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Morning News


Apr.18   UN     Pope Benedict makes speech to UN
  The head of the Roman Catholic Church has begun a speech to the United Nations on the final leg of his six-day US tour


  USA   Citigroup sees second giant loss
  The biggest US bank has suffered a second massive loss and is cutting 9,000 jobs as the credit crisis continues to take its toll


  USA     Carter presses on with Hamas
  The Israeli and U.S. governments have condemned former President's series of meetings with top officials of Hamas


  Zimbabwe     Mugabe attacks opposition and UK  President Mugabe has denounced the opposition and former colonial power Britain in his first speech since the disputed elections

  Baghdad U.S.: Al Qaeda plotting Baghdad attacks  U.S. military: Al Qaeda in Iraq is planning suicide attacks against Iraqis 'in the near future'

Day News


  New York     Pope promotes friendship at synagogue  Benedict XVI encouraged worshippers in the Park East Synagogue to 'continue building bridges of friendship' with ethnic and religious groups

  New York Tower plans found in rubbish  Mike Fleming, a homeless man, has found confidential blueprints for new Freedom Tower dumped in a city rubbish bin

  Argentina Smoke chokes Buenos Aires  300 brush fires set deliberately consumed thousands of acres in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos

  Spain Spain suffers worst drought  Rainfall has been less than half of what's considered normal for the last 6 months .The nation's reservoirs on average just half full

Evening News


  Mumbai   10 deaths a day on city's trains  More than 20,000 people have been killed on Mumbai's overcrowded train system over the past 5 years, crushed, run over or electrocuted

  London   Bank £50bn mortgage rescue plan  The Bank of England will next week unveil a plan to swap government bonds for British banks' mortgages

  Zimbabwe   Zimbabwe to begin ballot recount  The recount in 23 of 210 constituencies could overturn the result which saw Zanu-PF lose its majority

  Bolivia   Bolivia struggles with floods Map of Beni Bolivia  Floodwaters have destroyed more than 1.2 million houses, with the northeastern department of Beni seeing the worst flooding in 50 years

  New York   Crude hits record $117 per barrel  Oil and gasoline futures surged to a new trading record following an attack on a key pipeline in Nigeria

  Texas DNA tests on sect children  A judge has ordered that 416 children, removed from a polygamous Christian sect in police raids, remain in custody for genetic testing

  Canada Canada acts against BPA chemical  Canada said a ubiquitous chemical found in hard plastic water bottles, DVDs, CDs, is potentially harmful and may ban its use in baby bottles
San Francisco Bay Area , April 18, 2008 Timeline