Drought-hit Barcelona starts shipping in water

MANUEL FERNANDEZ, BARCELONA Spain's worst drought in decades forced Barcelona, one of Europe's top tourist destinations, to start shipping in drinking water yesterday.

Saviour of thousands of children from Warsaw Ghetto dies at 98

WARSAW A WOMAN credited with saving about 2500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto died yesterday, aged 98.

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Obama sights set past Clinton win

WASHINGTON Barack Obama is looking ahead to two states crucial to Democratic hopes for recapturing the White House in November as he shrugs off what is expected to be an overwhelming and inconsequential win today for Hillary Clinton in West Virginia's primary.

Russians name main suspect in murder of famed journalist

DAVID NOWAK MOSCOW Russian investigators yesterday named the man they suspect of killing journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in Moscow in 2006.

Rocket hits Baghdad park as 6000 flee homes

A rocket hit a downtown Baghdad park yesterday, killing two civilians as US-backed forces tried to weaken Shi'ite extremists and disrupt rocket and mortar strikes from the militia stronghold of Sadr City.

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