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  1. A Spanair plane flies above Madrid's Barajas airport in 2005. At least 20 people were killed when a Spanair airliner crashed at Madrid's airport.(AFP/File/Pedro Armestre)
    45 dead as jet swerves off Madrid airport runway AP - 30 minutes ago

    MADRID, Spain - A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport on Wednesday, killing at least 45 people, the Interior Ministry said.

  2. China's Bao Xishun (R) poses during a presentation for the Guinness World Records in Beijing in this January 28, 2005 file photo. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
    New rules make China's Bao world's tallest again Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 2:13 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Guinness World Records has returned the title of world's tallest man to China's Bao Xishun after Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk refused to be measured under new guidelines.

  3. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski (R) exchange documents after signing a deal on basing an American missile shield in Poland, in Warsaw. The United States has ruled out the use of US military force in Georgia, but the Pentagon will almost certainly be looking for other chess pieces to move to check a more aggressive Russia, analysts say.(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
    Rice signs missile defense deal with Poland AP - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

    WARSAW, Poland - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.

  4. Refugees from the zone of the armed conflict between Georgia and Russian-backed South Ossetian separatists stand at a temporary shelter in Tbilisi August 19, 2008. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
    The Ethnic Toll in Georgia Time.com - 2 hours, 12 minutes ago

    Refugees recount how neighbor turned against neighbor and why some Ossetians can no longer live with Georgians

  5. Pakistani tribesmen patrol a mountain region of Wana in 2007. Missiles fired from Afghanistan hit a militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal belt, killing at least eight people including some foreign extremists.(AFP/S.K. Khan)
    Missile strike reported in northwest Pakistan AP - 14 minutes ago

    DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Missiles destroyed a suspected militant hide-out near the Afghan border Wednesday where foreign insurgents were known to frequent, killing at least five people, Pakistani officials said.

  6. Russian soldiers patrol the highway near Igoeti, northwest of the capital Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. A top Russian general said Russia plans to construct a series of checkpoints manned by hundreds of soldiers in the so-called 'security zone' around Georgia's de-facto border with the breakaway territory of South Ossetia. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
    Russians dig in as pullback drags on in Georgia AP - 36 minutes ago

    SACHKHERE, Georgia - Russian forces on Wednesday built a sentry post just 30 miles from the Georgian capital, appearing to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia despite pledges to pull back to areas mandated by a cease-fire signed by both countries.

  7. Gorilla mother Gana carries her dead baby at the zoo in Muenster, western Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The baby died on Aug. 16, but can only be recovered from the enclosure once the mourning mother leaves the corpse behind, zoo spokesperson Ilona Zuehlke said. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
    Mourning gorilla holds on to body of her baby AP - Wed Aug 20, 8:55 AM ET

    BERLIN - A gorilla at a zoo in the German city of Muenster is refusing to let go of her dead baby's body several days after it died of unknown causes.

  8. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy shakes hands with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul August 20, 2008. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)
    Sarkozy has no regrets after Afghan deaths Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 5:57 AM ET

    KABUL (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he did not regret sending 700 more troops to Afghanistan this year, after insurgents killed 10 French soldiers, the biggest single loss for foreign forces in Afghan combat since 2001.

  9. Twin car bombings hit Algerian hotel, barracks AP - Wed Aug 20, 6:11 AM ET

    ALGIERS, Algeria - Twin car bombings rocked a hotel and military headquarters in the Algerian town of Bouira on Wednesday, killing 11 people a day after a suicide bombing in a neighboring region killed 43, official media and witnesses said.

  10. Oranges are seen for sale at a Safeway grocery store, in Washington, DC. Grapefruit, orange and apple juices can harm the body's ability to absorb certain medications and make the drugs less effective, said a Canadian study released Tuesday in the United States.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)
    Some fruit juices can harm drug absorption: study AFP - Tue Aug 19, 10:43 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Grapefruit, orange and apple juices can harm the body's ability to absorb certain medications and make the drugs less effective, said a Canadian study released Tuesday in the United States.

  11. In this October 15, 2007, file photo former Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Guofeng attends the opening ceremony of the 17th Communist Party Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside by Deng Xiaoping as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died Wednesday August 20, 2008, state-run media reported. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, FILE)
    Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China, dies AP - Wed Aug 20, 9:11 AM ET

    BEIJING - Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died Wednesday at the age of 87, state-run media reported.

  12. A U.S. soldier stands guard by a convoy travelling through Iraq's volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad August 17, 2008. (David Clarke/Reuters)
    Iraq official: US, Iraq finish draft security deal AP - 18 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - An Iraqi official says U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have finished a draft agreement that would see all American troops removed from Iraqi cities by June 30. He says the deal is awaiting final government approval.

  13. Woman attacks Toronto bus driver with hammer AP - Mon Aug 18, 5:48 PM ET

    TORONTO - Police say a woman brandishing a hammer has attacked a bus driver in Toronto, setting off a melee that injured three people.

  14. A police officer inspects the site of a car bomb attack which targeted Canadians working on a water project in Bouira, 150 km (90 miles) east of Algiers, August 20, 2008. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
    Two more bombs kill 11 in Algeria: report Reuters - Wed Aug 20, 8:19 AM ET

    BOUIRA, Algeria (Reuters) - Two car bombs in Algeria killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, the day after an attack that left 43 dead at a military academy, Algerian press agency APS said quoting the Interior Ministry.

  15. Vietnam releases Gary Glitter from prison AP - Tue Aug 19, 12:46 AM ET

    HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Vietnamese authorities have released British glam rocker Gary Glitter from prison, where he served nearly three years after being convicted of child molestation.

  16. Canada extradites alleged Mafia boss to Italy AP - Wed Aug 20, 8:56 AM ET

    ROME - One of Italy's most-wanted criminals was extradited from Canada on Wednesday and locked in an Italian high-security prison, the Justice Ministry said.

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