Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistan: US missile strike suspected in 2 deaths (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 03:10 AM CST AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed two people in Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials and a witness said Tuesday, as two prominent U.S. senators visited Islamabad amid flaring tensions over the Mumbai attacks in India.

New Thai PM faces deep divisions, poor economy (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 03:23 AM CST AP - Thailand's new prime minister faces the difficult task of unifying a country torn apart by months of violent anti-government protests — demonstrations that battered the key tourism industry just as the global economy was slipping into its worst crisis in decades.

Family: Shoe thrower hates both US, Iran role (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 12:59 AM CST AP - The Iraqi TV reporter who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush was kidnapped once by militants and, separately, detained briefly by the U.S. military. Over time, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a 28-year-old unmarried Shiite, came to hate both the U.S. military occupation and Iran's interference in Iraq, his family told The Associated Press on Monday.

US anti-kidnapping expert abducted in Mexico (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2008 10:01 PM CST AP - A U.S. anti-kidnapping expert was abducted by gunmen in northern Mexico last week, a sign of just how bold this nation's kidnapping gangs have become.

Philippine rescuers search for 29 ferry passengers (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 12:07 AM CST AP - Rescue teams battling strong waves and winds Tuesday pulled four more bodies — all children — from seas in the northeastern Philippines where a ferry capsized, drowning 27, officials said.

UK's Royal Mail could consider part-privatization (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 03:07 AM CST AP - An independent review of Britain's state-owned postal service, due to be published Tuesday, is expected to call for the company to be partly privatized and could put as many as 50,000 jobs at risk, according to media reports.

Iraqi police: Bomb in downtown Baghdad wounds 6 (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 02:07 AM CST AP - Iraqi police say a bomb blast in central Baghdad has wounded three officers and three civilians.

Former Ecuadorean President Febres Cordero dies (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2008 08:24 PM CST AP - Former President Leon Febres Cordero, the colorful, right-wing leader who dominated Ecuadorean politics for almost two decades and was dubbed the "owner" of the nation by his opponents, died on Monday. He was 77.

Zimbabwe airforce chief survives assassination attempt: media (AFP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 02:44 AM CST AFP - Zimbabwe's airforce commander Perrance Shiri was shot and injured in what the government called an assassination attempt on the Robert Mugabe loyalist, state media reported on Tuesday.

Malaysia's Firefly abolishes fuel surcharges (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 03:22 AM CST AP - Firefly, the budget wing of Malaysia Airlines, on Tuesday removed fuel surcharges on all its flights and introduced low off-peak fares to woo travelers amid the global economic slump.

Australia OKs Facebook for serving lien notice (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2008 02:12 AM CST AP - You've been "superpoked" — and served. A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that they lost their home after defaulting on a loan.

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News: World News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email Delivery powered by FeedBurner
Inbox too full? Subscribe to the feed version of Yahoo! News: World News in a feed reader.
If you prefer to unsubscribe via postal mail, write to: Yahoo! News: World News, c/o FeedBurner, 20 W Kinzie, 9th Floor, Chicago IL USA 60610