am

BANGKOK, Thailand - In the eyes of Myanmar's military leaders, everyone is a potential enemy. Even foreign aid workers.

As the international community waits to deliver desperately needed aid to Myanmar's cyclone survivors, it is getting a lesson in the mind-set of the country's military ...

Hezbollah routes forces loyal to U.S.-backed Lebanese government in Beirut

May 09, 2008 - 8:34 am

BEIRUT - Hezbollah gunmen have seized nearly all of the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector from forces loyal to the U.S.-backed government.

Security officials say at least 11 people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in three days of street battles in West Beirut.

The conflict ...

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