An Australian man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in jail for shining a laser pointer at a police helicopter and temporarily blinding the pilot. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:41 pm
Detectives investigating the alleged abduction of Shannon Matthews have been granted more time to question her mother on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:29 pm
An Arlington woman has accused a state senator of sexual assault following an early-morning encounter in her home yesterday, the Herald has learned.
According to the...
Oh, how things have changed.
This fall, Massachusetts Lt. Governor Tim Murray is off to Ireland to promote Massachusetts as a good place to both expand a business and...
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve, still working to combat the effects of a severe credit squeeze, said Tuesday it had auctioned says it has auctioned another $50 billion to...
WASHINGTON - The Iraq war commander tells a Senate hearing that he recommends a 45-day "period of consolidation and evaluation" in July before deciding when to resume...
PITTSBURGH - A federal judge in Pittsburgh has declared a mistrial in the fraud trail of celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht.
The decision was announced today after the...
DUBLIN, Ireland - Aer Lingus and United Airlines announced a code-sharing partnership today that will allow customers to book flights using each other's reservation networks.
The...
Here's how most fans will get to Fenway for today's home opener: They'll walk. If they hop a trolley or the train, they'll emerge into Kenmore Square and...
Iraqi government forces and the Mahdi Army clashed anew Tuesday in Baghdad despite a government ultimatum to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to either disband his militia or give up politics. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 2:03 pm
The four-star general in charge of U.S. forces in Iraq wants more time in a war that is now in its sixth year. Democrats say he has got until the November elections.
Michael Imperioli played a homicidal gangster on "The Sopranos." He also likes to rock out with his band La Dolce Vita, which comes to Boston Friday to play at Bill's...
NEW YORK - The stock market retreated in early trading today, with Wall Street disappointed by reports from aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. and chip maker Advanced Micro Devices...
Starbucks Corp. is hosting a nationwide coffee-tasting to celebrate the launch of its new "everyday" brew, a key ingredient in its drive to boost slumping sales.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Iraq presents a long-awaited progress report to Congress on Tuesday but will offer little hope for improved security before a new American president takes over in January.
AP - President Bush would remove needed pressure on the Iraqi government if he decides to halt the drawdown of U.S. troops, a leading Democrat said Tuesday at the outset of a series of congressional hearings on the prospects for fully stabilizing Iraq and further reducing the U.S. military commitment.
A recently disclosed memo gave U.S. interrogators the ability to use harsh methods -- what many call "torture" -- to extract information from terrorist suspects after 9/11. Around the world, critics saw it as another blow to American prestige and moral authority Source: Digg | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:50 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Washington Mutual Inc, the largest U.S. savings and loan, said on Tuesday it received a $7 billion capital injection from private equity firm TPG Inc and other investors.
The IOC will review plans for the remainder of the Beijing Olympic torch relay and consider scrapping the international portion of the event for future games.
Reuters - Washington Mutual Inc , the
largest U.S. savings and loan, said on Tuesday it received a $7
billion capital injection from private equity firm TPG Inc and
other investors.
Gerry and Kate McCann have been asked to return to Portugal to take part in a large-scale re-enactment of the hours surrounding Madeleine's disappearance. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:45 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened on Tuesday to end a truce he imposed on his militia last year, raising the prospect of worsening violence just as top U.S. officials prepare to testify on Iraq in Washington.
Madeleine McCanns parents, family friends and other holiday-makers have been called back to Portugal to participate in a reconstruction of the night she disappeared, the London Times has learned. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:37 pm
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Tuesday to lift a seven-month freeze on his Mahdi Army militia if the Iraqi government does not halt attacks on his followers or set a timetable... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:37 pm
AP - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Tuesday to lift a seven-month freeze on his Mahdi Army militia if the Iraqi government does not halt attacks on his followers or set a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Tuesday to lift a seven-month freeze on his Mahdi Army militia if the Iraqi government does not halt attacks on his followers or set a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:37 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday the worldwide losses stemming from the US subprime mortgage crisis could hit 945 billion dollars as the impact spreads in the global economy. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:37 pm
An opposition lawyer says Zimbabwe's High Court has agreed to urgently hear a petition demanding the release of results from the March 29 presidential election. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:36 pm
NISHINOMIYA, Japan, April 8 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH YOKOHAMA-YOMIURI GAME) Pinch-hitter Shintaro Hiyama tied the game on an RBI single in the seventh inning and Takahiro Arai... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:35 pm
Top US officials working in Iraq begin delivering a report to Congress following last year's US troop surge. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:34 pm
Eight teenagers have been arrested on charges alleging they beat another teen in an "animalistic attack" so they could make a videotape to post on YouTube. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:33 pm
... many of which I hadn’t seen since working in a lab, was still disconcerting. In fact, some of the chemicals were the same ones that drove me out of the lab. (You can only read “extreme neurotoxin” and “mutagenic” so many times before pondering a career change.). What were they doing in my chips? Source: Digg | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:30 pm
Reuters - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
threatened on Tuesday to end a truce he imposed on his militia
last year, raising the prospect of worsening violence just as
top U.S. officials prepare to testify on Iraq in Washington.
Olympic officials are to consider scrapping the international leg of the Beijing torch relay as a result of the anti-Chinese protests that have dogged the event.
The four-star general in charge of U.S. forces in Iraq wants more time in a war that is now in its sixth year. Democrats say he has got until the November elections.
Nokia employees wait at the main gate of the Nokia factory during a protest rally in Bochum, Germany, in this Jan. 24, 2008 file picture. A spokeswoman for Nokia Corp. said Tuesday April 8, 2008 the mobile... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:28 pm
SINGAPORE, April 8 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH COMMENTS BY NEGOTIATORS) Top U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators on Tuesday reported progress in their talks over a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:28 pm
Accompanied by his attorney Zion Amir, left, former Israeli President Moshe Katsav is seen at a Jerusalem court, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. Katsav called off a plea bargain agreement on Tuesday that would... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:28 pm
White farmers fled their farms across Zimbabwe amid escalating invasions by ruling party militants, farmers said, as President Robert Mugabe again appeared to be turning to violence to solidify his rule.
Kenya's opposition party has suspended power-sharing talks with the government, demanding the president dissolve his cabinet. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:25 pm
Washington Mutual says it will receive $7 billion in new capital from an investment group led by private equity firm TPG. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:25 pm
Eminem's mother has been sued by a man who alleges he helped her with a book about the Detroit rapper but was cut out of the profits. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:23 pm
A Kenyan policeman prepare to fire tear gas, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 during clashes between police and opposition party supporters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. Kenya's opposition party has suspended talks... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:23 pm
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's High Court ruled on Tuesday it would treat the opposition's application for the immediate release of presidential election results urgently and began hearing arguments in the case.
Retail gas prices will peak near $3.60 a gallon in June, but prices at such lofty levels will make many Americans think twice about hitting the road this summer, the Energy Department said Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:22 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: TO BE LED) Pinch-hitter Shintaro Hiyama tied the game on an RBI single in the seventh inning and Takahiro Arai followed with a go-head single as the Hanshin Tigers came Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:21 pm
NBA commissioner David Stern and NCAA president Myles Brand are expected to make an announcement on Monday afternoon in San Antonio that they have reached an agreement that would make certain that players are in college for at least two years before leaving early for the NBA. Source: Digg | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:20 pm
A woman appeals to the police to stop shooting tear gas, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 during clashes between police and opposition party supporters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. Kenya's opposition party has... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:19 pm
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which staged a fake news conference, and the Scranton, Pa., police department were among the winners Tuesday of the 2008 Jefferson Muzzle Awards, given by a free-speech group for egregious First Amendment violations. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:18 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop amid heavy security Tuesday, a day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China's human rights record.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:18 pm
AP - The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop amid heavy security Tuesday, a day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China's human rights record.
(Kyodo) _ The deepening U.S. subprime crisis could cost the global financial system to the tune of $945 billion, according to a new report published by the International Monetary Fund... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:16 pm
The IMF says the worldwide credit crunch could cost banks and others nearly $1 trillion in losses. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:15 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS, BACKGROUND) At least two people have died and people are being evacuated after a gas leakage Tuesday at a nuclear facility at Khushab in Pakistan's ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:15 pm
TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant, in a new snub to the West which fears Tehran is trying to build nuclear weapons.
Losses from the credit crisis by financial institutions worldwide are set to
balloon to almost $1 trillion ($£500 billion) threatening to trigger severe
economic fallout, the International Monetary Fund said today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:13 pm
International legs of the Olympic torch relay may have to be abandoned this year and for future Games, organisers admitted today after two days of protests disrupted its progress through London and Paris. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:13 pm
Two more Montana superdelegates are backing Barack Obama following weekend visits by the Illinois senator and rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.Obama now has commitments from 4 of Montana's eight superdelegates Source: Digg | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:10 pm
Former president of Israel Moshe Katsav nixed a plea agreement and will now face charges of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harrassment, which could land him in jail. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:09 pm
TOKYO, April 8 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTIMG WITH FRESH INFO) Executives of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan decided Tuesday to reject the government's nomination of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:08 pm
Reuters - China on Tuesday denounced protesters
who upstaged Olympic Games torch relays in London and Paris and
asked the United States to ensure the next leg in San Francisco
avoids similar mayhem.
The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop amid heavy security Tuesday, a day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China’s human rights record.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Talks with North Korea's top nuclear envoy on Tuesday have made progress towards resuming stalled negotiations over the North's nuclear program, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said.
Officials on Monday said 534 women and children were removed from a polygamist ranch in Texas and that all 401 children are in state custody because a judge deemed them in imminent danger.
ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi, who has been biting his tongue for most of the April 13-14 election campaign, said on Tuesday his opponents on the left had no taste in women. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:03 pm
The simple life of monks at China's famed Shaolin Temple got an upgrade with the installation of luxury restrooms worth $430,000, state media reported. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:03 pm
A cruise ship on the Columbia River with 177 people aboard was towed to a state park to be evacuated early Tuesday after a fire in the engine room, Coast Guard officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:02 pm
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- A Russian capsule carrying South Korea's first astronaut and two cosmonauts blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, en route to the international space station.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:02 pm
A Russian capsule carrying South Korea's first astronaut and two cosmonauts blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, en route to the international space station.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:02 pm
Influential Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr says he has postponed a mass rally in Baghdad against the US presence in Iraq. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:01 pm
The Government's tough line on migrant workers has been dealt a blow as new tougher rules for skilled immigrants who want to remain in the UK were declared unfair and unlawful by the High Court. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:01 pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A government spokesman says militants have killed 17 Afghan road workers in the country's south.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demanded Tuesday that the Iraqi government protect the public from "the booby traps and American militias" or he could formally end the freeze he imposed seven months ago on his Mahdi Army fighters.
South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak waves to crowd during the celebration of the country's first astronaut in front of the city hall in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
GENEVA (AFP) - The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday unveiled a new partnership with Internet giant Google to help track refugees from Iraq to Darfur and raise public awareness of its work. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
A shark attacked and killed a 16-year-old boy while he and a friend were bodyboarding off Australia's eastern coast, officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:58 pm
Reuters - Talks with North Korea's top nuclear
envoy on Tuesday have made progress towards resuming stalled
negotiations over the North's nuclear program, U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State Christopher Hill said.
India's proposed one-day series Zimbabwe is postponed indefinitely because of their busy schedule. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:56 pm
Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday.
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, left, together with Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu, react after the unveiling of a plaque at the U.S embassy in the capital Pristina on Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:51 pm
Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu, left, joined by the U.S ambassador in Kosovo Tina Kaidanov makes a speech during the unveiling of a plaque ceremony at the U.S embassy in the capital Pristina on Tuesday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:50 pm
AP - Until the raid on their compound last week, the women and girls of the Yearning for Zion Ranch spent their days caring for its many children, tilling gardens and quilting, dressed in pioneer-style dresses sewn by their own hands.
The ritual of drinking 21 or more alcoholic beverages to celebrate the 21st birthday appears to be far more common than expected, according to new research. The New York Times' Tara Parker-Pope expounds on the dangerous trend and examines the case of one young adult who recently died from binge drinking. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:49 pm
Mohamed Al Fayed was today meeting his lawyers to discuss whether to challenge
the verdict of the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:47 pm
In this Korean Central News Agency photo released by Korea News Service in Tokyo Tuesday, April 8, 2008, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, inspects a company under the direct control of the Korean... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:46 pm
Mohamed Al Fayed still believes British secret agents might have been involved in the death of his son and Princess Diana, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Tracy Letts has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his brutal yet darkly comic play, "August: Osage County" and Bob Dylan has been awarded a special music citation. Source: Digg | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:46 pm
Reuters - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on
Tuesday Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its
uranium enrichment plant, in a new snub to the West which fears
Tehran is trying to build nuclear weapons.
This satellite image provided by GeoEye Monday, Dec. 3, 2007, shows Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility in a June 26, 2007 photo. Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:44 pm
Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in his first speech to parliament since winning re-election, has called for a cross-party strategy to fight armed Basque separatist group ETA. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:43 pm
The Kansas Jayhawks are the men's NCAA basketball champions. Kansas beat Memphis 75-68 in overtime Monday in San Antonio. The Jayhawks last won the championship in 1988.
DALLAS (Reuters) - Authorities have now removed 401 children from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Texas authorities said on Monday.
"A reader has got in touch to point out the strangeness of today's UK Google News seems weirdly devoid of any mention of the Olympic torch protests that took place yesterday." - is the big G censoring Olympic stories to please China? Source: Digg | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:36 pm
Opposition supporters are reportedly assaulted, as a Zimbabwean judge agrees to hear an election case. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:36 pm
COCO SOLO, Panama (Reuters) - John McCain's birthplace in Panama was an idyllic tropical posting for U.S. sailors that the Republican presidential candidate speaks fondly of but the Caribbean port has crumbled into poverty and decay.
For the fifth straight year, an analysis of errors in the nation’s hospitals revealed that the most reported patient safety risk is a little-known but always-fatal condition called “failure to rescue.”
The coroner for the inquest into the death of Princess Diana will not refer butler Paul Burrell to police despite believing he lied. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:26 pm
Infants and toddlers who slept less than 12 hours a night were more than twice as likely to be overweight by age 3. That's according to a study in this week's Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Other studies have produced similar findings with school-age children and adolescents.
Reuters - The top U.S. commander in Iraq
presents a long-awaited progress report to Congress on Tuesday
but will offer little hope for improved security before a new
American president takes over in January.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday denounced protesters who upstaged Olympic Games torch relays in London and Paris and asked the United States to ensure that the next leg in San Francisco avoids similar mayhem.
BAIKONUR (AFP) - South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon blasted off into space bound for the International Space Station on Tuesday, prompting her mother to collapse with the emotion of the occasion. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:18 pm
One of the alleged jet bombers was carrying a ‘bomb making manual' and schedules of flights when he was arrested, a court heard today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:13 pm
BEIJING (AFP) - Olympic chiefs on Tuesday raised the prospect for the first time of abandoning the international legs of the Beijing Games torch relay, amid a wave of protests targeting the flame overseas. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:13 pm
Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned for the first time Tuesday rocket and mortar attacks against the U.S.-controlled Green Zone in Baghdad by supporters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Source: FOXNews.com | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:09 pm
Luxurious chest hair and little red trunks versus doughnuts and “D’oh!”. In
the battle of the US television heavyweights, The Hoff has vanquished Homer. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:04 pm
Previous benchmark tests that I’d carried out on my Mac mini had shown that Safari 3.1 was the fastest browser for the Mac OS X. Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 changes that.Using the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test my testing shows that Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 holds a 7% lead over Safari 3.1. Source: Digg | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:03 pm
Barbary lions, an extinct breed of lion from North Africa, were held at the Tower of London in medieval times according to a new study. Source: Digg | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:02 pm
Indonesian Internet companies blocked access to YouTube and MySpace on Tuesday, heeding a government order aimed at stopping people from watching an anti-Islam film by a Dutch lawmaker. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:57 am
A Palestinian man, said to be a militant, dies in clashes with Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:57 am
The Los Angeles Times on Monday retracted stories that implied purported associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs assaulted Tupac Shakur in 1994 and that Combs knew about it ahead of time. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
Mark Penn, the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's campaign, stepped down after it was revealed he had been lobbying for a free trade deal with Colombia -- a pact that Clinton opposes. The White House has asked lawmakers to ratify the deal.
The Peabody Award-winning "Project Runway" is walking to Lifetime, and NBC Universal Co. responded Monday by suing the hit reality show's makers to keep the series on its Bravo network. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:36 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:32 am
Nepal's border with India is sealed for security ahead of Thursday's elections, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:32 am
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is demanding the Iraqi government protect the public from "the booby traps and American militias" or he may formally end the freeze he imposed seven months ago on his Mahdi Army fighters. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:30 am
Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quotes President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying. It's seen as a show of defiance of international demands to halt the nuclear program.
Opposition supporters in a Kenyan slum set up burning barricades after a power-sharing deal breaks down. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:25 am
Intel Corp.'s venture capital arm said Tuesday that it has set up a new $500 million fund to invest in Chinese technology startups. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
Google Earth, used by spy agencies and terrorists to locate targets, is now hoping to redress the balance by showcasing the plight of refugees. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:18 am
The Washington Post garnered the most Pulitzer Prizes this year with six. They included the prize for public service for reporting on the deplorable conditions for wounded servicemen and servicewomen at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in grayingJapan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks.
Iran has begun to triple its capacity to enrich uranium, a process which can produce fuel for nuclear weapons or power plants, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced today on state television.
Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London Olympic Committee, has described the Chinese officials guarding the Olympic torch as "thugs", piling more embarrassment onto the Games' organisers. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 11:01 am
Madeleine McCann’s parents, family friends and other holiday-makers have been
called back to Portugal to participate in a reconstruction of the night she
disappeared, <i>Times Online</i> has learnt. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Apr 2008 | 10:57 am
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's opposition was Tuesday given the green light to pursue a legal bid to force a declaration of the country's presidential election, 10 days on from the poll on Robert Mugabe's future. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Apr 2008 | 10:54 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- An opposition lawyer says Zimbabwe's High Court has agreed to hear a petition demanding the release of the results of the March 29 presidential election.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 10:53 am
President Bush on Monday signed a letter to send a controversial free trade agreement with Colombia to Congress - a move that will force lawmakers to vote within 90 days.
The top U.S. military commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, briefs both the Senate Armed Services and the Senate Foreign Relations committees Tuesday on the military situation in Iraq. Lawmakers will also be updated on political developments by the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan Crocker.
Police have launched a hunt for children's TV presenter Mark Speight, who has gone missing a week after an inquest into the death of his fiancée. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 9:47 am
The International Olympic Committee may scrap the international leg of the
Beijing Olympic torch relay as a result of the protests over China’s
military crackdown in Tibet. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 8 Apr 2008 | 9:27 am
LONDON (AFP) - British telecoms operator BT Group said on Tuesday that its retail division chief, Ian Livingston, is to succeed Ben Verwaayen as chief executive in June. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Apr 2008 | 9:27 am
Police have launched a hunt for children's TV presenter Mark Speight, who has gone missing a week after an inquest into the death of his fiancée. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 8:27 am
More than 400 children and 130 women have been removed from a ranch of a polygamist sect in Texas as part of the state's largest child abuse inquiry ever. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 8 Apr 2008 | 8:08 am
SINGAPORE (AP) -- The U.S. nuclear negotiator warned that time was running out Tuesday as he opened a new round of talks with his North Korean counterpart to resolve a deadlock over the communist nation's nuclear program.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 7:53 am
PARIS (AFP) - Eurotunnel, which runs the rail tunnel under the Channel between Britain and France, on Tuesday reported its first annual profit since the giant project opened in 1994. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 8 Apr 2008 | 7:45 am
Belly fat is worse than thigh or buttock fat, even for those who aren't obese, researchers say.
Women who pack weight around their waists instead of on their buttocks and thighs have an increased risk of dying prematurely, according to the largest study yet to look at the association between abdominal fat and death.
Three U.S. troops are killed in Baghdad on the eve of Gen. David H. Petraeus' testimony before Congress.
Three more U.S. troops were killed Monday as Iraqis struggled to bury their dead amid fierce street battles between Shiite Muslim militias and Iraqi and American soldiers in the nation's capital.
Facilities receive more Medi-Cal funding, but few of the promised improvements are made, a study says
California nursing homes bolstered their bottom lines with much of the $590 million that state lawmakers provided them to better tend to the poor, while patient care declined by several key measures, according to a study to be released today.
The president has a slim chance of winning congressional approval of the pact. It would open markets in Colombia for a wide array of U.S. goods, he says.
Facing what are widely seen as long odds, President Bush on Monday began the contentious process of trying to win congressional approval of a free trade agreement with Colombia that critics, including many in the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill, say does not do enough to protect workers here or in the South American nation.
City Council may decide the fate of a huge, digital sign near a freeway. Opponents say approval could lead to a blight of animated signs near roads.
Anti-billboard activists have mounted a last-ditch effort to derail a proposal before the Los Angeles City Council that would place two 76-foot-tall billboards next to the 10 Freeway as part of an unusual trade-off to create a park in South Los Angeles.
BEIJING (AP) -- China condemned protests that disrupted the Olympic torch relay as "despicable," but vowed Tuesday to continue the relay to the end.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 5:32 am
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A Philippine court sentenced nine military officers Tuesday to jail terms ranging from 12 to 40 years for taking part in a foiled coup plot against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2003.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:38 a... | 8 Apr 2008 | 4:47 am
The U.S. government has been criticized for many aspects of its handling of the Iraq war. But Douglas Feith, an architect of the war, says one of his biggest regrets is not convincing top Pentagon officials to pay more attention to law and order immediately after the fall of Baghdad in 2003.
ADELAIDE - A piece of metal has been found in pre-packed meat sold by a supermarket in South Australia, the contamination possibly linked to similar incidents interstate.
Police said consumers were warned to take care after a packet... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Apr 2008 | 1:15 am
AUCKLAND - A government official in Fiji has reportedly stumbled upon an historic document in which traditional chiefs signed over the lands of Fiji to Britain.
The discovery happened in a government office in Fiji's former capital... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:53 am
NEW YORK - Infants who sleep an average of less than 12 hours per day have twice the risk of being overweight by age 3 as babies who get at least 12 hours of sleep per day, findings from the Project Viva study indicate.
"The adverse... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:46 am
NEW YORK - Solobacterium moorei is the organism largely responsible for chronic bad breath, or halitosis, biologists reported Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Dental Research in Dallas.
Persistent... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 8 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
CANBERRA - An Australian man and his adult daughter went public about their relationship after having a baby together, as new revelations emerged yesterday that a previous child of the couple died a few days after birth.
John Deaves,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Apr 2008 | 11:24 pm
LONDON - Tower Bridge, the picturesque span over the River Thames in London, is to get a facelift, an $US8 ($NZ10.26) million project that will take four years to complete.
The 114-year-old bridge, whose middle section can be raised... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Apr 2008 | 11:17 pm
TAM DAO, Vietnam - A furry black bear cub playfully clasps a rubber pet toy between its paws and eats fruit in its new home - Vietnam's first refuge for bears rescued from abusive traffickers of bile used in traditional medicines.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Apr 2008 | 10:38 pm
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas raises new objections with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over new Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Since they last met in November, Israel has built more then 2,000 new units, despite pledges to freeze construction, an Israeli watchdog group reports.
The situation in Iraq will be front and center on Capitol Hill Tuesday as Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, begin two days of testimony. Petraeus is widely expected to recommend a temporary freeze in U.S. troop reductions.
LONDON - Marine biologists believe seahorses could be breeding in the Thames as the river becomes cleaner.
About five short-snouted seahorses, (Hippocampus hippocampus) have been spotted during routine conservation surveys, leading... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Apr 2008 | 10:24 pm
Two people have died in Spain from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease, the health department at the regional Castilla-Leon government said yesterday.
Mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Apr 2008 | 10:09 pm
GENEVA - British physicist Peter Higgs said yesterday it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible - as he first argued 40 years ago.
Higgs said he believes... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 7 Apr 2008 | 9:49 pm
Mark Penn steps down as chief campaign strategist for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) over conflicts between his PR business and his candidate's interests. But many within the Clinton camp blamed Penn for Clinton's precarious position in the Democratic primary contest. Mara Liasson discusses the story with Michele Norris.
Flooding from torrential rains in Brazil's normally arid northeast has killed 21 people and driven about 82,000 from their homes, civil defense officials said.
For his Pulitzer-prize winning feature story, Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post convinced world-class violinist Joshua Bell to play beautiful music in a Metrorail station to gauge commuters' reaction.
A British coroner's jury has ruled that Princess Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed through the reckless actions of their driver and the paparazzi in 1997.
I'll call you back when I get into European airspace. That's what air travelers may soon be saying now that the European Union has opened the way for passengers to use mobile phones to talk, text or send e-mails on planes over Europe.
Millions of people could face poverty, disease and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and changing rainfall expected to hit poor countries the hardest, the World Health Organization warned.
At least five U.S. troops were killed in Iraq on Sunday, as violence around Baghdad's Shiite enclaves intensifies and the southern city of Basra remains restless with just days to go before two top American officials brief Congress on war progress.
The four-star general in charge of U.S. forces in Iraq wants more time in a war that is now in its sixth year. Democrats say he has got until the November elections.
Starbucks Corp. is hosting a nationwide coffee-tasting to celebrate the launch of its new "everyday" brew, a key ingredient in its drive to boost slumping sales.
AP - President Bush would remove needed pressure on the Iraqi government if he decides to halt the drawdown of U.S. troops, a leading Democrat said Tuesday at the outset of a series of congressional hearings on the prospects for fully stabilizing Iraq and further reducing the U.S. military commitment.
Reuters - Washington Mutual Inc , the
largest U.S. savings and loan, said on Tuesday it received a $7
billion capital injection from private equity firm TPG Inc and
other investors.
AP - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Tuesday to lift a seven-month freeze on his Mahdi Army militia if the Iraqi government does not halt attacks on his followers or set a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal.
Reuters - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
threatened on Tuesday to end a truce he imposed on his militia
last year, raising the prospect of worsening violence just as
top U.S. officials prepare to testify on Iraq in Washington.
AP - The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop amid heavy security Tuesday, a day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China's human rights record.
Reuters - China on Tuesday denounced protesters
who upstaged Olympic Games torch relays in London and Paris and
asked the United States to ensure the next leg in San Francisco
avoids similar mayhem.
The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop amid heavy security Tuesday, a day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China’s human rights record.
Officials on Monday said 534 women and children were removed from a polygamist ranch in Texas and that all 401 children are in state custody because a judge deemed them in imminent danger.
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demanded Tuesday that the Iraqi government protect the public from "the booby traps and American militias" or he could formally end the freeze he imposed seven months ago on his Mahdi Army fighters.
Reuters - Talks with North Korea's top nuclear
envoy on Tuesday have made progress towards resuming stalled
negotiations over the North's nuclear program, U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State Christopher Hill said.
Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday.
AP - Until the raid on their compound last week, the women and girls of the Yearning for Zion Ranch spent their days caring for its many children, tilling gardens and quilting, dressed in pioneer-style dresses sewn by their own hands.
Mohamed Al Fayed still believes British secret agents might have been involved in the death of his son and Princess Diana, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Reuters - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on
Tuesday Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its
uranium enrichment plant, in a new snub to the West which fears
Tehran is trying to build nuclear weapons.
For the fifth straight year, an analysis of errors in the nation’s hospitals revealed that the most reported patient safety risk is a little-known but always-fatal condition called “failure to rescue.”
Reuters - The top U.S. commander in Iraq
presents a long-awaited progress report to Congress on Tuesday
but will offer little hope for improved security before a new
American president takes over in January.