World News
 Police choose not to charge Al Gore
Kansas City News.Net
Prosecutors in the US have said they will take no further action over a claim against former US Vice-President, Al Gore. Brazil Offers Haven To Woman In Iran Adultery Case
RadioFreeEurope
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has offered to provide refuge in Brazil to a woman who has been sentenced to death in Iran following her conviction for committing adultery. Speaking July... Mistaken as an Iranian Martyr, Then Hounded
International Herald Tribune
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Soon, Ms. Soltani said, she found herself swept up in the government’s efforts to counter any suggestion that its security forces had been involved in the shooting —... Bomb found at Britain's MI6 spy agency
Channel News Asia
LONDON: Two men were being questioned Sunday after one parcel bomb was sent to Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency and another was intercepted. The two suspects, aged 52 and 21, were arrest... Iraq death toll in July highest in more than two years
Channel News Asia
BAGHDAD: July was the deadliest month in Iraq since May 2008 with a total of 535 people killed across the country as a result of violence, according to government figures released on Saturday. The fig... Disgraced mogul Conrad Black slams US justice system
Channel News Asia
MONTREAL: Disgraced former media baron Conrad Black, released from jail this month on a two-million-dollar bond, lashed out at the US justice system Saturday in a column written for Toronto's Nat... Chelsea Clinton weds at exclusive New York estate
New Zealand Herald
NEW YORK: Chelsea Clinton has married her longtime boyfriend at an exclusive estate along New York's Hudson River. Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton announced in a statement that their daughter... Bears threaten paintball players
New Zealand Herald
BILLINGS, Montana - A newly opened paintball course in Montana had to shut down after odour from disintegrated paintballs was luring possibly dangerous guests: bears. Big Sky Marketing Director Dax S... Russia brings in troops to battle wildfires
The Independent
Russia's armed forces mobilised yesterday to fight hundreds of wildfires that have wiped out villages and vast areas of woodland. Officials said the worst blazes were under control, but evacuations co... More than 70 countries make being gay a crime
The Independent
Gay asylum-seeker John Bosco Nyombi, who now has leave to remain in the UK, was beaten and bundled on to a plane to Kampala by security staff working for the Home Office in 2008 Record rains – but Pakistan is dying for water
The Independent
Residents of Peshawar leave their homes with whatever possessions they can carry after the heaviest monsoon rains in the region since 1929. Officials say 800 people have died in the floods Asylum offer for condemned Iranian
CNN
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted of adultery in 2006 and was originally sentenced to death by stoning. Iranian authorities say the sentence has been put on hold, but there have been no reports... Twitter user sends world's 20 billionth tweet
BBC
GGGGGGo_Lets_Go was inundated with congratulatory messages from around the world for hitting the milestone with a tweet which appeared to have been part of a longer conversation with another user. Call over Scottish Water's status
BBC
The Independent Budget Review panel, set up by the Scottish government, last week called on ministers to "urgently review" the public body's status. Action call over prison education
BBC
The Liberal Democrats have called for action to increase the "disappointing" number of prisoners who take part in education programmes while behind bars. A very delicate restoration
BBC
But it was the library building in which the exhibition was held which stopped me in my tracks. The Great Hall which now houses the library was rebuilt following the English Civil War, by Archbishop W... North-west Pakistan 'a massive lake'
BBC
The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from an area which has become ''a massive lake'' as floodwaters cut off roads and families complain they have received no aid. Afghan informants fear for lives
The Scotsman
SUCH is the rising paranoia, the Afghan farmer was prepared to speak but only if he wasn't identified. Concealed by the thick stone walls of his home in war-torn Helmand Province, where most British t... Paddy art lets debt-hit village go with grain
The Scotsman
NEARLY two decades ago, Koichi Hanada, a town hall clerk, received an unusual request from his boss: find a way to bring tourists to the village of Inakadate in Japan's rural north, an area of rice pa... America revels in its own 'Royal wedding'
The Scotsman
Yesterday, as the wedding of Chelsea Clinton to her long-time boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky was due to be under way – those who had gathered on the streets of the usually quiet little town of Rhinebeck w... Airstrikes kill Gaza's top maker of rockets
The Scotsman
, 42, a commander of its military wing in central Gaza and a senior rocket maker.Batran had survived several previous Israeli attempts to assassinate him, but his wife and five of his children were ki... Germany pays tribute to Love Parade dead
The Scotsman
a football stadium and a dozen other churches in the western city which hosted the festival. Several German TV stations carried the service live, and flags across the country flew at half-mast.Chancel... Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter marries in NY
Reuters
RHINEBECK New York (Reuters) - Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter married her long-time boyfriend in the picturesque New York village of Rhinebeck on Saturday in what has been dubbed America's royal ... Sri Lanka, Hawaii sites get world heritage status
Reuters
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central highlands and a protected marine area in Hawaii, the only habitats of several endangered plant and animal species, have been added to UNESCO's list of World He... Rangel Under Growing Pressure to Resign
CBS News
Obama on Rangel Case Katie Couric reports that President Obama weighed in on the case involving New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel in an exclusive interview with CBS News' Harry Smith. Mozambique: Wildlife Manager Assassinated
All Africa
Maputo — Unknown assailants murdered the manager of the Special Maputo Wildlife Reserve, Gilberto Vicente, on Sunday night. According to a report in Saturday's issue of the Maputo daily "Notici...
|
