Four boys have been suspended from Eton College after a 13-year-old girl was
allegedly assaulted and robbed on the school’s playing fields. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:33 pm
NEW YORK - Even Keith Olbermann had sticker shock when he saw the Ruthian prices for Yankee Stadium's final year.
His family first purchased four season tickets for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate passed a budget plan on Friday to eliminate the federal deficit by 2012 while spending more than President George W. Bush wants on domestic programs like schools and roads.
Reuters - European Union leaders were set to
give formal blessing on Friday to a French proposal for a
Mediterranean Union to boost ties with the bloc's southern
neighbors, a draft final statement showed.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders were set to give formal blessing on Friday to a French proposal for a Mediterranean Union to boost ties with the bloc's southern neighbors, a draft final statement showed.
Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda addresses an election campaign rally in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. He's known as Prachanda, "the fierce one," and after a decade leading... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 11:03 am
Prankster Steve-O from "Jackass" has been charged with felony possession of cocaine, according to an Internet report. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 11:02 am
Michael Frenzel, CEO of German touristic and shipping company TUI AG, speaks during the annual shareholders meeting in Hanover, northern Germany, in this May 16, 2007 file photo. It was reported Friday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 11:02 am
At age 82, Irene Humiston's hopes differ greatly from that of the MCI-Norfolk "lifer" who fatally shot her oldest son, Shrewsbury police officer James Lonchiadis,...
Fires break out in Tibet's main city of Lhasa, China's state media says, as rare protests in the province gather pace. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Iranians have flocked to the polls to vote in a parliamentary election seen more as a test of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's popularity among the country's conservatives than a real opportunity for change.
AP - Sheryl Crow says she'll soon be singing with Fleetwood Mac, a move sure to give new life to the classic rock band, which hasn't toured in several years.
China's state-backed Sinosteel Corp. launched a 1.2 billion Australian dollar ($1.1 billion) takeover bid Friday for iron ore miner Midwest in the first hostile approach by a Chinese company for an Australian one. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:58 am
Lindsey Vonn has complete the first American sweep of men's and women's ski titles in 25 years by winning the overall World Cup. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:58 am
A man accused of killing and beheading his common-law wife's three children should undergo a psychological evaluation but not tests to determine if he's mentally retarded, a judge has ordered. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:57 am
FORT MYERS - I crouched back there for about 15 pitches, maybe 20, and by then I had pretty much seen enough. My eyeballs were starting to ache. My legs hurt. And I was pretty...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians voted on Friday in a low-key election likely to keep parliament in the grip of conservatives after unelected state bodies barred many reformist foes of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from the race.
The Schoenefeld Airport in Schoenefeld, just outside Berlin's city limits, is seen in this Nov. 14, 2007 file picture. Germany's highest court has thrown out a bid by residents to block the building of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:54 am
Reuters - Shops were set on fire in violence in
Tibet's capital of Lhasa on Friday, witnesses said, as the
region was hit by a fresh wave of rare street protests.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Shops were set on fire in violence in Tibet's capital of Lhasa on Friday, witnesses said, as the region was hit by a fresh wave of rare street protests.
BEIJING (AP) -- Angry protesters set shops on fire in the Tibetan regional capital of Lhasa on Friday, state media and witnesses said, part of ongoing demonstrations against China's 57-year rule by Buddhist monks ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
AP - Angry protesters set shops on fire in the Tibetan regional capital of Lhasa on Friday, state media and witnesses said, part of ongoing demonstrations against China's 57-year rule by Buddhist monks ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August.
(Kyodo) _ The Japan Teachers Union filed a damages suit Friday against Prince Hotels Inc. in Tokyo, demanding that the hotel operator pay it about 300 million yen in compensation for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
Angry protesters set shops on fire in the Tibetan regional capital of Lhasa on Friday, state media and witnesses said, part of ongoing demonstrations against China's 57-year rule by Buddhist monks ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:45 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH COMMENTS FROM PLAINTIFFS, LAWYER) The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal against a lower court decision to terminate a retrial of five men... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:45 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- A court on Friday quashed the last outstanding graft charge in Pakistan against the widower of former Premier Benazir Bhutto, giving him a clean legal slate at home as he prepares to lead his late wife's party into a new coalition government.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:43 am
A court on Friday quashed the last outstanding graft charge in Pakistan against the widower of former Premier Benazir Bhutto, giving him a clean legal slate at home as he prepares to lead... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:43 am
A court on Friday quashed the last outstanding graft charge in Pakistan against the widower of former Premier Benazir Bhutto, giving him a clean legal slate at home as he prepares to lead his late wife's party into a new coalition government. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:43 am
Hundreds of ruling party members protest outside the administrative headquarters of the opposition-ruled state of Penang, Friday, March 14, 2008. Some 300 United Malays National Organization members took... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:42 am
House Speaker Sal DiMasi is strong-arming colleagues into killing the proposal for resort casinos, pro-casino lawmakers charged, and a top aide to Gov. Deval Patrick said...
Canada's parliament extends its army's Afghan mission by two years on condition Nato allies send reinforcements. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:40 am
President Bush let his inner adventurer out while discussing the state of the war in Afghanistan with military and civilian personnel. While those in Afghanistan detailed the logistical and diplomatic problems via teleconference, the President took a much more whimsical approach to their mission. Source: Digg | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:40 am
TOKYO, March 14 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) The education ministry said Friday its research found at least 38,000 websites set up by students and others which it views as... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:39 am
Nelson Mandela is to reunite with 25 anti-apartheid campaigners, with whom he was tried in the 1960s. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:38 am
British Chemist and Physiologist Tim R. Mosmann, right, German President Horst Koehler, left, former CEO of Deutsche Bank Hilmar Kopper, 2nd left, and his wife Brigitte Seebacher are seen in Frankfurt,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:36 am
A Chinese worker uses a grinding tool at the Hanyang Steel Factory in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Thursday March 13, 2008. Investment in factories and other urban assets in China jumped 24... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:35 am
Zimbabwe's police chief says he will not let opposition "puppets" take power in this month's elections. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
(Kyodo) _ The ratio of single-member households, mainly those consisting of one elderly person, is likely to account for a record 37.4 percent of all households in Japan in 2030,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:33 am
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda prior to their meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Friday, March 14, 2008. Blair began... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:31 am
Voting begins in Iran's polls with many opponents of President Ahmadinejad barred from running. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:30 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Mourners carrying flowers and olive branches buried one of Iraq's most senior Chaldean Catholic clerics Friday, one day after his body was found in a northern Iraqi city where al-Qaida retains its last urban stronghold.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:28 am
Mourners carrying flowers and olive branches buried one of Iraq's most senior Chaldean Catholic clerics Friday, one day after his body was found in a northern Iraqi city where al-Qaida... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:28 am
TOKYO, March 14 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING IN 5TH-8TH GRAFS) North Korea must submit a complete and correct declaration of its nuclear programs and facilities as promised under a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:26 am
Reuters - Iranians voted on Friday in a low-key
election likely to keep parliament in the grip of conservatives
after unelected state bodies barred many reformist foes of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from the race.
A man who killed his 17-month-old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox was sentenced to more than two decades in prison. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:20 am
Reuters - U.S. officials will extend talks in
Geneva with North Korea over nuclear disarmament, U.S. envoy
Christopher Hill said on Friday, saying considerable work was
still needed before resuming six-party negotiations.
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. officials will extend talks in Geneva with North Korea over nuclear disarmament, U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said on Friday, saying considerable work was still needed before resuming six-party negotiations.
AP - No controversy, no contest. No. 3 UCLA buried California under a barrage of 3-pointers to start the second half on its way to an 88-66 victory in the Pac-10 tournament quarterfinals Thursday.
Chad and Sudan's presidents sign a deal in Senegal to halt five years of hostilities between the two countries. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:16 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranians voted Friday in elections likely to yield little change: Conservatives and allies of the hardline president are expected to retain control of parliament after many reformists were barred from even running.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:14 am
AP - Iranians voted Friday in elections likely to yield little change: Conservatives and allies of the hardline president are expected to retain control of parliament after many reformists were barred from even running.
AP - "Maui No Kai Oi" is a popular Hawaiian saying that means Maui is the best. Mike Sweeney recently moved to this idyllic island from Denver and was hit with the other side of living in paradise with his first visit to the gas pump: Maui is also No. 1 in gas prices.
SMITHFIELD, R.I. - Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, forced to resign from Hillary Clinton's campaign after she said Barack Obama owes his position...
EU leaders meeting in Brussels are poised to agree on an ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:09 am
BOSTON - Supporters and opponents of the Cape Wind power project took one more chance to give their views to federal regulators at the last of four public hearings this week.
Jim...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) Shops have been set on fire and violent clashes have broken out in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, state media reported Friday, with witnesses saying they have... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:08 am
PITTSFIELD - A North Adams man who provided his suicidal friend with a loaded gun could face up to 20 years in prison.
A jury Tuesday convicted Christopher Burda of involuntary...
Myanmar dissidents urged voters Friday to reject a military-drafted constitution that will be presented to them in an upcoming referendum. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:05 am
A U.S. soldier who took his ex-girlfriend hostage in a south German town was fatally shot in a confrontation with police, a police spokesman said Friday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:04 am
South Africa dethrone Australia as the world's top-ranked one-day team with an emphatic victory over Bangladesh to complete a 3-0 series whitewash. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:02 am
HOUSTON, March 14 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour attached the first component of Japan's manned space laboratory to the International Space... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:01 am
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- A government crackdown has forced dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members into hiding ahead of local elections in Egypt, where the banned group has become the U.S.-allied country's most powerful opposition force by agitating for Islamic law and democratic reform.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:59 am
In this photo released by the International Campaign for Tibet, police are seen in Jokhang Square in Lhasa, Tibet, where protests broke out Monday March 10, 2008. Angry protesters set police and army... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:48 am
Ex-prime minister Tony Blair is in Japan for talks aimed at ending "deadlock" over greenhouse gas targets. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:48 am
(Kyodo) _ A resident of the Tibetan capital Lhasa on Friday told Kyodo News she heard what appeared to be gunfire in the streets of the city. The hotel employee, who asked not to be... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:47 am
LOS ANGELES - Former "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon broke his neck in a fall last year and was recovering after two surgeries, his publicist said Thursday.
Susan...
Now that the city's health commission has voted to ban artery-clogging trans fats, restaurants and cafeterias will have a short window of time to stop using all oils...
Men wait to be released from an Iraqi police base in Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 13, 2008. 53 detainees were released. (AP Photo) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:35 am
Lewis Hamilton is fastest in one of Friday's practice sessions at the Australian Grand Prix, with Kimi Raikkonen topping the other. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:35 am
Content owners are in a curious position: though certainly not wanting to put themselves in a place where they are at the mercy of their distributors (increasingly, ISPs), TV and movie companies continue to oppose network neutrality. The reason isn't hard to find, either. Source: Digg | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:33 am
In this undated photo provided by the Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI meets with Chaldean Catholic archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, left, and Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:32 am
A court has quashed the last outstanding graft charge in Pakistan against the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a lawyer says. It could ease tensions between U.S.-backed President Pervez Musharraf and the leading opposition party.
FORT MYERS - The last time the Red Sox parted ways with Doug Mirabelli, less than five months passed before the team desperately brought him back. This time, that probably...
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Kidnappers of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop found dead in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had demanded a $1 million ransom, a senior police official said on Friday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- A court on Friday quashed the last outstanding graft charge in Pakistan against the husband of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a lawyer said.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 8:57 am
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The U.S. general overseeing Israeli and Palestinian compliance with the long-stalled peace "road map" held his first three-way meeting on the plan on Friday but without Israel's defense minister in attendance.
Poop-power is not a new phenomenon, as methane-powered generators have existed for a while, and even larger scale developments have used poo-power as a way to meet energy needs. But powering a state with poo? This is exactly what Californian utility PG&E has just started to do... Source: Digg | 14 Mar 2008 | 8:20 am
HONG KONG (AFP) -
Global
commodities markets were bubbling on Friday after gold
briefly peaked at over 1,000 dollars an ounce, oil hit new
highs and the dollar tumbled. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:56 am
The London market made a subdued start to trading on Friday as a couple of
large FTSE companies led the index slightly higher, but nervousness over the
likelihood of a US recession continued to infect trading. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:53 am
MOSUL (AFP) -
Christians
from across Iraq were gathering Friday for the funeral of a
Chaldean Catholic archbishop whose body was found in
northern Iraq two weeks after he was kidnapped, clerics said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:53 am
Gunfire erupted in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, today as monks and Tibetans
rioted in the heart of the city and hospitals reported at least nine people
had been wounded in street fighting. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:51 am
Today we’re proud to announce the general release of video calls in Skype 2.0 for Linux. As you may already know, the best things in life are often free and now you can make (and receive) free, great quality video calls on Linux. Source: Digg | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:50 am
A Canadian man pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal terrorism charge for plotting to blow up the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline in 2000. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:32 am
"As a runner I get to see things in slow motion. I don’t pass by them at 65 miles an hour but at a nice slow pace. One of the things I’ve noticed as I run by some properties out in the country is that they will make anything into a fence. Anything." ... including bombshells, skis and surfboards! Source: Digg | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:30 am
TEHRAN (AFP) -
Iran on
Friday voted in elections expected to tighten conservative
grip on parliament after a low-key campaign and the mass
disqualification of reformist candidates by a hardline
vetting body. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:29 am
Cheap and easy-to-make dye-sensitized solar cells are still in the early stages of commercial production. Meanwhile, their inventor, Michael Gratzel, is working on more advanced versions of them. Source: Digg | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:21 am
BEIJING (AFP) -
Troops have
surrounded the three biggest monasteries in the Tibetan
capital Lhasa, a rights group said Friday, as fears mounted
of a severe crackdown following protests against Chinese rule. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:07 am
ROME (AFP) -
Thirty years
after Italy's Red Brigades kidnapped and killed Christian
Democrat leader Aldo Moro, dark shadows hang over the
government's role during his detention as allegations linger
that the politician was sacrificed. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Mar 2008 | 7:06 am
Investors gain hope after Standard & Poor's says the end of big bank and brokerage write-downs of sub-prime bonds may be in sight. The Dow, which skidded 235 points, finishes up 36 to 12,145.
The stock market closed higher Thursday after a steep morning slide, as hopes were again raised that the bottom might be near in the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
A former Gardena councilman was arrested this morning on suspicion of lewd acts against a child under 14 years old, a Los Angeles County sheriff's investigator said.
The currency has been redesigned to thwart counterfeiters.
Sprinkled with pastel colors and armed with new features to thwart counterfeiters, the latest version of the $5 bill went into circulation Thursday with a gift-shop purchase at President Lincoln's newly renovated summer cottage at the Soldiers' Home.
Region sees a 19% decline from the peak in less than a year. Experts predict a continuing slide.
Southern California home prices are now 19% below their peak last year, and the surprisingly rapid decline is leading experts to predict that the housing slump will be worse than initially thought -- surpassing the severe downturn of the 1990s.
Democrats desperately seek a palatable solution before the issue damages the party and its shot at the White House.
Florida Democrats, searching for a way out of their mess of a presidential contest, unveiled a detailed plan Thursday for rerunning the state's primary election by mail. There was one big problem: Hardly anyone who mattered liked the idea.
Joe Francis, jailed in Florida for nearly a year, returns to Los Angeles and insists that even though he pleaded no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges, he committed no crime.
When Joe Francis or his people bring cameras to a hotel room, they're usually the ones doing the filming.
U.S. forces acknowledge conducting a cross-border strike aimed at militants that reportedly left four dead in Pakistan. In Kabul, a suicide bomber kills six.
U.S. forces on Thursday acknowledged carrying out a cross-border missile strike that reportedly killed four civilians in Pakistan, and six Afghan civilians were killed by a suicide bomber targeting American troops.
The Chaldean priest kidnapped two weeks ago had said Christians in the city were at risk. Baghdad blast kills 18.
The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop who was abducted by gunmen last month was discovered Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, and a car bomb killed 18 people in Baghdad.
The Senate rejected calls from both parties’ presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress passed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by President Bush.
Iraq Veterans Against the War is organizing the "Winter Soldier" conference outside of Washington, DC, to share their experiences from the front lines. The conference, which begins Thursday and will continue through the weekend, aims to build on a 1971 gathering in which Vietnam veterans gathered in Detroit to share their view of atrocities they wi Source: Digg | 14 Mar 2008 | 6:40 am
The New Zealand dollar ended the week near another post-float high as the US dollar continued to lose value.
The rise of the kiwi came as the US dollar plunged below 100 yen for the first time in more than a decade, and hit a record... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:26 am
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's branch for North Africa on Thursday set a three-day deadline to meet conditions for the release of two Austrian tourists it claimed to have kidnapped in Tunisia last month.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:26 am
The former treasurer of a Republican Congressional fund-raising committee may have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars, a lawyer for the committee said Thursday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:18 am
Feeling pain at the pump? Prices here are nothing compared to what Europeans pay. In the U.K., gas is up to $9.50 per gallon. Sheila MacVicar explains the perfect storm of the dropping dollar and the rising price of oil.
Simple descriptions — a white woman from Kansas, for instance — fail to capture the unconventional life of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, the parent who most shaped Barack Obama.
Newcastle - In public he was a family man, a loyal Labor figure and conscientious NSW MP, but Milton Orkopoulos led a sordid double life.
He smoked cannabis, used amphetamines and taught a teenage boy how to inject heroin. He also... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:49 am
SYDNEY - Women with freckles, moles and easily-burned skin are more likely to suffer from endometriosis, experts in the reproductive disorder have found.
The new research suggests the painful fertility-related condition may be... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:36 am
BRISBANE - The Irwin family's Australia Zoo has defended its record of releasing rescued koalas in the wake of claims it broke environmental laws.
The zoo's Australian Wildlife Hospital is required to release treated and recuperated... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:30 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Resigning over reports he paid for a $1,000-an-hour prostitute, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer leaves behind his political post but could face legal trouble from the stunning sex scandal.
BHAKTAPUR, Nepal (AP) -- He's known as Prachanda - "the fierce one" - and after a decade leading a communist insurgency from the shadows, he's taken center stage in Nepal's election campaign.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:16 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
A US company
and the Indian head of an international firm have admitted
to violating laws on export of weapons technology and
nuclear power testing equipment to India, the US Justice
Department said Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:16 am
BRUSSELS (AFP) -
European
Union leaders were set Friday to agree to enact an ambitious
global warming action plan by early next year, in order to
set the tone for international climate talks in 2009. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:09 am
A 65 million-year-old dinosaur goes on sale in Paris next month.
A team of palaeontologists took eight hours to reconstruct the four-legged, three horned dinosaur whose bones had to be shipped in giant separate boxes.
The three-horned... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:01 am
A pair of astronauts ventured out Thursday night on the first spacewalk of Endeavour’s space station mission despite a problem getting power to a giant robot that they needed to assemble.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama took aim on Thursday at potential White House opponent John McCain, accusing the Arizona senator of switching his stance on tax cuts in order to help his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
CANBERRA - The trucking industry says it is horrified by allegations drivers have been involved in child sex trade along highways in northern NSW.
Truck drivers have reportedly paid for sex with indigenous girls as young as eight... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 3:30 am
LONDON - Commuters travelling into London from the eastern suburbs are treated daily to the sight of construction vehicles, yellow lights blinking in the winter gloom, snaking across huge mounds of earth.
At first glance it appears... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 3:23 am
BRUSSELS - EU leaders agreed on a timetable for action yesterday to tackle climate change that they hope will enable them to set the pace in global talks next year, but some voiced unease about the methods.
The European Union sees... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 3:11 am
Al Qaeda's branch for North Africa set a three-day deadline to meet conditions for the release of two Austrian tourists it claimed to have kidnapped in Tunisia last month.
Heath Ledger’s Joker springs full-blown in this summer’s “The Dark Knight,” which was previewed for theater owners with a clip showing the new movie’s opening sequence.
An eighth-grade student who was suspended , barred from an honors dinner and stripped of class office after he was caught with contraband candy will get his post back, school officials said.
U.S. officials and academics suspect heightened enforcement on land is pushing migrants into the Pacific on the kind of dangerous voyages usually associated with Cubans and Haitians braving the Florida Straits.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives abruptly postponed a vote on a spy bill on Thursday after Democrats agreed to a Republican request to hold a rare secret session to discuss classified security matters.
The space shuttle Endeavour has linked up with the International Space Station.
Endeavour is on a mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory. During their 12-day station stay, the Endeavour crew will perform five spacewalks to install... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 1:30 am
STOCKHOLM - Iceland is likely to start whaling again this summer in a move certain to draw the ire of conservationists, the BBC said on its website yesterday.
Iceland ended its ban on commercial whaling in 2006, but in August last... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 1:14 am
GENEVA (AP) -- The United States and North Korea made progress Thursday in overcoming obstacles that have stalled a major nuclear disarmament deal but remained short of a breakthrough, the chief U.S. negotiator said.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:50 am
The U.S. dollar plunged against other major currencies Thursday, dipping below 100 yen for the first time in 12 years. There were other signs of weakness -- retail sales were down in February. Despite all this, the stock market closed higher.
ecurity for the Queen's visit to Heathrow airport has been reviewed as a matter of urgency after a man ran into the path of an aeroplane. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:25 am
A suspect has confessed to the rape and murder of the British teenager Scarlett Keeling, police in India said as they gave an account of the final hours of the girl's life. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
MPs will get their chance next week to vote on controversial Government plans to close thousands of post offices. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Alex Salmond was "cavalier" and displayed "exceptionally poor judgment" in his dealings over Donald's Trump's controversial plans for a £1 billion golf resort, an official inquiry has found. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
The full scale of the clampdown on middle-class motorists has become after it emerged that nine in 10 cars will be affected by higher rates of tax under plans announced in the Budget. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Garry Shandling, the comedian, yesterday testified he felt a "creepy feeling" when he learned he was the subject of unauthorised police searches apparently ordered by Anthony Pellicano, the "private eye to the stars" on trial for illegal wiretapping and racketeering. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
A secret list giving details of the thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money that MPs can claim to furnish their homes has been published by House of Commons authorities. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Like most people, the Chancellor suffers from green guilt. “We need to do more
to reduce carbon emissions and we need to do it now,” he said on Wednesday.
And to prove the point he promptly pledged £26million for the Green Homes
Service - a voluntary eco-audit for your flat, mansion or castle. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Around 15,000 British pensioners are thought to have been duped out of more
than $70 million ($£35 million) by a father and daughter team working an
aggressive investment scam in Florida. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
As the U.S. dollar hit a 12-year low Thursday in relation to the yen, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson talks with Melissa Block about the weakness of the dollar and recommendations from the president's working group on shoring up the nation's financial services sector.
Florida's Democratic leadership is divided over a solution to its primary dilemma, with some favoring a mail-in redo and others wanting to go all the way to the convention and demand the seating of the delegates chosen in defiance of party rules. Some say the candidates themselves should work it out.
A new study says sea level may rise faster than scientists currently project. That's because dams built in the 20th century have captured and stored a great deal of water on land. That has slowed the rate of sea level rise and masked the effect of expanding seawater and melting ice.
The body of a kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop was found in a shallow grave in northern Iraq, one of the most dramatic attacks on the nation's small Christian community.
The body of a kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop was discovered buried near the northern city of Mosul on Thursday. Paulos Faraj Rahho was taken in late February as he was leaving Mass in Mosul. Christians constitute a tiny portion of Iraq's mainly Muslim population. Still, they have been the victims of repeated violence. Many have fled the country and others have joined the ranks of Iraq's 2.5 million internally displaced people.
A day after New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer's resignation, the state's new governor takes the stage. David Paterson will have to pick up the pieces after the Spitzer scandal.
School districts across California are reeling because of millions of dollars of proposed education cuts in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget. March 15 is the deadline to give teachers layoff notices, and thousands of them will go out across the state. A particularly hard-hit school district offers a look at the reality of the cuts. Tamara Keith reports from member station KQED.
NAMANGOFULO, Kenya (AP) -- The military sealed off a region of western Kenya where land disputes have flared into violence, and witnesses said helicopter gunships were strafing the area Thursday to try to drive gunmen from forests and caves.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:51 a... | 13 Mar 2008 | 7:46 pm
You might feel sick, but do you smell sick? A new machine could help doctors diagnose patients based on their breath. There have been similar tools in the past, but never one that made diagnoses with such accuracy.
A team of researchers has shown that increasingly common wireless medical devices like pacemakers are vulnerable to hacking. They showed they could hijack the device and make it do things it's not supposed to -- like deliver a harmful shock.
Severed fingers of five Western contractors were sent to the U.S. military in Iraq, giving the men's relatives hope that they are still alive, a brother of one of the missing men said.
In Turkey, an angry public debate is under way over last month's military incursion against Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq. One critic of the incursion is Bulent Ersoy, a transsexual singer who spoke out on Turkey's version of American Idol and could now face prosecution.
On the eve of his first overseas visit since becoming the Republican nominee, John McCain has warned that an early withdrawal of US troops from Iraq would lead to "chaos and genocide across the region". Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Mar 2008 | 6:40 pm
A British man accused of faking his death in an insurance scam has pleaded guilty to fraud. Darwin made headlines in December when he walked into a London police station claiming to have amnesia.
Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York exposed as a client of a prostitution ring, has resigned, admitting that he had failed to live up to the standards expected of a leading politician. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Mar 2008 | 5:39 pm
An 8-year-old fan of TV's "Bob the Builder" can't carry hammers, screwdrivers or scissors after becoming one of the youngest people in Britain controlled by an anti-social behavior order. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 5:15 pm
The woman who investigators said Gov. Eliot Spitzer chose for a sexual tryst -- a dalliance that sparked his tumble from the highest perch of power in New York State -- has been identified in published reports as a 22-year-old New Jersey native with
humble roots.
A protester carrying two knapsacks was arrested Thursday after hopping a perimeter fence and running into the path of an airplane at London's Heathrow Airport, authorities said. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 5:09 pm
Cuban President Raul Castro moves to lift some restrictions on daily life, giving green light to sale of computers and DVDs, Reuters reports. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 4:40 pm
Australian woman stabbed her de facto husband to death after he stopped her playing her favorite Bruce Springsteen CD. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 4:28 pm
A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 4:12 pm
Jordanian lawmakers urged the government on Thursday to sever ties with Denmark to protest the reprinting of a cartoon deemed insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 3:36 pm
The widow of Greater Manchester chief constable Michael Todd today paid tribute to her "caring and loving" husband, as further details of his death, and his close friendship with a married businesswoman, emerged. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Mar 2008 | 2:46 pm
Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa posted an Internet message demanding jailed militants in Algeria and Tunisia be freed in exchange for two kidnapped Austrians. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 2:16 pm
Germany's highest court has upheld a law that makes incest a criminal offense, rejecting an appeal by a man who was sentenced to prison after fathering four children with his sister. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 1:31 pm
U.S. soldiers fired a warning shot near woman who 'appeared to be signaling to someone' along a dangerous stretch of road north of Baghdad, but the bullet killed a young Iraqi girl, a military official said early Thursday. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 1:25 pm
Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France, said Tuesday that whoever succeeds Bush in the White House will have to restore the United States' battered image and standing overseas, the International Herald Tribune reported. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 1:13 pm
U.S. soldiers weary of hidden roadside bombs fired a warning shot at a woman near their convoy who they thought may be signaling a bomber, but the bullet struck and killed a young girl. Also, a blast in Baghdad has killed at least eight people.
A suicide car bomber has struck a vehicle carrying U.S. troops near Kabul's airport, but none of the troops was seriously hurt. At least six Afghan civilians died, bringing to at least 11 the number of innocents killed in violence this week.
Reuters - European Union leaders were set to
give formal blessing on Friday to a French proposal for a
Mediterranean Union to boost ties with the bloc's southern
neighbors, a draft final statement showed.
AP - Sheryl Crow says she'll soon be singing with Fleetwood Mac, a move sure to give new life to the classic rock band, which hasn't toured in several years.
Reuters - Shops were set on fire in violence in
Tibet's capital of Lhasa on Friday, witnesses said, as the
region was hit by a fresh wave of rare street protests.
AP - Angry protesters set shops on fire in the Tibetan regional capital of Lhasa on Friday, state media and witnesses said, part of ongoing demonstrations against China's 57-year rule by Buddhist monks ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August.
Reuters - Iranians voted on Friday in a low-key
election likely to keep parliament in the grip of conservatives
after unelected state bodies barred many reformist foes of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from the race.
Reuters - U.S. officials will extend talks in
Geneva with North Korea over nuclear disarmament, U.S. envoy
Christopher Hill said on Friday, saying considerable work was
still needed before resuming six-party negotiations.
AP - No controversy, no contest. No. 3 UCLA buried California under a barrage of 3-pointers to start the second half on its way to an 88-66 victory in the Pac-10 tournament quarterfinals Thursday.
AP - Iranians voted Friday in elections likely to yield little change: Conservatives and allies of the hardline president are expected to retain control of parliament after many reformists were barred from even running.
AP - "Maui No Kai Oi" is a popular Hawaiian saying that means Maui is the best. Mike Sweeney recently moved to this idyllic island from Denver and was hit with the other side of living in paradise with his first visit to the gas pump: Maui is also No. 1 in gas prices.
AP - Barack Obama has a solid Senate record in support of Israel.
Conservatives and allies of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood to keep their hold on parliament as Iranians voted Friday.
The Senate rejected calls from both parties’ presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a Democratic-run Congress passed budget plans that would torpedo hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts won by President Bush.
Simple descriptions — a white woman from Kansas, for instance — fail to capture the unconventional life of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, the parent who most shaped Barack Obama.
A pair of astronauts ventured out Thursday night on the first spacewalk of Endeavour’s space station mission despite a problem getting power to a giant robot that they needed to assemble.
Heath Ledger’s Joker springs full-blown in this summer’s “The Dark Knight,” which was previewed for theater owners with a clip showing the new movie’s opening sequence.
An eighth-grade student who was suspended , barred from an honors dinner and stripped of class office after he was caught with contraband candy will get his post back, school officials said.
U.S. officials and academics suspect heightened enforcement on land is pushing migrants into the Pacific on the kind of dangerous voyages usually associated with Cubans and Haitians braving the Florida Straits.