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Grisly Discovery Tigris River

Vicky Hunter - | Story: 8682
  • Iraqi officials made two grisly discoveries Wednesday, finding more than 50 bodies in the Tigris River and 20 soldiers shot to death west of the capital, officials said. Iraq President Jalal Talabani said dozens of bodies have been found in the Tigris River south of Baghdad. Full story
  • Pope Benedict XVI outlined goals for his papacy Wednesday, including the unification of all Christians, continuing the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and reaching out to people of other faiths. "This successor of Peter knows he has been entrusted with the task of confirming his brothers ... with the intention of working to reconstitute the full and visible unity of all the followers of Christ," Benedict told cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel for his first Mass as pontiff. Full story
  • U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has denied that the Bush administration's policy of promoting freedom and democracy around the world is aimed at "fomenting revolution" but praised efforts by people in other countries to "throw off the yoke of tyranny." In an interview Wednesday with CNN, Rice took aim at the leadership of Belarus, a former Soviet republic that is now an independent country. Full story
  • Caught in a political crisis and facing a vote of no confidence in the Senate, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said he plans to resign with a view towards forming a new government with different coalition partners. In an address to senators Wednesday, Berlusconi recalled the challenges his government has faced over the past four years, including international terrorism after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, and said he was proud of the way those challenges had been handled. Full story
  • The leader of Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party will hold a historic meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing on April 29, party officials said Wednesday. Chairman Lien Chan's visit -- opposed by the current Taiwanese government -- would mark the first time that the leaders of Nationalist and Communist parties have met since the two fought a bitter civil war which ended with Taiwan and China splitting in 1949. Full story
  • Prosecutors expect to conclude their case against pop star Michael Jackson by the end of next week, Santa Barbara County District Attorney Tom Sneddon said Tuesday. But the prosecution may be forced to do without the testimony of a key witness, former Jackson bodyguard Chris Carter, who is facing armed robbery and bank robbery charges in Las Vegas, Nevada. Full story
  • Six elephants escaped from an amusement park Wednesday and injured a woman as they rampaged through the South Korean capital, officials said. All of the animals were eventually captured and returned to the park. One elephant charged into an alley near an elementary school and hit a 52-year-old woman, Roh In-sun, with its trunk, Yonhap news agency said. She was being treated at a hospital. Full story
  • The world's biggest iceberg has hit the end of an Antarctic glacier, snapping off a block about 5 square kilometers (3 square miles), a New Zealand scientist said Wednesday. The giant iceberg, known as B15A, ran into the tip of the Drygalski Ice Tongue in "more of a nudge than a collision," said Lou Sanson, chief executive of the government scientific agency Antarctica New Zealand. Full story

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