Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces battled Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood in clashes that killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 despite a cease-fire between the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 2:17 pm
A young couple dogged by shouting paparazzi scurries down Newbury Street, ducking in and out of stores. As the photographers push to get closer, passers-by pull out their...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - When the Celtics placed a premium on winning homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs, no one promised they would do so by conventional means.
So...
The 2008 high school baseball season goes into full bloom this week. Today's Boston Herald offers two full pages of previews, predictions and players to watch in all...
(Kyodo) _ Kyodo World Service now closes the news cycle for Sunday, April 6. The service will reopen at 7 a.m. Monday Tokyo time. We may reopen the service at any moment to cover breaking Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:59 pm
Longtime ratings juggernaut "American Idol" made headlines of a different kind last year by generating more than $76 million for charities.
Underprivileged...
A bright future.
Michael Ebright has been hired as a surgeon in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Boston Medical Center and will be recommended...
(Kyodo) _ Sydney Olympic champion Kosei Inoue claimed the title in the men's over 100-kilogram category for the first time Sunday, but Athens Olympic champion Ryoko Tani was sent to a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:43 pm
NEW YORK - Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost, a hip-hop pioneer whose acrobatic performance with the legendary Rock Steady Crew in the 1983 movie "Flashdance"...
President Robert Mugabe's ruling party demanded a vote recount and a further delay in the release of presidential election results, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported, prompting... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:35 pm
Dermody came from a family of Cambridge criminals. (His father and brother died in prison.) A member of Whitey Bulger's original bank-robbing gang, he got out of federal...
WASHINGTON - The Colombian government said Saturday it has fired Mark Penn's public relations firm after the chief campaign strategist for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton...
WASHINGTON - Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign on Saturday repudiated a liberal talk show host's description of Sen. John McCain as a warmonger, a comment...
PRESCOTT, Ariz. - Sen. John McCain called Saturday for a presidential campaign that is more like a respectful argument among friends than a bitter clash of enemies, and said...
COLOMBO (AFP) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber assassinated Sri Lanka's highways minister as he opened a marathon Sunday in an attack that killed 13 others and wounded 100, police and officials said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:22 pm
Reuters - Thousands of anti-China protesters
draped in Tibetan flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay on
Sunday through London, billed as a journey of harmony and
peace.
LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-China protesters draped in Tibetan flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay on Sunday through London, billed as a journey of harmony and peace.
(Kyodo) _ The Dalai Lama on Sunday issued a statement calling on Tibetans not to hinder the Olympic Games in Beijing as protesters disrupted the Olympic torch relay through London. "I... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:16 pm
AP - Police repeatedly scuffled with protesters as Olympians and celebrities carried the Olympic torch through snowy London during a chaotic relay Sunday.
Police early Sunday used tear gas to disperse a crowd at a large party near the campus of Michigan State University after fights broke out and officers were pelted with bottles and cans. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:14 pm
Sen. Hillary Clinton made a blunt appeal to North Dakota delegates to switch their support to her, despite the fact that Sen. Barack Obama handily defeated her in the state's caucus in February. Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:10 pm
AP - Hunting for votes out West, Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday rejected the idea that the region's sparsely populated states aren't important in the presidential race and renewed his promise to appoint a high-level adviser on Indian issues if elected.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi police say gunmen have released the 42 college students they kidnapped earlier in the day near the northern city of Mosul.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:05 pm
AP - Law enforcement manned a roadblock miles from a polygamist temple where sect leaders refused to let authorities enter to search for a teenager whose report of abuse initiated a raid on the West Texas compound.
Twenty-five arrests are made amid scuffles between pro-Tibet protesters and police along the Olympic torch relay in London. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:57 pm
Iraqis watch a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein pulled down in Baghdad's al-Fardous Square on April 9, 2003. Fierce clashes between Shiite gunmen and US forces in the Iraqi capital's Sadr City... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:51 pm
An Iraqi priest participates in the funeral of Assyrian Orthodox priest Youssef Adel who was shot dead in Baghdad earlier this week. Fierce clashes between Shiite gunmen and US forces in the Iraqi capital's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:51 pm
Iraqi squaters living beside the ruins of the former Iraqi Air Force command building in Baghdad. Fierce clashes between Shiite gunmen and US forces in the Iraqi capital's Sadr City district have killed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:51 pm
Shiite children in a school that their families occupied after leaving their homes due to the ongoing raids by US and Iraqi forces into Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City. Fierce clashes between Shiite... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:51 pm
An Iraqi soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the Shiite enclave of Sadr City. Fierce clashes between Shiite gunmen and US forces in the Iraqi capital's Sadr City district have killed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:51 pm
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and Russia's Vladimir Putin ended their last face-to-face meeting as heads of state on Sunday with warm words for each other but no solution to their row over missile defense.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Fierce clashes between Shiite gunmen and US forces in the Iraqi capital's Sadr City district killed at least 20 people on Sunday, amid calls from Iraqi leaders for all militias to be disbanded. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:51 pm
(Kyodo) _ The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry plans to recognize about half of the approximately 300 plaintiffs who are seeking recognition as sufferers of atomic-bomb diseases in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:48 pm
U.S. President George Bush, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk to a joint press conference at Bochorov Ruchei, the Russian Presidential residence, in Sochi, Russia Sunday, April 6, 2008... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:44 pm
Reuters - President George W. Bush and
Russia's Vladimir Putin ended their last face-to-face meeting
as heads of state on Sunday with warm words for each other but
no solution to their row over missile defense.
HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean judge has postponed until later on Sunday his hearing of an opposition application for presidential elections results to be released immediately, an opposition lawyer said.
U.S. President George Bush,right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk to a joint press conference in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, southern Russia, Sunday, April 6, 2008. With time running... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:39 pm
President Robert Mugabe's ruling party is demanding a vote recount and a further delay in announcing the results of Zimbabwe's presidential election, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported, prompting outrage from the opposition party. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:39 pm
SOCHI (AFP) - US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin made progress on Sunday toward resolving their dispute over a planned US missile defence system in Europe at their swansong summit by the Black Sea. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:36 pm
AP - Memphis and its up-tempo offense will face Kansas and its shutdown defense when the two top-seeded teams meet for the NCAA championship Monday night.
AFP - US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin made progress on Sunday toward resolving their dispute over a planned US missile defence system in Europe at their swansong summit by the Black Sea.
Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia, center, runs in the early meters of the Paris marathon, Sunday, April 6, 2008 on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. Kebede won the 26-mile (42.2 kilometers) course in 2 hours,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:33 pm
In a perfect world, we'd all have fully funded vacation accounts to pay for our annual family getaways. The reality: Most of us are just now starting to think about this summer's vacation. Here are some fast-track ways to save for your big trip. Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:31 pm
After nearly 200 women and children were removed from secretive retreat, sect leaders refuse to let authorities search a temple for a teenage girl whose report of abuse led to the raid
AP - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their differences over a U.S. missile defense system at a farewell meeting on Sunday, with Bush saying the system is not aimed at Russia but at regimes that "could try to hold us hostage."... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:24 pm
TOKYO, April 6 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING NGO COMMENTS IN LAST 3 GRAFS) Development-related ministers of the Group of Eight nations warned Sunday that soaring food prices pose a serious... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:24 pm
AP - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their differences over a U.S. missile defense system at a farewell meeting on Sunday, with Bush saying the system is not aimed at Russia but at regimes that "could try to hold us hostage."
Jordan's Queen Rania gestures during a debate following her speech at the Sorbonne university in Paris, within the 3-day conference entitled "La Cite de la Reussite". The 16th Cite de la Reussite conference... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:21 pm
(Kyodo) _ Athens Olympic gold medalists Saori Yoshida and Kaori Icho, who have secured their places in the Beijing Olympics, extended their streaks of winning national titles in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:17 pm
MIAMI (Reuters) - The damage caused to U.S. coastal cities by hurricanes promises to rise into the stratosphere, raising concerns about a possible $500 billion storm and prompting calls for tougher building codes.
Hollywood legend portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics, but latter-day activism almost overshadowed his achievements as an actor
An undated image of Mullah Mansoor Dadullah taken from Aljazeera satellite television. Afghan and NATO forces have killed 15 Taliban insurgents in separate raids in southern Afghanistan, where police also... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:14 pm
Afghan and NATO forces killed 15 Taliban insurgents in separate raids in southern Afghanistan, where police also captured a senior Taliban commander, officials said Sunday. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:14 pm
The Duke of Edinburgh is to be discharged from hospital following treatment for a chest infection. Philip, 86, was admitted to King Edward V11 hospital in central... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:13 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Charlton Heston, whose chiseled features and commanding presence won him epic roles from Moses to Michelangelo, died on Saturday night at the age of 84, his family said.
LONDON (AFP) - Pro-Tibet protesters in London clashed with police and tried to put out the flame as the Olympic torch was being carried around the British capital on Sunday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:04 pm
American and Russian leaders failed to resolve their differences over a U.S. missile defense system at a farewell meeting, with Mr. Bush saying the system is not aimed at Russia but at regimes that "could try to hold us hostage."
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka's highways minister and at least 11 others on Sunday gathered for a marathon race near the capital, the government said.
The results show that Democratic candidates who appear on the Report receive a statistically significant “Colbert bump” in campaign donations, raising 44% more money in a 30-day period after appearing on the show. However, there is no evidence of a similar boost for Republicans. Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:56 am
Top Gear's James May takes on Gordon Ramsay in a series of challenges one of them is eating rotten shark GUESS WHO PUKES? Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:55 am
A planned strike led by workers at a major textile factory and other solidarity protests are pre-empted by police. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:54 am
A group of 42 university students abducted near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are released, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
HARARE (AFP) - Robert Mugabe's party refused to release its grip on power Sunday, demanding a recount in Zimbabwe's presidential election and snubbing an offer to join the opposition in a national unity government. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:43 am
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outside Sri Lanka's capital Sunday, killing a government minister and 11 other people, authorities said. Dozens were wounded.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
A group of 42 students was freed hours after being kidnapped in northern Iraq on Sunday, an Iraqi security spokesman said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:39 am
Could be you are one of the 100,000 (they are admitting to) that are being subject to deep packet inspection. "You don't want the phone company tapping your phone calls, and in the same way you don't want your ISP tapping your Web traffic," said Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy group. Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:30 am
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:29 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A group of at least 40 students kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday near the northern city of Mosul have been freed by Iraqi security forces, police said.
Recession. It's a word that strikes fear into the heart of chief executives, economists, and everyday Americans alike. And for good reason -- recessions bring job losses, falling stock prices, and general economic gloom and doom. But while almost no one is enthusiastic about the thought of a recession knocking on the front door, there are a few goo Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:25 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- President Robert Mugabe's ruling party is demanding a vote recount and a further delay in announcing the results of Zimbabwe's presidential election, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported, prompting outrage from the opposition party.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:23 am
President Robert Mugabe's ruling party is demanding a vote recount and a further delay in announcing the results of Zimbabwe's presidential election, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported, prompting outrage from the opposition party. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:23 am
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police have arrested a Taliban commander in the southern province of Kandahar while 15 insurgents have been killed in clashes with Afghan and NATO troops, the government said on Sunday.
Scott Sigler and Seth Harwood have spent the past few years writing novels, disseminating them over the Internet as serialized podcasts and amassing audiences so considerable that top-shelf agents and publishers are now eager to represent the authors. Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Police scuffled with protesters as Olympians and celebrities carried the Olympic torch through snowy London during a chaotic relay Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Apr 2008 | 10:40 am
George Bush and Vladimir Putin sign a basic agreement on bilateral ties, without a breakthrough on differences. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 10:37 am
The scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome is to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God and is convinced that miracles are real. Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 10:34 am
Five-time Olympic gold medallist rower Steve Redgrave launched the Olympic torch relay across London on Sunday amid heavy security and attempts by Tibet protesters to disrupt the procession. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Apr 2008 | 10:34 am
Ryan Thomas Grace of Omaha filed this patent application with the USPTO as a means of proposing to his girlfriend. Source: Digg | 6 Apr 2008 | 10:34 am
MADRID (Reuters) - There is more than a 50 percent chance the United States could go into recession, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told El Pais newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and
would-be PM Raila Odinga hold talks to form a coalition government. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 10:10 am
Charlton Heston, who won a best actor Oscar for his performance in the Hollywood epic Ben-Hur, dies aged 84. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 10:06 am
BEIJING (AFP) - China's top official in Tibet has insisted that the Beijing Olympics torch relay will pass through the Himalayan region as planned, in a rejection of pressure from activists around the world. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Apr 2008 | 9:39 am
Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing
Ben-Hur and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures
in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, has died. He was 84. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 6 Apr 2008 | 9:12 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's vice president-elect may hold informal discussions with China's leader at a trade forum on the mainland, what would be the highest-level meeting ever held between the two historic rivals, an official said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 6 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
BEIJING (AP) -- The Communist Party boss of Tibet says the region is stable after anti-government riots last month but warned of possible sabotage against the Olympic torch relay, state media reported Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 6 Apr 2008 | 8:55 am
Zimbabwean President Mugabe's party demands poll results be delayed and votes recounted, reports say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 8:10 am
Former U.S. Army sergeant who defected, lived as captive in North Korea, sells his story in Japan. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Apr 2008 | 7:59 am
TEHRAN (AFP) - OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri has rejected calls from oil consuming states for a hike in the cartel's crude output, saying that non-fundamental factors were to blame for current high prices. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Apr 2008 | 7:58 am
Texan police continue raids on breakaway Mormon sect's ranch, removing almost 200 women and children. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 7:34 am
The two presidents know that, in a crunch, national interests are paramount.
Seven years ago, President Bush famously said after his first private meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, "I was able to get a sense of his soul."
Take a look behind the scenes and you ll see why the home of the French dip sandwich never goes out of style.
The restaurant spreads before you, six steps below ground: sawdust floors, lines of people, painted menus and neon beer signs on the walls. The lines--at peak hours there are 10 of them, each up to 20 people long--weave between the tables where scores of others are eating, oblivious to the crush. Pick a line and wait your turn.
The Oscar winner played Moses and Michelangelo, then later became a darling of conservatism.
Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84.
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) -- Montenegrins voted Sunday in the tiny Balkan state's first presidential election since it split from Serbia two years ago.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 6 Apr 2008 | 6:40 am
Montenegrins voted Sunday in the tiny Balkan state's first presidential election since it split from Serbia two years ago. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Apr 2008 | 6:40 am
Taiwan's vice president-elect may hold informal discussions with China's leader at a trade forum on the mainland, what would be the highest-level meeting ever held between the two historic rivals, an official said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Apr 2008 | 6:31 am
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas officials investigating a potential child abuse case said on Saturday 183 children and women had been removed from a ranch that is home to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.
Sri Lankan Highways Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle is among 12 people killed in a suicide bombing, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Apr 2008 | 5:33 am
WASHINGTON - US actor Charlton Heston, whose chiseled features and commanding presence won him epic roles from Moses to Michelangelo, died on Saturday night at the age of 84, his family said.
The Oscar-winning Heston, who was also... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Apr 2008 | 5:05 am
Sri Lanka’s national coach and a former Olympic runner were among 12 killed in a suicide bomb attack during the opening ceremony of a marathon Sunday outside the nation’s capital. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Apr 2008 | 4:57 am
The White House says it does not expect President George W. Bush's talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to produce a deal on a missile defense system based in Europe.
Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Apr 2008 | 4:08 am
MELBOURNE - Plans are being drawn up for a $A220 ($NZ258.7) million adventure safari theme park in Melbourne's outer south-west.
The African Safari Park would generate thousands of jobs and more than one million visitors a year,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Apr 2008 | 3:00 am
WASHINGTON - The wheels may be about to come off Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidential nomination following a series of damaging news reports less than three weeks before a potentially decisive primary contest with Barack... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Apr 2008 | 1:29 am
Nearly 20 people at the University of British Columbia face a series of charges including assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest after protest escalates
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's faltering crackdown on Shiite militants has won the backing of Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties that fear both the powerful sectarian militias and the effects of failure on Iraq's fragile government.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:37 am
HARARE - Zimbabwe sunk deeper into political stalemate today, with the opposition going to court to get election results released and President Robert Mugabe's ruling party asking for a delay and recount.
Tensions between the two... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:23 am
PARIS - The prospect of one of the world's leading political figures boycotting the Beijing Olympic Games over Chinese actions in Tibet was raised and then seriously qualified yesterday in a sign that the invitation to China in August... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
Microsoft gives Yahoo a three-week deadline to respond to its offer to buy out the internet company. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 Apr 2008 | 11:57 pm
BELGRADE - A Serb farmer used a grinding machine to cut in half his farm tools and machines to comply with a court ruling that he must share all his property with his ex-wife, local media reported on Thursday.
Branko Zivkov, 76,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Apr 2008 | 11:05 pm
<b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63HZq85qe1Q">Watch a clip from
Martin McDonagh's Oscar-winning Six Shooter</a></b> Source: Top stories from Times Online | 5 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
ZIMBABWE was bracing itself yesterday for the possibility that President
Robert Mugabe, forced into an expected election runoff against his
opposition challenger Morgan Tsvangirai, could mobilise an army of thugs to
beat, intimidate and terrify voters, while taking emergency powers to vary
the electoral regulations so as to make ballot-stuffing easier. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 5 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
SALESMEN for one of Britain’s biggest energy companies are routinely lying to
householders to trick them into signing up as new customers. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 5 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
ON the day Gordon Brown turned orange it emerged that he has hired a former
BBC producer to put an end to the visual gaffes that have dogged his time as
prime minister.<i> </i> Nicola Burdett, 35, has been told to stop the
embarrassing photographs and television foot-age that risk turning Brown
into a figure of fun. The appointment has not come a moment too soon.
Yesterday the prime minister was pictured at a summit of world leaders in
Hertfordshire with a bright orange blob of make-up on his forehead. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 5 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
The housing crisis has finally pushed the Senate in to gear. Negotiations for a mortgage bill fell through along party lines before the congressional spring break. But there is renewed rigor in the Capitol to pass legislation.
In Argentina on Friday, a child of dissidents successfully sued her adoptive parents for kidnapping and complicity in her parents' disappearance during the Dirty War of the 1970s. It's the first such case brought by an orphan of the Dirty War to make it to Argentina's criminal courts.
Coach Roy Williams defected from the University of Kansas Jayhawks five years ago. Now, leading the North Carolina Tar Heels, he faces his former school in a Final Four showdown.
The opposition denies involvement and blames the purported list on authorities trying to incite panic. It also accuses the regime of plans to intimidate the public.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai today accused Zimbabwe's authorities of preparing a "war against the people" to intimidate opposition voters in a presidential runoff.
Armed police prevented opposition lawyers from entering Zimbabwe's High Court to lodge an urgent suit aiming to force the publication of presidential election results.
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed President Bush at his Black Sea retreat for a farewell summit. There are few signs they can overcome some of the major issues dividing Russia and the U.S.
Few places in the world have been more directly affected by China's booming economy than its once-mighty neighbor to the north. In the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, goods now move in from China instead of the other way around.
Zimbabweans went to the polls exactly one week ago, but voters are still waiting to find out who their next president will be. The capital Harare is alive with rumor and speculation about the country's future -- and whether President Robert Mugabe will remain in office after 28 years in power.
GUIRA DE MELENA, Cuba (AP) -- In a country where almost everyone works for the communist state, dairy farmer Jesus Diaz is his own boss. He likes it that way - and so does the government.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 5 Apr 2008 | 7:12 pm
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- It was a surprising sight in a land grown accustomed to surprises: the king at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz, driving himself and his queen through the crowded streets of Katmandu.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:24 a... | 5 Apr 2008 | 5:24 pm
Robert Mugabe began his last-ditch fight to stay in power in Zimbabwe yesterday, sending his self-styled "war veterans" to march ominously through the capital, Harare, silently taunting the country with the threat of a return to the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
After decades of being browbeaten by Communist state-run television, a new 24-hour channel with foreign content is being offered to Cuba's television viewers, many of whom were so bored they had turned off their sets years ago.
It's... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
Police investigating the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews in Yorkshire arrested two members of her stepfather's family yesterday.
The 9-year-old's disappearance in February sparked a huge search before she was found safe and well... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
An Assyrian Orthodox priest was shot on Saturday by gunment who drove up in a car and opened fire as he was opening the gate to his house. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Apr 2008 | 4:40 pm
Zimbabwe's opposition leader on Saturday accused President Robert Mugabe of preparing a "war against the people" and said the party was reluctant to take part in a presidential runoff election. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Apr 2008 | 4:21 pm
France's military is keeping close tabs on a French luxury yacht seized by pirates off Somalia's coast, and officials hope to avoid using force to free the 30 crew members, the prime minister said Saturday. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Apr 2008 | 4:19 pm
IOC President Jacques Rogge said pollution in Beijing will not endanger the health of athletes, although their performance might suffer. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Apr 2008 | 4:03 pm
Rat's 11,000-voltage blowout puts Stockholm, Sweden's central train station in the dark for three hours, halting elevators and escalators and causing some service delays. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Apr 2008 | 3:35 pm
Gordon Brown has again ruled out a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, saying even the Dalai Lama opposes such a move. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 5 Apr 2008 | 2:55 pm
Reuters - Thousands of anti-China protesters
draped in Tibetan flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay on
Sunday through London, billed as a journey of harmony and
peace.
AP - Police repeatedly scuffled with protesters as Olympians and celebrities carried the Olympic torch through snowy London during a chaotic relay Sunday.
AP - Hunting for votes out West, Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday rejected the idea that the region's sparsely populated states aren't important in the presidential race and renewed his promise to appoint a high-level adviser on Indian issues if elected.
AP - Iraqi police say gunmen have released the 42 college students they kidnapped earlier in the day near the northern city of Mosul.
AP - Law enforcement manned a roadblock miles from a polygamist temple where sect leaders refused to let authorities enter to search for a teenager whose report of abuse initiated a raid on the West Texas compound.
Reuters - President George W. Bush and
Russia's Vladimir Putin ended their last face-to-face meeting
as heads of state on Sunday with warm words for each other but
no solution to their row over missile defense.
AP - Memphis and its up-tempo offense will face Kansas and its shutdown defense when the two top-seeded teams meet for the NCAA championship Monday night.
AFP - US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin made progress on Sunday toward resolving their dispute over a planned US missile defence system in Europe at their swansong summit by the Black Sea.
AP - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
AP - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their differences over a U.S. missile defense system at a farewell meeting on Sunday, with Bush saying the system is not aimed at Russia but at regimes that "could try to hold us hostage."
President Bush and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin failed in talks Sunday to reconcile differences on a planned U.S. missile defense system.
Bush gives Gen. Petraeus a privileged voice in White House deliberations over Iraq, bypassing several levels of the military chain of command.
Kansas defeated North Carolina for a berth in the NCAA championship game Monday against Memphis.
Memphis defeated UCLA to advance to Monday's national championship game.
Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.