Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was invited for talks with President Robert Mugabe, says a top official. Would the talks negate a runoff presidential election scheduled for June 27.
John McCain, who suffered a blow as a key fund-raiser resigned, is leaning on the Republican Party as Barack Obama turns again to his fund-raising juggernaut.
The senator?s waning bid brings with it a reckoning about what it represents: an incomplete triumph or a sad reminder of why few women run for high office.
A tale of survival in the rubble from last Monday?s earthquake in China is also a tale of a rekindled love for two people who might have died had they been trapped alone.
AP - Flags flew at half-staff, public entertainment was canceled and 1.3 billion people were asked to observe three minutes of silence as China began three days of mourning Monday for the victims of the nation's massive earthquake.
AP - John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down, the latest casualty of a presidential campaign eager to cauterize damage caused by its ties to lobbyists.
AP - Microsoft Corp. is once again trying to team up with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., although at this point the renewed talks haven't escalated to another attempt to take over Yahoo.
Children's identification cards cling to the gates of the now-destroyed primary school in Wufu, China, a grim marker of the only building destroyed in this town. In the wake of a devastating earthquake that claimed more than 32,000 lives, some parents are questioning how soundly schools were built.
Almost 33,000 acres of the Everglades National Park were burning today, fire officials said, the latest in a series of wildfires that have scorched parts of Florida in May.
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