AP - The New York Jets and Pro Bowl left guard Alan Faneca agreed to terms on a five-year, $40 million contract Saturday, making the former Pittsburgh player the highest-paid offensive lineman in the NFL.
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's voters are expected to endorse Vladimir Putin's choice of a successor in Sunday's presidential election, allowing Putin to retain a measure of power in his nation, whose wealth and global voice have grown even as democratic freedoms diminished.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:11 pm
AP - Russia's voters are expected to endorse Vladimir Putin's choice of a successor in Sunday's presidential election, allowing Putin to retain a measure of power in his nation, whose wealth and global voice have grown even as democratic freedoms diminished.
Prince Harry insists he is not a hero - and hails the bravery of his fellow soldiers after his early return from Afghanistan. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:05 pm
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas suspends contacts with Israel in protest at a bloody assault on Gaza. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
PESHAWAR (AFP) -
A suicide
bomber blew himself up at a gathering of tribal elders and
local officials in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing at
least 35 people, hospital and security officials said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel vowed on Sunday to press on with a Gaza offensive and curb rocket strikes, threatening even stronger action despite U.N. condemnation of assaults that have killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A U.S. military helicopter fired a guided missile to kill a wanted Saudi Arabian al-Qaida in Iraq leader who was believed responsible for the bombing deaths of five American soldiers, a spokesman said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
A U.S. military helicopter fired a guided missile to kill a wanted Saudi Arabian al-Qaida in Iraq leader who was believed responsible for the bombing deaths of five American soldiers, a spokesman said Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:47 am
Spring may seem like a long way off, but several new dragon boat teams are already firing away on all cylinders, readying now to bring warmth and blazing color to the Charles...
The state's new prison chief wants to reverse what he sees as the failed "busting rocks" philosophy of the past two decades and make inmate rehabilitation and...
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
US
lawmakers have reacted angrily after the US military awarded
a 35-billion-dollar aircraft deal to Europe's Northrop
Grumman/EADS group, in a major blow to US manufacturers Boeing. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:42 am
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Eight people were killed and 33 police injured in Armenia's capital during overnight protests, which ended after the government declared a state of emergency and mobilized the army.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed a new chapter in ties with Iraq on Sunday, saying he was "truly happy" to make a landmark trip to Baghdad now that Iran's arch-foe Saddam Hussein had been deposed.
NEW BEDFORD - Neighbors reeled in the wake of Friday's brutal murder-suicide that took the lives of an estranged couple and left two heroic roommates injured yesterday.
...
Not many goaltending coaches would cite Tim Thomas' style as the paragon of netminding efficiency, but it works for him. And those same mentors would do well to hold...
Reuters - Russians voted for a new president on
Sunday in an election likely to hand victory to President
Vladimir Putin's chosen successor but criticized by the
opposition for a lack of real competition.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians voted for a new president on Sunday in an election likely to hand victory to President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor but criticized by the opposition for a lack of real competition.
A bunch of dumbasses....were talking crashes, accidents, injuries, car crashes, misstakes and just plaine stupidity. Source: Digg | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:28 am
Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
hailed a new chapter in ties with Iraq on Sunday, saying he was
"truly happy" to make a landmark trip to Baghdad now that
Iran's arch-foe Saddam Hussein had been deposed.
Former UN chief Kofi Annan leaves Kenya after helping secure a deal between the government and opposition. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:22 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his landmark visit to Iraq opened a new chapter in "brotherly" relations between the two countries, which were once bitter enemies.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:15 am
AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his landmark visit to Iraq opened a new chapter in "brotherly" relations between the two countries, which were once bitter enemies.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed and up to 40 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a traditional tribal meeting in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.
East Timorese rebel soldier, Amaro da Costa alias Susar, left, who was involved in the attack which left President Jose Ramos-Horta severely wounded and another rebel commander Maj. Alfredo Reinado dead,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:04 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli aircraft sent missiles slamming into the office of the prime minister of Hamas-ruled Gaza before dawn on Sunday, pressing forward with an offensive that has killed nearly 70 Palestinians in two days of fighting. A 21-month-old girl was among the dead in new violence.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:04 am
AP - Israeli aircraft sent missiles slamming into the office of the prime minister of Hamas-ruled Gaza before dawn on Sunday, pressing forward with an offensive that has killed nearly 70 Palestinians in two days of fighting. A 21-month-old girl was among the dead in new violence.
Lorena Ochoa completed a runaway victory in her first tournament of the year, closing with a 4-under 68 to leave Annika Sorenstam 11 strokes behind Sunday in the rain-slowed HSBC Women's Champions. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:03 am
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday at a large meeting called by tribal elders pushing for peace in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 100, witnesses and officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 am
In this photo made available Sunday March 2, 2008, Britain's Prince Harry on patrol through the deserted town of Garmisir Jan. 2, 2008, close to FOB (forward operating base) Delhi, where he was posted... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:58 am
British billionaire Richard Branson gestures as he hangs down from the side of a hotel at the launch of Virgin Mobile in Mumbai, India, Sunday, March 2, 2008. Branson's Virgin Mobile entered the Indian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:58 am
Dry conditions were forecast Sunday along the eastern seaboard as a high pressure system slides towards the East Coast from the Mississippi Valley. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:57 am
BOGOTA (AFP) -
President
Hugo Chavez has warned of war if the Colombian military
crosses into Venezuelan territory, after Bogota launched a
strike against FARC guerrillas in Ecuador, killing a top
rebel official. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:54 am
A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday at a large meeting called by tribal elders pushing for peace in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 100,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:47 am
Vijay Chandra drives his 8HP 1937 made Morris 8 during the 42nd Statesman Vintage and Classic car rally in New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:45 am
BAGHDAD (AFP) -
Iran's
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday at the start of
a two-day visit to Iraq that the trip opened a "new
page" in relations between the Muslim neighbours and in
the region. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:45 am
AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday at the start of a two-day visit to Iraq that the trip opened a "new page" in relations between the Muslim neighbours and in the region.
AP - FBI agents hope to search a Utah house linked to a man whose hospitalization led to the discovery of deadly ricin in a motel room he had occupied.
FBI agents hope to search a Utah house linked to a man whose hospitalization led to the discovery of deadly ricin in a motel room he had occupied. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:39 am
AP - The nine justices in black robes file into the Supreme Court consumed with thoughts about the great legal issues of the day. Only one of them is likely to ask questions involving raccoons, an unruly son, pet oysters or even the dreaded "tomato children."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his landmark visit to Iraq opened a new chapter in "brotherly" relations between the two countries, which were once bitter enemies. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:37 am
Taliban militants attacked a telecom tower in southern Afghanistan, the second such assault in two days, after warning phone companies to shut down the towers at night. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:35 am
(Kyodo) _ The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan will boycott deliberations in the House of Councillors on the state budget and tax reform for fiscal 2008 for at least one week and Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:33 am
COLUMBUS, Ohio - UFC champion Anderson Silva choked out former Pride title-holder at 4:52 of the second round to claim middleweight mixed martial arts supremacy at UFC 82...
Reuters - Israel vowed on Sunday to press on with a
Gaza offensive and curb rocket strikes, threatening even
stronger action despite U.N. condemnation of assaults that have
killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians.
Israel Vazquez dominated the last three rounds to outpoint Rafael Marquez and win a split decision last night in Carson, Calif. The fighters' third meeting was just as...
The nine justices in black robes file into the Supreme Court consumed with thoughts about the great legal issues of the day. Only one of them is likely to ask questions involving raccoons, an unruly son, pet oysters or even the dreaded "tomato children." Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:19 am
Russians go to the polls in presidential elections, bringing to a close Vladimir Putin's eight years in office. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:18 am
(Kyodo) _ Taliban militants have burned two telecom towers in southern Afghanistan after they warned mobile phone companies to shut down their signals at night or face attacks, police... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:17 am
LAS VEGAS - Kyle Busch hit his first speedbump of the season yesterday when he wrecked two cars and scraped the wall with another.
No worries.
Busch is the hottest...
LAS VEGAS - Mark Martin took Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Victory Lane by winning the Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, then immediately apologized for an accident...
Afghan demonstrators, watched by police in green caps, gather to protest the reprint of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Denmark and an upcoming Dutch film criticizing the Quran in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:07 am
At least 35 people are killed in a suicide attack on a gathering of elders in north-west Pakistan, reports say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:07 am
Thais went to the polls Sunday to vote in the country's first elections for the upper house of Parliament since a 2006 military coup ousted elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:05 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - The top U.S. negotiator on North Korea was to leave China on Sunday without meeting his North Korean counterpart, who he said was "not ready" for talks aimed at pushing forward a stalled nuclear disarmament plan.
The first ever visit to Iraq by an Iranian president marks a high point since the two sides' bitter war in the 1980s. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:03 am
MOSCOW (AFP) -
Russians
voted Sunday in a presidential election seen by critics as
rigged to hand victory to Vladimir Putin's chosen successor,
Dmitry Medvedev. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:02 am
Luke Donald made a quadruple bogey earlier this week. Mark Calcavecchia whiffed on a chip yesterday.
Bad mistakes? Absolutely.
But to win at PGA National, one must...
To win a multi-day tournament, a player must be able to overcome the inevitable bad beat or "cooler," which is defined as a great hand that just runs into a better...
Saluted by a guard of honour, Iran's president has become the first foreign leader to receive a full ceremonial welcome in Baghdad when he began a landmark visit to Iraq. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:54 am
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kofi Annan said Sunday that Kenyans must ensure the country moves beyond a bloody postelection crisis now that its political leaders have agreed to share power.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:50 am
Get ready for the price of gold to soar after this type of story in mainstream! John Williams discusses a coming financial depression. Explore these articles:FDIC Girds For Bank Failures & The FDIC Will Seek to Rehire 25 of It's Own Retired Members, Many of Whom Specialized in Bank Closings.http://www.thestreet.com/print Source: Digg | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:50 am
Kofi Annan said Sunday that Kenyans must ensure the country moves beyond a bloody postelection crisis now that its political leaders have agreed to share power. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:50 am
Kofi Annan said Sunday that Kenyans must ensure the country moves beyond a bloody postelection crisis now that its political leaders have agreed to share power. Annan, the former U.N.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:50 am
GAZA CITY (AFP) -
Israel
vowed Sunday to keep up its assault on the Hamas-run Gaza
Strip which has killed more than 60 Palestinians and has
threatened to entomb the recently-revived Middle East peace process. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:46 am
An ex-policeman suspected of having shot and wounded East Timor's president last month was in custody Sunday after surrendering to police, military officials said. Amaro da Costa... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
A man watches live broadcast of the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visit to Iraq in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Sunday, March 2, 2008. Ahmadinejad arrived Sunday in Baghdad for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:42 am
The Spartans have created the ultimate hell. Either continue to fall until you inevitably starve to death or attempt to escape with gruesome consequences. Source: Digg | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:40 am
The top American negotiator for the stalled six-nation talks on North Korean disarmament left Beijing on Sunday without meeting officials from Pyongyang as hoped, the U.S. Embassy said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:37 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING DEATH TOLL, ADDING DETAILS) Forty people, including several tribal leaders, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself in a tribal peace assembly in an ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:37 am
Israeli aircraft sent missiles slamming into the office of the prime minister of Hamas-ruled Gaza before dawn on Sunday, after killing 54 Palestinians in the highest single-day death toll... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:36 am
North Korea warned it would take steps to safeguard the communist country as South Korea and the United States kicked off annual joint military exercises Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:34 am
Eight people die in clashes between police and opposition protesters in Armenia's capital Yerevan, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:27 am
Pakistani policemen try to disperse peoples after a bomb explosion near the security forces convoy at the lawless town of Darra Adam Khel, in January 2008. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:24 am
Afghan workers of a Roshan mobile phone company tower are seen after it was burnt by Taliban militants in the city of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, March 1, 2008. Taliban... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:22 am
Russia's voters are expected to endorse Vladimir Putin's choice of a successor in Sunday's presidential election, allowing Putin to retain a measure of power in his nation, whose wealth... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:17 am
Three-month-old African lion cub Chibi lays on a box at Safari Zoo in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, March 2, 2008. Chibi is one of three lion cubs which were newly born in the zoo. (AP Photo/Firdia... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:17 am
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran arrived in Baghdad today at the start of
an unprecedented trip to strengthen ties between Iran and Iraq, neighbouring
countries that were once divided by eight years of war. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:09 am
Israeli forces have launched devastating raids on northern Gaza, killing 45 Palestinians, including five children, as pressure mounted in Tel Aviv for a wider invasion of the territory. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:08 am
Kofi Annan is set to leave Kenya after brokering a power-sharing deal between the country's feuding politicians to end a bloody post-election crisis. The former UN... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:04 am
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) -- Eight people died in clashes between police and opposition supporters that led the president to declare a sweeping, 20-day state of emergency, officials said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:52 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hundreds of demonstrators set the Danish and Dutch flags ablaze Sunday in northern Afghanistan to protest the reprint of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Denmark and an upcoming Dutch film criticizing the Quran.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:50 am
Their mingling with off-roaders spurs controversial calls to close part of the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area.
The dirt bikes and dune buggies swarm the sandy slopes by the thousands, turning these giant dunes at California's southeast border into anthills of frenetic activity. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Troops chase guerrillas into Ecuador. Death of FARC's chief diplomat could shake up the group, analysts say.
The second-highest-ranking leader in Colombia's largest leftist guerrilla group was killed in a predawn firefight near the Ecuadorean border, the Colombian government announced Saturday morning. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Springing from 'Saturday Night Live' zany, the actor is looking for a little drama in his on-screen life.
IN this Apatowian Age of the Big Baby comedy, Will Ferrell is the undisputed avatar. He plays seriously self-absorbed characters who do not have much self to absorb. He is also, obliviously, a tantrum-throwing tease. In movie after movie and, before that, on "Saturday Night Live," he bares his midriff, he displays the ringlets of his fuzzy-wuzzy chest. Can no one stop this man from mooning? From streaking? Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
It is the deepest thrust into the coastal territory in years. Twenty-six Palestinian civilians and two Israeli soldiers are among the dead.
Israeli forces Saturday made their deepest and deadliest incursion into the Gaza Strip in years, attacking Palestinian rocket-launching squads with tanks and warplanes but also inflicting a heavy loss of civilian life in the densely populated enclave. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
The fallout from Sen. Barack Obama’s relationship with politically connected real estate developer Tony Rezko continues to dog the Democrat on the campaign trail. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 7:53 am
A suicide bomb attack at a gathering of tribal elders and local officials in northwest Pakistan on Sunday killed at least 25 people, security officials and state media said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 2 Mar 2008 | 7:53 am
Georgia Tech scientists have developed a new material that, combined with the right process, could become the cheapest way to separate the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, out of coal plants' smokestacks.... Source: Digg | 2 Mar 2008 | 7:35 am
On Sept. 26, 2007, Travis Pastrana jumped out of an airplane over Arecibo, Puerto Rico, without a parachute. In a carefully choreographed stunt, he met up in midair with another jumper, then lashed himself into a harness in time to make a safe tandem landing. Source: Digg | 2 Mar 2008 | 7:30 am
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Sunday in Baghdad for the first-ever visit by an Iranian president to Iraq, waving as he stepped off his plane to be greeted by representatives of a nation that was once Iran’s bitter enemy.
Hillary Rodham Clinton took a break from the campaign trail to thank “Saturday Night Live” for giving her candidacy a boost — although she failed to get an official endorsement from the show.
ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch is a West Point graduate with a master's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT. In Iraq, he's also a fish farmer.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:11 a... | 2 Mar 2008 | 6:35 am
A man accused of involvement in the shooting of East Timor's president hands himself in to police custody. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 6:20 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton narrowly trails rival Barack Obama in Texas and the two are virtually tied in Ohio ahead of critical contests that could decide the fate of her presidential bid, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Sunday.
In order to complete a radical restructuring plan, Eidos parent company SCi has announced that it will be cutting 25% of jobs – a maximum staff of 800 – and will cancel 14 projects currently in development to either insufficient quality of an inability to provide an acceptable return on investment. Source: Digg | 2 Mar 2008 | 5:40 am
Israeli troops backed by tanks and aircraft went after Gaza militants who bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since Islamic Hamas militants seized control in June.
It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a puff of gas and then retrieved it a split second later. Source: Digg | 2 Mar 2008 | 5:27 am
A motel patron hospitalized after possible exposure to the toxin ricin is "holding his own" in intensive care, his cousin said Saturday as investigators puzzled over why the strictly controlled poison was in the man's room.
Democrat Barack Obama, on his first visit to Rhode Island as a presidential candidate, sought Saturday to portray Hillary Rodham Clinton as a candidate who shifted positions for political expediency.
a path almost certainly will be open for the former leader to take a new and powerful role in the government of the man he has endorsed to take his place
Hugo Chavez warns Colombia a strike against Farc rebels inside Venezuela like that in Ecuador could start a war. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 3:35 am
Secretary-General speaks at emergency session of council on the escalation of violence in Gaza; Libyan delegation circulate a draft resolution to council members condemning Israel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States admitted 444 Iraqi refugees in February, according to preliminary figures released by a U.S. official on Saturday, up from 375 in January but below the pace needed to meet its 12,000 annual target.
VADUZ (AFP) -
Liechtenstein sought to placate its neighbours Saturday with
a pledge to reform its banking system as the shockwaves from
the revelation of a secret list of alleged tax evaders
continue to ripple worldwide. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 2 Mar 2008 | 3:20 am
Thais are electing a new Senate in the second stage of the democratic process but low turnout is feared. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 1:59 am
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez warned Colombia on Saturday it would be a "cause for war" if its forces struck inside Venezuelan territory as they did in Ecuador killing a top Colombian rebel commander there.
Dozens died in pitched battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian rocket squads in the Gaza Strip. An exiled Hamas leader denounced Israeli attacks against civilians, describing it as "the real holocaust."
Senator Barack Obama is buying large amounts of advertising and building extensive get-out-the-vote operations in Ohio and Texas in an effort to deal Hillary Rodham Clinton twin defeats on Tuesday that could end her bid for the presidency.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry returned from his frontline stint in Afghanistan in somber mood after flying home opposite two severely injured soldiers.
He is being hailed as a royal warrior who put his life on the line for this country. Why, then, is Prince Harry now confessing he doesn't feel at home in his homeland, asks Olga Craig. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
On his return to Britain, Prince Harry has said he was "humbled" by the bravery of the men with whom he had served in Helmand. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
On his return to Britain, Prince Harry has said he was "humbled" by the bravery of the men with whom he had served in Helmand. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Front-line food rations are miserable, but the 'pants' postal service is a bigger bugbear for troops, says Prince Harry. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Prince Harry has always had a taste for dressing up, so it was no surprise that, even in the Afghan desert, he felt the need to "accessorise" his standard-issue British Army uniform. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
The transcript of an interview with Prince Harry at RAF Brize Norton on his return from Afghanistan. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
THOUSANDS of nurses believe it is justified to break the taboo on having an
affair with a patient in their care. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
PRINCE HARRY arrived home from Afghanistan yesterday insisting he was “no
hero” and pointing to two badly wounded soldiers who returned on the same
aircraft as “the real heroes”. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
THE government is preparing to impose drastic curbs on second home ownership
that would stop people buying in sought-after rural areas. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
The future is digital. So says Professor John Manning, a psychologist and
self-styled “finger expert” who has developed an unsettling academic
obsession with other people’s hands. He claims that he can inspect a
stranger’s fingers – specifically his index and ring fingers – and instantly
know whether or not they have an aptitude for running or football. He can
also take an informed view of whether the stranger might have a higher than
usual risk of suffering early heart failure and even make (usually accurate)
assumptions about their sexuality. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
In economically troubled Ohio, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been trying to out-do each other in their opposition to NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Republican contender John McCain joined in with his views on NAFTA this week, too.
LONDON - Prince Harry, third in line to the throne, returned home from Afghanistan after news leaked out on the internet that he had been secretly fighting the Taleban for 10 weeks.
Queen Elizabeth's grandson was pulled out of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 11:08 pm
RHODE ISLAND - US presidential candidate Barack Obama accused rival Democrat Hillary Clinton of using the politics of fear after her campaign released an ad suggesting that Obama lacked enough security experience to keep America safe.
"There... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 11:06 pm
The Senator from New York turns her attention to turnout in the last days before Tuesday's important primaries, and turns up the criticism of rival Obama
LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has rejected White House efforts to exempt the US Navy from laws intended to protect endangered whales and other marine mammals by curbing the use of sonar off the California coast.
A three-judge... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 10:46 pm
Myron Cope, the long-time voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers, died this week. He was 79. Fans tuned in to hear his trademark screechy voice for 35 years. Steelers Hall of Fame wide receiver Lynn Swann shares his memories about Cope.
China agreed Friday to grant the U.S. access to military records the U.S. hopes will clarify the fate of some 8,000 servicemen still unaccounted for from the Korean War. Charles Ray, the Defense Department official who signed the agreement, talks with Jacki Lyden.
Israeli forces killed at least 50 Palestinians on Saturday in air and ground assaults in the Gaza Strip. Doctors in Gaza report that nearly half of those killed were civilians, several of them children. Two Israeli soldiers also died.
Advocates of NASA's plan to return to the moon are concerned that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said he will raid NASA's budget to fund education. While the issue of space exploration hasn't gotten much attention this campaign season, it is a topic on which the candidates do differ.
SYDNEY - Drunk teenagers marred an otherwise well-behaved Mardi Gras in Sydney last night, police say.
Tens of thousands of people watched 10,000 participants in the 30th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras sing and dance their way... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 9:35 pm
GAZA - Israeli forces killed 61 people in the Gaza Strip, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since an uprising against Israeli occupation began in 2000.
Israel, which lost two soldiers, seemed ready to press home its fiercest air... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 9:31 pm
YEREVAN - Armenian President Robert Kocharyan today declared a state of emergency in the capital as riot police battled opposition protesters, in which at least one person was killed.
Witnesses said many people were injured in... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 9:05 pm
Nobody could call Barack Obama a slouch at inspirational public speaking, but anyone who has heard his wife might have to conclude she's even better.
Michelle Obama, 44, has been nothing short of a firecracker on the campaign... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 8:56 pm
MOSCOW - Russians voted for a new president on Sunday, in an election expected to deliver a big victory to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's chosen successor and another blow to Moscow's already tarnished democratic image.
Election... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 8:54 pm
PRAGUE - Gale-force winds have hammered Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, killing at least eight people, snarling transport networks and cutting power lines.
In Germany, trains were delayed by uprooted trees and an intercity... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 8:33 pm
Syria ridiculed Washington's dispatch of the USS Cole and two other vessels to waters off Lebanon as a "losing bet," and said Washington was unable to impose its solution to Lebanon's long-running political crisis by force.
BAGHDAD - The UN envoy to Iraq called on the government to do more to protect minorities after gunmen abducted a Chaldean Catholic archbishop in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 Mar 2008 | 7:02 pm
At least 29 U.S. troops died while serving in Iraq in February, the third-lowest monthly casualty toll for the U.S. military since the 2003 invasion. But Iraqi casualties increased compared with January, despite a decrease in violence from last year.
Security forces killed the No. 2 commander of Colombia's main guerrilla group in combat Saturday, dealing what the government called the biggest blow to the leftist force since its formation. Source: FOXNews.com | 1 Mar 2008 | 5:51 pm
As police tried to piece together how a rare, deadly poison ended up in a motel for transients, the 57-year-old man who could hold the key lay unconscious in a hospital. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 1 Mar 2008 | 5:50 pm
Prince Harry returned to Britain on Saturday after his secret deployment with the military in Afghanistan was cut short after 10 weeks by disclosures in the media. Source: FOXNews.com | 1 Mar 2008 | 4:55 pm
Prince Harry had described his experience in the war zone of Afghanistan as the most "normal" life he's ever likely to be allowed to live, but as he started his trip home, the normalcy was beginning to drop away.
All attention in Tuesday's primaries is on Texas and Ohio, but voters in two other states are going to the polls that day as well. In one of those states, Rhode Island, Hillary Clinton is hoping to win delegates and end Barack Obama's winning streak.
Boeing lost a lucrative aircraft contract Friday with the U.S. military. The $40 billion deal was instead awarded to a consortium of businesses that includes Boeing's chief rival, European-owned Airbus. Europeans reacted with glee over the prospect of new jobs and an economic boost.
Scott Simon speaks with British diplomat Paddy Ashdown about the future of the international reconstruction mission in Afghanistan. Ashdown was initially tapped to lead the UN's "super-envoy" to the war-torn country, but his appointment was recently rejected by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
The sheer size of Barack Obama's crowds has been making headlines. But, as was seen in New Hampshire and California, big crowds and a sense of Obama-mania in the news doesn't necessarily translate into victories. Hillary Clinton won those states. Clinton's campaign team complains the media has not scrutinized Obama closely.
The worlds hungry soon will find even slimmer pickings when it comes to emergency food aid from the United States, whose humanitarian relief agency is scaling back amid skyrocketing global prices, The Washington Post reports. Source: FOXNews.com | 1 Mar 2008 | 2:14 pm
Pakistani police formally accused the top Taliban leader in the country and four others of planning the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Baitullah Mehsud is underground and it is not clear if the police are anywhere close to catching him.
The Prince of Wales spoke with pride about his son's role on the front line in Afghanistan as Prince Harry arrived back in Britain today following his emergency withdrawal from Afghanistan Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 1 Mar 2008 | 1:40 pm
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Saturday that a U.S. Navy deployment off the coast of Lebanon threatens security in the region and warned the United States it cannot impose its own solution to the long-running political crisis in Lebanon. Source: FOXNews.com | 1 Mar 2008 | 1:29 pm
Pakistani police on Saturday formally accused the top Taliban leader in the country of planning the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. Source: FOXNews.com | 1 Mar 2008 | 12:38 pm
Security forces in Singapore and Indonesia combed the undergrowth and traveled on jet skis to outlying islands in a hunt for a top Islamic terror suspect who staged a stunning escape from a high-security jail. Source: FOXNews.com | 1 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are in jeopardy as border fighting threatens to escalate days before a visit by Condoleezza Rice Source: FOXNews.com | 1 Mar 2008 | 11:02 am
Russians began voting Sunday in a presidential election that will produce a successor to Vladimir Putin and almost certainly open a path for Putin to take a new and powerful role after eight years in which Russia's global influence expanded. Source: FOXNews.com | 1 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
AP - The New York Jets and Pro Bowl left guard Alan Faneca agreed to terms on a five-year, $40 million contract Saturday, making the former Pittsburgh player the highest-paid offensive lineman in the NFL.
AP - Russia's voters are expected to endorse Vladimir Putin's choice of a successor in Sunday's presidential election, allowing Putin to retain a measure of power in his nation, whose wealth and global voice have grown even as democratic freedoms diminished.
Reuters - Russians voted for a new president on
Sunday in an election likely to hand victory to President
Vladimir Putin's chosen successor but criticized by the
opposition for a lack of real competition.
Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
hailed a new chapter in ties with Iraq on Sunday, saying he was
"truly happy" to make a landmark trip to Baghdad now that
Iran's arch-foe Saddam Hussein had been deposed.
AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his landmark visit to Iraq opened a new chapter in "brotherly" relations between the two countries, which were once bitter enemies.
AP - Israeli aircraft sent missiles slamming into the office of the prime minister of Hamas-ruled Gaza before dawn on Sunday, pressing forward with an offensive that has killed nearly 70 Palestinians in two days of fighting. A 21-month-old girl was among the dead in new violence.
AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday at the start of a two-day visit to Iraq that the trip opened a "new page" in relations between the Muslim neighbours and in the region.
AP - FBI agents hope to search a Utah house linked to a man whose hospitalization led to the discovery of deadly ricin in a motel room he had occupied.
AP - The nine justices in black robes file into the Supreme Court consumed with thoughts about the great legal issues of the day. Only one of them is likely to ask questions involving raccoons, an unruly son, pet oysters or even the dreaded "tomato children."
Reuters - Israel vowed on Sunday to press on with a
Gaza offensive and curb rocket strikes, threatening even
stronger action despite U.N. condemnation of assaults that have
killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Sunday in Baghdad for the first-ever visit by an Iranian president to Iraq, waving as he stepped off his plane to be greeted by representatives of a nation that was once Iran’s bitter enemy.
Hillary Rodham Clinton took a break from the campaign trail to thank “Saturday Night Live” for giving her candidacy a boost — although she failed to get an official endorsement from the show.
Israeli troops backed by tanks and aircraft went after Gaza militants who bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since Islamic Hamas militants seized control in June.
A motel patron hospitalized after possible exposure to the toxin ricin is "holding his own" in intensive care, his cousin said Saturday as investigators puzzled over why the strictly controlled poison was in the man's room.
Democrat Barack Obama, on his first visit to Rhode Island as a presidential candidate, sought Saturday to portray Hillary Rodham Clinton as a candidate who shifted positions for political expediency.
A social services agency, the police department and the courts had been involved. And so had schools, day-care providers and nonprofit agencies.
Folks on Humphrey Hill Drive were still waking up on the icy Saturday morning the shark hunters came to town.
Adam Gore scored 14 points and Ryan Wittman added 13 as Cornell earned its first Ivy League title in 20 years with an 86-53 win over Harvard Saturday.
Senator Barack Obama is buying large amounts of advertising and building extensive get-out-the-vote operations in Ohio and Texas in an effort to deal Hillary Rodham Clinton twin defeats on Tuesday that could end her bid for the presidency.