AFP - Pakistan president-elect Asif Ali Zardari faced immediate pressure Sunday to tackle an upsurge in militant violence, as the toll from a suicide blast in the country’s troubled northwest reached 33.
Source:Pakistan's Zardari prepares for presidency
(AFP)
Reuters - Egyptian workers cut through a railway
embankment on Sunday to bring heavy earth-moving equipment to
the site of a rock fall which killed at least 34 people in a
Cairo shantytown.
Source:Workers clear path to access Cairo rock fall site
(Reuters)
AFP - Hurricane Ike took aim at Cuba Sunday after leaving 20 people dead in Haiti, where fatalities from a succession of powerful storms in the past few weeks now tops 600.
Source:Toll in Haiti from Ike climbs to 600; Cuba evacuates half-million
(AFP)
AP - When reports circulated over the weekend of a last-minute deal to keep Coney Island’s historic Astroland amusement park open for another year, owner Carol Hill Albert was not amused.
Source:Owner: Ride's over at Coney Island amusement park
(AP)
AP - Barack Obama isn’t John McCain’s only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he’s running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.
Source:McCain takes on GOP and Bush along with Obama
(AP)
AP - The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.
Source:McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?
(AP)
AP - Designers at New York Fashion week heard London calling from 1975.
Source:London calling at New York Fashion Week
(AP)
Reuters - Europeans do not get to vote in
the November U.S. presidential election, but many wish they
did, and their foreign ministers decided that they would at
least take a gamble behind closed doors.
Source:EU gambles on next U.S. president, result secret
(Reuters)
Reuters - Hurricane Ike charged toward Cuba and
the Gulf of Mexico as a ferocious Category 4 storm on Saturday,
while Tropical Storm Hanna drenched the U.S. Atlantic coast
after barreling ashore in the Carolinas.
Source:Ferocious Hurricane Ike threatens Cuba, Gulf
(Reuters)
AP - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said.
Source:Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24
(AP)
