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Doctor gets hero's welcome in India
Jul 29 2007 11:43PM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - Mobbed by TV cameramen, journalists and supporters, a 27-year-old doctor flew home to a hero's welcome Sunday in southern India after being freed from jail in Australia when terror charges against him were dropped.
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Doctor gets hero's welcome in India
Jul 29 2007 11:43PM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - Mobbed by TV cameramen, journalists and supporters, a 27-year-old doctor flew home to a hero's welcome Sunday in southern India after being freed from jail in Australia when terror charges against him were dropped.
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Doctor gets hero's welcome in India
Jul 29 2007 11:43PM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - Mobbed by TV cameramen, journalists and supporters, a 27-year-old doctor flew home to a hero's welcome Sunday in southern India after being freed from jail in Australia when terror charges against him were dropped.
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Doctor gets hero's welcome in India
Jul 29 2007 11:43PM (CT)
BANGALORE, India (AP) - Mobbed by TV cameramen, journalists and supporters, a 27-year-old doctor flew home to a hero's welcome Sunday in southern India after being freed from jail in Australia when terror charges against him were dropped.
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China floods kill 652 so this year
Jul 29 2007 11:18PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Floods, landslides and mudflows triggered by torrential rains have killed 652 people in China so far this year, with more heavy rains forecast, state media reported Monday.
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Lightning strikes kill 5 in S.Korea
Jul 29 2007 10:46PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Lightning struck hikers at two mountains outside Seoul over the weekend, killing five people and injuring six others, South Korea's disaster management agency said Monday.
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Abe vows to stay after election defeat
Jul 29 2007 10:23PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led his scandal-stained ruling coalition to an unexpectedly severe defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, a stunning reversal of fortune for a party that has controlled Japan virtually uninterrupted since 1955. Despite the humiliating setback, Abe vowed to stay in office.
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Abe vows to stay after election defeat
Jul 29 2007 10:23PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led his scandal-stained ruling coalition to an unexpectedly severe defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, a stunning reversal of fortune for a party that has controlled Japan virtually uninterrupted since 1955. Despite the humiliating setback, Abe vowed to stay in office.
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Abe vows to stay after election defeat
Jul 29 2007 10:23PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led his scandal-stained ruling coalition to an unexpectedly severe defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, a stunning reversal of fortune for a party that has controlled Japan virtually uninterrupted since 1955. Despite the humiliating setback, Abe vowed to stay in office.
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Abe vows to stay after election defeat
Jul 29 2007 10:23PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led his scandal-stained ruling coalition to an unexpectedly severe defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, a stunning reversal of fortune for a party that has controlled Japan virtually uninterrupted since 1955. Despite the humiliating setback, Abe vowed to stay in office.
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Abe vows to stay after election defeat
Jul 29 2007 10:23PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led his scandal-stained ruling coalition to an unexpectedly severe defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, a stunning reversal of fortune for a party that has controlled Japan virtually uninterrupted since 1955. Despite the humiliating setback, Abe vowed to stay in office.
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Afghan leaders: Free female hostages
Jul 29 2007 10:08PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Political and religious leaders invoked Afghan and Islamic traditions of chivalry and hospitality Sunday in attempts to shame the Taliban into releasing 18 female South Korean captives.
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Rains slow search for 69 Chinese miners
Jul 29 2007 10:01PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Heavy rains Monday hampered efforts to save 69 miners trapped for more than 24 hours in a flooded coal mine in central China, a state-run news agency reported.
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AP veteran Ganguly dies at 57
Jul 29 2007 1:30PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - Dilip Ganguly, whose 21-year career at The Associated Press saw him report from Baghdad during the Gulf War, on the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and on stories across South Asia, died on Sunday. He was 57.
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Militants flourish new al-Qaida haven
Jul 29 2007 12:01PM (CT)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - The jagged mountains of Pakistan's tribal belt conceal the passage of Taliban fighters into Afghanistan. Its mud fortresses are perfect for training suicide bombers. And al-Qaida kingpins likely find refuge among its Pashtun inhabitants.
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Hybrid train debuts in Japan
Jul 29 2007 11:37AM (CT)
SAKU, Japan (AP) - Winding past rice paddies and lazily blowing its whistle along bubbly creeks, this two-car train in rural northern Japan is the latest entrant in the battle against global warming.
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Indian police kill 8 protesters
Jul 29 2007 6:32AM (CT)
HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Police opened fire on stone-throwing communist protesters in southern India, killing at least eight, officials said Sunday.
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N. Korea reaffirms nuclear commitment
Jul 29 2007 3:36AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - North Korea's new foreign minister reaffirmed his country's commitment to ending its nuclear weapons program, an official said Sunday.
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Tropical Storm Usagi forms in Pacific
Jul 29 2007 3:17AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A tropical storm formed about 620 miles southeast of Tokyo on Sunday and approached a remote Japanese island chain, Japan's Meteorological Agency reported.
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Odd candidates spruce up Japan elections
Jul 29 2007 12:53AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - There's Peru's former authoritarian leader, Albert Fujimori; and Yuko Tojo, whose grandfather ordered Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; and the inventor who calls himself Dr. Nakamats and claims he knows how to turn North Korean missiles around in midair.
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Mount Everest highway plans on hold
Jul 29 2007 12:11AM (CT)
LHASA, China (AP) - Environmental experts must conduct a study and give their approval before workers can build a planned paved road up to the Mount Everest base camp, a Tibet government official said Saturday.
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