Monday, August 23, 2010

33 miners in Chile are alive, but stuck for months (AP)

33 miners in Chile are alive, but stuck for months (AP)

33 miners in Chile are alive, but stuck for months (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 10:55 PM PDT

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera holds up a plastic bag containing a message, from miners trapped in a collapsed mine, that reads in Spanish 'We are ok in the refuge, the 33 miners' in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 22, 2010. The miners have been trapped below the surface of the mine since the main access collapsed on Aug. 5 due to tons of falling rock. (AP Photo/Hector Retamal)AP - For 33 men found alive after 17 days trapped deep in a copper and gold mine, the toughest challenge now may be preserving their sanity during the months it may take to carve a tunnel big enough for them to get out.

Ex-policeman in Philippines holds tourists hostage (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:26 PM PDT

Hostage negotiators, left and right, talk to foreign tourists taken hostage by Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza after securing their release at Manila's Rizal Park Monday Aug. 23, 2010 in Manila, Philippines. Mendoza, a dismissed policeman armed with automatic rifle, seized a bus, background, in Manila Monday with 25 people aboard, mostly Hong Kong tourists in a bid to demand reinstatement, police said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - A dismissed policeman armed with an automatic rifle seized a bus in the Philippine capital Monday with 24 passengers, most of them Hong Kong tourists, in a bid to demand his reinstatement, police said.

Porn offers window into Iraq's chaotic politics (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:33 AM PDT

AP - The nude women on the DVD cover in a Baghdad street stall say it all: Change, whether you like it or not, is afoot in Iraq.

Australian mining stocks rise on poll uncertainty (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:24 AM PDT

A man reaches for a newspaper that shows a headline indicating the prospect of a minority government following a national election, in Sydney Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The final results of Saturday's vote may not be known for a week or more but both the Labor and the Liberal Party-led opposition conceded neither would achieve the 76 seats needed to form a government in the 150-seat lower chamber. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Stocks in Australia's biggest mining companies rose Monday as the government's plans for a new tax on their profits were thrown into doubt after the nation's closest election in almost 50 years delivered no clear mandate.

Politics, alleged fraud disturb Jerusalem cemetery (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:11 AM PDT

AP - A political battle over a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem that began with charges of insensitivity leveled at plans for a museum of religious tolerance at the site has spread into a more curious fight about whether hundreds of nearby tombstones are even real.

Australian Voters Face Hung Parliament in Close Election (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Australia has its first hung Parliament in 70 years, with neither the conservative Liberal-National Coalition nor the Labor Party getting the requisite 76 seats to win the national election

HSBC in talks to buy majority stake in Nedbank (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:53 AM PDT

Asia-focused banking giant HSBC announced on Monday that it is in AFP - Asia-focused banking giant HSBC announced on Monday that it is in "exclusive" talks with insurer Old Mutual over the potential purchase of a controlling stake in South Africa's Nedbank.

Bombings in Baghdad kill 1, wound 17 people (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:24 AM PDT

A US Black Hawk helicopter heavy machine gun operator prepares for take off from the Arghandab Base in Kandahar's province on August 9, 2010. The commander of international forces, US General David Petraeus, who took up his post on July 4, was quick to press for what are now called Local Police Forces -- armed men paid by the government to defend their villages.(AFP/Yuri Cortez)AP - Iraqi police say one person has been killed and 17 were wounded in separate late night bombings in Baghdad.

2 of 9 trapped dolphins rescued in Bolivia river (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 07:23 PM PDT

After being rescued, a pink dolphin (Inia Boliviensis) is transported by Colombian biologist Mariana Escobar and rescue worker team leader Runny Callau, top, form the Pailas river to the Grande river in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Sunday, Aug. 22 , 2010. According to Bolivian biologists, heavy sedimentation and droughts have cut the communication between the Amazonian Pailas and Grande rivers, leaving some 12 dolphins stranded on a drying pond of the Pailas river. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)AP - Dozens of biologists and environmental activists rescued two freshwater dolphins Sunday among nine that have been trapped in a river by low water levels for more than a month.

Kigali -- from sleepy backwater to Africa's Singapore (AFP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 03:42 PM PDT

People on motorcycles ride past a poster for Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Timichanga road in Kigali on August 7. Rwanda's capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9:00 pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)AFP - Rwanda's capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9:00 pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping.

Australian leaders haggle to form government (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:52 AM PDT

Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott (2nd L) is cheered by the party faithful as he arrives at the Liberal Party election function in Sydney. The latest ABC tally gave Gillard's Labor Party 73 seats against 70 for Abbott's conservative Liberal/National coalition, with both short of the 76 needed for an outright majority in the 150-member lower house(AFP/Pool/Dean Lewins)AFP - Australia's political leaders were Monday set to begin horse-trading with a tiny number of independent MPs after a cliffhanger election poised to deliver the first hung parliament in 70 years.

Australian markets bet on new conservative government (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 10:11 PM PDT

Reuters - Australian financial markets bet on Monday that inconclusive weekend elections would deliver a change of government, ushering in a new minority conservative rule that would scrap a planned mining tax.

As floodwaters recede, anger grows in northwest Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:29 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - CHARSADDA, Pakistan — In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool.

Israel's Netanyahu scores big victory with direct peace talks – for now (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 09:52 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Savoring the diplomatic victory of renewed direct peace talks announced last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet today that a peace treaty with the Palestinians would be "a difficult thing, but it is possible."

Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Brazil's Start-Up Generation Attracts New Venture Capital
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