World leaders quash qualms, go to Olympic opening PARIS - To go or not to go -- world leaders invited to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics faced a choice riddled with risks. Storms threaten Games opening as Rogge defends IOC BEIJING (AFP) - Storms threaten to hit Beijing on the day of the Games opening ceremony in five days time, weather forecasters warned Sunday, while Olympic head Jacques Rogge fended off the IOC's own dark clouds. Starved, disabled girl was failed at every turn PHILADELPHIA - For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room -- made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave -- the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until she could muster only one word: water.
Bangkok film festival to go ahead despite graft scandal BANGKOK (AFP) - The sixth Bangkok International Film Festival will go ahead in the Thai capital in September, organisers announced Tuesday, despite becoming embroiled in a US corruption scandal last year.