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| Olympic Games Weekend Starts with the Death of 8 People |
Gun battle and bombing have started this weekend’s Olympic Games in China. Authorities believe that the attack that ended with 8 deaths in western China was an attempt made by the Islamic separatist group to arrest the global attention from the Olympic Games held in Beijing.
The attack took place in Kuqa, a city in the Xinjiang region, in western... |
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An international human rights watchdog says immigrant maids in Lebanon are dying of "unnatural causes" at an alarming rate and called for an immediate investigation, local radios reported Wednesday.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said at least 95 migrants who worked as domestic servants died in Lebanon since January 2007, mostly...
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Jordan on Wednesday offered to supply Lebanon with between 50 and 70 megawatts of electricity daily for the coming 16 months, the Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaldoun Qteishat said.
Qteishat said he made the offer during a meeting of energy ministers of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, who met in Amman...
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Energy-strapped Pakistan on Wednesday decided to extend the daylight saving time till October end as prolonged power cuts triggered violent protests throughout the country.
Clocks were set forward by an hour on June 1 for three months to save electricity by benefiting from longer daylight. The move placed the local time six hours...
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Philippine Air Force planes bombarded Muslim rebel positions Wednesday in a southern province in a bid to flush out a commander who led deadly attacks last week, a military report said.
The bombings were focused on the encampments of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) commander Abdullah Macapaar, also known as Commander Bravo, in...
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A defiant Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, reeling from a parliamentary setback, said he would form a new government without the Movement for Democratic Change, raising questions about his commitment to power-sharing talks with the MDC.
"We shall soon be setting up a government," the state-controlled daily Herald...
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A Japanese woman drove a would-be robber away from a store with her tirades, causing him to abandon his crime in exasperation, a Japanese newspaper reported Wednesday.
The robber, who was armed with a knife, entered a 24-hour convenience store on Kyushu, Japan's southern main island, where the woman, 51, was working, early Tuesday,...
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An Indian woman was lucky enough Wednesday to have not one but four doctors to help her deliver a baby boy on a flight between Hong Kong and Adelaide.
The plane made an unscheduled landing in the far-north Australian city of Darwin early Wednesday.
"There were four of us - one surgeon, one orthopaedic surgeon, one kidney...
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The political future of New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters appeared shaky Wednesday after prolonged and heated questions in parliament about a cash donation he received from a billionaire businessman.
Prime Minister Helen Clark rejected demands to sack him, but opposition leader John Key, whose conservative National Party...
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Hyundai Heavy Industries Co, steelmaker POSCO and two other Korean companies officially expressed interest Wednesday in acquiring a majority stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co, state banking officials said.
The state-run Korea Development Bank is arranging the sale of a 50.4-per-cent stake in the world's...
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A series of explosions at a chemical plant left 18 people dead and two missing in south-western China's Guangxi region, the government and state media said on Wednesday.
The explosions and a fire on Tuesday at the Guangwei Chemical Company also injured 60 workers and local residents, the State Administration of Work Safety reported...
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 West Wing creator to make Facebook movie
The creator of hit political TV series Aaron Sorkin is to write a movie about the world's most popular social networking site, Facebook, he announced Thursday in a...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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