International Headlines

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:02:07 -0400
>TOP STORIES as of 0900 GMT -- 20 July, 2010

> BRITISH PM TO MEET U.S. SENATORS OVER LOCKERBIE CASE
British Prime Minister David Cameron offers to meet with U.S.
senators to discuss the release of a Libyan convicted over the
1988 bombing of a jetliner above Scotland.

> COURT APPROVES BAIL FOR CONRAD BLACK
An appellate court has ruled that jailed media mogul Conrad
Black, who is serving a six-and-a-half-year prison term for
fraud, can be released on bail.

> BP WELL TESTS EXTENDED AMID CONCERNS
Tests on the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico will go on
for another 24 hours as officials try to explain "anomalous"
pressure readings and possible leaks.

> MILITANTS KILLED, HELD OVER KABUL RAID
Several insurgents were killed and two were detained while
troops were looking for a Taliban facilitator who was believed
to be in the final stages of planning an attack against an
international conference in Kabul, authorities said Tuesday.

> EMBASSY: BRITON KILLED IN MOSUL BLAST
One Briton was among those killed in Monday's suicide car bomb
attack that targeted a British private security firm in Mosul,
the British Embassy said.

> CHINA IN BATTLE TO CLEAN UP OIL SPILL
More than 500 fishing boats joined the effort to clean up oil
that gushed into a harbor in northeast China when two pipelines
exploded Friday, a Chinese state-run news agency reported
Monday.

> TRAIN CRASH TOLL RISES TO 63 IN INDIA
The death toll from Monday's train collision in eastern India
has risen to 63, officials said Tuesday.

> DEATH TOLL RISES IN CHINA FLOODS
The death toll has risen to 34 as a result of floods and
landslides in two provinces in China, the state-run Xinhua news
agency reported Monday.

BUSINESS
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> CEO: BOEING'S DREAMLINER TO LAUNCH BY 2011
Fans of Boeing's much anticipated Dreamliner may have to wait a
while longer before the aircraft is available for commercial
use, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes said Monday.

> CHINA NOW WORLD'S BIGGEST ENERGY USER
China overtook the U.S. last year to become the world's biggest
energy user, the International Energy Agency revealed on Monday.

> GOOGLE QUIETLY KILLS ITS NEXUS ONE PHONE
With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple's iPhone
4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One,
its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world.