World News
- Afghan official: NATO airstrike on hijacked fuel tankers kills 90, including civilians
- An American war jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing up to 90 people, including insurgents and dozens of civilians who had rushed to the scene to collect fuel, Afghan officials said.
- Israel to build new settlement homes in snub of Washington freeze demands, PM aides say
- Aides to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday he would approve hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before considering a temporary freeze in construction, drawing harsh criticism from Washington, which has called for a total halt.
- Gordon Brown: Troops needed in Afghanistan to keep Britain safe
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended Britain's military presence in Afghanistan on Friday - a major policy speech that came as a defense aide quit over the mission's strategy and a soldier was court-martialed for refusing to return to the war-torn country.
- NKorea says uranium enrichment program near completion as it seeks direct talks with US
- North Korea said Friday it is on the threshold of mastering a new way of building atomic bombs, pressuring the United States to agree to direct negotiations or see the communist regime become a greater nuclear risk.
- China official says 5 killed, 14 wounded during protests in restive western city
- A Chinese official says that five people have been killed and 14 wounded during protests over security in the restive western city of Urumqi.
- Canada's top court to hear appeal of ruling ordering government to ask Gitmo detainee's return
- The Supreme Court of Canada agreed Friday to hear the government's appeal of a lower court ruling directing it to ask the U.S. to repatriate a Toronto man who is the last Western detainee held at Guantanamo Bay.
- Gabon capital calm but Unrest continues in Gabon after disputed presidential elections
- France put its troops in the former colony of Gabon on alert and demonstrators set fire to a police station in the country's second-largest city Friday after Ali Bongo, the son of the country's late dictator, was declared the winner of presidential elections.
- Officials: Serbia may offer Iraq some planes to make up for loss of fighters
- Serbia may offer Iraq some planes from its aging air force and train its pilots to partly make up for fighter jets sent here for servicing during the Saddam Hussein era that have deteriorated over time, military officials said Friday.
- US Embassy in Afghanistan says it fires 8 guards involved in lewd conduct scandal
- Eight security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan have been fired following allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living quarters, the embassy said Friday.
- British novelist and playwright Keith Waterhouse, author of 'Billy Liar,' dies at 80
- British novelist and playwright Keith Waterhouse has died at the age of 80.
