| Pakistan opposition urges prez to give up powers (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 02:22 AM PST  AP - A powerful opposition leader has called on President Asif Ali Zardari to relinquish wide-ranging powers immediately.
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| Death toll from Bangladesh ferry sinking reaches 49 (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 02:20 AM PST  Reuters - The death toll from an overcrowded ferry that sank in Bangladesh two days ago rose to 49, officials said Sunday, with rescuers saying many more victims were still trapped inside the vessel.
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| Sri Lanka's ex-military chief runs for president (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 02:10 AM PST  AFP - The Sri Lankan general who led troops to victory over Tamil separatists after decades of war formally announced on Sunday that he would try to unseat the president in January elections.
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| Australia finish with Welsh flourish (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 02:09 AM PST  AFP - Australia finished their grand slam tour, and 2009, on a winning note with a convincing 33-12 victory over Wales at the Millennium Stadium here on Saturday.
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| Euro zone calls for gradual, orderly rise in yuan (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:53 AM PST Reuters - A gradual, orderly rise in the yuan against all major floating currencies is in the interest both of China and of the world economy, senior euro zone officials said on Sunday. |
| Afghan gov't: 26 militants killed along border (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:45 AM PST  AP - Officials say 26 militants were killed in a gun battle with border security guards in eastern Afghanistan along the Pakistan frontier.
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| Pakistani PM takes charge of nuclear weapons (Reuters) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:39 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan's president has transferred authority over the nation's nuclear weapons to the prime ministership, as the unpopular leader tries to deflect growing criticism he has too much power. |
| Karzai under pressure to draw up troop exit plan (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:33 AM PST  AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has upped the pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai insisting he draw up in the next two months an action plan to enable foreign forces to start withdrawing.
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| 2 stranded whales near death on Bali beach (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:25 AM PST  AP - Two young whales are stranded on Indonesia's resort island of Bali and will die on the beach because they are too weak to survive even if returned to the water, an official said Sunday.
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| Pakistan president claims success against Taliban (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 01:25 AM PST  AFP - Under-pressure Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed "considerable success" in a military offensive against Taliban fighters in the remote tribal northwest, his office said Sunday.
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| Philippine journalists expect attacks to continue (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 12:48 AM PST  AP - Several white wooden coffins — all but one shut to hide the journalists' disfigured remains — were crammed into a rundown funeral parlor in the southern Philippines, not far from where they were slaughtered with guns, machetes and a backhoe.
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| Capsized ferry righted in Bangladesh; 45 dead (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 12:23 AM PST  AP - A rescue ship righted a capsized ferry on Sunday, easing the work of those searching the submerged cabins for scores believed trapped inside more than a day after the boat sank in southern Bangladesh. So far, 45 people have been confirmed dead, authorities said.
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| Seoul downplays expectations of US-NKorea talks (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 12:10 AM PST  AP - A rare direct meeting between North Korean and American officials next week is unlikely to produce a major breakthrough in the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program, media reports cited a senior Seoul official as suggesting Sunday.
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| America wages new war in Vietnam - on AIDS (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:25 PM PST  AP - When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus.
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| US man wanted for ecoterror sentenced in China (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:08 PM PST AP - An American man wanted for ecoterrorism attacks in the western United States has been sentenced to three years in a Chinese prison for making illegal drugs. |
| US soldiers: Afghan war more challenging than Iraq (AP) Posted: 28 Nov 2009 07:05 PM PST  AP - Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world.
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