2008年12月16日星期二

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistan: US missile strike suspected in 2 deaths (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 03:10 AM CST

A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired a missile into a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Monday killing two people, two Pakistani security agency officials said. (Graphics/Reuters)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

Leader of Democrat Party Abhisit Vejjajiva, center, leaves the parliament's chamber after being chosen to the country's new prime minister in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Dec. 15, 2008. Parliament chose the opposition party leader as Thailand's prime minister Monday following months of political chaos, as supporters of the former government tried to blockade lawmakers in the building. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)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

An Iraqi man throws a shoe at President George W. Bush during a new conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, in Baghdad. A man threw two shoes at Bush, one after another, during the news conference. Bush ducked both throws, and neither man was hit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)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

In this photo released by the Philippine Air Force Public Information Office in Manila, a sunken small inter-island ferry lies close to the shore Monday, Dec. 15, 2008 in Ballesteros township, Cagayan province in northern Philippines. Big waves battered the oversized outrigger Sunday, leaving at least 23 dead and 33 missing, Philippine officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Philippine Air Force, HO)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

Former Ecuador's President Leon Febres Cordero speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in this Aug. 10, 2006, file photo. Febres Cordero has died at age of 77 of complications from pulmonary emphysema, a close friend of former Ecuador's President said. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)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

Zimbabwe's airforce commander Perrance Shiri, pictured in April, was shot and injured in what the government called an assassination attempt on the Robert Mugabe loyalist, state media reported on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)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

The logo of social networking website Facebook. An Australian lawyer has served legal documents on a couple via Facebook in what is thought to be a world first, his firm said(AFP/File/Leon Neal)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.

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