AP - Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match point, the way she’s done so often on that Centre Court lawn. No giddy laughter and whoops of joy, as she’s let out in the past.
Reuters - Colombia found explosives set to be used
in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week’s rescue
of leftist rebels’ highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid
Betancourt, military officials said on Saturday.
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was
unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his
statement this week that he might “refine” his timetable for
withdrawing U.S. combat troops.
AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
AP - Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.
Obama (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick); Balboa Bay Club photo, via its website . Barack Obama, presumed Democratic presidential nomination and current holder of the “most liberal Senator” moniker, will hold a fundraiser from deep within enemy territory on July 13 in Newport Beach, the Daily Pilot reported today. Yes, that Obama. He who voted in 2007 to raise the tax rate for those …
A former falconry centre that supplied owls for a Harry Potter film is being investigated by the RSPCA after concerns were raised about the welfare of the birds.
AP - The Emmy-winning daughter of the late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin is getting her own doll.
Reuters - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe
prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent
of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential
run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.
AP - The knock on Brian Hart’s door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
