| Strong quake in Italy kills over 150, wounds 1,500 (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:24 PM PDT  AP - Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets searched frantically for students believed buried in a wrecked dormitory after Italy's deadliest quake in nearly three decades struck this medieval city before dawn Monday, killing more than 150 people, injuring 1,500 and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
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| Series of bombings in Baghdad Shiite areas kill 37 (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:25 PM PDT  AP - Anger boiled over in Baghdad streets at Iraqi soldiers and police after they failed to prevent a stunning series of coordinated bombings across the city Monday that left 37 dead and more than 100 wounded. Iraq's government blamed the attacks on supporters of Saddam Hussein "in cooperation with the al-Qaida terrorist organization" and suggested the blasts were timed for Tuesday's anniversary of the founding of the late dictator's Baath party.
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| Obama to Muslim world: No US war with Islam (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:23 PM PDT  AP - Declaring the U.S. "is not and never will be at war with Islam," President Barack Obama worked Monday to mend frayed ties with NATO ally Turkey and improve relations with the larger Muslim world.
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| South African prosecutors drop case against Zuma (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:14 PM PDT  AP - Prosecutors dropped their corruption case Monday against Jacob Zuma, clearing the way for him to become South Africa's next president but leaving behind questions that could haunt the next government.
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| Dubai killing removes top rival to Chechen leader (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 10:56 AM PDT  AP - The assassin of a renegade Chechen warlord tossed a gold-plated pistol to the ground next to the body a flamboyant coda to the death in Dubai that marked the removal of the last major rival of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader.
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| Rescuers hunt all night for Italy quake survivors (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:28 PM PDT  Reuters - Rescuers searched through the night for survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 150 people in central Italy early on Monday and left thousands of homeless huddled in tent camps and rough shelters.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,266 (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:22 PM PDT  AP - As of Monday, April 6, 2009, at least 4,266 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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| Verdict due in murder trial of Peru's Fujimori (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:36 PM PDT  AP - Most Peruvians think Alberto Fujimori, the world's first democratically elected former president to be tried for rights violations in his own country, is guilty as charged of murder and kidnapping.
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| U.S. AIDS program saved million African lives: study (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:03 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. program launched during the Bush administration has cut AIDS deaths by 10 percent in targeted African nations compared to their neighbors and saved more than a million lives, U.S. researchers said on Monday. |
| Experts argue if NKorea's launch suggests progress (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:23 PM PDT  AP - A top Pentagon official on Monday dismissed North Korea's rocket launch as a failure_ both technologically and as an effort to market its missiles to other countries. "Would you buy from somebody that had failed three times in a row and never been successful?" Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked during a press briefing at the Pentagon.
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| Researchers find copy of 'Schindler's List' in Australian library (AP) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 07:01 AM PDT  AP - Australian researchers sifting papers belonging to the author of "Schindler's List" discovered a yellowing roll of 801 men saved from the Holocaust by the German industrialist the very copy the writer used to bring the story to the world's attention, a curator said Monday.
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