Make cricket fan-friendly, says Sri Lanka captain (AFP)

Make cricket fan-friendly, says Sri Lanka captain (AFP)

Make cricket fan-friendly, says Sri Lanka captain (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 10:19 PM PDT

Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara takes part in a team practice session in Dambulla, some 150 kms north of Colombo, in June, 2010. Sangakkara has urged world cricket chiefs to win back fans to Test and one-day games with a balanced international calendar that gives equal opportunities to all teams.(AFP/File/Lakruwan Wanniarachch)AFP - Sri Lanka's captain Kumar Sangakkara has urged world cricket chiefs to win back fans to Test and one-day games with a balanced international calendar that gives equal opportunities to all teams.

Remnants of war pose threat in Vietnam's Quang Tri (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:44 PM PDT

File photo shows US aircraft bombing sites in North Vietnam. Since the end of the conflict in 1975, 2,774 people have been killed and 3,986 wounded by unexploded ordnance and landmines in Quang Tri, a detailed survey released last year has said.(AFP/File)AFP - Something resembling a broken green plate suddenly catches Staff Sergeant Mike Overton's eye.

Japan's Elections Under Way

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:12 PM PDT

Japanese voters began to hand in their first report card to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, 10 months after giving the party the keys to power in a historic regime change.


Jet Lands in Brazil After Bomb Threat

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:51 PM PDT

An Air France passenger jet headed from Rio to Paris made an emergency landing in northeastern Brazil on Saturday night due to a bomb threat.


Thousands travel to see solar eclipse

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:09 PM PDT

A rare total eclipse of the Sun is due to take place later.


Thousands travel to see solar eclipse

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:09 PM PDT

A rare total eclipse of the Sun is due to take place later.


Haiti recovery bogged down 6 months after quake (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:26 PM PDT

In this photo taken July 1, 2010, a woman walks by burning garbage at night in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Six months after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, in downtown Port-au-Prince where much of the nation's industry and commerce was clustered and where about 80 percent of the buildings were destroyed, plans are in place to remake the entire area with the government pledging $100 million for reconstruction, but top government officials cannot say where the money will come from. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - The sun was beating down on the rocky cactus plain when men with machetes came for Menmen Villase, nine months pregnant, shoved her onto her bulging stomach and sliced up the plastic tarp that sheltered her and her four children.

Land wars bedevil India's rush to industrialize (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 09:01 PM PDT

In this June 1, 2010 photo, rows of Tata's ultra-cheap Nano cars sit at a Tata Motors manufacturing plant in Sanand, Gujarat state, India. Scores of people who live in the shadow of the new car factory are beneficiaries of the race to industrialize India. But the tectonic shift is moving millions of farmers off the land into an uncertain future, sparking battles over real estate that have blocked some of the world's most powerful companies from building power plants, mines and factories. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)AP - It doesn't look like he's won much from industrialization. Take his face, weathered beyond his 30 years, or the earth stuck to his bare ungainly feet.

Leaders and stars jet to S.Africa for World Cup final

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 06:30 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG -World leaders and celebrities swarmed Johannesburg on Sunday for the World Cup finale between the Netherlands and Spain, capping the first tournament ever held on the continent.

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Bosnia remembers Srebrenica massacre 15 years on

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 06:22 PM PDT

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Hercegovina -Tens of thousands on Sunday mark 15 years since the Srebrenica massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, the darkest episode of the violent break-up of Yugoslavia.

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Fidel Castro makes rare public appearance

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 06:13 PM PDT

HAVANA -Cuba's former president Fidel Castro was seen this week at a scientific facility in his first known public appearance since December, according to images posted Saturday on a pro-government blog.

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Mexican air force helicopter crashes; 3 dead (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:30 PM PDT

AP - Mexican officials say an air force helicopter has crashed in the western state of Jalisco, killing three military personnel on board.


Destination unknown for Gaza aid ship

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:19 PM PDT

A ship laden with goods for the Palestinians of Gaza has set off from the Greek port of Lavrion.


Destination unknown for Gaza aid ship

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:19 PM PDT

A ship laden with goods for the Palestinians of Gaza has set off from the Greek port of Lavrion.


Fidel Castro makes first appearance in four years

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:15 PM PDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro made his first known public appearance since falling ill four years ago in a visit this week to a Havana scientific facility, a blog and a Cuban government website reported on Saturday.

Coach urges Bangladesh to build on England win (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:08 PM PDT

Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons (centre) said he hoped his players realised AFP - Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons said he hoped his players realised "they can beat anyone" after their sensational five-run one-day international victory over England here on Saturday.

50 people dead in China after heavy rain

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:11 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Flooding, landslides and torrents of mud have killed 50 people in southern China and another 15 are missing after days of torrential rain, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said late on Saturday.

Tribe reburies Aboriginal warrior killed in 1800s (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 07:30 PM PDT

AP - The remains of 19th-century Aboriginal warrior Yagan have been laid to rest in western Australia, nearly 180 years after he was killed and his severed head was displayed in a British museum.


Second person killed in Panama labor clashes

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 07:17 PM PDT

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Striking banana plantation workers in western Panama battled police on Saturday in clashes that killed a second person in three days as labor unrest deepened in the Central American country.

New photos of smiling Fidel Castro posted on Web (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2010 08:00 PM PDT

In this image released on Saturday July 10, 2010 by the state media Cubadebate website, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, left, sits next to an unidentified man during a visit to the National Center for Scientific Investigation in Havana last July 7, 2010. Castro had not been photographed in public since falling seriously ill in July 2006.(AP Photo/Cubadebate-Alex Castro)AP - New photographs of a smiling, tracksuit-clad Fidel Castro greeting workers at a scientific think tank were posted on the blogs of two Cuban journalists and a media website Saturday, offering a rare glimpse of the reclusive revolutionary leader in a public forum.
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