Rescue workers treat an injured person as firefighters and policemen survey the scene
Jul 26, 2010
Festival organisers 'ignored Death Tunnel safety advice' -Germany
Rescue workers treat an injured person as firefighters and policemen survey the scene
Taliban offer US navy body in exchange for prisoners
The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a US navy member they say was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said today.
Tony Hayward to quit BP | Business | The Guardian
Tony Hayward's departure will be announced tomorrow Photograph: Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett
Eamonn Holmes gets the BBC jokes eating away at him banned | Life and style
Asking Eamonn not to act like a plonker is as pointless as arguing against gravity' . . . Holmes pictured with co-presenter Ruth Langsford. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex
First up, a sorry dispatch from the Great Celebrity Adipose Wars – a conflict that finally has its Hutton report. Once again, the BBC has issued a humiliating apology for its output, although this time the beneficiary is not Alastair Campbell but Eamonn Holmes. The main thing is, the good guys are still winning.
First up, a sorry dispatch from the Great Celebrity Adipose Wars – a conflict that finally has its Hutton report. Once again, the BBC has issued a humiliating apology for its output, although this time the beneficiary is not Alastair Campbell but Eamonn Holmes. The main thing is, the good guys are still winning.
Casablanca writ large | Travel
Tahir Shah in the restored library of Dar Khalifa, and its original pool Photograph: Ingrid Pullar
Seven years ago, exasperated by living in a tiny London flat, the writer Tahir Shah enacted the cherished fantasy of stressed city dwellers everywhere by uprooting his young family and decamping to a stunning house on the outskirts of Casablanca.
The big story is cricket but the news is all football
Tune in for an update on the status of Didier Drogba's groin injury. Photograph: Tom Jenkins
With most of the big free-to-air sport – World Cup, Wimbledon, the Open – finished, we now enter a kind of pending period before football starts again, a two‑week hiatus that enthusiasts and terminal nostalgists like to call the cricket season.
Manchester City willing to break transfer record for Fernando Torres
Liverpool are uncertain of holding on to their star striker Fernando Torres. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
Roberto Mancini has confirmed Manchester City are willing to underwrite a British record transfer for Fernando Torres should the Spaniard decide to leave Liverpool.
Kansas City Wizards 2-1 Manchester United | Friendly match report | Football
Kansas City Wizards celebrate Davy Arnaud's opener against Manchester United. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP
Jul 25, 2010
Guam surgeon lends helping hand: Doctor shares expertise in Afghanistan, Guam
Saving grace: Dr. Jerone Landstrom, a Navy reservist and Guam surgeon who specializes in microsurgery was deployed to Afghanistan in March to help Afghan surgeons treat trauma injuries resulting from explosions. Just recently Landstrom brought functionality to the limb of a 12-year-old orphan, Haidar, who is scheduled to have his next hand surgery in August, according to Landstrom.">
Dr. Jerone Landstrom, a Navy reservist and Guam surgeon who specializes in microsurgery was deployed to Afghanistan in March to help Afghan surgeons treat trauma injuries resulting from explosions. Just recently Landstrom brought functionality to the limb of a 12-year-old orphan, Haidar, who is scheduled to have his next hand surgery in August, according to Landstrom. (Photo courtesy of the NATO website)
Dr. Jerone Landstrom, a Navy reservist and Guam surgeon who specializes in microsurgery was deployed to Afghanistan in March to help Afghan surgeons treat trauma injuries resulting from explosions. Just recently Landstrom brought functionality to the limb of a 12-year-old orphan, Haidar, who is scheduled to have his next hand surgery in August, according to Landstrom. (Photo courtesy of the NATO website)
Guam Customs Graduates New Narcotic Detection Team
[Graduation: July 23, 2010 - C&Q Officers Gerard T. Aflague, Christopher J. Baza, Jesse J.M. Borja, and Ike J.R. Reyes with Customs Chief Ralph Sgambelluri, Sen. Guthertz and Col. (Ret.) Dennis Santo Tomas, Diretcor, C&Q Guam.]
Pesticide threat looms over French West Indies
Sorting and washing bananas in Martinique, where chlordecone was used to combat the banana weevil. Photograph: Jean-Daniel Sudres/Corbis
Fidel Castro's Potbelly amigo Max Marambio finds brother Raul Castro is not so friendly
Max Marambio. Photograph: Observer
Russia's Putin sings with expelled agents - Yahoo! News
AP – Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, rides Harley Davidson Lehman Trike as he arrives for the …
YAHOO NEWS, Top Stories
- Death toll from German music festival rises to 19 (AP) AP - The death toll rose to 19 on Sunday and police said that 342 had been injured in a panicked crush of partygoers in an overcrowded tunnel that served as the sole entrance to a German festival billed as the world's largest techno music party.
- Taliban: 1 missing US sailor dead, other captured (AP)
- Ships head back to oil well, ready to resume work (AP)
- Russia's Putin sings with expelled agents (AP)
- US aircraft carrier leads drills with South Korea (AP)
- US missiles kill 5 militants in NW Pakistan (AP)
Fidel Castro visits Mausoleum of Heroes of Revolution in Cuba
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro talks to Cuban journalist Katiuska Blanco during a visit to the Mausoleum of the Heroes of the Revolution in Artemisa outside Havana July 24, 2010.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Top 10 Greek islands
Spoilt for choice ... Mykonos bathed in afternoon sunlight. Photograph: Jean-Pierre Lescourret/Corbis
Harry Potter preview draws crowds at Comic-Con
Actor Tom Felton arrives at a sneak peek of a trailer for the latest Harry Potter film. Photo / AP
Kings cancel after pigeons 'use somebody' as toilet
Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill wasn't grinning when pigeon droppings rained down on him during a concert. Photo / Richard Robinson
Jul 24, 2010
Watchdogs sound alarm over TB/HIV deaths
Demonstrators march in Vienna's streets last Tuesday during the 18th International Aids conference. Picture: AFP
US Senate asking BP CEO to testify on Lockerbie
Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 on a field in Lockerbie, Scotland. in this December 1988 file photo. Picture: AP
Israel to return seized aid ships
Laura Arau and Manuel Tapial, both Spanish workers who travelled on board the 'Gaza Freedom Flotilla', and lawyer Enrique de Santiago speak to the media after filing a complaint against Israel, in Madrid, yesterday. Picture: EPA
Storm Bonnie strikes Florida
The Development Driller II (R), and Driller III, drilling the relief wells, are seen at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast, last Thursday. Picture: AP
Medical graduates urged to take up cardiac surgery, Brunei
Executive Director cum Medical Director at the Jerudong Park Medical Centre (JPMC) Dr Isham Jaafar, speaking during the 6th Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam Medical Science Conference on Thursday. Picture: BT/Rachel Thien
US denounces Myanmar's 'oppression'
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivering a statement and takes questions from reporters at the conclusion of the 17th Asean Regional Forum security dialogue in Hanoi yesterday.Picture: AFP
Mich. rescuers search for 4 missing in plane crash
This undated photo provided by Cessna shows a Cessna 206. A medical transport plane carrying five people …
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