Bleak Christmas for Zimbabweans - Fleeing citizens find refuge in South African church
JOHANNESBURG (AP): The last Sunday before Christmas was celebrated with a carol service in a downtown Johannesburg church that has become a haven for hundreds of Zimbabweans who have fled their nation's collapse.While songs in her native Shona and other...

INDIA - Interpol chief presses for evidence
NEW DELHI (AP): Nearly a month after the Mumbai terror attacks, India has not provided the evidence needed for Interpol to help identify and apprehend the suspected masterminds, the chief of the global police agency...

IRAQ - Parliament speaker quits, troops impasse ends
BAGHDAD (AP): Iraq's fractious parliament squeezed its abrasive speaker out of a job and authorised non-US troops to stay for another half-year yesterday, in a pair of high-stakes moves in its final session...

CANADA - Missing woman survives after four days in snow
HAMILTON, Ontario (AP): A Canadian woman who went missing last week during a blizzard has been found alive, buried in 23 inches (58 centimeters) of snow.Rescuers were stunned to find the woman, Donna Molnar...