Aerosmith fans with fantasies of acing Joe Perry's guitar riffs no longer have to "Dream On."
At least when it comes to playing them on Guitar Hero.
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FORT MYERS - There appears to be a Cold War taking place between the Red Sox and Curt Schilling regarding the best way to treat the veteran right-hander's ailing right...
Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush began a
visit to Africa on Saturday with a call for a power sharing
agreement in Kenya to end the post-election conflict there that
has killed 1,000 people. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:53 am
COTONOU (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush began a visit to Africa on Saturday with a call for a power sharing agreement in Kenya to end the post-election conflict there that has killed 1,000 people.
AFP - Prime Minister Hashim Thaci confirmed Saturday that Kosovo would declare its independence from Serbia on Sunday, the day when the "will of the citizens of Kosovo" would be implemented.
PRISTINA, Serbia (AFP) - Prime Minister Hashim Thaci confirmed Saturday that Kosovo would declare its independence from Serbia on Sunday, the day when the "will of the citizens of Kosovo" would be implemented. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:52 am
AP - President Bush insisted his administration is "plenty active" in the turmoil now roiling nearly every corner of Africa, but said his trip to the continent that began Saturday is focused more on its successes than its conflicts.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: CHANGING NUMBER IN 11TH GRAF) Minority ethnic Indians rallied on Saturday for equal rights in Malaysia, a predominantly Malay-Muslim country,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:47 am
AP - An attorney who claims to represent Britney Spears has filed papers to move her conservatorship case from the Los Angeles County Superior Court to federal court, but legal experts question whether his legal strategy is viable and whether he can represent the troubled pop star at all.
Jason Kidd is Eastern Conference All-Star, who by Sunday could play for a team in the West. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:35 am
Contrary to our previous beliefs, identical twins are not genetically identical. he finding may be of great significance for research on hereditary diseases and for the development of new diagnostic methods. Source: Digg | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:30 am
MANCHESTER, England (AFP) - Sir Alex Ferguson insists his current Manchester United squad has two years to fulfil its potential as they prepare for Saturday's titanic FA Cup fifth round tie against top-flight rivals Arsenal here at Old Trafford. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:26 am
An 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes was jailed near Naples Saturday, hours after he was extradited from Canada. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:24 am
ROME (AP) -- An 83-year-old former SS prison guard who was sentenced to life in prison in Italy for Nazi war crimes was jailed near Naples Saturday, hours after he was extradited from Canada.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:24 am
DHAKA (AFP) - Wildlife rangers in Bangladesh said Saturday they have stopped tracking Royal Bengal tigers due to the mystery death of two of the critically endangered big cats who were fitted with radio transmitters. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:24 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama, his momentum building up, sought on Saturday to maintain his winning streak in Wisconsin and Hawaii that hold primary contests next Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:23 am
COTONOU (AFP) - President George W. Bush on Saturday launched a five-country Africa swing, highlighting US-backed victories against disease and poverty and calling for action to help "trouble spots" Darfur and Kenya. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:19 am
AFP - Pakistani politicians launched a final push for votes Saturday, as Islamist militants blew up a polling station in an attack that raised new fears for the security of next week's elections.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani politicians launched a final push for votes Saturday, as Islamist militants blew up a polling station in an attack that raised new fears for the security of next week's elections. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:11 am
The gunman who carried out America’s latest college massacre was identified
last night as Stephen Kazmierczak, 27, a “normal, unstressed” award-winning
graduate student who returned to his former university on Valentine’s Day to
shoot 22 students in 90 seconds. He killed five of them before turning a
weapon on himself. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:09 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea appears committed to a nuclear disarmament deal but remains unwilling to complete two big steps until complaints over aid and U.S. concessions are solved,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:04 am
Malaysian police fired tear gas Saturday to disperse about 200 ethnic Indians protesting to demand racial equality ahead of a general election. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The traditional doctor’s surgery could soon be replaced by a new batch of
"polyclinics", according to the health minister charged with reviewing the
NHS. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
(Kyodo) _ Lee Myung Bak, who will be inaugurated as South Korean president later this month, has communicated to the Japanese government his wish to visit Japan in late April, sources... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:56 am
AP - A judge refused to allow investigators to dig up the body of a former Knox County district attorney general to look for evidence against his widow, who is charged with murdering her second husband. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:50 am
A judge refused to allow investigators to dig up the body of a former Knox County district attorney general to look for evidence against his widow, who is charged with murdering her second husband. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:50 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a departure from usual policy, a senior U.S. Treasury official met Iranian representatives in Paris last month as part of a multinational gathering to discuss "terror financing," said U.S. officials on Friday.
US President George W Bush backs a power-sharing deal to end Kenya's turmoil, at the start of a tour of Africa. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:44 am
Top MBTA officials acknowledge that for years the agency has been secretly cutting thousands of bus and train trips from published schedules to lower costs - a practice that...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 16 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATES WITH FRESH INFO IN 11TH GRAF) Minority ethnic Indians rallied on Saturday for equal rights in Malaysia, a predominantly Malay-Muslim... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:38 am
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan military jets bombed and destroyed a Tamil Tiger military base in the island's rebel-held north on Saturday, the military said, in a third successive day of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:36 am
The European Union gave the final approval Saturday for the deployment of a 1,800-member policing and administration mission in Kosovo. The decision comes just before the province's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:32 am
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The European Union gave the final approval Saturday for the deployment of a 1,800-member policing and administration mission in Kosovo.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:32 am
(Kyodo) _ Japan's Mao Asada produced a spellbinding performance in the women's free skate to win the Four Continents figure skating meet on Saturday. Top after the short program, Asada Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:29 am
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is eyeing proposing the resumption of talks between Japan and South Korea to forge a free trade agreement when he meets with incoming South... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:27 am
A 63-year-old Massachusetts federal bankruptcy judge has resigned a week after he was arrested for driving under the influence in New Hampshire while reportedly wearing a...
After much trial and error and six weeks of meticulous engineering by college and high school scientists, the Nutrons club at Northeastern University unveiled its brainchild...
BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH PRESS CONFERENCE) North Korea has said it will not give a full account of its nuclear programs or speed up the pace of disablement work... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:14 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than it did before pouring in forces last year -- even after a planned drawdown, a U.S. general said on Friday.
While the Federal Emergency Management Agency rushes to move thousands of Gulf Coast storm victims out of government-issued trailers, scientists are tearing the units apart to learn why many have exposed occupants to dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:12 am
You couldn't say Walter Coles Sr. is sitting on a pot of gold. Close, though. The hundreds of acres of rolling Virginia farmland in his family for five generations contain the largest unmined uranium deposit in the nation, worth an estimated $10 billion. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:10 am
Hundreds of Maoist militants attacked six police compounds in eastern India in coordinated attacks, killing 13 police personnel, a village guard and a civilian and seizing at least 1,000 stolen pistols, police officials said Saturday. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:09 am
AP - Steven Kazmierczak's quiet, dependable and fun-loving exterior masked troubling details from his past that emerged as a stunned community struggled to understand what caused the 27-year-old to open fire on a class at Northern Illinois University, leaving six people dead.
Steven Kazmierczak's quiet, dependable and fun-loving exterior masked troubling details from his past that emerged as a stunned community struggled to understand what caused the 27-year-old to open fire on a class at Northern Illinois University, leaving six people dead. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:07 am
A stretch of Commonwealth Avenue billed by the city as one of Boston's busiest corridors will be getting some added traffic lanes - for bicyclists.
The city's...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Jimmie Johnson has a can-do attitude heading into the 50th Daytona 500 tomorrow at Daytona International Speedway.
The defending two-time NASCAR...
Reuters - Pakistani politicians were winding up
campaigns on Saturday for a general election that is meant to
complete a transition to civilian rule but has been
overshadowed by fear of violence and accusations of rigging.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani politicians were winding up campaigns on Saturday for a general election that is meant to complete a transition to civilian rule but has been overshadowed by fear of violence and accusations of rigging.
Most DJs don't wear their politics on their vinyl sleeves.
But Shortrock isn't like most DJs.
When the Ipswich-based turntablist brings his eclectic circus...
People walk in a main shopping area covering with election campaign posters and billboards of various candidates for Monday's parliamentary election Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AP... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:53 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Suspected militants bombed a polling station in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, two days before parliamentary elections considered crucial to restoring democracy.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:48 am
AP - Suspected militants bombed a polling station in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, two days before parliamentary elections considered crucial to restoring democracy.
Maoist rebels attack police stations in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, killing 13 officers and a civilian. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:48 am
Hendry Street is just the tip of the iceberg in Boston's foreclosure crisis.
As City Hall turns its attention to the Dorchester street that's been devastated...
A page in an issue of Sony Magazine (an office favorite over here) makes passing mention of a "PSP-Style phone" which is supposedly in development, then casually suggests the device could be "in shops as early as February." Source: Digg | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:40 am
Every guy wants a woman who's constantly ready to give it up. In this case, of course, the "it" is time and money to various worthy – or unworthy, depending on how Japanese you are in one case – causes. Here are the five women most likely to give you a helping hand when you're down and out. Source: Digg | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:40 am
CrackBerry addicts, are you ready to take your BlackBerry to the next level? In this list, you'll find some of the most awesome tips, hacks, how-tos and guides for the BlackBerry, making it easy for just about anyone to become a power user. Source: Digg | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:40 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich nations are not treated as "culprits" and developing countries as "victims," China's top climate envoy said.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:21 am
Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich nations are not treated as "culprits" and developing countries as "victims," China's top climate envoy said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:02 am
The International Olympic Committee gives the green light to blogging by athletes at the Beijing games. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:37 am
With their outdoor work completed, the astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex focused all their attention on the inside of the new Columbus lab. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:27 am
It happens every year. Although most Oscar nominees are deserving of their nods, a lot of great films, actors, and directors fall by the wayside. Here's a look at the ten biggest Oscar snubs of the past year in film across several different categories. Source: Digg | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:10 am
A video taken at the Chino facility prompted schools nationwide to pull beef from their menus.
San Bernardino County prosecutors on Friday filed felony charges against a former Chino slaughterhouse manager who allegedly used cruel methods to force ailing cattle into the slaughter box. The charges follow last month's release of a video showing treatment of animals at the plant, which led to schools nationwide pulling beef from cafeterias. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Sold as scrap, it will be fixed. Two suspected in similar thefts are held.
The bronze miner who stood for 80 years in a Mid-City park suffered the height of indignities. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
As vital organs are harvested from his body, one woman says, 'What everyone wants to know is: Why did this happen?'
With school out Friday, Madel Duran and her 10-year-old son, Victor, knew just how to spend their free afternoon. They made the short trek from their Oxnard home to honor a boy they never knew. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Described as solid and personable, Stephen Kazmierczak exhibited 'erratic' behavior after he quit taking his medication.
The gunman who killed five students and then himself at Northern Illinois University on Thursday was an award-winning graduate student, described by professors as friendly and respectful. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Maggie Williams, who was an aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was first lady, has a reputation as someone who can tell the senator what she doesn't want to hear.
When crisis would strike the Clinton White House, senior staff would meet at 7 a.m. in a kind of war-planning session. Sometimes an uncomfortable truth would waft silently about the room, like steam from the coffee mugs. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The governor is due to sign off on the plan today, cutting school and healthcare funding. But most of the red ink would be pushed forward with accounting maneuvers and borrowing.
The Legislature passed a package of emergency budget measures Friday, which lawmakers touted as swift, responsible bipartisan action that averts a cash crisis and erases nearly half the state's $14.5-billion deficit. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
UCLA researchers develop a substance that could capture the gas in smokestacks and tailpipes to help stem climate change.
UCLA scientists have synthesized a new class of sponge-like crystals that can soak up carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas in industrial emissions. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The officer's death hits a nerve. Residents line streets, and TV stations carry his funeral.
The police officers arrived by the thousands -- members of a family bound not by blood, but by a uniform and a badge. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) -- Hundreds of Maoist militants stormed six police compounds in eastern India in carefully coordinated attacks Friday night, killing 13 police personnel and one civilian, a top police official said. Eleven more policemen were injured.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 7:46 am
Human oddities who worked in circuses and other traveling shows enjoyed the relative stability and permanence of Coney Island. Here are a few of the most popular. Source: Digg | 16 Feb 2008 | 7:40 am
The European Union gave the final approval Saturday for the deployment of a 1,800-member policing and administration mission in Kosovo. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 7:34 am
Not like it's any huge surprise or anything -- after all, the HD DVD deathwatch is already in full effect -- but Niveus has just informed us that due to "customer demand and format war influences," it will be adding support for Blu-ray and "ceasing production of HD DVD-based servers." Source: Digg | 16 Feb 2008 | 7:30 am
Two former slaughterhouse workers were charged Friday with abusing ailing cattle in a case based on undercover video footage showing crippled and sick animals being shoved with forklifts. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Feb 2008 | 7:14 am
Malaysian police make several arrests after using tear gas and water cannon to break up a protest by ethnic Indians. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 7:13 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea marked the 66th birthday of leader Kim Jong Il on Saturday with an appeal for its impoverished people to unite around the strongman amid a deadlock in negotiations over the country's nuclear weapons programs.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 7:06 am
Ethnic Indian demonstrators (L) are hit by water cannons in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian police Saturday fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse ethnic Indians gathered in the capital, in the latest crackdown... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 6:42 am
A 34-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his wife and setting fire to their house, killing his four children, was indicted Friday on aggravated murder charges
Police in West Bengal. A group of more than 100 Maoist rebels shot dead 13 police and a civilian in eastern India, a police official said Saturday Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 6:12 am
DILI, East Timor (AP) -- Troops are scouring the jungle outside East Timor's capital for rebels blamed for an attack that seriously wounded the country's Nobel Peace prize-winning president, an official said Saturday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 6:04 am
The suggestion that the government had specific advanced warning, a claim that other witnesses subsequently discounted, created a sense of helplessness for many of the bereaved
PHOM PENH - A former Khmer Rouge commander who masterminded the abduction and murder of three Western backpackers in 1994, has died, his wife said on Saturday.
Sam Bith, 74, the most senior of the three ultra-Maoist guerrillas... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Feb 2008 | 5:15 am
President Hugo Chavez, seen here, said Friday he spoke with French President Nicolas Sarkozy about the hostage crisis in Colombia, and that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner would visit Caracas... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 5:09 am
CHICAGO - Missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett was declared legally dead on Friday by a Chicago court five months after the airplane he was flying disappeared over Nevada, media reported.
His wife, Peggy Fossett, had asked... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Feb 2008 | 4:45 am
TORONTO (AP) -- The head of the Anglican Church of Canada has warned members who split with the church over its decision to bless same-sex unions that they will lose their church buildings and funds.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 4:39 am
MUMBAI (AFP) - India's top technology and outsourcing body said it is confident it can ride out the challenge of a stronger rupee and a global economic slowdown as it wrapped up its annual meeting here. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Feb 2008 | 4:08 am
The UN condemns Eritrea, saying its peacekeepers are being prevented from leaving the country. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 3:51 am
The EU approves a police and justice mission for Kosovo, which is poised to declare independence from Serbia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 3:49 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council on Friday strongly condemned Eritrea's "lack of cooperation" with the U.N. peacekeepers monitoring the disputed border, demanding that it resume providing fuel and food and allow troops to move freely into Ethiopia.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 3:43 am
Missing US adventurer Steve Fossett is declared legally dead, five months after his plane disappeared. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 3:23 am
The US treasury department reveals that one of its officials took part in rare talks with Iranian officials last month. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 2:20 am
DEKALB, Illinois (Reuters) - A man who killed five students and himself during a shooting spree at an Illinois college had stopped taking medication and become erratic in the last two weeks, buying two guns used in the bloodbath just six days ago, officials said on Friday.
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Sen. Hillary Clinton sharpened her attack on Friday against rival Barack Obama before new contests for the Democratic presidential nomination, casting herself as a champion of the U.S. middle class and saying voters faced a choice between "speeches and solutions."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will have the chance to shoot down a disabled U.S. spy satellite from next Wednesday, after the space shuttle Atlantis ends its current mission, a U.S. general said on Friday.
Firemen put out a burning car in Copenhagen. Hundreds of youths have taken to the streets in riots across Denmark this week with racism and police harassment suggested as the cause of the discontent as... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 2:02 am
A Kosovo Albanian next to a giant Albanian flag near Pristina. Kosovo has inched closer to a widely expected declaration of independence on Sunday, amid rising political tension and Serbia's determination... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Feb 2008 | 1:50 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Somalia's transitional government urged the Security Council on Friday to speed up its planning for the possible deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force to replace African Union troops in the war-wracked nation.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:24 a... | 16 Feb 2008 | 1:26 am
Police identify a gunman who killed five at a university near Chicago as former student Stephen Kazmierczak. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 1:24 am
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett was declared legally dead on Friday by a Chicago court five months after the airplane he was flying disappeared over Nevada, media reported.
An Islamic Jihad commander is among at least seven people killed by an explosion in the Gaza Strip. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 1:18 am
CINCINNATI - Senator Hillary Clinton sharpened her attack on Friday against rival Barack Obama before new contests for the Democratic presidential nomination, casting herself as a champion of the US middle class and saying voters... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:59 am
The Swiss have invented a car that runs on land and underwater. It's called the "sQuba," and conjures up memories of James Bond's amphibious Lotus Esprit from "The Spy Who Loved Me."
Hillary Clinton has her back to the wall in Texas, where only a massive Hispanic vote can save her crumbling campaign. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Kosovo is poised to declare its independence from Serbia tomorrow, despite threats that Russia may encourage separatist movements elsewhere in response. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Bin Laden's allies are on the run in Iraq, but a report this week warned that the threat from home-grown terrorists is greater than ever. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Michael Burleigh explains how global terrorism is changing. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Millions of British Airways and Virgin Atlantic passengers will be able to claim refunds of up to £10 per flight after the airlines agreed to pay compensation to customers who were victims of price fixing. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
After the Iron Chancellor comes a man who seems to be a magnet for trouble, writes Rachel Sylvester. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
George Osborne has faced down calls from Right-wing members of the Conservative Party and refused to promise dramatic tax cuts for the next election. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
John McCain, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, has accused his Democrat rivals of supporting policies which would lead to genocide in Iraq. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
The grim tally in a town hit by a spate of suicides has risen to 16 after two young cousins took their own lives. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Thousands of salmon products have been recalled from eight supermarket chains amid fears they could be contaminated with diesel. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
The Chancellor has criticised the culture of rewarding failure in the City by giving bonuses to executives who appear to have done little to deserve them. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
A wave of immigration that helped to fuel Britain’s early 21st century boom is
over, as the Polish plumber and thousands like him go home. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Two cousins from Bridgend, Wales, have been found hanged, bringing the
suspected suicide toll among the town’s young people to 16. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Some South Los Angeles streets and area bus routes have been closed, detoured or delayed today because of the large crowd attending the funeral of slain LAPD SWAT Officer Randal Simmons. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:54 pm
The gunman who killed five people at Northern Illinois University before turning the gun on himself had stopped taking his medication recently and had become erratic, police said Friday.
Spain protested to Russia Friday over remarks by President Vladimir Putin, seen here February 14, 2008, in which he likened the situation in Kosovo to that in Spain's Basque and Catalan regions, said a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:39 pm
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell says phone companies that cooperated with government eavesdropping programs after the Sept. 11 attacks deserve retroactive immunity from civil rights lawsuits. But is the Bush administration, which is pressing Congress to extend the immunity, simply trying to avoid embarrassing disclosures?
The Virginia Tech massacre last year prompted schools and universities across the country to rethink their security procedures. Melissa Block talks with Darcie Shinberger of Western Illinois University in Macomb, which recently instituted a new campus-wide emergency alert system.
The gunman in Thursday's shooting at Northern Illinois University had stopped taking his medication and became erratic before opening fire inside a lecture hall, police say. Five people were killed before Stephen Kazmierczack killed himself.
Muslims protested Friday in the Gaza Strip, Pakistan and Denmark against the reprinting of a Danish newspaper cartoon depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
NEW YORK - Kids who live in neighbourhoods with heavy traffic pollution have lower IQs and score worse on other tests of intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air, a new study shows.
The effect of pollution... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:20 pm
A former police officer who tearfully told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant lover was convicted Friday of murdering her and their unborn child.
While athletes like Roger Clemens get the attention, tens of thousands of average Americans use HGH to fight aging. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:09 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led House of Representatives defied President George W. Bush on Friday and recessed without replacing an expiring spy law with one that would shield telephone companies from lawsuits.
French police are seen in in Capbreton, southwestern France in 2007. Police arrested Friday two suspected Basque separatists believed to be responsible for a fatal bombing at Madrid airport in December... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:02 pm
Mexico City police says one man died on Friday by an explosion that rocked the downtown area. The blast occurred in a tourist area in central Mexico City, where at least another person was injured. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:56 pm
As elected officials and superdelegates, Congress has constituents in mind when endorsing candidates. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:47 pm
A huge explosion of unknown origin rocked central Mexico City Friday causing at least three injuries and damage to two vehicles, an AFP correspondent reported. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:32 pm
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri is supporting Hillary Clinton for president, but Democrats in his state went for Barack Obama. He discusses the challenges that face those whose personal allegiances run counter to the political will of their constituents.
A new report suggests that women who lead stressful lives may be more vulnerable to cervical cancer. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:05 pm
Republican officials and aides to John McCain are growing concerned that the longer presidential candidate Mike Huckabee stays in the race, the more it will suck money, attention, and support away from the likely eventual nominee. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 15 Feb 2008 | 8:15 pm
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia swore in President Boris Tadic on Friday, two days before Kosovo proclaims independence, the country's most traumatic moment since it was bombed by NATO in 1999 to end ethnic cleansing in the province.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Thursday night the American economy is “clearly on the edge” of a recession. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 7:22 pm
Consumer sentiment fell sharply in early February to levels associated with previous recessions, dragged down by concerns a bleak economic outlook would raise the jobless rate. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 7:21 pm
Darwin's former lord mayor has lost an appeal against a jail sentence for using stolen funds to buy a refrigerator, women's underwear and a Darth Vader voice distorter.
Northern Territory Chief Justice Brian Martin said Peter... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Feb 2008 | 7:15 pm
Poignant portraits began to emerge Friday of the five young lives that were cut short in a hail of gunfire Thursday when Steven Phillip Kazmierczak unleashed his rage inside a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University. MSNBC.com's Mike Stuckey reports.
An Aruban prosecutor says judges won't allow authorities to re-arrest a Dutch college student in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. He says an appeals court decided there's isn't enough new evidence to arrest Joran Van der Sloot.
Michael Seifert, the 83-year-old former SS prison guard known as the "Beast of Bolzano" is being extradited from Canada to Rome. He was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military tribunal on nine counts of murder for WWII atrocities.
Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica yesterday told Serbs for the first time that the imminent loss of their historic province of Kosovo was a reality.
Kostunica's statement was his most open acknowledgment yet that Serbia cannot... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Feb 2008 | 6:15 pm
President Bashar Assad boasts that Damascus is "the capital of resistance," a claim borne out by the presence here of Hamas leaders and a host of other radical Palestinian groups. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:56 pm
Kenya's political rivals have agreed on the need for an independent review of the disputed election, but the difficult question of sharing power has yet to be resolved, chief mediator and former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Friday. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:49 pm
Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen is suing the publisher of a book his former girlfriend wrote about their relationship, including steamy sauna scenes. He says he and his family have suffered and is seeking damages. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:36 pm
The United States on Thursday demanded that Iran confess to trying to make atomic arms, suggesting that anything short of that would doom an International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Tehran's nuclear past. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:31 pm
Chad's President Idriss Deby has declared a nationwide state of emergency after a recent coup attempt.
The emergency measures include a night-time curfew and controls on the movement of vehicles. Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:15 pm
Syria and Iran will conduct a joint investigation into the car bombing that killed Imad Mughniyeh, a commander of their Lebanese ally Hezbollah, Iran's state news agency reported Friday. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:03 pm
In the hills beyond Dili, Australian special forces are hunting down rebel East Timorese soldiers implicated in this week's shooting of President Jose Ramos Horta. The armed rebels' freedom continues to poise the infant nation on... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:00 pm
Once it was cocaine, speed or heroin, but now the fashion is for legal pills, washed down by spirits.
The death of actor Heath Ledger from an accidental overdose of prescription tablets shed light on a startling trend - misuse... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:00 pm
When two of his staff were recently killed in an explosion Andy Gleeson was left deeply shocked.
"It was something that affected everyone of us, but because of the nature of our work these accidents remain a constant threat," the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:00 pm
President Bush said Friday that "our country is in more danger of an attack" because of Congress' failure to extend a law that makes it easier for the government to spy on foreign phone calls and e-mails that pass through the United States.
Two civil liberties groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security to force it to disclose its policy for searching U.S. citizens and their electronic devices when re-entering the United States.
Kenya's feuding political factions have agreed to an independent review of a disputed December election that prompted bloody unrest, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday. Annan, chief mediator, said a power-sharing agreement has not been worked out, but he said negotiators are making progress.
Republican officials say the former president will officially offer his support Monday, in Texas. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 3:30 pm
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson came under fire before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday for their handling of the economy. They said they expect the U.S. to avoid a recession.
The New York Times is teaming up with Hearst, Gannett and the Tribune companies in a new venture aimed at bringing in more money from online ads. The companies hope a single portal offering access to their Web sites will encourage advertisers to spend more money.
The acting head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel tells a House subcommittee on Thursday that his department has not ruled on whether waterboarding is illegal. Steven Bradbury signed secret memos in 2005 authorizing the CIA to use the interrogation technique.
For sale: A palatial pleasure yacht with swimming pools, opulent salons and, should the winds of war blow, a rocket launcher and mini-submarine. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Feb 2008 | 2:37 pm
David Garrett, a former model who has been called the David Beckham of the classical scene, said he tripped while carrying his 18th century violin as he was leaving London's Barbican Hall after a performance, smashing it to bits. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Feb 2008 | 2:13 pm
The Bush administration is asking Congress to pass new legislation that would make some electronic surveillance easier and provide retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the government gather intelligence. Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, talks about why the government needs this expanded authority.
AFP - Prime Minister Hashim Thaci confirmed Saturday that Kosovo would declare its independence from Serbia on Sunday, the day when the "will of the citizens of Kosovo" would be implemented.
AP - President Bush insisted his administration is "plenty active" in the turmoil now roiling nearly every corner of Africa, but said his trip to the continent that began Saturday is focused more on its successes than its conflicts.
AP - An attorney who claims to represent Britney Spears has filed papers to move her conservatorship case from the Los Angeles County Superior Court to federal court, but legal experts question whether his legal strategy is viable and whether he can represent the troubled pop star at all.
AP - Jason Kidd is Eastern Conference All-Star, who by Sunday could play for a team in the West.
AFP - Pakistani politicians launched a final push for votes Saturday, as Islamist militants blew up a polling station in an attack that raised new fears for the security of next week's elections.
AP - Steven Kazmierczak's quiet, dependable and fun-loving exterior masked troubling details from his past that emerged as a stunned community struggled to understand what caused the 27-year-old to open fire on a class at Northern Illinois University, leaving six people dead.
Reuters - Pakistani politicians were winding up
campaigns on Saturday for a general election that is meant to
complete a transition to civilian rule but has been
overshadowed by fear of violence and accusations of rigging.
AP - Suspected militants bombed a polling station in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, two days before parliamentary elections considered crucial to restoring democracy.
The gunman who killed five people at Northern Illinois University before turning the gun on himself had stopped taking his medication recently and had become erratic, police said Friday.
A former police officer who tearfully told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant lover was convicted Friday of murdering her and their unborn child.
Poignant portraits began to emerge Friday of the five young lives that were cut short in a hail of gunfire Thursday when Steven Phillip Kazmierczak unleashed his rage inside a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University. MSNBC.com's Mike Stuckey reports.
One already says he intends to vote for Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention, and a second, is openly discussing a switch.
The stakes are high but enthusiasm appears low as Pakistanis face one of the most crucial elections in their history.
President Bush said Friday that "our country is in more danger of an attack" because of Congress' failure to extend a law that makes it easier for the government to spy on foreign phone calls and e-mails that pass through the United States.