NEW YORK - The body of a construction worker was pulled from the rubble today at the site of a crane collapse, raising the death toll to five and dimming hopes more survivors...
Wall Street was thrown into turmoil this morning as investors reacted to the government-backed emergency takeover of Bears Stearns by JPMorgan Chase and a highly unusual Fed...
Gov. Deval Patrick's proposal for a trio of casinos would vault Massachusetts into the top tier of gambling states in the country in terms of both jobs and tax revenue,...
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve is urgently moving to contain a deepening credit crisis and restore confidence in panicked financial markets by becoming a lender of last...
FORT MYERS - It was hardly a news flash yesterday morning when Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell, standing in front of the third base dugout at City of Palms Park, said...
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell sharply today, pulling back at least temporarily from record levels as investors feared that the financial crisis that forced the sale of Bear Stearns...
FORT MYERS - When the Red Sox announced last week that longtime backup catcher Doug Mirabelli was being released to make room for Kevin Cash, Jason Varitek thought it best...
BRADENTON, Fla. - No matter what happens, take solace in this: So long as the Red Sox have a healthy Josh Beckett and Jonathan Papelbon as the bookends to their pitching staff,...
It is one of the enduring mysteries of the second world war. More than 800 Jews based in this hospital in the middle of Nazi Berlin survived the war, seemingly — and bizarrely — protected by Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution. So who were they and why were they saved? Source: Digg | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:16 pm
A Taunton state representative wants to make Massachusetts the first state to declare driving under the influence of alcohol - even one green beer - flat out illegal.
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(Kyodo) _ A group of Tibetan students are staging a sit-in protest at a university in Beijing, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:15 pm
AP - Lt. Gov. David Paterson prepared to take over Monday for Gov. Eliot Spitzer, whose vow as he took office of "Day One, Everything Changes," was unraveled a week ago by revelations of a prostitution scandal.
Reuters - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on
Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a
"successful endeavor," pointing to security and political
progress on a visit ahead of the fifth anniversary of the war.
(Kyodo) _ ---------- CME to acquire NYMEX for $9.4 billion NEW YORK - CME Group Inc., the operator of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, on Monday announced its acquisition of NYMEX... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:13 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavor", pointing to security and political progress on a visit ahead of the fifth anniversary of the war.
UTSUNOMIYA, Japan, March 17 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: FIXING 1ST GRAF) The Tochigi prefectural government agreed Monday to pay about 40 million yen to settle a damages lawsuit for issuing a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:09 pm
White men could be legally blocked from jobs or promotions under controversial government plans to help women and black employees achieve equality.Employers would be allowed to give jobs to qualified minority candidates in preference to other candidates under a change in discrimination law being drawn up by the Equalities Minister, Harriet Harman Source: Digg | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:09 pm
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's president-elect, Dmitry Medvedev, struck a conciliatory note on Monday at the start of talks with visiting U.S. officials by saying there was a common will to solve problems between Moscow and Washington.
BEIJING (AP) -- Tibet's governor denounced anti-Chinese protesters as criminals and threatened harsh consequences for those who do not turn themselves in by a midnight deadline Monday. More clashes erupted in other Chinese provinces.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:08 pm
Tibet's governor denounced anti-Chinese protesters as criminals and threatened harsh consequences for those who do not turn themselves in by a midnight deadline Monday. More clashes... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:08 pm
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan on Monday inaugurated a new parliament dominated by opponents of President Pervez Musharraf who have vowed to crimp his powers and review his U.S.-backed policies against Islamic militants.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:07 pm
Back in Fort Myers, and will kick things off with some updates:
Up in Tampa, Terry Francona confirmed that Daisuke Matsuzaka and Jon Lester will pitch in Games 1 and 2...
(Kyodo) _ Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: BIG BROTHER AND TIVO ARE WATCHING YOU (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles) Here's a 21st century twist on a conspiracy... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:06 pm
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters)- A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc
stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial
stocks on Monday on fears that few banks are safe from
deepening market turmoil.
Albania Defence Minister Fatmir Mediu resigns following a series of fatal explosions at an arms dump near Tirana. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:05 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters)- A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial stocks on Monday on fears that few banks are safe from deepening market turmoil.
Reuters - A British court ordered former Beatle
Paul McCartney on Monday to pay his estranged wife Heather
Mills 24.3 million pounds ($48.7 million) after an acrimonious
divorce battle.
LONDON (Reuters) - A British court ordered former Beatle Paul McCartney on Monday to pay his estranged wife Heather Mills 24.3 million pounds ($48.7 million) after an acrimonious divorce battle.
Police in Goa are questioning a British man who says he saw Scarlett Keeling with another man in the hours immediately before her death. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 3:03 pm
AP - Wall Street clawed back from sharp losses Monday, with investors snapping up bargain stocks after JPMorgan Chase & Co. bought stricken Bear Stearns & Co. in a deal backed by the government. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 200 points in the early going, fluctuated in and out of positive territory.
AP - The Federal Reserve is urgently moving to contain a deepening credit crisis and restore confidence in panicked financial markets by becoming a lender of last resort for Wall Street investment houses, which were able to secure short-term emergency loans beginning Monday.
This picture taken from the Shin Bet security service website Monday, March 17, 2008 shows the home page of the blogs of four of its employees. On a new Web site launched Sunday March 16, 2008, four Shin... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:58 pm
(Kyodo) _ CME Group Inc., the operator of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, on Monday announced its acquisition of NYMEX Holdings Inc., the operator of the New York Mercantile Exchange,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:58 pm
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide a case over the drawing of legislative boundaries that could affect the ability of minorities to elect their candidates of choice. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:56 pm
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared victory in parliamentary elections. His hard-line supporters won the largest share of the votes in last week's election.
US Vice-President Dick Cheney visits Iraq ahead of the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:51 pm
A man known as the "spam king" has pleaded guilty to federal charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and failure to file a tax return. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors say Robert Alan Soloway, 28, sent millions of junk e-mails around the world. The most serious charge he faces is one for non-electronic mail fraud.
The head of entertainment programming at HBO, Carolyn Strauss, is leaving that role, the cable channel said Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:50 pm
(Kyodo) _ The Tokyo Stock Exchange is considering imposing fines on companies violating listing regulations, sources familiar with the matter said Monday. The bourse is seeking to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:48 pm
Reuters - The Dow Jones industrial average
briefly turned positive in volatile trade on Monday as shares
of JPMorgan Chase led advancers after the bank bought
troubled Wall Street firm Bear Stearns at a fire sale
price.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow Jones industrial average briefly turned positive in volatile trade on Monday as shares of JPMorgan Chase led advancers after the bank bought troubled Wall Street firm Bear Stearns at a fire sale price.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Monday denounced attacks on its embassies by pro-Tibetan activists hours before a deadline for rioters in Lhasa to turn themselves in and said it would do all in its power to protect its territorial integrity.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain vowed in meetings with Iraq's prime minister Monday that the U.S. would maintain a long-term military presence in Iraq until al-Qaida is defeated there.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:44 pm
Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain vowed in meetings with Iraq's prime minister Monday that the U.S. would maintain a long-term military presence in Iraq until al-Qaida is... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:44 pm
AP - Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain vowed in meetings with Iraq's prime minister Monday that the U.S. would maintain a long-term military presence in Iraq until al-Qaida is defeated there.
Former President Clinton and Brad Pitt met with hundreds of volunteers in the Lower 9th Ward at the site where a foundation headed by Pitt plans to begin building affordable homes for Hurricane Katrina victims. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:42 pm
The Supreme Court on Monday handed Microsoft Corp. a defeat by refusing to rule on the software giant's request to halt an antitrust suit against it. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:42 pm
(Kyodo) _ President George W. Bush said Monday his administration is "on top of the situation" in dealing with an economy that may have slid into a recession. "One thing is for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:42 pm
Most diabetes sufferers could be cured within four years if a revolutionary treatment involving the BCG vaccine works, scientists said yesterday. A human clinical trial with hopes of finding a cure for type 1 diabetes is to start at a leading American research hospital using BCG, universally given for many years in Britain to prevent tuberculosis. Source: Digg | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:41 pm
France on Monday honored its last World War I veteran, who died last week, and all the other 8.4 million Frenchmen who fought in the conflict a century ago that tore Europe apart. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:41 pm
E-mail spam is an annoyance of modern life, but now spam is creeping onto mobile phones. This year, there's more of it than ever before, which has many in the industry on high alert. How much gets through to cell phones, and why is it even more annoying than e-mail spam, and what are wireless carriers doing to block it?
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) -- U.N. forces pulling Serb demonstrators from a U.N. courthouse were attacked Monday by hundreds of furious protesters who massed outside, setting off an hours-long battle with rocks, grenades and live ammunition.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:39 pm
U.N. forces pulling Serb demonstrators from a U.N. courthouse were attacked Monday by hundreds of furious protesters who massed outside, setting off an hours-long battle with rocks,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:39 pm
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider reinstating the murder conviction of the driver in a gang-related drive-by shooting that horrified residents of the nation's capital in 1994. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:37 pm
When the dust settled from the dramatic downfall of one of Wall Street's most storied investment banks, rival JP Morgan Chase wound up taking control of the bank. The stunning collapse marks a significant loss for some investors, like Bear employees, who owned 30 percent of the bank.
Turkish women chant slogans in support of lifting a ban on headscarves in universities during a demonstration in front of Istanbul University in February 2008. Turkey's top court has studied a chief prosecutor's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:35 pm
Reuters - China on Monday denounced attacks on
its embassies by pro-Tibetan activists hours before a deadline
for rioters in Lhasa to turn themselves in and said it would do
all in its power to protect its territorial integrity.
Vice President Dick Cheney has opened a new U.S. push for political unity in Iraq on an unannounced visit to Baghdad, just ahead of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.
Wall Street tumbled in early trading as Wall Street and other global markets reeled from JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of the invalid investment bank Bear Stearns Cos.
LONDON (AFP) -
Former
Beatle Paul McCartney agreed a divorce settlement worth
nearly 25 million pounds (50 million dollars, 33 million
euros) with his estranged wife Heather Mills on Monday, she said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:29 pm
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether prosecutors can use crime lab reports as evidence without having the forensic analyst who prepared them testify at trial. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:26 pm
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) - NATO troops came under fire during Serb riots in the northern Kosovo flashpoint of Mitrovica on Monday, in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian majority declared independence last month.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday that the economy is going through "challenging times" and said he supported actions taken by the Federal Reserve to restore order to roiled financial markets.
A suicide car bomb attack on a Nato convoy kills three Nato soldiers in southern Helmand province, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:14 pm
Police staged a massive security operation across Tibetan occupied areas of China today in advance of a deadline for rioters and protesters to give themselves up to the authorities. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:14 pm
Celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht used public employees, resources and equipment to "cut the overhead" of his multimillion-dollar private practice, a federal prosecutor said Monday in his closing argument at Wecht's trial. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:13 pm
Rioting erupted in a province neighbouring Tibet on Sunday, two days after violent protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule in Lhasa. Source: Digg | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:10 pm
The Supreme Court has stepped into a legal fight between the television networks and the Federal Communications Commission over the use of curse words on the airwaves. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:08 pm
Stock markets across the globe have slumped in reaction to the emergency rescue of Bear Stearns. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 2:07 pm
#7) "Get minty fresh." Brush your teeth; gargle with mouthwash. "When you have a fresh, clean mouth, you don't want to mess it up," says Molly Gee, RD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Source: Digg | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:59 pm
Starting Monday, new garbage disposals are banned in Raleigh, N.C. Officials say the appliances allow grease to accumulate in sewers, leading to sewage spills. But a lot of homeowners, and a company that makes the kitchen appliances, consider the ban invasive and misdirected.
Torrent.is went to court this week and the site now faces a permanent shutdown and the possibility that they will have to compensate copyright owners. Since nearly 10% of Iceland’s population were members, Torrent.is was by far the most popular BitTorrent tracker in the country. Source: Digg | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:50 pm
Over the years, living in space has forced astronauts to make a few concessions to things you would not give a second thought about when staying at a Holiday Inn. Source: Digg | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:48 pm
Southeast Asia's largest bank instructed traders not to do business with the bank but later took back those instructions, according to a Dow Jones report
Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee says that he is distressed by reports of violence from Tibet. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:41 pm
Heather Mills has been awarded £24.3 million in a divorce settlement from former Beatle Paul McCartney but has vowed to appeal the publication of the judge's summary. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:41 pm
Heather Mills has been awarded £24.3 million in a divorce settlement from former Beatle Paul McCartney but has vowed to appeal the publication of the judge's summary. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:41 pm
China's crackdown on demonstrators in Tibet has prompted international condemnation and a call for a boycott of this summer's Beijing Olympics.Protesters took to the streets to voice their anger in cities around the world. Some of the protests became violent and in India, Australia and China, police moved in to disperse crowds. Source: Digg | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:36 pm
Taiwan actress Shu Qi attends the red carpet of the Asian Film Awards as part of the event at Hong Kong International Film Festival in Hong Kong Monday, March 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:30 pm
Palestinian women talk to an Egyptian soldier through a fence as they take part in a protest near the border between Egypt and Gaza, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, March 17, 2008. Palestinians... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:21 pm
An unidentified woman is weighed as part of the test procedure for Tuberculosis at a clinic in Langa, South Africa, Monday, March 17, 2008. World Tuberculosis Day is celebrated Monday. (AP Photo/Schalk... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:21 pm
After splitting up from his wife, Ian Usher realised that life had lost some
of its charm. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:19 pm
Golfer Tiger Woods has won the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one shot. It extends his PGA Tour win streak to five and keeps his perfect season intact. Woods is now tied for third place on the all-time win list with one of the greats, Ben Hogan.
After a regular season of highs and lows for college basketball teams around the country, the NCAA on Sunday gave 65 teams the opportunity to compete for the ultimate high -- a national championship. Some are consensus front-runners to go all the way, while others hope to play the lead in this year's Cinderella story.
An Iraqi policewoman parades with the national flag during a graduation ceremony in Karbala on March 13. An opinion poll has indicated that Iraqis are more optimistic about their lives and the violence-scarred... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:04 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
US banking
giant JPMorgan Chase prepared Monday to take over crisis-hit
investment bank Bear Stearns for 236 million dollars, just a
fraction of what it worth only last week, as a credit crunch
rocked Wall Street. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:02 pm
LONDON (AFP) -
World
equity markets dived on Monday as investors dumped both
stocks and the dollar on fears more US banks could be
vulnerable to the credit crisis that sank Bear Stearns. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:59 pm
JP Morgan Chase will acquire the troubled investment bank Bear Stearns at the fire-sale price of $2 a share, a deal quickly approved over the weekend by the Federal Reserve, which also approved a cut in its emergency lending rate to financial institutions by a quarter-point to 3.25 percent. The moves stirred fear in foreign markets.
UN police withdraw from a Serb stronghold in Kosovo after violent clashes with protesters. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:57 pm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran dismissed Western criticism of its parliamentary elections, pointing Monday to 60 percent turnout in an election that saw conservatives win a majority, although reformists were largely barred.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:49 pm
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA (AFP) -
UN police
were forced to withdraw Monday from the Serbian half of this
flashpoint Kosovo town after coming under attack as they
stormed a courthouse occupied by Serbs opposed to independence. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:43 pm
BEIJING (AFP) -
China
faced mounting global pressure over Tibet on Monday amid
exiles' claims that hundreds of people may have died in a
crackdown on protesters, even though Beijing denied using
deadly force. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:41 pm
Israel and Germany strengthen bilateral ties, as German leaders visit to mark Israel's 60th anniversary. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:39 pm
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide car bomber attacked a group of international troops in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing three NATO troops and four Afghans, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:37 pm
<a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3568968.ece">Full
text: the divorce judgment</a> | <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3569313.ece">Mills
rant outside court</a> Source: Top stories from Times Online | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:29 pm
The New Green Exchange, part of the New York Mercantile Exchange, launches Monday with an offering of futures contracts tied to the cost of pollution in Europe. A company can reduce its carbon emissions and then make some cash by selling the right to pollute to another company.
Buddhist monks from Tibet gather outside Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall along with others for a candlelight vigil Monday, March 17, 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan. China's crackdown on protest in the Himalayan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:04 pm
In this image made available Monday March 17, 2008 by Ringside Events, Swedish drummer Ola Brunkert gestures during a show in Uppsala, Sweden, March 27, 2007. Brunkert, a former drummer for the Swedish... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
China's appointed governor of Tibet says 16 people have died in violence that started in the region's capital. The government blames the bloodshed squarely on "thugs" acting on the Dalai Lama's orders. Exile groups say as many as 80 have been killed.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) -
Pakistan's
new parliament met for the first time on Monday, with
opponents of US-backed President Pervez Musharraf vowing to
end his "dictatorship" after trouncing his allies in elections. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Mar 2008 | 11:54 am
Pakistan's new National Assembly was sworn in to office Monday. It's the first session since opposition parties won last month's parliamentary elections in a landslide over allies of President Pervez Musharraf.
French police arrest 15 people in raids near Paris where five policemen were attacked earlier in March. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 11:19 am
Tibet's governor promised leniency to anti-Chinese protesters who turned themselves in before the end of Monday and harsh consequences for those who don't while troops fanned out to quell sympathy protests that have spread to 3 neighboring provinces. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Mar 2008 | 11:07 am
About 100 United Nations police and NATO troops have clashed with Serb protesters after storming into a courthouse occupied for days by the protesters. It is the biggest outbreak of violence since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
An Indonesian man waits by his scales for customers to sell him gold at his stall outside a pawnshop Monday March 17, 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia. With gold futures soaring, more people are digging in their... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Mar 2008 | 10:56 am
An arrest warrant is issued for a Ugandan businessman implicated in a nitric acid leak in Mombasa. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
Sir Paul McCartney will today learn how much of his fortune will go to his estranged wife, at the end of one of the most acrimonious divorce battles in recent history. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
PARIS (AP) -- French voters dealt a stinging warning to President Nicolas Sarkozy by throwing his party out of office in a string of towns and cities, a ballot box setback that prompted immediate promises of reinvigorated reforms from his government.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 17 Mar 2008 | 10:48 am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Iraqis are finding their lives more hopeful but give the United States little credit for the improvement, an international media poll finds.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 17 Mar 2008 | 10:38 am
GENEVA (AFP) -
Five years
after the US-led invasion, Iraq faces a major humanitarian
crisis, with law and order and economic recovery a distant
prospect, international aid and human rights groups said Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Mar 2008 | 10:36 am
A suicide car bomber has attacked a NATO military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing three civilians and at least two international soldiers, according to Afghan and Danish officials.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police carried out a dragnet following a bomb attack on Saturday night that killed a Turkish woman and wounded four FBI agents among several other people dining at a Italian restaurant in Islamabad.
<a href="http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3568040.ece">China
blocks internet access over coverage of protests</a> Source: Top stories from Times Online | 17 Mar 2008 | 9:38 am
The Chinese authorities have hit back at claims of brutality against demonstrators in Tibet by claiming knife-wielding protesters have been mutilating bystanders by cutting off their ears.. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 9:11 am
The governor of Tibet has threatened a "harsh" response to anti-Chinese protestors who fail to surrender themselves to the authorities today, as violent clashes over Beijing's rule in Tibet spread to neighbouring provinces. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 8:40 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 | 17 Mar 2008 | 7:40 am
Doctors were unable to save two-year-old Brandon Davis after he was brought to Birmingham Children’s Hospital after taking the liquid drug last week. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 7:38 am
American shares plunged nearly 200 points in early trading today as investors
offloaded stock after the Federal Reserve's surprise rate cut and fears grew
that another bank could hit the skids following Bear Stearns's emergency
takeover by JP Morgan Chase. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 17 Mar 2008 | 7:31 am
USC and O.J. Mayo will face Kansas State and Michael Beasley in the Midwest, where Cal State Fullerton will take on Big Ten champion Wisconsin.
North Carolina earned the No. 1 overall seeding in the 65-team NCAA tournament field announced Sunday, with Memphis, UCLA and Kansas the other top-seeded teams.
A bus tour of infamous gangster sights illustrates the city's bloody history. A mob museum is in the works.
Las Vegas, a city forged on gambling, booze and flesh, has been strangely reluctant -- and perhaps a little nervous -- to make money off its mob roots. Until now.
Carolyn Strauss is in discussions about taking on a new role at the cable channel, a source says.
HBO said Sunday that Entertainment President Carolyn Strauss was leaving her post at the premium cable channel, where she helped develop programs such as "The Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under" and foster an environment that attracted top-notch creative talent.
Angelyne, Monty Hall and Gary Owens are the front-runners to succeed Johnny Grant as Tinseltown's honorary mayor. They'll be seeing stars -- and unveiling them.
Bodacious billboard queen Angelyne wants to become the next star of Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
The N.Y. senator speaks in Washington today while the one from Illinois heads to Pennsylvania.
Strategists for the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton exchanged calculated barbs Sunday over accountability and ethics and who was engaging in personal attacks.
It aids a fire sale of Bear Stearns at $2 a share, cuts a key rate and broadens lending to investment houses.
NEW YORK — The Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps Sunday to bolster investors' shaken confidence, opening a lending window to securities firms, slicing a key interest rate and backing with $30 billion in emergency funds the bargain-basement purchase of ailing Bear Stearns Cos. by rival JPMorgan Chase & Co.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barring some unexpected boardroom generosity by JPMorgan Chase & Co, executives at Bear Stearns Cos may find that their walking away money has been crunched by the credit crisis.
How much longer will the Iraq War continue? For years, say many commanders and military analysts. In fact, the U.S. may be only at the mid-point of its involvement in a conflict begun when President Bush ordered the invasion in 2003.
As violence continues to spread across Iraq, Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a supporter of President Bush's war, made a surprise fact-finding trip to Iraq, for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials.
The crew of the NASA space shuttle Endeavour has gone on the second space walk of their current mission.
Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station for seven hours to assemble Canadian-built mechanical maintenance... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Mar 2008 | 1:05 am
More than a thousand village shops are facing the threat of closure over "draconian rules" that will ban them from offering rival postal services after their own Post Office sections are shut down. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Chinese troops moved to tackle more unrest in ethnic Tibetan enclaves on Monday, as a deadline loomed for "troublemakers" who took part in protests against Chinese rule in Lhasa that some say killed up to 80 people.
Lhasa, capital... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station put their new mechanical maintenance man through a trial workout on Sunday, testing the joints on its gangly arms while crewmates prepared for another spacewalk to get the robot ready... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:59 pm
CANBERRA - The wreckage of HMAS Sydney, sunk off the West Australian coast during World War II, has been found, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced today.
The Sydney's entire crew of 645 went down with the ship in the Indian Ocean... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 11:00 pm
In Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the faithful gather at the beginning of the Easter season. Hundreds came to celebrate Palm Sunday, but Israeli travel restrictions in the West Bank, and a separation barrier, meant there were... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:30 pm
CAIRO - Twenty-two Egyptians were killed and 13 injured on Sunday when a police transport truck loaded with conscripts collided with a truck on a highway to Alexandria, a security source said.
The source said the dead included... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:18 pm
They had hangovers from hell in Dewsbury Moor, England, yesterday, after a wild street party to celebrate the rescue of Shannon Matthews.
And with those throbbing heads came whispers, accusations and questions. Even as her mother,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 10:00 pm
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has rejected the plea for mercy of an Indian convicted of spying and the man will be hanged on April 1, a senior prison officer in Lahore said on Sunday.
Sarabjit Singh was sentenced to death... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:46 pm
Hundreds of youngsters gatecrashed a private 18th birthday party in Devon after hearing about it on the radio and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage, the owner's wife was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Rebecca Brooks told... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:45 pm
DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- The Dalai Lama called Sunday for his followers to protest peacefully against Chinese rule but said he would not order them to end demonstrations that have erupted into violence in Tibet and neighboring provinces.... Source: AP Top International News At 11:08 ... | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:40 pm
In Chad, Janjaweed militia from Sudan killed 100 elephants in one afternoon in Kenya, Somali warlords armed with rocket-propelled grenades killed four wildlife rangers during a bloody raid on herds in the Tana Delta in Democratic... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Mar 2008 | 9:30 pm
Four British Broadcasting Corp. journalists were among seven men arrested in Ireland in connection with an investigation into paramilitary activity, the BBC said Sunday. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 5:52 pm
Iranian leaders said Sunday their victory in parliamentary elections showed voters' defiance of the West after allies of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the largest share. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 5:45 pm
The International Olympic Committee wants a peaceful end to the violence in Tibet, and opposes an Olympic boycott. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 5:20 pm
The wreck of battle cruiser HMAS Sydney has been found off western Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Monday, ending one of the country's most enduring maritime mysteries. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Violence in Tibet spilled over into neighboring Chinese provinces Sunday, while the Dalai Lama warned Tibet faced “cultural genocide” and appealed to the world for help.
More than a thousand people turned out Sunday to remember the victims of one of the most notorious chapters of the Vietnam War. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 4:32 pm
Pope Benedict XVI denounced the 5-year-old Iraqi war and issued one of his strongest appeals for peace in the country Sunday, days after the kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul was found dead. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 4:01 pm
A U.S. warplane fired missiles Sunday at a house in a Pakistani tribal area near the Afghan border known as a haven for Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters; U.S confirms that a bombing in Islamabad wounded 4 FBI agents. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 3:14 pm
Tens of thousands of Colombians and Venezuelans flocked to a border bridge on Sunday for a free concert that Grammy-winning rocker Juanes organized to help heal the worst crisis in Andean relations in decades. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 2:48 pm
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: FOXNews.com | 16 Mar 2008 | 2:42 pm
AP - Paul McCartney was ordered Monday to pay Heather Mills $48.6 million to settle their divorce.
AP - Lt. Gov. David Paterson prepared to take over Monday for Gov. Eliot Spitzer, whose vow as he took office of "Day One, Everything Changes," was unraveled a week ago by revelations of a prostitution scandal.
Reuters - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on
Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a
"successful endeavor," pointing to security and political
progress on a visit ahead of the fifth anniversary of the war.
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters)- A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc
stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial
stocks on Monday on fears that few banks are safe from
deepening market turmoil.
Reuters - A British court ordered former Beatle
Paul McCartney on Monday to pay his estranged wife Heather
Mills 24.3 million pounds ($48.7 million) after an acrimonious
divorce battle.
AP - Wall Street clawed back from sharp losses Monday, with investors snapping up bargain stocks after JPMorgan Chase & Co. bought stricken Bear Stearns & Co. in a deal backed by the government. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 200 points in the early going, fluctuated in and out of positive territory.
AP - The Federal Reserve is urgently moving to contain a deepening credit crisis and restore confidence in panicked financial markets by becoming a lender of last resort for Wall Street investment houses, which were able to secure short-term emergency loans beginning Monday.
Reuters - The Dow Jones industrial average
briefly turned positive in volatile trade on Monday as shares
of JPMorgan Chase led advancers after the bank bought
troubled Wall Street firm Bear Stearns at a fire sale
price.
AP - Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain vowed in meetings with Iraq's prime minister Monday that the U.S. would maintain a long-term military presence in Iraq until al-Qaida is defeated there.
Reuters - China on Monday denounced attacks on
its embassies by pro-Tibetan activists hours before a deadline
for rioters in Lhasa to turn themselves in and said it would do
all in its power to protect its territorial integrity.
Violence in Tibet spilled over into neighboring Chinese provinces Sunday, while the Dalai Lama warned Tibet faced “cultural genocide” and appealed to the world for help.