Considering that he has just returned from semiretirement, the result of P.J. Brown's first touch was predictable.
He lost the ball in a crowd of three Bulls and...
Sam Cassell attended his first shootaround as a Celtic yesterday, and didn't waste any time seeking out Rajon Rondo.
The last time these two met, on the night of...
The most audible voice coming from the Celtics bench is usually Tom Thibodeau's salty, throaty shout.
But as the Celtics assistant coach called out his defensive...
Matt Janning scored 13 points and led five players in double figures as Northeastern beat James Madison, 73-55, in the first round of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament...
Senior Night at Agganis Arena granted Boston University goalie Karson Gillespie the opportunity to make a memorable last impression.cw-0
The senior, who was making only...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in Basra, protesting deteriorating security in the southern city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety last December.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:37 pm
ORLANDO, Fla. - Tripp Isenhour has never gotten this much attention for a single golf shot. Really, he's never gotten this much attention, period.
Isenhour said it...
Spain votes in a general election Sunday, two days after the Socialist government's record in battling ETA was thrust into the spotlight with the shooting death of a former politician... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:30 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces found about 100 badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Saturday, one of the largest such finds in the country for months.
Outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West relations will not be any easier under Dmitry Medvedev. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:25 pm
LOS ANGELES - No criminal charges will be filed against "NYPD Blue" star Esai Morales over allegations that he raped his ex-girlfriend, a prosecutor's office...
(Kyodo) _ U.N. special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at state guesthouse in Yangon on Saturday for about 90 minutes, according to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:25 pm
NOVO OGARYEVO (AFP) -
President
Vladimir Putin warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel on
Saturday that relations between the West and his successor,
Dmitry Medvedev, would be no easier. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:16 pm
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thai police received court permission Saturday to retain custody of a reputed Russian arms dealer dubbed the "Merchant of Death" who was arrested in a U.S.-led sting operation that lured him from his home in Moscow.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:15 pm
AP - Thai police received court permission Saturday to retain custody of a reputed Russian arms dealer dubbed the "Merchant of Death" who was arrested in a U.S.-led sting operation that lured him from his home in Moscow.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A heavy late-winter snowstorm Friday pummeled residents from Arkansas to the Great Lakes, knocking out electricity for thousands and promising to bring near-blizzard...
The countdown began Saturday for NASA's next shuttle launch, an unusually long space station mission by Endeavour. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:12 pm
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - South America moved away from talk of war as the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered...
(Kyodo) _ National champion Jun Mizutani and Japanese compatriots Haruna Fukuoka and Seiya Kishikawa went through the Asian Olympic qualifying tournaments Saturday to earn spots in this... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:08 pm
WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration should "clean house from top to bottom" and has too cozy a relationship with the airlines, the head of a congressional...
YANGON (Reuters) - Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met the visiting United Nations envoy on Saturday as the military junta signaled it was in no mood to be swayed on its Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:04 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japan's Daisuke Naito successfully defended his WBC flyweight title for the second time Saturday with a draw against top- ranked challenger Pongsaklek Wonjongkam of Thailand. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:04 pm
NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel put President Vladimir Putin on the spot on Saturday, asking if the former KGB spy had cooked breakfast for his wife... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:59 pm
(Kyodo) _ Two men were found dead after being caught in an avalanche that occurred Saturday on Mt. Gentagadake in Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture, police said. The bodies of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:57 pm
LONDON (AP) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent the night in a London hospital undergoing medical checks and was reported to be doing well on Saturday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:51 pm
This is a shot from a data center that caught fire. Can't tell if Digg was responsible since all the logging servers perished in the fire. Digg responsibly ;) Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:50 pm
A US oil executive is jailed for two years for paying millions of dollars in bribes to Saddam Hussein's government. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:49 pm
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai called Saturday on his countrymen to stop forcing their under-aged daughters to marry, especially to men several decades older, and to allow them to be... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:45 pm
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent the night in a London hospital undergoing medical checks and was reported to be doing well on Saturday. Thatcher, 82, was up and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:43 pm
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday said peace efforts with Israel must move forward despite an especially bloody spate of violence capped by a deadly attack on a Jewish... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:42 pm
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday said peace efforts with Israel must move forward despite an especially bloody spate of violence capped by a deadly attack on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:42 pm
Larry Miller reports on the hotly contested London mayoral race threatening to unseat the controversial figure who has made everyone, including his own party, uneasy for eight years. But, Ken Livingstone hasn't been all bad.
AP - Dangerous cracks in the nation's job market are deepening. Employers slashed jobs by the largest amount in five years and hundreds of thousands of people dropped out of the labor force ominous signs that the country is falling toward a recession or has already toppled into one.
CHEYENNE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton questioned each other's sincerity and leadership on national security and the economy on Friday as they geared up for the next tests in a grueling struggle for the White House.
An Afghan woman searches participants attending an International Womens Day ceremony in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 8, 2008. Under the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule, Afghan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:06 pm
As Baghdad experiences ongoing power shortages, Hugh Sykes hears claims this is a legacy of US planning for post-Saddam Iraq. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:06 pm
In Delhi, the BBC's Chris Morris meets a woman still hoping to find her husband, 36 years after he went missing in the India-Pakistan war of 1971. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:06 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
A new dating
technique has put the age of the Grand Canyon at 17 million
years old, three times older than earlier estimates,
according to a report in the latest edition of the journal Science. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:02 pm
AFP - Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Saturday with visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, officials said, as the nation's junta rebuffed global pressure to reform its election plans.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is doing well and may be released from the hospital later Saturday after medical checks, a spokeswoman said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, is welcomed by outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin to his residence in Moscow, Saturday March 8, 2008. Energy projects and tensions over Kosovo were expected... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
In addition to the issue of tax returns, the statements came as a response to a USA Today article reporting that the Clinton library was withholding information about pardons made near the end of President Clinton's tenure Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
YANGON (AFP) -
Myanmar's
detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Saturday with
visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, officials said, as the
nation's junta rebuffed global pressure to reform its
election plans. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:59 am
Reuters - Iraqi security forces found about 100
badly decomposed bodies in a mass grave north of Baghdad, the
U.S. military said on Saturday, one of the largest such finds
in the country for months. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:54 am
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during their meeting in Novo Ogaryovo. Merkel has become the first foreign leader to meet with Dmitry Medvedev since his controversial... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:52 am
The Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is meeting the visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
PARIS (Reuters) - Israel will not consider unilateral action to stop Iran getting a nuclear bomb, President Shimon Peres was quoted as saying on Saturday.
CASPER (AFP) -
Democrats
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face off in the western
state of Wyoming Saturday as the campaign took a nasty turn
following the resignation of a key Obama foreign policy aide. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:49 am
AFP - Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face off in the western state of Wyoming Saturday as the campaign took a nasty turn following the resignation of a key Obama foreign policy aide.
AP - Tripp Isenhour has never gotten this much attention for a single golf shot. Really, he's never gotten this much attention, period. Isenhour said it was a "one-in-a-million" golf shot that killed a protected hawk and that he was only trying to scare the bird he now faces misdemeanor criminal charges for killing.
AP - No criminal charges will be filed against "NYPD Blue" star Esai Morales over allegations that he raped his ex-girlfriend, a prosecutor's office spokeswoman said Friday.
AP - The Federal Aviation Administration should "clean house from top to bottom" and has too cozy a relationship with the airlines, the head of a congressional committee investigating airline safety inspections said Friday.
Thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in Basra, protesting deteriorating security in the southern city where Iraqi forces assumed responsibility for safety last December. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:44 am
AP - A heavy late-winter snowstorm Friday pummeled residents from Arkansas to the Great Lakes, knocking out electricity for thousands and promising to bring near-blizzard conditions to Ohio and Kentucky.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- South America moved away from talk of war as the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered by a Colombian cross-border raid with testy handshakes and an apology.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:43 am
Iraqi women gather under heavy security in central Baghdad to mark International Women's Day Saturday, March 8, 2008. Their banners read: "yes to peace," "yes to justice" and "no to violence." (AP Photo... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:41 am
Private security contractors fly over central Baghdad, Iraq, in a helicopter Saturday, March 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:40 am
Chinese police released a noted civil rights lawyer Saturday, but he said they warned him to keep quiet about his more than 40 hours in custody. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
Afghan women need the freedom to pursue more education and should not be forced into marriage, President Hamid Karzai told an audience of women during an International Women's Day ceremony Saturday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
The members of Bangladesh Mohila Porishad or, Women's Organization, organized a rally to mark the International Women's day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, March 8, 2008. The banner reads International... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:33 am
The Clinton camp is none to happy about this development and is threatening to take legal action because it said it won the state. The Obama campaign is trying to retroactively claim victory in a place which many news organizations had already reported that Clinton won. Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:20 am
Penny Caffey played piano in a gospel band and her husband studied to be an ordained minister. They were asleep when police say their teenage daughter's boyfriend crept into their bedroom around 4 a.m. and started shooting. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:02 am
China will not abolish the death penalty because it suits the country's current level of development and is needed to deter criminals, a senior judge was quoted as saying. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:52 am
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Austrian authorities say a fourth package containing acid has been mailed to a local official.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
Austrian authorities say a fourth package containing acid has been mailed to a local official. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's coalition appeared certain to win Malaysia's parliamentary elections as the polls closed Saturday, but the opposition could see gains amid anger over race and religion among minority Chinese and Indians.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:37 am
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's coalition appeared certain to win Malaysia's parliamentary elections as the polls closed Saturday, but the opposition could see gains amid anger over race and religion among minority Chinese and Indians. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:37 am
Two guys and a four-door sedan. That's all it took for cattle rustlers to relieve dairy owner Pete Wiersma of three valuable calves. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:32 am
Prominent Chinese rights lawyer Teng Biao (seen here in 2007) has been released after unidentified police kidnapped him two days ago, he said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:14 am
Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi speaks on March 6 during a mass rally in Valletta on the last day of electoral campaigning. Malta has voted for the first time since the tiny Mediterranean state joined... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:11 am
Supporters of Labour Party leader Alfred Sant cheer at a rally at Pembroke Malta on March 6. Malta has voted for the first time since the tiny Mediterranean state joined the European Union in 2004, with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:11 am
Supporters of Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi cheer during a mass rally in Valletta on March 6. Malta has voted for the first time since the tiny Mediterranean state joined the European Union in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Mar 2008 | 10:11 am
Celebrate St. Pat's day early with this extraordinary round-up of Celtic cuties. No connection to Irish heritage is too tenuous -- even Mariah Carey makes it onto the list. Hooray for Ireland! Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 9:50 am
HONG KONG (AFP) -
Asia marked
International Women's Day from Afghanistan to Australia on
Saturday with pleas for greater rights and equality for half
the region's population. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Mar 2008 | 9:47 am
China's Supreme Court rejected 15% of all death sentences given by lower courts in 2007, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Iraq's president says he wants a "strategic" partnership with Turkey, including getting the neighboring nation's businesses to invest in his oil-rich but war-torn country.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
Malaysia's prime minister could see his large majority cut as polls close in an election marred by ethnic tensions. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 9:35 am
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Suspected international arms dealer Viktor Bout, caught in a U.S. sting operation in Thailand, has told police he was in Bangkok for a holiday and not to transact any weapons business, a police officer said on Saturday.
Authorities in Indian-run Kashmir halt a bid to poison thousands of feral dogs after a threat of legal action. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:59 am
CHANDIGARH, India (AP) -- An Indian man freed after spending 35 years in Pakistani prisons for espionage has admitted being a spy, leading the Pakistani minister who organized the release to say it would now be harder to free other prisoners.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:48 am
Evangelicals are adopting Catholic traditions, such as confession, communion, and observing Lent, as "worship renewal." Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:30 am
Nigeria's ruling party meets amid complaints that ex-President Obasanjo has too much influence. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:18 am
Every Tom, Dick and Harry (every Dell, Acer and Apple, actually) wants to get into the cell phone/handset business. But the handset market is already crowded with far too many phones. If PC makers are serious about creating distinctive products, why not make cell phones and PCs "aware" of each other, and work better together? Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:09 am
Newport Beach police discover a dead woman while searching a room in connection with a drug arrest. Body 'was well preserved,' a police spokesman says.
Newport Beach police conceded Friday that they were more than a little baffled by the discovery they made during a routine search of a room at an upscale hotel: a woman's body packed in dry ice.
A gay teen is taunted at his junior high school. He pushes back by 'flirting.' Next, gunfire.
For teens living in a shelter for abused and neglected children, school can provide a daily dose of normalcy, a place to fit in, a chance to be just another kid.
America does not adequately protect the human rights of noncitizens, says an investigator. He takes aim at increased detentions, saying they are overused.
The United States has failed to uphold its international obligations to protect the human rights of migrants, subjecting too many to prolonged detention in substandard facilities while depriving them of an adequate appeals process and labor protections, a United Nations investigator said Friday.
The AQMD bans the burning of wood on high-pollution days during winter months, usually about two dozen days.
Curling up in front of a cozy wood fire on a nippy night will be banned in many parts of Southern California on bad air days under new regulations passed Friday by regional air regulators.
Perched on less than an acre of land off an unpaved road in a hardscrabble rural area, farmer Gumercindo Ajanel would hardly seem like a Wal-Mart regular. But in fact, he's working for the American retail giant.
A lot of shredding went on at the private investigator's Sunset Strip offices, a former employee testifies.
Offering new and colorful details about the clandestine world of indicted private investigator Anthony Pellicano, his former assistant told a federal jury Friday that his once-thriving business relied on high-tech snooping and delving into confidential police records to dredge up nasty secrets for his clients.
The mayor says they are 'an eyesore,' and accuses them of 'preying on the poor.' But some customers say they need the service.
Jesus Rodriguez knew he was going to come up short on his bills, so on a recent Friday afternoon he took his accustomed trip to a Baldwin Park strip mall.
After years of blocking tougher sanctions against Sudan, Beijing moves to stem criticism that it isn't doing enough to help end the conflict.
When filmmaker Steven Spielberg announced last month that he was withdrawing as an artistic advisor to the 2008 Olympics over violence in Darfur, the reaction in Beijing was righteous indignation.
BEIJING (AP) -- Beijing will compensate car owners barred from driving on city streets during the Olympics and will not totally ban migrants, state media reported Saturday, in signs the government wants to take some of the sting out of restrictions planned for the August games.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:51 am
This video features a young Mike Valley doing (and company) doing their thing in 1986. I still have a pair of those exact Vans shoes. Watch until the end- all the moves are ridiculously stylish. Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:25 am
Casey Knowles, a High School Senior in Washington state, recently discovered she was one of the sleeping children in Clinton’s controversial “Children” ad appearing prior to the Texas primaries. Knowles is a supporter of Barack Obama. Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:07 am
Bridges are stylish: from classical to modern, they are as much a work of art as they are marvels of engineering. To celebrate the wonders of "classic" bridges, here are Neatorama’s picks for the Top 10 Most Beautiful Bridges in the World: Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:54 am
Mike Bowden interviewed Derek Littlewood of [Free Radical Design about their upcoming title Haze, due to be released in May exclusively for the PS3. Free Radical is known for their TimeSplitters series, first-person shooters with a cartoonish style and relaxed tone. Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:38 am
A firm, hearty handshake is always an appropriate way for men to greet each other. But when men achieve a greater familiarity, a man hug becomes appropriate. Some men fear male on male hugging of any kind. But done in an appropriate way, men can still hug while remaining secure in their manhood. Here’s how... Source: Digg | 8 Mar 2008 | 6:26 am
Authorities investigating the slaying of the University of North Carolina's student body president are circulating a photo of a possible suspect to law enforcement officials.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers unexpectedly cut jobs in February at the steepest rate in nearly five years, a second straight month of employment losses that heightened fears the world's largest economy has skidded into recession.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. sprinter Marion Jones reported to a federal prison in Texas on Friday to begin serving a six-month sentence for lying to prosecutors about steroid use that helped her win five medals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was hospitalized in stable condition in central London on Saturday and was under going medical checks, authorities said.
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela ended a border dispute on Friday with a summit handshake after a week of regional diplomacy in the face of hostile rhetoric and troop buildups.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama resigned on Friday after calling campaign rival Hillary Clinton a "monster" during an interview with a British newspaper.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will veto legislation on Saturday banning U.S. intelligence agents from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation methods, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said on Friday.
The United States and Iraq are opening negotiations in Baghdad on a blueprint for a long-term relationship, plus a narrower deal to define the legal basis for a U.S. troop presence, a Pentagon official said Friday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:56 am
An IRS mailing to inform taxpayers about upcoming rebate checks comes with a big price tag. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:30 am
Employers slashed jobs by 63,000 in February, the most in five years. It was the starkest sign yet the country is heading dangerously toward recession or in one already.
CAPITOLA, Florida (Reuters) - Tornadoes cut through Florida and Georgia on Friday, destroying homes, felling trees and power lines and killing one person as a record series of winter tornadoes continued to pound the United States.
Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Six people have died and three others - including two children - are critically injured after a head-on car crash in Gloucestershire. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
The Queen was deeply concerned to learn that RAF servicemen and women had been banned from wearing their uniforms in Cambridgeshire after months of verbal abuse in the streets, The Telegraph can disclose. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Baroness Thatcher has been taken to hospital for precautionary medical tests, it has emerged. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Cameras that detect average speed will be deployed on hundreds of miles of motorway under a Government plan to force all drivers to comply with variable limits. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Scientists and environmentalists have attacked a global campaign to ban
plastic bags which they say is based on flawed science and exaggerated
claims. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
A national count of missing schoolgirls has been ordered by the Government
amid fears that hundreds have been forced into marriage or are living in
fear of “honour” violence. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Alistair Darling will increase duties on wines and spirits next week as he
presents a Budget to stave off recession. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Health-and-fitness gadgets that promise to create a sexier, happier, you are
often tempting, but soon after they’re unwrapped that promise evaporates and
they end up stashed in the garage. A 2003 NOP poll says a quarter of
home-fitness equipment is used only once and a tenth is never even
unwrapped. When I invited nominations last month for the Landfill Prize (an
award I dreamt up to name and shame the most resource-wasting products of
2007), home-gym gizmos featured highly. The iJoy Ride, below, was voted
second in the judging. So here’s Body&Soul’s top examples of
strange home-fitness folly. Do any of them lurk in your cupboards? Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
State lawmakers around the country are proposing hundreds of bills this year aimed at curbing illegal immigration, but experts say the cost and public opposition will kill many.
The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela agreed Friday to resolve their angry recriminations over a cross-border Colombian commando raid, a crisis that has brought troop movements and talk of war. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:47 pm
A study conducted in Indiana concluded that Daylight Saving Time uses more energy than it conserves. Matthew Kotchen, an economics professor who worked on the study, talks with Melissa Block about what researchers learned.
Parents who home-school their children need a teaching credential, according to a recent appellate court ruling in California. What does the ruling mean for those who home-school more than 1 million American children?
A week ago, Northern Illinois University said Cole Hall -- site of fatal Feb. 14 shootings -- would be replaced with a $40 million building. After an uproar, the school has decided to review the decision and form a committee to discuss a fitting memorial. Chris Hosken reports for member station WNIJ in DeKalb.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has predicted the summit of Latin American presidents in Santo Domingo "is going to be positive." Leader hope to calm the crisis triggered by a deadly Colombian cross-border raid.
Oil prices hit $106 a barrel Friday. That's a record even when inflation is considered. Oil now costs more in real dollars than it did at the height of the Arab oil embargo in 1973. But why are prices so high?
It's not just subprime loans. These days, just about anyone holding a piece of the roughly $27 trillion in securities backed by debt is asking: Just how much are these things worth? Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:45 pm
Poet Robert Frost gave a series of informal lectures at Dartmouth College in 1947. Transcripts are now being published, using recordings that were in college's archives for decades.
The mortgage crisis is causing a double hardship for borrowers who are exposed to identity theft as their lenders toss out sensitive financial records when they go belly up.
A steady trickle of refugees and defectors continues to leave North Korea. And after often harrowing escapes, refugees face daunting challenges fitting into South Korea. Young defectors face many challenges.
The last few weeks have seen disturbing new violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. Michael Gaouette, leader of a U.N. team responsible for a new peacekeeping force in Darfur, speaks with Melissa Block.
Montana is one of several states that have balked at a federal law requiring states to issue tamper-proof identification cards to residents. Gov. Brian Schweitzer discusses his state's opposition.
The ridge line next to the famed "Hollywood" sign in Los Angeles is up for sale, with a price tag of $22 million. One L.A. city council member has launched a personal crusade to stop the developers.
Though the nation's unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in February, employers actually cut payrolls by a net 63,000 jobs. The rate fell because so many people decided to stop looking for work -- a new sign of weakness in the economy.
Millions of British airline passengers face mandatory fingerprinting before being allowed to board flights when Heathrow’s Terminal 5 opens later this month. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
A
stumbling US economy lost 63,000 jobs in February, according
to a shockingly weak report released Friday as a top White
House adviser offered a grim outlook for growth. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:50 pm
JERUSALEM - Hamas has claimed responsibility for shooting eight students at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, the most lethal Palestinian attack on Israelis in two years and a blow to international efforts to revive peace talks.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:36 pm
Israeli hardliners are calling for revenge and an end to already-stalled peace talks after a Palestinian gunman killed 8 students (including an American) at a seminary in Jerusalem. Hamas first claimed, then rejected responsibility for the attack.
MADRID (AFP) -
French
state-controlled utility EDF will likely launch an operation
aimed at entering the Spanish market shortly, Spain's Prime
Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said in an interview
published Friday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 7 Mar 2008 | 6:28 pm
Suspected Kurdish rebels killed one civilian and took another hostage in a Turkish province, media reported on Friday. Source: FOXNews.com | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:51 pm
They drugged, bludgeoned and strangled their 16-year-old victim to death then they knelt over her lifeless, bloody body to kiss before dumping her in a wheelbarrow. Source: FOXNews.com | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:48 pm
The United Nations' top human rights official, a lightning rod for denunciations from many countries stung by her criticism, said Friday that she is quitting after only one term. Source: FOXNews.com | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:31 pm
One was a footballing hero, rated among England's most prolific strikers; the other is the world's most celebrated pacifist and the spiritual leader who led India to independence.
Now, Gary Lineker and Mahatma Gandhi could be pitted... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
A cruel, biting wind is blowing in from the Sea of Japan, as waves crash on to the breakwaters lining the shore of the Japanese fishing port of Niigata.
It was a day like this that 13-year old Megumi Yokota vanished 30 years ago,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Amid revelations of sex, power and greed, Australia's coast-to-coast carpet of Labor Governments has begun lifting at the corner in the coastal city of Wollongong, south of Sydney.
Moved by allegations of corruption that had writhed... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Airport security in British Columbia forced a man to change his wedding proposal plans for his girlfriend after they questioned him about the box the engagement ring was in. Source: FOXNews.com | 7 Mar 2008 | 4:55 pm
Like a herd of antelope, jockeying and shoving for position, 150 young women raced down Amsterdam's most famed fashion street in stiletto heels Thursday, racing for a $15,000 prize. Source: FOXNews.com | 7 Mar 2008 | 4:46 pm
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry demands that the U.S. ambassador leave the country, recalling its ambassador to the U.S. Source: FOXNews.com | 7 Mar 2008 | 4:28 pm
Hamas militants have claimed responsibility for the shooting attack at a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem that killed eight young religious students. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 7 Mar 2008 | 2:06 pm
The military wing of Hamas has been accused of masterminding the murder of eight Israeli students in a Jerusalem seminary Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 7 Mar 2008 | 2:06 pm
The U.S. is seeking the extradition of a suspected Russian arms dealer, but for now he will remain in Thailand, where authorities are investigating if he used the country as a base to negotiate a weapons deal with terrorists.
The U.N. children's agency said Friday it will hand over 103 children to their relatives after the children were caught up in an abduction case in Chad involving aid workers from a French charity.
AP - Thai police received court permission Saturday to retain custody of a reputed Russian arms dealer dubbed the "Merchant of Death" who was arrested in a U.S.-led sting operation that lured him from his home in Moscow.
AP - Dangerous cracks in the nation's job market are deepening. Employers slashed jobs by the largest amount in five years and hundreds of thousands of people dropped out of the labor force ominous signs that the country is falling toward a recession or has already toppled into one.
AFP - Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Saturday with visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, officials said, as the nation's junta rebuffed global pressure to reform its election plans.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is doing well and may be released from the hospital later Saturday after medical checks, a spokeswoman said.
Reuters - Israel will not consider unilateral
action to stop Iran getting a nuclear bomb, President Shimon
Peres was quoted as saying on Saturday.
AFP - Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face off in the western state of Wyoming Saturday as the campaign took a nasty turn following the resignation of a key Obama foreign policy aide.
AP - Tripp Isenhour has never gotten this much attention for a single golf shot. Really, he's never gotten this much attention, period. Isenhour said it was a "one-in-a-million" golf shot that killed a protected hawk and that he was only trying to scare the bird he now faces misdemeanor criminal charges for killing.
AP - No criminal charges will be filed against "NYPD Blue" star Esai Morales over allegations that he raped his ex-girlfriend, a prosecutor's office spokeswoman said Friday.
AP - The Federal Aviation Administration should "clean house from top to bottom" and has too cozy a relationship with the airlines, the head of a congressional committee investigating airline safety inspections said Friday.
AP - A heavy late-winter snowstorm Friday pummeled residents from Arkansas to the Great Lakes, knocking out electricity for thousands and promising to bring near-blizzard conditions to Ohio and Kentucky.
Authorities investigating the slaying of the University of North Carolina's student body president are circulating a photo of a possible suspect to law enforcement officials.
Employers slashed jobs by 63,000 in February, the most in five years. It was the starkest sign yet the country is heading dangerously toward recession or in one already.
State lawmakers around the country are proposing hundreds of bills this year aimed at curbing illegal immigration, but experts say the cost and public opposition will kill many.
The mortgage crisis is causing a double hardship for borrowers who are exposed to identity theft as their lenders toss out sensitive financial records when they go belly up.