WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush travels this week to Africa, one of the few regions where he can claim globally recognized successes for efforts on AIDS and development in a foreign policy legacy dominated by the Iraq war.
Ronaldo traveled to Paris on Thursday for an operation to repair the ruptured tendon in his left knee, an injury that could end his career.
The three-time FIFA world player...
AP - U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes.
OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. - A bank is foreclosing on the Old Saybrook restaurant owned by former Celtics forward Vin Baker.
TD Banknorth N.A. holds a nearly $1 million mortgage...
Thousands of pro-government supporters are gathering in Beirut on Thursday to mark the third anniversary of the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Later in southern Beirut, a funeral will be held for a senior Hezbollah commander who was killed this week.
A strong earthquake causes buildings to shake in southern Greece and in the capital, Athens. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:41 pm
Tensions are high in Beirut as rival camps mark ex-PM Rafik Hariri's death and a Hezbollah leader's funeral. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:41 pm
The secretary general of Burma's largest rebel group, the Karen National Union, is killed. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:40 pm
AP - Yahoo Inc. hopes media conglomerate News Corp. can rescue it from a Microsoft Corp. takeover or at least prove the slumping Internet pioneer is worth more money than its unsolicited suitor wants to pay.
ATLANTA - A spokeswoman says a patient hospitalized at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., after a sugar refinery explosion has died.
Beth Frits says Michael Kelly Fields died...
AP - Roger Clemens was told he didn't sound believable. Brian McNamee was branded a "drug dealer" and reminded of past lies. With Congress apparently split over which man's version of events is true, it could be up to the Justice Department to decide.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Authorities have uncovered alleged plots by al-Qaida-linked militants to assassinate the Philippine president and bomb foreign embassies, officials said Thursday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:35 pm
AP - Authorities have uncovered alleged plots by al-Qaida-linked militants to assassinate the Philippine president and bomb foreign embassies, officials said Thursday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah holds a mass funeral for its assassinated commander Imad Moughniyah, one of the United States' most wanted men, in Beirut on Thursday amid calls for revenge against its sworn enemy Israel.
China's government has reacted angrily to charges by the U.S. Justice Department against several people accused of selling defense and aerospace secrets to Beijing, calling the allegations of espionage "groundless".
A strong earthquake struck southern Greece, sending people fleeing from buildings in southern cities. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the quake, which was felt as far away as Cairo, Egypt.
FORT MYERS - Brian McNamee sat in front of yesterday's congressional hearing on performance-enhancing drugs as a symbol of the way things used to be in major league clubhouses....
Reuters - Angry lawmakers on Japan's southern
island of Okinawa called for progress on shrinking the U.S.
military presence and tighter discipline among U.S. troops
after the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of raping a
schoolgirl.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Angry lawmakers on Japan's southern island of Okinawa called for progress on shrinking the U.S. military presence and tighter discipline among U.S. troops after the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of raping a schoolgirl.
Facing a torrent of criticism Tuesday, Blue Cross of California abruptly halted its practice of asking physicians in a letter to look for medical conditions that could be used to cancel patients' insurance coverage. Source: Digg | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:20 pm
AP - With two of their three spacewalks completed, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex focused Thursday on getting the new Columbus lab up and running.
A rights group urges Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:17 pm
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Anybody that knows anything about stock car racing in the New England area, knows the name Pete Hamilton.
In 1970, Hamilton, a newcomer to NASCAR's...
AP - A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed, going a step beyond what CIA Director Michael Hayden has said.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians seeking love on Valentine's Day speed-dated in deckchairs on Bondi Beach, while Japanese trekked through snow in search of romance and Filipinos sang syrupy ballards.
Reuters - A leader of Myanmar's biggest
rebel group was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on
Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal
to the former Burma's military junta.
MAE SOT, Thailand (Reuters) - A leader of Myanmar's biggest rebel group was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal to the former Burma's military junta.
"Their leaders lecture us on the sanctity of life, and their president believes that every embryo is sacred, but they are the only country to have used these terrible weapons. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the plane that bombed Hiroshima, said he never lost a night's sleep over killing 100,000 people...That's scarcely human." Source: Digg | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:10 pm
PARIS (AP) -- French forces transported munitions from Libya and other countries to Chad's army during a rebellion earlier this month, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:08 pm
BEIJING (AFP) - China expressed regret Thursday over US film-maker Steven Spielberg's decision to cut ties with the Beijing Olympics, saying it was unacceptable to link politics to the sporting extravaganza. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:06 pm
BOSTON - The storm that first brought heavy snow and then drenching rains is over - but flooding concerns persist.
The National Weather Service says the Assabet River in...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran has postponed a fourth round of talks with the United States in Baghdad on improving security in Iraq, giving no reason for the delay, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Thursday.
BARNSTABLE - A man whose attempt to escape from police custody led to a carjacking, chase and shooting on Cape Cod has pleaded guilty to several charges.
Anthony Roberts...
Parents traveling with their children during President's Week vacation should avoid the temptation of doing it all.
That's one of the tips that Emily Kaufman, author...
A British court has ruled that an Algerian-born pilot wrongly jailed on a U.S. warrant accusing him of training the Sept. 11 hijackers can claim compensation from the British government.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- After weeks and weeks of waiting, it's finally Daytona time!
While the sun is not even up yet, the Herald sits inside the media center at Daytona...
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The purported leader of al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq called in a new posting on a militant Web site on Thursday for attacks on Israel and proposed that Iraq's territory be a "launching pad" to seize Jerusalem.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:58 am
Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, reported a 54 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit on solid revenue gains as customers spent more for cable TV. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:55 am
A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:49 am
LONDON (AP) -- British police said Thursday that interim tests indicate Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, a presidential candidate in the ex-Soviet republic who claimed he was targeted for assassination, had died of natural causes.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:49 am
Japan's economy grew at a surprisingly strong annual rate of 3.7 percent in the fourth quarter, the government said Thursday, but analysts and ministers warned prospects for the future remain murky. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:48 am
Daimler AG's profit rose to $5.83 billion in 2007 as demand for its upscale sedans and SUVs drove sales, the German automaker reported Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:46 am
UBS AG on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $11.28 billion, and a loss for the entire year, besieged as other banks were by investments in U.S. subprime mortgages. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:46 am
The UN says Somalia is the world's forgotten crisis, with 15,000 children in need of urgent aid. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:44 am
AC Milan striker Ronaldo fears he may have to retire after rupturing a tendon in his left knee, claims club owner Silvio Berlusconi. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 am
PARK CITY, Utah - With his two bandmates and their autocratic leader gathered around a dining table, David Crosby is telling a George Bush joke.
"Don't you think...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Throngs of Lebanese came out Thursday for two opposing gatherings: Hezbollah backers for the funeral of a slain militant suspected in hundreds of American deaths, and their pro-Western opponents to mark the assassination of an anti-Syrian former prime minister.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 am
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A strong earthquake struck southern Greece on Thursday, sending people fleeing from buildings in southern cities. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the quake, which was felt as far away as Cairo, Egypt.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:41 am
Inferno is a "sonic barrier," a long metallic speakerbar that generates a sound made of four frequencies between 2 and 5 kilohertzs. It will stop anyone, making them vomit and feel incredibly ill just using sound. It can be installed in houses, shops and even vans and cars. It is being installed in Russian retired nuclear weapons depots. Source: Digg | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:40 am
A tiny liberal arts college here hopes it has found an answer to a nagging shortage of campus parking: a bicycle giveaway. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:38 am
ZURICH (AFP) - Swiss banking giant UBS plunged to its first-ever full-year net loss on Thursday after losing 18 billion dollars in the US subprime mortgage crisis. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:38 am
Brazilian police seize a big load of illegally logged lumber as officials start new moves to tackle Amazon deforestation. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:31 am
House-to-house searches to seek rebels in Chad's capital will continue, the government says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:29 am
Police hunting for a man who hacked a psychologist to death with a 9-inch knife and a meat cleaver have plenty of clues: A sketch, a witness, surveillance footage and two bags full of bizarre items the killer left in the victim's office. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:25 am
The purported leader of al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq called in a new posting on a militant Web site on Thursday for attacks on Israel and proposed that Iraq's territory be a "launching pad" to seize Jerusalem. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:24 am
A map locating Kalamata, the epicentre of the earthquake. A powerful earthquake measuring at least 6.5 on the Richter scale has shaken southern Greece, but no casualties or severe damage was immediately... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:22 am
Vladimir Putin repeats his threat to target neighbouring states over the proposed US missile defence shield. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:20 am
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) - Two strange new flesh-eating dinosaurs which hunted the rich forests of Africa some 110 million years ago have been unearthed in Niger, researchers said Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:13 am
CDC: Gulf Coast trailers have toxic air Kansas City Star - 1 hour ago By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer US health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes.
A US-based rights group urges Bangladesh's caretaker government to end torture "endemic" to the country. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:05 am
Airstrikes and a gunbattle involving U.S.-led coalition forces killed at least four suspected Taliban insurgents, the military and an Afghan official said Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:01 am
U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
It's unclear if perjury charges will result from conflicting congressional testimony by pitcher Roger Clemens and his former trainer. Brian McNamee said he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone; Clemens said it never happened.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing United Health, one the nation's largest health insurers, and demanding information from more than a dozen others. He's accusing the industry of manipulating data so it can charge patients an unfairly high portion of the bill for out-of-network doctors.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured members of Congress on Wednesday that the Bush administration isn't going to limit the options of future presidents regarding U.S. policy in Iraq. Some lawmakers expressed considerable skepticism.
Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama addresses supporters during a primary campaign rally at the Kohl Center, February 12 in Madison, Wisconsin. Hillary Clinton is hitting back hard at... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:59 am
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton greets supporters after a rally at the Don Haskins Arena at UTEP University in El Paso, Texas. Clinton is hitting back hard at Barack Obama after her latest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:59 am
Caroline Morales and her brother Michael of Charlottesville, Virginia, hold up a campaign poster for Republican US presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee prior to a campaign rally... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:59 am
Lotfi Raissi, a pilot who spent months in prison after being wrongly accused
of training some of the September 11 hijackers, should be allowed to claim
compensation, the High Court ruled today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:59 am
DILI, East Timor (AP) -- The rebels jumped from two cars, firing machine guns as they stormed the compound of President Jose Ramos-Horta. "Traitor! Traitor!" they shouted, hunting for the Nobel Peace Prize winner.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:48 am
(Kyodo) _ A high-profile official of the Chicago bid committee for the 2016 Olympic Games has met with a Kuwaiti International Olympic Committee member in a move thought to violate the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:46 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Thursday resumed its pursuit of Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. After spending 12... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:44 am
Members of the Kenyan parliament listen to former UN secretary genral Kofi Annan (bottom R) in Nairobi, February 12. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki faced increasing international pressure on Thursday to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:42 am
Former UN chief Kofi Annan (C) wipes his brow after he addressed members of the Kenyan parliament in Nairobi, February 12. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki faced increasing international pressure on Thursday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:42 am
Experts examine a wreckage of Belarus' Belavia Airlines Canadair CRJ-100, which was heading for Minsk, Belarus, when it flipped over on the runway at Zvartnots Airport near Yerevan and burst into flames... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:39 am
A man who became addicted to gambling is suing a bookmaker for continuing to
take his bets and allowing him to lose more than £2 million on golf,
football and horse racing. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:39 am
A pilot accused of training the September 11 hijackers has been given the right to claim compensation for wrongful imprisonment by the Court of Appeal. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:33 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) Malaysia's Election Commission announced Thursday that a national election will be held March 8. The announcement came a day after Prime Minister Abdullah... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:31 am
Don't forget to bring your laptop to bed this Valentine's Day for a 'pillow-talk guide' of the top 11 sexual positions as 'researched' by Men.Style.com. In this guide—complete with flexible wooden doll models—you can show her 'The Trapeze', 'The Shoulder', and the erotic 'Stand and Carry.' Best of all, the contents of the guide are SFW. Source: Digg | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:30 am
Britain is to consider overturning Margaret Thatcher's decision not to launch
manned space missions, according to a government strategy document published
today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:22 am
BEIRUT (AFP) - Tens of thousands of pro-government supporters converged on central Beirut on Thursday for the third anniversary of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's assassination, just miles from where Lebanon's opposition group Hezbollah prepared to bury a top commander slain by a car bomb. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:22 am
Pakistan's embattled president Pervez Musharraf has again vowed that already-delayed parliamentary elections will go ahead on schedule and be free, fair and transparent next week. Opponents say his government is up to dirty tricks.
(Kyodo) _ Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama apologized Thursday for making remarks that the acquittal of 12 defendants in an election law violation case in Kagoshima Prefecture should not... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:16 am
(Kyodo) _ China said Thursday the food poisoning cases in Japan triggered by Chinese-made frozen meat dumplings should not have an impact on the planned visit to Japan by Chinese... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:07 am
LONDON (AFP) - Georgian opposition leader Badri Patarkatsishvili died of natural causes, according to initial post mortem tests released by British police Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:06 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not running a spy network in the United States and Washington should cease its allegations of espionage, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, days after the U.S. Justice Department arrested four for spying.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- President Pervez Musharraf pledged Thursday that next week's elections would be free, fair and held on time, after political opponents accused him of planning to rig the vote so he could maintain his grip on power.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:50 am
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co settled claims on Wednesday with four reporters at the heart of a scandal involving claims that the world's biggest PC maker engaged in corporate espionage to plug a boardroom leak.
In the past few years, No limit Texas Hold'em has become the most popular poker game in the world. Its popularity started when the game became televised in the United States in the early 2000s. Not long after, just like an avalanche, it quickly became the most played poker game not only in the United States, but in casinos world wide. Source: Digg | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:40 am
PARIS (AP) -- In American military parlance, it's gut-check time for NATO in Afghanistan, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy appears ready to answer allies' calls for more forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:36 am
China has responded to the arrests in the United States this week of four people on espionage charges by telling the world's remaining superpower to drop its "Cold War thinking". Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:21 am
Police investigating the death of an exiled Georgian billionaire living in Britain have said post-mortem results showed he died of natural causes. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:15 am
Shiv Sena activists burn Valentine's Day cards at a protest in the North Campus University area, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:14 am
A vendor picks up a bouquet of flowers for a customer at a flower stall on Valentine's Day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:13 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
National Guard member Tanya Towne lost custody of her 12-year-old son, Derrell, after she returned from guarding convoys in Iraq. Experts say a growing number of soldiers are losing custody of their children because they've been deployed overseas.
A Georgian billionaire found dead at his Surrey mansion on Tuesday night
appears to have died of natural causes, police said today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:05 am
Relatives of dead fugitive military leader Alfredo Reinado carries a wreath at his funeral, February 14, in Dili. Reinado was killed during an assassination bid on President Jose Ramos-Horta this week.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:52 am
Will Wright's amazing Spore is coming to a handful of platforms on September 7. Check out Joystiq's detailed coverage of Spore Creatures on DS, with brand new screenshots and details on the portable version. Source: Digg | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:40 am
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) -- Local Hamas activists have pledged to obey the law, Mideast envoy Tony Blair has taken a stroll through once gunman-infested neighborhoods and policemen are now the only ones carrying weapons in public in this former militant hub.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:12 a... | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:21 am
These amazing examples of human genius go from a mini-fridge with a door made from Han Solo frozen in carbonite to a Death Star BBQ, actual Leia's hair headphones and even an AT-AT chair caddy to hold your magazines, snacks and Pepsi—the marketing masterminds proposed all these gadgets—next to your favorite sofa. Source: Digg | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:20 am
She calls on her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination to accept more invitations to debate, including one before next week's Wisconsin contest.
A day after she lost her status as front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton stepped up her attacks on Sen. Barack Obama , challenging her opponent to debate. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
McNamee holds up but Clemens' credibility takes a major hit in their showdown over steroids
On one end of the dark wood table sat baseball's ideals -- the swaggering, swarthy starting pitcher. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
British police call the death 'suspicious.' Badri Patarkatsishvili was a bitter enemy of U.S.-backed Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
A tycoon and opposition leader from the nation of Georgia who had often claimed that his enemies were out to kill him was found dead at his home outside London, police said Wednesday. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Only 9,983 houses and condominiums were sold in the six-county region last month, a data-tracking firm says.
Low interest rates, falling prices and promises of government relief were not enough to slow the pace of Southern California's housing downturn, which hit a new bottom last month. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The actor tells how important family was to his friend and describes events of the day he died.
In a cameo courtroom appearance, actor Henry Winkler told jurors Wednesday that his friend John Ritter seemed in top form on the set of his television show Sept. 11, 2003, the day he died. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Elected leaders in New York and Los Angeles initiate campaigns to curb and punish abuses.
With medical costs rising, record numbers of people losing their coverage and healthcare at the top of the domestic agenda, health insurers found themselves Wednesday in the cross-hairs of regulators, elected officials and law enforcement in California and across the nation. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Clemens and McNamee continue to stand by their differing accounts of whether the star pitcher ever used steroids or human growth hormone. Pointed questions from lawmakers are surprisingly partisan.
Undergoing hours of pointed questioning by a House committee, Roger Clemens repeatedly proclaimed Wednesday that he had never used steroids or human growth hormone -- accusations leveled against the legendary pitcher under oath by his former personal trainer, who sat a few feet away and faced intense scrutiny about his own credibility. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Officials in the Philippines say they've uncovered a plot by Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda to assassinate President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and "other people", possible including diplomats.
Eight Nobel laureates have written on open letter to the Chinese president demanding action to end the "atrocities" in Sudan, amid rising concern at Beijing's close ties with the African regime Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 7:41 am
NEW YORK (AFP) - Yahoo is reportedly exploring an alliance with Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate News Corp. in an effort to stave off or possibly to push up the cost of a takeover by Microsoft. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Feb 2008 | 7:40 am
Looting, arson and murder have become hallmarks of Kenya's conflict over a disputed presidential election. Another, less talked about tactic in the violence that has degenerated into ethnic clashes: rape.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge, saying the case involved a state secret, dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a unit of Boeing Co that charged the firm helped fly terrorism suspects abroad to secret prisons.
President Bush, stepping up pressure on Syria, ordered new sanctions Wednesday to punish officials in Damascus for alleged efforts to undermine stability in Iraq and meddle in Lebanon's sovereignty and democracy.
A Pakistani police official says an Islamic militant accused of helping carry out the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto wanted to avenge the death of a friend who was killed last year in Islamabad's Red Mosque.
Australian troops backed by helicopters hunted Thursday for suspects in the attacks on East Timor's top leaders as new details emerged on the strike that left the president critically wounded. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 4:14 am
LOS ANGELES - A parcel of mountaintop land behind to the famed Hollywood sign has been put up for sale, provoking outrage from Los Angeles city officials and residents worried that building there would spoil one of the most famous... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Feb 2008 | 3:40 am
Spacewalking astronauts installed a tank of gas needed for the International Space Station's cooling system on Wednesday.
German astronaut Hans Schegel made his debut spacewalk leaving the International Space Station on Wednesday... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Feb 2008 | 2:58 am
Roger Clemens struggled to find the right words under questioning during a congressional hearing Wednesday and denied new accounts of drug use made against him by former teammate and close friend Andy Pettitte.
A federal appeals court has overturned a Texas statute outlawing sex toy sales, leaving Alabama as the state with the strictest ban on such devices. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 2:12 am
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly by trying to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport men's room sex sting, the Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday.
The Islamic militant organization Hezbollah says the Israeli government is behind a car bomb blast in Syria that has killed a senior militant, wanted by the U.S. for the 1985 TWA hijacking and attacks that killed more than 200 Americans in Lebanon.
For many Japanese men, their first loyalty is to their company. But that's changing - and a group of men is proclaiming loud and proud that their first loyalty is to their wives. Barry Petersen reports on their lessons in loving your spouse.
A powerful winter storm spread more than a half-foot of snow across parts of the Northeast on Wednesday, closing hundreds of schools and switching off the lights for thousands of homes and businesses.
PARIS (AFP) - A month-long diet of fast food and no exercise led to dangerously high levels of enzymes linked to liver damage, in an unusual experiment inspired by the docu-movie "Supersize Me." Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Feb 2008 | 1:49 am
A member of the Supreme Court said in an interview broadcast in Britain this week that interrogators can inflict pain to obtain critical information about an imminent terrorist threat. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 1:35 am
Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terrorism suspects, despite President Bush's veto threat. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 1:05 am
'The Cheetah Girls' books became TV movies that spawned CDs, DVDs, concerts and merchandise. The author signed on for a share of the profits, but she didn't know about 'Hollywood accounting.'
A Lynwood pet shop owner charged last year with abusing cats, dogs and other animals -- some smothered to death or left to die in trash bins -- pleaded no contest Wednesday to animal cruelty charges and could be sentenced to as many as six years in prison, district attorney officials said today. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:25 am
Families have been warned to expect a decline in their standard of living as rising food and fuel prices place household finances under severe strain. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Iran has taken a significant step forward in its nuclear programme by producing quantities of a gas crucial to the enrichment of uranium. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Barack Obama has set out plans to revive America's economy in an attempt to counter criticism that his White House campaign was too strong on rhetoric and too weak on detail. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Police are investigating the "suspicious" death of an exiled Georgian billionaire living in Britain who feared assassination in an Alexander Litvinenko-style murder plot. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Prominent figures in the entertainment industry who are involved in the staging of the Beijing Olympics have come under pressure to follow Steven Spielberg in cutting their links with the Games over China's policy on Darfur. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Next Monday at 5pm Natasha Kaplinsky makes television history. As presenter of
the relaunched and renamed <i>Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky </i>– having
the presenter’s name in the title is another dubious first for the British
news bulletin – she becomes the first British newsreader to earn a million
pounds a year. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, face off on Capitol Hill. Clemens has disputed claims in the Mitchell Report on drug use in baseball that he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs, while McNamee says he injected the pitcher with those drugs.
NEW YORK - New York City street performer "The Naked Cowboy" is suing Mars Inc. for US$6 million ($7.67 million) over the use of his trademark look - white underwear, cowboy boots and a hat - by a blue M&M candy on a Times Square... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Feb 2008 | 11:00 pm
If the highly anticipated election is not delayed again, it could usher in a very tumultuous period. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 13 Feb 2008 | 11:00 pm
LONDON - Local government authorities are considering a Sydney council's "Manilow method" for dispersing unruly teenagers as an option for tackling anti-social behaviour in Britain.
Campaigners this week called for a ban on a device... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Feb 2008 | 10:42 pm
Hugo Chavez is threatening to cut off oil exports to the United States if Exxon-Mobil moves ahead with plans to freeze Venezuelan assets in various parts of the world. But Venezuela needs the U.S. market as much as the U.S. needs the oil, so the standoff could turn in to a stalemate.
A Penn State-Harrisburg student was convicted Tuesday of charges related to threatening messages left on his MySpace page. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 13 Feb 2008 | 10:36 pm
After much debate and threats of parliamentary dissolution, the Iraqi parliament has finally passed several laws that were part of the benchmark legislation demanded by the U.S. a year ago, when the military "surge" was ordered to give Iraqi politicians time and space to act.
The Senate passes an intelligence bill with a provision that effectively bans the torture of detainees. Proponents say it will prevent the CIA from using such methods as simulated drowning, or waterboarding. The president's allies say it could shut down a valuable intelligence program.
Italian police stormed a kindergarten on Wednesday to free 11 children and their teacher taken hostage by a man demanding money, police said.
The 32-year-old man was arrested after a six-hour stand-off at the pre-school in Reggio... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Feb 2008 | 10:01 pm
BRATISLAVA - Slovak customs snatched a bumper shipment of cocaine from South America worth 1.64 billion crowns ($92.13 million), hidden in hundreds of wine bottles, customs and police officials said on Wednesday. The shipment contained... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
After months of pressure from Darfur activists, Steven Spielberg has withdrawn from his position as artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympics. Darfur activists are pressuring China because of the Chinese government's strong ties to Khartoum. Sudan is a key oil supplier for China.
LONDON - Five British Muslim youths jailed for downloading terrorist propaganda were freed on Wednesday after a three-judge panel headed by the country's most senior judge overturned their convictions.
The five were jailed last... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Feb 2008 | 9:14 pm
DILI - Security is tight in Dili where slain rebel leader Alfredo Reinado will be laid to rest today.
Reinado was shot dead after launching a failed assassination attempt on East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta on Monday.
Hundreds... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Feb 2008 | 9:11 pm
BERLIN - A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the website that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who's the father.
Six different... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Feb 2008 | 9:06 pm
LISBON - The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is close to a conclusion, Portuguese Justice Minister Alberto Costa said on Wednesday.
Costa, who was speaking to a parliamentary committee, gave no indication... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Feb 2008 | 8:31 pm
The kidnapped Iraqi translator for CBS News was released on Wednesday but a British journalist remained captive, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 5:46 pm
Guatemalan lawmakers on Tuesday gave the president the ability to pardon or commute death sentences, lifting a five-year hold on executions. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 5:25 pm
Amsterdam city council orders escort services to obtain licenses within six months or shut down in effort to combat money laundering, human trafficking and abuse in the sex industry. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 5:17 pm
British police on Wednesday charged an artist with gross negligence manslaughter after inflatable artwork hit two women when the sculpture was blown 30 feet in 2006. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 4:46 pm
Out on DVD for Valentine's Day across Russia is a heartwarming drama about a man and a woman who love each other and their country and who bear an uncanny resemblance to Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 4:32 pm
The death of an exiled Georgian billionaire, who claimed less than two months ago that he was the target of an assassination plot, has been handed over to a major crimes investigation team. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 4:06 pm
Fighting disease and poverty will be among the themes emphasized by President Bush on an upcoming trip to Africa Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 3:25 pm
A man armed with a box cutter barricaded himself inside a day-care center in southern Italy on Wednesday with about 11 children and a teacher inside, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 3:23 pm
Denmark's leading newspapers reprinted a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, a day after three men were arrested on suspicion of plotting to kill the cartoonist whose work had spurred deadly protests in the Muslim world. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 3:06 pm
Portuguese justice minister says the investigation into the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in southern Portugal is nearing its end. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Feb 2008 | 2:03 pm
AP - U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde fumes.
AP - Yahoo Inc. hopes media conglomerate News Corp. can rescue it from a Microsoft Corp. takeover or at least prove the slumping Internet pioneer is worth more money than its unsolicited suitor wants to pay.
AP - The tears flowed on "American Idol" Wednesday night as the show trimmed the competition to 24 semifinalists.
AP - Roger Clemens was told he didn't sound believable. Brian McNamee was branded a "drug dealer" and reminded of past lies. With Congress apparently split over which man's version of events is true, it could be up to the Justice Department to decide.
AP - Authorities have uncovered alleged plots by al-Qaida-linked militants to assassinate the Philippine president and bomb foreign embassies, officials said Thursday.
Reuters - Angry lawmakers on Japan's southern
island of Okinawa called for progress on shrinking the U.S.
military presence and tighter discipline among U.S. troops
after the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of raping a
schoolgirl.
AP - With two of their three spacewalks completed, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex focused Thursday on getting the new Columbus lab up and running.
AP - A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed, going a step beyond what CIA Director Michael Hayden has said.
Reuters - A leader of Myanmar's biggest
rebel group was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on
Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal
to the former Burma's military junta.
AP - U.S. stocks headed toward a moderately higher open Thursday as investors awaited the latest reading on the health of the labor market.
A contentious relationship between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama has been percolating on Capitol Hill for more than two years.
Kelvin Sampson’s future at Indiana was in doubt Wednesday following the release of an NCAA report that says he committed five “major” violations.
Roger Clemens struggled to find the right words under questioning during a congressional hearing Wednesday and denied new accounts of drug use made against him by former teammate and close friend Andy Pettitte.
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly by trying to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport men's room sex sting, the Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday.
A powerful winter storm spread more than a half-foot of snow across parts of the Northeast on Wednesday, closing hundreds of schools and switching off the lights for thousands of homes and businesses.
World-renown evangelist Billy Graham was hospitalized Wednesday in fair condition after a successful surgery to update a shunt in his brain.