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  1. Egyptians search for victims at site where a massive rock slide buried many dwellings at an Egyptian shanty town south of the capital Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. The massive boulders smashed down onto the shantytown killing at least 18 people and injured 22. (AP Photo)
    Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24 AP - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago Sent 52 times

    CAIRO, Egypt - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said.

  2. A man stacks bottles of water donated by Word Food Program in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. A ship carrying 33 tons of U.N. relief supplies managed to dock Friday, the first significant aid delivery after four days without food or water for thousands of survivors from Tropical Storm Hanna. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island AP - 54 minutes ago Sent 48 times

    GONAIVES, Haiti - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. Food was distributed to famished residents, including to emaciated inmates at the local jail.

  3. Pakistani President elect Asif Ali Zardari, center, head of the ruling Pakistan People's Party and widower of two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is congratulated by party members during a celebration dinner at the Prime Minister residence in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. The widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto became Pakistan's new president Saturday after winning a landslide election victory that makes him a critical partner of the West against international terrorism. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
    Bhutto widower elected Pakistani president AP - 47 minutes ago Sent 34 times

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants.

  4. Swaziland King Mswati III reacts, during his birth day celebration on the outskirts of the city of Mbabane, Swaziland, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. The Swazi king entered a stadium in an open-topped BMW to cheers and flag-waving Saturday, marking his 40th birthday and his country's 40th independence anniversary. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
    Swazis hold 40th birthday of king, independence AP - Sat Sep 6, 2:23 PM ET Sent 25 times

    MBABANE, Swaziland - The Swazi king, bare-chested and wearing a traditional leopard skin loin cloth, celebrated his 40th birthday and his nation's 40th independence day in lavish style Saturday — hosting an extravaganza that contrasted sharply with the biting poverty of his subjects.

  5. An Indonesian worker makes tofu at a home factory in Jakarta, Indonesia,on April 15, 2008. The skyrocketing prices for staples like rice, flour and tofu along with the rising cost of fuel has sparked unrest in as many as 30 countries, according to the World Bank, and threatens to send 100 million people into extreme poverty. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
    Price increases push US soy beyond reach of poor AP - Sat Sep 6, 10:05 AM ET Sent 21 times

    SURABAYA, Indonesia - With the dollar a day he earns scrounging for scrap metal and paper, Jumadi can't buy his family beef or even chicken. But until now, the rail-thin scavenger could at least afford soy.

  6. In this July 10, 2007 file photo an Israeli man blows a Shofar horn as families disembark from a Nefesh B'Nefesh flight after arriving from New York City, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has brought more than 3 million Jewish immigrants from more than 100 countries. Israel's appeal to the Jewish Diaspora used to be as a small feisty nation fighting for its survival, or as a socialist alternative to the capitalist rat race. There were kibbutzim to farm and deserts to make bloom. But today the Jewish state is in many ways a normal industrialized democracy. Its immigrants today are as likely to be job-hunting non-Jews from Africa and Asia, many of them here illegally, as Zionists in search of spiritual fulfillment.(AP Photo/Moti Milrod, File)
    In Israel, era of mass immigration ends AP - Sat Sep 6, 12:43 PM ET Sent 15 times

    TEL AVIV, Israel - Melissa Schwab is no Zionist zealot. She's not an Orthodox Jew seeking to be nearer to God. She didn't flee anti-Semitism.

  7. U.S. trained attorney Cristal Gonzalez speaks to lawyers, police investigators and forensic experts during a class on the new rules of justice in Mexico City, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Under the constitutional amendment passed by the legislature, approved by country's 32 states and signed by President Felipe Calderon, Mexico has eight years to replace its closed proceedings with public oral trials in which suspects are presumed innocent, legal authorities can be held more accountable and equal justice is promised to all. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
    Mexico undergoes legal revolution AP - Sat Sep 6, 9:41 AM ET Sent 13 times

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico is in the midst of a legal revolution, and Cristal Gonzalez is on the front lines.

  8. Woman locked in cabin for nine years Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 1:39 PM ET Sent 10 times

    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A 58-year-old man suspected of keeping a woman locked up in a tiny cabin in southern Sweden for nine years has been ordered by a court to be held in custody, local media reported.

  9. Fans of heavy metal band Metallica gesture during the band's concert in Helsinki in 2007. Heavy metal fans and lovers of classical music have more in common than they like to think, according to research published by a university in Edinburgh. Researchers found that both music types attract creative people who are at ease with themselves but can be introverted.(AFP/LEHTIKUVA/File/Vesa Moilanen)
    Mozart and Metallica fans kindred spirits: research AFP - Fri Sep 5, 7:15 AM ET Sent 9 times

    LONDON (AFP) - Heavy metal fans and lovers of classical music have more in common than they like to think, according to research published Friday by a university in Edinburgh.

  10. A Georgian refugee family eats lunch in their tent at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camp in Gori, some 80 kms west of Tbilisi. Tensions between Russia and the United States over Georgia intensified Saturday with Vice President Dick Cheney casting Moscow as a brutal regime that aims to recapture its Soviet-era dominance.(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)
    US-Russia tensions deepen over Georgia AFP/POOL - Sat Sep 6, 3:45 PM ET Sent 7 times

    CERNOBBIO, Italy (AFP) - Tensions between Russia and the United States over Georgia intensified Saturday with Vice President Dick Cheney casting Moscow as a brutal regime that aims to recapture its Soviet-era dominance.

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  1. Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari (C) and Asifa Bhutto Zardari (R) celebrate with the portrait of their late mother, Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, as unofficial results show their father Asif Ali Zardari winning in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. With them are their aunt Faryal Talpur (L). Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in the northwest. (Associated Press of Pakistan/Handout/Reuters)
    Bhutto widower elected Pakistani president AP - 47 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants.

  2. Workers from the World Food Programme load an airplane with aid at an air base in Comalapa September 6, 2008. Humanitarian aid is being sent by emergency operations to Cuba and Haiti to help those affected by Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Hanna. REUTERS/Luis Galdamez (EL SALVADOR)
    Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island AP - 54 minutes ago

    GONAIVES, Haiti - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. Food was distributed to famished residents, including to emaciated inmates at the local jail.

  3. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (L) talks to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) summit in Moscow, September 5, 2008. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool/Reuters)
    Russia accuses West of provocation in Georgia Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 2:53 PM ET

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the United States on Saturday of provoking Moscow by using warships to deliver relief aid to its ally Georgia, with which Russia fought a brief war last month.

  4. Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24 AP - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

    CAIRO, Egypt - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said.

  5. People search amongst the rubble where a rockslide hit a Cairo shanty town September 6, 2008.Twenty people were killed and 23 injured when the massive rockslide hit the crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses, state news agency MENA said. (Nasser Nuri/Reuters)
    Killer landslide hits east Cairo shanty town Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 3:41 PM ET

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Thirty-one people were killed and 23 injured when a massive rockslide hit a crowded Cairo shanty town on Saturday, sending rocks and boulders crashing down on dozens of houses, security and medical sources said.

  6. Swazis hold 40th birthday of king, independence AP - Sat Sep 6, 2:23 PM ET

    MBABANE, Swaziland - The Swazi king, bare-chested and wearing a traditional leopard skin loin cloth, celebrated his 40th birthday and his nation's 40th independence day in lavish style Saturday — hosting an extravaganza that contrasted sharply with the biting poverty of his subjects.

  7. Price increases push US soy beyond reach of poor AP - Sat Sep 6, 10:05 AM ET

    SURABAYA, Indonesia - With the dollar a day he earns scrounging for scrap metal and paper, Jumadi can't buy his family beef or even chicken. But until now, the rail-thin scavenger could at least afford soy.

  8. Many flee Turks and Caicos as 'Ike' approaches AP - Fri Sep 5, 8:09 PM ET

    PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos - Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm on Friday, prompting an exodus of tourists and even longtime residents from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain.

  9. Andy Murray of Great Britain hits a return to Rafael Nadal of Spain during the men's semis at the US Open tennis tournament in New York. Murray has to wait an extra night to see if he can complete a stunning upset of world number one Rafael Nadal and reach the US Open finals against four-time defending champion Roger Federer.(AFP/Don Emmert)
    Hanna hands Murray a long night with US Open semi lead AFP - 1 hour, 48 minutes ago

    NEW YORK (AFP) - Andy Murray has to wait an extra night to see if he can complete a stunning upset of world number one Rafael Nadal and reach the US Open finals against four-time defending champion Roger Federer.

  10. Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party dance to celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election in Multan September 6, 2008. (Asim Tanveer/Reuters)
    Bhutto's widower goes from prison to presidency Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 7:21 AM ET

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Asif Ali Zardari has completed a traumatic journey from prison to the presidency of Pakistan.

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  1. Chinese athlete Zhang Hongwei (L) hands the torch to power lifter Zhang Haidong in the National Stadium at the opening ceremony for the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. China once again dazzled the world with a glittering ceremony as the Paralympics opened Saturday in the iconic "Bird's Nest" National Stadium with the message that all life has value and dignity.(AFP/Peter Parks)
    China dazzles the world with Paralympics opening ceremony AFP - 2 hours, 35 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.6

    BEIJING (AFP) - China once again dazzled the world with a glittering ceremony as the Paralympics opened Saturday in the iconic "Bird's Nest" National Stadium with the message that all life has value and dignity.

  2. A Georgian refugee looks at the sky in front of tents at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camp in Gori, some 80 kms west of Tbilisi. Tensions between Russia and the United States over Georgia intensified Saturday with Vice President Dick Cheney casting Moscow as a brutal regime that aims to recapture its Soviet-era dominance.(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)
    Russia accuses West of provocation in Georgia Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 2:53 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the United States on Saturday of provoking Moscow by using warships to deliver relief aid to its ally Georgia, with which Russia fought a brief war last month.

  3. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev seen at a summit of leaders of the countries, members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Russia scored an important diplomatic victory Friday when it secured support from six other former Soviet nations for its war in Georgia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
    Medvedev says Russia 'nation to be reckoned with' AP - Sat Sep 6, 5:45 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday the war with Georgia has shown the world that "Russia is a nation to be reckoned with" — his most aggressive comments to date on the conflict with Russia's southern neighbor.

  4. Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24 AP - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CAIRO, Egypt - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said.

  5. US Major General John Kelly (left) and Anbar province governor Mamoon Sami Rashid sign documents during a handover ceremony in the provincial capital of Ramadi on September 1. Iraqi forces took over control of the Sunni Anbar province from the US military on September 1.(AFP/Wathiq Khuzaie)
    Iraq's anti-Qaeda fighters fear for their future AFP - Sat Sep 6, 5:54 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) - Sunni Arab fighters battling Al-Qaeda in Iraq say their future is bleak as the Shiite government prepares to take over responsibility for them from the Americans and they also face jihadist fury.

  6. Iran rejects French warning it risks Israeli strike Reuters - Sat Sep 6, 8:02 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran dismissed on Saturday a warning by France's president that the Islamic Republic was taking a dangerous gamble over its nuclear program because one day its arch-foe Israel could strike.

  7. This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Ike, still a Category 4 storm on the morning of Sept. 4, 2008 when this photo was taken from the International Space Station's vantage point of 220 miles above the Earth. The season's seventh named storm was churning west-northwestward through the mid-Atlantic Ocean sporting winds of 120 nautical miles per hour with gusts to 145. Ike could hit Florida by the middle of next week. At 1100 p.m. EDT the center of Hurricane Ike was located about 360 miles northeast of Grand Turk Island with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph a Category 3 hurricane. Some strengthening is expected. (AP Photo/NASA)
    Many flee Turks and Caicos as Ike approaches AP - Sat Sep 6, 2:17 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos - Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 hurricane Saturday, prompting an exodus of tourists and residents from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain.

  8. Mexico undergoes legal revolution AP - Sat Sep 6, 9:41 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico is in the midst of a legal revolution, and Cristal Gonzalez is on the front lines.

  9. A worker is seen near a vehicle damaged in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Ayad Kadhim Sabti, An official in ex-deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi's office, said six people were killed in the suicide car bomb attack on Chalabi's convoy in western Baghdad, but Chalabi escaped Friday night's attack without injuries.(AP Photo)
    Official: 6 killed in Iraq bomb; Chalabi uninjured AP - Sat Sep 6, 6:59 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    BAGHDAD - Ex-Iraqi deputy prime minister and former Pentagon favorite, Ahmad Chalabi, escaped a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy in Baghdad, an official in his office said Saturday.

  10. Supporters of the ruling party, Pakistan People's Party, chant slogans as they celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)
    Bhutto widower elected Pakistani president AP - 47 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.2

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants.

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