Yahoo! News: Most RecommendedMost RecommendedAP IMPACT: Kenyan children abducted, tortured (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of being forced to crawl through barbed wire tunnels and of genitals squeezed by pliers.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/kenya_childr... Girl, 3, uses song lyrics to call 911 for mom (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - A 3-year-old girl used the simple song lyrics "911 green" to call 911 and get help after her pregnant mother fainted. Jessica Eaves, 24, taught her daughter Madelyn the song a week before she fainted due to a medical condition called vasovogal syncope.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_young911... Four Americans, Italian, six Iraqis killed in Baghdad blast (AFP)- June 24, 2008 AFP - A massive bomb ripped through a municipal office in Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City on Tuesday, killing four Americans, an Italian and six Iraqis, officials said.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/iraqunrests... Life After the $15 Bag Fee (Aviation.com)- June 24, 2008 Aviation.com - It was a time-honored tradition among experienced travelers: Never check luggage, even if you're over the carry-on bag limit.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/aviation/lifeaf... US envoy in Chinese-made ammunition cover-up: report (AFP)- June 24, 2008 AFP - A US ambassador accused in a press report of concealing the Chinese origins of ammunition sent to supply Afghan security forces has maintained he is innocent of the charges, the State Department said Tuesday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usafghanist... Profits seen off more than 10 percent (Reuters)- June 24, 2008 Reuters - The U.S. corporate profit outlook is deteriorating rapidly, with S&P 500 earnings for the second quarter now seen falling at a double-digit pace from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters Proprietary Research released on Tuesday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_earnings... Study shows more benefits of sunshine vitamin (Reuters)- June 24, 2008 Reuters - People with a vitamin D deficiency are as much as twice as likely to die compared to people whose blood contains higher amounts of the so-called sunshine vitamin, Austrian researchers said on Monday.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/vitamin_heal... Mugabe's victory by violence (Time.com)- June 24, 2008 Time.com - Tsvangirai's democratic challenger is terrorized into submission, leaving his supporters to fend for themselves - and ordinary Zimbabweans to face a harsh future. Mugabe has proved that power is based not on votes or the popular will, but on the ability to monopolize violence.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/mugabesvic... The northern Aral Sea returns to life in Kazakhstan (AFP)- June 24, 2008 AFP - Fisherman Khaldan Kolzhanov's eyes fill with emotion at the sound of the seagulls and the sight of the small waves lapping at the beach.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/kazakhstane... Michigan: Epicenter of Unemployment (BusinessWeek Online)- June 24, 2008 BusinessWeek Online - The line forming at the former high school in Southgate, Mich., on a recent Thursday morning stretches some 150 feet outside the front door. The parking lot had filled up early, and now people are cantering up Northline Road from parking spaces they scrounged on side streets and the Sam's Club up the street. With the rush and anticipation of the crowd, you might think that tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert are going on sale. But this is serious business. Another job...http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/jun2008db200... |