Volunteers load a shipping container with supplies bound for Haiti at the Pease Tradeport this April. The container finally arrived in mid-July in Milot, Haiti, where it will benefit the Eben Ezer School and local community.
Jul 27, 2010
Three months later, supplies arrive in Haiti
Volunteers load a shipping container with supplies bound for Haiti at the Pease Tradeport this April. The container finally arrived in mid-July in Milot, Haiti, where it will benefit the Eben Ezer School and local community.
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- Leaks create fresh doubt about Afghan war, secrets (AP)
AP - The monumental leak of classified Afghan war documents threatened Monday to create deeper doubts about the war at home, cause new friction with Pakistan over allegations about its spy agency and raise questions around the world about Washington's own ability to protect military secrets.
- BP's Hayward to leave as CEO; Russia job in works (AP)
- Immigrant groups criticize fingerprint initiative (AP)
- High-paid CA council members vote to slash pay (AP)
- Blagojevich defense attorney clashes with judge (AP)
- Black Caucus chair on Rangel: Don't presume guilt (AP)
Jul 26, 2010
2,000-year-old Ptolemaic statue found in Egypt
An Egyptian-Dominican team made the discovery at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria, said a statement from the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Alexandria was the seat of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled Egypt for 300 years, until the suicide of Queen Cleopatra.
British Museum under pressure to give up leading treasures of Egypt
The demand, issued in Cairo at the end of a two-day conference, is addressed to every country that holds ancient relics.
Western museum hold most of the items listed by countries ranging from China to Mexico. The British museum is the principal target because of the prominence of the artefacts it owns.
Cleopatra papyrus goes on display
Two fragments of papyrus featuring the handwriting of Cleopatra Photo: REUTERS
The document with the Greek inscription, "make it happen," refers to a tax break for a friend of her husband Mark Antony. It is one of 150 artifacts in an exhibition featuring the latest discoveries in an intensifying search for her long-lost tomb.
Bus driver shoots six dead near Cairo
Policemen stand guard at the site of the shooting in Cairo. Photo: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features
Mahmud Taha Ahmad Sueilem, 54, the driver for the company Arab Contractors, was taking 22 employees to their workplace in Giza when he stopped the bus at Meniel Shiha, 12 miles south of the Egyptian capital, and suddenly started firing, an official said.
Greek man wins £175,000 over Turkish yoghurt picture
The 77-year-old man, who was angry at being portrayed as a Turk, the traditional national enemy of Greeks, originally demanded £4.5 million in damages for the use, without permission, of his image.
His photograph, with distinctive long moustache, red hat and traditional Greek dress, has been used on millions of yoghurt tubs marketed as a Turkish-style product.
Northern Cyprus plans to become Mediterranean 'Las Vegas'
The centre of the casino world in North Cyprus is Kyrenia
The Turkish enclave of Cyprus has announced proposals for a series of glamorous new resorts and shopping arcades in a move which risks straining relations with the south.
Details were revealed by a new hardline leadership in the north as it prepared to mark the 36th anniversary of the Turkish invasion today.
BBC News - Putin says spies expelled from US had 'tough lives'
Mr Putin said that the spies "had a tough life"
Hezbollah members 'facing Rafik Hariri charges'
Mr Nasrallah claimed the UN-backed tribunal was politically motivated
Oaxaca festival in Mexico highlights indigenous pride
The Chirinos Chinas family are performing in the Guelaguetza
An old Mexican man, with a big moustache and wearing a wide sombrero, ambles into the sunlit Benito Juarez auditorium in Oaxaca City, clutching a live, twitching turkey.
Looking around for his fellow villagers, he passes rows of vividly embroidered traditional dresses, pineapples with red ribbons tied round their middles in bows, and thousands of sombreros like his own.
Cuban President Raul Castro set for 26 July speech
Monday's celebrations recall the start of the Cuban revolution
Cuban President Raul Castro is set to make one of his rare televised speeches at the annual 26 July rally which marks the start of the revolution in 1953.
Many Cubans will be hoping that he will use the event to move on his long-awaited economic reforms.
Leaked records 'reveal civilian deaths' in Afghanistan
The files have been passed on to three news organisations
Burma leader's India visit draws rights criticism
Burma and India have enjoyed warm relations over the last 10 years
Burmese military ruler General Than Shwe has arrived in India for a controversial five-day visit, which has been condemned by rights groups.
The junta leader is expected to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a trip that marks India's desire to strengthen trade links with its neighbour.Rights groups have written to Mr Singh saying it was "unbecoming" of a democracy to welcome
BBC News - Al-Qaeda in North Africa 'kills French hostage'
Michel Germaneau, a 78-year-old retired engineer, was kidnapped in Niger in April
US says Wikileaks could 'threaten national security'
The leaks raise "serious" questions about US policy in the region, a senior US senator has said
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
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
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
BP chief Tony Hayward negotiating exit package - Americas, World - The Independent
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Tony Hayward during a hearing on 'The Role Of BP In The Deepwater Horizon Explosion And Oil Spill' in June
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 …
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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
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