Rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone on Sunday and a homicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul in an upsurge of attacks that left nearly 50 people dead nationwide. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Mar 2008 | 5:12 pm
Since the days of punch cards, IT has believed itself to be guardian of precious computing resources against attacks from non-technical barbarians known as “users.” This arrogant attitude reflects inability to adapt to present-day realities. Such attitudes, combined with recent technological and social changes, are pushing IT to extinction Source: Digg | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:32 pm
The family of murdered teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker make a fresh appeal in Japan for help to catch her killer. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:26 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) The ruling and opposition parties remained apart Monday over a government tax bill aimed at maintaining provisionally raised road- related taxes, with the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:23 pm
Reuters - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said
on Monday he did not believe Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas would agree to reconcile with Hamas until the Islamist
group gave up control of the Gaza Strip.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday he did not believe Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would agree to reconcile with Hamas until the Islamist group gave up control of the Gaza Strip.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will impose strict security on the Olympic Games torch relay through restive Tibet to Mount Everest, as the government seeks to prevent any protests upsetting the symbolic display of national unity.
Reuters - China will impose strict security on
the Olympic Games torch relay through restive Tibet to Mount
Everest, as the government seeks to prevent any protests
upsetting the symbolic display of national unity.
TOKYO - A new injury has forced the Red Sox' specialized Japanese-only roster to be re-jiggered the day before the season opens.
Sean Casey's stiff neck, which...
People in Bhutan have been voting in elections that will bring an end to more than a century of royal rule. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:09 pm
Reuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co is in
talks to raise its takeover offer for Bear Stearns Cos
to about $10 a share in an effort to appease Bear shareholders
angry with the cut-rate deal, a person briefed on the
discussions said on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co is in talks to raise its takeover offer for Bear Stearns Cos to about $10 a share in an effort to appease Bear shareholders angry with the cut-rate deal, a person briefed on the discussions said on Monday.
TOKYO - The "Konami" sign in left field at the Tokyo Dome will never rank up there with the Green Monster at Fenway Park. But if the ball clears either of them off...
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TOKYO - Even a half a world away, Jonathan Papelbon took notice.
Word was trickling out of Fort Myers that Minnesota closer Joe Nathan was on the verge of signing...
AP - Two men carrying black flags ran onto the field of the stadium in Ancient Olympia during Monday's flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, evading massive security aimed at preventing such disruptions amid China's crackdown in Tibet.
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) -- Two men carrying black flags ran onto the field of the stadium in Ancient Olympia during Monday's flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, evading massive security aimed at preventing such disruptions amid China's crackdown in Tibet.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:58 am
Rebirth, renewal, refreshment.
These words sound attractive, and yet somehow pretentious. Are they reasonable expectations of the season? Possibilities within the confines...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH ARREST) House of Representatives lawmaker Hiroshi Hiraguchi suffered a slight injury in the neck Monday morning after he was assaulted by a man while... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:58 am
JP Morgan Chase is in talks to strongly raise its offer for Bear Stearns, according to a report in the US. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:57 am
AP - The Coast Guard searched through the night for a crew member missing from a fishing vessel that sank off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing the captain and three crew members. Forty-two crew members were rescued.
(Kyodo) _ The Tokyo District Court sentenced a company executive to one year in prison, suspended for three years, on Monday for threatening lawmaker Masaaki Itokawa over his... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:55 am
Pakistan's National Assembly elects a new prime minister Monday. Yousuf Raza Gilani is expected to be the official head of a coalition government, dominated by the two parties that swept last month's elections.
South Korea is introducing new signs for its hot spring spas to remove any confusion for those seeking other kinds of steamy liaisons. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:52 am
Tiffany says loans made to a diamond company hurt its fourth-quarter earnings, but adjusted results beat analyst expectations. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
When you go to bed and when you get up are keystones to restful, refreshing sleep. Once you learn to synchronize your body's biological clock, your body will know when to sleep and when to be alert. Here's 5 ways to do it... Source: Digg | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
AP - The number of suspected salmonella cases linked to an outbreak in this southern Colorado town topped 200 Sunday. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:49 am
AFP - A bomb killed four US soldiers in Baghdad, the military said Monday, pushing the toll since the 2003 invasion to a grim milestone of 4,000 that US Vice President Dick Cheney admitted would have a "psychological" impact.
CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims in a new audiotape released Monday to strike Jewish and American targets in revenge for Israel's...
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has admitted she contemplated suicide while suffering from depression following the breakdown of her first marriage. Source: Digg | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:38 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq reached 4,000 on Monday, days after the fifth anniversary of a war that President George W. Bush says the United States is on track to win.
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. - Jobless and with no prospects, Drew Peterson spends his days taking care of his four children: cooking meals, washing clothes, helping with homework. All...
The Olympic torch is lit in Greece, in a ceremony briefly disrupted by pro-Tibet demonstrators. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:33 am
Don't let the Senate kill Prop 2 1/2. For years Prop 2 1/2 has kept property taxes from escalating out of control.
Now there is an attempt to exempt seniors from override...
AP - For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, sagging home values, creeping inflation, the slouching dollar and a stock market in bumpy descent.
AP - JPMorgan Chase & Co. was discussing a deal that would increase fivefold its offer for Bear Stearns Cos. to $10 a share, The New York Times reported Monday.
AP - Traditional media companies trying to stem the flow of advertising dollars to Google and other large Internet companies are increasingly building ad networks of their own, anchored by their brands.
(Kyodo) _ Japanese astronaut Takao Doi of Space Shuttle Endeavour now visiting the International Space Station expressed his happiness Monday Japan time at the successful installation of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:27 am
A 10-year-old boy has disappeared as he walked the short distance from his friend's house to his own home in Birmingham, sparking an urgent police investigation. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:26 am
During his first two seasons as manager of the Red Sox, Terry Francona did not know what he was walking into. The first year it was because the Red Sox had not won a World...
(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will visit the Lake Toya hot- spring resort area in Hokkaido on April 5-6 to tour the site of the Group of Eight summit scheduled to be held there in Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:23 am
After last year's World Series - after the parties, after the champagne toasts, after the parades - it was time for the Red Sox baseball operations department to get...
MANILA (Reuters) - Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, whose conquest of one of the 20th century's most corrupt dictators made her an icon of democracy across the world, is suffering from... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:22 am
A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a "voiceless" phone call for the first time. Source: Digg | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:19 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:18 am
The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:15 am
The U.S. dollar was higher against most other major currencies in European trading Monday morning. European gold and silver markets were closed for a public holiday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:12 am
THIMPU (Reuters) - Immaculately turned out in traditional dress, the people of Bhutan formed long queues at polling stations on Monday to vote in the first parliamentary elections in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:08 am
Zimbabwe's MDC says there are millions of extra ballot papers, but officials reject claims they may be misused. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:07 am
(Kyodo) _ An international tuna conservation body will hold informal talks in Tokyo on Wednesday and Thursday amid expectations that an agreement will be reached on the need to respect... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:05 am
(Kyodo) _ China on Monday arrested five Tibetans over two arson cases which took place during deadly riots in Tibet earlier this month, the Public Security Ministry said, bringing the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:03 am
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims in a new audiotape released Monday to strike Jewish and American targets in revenge for Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:01 am
Three pro-Tibet activist have briefly disrupted the ceremony in which the Olympic torch for the Beijing Games was lit in Greece. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 24 Mar 2008 | 11:01 am
The Iraq war has claimed at least 4,000 American lives, according to the Associated Press. One of those Americans -- Maj. Alan Greg Rogers -- was killed in January. Rogers' cousin, Cathy Long, and best friend, Shay Hill, gathered with other extended family earlier this month to bury him at Arlington National Cemetery.
US Vice-President Dick Cheney says Hamas, along with Iran and Syria, is trying to torpedo Middle East peace. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:56 am
Pakistani MPs are to choose a PM, with the candidate of the Pakistan People's Party expected to win. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:56 am
Sentiment among Japanese companies worsened during first quarter as high materials prices and a strong yen ate into their profits, a government survey showed Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:55 am
After a failed run for president, Fred Thompson is getting back to pretending to be commander in chief. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
A car bomb exploded outside a bank in southern Russia's violence-plagued Ingushetia region Monday, wounding at least five people, authorities said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:49 am
NAZRAN, Russia (AP) -- A car bomb exploded outside a bank in southern Russia's violence-plagued Ingushetia region Monday, wounding at least five people, authorities said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:49 am
A modular Windows 7 could mean many things: improved performance, increased security, and more customization. It also signals Microsoft's intent to start charging subscription rates for certain Windows features, too. Source: Digg | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:39 am
"This is partially because the slower surface suits my style, plays to my strong forehand, and allows me to best use my energy. And it is partially because I have embraced the fundamental, life-giving clay—the substance from which God formed all men—and taken it into the deepest aspects of my very being." Source: Digg | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:39 am
Around 100 police officers on Afghanistan's poppy eradication force were killed in the line of duty over the last year, an official said Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:38 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's National Assembly is set to elect a prime minister on Monday five weeks after President Pervez Musharraf's opponents swept a general election.
Nicolas Sarkozy's former wife Cécilia has remarried five months after her divorce from the French president, according to reports. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:22 am
Daisuke Matsuzaka has traveled the globe pitching in big games — the Olympics, the World Baseball Classic, the World Series. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:21 am
Somalia's interim prime minister meets Hawiye elders as he tries to quelll insurgent attacks Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:11 am
ANCIENT OLYMPIA (AFP) - The Beijing Olympics flame was lit in a tightly-guarded ceremony here on Monday at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
HONG KONG (AP) -- Eighteen Ukrainian sailors were feared dead Monday after they were trapped underwater in their capsized tugboat in Hong Kong for nearly 45 hours amid strong currents, a salvage company said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 9:56 am
A car bomb injures at least four in Nazran, the main town in Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Mar 2008 | 9:50 am
South Korea's president has asked North Korea to consider sending home prisoners of war and captured civilians in return for receiving humanitarian aid from Seoul. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Mar 2008 | 9:49 am
The number of US troops to die in Iraq since the invasion began five years ago
hit 4,000 last night after a roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four soldiers. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 24 Mar 2008 | 9:31 am
Paramilitary police guard a street in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan province. A stifling security presence in the Tibetan-populated areas of Yunnan is keeping a lid on anti-Chinese sentiment, curbing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 9:24 am
A Tibetan monk in exile takes part in an anti-Chinese demonstration near the United Nations headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Tibetan government-in-exile have told AFP that around 130 people have been... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 9:24 am
The Tibetan government-in-exile have told AFP that around 130 people have been confirmed killed in a Chinese crackdown on protests and unrest in Tibet. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 9:24 am
Tibetan demonstrators take part in a street drama in New Delhi that recreates an alleged crackdown by Chinese soldiers on Tibetan protesters in Lhasa. Around 130 people have been confirmed killed in a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 9:24 am
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Space shuttle Endeavour was set to depart from the International Space Station on Monday, ending a long and busy stay that had astronauts thinking fondly about the return home.
A Chinese truck driver is seen in a back mirror while waiting outside a Sinopec gas station in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province, Monday, March 24, 2008. China's leaders are facing renewed pressure... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 8:54 am
Bhutanese refugees wait at the International Organization for Migration Transit Camp for resettlement, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 24, 2008. More than 100,000 ethnic Nepalis, a Hindu minority concentrated... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 8:47 am
A Bhutanese refugee Prem Kala Budhathoki, left, waits at the International Organization for Migration Transit Camp for resettlement, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 24, 2008. More than 100,000 ethnic... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 8:45 am
Fed up with his husbands drinking ways, an unidentified woman ties up her husband as he tries to kick her, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 24, 2008. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 8:42 am
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, right, arranges the title belts of Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao during his courtesy call at the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila on Monday March... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 8:38 am
Malha Mohsin, a 75-year-old Iraqi woman collects natural salt to sell on the market near Haydaria, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March, 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Mar 2008 | 8:37 am
DHARAMSHALA (AFP) - Around 130 people have been confirmed killed in a Chinese crackdown on protests and unrest in Tibet, the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile told AFP on Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Mar 2008 | 8:29 am
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Nearly 40 trucks carrying fuel to U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan have been destroyed in two bomb attacks on the Pakistani border. Officials say about 100 people have been injured.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 7:59 am
JERUSALEM (AFP) - US Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday wrapped up a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories aimed at energising the faltering Middle East peace talks. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Mar 2008 | 7:57 am
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament speaker said on Sunday he would invite rival Lebanese leaders for direct talks if an Arab summit in Syria this week failed to find a solution to the country's political deadlock.
Benedict XVI calls for 'moderation and forgiveness,' particularly in Tibet and the Middle East.
Decrying modern "wounds that disfigure humanity," Pope Benedict XVI used a rain-soaked Easter Sunday to make a plea for the "moderation and forgiveness" that can bring peace to troubled parts of the world, especially the Middle East and Tibet.
Four American soldiers die in an explosion in south Baghdad on a day when more than 60 Iraqis are also killed.
Four U.S. soldiers were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in south Baghdad late Sunday, bringing the number of U.S. service members killed in the Iraq war to 4,000.
Further cuts in reimbursement rates are forcing doctors to reject new patients.
After San Diego ear, nose and throat physician Ted Mazer recently billed the state's medical insurance program for the poor for a tonsillectomy, he got a check for $168, too little to cover surgical costs. The balance came out of his pocket.
But the vice president adds that the path to peace is blocked unless militant groups are brought under control.
Declaring that an independent Palestinian state was "long overdue," Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that the success of the U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations depends on the Palestinian ability to rein in militant groups that favor armed resistance over negotiations.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The death toll of US soldiers in the five-year Iraq conflict has hit 4,000 in what the US military said Monday was a "tragic" loss of lives after four troops were killed in a Baghdad bombing. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Mar 2008 | 6:21 am
THIMPHU (AFP) - Bhutan was set to bring a century of absolute monarchy to an end Monday with the election of the tiny Himalayan nation's first democratic government. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Mar 2008 | 5:45 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers who used cloned embryonic stem cells to treat Parkinson's disease in mice said on Sunday they worked better than other cells.
The secluded Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, a land that has made promoting happiness its paramount goal, was ending more than a century of royal rule with its first parliamentary elections.
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI rejoiced over conversions to Christianity in an Easter Sunday Mass on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica a day after he baptized a prominent Muslim newspaper editor.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 5:21 am
Eighteen Ukrainian sailors were trapped underwater in their capsized tugboat after it collided with a cargo ship in Hong Kong waters, a marine official said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Shifting China's model of urbanization to favor huge supercities could boost per capita output, improve energy efficiency and help contain the loss of arable land, the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) said on Monday.
A young, ambitious immigrant from Guatemala who dreamed of becoming an architect. A Nigerian medic. A soldier from China who boasted he would one day become an American general. An Indian native whose headstone displays the first Khanda, emblem of the Sikh faith, to appear in Arlington National Cemetery.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 3:37 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Ten years ago this month the lives of millions of men and women were changed almost overnight by the advent of a little blue pill -- the first oral treatment for impotence. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Mar 2008 | 3:03 am
SINGAPORE (AFP) - World oil prices fell by more than a dollar in Asian trade Monday amid fresh concerns energy demand would be affected by the slowing US economy, dealers said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Mar 2008 | 3:03 am
Chaplain Kevin Wainwright was preparing his Easter Sunday sermon in Iraq when there was a knock on his door.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 24 Mar 2008 | 3:02 am
Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb blast in southern Baghdad late Sunday, raising the death toll for American forces since start of the war to 4,000, according to the Pentagon.
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling said she contemplated suicide as she suffered from depression before her rise to success, according to an interview with a student journalist. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 24 Mar 2008 | 2:14 am
Georgetown won't be making a return trip to the Final Four. The Midwest Region's No. 2 seed was stunned by 10th-seeded Davidson on Sunday in the NCAA Tournament.
The Pope has risked a renewed rift with the Islamic world by baptising a
Muslim journalist who describes Islam as intrinsically violent and
characterised by “hate and intolerance”. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
A group of Chinese writers, dissidents and lawyers has braved the threat of government retribution and the hostility of angry nationalists by calling for talks with the Dalai Lama and an end to the propaganda war over Tibet. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Restrictions on public buildings flying the Union flag are to be lifted under Gordon Brown's plans to boost Britishness. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Senior scientists have offered to meet Roman Catholic bishops and MPs to
explain the need for legislation to allow experiments on embryos that are
part-human and part-animal. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Cigarettes are to be forced beneath shop counters with supermarkets and
cornershops banned from displaying tobacco products, The Times has learnt . Source: Top stories from Times Online | 24 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Astronauts aboard NASA's shuttle Endeavour rested and packed up their spacecraft on Sunday for the trip back to Earth, after completing a record-setting five spacewalks at the international space station.
JaJuan Smith hit four straight free throws in the final 13.6 seconds of overtime, and Tennessee held on for a 76-71 win over Butler on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA tournament, barely surviving a game the Vols at times threatened to turn into a rout.
Al Copeland, who became rich selling spicy fried chicken and notorious for his flamboyant lifestyle, died Sunday at a clinic near Munich, Germany. He was 64. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:05 pm
Four crew members died Sunday and another was missing after a Seattle-based fishing boat began sinking in high seas off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the Coast Guard said.
Al Copeland, who became rich selling spicy fried chicken and notorious for his flamboyant lifestyle, died today at a clinic near Munich, Germany. He was 64.
Former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson was wrongly released from prison this week because of an "administrative error," a Department of Corrections official says.
Rockets and mortars pounded Baghdad's U.S.-protected Green Zone and a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul in a surge of attacks that killed at least 57 people nationwide.
Old photos of the Interstate 35W bridge show two steel connecting plates were visibly bent as early as 2003 — four years before the span collapsed into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people.
Rockets and mortars pummeled the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Sunday, and in a separate attack in the northern city of Mosul, a suicide bomber set off an explosion near an Iraqi army military post.
Much of Britain resembled a Christmas card as snow covered the country over the bank holiday weekend - except that it was Easter. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 23 Mar 2008 | 7:03 pm
AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) -- It's four in the morning and the convoy is staged and ready to roll. Today's run has 70 vehicles - 50 trucks loaded with food, water and supplies and 20 military escorts, guns mounted and turrets manned.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:17 a... | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:44 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.
The mother of the murdered teenager Scarlett Keeling has gone into hiding, saying that she fears for her safety after criticising the investigation into her daughter's death in southern India. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:34 pm
A man in his late fifties pushed a home-made bicycle through the crowds gathered for an impromptu political rally in Ebworth, a rural suburb of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. His shoes were made of strips of rubber tyre, an old skill... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
She could have Je Ne Regrette Rien . But a sweeter choice of wedding song when Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz takes the first dance with her new husband in New York today would be Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better).
It is only five... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Pakistan's newly elected Government will seek to negotiate with Islamic militants and demilitarise the campaign against them to end the violence racking the country, leaders of the major coalition parties who will take power this... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
David Shearer's CV reads like a list of the world's worst troublespots - he's worked in Somalia, Rwanda, Gaza, Lebanon and now Iraq.
For the past six months, the 50-year-old from Auckland has been the United Nation's deputy envoy... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
CANBERRA - Smokers will be told to butt out of more of Australia's most popular beaches as the nation continues to add to the list of public places closed to tobacco.
Victoria's Surf Coast Shire, south of Melbourne, is launching... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
LONDON - A British children's charity attacked a judge yesterday, claiming he was "trivialising" child abuse and making it more difficult for victims to come forward after a second sentence he imposed on a convicted child molester... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
The search for an Australian manto play Jesus for a worldwide TV audience of around one billion has been narrowed down to four. All are in the 25-30 age group and allare Catholics.
The re-enactment of the final stages in the life... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Saddam Hussein's son Uday planned to carry out an attack in London to assassinate the leader of an Iraqi opposition group in April 2000, it is being reported. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Mar 2008 | 4:30 pm
Pope Benedict XVI rejoiced over conversions to Christianity a day after he baptized a prominent Muslim, marking Easter Sunday in a rain-drenched appearance he used to renew calls for peace in Iraq, the Holy Land and Tibet. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Mar 2008 | 2:55 pm
The crackdown in Tibet has attracted the attention of human-rights activists. On Monday, the Olympic flame begins an 85,000-mile journey on its way to Beijing, site of the 2008 Olympics. Protesters plan to dog torch bearers along the way.
Hamas and Fatah agree to statement signaling future reconciliation but fail to reach power-sharing deal over West Bank and Gaza. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:55 pm
U.S. stock and bond markets wrap up a three-day weekend -- a much-needed break after a tumultuous week, which began with the fire sale of Bear Stearns. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week up nearly 3.5 percent. But it wasn't easy.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf pledges support for the country's new government, calling it an era of real democracy. But Pakistan's incoming prime minister, former parliament speaker Yousaf Raza Gilani, faces a truly daunting task.
Reuters - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said
on Monday he did not believe Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas would agree to reconcile with Hamas until the Islamist
group gave up control of the Gaza Strip.
Reuters - China will impose strict security on
the Olympic Games torch relay through restive Tibet to Mount
Everest, as the government seeks to prevent any protests
upsetting the symbolic display of national unity.
Reuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co is in
talks to raise its takeover offer for Bear Stearns Cos
to about $10 a share in an effort to appease Bear shareholders
angry with the cut-rate deal, a person briefed on the
discussions said on Monday.
AP - Two men carrying black flags ran onto the field of the stadium in Ancient Olympia during Monday's flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, evading massive security aimed at preventing such disruptions amid China's crackdown in Tibet.
AP - The Coast Guard searched through the night for a crew member missing from a fishing vessel that sank off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, killing the captain and three crew members. Forty-two crew members were rescued.
AFP - A bomb killed four US soldiers in Baghdad, the military said Monday, pushing the toll since the 2003 invasion to a grim milestone of 4,000 that US Vice President Dick Cheney admitted would have a "psychological" impact.
AP - For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, sagging home values, creeping inflation, the slouching dollar and a stock market in bumpy descent.
AP - JPMorgan Chase & Co. was discussing a deal that would increase fivefold its offer for Bear Stearns Cos. to $10 a share, The New York Times reported Monday.
AP - Traditional media companies trying to stem the flow of advertising dollars to Google and other large Internet companies are increasingly building ad networks of their own, anchored by their brands.
A meatpacking plant exploded Sunday afternoon, injuring an unknown number of people and forcing homes to be evacuated.
Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb blast in southern Baghdad late Sunday, raising the death toll for American forces since start of the war to 4,000, according to the Pentagon. 
Georgetown won't be making a return trip to the Final Four. The Midwest Region's No. 2 seed was stunned by 10th-seeded Davidson on Sunday in the NCAA Tournament.
Astronauts aboard NASA's shuttle Endeavour rested and packed up their spacecraft on Sunday for the trip back to Earth, after completing a record-setting five spacewalks at the international space station.
JaJuan Smith hit four straight free throws in the final 13.6 seconds of overtime, and Tennessee held on for a 76-71 win over Butler on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA tournament, barely surviving a game the Vols at times threatened to turn into a rout.
Meredith Emerson used her wits and martial arts training when she was attacked in the Georgia mountains, her convicted killer told investigators.
Former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson was wrongly released from prison this week because of an "administrative error," a Department of Corrections official says.
Old photos of the Interstate 35W bridge show two steel connecting plates were visibly bent as early as 2003 — four years before the span collapsed into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people.