LONDON - Billionaire investor George Soros has given his gloomiest assessment of the state of the US and world economies.
JERUSALEM - Thirty Zionist rabbis break taboo and visit Temple Mount as part of 40th anniversary celebrations of Jerusalem's unification
VIRGINIA, USA - Osama bin Laden must be chuckling in his safe house. After all, the 2008 campaign could very well give Al Qaeda the ultimate propaganda tool: President Barack Hussein Obama, Muslim apostate.
ISRAEL - PA President Mahmoud Abbas has come to the conclusion that peace talks have failed, the London-based newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi reported on Monday.
ENGLAND - Wildlife is being squeezed into ever-diminishing spaces as we seek land for housing, for roads, for agriculture, for energy and for recreation.
LONDON - Marriage is irrelevant to government policy and ministers should not tell people how to bring up their families, says Labour's deputy leader.
ALTA FLORESTA - Brazilian farmers complain about a government campaign against illegal deforestation. Here, around this remote city in central-western Brazil, the country's growing agricultural prowess is colliding with efforts to protect the Amazon rain forest from unauthorized eradication.
LONDON - The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.
JOHANNESBURG - At least 12 people have been killed in the South African city of Johannesburg since Friday in a wave of violence directed at immigrants, police say.
UNITED NATIONS - Farmers in the areas most affected by Cyclone Nargis need rice seed by the end of June, or Burma's rice harvest will fail, the United Nations says.
SHARM EL-SHEIK, EGYPT - At the start of his Mideast trip, President Bush gave Israel glowing praise. As it ended on Sunday, the president gave the Arab world a stern lecture: Isolate state sponsors of terror and give citizens more freedoms.
LONDON - This horrifying invasion of privacy has begun, almost unnoticed, because the Government has CLEVERLY PRESENTED IT AS BEING IN THE INTERESTS OF "CHILD PROTECTION".
LONDON - Thousands of British women have had four or more abortions, including dozens who have undergone six by the age of 30.
MOSCOW - As ex-President Putin settles in to his new role as Prime Minister, he has every reason to congratulate himself. After all, he has not only written the script for his constitutional coup d'etat, but staged the play and given himself the starring role as well.
SANTIAGO - Chile's Chaiten volcano groaned, rumbled and shuddered on Thursday, raising new concerns among authorities, as lightning bolts pierced the huge clouds of hot ash hovering ominously above its crater.