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Daraka Satcher of Gaithersburg, Maryland, listens to Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama address the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 28, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)

Obama vows to reverse Republican legacy

1 hour, 27 minutes ago

DENVER (Reuters) - Barack Obama launched a sharp assault on Republican presidential rival John McCain on Thursday with a promise to reverse the economic failures of the past eight years and restore America's global reputation.

  • A dog and its owner walk through a flooded street in Havana August 26, 2008. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)
    Storm Gustav to begin strengthening into hurricane 13 minutes ago

    GEORGE TOWN (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gustav was expected to start growing into a large and powerful hurricane as it pulled away from Jamaica and headed toward the Cayman Islands on Friday, the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's deadly strike on New Orleans, forecasters said.

  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, 217 miles south of Tehran, April 8, 2008. (Presidential official website/Handout/Reuters)
    Iran says 4,000 atomic centrifuges working: report Fri Aug 29, 3:53 AM ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has 4,000 working nuclear centrifuges, an official said in remarks published on Friday, in line with a number verified by the U.N. atomic watchdog but lower than a figure cited by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

  • Lawyers tear down a poster of Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, who will run for President in the next elections, during a protest for the restoration of deposed judges in Islamabad August 28, 2008. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)
    Zardari should give up Pakistan president bid: rival 34 minutes ago

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The widower of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto should withdraw as a candidate for president because of questions about his mental health, a rival candidate said on Friday.

  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) and his Tajik counterpart Imomali Rakhmon (R) visit the 201st Russian military base in Dushanbe August 29, 2008. Medvedev won a measure of support from Central Asian ally Tajikistan on Friday for Moscow's actions over Georgia. (RIA Novosti/Pool/Reuters)
    Russia hits back at Western "bias" over Georgia 1 hour, 16 minutes ago

    PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A defiant Russia said on Friday that international condemnation of its actions in Georgia was "biased," while the appetite in the European Union for imposing sanctions on Moscow appeared to dwindle.

  • The Dalai Lama waves from inside a car as he arrives at Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai August 28, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)
    Doctors say Dalai Lama health not serious 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

    MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - Doctors treating the Dalai Lama say there is no cause for concern despite him being admitted to hospital in India, and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader will take part in a fast on Saturday, aides said.

  • Hezbollah shot Lebanese army helicopter: paper Fri Aug 29, 4:41 AM ET

    BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese army helicopter that was hit by gunfire in south Lebanon was targeted by Hezbollah fighters who thought the aircraft was Israeli, the Lebanese newspaper as-Safir reported on Friday.

  • Supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) try to break through the barriers set up by the riot police outside the Government House in Bangkok August 29, 2008. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)
    Thai protesters attack Bangkok police HQ 8 minutes ago

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Protesters trying to overthrow Thailand's government launched an attack on Bangkok's police headquarters on Friday as demonstrations against Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej spread from the capital.

  • School children attend a prayer meeting to pay tributes to the victims of the recent clashes between Hindus and Christians in Orissa, in the northern Indian city of Shimla, August 29, 2008. (Anil Dayal/Reuters)
    Thousands seek refuge from India religious attacks 1 hour, 1 minute ago

    BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Thousands of people, most of them Christians, have sought shelter in makeshift government camps in eastern India, driven from their homes by religious violence which has killed at least 13 people this week.

  • Zimbabwe'sPresident Robert Mugabe (R) arrives for the opening of the county's parliament in Harare, August 26, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
    South Africa says Zimbabwe talks to resume 2 hours, 46 minutes ago

    HARARE (Reuters) - South Africa said Zimbabwean power-sharing talks would resume on Friday despite comment from President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party that there was no need for further negotiations.

  • A woman walks past posters with depictions of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic along a main street in the Bosnian Serb capital Banja Luka, August 29, 2008. The posters read, 'Rise old Serbia and great Russia for an innocent man.' (Ranko Cukovic/Reuters)
    Karadzic due for plea hearing at Hague tribunal Thu Aug 28, 6:26 PM ET

    THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

  • Jalapeno peppers are shown for sale at a Los Angeles market in Los Angeles, California July 22, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)
    Salmonella outbreak over: CDC Thu Aug 28, 2:35 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outbreak of an unusual strain of Salmonella that sickened more than 1,400 people and put 286 in the hospital appears to be over in the United States, federal health officials said on Thursday.

  • Demonstrators display posters of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during an anti-U.S. military rally after Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City August 29, 2008. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem (IRAQ)
    U.S. forces arrest senior Iraqi official Thu Aug 28, 2:29 PM ET

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq's government of members of Saddam Hussein's party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.

  • Pedestrians walk past a Lehman Brothers sign in New York, June 19, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
    Lehman looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs: source Thu Aug 28, 5:09 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs in its latest round of cost cutting, a person familiar with the matter said, as weak financial markets spur layoffs across Wall Street.

  • Pakistani soldiers patrol a highway in Darra Adam Kheil, near Peshawar, February 1, 2008. (Ali Imam/Reuters)
    Suicide bomber killed trying to attack Pakistan camp Fri Aug 29, 2:23 AM ET

    KOHAT, Pakistan - A suicide bomber tried to force his vehicle into a Pakistani military camp in the northwest on Friday but was blown up when soldiers opened fire on him, a day after dozens of people were killed in violence across the region