China salutes Bush, hopeful for Obama
LIMA -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday thanked outgoing US President George W. Bush for building ties between the Pacific powers and voiced hope for his successor Barack Obama. Hu met with Bush ahead of an Asia-Pacific summit in Peru and
Bush urges countries to avoid protectionism
US President George W Bush, faced with a dwindling number of days in office, was using his final world summit to try to keep a virulent economic crisis from triggering a retreat into protectionism. Bush was pushing to get the 21-nation Asia-Pacific
China angrily dismisses US congressional report
China has reacted angrily to a US congressional report that accused Beijing of developing sophisticated cyber warfare and militarising its space program. The annual China report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission was
Attorney general back to work after fainting spell
Doctors gave U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey a clean bill of health Friday morning after an apparent fainting spell, according to Gina Talamona, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice.
Katich ton puts Australia on top
Simon Katich's unbeaten 131 puts Australia on course for a probable victory in the first Test against New Zealand.
French Socialists Tally
Vote counting in a runoff election on Friday for a new leader of the French Socialist Party ended early Saturday with no clear winner.
Papers bash BBC over prank calls
Many of Saturday's newspapers say the way prank calls to Andrew Sachs were broadcast shows a BBC culture of no accountability.
Asia, U.S. share a common destiny
Tom Plate, Los Angeles Here's the problem: Serious intellectual narrowing can happen to even the brightest folk once nested down on the East Coast. They become preoccupied (almost neurotically, almost provincially) with the problems of the past --
Desmond Tutu Awarded 2008 U.S. Fulbright Prize
Tutu honored for his work for peace in South Africa and elsewhere Staff Writer Washington ? If peace and understanding could be human, then South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu would be one of the best examples of these concepts because few
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