Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1709 Most Viewed - World en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:22:14 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1709 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election ap/20090704/ml_iran_election AP world Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:22:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.5724cd264286413e8855a6ed7ca4926e.mideast_iran_election_vah103.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=kZsoPIHmYtSq5OeR0Zbt9w--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, arrives to deliver his sermon during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 3, 2009. Jannati, who is the head of the Guardian Council, a powerful body in Iran's ruling clerical hierarchy that stands above the elected government, said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)" border="0" /></a>AP - EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.5724cd264286413e8855a6ed7ca4926e.mideast_iran_election_vah103.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=kZsoPIHmYtSq5OeR0Zbt9w--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, arrives to deliver his sermon during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 3, 2009. Jannati, who is the head of the Guardian Council, a powerful body in Iran's ruling clerical hierarchy that stands above the elected government, said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_missile ap/20090704/as_nkorea_missile AP world Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:03:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_missile"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.9a1b13c2308b4160907f53a84cb0c34d.south_korea_north_korea_missile_sel106.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=OhNRkap.9YZ0FHuFZyWYww--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="A South Korean conservative activist burns a defaced North Korean flag and mock missiles during a rally denouncing North Korea's missile launch in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 3, 2009. South Korea said Friday it is closely monitoring North Korean military sites because the communist nation may fire more missiles, amid speculation that a long-range test launch aimed toward the U.S. is possible in coming days.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0" /></a>AP - North Korea fired two missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, in yet another provocative move after the U.N. imposed sanctions on the communist regime for its May nuclear test.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_as/as_nkorea_missile"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.9a1b13c2308b4160907f53a84cb0c34d.south_korea_north_korea_missile_sel106.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=OhNRkap.9YZ0FHuFZyWYww--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="A South Korean conservative activist burns a defaced North Korean flag and mock missiles during a rally denouncing North Korea's missile launch in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 3, 2009. South Korea said Friday it is closely monitoring North Korean military sites because the communist nation may fire more missiles, amid speculation that a long-range test launch aimed toward the U.S. is possible in coming days.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_af/yemen_plane_crash ap/20090703/yemen_plane_crash AP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:21:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_af/yemen_plane_crash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.fb1b54fd066d49ceaa089c6899062fb0.france_yemen_plane_crash_par107.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=nj8J7w7VCYdM8krWPs6zMQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Members of the Comorian community living in France gather at the entrance to the T3 Terminal at Roissy airport, north of Paris, Friday July 3, 2009. An Airbus A330-200 from Yemenia Airways took off for Sana'a, Yemen, on Friday. The plane took off 4 and a half hours late, with 72 passengers on board instead of the 180 initially booked. A Yemenia Airways airbus crashed last Tuesday while approaching Moroni, Comoros Islands. The jersey, reading Watwaniya, that means patriot in Comorian, refers to a the Watwaniya movement that fights against giving the status of department to the island of Mayotte, which is part of the Comoros islands archipelago. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)" border="0" /></a>AP - Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros — a route that saw a deadly crash this week, after years of complaints about dangerous conditions on the flight path to the Indian Ocean island nation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_af/yemen_plane_crash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.fb1b54fd066d49ceaa089c6899062fb0.france_yemen_plane_crash_par107.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=nj8J7w7VCYdM8krWPs6zMQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Members of the Comorian community living in France gather at the entrance to the T3 Terminal at Roissy airport, north of Paris, Friday July 3, 2009. An Airbus A330-200 from Yemenia Airways took off for Sana'a, Yemen, on Friday. The plane took off 4 and a half hours late, with 72 passengers on board instead of the 180 initially booked. A Yemenia Airways airbus crashed last Tuesday while approaching Moroni, Comoros Islands. The jersey, reading Watwaniya, that means patriot in Comorian, refers to a the Watwaniya movement that fights against giving the status of department to the island of Mayotte, which is part of the Comoros islands archipelago. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup ap/20090704/lt_honduras_coup AP world Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:18:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.45b2e800fb1543b2ad19694d8c88cca8.honduras_coup_tgdl137.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ovBSbNA4ed9RQDwR4ChVgw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General the Organization of American States, OAS, right, meets with the Mayor of Tegucigalpa, Ricardo Alvarez, left, and Porfirio Lobo Sosa, presidential candidate for the National Party, main opposition party to ousted president Manuel Zelaya, at a hotel in Tegucigalpa, Friday July 3, 2009. Honduras' Supreme Court rebuffed a personal appeal from Insulza on Friday, refusing to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya before a Saturday deadline. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)" border="0" /></a>AP - Honduras rebuffed a personal appeal from the Americas' top international diplomat Friday, refusing to reinstate President Manuel Zelaya and setting the stage for a dramatic showdown if the ousted leader returns to reclaim power this weekend.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090704/capt.45b2e800fb1543b2ad19694d8c88cca8.honduras_coup_tgdl137.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ovBSbNA4ed9RQDwR4ChVgw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General the Organization of American States, OAS, right, meets with the Mayor of Tegucigalpa, Ricardo Alvarez, left, and Porfirio Lobo Sosa, presidential candidate for the National Party, main opposition party to ousted president Manuel Zelaya, at a hotel in Tegucigalpa, Friday July 3, 2009. Honduras' Supreme Court rebuffed a personal appeal from Insulza on Friday, refusing to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya before a Saturday deadline. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan ap/20090704/as_afghanistan AP world Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:12:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.1b56ce73bb4a4d4fb4cec3abdadae2b6.afghanistan_xdg105.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=l04IKZttJ4obL4PfFjBoAQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines takes positions along a tree line in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Friday, July 3, 2009. U.S. forces have encountered little resistance in the initial phase of a massive operation by some 4,000 Marines in Taliban-controlled areas of southern Afghanistan, but that's a common tactic by insurgents. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0" /></a>AP - NAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines pushed deeper into Taliban areas of southern Afghanistan on Friday, seeking to cut insurgent supply lines and win over local elders on the second day of the biggest U.S. military operation here since the American-led invasion of 2001.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090704/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.1b56ce73bb4a4d4fb4cec3abdadae2b6.afghanistan_xdg105.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=l04IKZttJ4obL4PfFjBoAQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines takes positions along a tree line in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Friday, July 3, 2009. U.S. forces have encountered little resistance in the initial phase of a massive operation by some 4,000 Marines in Taliban-controlled areas of southern Afghanistan, but that's a common tactic by insurgents. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_sc/as_australia_dinosaurs ap/20090703/as_australia_dinosaurs AP science Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:27:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_sc/as_australia_dinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.f1f69fc6510644f7a0168d8223750577.australia_dinosaurs_win101.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=bhsrO.y0iC4OPZMlIBIIww--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="In this undated photo supplied by Queensland Museum, paleontologist Scott Hocknull analyses the Diamantinasaurus fossils in Winton, in central Queensland, Australia. Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and has a name like something from an Arnold Schwazennegger movie. Meet the Australovenator. (AP Photo/Queensland Museum, HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Meet the Australovenator.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_sc/as_australia_dinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.f1f69fc6510644f7a0168d8223750577.australia_dinosaurs_win101.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=bhsrO.y0iC4OPZMlIBIIww--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this undated photo supplied by Queensland Museum, paleontologist Scott Hocknull analyses the Diamantinasaurus fossils in Winton, in central Queensland, Australia. Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and has a name like something from an Arnold Schwazennegger movie. Meet the Australovenator. (AP Photo/Queensland Museum, HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_fe_st/as_odd_new_zealand_flying_nude ap/20090703/as_odd_new_zealand_flying_nude AP odd Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:37:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_fe_st/as_odd_new_zealand_flying_nude"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.d5f76f94a13a420fb4907dbafc9d540a.new_zealand_flying_nude_nzl103.jpg?x=130&y=74&q=85&sig=xxiofrjDh5NV_y5nDbFA1w--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="In this undated photo supplied by Air New Zealand Friday, July 3, 2009, its staff is seen with body paint on in the airlines latest safety video call the 'Bare Essentials of Safety.' The video shows three cabin staff and the pilot, all in uniform-colored full body paint, talking viewers through the aircraft's safety procedures. New Zealand's national airline has adopted the cheeky way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: The cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint. (AP Photo/Air New Zealand, HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - New Zealand's national airline has adopted a cheeky way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: The cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewedwl/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_fe_st/as_odd_new_zealand_flying_nude"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.d5f76f94a13a420fb4907dbafc9d540a.new_zealand_flying_nude_nzl103.jpg?x=130&y=74&q=85&sig=xxiofrjDh5NV_y5nDbFA1w--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this undated photo supplied by Air New Zealand Friday, July 3, 2009, its staff is seen with body paint on in the airlines latest safety video call the 'Bare Essentials of Safety.' The video shows three cabin staff and the pilot, all in uniform-colored full body paint, talking viewers through the aircraft's safety procedures. New Zealand's national airline has adopted the cheeky way to encourage passengers to watch its in-flight safety video: The cabin crew's uniforms are nothing but body paint. (AP Photo/Air New Zealand, HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)