Obama picks three financial regulators
CHICAGO (AP): President-elect Barack Obama yesterday named three veteran regulators to round out his economic team and vowed to revamp regulatory rules to prevent a repeat of the financial and economic debacles the country is going through.His...

Bishop wants more pressure on Mugabe
LONDON (AP): The archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday that the world should be putting pressure on Robert Mugabe to step down as president of Zimbabwe, but he questioned whether force was the answer.Archbishop Rowan Williams said in a BBC radio...

Hamas says it won't extend truce with Israel
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP):A Hamas official said yesterday the Islamic militant group will not extend a six-month truce with Israel, as the two sides attacked each other.Hamas says the ceasefire ends today,...

Bolivia: Expel all US ambassadors
COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP):Latin American nations should expel United States ambassadors until the United States lifts its embargo on Cuba, Bolivian President, Evo Morales, said Wednesday.

Shoe-throwing journalist asksfor pardon
BAGHDAD (AP):The jailed journalist who threw his shoes at United States (US) President George W. Bush has asked for a pardon for what he described as "an ugly act", a spokesman for Iraq's prime minister said yesterday.

Valid case for breaking State link, says English Church head
LONDON (AP): THE HEAD of the Church of England says he can see a case for breaking the Church's ties to the State, but he would oppose it now."I believe the Church exists because of God, not because of the State," Archbishop Rowan Williams, said in a BBC...