Two taikonauts in Beijing People's Daily Online - 19 hours ago (Web promotion)

Two taikonauts in Beijing People's Daily Online - 19 hours ago (Web promotion)

Two taikonauts in Beijing
People's Daily Online - 19 hours ago The two Shenzhou VI taikonauts, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, arrived in Beijing at 9:28 am on Monday, after safely landing on earth earlier in the morning. State Councilor and vice president of Central Military

Transparency International Chief Talks About Corruption In CIS
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - 2 hours ago By Jeffrey Donovan. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Central Asian countries rank among the worst in a new survey of perceived global corruption by the nongovernmental group Transparency International. RFE

India, Pakistan to set up telephone services for victims' families
Rediff - 45 minutes ago The tragedy wrought by the quake brought India and Pakistan one more step closer with both countries announcing setting up of telephone services on either side of Line of Control to facilitate communication between the people of divided Kashmir on Tuesday

Seahawks' Hamlin admitted to Harborview
Seattle Times - 23 hours ago By Jose Miguel Romero. KIRKLAND � Seahawks free safety Ken Hamlin was admitted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle late last night or early this morning, a hospital source confirmed. Hamlin, his agent

BALCO founder Victor Conte gets eight months as part of plea deal
SLAM! Sports - 29 minutes ago SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Victor Conte was sentenced to eight months Tuesday as part of a plea deal for his role as mastermind behind a scheme to provide professional athletes with undetectable performance-enhancing drugs.

Iraq's Election Commission Check Ballots
Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours ago By SAMEER N. YACOUB. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The first bags containing sheets of vote counts from Iraq's provinces arrived in Baghdad for tabulation, but delays from other areas mean a final result in the landmark

UPDATE 1-Miers backed abortion ban in 1989-Senate papers
Reuters - 2 hours ago By Thomas Ferraro. WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, as a Dallas city council candidate in 1989, backed a constitutional amendment to ban abortion except when needed to

Refco files for bankruptcy
Guardian Unlimited - 4 hours ago Troubled US futures broker Refco filed for bankruptcy protection today and agreed to sell its core futures brokerage business to an investor group for $768m (�439.5m). The investor group is being led by a

Egyptian man held in threat to city tunnels
Newsday - 26 minutes ago By Matthew Dolan and Siobhan Gorman. Federal authorities are detaining at least one man of Egyptian origin who worked at a Middle Eastern market in Baltimore in connection with a threat that closed Interstate

Another Hurricane, Wilma, Threatens Florida
New York Times - 1 hour ago By KATRIN BENNHOLD. Another hurricane formed in the Caribbean and was expected to build up strength before hitting Florida this weekend in what has become the most active storm season in decades. This morning