Tony Stewart called his Make-A-Wish-Foundation guest his good luck charm and said the little blond-headed beauty might have to make a few more trips with them to the track as Stewart won Saturday's Aaron's 312 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at
Interior and defense ministry officials said at least eight people were killed, including a woman, and 44 others were injured in the overnight battle which started around 6 p.m. local time.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) bombed two military installations across the front line in the Welioya region, causing no casualties, the securities forces said.
The international coalition of 29 human rights groups called upon the United Nations and the European Union to pressurize Sudan and launched a campaign called "Justice for Darfur."
The Los Angeles Times reported that the fires, which are moving in a southwest direction, began Saturday afternoon in Angeles National Forest and have spread to cover an estimated 230 to 270 acres.
The local news agency reported that the fire started on the ground floor of the building and spread quickly through the five storey factory on Saturday morning.
When the Taliban began its rapid rise to power in Afghanistan in 1994, the vast majority of its members were young students of the Koran recruited from hundreds of madrasahs set up at Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. Fourteen years
Just over one year after President Vladimir Putin handed him theChechen leadership, Ramzan Kadyrov has taken innumerable steps totighten his grip over the war-battered republic.
Iranian conservatives have consolidated their control of the country'slegislature in runoff elections. Eighty-two seats in the 290-seatparliament were at stake in voting on April 25 after the first roundlast month assured conservatives of a crushing victory over reformists.
More than 20 years after the Chornobyl catastrophe, hundreds have chosen to ignore the warnings and return to live in the contaminated zone that straddles the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. And many more are on their way.
Afghan officials say three people have been killed in anattack on a ceremony in the capital, Kabul, attended by President HamidKarzai and other dignitaries.
LONDON (AFP) - Hospital deaths due to the superbug clostridium difficile among over 65-year-olds in Britain occur at ten times the rate of any other country, a report said Sunday.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its 44.6 billion-dollar (28.5 billion-euro) acquisition offer expired at midnight Saturday, setting the stage for a hostile takeover bid by the software giant.
SEOUL (AFP) - Thousands of Chinese shouting support for the Beijing Games turned a central Seoul plaza into a sea of red flags as the Olympic torch ended its South Korean relay without disruption Sunday amid a huge police presence.
NEW DELHI (AFP) - The Dalai Lama believes talks with China would be pointless unless Beijing is "serious" about finding a solution to the Tibetan issue, a spokesman for the spiritual leader said on Sunday.
