Russian spacecraft docks at orbiting station (AP)

Russian spacecraft docks at orbiting station (AP)

Russian spacecraft docks at orbiting station (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 10:47 PM PDT

This image provided by NASA shows the view from an external camera aboard the Soyuz 'TMA-18' capsule as it approaches the International Space Station early Sunday morning April 4, 2010. The docking port on the space station can be seen to the lower right of the cross hair. The Soyuz docked with the International Space Station at 1:25 a.m. EDT. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - A Russian space official says a Soyuz craft carrying an American and two Russian astronauts has docked successfully at the International Space Station.

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Posted: 03 Apr 2010 10:32 PM PDT

AP - Russian space official says Soyuz craft has docked successfully at International Space Station.


Geithner eyes US investment on India visit (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 10:46 PM PDT

Timothy Geithner will begin his maiden visit to India as US treasury secretary on Tuesday, hoping to improve an economic relationship that is often eclipsed by Washington's trade with China.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AFP - Timothy Geithner will begin his maiden visit to India as US treasury secretary on Tuesday, hoping to improve an economic relationship that is often eclipsed by Washington's trade with China.

South Korea calls off naval rescue

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 10:25 PM PDT

Navy to begin salvage operations after attempts to reach missing sailors abandoned.


Analyst: Apple Sold More than 600,000 iPads Saturday

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 11:16 PM PDT

Cupertino, Calif.-based gadget maker's tablet computer selling fast.


Up for sale: Gandhi items -- and his ideals (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 10:15 PM PDT

Mahatma Gandhi's round glasses and his watch at an auction house in March 2009 in New York. The auction triggered a major public debate over exploitation of his memory. The Indian government first tried to prevent the auction and then seemed ready to buy the items itself, before Indian industrialist and liquor baron Vijay Mallaya stepped in with a winning bid of 1.8 million dollars.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)AFP - The Beatles removed Mahatma Gandhi's picture from the 1967 album cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in case it upset Indians, but such restraint is now a thing of the past.

Senegal unveils "African Renaissance" statue

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 10:07 PM PDT

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal inaugurated its giant "African Renaissance" monument on Saturday, brushing aside complaints that the $28 million personal project of President Abdoulaye Wade was a waste of money and un-Islamic.


Iran used China connection for nuke gear - Report

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 10:07 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Western authorities are investigating whether an Iranian firm acquired valves and vacuum gauges used to enrich uranium through the representative of a Chinese firm, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.


Iran says China agrees sanctions ineffective

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 10:07 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Iran and China agreed during talks in Beijing that sanctions "have lost their effectiveness", chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Friday after meeting senior Chinese officials.


Small coterie advises pope, but decisions his own (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 09:46 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI, at center, followed by Bishop Guido Marini, walks with a candle during the Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, April 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has surrounded himself with a small group of men he feels he can trust, but he acts very much on his own. That isolation and shunning of advice have frequently created problems and are increasingly under scrutiny as the clerical sex scandal inches closer to him.

Last Malaysian adult witness to British massacre dies (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 09:27 PM PDT

File photo of Tham Yong, the sole surviving witness to the killing of 24 villagers by British troops in 1948. Tham Yong has died, leaving the campaign for an official investigation uncertain, activists said Sunday.(AFP/File)AFP - The last Malaysian adult witness to the massacre of 24 unarmed villagers by British troops in 1948 has died, leaving the campaign for an official investigation uncertain, activists said Sunday.

Rwandan pygmies facing squalor and exclusion (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 09:39 PM PDT

Rwandan Twa pigmies pose in Bweyeye, southwestern Rwanda. Rwanda's rapidly dwindling Twa pygmies, considered the original inhabitants of this central African nation, now live on the fringes, facing squalor, discrimination and general exclusion(AFP/File/Jose Cendon)AFP - Rwanda's rapidly dwindling Twa pygmies, considered the original inhabitants of this central African nation, now live on the fringes, facing squalor, discrimination and general exclusion.

Australian floods help ease the 'Big Dry' (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 09:44 PM PDT

Flood waters innundate a property in southwest Queensland in early March. For Australian farmers who have struggled to make a living in southern Queensland as their crops died and their dams ran empty during years of drought, recent floods have helped ease the AFP - For Australian farmers who have struggled to make a living in southern Queensland as their crops died and their dams ran empty during years of drought, recent floods have helped ease the "Big Dry".

German troop deaths spark protests

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 08:57 PM PDT

The bodies of three German soldiers killed in fighting in Afghanistan are due to be flown home, as opposition to the conflict mounts.


Dissident Iranians take refuge in Turkey (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 09:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken Feb. 16, 2010, Iranian human rights reporters Hesam Misaghi, left, and Sepehr Atefi, right, are interviewed by The Associated Press in Nigde, Turkey. The two men are members of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, an independent group in Iran that tracks rights violations. Atefi and Misaghi made it safely to Turkey, after a harrowing trip in late January with the help of Kurdish smugglers, and are among thousands of Iranians who have fled the fierce crackdown waged in their homeland by the clerical leadership against its reform opponents since disputed presidential elections in June. (AP Photo)AP - Light snow was falling when the two young men set out on horseback for the border to flee Iran. By the time they were deep in the mountains, it had become a blinding blizzard, the temperature had dropped below freezing, and they were barely alive.

Fishermen left high and dry fear for Mekong's future (AFP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 09:17 PM PDT

A Cambodian monk sits on a ferry as the sun sets over the Mekong river in Kandal province, north of Phnom Penh on March 25, 2010. Mekong River levels have hit their lowest in 50 years. The situation has alarmed the millions who depend on what is the world's largest inland fishery with an estimated annual catch of about 3.9 million tonnes, according to the Mekong River Commission (MRC).(AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)AFP - Mekong River levels in parts of Laos have hit their lowest in 50 years.

French police fired first in clash that killed officer: ETA

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 06:12 PM PDT

MADRID -French police fired the first shot in a shootout in a Paris suburb last month in which one of their officers died, said a statement issued Sunday by the Basque separatist group ETA.

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S.Africa white supremacist leader killed

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:45 PM PDT

CAPE TOWN -South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Sunday called for calm over the killing of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche, as police arrested two of his farm workers.

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German troop deaths spark protests

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 08:57 PM PDT

The bodies of three German soldiers killed in fighting in Afghanistan are due to be flown home, as opposition to the conflict mounts.


FACTBOX - Five facts about Eugene Terre'blanche

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 09:04 PM PDT

Terre'blanche fought to preserve apartheid in the early 1990s but had recently lived in relative obscurity. Below are five facts about him.


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