May 3, 2001 (idea)

If there is anything that should be in a day log, it's whats going on in the world. I'll be keeping the top headlines from around the world here. If there are any sources I'm not using that you recommend, please /msg me. If you are downvoting me because you think this shouldn't be here, please /msg me with your reasons. I'm listening.

Without further ado, here is today's top news from around the world:

The BBC's Top Headlines:

• China blasts Bush policies
  Amid deteriorating Sino-US relations, China launches a scathing personal attack on President Bush.
• N Korea 'maintains missile test ban'
  Kim Jong-il will not test missiles at least until 2003, and wants to meet South Korea's Kim Dae-jung again, a European mission says.
• Enemies of press freedom named
  Leaders in Iran, Liberia and China are among the world's worst enemies of the press says a journalists' group on World Press Freedom Day.
• Macedonia orders village cleared
  Macedonia orders the evacuation of an Albanian-populated village as government forces pursue rebels who killed two soldiers.
• Oil 'time-bomb' in Nigeria
  Shell oil company warns that wells in the Niger Delta it abandoned in 1993 are in danger of blowing up because they were not properly sealed.
• Liberia fighting spreads
  The fighting between the Liberian government and rebels has moved south to within 200 km of Monrovia extending the humanitarian crisis.
• SA minister defends plot investigation
  South Africa's safety minister says the allegations of a plot to oust President Mbeki are a police matter as his life is under threat.
• Peru probes Fujimori gold claims
  Peruvian authorities investigate allegations that former President Alberto Fujimori took millions of dollars in gold bullion to Japan.
• Woman killed in LA bus hijack
  A woman dies and several people are injured after an armed man hijacks a bus on the streets of Los Angeles.
• 'Kim Jong-il son' detained in Japan
  A man suspected of being the son of the North Korean leader is arrested trying to enter Japan on a false passport.
• Arroyo visits Estrada in jail
  Philippine President Arroyo visits her ousted predecessor in his jail cell and shakes his hand, but avoids talk on political matters, officials say.
• EU sets rules on freedom of information
  The European Parliament passes freedom of information legislation which will make many previously secret documents open to the public.
• Milosevic given war crimes indictment
  Two years after the UN indicted the former Yugoslav leader, the imprisoned Slobodan Milosevic receives the charge sheet against him.
• Israel 'anxious' for peace talks
  Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres tells the US that Israel is keen to resume peace talks with the Palestinians.
• US doctor 'stable' after Saudi blast
  An American living in Saudi Arabia has undergone surgery after he was critically injured in a parcel-bomb attack.
• Taleban rejects ceasefire
  Afghanistan's ruling Taleban movement rejects a UN call for a temporary ceasefire to help tackle a humanitarian crisis.
• Kashmiris probe Indian talks offer
  A leading Kashmiri separatist sends delegates to meet the Indian Government to explore if talks on the troubled territory are possible.

The New York Times' Top Headlines

• Indictment Names Two Ex-Chairmen of Auction Houses
  A. Alfred Taubman and Sir Anthony Tennant were indicted on federal antitrust charges stemming from a conspiracy in which Sotheby's and Christie's fixed commission fees.
• Bush to Order Federal Agencies in California to Conserve Energy
  President Bush is planning to order all federal facilities in California to keep thermostats at 78 degrees and shut down escalators during electricity shortages this summer.
• White House and Legislators Agree on Spending Increase
  A day after agreeing to cut taxes by $1.35 trillion over the next 11 years, the White House and Congressional negotiators settled on a spending increase for next year.
• Senate Democrats Square Off With Bush Over Missile Plan
  Influential Senate Democratic voices on national security policy said President Bush's plans for a missile defense system could become a point of contention between the two parties.
• Central Asia Braces to Fight Islamic Rebels
  Across Central Asia, former Soviet republics are strengthening their armies in anticipation of what have become annual attacks by radical Islamic insurgents.
• Lawsuits Touch Off Debate Over Paddling in the Schools
  With corporal punishment in schools still legal in 23 states, some parents are questioning a system where beating prisoners is prohibited, but spanking a grade schooler is allowed.
• Cigna Warns on Profits, and H.M.O. Stocks Take a Tumble
  The Cigna Corporation, one of the strongest managed care companies, said that profits would be lower than expected this year.
• Manila Moves Incite Talk of 'Dark Side of People Power'
  President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo widened a crackdown on opposition leaders, whom she accused of inciting violence in a widespread rebellion against her rule earlier this week.
• Rumsfeld's Office Reverses China Ban
  The defense secretary's office ordered the suspension of all military exchanges and contacts with the Chinese armed forces, then abruptly reversed the order after the White House objected.

Asia Daily Top Headlines

• EU, North Korea Leader Hold Talks
  North Korean President Kim Jong Il began talks in Pyongyang Thursday with visiting European officials led by Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson about his mystery-cloaked missile program and tension between North and South Korea.
• Bush sending envoy to argue NMD case
  South Korean civic group members shout slogans during an anti-U.S. rally opposing the U.S. missile policy " NMD and TMD" in front of the U.S. Embassy building in Seoul, Thursday,
• China Landslide Kills 65
  Hundreds of police and soldiers have found 65 bodies as they cleared away about two-thirds of the rubble from a nine-story apartment building buried by a landslide
• Japan Seeks Change in Constitution
  Swept into office on promises of economic reform, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is now taking his campaign for change to a document that hasn't been touched in decades: the constitution.
• Pentagon Reviews Contacts With China
  The Pentagon further complicated an already tense relationship with China by first stating that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had suspended all contacts with the Chinese military.
• Army Drops China-Made Berets Plan
  Army soldiers won't be wearing Chinese-made black berets, after all.
• Pakistan Blasts US Terrorism Report
  Calling a State Department report on terrorism flawed and contradictory, Pakistan on Wednesday said it opposes terrorism in all forms.
• Quake Jolts Southern Indonesia
  An earthquake with a 5.2 magnitude jolted part of Indonesia's Sumatra island early Wednesday, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency official said.