FIRTS EVENT
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 20:03
Tojo also criticized his colleagues, accusing government leaders of "being scared of enemy threats and easily throwing their hands up." Surrender proponents were "frightened by 'the new type of bomb' and terrified by the Soviet Union's entry into the war," he wrote.
State-media story fuels questions on gymnast’s age
Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 23:10
BEIJING (AP)—Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government’s news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week.
World News Georgia says Russia bombed after order to halt war
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 20:08
And hours before the order to stop fighting, Russian jets bombed the crossroads city of Gori, near the separatist region of South Ossetia. Gori's post office and university were burning Tuesday, but the city was all but deserted after most remaining residents and Georgian soldiers fled Monday ahead of a feared Russian onslaught.
