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Yahoo World: US cargo jet crashes in Mexico; 1 killed (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:35:39 -0400

AP - Officials say a U.S. cargo plane has crashed while trying to land in the northern Mexican city of Ramos Arizpe, killing the pilot and seriously injuring the co-pilot.

Yahoo World: UN official killed in Somalia (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:35:13 -0400

AP - Gunmen opened fire on people leaving a mosque in Somalia's capital on Sunday night, killing one of the country's senior U.N. officials and wounding his son and another man, a witness and a family member said.

BBC News: Top UN official killed in Somalia

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:17:46 -0400

Gunmen in Mogadishu have killed the head of the UN Development Programme in Somalia, UN officials say.

Yahoo World: Australia maraud West Indies for record total (AFP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:48:38 -0400

AFP - Australia's batsmen mauled West Indies' bowling to set the home team 342 for victory in the fifth and final One-day International on Sunday.

Yahoo World: Suicide attack in Pakistani capital kills 15 (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:46:28 -0400

AP - A suicide bomber targeted police officers in Pakistan's capital Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens while thousands of Islamists marked the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on a mosque nearby.

Yahoo World: G-8 leaders face rising expectations at summit (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:35:48 -0400

AP - The world's top industrialized nations begin their annual summit Monday confronted with demands they reinvigorate the world economy, push ahead languishing climate change talks and make good on pledges to battle poverty and hunger.

Yahoo World: Spain readies for annual bull runs (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:44:45 -0400

AP - Tens of thousands of people crowded into Pamplona's main square Sunday to celebrate the launching of a rocket that each year marks the beginning of Spain's most famous bull-running festival.

Yahoo World: AP IMPACT: US wavered over S. Korean executions (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:42:55 -0400

AP - The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.

Yahoo World: OPEC chief: Strong demand will keep oil prices up (AP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:27:58 -0400

AP - OPEC chief Chakib Khelil says the world's surging oil prices are not likely to fall.

Yahoo World: Wimbledon final back on after second rain break (AFP)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:19:42 -0400

AFP - Play in the Wimbledon men's singles final resumed on Sunday evening after a second interruption for rain with the match between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer delicately poised at 2-2 and 40-40 in the fifth and final set.