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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Australian Herald.com http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c08dd24cec417021/ en-us Sat, 17 May 2008 04:00:01 -0400 Sat, 17 May 2008 04:00:01 -0400 30 Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama has lashed out at President George Bush for suggesting the Illinois senator would appease terrorists. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360273/cs/1/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:10:03 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360273/cs/1/ Myanmar's state media say the death toll from cyclone Nargis has reached almost 78,000 and that another 56,000 people are missing. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360218/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 14:30:03 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360218/cs/1/ An Australian opposition party member has suggested a regime change in Myanmar if the generals continue to let the humanitarian crisis escalate. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360246/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:11:37 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360246/cs/1/ US President George Bush's request for Saudi Arabia to produce more oil has been rejected. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360245/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:08:33 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360245/cs/1/ The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has accused European states of overturning the boats of Africans trying to reach land. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360244/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:06:37 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360244/cs/1/ The UN Committee Against Torture has reported that Indonesian police, armed forces and intelligence services regularly use torture on criminal suspects to extract confessions. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360243/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:04:24 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360243/cs/1/ The Gujarat special operations police forces have conducted searches in 35 different cyber cafes in Ahmedabad in the wake the Jaipur blasts. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360242/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:02:43 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360242/cs/1/ Georgia has sent an envoy to Russia to ease tensions between two countries over its break-away region Abkhazia. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360240/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:00:06 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360240/cs/1/ The run-off election for president has been announced by Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360122/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:37:31 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360122/cs/1/ At least ten people, most of them policemen, were killed and over 90 injured when a suicide bomber rammed into a police van in the busy heart of the Sri Lankan capital at midday on Friday. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360058/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:21 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360058/cs/1/ Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl's threats to gas his cellar-dwelling family if they tried to escape, has proven a mere bluff. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360055/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 06:42:45 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360055/cs/1/ Italian police have arrested hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360056/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 06:45:08 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360056/cs/1/ In his latest audio message, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has vowed that Palestine will never be relinquished "as long as one true Muslim remains on earth." http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360120/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:32:18 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360120/cs/1/ A US military court in the Japanese island of Okinawa has sentenced a 38-year-old US marine to four years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a 14-year-old Japanese girl. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360119/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:30:26 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360119/cs/1/ China's Sichuan Province has suffered a severe aftershock which has triggered created fresh damage to buildings and severe landslides. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360121/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 08:35:39 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360121/cs/1/ Iran and a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency have finished their three-day talks here without resolving allegations that Iran is pursuing secret weapons studies. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360057/cs/1/ Fri, 16 May 2008 06:53:59 -0400 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/360057/cs/1/ DUBAI - Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape to mark Israel's 60th anniversary to continue to fight the Jewish state and its allies in the West.The al Qaeda leader, who has placed growing emphasis o... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887353/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:35:00 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887353/ TOKYO: Japan have vowed to tighten up as they seek to win the inaugural Asian Five Nations title in style this weekend when they take on a Hong Kong side who are their only remaining challengers. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888359/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:25:14 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888359/ The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) wrapped up its annual session today by emphasizing the need for ramping up investment in research and development in innovative and susta... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888361/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:25:11 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888361/ MARTINIQUE - A jury in Martinique has found a man guilty of murder after he set his ex-girlfriend on fire in front of the town hall three years ago.The public violent act occurred early in the evening... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887352/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:34:57 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887352/ The top United Nations official in Sudan today welcomed the agreement to end the deadly fighting between Government forces and the former southern rebels in the disputed Abyei area, which has forced t... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888358/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:25:13 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888358/ WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) -- Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886965/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:48:00 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886965/ Foreigners are confined to Yangon and roads to cyclone-battered regions are blocked in Myanmar. Photo / Reuters YANGON - Myanmar's military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yang... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887354/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:35:02 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887354/ YINGXIU, China (AP) -- A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued 163 people who had surv... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886966/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:47:59 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886966/ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the United Nations is concerned with saving lives, not with politics, as he tries to ramp up aid efforts following Cyclone Nargis which struck Myanmar and has severe... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888362/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:25:12 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888362/ RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886967/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:47:57 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886967/ Last year, the panel imposed the harshest punishment it could render against the two states after they scheduled primaries in January, even though they were instructed not to vote until Feb. 5 or late... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886968/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:47:56 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886968/ The United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today adjourned the trial of a former high-level official with the Serbian secret se... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888360/ Sat, 17 May 2008 01:25:11 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14888360/ DETROIT (AP) -- A bitter 80-day United Auto Workers strike against an auto parts maker that has crippled dozens of General Motors Corp. factories could be coming to an end soon with a tentative contra... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886969/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:47:55 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886969/ LeBron James scored 32 points - 19 in the second half - and the Cavaliers forced a decisive and fitting finale to this home-sweet-home playoff series with a 74-69 victory Friday night over the Celtics... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886970/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:47:54 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886970/ WATERTOWN, South Dakota (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama said on Friday President George W. Bush's "failed policies" had strengthened U.S. enemies like Iran and Hamas. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887557/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:15:24 -0400 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887557/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States intends to build a big new prison at its main military base in Afghanistan, a shift from earlier aims to transfer most detainees to Afghan custody, The New Yor... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887556/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:15:23 -0400 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14887556/ STOCKHOLM: Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have in two recent studies shown that a receptor called ALK7 plays important roles in the regulation of body fat depositio... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886549/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:45:15 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886549/ KOTTAYAM, Kerala: The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) national secretary Amarjeet Kaur has alleged that the high inflation is due to the skewed policies of the UPA government at the Centre. She... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886548/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:45:14 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886548/ Days after calling German Chancellor Angela Merkel a political descendant of Adolf Hitler, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shook hands with her on Friday and apologized."I haven't come here to fight.... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885090/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:37:17 -0400 Haaretz http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885090/ BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Robert Mondavi, the vintner who built his career and helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the best in the... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885077/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:09:27 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885077/ Lawyers say ex-soldier may rely on insanity defence in Iraq murder, rape case President George W. Bush's Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House yesterday as anti-war Democrats and Republicans... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885515/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:54:58 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885515/ Texas says two pregnant girls from polygamist ranch are adults Case against sect hinges on the ages of pregnant girls Previously, authorities said 24 teens taken from the ranch were pregnant FLDS says... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885292/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:08 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885292/ Fighter pilots used "Piddle packs," heavy-duty bags, when they had to "go" "Piddle packs" blamed for at least two crashes over the years, not always tidy Advanced Mission... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885293/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:06 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885293/ Reuters photographer in stable condition after Iraqi police beat him with rifles Police said photographer ignored request to stay away from dangerous scene Reuters said the photographer had permission... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884859/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:07 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884859/ RIYADH (Reuters) - President George W. Bush flies to Egypt on Saturday for talks with Palestinian leaders who will be looking for signs they will not be neglected after he lavished praise on Israel du... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885708/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:37:17 -0400 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885708/ BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885078/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:09:31 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885078/ LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. Aerial photos posted Friday at several celebrity Web sites,... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885079/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:09:28 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885079/ France's ambassador to the UN has accused Burma's government of being on the verge of committing a crime against humanity by not accepting foreign aid. Jean-Maurice Ripert made the comment during a... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884792/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:26:59 -0400 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884792/ BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake tho... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885706/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:37:18 -0400 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885706/ CANOVANAS, Puerto Rico (AP) -- For thoroughbreds in this U.S. Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a matter of life and death - losers often don't even make it off the racet... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885080/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:09:29 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885080/ LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain warned gun owners on Friday that his Democratic opponents Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would threaten their right to ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885707/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:37:16 -0400 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885707/ LONDON - The British military acknowledged Friday that one of its planes carrying more than 60 people in Iraq was damaged by insurgent fire - more than a year after it said there was no immediate indi... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885793/ Fri, 16 May 2008 23:15:16 -0400 C News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885793/ Teenage girl was sexually assaulted by a man she met on the social Web site Girl's family claim MySpace didn't protect young users from sexual predators Court notes girl circumvented Web site's safety... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885291/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:49:09 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885291/ ARKANSAS - Police say DNA found on a half-eaten candy bar helped them zero in on a robbery suspect.Detective Jason Simpkins says Brian D. Bass' DNA matched the sample found on the bar left on the coun... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885516/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:55:00 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885516/ McLEAN, VA (AP) -- The U.S. is its own worst enemy when it comes to the desperately important task of recruiting immigrants as spies, analysts and translators in the war on terror, new Americans are t... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884853/ Fri, 16 May 2008 22:09:32 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884853/ Princess Anne's son, Peter Phillips, is to marry Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly at Windsor Castle later. The couple, both 30, who met while working at the 2003 Canadian Grand Prix, wil... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886376/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:26:57 -0400 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886376/ An 81-year-old woman found dead at her home had suffered multiple stab wounds, post-mortem tests have revealed. The victim, who police believe is Joyce Cregeen, was found by a member of the public ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885006/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:26:56 -0400 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14885006/ Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh later. It is 20 years since the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher addressed the gathering o... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886378/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:26:55 -0400 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14886378/ Immune cells grown from cord blood may one day be used to improve leukaemia treatment, say US researchers. A team took natural killer (NK) cells from cord blood and multiplied them 30-fold in the lab... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884694/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:26:52 -0400 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884694/ Intense rivalry spawned mutual admiration and, eventually, a complementary partnership. Yesterday, Walter Smith gave a tribute to Tommy Burns that encapsulated the warmth of spirit and depth of de... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14883563/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:31:01 -0400 The Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14883563/ RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14882131/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:23:52 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14882131/ Two patients have died in Scotland's largest outbreaks of a rare and highly-virulent strain of hospital superbug. Nine people were taken ill in two separate clusters, one in Glasgow and one in Aberd... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881819/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:31:06 -0400 The Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881819/ NEW YORK (AP) -- NFL owners could opt out of their agreement with the players union next week, leaving open the possibility of a 2010 season without a salary cap. The labor agreement is on the agenda ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14882138/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:23:49 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14882138/ RIYADH: US President George W Bush pressed Saudi Arabia to raise oil output, but the world's biggest crude exporter said global supply is balanced with demand. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884473/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:02:27 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884473/ NEW YORK - A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City's 1985 quake.... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14883286/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:35:49 -0400 C News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14883286/ Longoria Parker, who is hitting the red carpet for L'Oreal, is having a Versace moment at Cannes. But when she's at home with her husband, San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker, she's hardly a fas... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14882130/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:23:51 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14882130/ Shipments distributed by non-governmental organizations, U.S. official said Myanmar's ruling military junta is reluctant to allow outsiders in to distribute aid The United States continues to push for... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881964/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:02:16 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881964/ Larissa Schuster knocked husband out, threw him in vat of acid His partially dissolved body was found in a barrel in a storage unit Prosecutors said financial gain was the motive http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14882455/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:02:14 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14882455/ INDIANAPOLIS: A study published in the May/June issue of Health Affairs reports on the first randomized trial providing a scientifically valid look at what one might expect from chronic disease manage... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884478/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:02:31 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884478/ MIAMI (Reuters) - Charges against five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks should be thrown out because they were improperly influenced by a Pentagon legal adviser, U.S. ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14883108/ Fri, 16 May 2008 18:48:36 -0400 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14883108/ OSLO: A small bomb exploded in front of the Norwegian embassy in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, causing no injuries or property damage, the foreign ministry in Oslo said. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884477/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:02:30 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884477/ THRISSUR, Kerala: Santhosh Madhavan, who was arrested on Tuesday on charges of cheating and other offences, was admitted to the Government Medical College Chest Hospital in Mulankunnathukavu, near her... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884474/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:02:27 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884474/ BUCHAREST, May 16 (IPS) - A Roma ghetto in Ponticelli neighbourhood of Naples, Italy, was burnt down May 14 by locals angry over a reported attempt by a Roma young woman to kidnap a baby. The incident... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884419/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:03:09 -0400 IPS http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884419/ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Kerala: Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy has alleged that the gap between the rich and the poor during the LDF rule has widened. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884476/ Fri, 16 May 2008 20:02:29 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884476/ Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has made a direct appeal for the freedom of five British hostages who were abducted in Iraq last year. In a video, released through the Times newspaper, h... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881604/ Fri, 16 May 2008 18:37:51 -0400 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881604/ A body discovered in woodland in East Sussex has been identified as that of missing make-up artist Diane Chenery-Wickens, 48. She disappeared in January. Her body was found concealed close to a lan... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884242/ Fri, 16 May 2008 18:37:49 -0400 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884242/ US sprinter Tim Montgomery has been jailed for 46 months for his part in a multi-million dollar bank fraud and money-laundering plot. The ex-100m world record holder and Olympic relay champion plea... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884243/ Fri, 16 May 2008 18:37:48 -0400 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14884243/ A 30-year-old man of a Druze suburb of Haifa was detained late Friday evening on suspicion of stabbing his wife, 30, leaving her moderately wounded.The woman was rushed from her home in Usfiya to Haif... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878880/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:03:39 -0400 Haaretz http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878880/ A man was jailed for more than seven years yesterday after police found a cache of drugs and a stolen rifle. Officers found a consignment of heroin worth almost £100,000 along with the gun, whic... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14880449/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:39:29 -0400 The Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14880449/ RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gas... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878863/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:32:17 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878863/ FRESNO - A biochemist convicted of killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Larissa ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879580/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:22:27 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879580/ advertisement The journey from Easthouses to the Newbattle areas of Dalkeith, Midlothian, should have taken minutes - but Jodi never arrived. More than five hours later, her bound and naked body was ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878751/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:39:32 -0400 The Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878751/ MOSCOW: Tensions between Russia and Georgia rose again as this country's security service reportedly claimed to have uncovered a spy recruited by Georgia to aid insurgents in Russia's restive south. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881405/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:06 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881405/ John McCain and President Bush for "dishonest, divisive" attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terrorists, staunchly defending his national security credentials f... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879755/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:28:23 -0400 MSNBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879755/ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure wedding bells never ring for gay couples in the... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878864/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:32:14 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878864/ CANNES: Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE), the integrated media and entertainment arm of the USD 75 billion-dollar Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, said that it would make 100 films in 2 years at a cost of... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881406/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:07 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881406/ LONDON: One of the nine Afghans involved in a hijacking eight years ago was arrested after he was found working at Heathrow airport as a cleaner, it emerged. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881401/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:08 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881401/ WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) -- Barack Obama rebuked Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for "dishonest, divisive" attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terro... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878865/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:32:16 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878865/ U.S. President George W. Bush, visiting the Saudi capital on Friday, hoped to formalize new agreements that would give the relationship between the two countries a boost.Among them was an agreement fo... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878879/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:03:41 -0400 Haaretz http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878879/ BEICHUAN, China (AP) -- Rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble Friday who had been buried for four days as a strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthqua... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878862/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:32:15 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878862/ MUMBAI, India: Air India said appropriate action would be taken against those responsible for the collapse of an aircraft's wheel nose gear collapsed in the parking bay of the airport here. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881403/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:09 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881403/ Pistorius said he will be running in both able-bodied and Paralympic events before Beijing. His manager, Peet van Zyl, said the runner will compete in Milan on July 2 and the Golden Gala meet in Rome ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878871/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:32:07 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878871/ NEW YORK: A United Nations translator was sentenced to a year in prison for using UN stationery and fraudulent documents to smuggle people into the United States from Uzbekistan. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881404/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:08 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881404/ LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ellen DeGeneres and longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi are jumping at the chance to get married. DeGeneres announced their engagement during a Thursday taping of "The Ellen DeGene... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878869/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:32:10 -0400 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878869/ WASHINGTON - Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for co... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878437/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:28:21 -0400 MSNBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878437/ Red tape still frustrates Myanmar aid efforts Relief supplies being pushed into Myanmar by the international community remain far below the needs of up to 2.5 million victims of the country's devastat... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879578/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:22:20 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879578/ CommentLEGISLATIVE lunatics are in danger of taking over sport. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in defiance of learned opinion, yesterday ruled the artificial limbs of Oscar Pistorious eligible f... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14880450/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:39:30 -0400 The Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14880450/ NEW YORK: A federal judge has ordered a Monday hearing to consider reports that an Indian-born man convicted of imprisoning and torturing two Indonesian housekeepers has been out past midnight while h... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881407/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:07 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881407/ NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The government said Friday that it would halt deliveries to the strategic oil reserves in July, a move many lawmakers have been calling for in an attempt to boost oil suppli... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879166/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:10:46 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879166/ Zimbabwe's election officials say the runoff between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be held by July 31 -but the opposition has insisted that it should be next wee... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879579/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:22:24 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879579/ MADRID: Spain's deputy premier hit out at the roundup of some 400 foreigners in Italy in a crackdown on street crime and illegal immigration, saying it encouraged racism and xenophobia. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881402/ Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:09 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14881402/ Protesters Kelli O'Brien, left, and Tom Crain, center, and supporter Laura Koester, right, argue outside the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority's headquarters in Lexington, Ky. on May 6. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878101/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:28:20 -0400 MSNBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878101/ King: An e-mail from Griselda in Cooper City: "All those cheap shots you and Simon Cowell take on each other, real or playing a part?" http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879168/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:10:45 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14879168/ Experts at the Mayo Clinic suggest that water is fine after short exercise sessions but recommend drinking a sports drink during longer, more intense workouts. Those drinks contain sodium and will red... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878820/ Fri, 16 May 2008 16:10:43 -0400 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/14878820/