World's tallest man becomes world's tallest dad (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:44:24 GMT)
Blatter plan sinks U.S. 2018 World Cup hopes (CNN)BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter will propose new World Cup bidding rules that would dash the hopes of the United States to host the 2018 tournament.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:44:58 GMT)
New World Cup bidding system in the making (AP via Yahoo! News) FIFA president Sepp Blatter will propose new World Cup bidding rules that would dash the hopes of the United States to host the 2018 tournament.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:07:20 GMT)
New World Cup bidding system in making (Sports Illustrated)FIFA president Sepp Blatter plans to propose new World Cup bidding rules that would dash the hopes of the United States to organize the tournament in 2018.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:09:50 GMT)
G-7 unsuited to global crisis - World Bank (CNN Money)World Bank President Robert Zoellick urges reform of group of seven major industrialized nations, saying growing economies should be added.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:01:35 GMT)
World Bank leader urges modernization of G-7 (AP via Yahoo! News) The Group of Seven industrialized countries is outmoded and should be replaced with a new entity that would include growing economies in Asia and Latin America, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:50:06 GMT)
Survey Finds 'Bleak Picture' for World's Mammals (Washington Post)BARCELONA -- A quarter of the world's wild mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released here this morning. (From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:57:54 GMT)
Panic grips world stock markets (AFP via Yahoo! News) World stock markets plummeted on Monday, striking four-year lows, as panic-stricken investors doubted whether a Wall Street bailout package would stem the global financial crisis.(From: news.search.yahoo.com - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:30:46 GMT)