A gang of British Muslims plotted to cause "carnage on an almost unprecedented scale" with simultaneous suicide bombings on up to 18 transatlantic airliners, a court has heard. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 1:18 pm
The Magic Kingdom is, of course, our first love. It's a marvelous world of fantasy which transforms us back into wide-eyed children as we walk up Main Street. We postponed...
It came blasting out of the air at Fenway yesterday, but it wasn't a wayward baseball that vrashed down on a visiting schoolgirl - it was an attacking hawk.
The...
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has a Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The members held a virtual hearing yesterday online in Second Life. The hearing's subject is Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium. Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:35 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. employers cut payrolls for a third month in a row in March, slashing 80,000 jobs for the biggest monthly job decline in five years as the economy headed into a downturn, government data on Friday showed.
AP - MEMPHIS, Tenn. Presidential candidates, civil rights leaders, labor activists and thousands of everyday citizens are coming together Friday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 40th anniversary of his death.
A gang of British Muslims plotted to cause "carnage on an almost unprecedented scale" with simultaneous suicide bombings on up to 18 transatlantic airliners, a court has heard. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:15 pm
Nato's secretary general says there were no breakthroughs in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:11 pm
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Hundreds of veterans of Zimbabwe's guerrilla war for black rule marched through the capital Friday in an ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to intimidation and violence to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:10 pm
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- President Bush, fresh from securing full NATO support for his missile defense plans for Europe and a pledge to later admit former Soviet republics, has plenty to discuss with Russia's Vladimir Putin.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:07 pm
AP - President Bush, fresh from securing full NATO support for his missile defense plans for Europe and a pledge to later admit former Soviet republics, has plenty to discuss with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki orders a stop to operations against "people who carry weapons" in the country. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:05 pm
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Depending on who is talking, Hillary Clinton should either drop out of the race for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination for the good of the party or fight on because all voters have a right to be heard.
BOSTON - The state Senate has approved a bill that would allow aspiring teachers who flunk the certification test three times to possibly teach anyway.
The law would provide...
NBC got a jump start on its competitors Wednesday, unveiling a 2008-09 prime-time lineup that leans heavily on heroic tropes and classic tales of adventure. Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:55 am
A British scientist says some of the oxygen we breathe is being produced because of viruses that infect micro-organisms in the Earth's oceans. Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:55 am
There’s a subtle tactic to make things go your way in your career, love life, and social world —one that has nothing to do with effort or luck. It’s called priming. Research shows that by exposing people to specific words, body language and symbols, they can be affected in a way that benefits you without their even realizing what’s going on. Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:55 am
AP - The National Weather Service says an unknown number of people were injured when a tornado swept through the Little Rock, Arkansas, area last night. At the North Little Rock Airport, the tornado destroyed a hangar and several small planes and left several others flipped over onto their wings.
A district judge has dismissed 593 charges of animal cruelty against a woman accused of keeping hundreds of cats, some dead and dying, at an animal sanctuary. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:52 am
The British government wants to ban convicted pedophiles from using social networking Web sites such as Facebook, the Home Office said Friday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:50 am
AP - The British government wants to ban convicted pedophiles from using social networking Web sites such as Facebook, the Home Office said Friday. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:50 am
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - NATO leaders promised Ukraine and Georgia on Thursday they would one day join the Western defense alliance after rebuffing U.S. demands to put the former Soviet republics on an immediate path to membership.
BOSTON - The Boston Red Sox have maxed out Fenway Park in their seventh year of offseason renovations, bringing the capacity of the oldest and smallest ballpark in the majors...
Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
said on Friday his security forces would stop arresting
militiamen if they give up their weapons, apparently seeking to
defuse tensions with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday his security forces would stop arresting militiamen if they give up their weapons, apparently seeking to defuse tensions with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
AP - Some analysts expect that today's unemployment report from the Labor Department will show fewer jobs were lost in March than in February. According to Thomson/IFR, the report should show 15,000 jobs were lost in March, which would be an improvement over the 63,000 job cut a month before.
Veterans of Zimbabwe's guerrilla war for black rule marched through the capital Friday, and while they were silent, there was little doubt they were out to intimidate President Robert Mugabe's political opponents. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:47 am
Reuters - Russian President Vladimir Putin said
on Friday he was encouraged that the United States had listened
to Russian concerns about its planned U.S. missile shield site
and said discussions would continue.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he was encouraged that the United States had listened to Russian concerns about its planned U.S. missile shield site and said discussions would continue.
The Zimbabwean president's party will meet to discuss strategy with presidential election results still unknown. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:42 am
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared Thursday to deny published reports that she told New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that Barack Obama cannot win the general election. But her campaign aides later said the New York senator had misunderstood the question.
The Vatican has expressed its respect and esteem for Jews despite tension over a Good Friday prayer revived by Pope Benedict XVI. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:39 am
Reuters - Six Britons accused of plotting to blow
up at least seven transatlantic airliners recorded martyrdom
videos saying the attacks were revenge for the U.S. invasion of
Iraq, a London court heard on Friday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Six Britons accused of plotting to blow up at least seven transatlantic airliners recorded martyrdom videos saying the attacks were revenge for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a London court heard on Friday.
Ørestad College is the new danish school , built around an open area that can be seen from almost every floor. It looks like a big mall. The school has wireless internet everywhere and every student receives a free laptop. It even has some orange pillows for students to relax, talk , work on the computer. Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:37 am
Rock and Roll - American art form.
The Rolling Stones have a new movie out, and Ringo is going on tour again.
81 year old Chuck Berry is coming to town. The illegitimate...
Birth control options are growing for women 40 and older — a group that once viewed its choices as pretty much limited to tube-tying surgery and condoms. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:35 am
AP - Once again, an A-Rod got an unfriendly welcome from the home of Red Sox Nation. This time, it was 13-year-old Alexa Rodriguez and not the Yankees All-Star third baseman Alex Rodriguez. She was touring Fenway Park on a school trip Thursday and was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from her scalp. Rodriguez wasn't seriously hurt. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:33 am
We here at IndependentTraveler.com believe there's no shame in bypassing the orthodox for the odd — so we've compiled seven of the world's weirdest museums, offering exhibits that are frightening, humorous, skin curdling or simply bizarre. Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:33 am
Photog, Mark Moffett, shot pics for Nat Geo. He's big-time explorer-photographer with uncommon (uncommonly odd?) focus on "bugs". Gallery also includes some pretty interesting descriptions of ant behavior, facts, etc -- for those who want to know. Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:32 am
Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage on Friday won an apology and damages from actress Kathleen Turner over claims in her autobiography that he had been arrested twice for drunk driving and had once stolen a Chihuahua.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Russia is deeply worried by NATO's pledge to eventually bring Ukraine and Georgia into the alliance, despite its failure to do so immediately, a senior Russian diplomat said Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:23 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's prime minister on Friday ordered a nationwide freeze on raids against suspected Shiite militants after the leader of the biggest militia complained that arrests were continuing even after he ordered fighters off the streets.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
Iraq's prime minister on Friday ordered a nationwide freeze on raids against suspected Shiite militants after the leader of the biggest militia complained that arrests were continuing even... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
The boyfriend of a woman killed by a 50mph train after her Ugg Boot caught in
a level crossing was charged with manslaughter today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:19 am
Russia is deeply worried by NATO's pledge to eventually bring Ukraine and Georgia into the alliance, despite its failure to do so immediately, a Russian official said Friday. NATO's chief later said talks with Russian President Putin were "frank and open."
Serbian officials said Friday the war crimes acquittal of a former Kosovo rebel leader will increase tensions in Kosovo and diminish the chances that top Serb fugitives Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic will be arrested. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:18 am
HARARE (Reuters) - The leadership of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party met on Friday to decide whether President Robert Mugabe should contest a runoff vote against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) The top U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators will meet Monday in Singapore to try to advance the stalled six-party talks on denuclearizing the North, a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:17 am
When the Air Force picked Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS over Boeing to build refueling planes, controversy erupted. Now Boeing is trying to get the Government Accountability Office to overturn the contract. Steve Inskeep talks to Mark McGraw, vice president of Boeing's tanker programs, about the Air Force's rejection of their tanker proposal.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police vehicle Friday in volatile southern Afghanistan, killing three policemen and a civilian, a police official said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:15 am
A furious Marblehead father who got the town's tobacco-chewing high school football coach suspended for two games now wants the gridiron dipper canned for setting a bad...
A British appeals court has awarded the lead singer of Procol Harum full royalties to the band's iconic hit "A Whiter Shade of Pale." Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:11 am
(Kyodo) _ A Japanese man was arrested Friday on charges of possessing illegal pistols. Thai police also said they suspect him of involvement in illegally manufacturing guns and trading Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:11 am
A composer, arranger, guest conductor and former Brigham Young University music professor has been named the new music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:09 am
(Kyodo) _ The top U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators will meet Monday in Singapore to try to advance the stalled six-party talks on denuclearizing the North, a senior U.S.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:08 am
Finally a Tiffany right made from white gold, lots of diamond, and design that a man can accept. Doesn't look too Tiffany to me though. Guys, will you wear one of these? Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:07 am
FTA: US aircraft maker Boeing flew a plane that was powered by a hydrogen battery at the start of 2008 for the first time in aviation history, senior company officials said in Spain on Thursday. ... We're talking 62 MPH for 20 minutes, but still ... Source: Digg | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:07 am
Tsering Tashi -- a representative of the Dalai Lama -- gestures during a press conference at London's Tibet House on April 2. Four Buddhist nuns -- who have between them spent over 50 years in a Tibetan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:07 am
An envoy of the Dalai Lama has urged Beijing to cancel "provocative" plans to run the Olympic torch relay through Tibet, but China promptly dismissed his call as a bid to sabotage the Games. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:07 am
Chinese tourists checking their photos as a Tibetan pilgrim lies on the floor in Lhasa. China has announced that foreign tourists will be allowed to travel into Tibet again from May 1. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:07 am
One of Burundi's leading politicians is sentenced to 13 years for subversion and insulting the president. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:05 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO AT 8TH GRAF, 2ND GRAF FROM BOTTOM) Acting Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa is likely to become the next chief of the central bank as the main... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:05 am
A leading anti-Semitism watchdog group called Friday for a South Korean cosmetics company to halt an ad campaign with Nazi references. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:03 am
If you were a military officer, would you rather walk around in a tie with a chestful of medals, or relax in more comfortable fatigues? The dress uniform says more about who you are. But medals and ribbons can weigh you down, and even in the Pentagon a lot of people walk around in cammo. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:03 am
TOKYO, April 4 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH QUOTES, OTHER INFO) Japan tumbled two ranks to fifth place among the world's 22 major aid donors in 2007, as its spending on official... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:03 am
Citigroup Inc. has agreed to pay $33 million to about 2,500 current and former female brokers at the company's Smith Barney subsidiary to settle a discrimination lawsuit. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:03 am
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Delegates working on the negotiating agenda for a sweeping global warming pact clashed Friday over Japan's push for early discussions of industry-specific limits on carbon dioxide emissions, delegates and environmentalists said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 11:02 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, will not promise Congress large troop withdrawals beyond July, saying it is too soon to make decisions about the second half of the year, defense officials say.
Zimbabwe's main opposition party says President Robert Mugabe has "unleashed a war" in his bid to stay in power after party offices were raided and foreign journalists detained five days after presidential elections.
(Kyodo) _ The top U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators will meet Monday in Singapore to try to advance the stalled six-party talks on denuclearizing the North, the U.S. negotiator... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:59 am
The leader of a peaceful protest in the Indonesian city of Ambon is jailed for life, a court official says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:58 am
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Friday ordered a nationwide freeze on raids against suspected Shiite militiamen, according to a statement issued by his office. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:56 am
Wall Street shares headed for a mixed opening Friday, as investors waited to learn whether the economy shed more jobs last month. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:55 am
A member of the alleged terrorist gang that is accused of plotting to blow up
seven transatlantic flights made a martyrdom video in which he pledged to
take revenge for American foreign policy in Muslim lands, a court was told
today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:52 am
A Palestinian gunman in Gaza wounds an aide to the Israeli public security minister, Avi Dichter. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:50 am
In this Friday, Dec. 22, 2006 file photo released by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, center, is flanked by U.S. Marines Gen. and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:50 am
PAWTUCKET, R.I. - Right-hander Bartolo Colon turned up the heat on a cold night in Rhode Island.
Colon, 34, made a convincing case for a slot in the Red Sox rotation with...
The Top Ten today is a compilation of local and national sports facts, stats and opinions
1. Since 10/18/07, the Celtics, Patriots and Red Sox are a combined 82-17 (.828%)
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Memo to Jose Canseco: If you're going to attach your name to yet another book about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, your credibility hinges on your...
Rock star Gary Brooker today won his court battle to reclaim full royalty rights to his massive worldwide hit A Whiter Shade Of Pale. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:48 am
An aide to Israel’s public security minister was wounded by a gunshot Friday as he toured an observation point overlooking the northern Gaza Strip with a group of Canadian Jews. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:47 am
BOSTON - The estate of a 4-year-old Hull girl who died after an overdose of psychiatric drugs has sued her psychiatrist for medical malpractice.
The attorney who represents...
French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt's son, Lorenzo Delloye, speaks during a press conference in Paris. A French medical mission will leave for Colombia within 48 hours in hope of treating Betancourt,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:42 am
A poster of French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt is displayed March 2008 during a demonstration in Paris. A French mission to treat the ailing senator is facing uncertainty after rebels ruled out... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:42 am
A French mission to treat an ailing French-Colombian senator held hostage in the Colombian jungle faced uncertainty Friday after rebels ruled out any unilateral prisoner release. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:42 am
A French aircraft -- which arrived in Colombia on a mercy mission to help ailing Colombian-French hostage Ingrid Betancourt -- sits on the tarmac of the CATAM airbase in Bogota. Colombian FARC rebels have... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:42 am
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a ministerial meeting at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. Chavez says he is ready to help the French secure the release of Ingrid Betancourt. The French-Colombian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:42 am
(Kyodo) _ Claiming to fear human trafficking and exploitation, Cambodia has halted all marriages to foreigners, according to a government letter, a copy of which seen by Kyodo News on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:40 am
The moon is seen over the lake of the Alqueva dam near Reguengos southern Portugal Friday, April 4 2008. The dam that will create Europe's largest man-made lake when it fills up is already pumping electricity... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:39 am
India allows a Pakistani film a wide commercial release for the first time in over four decades. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:37 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 hit the Kanto and Tohoku areas including Tokyo on Friday evening, the Japan Meteorological Agency... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:37 am
President Hugo Chavez says the country's cement industry will be nationalised with immediate effect. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:20 am
Artorn Chandavimol, President of the Thai Scouts Promotion Foundation, fires an arrow containing tamarine seeds before leading scouts in a tree growing project, in a forest in Sang Khla buri in Kanchanaburi... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:19 am
A suicide bomber has killed at least 15 people at a funeral for a murdered Sunni police officer in Iraq's Diyala province. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has suspended all raids against Shiite militias.
A leader of a Nigerian oil-militant group appears in court to be formally charged with treason Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 10:02 am
In Argentina, a showdown between farmers and the new president is riveting the nation. Farmers are angry over a new tax on soy exports -- so they went on strike for three weeks, paralyzing supermarkets and exports. They've suspended the strike but vow to resume it if their demands aren't met.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is attending the last day of the NATO summit in Bucharest. Russia -- and its tense relationship with the West -- has loomed over the meeting. The country is against the idea of placing its former Soviet Republics, Ukraine and Georgia, on NATO's membership track.
People in Zimbabwe are awaiting the outcome of a Friday meeting of President Robert Mugabe's party. There is speculation that the meeting will decide whether there should be a presidential run-off election. The results of last Saturday's presidential balloting have yet to be released. Renee Montagne talks with Robyn Dixon, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times in Harare.
A wisecracking President Mugabe opened a make-or-break meeting of his inner
circle today to decide whether he should pursue a presidential run-off, as
riot police marched through Harare in an apparent attempt to intimidate
opponents of his regime. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 4 Apr 2008 | 9:58 am
India's inflation rate accelerates to a three-year high because of rising food and fuel costs, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 4 Apr 2008 | 9:48 am
Charles Dunstone, the chief executive of Carphone Warehouse, has said that he
would refuse to disconnect internet users caught illegally downloading
copyright music and other items. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 4 Apr 2008 | 9:41 am
Tibetans accused of rioting and protesting against Chinese rule will face swift trials and harsh sentences, state media said Friday, vowing that Communist Party-run courts will back a campaign against the Dalai Lama. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 4 Apr 2008 | 9:36 am
The leadership of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party is due to meet today to decide whether the veteran politician will contest a run-off election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 9:30 am
Authorities in Texas said a baby born to a 14-year-old girl in a school bathroom was alive before she tried to flush it down the toilet, killing him. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 4 Apr 2008 | 9:19 am
A new classified intelligence assessment on Iraq says there has been significant progress in security since the last assessment was delivered in August, according to a senior military official.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- The U.S. envoy to stalled North Korean nuclear talks said Friday he may meet his North Korean counterpart in the next few days in an attempt to end the stalemate.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A French mission to aid an ill French-Colombian hostage appeared to founder soon after it began, with a senior rebel saying she and others will remain captive until Colombia and the U.S. release jailed guerrillas.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 8:23 am
PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - For the second time this week, a senior Federal Reserve official conceded the United States economy could slip into recession, but suggested the central bank should wait to see if more rate cuts are needed.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 after an argument over her baggage. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 7:43 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- In a sunlit, tan-stone building on the dividing line of this divided city, Arabs and Jews come to live out the last period of their lives.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 7:19 am
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Each day, 14-year-old Ali Abdel-Nasser works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Cairo, loading a donkey cart with new bricks to be taken to a nearby furnace to dry. He has worked at the plant almost every day since age 10, when his father died.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:10 a... | 4 Apr 2008 | 7:14 am
A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police vehicle Friday in volatile southern Afghanistan, killing three policemen and a civilian, a police official said.
The telecoms giant BT is under investigation for alleged privacy breaches after it secretly allowed a company to monitor the web activities of thousands of broadband customers. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 7:08 am
A U.S. air strike has destroyed a house in the southern city of Basra, killing a militant, according to the military. Iraqi police say six civilians died in the strike. Also, a suicide bomber has struck a checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul.
President Hugo Chavez has ordered the nationalization of Venezuela's cement industry, saying his government cannot allow businesses to continue exporting raw materials needed to help tackle a domestic housing shortage.
Five days after the presidential election on which Robert Mugabe's future hangs, the vote tally has yet to be released.
Authorities searched offices of the main opposition party and detained foreign journalists Thursday, fueling fears that ruling party hard-liners were trying to block a deal to end President Robert Mugabe's 28 years in power.
She trails him in fundraising and in pledged delegates. Now her superdelegate edge has shrunk to 30, from 87 in February. Even some who back her say they might reconsider.
Nearly three weeks remain before the next Democratic primary, but the results are rolling in from another part of the presidential contest -- and they signify trouble for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Less than three weeks before he died, the civil rights leader spoke to a spellbound congregation at Holman United Methodist Church.
The 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. comes as a poignant reminder of the day the civil rights leader stood in the pulpit at Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles and preached a Sunday morning sermon about "the meaning of hope."
After the Basra standoff, the Iraqi prime minister speaks harshly of Muqtada Sadr's followers.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki vowed Thursday after last week's battle in the southern port of Basra to carry out more offensives around Iraq, mentioning as targets neighborhoods in Baghdad associated with Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.
The digital download store overtakes Wal-Mart as the biggest U.S. music seller.
Apple Inc. has surpassed Wal-Mart to become America's No. 1 music store, the first time that a seller of digital downloads has ever beaten the big CD retailers.
Already under pressure to make reforms, the Atascadero facility is now dealing with the death of Lawrence Paul Rael. Another patient has been charged with murder.
When Lawrence Paul Rael was involuntarily committed to Atascadero State Hospital 10 years ago, his parents considered the placement appropriate.
Hand-held devices won't be ready in time to help workers collect data door to door .
Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and Census Bureau Director Steve H. Murdock told a House appropriations subcommittee Thursday that the government would not be able to use specially designed hand-held computers to collect information for the 2010 census from the millions of people who don't return census forms.
A harassed lawyer belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood conducts a shadow campaign for a village council seat.
He has been jailed, his computer has been seized, his blog is tracked by intelligence officials, and Mohammed Shawkat Malt concedes that his latest political quest appears doomed.
Testifying at a congressional hearing, witnesses describe a potentially disastrous lack of oversight.
FAA safety inspector Bobby Boutris was conducting night surveillance of maintenance at Midway Airport in Chicago in March 2007 when he observed a Southwest Airlines plane being repaired for a crack on the fuselage.
MEMPHIS (Reuters) - Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in a racially charged assassination, the civil rights leader is still roiling American politics.
WASHINGTON - An ambitious vision to take people to the moon and Mars may fall apart before it even gets off the ground because of uncertain planning and inadequate funding, several experts said yesterday.
A congressional report... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Apr 2008 | 5:54 am
ZAGREB - A fugitive former Croatian general, suspected of killing four people last week, committed suicide yesterday after police besieged his hideout.
One policeman was shot dead as special police troops tried to capture Ivan... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Apr 2008 | 4:34 am
New Zealand police have joined American authorities in the hunt for two men, thought to be Queenstown residents, who allegedly stole flags flying at half-mast for a soldier killed in Iraq.
But police in Queenstown say the motivation... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Apr 2008 | 4:20 am
Once upon a time, Democrats were extolling that they had two worthy contenders to choose from in Clinton and Obama. But now, some Democrats say they might just vote Republican if their preferred candidate doesn't win the party nomination.
BRASILIA - Brazilian authorities discovered the slaughter of around 740 alligators in a nature reserve in the Amazon forest, a state official said on Tuesday.
Inspectors of the Amazon state's environmental protection agency IPAAM... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Apr 2008 | 3:56 am
CANBERRA - The first images of a sunken HMAS Sydney reveal a shattered hulk with German shell holes clearly visible.
The first seven images, now available on the Finding Sydney Foundation website, were obtained yesterday by a special... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Apr 2008 | 2:29 am
APIA, Samoa - The New Zealand Minister of Transport Safety has expressed his doubts about the benefits of Samoa importing vehicles from New Zealand.
His comments come amid the controversial Right Hand Drive Bill proposed by Samoan... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 Apr 2008 | 1:52 am
China is facing international condemnation on a new front after jailing its most prominent young human rights activist for three-and-a-half years. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
The Bank of England has warned that almost half of all lenders are preparing to ration mortgage deals over the next three months as the credit crisis worsens. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Gordon Brown will today admit that the taxpayer has paid his grocery bills in the past, and David Cameron will reveal he has claimed tens of thousands in mortgage bills for his constituency home. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 4 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Baby polar bear Flocke enjoys splashing around in an outdoor pool at Nuremberg zoo in southern Germany.
Keepers at the zoo have been rearing the white bundle of fur by hand after her mother was deemed unfit to raise her.
Flocke,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and Treasury Undersecretary Robert Steel tell the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that the fear of widespread financial meltdown justified their actions in the Bear Stearns takeover. Lawmakers say they're concerned about potential costs to taxpayers.
The Bush administration hailed the Iraqi-led assault in Basra last week as a "defining moment" for the Iraqi military. But New York Times correspondent Michael Gordon reports U.S. officials in Baghdad are uneasy with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's impulsive leadership style.
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's ruling party geared up on Thursday for a final battle to keep Robert Mugabe in power, declaring itself ready for a presidential election run-off as police arrested foreign journalists in Harare. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 3 Apr 2008 | 10:05 pm
Former president Jimmy Carter has not officially said which Democratic candidate he is supporting in 2008, but in Nigeria on Wednesday, he said his state, town and the younger generations of his family all favor Sen. Barack Obama.
Membership for former Soviet states Ukraine and Georgia was put on hold for now, amid European allies' concerns of angering Russia. However, more troops were committed to Afghanistan, and the U.S.-backed proposal for a missile defense shield got a warm reception.
Security agents and paramilitary police in riot gear are surrounding a Harare hotel housing foreign journalists. Meanwhile, a senior Zimbabwean official says President Robert Mugabe is calling for a runoff election.
Robert Mugabe has appeared in public for the first time since Zimbabwe's bitterly fought weekend election as his party said it was confident of him winning a second round in the presidential contest. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:55 pm
ROME (AFP) - The Italian government and unions at Alitalia Thursday signalled they wanted Air France-KLM to return to the negotiating table after the European aviation giant dropped its bid for the failing Italian flagship. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:50 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US senators expressed concern Thursday that billions of dollars in taxpayer funds has been put on the line to back the emergency takeover of troubled investment bank Bear Stearns. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:31 pm
BUCHAREST (AFP) - European leaders kept Georgia and Ukraine waiting at NATO's doorstep Thursday, dealing George W. Bush a rebuff at the last summit of the transatlantic alliance he will attend as US president. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:08 pm
TOULOUSE (AFP) - Europe's robot freighter successfully docked on its maiden voyage Thursday with the International Space Station, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 3 Apr 2008 | 7:43 pm
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday said he planned to launch more crackdowns on militiamen as radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a massive anti-US protest next week. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 3 Apr 2008 | 7:15 pm
Brazil's government has deployed the army to fight an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever in an epidemic that has sickened more than 45,000 people this year. Fifty four people have died in the state of Rio de Janeiro this year.
Egypt is struggling with rising food prices and inflation. But it's the plight of poverty-stricken child workers and the lack of protections for them that has gained new attention.
President Bush has scored two victories at a NATO summit, with the trans-Atlantic alliance agreeing to support his plans for a missile defense program with bases in western Europe, and France pledging more troops to the fight in Afghanistan.
HARARE - Zimbabean police on Thursday arrested two foreign journalists at a Harare hotel for covering the country's election without accreditation, police said.
"I can confirm that we have arrested two reporters at York Lodge for... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Apr 2008 | 6:00 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Thursday for a million Iraqis to march against U.S. "occupiers," threatening a massive show of strength a week after his Mehdi Army militia battled U.S. and government troops. The government said it would not try to block the April 9 march if it was peaceful, though Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who ordered a crackdown on militia in the southern city of Basra last week, threatened more strikes against Sadr's strongholds. A statement released by Sadr's office in the holy city of Najaf called on Iraqis of all sects to descend on the southern city, site of annual Shi'ite pilgrimages that attract hundreds of thousands of worshippers. "The time has come to express your rejections and raise your voices loud against the unjust occupier and enemy of nations and humanity, and against the horrible massacres committed by the occupier against our honorable people," it said. The demonstration, called for the... Source: ABC News: International | 3 Apr 2008 | 5:45 pm
OCANA (AFP) - US aircraft giant Boeing claimed Thursday a world first in putting into the air a plane powered by a hydrogen-cell battery, a breakthrough that could herald a greener future for the industry. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 3 Apr 2008 | 5:34 pm
Eight British men planned to detonate bombs aboard at least seven airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada, hoping to kill hundreds of passengers in a major terrorist attack, a prosecutor said as he opened a trial into the case.
Aviation authorities report that a plane has crashed en route to a mining village in the South American country of Suriname, killing at least 19 people. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 5:25 pm
Operations by Iraq's security forces in Basra in the past week are a signal of determination by the government to go after those outside the law, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said Thursday. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 5:17 pm
LONDON - Up to 18 suicide bombers may have planned to take part in an Islamist terrorist plot to blow up transatlantic airliners which could have killed more than 1,500 people, a London court heard yesterday.
Prosecutors said a... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Apr 2008 | 5:01 pm
NEW YORK - The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit tossed out an $US800 billion ($NZ1026 billion) lawsuit against big tobacco on Thursday by decertifying a class of smokers who said they were deceived into believing "light"... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 3 Apr 2008 | 5:01 pm
A Brazilian official says he is considering asking Cuba to send doctors to help care for the victims of a burgeoning dengue epidemic that has infected more than 45,000 people, killing at least 67. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 4:54 pm
A U.N. court acquitted Kosovo's former prime minister Thursday of murdering and torturing Serbs and their supporters during the province's battle to free itself of Serbia's rule in 1998. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 4:38 pm
U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq describe how mementos of family and good times help get them through the day and give encouragement amid war service. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 4:22 pm
Eight British men planned to detonate bombs aboard airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada, hoping to kill hundreds of passengers in a major terrorist attack, a prosecutor said Thursday as he opened a trial into the case. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 3:52 pm
She has beauty, brains and now a new prosthetic leg. Agusta Urica, 31, was crowned Miss Landmine 2008 in Angola's capital. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 3:44 pm
A British man is turning the tables on a night out at the bar, offering to pay someone to sit and chat at the bar while drinking beer, rather than forking over cash for the same pleasure. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 3:25 pm
An international rights group said Thursday that Niger's army has taken its campaign against a northern rebel group to the civilian population killing and torturing townspeople. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 3:25 pm
North Korea's military rejected Thursday a South Korean appeal to ease rising tensions on the peninsula, while the South's new president accused the North of pointless provocations in his first comments on their strained relations. Source: FOXNews.com | 3 Apr 2008 | 2:35 pm
AP - MEMPHIS, Tenn. Presidential candidates, civil rights leaders, labor activists and thousands of everyday citizens are coming together Friday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 40th anniversary of his death.
Hillary Rodham Clinton made fun of herself Thursday, telling "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno she almost didn't make it to his studio.
AP - President Bush, fresh from securing full NATO support for his missile defense plans for Europe and a pledge to later admit former Soviet republics, has plenty to discuss with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
AP - The National Weather Service says an unknown number of people were injured when a tornado swept through the Little Rock, Arkansas, area last night. At the North Little Rock Airport, the tornado destroyed a hangar and several small planes and left several others flipped over onto their wings.
Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
said on Friday his security forces would stop arresting
militiamen if they give up their weapons, apparently seeking to
defuse tensions with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
AP - Some analysts expect that today's unemployment report from the Labor Department will show fewer jobs were lost in March than in February. According to Thomson/IFR, the report should show 15,000 jobs were lost in March, which would be an improvement over the 63,000 job cut a month before.
Reuters - Russian President Vladimir Putin said
on Friday he was encouraged that the United States had listened
to Russian concerns about its planned U.S. missile shield site
and said discussions would continue.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared Thursday to deny published reports that she told New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that Barack Obama cannot win the general election. But her campaign aides later said the New York senator had misunderstood the question.
Reuters - Six Britons accused of plotting to blow
up at least seven transatlantic airliners recorded martyrdom
videos saying the attacks were revenge for the U.S. invasion of
Iraq, a London court heard on Friday.
Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage on Friday won an apology and damages from actress Kathleen Turner over claims in her autobiography that he had been arrested twice for drunk driving and had once stolen a Chihuahua.
Russia is deeply worried by NATO's pledge to eventually bring Ukraine and Georgia into the alliance, despite its failure to do so immediately, a Russian official said Friday. NATO's chief later said talks with Russian President Putin were "frank and open."
A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police vehicle Friday in volatile southern Afghanistan, killing three policemen and a civilian, a police official said.