BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) - Iraqi police said they found the remains of 19 executed men in the volatile northeastern province of Diyala on Tuesday, including 10 heads removed from their bodies. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jan 2008 | 1:05 pm
PARIS (Reuters) - France's economy minister said Societe Generale, reeling from losses blamed on a rogue trader, is a bank in crisis and may need to ditch its chairman.
Reuters - Kenyan military helicopters
swooped to break up machete-wielding mobs on Tuesday as the
killing of an opposition legislator stoked bloody protests
across the east African country.
Michael Jackson has reportedly cut ties with his publicist Raymone Baine and nanny Grace Rwaramba while shopping for new home in Las Vegas. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:57 pm
NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan military helicopters swooped to break up machete-wielding mobs on Tuesday as the killing of an opposition legislator stoked bloody protests across the east African country.
TOKYO, Jan. 29 (Kyodo) _ The government will start devising a framework to enable the Fair Trade Commission to cooperate more closely with ministries to crack down on firms suspected of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:55 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING WITH FRESH INFO) The ruling bloc of the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito party submitted a stopgap bill to maintain gasoline and other road- ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:53 pm
Some of the worst winter weather to hit southern China in decades took 25 more lives when a bus plunged off an icy road, adding to the chaos the snow storms have caused during the nation's peak travel season. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:47 pm
AFP - Republican presidential hopefuls John McCain and Mitt Romney dug in for a fierce battle in Florida on Tuesday, as ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani faces a high stakes gamble in his bid for the state's primary.
AP - The number of U.S. homes that slipped into some stage of foreclosure in 2007 was 79 percent higher than in the previous year, a real estate tracking company said Tuesday. Many homeowners started to fall behind on mortgage payments in the last three months, setting the stage for more foreclosures this year. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:40 pm
AP - The polls are open in Florida as 57 delegates are at stake in today's winner-take-all Republican primary. In the final hours before voting began, Mitt Romney and John McCain accused each other of being liberals, with Romney attacking McCain's legislation curbing money in politics, his more forgiving view of illegal immigrants and his backing of an energy bill that Romney says would raise costs for consumers.
BEIJING (AFP) - Premier Wen Jiabao rushed Tuesday to oversee disaster relief as China buckled under its harshest winter for half a century, which has affected tens of millions of people and paralysed many areas. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:32 pm
AP - Individuals and businesses are likely to see their borrowing costs drop further as the Federal Reserve weighs another interest-rate reduction to bolster a sagging economy.
Reuters - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao took a
bullhorn in hand to encourage stranded passengers in the
snow-bound city of Changsha, as unusually severe winter weather
snarled transport throughout the south amidst the country's
worst power crisis.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao took a bullhorn in hand to encourage stranded passengers in the snow-bound city of Changsha, as unusually severe winter weather snarled transport throughout the south amidst the country's worst power crisis.
AP - Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem.
AP - Looks like Tom Brady will be true to his word. One day after promising his ankle injury wouldn't keep him from preparing for and playing in the Super Bowl, Brady was back where he belongs Monday. He practiced with the New England Patriots for the first time since he was hurt against San Diego in the AFC championship game more than a week ago.
Gang beheads a doctor in apparent retaliation for the slaying of an opposition lawmaker ahead of fresh talks expected between Kenya's rival leaders aimed at resolving a dispute over the country's presidential election. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:20 pm
PARIS (AFP) - The French government said Tuesday that Societe Generale is in "crisis" after huge losses caused by a rogue trader but vowed to defend it against hostile takeover bids. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:20 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING THROUGHOUT) Japan coach Takeshi Okada insists the presence of predecessor Ivica Osim will not place any extra pressure on him to beat Bosnia and Herzegovina... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:19 pm
Reuters - Nine bodies and 10 severed heads were
found on Tuesday in an abandoned field north of Baghdad in a
region where U.S. and Iraqi forces are pressing ahead with
offensives against al Qaeda forces.
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) -- A missile destroyed a suspected militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people inside, officials said, as hundreds of students protested Pakistan's support for the U.S.-led war on terror.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:17 pm
A missile destroyed a suspected militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people inside, officials said, as hundreds of students protested Pakistan's support for the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:17 pm
AP - A missile destroyed a suspected militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people inside, officials said, as hundreds of students protested Pakistan's support for the U.S.-led war on terror.
European and Asian shares rise on growing expectations that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:17 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a coordinated ambush in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, the U.S. military said, making it one of the deadliest single attacks against American forces in months.
Turkey's ruling AK Party and opposition MPs are to present a plan to ease the headscarf ban in universities. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:12 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH MORE INFO, ADDING BACKGROUND) South Korea outclassed Japan 34-21 on Tuesday in a replay of the women's handball Olympic qualifying tournament amid mounting Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:11 pm
NAIVASHA, Kenya (AFP) - Kenyan military helicopters opened fire above feuding gangs in a western town on Tuesday while 13 died in fresh clashes as the murder of an opposition lawmaker sparked new chaos. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:10 pm
KISUMU, Kenya (AP) -- A gang beheaded a doctor in apparent retaliation for the slaying of an opposition lawmaker Tuesday ahead of talks expected between the rival sides disputing the country's presidential election.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:09 pm
A gang beheaded a doctor in apparent retaliation for the slaying of an opposition lawmaker Tuesday ahead of talks expected between the rival sides disputing the country's presidential... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:09 pm
Florida's Republicans vote for their choice in the presidential race, in a key test for ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:06 pm
(Kyodo) _ Following is one of some main stories moving in the next few hours. -- Clash over gasoline tax heats up between ruling, opposition blocs (2nd lead story. 9:30 p.m.) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:03 pm
At least six people are killed and many left without power as Cyclone Gene hits Fiji with winds of 140km/h (88mph). Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:57 am
(Kyodo) _ Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. President Atsushi Saito said Tuesday the Tokyo bourse will set up rules to enable the listing of exchange-traded funds tracking gold, crude oil... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:56 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH REACTION) The Softbank Hawks said Tuesday they have signed a contract with Jeremy Powell, nearly three weeks after the Orix Buffaloes announced the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:53 am
MIAMI (AFP) - Republican presidential hopefuls John McCain and Mitt Romney dug in for a fierce battle in Florida on Tuesday, as ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani faces a high stakes gamble in his bid for the state's primary. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:53 am
An election official inspects absentee ballots at the Miami-Dade election headquarters. Republican presidential hopefuls John McCain and Mitt Romney are preparing for a fierce battle in Florida, as ex-New... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:51 am
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in Orlando, Florida. Republican presidential hopefuls John McCain and Mitt Romney are preparing for a fierce battle... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:51 am
(Kyodo) _ South Korea outclassed Japan 34-21 on Tuesday in a replay of the women's handball qualifying tournament for this summer's Beijing Olympic Games. Athens Olympic silver... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:51 am
Fresh violence breaks out on the streets of Kenya's capital and other towns after an opposition MP's murder. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:48 am
An Islamist fanatic has admitted to hatching a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier "like a pig" in a lock-up garage, a court has heard. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:44 am
THENIA, Algeria (AP) -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing at least two people and wounding several others, the Interior Ministry said. Witnesses and security officials put the death toll at least three.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:39 am
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -- Some of the worst winter weather to hit southern China in decades took 25 more lives Tuesday when a bus plunged off an icy road, adding to the chaos the snow storms have caused during the nation's peak travel season.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:39 am
Iran jails three Bahai followers for engaging in propaganda against the Islamic revolutionary system. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:38 am
Several bird flu culling teams stop work in the Indian state of West Bengal, complaining of official corruption. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:38 am
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will not stand in the way of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas taking control of Gaza's breached border with Egypt as part of a deal to sideline Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave, officials said on Tuesday.
At least two people are killed in a car bombing outside a police station in the Algerian town of Thenia, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:23 am
Societe Generale was warned about alleged rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last year, a prosecutor says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:18 am
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Would-be robbers held about 30 people hostage inside a Venezuelan bank Tuesday amid a lengthy and tense standoff with police.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:13 am
President Bush advises Congress to put trust in the American people to keep the state of the union strong, urged the legislative body to take quick action to prevent a recession and stood strong in his support for ongoing operations in Iraq. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:05 am
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission will next month lower its eurozone growth projections, but Europe is not facing a recession, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jan 2008 | 11:01 am
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government said it had no information on Tuesday about the fate of a kidnapped U.S. female aid worker, but added a search was going on to find her.
In several strategic regions, Pakistan's military is fighting pro-Taliban insurgents. A recent Taliban attack near Peshawar has heightened fears that the military can't combat the insurgency.
A Congress controlled by Democrats will have a final say on most of President Bush's 2008 goals. Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida, chairman of the House Republican Conference, says the minority party will have a voice, too.
The frozen wastes of Antarctica are attracting tourists who want a closer look at climate change. Layers of ice that have recorded 400,000 years of climate history are beginning to melt.
Gunmen operating in the chaos of Kenya's post-election violence have killed an opposition member of Kenya's parliament, prompting opposition leader Raila Odinga to warn that the country may be headed towards anarchy.
The leaders of the four largest economies in the European Union meet in London Tuesday amid concerns over chaotic financial markets. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will host the gathering.
The chief executive of the ailing mortgage lender Countrywide Financial says he will forfeit more than $37 million in severance pay and perks that were part of a retirement package. The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Angelo Mozilo's sales of company stock.
In his final State of the Union address, President Bush reviews the major policies of his years in office, urges patience on Iraq and calls for Congress to pass a tax-rebate package.
Baghdad may be calmer, but in many outlying areas of Iraq, insurgents pose a persistent threat. One Army unit's offensive against al-Qaida fighters in a village along the Tigris River highlights new efforts to secure rural Iraq.
A British man has pleaded guilty to their parts in a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier "like a pig", a court has heard. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 10:53 am
A woman who poisoned her husband with antifreeze after researching poisoning methods on Google has been found guilty of attempted murder. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 10:53 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. patrol Tuesday in Mosul, killing at least one Iraqi and wounding as many as 15, military and police officials said, a day after a roadside bomb killed five American soldiers in the increasingly lawless northern city.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 29 Jan 2008 | 10:52 am
Harbhajan Singh is cleared of racially abusing Australia's Andrew Symonds but fined for offensive behaviour. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 29 Jan 2008 | 10:46 am
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Digital mammography was much better than traditional film mammography at spotting breast cancers in younger women or those with dense breasts, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Federal probe faults Illinois VA hospital for poor staffing and lack of proper surgical expertise that possibly contributed to 19 deaths. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Jan 2008 | 9:33 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Rudy Giuliani's White House quest could be in deep trouble as he lags far behind the leaders in a Florida presidential primary he counted on winning, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.
Two Kenyan military helicopters have opened fired above a crowd threatening members of the Luo tribe sheltering at a police post in the tourist town of Naivasha. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 9:23 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Democratic icon and a leading liberal voice, endorsed Barack Obama on Monday for the party's presidential nomination and called the young lawmaker an inspirational uniter.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iraqi soccer star can't sign with a professional British club because Iraq's Asian Cup-winning national team barely missed being ranked in the world's top 70 - a situation blamed partly on violence in the country.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:51 am
Passengers wait for their delayed trains outside of the Shanghai Station Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008 in Shanghai, China. At least 25 people were killed and 13 injured when a bus plunged off an icy road in southern... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:29 am
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday kicked off a one-day visit to Rwanda, where simmering resentment remains over the world body's failure to prevent the 1994 genocide Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:26 am
Republican US presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters during a campaign rally at Orlando-Sanford International Airport in Orlando, Florida. John McCain and Romney... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:09 am
Shadows of supporters fall on the flag during a rally for presidential hopeful Arizona Senator John McCain at Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida. McCain and Mitt Romney dug in for a fierce... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:09 am
Presidential hopeful Arizona Senator John McCain speaks at a rally at Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida. McCain and Mitt Romney dug in for a fierce race in Florida Tuesday, as ex-New York... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:09 am
Former New York City mayor and Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani speaks during a campaign stop at Jetscape Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport January 28 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:09 am
Flor Crisostomo, 28, who paid a smuggler refuses to comply with departation order and takes refuge in same Chicago church as Elvira Arellano, who stayed there for a year before being captured and deported on trip to the west coast. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:08 am
A Kenyan opposition politician has been shot dead amidst surging ethnic violence as the country's two main parties are due to start peace talks today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 8:01 am
File photo shows a PLA soldier walking past a Chinese-made Hongqi-2 missile on display at the Military Museum in Beijing. The United States said Monday it found "troubling" China's admission that its weapons... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 29 Jan 2008 | 7:31 am
BEIJING (AP) -- Zhang Hanzhi, an elegant Chinese diplomat who was Mao Zedong's English tutor and U.S. President Richard Nixon's interpreter during his historic 1972 trip to China, has died. She was 72.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 29 Jan 2008 | 6:59 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush sought to calm Americans' fears about the economy on Monday while charting a course he hopes will keep him relevant in his final year in office.
President George W Bush has delivered his final State of the Union address, urging Americans to hold their nerve amid fears of a recession and repeating his promises of victory in Iraq. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 6:10 am
A lawyer he'll keep fighting a city order to lower the height of big American flag flapping over a Las Vegas auto dealership. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Jan 2008 | 4:10 am
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says Mary-Kate Olsen will not be questioned by detectives about Heath Ledger's death. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Jan 2008 | 3:59 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - People who snore regularly are more likely to develop chronic bronchitis, according to a study published Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 29 Jan 2008 | 3:05 am
Police in New Zealand have issued grainy security camera pictures they believe could hold the key to solving the murder of Scottish backpacker Karen Aim. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Derek Conway, the senior Conservative MP under fire for making improper payments to his teenage son, has handed more than £260,000 to members of his immediate family since being re-elected to Parliament in 2001. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Britain is in danger of becoming a "surveillance state" as authorities including councils launch bugging operations against 1,000 people a day. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Thousands of machete-wielding youths have set buses and homes on fire as a new cycle of violence gripped Kenya. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
A sex workers speaking tour is creating a furor at the College of William and Mary after the student government approved $1,450 for the event. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 28 Jan 2008 | 10:32 pm
Not exactly the Rodney King L.A. riots, but drunk University of Southern California students staged a 100-person "sit-in" at a rowdy block party. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 28 Jan 2008 | 10:28 pm
ABOU SHOUK, Sudan (AP) -- Two refugee mothers handed their babies to a U.N. police officer and squeezed in for a picture. Nearby, other officers helped women fill jugs of water.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 28 Jan 2008 | 10:18 pm
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- On a Gaza street corner, unemployed construction worker Mohammed Mikdad peddled $3,000 worth of diesel fuel he bought in Egypt after last week's border breach, hoping to make enough profit to feed his family until summer.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:17 a... | 28 Jan 2008 | 7:54 pm
Reuters - Kenyan military helicopters
swooped to break up machete-wielding mobs on Tuesday as the
killing of an opposition legislator stoked bloody protests
across the east African country.
AFP - Republican presidential hopefuls John McCain and Mitt Romney dug in for a fierce battle in Florida on Tuesday, as ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani faces a high stakes gamble in his bid for the state's primary.
AP - The polls are open in Florida as 57 delegates are at stake in today's winner-take-all Republican primary. In the final hours before voting began, Mitt Romney and John McCain accused each other of being liberals, with Romney attacking McCain's legislation curbing money in politics, his more forgiving view of illegal immigrants and his backing of an energy bill that Romney says would raise costs for consumers.
AP - Individuals and businesses are likely to see their borrowing costs drop further as the Federal Reserve weighs another interest-rate reduction to bolster a sagging economy.
Reuters - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao took a
bullhorn in hand to encourage stranded passengers in the
snow-bound city of Changsha, as unusually severe winter weather
snarled transport throughout the south amidst the country's
worst power crisis.
AP - Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem.
AP - Looks like Tom Brady will be true to his word. One day after promising his ankle injury wouldn't keep him from preparing for and playing in the Super Bowl, Brady was back where he belongs Monday. He practiced with the New England Patriots for the first time since he was hurt against San Diego in the AFC championship game more than a week ago.
Reuters - Nine bodies and 10 severed heads were
found on Tuesday in an abandoned field north of Baghdad in a
region where U.S. and Iraqi forces are pressing ahead with
offensives against al Qaeda forces.
AP - A missile destroyed a suspected militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people inside, officials said, as hundreds of students protested Pakistan's support for the U.S.-led war on terror.
