The U.S. dollar's value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while on vacation in the Netherlands. Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 10:09 am
US Vice-President Dick Cheney meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai on an unannounced visit to Kabul. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 10:08 am
AP - Vice President Dick Cheney says the United States will ask NATO countries to step up their commitment to help Afghanistan recover from years of tyranny and war.
KABUL (Reuters) - Vice-President Dick Cheney made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday and met President Hamid Karzai, as the United States urges NATO allies to provide more troops and support.
The head of the European peace force in Chad says his troops will return fire if rebels attacked any refugee camps. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 10:04 am
BEIJING (AP) -- China acknowledged Thursday that anti-government riots have spread to other provinces since sweeping through Tibet last week, as communist authorities announced the first group of arrests for the violence.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 20 Mar 2008 | 10:04 am
AP - China acknowledged Thursday that anti-government riots have spread to other provinces since sweeping through Tibet last week, as communist authorities announced the first group of arrests for the violence.
Based on the true story of John D'Agostino, "Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai" is about an Italian kid from Brooklyn who matriculates at Harvard and lands on the Merc Exchange. After establishing himself, the protagonist hooks up with another young trader and a mysterious... Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:59 am
A new government is to be sworn in Belgium, ending months of political deadlock which threatened the unity of the country. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:54 am
A blast at the construction site of a power plant in Turkey leaves four workers dead, state-run media say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:54 am
DHARMSALA, India - The Dalai Lama says he's willing to meet with Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao.
But Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader said Thursday...
It's hard to imagine - Art comes "alive" in a South Korean hologram exhibit that includes 3-D animations of da Vinci's "Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa," and more. Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:49 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Tibet authorities have arrested 24 suspects for "grave crimes" after troops cracked down on anti-Chinese riots that swept the mountain region, with fallout from the turmoil clouding diplomacy and Olympic preparations.
Nine middle school girls were sickened after apparently eating methadone pills supplied by a 16-year-old boy, police said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:48 am
An Emmy Award-winning television producer was charged with inflating the revenue and stock price of his publicly traded production company as part of a multimillion dollar stock fraud scheme. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
Stock markets in Hong Kong and Australia fall on worries of declining demand for raw materials. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:44 am
Reuters - Tibet authorities have arrested 24
suspects for "grave crimes" after troops cracked down on
anti-Chinese riots that swept the mountain region, with fallout
from the turmoil clouding diplomacy and Olympic preparations.
Borders Group Inc. says it is launching a review to consider the possible sale of part or all of the company. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:37 am
A 71-year-old real estate agent was found dead inside a smoke-filled rural home she had shown to a client earlier in the day. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:35 am
Many people in the Philippines consider crucifixion and self flagellation good for the soul, but it is bad for your health according to new government advice for penitents.The festival is sponsored by Coca-cola and a company called Smart Telecommunications.Some 23 people, including two women, plan to reenact the crucifixion Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:34 am
Detectives charged a man Thursday with laundering money from the 2004 robbery of a Northern Ireland bank, a record-setting theft that authorities blamed on the outlawed IRA. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:34 am
AP - Storms that dumped as much of a foot of rain on the Midwest took aim at the Ohio Valley and Northeast on Thursday, leaving behind submerged roads, swamped homes and more than a dozen deaths.
AP - The astronauts on the orbiting shuttle-station complex geared up Thursday for the fourth spacewalk of their mission, a high-profile test of a repair technique they hope they never have to use.
Two years ago, Yuichiro Miura lost his title of oldest man to climb Mount Everest to someone just three days older. Now, the 75-year-old wants it back. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:31 am
LONDON (AFP) -
Europe's
stock markets sank Thursday ahead of the Easter holiday
weeken after sharp US falls overnight and earlier in Asia,
as nervous investors digested a share trading probe in
London, dealers said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:31 am
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Osama bin Laden warned in a new audiotape of a "severe" reaction for Europeans' publication of cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in what experts saw as a direct threat of a new attack in Europe.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:30 am
AP - Osama bin Laden warned in a new audiotape of a "severe" reaction for Europeans' publication of cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in what experts saw as a direct threat of a new attack in Europe.
(Kyodo) _ Results and standings after Thursday's J-League Nabisco Cup group-stage matches: Group A Nagoya Grampus 0, Kyoto Sanga 1 Urawa Reds 0, Vissel Kobe 1 ----- GP W D L GF... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:29 am
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton's early job as health care policymaker gave way during the remainder of her years as first lady to a more traditional, restricted role, according to thousands of pages of calendars outlining her activities in the White House.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 200 people were arrested across the United States on Wednesday as protesters marking the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq obstructed downtown traffic and tried to block access to government offices.
Chinese officials say they have arrested 24 over Lhasa protests, as security in and around Tibet is tightened. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:25 am
By the standard picture of creation, we should not exist at all because equal quantities of matter and "antimatter" were created in the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago..."new physics may be needed to explain why the universe is lopsided....we need more experimental data on high energy physics and cosmology to really pin down the cause.. Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:25 am
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Ali Qassim has three pieces of shrapnel lodged in his left eye and metal shards scattered elsewhere in his body.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:23 am
Ali Qassim has three pieces of shrapnel lodged in his left eye and metal shards scattered elsewhere in his body. Lingering in a private rest home in Jordan, he believes the wounds from... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:23 am
Ali Qassim has three pieces of shrapnel lodged in his left eye and metal shards scattered elsewhere in his body. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:23 am
SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday visited an Israeli town hit frequently by Palestinian rockets from the Gaza Strip and voiced doubts a peace deal could be reached this year.
(Kyodo) _ Standings in Japanese baseball after Thursday's games (Tabulate under games won, lost, tied, winning percentage, games behind): CENTRAL LEAGUE W L T Pct. GB Yomiuri Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:20 am
(Kyodo) _ Mongolian grand champion Asashoryu spurned a glorious chance to put daylight between himself and yokozuna rival Hakuho after a shock first defeat against Kotoshogiku at the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:19 am
(Kyodo) _ Yu Darvish threw a stellar game in a pitcher's duel to lead the Nippon Ham Fighters to a 1-0 shutout of the Lotte Marines as the Pacific League regular season got under way on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:17 am
AP - President Bush defiantly defended the Iraq war as U.S. troops began a sixth year of combat in the long and costly conflict that has dominated his presidency. Bush conceded the war has been harder and more expensive than anticipated but insisted it has all been necessary to keep Americans safe.
AFP - The US-led war on Iraq that toppled the torturous regime of dictator Saddam Hussein entered its sixth year on Thursday with millions of Iraqis still battling daily chaos and rampant bloodshed.
BAGHDAD (AFP) -
The US-led
war on Iraq that toppled the torturous regime of dictator
Saddam Hussein entered its sixth year on Thursday with
millions of Iraqis still battling daily chaos and rampant bloodshed. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:13 am
DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- The Dalai Lama says he's willing to meet with Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:10 am
The Dalai Lama says he's willing to meet with Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao. But Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader said Thursday he would not meet with Chinese leaders in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:10 am
Serial paedophile Raymond Horne is deported to the UK from Australia following a 12-year jail sentence. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:09 am
AP - Asian markets ended mixed Thursday, rebounding from early lows that came after another steep loss on Wall Street and amid persistent worry over the likely impact of a U.S. recession.
(Kyodo) _ A Cambodian-U.N. court dismissed Thursday an appeal for release on bail by a former Khmer Rouge leader charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The dismissal came Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:07 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Palestinian security officials are reporting that a militant has been killed in an explosion at a Hamas training base.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:02 am
(Kyodo) _ Results of makuuchi division bouts for Thursday, the 12th day of the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium (+ prefix denotes juryo division... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
Great gallery. "Personal" photos submitted by people on "front lines" of war, either literally or through personal connections.Some beautiful & harrowing, others more "ordinary," but together presenting a powerful visual story of war and some of its effects. Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:56 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The astronauts on the orbiting shuttle-station complex geared up Thursday for the fourth spacewalk of their mission, a high-profile test of a repair...
CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden warned in a new audiotape of a "severe" reaction for Europeans' publication of cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in...
KABUL (AFP) -
US Vice
President Dick Cheney visited Afghanistan Thursday for talks
with President Hamid Karzai to assess the fight against
extremism ahead of a summit of NATO partners in the battle. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:50 am
The French woman who made headlines across the world due to her battle with a horrifying facial cancer has been found dead at her home today. Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:43 am
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is planning to hold an extended series of separate talks with each of about 40 leaders of African nations on the sidelines of the African... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:40 am
Dispatcher had alerted police that a taxi had been called to a school about a kilometre from site of robbery, and that the caller sounded 'out of breath'
"War critics can no longer credibly argue that we are losing in Iraq, so now they argue the war costs too much." President Bush March 19, 2008. Read that again. He's saying it today, the fifth anniversary of a war that in his own words means we were losing four out of those five years. Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:34 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he had no regrets about the unpopular war in Iraq despite the "high cost in lives and treasure" and declared that the United States was on track for victory.
Vice President Dick Cheney has arrived in Afghanistan to bolster the country's fragile government as it faces rising threats from al Qaeda and Taliban militants.
Tens of millions of people from Central Asia to the Middle East have been celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:27 am
ZURICH (AFP) -
Swiss
banking giant Credit Suisse took another hit to earnings
Thursday on its exposure to the US subprime loan crisis and
warned there could be no profit in this year's first quarter. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:27 am
BEIJING (AP) -- McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other sponsors paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics. Now they're trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur and other issues, without angering China.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:24 am
Margaret Crane, center, a Canadian woman smiles as she talks with an unidentified woman upon her arrival at criminal court in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand Thursday, March 20, 2008. Crane, 48,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:23 am
Want life in the big city without all the pollution? Among major metropolitan areas (minimum population: 1 million), these 10 lead the pack. We ranked the big metropolitan statistical areas according to how they score on particle pollution, ozone levels, drinking water quality and per capita spending on solid-waste management. Source: Digg | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:22 am
At age 77, Arlen Schwinke might be getting too old for the twice-a-day milkings that come with working a dairy farm, but he's still deeply committed to Missouri's dairy industry. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:22 am
BEIJING (AFP) -
China ramped
up security on Thursday to quell a Tibetan uprising, with
hundreds of military trucks and thousands of heavily armed
soldiers seen pouring into the remote Himalayan region. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:20 am
Indian paramilitary soldier checks the bag of a Kashmir youth at a market in Srinagar, India, Thursday, March 20, 2008. Security has been beefed up following Wednesday's bomb attack which killed one and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:16 am
Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui waves to well-wishers upon his arrival at Kansai International Airport in western Japan in this April 22, 2001 file photo. Lee said Thursday, March 20, 2008, he... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:11 am
PARIS (AFP) -
Astronomers
have announced they have detected methane in the
atmosphere of a planet 63 light years away, boosting
prospects for identifying any life that exists beyond our
Solar System. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:04 am
Supporters welcome opposition Kuomingtang (KMT) party leader Ma Ying-jeou during his election campaign in Kaohsiung on March 20. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:01 am
Taiwan's ruling Democtaric Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh speaks during a press conference at his campaign headquarter in Taipei on March 20. Hsieh, who is bidding to be Taiwan's next president... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:01 am
An armed policeman is posted outside the campaign headquarters of the opposition Kuomintang Party (KMT) headquarters in Kaohsiung on March 20. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:01 am
U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel writes in a new book that the United States needs independent leadership and possibly another political party, while suggesting the Iraq war might be remembered as one of the five biggest blunders in history. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:55 am
Australia committed $17 million on Thursday to train Aboriginal nurses and doctors, as part of efforts to close a 17-year gap in the life expectancies of indigenous and other Australians. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:49 am
WASHINGTON - Next up on the Belmont Bruins' tour of top college basketball programs: Duke.
Each of the previous two years, Belmont's prize for winning the Atlantic...
LONDON - Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to give Manchester United a 2-0 victory over Bolton and a three-point lead atop the Premier League.
In Wednesday's other game,...
CHICAGO - The U.S. soccer team will play England in an exhibition game at Wembley on May 28.
The match is first between the nations since the English beat the United States...
CARSON, Calif. - Chivas USA defender Alex Zotinca could miss the MLS season after partially tearing his right anterior cruciate ligament in an exhibition match.
The tear...
NEW YORK - Pele teased David Beckham that the British star has it easy compared to when he tried to spread the love of soccer in the United States.
Pele recalled playing...
Rafael Nadal recovers from 5-3 down in the final set to beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Pacific Life Open. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:41 am
RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico - Tiger Woods is elsewhere, leaving a void in star power at the inaugural Puerto Rico Open.
Enter Donald Trump.
Woods and the world's best...
DORAL, Fla. - There are 78 players at this World Golf Championship, and one guy playing out of this world.
Tiger Woods is winning at a rate not seen in more than a half-century....
The BBC has regained the British television rights to Formula One from its rival ITV after a lull of 12 years. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:01 am
Two women who were alleged targets of the private eye's investigations say they received calls warning them to remain silent.
In another day of dramatic courtroom confrontations, an actress told a federal jury Wednesday that she received a terrifying telephone call threatening her son shortly after she spoke with the FBI about its wiretapping investigation of private eye Anthony Pellicano.
Just-released records show she was active but are short on details and long on redactions.
Federal archivists Wednesday released 11,000 pages of schedules from Hillary Rodham Clinton's eight years as first lady, but the material offered little to support her assertion that her White House experience left her best prepared to become president.
Fear is spreading with the financial system in disarray. But the global boom is ongoing, unemployment is low and the government has new tools to address the downturn.
Dysfunctional capital markets, frantic central banks, stressed-out consumers, fear and uncertainty -- all are alarming echoes of the global economic cataclysm of the 1930s.
AS I watched the ground rushing up at me from the pilot's seat of the Cessna 182, my brain was awash in a blast of exclamations that would get me fired if I repeated them here. Yet I felt no fear as I landed the single-engine aircraft, because offering direction and encouragement from the copilot's chair -- not to mention a second set of hands on a second set of controls -- was Liz DeStaffany.
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden addressed the "wise men" of the European Union in a new audio message late today, slamming the publication of drawings insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and vowing a strong reaction.
Buyers of iPods and iPhones would be allowed to pay extra upfront for unlimited access to digital library.
Consumers might have the option to pay a higher price for iPods and iPhones in the future and get unlimited access to a music library, according to record industry executives who say they have had preliminary conversations with Apple Inc., the manufacturer of those devices.
The 31-year-old allegedly fired more than 10 times as he ran around the salvage yard. He is being held without bail. One of the dead was related to the suspect, police say.
Santa Maria police today identified the suspect in the shooting deaths of four men at a Santa Maria wrecking yard as Lee Leeds, 31, son of the yard's owner.
In a split vote, the panel halts its review of the 5,553-home project near the 5 and 14 freeways. Some council members fear a lawsuit.
A divided Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to halt its review of the 5,553-home Las Lomas project, dealing what could well be a fatal blow to the mega-development planned for north Los Angeles County.
The president, speaking on the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion, insists the conflict is key to fighting global terrorism.
Five years into a costly war in Iraq that has lost the support of the majority of Americans, President Bush insisted Wednesday that "this is a fight America can and must win."
Tibetans hold a prayer session at the Liaison Office of the Dalai Lama for East-Asia in Tokyo Thursday, March 20, 2008. China acknowledged Thursday that anti-government riots that rocked Tibet last week... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 6:56 am
A Kenyan herder, seen here in 2006, watches over his cattle in the Rift Valley. Seventeen people were killed in the region, where conflicts over pasture and water rights has fanned tribal animosity, bringing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 6:41 am
Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea (2nd R) stands with assistance from two court officers as he appears for a verdict, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh on March... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 20 Mar 2008 | 6:17 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grannies holding a knit-in to protest the war in Iraq clashed in a shouting match with pro-war activists in Times Square on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the start of the conflict.
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Many U.S. voters have been shocked by the sentiments expressed by the pastor of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama but they should not be surprised, say faith leaders with experience of black American churches.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans' views of the U.S. health care system differ widely based on political party preferences, with Republicans far more likely than Democrats to call it the world's best, a poll released on Thursday showed.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is offering free flights out of Yemen to non-essential diplomats and family members, after three mortars hit a school near the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa.
China acknowledged for the first time that anti-government riots that rocked Tibet last week have spread to other provinces, while communist authorities announced the first group of arrests in connection with the violence.
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Men and women
have different tastes in food, with men favoring meat and
poultry, and women fruits and vegetables, researchers said
in what was touted as the most extensive study to date of
gender differences in eating habits. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 20 Mar 2008 | 2:44 am
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a new audio message slammed the European Union for publishing drawings insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and vowed a strong reaction.
Five years after the U.S. "shock and awe" campaign, the world should not fail the Iraqi people by forgetting about the war, writes Lara Logan. And Americans cannot fail those fighting in their name.
The Granny Peace Brigade, accompanied by a few grandfathers, met at Times Square in New York to mark the fifth anniversary of the US led war in Iraq.
The protesters were knitting stump socks for amputee veterans, and baby blankets... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 1:30 am
President Bush says he has no doubts about waging the unpopular war in Iraq despite the "high cost in lives and treasure." However, Americans continue to think the results of the war have not been worth it, according to a new CBS News poll.
Al-Qa'eda leader Osama bin Laden has compared newspaper cartoons depicting Mohammed with the Crusades, accusing the European Union and the Pope of being complicit in their publication and in the oppression of Muslims. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:27 am
A three-month-old liger, the cub of a lion and a tiger, has become something of a celebrity in the Russian city where she's kept as a pet.
Lira lives with her trainer Pavel Zabelkin in a flat in a residential area of the eastern... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:23 am
Three leading Blairites have told Gordon Brown he must rethink key parts of his policy programme if he is to avoid leading Labour to a humiliating defeat at the next election. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
The Prince of Wales has stepped into the diplomatic row over China's treatment of Tibet by agreeing to meet the Dalai Lama Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
The earliest Easter since 1913 is playing havoc with the holiday plans of thousands of families this year. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
An Arab billionaire, whose student son is being sought for questioning in connection with the death of a Norwegian socialite has indicated he will disown him if he has committed any wrongdoing. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
It's 2am. You need some sleep because tomorrow is a big day. But you can't go
to bed because the speech you have to deliver in the morning is a mess. The
pages are all over the floor, the text is too long and you've lost the
thread. There are too many people in the room and the suggestions they are
pitching are stupid. You need to cut, but you don't know what to cut. What's
gone wrong? Source: Top stories from Times Online | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
<a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3587127.ece">HBOS
Q&A</a> Source: Top stories from Times Online | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
President Bush marked five years since ordering the invasion of Iraq by
proclaiming yesterday that American troops had achieved “undeniable” success
and predicted that the war “will end in victory”. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Britain called for a resumption of negotiations between China and Tibetan
representatives yesterday after Gordon Brown announced that he had spoken to
the Chinese Premier and would meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan
spiritual leader, in May. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Ama Sumani, the Ghanaian woman who was deported despite undergoing treatment
for terminal cancer, has died, friends said last night. The 39-year-old
mother of two died on Wednesday afternoon in Korle Bu Hospital in Accra,
Ghana. Friends had told her recently that £70,000 had been raised to get her
the treatment and drugs that she so desperately needed. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 20 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
MIAMI (Reuters) - A young Canadian prisoner held at Guantanamo said in legal documents that U.S. interrogators repeatedly threatened to rape him and Canadian government visitors told him they were powerless to do anything.
David Paterson, who became governor of New York following Eliot Spitzer's resignation in a prostitution scandal, was barely sworn in when he confessed an extramarital affair to the Daily News. On Tuesday, he admitted to affairs with multiple women, one of whom is a state employee. Melissa Block talks with Fred Dicker, state editor for The New York Post.
With potential troop drawdowns looming, U.S. commanders and diplomats in Baghdad say security gains will be sustainable only if the Iraqi government moves faster to deliver basic services in areas that have been secured.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Under strong U.S. pressure, Iraq's presidential council signed off Wednesday on a measure paving the way for provincial elections by the fall, a major step toward easing sectarian rifts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the war.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 19 Mar 2008 | 8:58 pm
In a presidential election year in which a black man and a white woman are each staging historic candidacies, John McCain -- the maverick Republican -- may be the most radical party nominee.
On the heels of federal intervention following the Bear Stearns collapse, there are fresh indications that the Bush administration and House Democrats are willing to negotiate a plan to use taxpayer money to stem the flood of foreclosures.
Some Americans mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq with vigils and protests, with hundreds turning out to raise their voices and share their views in Washington, D.C.
Although public opinion has turned against the war, President Bush reaffirms his decision to invade Iraq in a Pentagon speech Wednesday. Bush says the costly sacrifices have "opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror."
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush said yesterday he had no regrets about the unpopular war in Iraq despite the "high cost in lives and treasure" and declared that the United States was on track for victory.
Marking the fifth... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Mar 2008 | 8:29 pm
The Supreme Court overturns a murder conviction and death sentence for a black defendant in Louisiana who said his trial was tainted by racism. A seven-member majority of the justices said the prosecutor improperly kept blacks off the jury.
During his Middle East tour, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) blames Iran several times for training al-Qaida in Iraq, before correcting himself to say Iran was training Shiite militants.
After a visit to the southern Israeli town of Sderot, a frequent target of rockets fired from the nearby Gaza Strip, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, says he sees little point in negotiating with Hamas.
Even though James Meza doesn't wear the uniform of a first responder, he is doing rescue work. Meza is helping the children of New Orleans by running six charter schools in the city, hopeful that they'll become the seeds of Katrina recovery efforts in the surrounding neighborhoods.
LONDON - Two tabloid newspapers made unprecedented front page apologies yesterday to the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann for suggesting they might have killed their daughter and covered up her death.
The Daily Express... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Mar 2008 | 7:35 pm
LONDON - Convicted serial killer Steve Wright sought permission yesterday to appeal the life sentence he was handed last month for murdering five prostitutes in his hometown of Ipswich.
Wright, 49, formally applied for permission... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Mar 2008 | 7:30 pm
BEIJING - China vowed yesterday to take the Olympic torch to Tibet despite deadly riots there and said it was in a "life or death struggle" over the Himalayan region with "the Dalai Lama clique".
In London, Prime Minister Gordon... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Mar 2008 | 7:25 pm
Philippines health officials warned people taking part in Easter crucifixions and self-flagellation rituals to get a tetanus shot first and sterilise the nails to avoid infections.
Every Good Friday dozens of men re-enact the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Mar 2008 | 7:15 pm
Heather Mills has turned to an unlikely source in a desperate attempt to repair a reputation left in tatters by her divorce - Hillary Clinton. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Mar 2008 | 7:01 pm
A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest packed with ball bearings Wednesday near a bus terminal northeast of Baghdad, killing at least three people, police said.
It was the moment that dignity would be returned to state government. Eliot Spitzer, felled by his sex-for-cash improprieties, was no longer Governor of New York and David Paterson was taking the reins. A pity then that by yesterday... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Mar 2008 | 7:00 pm
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Gold-trimmed SUVs idle outside parliament. Among new female lawmakers, black Muslim veils are out and Gucci bags are in.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 19 Mar 2008 | 6:34 pm
BEIJING (AP) -- After four days hunkered down in his hotel as Lhasa reeled between rioting and police crackdown, 19-year-old Canadian tourist John Kenwood emerged to find street sweepers wearing vests with 2008 Beijing Olympics logos clearing away debris.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 19 Mar 2008 | 6:08 pm
Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile conducted interviews with hundreds of mothers while researching their best-selling book "I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids." In "Dirty Little Secrets from Otherwise Perfect Moms," they reveal their surprising, thought-provoking, guilty confessions they hadn't told anyone else. These are the private thoughts that every mom has — and every mom can relate to.
The Boston Red Sox ended a threatened boycott Wednesday of their final spring training game in Florida, resolving a dispute over paying coaches for the season-opening trip to Japan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Legislators elected Pakistan's first female speaker of parliament Wednesday, seating a follower - and lookalike - of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:04 a... | 19 Mar 2008 | 5:32 pm
Mohamed Al Fayed's last-minute legal bid to make Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip give evidence at the Diana, Princess of Wales, inquest was rejected by the High Court. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 5:22 pm
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy yesterday re-ignited a row over a text message her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, allegedly sent his ex-wife begging her to return a week before marrying his new spouse. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Mar 2008 | 5:15 pm
The Supreme Court threw out the death sentence in a Louisiana murder case, after the prosecutor called the trial his "O.J. Simpson case" and kept blacks off the jury. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 Mar 2008 | 5:04 pm
PARIS - Jerome Kerviel, the Frenchman blamed by his company for the world's biggest rogue trading scandal, has left jail after winning a legal battle against detention.
Kerviel, 31, walked free from the Sante prison in Paris after... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
CANBERRA - For most Australians, the major source of energy emitted from the nation's capital is the hot air pumped out of federal parliament.
But Canberra may now become home to Australia's largest solar power plant, producing... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Haziness surrounding a Dutch lawmaker's plans to release a film criticizing the Koran this month is hindering government efforts to prepare for any backlash, the justice minister said Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 4:58 pm
Their vacation at a resort where their relationship first became public is seen by some royal observers as a hint of a future wedding, reports Richard Roth.
The government on Wednesday relaxed capital requirements at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as part of a plan to inject an additional $200 billion of financing for home loans. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 Mar 2008 | 4:07 pm
Israel declared a heightened security alert on Wednesday and barred Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip from entering the country, fearing Hezbollah guerrillas may try to carry out a major attack during holiday celebrations this week. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 4:07 pm
Iraq's presidential council withdrew its objection to a provincial elections law on Wednesday, giving a major boost to U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 3:46 pm
Kate and Gerry McCann today said they were "pleased" after accepting £550,000 in damages over "grotesque and grossly defamatory allegations" published by national newspapers. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Mar 2008 | 3:43 pm
Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed a cartoon robot cat as "anime ambassador," handing a human-sized Doraemon doll an official certificate at an inauguration ceremony. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 3:37 pm
Gordon Brown wants tens of thousands of Britons to join a new Dads’ Army-style volunteer force to help the Government tackle threats to national security. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 19 Mar 2008 | 3:35 pm
A suicide bomber blew herself up amid a group of Shiite worshippers in Karbala, killing at least 43 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The violence marred overlapping trips by Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain to Baghdad.
A Marine was charged with murder and dereliction of duty in the death of a detainee in Fallujah, Iraq, after authorities say his involvement came to light during a lie-detector test for a job with the Secret Service.
Five years after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush strongly signaled Wednesday that he will not order U.S. troop withdrawals beyond those already planned.
Riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators throwing rocks and firebombs in central Athens during a nationwide general strike Wednesday by millions of Greeks protesting government pension reforms. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 3:22 pm
U.N. police began returning on Wednesday to a Serb-held town in northern Kosovo where violence involving protesters armed with guns and hand grenades killed a U.N. policeman from Ukraine and wounded dozens of people. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 3:12 pm
Most Americans continue to think the results of the Iraq war have not been worth it, according to a new CBS News poll. Meanwhile, in Iraq, Dick Cheney got pledges from Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds to back a new blueprint for U.S.-Iraq relations.
Two newspapers published extremely rare front-page apologies on Wednesday for suggesting that the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann had caused her death. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 2:52 pm
An 81-year-old Australian man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans he downloaded from the Internet. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 2:28 pm
There was a time in Japan when courtesy was second nature. If you saw an elderly person, a pregnant woman or somebody on crutches, you would leap up and offer them your seat. These days, you pretend to be asleep and avoid eye contact at all costs. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Mar 2008 | 2:13 pm
For a majority of Americans, today marks the fifth anniversary of the start of an Iraq war that was not worth fighting, one that has cost thousands of lives and more than half a trillion dollars.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said he is prepared to hold discussions on Tibet with the Dalai Lama.
AP - Vice President Dick Cheney says the United States will ask NATO countries to step up their commitment to help Afghanistan recover from years of tyranny and war.
AP - China acknowledged Thursday that anti-government riots have spread to other provinces since sweeping through Tibet last week, as communist authorities announced the first group of arrests for the violence.
Reuters - Tibet authorities have arrested 24
suspects for "grave crimes" after troops cracked down on
anti-Chinese riots that swept the mountain region, with fallout
from the turmoil clouding diplomacy and Olympic preparations.
AP - Storms that dumped as much of a foot of rain on the Midwest took aim at the Ohio Valley and Northeast on Thursday, leaving behind submerged roads, swamped homes and more than a dozen deaths.
AP - The astronauts on the orbiting shuttle-station complex geared up Thursday for the fourth spacewalk of their mission, a high-profile test of a repair technique they hope they never have to use.
AP - Osama bin Laden warned in a new audiotape of a "severe" reaction for Europeans' publication of cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in what experts saw as a direct threat of a new attack in Europe.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton's early job as health care policymaker gave way during the remainder of her years as first lady to a more traditional, restricted role, according to thousands of pages of calendars outlining her activities in the White House.
AP - President Bush defiantly defended the Iraq war as U.S. troops began a sixth year of combat in the long and costly conflict that has dominated his presidency. Bush conceded the war has been harder and more expensive than anticipated but insisted it has all been necessary to keep Americans safe.
AFP - The US-led war on Iraq that toppled the torturous regime of dictator Saddam Hussein entered its sixth year on Thursday with millions of Iraqis still battling daily chaos and rampant bloodshed.
AP - Asian markets ended mixed Thursday, rebounding from early lows that came after another steep loss on Wall Street and amid persistent worry over the likely impact of a U.S. recession.
Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile conducted interviews with hundreds of mothers while researching their best-selling book "I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids." In "Dirty Little Secrets from Otherwise Perfect Moms," they reveal their surprising, thought-provoking, guilty confessions they hadn't told anyone else. These are the private thoughts that every mom has — and every mom can relate to.
The Boston Red Sox ended a threatened boycott Wednesday of their final spring training game in Florida, resolving a dispute over paying coaches for the season-opening trip to Japan.
At least nine people died Wednesday as a huge storm system poured as much as 10 inches of rain across a wide swath of the nation's midsection.
Science-fiction writer and technological seer Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 after a long battle with post-polio syndrome.
Five years after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush strongly signaled Wednesday that he will not order U.S. troop withdrawals beyond those already planned.
For a majority of Americans, today marks the fifth anniversary of the start of an Iraq war that was not worth fighting, one that has cost thousands of lives and more than half a trillion dollars.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said he is prepared to hold discussions on Tibet with the Dalai Lama.
Welcome to a world of pet-sized treadmills, as well as automated litter cleaner-uppers that mean minimizing contact with you-know-what.