AP Worldstream back issues from Tuesday, May 27:
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday that the country's foreign minister has resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location. Harper said he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who has come under fire in recent weeks after it was reported that ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday that the country's foreign minister has resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location. Harper said he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who has come under fire in recent weeks after it was reported that ...
WORLD SPORTS at 0000 GMT
May 27, 2008 ... TENNIS: FRENCH OPEN: Federer, Jankovic, Venus advance to 2nd round PARIS _ Roger Federer successfully starts another quest to win the French Open, the only Grand Slam title that has eluded him, by beating Sam Querrey of the United States in straight sets. On the women's ...
Roger Federer improves 2008 clay-court record to 16-3 at French Open
May 27, 2008; ... Roger Federer added another win to his already burgeoning clay-court record this season. Federer improved to 16-3 beating Sam Querrey of the United States 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 on Monday in the first round of the French Open, where he is trying to become only the sixth man to complete a ...
Roger Federer improves 2008 clay-court record to 16-3 at French Open
May 27, 2008; ... Roger Federer added another win to his already burgeoning clay-court record this season. Federer improved to 16-3 beating Sam Querrey of the United States 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 on Monday in the first round of the French Open, where he is trying to become only the sixth man to complete a ...
Backed-up rivers a threat in China's quake zone
May 27, 2008; ... Dozens of dams created by landslides during China's huge earthquake this month are posing a new destructive threat in the disaster zone. Soldiers hauled explosives through mountainous terrain Monday to unblock one river threatening to cause flooding, as storms forecast for the region ...
Tuesday, June 3
May 27, 2008; ... Today is Tuesday, June 3, the 155th day of 2008. There are 211 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1621 - Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland _ now New York_ and suburbs. 1818 - The British annex the territories ...
Backed-up rivers a threat in China's quake zone
May 27, 2008; ... Dozens of dams created by landslides during China's huge earthquake this month are posing a new destructive threat in the disaster zone. Soldiers hauled explosives through mountainous terrain Monday to unblock one river threatening to cause flooding, as storms forecast for the region ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday that the country's foreign minister has resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location. Harper said he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who has come under fire in recent weeks after it was reported that ...
UN optimistic aid can get through soon, while hordes of Myanmar cyclone victims await help
May 27, 2008; ... U.N. officials expressed hope they will soon be able to get help to more than 1 million cyclone survivors still waiting for food and shelter, if Myanmar's ruling junta keeps its promise to let foreign aid workers into the country. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled ...
Online communities open but still limit movement
May 27, 2008; ... Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you'll have to rebuild your profile from scratch. That's like having to get a new driver's license for every state you drive ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday that the country's foreign minister has resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location. Harper said he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who has come under fire in recent weeks after it was reported that ...
Tuesday, June 3
May 27, 2008; ... Today is Tuesday, June 3, the 155th day of 2008. There are 211 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1621 - Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland _ now New York_ and suburbs. 1818 - The British annex the territories ...
UN optimistic aid can get through soon, while hordes of Myanmar cyclone victims await help
May 27, 2008; ... U.N. officials expressed hope they will soon be able to get help to more than 1 million cyclone survivors still waiting for food and shelter, if Myanmar's ruling junta keeps its promise to let foreign aid workers into the country. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled ...
Online communities open but still limit movement
May 27, 2008; ... Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you'll have to rebuild your profile from scratch. That's like having to get a new driver's license for every state you drive ...
Google, Facebook in stalemate over social data
May 27, 2008; ... Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. First, it must contend with Facebook, the No. 2 online hangout behind MySpace. Days after Google unveiled Friend ...
Rising costs lead US farmers to go high tech
May 27, 2008; ... When Martin Barbre got his first look three years ago at a system that would drive his tractor for him, he didn't buy the device _ or the premise that it would cut costs on his farm. "When they first came out with them and we first looked at it, it seemed like a fancy ...
Google, Facebook in stalemate over social data
May 27, 2008; ... Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy. First, it must contend with Facebook, the No. 2 online hangout behind MySpace. Days after Google unveiled Friend ...
Rising costs lead US farmers to go high tech
May 27, 2008; ... When Martin Barbre got his first look three years ago at a system that would drive his tractor for him, he didn't buy the device _ or the premise that it would cut costs on his farm. "When they first came out with them and we first looked at it, it seemed like a fancy ...
Technology on the Farm
May 27, 2008 ... Technology on the Farm: More than half of U.S. farmers use at least one high-tech tool. Here are some of the most popular: _Guidance systems: Using the global positioning system, or GPS, this technology automatically drives tractors and combines. Benefits include straighter ...
Technology on the Farm
May 27, 2008 ... Technology on the Farm: More than half of U.S. farmers use at least one high-tech tool. Here are some of the most popular: _Guidance systems: Using the global positioning system, or GPS, this technology automatically drives tractors and combines. Benefits include straighter ...
Van der Sar, Van Nistelrooy expected to lead Dutch at Euro 2008
May 27, 2008; ... Amazingly, all has gone pretty quiet at the Dutch camp. The refusal by AC Milan's Clarence Seedorf to play for Netherlands coach Marco van Basten at the European Championship seems a distant memory. A comfortable 3-0 win over World Cup quarterfinalist Ukraine has contained ...
Van der Sar, Van Nistelrooy expected to lead Dutch at Euro 2008
May 27, 2008; ... Amazingly, all has gone pretty quiet at the Dutch camp. The refusal by AC Milan's Clarence Seedorf to play for Netherlands coach Marco van Basten at the European Championship seems a distant memory. A comfortable 3-0 win over World Cup quarterfinalist Ukraine has contained ...
AP INTERVIEW: McCain criticizes Obama on Iraq, says they should visit war zone together
May 27, 2008; ... Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together. "Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost," ...
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May 27, 2008; ... Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together. "Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost," ...
List of highest wicket-takers in test cricket
May 27, 2008 ... Leading wicket-takers in test cricket (x-active): 735_x-Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lanka (120) 708_Shane Warne, Australia (145 matches) 608_x-Anil Kumble, India (127) 563_Glenn McGrath, Australia (124) ...
List of highest wicket-takers in test cricket
May 27, 2008 ... Leading wicket-takers in test cricket (x-active): 735_x-Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lanka (120) 708_Shane Warne, Australia (145 matches) 608_x-Anil Kumble, India (127) 563_Glenn McGrath, Australia (124) ...
Highest test cricket runscorers
May 27, 2008 ... Leading runscorers in test cricket (x-active): 11,953_Brian Lara, West Indies (131 tests) 11,782_x-Sachin Tendulkar, India (147) 11,174_Allan Border, Australia (156) 10,927_Steve Waugh, Australia (168) 10,122_Sunil Gavaskar, India (125) ...
Conditions ripe for disease in Myanmar's devastated Irawaddy delta
May 27, 2008 ... Myint Hlaing's family bathes and cooks with water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass. His 10-year-old daughter drinks bottled water donated by aid groups, but she still suffers from diarrhea. Meanwhile, his family and other cyclone survivors ...
Highest test cricket runscorers
May 27, 2008 ... Leading runscorers in test cricket (x-active): 11,953_Brian Lara, West Indies (131 tests) 11,782_x-Sachin Tendulkar, India (147) 11,174_Allan Border, Australia (156) 10,927_Steve Waugh, Australia (168) 10,122_Sunil Gavaskar, India (125) ...
Conditions ripe for disease in Myanmar's devastated Irawaddy delta
May 27, 2008 ... Myint Hlaing's family bathes and cooks with water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass. His 10-year-old daughter drinks bottled water donated by aid groups, but she still suffers from diarrhea. Meanwhile, his family and other cyclone survivors ...
List of scorers of most centuries in test cricket
May 27, 2008 ... Leading scorers of centuries in test cricket (x-active): 39_x-Sachin Tendulkar, India (147 matches) 35_x-Ricky Ponting, Australia (117) 34_Sunil Gavaskar, India (125) 34_Brian Lara, West Indies (131) 32_Steve Waugh, Australia (168) ...
List of scorers of most centuries in test cricket
May 27, 2008 ... Leading scorers of centuries in test cricket (x-active): 39_x-Sachin Tendulkar, India (147 matches) 35_x-Ricky Ponting, Australia (117) 34_Sunil Gavaskar, India (125) 34_Brian Lara, West Indies (131) 32_Steve Waugh, Australia (168) ...
Foreign journalists being given unprecedented freedom to report on quake disaster in China
May 27, 2008; ... Rows of body bags were laid out along streets for all to see. Sobbing parents furious about shoddily built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children were able to speak freely. Military helicopters carried reporters to tour the disaster zone. The earthquake that flattened ...
Foreign journalists being given unprecedented freedom to report on quake disaster in China
May 27, 2008; ... Rows of body bags were laid out along streets for all to see. Sobbing parents furious about shoddily built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children were able to speak freely. Military helicopters carried reporters to tour the disaster zone. The earthquake that flattened ...
Half of Iowa town destroyed or heavily damaged by weekend tornado, 6 killed
May 27, 2008; ... Half of this small town lay in ruins or heavily damaged Monday following a deadly tornado that ripped apart a stretch of northern Iowa. The Sunday afternoon twister killed six people in Iowa, four of them in Parkersburg and two others in nearby New Hartford. In neighboring Minnesota, ...
Half of Iowa town destroyed or heavily damaged by weekend tornado, 6 killed
May 27, 2008; ... Half of this small town lay in ruins or heavily damaged Monday following a deadly tornado that ripped apart a stretch of northern Iowa. The Sunday afternoon twister killed six people in Iowa, four of them in Parkersburg and two others in nearby New Hartford. In neighboring Minnesota, ...
Sri Lankan military says bomb blast on train near capital kills 8, wounds 70
May 27, 2008; ... Eight people died and 70 others were injured when a bomb ripped through a section of a crowded evening rush hour train near Sri Lanka's capital. The attack Monday was the second in four days targeting civilians. A bomb last Friday in the rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi killed 16 ...
Sri Lankan military says bomb blast on train near capital kills 8, wounds 70
May 27, 2008; ... Eight people died and 70 others were injured when a bomb ripped through a section of a crowded evening rush hour train near Sri Lanka's capital. The attack Monday was the second in four days targeting civilians. A bomb last Friday in the rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi killed 16 ...
South Koreans take to street to protest against US beef deal after clashes
May 27, 2008; ... Continuing protests in South Korea's capital against government plans to resume importing beef from the United States because of alarm over mad cow disease overshadowed President Lee Myung-bak's trip Tuesday to China. South Koreans took to the streets again Monday night against a beef ...
South Koreans take to street to protest against US beef deal after clashes
May 27, 2008; ... Continuing protests in South Korea's capital against government plans to resume importing beef from the United States because of alarm over mad cow disease overshadowed President Lee Myung-bak's trip Tuesday to China. South Koreans took to the streets again Monday night against a beef ...
French skydiver postpones record free fall attempt
May 27, 2008 ... A French skydiver, after a one-day setback, hopes to make history early Tuesday by free falling 40,000 meters (130,000 feet) from the stratosphere in a specially designed suit, helmet and parachute in a bid to break four records. Michael Fournier, 64, planned to make the attempt ...
French skydiver postpones record free fall attempt
May 27, 2008 ... A French skydiver, after a one-day setback, hopes to make history early Tuesday by free falling 40,000 meters (130,000 feet) from the stratosphere in a specially designed suit, helmet and parachute in a bid to break four records. Michael Fournier, 64, planned to make the attempt ...
Senior US official meets Nepal's ex-rebels' leaders, assures cooperation
May 27, 2008; ... A senior U.S. official met leaders of Nepal's former communist rebels ahead of a new national assembly meeting on Wednesday and gave assurances of cooperation with the coalition government they are set to lead, officials said. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and ...
Senior US official meets Nepal's ex-rebels' leaders, assures cooperation
May 27, 2008; ... A senior U.S. official met leaders of Nepal's former communist rebels ahead of a new national assembly meeting on Wednesday and gave assurances of cooperation with the coalition government they are set to lead, officials said. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and ...
US official: Pakistan needs to 'strike back' against terrorism
May 27, 2008; ... The U.S. homeland security chief urged Pakistan's new government to tackle terrorism in its regions bordering Afghanistan or face more attacks of the kind that killed ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. Michael Chertoff's comments come as the Pakistani government pursues peace deals with ...
US official: Pakistan needs to 'strike back' against terrorism
May 27, 2008; ... The U.S. homeland security chief urged Pakistan's new government to tackle terrorism in its regions bordering Afghanistan or face more attacks of the kind that killed ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. Michael Chertoff's comments come as the Pakistani government pursues peace deals with ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling the breach "a serious error." Harper said that he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who came under fire in ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling the breach "a serious error." Harper said that he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who came under fire in ...
American farms' answer to illegal immigration is to grow crops in Mexico
May 27, 2008; ... Antonio Martinez no longer pays smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the United States to manage farm crews. Now, the work comes to him. Supervising lettuce pickers in central Mexico, Martinez earns just half of the 11,400 pesos (US$1,100) a week he made in the ...
American farms' answer to illegal immigration is to grow crops in Mexico
May 27, 2008; ... Antonio Martinez no longer pays smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the United States to manage farm crews. Now, the work comes to him. Supervising lettuce pickers in central Mexico, Martinez earns just half of the 11,400 pesos (US$1,100) a week he made in the ...
Oscar-winning film director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73
May 27, 2008 ... Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack has died. He was 73. Pollack's agent, Leslee Dart, said Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades. Dart says Pollack was surrounded by his family. Pollack's biggest success was the 1985 film ...
Oscar-winning film director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73
May 27, 2008 ... Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack has died. He was 73. Pollack's agent, Leslee Dart, said Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades. Dart says Pollack was surrounded by his family. Pollack's biggest success was the 1985 film ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling the breach "a serious error." Harper said that he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who came under fire in ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling the breach "a serious error." Harper said that he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who came under fire in ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling the breach "a serious error." Harper said that he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who came under fire in ...
Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier resigns
May 27, 2008; ... Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, calling the breach "a serious error." Harper said that he accepted the resignation of Maxime Bernier, who came under fire in ...
NASA Mars lander prepares for three-month digging mission after landing safely on Red Planet
May 27, 2008; ... NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging mission to study whether the site could have once been habitable. Sol 1, as the days are known on Mars, was a busy time for the ...
NASA Mars lander prepares for three-month digging mission after landing safely on Red Planet
May 27, 2008; ... NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging mission to study whether the site could have once been habitable. Sol 1, as the days are known on Mars, was a busy time for the ...
Global Weather-Fahrenheit
May 27, 2008 ... MIN MAX COND PRECIP MIN MAX COND MIN MAX COND...
NASA Mars lander prepares for three-month digging mission after landing safely on Red Planet
May 27, 2008; ... NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging mission to study whether the site could have once been habitable. The three-legged lander set down Sunday in relatively flat terrain ...
NASA Mars lander prepares for three-month digging mission after landing safely on Red Planet
May 27, 2008; ... NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spent its first full day in the Martian arctic plains checking its instruments in preparation for an ambitious digging mission to study whether the site could have once been habitable. The three-legged lander set down Sunday in relatively flat terrain ...
Global Weather-Celsius-Fahrenheit
May 27, 2008 ... MIN C MIN F MAX C MAX F COND PRECIP CM PRECIP IN MIN C MIN F MAX C MAX F COND MIN C MIN F MAX C MAX F COND ...
Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73
May 27, 2008 ... Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved commercial and critical success with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa, has died. He was 73. Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los ...
Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at age 73
May 27, 2008 ... Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved commercial and critical success with the gender-bending comedy "Tootsie" and the period drama "Out of Africa, has died. He was 73. Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los ...