| Australian bushfires kill 116, dozens more missing
February 8, 2009 at 10:06 pm
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| WHITTLESEA, Australia (Reuters) - Australia's deadliest bushfires eased on Monday, but the death toll rose to 116 as firefighters and families searched for the missing in the twisted, charred ruins. |
| Holocaust-denier removed from Argentine seminary
February 8, 2009 at 9:38 pm
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| BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An ultra-traditionalist Roman Catholic bishop who has drawn sharp criticism from the Vatican and Jewish groups for denying the extent of the Holocaust was removed as the head of an Argentine seminary, a Catholic Church official said on Sunday. |
| Militants killing laughter and music in Pakistan region
February 8, 2009 at 7:27 pm
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| PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani comedian Alamzeb Mujahid had bad news for his fans after being freed by Islamist militants who kidnapped him in Peshawar city last month. |
| South Korea to stand firm despite North's threats
February 8, 2009 at 7:12 pm
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| SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's president said on Monday he has no intention of backing down to North Korea, which may be preparing to test-fire its longest range missile and in recent weeks has threatened to reduce its neighbor to ashes. |
| Israel's Livni woos female voters ahead of poll
February 8, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - With Israeli pollsters predicting a close national election on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is wooing female swing voters whose support could help her clinch victory. |
| Australian bushfire kills 84
February 8, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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| WANDONG, Australia (Reuters) - Australia's deadliest bushfire has killed at least 93 people, some as they fled in cars or as they huddled in houses when the inferno engulfed rural towns in the country's southeast. |
| Iran's Khatami to run in presidential election
February 8, 2009 at 1:27 pm
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Former President Mohammad Khatami, who pushed for detente with the West when in office from 1997 to 2005, said on Sunday he would run in Iran's June presidential election. |
| Pakistani Taliban release tape of Pole's murder
February 8, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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| KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants released a video tape Sunday of them beheading a Polish geologist whom they said they killed because Pakistan's government refused to release Taliban prisoners. |
| Assault trial date set for Bush shoe assailant
February 8, 2009 at 9:53 am
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush will face trial on February 19 for assaulting a visiting head of state, with a maximum 15-year prison term, a court official said on Sunday. |
| 24 bodies pulled from plane wreck in Brazil river
February 8, 2009 at 9:11 am
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| BRASILIA (Reuters) - Rescue workers recovered 24 bodies on Sunday from the bottom of a river in the Amazon jungle after a plane crashed in bad weather, airline officials and rescue workers said. |
| Iran building four more satellites: report
February 8, 2009 at 8:09 am
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is building four more satellites, the telecommunications minister was quoted on Sunday as saying, after the Islamic Republic put its first domestically produced satellite into orbit last week. |
| Nearly 14,000 flee Sri Lanka's war zone
February 8, 2009 at 7:47 am
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| COLOMBO (Reuters) - More than 1,400 civilians poured out of Sri Lanka's war zone on Sunday, bringing the total in the last four days to nearly 14,000 as soldiers try to deal a death blow to the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said. |
| Iraq bomb kills two Shi'ite pilgrims
February 8, 2009 at 7:47 am
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb exploded in northern Baghdad on Sunday, killing two Iraqis and wounding 11 others taking part in a long pilgrimage on foot to mark a major Shi'ite Muslim religious rite, police said. |
| Australia's deadliest bushfire kills 84
February 8, 2009 at 7:45 am
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| WANDONG, Australia (Reuters) - Australia's deadliest bushfire has killed at least 84 people, some as they fled in cars or as they huddled in houses when the inferno engulfed rural towns in the country's south east, police said on Sunday. |
| Rain eases China drought
February 8, 2009 at 7:39 am
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - Rain fell in drought-stricken north central China after the government brought in rain-making scientists, and officials have promised to divert two major rivers to help farmers, state media said on Sunday. |
| Gaza children traumatized after Israeli offensive
February 8, 2009 at 7:34 am
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| JABALYA CAMP, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Five-year-old Mohammed al-Najjar lets his mind wander as he puts crayon to paper in an effort to depict an Israeli air strike inside a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. |
| Ethiopian woman confronts "Red Terror" ghosts
February 8, 2009 at 4:56 am
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| ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Although 13 years had passed, Hirut Abebe-Jiri instantly recognized the man who tortured her during Ethiopia's brutal "Red Terror" purges. |
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