By ELAINE KURTENBACH
Associated Press Writer
SHANGHAI (AP) – Restaurants and office buildings in China’s commercial capital Shanghai are scrambling to set up nonsmoking areas as the city bans lighting up in indoor public spaces ahead of the World Expo.
There is rising awareness of the health risks of smoking in China, by far the world’s biggest tobacco-consuming [...]
By ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer
ISLAMABAD (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face Friday with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terrorist leaders.
In a series of public appearances on the final day [...]
By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican has made it easier for Anglicans to join the Catholic Church, responding to the disillusionment of some Anglicans over the election of openly gay bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions.
Pope Benedict XVI approved a new church provision that will allow Anglicans to convert while [...]
By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Prosecutors accused a Sudanese rebel leader Monday of planning a deliberate attack that killed 12 African peacekeepers, in the first Darfur case to reach an international tribunal.
The charges against Bahr Idriss Abu Garda came at a hearing to establish whether prosecutors of the International Criminal Court [...]
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Associated Press Writer
DUBLIN (AP) – The Rev. Aengus Finucane, a Roman Catholic missionary who braved civil war in Biafra as a pioneer of Irish aid efforts worldwide, died Tuesday, his charity announced. He was 77.
“There can be few Irish people of his generation, or of any other generation, who have contributed as much [...]
By MATT MOORE and KARL RITTER
Associated Press Writers
STOCKHOLM (AP) – Three Americans whose research in the 1960s laid the foundation for digital images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.
Charles K. Kao, 75, was cited for [...]
By MANSUR MIROVALEV
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) – The launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket Wednesday that will carry Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and two other crew members to the International Space Station will be marked by rituals dating back to the pioneering Soviet space missions of the 1960s.
The activities of the astronauts in [...]
By TRAN VAN MINH
Associated Press Writer
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Typhoon Ketsana roared into central Vietnam on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people as it brought flooding and winds of up to 90 mph (144 kph), disaster officials said. Some 170,000 were evacuated from its path.
Ketsana left more than 200 dead across the northern Philippines as [...]
By VICKI SMITH and MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Associated Press Writers
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Businesses and organizations targeted for protests boarded windows and took security precautions ahead of protests planned to begin Thursday during a meeting of the world’s 20 most powerful leaders.
John Byrnes boarded the windows and hired a security guard for his 24-hour gym, but could not [...]
By HEIDI VOGT
Associated Press Writer
KABUL (AP) – Afghanistan has a two-week window to realistically hold any presidential runoff vote before winter sets in, an election official said Thursday in a stark acknowledgment that a quick decision is needed on whether to hold new balloting.
Preliminary results from Afghanistan’s Aug. 20 vote show President Hamid Karzai winning [...]
