Monday, August 11, 2008

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - CBC News

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies - CBC News
Mahmoud Darwish, the world's most recognized Palestinian poet, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died Saturday in Houston

Photos: Explosion and evacuation - Toronto Star
As the flames died down from yesterday's massive series of explosions at a Toronto propane plant, they left behind a cloud of outrage. Thousands of people, forced to flee their

Vietnamese women wed foreigners to help family - CNEWS
TAN LOC ISLAND, Vietnam (AP) — Nearly 70 young Vietnamese women swept past in groups of five, twirling and posing like fashion models, all competing for the hand of a Taiwanese