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| Kremlin Relents, for Now, to Foes of Highway |
MOSCOW - For years, environmentalists have risked arrests and sometimes beatings by the police and masked plainclothes thugs in their efforts to halt the construction of a highway linking Moscow to St. Petersburg that they say would ... |
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Aug 25, 2010 Safety concerns raised about China crash runway |
| YICHUN, China - A nighttime flight into a remote Chinese city ended with a violent, shaking descent and then a crash near an airport that one major Chinese airline had previously judged unsafe for night landings. | |
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Aug 24, 2010 42 killed in Chinese plane crash |
| More than 40 people were feared dead after a Chinese passenger jet overshot a runway in the country's northeast and burst into flames. | |
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Aug 24, 2010 Chinese plane crash: survivors describe escape |
| Survivors from a plane crash in northeastern China that killed 42 passengers on Tuesday night have described the terrifying final moments of their flight as it crashed to earth and burst into flames. | |
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Aug 24, 2010 Australia independent MPs back mining tax |
| An electoral official counts ballot papers at an Australian Electoral Commission office in Melbourne August 24, 2010. By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's next minority government will be under pressure to retain a proposed mining tax, ... | |
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Aug 22, 2010 Faulty alarms blamed for van Gogh theft in Egypt |
| CAIRO - None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt's top prosecutor said Sunday. | |
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Aug 22, 2010 Philippine Hostage-Taker Releases 7 of 25 Captives |
| Photo: AP Hostage negotiators, left and right, talk to foreign tourists taken hostage by Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza after securing their release at Manila's Rizal Park Monday Aug. 23, 2010. | |
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Aug 21, 2010 Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder |
| LONDON - Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blower Web site WikiLeaks who has been embroiled in a fight with the Pentagon over the recent release of classified documents, briefly became the focus of new attention ... | |
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Aug 19, 2010 Commodities Tax Backlash May Undo Gillard Vote in Australian Mining States |
| Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will face her biggest election fight in mining states to win Saturday's too-close-to-call ballot. | |
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Aug 19, 2010 Australia faces prospect of minority government |
| Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets supporters at the opening of a new shopping mall as part of her election campaign in Sydney August 20, 2010. | |
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