AP - Arriving to a hero's welcome in France, Ingrid Betancourt said Friday that she cried a lot during her six years as a prisoner in the Colombian jungle. Today, she said, "I cry with joy."
July 4, 2008, 12:56 pm
AP - Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in Africa."
July 4, 2008, 12:50 pm
AP - Dmitry Medvedev's grand debut on the world stage at the Group of Eight summit Monday promises insights into the riddle all Kremlinologists are trying to crack: Is he calling any of the shots as Russia's president or is he merely a puppet of Vladimir Putin?
July 4, 2008, 3:16 pm
Reuters - French-Colombian politician Ingrid
Betancourt was given a hero's welcome on Friday in France,
where President Nicolas Sarkozy had made her release a foreign
policy priority and thousands had campaigned for her freedom
for years.
July 4, 2008, 1:08 pm
AP - The Palestinian who went on a deadly rampage on a Jerusalem street this week had spent years in a romantic relationship with a Jewish Israeli woman, relatives said, a rarity in a city where such ties between Arabs and Jews are nearly nonexistent.
July 4, 2008, 1:16 pm
AP - In a July 2 story about the rescue of kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages from Colombian rebels, The Associated Press erroneously translated Betancourt as saying she still aspires "to serve Colombia as president." Here is the correct translation: "Do I still hope to serve Colombia as president? ... only God knows.
July 4, 2008, 1:52 pm
AFP - Hashim Amla's fine start to South Africa's tour of England continued with another big century on Friday while Ashwell Prince also weighed in with a hundred on the first day against Middlesex at Uxbridge.
July 4, 2008, 3:03 pm
AP - A third autopsy on a teenage girl whose death sparked a riot last weekend in southwest China confirmed she died of drowning, while two more top local officials have been fired, state media reported Friday.
July 4, 2008, 1:01 am
AFP - Australia is one of the least religious nations in the western world, research showed Friday, as the country prepares to host Pope Benedict XVI and Catholic World Youth Day celebrations this month.
AP - Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday.
AP - Could Ingrid Betancourt become Colombia's next president?
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