The gang from Botanicalls used one of Adafruit's new open source hardware ethernet shields for Arduino (open hardware too) to make some plants talk - and now you can too! That's right, having your houseplants Twitter you when they need water and more! You can see what one of the plants is doing now... Source: Digg | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:20 pm
Free speech is "shrinking alarmingly" in Vladimir Putin's Russia, says a report by Amnesty International. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:20 pm
The New York Philharmonic performs a groundbreaking concert in secretive and anti-American North Korea. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:19 pm
PYONGYANG (AFP) -
The powerful
melodies of Dvorak and Gershwin filled a Pyongyang concert
hall Tuesday as the New York Philharmonic played an historic
concert aimed at improving US ties with communist North Korea. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:18 pm
A suicide bomber kills 14 people in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after boarding a bus, reports say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government condemned on Tuesday Turkey's incursion into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish guerrillas and demanded Ankara withdraw its troops immediately after what it described as a violation of Iraq's sovereignty.
AP - India's quest to modernize its military against a backdrop of China's burgeoning defense growth and an ongoing regional terrorism threat were the focus of talks planned Tuesday with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi government on Tuesday denounced a recent Turkish incursion and demanded an immediate withdrawal of the troops from northern Iraq.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:11 pm
A Nigerian judge dismisses one of two petitions asking for President Umaru Yar'Adua's election to be re-run. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:06 pm
PYONGYANG (Reuters) - The United States' oldest symphony orchestra played an unprecedented concert on Tuesday in hermit North Korea that both sides say they hope will bring a little harmony to relations between the bitter Cold War foes.
'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' hunk Matthew McConaughey's cropped curly locks got an '80s retro-style wig makeover the other day for a flashback scene in...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged China on Tuesday to press North Korea to disclose its nuclear programs so that a stalled disarmament deal can move forward.
Scientist have nailed down how and when Earth will cease to exist.The sun will expand into a red giant, pushing Earth farther out into space, but not far enough. Our planet will be snagged by the sun's outer atmosphere, plunging to its doom inside the fiery stellar furnace. The good news: This won't happen for another 7.6 billion years. Bad News: Source: Digg | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:00 pm
AFP - A special tribunal Tuesday dismissed one out of two petitions seeking to overturn the April 2007 election of Umaru Yar'Adua as Nigeria's president on the grounds of electoral malpractice.
ABUJA (AFP) -
A special
tribunal Tuesday dismissed one out of two petitions seeking
to overturn the April 2007 election of Umaru Yar'Adua as
Nigeria's president on the grounds of electoral malpractice. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:59 am
LONDON (AFP) -
Best-selling anti-depressants like Prozac and Seroxat are
barely more effective than placebos in treating most people
with depression, according to a study published on Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:55 am
LACONIA, N.H. - Laconia Police are investigating whether a man arrested after a burglary and standoff during the weekend is the same person who kidnapped two women and locked...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hails the "great victory" achieved by Iran on the nuclear issue. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:51 am
Millions of Britons are taking anti-depressants for no reason, according to a study that found they made little difference to the condition. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:51 am
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's top authority, said on Tuesday the Islamic Republic had won a victory in its nuclear program.
Jerry Seinfeld was just joking when he compared a woman accusing his wife of plagiarism to the killers of John Lennon and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., his lawyers said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:48 am
The Iraqi government on Tuesday denounced a recent Turkish incursion and demanded an immediate withdrawal of the troops from northern Iraq. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:44 am
Reuters - The United States' oldest symphony
orchestra played an unprecedented concert on Tuesday in hermit
North Korea that both sides say they hope will bring a little
harmony to relations between the bitter Cold War foes.
A Chinese activist lawyer who was beaten and harassed several times in recent days has been taken away by police again, a fellow activist in Shanghai said Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:43 am
In case you're wondering about the specifics, here's the deal on Bartolo Colon:
As long as Colon is in the minor leagues, he will be paid a salary of $18,000...
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Faltering
Democrat Hillary Clinton Tuesday faced one of her last
chances to derail Barack Obama's presidential express train
at their final debate before make-or-break nominating
contests next week. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:42 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING THROUGHOUT WITH MORE INFO) Japan is considering the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces personnel to participate in U.N. peacekeeping operations in Sudan as early... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:41 am
MONTPELIER, Vt. - The staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff on Monday gave its blessing to the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant's request to extend its license...
CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire regulators on Monday approved the sale of Verizon's landline phone and Internet service in northern New England to North Carolina-based...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: COMBINING STORIES HEADLINED 'ISHIBA DENIES INFO COVERUP OVER DESTROYER-TRAWLER COLLISION' AND 'OPPOSITION CAMP DEMANDS ISHIBA'S RESIGNATION OVER INFO DISCLOSURE,' ADDING... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:38 am
(Kyodo) _ The All Pakistan Democratic Movement, an alliance of several political parties that boycotted the Feb, 8 election, said Tuesday that all judges who took an oath of office under... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:33 am
Levi Bellfield's victims and the families of those he killed have spoken of how his "evil" acts had blighted their lives forever. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:33 am
China urged an activist group in Myanmar that called for a boycott of this year's Olympic Games to have a "correct understanding" of Beijing's policy toward their country. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:30 am
A migrant worker has died of the H5N1 virus in southern China, the Hong Kong government said Tuesday, as the country confirmed its fourth outbreak of bird flu among poultry this year. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:30 am
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he's now "not sure" his government will be able to reach a peace deal with Palestinians by the end of this year, a lofty goal touted by President Bush, Olmert and the Palestinian president at an autumn summit.
The Patriots technically had until yesterday to pick up the $6 million option due Donte' Stallworth. It's been widely reported the scenario wasn't going to...
Reuters - Former Democratic presidential
hopeful Chris Dodd will endorse Barack Obama in his bid for the
White House on Tuesday, a source close to the Obama campaign
said. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:27 am
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential hopeful Chris Dodd will endorse Barack Obama in his bid for the White House on Tuesday, a source close to the Obama campaign said.
Beijing opens the doors this week to its latest Olympic creation, a massive glass and steel airport terminal with a graceful sloping roof that will welcome visitors to the Summer Games. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:26 am
AP - Democrats facing rejection of a proposal to cut off money for the Iraq war are deliberating their next step in trying to rebuild anti-war momentum.
Reuters - Antidepressant medications appear to
help only very severely depressed people and work no better
than placebos in many patients, British researchers said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Antidepressant medications appear to help only very severely depressed people and work no better than placebos in many patients, British researchers said.
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won a verbal assurance Tuesday from China to use its influence to jump-start the stalled process of dismantling North Korea's nuclear programs. Yet it was unclear when or how the Chinese would follow through.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying five policemen and a child in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing all six, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:23 am
We asked you what you think the best post-apocolyptic vehicle would be, assuming you could fuel it up. The response we received from commenters was phenomenal. We've culled the comments down to our ten top responses. Source: Digg | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:22 am
AP - The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.
African Union Chairman Jakaya Kikwete is to try to rescue Kenya's deadlocked peace talks. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:22 am
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AP) -- A "doomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:20 am
An innovation called Carbon Hero may help reduce global warming by making people more aware of their carbon footprint. Regional prize winner in the 2007 European Satellite Navigation Competition, sponsored by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme, the device uses satellite navigation technology to track journeys. Source: Digg | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:20 am
German treasure hunters were to begin digging Tuesday for what they claim to be plunder buried by the Nazis in a man-made cavern near the Czech border. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:20 am
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- The New York Philharmonic performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" for North Korea's communist elite on Tuesday - a feat of musical diplomacy aimed at improving ties with the isolated nuclear-armed country that considers the U.S. its mortal enemy.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:19 am
Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc. says fourth-quarter profit rose 65 percent largely from a tax benefit related to a 2006 asset sale. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:19 am
BILLERICA - For the second time in less than two months, Xaverian was able to shut down Needham, skating away with a 3-0 win over the Rockets in a Super Eight wild card game...
The Home Depot says its profit fell more than 27 percent in the fourth quarter on a slight increase in sales. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:16 am
BILLERICA - In what was nothing short of a hockey perfect storm, No. 8 Waltham defeated No. 9 Westford Academy in a shootout, 1-0, last night at Chelmsford Forum to advance...
Serbia's pro-Western president will insist on Tuesday on a full probe of riots that targeted U.S. and other Western embassies in protest of international recognition of Kosovo's declaration of independence, officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:15 am
LONGYEARBYEN (AFP) -
A vault
carved into the Arctic permafrost and filled with samples of
the world's most important seeds was inaugurated Tuesday,
providing a Noah's Ark of food crops in the event of a
global catastrophe. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:12 am
Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra will return from exile on Thursday morning, according to his supporters. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:11 am
Emily Jones waited three days because of Friday's snow postponement, but wound up making her final race of the indoor season the most memorable of her career at last...
WILMINGTON - While he's still working the phones and probably will do so until the trading deadline strikes today at 3 p.m., Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli...
(Kyodo) _ Peruvian President Alan Garcia will visit Japan from March 16 to 18 for talks with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The visit will be... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:06 am
BERLIN (AFP) -
German
authorities have widened their probe into a massive tax
evasion scandal to a subsidiary of Swiss banking group
Vontobel based in Liechtenstein, a press report alleged on Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:03 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH COURT DECISION TO RELEASE HIM ON BAIL IN 4TH GRAF) The Tokyo High Court upheld a two-year prison term and an 11 million yen fine Tuesday on House of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:01 am
A judge at the Old Bailey today sentenced Levi Bellfield to spend the rest of
his life in prison for the murder of two young women and the attempted
murder of a third. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:01 am
(Kyodo) _ Mobile phone operator Softbank Mobile Corp. said Tuesday it will supply some 50,000 handsets to Japan Post Network Co. which manages the nationwide network of post offices. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:56 am
Israel detains 200 Africans following the announcement of new measures against illegal immigrants. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:53 am
The embattled Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, bowed to
widespread criticism today and promised that a review into MPs' expenses
would be completed before this summer's parliamentary recess. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:47 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) The New York Philharmonic, the United States' oldest symphony orchestra, performed in the North Korean capital Tuesday, marking the largest cultural exchange... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:43 am
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates visits India to bolster military ties and promote US arms manufacturers. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:42 am
(Kyodo) _ A migrant worker in southern China's Guangdong Province died of bird flu Monday, marking the country's third fatal case this year, the provincial health ministry said Tuesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:41 am
(Kyodo) _ Japan will tighten energy-saving standards for liquid crystal display and plasma televisions in April as part of its efforts to cut global warming emissions in the household... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:39 am
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event in Washington, DC. New polls Monday suggested Clinton's national support was collapsing, as her aides battled angrily... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:34 am
A roadside bomb has killed everyone in an Afghan police vehicle, including five officers and a three-year-old child. Although the U.S. has increased efforts to train Afghan police, there are still major problems, and officers are often attacked.
The New York Philharmonic has brought musical diplomacy to the heart of communist North Korea in a historic concert before the communist nation's elite, opening with both countries' most patriotic compositions.
LEGO Universe, the upcoming LEGO-branded MMO, can best be described as "LEGO Star Wars multiplied by a million," according to Mark Hansen, the Director of Business Development for the LEGO Group. Source: Digg | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:21 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH REMARKS BY MOFA PRESS SECRETARY IN LAST 2 GRAFS) Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura on Tuesday called for "fair handling" of Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:20 am
South Africa's biggest mining union threatens to strike if any of its members lose jobs as a result of power cuts. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
UCHRAI SAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Hardcore militants who seized Pakistan's most scenic valley are still holed up in its snowy heights, three months after President Pervez Musharraf sent in the army to show his resolve against spreading Islamic extremism.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:19 am
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations says an Iranian opposition group is feeding fabricated evidence to Washington that purports to show the Tehran government tried to produce nuclear weapons.
The BBC has defended a new show in which a reporter takes drugs on camera to demonstrate its effects. Should I Smoke Dope? will be broadcast later this year on channel BBC3, which is aimed at 16- to 34-year-olds. Source: Digg | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:03 am
A Turkish armoured vehicle moves towards the Turkish-Iraq border. Turkish troops were engaged in fierce clashes with Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq as they closed in on one of the main separatist camps,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:02 am
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency presented documents that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 - the year that a U.S. intelligence report says such work stopped.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:59 am
A former nightclub bouncer has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of a murderous campaign of violence against women. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:49 am
A former nightclub bouncer will be sentenced this morning after being convicted of a murderous campaign of violence against women. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:49 am
Pakistani officials use a fork-lift truck to shift the blast-damaged vehicle of Lieutenant General Mushtaq Baig after the suicide attack in Rawalpindi February 25. The attack, which killed the Pakistani... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:26 am
Pakistani's remove a car near burning vehicles outside a British NGO office following an attack by unidentified armed men in the northwestern town of Mansehra on February 25. Police on Tuesday launched... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:26 am
Pakistani men gather outside the burning offices of a non-governmental organisation following an attack by unidentified armed men in the northwestern town of Mansehra on February 25. Police on Tuesday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:26 am
An interview with the 14-year-old lone survivor prompts a new search of the home where police say a man killed his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself.
Trying to figure out what set off a 41-year-old father, homicide investigators Monday interviewed the lone survivor of a weekend murder-suicide and searched the Yorba Linda home where five family members were killed. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The nation's long-held Protestant majority has slipped to 51%. Evangelicals make up the nation's single-largest tradition, followed by Catholics.
Americans are switching religious affiliation in ever-greater numbers or abandoning ties to organized denominations altogether, and Protestants are on the cusp of becoming a minority, according to a survey released Monday. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
California has adopted ambitious goals for alternative fuels and cutting greenhouse gas emissions -- and is calling on the masses to help.
Ben LeBeau pulled up to the Conserv Fuel station in Brentwood on a recent Friday and started filling the tank of his black Chevy Tahoe with a liquid rarely found in California -- E85, an alternative fuel made of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The huge waves that had been anticipated off Southern California don't quite materialize, leaving many surfers on the sidelines. Meanwhile, search continues for man swept away by waves.
High surf that was expected to pound Southern California with waves as high as 28 feet fizzled as the day wore on Monday, leaving surfers disappointed by less-than-epic conditions. But authorities warned that rough seas still made fishing from jetties dangerous. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Two women and a 4-year-old girl were killed and two other children were wounded in a shooting Monday night in a Baldwin Park neighborhood, police said. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The New York senator chose to build a reputation as a skilled insider; the Illinois freshman cast himself as more of an outsider.
The Senate long has been considered a poor springboard to the White House. But it provided a crucial step in the political rise of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, giving them a priceless chance to burnish their records and shore up weaknesses before launching their presidential campaigns. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Israel's Supreme Court accepted on Tuesday a highly controversial deal under which former president Moshe Katsav, pictured in 2007, avoided prosecution for rape but pleaded guilty to lesser charges Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 7:50 am
PARIS (AFP) -
French
President Nicolas Sarkozy sharply criticised the chairman of
scandal-hit bank Societe Generale in an interview published
Tuesday, saying his response to billion-euro losses was
"not normal". Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Feb 2008 | 7:35 am
A Western tourist walks in the streets of Sanaa's Old City January 2008. Al-Qaeda's wing in Yemen has claimed responsibility for separate attacks on groups of Belgian and Spanish tourists in the impoverished... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 7:22 am
A homicide bomber on Monday killed the Pakistan army's surgeon general, the highest-ranking military officer to die in an attack since President Pervez Musharraf joined America's war against terror. Source: FOXNews.com | 26 Feb 2008 | 6:52 am
File photo shows deposed Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase (L) in Suva. Qarase, who was ousted in a military coup in December 2006, has appeared in court on charges of abuse of office. Qarase was brought... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 6:16 am
A man belonging to the Kisii tribe throws a rock as he and others battle a group of Kalenjin tribes people in the western Kenyan town of Chebilat. Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan was set to push... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 6:13 am
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women on hormone replacement therapy have only a slightly higher risk of developing breast cancer, but there are much greater chances they will experience the worry of abnormal mammograms or may undergo an avoidable breast biopsy, researchers said on Monday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four European actors and the maverick Coen brothers shared top honors at the Oscars, relegating the traditional Hollywood of big stars and box office hits to a supporting role this year.
Five environmental activists were arrested after they climbed onto a plane at London's Heathrow Airport to protest plans to build a third runway there. Greenpeace described it as an "incredible security breach."
After struggling for months to dent Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy, the campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is now unleashing what one Clinton aide called a “kitchen sink” fusillade against Obama, pursuing five lines of attack since Saturday in hopes of stopping his political momentum.
In the past two months, Sen. Barack Obama has built a commanding coalition among Democratic voters, with especially strong support among men, and is now viewed by most Democrats as the candidate best able to defeat Sen. John McCain, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.
Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called rival Barack Obama a risky choice to lead U.S. foreign policy even as Obama gained ground in the battleground U.S. states of Ohio and Texas on Monday.
File photo shows US soldiers strolling through a shopping mall near Kadena US Air Base in Okinawa. The US military said Tuesday it would maintain a curfew on troops and their relatives on Japan's southern... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Feb 2008 | 2:24 am
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner John McCain on Monday retracted his earlier statement he would lose the November election if he did not convince Americans they were winning the war in Iraq.
PORT MORESBY - A pregnant Papua New Guinea woman hung from a tree after being accused of sorcery gave birth to her baby while struggling to free herself, local media reports.
Nolan Yekum and her husband Paul were dragged from their... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 Feb 2008 | 2:11 am
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called rival Barack Obama a risky choice to lead U.S. foreign policy even as Obama gained ground on her in the battleground U.S. state of Ohio on Monday.
In a foreign... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:29 am
JAKARTA - A fresh earthquake struck off western Sumatra on Tuesday in the wake of strong tremors the day before, triggering another tsunami alert, Indonesia's meteorology agency said.
The agency said the quake measured 7.0 on the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:08 am
MELBOURNE - The Japanese whaling fleet has moved back into Australian territorial waters, sparking a call from the anti-whaling protest ship, Steve Irwin, for the Australian government to move in.
The captain of the Steve Irwin,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:02 am
American Airlines defended its staff as professional and its equipment as sound Monday after a swift review of a passenger's in-flight death, despite her family's claims that the crew ignored her pleas until it was too late.
The New York Philharmonic arrived in North Korea on Monday on a historic trip as the most prominent American cultural institution to visit the nuclear-armed country, run by a regime that keeps its impoverished people among the world's most isolated.
The U.S. religious marketplace is volatile, with nearly half of Americans leaving the faith of their upbringing to either switch allegiances or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a survey finds.
The Australian publisher of a Fiji newspaper has been taken from his home and could be deported to Australia, it was reported today.
Russell Hunter, the managing director and publisher of the Fiji Sun, was taken from his home by... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:07 am
The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued his bluntest warning yet that rampant commercialism is transforming children into selfish materialists with little sense of their own worth. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
South Africa said that it will start killing elephants to reduce their burgeoning numbers, ending a 13-year ban. Despite pervasive outrage, some animal activists say modest culling is a positive step.
Police are to review the case of a notorious paedophile known as the Beast of
Jersey who regularly visited a care home on the island where the bones of a
child were found at the weekend. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Millions of people taking commonly prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac
and Seroxat might as well be taking a placebo, according to the first study
to include unpublished evidence. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
An iron worker and his wife presented the winning ticket for a $275 million Mega Millions jackpot on Monday and said they'll use part of the windfall to replace their trailer home with a house in coastal Georgia.
An 11-year-old boy and his mother were critically injured early this morning after they were struck by a teenage driver in northeast Los Angeles, officials said. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 25 Feb 2008 | 11:14 pm
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's parliamentary speaker has come under criticism over his increasing expenses, including $8,500 on taxis for his wife and $35,000 toward the cost of a second home in Scotland.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 25 Feb 2008 | 11:07 pm
Kate Sheedy, a surviving victim of Levi Bellfield talks about the day that will haunt her forever in an exclusive interview. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 25 Feb 2008 | 10:49 pm
AMADIYA, Iraq (AP) -- Turkey says it is not targeting civilians as it chases after separatist rebels in northern Iraq, but people in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region say they have lived in fear since the incursion began.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 25 Feb 2008 | 10:10 pm
NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.N. climate chief on Monday welcomed statements by Bush administration officials that the United States would accept a binding international commitment to reduce global-warming gases. But he said their insistence that China and other developing nations do the same "is not realistic."... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 25 Feb 2008 | 10:04 pm
A small chemical spill in a University of Wisconsin engineering building elicited a "full response"; LSU held a rock-paper-scissors tournament to hype up the school's men's basketball game Source: U.S. News & World Report | 25 Feb 2008 | 10:03 pm
LONDON - A former nightclub doorman will be questioned over the unsolved murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler after being found guilty on Monday of beating two female students to death near bus stops in London.
Another 20 attacks... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
Job growth is faltering, consumer confidence plunging. The fallout from the worst housing slump in a quarter-century grows. The signs are unmistakable — the economy is in trouble.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates continues his trip through Southeast Asia with a stop in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. With China stepping up its military planning, Washington is increasingly seeing Indonesia as a strategic ally.
The growing animosity between the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton escalated further Monday, as the Obama camp accused their Clinton counterparts of "divisive tactics" for distributing a photograph of Obama from a 2006 Africa trip wearing traditional Somali dress.
A game system popular with teens is finding its way into rehabilitation centers. The Nintendo Wii, controlled by users' movements, is being used to help patients recovering from stroke or closed-head injuries. Therapists say the games can ease the sometimes unpleasant task of rehab.
An online company is trying to convince some homeowners that losing their home might not be so bad. The Web site, youwalkaway.com, features pictures of happy families; it urges stressed-out homeowners to "use our proven method to Walk Away."
The New York Philharmonic will perform Tuesday at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre in Pyongyang, North Korea. The concert represents an historic occasion, as a prominent U.S. cultural institution visits an isolated nation.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Israel and Palestinians will not reach a peace deal this year, and a recent Mideast peace conference in Annapolis was only "an exercise in public relations," Syria's ambassador to the United States said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 25 Feb 2008 | 9:33 pm
Sales of existing homes fell again in January, marking the sixth month of declines in a row. The median price of those homes also fell, to just over $200,000 -- down more than 4 percent from a year ago. In an effort to hold down the rising number of foreclosures, lenders are reaching out to borrowers.
Obama slams photo as a Clinton smear while Hillary's team blames the press and takes comfort in 'Saturday Night Live.' Source: U.S. News & World Report | 25 Feb 2008 | 9:29 pm
Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has revealed he still suffers from emotional problems and memory loss following the high-speed jet car crash that almost killed him 18 months ago. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 25 Feb 2008 | 9:29 pm
Dennis Letts was a retired professor and actor who made his Broadway debut this season in his son Tracy's acclaimed production of August: Osage County. Robert Siegel spoke to both father and son in late December on this program. Dennis Letts, who died Friday of cancer, was 73.
Cooks who love onions but hate what the vegetables can do to their eyes may soon find relief, thanks to a group of scientists in New Zealand. The team says it has genetically altered an onion so it's missing an enzyme that's essential for an onion's pungent punch.
Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 25 Feb 2008 | 9:24 pm
Four days into the largest Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq in a decade, Turkey has already begun holding funerals for its soldiers killed in action in Iraq. Meanwhile, Kurdish nationalists demonstrated and held a moment of silence for slain guerrillas.
BANGKOK - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is due to return from exile on Thursday, 18 months after he was ousted in a bloodless 2006 coup, a website run by his supporters said on Monday.
An advertisement on www.hi-thaksin.org... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Feb 2008 | 8:58 pm
LONDON - A British man celebrated his 60th birthday in unexpected style at the weekend when a 50 pence ($1.25) bet on the horses turned him into an instant millionaire.
Fred Craggs, from Yorkshire in northern England, was not even... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Feb 2008 | 8:55 pm
A former nightclub bouncer has been revealed as the prime suspect in the notorious killing of schoolgirl Milly Dowler after being found guilty of a murderous campaign of violence against women. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 25 Feb 2008 | 8:49 pm
A magnitude 6.7 quake hit off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Monday, the US Geological Survey reported.
It said the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.9, struck at 0706 NZT 164km southwest of Padang in Sumatra and... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Feb 2008 | 8:34 pm
A team of archaeologists have discovered the ruins of the oldest known structures in Peru, erected 5500 years ago, the Lima newspaper El Comercio reported.
The discovery is a circular plaza, situated in the coastal zone of Casma,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Feb 2008 | 8:15 pm
Hillary Clinton has dismissed Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner, as a novice, as she sought to press her claims to be the next US commander-in-chief. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 25 Feb 2008 | 8:10 pm
Pakistani state television reports at least three people have been killed by an explosion in the military garrison city of Rawalpindi, including a top general. Also, President Musharraf has dismissed calls from three U.S. senators to step down.
A Spanish woman was found dead after she turned down her ex-boyfriend's on-the-air plea for her to marry him, despite her restraining order against him. A new gender violence law sets out to improve the situation for victims, but some say the courts aren't doing enough.
Police searching a Jersey, U.K., youth hostel after the discovery of a child's remains have put up more tents to expand the area they're combing but say they do not know if they will find more bodies. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 5:37 pm
Australian police have launched an investigation into the rogue doctor, known as the Butcher of Bega, who is accused of mutilating and sexually abusing hundreds of women. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 5:29 pm
Violence targeting Shiite pilgrims in Iraq has now left more than 60 people dead and scores injured. In the latest attack, a roadside bomb struck pilgrims on a road outside Baghdad, killing at least four people.
A church is Rome, Ga., is refurbishing a hearse which it plans to donate to Romania; it would be that European nation's first such vehicle. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 4:35 pm
Sales of existing homes fell to the lowest level in nearly a decade in January while the median price for a home dropped for the fifth straight month. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 25 Feb 2008 | 3:59 pm
A lion attacked a 10-year-old boy visiting a circus in eastern China, biting off his arm through the bars of its cage, state media said Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 3:19 pm
Web surfers gawked by the hundreds of thousands over video footage showing French president Nicolas Sarkozy snapping at a man in a crowd at a Paris trade fair. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 3:12 pm
Pakistan bans access to video-sharing Web site because of 'anti-Islamic movies' users have posted, official says. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 3:04 pm
An Iraqi police official was killed and at least four other people were wounded Monday when a homicide bomber in a wheelchair attacked a police facility in Samarra. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 2:55 pm
A Japanese inmate at the Fuchu prison committed suicide by stabbing himself with a chopstick, the Mainichi Daily News reported Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 2:52 pm
Detectives in the U.K. are investigating after a man choked to death while taking part in a competition with friends to see how many fairy cakes they could eat at once. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Feb 2008 | 1:39 pm
AP - India's quest to modernize its military against a backdrop of China's burgeoning defense growth and an ongoing regional terrorism threat were the focus of talks planned Tuesday with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
AFP - A special tribunal Tuesday dismissed one out of two petitions seeking to overturn the April 2007 election of Umaru Yar'Adua as Nigeria's president on the grounds of electoral malpractice.
Reuters - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
Iran's top authority, said on Tuesday the Islamic Republic had
won a victory in its nuclear program.
Reuters - The United States' oldest symphony
orchestra played an unprecedented concert on Tuesday in hermit
North Korea that both sides say they hope will bring a little
harmony to relations between the bitter Cold War foes.
AP - Democrats facing rejection of a proposal to cut off money for the Iraq war are deliberating their next step in trying to rebuild anti-war momentum.
Reuters - Antidepressant medications appear to
help only very severely depressed people and work no better
than placebos in many patients, British researchers said.
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won a verbal assurance Tuesday from China to use its influence to jump-start the stalled process of dismantling North Korea's nuclear programs. Yet it was unclear when or how the Chinese would follow through.
AP - A roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying five policemen and a child in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing all six, officials said.
AP - The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.
After struggling for months to dent Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy, the campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is now unleashing what one Clinton aide called a “kitchen sink” fusillade against Obama, pursuing five lines of attack since Saturday in hopes of stopping his political momentum.
In the past two months, Sen. Barack Obama has built a commanding coalition among Democratic voters, with especially strong support among men, and is now viewed by most Democrats as the candidate best able to defeat Sen. John McCain, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.
American Airlines defended its staff as professional and its equipment as sound Monday after a swift review of a passenger's in-flight death, despite her family's claims that the crew ignored her pleas until it was too late.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton needs wins in both Ohio and Texas to keep her campaign afloat.
The New York Philharmonic arrived in North Korea on Monday on a historic trip as the most prominent American cultural institution to visit the nuclear-armed country, run by a regime that keeps its impoverished people among the world's most isolated.
The U.S. religious marketplace is volatile, with nearly half of Americans leaving the faith of their upbringing to either switch allegiances or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a survey finds.
An iron worker and his wife presented the winning ticket for a $275 million Mega Millions jackpot on Monday and said they'll use part of the windfall to replace their trailer home with a house in coastal Georgia.
Job growth is faltering, consumer confidence plunging. The fallout from the worst housing slump in a quarter-century grows. The signs are unmistakable — the economy is in trouble.