Obama appeals to Iranian people in Internet video (AP)

Obama appeals to Iranian people in Internet video (AP)
Yachting Team NZ draw first blood over Italians (AFP)
Obama reaches out to Iranians in New Year message
'Red Shirts' take to streets to win over Thai capital
Japan marks 15th anniversary of subway gas attacks
Supposed 'ETA terrorists' are just holidaymakers:report
Zuma in S.African shantytown, vows improvements
BA cabin crew strike begins
North Korea parliament to meet, Kim and cadres in focus
Sarkozy's party braces for electoral wipeout (AP)
NKorean loggers in Russia making defection bids (AP)
'Red Shirts' take to streets to win over Thai capital (AFP)
North Korea parliament to meet, Kim and cadres in focus
Obama urges health reform support
SA students riot over rapper bail
India seeks Mumbai plotter
Obama urges health reform support
SA students riot over rapper bail
India seeks Mumbai plotter
Thai protesters begin capital march

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:50 PM PDT

AP - In a fresh appeal directly to the Iranian people, President Barack Obama says in an online video that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.

Yachting Team NZ draw first blood over Italians (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:33 PM PDT

AFP - Team New Zealand took the early honours in the final of the Louis Vuitton Trophy yachting regatta on Saturday, winning the opening race against Italians Mascalzone Latino by 12 seconds.

Obama reaches out to Iranians in New Year message

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:16 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -US President Barack Obama Saturday pledged to ensure Iranians access to the Internet "without fear of censorship" in a Nowruz, New Year message targeted at the country's civilian population.

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:14 PM PDT

BANGKOK -Thousands of red-clad Thai protesters began to snake across Bangkok on Saturday in a festive travelling rally aimed at winning over the city's residents to their flagging anti-government campaign.

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:41 PM PDT

TOKYO -Japan on Saturday marked the 15th anniversary of the deadly 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attacks, with families of victims leaving flowers at the scene of some of the deaths.

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:24 PM PDT

MADRID -Five people identified as ETA suspects in a surveillance video released in France and Spain are in fact firemen from Spain's Catalonia region who were on holiday, Spanish media said Saturday.

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:00 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG -President Jacob Zuma visited a shantytown outside Johannesburg and vowed to improve public services to defuse anger that has erupted into protests ahead of the World Cup.

BA cabin crew strike begins

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:20 PM PDT

Three-day strike under way after union rejects reduced offer from management.

North Korea parliament to meet, Kim and cadres in focus

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:25 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's rubber stamp parliament will meet in April for an annual session where the secretive and isolated state typically reveals changes to its ruling elite and spending priorities for the coming year.

Sarkozy's party braces for electoral wipeout (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PDT

AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy's party braced for a potential electoral wipeout in Sunday's final round of regional elections, which an alliance of the rival left hopes will give it a national sweep and a staging ground for 2012 presidential voting.

NKorean loggers in Russia making defection bids (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:15 PM PDT

AP - The North Korean's note, scrawled in pen, was simple: "I want to go to South Korea. Why? To find freedom. Freedom of religion, freedom of life."

'Red Shirts' take to streets to win over Thai capital (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:12 PM PDT

AFP - Thousands of red-clad Thai protesters began to snake across Bangkok on Saturday in a festive travelling rally aimed at winning over the city's residents to their flagging anti-government campaign.

North Korea parliament to meet, Kim and cadres in focus

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:46 PM PDT

Obama urges health reform support

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:31 PM PDT

US President Obama has made another impassioned bid for support for his health care reforms ahead of Sunday's congressional vote.

SA students riot over rapper bail

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:32 PM PDT

Students in South Africa have clashed with police outside a Soweto courthouse where a musician accused of killing four school pupils in a car race was freed on bail.

India seeks Mumbai plotter

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:15 PM PDT

David Headley pleaded guilty to 12 charges including planning to attack the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.