World News
- Barack Obama ready to reach for presidency
The Tokyo News.Net
Completing a stage in an incredible journey, Barack Obama made history as the Democratic party named him as its candidate in the November US presidential election, making him the first African American to lead a major political party ticket.
- Putin says Bush orchestrated Georgia crisis
The Tokyo News.Net
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the Georgian crisis to benefit one of the presidential candidates, a claim the White House calls 'patently...
- Somali pirates release crew members
The Tokyo News.Net
Somali pirates have freed an Omani ship almost eight months after hijacking the vessel.
- Flooding in India gets aid response from government
The Tokyo News.Net
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has labelled widespread flooding in his country's north-east is a national calamity.
- Winds gaining strength in hurricane alley
The Tokyo News.Net
Tropical storm Gustav has hit Jamaica, where emergency measures have hurriedly been introduced after initial forecasts said the storm would miss the island.
- British court finds Pakistani man guilty of child cruelty
The Tokyo News.Net
A British court has found a Pakistani-born man guilty of child cruelty after he forced two teenaged boys to flog themselves with a bladed whip during Muharram.
- No charges for Obama assassination plotters
The Tokyo News.Net
Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama.
- Refugees accuse Russia of ethnic cleansing
The Tokyo News.Net
Russian-backed paramilitaries are ethnically cleansing villages on Georgian soil, The Times has quoted refugees and officials, as saying.
- Russia condemned by international community
The Tokyo News.Net
The G7, the seven most industrialised nations, have issued a stinging condemnation of the Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
- Australian school teachers investigated over orgy claims
The Tokyo News.Net
St Stanislaus College, in Bathurst, New South Wales, is under fire over child-sex allegations, following which the police sex crimes squad has been called in to investigate the claims involving a former college boarder subjected to alleged late-night sex sessions.
- Australia begins probe into plane crash that killed Indian
The Tokyo News.Net
Investigations began Thursday into the mid-air collision in which Indian trainee pilot Akash Ananth died after the wing of his Cessna 150 was clipped by another plane and he crashed in the populated Cheltenham suburb of Melbourne.
- The delirious moment that history was made
The Independent
With a full-throated roar of approval and by unanimous vote, the Democratic rank-and-file made history on Wednesday night by handing the party's presidential nomination to a black candidate. Barack...
- Dems rip McCain before Obama speech
CNN
Al Gore urges Americans to vote for change Gov. Bill Richardson lambastes Sen. John McCain for "flip-flops" Martin Luther King III says his father would be proud of America's progress...
- Top seed Ivanovic stunned at U.S. Open
MSNBC
Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic lost in one of the biggest upsets in tennis history Thursday, stunned by 188th-ranked Julie Coin 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the second round of the U.S. Open.
- Bill comes through for Barack – and is right on message
The Independent
He came on to the strains of "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow," the anthem of his victorious campaigns of 1992 and 1996. But when the delirious applause that greeted him finally subsided, Bill...
- Event fires up
CNN
More than 4,000 delegates gathered in Denver to nominate Barack Obama Some are veterans of the process, many others are brand-new delegates Each state party has different criteria for selecting...
- Hackers attack Iraq vulnerable to cybercrime
USA Today
It is his unit's lone computer, highlighting the country's vulnerability to a community of Iraqi hackers defacing websites and attempting to hack into sensitive internal networks.
- Attack on police bus kills at least 8 in Pakistan
International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : A car bomb apparently planted by Taliban insurgents blew up a police bus in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 8 people, security officials said. The bombing...
- Obama promises to restore U.S. legacy
Reuters
Barack Obama, about to take a historic step as the Democratic presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to reverse the economic failures of the last eight years, end the war in...
- Carlton sacked for not filing column
The Australian
Carlton, a member of the journalists' union, the MEAA, took the stand on the grounds that filing the column amounted to crossing a picket line. He told ABC Radio in Sydney off air that he could not...
- my vision to heal America
The Independent
Barack Obama, the first African-American presidential nominee of a major US party, was last night set to stand before 80,000 supporters inside Denver's Invesco Field bearing a pledge to bring an...
- Hundreds of homes flooded, one dead
The Australian
HEAVY rain flooded hundreds of homes in central Japan today, leaving one elderly woman dead and prompting evacuation orders for more than half a million households, domestic media reported.
- Missile threat on bases not grave
Jerusalem Post
The ballistic missile threat to IDF bases in the Central region and South is not as grave as once thought and the bases would not need to be evacuated in the event of a war in the North, according to...
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