Asia markets push higher after Europe 'stress tests' (AFP)

Asia markets push higher after Europe 'stress tests' (AFP)

Asia markets push higher after Europe 'stress tests' (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 11:04 PM PDT

An electronic share price board is displayed in the window of a securies firm in Tokyo on July 20, 2010. Asian stock markets mostly rose on Monday, finding reassurance in Europe's banking stress tests and a strong performance on Wall Street, despite worries about the patchiness of the global recovery.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Asian stock markets mostly rose on Monday, finding reassurance in Europe's banking stress tests and a strong performance on Wall Street, despite worries about the patchiness of the global recovery.

Al-Qaida kills 6 Yemeni soldiers (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:58 PM PDT

AP - A Yemeni security official says six soldiers were killed in an al-Qaida attack on a patrol in the southern province of Shabwa.


Raul Castro prepares Cuban Revolution Day speech (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 11:00 PM PDT

A woman walks under a Cuban flag and banners referring to the Cuban Revolution celebrations in Havana, Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Cuban government has said nothing about whether Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro will be on hand for the main celebration that will mark the 57th anniversary of the July 26, 1953, when the Castros led an attack on the Moncada army barracks in the eastern city of Santiago and a smaller military outpost in the nearby city of Bayamo. The operation failed but Cubans consider it the beginning of the revolution that culminated with dictator Fulgencio Batista's ouster on New Year's Day 1959. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)AP - A spate of appearances by Fidel Castro after four years of near-total seclusion has Cubans buzzing: Could the official Revolution Day ceremony Monday be Fidel's coming out party?

'Plastiki' bottle ship completes epic Pacific voyage (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 11:09 PM PDT

The 'Plastiki', a boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles, completes her 8,000-nautical mile trans-Pacific voyage from San Francisco as she approaches Sydney Harbour on July 26, 2010. The Plastiki, which takes its name from Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition from South America to Polynesia on a raft of balsa husks, set off from San Francisco in March.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - A boat crafted from thousands of empty plastic bottles sailed into Sydney Harbour on Monday, completing an epic trans-Pacific voyage to highlight the benefits of recycling.

When 1,000 particle physicists collide

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:17 PM PDT

What happens when 1,000 particle physicists meet? BBC News visited the 35th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) in Paris to find out.


Protesters block Brazil power plant

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:52 PM PDT

Scores of workers trapped inside hydroelectric plant as indigenous demand compensation.


French finding love of cricket

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:35 PM PDT

For centuries, the French have dismissed cricket as a sport for English eccentrics and people from countries which were once part of the British Empire. But the sport is now gaining ground in France.


French finding love of cricket

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:35 PM PDT

For centuries, the French have dismissed cricket as a sport for English eccentrics and people from countries which were once part of the British Empire. But the sport is now gaining ground in France.


Taliban say they're holding U.S. soldier and second killed

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:58 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban said on Sunday they were holding prisoner one of two U.S. soldiers who strayed into territory controlled by the insurgents, and that the other had been killed.

Investors find some reassurance in Europe's bank tests (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:57 PM PDT

Reuters - Investors in Asia took some reassurance that European banks had passed "stress tests" on their ability to deal with a debt crisis, which has been a cloud over the global economic recovery.


Sri Lanka bat against India in second Test (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:59 PM PDT

Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat in the second cricket Test against India at the Sinhalese Sports Club on Monday.(AFP/File/Ishara S.Kodikara)AFP - Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat in the second cricket Test against India at the Sinhalese Sports Club on Monday.

Cambodia's Duch sentenced to 35 years

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:34 PM PDT

Duch, who ran a notorious torture prison where more than 14,000 people died during the Khmer Rouge regime, was found guilty of war crimes Monday and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Khmer Rouge prison chief convicted

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:06 PM PDT

UN-backed Cambodian court jails "Duch" for 35 years for crimes against humanity.


Kings of Leon abandon U.S. concert due to pigeon poop (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:30 PM PDT

Reuters - American rock band Kings of Leon said they were forced to abandon a concert in St. Louis at the weekend after three songs because pigeons kept pooping on them from the rafters.


U.S. says Afghan war will get worse (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:25 PM PDT

An Afghan man carries a kid out of a hospital after he was wounded in a suicide attack in Kabul last year. A massive leak of secret military files lists a series of revelations including that a growing number of civilians were dying at the hands of international forces. It said the logs detailed 144 such incidents.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)Reuters - More NATO troops will die fighting in Afghanistan this summer, a top U.S. military officer said, as a new report emerged implicating Pakistan for actively collaborating with the insurgency while accepting U.S. aid.

Khmer Rouge Leader Convicted

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:54 PM PDT

U.N.-backed tribunal finds that Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was at least partly responsible for the deaths of some 14,000 or more Cambodians who during the brutal years of Khmer Rouge rule.


Pakistan secretly helping Taliban: report

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 11:07 PM PDT

KABUL/WASHINGTON - (Reuters) - Pakistan was actively collaborating with the Taliban in Afghanistan while accepting U.S. aid, new U.S. military reports showed, a disclosure likely to increase the pressure on Washington's embattled ally.

Khmer Rouge's chief jailer guilty of war crimes (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:48 PM PDT

AP - A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal sentenced the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer Monday to 35 years in prison — the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodia's people.


US holds drills off Korea as Pyongyang talks war (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:17 PM PDT

File photo of South Korean Navy Patrol Combat Corvettes staging an anti-submarine exercise off the western coast town of Taean. South Korea and the United States plan to stage anti-submarine drills Monday on the second day of a major naval exercise aimed at deterring North Korea, an official said.(AFP/POOL/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)AP - U.S. and South Korean warships and helicopters practiced anti-submarine maneuvers off the Korean peninsula Monday, readying defenses against the kind of weapon that allegedly sank a South Korean navy vessel earlier this year.

A Russian milestone: 1st black elected to office (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

In this July 20, 2010 photo, Russian councilman Jean Gregoire Sagbo smiles in Novozavidovo, a village 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Moscow. People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare — an honest politician. Sagbo last month became the first black to be elected to office in Russia. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare — an honest politician.
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