US Vice-President Dick Cheney says peace in the Middle East will require painful concessions on both sides. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 2:24 pm
THE HAGUE (AFP) - An American network provider Sunday said it had suspended a website that Dutch MP Geert Wilders had reserved to post his anti-Islamic film, which has sparked wide condemnation and fears of a backlash. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 23 Mar 2008 | 2:20 pm
CNET's blurb about Vista being one of tech's "biggest blunders" is actually from an op-ed that Microsoft should dump the OS entirely, while the PC Mag snippet is the title of a column from January that proffers ways for Microsoft to start-over. Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 2:16 pm
Christian pilgrims, undeterred by the recent violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip, sang and prayed on Easter Sunday at the church believed to be built on the site where Jesus rose from the dead. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 2:12 pm
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- A Mideast peace agreement will require "painful concessions" by Israelis and Palestinians who must work together to defeat those "committed to violence," Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 23 Mar 2008 | 2:05 pm
AP - A Mideast peace agreement will require "painful concessions" by Israelis and Palestinians who must work together to defeat those "committed to violence," Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.
He needs to be saved. I think he can be saved. I have to believe he can be saved, damn it! I'm going to try and help. While some of these points will be fairly obvious, hopefully I can also make a few that haven't been discussed much. Regardless, Sonic Team needs to know them. This is my humble guide to the salvation of our beloved hedgehog. Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 2:00 pm
As Christians celebrated across the globe, violence and strife (including a suicide bomb that killed at least 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounded dozens more) colored the holy day with remorse.
US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every man, woman, and child on earth. Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:59 pm
"I'm a little busy right now; I hardly have time to sleep. But I will certainly work toward releasing [my tax returns], and we will get that done and in the public domain." --Hillary Clinton, MSNBC debate, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 26, 2008.What is Hillary Clinton hiding? Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:50 pm
RAMALLAH (AFP) - US Vice President Dick Cheney warned Palestinians Sunday that anti-Israeli violence was killing hopes for their long overdue state as he kept up his Easter weekend bid to revive peace talks. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:50 pm
AFP - US Vice President Dick Cheney warned Palestinians Sunday that anti-Israeli violence was killing hopes for their long overdue state as he kept up his Easter weekend bid to revive peace talks.
A website expected to be used for the publication of a controversial Dutch film critical of Islam is suspended. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:30 pm
(Kyodo) _ Singapore said Sunday it has detained a suspected member of a Southeast Asian militant group who was groomed for leadership and met Osama bin Laden several times. Rijal Yadri Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:27 pm
Reuters - Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green
Zone" came under heavy rocket or mortar attack on Sunday, and
police said up to eight people had been killed by rockets
falling short outside the government and diplomatic compound.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" came under heavy rocket or mortar attack on Sunday, and police said up to eight people had been killed by rockets falling short outside the government and diplomatic compound.
AFP - A wave of attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed 47 people, while insurgents fired a barrage of mortars at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, sending US embassy staff scurrying into bunkers.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A wave of attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed 47 people, while insurgents fired a barrage of mortars at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, sending US embassy staff scurrying into bunkers. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:25 pm
A camouflaged hunter sitting in a tree was accidentally shot and killed Friday by another hunter trying to shoot a turkey, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:23 pm
Reuters - Pope Benedict called in his Easter
message on Sunday for an end to injustice, hatred and violence
around the world, including in Tibet, Iraq and Darfur.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called in his Easter message on Sunday for an end to injustice, hatred and violence around the world, including in Tibet, Iraq and Darfur.
Life expectancy for the nation as a whole has increased, but the affluent have made greater gains, researchers said. Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:21 pm
Family-oriented neighborhoods with the most affordable homes and the best schools may be hiding in places you've never heard of Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:18 pm
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves St. George's Chapel, Windsor, England, after Easter Service, Sunday, March 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Sang Tan/Pool) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:17 pm
Sophie Edington lowered a day-old world record in the women's 50-meter backstroke Sunday at the Australian swimming championships and Olympic trials. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:17 pm
The mother of teenager Scarlett Keeling says she fears for her safety after speaking out over her daughter's death. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:16 pm
I have defended Vice President Cheney, a man I've known for decades and with whom I served and made common cause in Congress. No longer. When the vice president dismisses public opposition to war with a simple "So?" he violates the single most important element in the American system of government: Here, the people rule. Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:15 pm
Reuters - Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and
Hamas signed on Sunday a Yemeni-sponsored reconciliation deal
vowing to revive direct talks after months of hostilities, but
differences remained over the future of the Gaza Strip.
SANAA (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed on Sunday a Yemeni-sponsored reconciliation deal vowing to revive direct talks after months of hostilities, but differences remained over the future of the Gaza Strip.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves St. George's Chapel, Windsor, England, after Easter Service, Sunday, March 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Sang Tan/Pool) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:13 pm
KUMAMOTO, Japan, March 23 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH FRESH INFO, ADDING KABASHIMA'S COMMENT) Ikuo Kabashima won the Kumamoto gubernatorial election Sunday with the help of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:07 pm
Iranian artillery shelled three border towns Sunday in northern Iraq where Iranian Kurdish rebels are believed to be operating, an Iraqi Kurdish official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:06 pm
ISLAMABAD, March 23 (Kyodo) _ Pakistan Peoples Party nominee Yousaf Raza Gillani and Pervez Elahi of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) filed nomination papers Sunday for election as... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:01 pm
TOKYO, March 23 (Kyodo) _ Special discretionary contracts without tenders based on estimates from only one firm accounted for around 32 percent of public projects and procurements... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:58 pm
More than a dozen insurgents are killed in a joint US-Afghan operation in southern Afghanistan, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:54 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has accused the Dalai Lama of plotting "terror" in Tibet and colluding with Uighur separatists in Xinjiang as it escalates a security and propaganda drive to stifle anti-Chinese unrest ahead of the Olympics.
Syracuse police shot a man with a Taser early this morning after he challenged them to a fight, but the 250-pound suspect pulled the device's electric darts out of his abdomen, laughed and said, "That's all you got?" Source: Digg | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:45 pm
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that Washington was doing its utmost to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations while dealing with emerging threats in the Middle East.
PARIS (AFP) - From the foothills of the Himalayas to a rain-soaked Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican, Christians around the world celebrated Easter Sunday, hearing messages of renewal, peace and hope. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:31 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH NUKAGA'S PRESS CONFERENCE) Japan and China on Sunday shared their concerns about the U.S. economic slowdown and the ongoing global market turmoil stemming... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:23 pm
US Vice-President Dick Cheney (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shake hands in Jerusalem. Cheney with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank, the latest stop on his Easter weekend... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:22 pm
(Kyodo) _ A man set himself ablaze Friday night at Myanmar's famous Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon to protest the country's junta, witnesses reported Sunday. The 26-year-old man shouted,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:17 pm
Reuters - China has accused the Dalai Lama of
plotting "terror" in Tibet and colluding with Uighur
separatists in Xinjiang as it escalates a security and
propaganda drive to stifle anti-Chinese unrest ahead of the
Olympics.
A U.S. soldier sings a song to praise lord as other listen to celebrate Easter at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 23, 2008.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:09 pm
The room where families will get a first glimpse of relatives who vanished in fighting in the 1960's and 1970's, at a new facility in the buffer zone separating Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities, in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:08 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: CLARIFYING 2ND, LAST GRAFS) Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga and his Chinese counterpart Xie Xuren reaffirmed Sunday the two countries will seek to clarify the Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:04 pm
AP - As floodwaters pushed against the Valley Park levee, Tracy Ziegler pushed a cold beer toward one of his customers at Meramec Jack's bar and grill.
AP - Just days after her release on parole, a former 1970s radical was headed back to prison Saturday to serve at least one more year after corrections officials said a miscalculation resulted in her early release.
YOKOSUKA, Japan, March 23 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: CLARIFYING QUOTE AT 3RD GRAF; ADDING INFO ABOUT JAPAN POLICE MOVES AT 8TH-10TH GRAFS) The U.S. military said Sunday it will cooperate if... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:58 am
AP - With their fifth and final spacewalk under their belt, Endeavour's astronauts planned to take some well-deserved time off on Sunday before starting the journey home.
(Kyodo) _ Taiwan's president-elect, Ma Ying-jeou, said Sunday he has "not ruled out" visiting Japan and the United States before his inauguration in May. "I am indeed considering using Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:49 am
British teenager Scarlett Keeling was killed by drowning, according to a pathologist's report. Her family's lawyer, Vikram Varma, said the report concluded the 15-year-old died... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:49 am
A Canadian NATO soldier sits on top of a armoured vehicle at his base, west of Kandahar. Afghan and international forces killed dozens of Taliban militants in an air and ground strike a day after three... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:40 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - Thousands of Okinawans rallied on Sunday to protest crimes by U.S. troops and demand a smaller U.S. military presence on the southern Japanese island after last month's arrest of a Marine on suspicion of raping a schoolgirl.
Thousands hear Pope Benedict call for peaceful solutions to the world's problems on Easter Day. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two astronauts from the US shuttle Endeavour have successfully completed a fifth and final spacewalk of their mission, stepping into the void to attach a 50-foot sensory boom to the outside of the International Space Station. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:18 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide car bomber killed at least 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounded dozens more people in Iraq's north on Sunday. Meanwhile, the U.S.-protected Green Zone in Baghdad came under fire from either mortars or rockets, and a round that fell short injured two bystanders.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:16 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Embattled President Pervez Musharraf hailed the start of a "new era of real democracy" in Pakistan and vowed Sunday to support an incoming government led by foes bent on diminishing his powers.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:11 am
Embattled President Pervez Musharraf hailed the start of a "new era of real democracy" in Pakistan and vowed Sunday to support an incoming government led by foes bent on diminishing his powers. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:11 am
Barack Obama refers to the past couple of weeks as a tough, turbulent stretch. And why not? Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:01 am
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen dominates the Malaysian Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton's McLaren down in fifth. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:56 am
Iraqis shop at a local market in Baghdad on March 13. At least 11 people were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad, including six when armed men opened fire on a crowd in a local market Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:43 am
People demonstrate in support for Tibet in Marseille, southern France. China accused the Dalai Lama of trying to take the Olympic Games "hostage", as a new official toll of those injured in the unrest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
Chinese soldiers patrol along a street in Kangding county in Sichuan province. China accused the Dalai Lama of trying to take the Olympic Games "hostage", as a new official toll of those injured in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
Workers clean up a Chinese-owned supermarket in Lhasa after it was destroyed during violent protests. China accused the Dalai Lama of trying to take the Olympic Games "hostage", as a new official toll... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
At least six people die in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, while 13 Iraqi soldiers are killed by a bomb in Mosul. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:25 am
CHENGDU, China (AP) -- China lashed out Sunday at critics of its crackdown on Tibetan protesters, describing U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as "habitually bad tempered" while claiming the Western media serve those who want to smear the communist country.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:19 am
TAIPEI (Reuters) - An end to the more than half a century of hostility and tension between Taiwan and China may be in the offing with the election of a more China-friendly president for the island, but progress will be slow and tortuous.
Vice President Dick Cheney began Easter Sunday with a prayer and the singing of "Amazing Grace" Sunday at a tiny chapel in Jerusalem, then launched into a day of talks about conflict.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim mourners are flocking to the grave of slain Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah, saying the man who had been wanted by the United States and Israel was now a symbol of defiance.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf pledges full support to the incoming coalition government of his opponents. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:47 am
A man hoping to cheer up an ailing relative at Wilcox Memorial Hospital hadn't considered one of the visitation rules: No horses allowed. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:40 am
Afghan and NATO forces kills more than 40 insurgents in a battle in southern Afghanistan, a security official said, while a roadside bomb slays two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:33 am
Cuban-born jazz musician Israel "Cachao" Lopez, credited with inventing the mambo, dies in Miami at the age of 89. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:25 am
Bush administration officials have made it substantially more difficult to designate domestic animals and plants for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:10 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan and NATO forces killed more than 40 insurgents in a joint air and ground battle in southern Afghanistan, a security official said Sunday. Separately, two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition died after hitting a roadside bomb.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:08 am
Suspected Shiite extremists fired two barrages at the U.S.-protected Green Zone, and a suicide bomber stuck an Iraqi army position in northern Iraq, killing 10 Iraqi soldiers and wounding 50.
A man runs amok in a shopping centre in Japan, killing one person and wounding seven others. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 23 Mar 2008 | 8:21 am
TOKYO (AP) -- One person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were hurt by a man who went on a knifing spree Sunday at a shopping mall in eastern Japan, police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 23 Mar 2008 | 7:58 am
A 114-year-old woman, considered the oldest person in Texas, has died at a Dallas retirement home. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 7:37 am
Senator John McCain’s trip abroad this week — which took him from the Middle East to the Élysée Palace in Paris— was partly an audition on the world stage in his role as Republican nominee. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 7:33 am
With restive Tibetan areas swarming with troops and closed to scrutiny from the outside world, China's government has turned up efforts to put its own version of the unrest before the international public. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Mar 2008 | 7:10 am
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's opposition is ready to hold talks with the ruling coalition to end an embarrassing vacancy at the helm of the central bank, a senior official said Sunday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 23 Mar 2008 | 7:06 am
The former member of the SLA, paroled last week, is back in prison. State officials say she has to serve one more year.
California authorities rearrested Sara Jane Olson at noon Saturday, just hours after she was prevented from flying home to Minnesota from Los Angeles, and said she must serve one more year in prison because they miscalculated her release date.
The American death toll in the 5-year-old war nears 4,000.
The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq edged closer Saturday to the milestone figure of 4,000 as a roadside bomb claimed the lives of three soldiers.
An alleged gang member accused of killing a 17-year-old high school student just one day after being released from jail has been living in the country illegally, possibly for more than a decade, federal immigration authorities said Saturday.
Nationalist chief Ma Ying-jeou has pledged to improve ties with China and boost defense spending.
Opposition party candidate Ma Ying-jeou won a landslide victory Saturday in Taiwan's presidential election, paving the way for greater attention to the economy and improved ties with the United States and China.
YANGON (Reuters) - An unidentified man apparently suffering from economic hardship in military-ruled Myanmar has set himself ablaze in the country's historic Shwedagon Pagoda, witnesses said on Sunday.
Police say a man's excuse for speeding through a small Connecticut town takes the cake — or, at least, the cookie. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:41 am
A man hoping to cheer up an ailing relative at Wilcox Memorial Hospital hadn't considered one of the visitation rules: No horses allowed. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:02 am
Public broadcaster NHK says one person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were injured by a man who went on a knifing spree at a shopping mall in eastern Japan. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 4:49 am
Vanderbilt's motto this season is "No Pressure." And that's exactly how it went in the NCAA tournament opener. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 4:49 am
A small plane that crashed last week in South Florida, killing all four people aboard, apparently spun into the ground and might have been overloaded, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released Saturday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 23 Mar 2008 | 4:43 am
Endeavour’s astronauts completed the fifth and final spacewalk of their mission Saturday, attaching an inspection pole to the international space station for use during the next mission.
MOSCOW (AFP) - The arrest this week of two British-educated men on spying charges in Moscow was less a Cold War-style incident than a Kremlin power game around who controls oil giant TNK-BP, analysts say. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 23 Mar 2008 | 3:57 am
Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.
With information flow stanched and foreign journalists banned, the Chinese government attempts to fill the vacuum via TV, the Internet, e-mail and YouTube
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:24 am
Three more U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, raising the death toll to 3,996. Meanwhile, in a tragic friendly fire incident, an American air strike hit checkpoints manned by U.S.-allied Sunni fighters, killing six guards and wounding two.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict led the world's Catholics into Easter at a Vatican service where he baptised a Muslim-born convert who is one of Italy's most famous and controversial journalists.
The German-born pontiff, marking the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:43 am
As a result of fraternal collaboration between top brains in the Foreign Office and the elite mouche sur le mur department in Paris, it has been possible to record the meeting between Gordon Brown and President Nicolas Sarkozy before it actually happens. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
In an exclusive interview to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, General David Petraeus tells Colin Freeman why he refuses to get carried away - even if he hopes Harrison Ford will play him in the inevitable Hollywood film. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
An Anglo-French plan for a new generation of nuclear power stations will be unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Nicolas Sarkozy's popularity has plunged as the French balk at his reforms, but he's a seasoned political bruiser with an eye on the long game, writes Anne-Elisabeth Moutet. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
JK Rowling has revealed that she thought of killing herself while suffering
from depression as a struggling single mother. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Gordon Brown yesterday faced an unprecedented challenge to his authority as he
came under new pressure to cave in over controversial embryo research
legislation. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Child protection officers in West Yorkshire were “actively considering” taking
Shannon Matthews into care days before the nine-year-old schoolgirl was
kidnapped, sources close to the police investigation have said. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Britain's richest men and women must curb their greed and begin sharing their
wealth to save their souls, one of the Church of England’s senior bishops
has warned. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Taiwan elects a new president, who is promising to strengthen ties with China. Ma Ying-jeou is a graduate of Harvard University and former mayor of Taipei. Ma's victory is seen as an opportunity to defuse long-simmering tensions with Beijing over the outgoing president's pro-independence moves.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's opposition candidate won the presidential election Saturday, a victory many hope will defuse tension with China over the neighboring island's aspirations for independence.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 22 Mar 2008 | 11:05 pm
OREGON - A retired US Air Force general who supports Barack Obama's campaign for the Democratic nomination has criticised former President Bill Clinton for appearing to question Obama's patriotism.
Merrill Tony McPeak told an Obama... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 10:31 pm
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney reassured Israel that Washington wouldn't pressure it to take steps that would endanger its survival, and expressed hope for a "new beginning" for the Palestinian people in their own state.
DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- Nearly six decades of struggle against the might of China has taught the Tibetans one thing: Ask the world for little, expect less.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:16 a... | 22 Mar 2008 | 9:34 pm
Owners frequently violate labor and immigration laws with little risk of penalty, officials say. Many workers are loath to complain, but some have formally accused their bosses of underpaying them.
A team of state inspectors strode into the Blue Wave Car Wash in West Los Angeles, past latte-sipping customers in electric massage chairs and into the gritty carwash tunnel.
The political party that runs Pakistan's parliament announces Saturday the candidate it wants to become the country's new prime minister: Yousuf Raza Gilani. He is likely to assume the post on Monday.
Shoppers are starting to select their chocolate bars as they would a bottle of wine - studying the cocoa content and the origin of the beans.
British retailers are stocking specialist high-cocoa bars from places such as Ecuador... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
ISLAMABAD - The party of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto nominated former National Assembly speaker Yousaf Raza Gilani as its candidate for prime minister, a party spokesman said.
President Pervez Musharraf... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 8:49 pm
MELBOURNE - The legal drinking age could be lifted to 21 if attempts fail to curb binge drinking among the young, according to the Victorian Government's top alcohol adviser.
Professor Jon Currie, chairman of the Victorian Drug... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 8:42 pm
A retired British nurse who police say was romantically linked to an odd-job man half her age has been found murdered at her holiday home in Jamaica. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Mar 2008 | 8:41 pm
BEIJING - A group of 29 Chinese dissidents has urged Beijing to open direct dialogue with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the wake of rioting in the region.
Monk-led anti-Chinese protests erupted in Tibet's... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 8:30 pm
More bodies may be buried at the ranch where mass murderer Charles Manson went into hiding after his "family's" killings, a new investigation has revealed.
Manson, now 73, is the evil cult leader whose followers he dubbed his family... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 7:00 pm
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday is already being hailed as one of the most powerful discourses on race ever given by a politician. But many of its themes rested on the traditions of other African-American orators and leaders.
Los dueños con frecuencia infringen leyes laborales y de inmigración con poco riesgo de castigo, según funcionarios. Muchos empleados son renuentes a quejarse, pero algunos han acusado formalmente a sus jefes de pagarles de menos.
Un equipo de inspectores estatales entró al Blue Wave Car Wash en West Los Ángeles, pasando a los clientes que sorbían sus lattes sentados en sillas de masaje eléctricas, y se dirigieron hacia el austero túnel donde se lavan los coches.
Taiwan's opposition candidate cruised to victory in the presidential election, promising to expand economic ties with China while protecting the island from being swallowed up politically by its giant communist neighbor.
The search for a missing millionaire executive of a UK newspaper has entered its second week after Latvian police failed to make any headway on his disappearance last week.
Leonid Rozhetskin, the Russian-born backer of the business... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 5:22 pm
China might bar live television broadcasts from Tiananmen Square during the Beijing Olympics, apparently unnerved by the recent outburst of unrest among Tibetans and fearful of protests in the heart of the Chinese capital.
Everything I've read on the Mills-McCartney case has portrayed Heather Mills as a money-grabbing, gold-digging ex-wife. One Australian commentator went as far as calculating on a per-minute basis what Mills had acquired from her relationship... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 4:59 pm
Labour and National should stop squirming over Tibet and be straight with us. It's embarrassing having them wringing their hands telling us how "concerned" they are about the suppression and killing of Tibetan independence protesters... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 Mar 2008 | 4:58 pm
Iraqi police say airstrikes killed U.S.-allied fighters, but military says those killed were acting suspiciously; roadside blast northwest of Baghdad kills three American soldiers. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Mar 2008 | 3:52 pm
South Korea's top diplomat warned North Korea on Saturday that time was running short for the communist nation to make progress in stalled negotiations over its nuclear programs, a news report said. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 Mar 2008 | 3:38 pm
Kenya is getting back to business after two months of ethnic bloodletting kicked off by a contested presidential election. While the political combatants have figured out a way to work together, Kenyans are struggling to put the internecine clashes behind them.
Over the past week, the Federal Reserve has made a serious of unprecedented moves to shore up confidence in the shaken investment community. Former Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder explains what the moves mean for taxpayers and the rest of the economy.
Over the past week of uprisings in Tibet, the Chinese government has cut access to Western media websites to keep the Chinese people from finding out how serious the crisis has been. James Fallows of Atlantic Monthly explains how China's "Great Firewall" works.
China has defied international calls for it to hold talks with the Dalai Lama and pledged to intensify its brutal crackdown on Tibetan protests against its rule. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 22 Mar 2008 | 2:58 pm
It was hold your hats and grab a railing yesterday as gusts of up to 55 mph swept pedestrians off their feet in blustery Boston.
"I probably shouldn't have...
TOKYO-TO-OSAKA-TO-TOKYO -- Took a ride with Herald photographer Matt West on the bullet train today, back and forth from Tokyo to Osaka. Lots of fun, no nausea. The ride's...
Few other fans are more excited about next week's Red Sox season openers in Japan than the students at Showa Boston.
Nestled on Moss Hill overlooking Jamaica Pond,...
Former NESN Red Sox reporter Tina Cervasio has taken a job in New York City at the Madison Square Garden Network (MSG). Here's my interview with Cervasio in Saturday's...
TOKYO - One thing's for sure: If you give it enough time, you'll quickly discover that Japanese TV is just as bad, weird and hypnotizing as it is in the United States.
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When the New York Yankees returned from their season-opening trip to Japan in 2004, some players groused that traveling to the other side of the globe screwed them up.
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TOKYO - It wouldn't be fair to say Japan has moved on from Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, but its baseball fans have begun to anoint his replacement.
"Without...
TOKYO - Clay Buchholz ran into a slight, second-inning hiccup before a singing and chanting sellout crowd at last night's exhibition game against the Hanshin Tigers in...
Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party claimed victory Saturday in the country's presidential elections. President-elect Ma Ying-jeou has pledged closer economic ties with mainland China.
AP - A Mideast peace agreement will require "painful concessions" by Israelis and Palestinians who must work together to defeat those "committed to violence," Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.
AFP - US Vice President Dick Cheney warned Palestinians Sunday that anti-Israeli violence was killing hopes for their long overdue state as he kept up his Easter weekend bid to revive peace talks.
Reuters - Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green
Zone" came under heavy rocket or mortar attack on Sunday, and
police said up to eight people had been killed by rockets
falling short outside the government and diplomatic compound.
AFP - A wave of attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed 47 people, while insurgents fired a barrage of mortars at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, sending US embassy staff scurrying into bunkers.
Reuters - Pope Benedict called in his Easter
message on Sunday for an end to injustice, hatred and violence
around the world, including in Tibet, Iraq and Darfur.
Reuters - Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and
Hamas signed on Sunday a Yemeni-sponsored reconciliation deal
vowing to revive direct talks after months of hostilities, but
differences remained over the future of the Gaza Strip.
Reuters - China has accused the Dalai Lama of
plotting "terror" in Tibet and colluding with Uighur
separatists in Xinjiang as it escalates a security and
propaganda drive to stifle anti-Chinese unrest ahead of the
Olympics.
AP - As floodwaters pushed against the Valley Park levee, Tracy Ziegler pushed a cold beer toward one of his customers at Meramec Jack's bar and grill.
AP - Just days after her release on parole, a former 1970s radical was headed back to prison Saturday to serve at least one more year after corrections officials said a miscalculation resulted in her early release.
AP - With their fifth and final spacewalk under their belt, Endeavour's astronauts planned to take some well-deserved time off on Sunday before starting the journey home.
Vice President Dick Cheney began Easter Sunday with a prayer and the singing of "Amazing Grace" Sunday at a tiny chapel in Jerusalem, then launched into a day of talks about conflict.
Suspected Shiite extremists fired two barrages at the U.S.-protected Green Zone, and a suicide bomber stuck an Iraqi army position in northern Iraq, killing 10 Iraqi soldiers and wounding 50.
A San Diego-based Marine major was reunited on Saturday with one of his closest war buddies — a 2-year-old dog named Nubs.
Science-fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke was buried Saturday to the music of his most famous work, the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey,"
Endeavour’s astronauts completed the fifth and final spacewalk of their mission Saturday, attaching an inspection pole to the international space station for use during the next mission.