WASHINGTON - High gasoline prices and prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal headline Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to the Mideast, but fears about Iran's...
NEW YORK - Search dogs sniffed the rubble. Rescuers aimed thermal-imaging cameras and listening devices into crevices. Some pulled at bricks with their gloved hands.
Crews...
BAGHDAD - Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president who has linked his political future to U.S. success in Iraq, was in Baghdad on Sunday...
BEIJING - The Dalai Lama called Sunday for an international investigation into China's crackdown against protesters in Tibet, which he said is facing a "cultural...
At least 20 people were killed in a missile strike near the Afghan border on Sunday, state-run Pakistan Television said. The strike destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:40 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH NIPPON HAM-CHUNICHI NIGHT GAME) Seibu Lions right-hander Takayuki Kishi allowed one unearned run and six hits in eight strong innings in an 8-1 rout of the Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:39 pm
(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has given up the idea of trying to promote Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Toshiro Muto to governor of the central bank, a Democratic Party of Japan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:37 pm
(Kyodo) _ China confirmed Sunday that a deadly strain of bird flu was responsible for the deaths of more than 100 chickens in a wet market in southern China's Guangdong Province last... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:20 pm
Already a hot commodity in its native Ireland, the rock group Bell X1 is trying for statewide success. But the hopes of the five-member band nearly went up in flames in front...
President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party braced for a possible setback as voting got under way Sunday in local elections seen as the new conservative leader's first electoral test... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:13 pm
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's passionate new security chief, who brought federal screening to Logan International Airport after 9/11, says the theft of precious...
Forty years after rampaging American soldiers slaughtered her family, Do Thi Tuyet returned to the place where her childhood was shattered. "Everyone in my family was killed in the My... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:09 pm
It was a very bad week for Harvard Law School - and if you don't believe me, just ask Eliot Spitzer '84. Or Deval Patrick '82. Or Barack Obama '91.
...
You walk through the front door of Natasha Steele's Roxbury apartment, turn right and stop short. You think you're about to bump into a young man wearing a royal...
BEIJING, March 16 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH DETAILS) At least seven people were killed during pro-independence demonstrations in an ethnic-Tibetan area of southwest China on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:02 pm
A demonstrator looks at Israeli soldiers through a fence near Ramallah, on March 14. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are set to meet this week, an Israeli official said, in what would be their first... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:59 am
Rescuers found two more bodies Sunday at the site of a massive blast at an Albanian army depot, raising the death toll to seven. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:57 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: INCORPORATING STORY HEADLINED 'DPJ MAY OK KURODA OR WATANABE AS NEXT BOJ CHIEF CANDIDATE') The government is expected to propose a new candidate for Bank of Japan chief Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
AP - South by Southwest has always been known as a music festival that flourishes with indie-rock bands, singer-songwriter types, classic blues players, metal acts and even some country artists. But hip-hop? Not so much.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- At least 16 people have been killed in a missile strike near the border with Afghanistan that destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader, Pakistani state television said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:52 am
Zimbabwe plans to closely screen foreign media intending to cover upcoming elections amid suspicions uninvited observers and security personnel might impersonate Western journalists, state... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
Zimbabwe's veteran President Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwe is planning to closely screen foreign media intending to cover upcoming elections amid suspicions uninvited observers and security personnel might impersonate... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
AP - Pakistan's capital was on high alert Sunday and embassies reviewed security measures after a bomb struck an Italian restaurant crowded with foreigners, killing a Turkish aid worker and wounding at least 12 other people.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's capital was on high alert Sunday and embassies reviewed security measures after a bomb struck an Italian restaurant crowded with foreigners, killing a Turkish aid worker and wounding at least 12 other people.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:50 am
At least 16 people have been killed in a missile strike near Pakistan's northern border, state television says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:50 am
At least 16 people have been killed in a missile strike near the border with Afghanistan that destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader, Pakistani state television said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:48 am
AFP - Iran's conservatives were set Sunday to win two-thirds of the seats in parliament after dominating legislative elections, despite a respectable showing by reformists who suffered heavy pre-vote vetoes.
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John
McCain arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to assess improved security
in Iraq attributed to a build-up of 30,000 extra U.S. troops of
which he has been a strong supporter.
TIRANA, Albania (AP) -- Troops and police cordoned off a smoldering army depot north of the capital as crews searched Sunday for workers missing following a chain of explosions that killed at least nine people and injured hundreds.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:46 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to assess improved security in Iraq attributed to a build-up of 30,000 extra U.S. troops of which he has been a strong supporter.
TEHRAN (AFP) -
Iran's
conservatives were set Sunday to win two-thirds of the seats
in parliament after dominating legislative elections,
despite a respectable showing by reformists who suffered
heavy pre-vote vetoes. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:45 am
Pakistani state television says at least 16 people have been killed in a missile strike near the border with Afghanistan that destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:42 am
US Republican presidential candidate John McCain, seen here on March 14, was in Iraq on Sunday for talks with senior American officials Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:42 am
Reuters - Up to three missiles struck a house
in a Pakistani region known as a safe haven for al Qaeda and
Taliban militants on Sunday, wounding 10 people, residents
said.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Up to three missiles struck a house in a Pakistani region known as a safe haven for al Qaeda and Taliban militants on Sunday, wounding 10 people, residents said.
A Russian rocket launched a communications satellite produced by US defence company Lockheed Martin into space on Saturday but failed to take it into the planned orbit. Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:39 am
AP - Two people in rural northwest Georgia are dead and dozens injured after a series of severe storms moved through the state, producing the first-ever tornado to hit downtown Atlanta.
One thing you hear often about Linux is that there’s no software for it. This is simply not true. There may not be much proprietary software for it, but there is some, and there are plenty of free alternatives to what most offices use every day. Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
AP - High gasoline prices and prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal headline Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to the Mideast, but fears about Iran's rising influence will be a key topic of his private talks at each stop.
AP - Search dogs sniffed the rubble. Rescuers aimed thermal-imaging cameras and listening devices into crevices. Some pulled at bricks with their gloved hands. Crews working through the night sifted mounds of debris in search of survivors after a towering crane at a construction site toppled like a redwood across a city block, destroying buildings and killing at least four people.
Reuters - Rioting erupted in a province
neighboring Tibet on Sunday, two days after ugly street
protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa that the
contested region's government-in-exile said had killed 80
people.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Rioting erupted in a province neighboring Tibet on Sunday, two days after ugly street protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa that the contested region's government-in-exile said had killed 80 people.
BEIJING (AP) -- The Dalai Lama called Sunday for an international investigation into China's crackdown against protesters in Tibet, which he said is facing a "cultural genocide" and where his exiled government said 80 people were killed in the violence.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Palm Sunday Mass on Sunday, opening the Catholic Church's solemn Holy Week.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:26 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Two US
astronauts, working outside the International Space Station
early Sunday, attached mechanical arms to a Canadian-made
robot, enabling it to take over human tasks and reducing the
need for future risky spacewalks. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:26 am
Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Palm Sunday Mass on Sunday, opening the Catholic Church's solemn Holy Week. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:25 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president who has linked his political future to U.S. success in Iraq, was in Baghdad on Sunday for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials, a U.S. government official said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:23 am
BEIJING (AFP) -
Police opened
fire on Tibetan protesters as anti-Chinese rallies spread
outside of Lhasa on Sunday, a witness and activists said,
amid warnings from the Dalai Lama of a "rule of
terror" in his homeland. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:23 am
Republican presumptive presidential candidate John McCain is in Iraq for meetings with top US and Iraqi officials. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:20 am
At least 80 people were killed in anti-Chinese protests in Tibet, exiled Tibetans say - far more than China claimed. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:11 am
PUERTO BARRIOS, Guatemala (AP) -- Four Belgian tourists held hostage by protesting farmers were released late Saturday after security forces in boats and helicopters located the group in Guatemala's eastern jungle, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:10 am
President Ahmadinejad's allies lead in partial results from Iran's elections, but reformists see some successes. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:10 am
The Dalia Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, has condemned China's "rule of terror" in Tibet and accused it of "cultural genocide". Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:05 am
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts planned to run brake tests on Sunday on the newly attached arms of a Canadian robot delivered to the international Space Station by the shuttle Endeavour while more work was scheduled on Japan's new lab in orbit.
Alitalia's board on Sunday unanimously accepted Air France-KLM's bid valued at $1.1 billion in a move to save the struggling national carrier. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:39 am
Ålesund is a city and municipality in the county of Møre og Romsdal, Norway. It is a sea port, and is noted for its unique concentration of Jugendstil architecture. Ålesund has one of the largest and important fishing harbors in Norway. The town's fishing fleet is one of the most modern in Europe. Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
An Albanian military policeman watches as smoke billows from an explosion at an army base near Vora. Rescue workers resumed the search for victims of a series of powerful blasts at an army depot housing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, gives a news conference in Tirana. Rescue workers resumed the search for victims of a series of powerful blasts at an army depot housing communist-era munitions near... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
A wounded woman in an explosion at an Albanian army base is wheeled into the military hospital in Tirana. Rescue workers resumed the search for victims of a series of powerful blasts at an army depot housing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
Sony's PlayStation 3 has surpassed the Xbox 360 in sales for the second straight month. Microsoft has to be concerned about the PS3's growing momentum as well as its own supply constraints. Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
GERDEC (AFP) -
Rescue
workers on Sunday resumed the search for victims of a series
of powerful blasts at an army depot housing communist-era
munitions near Tirana, killing at least seven people and
injuring over 200, according to the latest toll. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:32 am
Iranian election officials check the results of the parliamentary elections at the election headquarters in the interior ministry in Tehran. Iran's conservatives were set to win two-thirds of the seats... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:07 am
Iranian reformist leader Mehdi Karroubi casts his ballot at a polling station in Tehran on March 14. Iran's conservatives were set to win two-thirds of the seats in parliament after dominating legislative... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:07 am
Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president who has linked his political future to U.S. success in Iraq, was in Baghdad on Sunday for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials, a U.S. government official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:03 am
Rescuers search for survivors as a crane topples into apartment blocks in New York, leaving four dead. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:39 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A giant crane fell and crushed a residential building in Manhattan on Saturday, killing four construction workers and injuring more than 10 other people, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao casts his votes at a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Wen was re-elected for five more years as simmering unrest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:34 am
Chinese leaders wait in a line to vote at a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was re-elected for five more years as... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:34 am
Struggling Italian state carrier Alitalia agrees to a cut-price 138m euros Air France-KLM takeover deal. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:31 am
This month, for four days in Washington, DC, beginning on March 13, there will be a second Winter Soldier gathering – 37 years after the first. Organized by the protest group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:30 am
Defending champion Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are straight sets winners at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:25 am
ROME (AFP) -
The board
of Alitalia after a marathon meeting approved early Sunday a
formal takeover offer put forward by Air France-KLM, placing
a very low value on the struggling Italian flag carrier. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:17 am
ZURICH (AFP) -
The world's
glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, the UN said
Sunday, calling for immediate action to prevent further
constraints on water resources for large populations. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:05 am
The Masdar Headquarters building will produce more power than it needs (a positive energy building). In fact, the solar roof (one of the largest in the world) will be constructed first, and it will power the construction of the rest of the building. The 1.4 million square foot building was designed by Chicago architecture firm. Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 8:50 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's new parliament convenes Monday, setting the stage for a power struggle between U.S.-backed President Pervez Musharraf and a new coalition government that has vowed to assail his already diminished powers.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 8:43 am
Pakistan's new parliament convenes Monday, setting the stage for a power struggle between U.S.-backed President Pervez Musharraf and a new coalition government that has vowed to assail his already diminished powers. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 8:43 am
TIRANA (Reuters) - An Albanian army base stocking obsolete munitions for destruction blew up in a chain of massive blasts on Saturday killing at least five people and injuring more than 240.
At the nation’s elite women’s colleges, there is a new kind of gender trouble: students who enter as one sex and become another. Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Search teams resume efforts to reach the site of massive arms explosions that left at least five dead in Albania. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 7:57 am
Now that Major League Baseball has completed its first trip to China, it's looking ahead to a repeat visit. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 7:49 am
France is to vote in a second round of local elections, with the opposition Socialists set to make gains. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 7:36 am
Why can't you just show us the numbers? I mean... it's not like it's all THAT hard to hire an accountant to do your taxes for you, right? Or is there something that we should know about how you spend your money that might compromise your position in the race?Personally, I'm tired of seeing all of your hate. Please, stop. Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 7:20 am
Higher wheat prices are forcing bakers into a competition for flour
When a French-style patisserie opened on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles six years ago, owner Julien Bohbot thought the competition for his small Delice Bakery would come from the other kosher bakeries down the street.
The city's once-sleepy downtown is now a destination for the young party crowd, with restaurants transforming into nightclubs after dark. New regulations take effect next month.
Fullerton Councilman Richard Jones remembers his sleepy downtown before upscale restaurants, trendy nightclubs and cocktail lounges began taking over the four-block district, and he knows he doesn't want to go back there again.
With Love slowed by back pain, point guard carries Bruins to victory in Pac-10 tournament final, a win that almost certainly guarantees a No. 1 NCAA seeding.
UCLA point guard Darren Collison came alive Saturday.
L.A. City Council set to take up the 6-year-old Las Lomas plan, to be built at two busy freeways.
Hundreds of thousands of drivers daily thread their way through the spaghetti-like interchange of Interstate 5 and the Antelope Valley Freeway, and some may well recall its spectacular collapse in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
The effort includes combing California prisons and jails for illegal immigrants who have previously been deported.
Federal authorities are cracking down on immigrants who were previously deported and then reentered the country illegally -- a crime that now makes up more than one-third of all prosecutions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a Times review of U.S. attorney's statistics shows.
GERDEC, Albania - An explosion at an Albanian army depot near Tirana on Saturday injured more than 150 people, including many children, and damaged the city's nearby international airport, authorities said. And all of that just 2-3 weeks before a possible NATO entry! Source: Digg | 16 Mar 2008 | 6:41 am
The Dalai Lama says he fears more deaths in Tibet unless Beijing changes its policies, in an exclusive BBC interview. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Mar 2008 | 6:29 am
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won the Australian Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday after an accident-filled season-opening race. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 6:18 am
Savannah's weekend St. Patrick's Day celebration turned from emerald green to pitch black late Saturday as the city lost power, plunging the downtown party into darkness as thousands roamed the streets. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 6:17 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The suicide bombers who have killed 10,000 people in Iraq, including hundreds of American troops, usually are alienated young men from large families who are desperate to stand out from the crowd and make their mark, according to a U.S. military study.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 16 Mar 2008 | 6:14 am
Four Belgian tourists held hostage by protesting farmers were released late Saturday after security forces in boats and helicopters located the group in Guatemala's eastern jungle, officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 6:12 am
Suspected insurgents lobbed a hand grenade at thousands of people participating in a cultural festival Sunday in India's troubled northeast, killing three and wounding another 50, police said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Mar 2008 | 6:04 am
MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - A grouping of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters on Sunday backed U.N.-led efforts to forge a global pact to fight climate change but disagreed on a sectoral approach to curb emissions from industry.
FRANKFURT (AFP) -
The dollar's
plunge has made the eurozone the world's biggest economy by
one measure and has underscored shifts that are reorienting
the 15-nation bloc towards Asia, Russia and oil-rich Gulf
states, analysts say. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Mar 2008 | 5:11 am
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."
SYDNEY - Hormone patches used to help older women through menopause can also radically improve the most debilitating symptoms of schizophrenia, a trial on Australian women has found.
A study to be presented at a major international... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 4:20 am
French aid workers with a charity called Zoe's Ark had claimed the orphans were from Darfur. They tried in October to fly the children to France for adoption, but Chadians working for the charity alerted the police
Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Mar 2008 | 2:13 am
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A tornado in northwest Georgia killed two people and left others seriously injured on Saturday, one day after a twister battered Atlanta's downtown, officials said.
A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said American citizens were among the wounded in a bombing that killed one person at an Italian restaurant popular in Pakistan's capital.
Trevor Booker scored 18 points, Cliff Hammonds added 17 and Clemson, the perennial pushover in the Atlantic Coast Conference, stunned No. 7 Duke 78-74 on Saturday to reach the tournament title game for the first time in 46 years.
With Dextre the robot's power problem solved, astronauts ventured outside the international space station on Saturday to put together the bulk of the gigantic walking and working machine.
On the Web, on billboards, on television and in newspapers, men who solicit prostitutes are being shamed across the country. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:17 am
A New York accountant who has spent five years fighting sex trade charges brought by Eliot Spitzer has slammed the disgraced New York governor. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Sainsbury’s, the supermarket group, was this weekend embroiled in a £3m bribes
investigation after one of its most senior buyers was arrested on suspicion
of accepting backhanders from a potato supplier. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Fokke de Jong takes a pristine cashmere jacket from a rail in his new store,
Suitsupply, in Mayfair, and in one dramatic gesture, rips out the lining.
“You won’t ? nd this kind of workmanship for this price anywhere else in the
UK,” he says, motioning to the ? nely stitched inner construction of cotton,
wool and camel hair. “It’s made using an old-fashioned Italian technique
that gives a more comfortable ? t.” The 34-year-old Dutchman is on a mission
to give the cheap suit a good name with his Europe-wide Suitsupply chain.
The formula is simple: high-end suits with a starting price of less than
£200 for ready-to-wear and a mere £300 for bespoke tailoring – something
that may have agitated a few folks on nearby Savile Row. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
An eminent British neuro-surgeon has been performing complex brain operations
using a £30 do-it-yourself cordless power drill at a clinic in Ukraine. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
VENGEFUL rioters returned to the streets of the old Tibetan quarter of Lhasa
yesterday, defying the gunshots and tear gas of Chinese troops surrounding
the centre of the city. They broke into the few remaining shops untouched by
a rampage of destruction on Friday and tore them apart, wrecking interiors
and flinging debris into narrow alleys. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
A Ukrainian court convicted three former police officers Saturday of killing an investigative journalist nearly eight years ago. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:22 pm
A massive explosion at an Albanian army ammunition dump near Tirana Saturday killed at least four people and injured at least 240, including many children. The country's prime minister said he feared there could be many dead.
TIRANA - An Albanian army munitions dump blew up in a series of massive explosions on Saturday and officials said they feared dozens of personnel including US specialists may have been killed.
Four people were confirmed dead and... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Mar 2008 | 10:57 pm
The United Nations releases a new report on human rights in Baghdad on Saturday. The report, covering the last six months of 2007, acknowledges a marked decrease in violence, but it cites a need for improvement in other aspects of human rights if those security gains are to be sustained.
Barack Obama's minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was removed from his honorary post on the senator's Spiritual Advisor Committee. The move comes after broadcast and publication of some of the pastor's more controversial speeches and sermons. Obama refused to repudiate the Rev. Wright but strongly condemned his remarks.
China's crackdown on protesters in Tibet has left at least 10 people dead, but the International Olympic Committee is asking countries not to boycott the Beijing Olympics, saying a boycott would only hurt athletes. A former ambassador to China and advocate for Human Rights Watch talk about persuading China to change its ways in the run up to the Games.
Officials say a bomb blast at an Italian restaurant in Pakistan's capital has killed a Turkish woman and wounded 11 other people including U.S. Embassy staff.
The president of Georgia Tech University, Wayne Clough, is named the new head of the Smithsonian Institution on Saturday. He becomes the 12th secretary in the institution's history. When he begins in July, he'll face myriad management and financial obstacles.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama clashed on Saturday over his ties to an indicted Chicago businessman and her tax records, despite their agreement two days earlier on the need to focus on issues.
NEW YORK - A construction crane fell on a residential building in Manhattan on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring several others, the New York City Fire Department said.
The giant crane reportedly separated from... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Mar 2008 | 9:10 pm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a strong showing in Iran's parliamentary elections, according to partial results Saturday. The split could mean frictions between the president and former supporters disillusioned by his fiery, populist rule.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:51 a... | 15 Mar 2008 | 7:34 pm
A series of explosions at an army base near the Albanian capital Tirana killed or injured more than 200 people, including Nato troops, government officials said last night. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 6:01 pm
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 | 6:01 pm
India is set to draft new laws to police surrogate pregnancies amid fears that the countrys booming "rent-a-womb" industry is running out of control. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:22 pm
A massive explosion at an Albanian army ammunition dump near Tirana on Saturday killed at least four people and injured more than 150 others, including many children. The country's prime minister said he believes there could be many more dead.
At least 10 people burned to death, China said, in riots in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in the fiercest pro-independence protests to have rocked the region in two decades, scarring China's image months before the Olympics.
Xinhua... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
At a little after midday yesterday, in an anonymous-looking ground-floor council flat in the Batley Carr district of Dewsbury, the dream that Karen Matthews had tried so desperately to keep alive for 24 days suddenly came true.
Arriving... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
President George W Bush, seeking to bolster faith in the economy amid recession fears, acknowledged yesterday the United States was going through hard times but said growth would resume over the long run because economic fundamentals... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Her parents owned a corner dairy - now Claire Kelly is living the lifestyle of the rich and famous as the wife of a royal billionaire.
Nearly a decade ago, the Taranaki woman, now in her mid-30s, packed her bags for the bright... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
A Ukrainian court convicted three former police officers of killing an investigative journalist nearly eight years ago, ending a high-profile trial that Heorhiy Gongadze's family say has failed to bring the true masterminds to justice.
Abu Abdullah, an Iraqi soldier once loyal to Saddam Hussein, has spent time during the past five years as an insurgent, an Abu Ghraib prisoner, an affiliate of al-Qaeda and now a reluctant ally of the U.S. military Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:52 pm
A truck crashed into a passenger and cargo train in southern Greece Saturday, killing the truck driver and injuring two people, the Fire Service said. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:42 pm
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the top prosecutor's effort to disband his Islamic-rooted party and bar him and the president from politics was "a step against the national will." Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:36 pm
A Ukrainian court on Saturday convicted three former police officers of killing an investigative journalist nearly eight years ago. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Mar 2008 | 4:29 pm
A decrease in insurgent attacks in Baghdad that followed a surge of U.S. forces to Iraq has held, but violence elsewhere raise questions about the sustainability of peace, a United Nations report released Saturday determined. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Mar 2008 | 2:51 pm
Protesters gathered at an abandoned military site in the Australian capital Saturday to prevent the planned slaughter of 400 kangaroos blamed for ruining the habitat of rare lizards and insects. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Mar 2008 | 2:40 pm
Authorities were negotiating Saturday for the release of four Belgians, their Guatemalan guide and a boat operator who were taken hostage by farmers seeking the release of their imprisoned leader, officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Mar 2008 | 2:31 pm
Friday's move by the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase to bail out Bear Stearns was designed to boost investor confidence in the investment banking giant. The $400-billion Bear Stearns was considered "too big to fail."
The time to debate the decision to go to war in Iraq has passed, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), says. "The reality is, we're there. And the question is, what do we do about it?" The focus now should be on leaving Iraq in a "stable situation," he says.
Hardliners in the Iranian regime celebrated victory in parliamentary elections by toughening their stance against the West, firmly rejecting any possibility of talks over the country’s controversial nuclear programme. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 1:01 pm
This coming Wednesday marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the War in Iraq. Sen. James Webb (D-VA) says the war hurt the U.S. strategically, shifting the focus on terrorism to the wrong place.
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
Burnt-out overturned cars were scattered along the streets of central Lhasa on Saturday morning. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Mar 2008 | 11:54 am
AP - South by Southwest has always been known as a music festival that flourishes with indie-rock bands, singer-songwriter types, classic blues players, metal acts and even some country artists. But hip-hop? Not so much.
AP - Things looked a lot like the last several Big East tournament championship games for Pittsburgh. Except the result.
AP - Pakistan's capital was on high alert Sunday and embassies reviewed security measures after a bomb struck an Italian restaurant crowded with foreigners, killing a Turkish aid worker and wounding at least 12 other people.
AFP - Iran's conservatives were set Sunday to win two-thirds of the seats in parliament after dominating legislative elections, despite a respectable showing by reformists who suffered heavy pre-vote vetoes.
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John
McCain arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to assess improved security
in Iraq attributed to a build-up of 30,000 extra U.S. troops of
which he has been a strong supporter.
Reuters - Up to three missiles struck a house
in a Pakistani region known as a safe haven for al Qaeda and
Taliban militants on Sunday, wounding 10 people, residents
said.
AP - Two people in rural northwest Georgia are dead and dozens injured after a series of severe storms moved through the state, producing the first-ever tornado to hit downtown Atlanta.
AP - High gasoline prices and prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal headline Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to the Mideast, but fears about Iran's rising influence will be a key topic of his private talks at each stop.
AP - Search dogs sniffed the rubble. Rescuers aimed thermal-imaging cameras and listening devices into crevices. Some pulled at bricks with their gloved hands. Crews working through the night sifted mounds of debris in search of survivors after a towering crane at a construction site toppled like a redwood across a city block, destroying buildings and killing at least four people.
Reuters - Rioting erupted in a province
neighboring Tibet on Sunday, two days after ugly street
protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa that the
contested region's government-in-exile said had killed 80
people.
A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said American citizens were among the wounded in a bombing that killed one person at an Italian restaurant popular in Pakistan's capital.
Trevor Booker scored 18 points, Cliff Hammonds added 17 and Clemson, the perennial pushover in the Atlantic Coast Conference, stunned No. 7 Duke 78-74 on Saturday to reach the tournament title game for the first time in 46 years.
With Dextre the robot's power problem solved, astronauts ventured outside the international space station on Saturday to put together the bulk of the gigantic walking and working machine.
Eliot Spitzer finally had to tell someone his secret. It was last Sunday morning, and he had just spent five hours driving through a fierce storm.
A giant crane toppled over at a construction site and smashed into a block of residential buildings Saturday, killing four people.
Selling sex isn't illegal in Sweden, but buying is _ a radical approach to prostitution that faced ridicule when it was introduced nine years ago.
A massive explosion at an Albanian army ammunition dump near Tirana Saturday killed five people and injured at least 240.