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BP oil spill hearings begin

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:50 EST
A BP official in charge of risk assessment testifies before an investigative panel looking into why the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, causing a massive oil spill. more

Tropical storm Frank over the Pacific

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:00 EST
Tropical storm watches and warnings have been extended westward along Mexico's coast as Tropical Storm Frank churns slowly in the Pacific. more

100-km Chinese traffic jam enters Day 9

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:20 EST
A nine-day traffic jam in China is now more than 100 kilometres long and could last for weeks, state media reports. more

Bloody end to bus hostage drama

ABC Australia - World Lead | Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:10 EST
Bloody end to bus hostage drama By South East Asia correspondent Zoe Daniel and wires

Nazi-looted painting returns to Vienna museum

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:50 EST
A painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele has been returned to display at a Vienna museum after a 12-year possession battle over the artwork, once stolen by the Nazis. more

Anne Frank tree topples in Amsterdam

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:30 EST
A monumental chestnut tree that cheered teenage diarist Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis has toppled over, the Anne Frank Museum says. more

Palestinians threaten peace talk pullout

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 09:50 EST
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has warned President Barack Obama he will pull out of the upcoming peace talks if Israel ends its settlement slowdown in the West Bank. more

Salmonella in U.S. eggs sickens 1,300

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 09:50 EST
Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration are working to find the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened as many as 1,300 people and forced the recall of more than a half-billion eggs. more

Kidnapped Spanish aid workers released in Mali

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 09:00 EST
Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaeda affiliate in Mali have been set free and are on their way home, a Spanish official and a diplomatic source say. more

Pakistan bomb attacks kill 23

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 07:40 EST
Two bomb attacks have killed at least 23 people in tribally administered regions in Pakistan close to the Afghan border. more

China to drop death penalty for economic crimes

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 07:20 EST
China, which executes more people each year than any other country, said Monday it is considering dropping capital punishment for economic crimes. more

Australian election limbo continues

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 07:10 EST
Stocks in Australia's biggest mining companies rose Monday as plan for a new tax on their profits were thrown into doubt after the national election delivered no clear mandate. more

German leader donates kidney to his wife

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 06:30 EST
Germany's main opposition leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier says he will take a few weeks off politics so he can donate a kidney to his wife. more

More die as Pakistani flood water moves seaward

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 06:10 EST
Workers have piled stones and sandbags to plug leaks in a levee protecting a southern Pakistani city, as the floods that have destroyed homes and land moves slowly toward the sea. more

Disgruntled ex-cop takes tourists hostage

ABC Australia - World Lead | Mon Aug 23, 2010 04:50 EST
Disgruntled ex-cop takes tourists hostage By South East Asia correspondent Zoe Daniel

Ex-cop holds bus hostage in Philippines

CBC Lead Headline | Mon Aug 23, 2010 02:20 EST
A dismissed policeman armed with an automatic rifle seized a bus in the Philippine capital on Monday with 25 passengers aboard, most of them tourists, in a bid to get reinstated, police say. more

Miners alive but face months underground

ABC Australia - World Lead | Mon Aug 23, 2010 01:00 EST
Thirty-three miners trapped underground for more than two weeks after a cave-in said they were all alive in a message tied to a drill, Chilean authorities said on Sunday. More

Wyclef not giving up presidential bid

CBC Lead Headline | Sun Aug 22, 2010 23:30 EST
Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean has announced he will appeal a decision by Haiti's electoral council that prevents him from running in the Nov. 28 presidential election. more

Iran unveils its own drone aircraft

CBC Lead Headline | Sun Aug 22, 2010 17:30 EST
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the country's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies. more

Trapped Chile miners are alive

CBC Lead Headline | Sun Aug 22, 2010 17:10 EST
Thirty-three miners trapped deep underground for 17 days in northern Chile were detected to be alive Sunday, Chile's president has confirmed. more


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