Ukraine says it may restrict Russian gas supplies to Europe if Gazprom goes ahead with further cuts. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 12:09 pm
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to resume U.S.-sponsored peace talks suspended over Israel's offensive in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
HOUSTON (AFP) -
Polls opened
in Ohio Tuesday on a crucial day of presidential primaries
that could see Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama end
Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 4 Mar 2008 | 12:05 pm
The races for both the Democratic and Republican nominations may be settled as four states vote in primaries. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 12:04 pm
GENEVA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC guerrilla movement was trying to get hold of radioactive material to make a "dirty bomb", Colombian Vice-President Francisco Santos said on Tuesday.
The US secretary of state begins a trip to salvage Mid-East peace talks with meetings in Cairo. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 12:03 pm
LAHORE, Pakistan - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the premises of a naval college Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 13 in the eastern city of Lahore, officials...
Reuters - Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday
to resume U.S.-sponsored peace talks suspended over Israel's
offensive in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
(Kyodo) _ The Pacific League said Tuesday right-hander Jeremy Powell has officially registered on the active roster of the Softbank Hawks. The announcement marked the end to a drawn-out Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
Spain's PM Zapatero exchanges angry words with his conservative rival in their last pre-election TV debate. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:58 am
A nurse convicted of killing four elderly patients in northern England with insulin overdoses was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:54 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli aircraft sent missiles crashing into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, pressing an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the region to try to rescue peace talks amid the latest outbreak of violence.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
Israeli aircraft sent missiles crashing into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, pressing an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the region to try to rescue peace talks amid the latest outbreak of violence. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
Israeli aircraft sent missiles crashing into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, pressing an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
Reuters - Colombia's FARC guerrilla movement was
trying to get hold of radioactive material to make a "dirty
bomb," Colombian Vice-President Francisco Santos said on
Tuesday.
AFP - Polls opened Tuesday in Ohio on a crucial day of presidential primaries that could see Barack Obama end Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House.
Motorists could be given the option of paying more to use less congested motorway lanes under new Government proposals. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:46 am
An Iraqi court drops charges against two former senior officials accused of helping Shia death squads. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:43 am
(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda dismissed speculation Tuesday that disputes over food poisoning cases involving Chinese-made "gyoza" dumplings may delay a visit by Chinese President Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:42 am
(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and visiting Portuguese parliament President Jaime Gama agreed Tuesday on joint cooperation to support African countries, Japanese Foreign Ministry... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:40 am
Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom on Tuesday threatened to further cut gas to Ukraine within hours unless agreement was reached on a debt dispute and contracts for future deliveries. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
A possible UK ban on Zimbabwe's sports people would be "racist madness", a Zimbabwean minister says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:36 am
(Kyodo) _ Business sentiment is rapidly deteriorating among corporate executives in Japan, with pessimistic views on the nation's economic outlook outnumbering optimism for the first time Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:35 am
Diplomats say Russia and China have scuttled a Western attempt to introduce a resolution on Iran's nuclear defiance at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:34 am
Athletes and high-ranking Olympic officials being whisked to venues this summer will get there with the help of satellite navigation devices — and some aid from the military. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:34 am
(Kyodo) _ Ma Ying-jeou, the presidential hopeful from Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party, said Tuesday direct cross-Taiwan Strait flights in the form of weekend charter flights... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:34 am
An Indian nun who disfigured herself to avoid marriage will be made the country's first woman saint by the Vatican. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:33 am
A Briton has been found dead in Goa, two weeks after the half-naked body of a
British teenager was discovered on the south Indian state’s popular Anjuna
beach. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:32 am
SPRINGFIELD - Communities along the Connecticut River are being told to prepare for the possibility of flooding over the next few weeks.
The heavy snowfall in northern...
Prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the arrest of a man accused of setting fire to the U.S. Embassy during riots against Kosovo's independence. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:31 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fate of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid rested with voters in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, as they cast their ballots in her hard-fought Democratic duel with rival Barack Obama.
AP - Paramedic Rafael Vazquez left a training course on how to help when several people are hurt at once, and went to lunch at a nearby Wendy's. He became exactly the kind of victim he was being trained to save.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she will work toward resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as soon as possible, saying Hamas is trying to wreck chances for the peace process.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the premises of a naval college Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 13 in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:28 am
AP - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the premises of a naval college Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 13 in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Moscow on Saturday to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and meet his successor Dmitry Medvedev.
AP - Police who forced their way into a small brick house discovered the bodies of four adults and two children, as well as three children found clinging to life. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide car bomber attacked a government building Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing a policeman a day after a similar blast left four people - including two NATO soldiers - dead.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
AP - A suicide car bomber attacked a government building Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing a policeman a day after a similar blast left four people including two NATO soldiers dead.
Japan summons senior foreign diplomats to protest over an attack by activists on its whaling fleet. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:26 am
AP - Barack Obama approached Tuesday's voting in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont as a chance to drive rival Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the Democratic presidential contest for good. Clinton looked at the same contests as a way to end Obama's streak of 11 straight victories and keep her candidacy alive.
A stormy system in the Deep South was lifting northeast across the Eastern U.S. early Tuesday, while a cold front was dropping southeast from the Northwest. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:25 am
LAHORE (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least six people in a truck bomb attack at the entrance to a Pakistan naval college in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.
(Kyodo) _ The Philippines is unlikely to ratify a free trade agreement with Japan before the new Japanese fiscal year starts April 1, Philippine Ambassador to Japan Domingo Siazon said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
At least four people are reported killed in a suspected suicide attack at a naval college in Lahore, Pakistan. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:19 am
PARIS (Reuters) - A French soldier from the European Union force in Chad is missing and another was wounded after straying into Sudan and becoming involved in a clash with Sudanese troops,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:19 am
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council ratcheted up sanctions on Iran on Monday for refusing to suspend nuclear enrichment and other sensitive activities, but Tehran dismissed the decision as illegal.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held talks Tuesday with Pakistan's army chief, whose troops have been battling a growing insurgency along the border with Afghanistan. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:06 am
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops captured stretches of Tamil Tiger-held terrain in the island's northwest on Tuesday, killing seven rebels in clashes that took the two-day death toll... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:02 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton gained ground on rival Barack Obama to take a slim lead in Texas and pull even in Ohio before their crucial Democratic presidential showdowns, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Tuesday.
China has announced a rise of a fifth in military spending, the day after the Pentagon issued a warning over its growing prowess in missile and cyberwarfare technology. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:01 am
(Kyodo) _ Veteran diver Ken Terauchi was selected Tuesday as an Olympic representative for the fourth consecutive time, a record among Japanese athletes in aquatic events, the Japan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she will work toward resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as soon as possible, and she blames Hamas for trying to wreck chances for the peace process.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Arron Oberholser stood outside the scoring trailer and rotated his right shoulder without any pain.
Off the course, it's no problem.
On...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Bert van Marwijk will succeed Marco van Basten as soccer coach of the Netherlands after the European Championship.
Van Marwijk, who now coaches...
LONDON - It's been a long time since Michael Owen won any titles. Now he may be headed out of the Premier League.
A striker whose career has been hampered by long-term...
Any attempt to compile history's greatest replies is fraught with difficulty, so it might be more accurate to refer to the replies that follow as simply my all-time favorites. Most of them come from people whose names will be very familiar to you, and I think you will agree that the comebacks and retorts here are very special. Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:50 am
NEW YORK - Jessica Simpson was the blonde elephant in the room when two of her exes and her new guy - Dane Cook, John Mayer and Tony Romo - were honored together at Cosmopolitan's...
CAIRO (AFP) -
US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Tuesday for a
halt to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, telling both
sides in the conflict to do more to fulfill their peace plan obligations. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:40 am
WASHINGTON - The transition to digital broadcasting is the biggest thing to hit television since color. To make sure it goes smoothly, the Federal Communications Commission...
Staff nurse Colin Norris has been jailed for life for the murder of four patients. He was told he will serve a minimum of 30 years. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:35 am
Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in the parking lot of a high security naval college in Pakistan's biggest military garrison town, killing five people and injuring 13, officials say.
BEIJING - China said Tuesday that spending on its military this year will jump by 17.6 percent compared with 2007.
The increase follows a similar one last year. China has...
BOGOTA, Colombia - Judging by the fever-pitch rhetoric, the Andes region was girding for war on Monday. The leftist presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador recalled ambassadors...
NEW ORLEANS - The Bush Administration's "homeless czar" made his first visit to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans but promised no immediate increase in federal...
NEW DELHI (AFP) -
The Indian
government plans to give cash incentives to the families of
baby girls in an effort to limit the number of abortions of
females because of a preference for sons. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:11 am
It's was exactly a year from the time Axiotron first debuted their touchscreen MacBook at Macworld 2007 to the time we got the first hands-on of it at Macworld 2008, and that year of development time seems to have done the company some good. Here's why this is the touchscreen Mac you've been waiting for. Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:10 am
Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:10 am
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said Tuesday it would cut
Ukraine's gas supply by a further 25 percent over a debt dispute. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:06 am
Russian and Iranian technicians work inside the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran in 2006. Iran has slammed the UN Security Council's move to tighten sanctions over its... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:04 am
A general view of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran. Iran has slammed the UN Security Council's move to tighten sanctions over its contested nuclear programme, accusing the world body of being manipulated... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 10:04 am
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, center, smiles during a photo session with Japan's ancient court music dancers during his visit to Meiji Shrine in Tokyo Tuesday, March. 4, 2008. Mecic arrived in Tokyo... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 9:50 am
Motorists will be given the option of paying more to use less congested motorway lanes under Government plans to be unveiled today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 9:49 am
An Afghan man walks past a banner during a protest against the reproduction of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers and an upcoming Dutch film criticizing the Quran in Kabul, Afghanistan,Tuesday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 9:47 am
BEIJING (AFP) -
China
announced Tuesday its defence spending would rise 17.6
percent this year but insisted the increase was moderate,
after the United States expressed concerns about Beijing's
expanding military power. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 4 Mar 2008 | 9:43 am
Police and rescue officials examine the scene of a deadly suicide attack in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the premises of a naval college Tuesday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 9:40 am
A Chinese man walks past a billboard promoting China's People's Liberation Army on display in Beijing, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. China said Tuesday that spending on its military this year will jump by 17... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 9:32 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday condemned the annual Pentagon report to the U.S. Congress on Chinese military power, saying it was a distortion of the facts, interfered in the country's internal affairs and showed "Cold War thinking". Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang added that Beijing had made "solemn representations" to Washington about the report and also denied Beijing was engaged in cyberwarfare.
A French soldier keeps watch at a EUFOR camp. A French peacekeeper was missing Tuesday and two Sudanese killed in clashes when foreign soldiers strayed into western Sudan as Khartoum warned EU troops in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:54 am
FRANKFURT (AFP) -
A US court
has ruled against a patent for Bayer's oral contraceptive
Yasmin, one of its most profitable products, the German
pharmaceutical and chemicals group said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:47 am
Premier Foods, Britain’s largest food manufacturer, has plunged into the red,
halved its dividend and raised £125 million from bankers in the face of
rising raw material prices and increased debt costs. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:23 am
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Four years after San Francisco ignited passionate embraces and heated national debate by briefly allowing gay marriage, California's top court hears arguments on Tuesday as to whether matrimony should be limited to a man and a woman.
The Andes region appeared to begirding for war on Monday. Leftist presidents in Venezuela and Ecuador recalled ambassadors from Bogota and began moving troops to their borders with Colombia. But will this political theater lead to war? Probably not.
Australian drug fugitive Tony Mokbel arrives at a court in Athens on Tuesday, March 4, 2008. The 41-year-old Australian was arrested in June 2007 near Athens after skipping bail last year while on trial... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:04 am
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard A. Boucher, center, exits after a meeting with Indian foreign ministry officials, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Boucher is on a two-day visit to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:04 am
Sri Lankan navy personnel help survivors disembark from a Navy craft in Trincomalee, about 230 kilometers (142 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. The Sri Lankan navy rescued... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Two white LAFD captains suspended after a black firefighter reported his meal had been laced with dog food receive $1.6 million.
One of the costliest racial harassment cases in the history of the Los Angeles City Fire Department grew more expensive Monday when a jury awarded $1.6 million to two white captains suspended after a black firefighter they supervised had his meal laced with dog food. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
January's decline reflects the widening of the building sector's woes beyond residential housing.
Confirming for many that the economy will get worse before it gets better, construction spending in January recorded its sharpest decline in 14 years while a closely watched indicator of manufacturing activity dropped last month to its lowest level in five years. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
An atomic-powered craft, being built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and scheduled for a 2009 launch, aims to settle once and for all whether the planet has ever been suitable for life.
Wider than a Hummer, tall enough to roll over boulders and toting a laser "ray gun" that can zap rocks at 30 feet, NASA's next-generation Mars rover looks like something you would paint a skull and crossbones on and enter in a demolition derby. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Football player's dreams die in a flurry of bullets in South L.A.
Stanford University called about Jamiel Shaw a week or so ago, intrigued by the slight but speedy running back for Los Angeles High School, the Southern League's most valuable player last year. Rutgers University called a few days later. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Geography, a popular governor and big-city mayors hold the keys to winning the primary.
A campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination that has pivoted on race and gender could be decided here today by another divide, the state's urban north versus the rural south -- pitting Ohio's popular governor against a cadre of big-city mayors. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Clinton has to win big in both states. Or at least one. Or at least not lose big to Obama. Maybe.
Heading into a potentially decisive round of contests today, Hillary Rodham Clinton stayed on the attack against rival Barack Obama on Monday, trying to turn around a campaign that has been battered by 11 straight defeats. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Conservation groups file lawsuit asking court to order the county and Malibu to reduce pollutants that flow into the ocean.
Conservation groups on Monday sued Los Angeles County and the city of Malibu to force them to clean up the slurry of fecal bacteria, copper, lead, cyanide and other pollutants being washed down storm drains, creeks and rivers into coastal waters. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
They had gathered to oppose the 'fake vote organized by the authorities' that saw Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, win in a landslide.
Protesters who took to the streets of the Russian capital Monday to demonstrate against the weekend presidential election were roughed up and carted off in buses by throngs of riot police. Source: Los Angeles Times - Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Most business execs probably aren't familiar with Trent Reznor's angst-filled industrial rock. But they could learn a lot from the Nine Inch Nails frontman's experiments with online business models. Also, the Obama campaign has made available its database of supporters to anyone who wants access to the information, empowering volunteers. Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 7:50 am
Two U.S. missiles hit a house in southern Somalia on Monday, according to local officials, in a strike Washington said was directed at ''known terrorists''. It was the fourth U.S. air strike in 14 months on Somalia. Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 7:30 am
Schools and parents have been warned to be vigilant after a young girl managed to escape from a car during an abduction attempt. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Mar 2008 | 7:22 am
Here are listed 10 categories of devices you can buy to make you feel like a James Bond, from laser beams that cut things to x-ray goggles that see through clothes to CSI grade forensic lab hardware. Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 7:20 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iran's firebrand president wrapped up his landmark visit to Iraq with a bit of added swagger Monday- insisting that U.S. power is crippling the region and portraying himself as the enduring partner of Baghdad's Shiite-led government.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 4 Mar 2008 | 7:09 am
LONDON (AP) -- Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler's unpredictable mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to write horoscopes for him and other Nazi leaders, documents declassified Tuesday show. They soon regretted it.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 4 Mar 2008 | 7:09 am
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Venezuela and Ecuador sought Monday to make Colombia pay a high price for killing a leftist rebel leader in the Ecuadorean jungle - expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and cracking down on trade across the border.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 4 Mar 2008 | 7:08 am
SNK gave us the full rundown, so here's how it worked: The original character drawings were modeled into 3D. Those 3D models were then rendered back into 2D. Since the 2D models were devoid of color and details, artists went through each character, background, image and painstakingly added colors and drew in details pixel-by-pixel on a tablet PC. Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
China warned Tuesday that Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian will "pay a dear price" if he continues with pro-independence plans. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 4 Mar 2008 | 6:40 am
About 68 minutes into a 103 minute 2005 Pixar lecture from the Computer History Museum (found via UpcomignPixar), writer/director Brad Bird (Ratatouille, The Incredibles) ranted passionately about how technology and convenience is ruining the theatrical experience. Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 6:30 am
Many Americans will be shocked to discover that the principle business of the Fed is to print money from nothing, lend it to the U.S. government and charge interest on these loans. Who keeps the interest? Source: Digg | 4 Mar 2008 | 6:27 am
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A United Nations helicopter crashed Monday while flying in bad weather in Nepal's mountainous east, killing 12 people including at least seven U.N. staff, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 4 Mar 2008 | 5:38 am
WASHINGTON - Movie star Jack Nicholson has assembled some of his more famous film roles in an internet video endorsing US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that has been viewed more than 1 million times.
The video... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Mar 2008 | 5:25 am
CHICAGO (AFP) -
Adding that
expensive scented oil to your bath may help your mood, but
it won't do much for your health, an upcoming study has found. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 4 Mar 2008 | 5:10 am
LOS ANGELES - Six people, including two children, have been killed and three other children wounded in a shooting in Memphis, Tennessee, US authorities have told CNN.
A fire department official told CNN that a unit had responded... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Mar 2008 | 5:04 am
The U.N. Security Council approved a third round of sanctions against Iran with near unanimous support, sending a strong signal to Tehran that its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment is unacceptable and becoming increasingly costly.
Australian homeowners have been hit again with the Reserve Bank of Australia rising the official cash rate to 7.25 per cent, the highest rate in 12 years.
Announcing the rate decision RBA Governor Glenn Stevens said the rate adjustment... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Mar 2008 | 4:22 am
BEIJING (AP) -- China said Tuesday that spending on its military this year will jump by 17.6 percent compared with 2007.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 4 Mar 2008 | 4:17 am
LOS ANGELES - Rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen is undergoing tests for an undisclosed medical problem, causing his band Van Halen to reschedule four upcoming US concerts, a spokesman for the tour promoter said today.
Van Halen has... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Mar 2008 | 3:30 am
Fiji's interim finance minister Mahendra Chaudry says he will sue the Fiji Times for $F1 billion ($830 million) for defamation, the newspaper reported.
Chaudhry, who was prime minister for a year in 1999 before he was overthrown... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Mar 2008 | 1:29 am
President Bush apologized Monday that the country waited decades to honor Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble for his military valor in Korea, giving him the Medal of Honor more than 25 years after he died.
A Lufthansa jet carrying 131 passengers was caught by gusting wind as it tried to land during a storm, causing a wing tip to graze the runway at a German airport before the pilot got the plane back off the ground.
Hillary Clinton accused Barack Obama of being dishonest with voters on the eve
of their potentially decisive contests in Texas and Ohio today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 4 Mar 2008 | 12:16 am
Microsoft has launched its most audacious attempt yet to seize the initiative
back from Google in the race to harness the internet as the computing
platform of the future. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 4 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Tina Moore, a police reporter for the New York Daily News, has been covering the story of a cab driver who was arrested for helping his girlfriend abandon her 5-month-old niece at a New York City firehouse.
Starting this week, nearly 20,000 inmates convicted of crack offenses may see their prison terms reduced under new federal guidelines intended to bring retroactive fairness to drug sentencing. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:57 pm
A federal judge begins hearing testimony in a lawsuit filed by the California-based Disability Rights Advocates against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The suit seeks to force the VA to provide immediate mental health services to suicidal veterans.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Judging by the fever-pitch rhetoric, the Andes region was girding for war on Monday. The leftist presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador recalled ambassadors from Bogota and began moving tanks and troops to reinforce their borders with Colombia.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:52 pm
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council imposed another round of sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, but Iran defiantly vowed Monday to continue its nuclear program despite the nearly unanimous censuring vote.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:07 a... | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:48 pm
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton, the prohibitive favourite in the Democratic presidential race just months ago, faces the possible end of her White House road on Wednesday NZT in Ohio and Texas.
The New York senator battled to save... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:46 pm
The U.N. Security Council has approved a third round of sanctions against Iran because of its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. For the first time, the resolution bans trade with Iran in goods that have both civilian and military uses.
Western elections observers have criticized Sunday's presidential vote in Russia, in which President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor won a major landslide. Opposition leaders say the election of Dmitri Medvedev was rigged.
Chicago fast food tycoon and political fundraiser Antoin Rezko goes to trial this week on corruption charges. Rezko gave money to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, along with several other state politicians. Pundits wonder how that will affect Obama's campaign, if at all.
The Democratic nomination contest stormed through Ohio and Texas for one more day Monday, with Hillary Clinton's campaign accusing Barack Obama of criticizing NAFTA in Ohio but letting an adviser tell Canadians it was all a political posture. It was part of a media relations blitz unleashed in the final hours before crucial votes Tuesday.
Voters reeling from job losses and housing woes are set to play a key role in the Democratic primary and general election. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:49 pm
One of the most rigorous studies of aromatherapy showed no significant change in heart rate, blood pressure, stress hormones or immune function after sniffing two top scents.
German airline Lufthansa has praised two of its pilots for averting a crash while trying to land in a violent storm.
A wing of the aircraft scraped the ground while attempting to touchdown at Hamburg airport before the pilot aborted... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:28 pm
Several schools across the country have begun experimenting with and implementing cafeteria tray bans in hopes of reducing waste and water usage in dining halls. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:24 pm
Two very controversial and racially provocative columns written for the University of Colorado-Boulder's student newspaper prompted editors last week to temporarily suspend their own opinion section from publication. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:21 pm
A bar on the University of Pittsburgh campus has come under fire after referring to one of its midweek specials as "WetBack Wednesdays." Source: U.S. News & World Report | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:19 pm
She offers sex advice to her hapless roommates—dozens of whom happen to be members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Southern Methodist University. Source: U.S. News & World Report | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:16 pm
A man who was likely exposed to the toxin ricin last week remains in a coma after being found in his Las Vegas hotel room. The man had recently moved to Nevada from Salt Lake City. Federal agents have searched storage units and another home where he stayed in Utah.
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama are running neck-and-neck in Ohio and Texas one day before their crucial Democratic presidential showdowns, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Monday.
Clinton,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Mar 2008 | 9:53 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used a historic visit to Baghdad on Monday to tell the United States to get out of Iraq and the region, saying its presence there had brought only destruction and division.
Rep. Tom Cole, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, broke with other leadership members today, notably Minority Leader John Boehner, and refused to call on embattled Rep. Rick Renzi to resign. "He's got every right to do what he thinks," Cole said of Renzi, who is not seeking re-election in Arizona and who's facing an indictment on extortion, money laundering, wire fraud, and other charges. Boehner has strongly suggested that Renzi step down but Cole said instead, "I wish him well." Source: U.S. News & World Report | 3 Mar 2008 | 9:42 pm
Colombia on Monday said documents found on a slain rebel’s laptop computer suggest Venezuela recently paid $300 million to Colombia’s largest guerrilla group.
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for tweens and teens, and a new study outlines some of the most dangerous circumstances: Riding unbuckled with new teen drivers on high-speed roads.
The corruption trial for a former fundraiser with ties to Barack Obama has begun in Chicago. Businessman Tony Rezko is accused of trying to extort millions of dollars in payoffs and campaign cash from companies seeking to do business with the state of Illinois.
ROME - From the 'No Garbage' party, to the 'Don't row against the tide' party, to 'Dr. Cirillo's party of existentialist impotents', there will be something for everyone in Italy's general election in April.
Nearly 180 symbols... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Mar 2008 | 8:54 pm
MADRID - A Spanish breeder of fighting bulls has decided to clone his favorite stud rather than risk buying a traditionally bred replacement.
Victoriano del Rio wants to repeat the success he has enjoyed with Alcalde, who sired... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Mar 2008 | 8:42 pm
Congress is debating how to amend the law that tells the President when a court warrant is needed to listen in on phone or e-mail conversations. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has been amended many times over the past 30 years, but this round of negotiations has been particularly heated.
Police have found what may be more human remains at the former children's home in Jersey where part of a child's skull has already been unearthed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 3 Mar 2008 | 7:00 pm
Riot police arrested dozens of opposition supporters protesting Russia's flawed election shortly after Gordon Brown warned president-elect Dmitry Medvedev that he would be judged by his actions. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 3 Mar 2008 | 6:02 pm
The United States and European Union filed a WTO case against China on Monday demanding that it loosen restraints on foreign companies vying for a greater slice of the country's lucrative market for financial information.
Was an apartment fire that killed nine people in Germany deliberately set as a racist attack? Advocates for ethnic Turks in Germany are making that charge.
The United States launched an air strike in Somalia to go after a terrorist suspect, Pentagon officials said. Somali police reported eight serious injuries, but there was no word on whether the al Qaeda suspect was killed.
NATOs secretary general said Sunday he is fearful of the ramifications that a Dutch film criticizing Islam will have on troops in Afghanistan, the BBC reported. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Mar 2008 | 4:43 pm
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has ordered thousands of troops to his country's border with Colombia, and he warns that cross-border operations by Colombia's U.S.-backed military could lead to "war in South America".
A suicide car bomber attacked a government building protected by NATO and Afghan troops in eastern Afghanistan, collapsing a guard post and wounding three NATO soldiers inside, officials said.
The heart surgeon who had a long relationship with Princess Diana said she denied there was anyone else when she broke up with him after seeing the Fayed family in France, a coroner's jury heard on Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Mar 2008 | 4:13 pm
China is in the midst of a sexual revolution, a byproduct of rising prosperity and looser government restrictions on private life. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Mar 2008 | 4:12 pm
A nurse was convicted Monday of killing four elderly patients with insulin overdoses in English hospitals in 2002. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Mar 2008 | 3:50 pm
Police excavating a former Jersey children's home at the centre of a child abuse investigation say they had found what could be more human remains. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 3 Mar 2008 | 3:40 pm
Dozens of people with assault rifles and machetes stormed a village in western Kenya early Monday, killing at least 13 people, including six children, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Mar 2008 | 2:48 pm
A United Nations helicopter crashed Monday while flying in bad weather in Nepal's mountainous east, killing at least 10 people, officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Mar 2008 | 1:57 pm
A jumbo jet nearly crashed Saturday as it attempted to land in the midst of a tropical storm in Germany, Spiegel Online reported Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Mar 2008 | 1:37 pm
Reuters - Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday
to resume U.S.-sponsored peace talks suspended over Israel's
offensive in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Reuters - Colombia's FARC guerrilla movement was
trying to get hold of radioactive material to make a "dirty
bomb," Colombian Vice-President Francisco Santos said on
Tuesday.
AFP - Polls opened Tuesday in Ohio on a crucial day of presidential primaries that could see Barack Obama end Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House.
AP - The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says there has been a dramatic decrease of violence in Iraq, but such gains are not irreversible.
AP - Paramedic Rafael Vazquez left a training course on how to help when several people are hurt at once, and went to lunch at a nearby Wendy's. He became exactly the kind of victim he was being trained to save.
AP - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she will work toward resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as soon as possible, saying Hamas is trying to wreck chances for the peace process.
AP - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the premises of a naval college Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 13 in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.
AP - A suicide car bomber attacked a government building Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing a policeman a day after a similar blast left four people including two NATO soldiers dead.
AP - Barack Obama approached Tuesday's voting in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont as a chance to drive rival Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the Democratic presidential contest for good. Clinton looked at the same contests as a way to end Obama's streak of 11 straight victories and keep her candidacy alive.
President Bush apologized Monday that the country waited decades to honor Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble for his military valor in Korea, giving him the Medal of Honor more than 25 years after he died.
Israeli troops withdrew from northern Gaza on Monday, but Israel’s leaders warned that a broad offensive against Islamic militants would continue.
One of the most rigorous studies of aromatherapy showed no significant change in heart rate, blood pressure, stress hormones or immune function after sniffing two top scents.
Colombia on Monday said documents found on a slain rebel’s laptop computer suggest Venezuela recently paid $300 million to Colombia’s largest guerrilla group.
Booming population, growing climate change fears have governments again studying dam construction to capture more water. 
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for tweens and teens, and a new study outlines some of the most dangerous circumstances: Riding unbuckled with new teen drivers on high-speed roads.
The Democratic presidential hopeful indicated Monday she'll press on after the crucial Mar. 4 primaries, arguing momentum is on her side.