Era of cheap food ends as prices surge 2008-04-23 05:45 - Families have been warned that the prices of basic foods will rise steeply
again because of acute shortages in commodity markets.
US military opens its doors to ex-convicts 2008-04-23 05:10 - The US Army enrolled about 25% more recruits last year with a record of legal problems, ranging from felony convictions and serious misdemeanours to drug crimes and traffic offences.
Last-ditch push for Pennsylvania vote 2008-04-23 05:10 - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have scoured Pennsylvania for Democratic support in the presidential nominating race, with Senator Clinton aiming for a big win to keep her White House hopes alive.
Pope revisits Nazi past in warning to America’s youth 2008-04-22 06:01 - Pope Benedict, recalling his own youth under yoke of the ’monster’ of Nazism, urges young Americans to avoid snares of drugs and materialism and seek the truth about life.
Paraguay election is ’too close to call’ 2008-04-22 06:01 - After a vicious election campaign marked by character assassinations and
accusations of fraud, Paraguayans went to the polls today in the first major
test of the country’s precarious 19-year old democracy.
Zimbabwe: ’War zone’ warning as leaders urged to confront Mugabe 2008-04-22 06:01 - Zimbabwe’s opposition party gave warning yesterday that the country was
descending into a “war zone”, and appealed for international intervention to
resolve the escalating crisis.
World in Brief: drink-driver blamed for deaths of tourists in Madr... 2008-04-22 06:01 - <b>Gaza City</b> Israeli forces killed six members of the Islamist movement
Hamas during overnight airstrikes on Gaza. The attacks were in response to a
bomb attack on Saturday in which 13 Israeli soldiers were wounded when two
vehicles were blown up at a border crossing that is used to take
humanitarian supplies into Gaza. Major General Yoav Galant said that Hamas
may have intended to kidnap Israeli soldiers, adding that the bombings were
“a deliberate attack against aiding the Palestinian population”. Hamas said
that the bombings were intended to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza and
said it had more “surprises” in store. (AFP)
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy steals the limelight 2008-04-22 06:01 - An unprecedented invasion, it began with the shock of a diminutive French
president declaring he wanted to make love to us all. Or, at least, that’s
how it sounded when he launched the Anglo-French entente amicale after years
of frosty entente cordiale. In the days of a gloomy Brown government, these
Gallic love waves lapped willing UK shores.
