Yahoo! News: World NewsWorld NewsExit polls: Livni clear winner in Israeli primary (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won a clear victory in the Kadima Party's primary election Wednesday, TV exit polls showed, placing her in a good position to become Israel's first female leader in 34 years and sending a message that peace talks with the Palestinians will proceed.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_m... HBOS reaches merger deal with Lloyds TSB: reports (AFP)- September 17, 2008 AFP - HBOS, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, has reached a deal to merge with its rival Lloyds TSB, media reports said Wednesday, after the lender's shares plummeted for a third day running.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080917/ts_afp/br... Kim's consort: a key player in North Korea (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Kim Jong Il's companion and former secretary is emerging as a key player in the communist nation after the autocratic leader's stroke.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_a... Car bomb, ambush kills 16 at US embassy in Yemen (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Attackers armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb assaulted the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday. Sixteen people were killed, including six assailants, officials said. No Americans were hurt in the deadly attempt to breach the compound walls, which the U.S. said bore "all the hallmarks of an al-Qaida attack."http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_m... Mugabe: Power-sharing humiliation' to be accepted (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - President Robert Mugabe told his party Wednesday that sharing power with rivals is a "humiliation" but it has to be accepted because they lost the March elections.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_a... 6 die in suspected US missile strike in Pakistan (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Air-fired missiles hit a militant compound near the Afghan border and killed at least six people Wednesday evening, officials said, soon after a senior American officer met with government leaders to discuss the furor over U.S. attacks inside Pakistan.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_a... Magnitude-5 quake jolts Iran's Qeshm island (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Iran's Seismological Center says a magnitude-5 earthquake has cut electricity and caused panic on Iran's Qeshm island in the Persian Gulf.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_m... Cubans line up for chance to use idle state land (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - Yenisel Rodriguez is a city-dwelling, 27-year-old anthropologist with zero experience working the land. But he thinks taking up urban farming could put more food on his table, and so he lined up Wednesday to ask Cuba's communist government for permission to try it himself.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_l... Tensions ease but shortages rampant in Zimbabwe (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - The soldiers shoved their way to the front of the winding line waiting to get cash at the bank. But this time was different: The military men were jeered, told "things have changed," and were forced to take a place at the back.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_a... 'Post-Olympic era' off to a rocky start in China (AP)- September 17, 2008 AP - The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_a... |