AP - The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.
May 16, 2008, 10:48 am
AP - Saudi Arabian leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until their customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.
May 16, 2008, 5:48 am
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.
May 16, 2008, 7:36 am
AP - An election runoff between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be held June 27, the electoral commission said in an announcement published Friday.
May 16, 2008, 10:31 am
AFP - Concerns about inflation and slowing economic growth have dragged sterling back against the euro.
May 16, 2008, 9:19 am
AP - An Iranian Embassy convoy came under fire in Baghdad, wounding two Iranian diplomats and two other staff, a spokesman said Friday. Tehran accused the United States of encouraging attacks against Iranian interests in Iraq.
May 16, 2008, 8:39 am
AP - President Leonel Fernandez was favored to win a third term on Friday, despite concerns over long-serving politicians in this Caribbean nation with a painful history of rule by strongmen.
May 16, 2008, 10:27 am
AFP - A Chad army helicopter fired rockets Friday in an area close to Sudan's Darfur border racked by tension over rebel activity and refugee flows, a French military source told AFP.
May 16, 2008, 10:46 am
AP - The United States said Friday it has reached a deal with North Korea to provide 500,000 metric tons of food aid over the coming year to the closed-off communist nation.
May 16, 2008, 1:18 am
AFP - Protesting pensioners brought traffic to a stand still in Australia's second largest city on Friday when some stripped to demand more money from the government.
AP - Rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble Friday who had been buried for four days as a strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake.
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