TIRANA (AFP) -
Powerful
explosions rocked an army munitions depot near Vora, 12
kilometres (eight miles) north of the capital Tirana on
Saturday, witnesses reported, injuring at least 155 people,
mostly civilians. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:51 pm
An Iraqi soldier escorts a man who was arrested, after he was found guarding a huge arms and ammunition cache near Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 15, 2008... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:48 pm
AFP - Iranian conservatives were poised on Saturday to win a two-thirds parliamentary majority but with reformists retaining a foothold despite losing hundreds of candidates to pre-election vetting.
TEHRAN (AFP) -
Iranian
conservatives were poised on Saturday to win a two-thirds
parliamentary majority but with reformists retaining a
foothold despite losing hundreds of candidates to
pre-election vetting. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:47 pm
Grim-faced and sorrowful, former soldiers and Marines sat before an audience of several hundred yesterday in Silver Spring and shared their recollections of their service in Iraq. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:44 pm
ANKARA (AFP) -
Moves by
Turkey's chief prosecutor to ban the Islamist-rooted ruling
party and bar the president and prime minister from politics
were "an attack on the will of the nation," premier
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:41 pm
AP - Crews hauled broken glass and furniture out of downtown streets Saturday and homeowners surveyed damage caused by a possible tornado that surprised many residents and basketball fans.
Containers filled with goods are seen stacked on top of one another at the port in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, March. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:36 pm
Dozens have been reported killed or injured, and many others arrested, as police cracked down on demonstrations for a free Tibet. Chinese authorities said protestors who do not surrender by Tuesday will be "sternly punished."
A view of part of the soccer stadium that will host the 2010 Soccer World Cup in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, March 15, 2008. Stadium construction is managed by the 2010 organizing committee,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:32 pm
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has urged the world's heaviest polluters including the US and China to agree to binding emissions cuts, saying failure to act on global warming would be "unforgivably... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:32 pm
A polar bear's natural habitat in the Arctic is threatened by a melting polar ice cap. Former British prime minister Tony Blair has urged the world's heaviest polluters including the United States, China... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:32 pm
A melting glaciar in Ecuador. Former British prime minister Tony Blair has urged the world's heaviest polluters including the United States, China and India to agree to binding emissions cuts, saying failure... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:32 pm
Chinese farmers fix pipes to pump water from a reservoir in Sichuan province. Former British prime minister Tony Blair has urged the world's heaviest polluters including the United States, China and India... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:32 pm
Birds and vehicles pass a power plant in Beijing. Former British prime minister Tony Blair has urged the world's heaviest polluters including the United States, China and India to agree to binding emissions... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:32 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) The Japanese government decided Saturday to extend its economic sanctions against North Korea for another six months beyond their expiration on April 13 Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:32 pm
A police officer stands guard as smoke billows at the site of a powerful explosion at an army depot in Gerdec village, some ten kilometers (six miles) north of Tirana, Albania. The explosion injured more... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:31 pm
Powerful explosions rock an arms depot near Albania's capital, Tirana, with at least 150 people reported injured. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:31 pm
Italy host Scotland, England play Ireland and then Wales face France in the Six Nations decider in Cardiff. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:20 pm
BEIJING (AP) -- China kept government workers confined to their offices Saturday and ordered tourists out of Tibet's capital while lines of soldiers sealed off streets where riots had erupted, witnesses said. A Tibetan exile group said at least 30 people were killed in protests Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:16 pm
AP - China kept government workers confined to their offices Saturday and ordered tourists out of Tibet's capital while lines of soldiers sealed off streets where riots had erupted, witnesses said. A Tibetan exile group said at least 30 people were killed in protests Friday.
China kept government workers confined to their offices Saturday and ordered tourists out of Tibet's capital while lines of soldiers sealed off streets where riots had erupted, witnesses... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:16 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japan and the United States agreed Saturday to coordinate the process of the Group of Eight summit that Japan will host in July and a U.S.-led meeting of the world's key... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:16 pm
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura answers questions during a press conference in Baghdad. De Mistura said that the sectarian bloodshed which ravaged Iraq since 2006 is "much lower" now, throwing a window of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:11 pm
A surprise proposal to ban Turkey's ruling AK party is against the "national will", says the Prime Minister. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:06 pm
Shannon Lush thinks cleaning the house is fun. She turns it into a game,
racing against her own time record. “My best so far is doing the bathroom in
eight and half minutes,” she says, adding that music is a great help. “I
like squirting vinegar spray when the cannons go off during the <i>1812
Overture</i>.” Source: Top stories from Times Online | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
(Kyodo) _ Akitaka Saiki, the top Japanese envoy at the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs, will make a two-day visit to Washington from Monday to hold talks with his U.S.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
AFP - China said Saturday that 10 people had been burnt to death during unrest in Lhasa, as the military locked down the Tibetan capital amid fierce international scrutiny ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
BEIJING (AFP) -
China said
Saturday that 10 people had been burnt to death during
unrest in Lhasa, as the military locked down the Tibetan
capital amid fierce international scrutiny ahead of the
Beijing Olympics. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:56 pm
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused the country of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism.
LOS ANGELES - UCLA Medical Center will fire some employees and discipline others for snooping at the confidential medical records of Britney Spears, who was hospitalized in...
CHIBA, Japan, March 15 (Kyodo) _ Akira Amari, Japan's economy, trade and industry minister, indirectly urged China on Saturday to support Tokyo's proposal to calculate potential carbon... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:50 pm
TEHRAN, Iran - Hard-line allies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pulled ahead in Iran's parliamentary elections, according to partial results Saturday, but the president's...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING TIBETAN ESTIMATES OF KILLED AND OTHER DETAILS) The authorities in Tibet said Saturday that 10 people were killed in riots that have shaken the Tibetan capital... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:46 pm
WASHINGTON - Just months ago, the United States publicly championed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as an "indispensable" ally.
Now, officials barely mention...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING THROUGHOUT WITH MACHIMURA COMMENT, OTHER DEVELOPMENTS) Japan's top government spokesman on Saturday called on the Chinese government and demonstrators to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:44 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - China set a "surrender" deadline after riots in Lhasa that it said killed 10 innocent people, launching a crackdown on Saturday after the worst unrest in Tibet for two decades.
BEIJING - China locked down the Tibetan capital Saturday after the largest and most violent protests against its rule in the region in nearly two decades. At least 10 people...
NEW YORK - Dozens of Tibetans, young and old, held a noisy protest against Chinese rule outside the United Nations on Friday while President Bush was speaking elsewhere in...
ATLANTA - Crews hadn't even had time to assess the damage from a possible tornado that ripped through downtown, smashing skyscraper windows, sucking furniture out of...
Reuters - China set a "surrender" deadline after
riots in Lhasa that it said killed 10 innocent people,
launching a crackdown on Saturday after the worst unrest in
Tibet for two decades.
Tibetan officials give anti-China protesters until Monday to surrender after riots left at least 10 people dead. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:31 pm
In an era when many Americans consider the very idea of defeat to be unpatriotic, the most high-profile celebration of the country's contemporary art revels in breakdown - political, economic, social and artistic. Simon Houpt reports
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Conservatives took an early lead in an election for Iran's 290-seat parliament with 108 seats to 33 for their reformist opponents, Iran's state Press TV said on Saturday, citing unofficial results so far.
(Kyodo) _ Newly crowned moguls World Cup champion Aiko Uemura continued her dominance Saturday, winning her fifth straight title with a convincing victory in the final event of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:26 pm
(Kyodo) _ The Japanese government decided Saturday to extend its economic sanctions against North Korea for six months beyond their expiration on April 13 unless progress is made on the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:18 pm
(Kyodo) _ At least 25 ethnic Tibetans were killed in Friday's demonstration in Lhasa and hundreds were injured, the Tibetan Center for Human rights and Democracy said Saturday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:14 pm
If you've listened to your radio over the past two days you've probably heard the recording of these venomous words, delivered in that breathless, thunderous style...
Special Comment - March 14th, 2008Scientology is trying to stop a global picket on March 15th with fictitious threats from Anonymous. But the protest will proceed peacefully.Scientology's Attack on Anonymous:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGEuGsO9cCAhttp://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080313/NEWS01/3031300... Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:10 pm
Reuters - Conservatives took an early lead in an
election for Iran's 290-seat parliament with 108 seats to 33
for their reformist opponents, Iran's state Press TV said on
Saturday, citing unofficial results so far.
A possible tornado rips the CNN Center and numerous skyscrapers. An even larger system is expected today.
ATLANTA — Crews hadn't even had time to assess the damage from a possible tornado that ripped through downtown, smashing skyscraper windows, sucking furniture out of hotel rooms, crumbling part of an apartment building and rattling a packed sports arena, before they braced for another storm on Saturday.
Chinese authorities have given Tibetan demonstrators until Monday to surrender after at least ten people were killed in the largest and most violent protests against Chinese rule in Tibet for 20 years. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:54 am
Reuters - NATO said on Saturday it was nearing a
deal to use Russian land and airspace to supply its security
forces in Afghanistan, but Western diplomats denied any
trade-off with Moscow to keep Ukraine and Georgia out of NATO.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said on Saturday it was nearing a deal to use Russian land and airspace to supply its security forces in Afghanistan, but Western diplomats denied any trade-off with Moscow to keep Ukraine and Georgia out of NATO.
Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel
expressed solidarity with Israel in the face of threats to the
Jewish state on Saturday, the eve of a three-day visit to the
country, and said Iran must halt its nuclear program.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed solidarity with Israel in the face of threats to the Jewish state on Saturday, the eve of a three-day visit to the country, and said Iran must halt its nuclear program.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Hard-line allies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pulled ahead in Iran's parliamentary elections, according to partial results Saturday, but the president's conservative critics were making a strong showing that could unsettle his domination of the legislature.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:19 am
GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. human rights investigator on Myanmar said Saturday he will not visit the Asian country before the end of his mandate.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:12 am
The U.N. human rights investigator on Myanmar said Saturday he will not visit the Asian country before the end of his mandate. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:12 am
When we start thinking about a new design, one of the first things we start researching is cool colors that we might use. But how about researching Super Heroes color schemes? Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:10 am
An even larger system than the one that hit Friday night was forecast to move through northern Georgia starting at daybreak, bringing heavy rains and high winds to the area.
Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Rapt Inc., plugging a hole in its suite of tools for Web publishers and advertisers, the software giant said Friday. Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:01 am
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's deputy premier said on Saturday the Jewish State's delay in dismantling settler outposts in the occupied West Bank is hurting bilateral relations with the United States.
Snakes are increasingly invading the eastern Amazon's largest city, driven from the rain forest by loggers and ranchers who are destroying the reptiles' natural habitat, the government's environmental protection agency said Tuesday. Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:48 am
Crews searched Saturday for wreckage and the pilot of an F-16 fighter that crashed during a training exercise out of Luke Air Force Base. The status of the pilot, the only person on board, remained unknown. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:20 am
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A tornado struck the heart of downtown Atlanta on Friday night, injuring several people and damaging numerous buildings, including the roof of the Georgia Dome as thousands watched a college basketball game, the city's mayor and witnesses said.
China's controlled media may have remained largely silent on Tibet, but a look at Chinese blogs reveals a vitriolic outpouring of anger and nationalism directed against Tibetans and the West. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:58 am
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese state media report a gas explosion at a southwestern coal mine has killed 14 miners and injured four.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
Chinese state media report a gas explosion at a southwestern coal mine has killed 14 miners and injured four. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
BEIJING (AP) -- China's legislature re-elected Hu Jintao as president Saturday, giving him a second five-year term as leader of the world's most populous country. It also returned Hu as head of the Central Military Commission, the body overseeing the armed forces.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
A severe wind storm hits the US city of Atlanta, damaging skyscrapers, hotels and two sports arenas. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:33 am
LONDON - Alun Hoddinott, a composer who wrote music for the British royal family and was an influential promoter of modern music in his native Wales, has died. He was 78.
Hoddinott...
BERLIN - Erwin Geschonneck, a German actor who spent years in Nazi concentration camps for his communist sympathies and went on to star in scores of East German films, died...
Bluegrass star Ricky Skaggs is getting an honorary doctorate from Boston's Berklee College of Music. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:29 am
HONOLULU - John Roderick, an Associated Press correspondent who covered the Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong and other Communist guerrilla leaders while living with them in...
A grim rite of spring in Northeast Asia is the calculation of how many North Koreans could starve before the fall harvest -- and what the neighbors are willing to do about it.
China set a "surrender deadline", listed deaths and showed the first extensive television footage of rioting in Lhasa on Saturday, signaling a crackdown after the worst unrest in Tibet for two decades.
Investors nursing whiplash symptoms after watching the market's recent wild swings may find that Wall Street will deliver some relief in the coming weeks. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:49 am
In the Rocky Mountains, the energy crisis has mostly been a crisis for natural gas producers and a boon for consumers. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:37 am
Faten Saad knew she wasn't in a typical Wal-Mart when she saw an end-of-the-aisle display featuring Mamool. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:34 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- First lady Laura Bush joined her Mexican counterpart on Friday to inaugurate a two-country alliance to promote breast cancer awareness and research.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:32 am
MAKUHARI (AFP) -
Tony Blair
on Saturday urged the world's heaviest polluters including
the United States and China to agree to binding emissions
cuts, saying failure to act on global warming would be
"unforgivably irresponsible." Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:30 am
Sen. Arlen Specter knows a thing or two about bad health. Spry and physically fit at age 78, he also has a few secrets about living. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:25 am
China's leader Hu Jintao is elected for another five-year term as president, after a near-unanimous vote. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:20 am
China's red flag with its yellow stars blew in a stiff breeze in deep left field alongside the U.S. Stars and Stripes. Except for this, the first Major League Baseball game in China mostly looked like any afternoon at the ballpark in America. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:10 am
From the website: "In keeping with the self-filming, self-editing phenomenon of shredordie, I was inspired to make my own video over the weekend. An Ipod boombox does not make a good tripod." Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:02 am
Barack Obama denounces remarks made by his pastor that 9/11 was like "chickens coming home to roost". Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
China on Thursday accused the United States of human rights hypocrisy, as it branded the US invasion of Iraq the "greatest humanitarian disaster" of the modern world. "America's arrogant critique on the human rights of other countries are always accompanied by a deliberate ignoring of serious human rights problems on its own territory," Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:40 am
The History Channel sponsored a contest for architects to show us their vision of utopian metropolises from 2108, and the winner for the San Francisco version was IwamotoScott Architecture, conjuring up these wild hallucinations of a city run by geothermal power and tapping water from the city’s ubiquitous fog Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:30 am
Find out why Digg Founder Kevin Rose is on his fourth iPhone, which new site he's intrigued by, and how he and CEO Jay Adelson perceive the state of Web innovation today. (Plus a little iPhone vs. Treo ribbing.) Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:22 am
Votes are counted in Iran after parliamentary polls in which conservatives are expected to dominate. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:18 am
The Medical Center is taking steps to fire at least 13 employees and is disciplining others, including doctors, for looking at the pop star's confidential files.
UCLA Medical Center is taking steps to fire at least 13 employees and has suspended at least six others for snooping in the confidential medical records of pop star Britney Spears during her recent hospitalization in its psychiatric unit, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
The Mississippi lawyer famed for the huge 1990s tobacco settlement conspired to influence a judge deciding how to divide legal fees in Katrina insurance cases.
Over the years, Richard F. "Dickie" Scruggs earned a reputation as one of the nation's wiliest and most powerful plaintiff's attorneys. Along the way he was hailed as a champion of the little guy. He was also derided as a scoundrel who would stoop as low as necessary to get his way -- and fatten his bank account.
Anti-Beijing protests led by Buddhist monks turn violent. Shops are burned and police are cracking down, witnesses say.
Tibet was hit by a fresh wave of violence Friday as protests by hundreds of Buddhist monks and other residents against Chinese rule resulted in burned shops, vandalized police vehicles and at least 10 deaths, government officials and witnesses said.
With no Democratic nominee to compete with yet, he plans an overseas trip and a biographical tour.
As Sen. John McCain's Democratic rivals slug it out with no end in sight, the Republican presidential nominee is carefully laying plans to stay in the headlines -- from an official foreign trip next week to a biographical campaign tour across America to a swing through economically disadvantaged areas and minority communities.
The remains of 33 people are found in a shallow grave on an abandoned property in the border town of Ciudad Juarez.
Authorities in Ciudad Juarez said Friday that they had uncovered the remains of 33 people buried in the yard of an abandoned property, a mass grave believed to be linked to the city's violent drug trade.
The candidate writes a Huffington Post column condemning his church leader's incendiary statements.
Sen. Barack Obama took the unusual step Friday of posting an online column to further distance himself from his longtime Chicago pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose incendiary sermons have spurred renewed controversy in recent days.
MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair urged the world's top greenhouse gas emitters on Saturday to launch a revolution to fight climate change and said he'll work to sell a new global framework to slash carbon emissions.
As her instant celebrity status continues to climb in the wake of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, Ashley Alexandra Dupre has now received a $1 million offer to bare it all.A rep for Hustler Magazine has confirmed exclusively to Access Hollywood a seven-figure offer will be made to the call girl. Source: Digg | 15 Mar 2008 | 6:57 am
A severe storm ripped away two panels in the side of the Georgia Dome during the Southeastern Conference tournament, sending debris tumbling from the ceiling, halting the Alabama-Mississippi State game and prompting fans to flee for the exits.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives defied President George W. Bush on Friday and passed an anti-terrorism spy bill that permits lawsuits against phone companies.
A man once described as one of the world's top e-mail spammers pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and failure to file a tax return. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:16 am
Federal fisheries managers on Friday took the initial step toward imposing what could be the strictest limits ever on West Coast salmon fishing. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:52 am
The Houston Rockets’ 21st consecutive victory gave them the second-longest winning streak in NBA history and a share of first place in the Western Conference.
WASHINGTON - The United States, at loggerheads with Tehran over its nuclear programme, cast strong doubt on the fairness of Iran's parliamentary elections on Friday and said any outcome of the poll would be "cooked."
"In essence... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:25 am
Protests led by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule in Tibet turned violent, with shops and vehicles torched and gunshots echoing in the streets of the ancient capital, Lhasa. A radio report said two people had been killed.
HAVANA (AP) -- About two dozen women marched in Havana on Friday to demand the release of their husbands and other political prisoners ahead of the fifth anniversary of a crackdown on dissent.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 2:51 am
MY LAI, Vietnam (AP) -- To the villagers who survived the My Lai massacre and many of the Americans who fought in the Vietnam War, all the anniversaries of the atrocity are important.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 2:49 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $1,000-an-hour prostitute reportedly hired by New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer may soon make much more than that, turning her 15 minutes of infamy into a tidy sum of money.
The space station’s new robot remained without power because of a cable design flaw Friday as flight controllers devised yet another plan to get electricity flowing to the machine.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, seeking to bolster faith in the economy amid fears of a recession, acknowledged on Friday the United States was going through hard times but said growth would resume over the long run because economic fundamentals were sound.
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
The
near-collapse of US investment giant Bear Stearns and its
Federal Reserve bailout on Friday heightened fears that the
worst is not over for the spreading global credit crunch. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:41 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
The US
Senate on Friday passed a three trillion dollar budget,
after a marathon 15-hour debate stretched into the early hours. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:31 am
BEIJING - Independence protesters burned shops and cars in the Tibetan capital Lhasa on Friday and Chinese police were reported to have shot dead at least two people, in the fiercest unrest in the region for two decades.
China... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:28 am
The mother of Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager raped and murdered in Goa, has been summoned for police questioning amid allegations that she was negligent. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Barack Obama's claim to be the candidate of racial unity was challenged yesterday by a video of his pastor and spiritual mentor condemning Hillary Clinton for being white Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
China launched its most brutal clampdown on dissent in 20 years as it attempted to quash protests against its rule in Tibet. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
With the start of the Beijing Olympics now just 145 days away, clashes between protesters and Chinese security forces in Tibet have sparked serious concerns among senior officials at the International Olympic Committee. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Tourists caught up in the violence in Lhasa have reported seeing scenes of chaos before being confined to their hotels under a curfew. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
One of China's leading dissidents, Hu Jia, goes on trial next week for subversion, in a case seen as a litmus test of Beijing's vow to improve human rights ahead of this summer's Olympics. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Russian secret services have foiled an attack on President Vladimir Putin close to Red Square, it has been claimed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Hu Jintao's unopposed re-election by the National People's Congress as president of China was to be a rare chance for him to bask in the full glow of the country's pre-Olympic self-confidence. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
China faced one of its most serious political crises in two decades as
Tibetans resentful of Beijing rule set fire to swaths of Lhasa. The army
responded by sending armed personnel carriers onto the streets. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
As a loyal officer under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi major never imagined that
one day he would become an insurgent, but when Iraq fell five years ago he
was left bitter, jobless and desperate to drive the invading forces out. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
When officers arrived at No 26 Lidgate Gardens shortly before midday
yesterday, it was initially just another door-knock in their painstaking
search for Shannon Matthews. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Sales of alcohol have shot up by 50 per cent since Wednesday’s Budget as
thousands rush to stock up on wine, spirits and beer before duty increases
tomorrow night. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 15 Mar 2008 | 12:00 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.
BERLIN - A US soldier stationed in southern Germany was shot dead by police after threatening an ex-girlfriend and then going on the run armed with an assault rifle, authorities said on Friday.
The 30-year old, who was serving... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 11:29 pm
The U.S. Defense Department says a high-level al Qaeda figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001 has been captured. Officials said Mohammad Rahim was handed over by the CIA and is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:26 pm
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that pits the individual right to own and use guns against the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Michael Troncoso, San Francisco assistant district attorney, says states and cities have to be able to impose reasonable restrictions on gun ownership.
The House passed a revamped Democratic bill to expand government spying powers Friday. Unlike the Senate bill, this one does not include retroactive immunity for telephone companies being sued for their role in the government's program, but the House attempted to solve the impasse with a different approach.
The big Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns needed emergency funds Friday to fend off a liquidity crisis that threatened the firm's viability. Bear's CEO, Alan Schwartz, had reassured investors that his firm was in fine shape, but the development shows how quickly things can change in the current environment.
China's carbon dioxide emissions are on track to double during this decade, according to a new study. The study finds that China has not only surpassed the United States as the world's largest emitter, but its emissions are growing more than 10 times faster than emissions in the U.S.
A small California college has worked out a deal with Saudi Arabia to set up an engineering program at a new Saudi university. But the deal by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo does not allow women in the Saudi classroom, and that angers the faculty and students at Cal Poly, a school known for courting female engineers.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is resisting calls for his resignation amid allegations that he lied under oath and conspired in a case involving an inappropriate personal relationship. Kilpatrick gave a racially charged speech this week, accusing the local media of having a "lynch mob" mentality.
As foreclosures continue to rise across the country, the number of renters being affected by the housing crisis is also going up. Banks try to recoup their losses by selling homes, and renters are facing rapid evictions. In California, scores of renters are being kicked out of their homes, even when they haven't missed a single rent payment.
Hundreds of people joined a week of street protests against Chinese rule led by Buddhist monks in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The rare protests started Monday to mark the 49th anniversary of an uprising against the Communist regime.
Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco.
Just a few years ago, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was considered a rising star in Democratic national politics. Now he's mired in a scandal stemming from alleged sexual misconduct and could face criminal charges.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- An anti-corruption court on Friday quashed the last outstanding charge in Pakistan against the husband of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, clearing the way for him to lead her party into a new coalition government.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:17 a... | 14 Mar 2008 | 6:50 pm
President Bush said Friday that the economy is going through a "tough time." One way the economic turmoil is affecting most Americans is at the gas pump. In Los Angeles, drivers react to California's highest gas prices ever.
The British government is reconsidering its decision to deny asylum to a gay Iranian teenager who claims his life would be at risk in his homeland. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:27 pm
The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia have pledged to put aside their differences after their worst-ever spat. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:12 pm
For the first time in 70 years, the US Supreme Court will take on the question of whether individual Americans have the right to keep and bear arms or whether it's a collective right for service in a state militia.
That question... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
When I told people I was headed for a week's skiing in northern Sweden, they looked at me as if I was mad.
Since I broke my neck in a traffic accident on assignment in Sri Lanka more than a year ago, I use voice recognition software... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
It looks like something from a galaxy far, far away. But it could become a reality right here on Earth.
Renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, has drawn up plans for a 44-storey sphere-shaped... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
An irreverent portrait of Denmark's young royal family, with Australian-born Crown Princess Mary breast-feeding and Crown Prince Frederik in his underpants drinking beer, has won an Australian award for satirical paintings.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Faced with surging demand, France's champagne producers have decided on a very simple way to boost production - by widening the vineyard.
A decision made by a French agricultural body will allow producers to extend the area in... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
India's top court suspended an arrest warrant Friday against Hollywood star Richard Gere, wanted for allegedly breaking public obscenity laws by kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in public.
Afghan and foreign troops clashed with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving three suspected militants dead and two wounded, an official said. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:53 pm
With the April 15 income tax deadline looming, nows a good time to spare a kind thought for accountants. They are, it seems, prime targets for a terror attack. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:31 pm
The oldest bordello in Hamburg's red-light district is shutting down for lack of business, according to newspaper reports. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:30 pm
A senior citizen who was accused of killing his partner and then confessing to his pet cats was cleared of murder and manslaughter today -- and then hugged by members of the jury before leaving the courtroom. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 3:50 pm
Only a handful of voters showed up at many polling stations in Tehran on Friday in Iran's parliament elections, a sign of frustration with a vote that hard-liners allied with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are expected to dominate. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 3:34 pm
The Norwegian government proposed a new marriage law Friday that would give gay couples the same rights as heterosexual pairs, including church weddings, adoption and assisted pregnancies. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 2:54 pm
Mourners carrying flowers and olive branches attended the funeral mass of one of Iraq's most senior Chaldean Catholic clerics on Friday, one day after his body was found in a northern Iraqi city where al-Qaida retains its last urban stronghold. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Mar 2008 | 2:19 pm
AFP - Iranian conservatives were poised on Saturday to win a two-thirds parliamentary majority but with reformists retaining a foothold despite losing hundreds of candidates to pre-election vetting.
AP - Crews hauled broken glass and furniture out of downtown streets Saturday and homeowners surveyed damage caused by a possible tornado that surprised many residents and basketball fans.
AP - China kept government workers confined to their offices Saturday and ordered tourists out of Tibet's capital while lines of soldiers sealed off streets where riots had erupted, witnesses said. A Tibetan exile group said at least 30 people were killed in protests Friday.
AFP - China said Saturday that 10 people had been burnt to death during unrest in Lhasa, as the military locked down the Tibetan capital amid fierce international scrutiny ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused the country of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism.
AP - Just months ago, the United States publicly championed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as an "indispensable" ally.
Reuters - China set a "surrender" deadline after
riots in Lhasa that it said killed 10 innocent people,
launching a crackdown on Saturday after the worst unrest in
Tibet for two decades.
Reuters - Conservatives took an early lead in an
election for Iran's 290-seat parliament with 108 seats to 33
for their reformist opponents, Iran's state Press TV said on
Saturday, citing unofficial results so far.
Reuters - NATO said on Saturday it was nearing a
deal to use Russian land and airspace to supply its security
forces in Afghanistan, but Western diplomats denied any
trade-off with Moscow to keep Ukraine and Georgia out of NATO.
Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel
expressed solidarity with Israel in the face of threats to the
Jewish state on Saturday, the eve of a three-day visit to the
country, and said Iran must halt its nuclear program.
An even larger system than the one that hit Friday night was forecast to move through northern Georgia starting at daybreak, bringing heavy rains and high winds to the area.
A grim rite of spring in Northeast Asia is the calculation of how many North Koreans could starve before the fall harvest -- and what the neighbors are willing to do about it.
China set a "surrender deadline", listed deaths and showed the first extensive television footage of rioting in Lhasa on Saturday, signaling a crackdown after the worst unrest in Tibet for two decades.
A severe storm ripped away two panels in the side of the Georgia Dome during the Southeastern Conference tournament, sending debris tumbling from the ceiling, halting the Alabama-Mississippi State game and prompting fans to flee for the exits.
The Houston Rockets’ 21st consecutive victory gave them the second-longest winning streak in NBA history and a share of first place in the Western Conference.
The space station’s new robot remained without power because of a cable design flaw Friday as flight controllers devised yet another plan to get electricity flowing to the machine.