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  1. This Sepetmebr 7, 2008 NASA GOES satellite image shows Hurricane Ike seen at 1610 GMT. Barely a week after Hurricane Gustav devastated western Cuba, the island was battening down the hatches again Sunday for another killer storm, with more than half a million people evacuating Cuba's northeast coast, officials said.(AFP/HO NASA/Ho)
    Killer Ike hits Cuba after lashing Bahamas, Haiti AP - 12 minutes ago

    CAMAGUEY, Cuba - Hurricane Ike roared onto Cuba Sunday after destroying houses and crops on low-lying islands and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.

  2. A dead body lies on the ground after Hurricane Ike hit the area in Cabaret, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Twenty four people, including seventeen children, drowned overnight in Cabaret north of Port-au-Prince, according to Osner Desulme, a funeral home's director, raising Haiti's overall death toll to 262 from four tropical storms in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garcia)
    Ike's floods kill 58, add insult to Haiti's misery AP - 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

    GONAIVES, Haiti - Haitians took to their roofs to escape rising floodwaters for the second time in a week on Sunday as squalls from Hurricane Ike killed 58 people and collapsed a bridge that cut the last land route into the starving city of Gonaives.

  3. In this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of her destroyed home in Azizabad, the village in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Disillusionment is widespread in Afghanistan, feeding an insurgency that has killed 195 foreign soldiers so far this year, 105 of them Americans. Afghans are deeply bitter about American and NATO forces because of errant bombs, heavy-handed searches and seizures and a sense that the foreigners do not understand their culture. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa, File)
    US re-examines Afghan civilian deaths from attack AP - 2 hours, 57 minutes ago

    KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military said Sunday it has new evidence about civilian casualties from an American attack that Afghanistan says killed scores of women and children and it is sending a senior officer to the country to review its initial finding that no more than seven civilians died.

  4. This undated photo provided by CERN on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 shows a view into the Grid PC farm at the CERN Computer Centre, where banks of computers process and store data produced on the CERN systems. When the LHC starts operation in September 2008, it will produce enough data every year to fill a stack of CDs 20 km tall. To handle this huge amount of data, CERN has also developed the Grid, allowing processing power to be shared between computer centres around the world. (AP Photo/CERN) ** MANDATORY CREDIT: CERN * NO SALES *
    CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang AP - Sun Sep 7, 2:52 PM ET

    GENEVA - It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.

  5. Unidentified warship captures 14 Somali pirates Reuters - Sun Sep 7, 5:30 PM ET

    BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - An unidentified warship off pirate-ridden Somali waters captured 14 pirates and destroyed their boat, a minister of the northern Puntland region said on Sunday.

  6. A Georgian girl lights candles in an Orthodox Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. A month after the start of a brief war with Russia, many Georgian churchgoers remembered the dead and prayed for an end to the Russian military presence. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
    Georgian president vows to reclaim 2 provinces AP - Sun Sep 7, 2:44 PM ET

    TBILISI, Georgia - On the eve of a European Union shuttle mission to convince Russia to pull its troops back to prewar positions, Georgia's president vowed Sunday to regain control of two breakaway provinces with the help of "the rest of the world."

  7. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives at Mehrabad airport in Tehran after attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, September 7, 2008. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)
    Iran to hold presidential election in June 2009 Reuters - Sun Sep 7, 10:28 AM ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will hold its 2009 presidential election on June 12, when conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is widely expected to stand for a second four-year term despite criticism over his economic policies.

  8. An African immigrant shows a photo of the Senegalese man (on L) killed in the southern Spanish town of Roquetas del Mar September 7, 2008. (Francisco Bonilla/Reuters)
    Immigrant death sparks revenge riot in Spain Reuters - Sun Sep 7, 10:43 AM ET

    ROQUETAS DE MAR, Spain (Reuters) - Immigrants went on a rampage in a southern Spanish town overnight, setting fire to homes and cars and throwing stones at police, after a Senegalese man was stabbed to death, police said on Sunday.

  9. Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gestures during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem September 7, 2008. (Menahem Kahana/Pool/Reuters)
    Israeli police seek criminal charges against Olmert Reuters - Sun Sep 7, 4:46 PM ET

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police said on Sunday they wanted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to face criminal charges in a corruption scandal driving him from office during peace talks with the Palestinians.

  10. Venezuela, Russia may hold joint naval exercises AP - Sun Sep 7, 5:19 PM ET

    CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuelan and Russian ships could soon hold joint naval exercises in the Caribbean — a move that would likely raise concerns in Washington.

  11. Democrats retain veto power in Hong Kong election AP - Sun Sep 7, 7:57 PM ET

    HONG KONG - Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp has won more than a third of seats in legislative elections, retaining its veto power over major legislation.

  12. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert walks into his government's weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana, Pool)
    Israel's government puts off evacuation discussion AP - Sun Sep 7, 9:49 AM ET

    JERUSALEM - Israel's government on Sunday postponed discussion of landmark legislation that would pay Jewish settlers to leave their homes in the West Bank, but said it would take up the matter next week.

  13. President of Israel Shimon Peres, seen in Tel Aviv in August. Peres said Sunday he opposes a military strike on Iran and prefers the use of international economic sanctions to persuade Tehran to halt its nuclear enrichment programme.(AFP/File/Yehuda Raizner)
    Israeli president opposes attack on Iran's nuclear sites AFP - Sun Sep 7, 2:19 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday he opposes a military strike on Iran and prefers the use of international economic sanctions to persuade Tehran to halt its nuclear enrichment programme.

  14. A suspect in a kidnapping case is paraded in front of the media after his arrest in Kabul August 7, 2008. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
    Afghan kidnappings damage business revival Reuters - Sun Sep 7, 8:06 PM ET

    KABUL (Reuters) - When foreigners are kidnapped in Afghanistan it always makes headlines, but it rarely rates a mention when Afghans are abducted in their own country as worsening security and poverty fuel crime.

  15. An aerial view of floods caused by Tropical Storm Hanna is seen in Gonaives in this September 3, 2008 file photo. Haitian police found 495 corpses when muddy floodwaters began to recede on Friday from the port city of Gonaives (Marco Dormino/Minustah/Handout/Reuters)
    Nearly 500 dead in flooded Haitian town: police Reuters - Fri Sep 5, 9:18 PM ET

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haitian police found 495 corpses when muddy floodwaters began to recede on Friday from the port city of Gonaives following days of heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hanna, the town's police commissioner said on Friday.

  16. Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo practices with the ball during the Portugal squad's first training session at the Maladiere Stadium in Neuchatel, Switzerland, June 2008. United's chief executive David Gill has said he would treat suggestions that Manchester City could table a 135 million pound bid for Ronaldo "with a pinch of salt".(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
    City can't be serious about Ronaldo bid, says Gill AFP - Sun Sep 7, 7:45 AM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - Manchester United chief executive David Gill said he would treat suggestions that Manchester City could table a 135 million pound bid for Cristiano Ronaldo "with a pinch of salt".

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