Indiana stage collapse leaves several dead

Indiana stage collapse leaves several dead

Indiana stage collapse leaves several dead

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 10:50 PM PDT

Stage rigging at Indiana State Fair in US collapses due to strong winds, leaving at least four dead and dozens injured.


Myanmar's Suu Kyi Tests Freedom

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 10:15 PM PDT

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made her first political trip outside the nation's main city since her release from seven years of house arrest, a crucial journey that will test the limits of her freedom.


Thousands protest against Chinese chemical plant

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 10:38 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of people demonstrated in northeastern China on Sunday, demanding the relocation of a petrochemical plant at the center of a toxic spill scare, state media said.

Vietnamese officials visit US aircraft carrier (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 10:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 3, 2011 file photo released by U.S. Navy, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) departs the Pacific Ocean and enters the South China Sea during her summer patrol. Less than a week after China launched its first aircraft carrier, the U.S. has showed off its own big-boy supercarrier to former enemy Vietnam Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/US Navy, Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Pittman) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Less than a week after China launched its first aircraft carrier, the U.S. showed off its own big-boy supercarrier to former enemy Vietnam — one of several smaller Asian nations with jittery nerves amid Beijing's burgeoning maritime ambitions.

Argentine primary to test Fernandez electoral clout

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 10:05 PM PDT

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's primary election on Sunday is expected to provide the clearest sign yet of whether President Cristina Fernandez will win a strong mandate in October to deepen her leftist policies.

VIDEO: Cuba's unusual first 'gay wedding'

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 09:02 PM PDT

A Cuban man and transgender woman have married in what is being seen as the country's first "gay wedding".


Leaders of Colombia's landless in new peril (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken June 22, 2011, activist Franklin Torres straightens a sign at the entrance to the La Alemania farm that declares it is protected under a 2007 government decree from being sold because peasants claim it was stolen from them by a far-right warlord who made it his headquarters a decade ago, in San Onofre, Colombia. La Alemania is now in foreclosure and activists consider the case emblematic of the challenges of carrying out a new law that aims to redress some 4 million victims of Colombia's internal conflict. President Juan Manuel Santos has made the so-called Victims Law the centerpiece of his administration but activists are worried about his government's ability to protect them. At least 13 leaders of peasants trying to reclaim stolen land have been killed since Santos took office a year ago. (AP Photo/Frank Bajak)AP - The cornerstone of President Juan Manuel Santos' year-old government is a bold plan to compensate an estimated 4 million victims of Colombia's long-running civil conflict.

Philippine rebels try to end deadly land feud (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 08:53 PM PDT

AP - The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group says it has ordered one of its commanders to halt attacks against a rival guerrilla to try to end a land feud that has killed at least 14 combatants.


VIDEO: Cuba's unusual first 'gay wedding'

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 09:02 PM PDT

A Cuban man and transgender woman have married in what is being seen as the country's first "gay wedding".


VIDEO: Bachmann wins US Iowa Straw Poll

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 08:52 PM PDT

US Republican Michele Bachmann has won a key non-binding Iowa poll of hopefuls for the 2012 presidential nomination.


VIDEO: Bachmann wins US Iowa Straw Poll

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 08:52 PM PDT

US Republican Michele Bachmann has won a key non-binding Iowa poll of hopefuls for the 2012 presidential nomination.


Catholics attack Ulster cops over Protestant march (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 07:29 PM PDT

AP - Northern Ireland police came under attack Saturday from Irish Catholic rioters in the British territory's second-largest city of Londonderry but reported no serious injuries.


Myanmar's Suu Kyi tests freedom, meets supporters (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 10:21 PM PDT

Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi listens as Myanmar's Labor and Social Welfare Minister Aung Kyi, unseen, reads a statement nearby to the media after their meeting at Seinlekhanthar government guest house Friday, Aug.12, 2011, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday made her first political trip outside the repressive nation's main city since her release from seven years of house arrest, a crucial journey that will test the limits of her freedom.

Heavy clashes as Libyan rebels enter Zawiya (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 06:33 PM PDT

A Libyan rebel rests near the frontline outside Zawiya in western Libya, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. Libyan rebels fought their way into the strategic city of Zawiya west of Tripoli on Saturday in their most significant advance in months, battling snipers on rooftops and heavy shelling from Moammar Gadhafi's forces holding the city. (AP Photo/Giulio Petrocco)AP - Libyan rebels fought their way into the strategic city of Zawiya west of Tripoli on Saturday in their most significant advance in months, battling snipers on rooftops and heavy shelling from Moammar Gadhafi's forces holding the city.

WFP expands relief work in famine-hit Somalia (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 06:38 PM PDT

A Somali woman from southern Somali holds her malnourished child in a deserted building in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, Aug.13, 2011. The World Food Program said Saturday that it is expanding food distribution efforts in famine-ravaged Somalia, where the U.N. has estimated that only 20 percent of people needing aid are able to receive it because an al-Qaida-linked group controls large portions of the country. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)AP - The World Food Program said Saturday that it is expanding its food distribution efforts in famine-struck Somalia, where the U.N. estimates that only 20 percent of people needing aid are getting it.

Bachmann wins Republican Iowa straw poll

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 06:31 PM PDT

Congresswoman wins 28.5 per cent of the votes in early test for Republican contenders' campaign for the White House.


Electronic Devices Packaged in Synthetic Skin

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 06:29 PM PDT

Self-adhesive electronics devices thinner than the diameter of a human hair can monitor the human heart, brain waves and muscle activity. Unlike existing technologies, these new devices developed by researchers at the University of Illinois weigh nearly nothing, require no external wires and operate on tiny amounts of power.


Gunmen abduct US man in brazen raid in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 06:30 PM PDT

Pakistani media follow a senior police officer at outside the house of a abducted American citizen in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. Gunmen abducted an American man after raiding his home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday, Pakistani officials said, an unusually brazen attack on a foreigner in a country where kidnappings are believed to help fund Islamist militant movements. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - Gunmen kidnapped an American development expert after tricking his guards and breaking into his house in Pakistan on Saturday, a brazen raid that alarmed aid workers, diplomats and other foreigners who already tread carefully in this country rife with Islamic militancy and anti-U.S. sentiment.

Cuba transgender wedding shows shifting attitudes (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 08:55 PM PDT

Transsexual Wendy Iriepa rides in a classic car to her wedding in Havana, Cuba, Saturday Aug. 13, 2011. Iriepa, whose sex change operation was paid for by the state, tied the knot with Ignacio Estrada in a first-of-its-kind wedding for Cuba. Gay marriage is not legal in Cuba and Saturday's wedding does nothing to change that since Iriepa is legally considered a woman. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - A gay man and a woman whose sex-change operation was paid for by the state tied the knot Saturday in a first-of-its-kind wedding for Cuba, a sign of how much the country's attitude toward sexuality has changed since gays and transsexuals suffered persecution in the early years after the revolution.

Fugitive former lawmaker returns to Indonesia (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 05:50 PM PDT

Graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin, center, is escorted by police officers as he steps out from the plane upon arrival from Colombia, at Halim Perdanakusumah airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. The former ruling party lawmaker arrived in Indonesia under tight security Saturday, three months after fleeing the country for allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes. (AP Photo)AP - A former Indonesian lawmaker returned Saturday after three months as a fugitive to face corruption charges in a case that has riveted the nation and tested its reputation in fighting graft.
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