About 70 percent of the money from international donors will pay public salaries, while 30 percent is expected to be used for development, food relief, and other assistance.
The struggles of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta are emblematic of the crippling effect America?s health care crisis has had on public hospitals around the nation.
AP - Her voice quavering, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton struggled Monday to avoid a highly damaging second straight defeat in the Democratic presidential race. Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney scrapped for success on the eve of a New Hampshire primary that neither could afford to lose.
AP - A drifter charged with kidnapping a 24-year-old hiker led authorities to her body Monday in the mountains of northern Georgia, investigators said, hours after a judge denied him bond in her New Year's Day disappearance.
AP - A roadside bomb killed two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Afghanistan, and a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a border police patrol in the south, killing a policeman, officials said.
New Hampshire voters started casting ballots at midnight in the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, as the top contenders scrambled to nail down supporters among a notoriously independent electorate. Citizens have gone to the polls in two small towns, favoring Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama.
An explosion on Tuesday hit the convoy of Sri Lanka's Nation Building Minister, D.M. Dassanayake, wounding him on the road between the capital, Colombo, and the international airport.
Accused kidnapper Gary Michael Hilton led investigators to the body of Meredith Emerson this evening, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation official said. Emerson disappeared on New Year's Day after going hiking in north Georgia with her dog, Ella. Earlier Monday, Hilton appeared in court, charged with kidnapping with intent to cause bodily injury.