Budget hotel goes to the extreme

Budget hotel goes to the extreme

Budget hotel goes to the extreme

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:57 PM PDT

A new budget hotel run like a no-frills airline has opened its doors.


(AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:31 PM PDT

AP - Officials say 9 killed in Russian retirement home fire possibly started by self-immolation.


Thousands more Indonesians flee new volcanic eruption (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:26 PM PDT

A man and his son watch as the Sinabung volcano spews thick smoke in Karo district in North Sumatra on August 29. The volcano spewed a vast cloud of smoke and ash high into the air on Monday, disrupting flights and sending thousands more people into temporary shelters, officials said.(AFP/Sutanta Aditya)AFP - An Indonesian volcano spewed a vast cloud of smoke and ash high into the air on Monday, disrupting flights and sending thousands more people into temporary shelters, officials said.

Ecuador bus crash investigated

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:13 PM PDT

Police in Ecuador are investigating what caused one of the worst bus crashes in the country's history.


Spain hopes pilgrims will boost economy

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:17 PM PDT

Local authorities in northern Spain have invested a record amount in an attempt to attract even more pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela.


'Avatar' Extra Minutes Only Worth $4 Million

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:49 PM PDT

The re-release of Avatar ranked 12th at the box office this weekend. Maybe studios should consider l


N.Korea leader's train 'may be headed home' (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:56 PM PDT

A police car guardst the entrance to an agriculture exhibition in Changchun, Jilin on August 28, 2010 where the secretive North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il allegedly visited. A train believed to be carrying Kim left the northeast Chinese city of Harbin Monday amid speculation he is headed home after a surprise trip to China.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - A train believed to be carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il left the northeast Chinese city of Harbin Monday amid speculation he is headed home after a surprise trip to China, a report said.

Mexico mayor shot dead

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:35 PM PDT

Drug traffickers accused of killing a mayor in Tamaulipas, the second such incident in the state in two weeks.


Suspect bailed in Pakistan 'cricket betting scam' (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:18 PM PDT

Pakistan's cricket manager Yawar Saeed (R) reads a copy of Britain's News of the World newspaper on the fourth day of the fourth NPower Test cricket match between England and Pakistan, at Lord's Cricket Ground in London.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - The man at the centre of an alleged betting scam involving the Pakistan cricket team was out on bail Monday as police, governments and authorities probed the scandal rocking the sport.

AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:01 PM PDT

US soldiers stand next to army vehicles during a logistical operation to clear equipment and heavy machinery from the Balad military base, north of Baghdad, on August 27, a week before the US military is due to end its combat mission in the country.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets.

Gold rush is growing threat to Suriname rainforest (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:01 PM PDT

AP - It looks like a meteor strike: From out of nowhere, a huge clearing appears in the jungle — a deep rust-colored pit surrounded by mounds of dirt and thick stands of trees pushed to the side in dense piles of overturned soil.


Aging philanthropist is Pakistan's Mother Teresa (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:01 PM PDT

This Aug. 2, 2010 picture shows humanitarian leader Abdul Sattar Edhi as he sits on the side of a road in Peshawar, Pakistan to collect money for flooding victims. Edhi is a devout Muslim, but critical of Islamic clerics in general, not just extremists. He says they focus on ritual, preaching hellfire and defending the faith against imagined enemies, rather than helping the poor — which he says should be the cornerstone of all faiths. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - The aging man in mud-splattered, frayed clothes has barely lowered his body onto the sidewalk when the money starts piling up. Heeding his call for donations for flood victims, Pakistanis of all classes rush to hand over cash to Abdul Sattar Edhi, whose years of dedication to the poor have made him a national icon.

World Cup legacy: more bids to get South Africans out of their cars (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:28 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - During this summer's World Cup, Somerset Road in Cape Town was transformed into a South African oddity: a road without cars.


Ecuador bus crash kills 38 in highlands

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 08:47 PM PDT

QUITO (Reuters) - A bus winding its way through Ecuador's highlands toward the capital of Quito went off the road before dawn Sunday, killing 38 passengers in the worst accident of this kind in the country in years.

Should Brokers Be Held To The Same Standard As Advisers?

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 08:34 PM PDT

The SEC's deadline for public comments is Monday as it considers whether the standards to which a br


Australia's Miners Hopeful Tax Will Be Dropped

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 08:00 PM PDT

Ex-Japan football coach mistaken for a farmer (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 08:26 PM PDT

Japan's outgoing coach Takeshi Okada, pictured here during a training session in George on June 16, who guided the Blue Samurai to the knockout stage at this summer's World Cup, says he has been declining unlikely offers to become a farmer.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Japan's outgoing coach Takeshi Okada, who guided the Blue Samurai to the knockout stage at this summer's World Cup, says he has been declining unlikely offers to become a farmer.

Obama administration intensifies efforts in Sudan

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 04:35 PM PDT

The Obama administration, which came to office promising stronger leadership on Sudan, is now scrambling to salvage a 2005 U.S.-backed peace accord and prevent Africa's largest nation from sliding back into civil war.


Sudan - Africa - Darfur - Omar al-Bashir - United States


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Posted: 29 Aug 2010 04:35 PM PDT

7 U.S. troops die in weekend violence in Afghanistan

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:21 PM PDT

KABUL - Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions. And officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign workers for a candidate for parliament in the western province of Herat.


Afghanistan - Asia - United States - NATO - Taliban


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