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11 die in fire at Austria elderly home
Feb 8 2008 9:12PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A fire engulfed a home for the elderly in western Austria on Friday, killing at least 11 people, a local government spokesman said.
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11 die in fire at Austria elderly home
Feb 8 2008 9:12PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A fire engulfed a home for the elderly in western Austria on Friday, killing at least 11 people, a local government spokesman said.
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Bhutto party rejects UK police findings
Feb 8 2008 3:50PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Benazir Bhutto's supporters disputed a Scotland Yard finding Friday that a bomb not a bullet killed the ex-prime minister, and her party renewed its call for a full-scale international investigation into her death.
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Bhutto party rejects UK police findings
Feb 8 2008 3:50PM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Benazir Bhutto's supporters disputed a Scotland Yard finding Friday that a bomb not a bullet killed the ex-prime minister, and her party renewed its call for a full-scale international investigation into her death.
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Fear, apathy corrode Pakistan elections
Feb 8 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Worshippers were standing in silent prayer in a village mosque when a suicide bomber struck. Former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao survived the attack, the second aimed at him in eight months, but 53 people around him died in a hail of shrapnel.
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Fear, apathy corrode Pakistan elections
Feb 8 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Worshippers were standing in silent prayer in a village mosque when a suicide bomber struck. Former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao survived the attack, the second aimed at him in eight months, but 53 people around him died in a hail of shrapnel.
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Fear, apathy corrode Pakistan elections
Feb 8 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Worshippers were standing in silent prayer in a village mosque when a suicide bomber struck. Former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao survived the attack, the second aimed at him in eight months, but 53 people around him died in a hail of shrapnel.
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Fear, apathy corrode Pakistan elections
Feb 8 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Worshippers were standing in silent prayer in a village mosque when a suicide bomber struck. Former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao survived the attack, the second aimed at him in eight months, but 53 people around him died in a hail of shrapnel.
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Fear, apathy corrode Pakistan elections
Feb 8 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Worshippers were standing in silent prayer in a village mosque when a suicide bomber struck. Former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao survived the attack, the second aimed at him in eight months, but 53 people around him died in a hail of shrapnel.
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Fear, apathy corrode Pakistan elections
Feb 8 2008 3:13PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Worshippers were standing in silent prayer in a village mosque when a suicide bomber struck. Former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao survived the attack, the second aimed at him in eight months, but 53 people around him died in a hail of shrapnel.
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Kidney ring suspect arrested in Nepal
Feb 8 2008 12:29PM (CT)
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - The Indian government said Friday it is seeking the extradition of a man accused of heading an organ transplant ring that illegally removed hundreds of kidneys, sometimes from unwilling donors held at gunpoint.
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New Thai PM says he's his own man
Feb 8 2008 10:43AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - New Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej asserted Friday that he is truly Thailand's top political leader, and not the puppet of deposed Premier Thaksin Shinawatra that some critics paint him to be.
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Avalanches kill 8 in Indian Kashmir
Feb 8 2008 10:35AM (CT)
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Avalanches killed at least eight people and forced hundreds more to leave their snowbound villages Friday in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, officials said.
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Probe: Bhutto killed by blast not bullet
Feb 8 2008 6:18AM (CT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Scotland Yard said in a report released Friday that Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died as a result of a suicide bomb blast, not a gunshot _ findings that support the Pakistani government's version of the events.
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Suicide bomb kills Afghan soldier, child
Feb 8 2008 6:02AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a convoy of Afghan troops on Friday, killing one soldier and a child who was nearby.
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Sri Lanka says it killed 34 rebels
Feb 8 2008 5:23AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Government troops attacked separatist Tamil bunkers along the front lines in Sri Lanka's embattled north, triggering gunbattles that killed 34 rebels and one soldier, the military said Friday.
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Two-thirds of Japanese favor whale hunt
Feb 8 2008 5:19AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Nearly two-thirds of Japanese support the country's much-criticized whaling program, a poll showed Friday, reflecting growing sentiment in the country that the international anti-whaling campaign is fueled by Western cultural bias.
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China rushes to reconnect snow-hit areas
Feb 8 2008 1:45AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Emergency crews rushed to restore electricity to parts of southern China damaged by unusually heavy snows, and forecasters said Friday that new storms could lash the area next week.
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Indian doctor suspect arrested in Nepal
Feb 8 2008 12:12AM (CT)
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The alleged mastermind of a shadowy organ transplant operation in India that illegally removed hundreds of kidneys _ sometimes from unwilling donors _ has been arrested at a jungle resort in southern Nepal, an official said Friday.
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