January 25th 2008 - Egypt was unable to seal its border with Gaza as Palestians continue to stream across for the third straight day in search of food and supplies. Israel has been trying to cut off Gaza from the world to help bring an end to rocket attacks coming from there.
More.
January 24th 2008 - Thousands of Palestinians are streaming out of Gaza into Egypt as Israel hammers their country. Israel is trying to stop rocket attacks from Gaza.
More.
January 23rd 2008 - stock markets in Japan, Australia and South Korea are back up after America cut its interest rate by three-quarters of a point. That despite the continued drop of stock prices in America itself.
More.
January 10th 2008 - A suicide bomber has killed at least 22 policemen at the high court in Lahore in eastern Pakistan. This took place just before lawyers were about to protest the rule of President Musharraf.
More.
January 9th 2008 - In the 2008 election race for American president, Hillary Clinton made a surprise comeback when she won in the state of New Hampshire.
More.
Bilawal Bhutto, the 19-year-old son of the murdered Benazir Bhutto, asked the United Nations to look into her murder. He does not trust the government.
He also said that it is America’s support for strongmen like Musharraf that causes extremism.
He is the head of his mother’s party, but his father runs its affairs day to day. Bilawal wants to be left alone to complete his studies at Oxford so that he can be more useful to his country.
More.
January 7th 2008 - Those who hope to be the next American president are pushing hard today in the state of New Hampshire. Many who fail to make a strong showing in tomorrow’s election there will be forced to drop out.
More.
January 4th 2008 - Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses on the Democratic side and Mike Huckabee among the Republicans. Hillary Clinton came in third on the Democratic side.
Iowa is the first American state to choose delegates for the party conventions in the summer that will choose who to run for president in November.
The next state will be New Hampshire, next Tuesday on the 8th of January.
More.
January 3rd 2008 - Tonight is the night of the Iowa caucuses, in which the American state of Iowa will choose who to send to the party conventions in the summer. Those conventions in turn will decide who to run in the November election for president. Iowa is the first state to vote. Candidates who do poorly in Iowa and the other early states will have a hard time carrying on.
The caucuses start at 1900 local time (0030 GMT) and will last for several hours.
More.
