Thursday, July 28^th

Debt crisis: John Boehner, second from right, arrives at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday for a Republican party meeting on the debt ceiling. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images With no sign of a deal in Washington, there were heavy losses ...

By AP, MIAMI — A tropical storm watch has been extended as Tropical Storm Don moves across the Gulf of Mexico toward southeastern Texas, where it's expected to make landfall Friday. A tropical storm watch is now in effect from the mouth of the Rio ...

By John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times South Korea on Thursday struggled to recover from the nation's heaviest rainfall in decades — a torrential two-day downpour that triggered landslides and flooding, killed at least 42 people and left countless ...

Санкции, введенные Госдепартаментом США в отношении ряда российских чиновников в связи с делом Магнитского, вызвали отрицательную реакцию властей РФ. В Кремле эти меры вызвали недоумение. Там считают, что Америка пытается самостоятельно вершить ...

July 28, 2011 Libyan Rebel Deadline for Gadhafi Expires VOA News The head of Libya's opposition council says the rebel group's offer for leader Moammar Gadhafi to remain in the country if he cedes power has expired. Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Wednesday ...

AP / July 28, 2011 CHICAGO - More than 50 years after a 7-year-old girl was abducted and killed, authorities exhumed her body early yesterday as they try to put together their criminal case against a former neighbor, now 71. ...

Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday held consultations with his loyalist ministers and legislators and sought to rope in the Reddy brothers to weigh the options before him after the BJP top brass asked him to step down. Shortly after his arrival ...

Heavy fighting has broken out in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a day after the UN World Food Programme airlifted in its first famine emergency aid. At least four people are reported to have been killed as government forces, backed by African Union ...

WILL WEISSERT, AP Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is placed in a Tom Green County Sheriff's Department car after a suppression hearing Wednesday, July 27, 2011 in San Angelo, Texas. ...

Heavy fighting has broken out in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a day after the UN World Food Programme airlifted in its first famine emergency aid. At least four people are reported to have been killed as government forces, backed by African Union ...

Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday held consultations with his loyalist ministers and legislators and sought to rope in the Reddy brothers to weigh the options before him after the BJP top brass asked him to step down. Shortly after his arrival ...

By LORNA COLQUHOUN STEWARTSTOWN — Two days after a schoolgirl was discovered missing from her home in this small town near the Canadian border, an anxious community is banding together. "We're building a bridge of hope," said Lori Stott, ...

Amid public outcry, Chinese PM vows to punish those responsible for crash in which 39 people were killed. Railway authorities in China have said design flaws in signal equipment and human error are to blame for Saturday's deadly train crash in which 39 ...

By Parija Kavilanz @CNNMoney July 28, 2011: 5:16 AM ET New report from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates total health care spending will hit $4.6 trillion, 50% f of which will be paid by the government, up from 44% in 2009. ...

By Daily Mail Reporter The mass killer is undergoing psychiatric tests at a prison which was a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. He is being kept in isolation on suicide watch, with a full evaluation of his mental state likely to ...

AP A US atheist group has filed a lawsuit asking a judge to order the removal of a cross-shaped steel beam at the 9/11 memorial in New York or request that other religions and nonreligious views be equally represented. The cross was found amid the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An overcrowded theater and an invitation to a block party ended with an out-of-control crowd swarming Hollywood Boulevard outside a film premiere, leading to a clash with police in riot gear and closure of the famous street. ...

Yesterday the White House showed it still had a sense of humour, despite the spiralling domestic debt crisis, when it Tweeted Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. According to the Guardian the people who press the buttons on the Twitter feed at 1600 ...

Federal prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to uphold Barry Bonds' conviction for obstruction of justice, arguing that the baseball star tried to mislead a grand jury with a rambling, nonresponsive answer to a question about drug injections. ...

BY LL BRASIER "Your rights end where ours begin," Judge Kimberly Small tells Rose on Wednesday. Rose, who crashed his SUV while drunk, told her, "I take full responsibility for my actions." But his first offense still got him 20 days in jail. ...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A NATO spokesman says American and French peacekeepers are in control of two customs posts on Kosovo's northern border with Serbia following an exchange of gunfire with Serb attackers there. Cpt. Hans Wichter said the ...

By Victor Kotsev The most recent source of suspense in the Turkish-Israeli relationship is an important upcoming report by a United Nations inquiry into Israeli raid of the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara. The incident in international waters on May 31, ...

A Philippine military spokesman says seven soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded during a firefight with al-Qaida-linked militants on a remote southern island. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang says the fight occurred on Jolo Island before dawn ...

The international hunt for the LulzSec computer hackers linked to cyber attacks on police and government websites in the UK and US has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old man in Shetland. The Metropolitan police's e-crime unit said the man used the ...

WASHINGTON - A conservative law firm asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down the health-care overhaul, challenging the first federal appeals court ruling that upheld President Obama's signature domestic initiative. ...

A Philippine military spokesman says seven soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded during a firefight with al-Qaida-linked militants on a remote southern island. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang says the fight occurred on Jolo Island before dawn ...

[世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。 [世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。这些亚裔移民用他们的辛勤 ...

Россия причастна к организации прошлогодней серии терактов в Грузии, в том числе у посольства США. Об этом, как утверждает The Washington Times, говорится в секретном докладе, подготовленном ЦРУ. По информации источников издания, отчет американских ...

The international hunt for the LulzSec computer hackers linked to cyber attacks on police and government websites in the UK and US has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old man in Shetland. The Metropolitan police's e-crime unit said the man used the ...

ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Major Pakistani media Thursday hailed progress in the foreign ministers' talks between Pakistan and India and noted advance in the dialogue process after a three-year deadlock over the 2008 Mumbai attacks. ...

The Democratic National Committee is going after Republicans for using a violent movie clip to incite unity at a House GOP conference meeting. In the scene from "The Town," actors Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner hold a short pep talk, where one tells the ...

By Victor Kotsev The most recent source of suspense in the Turkish-Israeli relationship is an important upcoming report by a United Nations inquiry into Israeli raid of the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara. The incident in international waters on May 31, ...

WASHINGTON - A conservative law firm asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down the health-care overhaul, challenging the first federal appeals court ruling that upheld President Obama's signature domestic initiative. ...

A Philippine military spokesman says seven soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded during a firefight with al-Qaida-linked militants on a remote southern island. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang says the fight occurred on Jolo Island before dawn ...

[世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。 [世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。这些亚裔移民用他们的辛勤 ...

Россия причастна к организации прошлогодней серии терактов в Грузии, в том числе у посольства США. Об этом, как утверждает The Washington Times, говорится в секретном докладе, подготовленном ЦРУ. По информации источников издания, отчет американских ...

The international hunt for the LulzSec computer hackers linked to cyber attacks on police and government websites in the UK and US has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old man in Shetland. The Metropolitan police's e-crime unit said the man used the ...

ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Major Pakistani media Thursday hailed progress in the foreign ministers' talks between Pakistan and India and noted advance in the dialogue process after a three-year deadlock over the 2008 Mumbai attacks. ...

The Democratic National Committee is going after Republicans for using a violent movie clip to incite unity at a House GOP conference meeting. In the scene from "The Town," actors Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner hold a short pep talk, where one tells the ...

By Victor Kotsev The most recent source of suspense in the Turkish-Israeli relationship is an important upcoming report by a United Nations inquiry into Israeli raid of the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara. The incident in international waters on May 31, ...

WASHINGTON - A conservative law firm asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down the health-care overhaul, challenging the first federal appeals court ruling that upheld President Obama's signature domestic initiative. ...

A Philippine military spokesman says seven soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded during a firefight with al-Qaida-linked militants on a remote southern island. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang says the fight occurred on Jolo Island before dawn ...

[世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。 [世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。这些亚裔移民用他们的辛勤 ...

Россия причастна к организации прошлогодней серии терактов в Грузии, в том числе у посольства США. Об этом, как утверждает The Washington Times, говорится в секретном докладе, подготовленном ЦРУ. По информации источников издания, отчет американских ...

The international hunt for the LulzSec computer hackers linked to cyber attacks on police and government websites in the UK and US has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old man in Shetland. The Metropolitan police's e-crime unit said the man used the ...

ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Major Pakistani media Thursday hailed progress in the foreign ministers' talks between Pakistan and India and noted advance in the dialogue process after a three-year deadlock over the 2008 Mumbai attacks. ...

The Democratic National Committee is going after Republicans for using a violent movie clip to incite unity at a House GOP conference meeting. In the scene from "The Town," actors Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner hold a short pep talk, where one tells the ...

By Victor Kotsev The most recent source of suspense in the Turkish-Israeli relationship is an important upcoming report by a United Nations inquiry into Israeli raid of the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara. The incident in international waters on May 31, ...

WASHINGTON - A conservative law firm asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down the health-care overhaul, challenging the first federal appeals court ruling that upheld President Obama's signature domestic initiative. ...

A Philippine military spokesman says seven soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded during a firefight with al-Qaida-linked militants on a remote southern island. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang says the fight occurred on Jolo Island before dawn ...

[世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。 [世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。这些亚裔移民用他们的辛勤 ...

Россия причастна к организации прошлогодней серии терактов в Грузии, в том числе у посольства США. Об этом, как утверждает The Washington Times, говорится в секретном докладе, подготовленном ЦРУ. По информации источников издания, отчет американских ...

The international hunt for the LulzSec computer hackers linked to cyber attacks on police and government websites in the UK and US has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old man in Shetland. The Metropolitan police's e-crime unit said the man used the ...

ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Major Pakistani media Thursday hailed progress in the foreign ministers' talks between Pakistan and India and noted advance in the dialogue process after a three-year deadlock over the 2008 Mumbai attacks. ...

The Democratic National Committee is going after Republicans for using a violent movie clip to incite unity at a House GOP conference meeting. In the scene from "The Town," actors Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner hold a short pep talk, where one tells the ...

By Victor Kotsev The most recent source of suspense in the Turkish-Israeli relationship is an important upcoming report by a United Nations inquiry into Israeli raid of the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara. The incident in international waters on May 31, ...

WASHINGTON - A conservative law firm asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down the health-care overhaul, challenging the first federal appeals court ruling that upheld President Obama's signature domestic initiative. ...

A Philippine military spokesman says seven soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded during a firefight with al-Qaida-linked militants on a remote southern island. Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang says the fight occurred on Jolo Island before dawn ...

[世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。 [世华财讯]骆家辉是亚裔“美国梦”的代表，是“数百万美国亚裔移民中的所养育的值得骄傲的儿子。这些亚裔移民用他们的辛勤 ...

Россия причастна к организации прошлогодней серии терактов в Грузии, в том числе у посольства США. Об этом, как утверждает The Washington Times, говорится в секретном докладе, подготовленном ЦРУ. По информации источников издания, отчет американских ...

The international hunt for the LulzSec computer hackers linked to cyber attacks on police and government websites in the UK and US has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old man in Shetland. The Metropolitan police's e-crime unit said the man used the ...

ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Major Pakistani media Thursday hailed progress in the foreign ministers' talks between Pakistan and India and noted advance in the dialogue process after a three-year deadlock over the 2008 Mumbai attacks. ...