The James Logan Courier

By Sonja Pace, VOA News
Jerusalem

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is in Israel for talks on how to end the conflict with Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. The secretary's visit comes as the violence enters its second week amid continued cross-border attacks and ground fighting.


Secretary Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. State Dept photo.

By Tom Hundley
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

PARIS _ For the eighth year in a row, an American rider led the pack into Paris to claim victory in the Tour de France. The only difference is that the rider was not Lance Armstrong, who retired after his 2005 victory.

By VOA News

Iraqi authorities say car bombs in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk killed 62 people Sunday.

By Brian Bull
Phillips, Wisconsin
VOA News

In Australia, it's called the Yowie. In the Himalayas, natives speak of the Yeti. The Mapinguari roams the Amazon Basin. And in North America, tales persist of a giant, ape-like being known as Sasquatch, or Bigfoot. The mystique of this legend has endured for centuries, and a California-based group has just completed yet another leg of a cross-country expedition for the mysterious - and controversial - creature.


The legend of Bigfoot, allegedly pictured here in a photo from Northern California in the 1960s, is kept alive by this sign for a store in Wisconsin.

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), better known as Dame Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott.

Listen to Christie's book, Mysterious Affair at Styles, read by Alex Foster and free from Librivox and the Internet Archive.

Read Christie's book, The Secret Adversary, free from Project Gutenberg


Agatha Christie