(Kyodo) _ New York oil and gold prices gained ground early Tuesday, helped by strong expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut a key rate deeply later in the day, leading to the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:30 pm
Iraq's main Sunni bloc boycotted a Tuesday conference aimed at reconciling the nation's sectarian groups, a sign of the deep schisms still facing this country. The Sunni Iraqi... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:26 pm
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali pirates released a Danish-owned tugboat they had held for ransom for more than a month, local officials said today.
The British captain, Irish...
(Kyodo) _ Japan plans to ask the United States to make clear that the Japanese side will have the authority to arrest U.S. soldiers during joint patrols by Japanese police and U.S. forces Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:25 pm
France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the European Union should consider boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics if violence continues in Tibet. The head of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:19 pm
WASHINGTON - Athletic shoe and apparel maker Reebok has agreed to pay a $1 million fine for importing and distributing charm bracelets that contained toxic levels of lead...
LONDON - Heather Mills was a less than candid court witness whose $250 million divorce claim was exorbitant, a judge said in his ruling on her divorce from Paul McCartney.
The...
NEW YORK, March 18 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) Two major U.S. investment banks -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. -- on Tuesday reported sharp drops of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:17 pm
So Obama claims he was not sitting in the church when Rev. Jeremiah Wright made all his controversial statements. Is that believable? Did Obama get a preview of upcoming sermons...
French NATO troops fired warning shots and a shock grenade Tuesday to stave off stone-hurling Serbs in a northern Kosovo town where clashes between Serb demonstrators and international forces a day before killed a Ukrainian policeman. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:14 pm
TOKYO, March 18 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING MORE INFO) Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda urged Japan's top currency official Tuesday to communicate well with overseas monetary authorities amid ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:13 pm
(Kyodo) _ Two major U.S. investment banks -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. -- on Tuesday reported sharp drops of more than 50 percent in their net earnings... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:12 pm
DHARMSALA, India - The Dalai Lama threatened today to step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Frank J. Williams is well prepared for his role as chief judge of a special appeals court designed to decide legal issues stemming from the detention of...
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella has died. Minghella's agent Judy Daish confirmed the director's death. Further details were not immediately available Tuesday. Minghella, who... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:05 pm
TOKYO, March 18 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING. ADDING INFO) The government on Tuesday offered another former top Finance Ministry bureaucrat, Koji Tanami, as nominee for the post of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 1:04 pm
SAN'A, Yemen - A mortar shell exploded today by a high school next to the American embassy, killing one Yemeni guard and wounding three students and three other guards,...
Princess Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, told of taking a bloodstained ring from her body after the Paris car crash that killed her in 1997, the butler's former bodyguard said Monday. Burrell denied the claim. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:57 pm
My next-door neighbor has a 12-year-old retriever. The poor dog doesn't run too well anymore. It occasionally will track down and flush out a piece of barbecued chicken...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING WITH MITARAI'S COMMENTS) Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the influential Japan Business Federation, on Tuesday urged an immediate end to the political wrangling... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:48 pm
The US Treasury boss Hank Paulson says the US is in a downturn as the Fed prepares to slash interest rates to 2%. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:40 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. home building projects started in February fell by 0.6 percent to a higher-than-expected annual rate while building permit activity, a sign of future construction plans, dropped off 7.8 percent, a government report on Tuesday showed.
AP - Wholesale prices rose again in February as another hefty increase in energy costs offset falling food prices. Outside of food and energy, prices shot up at the fastest pace in 15 months.
LONDON (AFP) -
World
stock markets rallied sharply on Tuesday before a widely
expected sharp cut in US interest rates by the Federal
Reserve to fight the global credit crisis which sank Bear
Stearns, dealers said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:37 pm
State Sen. Mark Montigny has stockpiled more campaign cash than anyone else on Beacon Hill, a war chest he regularly taps for lavish meals, hotels and other travel-related...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the Dalai Lama on Tuesday of orchestrating Tibetan riots to wreck Beijing's Olympic Games, but the exiled spiritual leader denied the charge and vowed to stand down if the violence spiraled out of control.
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- A mortar shell exploded Tuesday by a high school next to the American embassy, killing one Yemeni guard and wounding three students and three other guards, an Interior Ministry official said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:33 pm
The judge who heard the Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney divorce case has said that the former model's evidence was "not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid. Overall she was a less than impressive witness." Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:33 pm
AFP - World stock markets rallied sharply on Tuesday before a widely expected sharp cut in US interest rates by the Federal Reserve to fight the global credit crisis which sank Bear Stearns, dealers said.
Reuters - After years of living large, U.S.
households are finally learning what financial experts thought
they never would: to live within their means.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - After years of living large, U.S. households are finally learning what financial experts thought they never would: to live within their means.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama is seeking to distance himself from "stupid statements" by his longtime pastor that have aggravated racial divisions in the contentious Democratic primary battle. He is calling for both sides to tone down their rhetoric.
Barack Obama has gained the support of about 60 superdelegates in the last month while Hillary Rodham Clinton added more than half as many. Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:27 pm
LONDON (AP) -- A British court ruled Tuesday that the full legal ruling on the divorce of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills should be published.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:25 pm
PARIS (AFP) -
Rogue
trader Jerome Kerviel was freed on bail Tuesday while French
investigators continue their probe into his role in the
biggest ever bank trading scam, the prosecutor's office said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:25 pm
A rabbi has been wounded in a stabbing attack in the Old City area of East Jerusalem, Israeli police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:24 pm
AP - The Federal Reserve is expected to aggressively lower interest rates in its intensified battle against the credit crisis and spreading economic weakness. The question is whether all of the effort will turn the tide.
DHARAMSHALA (AFP) -
The Dalai
Lama vowed Tuesday he would resign as leader of Tibet's
exiles if violence back home worsened, just hours before his
aides said 19 people were killed in new demonstrations. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:19 pm
Reuters - Basic disagreements remain between
Moscow and Washington over U.S. plans for a missile defence
shield, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, quoting a
source close to talks between the two countries' foreign and
defense ministers.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Basic disagreements remain between Moscow and Washington over U.S. plans for a missile defence shield, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, quoting a source close to talks between the two countries' foreign and defense ministers.
The issue of race has been present throughout the contest for the Democratic nomination, and it's bubbling to the surface as the comments of Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, have come under scrutiny. Today in Philadelphia, Obama will give a key speech in which he's expected to address the comments.
AFP - The Dalai Lama vowed Tuesday he would resign as leader of Tibet's exiles if violence back home worsened, just hours before his aides said 19 people were killed in new demonstrations.
Reuters - Presidential candidate Barack
Obama will seek to quell a controversy over inflammatory
rhetoric by his former pastor in a speech on Tuesday on the
issue of race.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama will seek to quell a controversy over inflammatory rhetoric by his former pastor in a speech on Tuesday on the issue of race.
Tanzania's ruling party agrees to share power with the opposition on the islands of Zanzibar, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:13 pm
An employee takes a nap in a nap pod which blocks out light and sound at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:13 pm
The 64 teams in the women's NCAA basketball tournament have been announced. Connecticut is the top overall seed, with Tennessee, North Carolina and Maryland taking other top spots in the regional draw. The games begin Saturday.
Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court considers on
Tuesday a landmark legal battle over gun rights, taking up for
the first time in nearly 70 years whether Americans have the
right to keep and bear arms.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court considers on Tuesday a landmark legal battle over gun rights, taking up for the first time in nearly 70 years whether Americans have the right to keep and bear arms.
A reproduction in chocolate of the famous 'Last Supper' painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is seen in a shop window display in downtown Milan, Italy, Tuesday, March 18 , 2008. Christians celebrate Easter this... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:07 pm
A mother with her daughter pass a pile of trash during the twelfth day of a strike by municipal workers in Athens, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. The strike has left thousands of tons of uncollected trash on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:06 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A conference to reconcile Iraq's warring political groups began to unravel even before it got under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bloc pulling out and protesting it had not been properly invited.
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
The US
Federal Reserve could cut interest rates by as much as one
percentage point on Tuesday in a drastic effort to halt a
mushrooming financial crisis, analysts say. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:04 pm
Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. It is the last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line. Offering satire on all aspects of American life and pop culture, the monthly publication deflates stuffed shirts and pokes fun at common frailties. Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:02 pm
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, organised recent unrest in Lhasa. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:02 pm
A Palestinian attaches a sign onto one of 50 graves symbolizing factories which closed recently in the Gaza Strip following Israeli sanctions, set up by protesters in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2008... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
CEO of the German car manufacturer BMW, Norbert Reithofer, gestures, during the annual balance press conference in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. Chief executive Reithofer, speaking... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:59 am
As the national finance chairman for Sen. Obama's campaign, Penny Pritzker has become a powerful force in the primaries. Over the past year, she and her team have raised more than $188 million- the largest sum ever amassed for a primary race. Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:57 am
Reuters - A conference to reconcile Iraq's
warring political groups began to unravel even before it got
under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bloc
pulling out and protesting it had not been properly invited.
Kenya's parliament debates bills bringing the opposition into government in a deal to end post-election violence. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
Five years of occupation have destroyed Iraq as a country. Baghdad is a collection of hostile Sunni and Shia ghettoes divided by high concrete walls. Different districts even have different national flags. The fall in the death rate is partly because ethnic cleansing has done its grim work and in much of Baghdad there are no mixed areas left. Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
US Vice President Dick Cheney walks with Massoud Barzani, president of Iraq's northern Kurdish administration. Cheney urged Barzani to help forge a long-term US-Iraq security agreement and pass laws seen... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:52 am
The Greek Orthodox Church opposes government plans to give more rights to unmarried couples. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:49 am
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrive for a ministerial cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 17. Merkel was to address Israel's parliament as she wrapped up a visit... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:48 am
US presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama gives a speech in Monaca, Pennsylvania on March 17. Obama was expected to take on directly the testy issue of race in politics in a major address aimed at distancing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:45 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Democrat
Barack Obama was expected Tuesday to take on directly the
testy issue of race in politics in a major address aimed at
distancing himself from the inflammatory statements by his
former pastor. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:45 am
The Supreme Court considers Washington DC's gun laws, in a landmark case about Americans' right to bear arms. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:43 am
Cable news focuses much of its time on 3/4 topics a day and relies on wires and brief “tell stories” for much of the rest of the news. There's 2 distinct parts to a cable day, daytime is more focused on crime/disaster where nighttime increasingly is more about topics that spark controversy and suit the particular audience that tunes in. Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:42 am
Anna Nicole Smith was concerned about her adult son's friends and drug use before he died, though she also once apparently gave him an Ecstasy pill, a former boyfriend of the now-deceased Playboy playmate testified Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:40 am
Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:40 am
The top U.S. and Russian national security ministers pledged cooperation Tuesday as the two nations aired disagreements over a planned U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe that has angered Russia. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
Previously unknown details of Sir Paul McCartney's divorce settlement are to be made public, after a court refused Heather Mills's application for secrecy. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
The full judgment in Sir Paul McCartney’s divorce battle with Heather Mills is
to be made public today after the former model’s application for an appeal
was refused. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:37 am
Jenna Jameson made a smooth transition from porn princess to PETA spokeswoman last week as she unveiled her latest "Pleather Yourself" campaign to promote wearing of fake leather. "I saw her just the other day and she just blew me away. Charlize is so sexy; I would totally love for her to go naked. I'd die for that," said Jameson of the campaign. Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:37 am
The stunning collapse of Bear Stearns has many investors asking themselves: is this the bottom? The answer is that no one — not even Fed or Treasury officials — has any idea. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:32 am
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to slash interest rates by as much as a whole percentage point at its policy meeting later on Tuesday as investors warily await investment bank results that could aggravate fears of a full-blown markets crisis.
DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:30 am
A Yemeni Interior Ministry official says one Yemeni guard has been killed in an explosion near the U.S. embassy in the capital of San'a. Other local guards and some schoolchildren also have been wounded. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:30 am
A mortar shell exploded Tuesday by a high school next to the American embassy, killing one Yemeni guard and wounding three students and three other guards, an Interior Ministry official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
Scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a new rare type of haemo-globin. Haemoglobin transports oxygen in the red blood corpuscles. When bound to oxygen it changes colour. The new haemoglobin type appears optically to be transporting little oxygen. Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
For the first time in nearly 70 years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday takes up whether the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees individuals the right to bear arms. The case has aroused huge interest among citizens and politicians alike, and has divided even the president and vice president.
Britain's Northern Rock bank said Tuesday it plans to cut its staff by one-third as it downsizes its asset base by half and attempts to phase out financial support from the government within four years. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:13 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will open its latest generation of energy-efficient test stores this week with a Las Vegas Supercenter that uses new cooling technology to cut overall energy use by up to 45 percent. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:09 am
A senior Indian policeman, Ravi Kant Sharma, is found guilty of murdering an Indian Express journalist. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:06 am
A French court Tuesday ordered the release of a Societe Generale trader accused of causing billions in losses through rogue trades. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:05 am
An Iraqi health official says the death toll in Monday's bombing in Karbala has risen to 52. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:03 am
A British police officer holds a taser gun during a training session. Switzerland's parliament has approved the use by police of Taser stun guns when forcibly deporting foreigners from the country, Swiss... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:03 am
Sleep deprivation has been a watchword in health discussions in recent years, but a new analysis overturns the idea that we're all zombies. Americans get about 8 hours of sleep a night, possibly more in recent years, according to the University of Maryland study, which counters annual polls conducted by the non-profit National Sleep Foundation . . Source: Digg | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:02 am
The Dalai Lama threatened today to step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control.
The Federal Reserve meets Tuesday to decide whether to lower a key interest rate. Over the weekend, the central bank approved a cut in its emergency lending rate to financial institutions and became a lender of last resort for investment houses to begin securing short-term emergency loans.
As prosecutors tell it, two women may have gotten away with driving over one homeless man to collect on the insurance policies they coaxed him into signing. But then they drove over a second one. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:57 am
Northern Rock, the Government-owned mortgage lender, today admitted it would
cut a third of its staff and reduce mortgage assets by half, leaving current
borrowers out in the cold when their deals expire. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:55 am
A London court suspends an order freezing assets of Venezuela's state oil firm in a dispute with ExxonMobil. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:52 am
A 39-year-old man was remanded in custody this morning after appearing in
court charged with the kidnap and false imprisonment of Shannon Matthews. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:52 am
A burned vehicle is seen near the courthouse in the Serb-populated part of the flashpoint Kosovo town of Mitrovica. A UN policeman in Kosovo has died of injuries suffered in rioting by Serbs, police have... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
Pakistan's state news agency says a roadside bomb has struck an oil tanker carrying fuel for U.S.-led coalition forces in neighboring Afghanistan. No one was hurt. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:40 am
Egyptian police on Tuesday fatally shot a Sudanese woman and arrested a second one who was with an infant as they tried to cross into Israel, a security official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:29 am
A lawyer for a suspected Pakistani militant convicted in a bomb attack that killed a U.S. diplomat says his client has appealed his death sentence. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:27 am
US Vice President Dick Cheney walks with Massud Barzani, president of Iraq's northern Kurdish administration. The two are expected to hold talks on Turkish operations against rebel Kurds holed up in northern... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:24 am
The new Governor of New York State has admitted that both he and his wife had
extra-marital affairs when their marriage went through a rocky patch several
years ago. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:22 am
The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control.
Biodiesel is caught in the middle of two tough financial developments -- the credit crisis and high commodity prices. Both are helping to make biodiesel more expensive than regular diesel. What do the high prices mean for the industry?
A Ukrainian policeman has died of injuries from clashes between Serb demonstrators and international forces in Kosovo, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
GENEVA (AFP) -
Iraqis are
still fleeing their country five years after the US-led
invasion and top the list of asylum seekers in the
industrialised world, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:26 am
BEIJING (AFP) -
Taming
inflation while ensuring steady economic growth is China's
top priority, but mounting pressures will make targets hard
to achieve, Premier Wen Jiabao told reporters on Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:26 am
Just hours after he received a standing ovation from lawmakers chanting his name, New York's newly sworn governor was answering questions about straying from his own marriage.
Faced with what his advisers acknowledged was a major test to his candidacy, Senator Barack Obama sought on Monday to contain the damage from incendiary comments made by his pastor and prepared to address the issue of race more directly than at any other moment of his presidential campaign. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:28 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times has linked two former associates of rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs to a 1994 assault on singer Tupac Shakur and suggested Combs knew of the attack in advance. Combs called the story "a lie."
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The party of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday nominated a close associate of her widower to be parliament's first female speaker, but divisions remained over who should be the next prime minister.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:22 am
A Monroe County sheriff's detective on a stakeout to catch an arsonist arrested the suspect as he tried to steal gas from the officer's cruiser. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 7:48 am
North Korea said Tuesday it has agreed with the United States to continue working to resolve a stalemate in international nuclear negotiations over the North's promise to fully declare its nuclear weapons programs. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 7:32 am
China's Premier Wen Jiabao has blamed the Dalai Lama for orchestrating riots in Tibet that have left at least 16 people dead in the worst violence there for two decades. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 7:31 am
China's Premier Wen Jiabao has blamed the Dalai Lama for orchestrating riots in Tibet that have left at least 16 people dead in the worst violence there for two decades. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 7:31 am
China's Premier Wen Jiabao has blamed the Dalai Lama for orchestrating riots in Tibet that have left at least 16 people dead in the worst violence there for two decades. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 7:31 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roland Arnall, founder of subprime pioneer Ameriquest Mortgage Co, died of cancer on Monday morning in Los Angeles, his family said in a statement.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 49 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 18 Mar 2008 | 7:01 am
Austerity measures may not be enough, officials say.
A clearer -- and more ominous -- picture emerged Monday of school districts' struggles to balance their budgets in preparation for a potential $4.8-billion state funding shortfall.
Also a philanthropist and diplomat, he created a company that popularized the risky mortgages and was accused of abuses.
Billionaire Roland E. Arnall, whose widespread philanthropy and extraordinary political friendships stood in contrast to repeated investigations into alleged lending abuses at his giant subprime company, Ameriquest Mortgage Co., died Monday. The longtime Holmby Hills resident was 68.
Worried investors watch the dollar weaken further and wonder if U.S. moves can avert a worldwide financial collapse. Japan's traders in turmoil.
Stocks dropped worldwide Monday as investors fretted about the dollar's continuing fall and questioned whether the Federal Reserve's cut in lending rates and the buyout of Wall Street brokerage Bear Stearns Cos. would avert a global financial calamity.
Worried about your tumbling portfolio? The worst decision is a rash one. Think long-term.
Amid a crashing U.S. dollar, a roller-coaster stock market, a massive takeover of one of the nation's largest brokerage firms and an economy teetering on the brink of recession, what's an individual investor to do? What should you expect in today's troubling market? Are there wise moves to make now? Some questions and answers:
Some officers criticize its call to ease rigorous training so women can join and to reduce reliance on using force.
A panel of law enforcement experts convened by Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton to examine the department's elite SWAT unit concluded in an undisclosed report that the rigorous testing to get into the unit should be changed to make it more open to women, called for tighter supervision and criticized officers for relying too heavily on force over negotiations.
McCain, Clinton and Obama offer few specifics for handling the recent upheaval. The new focus on the issue may work to the Democrats' advantage.
For months, the top presidential candidates have focused on showing a war-weary public that they have what it takes to be the next commander in chief. But on Monday, as the Iraq war entered its sixth year, they faced a test with far more relevance to the everyday lives of Americans: whether they could serve as economist in chief.
Where's that power pole? And the guy who said he photographed a flying saucer above it? Two down-to-earth private eyes want to know.
Private eye T.K. Davis has worked his share of oddball cases. Once he tracked down a one-armed woman wanted for child endangerment. He staked out a backyard to catch a guy throwing dirt clods into a pool. When you make your living answering life's mysterious questions at $100 an hour, you take a few calls out of the blue.
BRISBANE - A Singaporean man swallowed more than A$500,000 ($581,000) worth of heroin and then tried to smuggle it into Australia, a court has been told.
The Supreme Court in Brisbane was told Ng Teck Boon, 40, had 91 packets of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Mar 2008 | 5:18 am
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) -- Serb demonstrators attacked international peacekeepers with rocks, grenades and Molotov cocktails Monday, setting off the worst violence in Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia last month.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 18 Mar 2008 | 5:14 am
Patients are traveling to China to receive experimental stem-cell treatments not offered in the United States. One company claims it has restored vision to blind children, raising controversy in both China and the U.S.
LONDON (AP) -- China's reputation is at stake in the confrontation over Tibet, a senior British diplomat said Monday, the strongest reaction from a Western government so far to last week's violence.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 18 Mar 2008 | 4:33 am
A Chinese-born New Zealander is facing drugs charges in China which could put him in prison for up to 14 years.
The man had been arrested but the inquiry into the allegations was not complete, said New Zealand police liaison officer... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Mar 2008 | 2:32 am
NEW YORK - American athletes will definitely compete at the Beijing Olympics despite recent violence in Tibet and calls for a boycott, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) said on Monday.
"There is absolutely no consideration... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Mar 2008 | 2:14 am
Facilitating an illegal adoption which led to a baby being taken to Australia has resulted in suspension for a Christchurch lawyer.
Susan Barbara Lewis, 54, a family law specialist, wrongly advised an 18-year-old woman who wanted... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:41 am
China's kid rockers want to debut to the world at Beijing Olympics.
Meet '20088'. Each one of these pint-sized rockers turn eight this year. Hence the name. And what they want to do is debut to the world at the Beijing Olympics.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
Shannon Matthews was kept unaware of the massive search for her as she was held captive in a dingy flat for 24 days, it has been disclosed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Schools are becoming "Orwellian" societies where CCTV cameras in classrooms monitor pupil behaviour and staff performance, teachers will warn today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
China appeared to have crushed demonstrations in Tibet after it poured troops onto the streets of Lhasa, rounded up scores of people and warned of a worse fate for anyone who carried on protesting. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Charles Manson and his murderous sixties cult may have killed more people than was previously thought, burying the bodies on his former ranch, according to a new study by forensics experts. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Hillary Clinton was under attack from two fronts yesterday as both John McCain and Barack Obama lambasted her Iraq policy on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the invasion to oust Saddam Hussein. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
As one of Europe's most active diplomatic players, Ilkka Kanerva, the Finnish
Foreign Minister, frequently reaches for his Nokia to mediate in world
affairs. Indeed, his phone never stops ringing. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Clinton charged on Monday the Iraq war may cost Americans $1 trillion and add strain to the sagging U.S. economy as she made her case for a prompt U.S. troop pullout from a war "we cannot win."
This... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Mar 2008 | 11:52 pm
CANBERRA - Remote-controlled cameras mounted on a submersible sled will next week dive almost 2.5km beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean in a bid to solve Australia's greatest maritime mystery.
Their target will be the World... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Mar 2008 | 11:30 pm
As in the wilderness, so in politics: don't mess with grizzly bears. That lesson has just been learned the hard way by someone you would have thought was pretty good at looking after himself.
After all, John McCain survived five... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Mar 2008 | 11:16 pm
PORT OF SPAIN - No governments have called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games over China's crackdown on protests in Tibet, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said today.
"There have been absolutely... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Mar 2008 | 11:11 pm
The Federal Reserve's decision to extend credit to the ailing investment bank Bear Stearns is an unprecedented move. And the Fed took additional steps to address a crisis of confidence on Wall Street.
BEIJING - Ethnic Tibetan students staged a candle-lit vigil in Beijing today, saying it was to pray for the dead, after authorities warned anti-Chinese rioters in the Tibetan capital to surrender.
Police kept reporters well away... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Mar 2008 | 10:34 pm
Facing strong opposition, Florida Democrats today abandoned plans to hold a do-over presidential primary with a mail-in vote and threw the delegate dispute into the lap of the national party.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide car bomber attacked a group of international troops at a bazaar in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing three NATO soldiers and four Afghans, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 17 Mar 2008 | 8:10 pm
Classes have resumed after a solemn spring break for the University of North Carolina. The college town of Chapel Hill is still recovering from the murder of the UNC student body president.
As Pakistan's new parliament held its first session Monday, many saw the ceremony as highly symbolic. For now, power seems to be shifting from embattled President Pervez Musharraf to opposition lawmakers.
A suicide bomber blew herself up amid a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala, killing at least 39 people and wounding 54, officials said. Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney has opened a new U.S. push for political unity in Iraq.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be vulnerable when he stands for re-election next year, after Iranian parliamentary elections showed discontent among fellow conservatives.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 17 Mar 2008 | 6:17 pm
Female tourists visiting the Thai island of Phuket will be given whistles to sound in case of an emergency, the Tourism Ministry said Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Mar 2008 | 5:53 pm
A homicide car bomber attacked a group of international troops in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing three NATO troops and four Afghans, officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Mar 2008 | 5:52 pm
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Irish politicians and police urged the nation Monday to have fun during St. Patrick's Day festivities - but not too much fun.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:33 a... | 17 Mar 2008 | 5:51 pm
Pakistan's new parliament on Monday began its first session since Feb. 18 elections produced a landslide for parties opposed to U.S.-allied President Pervez Musharraf. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Mar 2008 | 5:44 pm
A fire broke out Monday in a perfume factory in the western Indian city of Mumbai, killing five workers and injuring another 35, a hospital official said. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Mar 2008 | 5:30 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, grenades and live ammunition. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Mar 2008 | 5:21 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.
Violence outside a U.N. courthouse in Kosovo has left at least 42 U.N. and NATO forces and 70 protesters wounded. The clash marks the worst violence in Kosovo since its declaration of independence last month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had received a letter from President Bush that lays out U.S. missile defense provisions and the two sides can probably reach agreement.
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.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel would keep expanding a Jewish neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, defying international criticism and triggering a spat with the Palestinians ahead of a new round of peace talks.
AP - Wholesale prices rose again in February as another hefty increase in energy costs offset falling food prices. Outside of food and energy, prices shot up at the fastest pace in 15 months.
AFP - World stock markets rallied sharply on Tuesday before a widely expected sharp cut in US interest rates by the Federal Reserve to fight the global credit crisis which sank Bear Stearns, dealers said.
Reuters - After years of living large, U.S.
households are finally learning what financial experts thought
they never would: to live within their means.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama is seeking to distance himself from "stupid statements" by his longtime pastor that have aggravated racial divisions in the contentious Democratic primary battle. He is calling for both sides to tone down their rhetoric.
AP - The Federal Reserve is expected to aggressively lower interest rates in its intensified battle against the credit crisis and spreading economic weakness. The question is whether all of the effort will turn the tide.
Reuters - Basic disagreements remain between
Moscow and Washington over U.S. plans for a missile defence
shield, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, quoting a
source close to talks between the two countries' foreign and
defense ministers.
AFP - The Dalai Lama vowed Tuesday he would resign as leader of Tibet's exiles if violence back home worsened, just hours before his aides said 19 people were killed in new demonstrations.
Reuters - Presidential candidate Barack
Obama will seek to quell a controversy over inflammatory
rhetoric by his former pastor in a speech on Tuesday on the
issue of race.
Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court considers on
Tuesday a landmark legal battle over gun rights, taking up for
the first time in nearly 70 years whether Americans have the
right to keep and bear arms.
Comment by Jamie Metzl Executive Vice President, Asia Society
Reuters - A conference to reconcile Iraq's
warring political groups began to unravel even before it got
under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bloc
pulling out and protesting it had not been properly invited.
The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control.
A Ukrainian policeman has died of injuries from clashes between Serb demonstrators and international forces in Kosovo, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
Just hours after he received a standing ovation from lawmakers chanting his name, New York's newly sworn governor was answering questions about straying from his own marriage.