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Thai soldiers man at a checkpoint leading to the Thai-Cambodian border after a clash between Thai and Cambodian soldiers broke out Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008 in Sisaket province, northeastern Thailand.
Thai and Cambodia temple dispute spills over into deadly fighting
The Times
Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged rockets and gunfire across their border today in a deadly battle over a small and remote plot of jungle adjoining an ancient Hindu temple. At least two Cambodian soldiers were reported to have been killed and five Thais and two Cambodians were injured in the afternoon battle at the mountain-top Preah Vihear...
photo: AP / The Nation, Chaiwat Pumpuang
BALA MURGHAB, Afghanistan- Local Afghan workers perform maintenance on the perimeter wall at International Security Assistance Force Forward Operating Base Bala Murghab, Oct. 2, 2008. ISAF is assisting the Afghan government in extending and exercising its authority and influence across the country, creating the conditions for stabilization and reconstruction. (ISAF photo by U.S. Air Force TSgt Laura K. Smith)(released)
UN envoy paints rosier picture of Afghanistan
Canada Dot Com
UNITED NATIONS -- The "gloom and doom" predictions for Afghanistan have been overplayed and become a distraction from efforts to help Afghans get on their feet, the chief United Nations envoy to Afghanistan said Tuesday. Addressing the UN Security Council, Kai Eide said that a recent focus on rising violence in the country had overshadowed...
photo: USAF / TSgt Laura K. Smith
In this Oct. 5, 2007 file photo, the new Daimler AG headquarters logo is seen at Stuttgart Untertuerkheim, Germany. Daimler AG signed a memorandum of understanding with the Iraqi government Wednesday, July 23, 2008, that could see the German vehicle maker supply buses, trucks and technological expertise in efforts to rebuild the coun
Daimler to axe 3,500 truck jobs
BBC News
At total of 3,500 factory and office workers at Daimler, one of the world's biggest makers of heavy trucks, are to lose their jobs. Daimler has said it will close two factories in Canada and the US, and drop its Sterling brand...
photo: AP / Daniel Maurer
Foreign journalists use Internet services provided at the Main Press Center at the Olympic Green in Beijing, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. After months of promising the Internet will be uncensored for journalists during the Beijing Olympics, the IOC delivered a stark clarification on Tuesday, many Internet sites will be blocked under controls applied by China's communist government. The blocked Internet is the latest broken promise on press freedom at the Beijing Olympics, which China's authoritarian government is hoping will show off an open, modern country and the rising political and economic power of the 21st cen
Internet beats books for improving the mind, say scientists
The Daily Telegraph
Browsing the internet is better than reading books for boosting the brain power of middle-aged and older adults, new research has found.Internet words infiltrate dictionariesBrain exercises take ten years off your mindYouTube periodic table: Explosive video guides Scientists discovered that searching the world wide web exercised the mind far more...
photo: AP / Oded Balilty
In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, wearing glasses, stands with uniformed soldiers during his visit to a military unit in unknown location of North Korea.
Kim's health still a mystery
The Press Democrat
And the verdant background looks more like summer than autumn, adding to uncertainty about Kim's health after reports he underwent brain surgery. North Korea released the undated still photos and video frame grabs Saturday accompanying a report by North Korean TV that Kim visited an all-female military unit. They were the first photos of Kim...
photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, speaks to reporters at a press conference after the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Impact from credit crisis on China limited -Wen
The Guardian
(Adds details, statements by other officials) BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) - China is confident it can maintain financial market stability in the face of the global credit crisis, which has so far had a limited and controllable impact on it, Premier Wen Jiabao was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The comments, published on the website of the Chinese...
photo: AP/ Robert F. Bukaty
California Department of Forestry hand crews stand at the ready near a housing tract during a late afternoon wildfire that broke out near northbound U.S, 101 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Monday, Jan. 22, 2007 in Westlake Village, Calif. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)
California firefighters brace for resurgent wildfires that have charred 15 square miles
Star Tribune
LOS ANGELES - Powerful gusts stoked three major wildfires in Southern California early Tuesday that have charred nearly 12,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate neighborhoods in suburban Los Angeles and northern San Diego County. Two people died Monday as flames raged in the northeastern and western San...
photo: AP Photo/Gus Ruelas
Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, left, and Robert K. Durkee, vice president and secretary of Princeton, right, listen as Paul Krugman, Princeton University professor of economics and international affairs, speaks to a gathering in Princeton
Bush critic wins economics
Canada Dot Com
STOCKHOLM -- U.S. economist Paul Krugman, a fierce critic of President George W. Bush's handling of the global financial crisis, yesterday won the Nobel Economics Prize. The 55-year-old Princeton University professor and New York Times columnist has worked intensely on the impact of free trade and globalization, as well as the driving forces behind...
photo: AP / Mel Evans
President George W. Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi raise their glasses in a toast
Bumbling Berlusconi breaks Bush's podium - but swears they'll be 'friends forever'
The Daily Mail
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi toasted U.S. president George Bush with pieces of a podium last night, swearing they will be 'friends forever'. A grinning Mr Berlusconi had his White House audience in stitches when, in his rush to honour Mr Bush, he accidentally bumped the podium, breaking it into pieces. Mr Berlusconi cheerfully handed Mr...
photo: White House / Joyce N. Boghosian
A broker is seen at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, central Germany, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008.
Germany's DAX market opens up
The Boston Globe
FRANKFURT, Germany—Germany's benchmark DAX stock market index opened higher Monday as investors looked positively on world governments' plans to underpin the global financial sector and economy. The DAX...
photo: AP / Daniel Roland
British banks to get cash infusion from government
Boston Herald
LONDON - Britain will inject around 37 billion pounds ($63 billion) of money into three of the country's largest banks, the government said today, in a bid to save the banking system from collapse amid the global financial crisis. The move will leave the British taxpayer as the largest shareholder in the banks. "The action we are taking today is...
Mugabe swears in vice-presidents before talks
Canada Dot Com
HARARE -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has sworn in two vice-presidents ahead of talks on forming a cabinet, a government official said on Monday, a move that could further endanger power-sharing negotiations. It follows Mugabe's allocation of important ministries to his ZANU-PF party at the weekend, angering the opposition. The MDC said it...
Reports: Airline passengers overpower hijacker
The Examiner
MSNBC - 39 mins ago A hijacker was overpowered by passengers as he attempted to commandeer a Turkish Airlines plane over Belarus, Turkish media reported on Wednesday. Related Topics: Belarus , Turkish Airlines Inc.  PRINT STORY  |   EMAIL STORY  |  COMMENTS   MSNBC  ...
EU to press for reform, Asia joins bailout bandwagon
Canada Dot Com
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - European leaders will push on Wednesday for an overhaul of global financial structures after Asia joined western bastions of capitalism in bailing out banks to avert financial meltdown and tackle looming recession. EU leaders meet in Brussels after committing 2.2 trillion euros ($3.02 trillion) to rescue European banks...
Sources: Deal reached for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq
Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON - U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed on a draft security pact that would govern the presence of American troops in Iraq after January, Bush administration officials say, but its final approval is far from certain. The draft calls for U.S. troops to pull out of Iraqi cities by the end of June next year and leave Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011,...
Germany's DAX index loses ground at opening
The Boston Globe
FRANKFURT, Germany—Germany's benchmark DAX stock market index opened lower on Wednesday as investors weighed the possibility that the financial crisis could cause a sharp slowdown in world economic growth. On Monday, markets had...
Sri Lanka: Heavy fighting kills 49 rebels
Syracuse
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Government forces pounded rebel defenses with airstrikes and ground assaults as heavy fighting across northern Sri Lanka killed 49 Tamil Tiger fighters and seven soldiers, the military said Wednesday. The new fighting came as soldiers closed in on the rebels' administrative capital of Kilinochchi in a campaign aimed at...
Seventy Taliban said killed in Afghanistan -
Yahoo Daily News
5 minutes ago KABUL (Reuters) - About 70 Taliban fighters were killed in an overnight air strike by foreign forces in the southern Afghan province of Helmand near the Pakistan border, the provincial governor's spokesman said on Wednesday....
Russia arrives late for first face-to-face meeting with Georgia since war
Newsday
GENEVA (AP) _ Russia arrived late for its first face-to-face meeting with Georgia since their August war, but Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said he would join the Georgians and the United States for the talks Wednesday. Initially, there were indications that Russia would stay away from the main talks because their allied representatives...
Asian stock markets stall after 2-day rally
Chicago Sun-Times
HONG KONG---- Most Asian stock markets declined Wednesday after a two-day rally, tracking Wall Street lower amid concerns that worldwide efforts to revive the financial system won't be enough to stave off a global recession. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index lost 843 points, or 5 percent, to 15,990 after rising more than 13 percent the previous two days....
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