http://www.macon.com/world//index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Macon Telegraph en-us Copyright 2008 Macon Telegraph World 60 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:38:03 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys feedback@macon.com http://www.macon.com/world//story/408766.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408766.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:36 EDT The top American commander in Iraq tells The Associated Press there are signs that al-Qaida's senior leaders may be diverting fighters from the war in Iraq to the Afghan frontier. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408763.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408763.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:36 EDT A helicopter carrying the Rev. Sun Myung Moon crashed Saturday into a mountain in South Korea, injuring the founder of the Unification Church and 13 others, officials said. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408750.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408750.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:26 EDT Some came in exquisitely beaded traditional skins, others wore T-shirts emblazoned with his name, and Nelson Mandela welcomed all to the festive tent outside his home Saturday for the formal celebration of the anti-apartheid icon's 90th birthday. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408691.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408691.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:21 EDT Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour of combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting with U.S. forces in Kuwait and then Afghanistan - the scene of a war he says deserves more attention and more troops. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408244.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408244.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:36 EDT Tehran on Saturday ruled out freezing its enrichment program, casting doubt over the sense of key nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers less than an hour after they began. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408757.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408757.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:16 EDT A former Israeli defense official says the Israeli military used cluster bombs for two weeks during the 2006 Lebanon war without telling the Israeli government. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408749.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408749.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:06 EDT Iraqi officials say they have approved plans to build a five-star hotel in the Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408697.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408697.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:06 EDT British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held talks Saturday with Iraqi leaders less than a week after the announcement of expected British troop cuts in southern Iraq. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408709.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408709.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:06 EDT Pope Benedict XVI used some of the strongest language yet in his apology Saturday for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, but his words were just more of the same for the victims. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408739.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408739.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:46 EDT Austrian authorities have ordered a new round of medical and psychiatric tests to determine whether a suspected Nazi is healthy enough to be extradited to Croatia to stand trial for alleged atrocities. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408647.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408647.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:41 EDT Beijing's Olympic shutdown begins Sunday, a drastic plan to lift the Chinese capital's gray shroud of pollution just three weeks ahead of the games. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408732.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408732.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:21 EDT Archaeologists and scholars will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great pyramid. They will then try to reassemble the craft. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408720.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408720.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:41 EDT Hundreds of riot police and soldiers ringed a monument in downtown Yangon on Saturday as officials gathered to commemorate the shooting death 61 years ago of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's father. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408715.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408715.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:36 EDT Pakistani rescuers in a helicopter spotted two Italian mountaineers on one of the world's deadliest peaks, where a third Italian climber is believed to have died this week, a tour operator said Saturday. http://www.macon.com/world//story/407837.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/407837.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:16 EDT Police say a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan has killed four policemen and a suicide bomber has wounded two people at a checkpoint. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408622.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408622.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:51 EDT Tropical storm Kalmaegi churned along the Chinese coast Saturday, after leaving 13 dead in heavily populated Taiwan and its president scrambling to explain the island's apparent lack of preparedness in the face of the devastation. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408700.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408700.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:16 EDT Sri Lankan government forces killed 19 Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh fighting along the front lines of the island nation's civil war, the military said Saturday. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408702.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408702.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:16 EDT An elderly woman was attacked by a large kangaroo on a farm in Australia and was lucky to be alive after a pet dog leapt to her aid, her son said Saturday. http://www.macon.com/world//story/407794.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/407794.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:06 EDT Pope Benedict XVI used some of the strongest language yet in his apology Saturday for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, but his words were just more of the same for the victims. http://www.macon.com/world//story/408688.html http://www.macon.com/world//story/408688.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:01 EDT Former Colombian rebel captive John Freddy Diaz knows something that recently freed hostages may just be discovering: The pain of a kidnapping doesn't end with liberation.