AFP - Residents raised questions Saturday about the safety of a high-rise public housing block in London hit by a fire which killed six people including a newborn baby, as police launched an investigation.
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON The new government in Honduras may want to wash its hands of the Organization of American States, but the OAS says no, not that way if there’s to be any severing of ties, it’ll be the OAS that does it.
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ended a mission to Myanmar on Saturday saying he was “deeply disappointed” that the isolated nation’s top military ruler denied him a visit to jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
AFP - Sudanese authorities were trying on Saturday to establish contact with kidnappers who snatched two foreign aid workers from their offices in Darfur, a foreign ministry official said.
AP - Albania’s opposition Socialists charged Saturday that the ruling Democrats were improperly trying to influence the country’s lengthy vote count by declaring victory before all ballots from last week’s national election were tallied.
AP - The Organization of American States is meeting in Washington to consider suspending Honduras’ membership because of the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
AP - It was still dark outside when a spidery man in his underwear answered the knock at the factory door, releasing a wave of heat and gritty smoke from the noisy room behind him.
AP - North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles Saturday into waters off its east coast in a show of military firepower that defied U.N. resolutions and drew global expressions of condemnation and concern.
AFP - Captain Ahmed Hassan insists struggling Egypt can reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa ahead of a crucial qualifier against Rwanda in Cairo Sunday.
AP - Joey Chestnut chomped down a record 68 hot dogs, capturing his third straight July Fourth hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island, an annual showcase for flamboyant hot dogging contestants eager to show they really are what they eat.
AP - The soldier who was photographed fighting the Taliban in his boxer shorts says he’s glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan especially on the Fourth of July.
AP - Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is staying out of the public eye after her surprise announcement that she will leave office more than a year before her term is complete.
AP - Authorities say a fireworks explosion on a North Carolina island only reachable by ferry has killed one worker and critically injured four others.