Reuters - Lebanese troops patrolled Beirut on Sunday after Hezbollah fighters pulled back from areas they had seized in deadly gunbattles with supporters of the U.S.-backed government.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese troops patrolled Beirut on Sunday after Hezbollah fighters pulled back from areas they had seized in deadly gunbattles with supporters of the U.S.-backed government.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan broke off diplomatic relations with Chad on Sunday after an attack by Darfur rebels on the capital Khartoum that the government said was supported by Chadian President Idriss Deby.

YANGON (Reuters) - Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands of them would die if emergency supplies do not get through soon.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc is considering selling its Japanese consumer finance company CFJ KK or cutting the unit's business significantly as part of its plans to shed assets, Japanese daily Nikkei reported on Sunday.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbs began voting on Sunday in an election that will show whether the lure of European Union membership outweighs their anger over the Western-backed secession of Kosovo.

Amran Abocar is Canadian treasury editor, based in Toronto. A Somali-Canadian citizen, she has worked for Reuters since 1998 and is temporarily based in Dubai. In the following story she recounts experiences of the roads in the most congested city in the Middle East.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China established a company on Sunday to build regional commercial jets, with an eye to eventually reducing the country's reliance on Boeing and Airbus for jumbo jets, official media said on Sunday.

May 8, 2008: twenty Jews are arrested in a civil disobedience action disrupting a celebration of Israel's 60th anniversary, at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, CA.

So why the hype? Well, global warming is a growth industry designed to keep Earth and some bank accounts green.

Gore himself joined the venture capital group, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers just last September. On May 1, the firm announced a $500 million investment in maturing green technology firms called the Green Growth Fund.

The group announced another $700 million to be invested over the next three years in green-tech startup firms. But if the green technology business, uh, cools down, there will be no return on that investment. There would be no need for such investments if global warming wasn't a threat. So Gore just launched, among other things, a $300 million on an ad campaign to convince us it is so.

Great tits enjoying the warmer weather - so far...

A decade before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton admitted fudging the truth during the presidential campaign, federal prosecutors quietly assembled hundreds of pages of evidence suggesting she concealed information and misled a federal grand jury about her work for a failing Arkansas savings and loan at the heart of the Whitewater probe, according to once-secret documents that detail the internal debates over whether she should have faced criminal charges.

During WW2, some great editorial cartoons were produced by Dr. Seuss. Yeah, that Dr. Seuss. Having just recieved the book yesterday, I couldn't help but notice how well a few could apply to our current leadership :

A recently-discovered flaw in Gmail is capable of turning Google's e-mail service into a highly effective spam machine.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia plans to charge foreigners market prices for petrol while its citizens get subsidized rates at the pump in a bid to manage a hefty subsidy bill, the Malay-language Berita Minggu said on Sunday.

U.S. looks set to offer Israel powerful new radar...

The Subprime Mortgage Primer...

Yesterday 20 of us were arrested in the lobby of the San Francisco Jewish Community Center at an event organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council's "Israel @ 60? Educational Symposium. Many other Jews and allies joined us inside as well as outside to voice our opposition to an organization that continually claims to speak in our name as it supports the continued project of Israeli colonialism.

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Lying on a sagging mattress and wincing slightly, Anna Lado laughs at the idea that she should have been afraid of giving birth to her first child, now lying in a crib near her in a hospital in south Sudan.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite factions on Saturday reached a deal to end fighting between militia and security forces in the Baghdad bastion of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has killed hundreds of people, officials said.