Giancarlo Fisichella earned Force India’s first pole position in Formula One on Saturday as series leader Jenson Button and world champion Lewis Hamilton failed to make final qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.
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Researchers identify new strain of HIV derived from gorillas
French researchers have identified a new human immunodeficiency virus, the first derived from gorillas, a report said Monday.
Hong Kong youth caught in wave of ketamine addiction
A 16-year-old Hong Kong boy makes two phone calls for delivery: one for pizza, the other for the drug ketamine. Two teenage girls are found semi-conscious in a car park in the southern Chinese enclave after overdosing on ketamine. A 13-year-old boy joins a gang and is given free ketamine
Aung San Suu Kyi verdict delayed
A verdict expected Friday in the subversion trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been delayed until August 11, said a diplomatic source attending the proceedings. The reason for the delay was not immediately clear. Suu Kyi, 64, and two of her housekeepers are being tried on charges stemming from a May 3 incident in which American John William Yettaw allegedly swam across a lake to her home and stayed for two days.
Bloody weekend includes 2 Iraqi deaths involving U.S. forces
Two civilian drivers in northern Iraq were killed in incidents involving U.S. troops, one in an "escalation of force" shooting and the other in a head-on collision, the military said Saturday
U.S. and Russia: The Talk Starts Here
It is not now as it hath been of yore.
Furyk fears Tiger test at U.S. Open
Jim Furyk has exclusively told CNN that he fears a Tiger Woods backlash at the upcoming U.S. Open at Bethpage Black which starts on Thursday.
Your Move, China
If North Korea has in the past made a habit of annoying China, its only ostensible ally in the world, what must Beijing be thinking now? For most of the past six years, China has been the host and chief promoter of the so-called six-party talks. Their explicit goal: to get North Korea to give up its nuclear-weapons program
Navy investigating missing money after pirate rescue
The Navy is investigating how thousands of dollars went missing in the rescue of the captain of the Maersk Alabama in April, a Pentagon source told CNN. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service opened an investigation into how $30,000 disappeared after special forces snipers shot and killed three pirates, ending the multi-day siege and freeing the captain, who had been held hostage.
World outraged by North Korea’s latest nuke test
The U.N.