NEW YORK (AFP) -
Police
cordoned off a section of New York's Times Square early
Thursday after a small explosion near a military recruiting
station, officials said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:22 pm
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- One of the world's most notorious arms dealers was arrested Thursday in Bangkok on allegations that he supplied Colombian rebels with arms and explosives, Thai police said.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:17 pm
AP - An explosive device caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above "the crossroads of the world."
Police cordon off part of New York City's Times Square after a small explosion at a military recruiting centre. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:13 pm
Twenty years ago, Heather Unruh was clocking 12 hour days, six days a week opening mail, running scripts and writing stories as an intern at WCVB-TV...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians may resume peace talks this week, Israeli media reported on Thursday, but progress looked set to hinge on stemming bloodshed in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Cyprus' new president says he wants to meet the Turkish Cypriot leader later this month to revive peace talks. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:08 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A small explosion caused minor damage to a U.S. military recruiting center in New York's Times Square area in the early hours of Thursday but there were no injuries, police said.
MIDDLETON - Massachusetts health officials have shut down an indoor water park after reports that several children were injured by high levels of chlorine.
The CoCo Key...
LONDON (AFP) -
Record-breaking oil
prices spiked close to 106 dollars on Thursday after the
market was rattled by news of a small explosion in New York
and following a surprise fall US crude stockpiles. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:04 pm
AP - A court commissioner ruled Wednesday that Britney Spears' father will retain control of the troubled pop star's finances and estate for another five months.
Paul Burrell, the former butler of Diana, Princess of Wales, has refused to
return to the inquest into her death to explain why he was secretly filmed
denouncing his own testimony. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:59 am
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki is expected to call for national reconciliation at the state opening of parliament. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:58 am
NEW YORK - An explosive device caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above.
Police...
AP - U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.
U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.
Bolivia and Peru defend the traditional use of coca leaves after criticism in a UN drugs agency report. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
GAZA CITY (AFP) -
An Israeli
soldier was killed on the edge of the Gaza Strip on Thursday
in a blast claimed by militants as efforts gathered pace to
broker a truce after a week of bloodletting in the Hamas-run territory. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
The party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday deferred a decision on who should become Pakistan's prime minister, deepening uncertainty about how a new government will handle President Pervez Musharraf. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:52 am
LOS ANGELES - Private investigator Anthony Pellicano has boasted he could get Hollywood information that others couldn't. He must now prove to a jury he didn't break...
Reuters - Latin America's leftist leaders heaped
more criticism on Colombia, leaving it increasingly isolated on
Thursday in a crisis that has threatened political stability in
the Andes.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Latin America's leftist leaders heaped more criticism on Colombia, leaving it increasingly isolated on Thursday in a crisis that has threatened political stability in the Andes.
KISSUFIM CROSSING, Israel (AP) -- Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli army jeep patrolling the Gaza border, then attacked a rescue crew that rushed to the scene, killing one soldier and wounding three in a brazen cross-border attack, according to military and witness accounts.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:41 am
AFP - Kenya's parliament is poised Thursday to begin discussions that will enshrine into law a power-sharing deal aimed at ending a post-election crisis that cost some 1,500 lives.
John Lewis, owner of the department stores and supermarket chain Waitrose, has
rewarded its staff with an 18 per cent rise in annual bonuses but expects
the year ahead to be "very challenging". Source: Top stories from Times Online | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:39 am
NAIROBI (AFP) -
Kenya's
parliament is poised Thursday to begin discussions that will
enshrine into law a power-sharing deal aimed at ending a
post-election crisis that cost some 1,500 lives. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:39 am
Private investigator Anthony Pellicano has boasted he could get Hollywood information that others couldn't. He must now prove to a jury he didn't break the law in the process. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:37 am
Reuters - A small explosion caused minor damage
to a U.S. military recruiting center in New York's Times Square
area in the early hours of Thursday but there were no injuries,
police said.
Reuters - The U.S. embassy in Lebanon has urged
its citizens residing there to keep a low profile, citing
concern that "extremist groups" may be planning attacks against
Americans.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Lebanon has urged its citizens residing there to keep a low profile, citing concern that "extremist groups" may be planning attacks against Americans.
NEW YORK (AFP) -
US
financier Warren Buffett has overtaken Bill Gates as the
world's richest man, according to Forbes annual
billionaire's list, which this year saw Russia, China and
India making increasing inroads. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:34 am
President Mwai Kibaki urged lawmakers Thursday to pass the laws needed to enforce the country's new power-sharing agreement, as Parliament was set to convene for the first time since the deal was signed. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:33 am
If you have an unorthodox, unproven idea that can prevent HIV infection or help protect against infectious diseases, one of the richest men in the world wants to hear from you. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:31 am
World sport's highest appeal court is looking for a solution to allow riders to compete in the Paris-Nice cycling race. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:30 am
British Airways today warned its profits for 2009 would be hit by soaring fuel
costs and a slowing economy, sending its shares down more than 4 per cent. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:30 am
The presidents of Ecuador and Venezuela say Colombia must be condemned for its raid on rebels inside Ecuador. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 am
Surveillance video from a Starbucks in a St. Louis suburb captures how Roger Kreutz's life changed in an instant. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:13 am
AP - The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies.
Alexander Ovechkin is shooting the Washington Capitals right into the middle of the playoff hunt. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:11 am
U.S. and South Korean fighter jets scrambled to turn back a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that approached a U.S. aircraft carrier during training exercises, an official said Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:10 am
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- NATO foreign ministers Thursday expressed hope they will be able to invite three Balkan nations to join the alliance next month as part of efforts to stabilize the region after Kosovo's declaration of independence.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:10 am
Reports from Gaza say fierce fighting has broken out between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:09 am
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela and Ecuador warned that a regional diplomatic crisis wouldn't cool down without clear international condemnation of Colombia's government for a deadly cross-border strike leftist rebels hiding inside Ecuador.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:09 am
It's depressing, it's not usually sung in Ireland for St. Patrick's Day, and its lyrics were written by an Englishman who never set foot on Irish soil. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:09 am
Fred Couples has been getting a lot of attention the last few weeks without hitting a shot. Players celebrate with him as though he has just won a tournament. His cell phone is loaded with voice mails and text messages, and perhaps the biggest shock of all is that Couples knows how to use his phone. Remember, this is the guy who once said he doesn't answer the phone "because someone may be on the other end." Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:05 am
A row about Macedonia's name threatens to derail Nato plans to extend membership to three Balkan states. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:05 am
Pakistan's state electricity company cuts off power to the main city, Karachi, because of unpaid bills. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:04 am
LONDON - World record holder Paula Radcliffe withdrew from the London Marathon on Thursday because of a toe tendon injury.
Radcliffe, a three-time champion in London who...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday faced a long fight for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, with Obama promising to get tougher on his rival and Clinton hinting the two could team up in November against Republican John McCain.
PALM HARBOR, Fla. - Fred Couples has been getting a lot of attention the last few weeks without hitting a shot.
Players celebrate with him as though he has just won a tournament....
HONG KONG - Five Hollywood studios have reached a settlement with a Chinese Internet company accused of providing cybercafes with illegal copies of their movies, an industry...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European NATO states expressed skepticism on Thursday about the membership hopes of ex-Soviet Ukraine and Georgia, concerned that any move to bring them into the alliance would further exacerbate tensions with Russia.
WORCESTER - Worcester's police chief says he believes officers were justified to shoot a man several times.
Police said the man - later identified as 34-year-old Sean...
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. gave early testers their first glimpse of its next-generation Web browser Wednesday, and said Internet Explorer 8 will adhere to the same standards...
JERUSALEM (AFP) -
British
humanitarian agencies on Thursday said the situation in the
Gaza Strip was the worst in 40 years and urged the European
Union to hold talks with Hamas, which runs the impoverished territory. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Mar 2008 | 10:27 am
NEW YORK - Ziff Davis Media Inc., publisher of technology and video game magazines, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday and cited a decrease in revenue from print advertising...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is in discussions with the United States and North Korea on how to bridge differences and restart talks on ending the North's nuclear ambitions, a senior Chinese Foreign Ministry official said on Thursday.
Four Somali soldiers and a civilian are killed after Islamist insurgents attack a check-point. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 10:16 am
Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli army patrol in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding three others, the Israeli army said. The incident raised... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 10:10 am
In a moment of serious killjoy-osity we've trawled through the world of urban myths to find the scientifically most inaccurate... well, the ones which are just quite daft. So what's the truth behind KFC's mutant chickens and are blondes really going to go extinct? Source: Digg | 6 Mar 2008 | 10:10 am
(Kyodo) _ Japan's imports of vegetables from China have nosedived since late January when tainted Chinese-made meat dumplings caused several cases of food poisoning, according to a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 10:01 am
(Kyodo) _ China's government said Thursday the country is safe to visit despite an incident the previous day in which a busload of Australians was briefly taken hostage in the historic... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:55 am
(Kyodo) _ Boosting the economy and improving social livelihood should come before developing democracy in Hong Kong and Macao, Chinese President Hu Jintao told representatives from the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:50 am
PARIS (AFP) -
Venturing
into the preserve of science fiction and stage magicians,
scientists in the United States claim to have
made extraordinary progress towards reading the brain. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:40 am
(Kyodo) _ Germany's Anni Friesinger won the women's 1,500 meters in a rink record time and world record holder Sven Kramer defended his men's 5,000-meter title on the opening day of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:38 am
NATO foreign ministers met Thursday to discuss plans to offer membership to three Balkan nations and closer ties to others in an effort to promote stability in the region in the wake of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:32 am
LYUBERTSY, Russia (AP) -- In her daydreams, Alyona runs a restaurant where she cooks only her favorite foods. Sasha, slightly built but sturdy in his convictions, fantasizes about repairing race cars. Natasha just wants a job and her own apartment.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:28 am
In her daydreams, Alyona runs a restaurant where she cooks only her favorite foods. Sasha, slightly built but sturdy in his convictions, fantasizes about repairing race cars. Natasha just... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:21 am
(Kyodo) _ Norihiro Nakamura hit a pair of singles and drove home two runs Thursday as the Chunichi Dragons rallied to beat the Lotte Marines 6-2 in a preseason game. Hiroyuki... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:14 am
Foreign nationals will be required to obtain national identity cards by
providing their biometric details from this year, the Home Secretary has
confirmed. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:06 am
Iranian political factions started campaigning on Thursday for next week's legislative election, which is expected to see conservatives cement their grip on parliament. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:05 am
(Kyodo) _ The U.S. dollar hit a record low against the euro and lost ground against the yen in Tokyo on Thursday as dismal U.S. employment data showed signs of further deterioration in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 9:03 am
SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (AP) -- Soldiers toting assault rifles trudged through sugarcane fields, pausing occasionally to gaze across the river that separates Venezuela from Colombia.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:59 am
Tourists take pictures of a billboard with the photographs of hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in Bogota. Colombian rebels have freed four tourists they seized in northwest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:57 am
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A U.N. diplomat sought to coax democratic reforms out of Myanmar's military rulers Thursday in his third trip to the country since a deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters last year.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:48 am
Most of the 9,000 soldiers mobilized by Venezuela have reached the frontier and are ready, if necessary, to take on Colombia's U.S.-supported military Source: FOXNews.com | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:46 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain trails Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in hypothetical matchups, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Wednesday.
Israeli soldiers hold their national flag as they prepare to cross to the Gaza Strip on an incursion March 4. One Israeli soldier was reportedly killed and another wounded on Thursday after explosions... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:01 am
'I want him to win,' the president says of his former political foe in a Rose Garden endorsement well before the general election.
Eight years ago, their bitter rivalry came to a head in South Carolina when George W. Bush put an end to John McCain's presidential bid. Now they are standing side by side, with McCain the nearly anointed Republican nominee and Bush the most prominent endorser.
Obama still has more delegates, but Clinton's victories Texas and Ohio shift the momentum to her.
With no end in sight, Democrats braced Wednesday for a prolonged and nasty fight for their party's presidential nomination as Barack Obama assailed his reinvigorated rival over taxes and, in a turnabout, her experience in foreign affairs.
Killings, many of them random and unrelated, are up sharply in the city. 'One death is one too many, but we think it's a bit of an anomaly,' a police official says.
Homicides in Los Angeles have sharply increased in the first two months of this year, reversing nearly five years of decline and posing a puzzling challenge for Police Chief William J. Bratton.
Without a clear-cut delegate leader, party activists worry the outcome will turn off the losing side's voters.
Leading Democrats scrambled Wednesday to prevent the closest, most riveting presidential contest in decades from tearing the party apart, as the odds rose that neither Hillary Rodham Clinton nor Barack Obama could clinch the nomination without angering large blocs of voters.
State appellate court says those who teach children in private must have a credential.
Parents who lack teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home, according to a state appellate court ruling that is sending waves of fear through California's home schooling families.
Nafie Ali Nafie (L), top aide to Sudanese president Omar al-Beshir, is led by Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga prior to their meeting at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo, on March 5. Japan is considering... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:56 am
Sri Lankan soldiers are seen here in Colombo. Sri Lanka is one of the world's worst perpetrators of "disappearances" and abductions, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling for a UN mission to monitor... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:54 am
Stumping for President Bush 's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:29 am
Video of master-photoshopper merging Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie and Keira Knightly. I dunno... I'm still partial to Scarlett Johansen. Source: Digg | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:10 am
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called a Colombian raid that killed two dozen rebels in Ecuador a "war crime," and joined Ecuador's president in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.
Civic group members are seen during a protest in front of the headquarters of the US Marines at Kita Nakagusuku village in Japan's southern island of Okinawa, in February 2008. Four US Marines will face... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:49 am
The game will come with a Channel on the disc (like Wii Fit) that lets players check leaderboards and download daily missions. Also, you can view the online status of your friends, making it easier to get a race going. Source: Digg | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:40 am
In the film, which takes aim at the egos of big Hollywood actors (like the three pictured), Downey plays Kirk Lazarus, an Oscar caliber actor who ends up with a part that was originally written for a black man. Instead of recasting, Lazarus decides to dye his skin to play the character of Osiris, well, authentically. Source: Digg | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:40 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. military will court- martial four Marines accused of raping a Japanese woman in the western city of Hiroshima last year, the Marine Corps said on Thursday.
Okay, I’m looking at a September 20, 2007, draft of Jennifer’s Body. So far, we know that Jennifer will be played by Megan Fox (of Transformers). The protagonist, however, is a girl named Anita “Needy” Lesnicki who shall be played by Amanda Seyfried (of Mean Girls). The film will be directed by Karyn Kusama (of Girlfight). Source: Digg | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:00 am
A massive effort is afoot in Russia to build and project to the world an image of a country where the economy is booming and democracy is developing. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:53 am
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday called a Colombian raid that killed two dozen rebels in Ecuador a "war crime," and joined Ecuador's president in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.
TOKYO (AP) -- The U.S. military will court-martial four Marines in Japan for the alleged rape of a Japanese woman, a Marine Corps official said Thursday.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:59 am
Heavy rains have brought a crocodile into ponds at a popular public park in the central Queensland city of Mackay.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned the public to avoid the goose ponds in John Breen Memorial... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:45 am
Fiji's interim finance minister may be asked to step aside so a full scale inquiry into his tax affairs can be undertaken.
The Fiji Times newspaper says the Fiji Military Council, which advises the coup-installed government,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:15 am
UCLA's Denari, for his first free-standing project, sees a tapering tower in New York.
NEW YORK -- As an exercise for his architecture students at UCLA, Neil Denari has had them imagine Chicago's skyline of the future, and together they've envisioned enormous high-rises -- up to 150 stories tall -- that start on small "footprints" then balloon out as they get higher. It's an idea that intrigued Denari when he was spending time in Japan, where the available property, on the ground at least, often is tiny.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia is worried about a document on the laptop of a slain rebel leader indicating the guerrillas were trying to obtain uranium, but has no evidence they intended to use it as a weapon, the vice president said Wednesday.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:54 am
LOS ANGELES - Actress Bai Ling, arrested last month on suspicion of shoplifting at Los Angeles International Airport, was fined US$200 ($254) today after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace.
The 37-year-old actress, who has... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:45 am
Tall women and those who put on weight are more likely to develop deadly melanoma, a study by Australian scientists has found.
Researchers are puzzled by the results of a major review of skin cancer patterns that found women's... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:37 am
After a teddy bear incident and much debate, the House of Lords votes to abolish it.
A funny thing happened in November when Britain launched a righteous protest over Sudan's arrest of a British schoolteacher accused of insulting Islam by letting her students name a class teddy bear Muhammad.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Files in a laptop computer seized from the wreckage of a Colombian rebel camp in Ecuador offer new insights into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's desire to undermine Colombia's U.S.-allied government.... Source: AP Top InternationalNews At 7:11 a.... | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:28 am
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki (R) meets opposition leader Raila Odinga at the president's office in Nairobi March 4. Kenya's parliament was due to convene Thursday to start discussions aimed at enacting... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:23 am
Vice chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Makhdoom Amin Fahim (L), who is widely expected to be nominated for the post of Prime Minister and former premier Nawaz Sharif attend a joint meeting... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:10 am
In this picture taken on February 21, (L/R) Makhdoom Amin Fahim, vice president of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) stands alongside Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's widower... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:10 am
The U.S. military will court-martial four Marines accused of raping a Japanese woman, a U.S. Marine Corps official said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 1:39 am
A model waits backstage to present a creation by Spanish fashion designer Carlos Diez during the Mexico DFashion fashion show in Mexico City, Wednesday, March 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:56 am
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, speaks to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during a welcoming ceremony at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Wednesday, March 5, 2008. President Correa... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:48 am
Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod and tucked inside a family album.
A Russian bomber aircraft approached a U.S. aircraft carrier off the Korean coast Wednesday and was intercepted by American fighter jets — the second such incident in less than a month, U.S. defense officials said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:42 am
OPEC pronounced the global market for crude stable and sound as it opened a meeting, signaling the cartel was unlikely to tamper with current production despite record-high oil prices.
LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown defeated a bid yesterday to force him to call a referendum on the new European Union reform treaty.
Many analysts said they believed the treaty, which overhauls EU institutions, would be rejected... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:28 am
Patrick Swayze, the actor famed for his role in the 1987 hit movie Dirty
Dancing, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:07 am
The former wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy of French is to marry her long-time lover later this month in New York, it has emerged. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Campaigners for a referendum on the new EU treaty suffered a potentially fatal setback tonight when Labour and the Liberal Democrats united to block a national vote. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
The mother of Scarlett Keeling, the 15-year-old British girl found dead on a beach in Goa, has threatened to release graphic photographs of her daughter's battered body to prove that she was raped and murdered. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
The Hollywood actor and star of such films as Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a spokesman has confirmed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Doctors are expected to condemn Government proposals for reforming the NHS after reluctantly agreeing to extend GP surgery opening hours. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
The Prime Minister is facing a rebellion by Roman Catholic Cabinet ministers over Government plans for a Bill on embryo research. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
President Bush has endorsed the Republican nominee-in-waiting, John McCain. The president made the announcement with McCain in the White House Rose Garden after a lunch meeting. McCain says he looks forward to campaigning with President Bush at his side, and he says the president could be helpful in states such as Texas.
The Vatican and a delegation of Muslim scholars have agreed to start a permanent dialogue to discuss theological, social and political issues. The Catholic Muslim forum will meet every two years, alternating between Rome and a Muslim country. Pope Benedict will attend the first forum in November.
In recent years, some lawmakers and gun control groups have pushed for a national database that would record the ballistics signature of every gun sold in the United States. But a new report from the National Research Council says the database would return too many potential matches to be practical.
President Bush performs a tap dance while joking with the press corps and waiting for the arrival of Sen. John McCain to the White House. Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Mar 2008 | 10:27 pm
The endless wrangling over the rights to water from California's second-largest river may finally be over. The deal hinges on the destruction of four hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River. If they come down, it will be the largest dam removal in U.S. history. Will the dams' owner cave to pressure from all sides?
LONDON - Britain's Royal Opera House agreed to stop using a picture in its advertisements after an actor complained that his penis had been air brushed out of a nude image.
Argentinian Juan Pablo Di Pace, who stars alongside Meryl... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Mar 2008 | 10:00 pm
CANBERRA - There is no indication a Chinese man who took 10 Australians hostage overnight chose to specifically target Australians, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says.
A man armed with explosives took the Australian tourists hostage... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Mar 2008 | 9:57 pm
Congress summoned top Air Force officials Tuesday to defend the decision to purchase French-built Airbus air tankers. The decision by the Air Force has most of Congress fuming, with some members demanding that the Air Force rescind its offer to EADS-Northrop.
In January, the U.S. Immigration Service signed a pact with the Vietnamese government, agreeing to deport thousands of illegal Vietnamese immigrants who are currently under deportation orders. Prior to this pact, the Vietnamese government refused to take in deportees.
Warren Buffett, the famed US investor who heads Berkshire Hathaway Inc , has replaced his friend Microsoft Corp founder Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, Forbes magazine said this morning.
The following are the top 10... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
The Grand Canyon will get a bath Wednesday -- literally. The federal government hopes a 60-hour, controlled flood will help revitalize the Colorado River and replenish backwaters for several of the river's endangered species.
A wild dog has proved a hit in Australia's outback after learning to 'sing'.
Dinky the eight-year-old dingo has been impressing customers of a roadhouse near Alice Springs with his spirited howling.
Dinky the dingo regularly... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Mar 2008 | 8:11 pm
Colombia crossed the border into Ecuador to conduct a deadly assault against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel camp over the weekend. Colombia's government says Venezuela and Ecuador have secretly supported Colombian rebels. Ecuador's government is furious over the military raid.
For the first time in years, people in America are buying a little less gasoline. Analysts say it may be a sign that high prices and a slowing economy are beginning to change people's driving habits. So far in 2008, consumption has fallen about half a percent.
MPs this evening rejected calls to hold a UK-wide referendum on whether to ratify the EU's Lisbon Treaty. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 5 Mar 2008 | 7:38 pm
Venezuela moved troops toward Colombia and forced cargo trucks to back up at border crossings on Tuesday as tensions increased in a war of nerves over Colombia's cross-border strike on a leftist guerrilla base in Ecuador.
Gordon Brown today refused to reveal whether he thought he could win a referendum on the European Reform Treaty, as it emerged three senior Lib Dems plan to resign after a crucial vote by MPs this evening. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 5 Mar 2008 | 6:30 pm
President Bush has endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination after a meeting at the White House. Once McCain's bitter primary rival, Bush gave his stamp of approval to a GOP maverick who has crossed swords with him on things like campaign finance, tax cuts and waterboarding.
The former lover of Finlands Prime Minister was today cleared by a court of any wrongdoing for publishing a steamy kiss-and-tell memoir which revealed how he wooed her with baked potatoes and dumped her by text message. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Mar 2008 | 4:53 pm
More than 30 children have been absent for at least two months from school rosters in an English city and officials fear they may have been forced into arranged marriages, The Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Mar 2008 | 4:47 pm
Turkey launched airstrikes on Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq less than a week after the end of a large-scale ground operation, an Iraqi official said. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Mar 2008 | 4:40 pm
Los Angeles police arrested two suspects today in connection with the shooting of a 6-year-old boy wounded Tuesday as his family drove through the Harbor Gateway neighborhood on their way to an auto auction.
Venezuela moved troops toward Colombia and forced cargo trucks to back up at border crossings on Tuesday as tensions increased in a war of nerves over Colombia's cross-border strike on a leftist guerrilla base in Ecuador.
Environmentalists are slamming American Airlines after reports that it flew a plane from Chicago to London with just five passengers on board, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Mar 2008 | 2:31 pm
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Palestinians and Israel plan to return to the negotiating table. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has backed off his demand for a truce in Gaza before the talks can resume.
A report published Tuesday by the German parliamentary commissioner claims the countrys soldiers are overweight and most of them smoke too much, the Earth Times reports. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Mar 2008 | 1:54 pm
The U.S. military will court-martial four Marines for the alleged rape of a woman in Japan last October, officials said on Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Mar 2008 | 1:25 pm
Benny Shanon, a psychology professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, writes in British journal that ancient prophet and his followers may have hallucinated miracles recorded in Bible after ingesting hallucinogenic plants in Sinai desert. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Mar 2008 | 1:09 pm
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that the Palestinians and Israel intend to resume negotiations. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Mar 2008 | 12:58 pm
AP - An explosive device caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above "the crossroads of the world."
Reuters - Princess Diana's butler has refused to
be questioned about whether he lied to the inquest into her
death.
AP - A court commissioner ruled Wednesday that Britney Spears' father will retain control of the troubled pop star's finances and estate for another five months.
AP - U.S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an Army mental health report says.
AP - A playoff berth would have been cause for celebration last season. This year, it's just the first step for the Boston Celtics.
Reuters - Latin America's leftist leaders heaped
more criticism on Colombia, leaving it increasingly isolated on
Thursday in a crisis that has threatened political stability in
the Andes.
AFP - Kenya's parliament is poised Thursday to begin discussions that will enshrine into law a power-sharing deal aimed at ending a post-election crisis that cost some 1,500 lives.
Reuters - A small explosion caused minor damage
to a U.S. military recruiting center in New York's Times Square
area in the early hours of Thursday but there were no injuries,
police said.
Reuters - The U.S. embassy in Lebanon has urged
its citizens residing there to keep a low profile, citing
concern that "extremist groups" may be planning attacks against
Americans.
AP - The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday called a Colombian raid that killed two dozen rebels in Ecuador a "war crime," and joined Ecuador's president in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.
Garnett scores season-high 31 as Boston beats rival Pistons, 90-78.
Two contestants sang Whitney Houston songs and will likely survive, while Phil Collins' “Against All Odds” may prove the undoing of Ramiele.
What will be the lasting impact of Ron Paul’s candidacy? A look at the Texan and a couple of the foot soldiers in his presidential campaign.
The Democratic hopeful blamed his primary defeats in Ohio and Texas on rival Hillary Clinton's criticism and news coverage.
Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod and tucked inside a family album.