DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) - The head of the IMF hammered home the problems facing the world economy in Davos on Saturday, sounding a final gloomy note as the annual gathering of the world's elite wrapped up. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Jan 2008 | 1:13 pm
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kofi Annan said Saturday he had witnessed "gross and systematic human rights abuses" on a visit to western Kenya, where 15 more people were killed overnight in the flashpoint town of Nakuru. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Jan 2008 | 1:09 pm
(Kyodo) _ A major fire broke out Saturday at a luxury hotel in New Delhi but was brought under control after several hours without any casualties, local media reported. NDTV reported... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 1:06 pm
AP - When Maria Sharapova walked on court for the Australian Open final, she kept thinking about the sage advice of another champion. "Champions take chances, and pressure is a privilege," Billy Jean King had written in a text message that Sharapova saw when she woke up. "I took mine," fifth-ranked Sharapova said after beating Ana Ivanova 7-5, 6-3 Saturday for her third Grand Slam title.
PARIS (AFP) - Police have raided the apartment of the Societe Generale dealer at the heart of a seven-billion-dollar rogue trader scandal that the French bank's chairman described Saturday as an "accidental fire." Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Jan 2008 | 1:05 pm
Former UN chief Kofi Annan says he saw "systematic" human rights abuses on a tour of violence-hit Kenya. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 1:03 pm
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Egyptian riot police and armored vehicles restricted Gaza motorists to a small border area of Egypt on Saturday, in the second attempt in two days to restore control over the chaotic frontier breached by Hamas militants.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 1:01 pm
AP - Egyptian riot police and armored vehicles restricted Gaza motorists to a small border area of Egypt on Saturday, in the second attempt in two days to restore control over the chaotic frontier breached by Hamas militants.
Heavily armed gunmen early Saturday went on a rampage, killing 11 people in rural Guyana, just hours after staging an assault on the headquarters of the country's police force, police said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:56 pm
An American woman working for an aid agency is kidnapped in southern Afghanistan, along with her driver. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:56 pm
Reuters - Gunmen abducted a U.S.
female aid worker on Saturday in Afghanistan's southern
province of Kandahar, the provincial governor said. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:53 pm
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted a U.S. female aid worker on Saturday in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, the provincial governor said.
Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda warns action is needed to tackle the growing risks to the world economy. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:47 pm
COLUMBIA, United States (AFP) - Democratic voters in South Carolina early Saturday began casting their votes on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a presidential primary scarred by bad blood between the bitter rivals. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:43 pm
AP - Democrats headed to the polls here Saturday in an unusual contest that pitted Barack Obama against two Clintons. Race was a persistent subtext in the first primary to feature a large number of black voters.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, police said, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:40 pm
AP - A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, police said, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- Gunmen stormed into a coastal village early Saturday and shot dead 11 people, President Bharrat Jagdeo said - the worst mass killing in this small South America nation in more than 30 years.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:39 pm
AP - Gunmen stormed into a coastal village early Saturday and shot dead 11 people, President Bharrat Jagdeo said the worst mass killing in this small South America nation in more than 30 years.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:34 pm
Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said. The two were stopped... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:34 pm
AP - Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said.
Reuters - French investigators have stepped up
efforts to find out how a self-effacing dealer at Societe
Generale ran up a $7 billion loss that hoodwinked his
employers, saying he was not on the run and would soon face
questioning.
PARIS (Reuters) - French investigators have stepped up efforts to find out how a self-effacing dealer at Societe Generale ran up a $7 billion loss that hoodwinked his employers, saying he was not on the run and would soon face questioning.
British property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten is arrested in Zimbabwe, according to local media. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:21 pm
(Kyodo) _ Summary of a Kirin Challenge Cup friendly at National Stadium on Saturday: Japan 0 Chile 0 Halftime: 0-0 Attendance: 37,261 Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:15 pm
US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama hopes for a win in the latest primary in South Carolina. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:12 pm
Thousands of Gazans pour into Egypt for a fourth day, after Egyptian attempts to reseal the border failed. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:11 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO) Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ruled out the possibility Saturday of Japan resorting to public spending to deal with subprime problems. Japan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:09 pm
AP - Gamblers fled the casino floor as firefighters rushed up flights of stairs, but remarkably no one was seriously injured in a blaze that blackened the top floors of the 32-story Monte Carlo hotel-casino.
An exhibition of art treasures which was almost prevented from going ahead opens its doors in London. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:07 pm
Kate Clark contrasts the hospitality she receives in many Muslim places with the threat of Islamist violence. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:05 pm
Paul Martin follows a group of masked men as they set out to launch another wave of rockets. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:04 pm
The BBC's Brian Barron reflects on the differing fates of Nazi fugitives and other war criminals of recent history. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:03 pm
RAFAH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian troops kept their distance from the breached Gaza border on Saturday a day after a security guard was shot in the foot, allowing thousands of Palestinians to stream unhindered into Egypt.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan is increasingly alert to the possible threat of Islamic extremists seeking control of its nuclear weapons, but its security system is fail-safe despite the rising militancy in the country, a top official said Saturday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:55 am
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ruled out the possibility of Japan resorting to public spending to deal with subprime problems. He made the remarks in response to a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:37 am
(Kyodo) _ Malaysian police arrested some 50 activists who were protesting Saturday against what they perceived as government's inaction to stem inflation. The rise in prices of goods... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:35 am
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Egypt said on Saturday it would keep allowing Palestinians to cross the breached border and help them stock up on supplies on the fourth day of unfettered access from the Gaza Strip, but tried to limit the flow of people across the entire Sinai peninsula. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:34 am
(Kyodo) _ Environmental group Greenpeace said Saturday its anti- whaling ship Esperanza, which has been disrupting Japanese whalers' activities in waters around Antarctica, is returning... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:29 am
(Kyodo) _ The following is the gist of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday. -- Fukuda seeks a quantified... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:19 am
A Somali soldier stands among abandoned houses in Mogadishu, 2007. A bomb exploded near the palace of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed in Mogadishu, killing three Somalis including a policeman. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:11 am
NAKURU, Kenya (AP) -- Sporadic gunshots rang out Saturday in this western Kenyan city as those forced from their homes by postelection violence threatened revenge. Police took 16 charred bodies to a mortuary, where onlookers sobbed.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:49 am
Sporadic gunshots crackled Saturday and refugees forced from their homes threatened to seek revenge for fierce street battles that left bodies lying in the street with machete slashes and pierced with arrows in western Kenya's main town. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:38 am
Arrested Malaysiakini journalist Syed Jaymal Zahiid (C) is led away by police officers during a protest in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian police have detained dozens of people including a journalist... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:52 am
BEIJING (AFP) - China announced plans Saturday to build nearly 100 new airports by 2020 to cater for soaring demand. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:41 am
Former US president Bill Clinton (L) introduces his wife and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton during a campaign rally in Charleston, South Carolina, January 25. Democratic voters... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:26 am
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama greets supporters during a rally in Columbia, South Carolina, January 25. Democratic voters in South Carolina were to cast their judgements on Hillary... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:26 am
Maria Sharapova won the Australian Open without losing a set, securing her third Grand Slam title with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Ana Ivanovic on Saturday. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:21 am
Russian Interior Ministry troops patrol a checkpoint in Nazran in 2007. Security forces fired in the air and beat stone-throwing protestors to disperse a banned anti-government rally in Russia's largely... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:18 am
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with President of Russia's Ingushetia province Murat Zyazikov in Sochi in 2007. Security forces fired in the air and beat stone-throwing protestors to disperse... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:18 am
A bulldozer destroys a section of the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt in the town of Rafah, January 25. Thousands of Gazans continued to pour into Egypt to stock up on supplies four days after... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:07 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A detailed 1998 New York Police Department analysis opposed the city's plans to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center but then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration overrode the objections, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
PHOENIX, Arizona (AFP) - One month after Arizona introduced a law cracking down on businesses which employ illegal immigrants, Latino workers are fleeing the state and companies are laying off employees in droves, officials and activists say. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:47 am
Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili (C) arrives to attend a debate with European Deputies of the Commitee on Foreign Affairs, on January 23, at the European Parliament in Brussels. The Security Council... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:44 am
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina Democrats cast votes on Saturday in a bitter presidential nominating race, with Barack Obama leading rival Hillary Clinton in polls and counting on heavy black support to carry him to a needed victory.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - It was to be the Glam Slam, the squealer versus the squeaker. Instead, Saturday's Australian Open women's final was a battle of brinkmanship and jangling nerves. Ana Ivanovic blinked first and Maria Sharapova was the champion.
Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to an FBI interrogator who questioned the Iraqi leader after his capture. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:30 am
Lebanese fire fighters spray a blazing car with water at the scene of a blast in Beirut. Lebanon's top anti-terrorism investigator was slain along with four other people in a powerful car bombing that... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:24 am
A photo made available by the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) shows an undated portrait of Captain Wissam Eid who was killed by a car bomb in Beirut on January 25. Captain Eid, 31, a member of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:24 am
Three mountain avalanches killed a skier and left as many as four others missing Friday as California strained under nearly a week of snow and rain. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:12 am
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama expanded his lead on rival Hillary Clinton to 15 points heading into South Carolina's bitterly contested presidential primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Saturday.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused neighboring Colombia and the United States of plotting a military "aggression" against Venezuela.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 6:05 am
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- New U.N. sanctions against Iran would require countries to ban the entry of individuals involved in the Iranian nuclear program - a step up from a previous call for vigilance over their travel, according to a document obtained Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 6:01 am
An animal protection group on Friday rescued more than 200 animals, including 26 hissing cockroaches and two bearded dragons, from an eastern Texas home. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 5:24 am
ROCK HILL, South Carolina (Reuters) - Sen. Hillary Clinton, in an about-face, said on Friday she wants the Democratic Party delegates in two states that were barred by the national party to be reinstated and counted in the race to determine the party's U.S. presidential nominee.
Sylvester Stallone says he used human growth hormone to get buff for the new "Rambo" movie, and defends its use. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 3:55 am
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Fire forced guests and staff to evacuate the 3,000-room Monte Carlo Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Friday, quickly engulfing parts of the upper floors, facade and roof before being brought under control.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Proposed new U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program call for mandatory travel bans and asset freezes for specific Iranian officials and vigilance on all banks in Iran, according to a draft text.
A three-alarm fire broke out Friday on the roof of the Monte Carlo hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip and spread rapidly, but was contained within about an hour. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 1:51 am
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Iran's foreign minister on Friday urged the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to "correct their past mistakes" and draw up a a resolution ending council involvement in his country's nuclear affairs.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EST | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:24 am
The rogue trader accused of the biggest banking fraud in history might have embarked on the alleged £3.7 billion deception after a succession of personal setbacks, friends claimed yesterday. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
A talented student threw herself off a bridge after she was raped on a night out with friends, an inquest was told. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire friend of Prince Andrew, has been accused of preying on girls as young as 14 in a £25 million lawsuit filed by one of his alleged victims. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Police numbers are falling at their fastest rate in seven years because of a £3 billion funding hole, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
John McCain led a Republican charge against Hillary Clinton yesterday, accusing her of offering to surrender to al-Qa'eda in Iraq, as his party's White House candidates savoured the prospect of facing the former First Lady. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Gordon Brown is facing a crisis of competence as most voters think his handling of the coming economic slowdown and the near-collapse of Northern Rock has been dismal. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
South Africa's attempt to broker a settlement of Zimbabwe's political crisis lies in ruins after President Robert Mugabe called presidential and parliamentary elections for March 29. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
City officials in Lewiston, Maine, say a mysterious, doughy blob has blocked a major sewer line through the center of town. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Jan 2008 | 11:47 pm
A new study by NPP, a research group that looks at military trends, has concluded that last year, barely 70 percent of new Army recruits had high school diplomas. That's the lowest number in a quarter-century. The Pentagon has attacked the study, saying it's getting the recruits it needs.
President Bush met Friday with House Republicans on a GOP retreat at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. The president urged the congressmen to pass the economic stimulus agreement he hammered out with House leaders -- and to resist changes from the left and the right.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's ability to lead the Central Bank is being tested by the subprime mortgage crisis and the faltering economy. The interest rate cut earlier this week demonstrates that he's willing to make bold moves but he's been criticized for acting too late.
With North Korea almost a month overdue on its obligation to provide a complete and correct declaration of all its nuclear programs, the Bush administration is coming under pressure to consider a declaration that would be less than complete. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Jan 2008 | 10:36 pm
Federal agents have raided the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, and a warrant was issued for Pasadena's Pacific-Asia Museum. Authorities say the museums received looted Asian and Native American artifacts.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Agronomy and Horticulture is trying to lure students into learning. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 25 Jan 2008 | 10:25 pm
The Ball State Daily News's continuous coverage of its school's very own Miss Indiana continues to be a strange—and strangely—fulfilling ride. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 25 Jan 2008 | 10:19 pm
Republicans had their turn last week in South Carolina. On Saturday, the Democrats have their say. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are making last-minute appeals to the voters of the Palmetto State, but the stakes are perhaps higher for Obama and Edwards.
Recent wildfires and flooding in Southern California have wiped out populations of native fish and amphibians in the region. Scientists warn that officials need to do more to ensure that the state's dwindling native species survive.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton is making another push for support in South Carolina, as voters prepare to vote in the state's Democratic primary.
Afghanistan needs more of its own soldiers and police, and training them has become a major job for the U.S. and its NATO allies. But amid growing Taliban attacks, the United States is falling short on the number of trainers it has pledged for the country.
Computer hackers have managed to shut down power to entire cities by breaking into the systems of electricity companies and then demanding money, a senior CIA analyst has claimed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 25 Jan 2008 | 6:45 pm
In their latest debate, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton clashed over comments Obama made about former President Ronald Reagan. Obama called Reagan a "transformational president." David Folkenflik looks at the political wisdom of a Democratic candidate invoking the memory of a Republican president.
The mystery surrounding the death of actor Heath Ledger has deepened after details about how he was found dead in his New York flat were released. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 25 Jan 2008 | 1:01 pm
AP - When Maria Sharapova walked on court for the Australian Open final, she kept thinking about the sage advice of another champion. "Champions take chances, and pressure is a privilege," Billy Jean King had written in a text message that Sharapova saw when she woke up. "I took mine," fifth-ranked Sharapova said after beating Ana Ivanova 7-5, 6-3 Saturday for her third Grand Slam title.
AP - Egyptian riot police and armored vehicles restricted Gaza motorists to a small border area of Egypt on Saturday, in the second attempt in two days to restore control over the chaotic frontier breached by Hamas militants.
AP - Democrats headed to the polls here Saturday in an unusual contest that pitted Barack Obama against two Clintons. Race was a persistent subtext in the first primary to feature a large number of black voters.
AP - A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, police said, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone.
AP - Gunmen stormed into a coastal village early Saturday and shot dead 11 people, President Bharrat Jagdeo said the worst mass killing in this small South America nation in more than 30 years.
AP - Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said.
Reuters - French investigators have stepped up
efforts to find out how a self-effacing dealer at Societe
Generale ran up a $7 billion loss that hoodwinked his
employers, saying he was not on the run and would soon face
questioning.
AP - Details about funeral arrangements for actor Heath Ledger remained secret as his body was taken from a Manhattan funeral home.
AP - Gamblers fled the casino floor as firefighters rushed up flights of stairs, but remarkably no one was seriously injured in a blaze that blackened the top floors of the 32-story Monte Carlo hotel-casino.
