Somali pirates hijack 2 tankers in 24 hours (AP)

A map showing areas of operation of an EU anti-piracy mission. Two European-owned tankers have been hijacked off the Somali coast and other vessels in the area have been alerted to a pick-up in pirate activity, the EUAP - Pirates armed with machine guns pursued and captured a Norwegian chemical tanker off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, the owners said, less than 24 hours after a smaller Greek-owned vessel was seized in the same area.


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Sudan says foreign airstrikes hit weapons convoy (AP)
AP - Sudanese officials said foreign warplanes launched two separate airstrikes last month on Sudan near its border with Egypt, targeting convoys packed with light weapons and African migrants trying to sneak across the frontier.

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Brown concerned about east Jerusalem demolitions (AFP)

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pictured in Brasilia. Brown said Thursday that he shared Moroccan King Mohammed VIAFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday that he shared Moroccan King Mohammed VI"s concern about the mooted demolition of 90 Palestinian houses in sensitive East Jerusalem.


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US space tourist blasts off for second space trip (AP)

Hungarian-born U.S. software designer and space tourist Charles Simonyi, crew member of the 19th mission to the International Space Station, ISS, waves prior the launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, March 26, 2009. The Russian-American team set to blast off to the international space station said that doubling the stationAP - A Russian capsule blasted off with a deafening roar on Thursday to carry U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi into space for his second cosmic cruise.


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Planes attack suspected Sudan arms convoy: official (Reuters)
Reuters - Unidentified aircraft attacked a convoy of suspected arms smugglers as it drove through Sudan toward Egypt in January, killing some 30 people, two senior Sudanese politicians said on Thursday.

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Gordon Brown: $100B needed to revitalize trade (AP)

BritainAP - The world"s top economies need to create a $100 billion fund to stimulate global trade, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.


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Israel challenges Palestinian claim on Gaza dead (AP)

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2008 file photo, Israeli soldiers train in a field near Nativ Haasara in southern Israel. A panel of medical and legal experts said in a news release obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday that soldiers who took part in the Israeli army testing an experimental anthrax vaccine in the late 1990s were not properly informed of the possible risks, and has accused Israeli defense officials of AP - The Israeli military on Thursday disputed Palestinian claims that most of the people killed in the recent Gaza Strip war were civilians, claiming the "vast majority" of the dead were Hamas militants.


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Condom uproar latest message problem for pope (AP)

In this Tuesday, March 17, 2009 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarciso Bertone, left, and spokesman father Federico Lombardi, greets the media at the end of a news conference he held on the aircraft on his way to Yaounde, Cameroon. From the Gospel to Google, the church has been seeking ways to announce the word of Christ for 2,000 years. Pope Benedict XVI has gone on YouTube and his speeches appear in Chinese on the Vatican Web site, but judging from the uproar over a Holocaust-denying bishop and his pronouncement that condoms deepen the AIDS crisis, heAP - From the Gospel to Google, the church has been seeking ways to announce the word of Christ for 2,000 years.


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Volunteers who assist illegal aliens feel tracked (AP)

In this Dec. 20, 2006 file photo, immigrants grab food provided by a charity organization at Calais dockyard, northern France, close to the secured ferry zone where ships depart for Britain. Humanitarian associations criticize an article in the code governing foreignersAP - It wasn"t yet 8 a.m. when police knocked on Monique Pouille"s door, searched her home and took her away — all because she recharged cell phones for illegal migrants.


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Iraqi officials: Car bomb kills 20 in Baghdad (AP)

An Iraqi soldier secures the scene of a car bomb attack in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 26, 2009. The bomb exploded near a crowded market in a mainly Shiite area, killing at least 20 people, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A car bomb exploded near a crowded market in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, killing more than 20 civilians, Iraqi officials said, in the sixth major attack in Iraq this month.


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Australia probes report military spied on minister (AFP)

Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon is pictured in 2008. AustraliaAFP - Australia"s military launched an investigation Thursday into allegations that officers spied on the defence minister and leaked details of his ties to a China-born businesswoman.


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