| Madonna visit sheds light on Malawi's poverty (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 02:12 PM PDT  AP - "Madonna, Madonna!" the barefoot boys in tattered T-shirts call out. Until recently, the pop star's name meant little in a country that didn't even have TV until a decade ago.
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| Obama's scorecard: Some setbacks but a good summit (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:04 PM PDT  AP - At his summit debut, President Barack Obama failed to persuade foreign counterparts to commit to fresh and lavish spending to boost economic revival. And the success he did achieve in finding common ground was as much the result of modified goals as swaying other countries to bend to U.S. priorities.
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| Summiteers OK big loans, no econ rescue stimulus (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 03:38 PM PDT  AP - Anxiously assembled at the most perilous moment for the global economy since the Great Depression, the world's financial powers pledged more than $1 trillion Thursday for emergency loans to contain the contagion. But they rebuffed President Barack Obama's bid for new stimulus spending and made no guarantees of success.
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| Police use tear gas on hundreds of NATO protesters (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 01:27 PM PDT  AP - Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to beat back a crowd of several hundred anti-NATO protesters in Strasbourg on Thursday as the city in eastern France, host of the alliance's 60th anniversary summit, readied for the arrival of world leaders.
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| Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 11:15 AM PDT  AP - Michelle Obama's meeting with Queen Elizabeth II began with a handshake and ended in a hug.
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| 16 presumed dead in North Sea helicopter crash (AFP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:13 PM PDT  AFP - Coastguards called off late Thursday the search for eight people missing after a helicopter crash in the North Sea, from which eight bodies had already been recovered.
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| Washington shows no interest in Chavez Gitmo offer (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 02:02 PM PDT AP - Washington expressed no interest Thursday in an offer by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to take in any of the 240 remaining Guantanamo detainees after they are released from the U.S. military prison. |
| Mexico catches top drug baron from Juarez cartel (AP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT  AP - An heir to one of Mexico's most notorious narcotics empires was grabbed by police as he exercised in a city park, officials announced Thursday, shortly before U.S. and Mexican Cabinet officials met to coordinate attacks on escalating drug violence.
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| Suspect denies targeting Morocco government (AFP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 12:15 PM PDT  AFP - A Belgian-Moroccan national suspected of spearheading a presumed 35-member terrorist ring denied in court Thursday that he undertook actions intended to target the Moroccan government.
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| Signs that NKorea fueling rocket: US official (AFP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:12 PM PDT  AFP - There are indications North Korea is fueling a rocket ahead of a planned launch that could come as early as this weekend, a US defense official said on Thursday.
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| International donors meet in ETimor (AFP) Posted: 02 Apr 2009 09:13 AM PDT  AFP - International donors to East Timor kicked off a three-day meeting Thursday to discuss how to lock in security gains and promote development in the young nation, one of the world's poorest.
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