The Daily Telegraph Australia Australian swimmers given permission to abandon Commonwealth Games | AUSTRALIAN swimmers have been given permission to abandon the Commonwealth Games if they are worried about security. | Swimming Australia president David Urquhart said yesterday he had told the team... (photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez) Australia Commonwealth Games Photos Terrorism Wikipedia: 2010 Commonwealth Games The Daily Telegraph Australia Demolition job begins in Christchurch | IT IS lunchtime in Christchurch and it's as if Matt Preston is walking on the roof of our car. | The shockwave rocks our big Ford from side to side. | Five metres away a shopper is sitting cros... (photo: AP / Rob Griffith) Disaster Earthquake New Zealand Photos Wikipedia: 2010 Canterbury earthquake Top Stories ABC News Russia's Medvedev Forecasts Early Removal of Grain Ban | By Denis Dyomkin | September 6, 2010 | VORONEZH, Russia (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev signaled on Monday Russia's ban on grain exports may be lifted earlier tha... (photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service) Agriculture Drought Exports Photos Russia The Guardian Lebanon PM: accusations against Syria were mistake | BASSEM MROUE | Associated Press Writer= BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's prime minister said he was wrong to accuse Syria of involvement in the 2005 assassination of his fathe... (photo: AP / Ahmad Omar) Lebanon Photos Politics Syria Wikipedia: Rafic Hariri Boston Herald Tiger Woods seeing red again | NORTON - If your news of the day on the Watch is limited to sound bites and headlines, it would be easy to simply skip the rest and assume the guy is merely another in ... (photo: AP / Stew Milne) Golf Photos Sport US Wikipedia: Tiger Woods m&c French minister defends Roma policy at immigration meeting | Paris - French Immigration Minister Eric Besson again defended his country's much-criticized repatriation of Roma, denying Monday that the ethnic group had suffered mas... (photo: AP / Yves Logghe) France Immigration Law Photos Wikipedia: Romani people The Times Of India India must take adequate precaution with regard to China: PM NEW DELHI: India has to take adequate precautions but not give up hope of peaceful resolution of issues with China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday in reacti... (photo: AP / Manish Swarup) China India Photos Politics Wikipedia: Sino-Indian relations The Miami Herald Lebanon PM: accusations against Syria were mistake | BEIRUT -- Lebanon's prime minister says it was a mistake to accuse Syria of being behind the 2005 assassination of his father. | The statement is a major turnaround for... (photo: AP / Grace Kassab) Crime Lebanon Photos Syria Wikipedia: Rafic Hariri CNN New tropical storm heads toward Mexico, U.S. | (CNN) -- A tropical depression in southwestern Gulf of Mexico strengthened into a tropical storm Monday morning, forecasters said. | Tropical Storm Hermine is headed to... (photo: AP / Alan Diaz) Mexico Photos US Weather Wikipedia: 2010 Atlantic hurricane season The Guardian Greenpeace 'Tokyo Two' anti-whaling activists sentenced to jail | Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki have each been sentenced to one year in prison after intercepting a box of whale meat Two anti-whaling activists have been found guilty of ... (photo: (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) / ) Crime Japan Photos Whaling Wikipedia: Whaling in Japan The Times Of India Malaysian 'Lizard King' jailed for smuggling snakes KUALA LUMPUR: A notorious Malaysian wildlife trafficker nicknamed the "Lizard King" was sentenced on Monday to six months in jail for smuggling snakes, a penalty activist... (photo: AP) Malaysia Photos Smuggling Wikipedia: Wildlife smuggling Wildlife