The Olympic torch was re-lit Monday at an elaborate ceremony in Beijing that included President Hu Jintao, signaling the start of a round-the-world torch relay expected to be a lightning rod for protests over China's human rights record. Source: FOXNews.com | 31 Mar 2008 | 5:54 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japan on Monday called on China to be more transparent over Tibet and grant greater access to information about the situation there, although Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 10:27 am
(Kyodo) _ Automobile exports in the first 11 months of fiscal 2007 came to 6,131,700 units, making the fiscal year the second straight year for Japan's auto exports to break the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 10:24 am
(Kyodo) _ Tohoku University School of Medicine said Monday it will set up a new research base in the Philippines in fiscal 2008 with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 10:22 am
(Kyodo) _ Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Monday administered the oath of office to the 24-member Cabinet of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Most of the Cabinet ministers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 10:18 am
Nationals Park had quite an opening.
Ryan Zimmerman hit a tiebreaking homer off Peter Moylan with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves...
HOUSTON - John Calipari has a good reason for calling his Memphis Tigers a "Dream Team" - a kid from Chicago who wears No. 23 and makes plays that bring fans out...
(Kyodo) _ Three more cinemas in Tokyo and one in Osaka have decided against screening a contentious documentary film by a Chinese director on the war-related Yasukuni Shrine scheduled for Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 10:08 am
After missing all his field goals against one of the Spurs' in-state rivals a week ago, Michael Finley tweaked his pregame routine in hopes that he would perform a little...
Evgeni Malkin skated off the ice with a nasty gash on his left cheek, a souvenir from a game that was better suited for May than for March. For the Pittsburgh Penguins, who...
(Kyodo) _ Japan Olympic team manager Senichi Hoshino and coaching staff on Monday announced 77 candidates who could represent the country in the baseball tournament of this summer's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:58 am
LONDON - Liverpool took control of the fight for fourth place in England's Premier League with a 1-0 win over city rival Everton on Sunday.
While Chelsea was in second...
(Kyodo) _ Japan and China agreed Monday that Chinese military officials, including a deputy chief of the Chinese army's general staff, will visit Japan by the end of the year, a Japanese... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:56 am
The Bahamas and Bermuda advanced Sunday to the second round of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup.
Michael Bethel and Demont Mitchell gave Bahamas a two-goal lead and the...
(Kyodo) _ Drivers in Japan will see a wider variety of gasoline prices available to them from Tuesday in the wake of the expiry of a special tax measure, as some gas stations will cut... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:54 am
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - When an infant in the stadium stands began to cry during a rally Sunday, Lindsay Davenport won the point anyway. Motherhood hasn't diminished her...
(Kyodo) _ A former senior police officer has filed an appeal against a decision that found him guilty of using the so-called "fumiji" technique of extracting confessions during the course Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:52 am
PRAGUE (Reuters) - An agreement on building part of a U.S. missile defense shield in the Czech Republic is almost ready for signing, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was quoted as... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:49 am
PUERTO BANUS, Spain - Thomas Levet won the Andalucia Open on the first playoff hole Sunday, defeating teenager Oliver Fisher.
Levet parred the extra hole after the 19-year-old...
PALM COAST, Fla. - Bernhard Langer won the Ginn Championship for his second Champions Tour victory in three starts, shooting a 1-under 71 in windy conditions Sunday for an...
SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN, Ariz. - Lorena Ochoa had a breakout season in 2006, and an even better one in 2007.
This year could be even better. She's entered three tournaments,...
Microsoft has just inked a deal with Peter Safran, the producer of amazing cinema masterpieces like Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, Meet the Spartans, and the all-time-classic RocketMan. Source: Digg | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:41 am
"It seems the legends of 21st-century man's crude ice cream–eating habits are all true," Wolcott said. "I see the way you consume these dripping concoctions with protruding tongues, the way the dark cream dribbles down your chins, the way your workers must dig tirelessly with spherical metal 'scooping' devices to even obtain this product." Source: Digg | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:41 am
ESA has released an astonishingly beautiful image of a canyon on Mars. The resolution is fantastic (15 meters/pixel), showing this 8000 meter-deep canyon in full glory. This is a must see. Source: Digg | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:39 am
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Construction is continuing unabated in 101 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israel's Peace Now group said on Monday in a report released during a visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
President Pervez Musharraf has sworn in a new Pakistani Cabinet made up of ministers who have pledged to reduce the U.S.-backed leader's powers. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:31 am
HARARE (AFP) - Riot police patrolled Harare Monday as the first results came in from Zimbabwe's elections, with the opposition accusing officials of sitting on the outcome to help President Robert Mugabe cling to power. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:30 am
Reuters - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
swore in 24 members of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's
cabinet on Monday, six weeks after opposition parties won a
general election.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf swore in 24 members of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's cabinet on Monday, six weeks after opposition parties won a general election.
AFP - Riot police patrolled Harare Monday as the first results came in from Zimbabwe's elections, with the opposition accusing officials of sitting on the outcome to help President Robert Mugabe cling to power.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has stepped up attacks on the Dalai Lama, blasting him for abusing religion, stirring protests in Tibet and preparing for independence as the Olympic flame arrived in Beijing on Monday under tight security.
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Life appeared to be returning to normal in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers off the streets, but clashes continued in Baghdad.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The Swedish government said on Monday that it had sold the Vin & Sprit group which owns Absolut vodka to the giant drinks group Pernod Ricard of France for 5.626 billion euros (8.88 billion dollars). Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:20 am
AP - Scientists are scanning human DNA with a precision and scope once unthinkable and rapidly finding genes linked to cancer, arthritis, diabetes and other diseases.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission began announcing official results Monday of elections the opposition party claims to have won, after a delay that heightened fears of rigging and brought security forces onto the streets.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:18 am
AP - Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission began announcing official results Monday of elections the opposition party claims to have won, after a delay that heightened fears of rigging and brought security forces onto the streets.
The exiled leader of Hamas accused Israel of exaggerating the Palestinian militant group's military strength and of trying to start a war against Hamas and the Lebanese guerrilla force Hezbollah. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:18 am
Reuters - The first formal talks in the long
process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate
change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a
common human purpose to defeat global warming.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming.
FARC computer files obtained by the NYT would offer rare insight into the cloak-and-dagger nature of Latin America’s longest-running guerrilla conflict, including what appeared to be the killing of a Colombian government spy with microchips implanted in her body. Source: Digg | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:15 am
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey's top court convened Monday to decide whether to put the Islamist-rooted ruling party on trial for anti-secular activity, in a case which threatens national stability and Ankara's bid to join the EU. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:15 am
Reuters - China has stepped up attacks on the
Dalai Lama, blasting him for abusing religion, stirring
protests in Tibet and preparing for independence as the Olympic
flame arrived in Beijing on Monday under tight security.
Research shows odors linked with negative experiences are more easily recalled -- a handy survival trait. The discovery could shed light on disorders such as post-traumatic stress syndrome. Source: Digg | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:11 am
First results from elections in Zimbabwe are split between the opposition MDC and President Mugabe's Zanu-PF. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:06 am
Reuters - Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa lost
his seat in Zimbabwe's election as latest official results on
Monday showed the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC running
neck-and-neck.
Five young French Muslims are on trial for allegedly funneling others from their disillusioned section of French society to fight and kill Americans in Iraq. European officials worry the men could bring home their hatred, and training to Europe.
HARARE (Reuters) - Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa lost his seat in Zimbabwe's election as latest official results on Monday showed the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC running neck-and-neck.
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's deposed chief justice arrived in his hometown Monday to a hero's welcome as he launched a drive to win back his old job and deal another blow to embattled President Pervez Musharraf.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:56 am
Reuters - A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily
fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the
U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down.
AFP - Gun-toting fighters of hardline cleric Moqtada al-Sadr melted from the streets on Monday after days of fierce clashes with security forces as a curfew in Baghdad was lifted and eased in Basra.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Gun-toting fighters of hardline cleric Moqtada al-Sadr melted from the streets on Monday after days of fierce clashes with security forces as a curfew in Baghdad was lifted and eased in Basra. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:50 am
Five people have been killed when a private aircraft crashed into a residential estate, bursting into flames and destroying the home of a couple who were hours from returning from holiday. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:49 am
Channel One, state-run Russian television, correspondent Ilyas Shurpayev, who was found dead in a Moscow apartment earlier this month, is seen in Dagestan region's capital Makhachkala in this September... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:47 am
Senator John McCain is pressing ahead to the general election but has yet to sign up one critical constituency: the big-money people who powered the Bush fund-raising machine. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:43 am
When the nation's intelligence agencies wanted a computer network to better share information about everything from al Qaeda to North Korea, they turned to a big name in the technology industry to supply some of the equipment: Google Inc. Source: Digg | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:27 am
French liquor group Pernod Ricard SA is buying Vin & Sprit, the maker of Absolut vodka, for 55 billion kronor ($9.24 billion), the Swedish government said Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:25 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A key adviser to Iraq's prime minister says military operations in the besieged southern city of Basra will finish before the end of this week.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:25 am
The theory is that women who inhabit the uppermost echelon of conventional beauty are so otherworldly, so demanding, so desired, that no ordinary semi-self-respecting man (i.e., you) could ever make them happy.But is it true? Hell if we know. So we asked the extraordinarily good-looking Adriana Lima to set the record straight. Here’s her take.... Source: Digg | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:25 am
Feature documentary based on the groundbreaking book. It's not about saving the environment. It's about saving ourselves. Source: Digg | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:24 am
Oil prices fell to near $105 a barrel Monday as supply concerns eased on news that Iraq's oil exports and refining operations in the south have been restored after attacks and power outages disrupted operations. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:23 am
BEIJING (AP) -- The Olympic torch was re-lit Monday at an elaborate ceremony that signaled the start of a round-the-world relay that is expected to be a lightning rod for protests against China's policies and human rights practices.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:23 am
A member of a hardline Islamic group makes an anti-Dutch speech in front of the Dutch embassy Monday March 31, 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Scores of police stood guard as about 40 demonstrators from a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:22 am
American singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne brings out her Dusty Springfield side in an album of the 1960s star's hits. But don't go calling it a tribute CD
Americans of mixed race say these are issues they have long confronted, and when Senator Barack Obama recently delivered a speech about race, it rang with a special significance in their ears.
New Jersey farmers are starting to worry that their state lawmakers are about to take the garden out of the Garden State. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:10 am
A species of flightless parrot edged back from extinction with the hatching of five new chicks in New Zealand in recent weeks and two more on the way, officials said Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:10 am
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Michael Hayden, pictured last month, has warned that Al-Qaeda is training operatives who "look western" and could enter the United States undetected to conduct... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:08 am
Two British soldiers are killed in an explosion on patrol in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirms. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:01 am
A judge ruled Monday that a terror trial can resume this week after justice officials improved the detention conditions for the 12 suspects at his direction. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:53 am
The "open skies" deal between the US and Europe comes into effect, aiming to open up trans-Altantic air travel. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:38 am
An Iraqi Shiite fighter points his weapon during clashes with Iraqi government troops in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad. US air strikes and military assaults have killed 41 "criminals" in Baghdad,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:37 am
An Iraqi Shiite fighter runs past a burning Iraqi Army armoured vehicle. US air strikes and military assaults have killed 41 "criminals" in Baghdad, including 25 who died when an alleged mortar team was... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:37 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has sent jet fighters to test the South's air defenses and threatened to reduce its wealthy neighbor to ashes as it tries to push the new government in Seoul to back off from its hard line with Pyongyang.
A Sri Lankan army soldier in the north-eastern region of the island on March 27. A series of clashes over the weekend left at least 39 separatists and three soldiers dead, the defence ministry said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:35 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush sets off on Monday for his farewell NATO summit and a final heads-of-state meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin in a bid to salvage a foreign policy legacy frayed by the Iraq war.
Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the U.S. embassy, appeared to be under rocket or mortar attack on Monday, Reuters witnesses said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:32 am
The president of the Illinois Senate is sitting in his statehouse office, talking in gravelly tones about political strategies and counter-strategies. Out of nowhere, the theme from "The Godfather" begins playing. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:19 am
Pakistan's deposed chief justice arrived in his hometown Monday to a hero's welcome as he launched a drive to win back his old job and deal another blow to embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:17 am
Zimbabwe's electoral commission has begun announcing official results in the country's presidential and parliamentary elections after a long delay fuelled fears of vote rigging. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:03 am
In a file photo Pakistan's deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, center, waves to his supporters from the balcony of his residence after his release, Monday, March, 24, 2008 in Islamabad, Pakistan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:02 am
Official results for the election are delayed, stirring fears of rigging by President Robert Mugabe's government.
President Robert Mugabe and his ruling party were defeated in presidential and parliamentary elections, according to the opposition and independent observers, but there was deafening silence Sunday from the Zimbabwe Election Commission, which released almost no results.
The French architect is praised for his 'insatiable' creative experimentation. One of his designs, the 'green blade,' is in the planning for Century City.
Jean Nouvel, the versatile French architect who strives to balance his buildings' settings with a restless architectural language he seems to reinvent with each project, is the winner of the 2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor of his profession.
At California's party convention, the ex-president says the primary process should reach its natural conclusion before they start making nominee choices.
Former President Clinton urged Democratic Party superdelegates and activists Sunday to be patient in selecting a presidential nominee and let the primary election process play out over the coming months.
The car on the 101 had flipped several times; the man later dies at a hospital.
In a strange discovery Sunday morning, California Highway Patrol officers who were investigating what they thought was a wild car crash instead found a homicide.
Muqtada Sadr tells his militia to lay down weapons as the government seeks a way out of the crisis in Basra. He demands that officials stop raids and free his men.
Radical cleric Muqtada Sadr on Sunday ordered his followers to lay down their weapons, offering Shiite Muslims a way out of six days of fighting that has left more than 350 people dead and exposed the weakness of Iraq's government and security forces.
Iraqi authorities end a curfew in the capital, after a senior Shia cleric orders his fighters off the streets. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 6:44 am
The US secretary of state is to hold more talks with Israelis and Palestinians, wrapping up her Middle East tour. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 6:30 am
In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite militiamen off the streets but called on the government to stop its raids against his followers.
A British soldier during a night patrol in Kabul in early March. Two British soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said on Monday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 6:17 am
The Olympic torch was re-lit Monday at an elaborate ceremony that signaled the start of a round-the-world relay that is expected to be a lightning rod for protests against China’s policies and human rights practices.
In this undated handout photo from the Australian Department of Defence, Navy Historic Archive, shows the HMAS Sydney. The Australian government is calling an inquiry into the sinking of the Australian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 5:53 am
BEIJING (AFP) - China celebrated the start of the Olympic torch relay on Monday, but heavy security highlighted concerns that protests over Tibet, human rights and other issues may tarnish its historic journey. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Mar 2008 | 5:39 am
Work on ethics reform that began as a promising collaboration between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain collapsed after barely a week amid contentious charges and countercharges.
Buddhist nun, Ani Choying Dolma, a 37-year-old Tibetan-Nepali known as Nepal's "singing nun", has soared to global fame with her eight albums of Tibetan and Sanskrit meditation songs.
The income from her CD sales has helped Dolma... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 5:03 am
A group of 200 Tibetan exiles and Buddhist monks tried to storm the Chinese Embassy visa office in Nepal's capital but police beat them back with bamboo batons.
The Olympic torch touched down in Beijing amid high security before a round-the-world relay expected to be a lightning rod for protests against China's policies and human rights practices.
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is offering to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government stops "illegal and haphazard raids" against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of Barack Obama backed away on Sunday from calls for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the presidential race as Democrats faced a long summer of bitter fighting to win the party's White House nomination.
The Olympic torch is taken to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, as the flame lit by the Greeks starts a world tour. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 4:20 am
HARARE - Riot police appeared on the streets of Zimbabwe's capital after a delay to election results fuelled opposition suspicions that President Robert Mugabe would try and cling to power by rigging the vote.
The state-run Herald... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 4:17 am
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, pictured March 1, invited Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to Gaza for unconditional talks on the two factions' divisions, in a television interview Monday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 31 Mar 2008 | 4:03 am
LONDON (AFP) - Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal invited Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to Gaza for unconditional talks on the two factions' divisions, in a television interview Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Mar 2008 | 4:02 am
BANGKOK (AFP) - Top climate brokers from more than 160 nations launched a new round of talks in Bangkok on Monday aimed at setting out a plan for the most ambitious treaty yet for battling global warming. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 31 Mar 2008 | 4:00 am
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson, buffeted by allegations of cronyism and favoritism, is expected to announce his resignation Monday, sources close to the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
Ryan Zimmerman hit a tiebreaking homer off Peter Moylan with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 Sunday night in the first regular-season game at the $611 million stadium.
Celizic: You can have your glass slippers and your mid-majors and your teams of destiny and your shocking upsets. I’ll take this once-in-a-lifetime moment when opinion and power rankings and polls have collided with reality.
A young Muslim man went on trial this month in France in a case exposing how the Iraq war has sucked radical youths from Europe to a battlefield where they have learned skills that officials fear may one day be used in domestic terror attacks. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 31 Mar 2008 | 3:20 am
SEOL - North Korean jet fighters have sortied close South Korea's airspace at least 10 times since conservative president Lee Myung-bak took office last month, prompting Seoul to scramble its own planes in response, the Chosun Ilbo... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 3:07 am
A order preventing former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks giving interviews expires in Australia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 2:58 am
MELBOURNE - The Victorian driver found guilty over the road deaths of six teenage pedestrians near Mildura in the state's north will be sentenced today.
Thomas Towle's car veered into a group of teenagers, killing six and seriously... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 2:55 am
LOS ANGELES - French architect Jean Nouvel has been awarded the 2008 Pritzker Prize, the highest honour for architecture, for his creative experimentation and buildings that speak to their surroundings, the Pritzker jury said yesterday.... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 2:45 am
The Hamas leader says that Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, seized by Palestinian militants in 2006, is alive. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 2:44 am
BUDAPEST - Hungary's opposition called for an early election yesterday after Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany sacked his health minister, opening a serious rift with his liberal coalition partner.
Opposition Fidesz party... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 2:32 am
SYDNEY - is to be home to Virgin Airlines' new V Australia operation, which aims to have daily flights between the US and Australia by December.
The flights between the US and Sydney are expected to bring more than 50,000 visitors... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 2:13 am
Turkey's constitutional court will rule whether to hear a case aimed at closing down the governing AK party. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 1:48 am
Campaigners call for restrictions on ships in Antarctic waters to preserve the local environment. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 31 Mar 2008 | 1:27 am
BERLIN - Anthropologists have exhumed the graves of Friedrich Schiller's family in an attempt to positively identify the skull of the German dramatist and poet and end a 180-year-old debate.
"The remains of the bodies were in good... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:36 am
NIKOLSKOE, Russia - Russian authorities urged 28 members of a doomsday cult yesterday to leave the mud bunker in which they are awaiting the end of the world, saying spring rain may trigger its collapse at any time.
The doomsday... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:30 am
Home owners could see 25 per cent wiped off the value of their properties within two years, a leading economist has warned. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
More than one in 10 flights from Heathrow's Terminal 5 will be cancelled today and tomorrow as British Airways struggles to deal with a backlog of 15,000 bags. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Tension has been mounting in Zimbabwe's capital as the country's election commission refused to announce the results of Saturday's poll, fuelling rumours that President Robert Mugabe had lost despite widespread vote-rigging, and was planning to declare victory regardless. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
PARIS (AP) -- Boubakeur el Hakim traded his Paris neighborhood of boulangeries and halal butcher shops for the insurgent camps of Iraq. When he came home, he told his war stories to other young men on the forgotten edges of French society, allegedly persuading some to follow in his footsteps.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 30 Mar 2008 | 11:39 pm
CANBERRA - Pilots have welcomed moves to ban the importation of laser pointers, after another serious incident where lasers were shone at a flight on approach to Sydney Airport.
Aircraft were forced to divert approaches because... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Mar 2008 | 11:27 pm
BEIJING (AP) -- The speaker of Tibet's parliament-in-exile called Sunday for China to end its "brutal" crackdown against Tibetans and to allow independent observers into isolated Himalayan region.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 30 Mar 2008 | 11:13 pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi capital locked down by curfew. U.S. diplomats holed up their workplaces, fearing rocket attacks. Nearly every major southern city racked by turmoil. Hundreds killed in less than a week.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 30 Mar 2008 | 10:32 pm
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist, whose experiences inspired the movie The Killing Fields, died Sunday at age 65. Pran coined the term "Killing Field" after seeing the remains of victims of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime.
Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said. A spokesman said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
Israel pledged to remove some West Bank roadblocks as a start to "concrete steps" in an agreement with the Palestinians that is aimed at paving the way for a final peace deal this year.
Faced with a growing chorus to abandon the uphill battle against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton is falling back on what she sees as her trump card - her gender. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 30 Mar 2008 | 7:10 pm
A light aircraft with up to six people on board has crashed into a housing estate near Orpington in Kent. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:51 pm
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:49 pm
'I am a Cambodian holocaust survivor,' he often declared. Dith assisted American journalist Sydney Schanberg in his Cambodia reporting in the 1970s and later became a staff photographer for the New York Times.
One day during the rise of the Khmer Rouge regime in the mid-1970s, American journalist Sydney Schanberg asked his Cambodian assistant, Dith Pran, a gnawing question.
A light aircraft with up to six people on board has crashed into a housing estate near Orpington in Kent. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:20 pm
SOLLENTUNA, Sweden (AP) -- The fear of being sent back to Baghdad has taken its toll on Mustafa Aziz Alwi.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:19 pm
Egyptian security authorities recovered a Palestinian man who had fallen into a coma after being trapped Sunday for several hours inside a tunnel he was digging to smuggle goods between Egypt and Hamas-controlled Gaza. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Mar 2008 | 5:59 pm
The Iraqi government has welcomed an order by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to pull his fighters off the streets. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Mar 2008 | 5:40 pm
In Afghanistan, it is battling al-Qaida and Taliban. In newly independent Kosovo, it's up against Serbian protesters armed with firebombs and grenades. And behind the scenes, it is helping to quell the violence in Iraq and to track down suspected war criminals in Bosnia.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:18 a... | 30 Mar 2008 | 5:20 pm
According to preliminary reports, the aircraft that crashed into a housing estate in Fanborough, near Orpington in Kent was an eight-seater Cessna Citation 501 twin-engined executive jet. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 30 Mar 2008 | 4:15 pm
Zimbabwe's main oppostion party has claimed victory over that nation's controversial leader Robery Mugabe in early election returns on Saturday, Sky News is reporting. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:31 pm
A light aircraft with up to six people on board has crashed into a housing estate near Orpington in Kent. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:22 pm
The Secretary of State branded Zimbabwe's president a "disgrace" to his people and to Africa, and expressed concerns about verifying whether the country held free and fair elections.
Small businesses in New Orleans have faced an uphill battle since Hurricane Katrina. Entrepreneurs are having trouble getting loans from traditional sources. Non-profit community lenders are filling in the gaps.
The Bush administration is set to unveil plans to increase government oversight of the financial industry. Under the plan, the Fed could dig into the books of ailing firms. Some members of Congress don't think the actions are enough.
Rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr calls on his armed followers to put down their weapons and stop battling government forces. But despite the appeal, fighting continues in Basra and the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City.
North Korea threatened South Korea with destruction Sunday after Seoul's top military officer said it would consider attacking the communist nation if it tried to carry out a nuclear attack. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Mar 2008 | 11:51 am
A leader in Pakistan's new government called Sunday for President Pervez Musharraf to quit, a day after the new prime minister vowed to move away from the U.S.-backed leader's strong-arm tactics against Islamic militants. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Mar 2008 | 11:03 am
Reuters - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
swore in 24 members of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's
cabinet on Monday, six weeks after opposition parties won a
general election.
AFP - Riot police patrolled Harare Monday as the first results came in from Zimbabwe's elections, with the opposition accusing officials of sitting on the outcome to help President Robert Mugabe cling to power.
AP - Scientists are scanning human DNA with a precision and scope once unthinkable and rapidly finding genes linked to cancer, arthritis, diabetes and other diseases.
AP - Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin's parents vowed to never let the U.S. Army forget about finding their son.
AP - Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission began announcing official results Monday of elections the opposition party claims to have won, after a delay that heightened fears of rigging and brought security forces onto the streets.
Reuters - The first formal talks in the long
process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate
change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a
common human purpose to defeat global warming.
Reuters - China has stepped up attacks on the
Dalai Lama, blasting him for abusing religion, stirring
protests in Tibet and preparing for independence as the Olympic
flame arrived in Beijing on Monday under tight security.
Reuters - Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa lost
his seat in Zimbabwe's election as latest official results on
Monday showed the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC running
neck-and-neck.
Reuters - A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily
fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the
U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down.
AFP - Gun-toting fighters of hardline cleric Moqtada al-Sadr melted from the streets on Monday after days of fierce clashes with security forces as a curfew in Baghdad was lifted and eased in Basra.
Americans of mixed race say these are issues they have long confronted, and when Senator Barack Obama recently delivered a speech about race, it rang with a special significance in their ears.
In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite militiamen off the streets but called on the government to stop its raids against his followers.
The Olympic torch was re-lit Monday at an elaborate ceremony that signaled the start of a round-the-world relay that is expected to be a lightning rod for protests against China’s policies and human rights practices.
Work on ethics reform that began as a promising collaboration between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain collapsed after barely a week amid contentious charges and countercharges.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson, buffeted by allegations of cronyism and favoritism, is expected to announce his resignation Monday, sources close to the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
Ryan Zimmerman hit a tiebreaking homer off Peter Moylan with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 Sunday night in the first regular-season game at the $611 million stadium.
Celizic: You can have your glass slippers and your mid-majors and your teams of destiny and your shocking upsets. I’ll take this once-in-a-lifetime moment when opinion and power rankings and polls have collided with reality.