| Did a Bard contemporary brush up on Shakespeare? (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 12:56 PM PDT  AP - The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday's unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery.
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| China ups security on eve of key Tibet anniversary (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 02:09 PM PDT  AP - Authorities closed the last window into a restive Tibetan region in western China on Monday, tightening its security cordon on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.
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| Sudan frees president's rival who urged him to face war charges (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 03:22 PM PDT  AP - Sudan freed a senior opposition leader Monday who was jailed after urging the president to face war crimes charges, an apparent attempt to show unity as the country defies an international order to bring its leader to trial over bloodshed in Darfur.
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| NKorea puts troops on alert, warns of war danger (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 10:47 AM PDT  AP - North Korea put its troops on alert and cut the last hot line to Seoul on Monday as the American and South Korean militaries began joint maneuvers. The communist regime warned that even the slightest provocation could trigger war.
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| Zimbabwe premier: Car crash was an accident (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 09:20 AM PDT  AP - Zimbabwe's prime minister said Monday that a car crash that killed his wife was an accident and that there was "no foul play" in the collision, despite at least three previous assassination attempts against him.
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| EU relations 'under strain' over credit crunch: Miliband (AFP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 04:51 PM PDT  AFP - Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday that the economic crisis had put relations in the European Union "under strain", adding its achievements were "being tested as never before".
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,256 (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 04:39 PM PDT  AP - As of Monday, March 9, 2009, at least 4,256 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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| Bill Clinton, UN chief shine spotlight on Haiti (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 03:31 PM PDT  AP - Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sought to refocus international attention on Haiti Monday with a visit they hope will lure more aid to keep the impoverished country from sliding back into chaos.
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| Spokesman: 4 Darfur peacekeepers wounded in ambush (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 02:56 PM PDT  AP - Gunmen ambushed troops of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region Monday night, wounding four soldiers, a spokesman for the mission said.
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| US protests 'harassment' by Chinese vessels (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 04:48 PM PDT  AP - Chinese ships surrounded and harassed a Navy mapping ship in international waters off China, at one point coming within 25 feet of the American boat and strewing debris in its path, the Defense Department said Monday. The Obama administration said it would continue naval operations in the South China Sea, most of which China considers its territory, and protested to China about what it called reckless behavior that endangered lives.
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| Australian wrestles kangaroo from family home (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2009 01:33 AM PDT AP - When a dark intruder smashed through his bedroom window and repeatedly bounced on his bed, Beat Ettlin at first was relieved to discover it was a kangaroo. |
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