AP - Cindy McCain, who two weeks ago said she would never make her tax returns public, revealed Friday that she had a total income of more than $6 million in 2006.
Reuters - Democratic
presidential contender Hillary Clinton drew a sharp rebuke from
front-runner Barack Obama's campaign on Friday after she
mentioned Robert Kennedy's assassination while explaining why
she was remaining in the race for the party's nomination.
AP - The Bush administration is making the last preparations for what it hopes will be a fresh start in troubled disarmament talks with North Korea, with an official saying Friday that the reclusive regime appears ready to provide overdue details about its nuclear past.
AFP - South Africa made its first public apology Friday for anti-immigrant violence that has left more than 40 dead and 17,000 displaced, as unrest spread to seven of the country's nine provinces.
AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday the eyes of the world were now on Myanmar after pushing the secretive military regime to accept a major relief effort for survivors of the cyclone disaster.
AP - Myanmar's ruling junta said Friday it will let foreign aid workers and commercial ships help survivors in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta, but refused to relent on accepting aid from U.S., French and British military ships.
AP - As consumers began hitting the road Friday for the Memorial Day weekend, they faced the sobering reality that it now costs $87 to fill a Ford Explorer SUV, up $14 from last year, and $72 to fill a mid-sized Honda Accord, up $12.
Reuters - China has found what it termed
50 "hazardous sources of radiation" due to last week's
earthquake, a senior official said on Friday, although he
insisted the situation was under control.
Reuters - South Africa's security chief accused
rightwingers linked to the former apartheid government on
Friday of fanning anti-foreigner violence that has spread to
Cape Town, the second largest city and tourist centre.
Reuters - Republican John McCain
was deemed by his doctors on Friday to be in sufficient good
health to serve as president even as they reported a long
history of skin cancer, colon polyps, kidney stones and
dizziness.
Reuters - China and Russia on Friday condemned
U.S. plans to set up a missile defense system that would
include bases in eastern Europe viewed by Moscow as a threat.
Reuters - Myanmar's junta agreed on
Friday to admit foreign aid workers of all nationalities to the
delta area worst hit by Cyclone Nargis, in what the U.N. called
a breakthrough for aiding survivors.
Reuters - The lead U.S. and North Korean
nuclear negotiators are expected to meet in Beijing next week,
a diplomatic source said on Thursday, in a sign Pyongyang may
be closer to making a declaration of its atomic programs.
AP - A college student testified in R. Kelly's child pornography trial Thursday that she recognized both the female in a graphic sex tape and the R&B singer, saying the female was a minor when the video was made.
AFP - Republican John McCain Thursday faced down a fiery evangelical pastor backing his White House bid who, it was revealed, believed the Nazis did God's will by chasing Jews from Europe.
AP - In a ruling that could torpedo the case against the West Texas polygamist sect, a state appeals court Thursday said authorities had no right to seize more than 440 children in a raid on the splinter group's compound last month.
Reuters - Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top
commander in Iraq, said on Thursday he expected to make further
troop cuts after a 45-day freeze in withdrawals that begins in
July.
AP - Tornadoes touched down in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming on Thursday, damaging buildings, flipping vehicles and killing at least one person.
AP - In a stunning vote that illustrated President Bush's diminished standing, the Senate on Thursday ignored his veto threat and added tens of billions of dollars for veterans and the unemployed to his Iraq war spending bill.
