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  1. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen during an interview with CNN in Sochi, Russia's Black Sea resort on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Putin has suggested the United States pushed Georgia toward war and said he suspects a connection to the American presidential campaign.(AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)
    Putin: US orchestrated conflict in Georgia AP - Thu Aug 28, 6:38 PM ET Sent 228 times

    MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of pushing Georgia toward war and said he suspects a connection to the U.S. presidential campaign — a contention the White House dismissed as "patently false."

  2. A woman carries a child through flooded roads caused by Tropical Storm Gustav in Fond Parisien village, Haiti, Thursday, Aug. 28 ,2008. Gustav moved away from the island of Hispaniola, where it killed 23 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and inched toward Jamaica's low-lying capital, 80 miles (130 kilometers) to the west. Forecasters predicted it would hug Jamaica's southern shore before making a near-direct hit on Grand Cayman. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Tourists, residents flee as Gustav swamps Jamaica AP - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago Sent 141 times

    KINGSTON, Jamaica - Residents, tourists and oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday, leaving 59 people dead in its wake. Louisiana and Texas put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be necessary.

  3. Bangladeshi baby Kiron rests in a blanket at a hospital in Jessore, on August 26. The baby boy in southwestern Bangladesh died after his parents decided to take him home because they could not afford adequate medical care, a doctor said Thursday.(AFP/File)
    Bangladeshi boy with two heads dies: doctor AFP - Thu Aug 28, 3:11 AM ET Sent 121 times

    DHAKA (AFP) - A baby boy born with two heads in southwestern Bangladesh died after his parents decided to take him home because they could not afford adequate medical care, a doctor said Thursday.

  4. Picture of Lady Diana, Princess of Wales with Prince Charles of Wales at their wedding at St Paul's Cathedral in London, 1981. A piece of 27-year-old cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana has been sold to an anonymous bidder at auction for 1,200 pounds(AFP/File)
    Slice of Diana wedding cake reaps £1,200 at auction AFP - Thu Aug 28, 12:28 PM ET Sent 104 times

    LONDON (AFP) - A piece of 27-year-old cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana has been sold to an anonymous bidder at auction for 1,200 pounds.

  5. A doll representing a fetus, right, and crosses displayed by anti-abortion activists sit at Mexico City's central Zocalo square during a protest against the legalization of abortion, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. Mexico's Supreme Court indicated Wednesday it will uphold a Mexico City law allowing abortion that has divided the country. Signs next to the doll read in Spanish ' I want to live' and 'Vote for me, vote for life.' (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
    Mexican Supreme Court upholds legal abortion AP - Thu Aug 28, 5:45 PM ET Sent 36 times

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico's Supreme Court upheld the capital's abortion law Thursday, setting a precedent for the rest of the country that could inspire other Latin American cities.

  6. In this photo taken May 24, 2008 a view of a green frog nailed to a cross outside an office, during a protest inside the 'Museion' museum in Bolzano , northern Italy. Museum officials said Thursday Aug. 28, 2008 the sculpture that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials will continue to be on display. The board of the foundation of the 'Museion', voted to keep the work by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger, the museum said in a statement. Earlier in August the pope had written a letter to Franz Pahl, the president of the Trentino-Alto Adige region that includes Bolzano, denouncing the sculpture. '(It) has offended the religious feelings of many people who consider the cross a symbol of God's love and of our redemption,' (AP Photo/Othmar Seehauser)
    Italy museum defies pope anger over crucified frog AP - Thu Aug 28, 4:39 PM ET Sent 34 times

    ROME - An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.

  7. Nuns attend the weekly general audience led by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican August 27, 2008. (Chris Helgren/Reuters)
    Church trashed as India religious riots spread Reuters - Thu Aug 28, 12:56 PM ET Sent 33 times

    BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Hindu mobs ransacked a church and clashed with Christian villagers in eastern India on Thursday, police said, as Italy said it would summon India's ambassador to demand "incisive action" to prevent more attacks.

  8. A Pakistani lawyer tears down a poster of Bhutto's widower and political successor, Asif Ali Zardari, who will run for president in the Sept. 6 election by lawmakers, during a demonstration in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Hundreds of lawyers are rallying in major Pakistani cities and disrupting traffic to pressure the government to reinstate dozens of judges fired by ex-President Pervez Musharraf. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
    Pakistan's next president: Mr. 10 Percent? AP - Thu Aug 28, 3:20 PM ET Sent 28 times

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Asif Ali Zardari, the man poised to become Pakistan's next president, is still known as "Mr. 10 Percent" because of corruption allegations. Now his own lawyers say he may have suffered from mental health problems within the past year.

  9. Graphic shows civilian deaths in Afghanistan; 1c x 4 inches; 46.5 mm x 101.6 mm
    Afghans say deadly US raid based on misleading tip AP - Thu Aug 28, 5:05 PM ET Sent 22 times

    KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan officials said Thursday that a deadly U.S.-led special forces raid on a remote western village last week was based on misleading information provided by a rival clan.

  10. London's mayor Boris Johnson, seen here waving the Olympic flag on August 24, 2008,, defended his relaxed attitude to the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony on Thursday, revealing he had ignored requests by Chinese officials to button up his jacket for the big event.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)
    London mayor defiant over Beijing button episode AFP - Thu Aug 28, 4:50 PM ET Sent 13 times

    LONDON (AFP) - London's mayor defended his relaxed attitude to the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony on Thursday, revealing he had ignored requests by Chinese officials to button up his jacket for the big event.

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  1. Lamont Dersone sorts belongings as he prepares to possibly evacuate from Hurricane Gustav in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana August 28, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters)
    Tourists, residents flee as Gustav swamps Jamaica AP - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

    KINGSTON, Jamaica - Residents, tourists and oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday, leaving 59 people dead in its wake. Louisiana and Texas put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be necessary.

  2. Slice of Diana wedding cake reaps £1,200 at auction AFP - Thu Aug 28, 12:28 PM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - A piece of 27-year-old cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana has been sold to an anonymous bidder at auction for 1,200 pounds.

  3. Russian troops move past a Georgian police officer (L) stationed at a checkpoint in Mosabruni, a village just inside South Ossetia, August 26, 2008. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)
    Putin: US orchestrated conflict in Georgia AP - Thu Aug 28, 6:38 PM ET

    MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of pushing Georgia toward war and said he suspects a connection to the U.S. presidential campaign — a contention the White House dismissed as "patently false."

  4. The casket of Sgt. Shawn Allen Eades is carried to the National Military Cemetery at Beechwood in Ottawa on Thursday, Aug 28, 2008. Eades was killed in Afghanistan on Aug 20, 2008. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)
    Afghans say deadly US raid based on misleading tip AP - Thu Aug 28, 5:05 PM ET

    KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan officials said Thursday that a deadly U.S.-led special forces raid on a remote western village last week was based on misleading information provided by a rival clan.

  5. Church trashed as India religious riots spread Reuters - Thu Aug 28, 12:56 PM ET

    BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Hindu mobs ransacked a church and clashed with Christian villagers in eastern India on Thursday, police said, as Italy said it would summon India's ambassador to demand "incisive action" to prevent more attacks.

  6. Vice President Dick Cheney attends a meeting with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad March 17, 2008. Cheney in his first visit to Tbilisi next week will assure Georgia that the United States stands firmly with its ally which is reeling from a decisive military defeat at Russian hands. (Mohammed Jalil/Pool/Reuters)
    Russia criticized at UN over S. Ossetia, Abkhazia AP - Thu Aug 28, 6:26 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - Georgia and its backers in the U.N. Security Council on Thursday decried Russia's recognition of two breakaway provinces. Russia responded by accusing its critics of bias and hypocrisy in an emergency meeting that turned bitter and personal.

  7. In this photo taken in June 2008 people talk under a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross, in the Museion' museum in Bolzano , northern Italy. Museum officials said Thursday Aug. 28, 2008 the sculpture that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials will continue to be on display. The board of the foundation of the 'Museion', voted to keep the work by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger, the museum said in a statement. Earlier in August the pope had written a letter to Franz Pahl, the president of the Trentino-Alto Adige region that includes Bolzano, denouncing the sculpture. '(It) has offended the religious feelings of many people who consider the cross a symbol of God's love and of our redemption,' Pahl quoted the pope as writing in the letter. (AP Photo/Othmar Seehauser)
    Italy museum defies pope anger over crucified frog AP - Thu Aug 28, 4:39 PM ET

    ROME - An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.

  8. Supporters of the opposition All Parties Democratic Alliance (APDM) chant slogans as they gather to protest for the restoration of deposed judges at the Pakistan-Afghan border town of Chaman August 28. 2008. Pakistani lawyers were set to launch protests on Thursday pressing the government to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11 people. REUTERS/Saeed Ali Achakzai (PAKISTAN)
    Pakistan's next president: Mr. 10 Percent? AP - Thu Aug 28, 3:20 PM ET

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Asif Ali Zardari, the man poised to become Pakistan's next president, is still known as "Mr. 10 Percent" because of corruption allegations. Now his own lawyers say he may have suffered from mental health problems within the past year.

  9. Georgian parliament urges cutting ties with Moscow Reuters - Thu Aug 28, 3:43 PM ET

    TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's parliament approved a resolution on Thursday calling on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Russia after Moscow backed the secession of two Georgian rebel regions.

  10. People attend a funeral of soldiers killed in the South Ossetia conflict at a cemetery in Tbilisi August 28, 2008. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)
    Russia faces diplomatic isolation on Georgia Reuters - Thu Aug 28, 1:02 PM ET

    DUSHANBE/PARIS (Reuters) - Russia faced diplomatic isolation over its military action against Georgia on Thursday, with its Asian allies failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions.

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  1. This file photo shows Tiananmen Square across from the Great Hall of the People. Chinese government departments embezzled, misused or mismanaged billions of dollars last year, the nation's auditor said in an annual report that often leads to a slew of graft charges.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)
    Chinese agencies embezzled $660 million in 2007 AP - Thu Aug 28, 11:03 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.9

    BEIJING - Chinese government auditors have uncovered the misuse of millions of dollars in disaster assistance as part of an embezzlement probe spanning 10 central government departments, state media reported Thursday.

  2. An Indian policeman walks past a residential house where suspected militants were holed up at Chinore on the outskirts of Jammu August 28, 2008. Suspected Muslim militants who slipped across the border from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir were shot dead by security forces after they killed six people in the Hindu-majority region of Jammu on Wednesday, police said. The three militants disguised as policemen were holed up in a house for 18 hours where they killed three of nine hostages they were holding and set booby traps, officials said. REUTERS/Amit Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR)
    Pakistan's next president: Mr. 10 Percent? AP - Thu Aug 28, 3:20 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.7

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Asif Ali Zardari, the man poised to become Pakistan's next president, is still known as "Mr. 10 Percent" because of corruption allegations. Now his own lawyers say he may have suffered from mental health problems within the past year.

  3. Cincinnati Zoo aviculture superintendent Steve Malowski holds Kyoto, a three-week old baby king penguin, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, at the zoo's nursery in Cincinnati. Kyoto, taken from its parents and placed in the zoo's nursery as standard procedure, will be living in a temperature controlled enclosure set at 55 degrees Fahrenheit until all is down feathers come in and he is ready to be re-introduced to his family. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
    Oil slick kills more than 200 penguins in Brazil AP - Thu Aug 28, 2:39 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.7

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - More than 200 oil-slicked penguins have washed up dead on the beaches of a popular Brazilian resort, and officials say they are searching for a cause.

  4. A Topol-M missile launcher drives in the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow May 9, 2008. (Grigory Dukor/Reuters)
    Russia long-range missile test a success Reuters - Thu Aug 28, 8:53 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defence systems from its Plesetsk launch site, a Russian military spokesman said on Thursday.

  5. Church trashed as India religious riots spread Reuters - Thu Aug 28, 12:56 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Hindu mobs ransacked a church and clashed with Christian villagers in eastern India on Thursday, police said, as Italy said it would summon India's ambassador to demand "incisive action" to prevent more attacks.

  6. Residents take their belongings through a flooded street in the northern Indian city of Lucknow August 27, 2008. (Pawan Kumar/Reuters)
    Thousands evacuated from floods in eastern India Reuters - Thu Aug 28, 5:35 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    PATNA, India (Reuters) - Indian army troops helped evacuate more than 120,000 people from floods in eastern India, but more bad weather raised fears that rivers would to continue to overflow, officials said on Thursday.

  7. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with an unidentified journalist (not pictured) during his interviev for CNN TV company in Sochi. Putin on Thursday accused the United States of manufacturing the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal to protest Moscow's actions.(AFP/RIA/Alexey Druzhinin)
    Putin assails US over Georgia conflict AFP - Thu Aug 28, 4:19 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused Washington on Thursday of manufacturing the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal in protest at Moscow's actions.

  8. Afghan national army soldiers patrol on a street in Kabul August 18, 2008. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
    More than 100 Taliban killed in Afghanistan Reuters - Thu Aug 28, 10:11 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 100 Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand during three days of fighting, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

  9. Afghan President Hamed Karzai has fired the army general for western Afghanistan after a military operation involving air strikes that he said killed more than 89 civilians.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)
    UN criticizes Afghan decision to free rapists AP - Thu Aug 28, 8:01 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    KABUL, Afghanistan - The United Nations has criticized Afghanistan's government for freeing two men convicted of raping a woman in northern Afghanistan after they served only a portion of their 11-year sentences.

  10. Strong quake hits off British Columbia coast AP - Thu Aug 28, 12:00 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A strong earthquake struck off Canada's west coast early Thursday near Vancouver Island. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.

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