Thanks to a nonprofit group, amputees wounded in war are getting around not in wheelchairs but in Segways. The advantages, they say, are they can move about in an upright position and people no longer look down on them. Fri, 09 May 2008 08:47:11 EDT

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The United Nations' top World Food Program official says he is "furious" over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow the organization to distribute aid that was flown in for cyclone disaster victims. Future flights have been suspended. Fri, 09 May 2008 12:56:00 EDT

Sectarian fighting rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day Friday, with small arms, machine-gun and rocket-propelled-grenade fire echoing through the streets. Fri, 09 May 2008 11:02:24 EDT