John Coltrane and other famed jazz saxophonists hit piercing high notes that amateurs can't by expertly changing the shape of their vocal tracts, research now reveals. Source: Digg | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:33 pm
AP - General Motors Corp. reported one of the largest losses ever for an automotive company Tuesday as it struggled to turn around its North American business amid a weak economy. Also this morning, the company offered a new round of buyouts to 74,000 U.S. hourly workers. GM said it lost $38.7 billion in 2007. The loss largely was due to a third-quarter charge related to unused tax credits.
Roger Clemens, who has spent the past few months trying to deny alleged steroid and HGH use, gets to tell it to Congress tomorrow.
The goal from the beginning...
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Tuesday they arrested a pensioner who confessed to burning down a 600-year-old gate designated as the country's number one national treasure because he was angry about a compensation payment.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he was convinced that Iran was leading a secret operation to build nuclear weapons and urged a greater international effort to prevent Tehran from succeeding.
Terry Francona doesn't have a contract extension, but now is not the time for cynicism and skepticism.
At least not yet.
Asked again yesterday about the status...
DILI (Reuters) - Australian troops began arriving in East Timor on Tuesday to help enforce a state of emergency after the tiny nation's president was critically wounded in a double assassination attempt and flown to Darwin for treatment.
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss reflecting a slump in its North American market and losses at former finance subsidiary GMAC.
This is Terry Francona's fifth season, but it might as well be his 50th. We all know how this works. Dogs age seven times as fast as humans. And the manager of the Red...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Hillary Clinton's White House campaign faced the prospect of three new hammer blows on Tuesday, with Democratic rival Barack Obama tipped to sweep a trio of Washington-area nominating contests. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:19 pm
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) - A major assault by the Sudanese army and allied militia has left two Darfur towns badly damaged by fire, sources close to a U.N. reconnaissance mission to the region said on Tuesday.
NEWTON - Police in Newton are searching for an unidentified man who walked into a Chinese cultural center and choked a woman into unconsciousness.
The victim was taken...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iranian and U.S. officials will meet within days in Baghdad for a new round of talks, Iraq's foreign minister said on Tuesday, as part of efforts to build on recent progress in stemming sectarian violence.
FORT MYERS - Clay Buchholz was used to constructing the perfect baseball player.
"The biggest thing ever . . . I can't wait to have my name on a video game....
DILI, East Timor (AP) -- Australian troops and a warship arrived in East Timor to boost security Tuesday after rebel attacks on the country's two top leaders left the president in "extremely serious" condition with gunshot wounds.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:12 pm
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:10 pm
AP - Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:10 pm
GENEVA (Reuters) - A unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo would damage security in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
Massachusetts gambling foes have hired a veteran Maine casino killer in a high-stakes bid to torpedo Gov. Deval Patrick's resort casino plan.
Casino Free Mass hired...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Tens of thousands of troops fanned out across Pakistan on Tuesday to bolster security ahead of next week's parliamentary elections, but senior military officials say they would not try to interfere with the vote.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:06 pm
Three more US presidential primary votes are held as Barack Obama seeks to pull ahead in the Democratic race. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:04 pm
Some companies request tax deductions for philanthropy, others for restaurants bills. But one Israeli business tried to push the envelope by asking to deduct nearly $860,000 it paid in kickbacks. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:55 am
Stocks headed for a higher open Tuesday as investors awaited fourth-quarter results from General Motors Corp. and digested a decision by diversified manufacturer 3M Co. to raise its dividend. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:55 am
Multiple Grammy Award winner Amy Winehouse and Ryan Landry as the leading, er, 'lady' in the Gold Dust Orphan's new send-up 'Medea' playing Thursdays,...
Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland's second largest bank, said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit dropped 72 percent because of writedowns for investment banking and money-market funds. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:53 am
Finding your better half this Valentine's Day could be as easy as hailing a taxi — especially if Ahmed Ibrahim is in the driver's seat. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:50 am
AP - TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike. Membership meetings will be held Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles, said Patric Verrone, president of the guild's West Coast branch.
TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike. Membership meetings will be held Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles, said Patric Verrone, president of the guild's West Coast branch. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:50 am
Credit Suisse reports a 72% dive in quarterly profits amid an "extremely challenging environment". Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:46 am
The Federal Emergency Management Agency may expand the use of passenger trains to evacuate the sick and elderly in advance of hurricanes across the Gulf Coast, a FEMA official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:42 am
MEDFIELD - The Norfolk District Attorney's office says a body found in North Carolina appears to be that of Andrew Boisvert, the Bridgewater man wanted for the killing...
A tense calm is reported in East Timor amid a state of emergency after attacks on the country's leaders. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:36 am
(Kyodo) _ Japan's Financial Services Agency said Tuesday it will shortly sign a multilateral information exchange pact under the International Organization of Securities Commissions to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:31 am
SPRINGFIELD - A Hampden Superior Court judge has cleared a Vermont man of motor vehicle homicide in an October 2006 crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike that killed three members...
(Kyodo) _ Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday it has established a task force to assess possible damage to the island's security from two cases of Chinese espionage in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:28 am
Zimbabwe's ruling party expels an ex-minister who is to challenge Robert Mugabe for the presidency in March. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:27 am
A biography of Gen. Robert E. Lee and a book about the relationship between President Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass were this year's winners of the Lincoln Prize for Civil War scholarship. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:25 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH TEAM'S ARRIVAL IN PYONGYANG, ADDING DETAILS) A team of U.S. experts on North Korea and an aide to a U.S. senator arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:22 am
AP - Democrat Barack Obama hopes to rout Hillary Rodham Clinton in presidential primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia while Republican John McCain seeks to put more distance between himself and Mike Huckabee.
Failure to reach agreement on a new farm bill before the old one expires March 15 would be "catastrophic" for most agricultural sectors of the U.S. economy, a top USDA official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:19 am
TORONTO (Reuters) - A major outage hit BlackBerry users in North America on Monday, cutting off wireless e-mail for everyone from busy executives to political campaign staff on the eve of three U.S. presidential primaries.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi protested Tuesday to demand democracy in Myanmar, days after the military regime said it would hold elections in 2010 under a new constitution likely to entrench the junta's powerful position.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:16 am
Supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi protested Tuesday to demand democracy in Myanmar, days after the military regime said it would hold elections in 2010 under a new... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:16 am
Supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi protested Tuesday to demand democracy in Myanmar, days after the military regime said it would hold elections in 2010 under a new constitution likely to entrench the junta's powerful position. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:16 am
Caffeine is the most widely used stimulant in the world, but few use it to maximal advantage. Get optimally wired with these tips. Source: Digg | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:14 am
NAHA, Japan, Feb. 12 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING LATEST DEVELOPMENTS) Anxiety and anger spread among residents of Okinawa Prefecture on Tuesday in the wake of the previous day's arrest of a Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:13 am
Russia has become a "superpower" of spam e-mail, becoming the second most prolific country after the United States in producing junk emails, a computer security firm said Monday. Source: Digg | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:11 am
Sometimes they can be funny, sometimes thought provoking, other times they just mess with your mind. They’re always take your breath away though and make you wonder at the skills of the people that created them. Source: Digg | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:10 am
The three men all lived in the same small town where two little girls were brutally killed in the early 1990s. Two of the men were convicted and went to prison. Now, the third man has allegedly confessed he alone committed both crimes. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:09 am
Tens of thousands of troops fanned out across Pakistan on Tuesday to bolster security ahead of next week's parliamentary elections, but senior military officials say they would not try to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:06 am
Good gawd y'all, we don't normally bother with fan renders and mockups, but excepting the awkward placement of the L and R triggers there's almost nothing about this PSP re-visioning that leaves us wanting. Gank that UMD, add some flash memory, and this is our be-all end-all fantasy portable gaming device -- that will likely never ever be made. Source: Digg | 12 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama hopes to extend his winning streak over rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, when voters in three battlegrounds make their choices in a close and bruising Democratic presidential race.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's main opposition has proposed that it share power for two years with the president's party, and that the country then hold fresh elections, negotiators from each side said Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
Kenya's main opposition has proposed that it share power for two years with the president's party, and that the country then hold fresh elections, negotiators from each side said Tuesday.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF has expelled former finance minister Simba Makoni, seen here on February 5, for deciding to challenge veteran President Robert Mugabe in next month's presidential elections. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:46 am
(Kyodo) _ Pakistani security personnel were searching Tuesday for the country's ambassador to Afghanistan who went missing the previous day. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:43 am
Israel's housing minister says tenders will soon be issued for 1,000 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:42 am
Reuters - South Korean police said on Tuesday they
arrested a pensioner who confessed to burning down a
600-year-old gate designated as the country's number one
national treasure because he was angry about a compensation
payment.
A 69-year-old man upset over a land dispute has admitted starting the fire in Seoul that destroyed a 14th-century gate considered one of South Korea's most treasured landmarks, police say.
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Students at Pakistan's Punjab University, the country's biggest and a traditional nursery for politicians, are disillusioned with politics and many say they... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:29 am
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Danish police have arrested several people suspected of planning to attack one of the cartoonists who drew controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed for Denmark's biggest daily in 2005, police said Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:27 am
ZURICH (AFP) - Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse reported a 3.0-percent gain in underlying net profit to five billion euros last year, despite huge commercial loan writedowns. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:25 am
Danish police arrest five people over an alleged plot to attack a man who drew Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:24 am
(Kyodo) _ The Chunichi Dragons have signed hard-throwing right-hander Maximo Nelson of the Dominican Republic to a one-year contract, the Central League club said Tuesday. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:24 am
Pakistanis torch a Danish flag during 2006 protests in Karachi denouncing the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in several European newspapers. Danish police have arrested several people... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:23 am
AP - England's commissioner for children and a civil liberties group joined in on a campaign Tuesday to ban high-frequency devices intended to drive misbehaving children away from shops and other areas. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:23 am
Two Pakistani nuclear experts have been abducted in the country's restive north-west, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:17 am
Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama hopes to
extend his winning streak over rival Hillary Clinton on
Tuesday, when voters in three battlegrounds make their choices
in a close and bruising Democratic presidential race.
76 year old Barbra Walters apparently understands young slang more than the entire Hillary campaign: "... he's getting suspended, he apologized, MSNBC apologized. Drop it already! It's OK. He made a mistake." Source: Digg | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:10 am
Ukraine's president meets his Russian counterpart as his country faces a gas supply cut over an unpaid bill. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:02 am
One of the boldest but least provable claims of string theory is that there are (at least) eleven dimensions, but the seven we've strangely failed to notice so far are too tiny too observe (about a thousandth of the radius of a proton). Source: Digg | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:01 am
A Kariba Dam floodgate is opened by Zimbabwe and Zambia prompting fears of further flooding downstream. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 10:01 am
AP - At-risk borrowers with all types of mortgages, not just high-cost subprime loans, could be eligible for help under a new plan involving six big home lenders.
Danish police say they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
Reuters - Australian troops began arriving in East
Timor on Tuesday to help enforce a state of emergency after the
tiny nation's president was critically wounded in a double
assassination attempt and flown to Darwin for treatment.
Australia's parliament opens with its first-ever Aboriginal welcome, ahead of an apology for past wrongs. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 12 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel is planning to build 1,100 new apartments for Israelis in east Jerusalem, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday, angering Palestinians who want the area as a capital of their future state and further troubling peace talks.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 9:37 am
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin was to meet Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, amid crunch talks on averting a cut in Russian gas supplies to the neighbouring state. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 9:36 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister on Tuesday denounced the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 case that jolted the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Mike Libby uses the carapaces of real insects to create tiny, mechanical works of art. They look like they could be part of a new insect-driven A.I. Not only does Libby's work adorn a new anthology of speculative writing from Tachyon Press called The New Weird. Source: Digg | 12 Feb 2008 | 9:30 am
Bolivia's president has labeled a U.S. Embassy security officer an "undesirable person" after allegations by a non-profit aid organization and a scholar that he asked them to keep tabs on Cuban and Venezuelan nationals.
The Treasury is apparently considering backing down on plans to increase taxation on non-domiciles in Britain after a wave of protests from some of Labour's biggest donors. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Feb 2008 | 8:15 am
CANBERRA (AFP) - Australia's parliament opened with an historic Aboriginal ceremony Tuesday as new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd prepared to make a landmark apology to the minority's "Stolen Generations". Source: AFP - Wire stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 7:37 am
Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a defiant tone as he spoke to giant crowds marking the 29th anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, vowing never to slow down nuclear development and announcing plans for more rocket launches.
Traders monitor the trading at the Philippine Stock Exchange at the financial district of Makati city east of Manila, Philippines Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008. Philippine shares gained a slight 0.7 percent to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 7:19 am
HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) - Astronauts on Monday installed the European space laboratory Columbus on the orbiting International Space Station, giving Europe an important foothold for the deeper exploration of space. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 7:10 am
Visitors photograph themselves in front of the National Stadium in Beijing Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008. The stadium, known as the Bird's Nest for its elaborate network of steel girders, has become a popular... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 7:09 am
A man walks in the yard of the Pakistan embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on, Tuesday, Feb.12, 2008. Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was missing and feared kidnapped as he traveled by road through a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 7:05 am
In this photo released by RACQ CQ RESCUE, shown are two unidentified passengers being winched to a rescue helicopter from a stranded yacht that has run aground at Hook Island on Australia's Queensland... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 6:59 am
DILI (AFP) - International troops stepped up patrols in East Timor's capital Tuesday as President Jose Ramos-Horta recuperated in Australia after an assassination bid doctors said he was lucky to survive. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 12 Feb 2008 | 6:44 am
East Timor's president was in "extremely serious" but stable condition in Australia after surgeons removed bullet fragments from an assassination attempt, while authorities at home declared a two-day state of emergency.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero raises a clinched fist as he speaks during a Socialist Party meeting in Madrid. Zapatero ruled out any further dialogue with the armed Basque separatist... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 6:04 am
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband (R) speaks during a press conference while Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) looks on at the Presidential palace in Kabul February 7. Miliband will argue in a speech... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 5:37 am
File photo shows Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Australia's parliament opened with a landmark Aboriginal ceremony Tuesday as a dramatic symbol of the new government's pledge to right injustices... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 4:35 am
An Aboriginal child plays at Hopy's Town Camp in Alice Springs in 2007. Australia's parliament opened with a landmark Aboriginal ceremony Tuesday as a dramatic symbol of the new government's pledge to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 12 Feb 2008 | 4:35 am
U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the weekend, The Associated Press has learned.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- President Evo Morales declared a U.S. Embassy security officer to be an "undesirable person" on Monday after reports that the officer asked an American scholar and 30 Peace Corps volunteers to pass along information about Cubans and Venezuelans working in Bolivia.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 2:21 am
Far, far removed from the days when her image as a machine gun-toting revolutionary captivated a nation, Patricia Shaw Hearst was in more genteel surroundings Monday. She was tending to Diva at Madison Square Garden, petting her soft head on dogdom’s biggest day after winning a red ribbon.
John Rocker claims he flunked a drug test ordered by Major League Baseball in 2000 and that he, Alex Rodriguez and other Texas Rangers were advised by management and union doctors following a spring training lecture on how to effectively use steroids.
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A young Austrian woman whose kidnapper kept her locked away in a cell for years said Monday she lost faith in her country's judiciary after accusations surfaced that authorities ignored a tip that could have led to her captor.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 1:38 am
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has endorsed for the first time the idea of pausing the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq this summer. His endorsement came as twin bombings apparently aimed at Sunni tribal leaders killed as many as 22 people.
Telegraph.co.uk this week unveils its list of the people who have the most influence on the Prime Minister. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Feb 2008 | 1:00 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a defiant tone as he spoke to giant crowds marking the 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution Monday, vowing never to slow down nuclear development and announcing plans for more rocket launches in Iran's space program.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:54 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Virgin CEO Richard Branson offered Monday to set up an "environmental war room" to lead the world's efforts to find a fix for global warming.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:09 a... | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:31 am
Microsoft says Yahoo's rejection of its multibillion-dollar buyout offer is "unfortunate," and that moving forward on a deal is in both companies' best interest. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:30 am
BlackBerry smart phones have lost service across the United States, wireless carriers said Monday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:28 am
Some of Labour's biggest financial donors have attacked Government plans for a clampdown on non-domiciles in Britain. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Families are having to pay an extra £1,300 a year in household bills as food and fuel prices rise at their fastest rate for 17 years. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan has been abducted in a troubled tribal border region just hours after a senior Taliban commander was arrested. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
A father has died after being savagely beaten as he tried to help an unconscious youth in the street. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Four people have been arrested in the United States accused of spying for China to acquire trade and state secrets, including details of the Space Shuttle programme. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
The self-confessed mastermind of Sept 11 is among six Guantanamo Bay inmates charged by the Pentagon with murder and conspiracy to carry out the attacks. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 12 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Aborigines held an historic ceremony in Australia's national Parliament, prior to Wednesday's formal apology of the government past offenses against native people, that many hoped would mark a new era of race relations in the country.
A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co. were charged Monday in separate spy cases with allegedly selling military secrets to China.
More than 200 people have reported getting first, second and third degree burns from Icy Hot Heat Therapy products, leading manufacturer Chattem, Inc. to order a recall.
Striking screenwriters are considering a proposed contract that would end their 12-week-long strike and could be back at work by Wednesday. Half-hour comedies are expected to have fresh episodes faster than hourlong dramas. But some serialized shows might not come back until fall.
U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers flying unusually close to an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the weekend, The Associated Press has learned. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:33 pm
While much of the media rushed to make sense of the apparent murder-suicide at Louisiana Technical College on Friday, two other schools had their own scares last week. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:32 pm
The Pentagon says it has charged six detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder in connection with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The men will become the first Guantanamo prisoners to face trial. And if they're convicted, they could receive the death penalty. The six include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind.
The "magic number" of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination is 2,025. But neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama is close to that number. If that continues, the party's 796 superdelegates may decide the Democratic race.
With the delegate race tightening between Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Virginia voters will be in the spotlight as they head to the primaries Tuesday. But no matter who wins, Democrats say the enthusiasm generated by the primary should help their party in this November's election.
The northern Iraqi city of Mosul is the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the country now. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said Mosul is where al-Qaida in Iraq is making its last stand. U.S. commanders don't see it that way, but there is no doubting the heavy insurgent presence in the city.
Prosecutors say a mortgage fraud ring in Akron, Ohio, scammed mortgage companies and local investors out of more than $18 million. With many lenders eager to loan money to almost anybody, this may be one of many small organized crime rings that have sprung up around the country.
Yahoo Inc. has rebuffed an unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp., an offer Yahoo said "substantially undervalues" the company. Microsoft is now expected to sweeten its bid, which valued Yahoo stock at $31 a share.
Hillary Clinton has been trying to stop her rival Barack Obama's building momentum as her advisers conceded she could be facing another three-state loss in the "Chesapeake primaries". Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Feb 2008 | 8:21 pm
Tuesday brings the so-called Potomac primaries in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia. While Sen. John McCain is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, supporters of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are hoping for a strong showing in Virginia.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was missing in a tribal border region where Pakistani Red Cross workers had gone missing a few days ago. However, government sources would neither confirm nor deny that the ambassador has been kidnapped.
The deal is not going to benefit everyone just yet, says Variety's Cynthia Littleton. Nonetheless, it establishes the basic principle that writers should be reimbursed when their work appears on the Web.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was missing and feared kidnapped in a tribal border region, state television quoted the foreign ministry as saying Monday.
Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin was heading to the Afghan capital, Kabul, from the tribal district of Khyber when he went missing, Pakistan Television quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying.
Islamist militants have carried out attacks in the region. Source: ABC News: International | 11 Feb 2008 | 5:09 pm
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was missing and feared kidnapped in a tribal border region, state television quoted the foreign ministry as saying Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Feb 2008 | 4:27 pm
U.S. warships fired on Somali pirates trying to resupply colleagues who hijacked a Danish-owned tug boat, a district commissioner said Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Feb 2008 | 3:49 pm
Twin car bombs targeted a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni tribal leaders Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 14 people civilians and wounding 45, a military spokesman said. Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Feb 2008 | 3:39 pm
Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, represented California's 12th District since 1980. He died a month after disclosing he had cancer of the espohagus.
Pakistani security forces captured a top figure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and captured four other militants Monday, a military official said. Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Feb 2008 | 1:13 pm
A moderate earthquake struck northwestern Mexico near the U.S. border Monday, prompting authorities to evacuate schools and resulting in at least one minor gas leak. Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Feb 2008 | 11:24 am
AP - General Motors Corp. reported one of the largest losses ever for an automotive company Tuesday as it struggled to turn around its North American business amid a weak economy. Also this morning, the company offered a new round of buyouts to 74,000 U.S. hourly workers. GM said it lost $38.7 billion in 2007. The loss largely was due to a third-quarter charge related to unused tax credits.
AP - TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike. Membership meetings will be held Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles, said Patric Verrone, president of the guild's West Coast branch.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama hopes to rout Hillary Rodham Clinton in presidential primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia while Republican John McCain seeks to put more distance between himself and Mike Huckabee.
Reuters - South Korean police said on Tuesday they
arrested a pensioner who confessed to burning down a
600-year-old gate designated as the country's number one
national treasure because he was angry about a compensation
payment.
Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said
on Tuesday he was certain that Iran is engaged in a secret
operation to build nuclear weapons.
Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama hopes to
extend his winning streak over rival Hillary Clinton on
Tuesday, when voters in three battlegrounds make their choices
in a close and bruising Democratic presidential race.
AP - At-risk borrowers with all types of mortgages, not just high-cost subprime loans, could be eligible for help under a new plan involving six big home lenders.
Reuters - Australian troops began arriving in East
Timor on Tuesday to help enforce a state of emergency after the
tiny nation's president was critically wounded in a double
assassination attempt and flown to Darwin for treatment.
Far, far removed from the days when her image as a machine gun-toting revolutionary captivated a nation, Patricia Shaw Hearst was in more genteel surroundings Monday. She was tending to Diva at Madison Square Garden, petting her soft head on dogdom’s biggest day after winning a red ribbon.
John Rocker claims he flunked a drug test ordered by Major League Baseball in 2000 and that he, Alex Rodriguez and other Texas Rangers were advised by management and union doctors following a spring training lecture on how to effectively use steroids.
A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co. were charged Monday in separate spy cases with allegedly selling military secrets to China.
Chilly air blew into the Northeast on Monday and many schools closed or opened late, while upstate New York got three feet of snow.
More than 200 people have reported getting first, second and third degree burns from Icy Hot Heat Therapy products, leading manufacturer Chattem, Inc. to order a recall.
Candidate denies her campaign is in trouble after losing to Barack Obama in four weekend voting contests and replacing her campaign manager.
Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.