AFP - The European Union’s aid chief said Friday he had made no breakthroughs on a trip to Myanmar aimed at pushing the ruling generals to open up to foreign assistance, two weeks after the cyclone tragedy.

Reuters - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber
rammed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan
capital on Friday, killing 10 people, the military and hospital
authorities said.

Reuters - Osama bin Laden vowed in an audio tape
timed to coincide with Israel’s 60th anniversary to continue to
fight the Jewish state and its allies in the West.

AP - Osama bin Laden said in a new audio recording released Friday that al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine.

AP - A strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this week’s powerful earthquake Friday, burying vehicles and again cutting off ravaged areas of central China.

AP - A bomb blast blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels killed six policemen and wounded 50 people, including civilians, in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo Friday, the military said.

Reuters - Five armed men burst into the
small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week
pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.

AP - The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market.

Reuters - Astronomers are baffled after
finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently
locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun —
an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.