http://www.kansascity.com/451/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2008 Kansas City Star World - Wire 60 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:59:36 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys feedback@kansascity.com http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718262.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718262.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:12 CDT Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718744.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718744.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:41 CDT President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday accused the godfather of one of his children and member of his own political party of involvement in his near-fatal poisoning, a stunning twist to one of post-Soviet Ukraine's most notorious scandals. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718125.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718125.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:26 CDT Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718371.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718371.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:12 CDT Just two weeks before the start of the Olympics, Iraq was told Thursday it's not welcome in Beijing because of a political feud in Baghdad that angered the games' guardians and exiled a country that arrived to a roaring ovation at the opening ceremony four years ago. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/717470.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/717470.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:56 CDT The real Dragan Dabic has emerged - and the 66-year construction worker was shocked Thursday to discover his identity had apparently been stolen by one of the world's most notorious war crimes suspects. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718203.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718203.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:46 CDT Australia's prime minister, who has won applause for apologizing to Aborigines for past wrongs, has revived plans for a constitutional revision to recognize the country's indigenous people. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718261.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718261.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:14 CDT Sri Lankan forces battled rebel gunmen deep inside the nation's northern jungles Thursday, killing 25 guerrilla fighters and seizing new territory, the military said. Other battles killed 25 rebels and four soldiers, the military said. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718346.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718346.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:56 CDT NATO's secretary general said Thursday that Pakistan must be involved in international attempts to end cross-border attacks into Afghanistan, calling for a regional approach to combatting Taliban violence. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718427.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718427.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:14 CDT The Russian Defense Ministry has denied a newspaper report that Russia was considering basing nuclear-capable bombers in Cuba, Russian news agencies reported Thursday. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718049.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718049.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:51 CDT A homemade bomb ripped through a commuter bus in the southern Philippines on Thursday, wounding 27 people, police said. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718494.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718494.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:43 CDT Egyptian authorities have shut down the Cairo office of an Iranian TV network, a security official said Thursday, as the two nations spar over a film that justifies the killing of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic militants. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718069.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718069.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:39 CDT Communist rebels attacked a banana farm associated with Dole Foods Co. Thursday and a land mine hit a security vehicle rushing to intervene, killing one and wounding three others, the military said. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718519.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718519.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:24 CDT Both Israelis and Palestinians came away from Barack Obama's visit to the Holy Land with the feeling he would do more for Mideast peace than President Bush has. But neither side seemed fully convinced that Obama would have their interests at heart. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718122.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718122.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:16 CDT Some Taiwanese lawmakers have called for boycotting the Beijing Olympics unless a dispute over the island's name is resolved. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718665.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718665.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:11 CDT The streets here are alive with the sounds - rumbling backhoes, roaring jackhammers, clanging pickaxes - of a town being brought back from the dead. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/717040.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/717040.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:26 CDT A powerful earthquake rattled parts of northern Japan early Thursday, injuring more than 100 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of people, officials said. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718132.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718132.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:46 CDT The Bush administration underscored its continued support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday despite fresh allegations from a former U.S. anti-drug official that Karzai is playing both sides of the effort to combat a raging drug business. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718804.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718804.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:56 CDT A Peruvian model and showgirl is facing a criminal investigation for posing naked sitting atop the country's red-and-white flag. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718159.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718159.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:36 CDT A high-altitude rescue helicopter safely plucked two stranded Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains on Thursday, officials said. http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718826.html http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/718826.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:36 CDT A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four activists.