BURMA - Relief deliveries into cyclone-hit Burma increased today but aid groups said supplies fell far short of the enormous need and that foreign experts were still barred from the country.
USA - Tornadoes and severe storms have swept across the central part of the United States, causing destruction and killing at least 18 people.
USA - Somehow we missed it. It was THE MASS EXODUS OF WOMEN FROM THE HOME, and the consequent decline of motherhood. For the first time in recorded history of the West, MORE MOTHERS LEFT THEIR HOMES THAN STAYED IN THEM.
BURMA - The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000 people are dead.
JERUSALEM - The overwhelming view in Israel on Friday, just hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared his innocence in a bribery investigation involving a Long Island businessman, was that the post-Olmert political era had already begun
CHINA - The light being cast on China by the coming Summer Games is far brighter than the flickering Olympic flame now wending its way across that vast country. Politics, society, human rights, the status of Tibet and even the environment have been widely discussed.
EUROPE - EU Farm Commissioner: "I'm really happy that prices are going up" - biofuels nothing to do with higher food prices.
DUBLIN - The Economist argues that Irish voters are being threatened with 'pariah' status and being left isolated and 'whistling in the dark' in Europe if they vote 'no'.
YANGON, MYANMAR - (BURMA) - The U.N. is suspending aid shipments to Myanmar after the government began seizing the supplies.
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top lieutenants on Monday are convening the first meeting of the U.N.'s Task Force on the Global Food Crisis.
BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and other leading politicians at an SPD conference on security issues earlier this week, called for the establishment of a "European armed force", saying that he is in favour of speeding up such a development.
MOSCOW - Russian tanks and intercontinental missile launchers have been paraded through Moscow for the first time since the collapse of the USSR.
BURMA - Burma's military junta says the country is not ready to accept foreign aid workers, amid mounting criticism of its response to the devastating cyclone.
USA - Citigroup is set to unveil plans to dispose of $400 billion (£205 billion) of assets at a meeting with shareholders and analysts today.
LONDON - For decades the national dish has been a staple meal on the national carrier. But now British Airways has taken beef off the menu for economy passengers amid concerns about its "religious restrictions".