Huge crowds flock to the Athens funeral of Archbishop Christodoulos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:05 pm
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will endorse Republican John McCain's bid for president, McCain campaign aides said on Wednesday.
The AU chairman tells African leaders they cannot ignore the crisis triggered by disputed polls in Kenya. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:01 pm
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- An explosion at an unlicensed fireworks factory in Istanbul killed 19 people and injured nearly 70 others Thursday, an official said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:59 am
An explosion at an unlicensed fireworks factory in Istanbul killed 19 people and injured nearly 70 others Thursday, an official said. "The blast was caused by the fireworks," Gov.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:59 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH DIPLOMAT'S ARRIVAL IN PYONGYANG) The U.S. State Department's top Korea expert arrived Thursday in Pyongyang, where he is expected to meet with North Korean Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:58 am
(Kyodo) _ The Tokyo High Court allowed the Foreign Ministry on Thursday to keep secret some key information concerning the use of its discretionary funds, overriding a previous district... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:56 am
(Kyodo) _ Akafuku Co., a Japanese sweets maker based in Ise, Mie Prefecture, said Thursday it will resume operations next Wednesday at three stores in the city, including the main shop,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:53 am
Sharp exchanges over Iraq and the heated tone of the campaign spiced a tense debate Wednesday between Republican presidential candidates. The four-man debate was dominated by sparring between the new front-runner, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province is killed in a bomb attack on a mosque. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:49 am
Reuters - A second Kenyan opposition
legislator was shot dead on Thursday, overshadowing the
resumption of negotiations between the country's feuding
politicians after more than a month of violence.
ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - A second Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead on Thursday, overshadowing the resumption of negotiations between the country's feuding politicians after more than a month of violence.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATES WITH SQUAD INFO IN FINAL 2 GRAFS) Japan coach Takeshi Okada says his players must get ugly if they want to launch their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign with a Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:46 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Britney Spears was taken from her home in Los Angeles by police and rushed to a hospital in the early hours of Thursday morning, the Los Angeles Times reported.
(Kyodo) _ Japan's six biggest banking groups' losses related to the U.S. subprime mortgage market totaled 529.1 billion yen at the end of December, a 4.6-fold jump from 115 billion yen at Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:44 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH PRESS CONFERENCE, CHANGING DATELINE) A Bank of Japan Policy Board member said Thursday that the United States could suffer a temporary economic contraction Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:42 am
(Kyodo) _ A meeting of ex-servicemen, including several retired generals, Thursday advised President Pervez Musharraf to resign and hand power to the suspended chief justice to hold the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:42 am
BASRA, Iraq (AP) -- Rockets slammed into the British base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday, slightly wounding three British soldiers, a spokesman said. Iraq... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:42 am
Rockets slammed into the British base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday, slightly wounding three British soldiers, a spokesman said. Iraq British forces turned over... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:41 am
Britney Spears was taken by ambulance from her home early Thursday and escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen police officers on motorcycles, two cruisers and a pair of helicopters. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:41 am
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An opposition lawmaker was gunned down by a police officer Thursday in the second fatal shooting of an opposition legislator this week amid ethnic fighting sparked by Kenya's disputed presidential election, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:39 am
Nato is not winning in Afghanistan and the country faces a humanitarian catastrophe, new reports say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:33 am
PARIS (AFP) - France's top bank BNP Paribas is "thinking" about a possible takeover of its rival Societe Generale, rocked by multi-billion-euro rogue trade losses, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:32 am
An opposition lawmaker was shot and killed by a police officer in the Rift Valley Thursday, a party official said, the second opposition lawmaker to be killed this week. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:31 am
Citizens crossing the border from Canada or Mexico will now be required to show proof of citizenship and a government-issued identification card. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:27 am
(Kyodo) _ At least seven people, including a deputy provincial governor, were killed and 18 others were wounded in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, police said. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:27 am
AP - Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to protect the city.
AP - Thousands of Iraq war veterans who could have suffered traumatic brain injury may be getting unnecessary or inadequate health care because Veterans Affairs officials have yet to determine whether their initial screening tests are reliable, investigators say. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:26 am
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing Helmand province's deputy governor and five other people, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:25 am
AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing Helmand province's deputy governor and five other people, officials said.
AP - The Senate is set to begin voting on dueling economic aid proposals, as senators rush to add jobless benefits and tax rebates for high earners, the elderly, and disabled veterans to a House-passed package.
AP - Republican Mitt Romney accused John McCain of using dirty tricks by suggesting the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, in a spirited debate Wednesday night that underscored the intensity of their presidential rivalry.
AP - A 13-year-old runaway returned home with a horrific account of being forced into prostitution by the kind of person who should have instead come to her aid: a city detective. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:23 am
A significant drop in the number of hunters in West Virginia has left a hole in the state's budget, and one lawmaker thinks he has a solution: allow children to receive hunter training in school. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:22 am
Reuters - A suspected U.S. missile
strike that killed up to 13 foreign militants in Pakistan's
North Waziristan region this week had targeted second or third
tier al Qaeda leaders, according to residents in the tribal
area.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. missile strike that killed up to 13 foreign militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region this week had targeted second or third tier al Qaeda leaders, according to residents in the tribal area.
In town of Eldoret, Karen Allen meets people who have been caught up in the violence which is continuing to haunt the country. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:17 am
A probe is under way after dozens of Japanese people report falling ill from eating Chinese-made dumplings. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:12 am
NAIROBI (AFP) - A second Kenyan opposition lawmaker was shot dead, police said Thursday, amid spiralling unrest sparked by disputed presidential elections more than one month ago. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:12 am
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick asked for forgiveness on Wednesday during a televised speech following the revelation of racy messages to a top aide that threatened his administration. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:07 am
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, will win 71 percent of the votes in March's Russian presidential election, state-owned pollster VTsIOM predicted on Thursday.
An explosion kills at least 17 people and injures more than 40 in an industrial suburb of Istanbul. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:02 am
Disgraced MP Derek Conway has employed a close friend of his son Henry as his new Parliamentary researcher. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 11:01 am
BEIJING (AP) -- China on Thursday said it had stopped production at and exports from a company whose insecticide-tainted frozen dumplings sickened 10 people in Japan, in the latest crisis to rock China's food export business.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:49 am
Four young men in Brazil get maximum jail sentences after they dragged a six-year-old boy to his death behind a car they had stolen. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:47 am
Peacekeepers in Western Sahara have vandalised ancient rock paintings with graffiti, a UN official says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:41 am
Serbia's two presidential rivals clash in a TV debate, as pollsters say they are neck-and-neck. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:41 am
DNA traces from two mystery people have been discovered on the bra of murdered British student Meredith Kercher. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:30 am
BEIJING (AP) -- Snow battering central China has dealt an "extremely serious" blow to winter crops, a top agriculture official warned Thursday, raising the likelihood that future shortages would exaggerate already surging food prices.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:27 am
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney angrily accused his rival John McCain on Wednesday of "dirty tricks" for saying he had backed a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - A one month delay to consider a new U.N. Security Council draft resolution that would punish Iran for moving ahead with its nuclear program would not be a disaster, a South African official said on Thursday.
CHANGSHA, China (AFP) - Authorities in China on Thursday warned of more travel misery to come as millions of people struggled to get home for the country's most important holiday amid savage winter weather. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:16 am
LONDON (AFP) - Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday that net profits leapt 23 percent last year to a record 31.331 billion dollars (21.115 billion euros), energised by soaring crude prices. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:06 am
GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Chinese crammed into a railway station in Guangzhou on Thursday, desperate to get home for a major holiday after days of delay caused by snow and showing signs of losing their patience.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A bomb being transported by a suicide bomber on a bicycle exploded prematurely Thursday, killing four people and injuring 13 others in Sri Lanka's volatile north, the military said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:02 am
Afghan firefighters clear the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. A suicide attacker blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing the deputy governor of Helmand province and five other... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:02 am
Afghans examine the broken window of a taxi which was damage by a suicide car bomb in Kabul. A suicide attacker has blown himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing the deputy governor... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:02 am
Afghan police guard the site of a suicide attack in Kabul. A suicide attacker has blown himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing the deputy governor of Helmand province and five other... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 10:02 am
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) - Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards abandoned their failing U.S. presidential bids on Wednesday, narrowing the race to two main candidates on each side before next week's nomination voting in more than 20 states.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Aboriginal leaders welcomed Thursday a new era of indigenous relations in Australia with a government that plans to acknowledge their traditional land ownership and apologize for past injustices.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 9:52 am
Sandwiching a war speech in between Republican fundraisers, President Bush is making clear that his priority is to keep Iraq secure, not just to get troops home. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 9:17 am
A general view of Istanbul. At least six people were killed and more than 40 injured in a powerful explosion in an industrial neighbourhood in Istanbul, the doctor heading the emergency team at the scene... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 9:06 am
SYDNEY (AFP) - Mutations in a key section of a human sex chromosome appear to be able to cause mental retardation, an Australian researcher said Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 8:57 am
United States Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer (R) and Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union, Said Djinnit (2R) talk to the media during a press conference January... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 8:01 am
A volunteer at a community radio station set fire to the station because he was upset that his song selections for an overnight Internet broadcast were changed, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 7:50 am
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - John McCain has taken pole position in the Republican White House race, having secured Rudolph Giuliani's endorsement and with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger poised to follow suit. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 7:46 am
A Nepalese victim of a bomb attack at a political rally is taken away by locals, in Birgunj, some 80 km south of Kathmandu. Police in ethnically-tense southern Nepal said Thursday they have arrested three... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 6:54 am
Nepalese policemen evacuate a victim of a bomb attack at a political rally, in Birgunj, some 80 kms south of Kathmandu. Police in ethnically-tense southern Nepal said Thursday they have arrested three... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 6:54 am
PARIS (AFP) - In a rare discovery of a new species of mammal, zoologists on Thursday said they had identified a shrew-like creature called a grey-faced sengi living in a small community in remote Tanzania. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Jan 2008 | 6:34 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved a $157 billion economic stimulus package on Wednesday that offers smaller tax rebates to more people than a plan passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- South African police raided a downtown church Wednesday night where hundreds of Zimbabweans had taken refuge, hauling people in pajamas to a police station in scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era raids.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 4:33 am
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, sen here in 18 December 2007. European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, Bouteflika, ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl and Esperanto are seen as contenders for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 4:19 am
EU Commission Chairman Jose Manuel Barroso seen in Stasbourg in 2007. Barroso, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl and Esperanto are seen as contenders for the Nobel... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 4:19 am
Former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl seen here in November 2007 in Berlin. European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Kohl and Esperanto are seen as contenders... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Jan 2008 | 4:19 am
Despite the fact that 'Idol' auditions were in Miami otherwise known as the sun and fun capital of the world for many of the people who auditioned, the feeling in the air was anything but festive. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 4:14 am
TAIJI, Japan (AP) -- Every autumn and winter, hunters from this craggy Japanese fishing village corral thousands of dolphins into a tiny, isolated cove and kill them for meat and fertilizer, turning the water red with their blood.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:06 a... | 31 Jan 2008 | 4:09 am
From flooding in the northeast to avalanches in the west and tornadoes in the southeast, Mother Nature gave the U.S. a whipping this week. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Jan 2008 | 3:20 am
With economic growth grinding to a halt, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates again Wednesday, this time by half a percentage point. Just before it did, the Commerce Department reported some dismal growth figures for the end of last year. The Fed hopes its aggressive moves will help avoid a full blown recession.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey has tried to ward off questions about whether waterboarding is torture by announcing that he won't make that determination. But at a Senate oversight hearing Wednesday, members of the Judiciary committee engaged him in discussion on when something is torture and when it is not.
Israel's Winograd Commission -- which investigated the Israeli government's conduct during the war in Lebanon in 2006 -- has issued its final report. It is critical of both the Israeli government and the Israeli army. Especially controversial are the final 36 hours of the war.
Ministers have been accused of "bullying" councils into ending weekly refuse collections after figures showed that 18 million people across England have their rubbish picked up only once a fortnight. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
MPs face a ban on employing members of their family in the wake of the Derek Conway affair, the parliamentary sleaze watchdog has warned. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Private Muslim schools have been given the power to police themselves, despite widespread fears over religious segregation, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
John McCain was today poised to gain a powerful ally in his quest for the White House after sources close to both Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Arizona senator confirmed the California governor was backing Mr McCain. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a fierce attack on 24-hour drinking, saying it had made Britain "less safe and less civil". Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Israel's military and political leaders were guilty of "serious failings and flaws" in their handling of the Lebanon war in 2006, a government investigation concluded. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Criminals are being allowed to skip community service simply by claiming they overslept or forgot to turn up, a Government watchdog discloses today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Jan 2008 | 12:01 am
Arizona Sen. John McCain nearly ran out of money last summer. But after victories in three early primaries, his campaign says it has raised more this month than the $7 million total it raised in the last three months of 2007.
In response to an outcry over the relocation of the University of Michigan commencement, the ceremony will now be held on campus. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 30 Jan 2008 | 10:40 pm
One of the Penn State students who dressed up as Virginia Tech shooting victims at Halloween was fired from his Bank of America job in December. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 30 Jan 2008 | 10:37 pm
At the University of Nebraska, business law students take the largest hit—with one new required textbook costing $170, Source: U.S. News & World Report | 30 Jan 2008 | 10:35 pm
Kansas State University administrators have told its Sexual Health Awareness Peer Educators to stop production of its current "Protect your willie" T-shirts. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 30 Jan 2008 | 10:32 pm
University of Rhode Island students are being called upon to play extras in Richard Gere's latest film venture. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 30 Jan 2008 | 10:27 pm
A new study shows that heart attacks and other cardiac events went up in Germany during the 2006 World Cup soccer championships. Doctors say the stress fans experience can be risky, especially if they have pre-existing heart problems.
Bernanke's moves show the central bank has adopted an approach different from under Greenspan. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 30 Jan 2008 | 9:40 pm
John Edwards, who never stopped running for president after the 2004 election, but whose hopes for 2008 were never realized, withdrew from the presidential race Wednesday. Edwards' failure to win Iowa was the beginning of the end, and a third-place finish in his native South Carolina may have been the final straw. He has not announced plans to endorse a rival.
The Federal Reserve's decision on Tuesday to cut a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point comes as fears of a recession grow. Here's a look at what the move means for consumers -- and what else to look out for amid the economic turmoil.
The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate another half-percentage point to 3 percent on Wednesday, barely a week after the previous cut, signaling the central bank's desire to stabilize the faltering economy. The economy's weaker-than-expected performance in the fourth quarter likely played a role in the Fed's decision.
The building of the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is meeting opposition in Texas. Some residents are refusing to let government site surveyors onto their property.
Reuters - California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger will endorse Republican John McCain's bid for
president, McCain campaign aides said on Wednesday.
Reuters - A second Kenyan opposition
legislator was shot dead on Thursday, overshadowing the
resumption of negotiations between the country's feuding
politicians after more than a month of violence.
AP - Britney Spears was taken from her home by ambulance early Thursday and escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen police officers.
AP - Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to protect the city.
AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing Helmand province's deputy governor and five other people, officials said.
AP - The Senate is set to begin voting on dueling economic aid proposals, as senators rush to add jobless benefits and tax rebates for high earners, the elderly, and disabled veterans to a House-passed package.
AP - Republican Mitt Romney accused John McCain of using dirty tricks by suggesting the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, in a spirited debate Wednesday night that underscored the intensity of their presidential rivalry.
Reuters - A suspected U.S. missile
strike that killed up to 13 foreign militants in Pakistan's
North Waziristan region this week had targeted second or third
tier al Qaeda leaders, according to residents in the tribal
area.
