World news
06/07/2008 20:14:20
HER EXPERIENCE
Betancourt, a Colombian senator, was freed along with 14 other hostages, three Americans and 11 Colombians, in a daring army operation Wednesday.
06/07/2008 19:57:58
ACCIDENT
The bus was heading to the port city of Tampico late Saturday when it tried to pass a car on a curve and smashed into the minivan, which was being used as a taxi.
06/07/2008 18:32:30
BLAST
A suicide attacker detonated explosives near a police station in Pakistan's capital on Sunday, killing more than 10 police officers, officials said.
06/07/2008 18:10:19
JULY 7-9 SUMMIT
Climate change is high on the agenda of the summit of rich nations in Toyako, Hokkaido, and of a Major Economies Meeting on July 9 that brings the G8 together with eight other countries including China, India and Brazil.
06/07/2008 17:58:08
G8 SUMMIT
"I'll be constructive. I've always advocated that there needs to be a common understanding and that starts with a goal", Bush said after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, the host of the three-day summit.
06/07/2008 13:14:36
REMEMBRANCE
More than 2-thousand people gathered on a tree-lined street outside the mosque, known as "Lal Masjid", for a conference in remembrance of the eight-day siege.
06/07/2008 09:58:29
FACTBOX
Leaders from the Group of Eight rich countries meet next week at the hilltop Windsor Hotel, overlooking the lake and hot spring resort of Toyako, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.
Sci/Tech
06/07/2008 20:08:01
RESEARCH
Doctors know a woman's age plays a key role but the findings presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference suggest the paternal impact is stronger than earlier thought.
06/07/2008 20:04:03
AT THE WOLONG RESERVE
Guo Guo was the first panda to give birth since the 7.9-magnitude quake that rocked the Sichuan province on 12 May, killing nearly 70-thousand people and leaving five million homeless.
06/07/2008 15:25:35
BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Droughts could hit the country twice as often as now, cover an area twice as big and be more severe in key agricultural production areas, the CSIRO said in a joint report.
06/07/2008 10:30:01
ENVIRONMENT
Packs of volunteers, including oil workers and schoolchildren, trekked into fields and forests up and down Mexico wielding shovels and wheelbarrows full of government-supplied saplings. They planted a 8.3 million trees.
Sports
06/07/2008 19:14:54
TOUR DE FRANCE
Luxembourg's Kim Kirchen was second, and his Team Columbia teammate Gerald Ciolek of Germany was third after the windy, rain-splattered ride through verdant Brittany countryside.
06/07/2008 16:50:32
MOTOR RACING
Hamilton, the first British winner at Silverstone since David Coulthard in 2000, lapped all but second placed Nick Heidfeld in a BMW Sauber and the Honda of Brazilian Rubens Barrichello.
Life
06/07/2008 18:58:06
TXUPINAZO
NaBai's deputy and town councilor Uxe Barkos launched the traditional "chupinazo" firecracker from the main balcony of the city hall in Iruña/Pamplona marking the start of San Fermin.
06/07/2008 18:28:50
SAN FERMIN
The victim's identity isn't known, and police are trying to determine if he is one of the many foreigners attending the festival of san Fermin.
06/07/2008 16:42:13
CRIME
Police arrested a 21-year-old man Saturday over the killings, but freed him on Sunday afternoon. Francoise and Olivier Ferez said their son's attackers would not be able to hide forever.
06/07/2008 12:26:57
SAN FERMIN
Everything is ready for the traditional "chupinazo" firecracker in the city's main square to welcome San Fermin. There are only a few hours left.
06/07/2008 11:00:42
IN ST. PETER'S BASILICA
Judge Gianluigi Marrone, who is a member of the court system of the independent Vatican city-state, said the man was wearing clerical garb and carried documents alleging that he was a priest.
06/07/2008 10:22:14
MURDER
Laurent Bonomo and his friend Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were bound and stabbed to death at their apartment, near where the arrest was made. Bonomo was stabbed nearly 200 times while Ferez received nearly 50 stab wounds.
Entertainment
06/07/2008 11:56:20
BILBAO BBK LIVE
REM, The Prodigy and Lenny Kravitz played under intense drizzle, but the audience coped with it cheerfully. The festival comes to an end today with bands such as Tequila, ZZ Top and Riders on the Storm among others.
