Delhi 'urgency' boosts Team England

Delhi 'urgency' boosts Team England


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Britain promises US it will keep nuclear deterrent (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:37 PM PDT

British Defence Secretary Liam Fox (L) is welcomed to the Pentagon by US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Fox promised the US that Britain 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.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)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.



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.


Japan warns of economic fallout from China row (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 10:32 PM PDT

A Chinese fishing boat is inspected by Japan Coast Guard crew members after it collided with two Japanese coast guard vessels near the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku isles in Japan and Diaoyu in China, September 7, 2010. REUTERS/Japan Coast Guard/HandoutReuters - 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.



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.


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.


Officials: Palestinians will consider compromise (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:23 PM PDT

This photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 21. 2010, shows a view of a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. The settlement issue is one of the thorniest in the peace talks. Some 300,000 Israelis live in settlements dotting the West Bank, in addition to 180,000 Israelis living in Jewish neighborhoods built in east Jerusalem. The Palestinians say that by gobbling up territory they claim, continued settlement expansion makes it ever more difficult to establish a viable Palestinian state. The Palestinians want all of the West Bank as part of their future state, with east Jerusalem as their capital. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)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.



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.


Great white sharks no cold-blooded 'Jaws': campaigners (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:26 PM PDT

A great white shark swims in the Southern Ocean, off the Neptune Islands. About 300 species of shark inhabit Australia's 370,000 kilometre (229,400 mile) coastline, but only a handful are harmful to humans and attacks are very rare, says expert John West who has spent three decades studying the animals.(AFP/HO/RODNEY FOX SHARK EXPEDITIONS/Andrew Fox)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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