Pope Benedict XVI makes sensitive trip to Cyprus (AP)

Pope Benedict XVI makes sensitive trip to Cyprus (AP)

Pope Benedict XVI makes sensitive trip to Cyprus (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:41 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI holds the ostensory as he celebrates a Corpus Domini mass in St. John in Lateran Basilica in Rome, Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI departs Friday on a sensitive three-day trip to Cyprus, a visit likely to be colored by shock over the killing in Turkey of a bishop who had been scheduled to meet with the pontiff.

Afghan delegates hash out peace statement (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:42 PM PDT

A policeman inspects the content of a vessel carried by an Afghan man near the site of the peace conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 3, 2010. Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests had fired at the tent holding some 1,500 dignitaries, lawmakers and civil society activists as the conference started on Wednesday, triggering a battle with security forces that killed at least two militants. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)AP - Delegates reconvened Friday for the planned final day of a national peace conference, hashing out details of a communique likely to endorse negotiations with the Taliban to try to end Afghanistan's years of war.

South Korean general questioned in spy case (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:31 PM PDT

AP - South Korea's military is investigating a general suspected of leaking secrets to a former spy for Seoul who then sold the information to North Korea, officials and media reports said Friday.


A China-Indiana Connection for New Energy Vehicles

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:20 PM PDT

The U.S. government could learn from their Chinese counterparts.


China's political and military leaders split over ties to Washington, Gates says

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT

SINGAPORE -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates accused China's military on Thursday of impeding relations with the Pentagon, taking exception to its unwillingness to invite him to Beijing during his trip to Asia this week.


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Karzai counts on jirga backing

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:44 PM PDT

Gathering of Afghan tribal elders likely to back proposal to negotiate deal with Taliban.


Turkey sends 2 ambulance planes to Israel (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:04 PM PDT

UN soldiers stand guard outside the Latin Church of the Holy Cross in Nicosia ahead of a visit by Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope arrives in Cyprus on Friday amid regional tensions over a deadly Israeli raid on a pro-Palestinian aid convoy and some opposition from the country's majority Orthodox community(AFP/Menahem Kahana)AP - Turkey's health ministry says it has dispatched two ambulance planes to Israel to bring home the last five Turkish activists who were wounded by Israeli soldiers in a raid on an aid ship.

Bangladesh fire kills up to 108, injures over 100 (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:03 PM PDT

Relatives of a victim of a fire, mourn at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, June 3, 2010. Authorities say the fire in the Bangladeshi capital has killed at least three people and injured dozens more. Fire official Abdus Salam says the blaze started late Thursday after an electric transformer exploded, igniting a three-storey apartment building. (AP Photo/ Pavel Rahman)AP - A huge fire raced through several apartment buildings and devastated a rooftop wedding party in the Bangladeshi capital, killing at least 108 people and injuring more than 100 others, officials and local media said Friday.

Cricket sex video reveals wild mating behavior (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:09 PM PDT

Two fighting crickets prepare to do battle at a street market in Hefei, in east China's Anhui province. Armed with dozens of infra-red cameras, scientists have gained unprecedented insight into the love life of crickets, whose wild behavior was revealed in a new study(AFP/File)AFP - Armed with dozens of infra-red cameras, scientists have gained unprecedented insight into the love life of crickets, whose wild behavior was revealed in a new study.

Balance the key for England in Bangladesh finale (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:07 PM PDT

England captain Andrew Strauss on the fourth day of the first Test against Bangladesh at Lord's on May 30. England, unusually for a side that has just won a match by eight wickets, face a selection dilemma ahead of the second and final Test against Bangladesh starting on Friday.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - England, unusually for a side that has just won a match by eight wickets, face a selection dilemma ahead of the second and final Test against Bangladesh starting here on Friday.

Civilians killed in Somali fighting

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:46 PM PDT

Up to 17 people killed as government forces clash with al-Shabab fighters in Mogadishu.


Afghan jirga to call for peace with Taliban (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:39 PM PDT

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai speaks during the opening ceremony of the peace jirga in Kabul June 2, 2010. REUTERS/Omar SobhaniReuters - Hundreds of Afghan tribal elders and notables were set to make a formal call for peace with the Taliban on Friday, the final day of a traditional assembly that they said was a last chance to end a nine-year war.

Afghan jirga to call for peace with Taliban

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:39 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghan tribal elders and notables were set to make a formal call for peace with the Taliban on Friday, the final day of a traditional assembly that they said was a last chance to end a nine-year war.

Dozens protest migrant's death on US-Mexico border (AP)

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT

A woman holds a candle covered by a picture of late Mexican Anastasio Hernandez during a protest at the San Ysidro border crossing that separates Tijuana from San Diego, in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, June 3, 2010. The San Diego County coroner ruled Wednesday that the May 29 death of Hernandez, a Mexican migrant, at the U.S. border was a homicide, five days after an American immigration officer shot him with a stun gun. (AP Photo)AP - Dozens of people rallied on the California-Mexico border Thursday to protest the death of a migrant after a U.S. immigration officer shot him with a stun gun.

Beijing Says Buzz Off

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:01 PM PDT

China is under international pressure to fall in line on issues like climate change, nuclear non-pro


Finance chief wins Japan party vote

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:40 PM PDT

Naoto Kan set to become next Japanese PM, following predecessor's resignation.


Obama sets trip to India, pledges ties

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:50 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -US President Barack Obama set a visit to India in November as he pledged Thursday to push forward ties between the world's two largest democracies as part of his busy diplomatic agenda.

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S.Korean army general accused of spying for North

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:47 PM PDT

SEOUL -South Korean intelligence officials are investigating a two-star army general on suspicion of leaking military secrets to North Korea, a report said Friday.

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Pope travels to Cyprus on delicate mission

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:22 PM PDT

NICOSIA -Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cyprus on Friday amid regional tensions over a deadly Israeli raid on a pro-Palestinian aid convoy and some opposition from the country's majority Orthodox community.

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Mexico holds officials accountable for daycare fire

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:04 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY -Two days before the anniversary of a daycare center blaze that killed 49 children, Mexico's Supreme Court Thursday held two top government officials and the former Sonora governor partly accountable.

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