Asian Related:
Spectacular opening for Olympics
China opens the 2008 Olympic Games with a lavish ceremony in Beijing, watched on TV by more than one billion people. (Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:46:01 GMT)
Arrests as Burma marks uprising
At least 20 people are arrested in a Burmese town on a day of isolated protest to mark 20 years since an important revolt. (Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:43:38 GMT)
Australian police bust drugs ring
Australian police arrest 16 people after an investigation into an international drugs ring, seizing a record haul of ecstasy pills. (Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:23:53 GMT)
Philippine rebels leave villages
Rebels begin to withdraw from occupied villages in the southern Philippines, though reports say some are reluctant. (Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:18:55 GMT)
US bus crash kills Vietnamese
At least 13 people are killed in the US state of Texas after a bus carrying Vietnamese Catholics crashes off a bridge. (Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:56:03 GMT)
Top Stories:
Edwards admits to affair, denies fathering child
(AP)
 AP - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter. Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter but said that he didn't love her.
(Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:31:18 GMT)
Georgia says Russian aircraft bombed its air bases
(AP)
 AP - Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a military offensive to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict.
(Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:07:17 GMT)
Clinton says she wants Obama to win White House
(AP)
 AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton told an exuberant crowd Friday she wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams ? and she wants her supporters to vote that way, too.
(Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:32:01 GMT)
China opens its long-sought Olympics spectacularly
(AP)
 AP - China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it. At last playing its long-sought role as Olympic host, China opened the Summer Games in spectacular fashion Friday with an extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry dramatizing its ascendance as a global power.
(Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:25:18 GMT)
Osteen's wife denies assaulting flight attendant
(AP)
 AP - The wife of evangelist Joel Osteen has testified that she did not assault a flight attendant over a spill on her first-class seat. Victoria Osteen said Friday she was dumbfounded that Continental Airlines attendant Sharon Brown accused her of assault before a 2005 flight to Colorado.
(Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:01:43 GMT)
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