149 dead in plane crash at Madrid airport (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:45:22 GMT
AP - A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the vacation season crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 149 people on board, officials said.

US, Poland OK missile defense base, riling Moscow (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:15:38 GMT
AP - The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia — a move followed swiftly by a new warning from Moscow of a possible military response.

Official: US OKs draft plan on forces in Iraq (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:44:07 GMT
AP - A senior U.S. military official says the U.S. government has approved a draft agreement on reducing the American military presence in Iraq.

McCain again questions Obama's judgment on Iraq (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:33:29 GMT
AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain told voters on Wednesday he is not challenging Barack Obama's patriotism in criticizing his call to pull out of Iraq, only the judgment of his Democratic rival.

Rep. Tubbs Jones of Ohio in critical condition after hemorrhage (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:31:59 GMT
AP - Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, had a brain hemorrhage and was in critical condition with limited brain function, a doctor said Wednesday.

Giuliani to give keynote at GOP convention (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:30:27 GMT
AP - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will give the keynote address at the Republican National Convention next month and Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Lieberman also will take center stage at the GOP gathering.

Like lightning, Bolt sets record in Olympic 200m (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:27:03 GMT
AP - Arms churning high, face twisted in pain as he sprinted toward the finish line, Usain Bolt kept glancing at the clock. The win in the Olympic 200 meters was a given, his second gold medal of the Beijing Games assured. This was now about a world record. About racing against history.

Tropical Storm Fay floods hundreds of Fla. homes (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:28:55 GMT
AP - Emergency crews launched airboats into submerged streets Wednesday to rescue central Florida residents trapped by rising floodwaters from a stalled Tropical Storm Fay, which soaked the state for a third consecutive day.

China refuses to let Gary Glitter into Hong Kong (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:18:45 GMT
AP - British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, was denied entry to Hong Kong after refusing to return to England, officials said Wednesday.

Angel the dog credited with saving kittens (AP)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:21:52 GMT
AP - You've heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society's shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.