For complete list of INQUIRER.net RSS Feed visit http://services.inquirer.net/rss/rss.php http://services.inquirer.net/rss/brk_world.xml 2008-08-29T05:05:07+08:00 text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080829-157492/Win-or-lose-already-Obama-makes-US-history DENVER, COLORADO—Barack Obama and the Democrats have made history—no matter who wins the presidential election—by putting a black man at the top of a major party’s presidential ticket for the first time in American history. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080829-157471/Anwar-back-in-Parliament-closer-to-being-prime-minister KUALA LUMPUR—Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim Thursday took his place as a member of Malaysia’s Parliament, a major step in his goal to topple the incumbent government that has been weakened by electoral defeats and internal dissent. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080829-157468/Merkel-No-1-on-powerful-women-list-Arroyo-No-41 BERLIN—Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel topped Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most powerful women for the third year running, while US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice slipped to seventh from fourth last year. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080829-157463/Russia-tests-ICBM-designed-to-overcome-missile-shield MOSCOW -- Russia on Thursday said it test-fired an intercontinental missile designed to avoid detection by missile-defense systems, raising the temperature in a tense stand-off with the West over Georgia. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080829-157456/Deadly-Gustav-hurtles-toward-Jamaica KINGSTON -- Tropical Storm Gustav homed in on Jamaica Thursday after claiming some two dozen lives in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with officials here opening emergency shelters and urging coastal residents to head to higher ground. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080828-157443/Swazi-virgins-get-busy-ahead-of-annual-ritual NGABEZWENI—Swaziland's King Mswati III on Thursday sent more than 50,000 virgin girls into the fields to cut reed for an annual ritual next week at which he may choose his 14th bride. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080828-157429/Dalai-Lama-hospitalized-with-abdominal-discomfort DHARAMSHALA—The Dalai Lama was taken to hospital in India on Thursday after complaining of abdominal discomfort, his office said. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080828-157396/Iran-hangs-woman-five-men TEHRAN—Iran has hanged a woman and four men for murder and a fifth man for drug trafficking, reports said on Thursday. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080828-157395/UPDATE-Large-quake-off-Canadas-Vancouver-Island VANCOUVER -- A strong earthquake struck at sea Thursday off Canada's Pacific coast west of Vancouver Island, but was too small to generate a tsunami, Canadian and US officials reported. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080828-157385/Social-injustice-killing-on-a-grand-scale--WHO GENEVA -- A "toxic combination" of poverty and social injustice is killing people on a grand scale, a World Health Organization (WHO) report said Thursday, urging states to fund healthcare to cut inequalities. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080828-157322/At-least-10-dead-in-Pakistan-suicide-attack BANNU -- At least 10 people, including police officers and prison staff, died in a suicide attack Thursday in a garrison town in northwest Pakistan as they headed to work, a police official told Agence France-Presse. text/html http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080828-157320/AIDS-in-New-York-spreads-faster-than-rest-of-US---report NEW YORK -- The AIDS virus spreads in New York City three times faster than in the rest of the United States, the city's health department said Wednesday in a report on the deadly disease.