The government stepped up its manhunt Friday for protesters in last week's riots in the capital of Tibet, as thousands of troops converged on foot, trucks and helicopters to Tibetan areas of western China. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Mar 2008 | 2:33 pm
A car bomb exploded Friday in Spain's northern Rioja region after a warning call from the Basque separatist group ETA, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Mar 2008 | 2:28 pm
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president-elect, has preached freedom and the rule of law, and raised hopes for an end to government pressure on opposition leaders, rights advocates and businesses whose assets the Kremlin wants to control. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Mar 2008 | 2:20 pm
Q: So how do you find a good personal trainer? Obviously I can read you, find about Alwyn Cosgrove, or Mike Boyle, Craig Balantyne, etc. But what about just finding some guy(or...
These schools (and others similar) have a ton of babes, but due to their less than stellar status on a national scale, their hotness factor goes unnoticed. Well, not anymore, as it’s time that COED gives The Babes of the Bottom Bracket their time to shine. Source: Digg | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:40 pm
The Fellsway has reopened following a fiery early-morning crash that killed two people, sent a teen-aged passenger to the hospital and left a home damaged.
State police...
It's been a difficult time for the airline industry. The soaring price of jet fuel forced United to announce flight cutbacks. Delta also eliminated flights and plans to slash 2,000 jobs. Other carriers increased ticket prices, and that still won't be enough to offset what's expected to be another year of multibillion-dollar losses for the industry.
A car bomb explodes in the north of Spain after a warning call from Basque separatists, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:37 pm
(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday expressed hope that the Chinese government would settle the deadly rioting in Tibet before President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan, possibly... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:36 pm
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas expressed doubt on Friday that Yemeni-sponsored reconciliation talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction would succeed despite an agreement to extend the discussions for an extra day.
TOKYO, March 21 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito party on Friday presented an amended proposal for the ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:32 pm
The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders agreed Friday to restart peace talks on reunifying their ethnically split island, and to open a crossing in the heart of the divided capital. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:29 pm
Lewis Hamilton is fastest in Friday practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix as David Coulthard suffers a worrying car failure. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:29 pm
Reuters - Mehdi Army fighters attacked police
patrols in southern Baghdad overnight, police said on Friday,
further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called by Shi'ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his militia.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Mehdi Army fighters attacked police patrols in southern Baghdad overnight, police said on Friday, further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called by Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his militia.
NICOSIA (AFP) - Rival Cypriot leaders agreed to reopen a landmark street running through the heart of Cyprus's divided capital in a meeting Friday to kickstart peace talks, top UN representative Michael Moller said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:28 pm
President Nicolas Sarkozy has said France will reduce its number of airborne nuclear warheads by one third. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:26 pm
Japan's defence minister dismisses his most senior admiral after a series of scandals in the navy. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:24 pm
AFP - Rival Cypriot leaders agreed to reopen a landmark street running through the heart of Cyprus's divided capital in a meeting Friday to kickstart peace talks, top UN representative Michael Moller said.
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a modest cut Friday in France's nuclear arsenal, to less than 300 warheads, and urged China and the United States to commit to no more weapons... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:24 pm
CHERBOURG, France (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a modest cut Friday in France's nuclear arsenal, to less than 300 warheads, and urged China and the United States to commit to no more weapons tests.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:23 pm
A Serb swimmer was suspended Friday for the remainder of the European swimming championships for wearing a T-shirt proclaiming "Kosovo is Serbia" at a medal presentation ceremony. His team said it plans to appeal. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:23 pm
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders agree to resume talks on reunifying the island and to open a street in the capital. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:19 pm
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A car bomb exploded Friday in Spain's northern Rioja region after a warning call from the Basque separatist group ETA, police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:17 pm
A car bomb exploded Friday in Spain's northern Rioja region after a warning call from the Basque separatist group ETA, police said. The bomb went off in the city of Calahorra. There... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:17 pm
A car bomb exploded Friday in Spain's northern Rioja region after a warning call from the Basque separatist group ETA, police said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:17 pm
CHERBOURG, France (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged on Friday to maintain a strong nuclear weapons program in order to defend his country against threats such as the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran.
Reuters - French President Nicolas
Sarkozy pledged on Friday to maintain a strong nuclear weapons
program in order to defend his country against threats such as
the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran.
TOKYO -- Got this email about the Red Sox' players threat to not play in Tuesday's game back in Fort Myers if their coaches and staff were not paid for this trip....
TOKYO -- Six different Red Sox made appearances at a workout-day press conference today but it was clear who the star was: Daisuke Matsuzaka.
The Japanese superstar put...
The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders agreed Friday to restart peace talks on reunifying their ethnically split island, and to open a crossing in the heart of the divided capital. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:13 pm
SAN PEDRO CUTUD (AFP) - Devout Roman Catholic Ruben Enaje donned a crown of thorns as he put himself through the agonising ordeal of being nailed to a cross -- for the 22nd time. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:11 pm
KABUL (Reuters) - Some 5,000 Afghans chanted "death to Denmark" and "death to the Netherlands" in Kabul on Friday, protesting against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:09 pm
CHERBOURG (AFP) - President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday he planned to take a another step in France's nuclear disarmament by slashing the number of nuclear warheads. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:08 pm
Philippine devotees re-enacted Jesus Christ's suffering Friday by having themselves nailed to crosses in rites frowned upon by church leaders in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:07 pm
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says reconciliation talks in Yemen between his Fatah Party and the Gaza Strip's Islamic Hamas rulers have been extended through Saturday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:06 pm
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says reconciliation talks in Yemen between his Fatah Party and the Gaza Strip's Islamic Hamas rulers have been extended through Saturday. Each side... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:06 pm
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says reconciliation talks in Yemen between his Fatah Party and the Gaza Strip's Islamic Hamas rulers have been extended through Saturday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:06 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) Newly appointed Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said Friday that the future of the Japanese economy is clouded by various ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:06 pm
I had a lot of fun at the White House Wednesday afternoon, and not because I made Dana Perino mad. In fact, I felt a little sorry for her today. It's not her fault that Bush's speechwriters put ludicrous statements into his speeches. Source: Digg | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents in Somalia say their inclusion on a U.S. terrorism list will help recruiting and has spurred them to strengthen ties with other groups blacklisted by Washington.
Hamas accuses Egypt of torturing its members held after they crossed from the Palestinian territory of Gaza. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:57 pm
LOS ANGELES - After serving six years in prison for trying to bomb police cars in the 1970s, former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson has been released on...
Today former Presidential candidate, Bill Richardson, will endorse Barack Obama. Conventional wisdom would have predicted that Richardson endorsing Hillary out of loyalty...
Unimpressed with the bureaucracy of big charities, twentysomethings are going the DIY route and launching their own non-profits. Are they brats who don't play well with others - or just misunderstood? Patrick White reports
Democratic US presidential hopeful Barack Obama is to be endorsed by New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:53 pm
KANGDING, China (Reuters) - Tibetans in China's tense southwestern province of Sichuan said on Friday they believed police had killed several people in anti-Chinese riots there this week, disputing official claims none died.
In this image from television released Friday, March 21, 2008, by China's CCTV and provided by APTN, Chinese residents look at destroyed house after a 7.2 magnitude quake hit southeast of the city of Hotan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:49 pm
A nine-year-old boy found wandering alone says he was left at a bus stop by
his uncle, Scotland Yard have revealed. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:47 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrat Barack Obama's presidential hopes got a needed boost Friday with the endorsement of Bill Richardson, a former White House rival and one-time member of the Clinton administration. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:47 pm
(Kyodo) _ Prosecutors on Friday indicted an official of the video industry's censorship body for failing to conduct appropriate checks and consequently allowing obscene adult DVDs to slip Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:46 pm
SANTA FE, N.M. - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a "once-in-a- lifetime...
No player is more synonymous with trouble than Adam "Pacman" Jones. No team is better at rehabilitating perceived problem children than the Patriots.
Could...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi security forces are clashing with Shiite militia fighters southeast of Baghdad for a second day.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:40 pm
Iraqi security forces are clashing with Shiite militia fighters southeast of Baghdad for a second day. Iraqi officials said Friday that at least two police officers and two gunmen had... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:40 pm
President Nicolas Sarkozy says France will cut its total nuclear arsenal to less than 300 warheads. Sarkozy did not say how many warheads France currently has as that information is a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:38 pm
AP - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a "once-in-a- lifetime leader" who can unite the nation and restore America's international leadership.
Heather Mills has renewed her onslaught against the media, accusing newspapers and broadcasters of refusing to present a balanced picture of her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:33 pm
Gordon Ramsay’s foul-mouthed TV rants have proved a step too far even for that
most robust of political breeds – Australian MPs. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:28 pm
France's new generation nuclear-armed submarine The Terrible. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that Europe's security was "at stake" while countries like Iran were increasing the range of their... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:21 pm
Mozambique is to increase power supplies to South Africa to help it cope with its energy crisis, an official says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:20 pm
US Vice-President Dick Cheney arrives in Saudi Arabia for talks focusing on security and the oil market. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:19 pm
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- High oil prices paining U.S. consumers is a key topic of Vice President Dick Cheney's talks Friday with Saudi King Abdullah, yet it's unclear whether Cheney will ask the Saudis to increase production to bring down prices at the pump.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:11 pm
Like their jet-lagged World Series champions who touched down at Tokyo's Haneda Airport just after midnight Japan time, local citizens of Red Sox Nation are bracing for...
Any Brits over 30 is sure to feel a nostalgic glow whenever the BBC Micro is mentioned. For almost the whole of the 1980s the Beeb, as it was known, was one of the main ways people in the UK accessed computer technology. Source: Digg | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:10 pm
The lawyer and agent for suspended corner Pacman Jones said last night his client would love to play for the Patriots if a deal can be swung.
"Tennessee has said publicly...
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian steelmaker Severstal said on Friday it had reached a deal with the biggest world steel group ArcelorMittal to buy one of ArcelorMittal's US plants for 810 million dollars (520 million euros). Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:08 pm
MADRID (AFP) - French power giant EDF will join forces with Spanish construction company ACS to take over Iberdrola and Union Fenosa in massive deals worth 100 billion dollars (64 billion euros), the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:08 pm
DHARAMSHALA (AFP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday called for an international probe into the causes of deadly unrest in Tibet but added she was not seeking a boycott of the Beijing Olympics. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:08 pm
Reuters - New Mexico Gov. Bill
Richardson endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic
nomination for president, Obama's aides said on Friday, in a
boost for the Illinois senator.
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic nomination for president, Obama's aides said on Friday, in a boost for the Illinois senator.
AP - After serving six years in prison for trying to bomb police cars in the 1970s, former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson has been released on parole and reunited with the family she hid with for years.
A four-limbed robot climbs vertical walls using foot- and handholds like a human climber. The technology could be used to scale Martian cliffs to find exposed rocks and reveal new information about the planet’s geology. Source: Digg | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:58 am
As feared, foreign bond holders have begun to exercise a collective vote of no confidence in the devaluation policies of the US government. The Federal Reserve faces a potential veto of its rescue measures. Asian, Mid East and European investors stood aside at last week’s auction of 10-year US Treasury notes. “It was a disaster,” said Ray Source: Digg | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:57 am
British writer and self-styled dandy Sebastian Horsley was denied entry to the United States after arriving to promote his memoir of sex, drugs and flamboyant fashion. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:57 am
Reuters - Tibetans in China's tense
southwestern province of Sichuan said on Friday they believed
police had killed several people in anti-Chinese riots there
this week, disputing official claims none died.
AP - High oil prices paining U.S. consumers is a key topic of Vice President Dick Cheney's talks Friday with Saudi King Abdullah, yet it's unclear whether Cheney will ask the Saudis to increase production to bring down prices at the pump.
Tibetans walk past Chinese paramilitary policemen patrolling along a street in Kangding county in China's southwestern Sichuan province. China stepped up its pressure on Tibetan protesters, releasing photos... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:50 am
Chinese soldiers disembark from a military truck in the Tibetan capital Lhasa. China stepped up its pressure on Tibetan protesters, releasing photos of wanted suspects who were captured on film in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:50 am
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks to reporters after the meeting with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. "The situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world," said Pelosi,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:50 am
An internet user reads a website in Beijing which contains a list and photos of what the Chinese government calls "the 19 most-wanted Lhasa rioters". China stepped up its pressure on Tibetan protesters,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:50 am
Version 1.2 of Miro has just been released. It's a major update with performance and bug fixes, new download settings, personalized channel recommendations based on your ratings. Miro is simply the easiest way to use bittorrent and the best video rss reader anywhere. Source: Digg | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:50 am
Our universe is doomed, says Professor Michio Kaku. Fortunately, he's working on several escape routes: time travel, wormholes, and another universe entirely. There really is a childish wonder to his expressive face. And take this line he has on the future of the planet: it has no future. In five billion years' time the sun will Source: Digg | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:46 am
AP - Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
Marian McPartland celebrated her 90th birthday in a style befitting the "Grande Dame of Piano Jazz" with a little help from friends like Norah Jones and Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:43 am
Billy Chasen, the artist who encased a still-working, exploded iPod in resin, put a new piece up at the American Heart Association's 2008 Heart of New York Gala at the classy Waldorf Astoria hotel in NYC. Watch as a heart sprays blood all over the inside of a glass cube! Source: Digg | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:41 am
A Los Angeles hospital was fined $25,000 by state health regulators for giving overdoses of a blood thinner to three infants including the newborn twins of Dennis Quaid. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:41 am
ZHONGDIAN, China (AP) -- The government stepped up its manhunt Friday for protesters in last week's riots in the capital of Tibet, as thousands of troops converged on foot, trucks and helicopters to Tibetan areas of western China.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:40 am
Once again, China's roads are the deadliest in the world, a government news agency said Friday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:39 am
French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the International University Campus in Paris on March 20. The French blogosphere is abuzz with outrage and derision over a 24-year-old appointed by... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
Tibetan spiritual leader in-exile, His Holiness the Dalai Lama (L) shows US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi the palace temple in Dharamsala, on March 21, 2008. Pelosi on Friday called for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
Easter holidaymakers face misery on the roads today with forecasters warning of the first white Easter in 25 years. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:33 am
This undated handout picture made available last month shows the Japanese Maritime Defence Force's Aegis destroyer Atago, off the coast of Chiba Prefecture. Japan's defence minister has dismissed the navy... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
Japanese Maritime Defence Force chief of staff Eiji Yoshikawa speaks during a press conference at the Defence Ministry in Tokyo last month. Japan's defence minister has dismissed the navy chief and punished... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
Russian steel company OAO Severstal said Friday it will buy Baltimore's Sparrows Point steel mill from ArcelorMittal for $810 million in cash. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:24 am
Hurricane Katrina victims who hired Florida-based Call Henry to rebuild their homes are irked that the firm continues to do millions in federal business while it ignores their complaints about shoddy construction. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.
A soldier with the Nato-led force is killed in a blast in southern Afghanistan, the alliance says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Mar 2008 | 11:01 am
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan questioned whether all countries on the Security Council have lived up to their responsibility to protect civilians in Darfur from atrocities.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 10:40 am
DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- House speaker Nancy Pelosi called on the world Friday to denounce China's crackdown of anti-government protests in Tibet, calling the crisis "a challenge to the conscience of the world."... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 10:35 am
China's government stepped up its manhunt Friday for protesters in last week's riots in the Tibetan capital, as thousands of troops converged on Tibetan areas of western China.
HONG KONG (AP) -- China will shut down or punish dozens of video-sharing Web sites for carrying content deemed pornographic, violent or a threat to national security under rules that tighten Internet controls, a regulator said Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 10:07 am
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A pair of astronauts ended a spacewalk late on Thursday in which they tested a repair procedure for the heat shields on the space shuttle fleet -- a technique NASA hopes it never needs to use.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contract workers for the U.S. State Department improperly viewed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's passport records three times this year in what his campaign called "an outrageous breach" of his privacy.
FedEx saw its profits dip last quarter. The overnight shipping company warns that the year ahead may be more of the same as it feels the pinch of an economic slowdown and high gasoline prices.
The State Department has fired two contract workers and disciplined a third for looking at the passport file of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The senator's campaign is demanding an investigation.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi called on the world Friday to denounce China's crackdown of anti-government protests in Tibet, calling the crisis "a challenge to the conscience of the world."
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's pro-independence ruling party raced Friday to pull off a victory in weekend presidential elections, using the last day of campaigning to stoke fears of rival China and fan outrage over its crackdown in Tibet.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:24 a... | 21 Mar 2008 | 9:53 am
An investigation has been demanded in Washington after two Department of State contractors were fired for gaining unauthorised access to Barack Obama's passport files. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Mar 2008 | 9:41 am
Ever since Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton started running for president, her team has argued that she is more electable than Senator Barack Obama. But some Democrats are now wondering if Obama's association with his controversial pastor could weaken him as a nominee.
Instead of a wedding ring, one Scottsbluff, Neb., bride found herself in handcuffs. Deputies arrested 31-year-old Dianne Carnes on Tuesday afternoon. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 21 Mar 2008 | 9:09 am
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called on the international community to denounce China's rule in Tibet and its handling of protests in the region after meeting with the Dalai Lama. Exiled Tibetan leaders say 99 people have died in the unrest.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, America's only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a "once-in-a- lifetime leader."
The two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine is in crisis after two field tests of the most promising contender may have put people at greater risk of becoming infected. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 21 Mar 2008 | 7:05 am
Owners benefit, but already cash-strapped governments will see less-than-expected revenue.
The tumbling housing market has prompted county tax officials around Southern California to begin reducing the assessed value of many houses, resulting in lower tax bills for homeowners but less-than-expected revenue for already cash-strapped governments.
The crackdown boosted the ruling party's presidential candidate, whom Beijing hopes will lose this weekend.
China's bad week could get even worse. Beijing's crackdown on protesters in Tibet has given a last-minute boost to the ruling party it would rather see lose in Taiwan's presidential election Saturday -- just when the mainland thought its eight-year nightmare was over.
Kathleen Soliah, a former Palmdale resident, served about half of her 12-year term for her role in a plot to blow up LAPD cars. She had been arrested in 1999 while living under an assumed name in Minn
Kathleen Soliah, a former member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, was released on parole this week from a California women's prison after serving about six years behind bars for her role in a plot to kill Los Angeles police officers by blowing up their patrol cars.
Eugene Brakke's '65 pride and joy was stolen in Burbank in 1970. It turns up in San Diego, where it was cared for all those years -- except for the pale blue repaint job.
The last time Eugene Brakke drove his honey-gold 1965 Ford Mustang, he was young and single, and the throaty little sports car "certainly didn't hurt" with the ladies. He parked at work that day in May 1970, at the Lockheed plant in Burbank, and when he came out later it was gone.
In London with the prime minister, the GOP presidential candidate acknowledges the war's unpopularity in Britain, but steers clear of open disagreement.
Sen. John McCain on Thursday conceded that the British public is "frustrated" over the war in Iraq, but warned that the battle is not won despite recent improvements in the security situation.
Defense Secretary Gates wants more unmanned Predator aircraft in Iraq. But the Air Force worries about the long-term viability of the spy plane program.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has ordered the Air Force to put nearly all of its unmanned Predator aircraft into the skies over the Middle East, forcing the service to take steps that officers worry could hobble already-stressed drone squadrons.
Norco is divided over plans to regulate the disposal of equine manure. Many in 'Horsetown, U.S.A.' see a threat to their lifestyle.
Ten years ago, after Judee Haddock married off the last of her three children, her house in Orange County suddenly felt very quiet. She was 53 years old -- far too young and far too healthy, she figured, to sit around listening to the floorboards creak.
Donations to Democratic campaigns prompt concern that the candidates will go soft on regulation of the financial markets.
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, who are running for president as economic populists, are benefiting handsomely from Wall Street donations, easily surpassing Republican John McCain in campaign contributions from the troubled financial services sector.
Faced with data showing that drivers pay attention to red light cameras — resulting in ever-shrinking revenue from fines — municipalities across the country are reconsidering the devices.
A major earthquake struck western China, but there were no reports of casualties. The 7.2-magnitude quake hit at 6:33 a.m. local time, about 140 miles southeast of the city of Hotan in southwest Xinjiang province.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sexual reproduction may be nearly as old as animal life itself, according to researchers who discovered a new species of organism that lived 540 million years ago.
NPR's Anne Garrels, who has been traveling back and forth to Iraq since before the war began, recalls some of the key moments and memorable people of the last five years -- from looting in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein to the U.S. troop surge.
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin says policymakers must examine the series of events and regulatory failures that led to the current credit crisis to prevent a reoccurrence.
LOS ANGELES - "Nappy-headed hos," the phrase that cost US radio shock jock Don Imus his job and triggered a debate on how far free speech can go, was named today as the most egregious politically incorrect turn of phrase in 2007.... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Mar 2008 | 3:10 am
Several hundred businessmen and politicians, including the former prime minister, have been detained since the president of Bangladesh declared a state of emergency 14 months ago.
Barack Obama's confidential passport file has been secretly looked at by three
US government officials in recent months, the Bush administration said
yesterday, with two of the workers involved fired. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:53 am
China's violent crackdown in Tibet could lead to protesters targeting the torch relay held before this year's Beijing Olympics, it has emerged. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:51 am
BEIJING - A major earthquake and two aftershocks hit China's northwestern region of Xinjiang on Friday morning, the China Earthquake Administration said, but there were no initial reports of casualties or damage.
China Earthquake... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:50 am
Residents of Litang -- which is 90 percent ethnically Tibetan -- are living in fear of the government's tightening control as shops are closed and the use of cars is banned. Simon Elegant, Beijing Bureau Chief for Time magazine talks with Robert Siegel.
OTTAWA - Canada will probe how blueprints for the new headquarters of an elite military counter-terrorism unit ended up in a pile of garbage, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said today.
The Canadian Joint Incident Response... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:20 am
David Cameron has apologised after he was filmed apparently breaking a series of traffic laws while cycling to Westminster. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
A woman sunbathing on a boat has died after a stingray leaped from the water, knocking her to the deck. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 21 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
China sent additional troops into restive areas and made more arrests in the Tibetan capital Lhasa in an effort to suppress anti-government protests even as the Dalai Lama offered face-to-face negotiations with Chinese leaders.
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is racing ahead of Barack Obama in the polls for the forthcoming Pennsylvania primary, but she still faces nearly insurmountable odds as she tries to wrest the Democratic nomination away from him.
Mrs... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 11:07 pm
Even in the cutthroat world of high finance, Bear Stearns stood out. Did hubris at the powerhouse that helped create the market for risky mortgage-backed securities help bring it to ruin?
BEIJING - Chinese police opened fire and wounded four protesters this week in unrest in a Tibetan community in the western province of Sichuan, Xinhua news agency reported today.
Citing police sources, the state-run news agency... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:15 pm
LONDON - A British cash machine became a big hit this week after it started paying out twice as much money as it should.
The ATM, outside a supermarket in they city of Hull in northern England, began spewing out double the money... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 8:00 pm
MIAMI - An eagle ray leaped onto a boat off the Florida Keys and stabbed a woman with its barb, knocking her to the deck and killing her, a Florida wildlife investigator said.
"It's a bizarre accident," said Jorge Pino, an agent... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:28 pm
Some of the innermost details of Hillary Clinton's time in the White House were put on public display yesterday when 11,000 pages of documents detailing her day-to-day routine throughout eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency were... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:25 pm
Hillary Clinton's campaign has seized on the fallout from the furore over Barack Obama's pastor to argue that her Democratic rival would be dangerously vulnerable in a general election against John McCain. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:18 pm
Scientists have for the first time detected methane gas in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star in an achievement that might soon lead to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Methane is an organic molecule... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:00 pm
EasyJet yesterday became the latest airline to add to the dark clouds gathering over the aviation industry with a warning that the historically high fuel price is making it much more difficult to make money.
Following the lead... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Mar 2008 | 7:00 pm
Pan-Arab Al-Jazeera TV on Thursday broadcast what it describes as a new audio tape by Osama bin Laden in which the al Qaeda leader slams Palestinian negotiations with Israel and urges holy war for the liberation of Palestine.
A new study, published in the journal Science, suggests that what matters most is not how much money we have but, rather, what we do with it. Spending money on others, it shows, can boost our own happiness.
A recent attempt to crash a commercial jet was act of sabotage by foreigners seeking independence for China's Central Asian province of Xinjiang, the region's top politician said in published comments. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Mar 2008 | 5:34 pm
A French woman with a rare, painful and disfiguring facial tumor who had sought doctor-assisted suicide has been found dead at her home in eastern France.
Osama bin Laden accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a "new Crusade" against Islam and warned of a "severe" reaction to European publications of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that insulted many Muslims.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that Israel has been repeatedly told to treat Arab-American Palestinians as American citizens at border crossings and elsewhere. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Mar 2008 | 4:09 pm
Palestinian militants accidentally set off a large blast while mishandling explosives at a Hamas training base in the central Gaza Strip, killing two members of the Islamic group and wounding another, Palestinian medical officials said.
Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate for American president, paid tribute to the role played by British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan today following a 45-minute meeting with Gordon Brown in Downing Street. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 20 Mar 2008 | 2:25 pm
At least five Pakistani troops have been killed by a suicide bomber at a military outpost near the border with Afghanistan. Violence continues to plague the country amid political uncertainty over who will be chosen to lead the country's government.
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.
Reuters - Mehdi Army fighters attacked police
patrols in southern Baghdad overnight, police said on Friday,
further fraying a seven-month-old ceasefire called by Shi'ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his militia.
AFP - Rival Cypriot leaders agreed to reopen a landmark street running through the heart of Cyprus's divided capital in a meeting Friday to kickstart peace talks, top UN representative Michael Moller said.
Reuters - French President Nicolas
Sarkozy pledged on Friday to maintain a strong nuclear weapons
program in order to defend his country against threats such as
the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran.
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AP - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a "once-in-a- lifetime leader" who can unite the nation and restore America's international leadership.
Reuters - New Mexico Gov. Bill
Richardson endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic
nomination for president, Obama's aides said on Friday, in a
boost for the Illinois senator.
AP - After serving six years in prison for trying to bomb police cars in the 1970s, former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson has been released on parole and reunited with the family she hid with for years.
Reuters - Tibetans in China's tense
southwestern province of Sichuan said on Friday they believed
police had killed several people in anti-Chinese riots there
this week, disputing official claims none died.
AP - High oil prices paining U.S. consumers is a key topic of Vice President Dick Cheney's talks Friday with Saudi King Abdullah, yet it's unclear whether Cheney will ask the Saudis to increase production to bring down prices at the pump.
AP - Two former members of the Beach Boys settled a five-year legal dispute over use of the band's name, a lawyer said.
AP - Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
Hurricane Katrina victims who hired Florida-based Call Henry to rebuild their homes are irked that the firm continues to do millions in federal business while it ignores their complaints about shoddy construction. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.
Philippine devotees re-enacted Jesus Christ's suffering Friday by having themselves nailed to crosses in rites frowned upon by church leaders.
China's government stepped up its manhunt Friday for protesters in last week's riots in the Tibetan capital, as thousands of troops converged on Tibetan areas of western China.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi called on the world Friday to denounce China's crackdown of anti-government protests in Tibet, calling the crisis "a challenge to the conscience of the world."
Ever since Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton started running for president, her team has argued that she is more electable than Senator Barack Obama. But some Democrats are now wondering if Obama's association with his controversial pastor could weaken him as a nominee.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, America's only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a "once-in-a- lifetime leader."
Faced with data showing that drivers pay attention to red light cameras — resulting in ever-shrinking revenue from fines — municipalities across the country are reconsidering the devices.
Two spacewalking astronauts pulled out a caulk gun and high-tech putty and tested a method for patching shuttle thermal tiles.