AP – Home construction plunged last month and building permits also fell, the latest signs that the construction industry won’t fuel the economic recovery.
Home construction sinks, building permits down (AP)
Tropical depression forms off Mexico’s coast (AP)
AP – A tropical depression has formed in the Pacific off Mexico’s southwestern coast and a tropical storm warning was issued for the area.
Attacks threaten unusual Turkish outreach to Kurds (AP)
AP – Kurdish rebels have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey this month in an escalation that poses a dire threat to a remarkable attempt at ending one of the world’s longest guerrilla wars.
Military: Turkish troops cross into northern Iraq (AP)
AP – Turkey sent hundreds of elite soldiers across the border into northern Iraq on Wednesday to chase a group of Kurdish guerrillas escaping after a failed attack on a Turkish unit near the border.
Malawi: Christian sect in measles vaccine standoff (AP)
AP – More than 100 members of a Christian religious sect have barricaded themselves in an abandoned building in southern Malawi over their refusal to give their children the measles vaccine, a regional health official said Wednesday.
Italians think they have found Caravaggio’s bones (AP)
AP – Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of Caravaggio, but 400 years later some of the mysteries surrounding the death of the master artist may never be solved.
Brunei’s sultan divorces Malaysian wife of 5 years (AP)
AP – Brunei’s sultan announced Wednesday he is divorcing his Malaysian wife after five years of marriage.
BP: 45 pct of pipe had been cut when saw got stuck (AP)
AP – BP says it was about halfway done slicing through a pipe on the blown-out Gulf well when the diamond-tipped saw snagged.
