Leaders make final pitch for Olympic prize (Web promotion) Financial Times - 44

Leaders make final pitch for Olympic prize (Web promotion) Financial Times - 44

Leaders make final pitch for Olympic prize
Financial Times - 44 minutes ago By David Owen and Jake Lloyd-Smith in Singapore. Jacques Chirac, the French president, arrived belatedly in Singapore on Tuesday, with tensions rising ahead of Wednesday�s critical Olympic vote. More than

Man to be charged in siblings' kidnappings
MSNBC - 2 hours ago COEUR D�ALENE, Idaho - The man suspected of kidnapping an Idaho brother and sister was to face charges in court Tuesday, as authorities tested remains found in Montana to see if they are those of 9-year-old Dylan Groene.

In pictures: Deep Impact: A mission to crash into a comet
BBC News - 3 hours ago This was the moment Nasa's Deep Impact projectile blasted into Comet Tempel 1, more than 130 million km from Earth. The picture was taken by the probe's mothership. The accuracy required was so great that

The Struggle over Oil
Rediff - 4 hours ago China and India are currently the engines of world economic growth. But India is still a minor part in the worldwide competition for scarce resources. China has become the world's second-largest importer of oil after the United States.

Sasser suspect confesses in court
CNN International - 34 minutes ago BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- A German teenager confessed to creating last year's Sasser worm -- which wreaked havoc on hundreds of thousands of computers -- as he went on trial on charges including computer sabotage, a court official said.