BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military has suffered a first fatality in one of a new fleet of heavily armored vehicles designed to protect soldiers from roadside bombs, the military said on Tuesday.
Many of Asia's and Europe's top share indexes fall amid fears of a US recession will lead to a global slowdown. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jan 2008 | 11:36 am
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:26 a... | 22 Jan 2008 | 11:34 am
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Futures on leading U.S. stock market indexes fell before the start of Wall Street trading on Tuesday, signaling that American shares would join the global equities sell-off.
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi will put his weakened government to a vote of confidence in both houses of parliament, he told the lower house on Tuesday.
NAHAL OZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel delivered fuel for Gaza's power plant on Tuesday, partially lifting a blockade it had imposed last week in response to a sharp increase in rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:26 a... | 22 Jan 2008 | 11:26 am
AP - Israel delivered fuel for Gaza's power plant on Tuesday, partially lifting a blockade it had imposed last week in response to a sharp increase in rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
AP - President Bush and top congressional leaders will be looking for quick agreement on how to pump as much as $150 billion in tax cuts and government spending into the ailing economy to head off a recession.
AP - Global stock markets extended their slide for a second day Tuesday, plunging amid fears that a possible U.S. recession will cause a worldwide economic slowdown.
AP - Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama accused each other of repeatedly and deliberately distorting the truth for political gain Monday night in a highly personal, finger-wagging debate that ranged from the war in Iraq to Bill Clinton's role in the campaign.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a high school north of Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding 22 people including teachers and students arriving for the beginning of the school day.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:26 a... | 22 Jan 2008 | 11:22 am
AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a high school north of Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding 22 people including teachers and students arriving for the beginning of the school day.
The US ambassador to Kenya strongly rejects claims the international community has stirred up election violence. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jan 2008 | 11:21 am
Reuters - Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi will
put his weakened government to a vote of confidence in both
houses of parliament, he told the lower house on Tuesday.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that peace talks with Israel must continue despite the escalating confrontation between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:26 a... | 22 Jan 2008 | 11:12 am
Reuters - Russia on Tuesday sent two long-range
bombers to the Bay of Biscay, off the French and Spanish
Atlantic coasts, to test-fire missiles in what it billed as its
biggest navy exercise in the area since Soviet times.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday sent two long-range bombers to the Bay of Biscay, off the French and Spanish Atlantic coasts, to test-fire missiles in what it billed as its biggest navy exercise in the area since Soviet times.
AP - The percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year, continuing a trend that has worsened since the start of the Iraq war, according to a report released Tuesday.
A peace deal for eastern DR Congo is to be signed on Tuesday, as rebels and the government reach agreement. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jan 2008 | 11:01 am
Italian PM Romano Prodi will face a vote of confidence in parliament after a key coalition ally resigned. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jan 2008 | 11:00 am
Share prices fall sharply on India's main indices amid fears that a US recession could herald a global slowdown. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:57 am
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel resumed fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip's main power plant on Tuesday, offering limited respite from a blockade that plunged much of the Hamas-ruled territory into darkness and touched off international protests.
ZURICH (AFP) - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has reached a merger agreement with US health diagnostics specialist Ventana Medical Systems for 3.4 billion dollars (2.36 billion euros), six months after launching its takeover bid, Roche announced Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:56 am
The world's first cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite is setting sail from Germany to Venezuela. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:55 am
Russian prosecutors accuse opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov's campaign of forging signatures Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:50 am
NAIROBI (AFP) - Six people were killed in fresh tribal clashes in Kenya, police said Tuesday, as authorities broke up a pro-government rally ahead of the arrival of former UN chief Kofi Annan to mediate the deepening crisis. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:43 am
PARIS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree Tuesday on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said. But a U.S. official said differences over the issue remain.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:26 a... | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:38 am
BERLIN (Reuters) - World powers played down prospects for a deal on new sanctions against Iran ahead of a meeting on Tuesday aimed at ratcheting up pressure on Tehran to curb its sensitive nuclear work.
Everything from parasites to pollution has been blamed for the deaths of almost 50 gharials massive reptiles that look like their crocodile relatives, but with long slender snouts. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:29 am
LONDON (AFP) - Global stock markets took another battering Tuesday, with losses of almost nine percent in Hong Kong on fears of a US recession followed by sharp plunges in Europe. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:25 am
Maria Sharapova produces a magnificent display of clean hitting to knock world number one Justine Henin out in the Australian Open quarter-finals. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 Jan 2008 | 10:24 am
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The UN Security Council was to meet in emergency session Tuesday on the humanitarian crisis triggered by Israel's crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip in response to the firing of rockets into the Jewish state. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 Jan 2008 | 9:55 am
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama engaged in a bitter crossfire on Monday as their U.S. presidential campaign took an ugly personal turn on the Martin Luther King holiday.
AUCKLAND (AFP) - Sherpas, mountaineers and a grateful nation mourned Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary at a state funeral Tuesday, more than half a century after he first stood on the roof of the world. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 Jan 2008 | 9:34 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A soldier killed over the weekend south of Baghdad was the first American casualty in a roadside bomb attack on a newly introduced, heavily armored vehicle, a military spokeswoman said Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:26 a... | 22 Jan 2008 | 9:22 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Leaders of Iraq's Kurdish minority want the country's flag changed and are threatening not to fly the Saddam Hussein-era banner during a pan-Arab meeting in the Kurdish-run north next month.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:26 a... | 22 Jan 2008 | 9:20 am
Young people are to be given compulsory cookery lessons at school in order to encourage them to eat healthily, the Government has announced. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Jan 2008 | 9:11 am
Israel delivers diesel fuel, cooking gas and medicine to Gaza to temporarily alleviate blockade conditions; Abbas proposes Fatah control of Gaza border. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Jan 2008 | 8:58 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Caffeine appears to lower a woman's chances of developing ovarian cancer, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, while smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol do not.
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Rafael Nadal and Jelena Jankovic earned their first appearances in the Australian Open semi-finals on Tuesday but it ended in misery for defending women's champion Serena Williams. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 Jan 2008 | 7:51 am
Sir Edmund Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest in one of the twentieth century's defining moments, was given a fond and emotional farewell in New Zealand. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Jan 2008 | 7:42 am
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with homicide after allegedly placing her newborn twins in a bathtub and watching them struggle in the water. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Jan 2008 | 7:41 am
Barack Obama lashed out at Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill in a debate in South Carolina this morning, angrily accusing the New York senator of lying about his record and being “willing to say anything to get elected". Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Jan 2008 | 7:01 am
CHICAGO (AFP) - The drug-resistant "superbugs" that have cut a swathe through day care centers, schools, locker rooms and prisons across the United States in the last five years stem from one rapidly evolving bacterium, US scientists said Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 Jan 2008 | 6:55 am
The son of Osama bin Laden has called on the al-Qa'eda leader to renounce violence but doubts his father could redirect the terrorist group even if he wanted to. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Jan 2008 | 6:37 am
Investigators tried to determine Monday whether a man with a cache of pipe bombs and other weapons at his apartment was targeting synagogues and homes he had defaced in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a ranking police official said Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Jan 2008 | 4:09 am
William Flynn, the teen gunman who shot and killed the husband of his teacher in 1991, is seeking a reduction of his 28-year sentence. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Jan 2008 | 3:21 am
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has been shopping a script for 'Bush,' a film on the life and presidency of George W. Bush Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Jan 2008 | 2:27 am
A debate Monday night in Myrtle Beach, S.C., features Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. Five days before the Democratic primary in South Carolina, Obama leads in polls, having overtaken Clinton's early substantial lead. Black voters are expected to cast half or more of the ballots in Saturday's primary.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's army on Monday captured a top lieutenant of the powerful Sinaloa cartel who allegedly commanded squads of hit men and organized drug shipments north, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:26 a... | 22 Jan 2008 | 1:25 am
Britney Spears left the deposition in her custody battle for her two young boys nearly two-and-a-half hours after arriving at the offices of Mark Vincent Kaplan, Federline's attorney, TMZ.com reported. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Jan 2008 | 1:23 am
Before Hurricane Katrina came along, U.S. insurers didn't consider climate change when they assessed the risk of events like floods. Now they're factoring in a changing world, and it's costing consumers in places like New Orleans.
It was a horrible day for stock investors around the world, the single worst day for losses in many places since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Investors everywhere spoke of a fear that the U.S. is heading for a much deeper recession than previously thought -- a recession that might hurt economies around the globe.
Sir Edmund Hillary, who conquered Mount Everest in one of the twentieth century's defining moments, was given a fond and emotional farewell in New Zealand. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Jan 2008 | 12:22 am
John Edwards, the "other" candidate in the Democratic contest, often complains he is overlooked by the US media, but he could yet play kingmaker in deciding the party's nomination. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Jurors in the trial of Steve Wright, the man accused of being the "Suffolk strangler", were yesterday taken on a tour of his home and to the bleak spots where the naked bodies of his five alleged victims were found. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Civil servants have been banned from taking laptops with unencrypted personal data out of their offices. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
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AP - Israel delivered fuel for Gaza's power plant on Tuesday, partially lifting a blockade it had imposed last week in response to a sharp increase in rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
AP - President Bush and top congressional leaders will be looking for quick agreement on how to pump as much as $150 billion in tax cuts and government spending into the ailing economy to head off a recession.
AP - Global stock markets extended their slide for a second day Tuesday, plunging amid fears that a possible U.S. recession will cause a worldwide economic slowdown.
AP - Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama accused each other of repeatedly and deliberately distorting the truth for political gain Monday night in a highly personal, finger-wagging debate that ranged from the war in Iraq to Bill Clinton's role in the campaign.
AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a high school north of Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding 22 people including teachers and students arriving for the beginning of the school day.
Reuters - Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi will
put his weakened government to a vote of confidence in both
houses of parliament, he told the lower house on Tuesday.
Reuters - Russia on Tuesday sent two long-range
bombers to the Bay of Biscay, off the French and Spanish
Atlantic coasts, to test-fire missiles in what it billed as its
biggest navy exercise in the area since Soviet times.
AP - The percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year, continuing a trend that has worsened since the start of the Iraq war, according to a report released Tuesday.
