|  Delhi 'urgency' boosts Team England   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:23 PM PDT Commonwealth Games England chief Sir Andrew Foster believes Indian officials now realise what needs to be done after pressures regarding the readiness of next month's event in Delhi.   
 
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  |  Mass horse airlift to US for Games   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 11:14 AM PDT The largest airlift of horses ever undertaken has begun ahead of this weekend's World Equestrian Games in the United States   
 
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  |  Chile miners mark 50 days underground   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:49 PM PDT The 33 miners trapped in a collapsed copper mine in Chile are spending their 50th day below ground.   
 
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  |  Integrating Roma migrants into France   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:41 PM PDT Local authorities on the outskirts of Paris have built temporary homes for some of the Roma community, in an attempt to integrate them into French society.   
 
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  |  US woman executed for family murders   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:28 PM PDT A 41-year-old woman who conspired to murder her husband and stepson has been executed in the US state of Virginia.   
 
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  |  UN to meet over looming food crisis   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:32 PM PDT The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation has called an extraordinary meeting in Rome following a sharp rise in grain prices.   
 
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  |  Chile miners underground for 50 days   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:49 PM PDT The 33 miners trapped in a collapsed copper mine in Chile are spending their 50th day below ground.   
 
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  |  Integrating Roma migrants into France   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:41 PM PDT Local authorities on the outskirts of Paris have built temporary homes for some of the Roma community, in an attempt to integrate them into French society.   
 
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  |  Sudan reaches historic crossroads   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:24 PM PDT In just over three months the southern Sudanese will vote on splitting away from Sudan, a consequence of a peace deal that ended a long north-south civil war.   
 
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  |  US woman executed for family murders   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:28 PM PDT A 41-year-old woman who conspired to murder her husband and stepson has been executed in the US state of Virginia.   
 
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  |  UN to meet over looming food crisis   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:32 PM PDT The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation has called an extraordinary meeting in Rome following a sharp rise in grain prices.   
 
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  |  China says 4 Japanese filmed military targets      (AP)   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:16 PM PDT AP - China is investigating four Japanese suspected of illegally filming military targets and entering a military zone without authorization, state media reported amid a tense diplomatic spat between Beijing and Tokyo over a fishing boat collision near disputed islands.   
 
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  |  Britain promises US it will keep nuclear deterrent      (AFP)   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:37 PM PDT  AFP - Britain has promised the United States that it will keep its nuclear deterrent as it makes plans for deep military spending cuts as part of an austerity drive, a report said Friday.
  
 
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  |  Kenya's Kibaki expects south Sudan vote in January      (AP)   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:37 PM PDT AP - Kenya's president says he has received assurances from Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and south Sudan's leader Salva Kiir that a crucial referendum on southern independence will take place on schedule in January.   
 
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  |  Japan warns of economic fallout from China row      (Reuters)   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:32 PM PDT  Reuters - Japan warned Friday that a deepening territorial row with China could hurt both of Asia's biggest economies, but declined to link the feud to the detention of four of its nationals on suspicion of entering a Chinese military zone.
  
 
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  |  Gunmen kill Mexican mayor near Monterrey   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:13 PM PDT MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen killed the mayor of a town outside Mexico's northern business city of Monterrey on Thursday, the fourth public official slain in little over a month, police said.    
 
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  |  Japanese held for illegal filming   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:45 PM PDT Four Japanese men arrested in China for filming military zone, the latest incident in deepening row between the nation.   
 
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  |  Officials: Palestinians will consider compromise      (AP)   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:23 PM PDT  AP - Hopes of averting a breakdown in Middle East peace talks grew Thursday as senior Palestinian officials said their side would consider an expected U.S.-brokered compromise on Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank.
  
 
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  |  Philippine dad convicted of rape gets 14,400 years      (AP)   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:56 PM PDT AP - A Philippine court has sentenced a father to 14,400 years in prison after he was convicted of the near daily rape of his teenage daughter over the course of a year.   
 
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  |  Great white sharks no cold-blooded 'Jaws': campaigners      (AFP)   Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:26 PM PDT  AFP - "I hope the cage is as strong as a it looks," says diver James Hay, before jumping into an aluminium frame to swim with the ocean's most feared predator, the great white shark.
  
 
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