A U.S. Army serviceman is taken into custody for the alleged sexual assault of a Philippine woman in an Okinawa hotel; the probe follows recent rape allegations against Marine that led to curfew. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:33 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is expected to extend a six-month ceasefire by his Mehdi Army militia, two senior officials in his movement confirmed for the first time on Thursday.
The U.S. Navy succeeded in its effort to shoot down an inoperable spy satellite before it could crash to Earth and potentially release a cloud of toxic gas last nght. Some...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Thursday it has a "high degree of confidence" that a Navy missile struck the toxic fuel tank of a disabled U.S. spy satellite over the Pacific Ocean.
PARIS (AFP) -
Scores of infectious diseases have emerged to
threaten humans in the past decades as viruses
leap the species barrier from wild animals and
bacteria mutate into antibiotic-resistant
strains, scientists reported on Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:23 pm
The Pentagon says a Navy warship shot down a dying American spy satellite that was due to crash to Earth next month. Russia has accused the United States of using the incident as a test for a space missile weapon.
AP - President Bush, ending his feel-good journey across Africa, said Thursday that the United States is committed to helping restore lives of "hope and peace" to Liberia, a poor nation founded by freed American slaves.
MONROVIA (Reuters) - President George W. Bush arrived on Thursday in Liberia, the United States' staunchest ally in Africa, where he will pledge support for the country's efforts to rebuild after a crippling civil war.
Alex Rodriguez expects to be questioned repeatedly about drug use as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record. Source: Digg | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:22 pm
AP - Oil prices held near $100 a barrel Thursday after hitting a record overnight as investors poured more cash into crude and other commodities as a hedge against inflation.
As Microsoft cooks up its plan to launch a proxy fight to wrest control of Yahoo, losing a nasty, protracted clash could not only humiliate bossman Steve Ballmer but let Google further cement its place as the unrivaled king of the Internet. Source: Digg | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:18 pm
The NFL's annual job fair begins in earnest today as a certified event, which is great news for Patriots fans.
Thanks to a shrewd draft day trade with the 49ers...
A wild story from PE Hub on the birth of Velocity Interactive Group. And much like the real birthing process there was screaming, blood and it all started with.....well we...
Reuters - A child spotted outside a
restaurant in the south of France by a Dutch tourist was not
missing Madeleine McCann, French police said on Thursday. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A child spotted outside a restaurant in the south of France by a Dutch tourist was not missing Madeleine McCann, French police said on Thursday.
Reuters - Kenya's government said on Thursday it
agreed in principle to creating a prime minister's post
demanded by the opposition, a possible breakthrough in a
political crisis some worry could explode into violence again.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's government said on Thursday it agreed in principle to creating a prime minister's post demanded by the opposition, a possible breakthrough in a political crisis some worry could explode into violence again.
Uefa awaits reports from officials before deciding on any action after Cristiano Ronaldo was targeted by a laser beam at Lyon. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:09 pm
Reuters - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr is expected to extend a six-month ceasefire by his
Mehdi Army militia, two senior officials in his movement
confirmed for the first time on Thursday.
HOLYOKE - Holyoke is closing three schools for the next school year in a move that is expected to save the city $1 million annually.
Mayor Michael Sullivan calls the move...
DEDHAM - A woman charged in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Needham that killed a Framingham man in November has pleaded not guilty in Superior Court.
Authorities charged...
AFP - A US missile has destroyed a rogue US spy satellite in space carrying toxic fuel considered a threat to Earth, defense officials said, but China raised suspicions about the operation.
HONOLULU (AFP) -
A US
missile has destroyed a rogue US spy satellite in space
carrying toxic fuel considered a threat to Earth, defense
officials said, but China raised suspicions about the operation. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:04 pm
Wedding bells were ringing yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital when Camelia Rodriguez of Chelsea, who is battling breast cancer, married Jorge Estuardo, her partner...
AP - A U.S. Navy cruiser blasted a disabled spy satellite with a pinpoint missile strike that achieved the main mission of exploding a tank of toxic fuel 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, defense officials said.
MONROVIA, Liberia - President Bush said today that the United States is committed to helping restore lives of "hope and peace" to Liberia, a poor African nation...
ISLAMABAD (AFP) -
The
widower of Pakistan's slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto met
political leaders to discuss forming a coalition on Thursday
as police clashed with protesters opposed to President
Pervez Musharraf. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:00 pm
AP - Federal authorities investigating Blackwater Worldwide contractors are returning to Baghdad this week to revisit the scene of a deadly September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
HONOLULU - A U.S. Navy cruiser blasted a disabled spy satellite with a pinpoint missile strike that achieved the main mission of exploding a tank of toxic fuel 130 miles above...
Wall Street tipped toward a higher open Thursday as traders placed bets that further economic data will allow the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates at its March meeting. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:58 am
The US military slapped a sweeping curfew Wednesday on troops and their relatives on Japan's southern island of Okinawa after a series of incidents including an alleged rape. Source: Digg | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:56 am
FORT MYERS - It appeared to be a overt display of unity, Coco Crisp and Jacoby Ellsbury jogging off Field 1 at the Red Sox' minor league training facility yesterday,...
David Miliband is expected to apologise to the Commons today as he discloses
that two American "extraordinary rendition" flights did, after all, land on
British soil. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:54 am
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake, the largest ever recorded on Norwegian territory, hit off the Arctic Svalbard islands early Thursday, the national seismic monitoring center said. No casualties... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:54 am
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- A magnitude-6.2 earthquake, the largest ever recorded on Norwegian territory, hit off the Arctic Svalbard islands early Thursday, the national seismic monitoring center said. No casualties or damage were reported.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:54 am
Israel approved 91 Palestinian requests to build homes in the West Bank since 2000, as settlers built 18,500 homes. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:50 am
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A political deal to end Kenya's deadly postelection crisis is expected by Friday, with the two sides having "largely agreed" on a new government structure, officials said Thursday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:48 am
A political deal to end Kenya's deadly postelection crisis is expected by Friday, with the two sides having "largely agreed" on a new government structure, officials said Thursday. "I... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:48 am
Insurer Allianz SE said Thursday fourth-quarter profit slipped by nearly 52 percent from a year ago, dragged down by a drop in its banking business along with lower contributions from its insurance operations. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:47 am
US President George W Bush arrives in Liberia, on the final stop of a six-day five-nation tour of Africa. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:47 am
(Kyodo) _ One of China's most prominent civil rights activists -- who has been under close house arrest since late December -- said Thursday the restrictions on her movements have eased... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:45 am
Researchers in New York reported this month that they have created a paper-thin material that absorbs 99.955 percent of the light that hits it, making it by far the darkest substance ever made -- about 30 times as dark as the government's current standard for blackest black. Source: Digg | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:41 am
A magtiude-6.2 earthquake, the largest ever recorded on Norwegian territory, hit off the Arctic Svalbard islands early Thursday, the national seismic monitoring center said. No casualties or damage were reported. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:41 am
(Kyodo) _ Citigroup Inc. is planning to integrate Citigroup Japan Holdings Ltd. with its wholly owned unit Nikko Cordial Corp. soon and to promote integration of other Citigroup and Nikko Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:38 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) A local bus collided with a trailer truck Thursday morning at a crossing in Mizuho, Gifu Prefecture, killing the driver of the bus and injuring the 13... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:36 am
The scale of the childhood obesity crisis was revealed today as figures show a quarter of five-year-olds and more than a third of 10-year-olds are too fat in some parts of England. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:35 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan and NATO-led troops killed two regional Taliban commanders in southern Afghanistan, and an explosion in the same province claimed the life of a British soldier, officials said Thursday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:33 am
AP - Afghan and NATO-led troops killed two regional Taliban commanders in southern Afghanistan, and an explosion in the same province claimed the life of a British soldier, officials said Thursday.
The sacked chief justice of Pakistan addresses supporters despite being under house arrest in Islamabad. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:31 am
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton criticized rival Barack Obama as a big dreamer with little substance on Wednesday as she sought to slow his momentum from 10 straight victories in the race for the party's U.S. presidential nomination.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO IN 7TH-9TH GRAFS) Police plan to arrest a Defense Ministry official on suspicion of taking 2 million yen in bribes from a construction contractor over a ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:24 am
I remember when I first started my Simpsons DVD collection (currently all 10 released seasons and the movie), this is the very first thing I looked at frame-by-frame. Source: Digg | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:23 am
British Airways pilots have voted this morning to go on strike in a row over pay and conditions, marking the first walk-out by the airline's pilots since 1980. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:22 am
China expresses regret over the US Olympic team's plan to take its own food to Beijing due to safety concerns. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:21 am
Ecuador extends a state of emergency to the entire country after a month of devastating floods. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:20 am
(Kyodo) _ Hong Kong star Edison Chen, whose photographs of sex acts with various female celebrities were leaked and caused a major industry scandal, offered apologies Thursday to the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:18 am
John McCain has accused The New York Times of engaging in “gutter politics"
after the paper reported claims that the Republican candidate had become
entangled in a compromising relationship with a political lobbyist. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:17 am
Sixteen-year-old Caitlin Leavey remembers people she didn't even know coming to her family's aid with food and comfort after she lost her firefighter father in the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:17 am
Afghan soldiers stand guard in a street in Musa Qala in Helmand province in late 2007. Thirty Taliban militants were killed in a joint Afghan and foreign special forces operation backed by air support... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:17 am
Thirty Taliban militants were killed in a joint Afghan and foreign special forces operation backed by air support in southern Helmand province, the defence ministry said on Thursday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:17 am
The US shoots down a disabled satellite whose fuel may have posed health risks, raising Chinese concerns. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:16 am
(Kyodo) _ North Korea's top nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Gwan said Thursday talks with his U.S. counterpart in Beijing earlier this week helped sort points of dispute between the two... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:15 am
CHIBA, Japan, Feb. 21 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba offered his apologies Thursday to fishery workers and family members of two missing fishermen in ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:13 am
Ex-UN chief Kofi Annan announces considerable progress in talks aimed at ending Kenya's political crisis. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:11 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's deposed chief justice rallied supporters from house arrest Thursday, demanding that the new government immediately restore judges axed by President Pervez Musharraf during emergency rule. Soon after, police fired tear gas at nearly 100 protesting lawyers in the southern city of Karachi.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:08 am
It's time to write up the recipe for next year's flu vaccine — and the nation's influenza experts are aiming for better protection than this year's shot wound up offering. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:01 am
Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton meet Thursday for a debate in Austin, Texas. Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain has been hit with a new controversy.
Next week when congressional Democrats return from recess, they will resume a battle with President Bush over a temporary spying law that the Democrats let expire Saturday. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, talks to Steve Inskeep about objections to making the law permanent.
A Virginia company is developing clothing with tourniquets -- a cloth and plastic device designed to stop bleeding after an injury -- built into each sleeve and leg. The company says the product would help wounded soldiers in danger of bleeding to death.
Haagan Dazs launches a help-the-honeybee campaign. It's donating a quarter of a million dollars to the University of California and Penn State to study the disappearance of honeybees. Forty percent of the ice cream company's flavors require the work of bees.
Stanford University says it will no longer charge tuition to undergraduates whose parents earn less than $100,000 a year. For students whose parents make less than $60,000, the university will also waive room and board costs.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a man may sue the administrators of his 401(k) account because they didn't follow his buy and sell instructions, causing him to lose money.
Scientists analyzed 335 new diseases that emerged between 1940 and 2004, and found the rate of new infectious diseases is increasing. More than half of the diseases jumped from animals to humans, and most of these originated in wildlife. The researchers say this reflects the growing intersection between people and wild animals.
A new study in the journal Hypertension finds that a modest cut in salt intake is linked to less soda drinking. Researchers say cutting back on snacks and soda could have lots of health benefits later in life -- from lower blood pressure to reduced risk of obesity.
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later Source: Digg | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
More than 100,000 passengers face having their travel plans thrown into disarray after British Airways pilots overwhelming backed a strike call. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
British Airways pilots have voted to go on strike in a row over pay and
conditions that could see thousands of flights cancelled over the Easter
holidays. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:39 am
Colombia's Farc rebels will release four hostages in the coming weeks, says France's foreign minister. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:36 am
LONDON (AFP) -
The price of
oil touched an all-time peak of 101.32 dollars a barrel on
Thursday, lifted by fears of supply disruptions according to traders. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:31 am
East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta (seen here in 2007) has regained consciousness and spoken to family members after being in an induced coma since he was shot 10 days ago, his spokesman said Thursday.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:29 am
British Airways pilots have voted this morning to go on strike in a row over pay and conditions, marking the first walk-out by the airline's pilots since 1980. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:28 am
British Airways pilots have voted this morning to go on strike in a row over pay and conditions, marking the first walk-out by the airline's pilots since 1980. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:28 am
The former Bangladeshi PM, Sheikh Hasina is taken to hospital for treatment for high blood pressure, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:27 am
PARIS (AP) -- Morocco says it has dismantled a terrorist network that raised funds through holdups and jewelry thefts in Europe and was plotting to assassinate Cabinet ministers, army officers and Jews in the North African kingdom.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:27 am
Morocco says it has dismantled a terrorist network that raised funds through holdups and jewelry thefts in Europe and was plotting to assassinate Cabinet ministers, army officers and Jews in the North African kingdom. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:27 am
Authorities mistakenly released the body of an adult woman to the family of a 2-year-old fire victim, and the woman's body was buried in the girl's grave, officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:26 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Four British soldiers were wounded near their base outside the southern city of Basra, an attack the Iraqi police described Thursday as a roadside bomb explosion that targeted a British patrol.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:23 am
Four British soldiers were wounded near their base outside the southern city of Basra, an attack the Iraqi police described Thursday as a roadside bomb explosion that targeted a British patrol. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:23 am
The United States Olympic Committee's plan to bring its own food to China has disappointed the head of food services for the Beijing Olympics. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:21 am
An old but interesting article.....If you find yourself in a fight, you'd better hope it's not against a left-hander - scientists have found they often have the upper hand. Source: Digg | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:16 am
Graphic showing the main US bases on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The US military and Japanese police have said they were investigating new allegations of rape by a US serviceman in Okinawa amid uproar... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
Young people hang out by a shopping mall complex in the American Village in central Okinawa on February 14. The US military and Japanese police have said they were investigating new allegations of rape... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
A gene which helps a harmless African butterfly ward off predators by giving it wing patterns like those of toxic species, has been identified by scientists who publish their findings today (20 February 2008). Source: Digg | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:55 am
This US Department of Defense handout photograph shows Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James E. Cartwright from the US Marine Corps informing the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:48 am
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Thousands of Serbs headed to Belgrade on Thursday to attend a rally protesting Kosovo's independence, raising fears that the gathering could trigger street violence.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:29 am
TETOVO, Macedonia (AP) -- Walk down any street in this Macedonian town and you would be forgiven for thinking that an international border has accidentally been crossed.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:28 am
PARIS (AFP) -
After
more than half a century of debate and bedroom
exploration, a row about the location of the
fabled G spot may be settled at last, the
British weekly New Scientist says. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:20 am
The parents of Madeleine McCann are waiting to be shown CCTV footage of a girl said to bear a "striking resemblance" to the missing four-year-old which was filmed less than a week ago. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 9:01 am
A man screams while holding a rock over his head after he and an angry mob set fire to a bus and clashed with police Feburary 20. Kenya's rival political camps on Thursday haggled over the details of a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:54 am
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- An exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday that Tehran was speeding up a program to develop nuclear weapons. "The Iran regime entered a new phase in its nuclear project," said Mohammad Mohaddessin of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:53 am
PARIS (AP) -- America has the Bushes and the Clintons, so why not a Sarkozy dynasty in France?... Source: AP Top International News At 7:03 a... | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:48 am
The headquarters building of Huawei Technologies, China's biggest maker of telecommunications equipment, is seen in Shenzhen, in south China's Guangdong province Tuesday Aug. 9, 2005. On Wednesday Feb.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:41 am
File photo shows East Timor's president Jose Ramos-Horta, who has regained consciousness and spoken to family members after being in an induced coma since he was shot 10 days ago, his spokesman said Thursday.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:35 am
BELGRADE (AFP) -
Serbians
were to protest en masse against Kosovo's declaration of
independence in Belgrade on Thursday, a day after NATO-led
peacekeepers blamed Serb leaders for unrest in the fledgling state. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:26 am
Hong Kong actor Edison Chen speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008. The Hong Kong actor said Thursday he took most of the widely circulated racy photos that show him and several... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:23 am
Egyptian actor Omar Sharif appears during the closing ceremony of the 5th Film Festival of comedy in Monaco in this Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005 file photo. Superior Court Judge Joe W. Hilberman entered a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:21 am
The first shot strikes its target. But officials say they don't know whether the fuel tank was destroyed.
The Navy hit a failed intelligence satellite speeding 133 miles above the Earth with a three-stage missile on the first try Wednesday, a shot the Pentagon hopes destroyed the spacecraft's fuel tank filled with 1,000 pounds of potentially toxic gas. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
An independent group is organized to raise money to assist her presidential campaign.
Supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton have launched an independent group to raise money and air television ads to boost her flagging campaign. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
It interprets federal law broadly to protect companies from juries and state regulators.
The Supreme Court gave business two big wins Wednesday by shielding companies from lawsuits and state regulations. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
PARIS (AFP) -
Societe
Generale on Thursday announced net profits of 947 million
euros (1.39 billion dollars) for 2007 despite the trading
scandal that cost the French banking giant nearly five
billion euros. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Feb 2008 | 7:48 am
A political opposition organization linked to a group that advocates the overthrow of the Iranian government claims the Islamic Republic has speeded up a covert program to develop nuclear warheads.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China expressed regret on Thursday at reports the U.S. Olympic team would bring its own meat for the Beijing Games over concerns of drugs tainted food, and said it could guarantee safe supplies.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. military is investigating another allegation that a soldier sexually assaulted a woman on the southern island of Okinawa, as Washington and Tokyo strive to keep anger over crimes by U.S. troops from damaging broader ties.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The New York Times said on Wednesday that Republican presidential hopeful John McCain had a close relationship with a lobbyist nine years ago in a potential conflict with his high ethical stances, but McCain's campaign sharply dismissed the report.
With deadly attacks against U.S. targets increasing around Baghdad, anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the possibility that he may not renew a six-month cease-fire widely credited for helping slash violence.
An Air Force fighter pilot died Wednesday after his jet and another likely collided during a training exercise and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The other pilot was rescued and is expected to survive. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:49 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates travels to India next week to strengthen diplomatic ties strained by an impasse over a landmark nuclear deal and push American bids for a lucrative $10 billion fighter contract.
WASHINGTON - A missile fired from a U.S. Navy warship hit a defunct spy satellite in an effort to prevent its toxic fuel tank from crashing to Earth, a Pentagon source said.
The SM-3 missile was fired from the USS Lake Erie in... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Feb 2008 | 5:01 am
Tajikistan is the only country in former Soviet Central Asia to allow an Islamist party to operate. However, the party has been increasingly marginalized in the last decade. At the same time, some secular Tajiks worry about "Islamization" in their society.
ISLAMABAD - The leaders of the two parties that came out on top in Pakistan's election meet on Thursday to discuss forming a coalition government that could force President Pervez Musharraf out of power.
Musharraf, who won power... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Feb 2008 | 3:00 am
An Army serviceman is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a Philippine woman in Japan, officials said Thursday. The investigation was disclosed amid a rising furor over a recent series of crimes blamed on American troops.
Some Cubans are hoping Raul Castro, if he becomes president Sunday, would make Cuba more like Vietnam or China: which also have communist leaders who control all things political, but let markets largely rule their economies.
U.S. President George W. Bush said the United States is not trying to expand its military influence in Africa by building new military bases on the continent.
NEW YORK - Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton ridiculed rival Barack Obama as all talk and little substance on Wednesday, trying to slow the momentum that has given him 10 straight victories in the race for the party's U.S. presidential... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:59 am
PORT MORESBY - Papua New Guinea authorities have deported an Australian man who was facing charges of firing a gun in a public place.
Philip Tan, 41, a Malaysian born in PNG who became an Australian citizen when he was 18, was... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:53 am
WASHINGTON - A pair of US F-15C fighter planes on a training mission have collided in mid-air over the Gulf of Mexico, according to AFP reports.
The two jets were about 80km from Elgin Air Force Base in Florida, the agency said,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:50 am
Barack Obama has taken giant strides towards the White House after a 10th straight primary victory was followed by the endorsement of America's most influential blue collar union. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:31 am
A shopkeeper could be charged with murder after defending himself against an armed robber who was killed by his own knife, police said yesterday. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Britain is experiencing the worst "brain drain" of any country as highly qualified professionals settle abroad, an authoritative international study showed yesterday. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
The former head of MI6 has admitted in court that a secret plan was drawn up to assassinate a Balkan leader suspected of genocide. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
<a href="http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/2008/02/brit-awards-200.html">Live
blog from the Brit Awards</a> Source: Top stories from Times Online | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
More than 200 police officers were searching last night for a nine-year-old
girl who went missing on her way home from school. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 21 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
MILWAUKEE - Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Obama also leads Republican front-runner John McCain... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Feb 2008 | 11:56 pm
In an environmental dispute seemingly scripted for eco-friendly California , a man asked prosecutors to file charges against his neighbors because their towering redwoods blocked sunlight to his backyard solar panels. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 20 Feb 2008 | 11:28 pm
UFOs. Roswell. The planet Nibiru. An astrobiologist busts myths while seeking intelligent life. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:37 pm
WASHINGTON - Afghan farmers earned about $1 billion from opium production in 2007, by far the country's largest cash crop, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
The IMF said opium production in Afghanistan had spiralled... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:30 pm
Sen. Barack Obama has captured the lapels of Washington's power women...at least those who wear jeweler Ann Hand's presidential rhinestone pins. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:28 pm
Kids who load up on salty meals and snacks get thirsty, and too often they turn to calorie-filled sodas. So maybe cutting back on the salt is a good way to cut the calories. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:12 pm
The United States Navy may make its first attempt to shoot down an errant spy satellite loaded with toxic fuel in an area of the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii, according to US officials and government documents.
A notice to mariners... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
The state legislative analyst calls on lawmakers to raise taxes -- not just rely on spending cuts as Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed.
California's budget shortfall has swollen to $16 billion from $14.5 billion, according to the state's chief budget analyst, who says the governor's proposal for closing the deficit is so flawed that her office took the rare step of drafting an alternative state spending plan for legislators to consider. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:49 pm
Strokes have tripled in recent years among middle-aged women in the U.S., an alarming trend doctors blame on the obesity epidemic. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:39 pm
LONDON - British police are investigating an apparent death threat made against Avram Grant, the Israeli coach of Chelsea soccer club.
A package containing a white powder was left at the team's training ground on Tuesday, police... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:30 pm
Workers gained a powerful weapon Wednesday by winning the right to sue employers when their retirement plans are mismanaged, raising the possibility of lawsuits over other worker-fund matters as well. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:22 pm
Vote early. That's Hillary Clinton's campaign drumbeat in Texas, where starting yesterday and continuing until three days before the March 4 primary, Lone Star voters are allowed to mark their ballots at special locations in their counties. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:10 pm
LONDON - Aspiring British citizens will be put on probation for at least one year to show they can speak English, pay their taxes, abide by the law and have integrated into local life, the government proposed on Wednesday.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:00 pm
With the economy slowing and the housing market stuck in reverse, Wednesday’s surprise pop in the government's monthly inflation data was not good news for the Federal Reserve.
Giant chunks of manmade space junk — like the dead satellite that the U.S. government is trying to shoot down — regularly fall to Earth. Yet no one has ever been reported hurt by them. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:52 pm
More than two dozen cars and trucks piled up in a chain-reaction wreck Wednesday on a slippery section of Interstate 94 in northern Indiana, closing a six-mile stretch of the highway. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:41 pm
The university will give free tuition to most undergraduates whose families earn less than $100,000 a year.
Stanford University today announced a big boost in financial aid that would give free tuition to most undergraduates from families that earn less than $100,000 a year and a complete package of tuition, room and board to those whose household incomes are less than $60,000. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 20 Feb 2008 | 7:26 pm
In the first report of its kind, U.S. health officials said the nation’s states and cities made a strong effort to prepare for a flu pandemic, bioterrorism or other emergency health crises, but big challenges remain. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 20 Feb 2008 | 7:23 pm
Foreigners who live and work in Britain will have to wait longer, pay more and even carry out charity work if they want to become citizens under new laws proposed Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:31 pm
The former head of MI6 denied Wednesday that the intelligence agency was responsible for the car accident that killed Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi al Fayed, in 1997. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:22 pm
Cutting calories helps people lose weight, but doing so by filling up on whole grains may be particularly heart-healthy, new research suggests. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:12 pm
Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq, officials said Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:07 pm
Southern Californians may be able to catch sight of tonight's lunar eclipse between rain clouds that will sprinkle up to half an inch of rain across the Southland, forecasters said today. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 20 Feb 2008 | 4:45 pm
Consumer prices rose by a bigger-than-expected amount in January, reflecting big increases in the cost of food and health care, the government reported Wednesday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 20 Feb 2008 | 4:43 pm
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's decision to quit the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur crisis is drawing condemnation by China's state-controlled media and a groundswell of criticism from the Chinese public.
A hungry, jobless man allegedly stole his landlords pet Chihuahua on Monday and tried to cook it in a Seoul, South Korea, boarding house, the Korea Times reported. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Feb 2008 | 2:16 pm
Just days ahead of a new report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran has brought world powers "to their knees" and successfully resisted U.S.-led efforts to get Tehran to halt uranium enrichment. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Feb 2008 | 2:11 pm
Britain's former domestic spy chief has denied allegations that his agency played a role in Princess Diana's death in a Paris car crash in 1997. He also said the suggestion that rogue elements of the agency could have done it were an "impossibility".
The Palestinians should follow Kosovo's example and unilaterally declare independence if peace talks with Israel fail, a senior Palestinian official says, but the Palestinian president said the proposal was premature and pledged to keep negotiating.
Lawyer for Abu Hamza al-Masri says UK courts should review U.S. terror charges against him before agreeing to his extradition. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Feb 2008 | 1:39 pm
President Bush said Wednesday that he hoped the sweeping defeat of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's party in parliamentary elections won't end the Islamic nation's cooperation in fighting radical extremists. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Feb 2008 | 12:54 pm
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf intends to serve out his five-year term as head of state despite a sweeping victory by his opponents in an election that a U.S. leader on Wednesday judged to be fair. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Feb 2008 | 12:42 pm
A powerful earthquake has struck western Indonesia, killing at least three people and injuring many more. "Many" buildings were also damaged, according to officials.
Diplomats and analysts tell CBS News that the dramatic election victory by Pakistani opposition parties could lead to a fight for power within the government - a struggle that may hinder the fight against extremism in the crucial country.
AP - President Bush, ending his feel-good journey across Africa, said Thursday that the United States is committed to helping restore lives of "hope and peace" to Liberia, a poor nation founded by freed American slaves.
AP - Oil prices held near $100 a barrel Thursday after hitting a record overnight as investors poured more cash into crude and other commodities as a hedge against inflation.
Reuters - Kenya's government said on Thursday it
agreed in principle to creating a prime minister's post
demanded by the opposition, a possible breakthrough in a
political crisis some worry could explode into violence again.
Reuters - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr is expected to extend a six-month ceasefire by his
Mehdi Army militia, two senior officials in his movement
confirmed for the first time on Thursday.
AP - Shaq was back, this time in a new uniform.
AFP - A US missile has destroyed a rogue US spy satellite in space carrying toxic fuel considered a threat to Earth, defense officials said, but China raised suspicions about the operation.
AP - A U.S. Navy cruiser blasted a disabled spy satellite with a pinpoint missile strike that achieved the main mission of exploding a tank of toxic fuel 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, defense officials said.
AP - Federal authorities investigating Blackwater Worldwide contractors are returning to Baghdad this week to revisit the scene of a deadly September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
AP - Afghan and NATO-led troops killed two regional Taliban commanders in southern Afghanistan, and an explosion in the same province claimed the life of a British soldier, officials said Thursday.
Comment by James A. Lewis Center for Strategic and International Studies
With the economy slowing and the housing market stuck in reverse, Wednesday’s surprise pop in the government's monthly inflation data was not good news for the Federal Reserve.
Kirstie Alley and Jenny Craig may have gone their separate ways, but the one-time “Fat Actress” isn’t giving up on the weight loss industry.
As John McCain shores up his Republican base, the independent vote that was once his strength is increasingly moving to Barack Obama.