reaches out to hurricane victims with money, aid San Francisco (Internet advertising)

reaches out to hurricane victims with money, aid San Francisco (Internet advertising)

California reaches out to hurricane victims with money, aid
San Francisco Chronicle - 23 hours ago By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer. Substitute teacher Liliette Pena watched television images of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina until she could watch no more. Then she turned to her checkbook.

Nadal tames Jenkins
Malaysia Star - 42 minutes ago FRENCH Open champion Rafael Nadal reached the third round of the US Open tennis championships on here Wednesday with a tough 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 victory over tenacious US teenager Scoville Jenkins. In a night match

Cindy Sheehan goes on the road
Monsters and Critics.com - 4 hours ago AUSTIN, TX, United States (UPI) -- Anti-war mother Cindy Sheehan headed for Houston Tuesday morning, part of a short tour scheduled to follow President Bush back to Washington. Sheehan Wednesday left Camp

Iraq buries stampede dead as politicians point fingers
Christian Science Monitor - 1 hour ago The body count nears 1,000 as officials acknowledge that security measures may have compounded the tragedy. By Jill Carroll | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. BAGHDAD � Fatima Saeed was given

Anarchy in New Orleans
Independent - 52 minutes ago Chaos rules with 200,000 still stranded in the city. Looting, gunfire and a death toll still unknown. By Andrew Buncombe in New Orleans and Andrew Gumbel. The effort to rescue as many as 200,000 people left

Venice: A film festival making waves
Independent - 52 minutes ago Venice used to be a strictly Italian affair. But nowadays the world's oldest film festival is the place for Hollywood's biggest stars to premier their latest works. Peter Popham reports. It's the oldest film

Progress reported in Lebanon murder investigation
International Herald Tribune - 1 hour ago DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Detlev Mehlis, the head of the United Nations investigation of the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, said Thursday that his investigation was making significant progress but that a lack of cooperation

Massachusetts Plans to Dump Office
PC World - 1 hour ago Massachusetts government officials on Thursday unveiled plans to phase out Microsoft Office in favor of office productivity suites that support an open-document format from the OASIS standards body, according to a statement from the commonwealth.