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Speaking on soil once stained with the blood of Rwanda's genocide, President Bush called on all nations to step up efforts to end "once and for all" the ethnic slaughter still continuing in Sudan's western Darfur region.
Ailing leader Fidel Castro has resigned as Cuba's president after nearly a half-century in power, saying in a letter published online by state media that he would not accept a new term when the newly elected parliament meets on Sunday.
Reuters - NATO peacekeepers in newly independent
Kosovo intervened on Tuesday as Serb mobs opposed to its
secession attacked border posts and police fled.
PRISTINA (Reuters) - NATO peacekeepers in newly independent Kosovo intervened on Tuesday as Serb mobs opposed to its secession attacked border posts and police fled.
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Pakistan's opposition parties have won parliamentary elections, threatening the eight-year rule of President Pervez Musharraf, Washington's close ally in its war on terror, according to unofficial poll returns.
AFP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's allies conceded defeat Tuesday after elections, leaving the party of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto and other opponents headed for a crushing win.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country as president or commander-in-chief, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.
AP - Dozens waited in near-zero temperatures, some clutching flowers and cards, to pay their respects to Dan Parmenter, one of five students killed by a gunman last week at Northern Illinois University.
HAVANA (AP) -- An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:18 pm
AP - An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.
MANILA (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to the Philippines met the leader of the country's largest Muslim rebel group on Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions over U.S. soldiers entering Muslim areas in the south.
Pakistan's ruling party conceded defeat today after opposition parties routed allies of President Pervez Musharraf in parliamentary elections that could threaten the rule of America's close ally in the war on terror. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:18 pm
AP - Speaking on soil once stained with the blood of Rwanda's genocide, President Bush called Tuesday on all nations to step up efforts to end "once and for all" the ethnic slaughter still continuing in Sudan's western Darfur region.
AP - Atlantis' astronauts got their spaceship ready for the ride home on Tuesday, wrapping up a two-week mission to add Europe's new orbital laboratory to the international space station.
A 12-year-old British boy has died in the Austrian Alps after breaking his neck when he plunged down a crevasse, and his friend is fighting for his life after a dramatic rescue operation. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
(Kyodo) _ Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa on Tuesday hailed deepening discussions among lawmakers over the nomination of the next governor of the Bank of Japan, saying he... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:10 pm
(Kyodo) _ Following is one of some main stories moving in the next few hours. -- Aegis destroyer collides with fishing boat, 2 fishermen missing (7th lead story. 9:30 p.m.) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:03 pm
AP - Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video.
Bridgestone Corp. said Tuesday its net profit for the 2007 calendar year jumped 55 percent as its brisk tire sales and a weaker yen offset a rise in raw material costs. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:58 am
Forest guards tranquilized and then rescued a pregnant tigress from a date palm tree after it strayed into a village near the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve in eastern India, an official said Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:57 am
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) -- Serbs set off sporadic explosions and torched a checkpoint between Serbia and Kosovo on Tuesday to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence and international recognition of the new nation.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:56 am
Serbs set off sporadic explosions and torched a checkpoint between Serbia and Kosovo on Tuesday to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence and international recognition of the new... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:56 am
Serbs set off sporadic explosions and torched a checkpoint between Serbia and Kosovo on Tuesday to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence and international recognition of the new nation. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:56 am
AP - Andy Pettitte had finished 55 1/2 minutes of apologies, explaining why he used human growth hormone and why he said what he did about Roger Clemens. Derek Jeter walked over, and the captain wrapped his arms around the visibly relieved Pettitte.
AP - Air Force officials are warning that unless their budget is increased dramatically, and soon, the military's high-flying branch won't dominate the skies as it has for decades.
AP - Democrats in Wisconsin and Hawaii were heading to the polls Tuesday in a presidential campaign that has grown increasingly negative with charges of broken promises, plagiarism and petty partisanship.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's ruling party conceded defeat Tuesday after opposition parties routed allies of President Pervez Musharraf in parliamentary elections that could threaten the rule of America's close ally in the war on terror.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:52 am
Russia tells the US that Kosovo's declaration of independence threatens international stability. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:51 am
Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro has announced he will not return to the presidency in a letter published by official Communist Party paper, Granma. Source: Digg | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:50 am
Credit Suisse suspended "a handful" of traders in connection with a $2.85 billion overvaluation of assets. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:48 am
Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro says he will not return to the presidency, in a letter published in the official press. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:47 am
The main party backing President Pervez Musharraf admits defeat in Pakistan's elections. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:45 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's opponents won a big election victory on Tuesday after voters rejected his former ruling party, raising questions about the future of the U.S. ally who has ruled since 1999.
The California coastline was expected to receive its first rain in over a week on Tuesday. The storm should also bring some snow to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:44 am
Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Dhoni help India beat Sri Lanka in the one-day CB Series in Australia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:41 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said profit for its fiscal fourth-quarter grew 4 percent in line with Wall Street expectations on improved performance in its U.S. stores and strong international growth. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:40 am
An Indonesian terror suspect and two Filipinos were arrested during a raid on their hide-out in the southern Philippines, military officials said Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:38 am
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A remote-controlled car bomb blast on Tuesday shook the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, still reeling from attacks in the area which have killed scores of people in the past two days.
Police in southern Italy hold the head of the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia syndicate, Pasquale Condello. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:24 am
Natalia Bessmertnova, a Soviet-era prima ballerina who danced with the Bolshoi Ballet for decades, died Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the ballet said. She was 66. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:18 am
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A car bomb exploded near a police compound Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, killing at least one person and wounding four, a police official said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:16 am
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday criticized the "very bureaucratic" UN response to violence in Sudan's Darfur region but said he had no regrets about not sending US forces there. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:16 am
The trial of two former Iraqi officials accused of letting Shiite militiamen use ambulances and hospitals to kidnap and kill rivals was delayed Tuesday because prosecution witnesses failed to show up, judicial officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:15 am
Australia captain Ricky Ponting will play in the Indian Premier League's Twenty20 league with the auction taking place on Wednesday. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:14 am
(Kyodo) _ Japan on Tuesday welcomed the holding of parliamentary and provincial elections in Pakistan the previous day that passed off without major disruption, with Chief Cabinet... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:12 am
Poll contests in Wisconsin, Hawaii and Washington state mark the next stage in the White House race. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:11 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Just under 15,000 people were moved from their homes to make way for the venues of the Beijing Olympics and all moved voluntarily with compensation, officials said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:08 am
(Kyodo) _ A civil rights activist who raised a petition saying "We want human rights, not the Olympics" went on trial Tuesday on charges of inciting subversion, his lawyer and family... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:59 am
Alastair Macdonald is Reuters Bureau Chief for Israel and the Palestinian territories, based in Jerusalem. From 1995 to 1999 he covered the former Soviet Union as a Reuters correspondent in Moscow. In the following story, he recounts how he met Steve Fossett when the American adventurer's attempt to fly non-stop around the world in a balloon came to a premature end in southern Russia 10 years ago.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Nuclear disarmament envoys from the United States and North Korea met in Beijing on Tuesday, seeking to advance a stalled agreement to dismantle the North's atomic weapons program.
A 12-year-old British boy on a school trip has died and his friend was hurt
after they plunged down a ravine on a darkened Alpine mountain. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:56 am
A car bomb goes off in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least one person, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:51 am
(Kyodo) _ Japan and China will hold vice foreign ministerial talks in Beijing on Friday and Saturday to seek common ground on a longstanding territorial dispute ahead of a historic visit... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:51 am
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - From landmark speeches made at independence to recordings of beloved musicians long since dead, Chad lost historic audio archives in the looting frenzy that... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:50 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks in the United States have been quietly borrowing "massive amounts" from the U.S. Federal Reserve in recent weeks, using a new measure the Fed introduced two months ago to help ease the credit crunch, according to a report on the web site of The Financial Times.
A 12-year-old British boy has died in the Austrian Alps after breaking his neck when he plunged down a crevasse, and his friend is fighting for his life after a dramatic rescue operation. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:44 am
An ailing Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he was retiring and will not accept a new term when the new parliament meets... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:41 am
KIGALI (Reuters) - Evil must be confronted wherever it surfaces in the world, President George W. Bush said on Tuesday when he commemorated the Rwandan genocide, one of the darkest episodes in Africa's recent history.
The UN humanitarian chief calls for restraint in Sudan's Darfur region after a refugee camp was bombed. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:27 am
The Spice Girls say they would love to perform at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebrations. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:25 am
The chairman of Pakistan's ruling party has conceded defeat after opposition parities routed allies of President Pervez Musharraf in parliamentary elections. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:15 am
FORT MYERS - As he was nearing the end of his Great Parking Lot Summit yesterday morning at the Red Sox minor league spring training complex, Curt Schilling tossed in an off-hand...
Afghan officials stand near a Canadian tank after a suicide bomb attack in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province. A suicide car bomb exploded in Kandahar, killing one person, in the third such attack in the province... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:55 am
Problem: Ryan Culy's friend, due to a physical disability, can only use one hand and wants to play Wii. Solution: Ryan mods the nunchuk into the chassis of the Wiimote. Source: Digg | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:50 am
MQM supporters celebrate in Karachi. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's political allies have conceded defeat after elections, leaving the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and other... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
MQM supporters in Karachi. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's political allies have conceded defeat after elections, leaving the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and other opponents... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
A Pakistani man reads a newspaper in Islamabad. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's political allies have conceded defeat after elections, leaving the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
Pakistanis reading newspapers in Islamabad. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's political allies have conceded defeat after elections, leaving the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
At least 14 people were killed and nearly 100 injured in election-related violence across Pakistan. Nine of the deaths came on election day itself while five died in a shooting on the eve of polling in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
Pakistani reading newspapers in Islamabad. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's political allies have conceded defeat after elections, leaving the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
Men are widely known for their straight talking and tell-it-like-it-is attitude. But sometimes, us gentlemen say things that we really do not mean. So what common things do we say and not mean? Let’s investigate. Source: Digg | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:40 am
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - WTA Tour players' parents, agents, coaches and other entourage members must agree to allow criminal background checks if they want full access...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro told compatriots early today that he would not accept another term as president, throwing open the Communist-ruled island's leadership for the first time in nearly 50 years. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:34 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The trial of Iraq's former deputy health minister and a security official accused of letting Shiite death squads use ambulances and government hospitals to carry out killings was delayed Tuesday just as it was about to begin.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:31 am
MARANA, Ariz. - J.B. Holmes was on his way to register yesterday for the Accenture Match Play Championship when he bumped into Masters champion Zach Johnson, who stopped in...
Toshiba just made a statements saying, "It will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders." Finally. Source: Digg | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:10 am
Though the commute isn't any more palatable between Boston and Orlando, Doc Rivers still manages to attend a surprising amount of his three youngest children's practices.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Instead of training Muhammad Ali, Angelo Dundee instructs a teenager with padded headgear and gloves too big for his hands. Instead of holding court in...
Former US president George H. W. Bush (L) laughs with Republican presidential candidate Arizona Senator John McCain in Houston, as he endorses McCain to succeed his son as US leader. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:43 am
US Democratic presidential candidate New York Senator Hillary Clinton campaigns at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. Clinton mounted a final offensive to win Wisconsin's delegates Monday as she... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:43 am
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at a campaign rally at the Beeghly Center at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. White House hopeful Hillary Clinton mounted... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:43 am
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President Pervez Musharraf's opponents have won a resounding victory in
yesterday's landmark parliamentary election, raising questions about his
political future and breathing life into Pakistani democracy after eight
years of military rule. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:17 am
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He agrees, but notes they were freely offered by the ally.
Campaign rhetoric borrowed by Sen. Barack Obama from a political friend prompted charges of plagiarism by his rival Monday as the competition for the Democratic presidential nomination turned into a war over words. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Voters have passed initiatives that lock in billions to novel social and recreational programs. Meanwhile, basic services are threatened.
The state is about to pump half a billion dollars into teaching children to roll sushi, juggle pins and master new dance forms, even as spending cuts threaten to erode instruction in reading, math and other fundamentals. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Police said the 22-year-old's van was located with no signs of foul play. But family members later found her body inside.
Eileen Nicole Ponce-Orta, 22, had been missing for four days when Pomona police called her family last Friday to retrieve her minivan that was found illegally parked in a lot near the police station. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The elections turnout may have hit a new low, but many who braved violence to vote wanted to send a message to the president.
President Pervez Musharraf's party appeared headed for a decisive defeat at the hands of two opposition parties today after a tense nationwide vote, according to unofficial preliminary returns and local media projections. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
More than a dozen people have been arrested in the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys on federal narcotics-trafficking charges. Authorities seize four kilograms of cocaine, and one kilogram of crack.
A Los Angeles County probation officer and her boyfriend, a high-ranking member of a Pomona Crips street gang, have been arrested along with a dozen other gang associates on federal narcotics-trafficking charges, authorities said Monday. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Gov. Deval Patrick and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama share more than their Chicago roots, their Harvard Law School degrees and their silver tongues. They've also borrowed...
Opposition parties dealt a crushing electoral blow to allies of President Pervez Musharraf, a private TV network reported Tuesday, winning enough seats to form a new government that could threaten the eight-year rule of America's close ally. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Feb 2008 | 7:31 am
President Bush today called for a transfer to democracy within his country's
old foe Cuba after the resignation of Fidel Castro, the country's communist
dictator, following almost 50 years of rule. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 19 Feb 2008 | 7:31 am
It has been confirmed that Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farell will fill in for Heath Ledger in his final role in the unfinished fantasy flick, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Source: Digg | 19 Feb 2008 | 7:30 am
"the only logical explanation I see as to why Obama is performing so much better than Hillary when matched against McCain ... is that he is indeed a lot more popular than she is among independents and other swing voters who will decide this election." and "Electability has always been the top issue for me in whom I support" Source: Digg | 19 Feb 2008 | 7:20 am
Finally someone comes up with a plausible explanation. If only it were true... I actually know people who think that Nickelback are good. Source: Digg | 19 Feb 2008 | 7:20 am
The man who claims Princess Diana and his son were killed in a wide-ranging conspiracy led by Britain’s royal family said Monday that dark forces within the country’s establishment would not accept a marriage between a princess and a Muslim.
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Democrats in Wisconsin and Hawaii make their choices on Tuesday in a heated presidential battle, with Hillary Clinton hoping to snap Barack Obama's winning streak ahead of big contests in March.
Opposition parties led by the son of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are poised to force President Pervez Musharraf from power in Pakistan. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 7:01 am
As Kosovars celebrated their new republic's recognition by key Western leaders, Serb-controlled northern Kosovo was tense, with thousands demonstrating against independence and an explosion damaging a U.N. vehicle.
U.S. officials say a clandestine attack on top al-Qaida figures last month was a model of how Washington often scores its rare victories these days in the fight against al-Qaeda inside Pakistan's borders. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 Feb 2008 | 4:45 am
A long-awaited parliamentary election took place Monday in Pakistan. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party was expected to do well. Early unofficial results confirmed that expectation, with the opposition making a strong showing. President Musharraf vowed the election would be free and fair.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippine military began genetic tests Tuesday to determine if remains found in a jungle grave are of an elusive terror suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings who authorities believe was killed in a clash with U.S.-backed troops.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 19 Feb 2008 | 3:53 am
Rockets slammed into an Iraqi housing complex near the Baghdad international airport and a nearby U.S. military base, killing at least five people and wounding 16, including two U.S. soldiers, officials said.
GENEVA - If the UN Security Council does nothing to stop Kosovo from seceding, it will send a message to the world that no country's sovereignty and borders are safe, Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Monday.
But the 15-nation... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Feb 2008 | 2:48 am
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) -- Mauritanian authorities have released all eight people who had been detained after an attack on the Israeli Embassy earlier this month for lack of evidence, officials said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 19 Feb 2008 | 2:24 am
President Pervez Musharraf appealed for national unity as unofficial returns showed the opposition taking commanding leads early Tuesday in parliamentary elections.
Fiji's coup leader Frank Bainimarama has extended his political control in the South Pacific nation, appointing himself head of the country's powerful council of chiefs.
Commodore Bainimarama seized power in a bloodless coup in... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Feb 2008 | 1:55 am
Long-hidden items and documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were revealed for the first time today, after spending nearly two decades locked inside a courthouse safe. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 1:33 am
One in three young Australians have cheated on their partner.
A new study on young love and break-ups has revealed high rates of infidelity.
Australian and Hong Kong researchers collaborated to survey more than 450 people aged... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Feb 2008 | 1:30 am
The United States formally recognised Kosovo on Monday and said independence from Serbia for the majority Albanian province was the only "viable option" to keep the region stable.
"The United States has today formally recognized... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Feb 2008 | 1:20 am
Sen. Barack Obama said Monday that he probably should have given a friend — the governor of Massachusetts — credit for using his lines over the weekend.
A blast in an illegal iron mine disguised as a boar farm in northern China killed at least 24 people and injured five over the weekend, state media reported on Tuesday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 Feb 2008 | 1:00 am
Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers' carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.
Former first lady Nancy Reagan was undergoing tests Monday at a hospital after spending a precautionary night there for a fall she took in her Bel-Air home, her spokeswoman said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:42 am
A suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed 35 civilians at a busy market in southern Afghanistan, a police official said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:33 am
Early, unofficial results in Pakistan's parliamentary election suggested thatopposition parties were heading for major gains. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
The "dodgy dossier" on Iraq which the Government claimed gave the intelligence agencies' case for war bore a striking resemblance to a draft by a Government spin doctor, it emerged on Monday. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Air bubbles in fuel could have caused the British Airways Boeing 777 crash-landing at Heathrow, investigators said on Monday night. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Kosovo's declaration of independence divided the European Union yesterday as five member countries announced that they would not recognise its break from Serbia. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Hundreds of thousands of children face having a criminal record if they are caught holding a single can of beer, under plans being considered by ministers. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The president of the main party that backs Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), lost his seat in parliament in Monday's general election, television networks reported on Tuesday.
PML... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Feb 2008 | 10:27 pm
PARIS (AP) -- Alain Robbe-Grillet, an avant-garde author who dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar "new novel" movement in France, died Monday. He was 85.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 18 Feb 2008 | 10:15 pm
LONDON - A packed performance of a West End opera was saved at the weekend when a member of the audience stepped in to sing the lead role after the star lost his voice.
Paul Whelan, 38, saved the English National Opera's production... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
Populations of tiger, bull, dusky and other sea sharks have plummeted by more than 95 per cent since the 1970s as fisherman kill the animals for their fins or when they scoop other fish from the ocean, according to an expert from... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France (AP) -- More than 1,000 police officers swooped in on housing projects outside of Paris Monday, detaining 35 people in pre-dawn raids meant to flush out those who took part in violent riots late last year, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 18 Feb 2008 | 9:52 pm
LONDON (AP) -- The man who claims Princess Diana and his son were killed in a wide-ranging conspiracy led by Britain's royal family said Monday that dark forces within the country's establishment would not accept a marriage between a princess and a Muslim.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:18 a... | 18 Feb 2008 | 9:45 pm
Liberians who fled their country's civil war and settled in southwest Philadelphia during the 1990s thought their troubles would be over. Instead, their children were taunted and attacked by fellow students. Liberians in Philly eventually banded together to fight back. Now parents worry these new gangs are fueling another kind of violence.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Kenya for a day of talks with political protagonists and leaders. She's delivering a message from President Bush: Stop the violence and return to democracy.
As the race in Wisconsin heads toward the finish line, Sen. Hillary Clinton unveiled a new economic plan Monday, while Sen. Barack Obama fended off accusations of "borrowing" speech lines from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Patrick has endorsed Obama.
ISLAMABAD - Early results from Pakistan's parliamentary elections on Monday showed the political friends of US ally President Pervez Musharraf were struggling.
Latest results also indicate the head of pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Feb 2008 | 9:07 pm
Mohamed Al Fayed, the father of her boyfriend, told an inquest that Prince Philip, whom he said was a "Nazi," headed the plot that killed the princess and her boyfriend, Al Fayed's son, in a 1997 Paris car crash.
Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte holds his first public discussion about his admitted use of human growth hormone. Last week, Pettitte's sworn testimony implicated his friend and former teammate Roger Clemens in the use of HGH, which is banned in baseball.
Serbs in Kosovo rallied Monday to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence Sunday. President Bush, who is traveling this week in Africa, was first to recognize new independence, which is opposed by Russia. The move has prompted Serbia to recall its ambassador from Washington.
The cottage that was Abraham Lincoln's refuge during the Civil War was reopened Monday. The rambling Victorian house stands on the grounds of the Soldier's Home in Washington, D.C., and has some of the most sweeping views of the city. Lincoln spent summers there, grieving the death of his son, Willie, reading Shakespeare and interacting with wounded soldiers and former slaves.
The Democratic candidates engaged in a war on words this weekend. Michele Norris talks with Dr. Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University and a fellow at the James Baker III Institute For Public Policy at Rice University, about the words that went flying on the campaign trail.
BEIJING - The chief editor of a Chinese newspaper quit after it emerged that one of its photographers had faked a prize-winning photograph of endangered Tibetan antelopes appearing unfazed by a much-criticised new railway.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Feb 2008 | 8:30 pm
Former President George H.W. Bush urged disgruntled conservatives on Monday to rally around John McCain, calling their criticism of the Republican presidential front-runner "grossly unfair."
The father of President George W. Bush... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Feb 2008 | 8:30 pm
President Bush has declared U.S. backing for Kosovo's independence, but the world's newest nation still faces an uphill battle for global acceptance, with Russia leading the fight to block it's emergence on the map.
Initial returns from today's parliamentary elections in Pakistan indicate that opposition parties could pose a serious challenge to President Pervez Musharraf.
Hillary Clinton has accused Barack Obama of plagiarism as the former First Lady attempts to drag her high-flying young opponent into a pitched battle for the Democratic nomination.. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Feb 2008 | 7:50 pm
The death toll from two days of militant bombings neared 140 the deadliest spate in post-Taliban Afghanistan after a homicide car bomb exploded in a crowded southern market Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 Feb 2008 | 5:37 pm
The Philippine military said Monday it dug up what it believes is the body of an Indonesian bomb-making expert who is a top suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings, Asia's worst terrorist attack. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 Feb 2008 | 4:55 pm
Calls the presumptive GOP nominee "a remarkable patriot" with a "sound conservative record" that also allows outreach to to moderates and independents.
Sen. John McCain , trying to solidify his support among conservatives amid resolute competition from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, today won the endorsement of former President George Bush . Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 18 Feb 2008 | 4:44 pm
Bird flu killed a 22-year-old man in central China, a government news agency reported Monday. It was China's 18th fatality from the virus. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 Feb 2008 | 4:41 pm
At least three Maoist rebels and five paramilitary soldiers were killed in renewed fighting in eastern India on Monday, days after carefully coordinated rebel attacks killed 13 police and two civilians. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 Feb 2008 | 4:24 pm
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Kenya on Monday. Washington wants President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga to strike a power-sharing agreement to end violence that has plagued the nation since the December presidential election.
President Bush is visiting Tanzania, where he has been spotlighting HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention. The president's goodwill tour has been focusing on the success stories of U.S. humanitarian aid in Africa.
Next to the Joint Communications Center in downtown Fallujah is a squalid and war-shattered warehouse for human beings. Most detainees are common criminals. Others are captured insurgents terrorists, car-bombers, IED makers, and throat-slashers. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 Feb 2008 | 2:30 pm
Another massive suicide attack has rocked the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar, killing at least 35 people the day after the deadliest attack in the country since the 2001 U.S. invasion. The death toll from a Sunday blast now stands at 100.
Reuters - NATO peacekeepers in newly independent
Kosovo intervened on Tuesday as Serb mobs opposed to its
secession attacked border posts and police fled.
AFP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's allies conceded defeat Tuesday after elections, leaving the party of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto and other opponents headed for a crushing win.
AP - Dozens waited in near-zero temperatures, some clutching flowers and cards, to pay their respects to Dan Parmenter, one of five students killed by a gunman last week at Northern Illinois University.
AP - An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.
AP - Speaking on soil once stained with the blood of Rwanda's genocide, President Bush called Tuesday on all nations to step up efforts to end "once and for all" the ethnic slaughter still continuing in Sudan's western Darfur region.
AP - Atlantis' astronauts got their spaceship ready for the ride home on Tuesday, wrapping up a two-week mission to add Europe's new orbital laboratory to the international space station.
AP - Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video.
AP - Andy Pettitte had finished 55 1/2 minutes of apologies, explaining why he used human growth hormone and why he said what he did about Roger Clemens. Derek Jeter walked over, and the captain wrapped his arms around the visibly relieved Pettitte.
AP - Air Force officials are warning that unless their budget is increased dramatically, and soon, the military's high-flying branch won't dominate the skies as it has for decades.
AP - Democrats in Wisconsin and Hawaii were heading to the polls Tuesday in a presidential campaign that has grown increasingly negative with charges of broken promises, plagiarism and petty partisanship.
The man who claims Princess Diana and his son were killed in a wide-ranging conspiracy led by Britain’s royal family said Monday that dark forces within the country’s establishment would not accept a marriage between a princess and a Muslim.
Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama intensified their populist appeals during campaign speeches ahead of Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.
A thunderous explosion rocked an oil refinery Monday, injuring five people and shaking buildings miles away.
President Pervez Musharraf appealed for national unity as unofficial returns showed the opposition taking commanding leads early Tuesday in parliamentary elections.
Sen. Barack Obama said Monday that he probably should have given a friend — the governor of Massachusetts — credit for using his lines over the weekend.
Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers' carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.