Gaddafi defiant as world frees Libya funds (Reuters)

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• Gaddafi defiant as world frees Libya funds (Reuters)
• Two women journalists killed in Mexico City (Reuters)
• Australia PM vows not to quit amid leadership speculation (Reuters)
• Japan PM picks relatively unknown finance minister (Reuters)
• Lionel Messi Plays Kolkata: Is This a Turning Point for Indian Soccer? (Time.com)
• Chinese investor defends plan for Iceland resort (AP)
• UN says Libya short of water, fuel, medicine (AP)
• Slaying of journalist reveals Dominican underworld (AP)
• ANC debates case against SAfrica youth leader (AP)
• Turkey set to host NATO early warning radar (Reuters)
• Chance of cyclone near Halifax at 60 percent: NHC (Reuters)
• New Zealanders get ready to host Rugby World Cup (AP)
• Hana Qaddafi: dictator's daughter survived Reagan's bombs? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Out of Libya's Shadows: A Source Reveals His Real Identity (Time.com)
• Flag lowered on British town's tradition of honoring Iraq and Afghanistan war dead (The Christian Science Monitor)

Gaddafi defiant as world frees Libya funds (Reuters) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:26 PM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi urged his supporters to fight on as world leaders freed up billions of dollars to help Libya's new rulers rebuild a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of civil war.

Two women journalists killed in Mexico City (Reuters) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 06:06 PM PDT Reuters - Mexican authorities are investigating the murder of two women journalists whose bodies were found in a park in the south of Mexico City on Thursday.

Australia PM vows not to quit amid leadership speculation (Reuters) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:01 PM PDT Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard vowed on Friday to battle on as leader of her unpopular government, dismissing media reports that some of her own lawmakers had lost faith in her after a fresh policy setback this week.

Japan PM picks relatively unknown finance minister (Reuters) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:13 PM PDT Reuters - New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda picked a relatively lightweight lawmaker as finance minister on Friday, signaling the fiscally conservative leader intends to call the shots on key economic policies himself.

Lionel Messi Plays Kolkata: Is This a Turning Point for Indian Soccer? (Time.com) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:15 PM PDT Time.com - Bringing the superstar to the subcontinent is part of a push to turn India into one of the world's great football powers.

Chinese investor defends plan for Iceland resort (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 01:03 AM PDT AP - A Chinese real estate tycoon has defended his plan to buy a large tract of wilderness in Iceland to build a resort in a proposal that has stirred unease in the northern Atlantic nation about the environment and Beijing's role.

UN says Libya short of water, fuel, medicine (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 01:18 AM PDT AP - The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Libya says the country faces critical shortages of drinking water, food, fuel and medicine.

Slaying of journalist reveals Dominican underworld (AP) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:25 PM PDT AP - Dominican journalist Jose Agustin Silvestre promised to reveal a bombshell in the next edition of his magazine: a story of drugs and corruption involving local businessmen. He never got the chance. Before he could publish his expose, Silvestre was kidnapped and shot to death. His body, with three bullet wounds, was found along a busy road outside La Romana, a fast-growing town next to one of the country's best-known Caribbean resorts.

ANC debates case against SAfrica youth leader (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 01:11 AM PDT AP - The African National Congress decides whether to quash or push disciplinary charges against its firebrand youth leader whose case is pitting radicals against moderates in South Africa's ruling party.

Turkey set to host NATO early warning radar (Reuters) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 01:23 AM PDT Reuters - Turkey is set to host a NATO early-warning radar system as part of the defenses of the Western military alliance, the foreign ministry said on Friday.

Chance of cyclone near Halifax at 60 percent: NHC (Reuters) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:04 PM PDT Reuters - A low pressure system located about 450 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia has a high 60 percent chance of forming into a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Friday.

New Zealanders get ready to host Rugby World Cup (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 12:25 AM PDT AP - Ox and his mates are hitting the road to watch their beloved All Blacks play in the Rugby World Cup, making a trip they've been working on for months.

Hana Qaddafi: dictator's daughter survived Reagan's bombs? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:39 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The story began in 1986, after the Libyan-backed bombing of a nightclub in West Berlin. The attacks were aimed at US servicemen, and ended up killing two and injuring dozens.

Out of Libya's Shadows: A Source Reveals His Real Identity (Time.com) Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:15 PM PDT Time.com - In communications, he was called "Mr. Utah." But now that the fear of Gaddafi has faded, he has emerged from anonymity to reveal more fully his family's travails

Flag lowered on British town's tradition of honoring Iraq and Afghanistan war dead (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:08 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The scene became a familiar backdrop to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan here: funeral processions slowly creeping through the market town of Wootton Bassett, met by a silent, dignified line of residents, heads bowed.

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