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 The Manila Times
Surging food prices bite across Asia
| From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn. | A billi... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Asia BIo Fuel Food Inflation Photos |
 The Australian
Beirut calm but violence spreading
| AT least 12 people were killed in fresh sectarian clashes in Lebanon's second-largest city of Tripoli late yesterday as violence that erupted in Beirut on Thursday spread east and north of the capit... (photo: AP)
Hezbollah Lebanon Photos Politics War |
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 The Australian
Hillary close to conceding
| NOT so long ago, the race for the Democratic presidential nomination was dominated by talk of Hillary Clinton's mental toughness and fighting qualities. One critic even... (photo: (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster))
Elections Photos Politics Society US |
 The Australian
Pakistan's parallel courts proposal 'farcical'
| ATTEMPTS to reinstate Pakistan's anti-Musharraf judges approached high farce yesterday when proposals were mooted for parallel supreme courts as the only way out of the... (photo: AP/Anjum Naveed)
Law Pakistan Photos Politics Society |
 The Australian
US help could save thousands of lives
| ONE April day in 1991, the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand... (photo: US Navy file/PHAN Nicholas Morton)
Aid Disaster Photos Society US |
 The Australian
Beijing's behemoths want more iron action
| THE first ship to load iron ore produced by Fortescue Metals Group will dock on Thursday at Port Hedland in Western Australia. It will leave with 170,000 tonnes of ore,... (photo: AP Photo / Andy Wong)
Australia Business China Metal Photos |
 The Australian
Tear down Burma's bamboo curtain
| Thousands more will die if aid does not start flowing | THERE seems to be no underestimating the brutality of Burma's regime as millions of people struggle to stay aliv... (photo: AP / )
Burma Disaster Photos Society UN |
 The Australian
It's time for an aid intervention
| WHAT are we waiting for? Where now is liberal interventionism? | More than 100,000 people are dead after a cyclone in the Irrawaddy Delta and the UN has declared that u... (photo: U.S. Department of State / )
Aid Burma Million Photos UN |
 The Statesman
Rigging, bombing during Burdwan polls
Kanchan Siddiqui | BURDWAN, May 11: A series of unpleasant incidents such as booth premises ebing bombed, Opposition candidates being assaulted, ballot papers robbed and... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Bombing Election Kolkata Photos Vote |
 Examiner
Tornado death toll climbs to 14 in Missouri
SENECA, Mo. (Map, News) - Crews continued searching for survivors and culling through the wreckage of demolished homes Sunday after a killer tornado swept through this sp... (photo: creative commons / )
Calamity Disaster Missouri Photos Tornado |
