World Watch: Nuptials

* Britain: An estimated global television audience of two billion people watched Friday’s British royal wedding between Prince William and his longtime girlfriend, Kate Middleton.

* China: Could the “one-child” policy be relaxed after census figures showed that the Chinese elderly population is growing?

* Morocco: Al-Qaeda may’ve been behind the bombing of a café in Marrakech that killed at least sixteen people.

* Syria: Approximately 62 people were killed in another day of unrest in numerous Syrian cites.

Image – AP via the Houston Chronicle (“Newlyweds Kate and Will leave Westminster Abbey after the ceremony.”)
Online Sources- Malaysia Star, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, BBC News

Daily Headlines: March 13, 2008

* Britain’s Prince Charles and wife Camilla continued their tour of the Caribbean with an impromptu jam session with a group of Rastafarian musicians in Jamaica.

* During a speech on Wednesday, U.S. president George W. Bush blasted Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez for “praising terrorists.”

* Despite its own energy problems, Argentina agreed to keep providing natural gas supplies to Chile.

Sources- International Herald Tribune, People’s Daily Online, Al Jazeera, Reuters

Image- Associated Press