Spanish PM to meet Obama at White House as they improve relationsMADRID — Spain’s prime minister will meet with President Barack Obama next month at the White House, officials said Friday, the culmination of a Spanish drive to repair ties that were frayed over the Iraq war when George W. Bush was in power. Stabbed by stalker, girl demands his public hangingHYDERABAD - A teenaged girl, who was injured and whose parents were brutally killed by a stalker in Andhra Pradesh’s Rajahmundry town, has demanded that he be hanged in public. In new audio address, Osama bin Laden calls Obama ‘powerless’ to win war in AfghanistanCAIRO — Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden described President Barack Obama as “powerless” to stop the war in Afghanistan and threatened to step up guerrilla warfare there in a new audiotape released to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. Obituaries in the newsBen Ali WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Ali, the founder of Ben’s Chili Bowl diner, a landmark in Washington’s black business and entertainment district and a frequent stop for politicians and celebrities, has died. He was 82. |