AP - Frontier Airlines sought bankruptcy protection Friday, the fourth carrier to do so in the past several weeks as exorbitant fuel prices eat into earnings and a weak U.S. economy keeps more people grounded.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said it was outraged by a resolution by U.S. lawmakers urging an end to a crackdown in Tibet as a Beijing-run newspaper linked al Qaeda to claimed plots to attack the Beijing Olympics.
AP - Masters golf resumes this morning. England's Justin Rose and South Africa's Trevor Immelman share the first-round lead at 4-under-68. That's good for a one-shot lead over Englishman Lee Westwood and Americans Brian Bateman and Brandt Snedeker.
Zimbabwe's opposition leader has met South Africa's president ahead of a crisis summit, his party says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:18 pm
Truckers are getting squeezed by the rising price of diesel. At around $4 a gallon, it's getting costly to fill up an 18-wheeler. Truck drivers have ratcheted up their public outcry, holding rallies across the country.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama is gaining steadily on Hillary Clinton among Democratic superdelegates, nearly erasing her last advantage in a presidential race where those party insiders could be the ultimate kingmakers.
An NHS doctor has admitted being involved in the car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport in 2007. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:14 pm
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Police in the southern Iraqi Shi'ite holy city of Najaf imposed a curfew on Friday after a top aide to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was killed by gunmen, police said.
PARIS (AP) -- Pirates have freed 30 hostages who were held aboard a French tourist yacht off Somalia's coast for the past week, France's president said Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:12 pm
SALEM - Another title for Salem's very own pinball wizard.
Bowen Kerins emerged victorious at the recent International Flipper Pinball Association's world championship...
A relative and key follower of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr is shot dead in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:12 pm
Food prices are rising around the world. The kind of country to be worst-affected is a country which depends on importing its food to meet its people's needs, it is likely to have witnessed dramatic inflation recently, and where individuals typically spend a significant portion of their income, i.e. 50 percent or more, on food. Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:11 pm
TOKYO, April 11 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING WITH MORE INFO) The government and the ruling parties agreed Friday on a plan to free up road tax revenues for general expenditures starting... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:11 pm
PAHRUMP, Nev. - Nicki Amouri hands her camera to a friend, throws her arm over another and smiles wide as she leans in for a shot with the monument her class came to visit.
It's...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed a senior aide to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite holy city of Najaf.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:08 pm
Good Morning America.4/10/08. Watch General Colin Powell praise Obama and addresses Rev. Wright's issue: "Although I thought the comments were deplorable (as Senator Obama said) he's someone who has made enormous contributions in his community and has turned a lot of lives around- so I have to put that in context." Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:08 pm
Perhaps the aging process can’t be stopped. But it can be predicted, and new research from Tel Aviv University indicates that people may live longer and lead healthier lives as a result. Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:05 pm
Looking at this limited-edition Di Grisogono Meccanica DG, you probably think it's a hybrid mechanical-digital watch. Well, chaps, you're wrong. Despite its appearance, the Meccanica DG is completely analog, comprising of 651 pieces and absolutely no digital parts or LEDs whatsoever. Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:05 pm
BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed a senior aide to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite holy city of Najaf.
The officials say Riyadh al-Nouri was...
AP - Air traveler angst was sure to continue Friday as American Airlines grounded hundreds more flights. The financial toll and loss of goodwill likely would grow as well, as the inspection-related mess spread further to other carriers and hurt an industry already bleeding cash thanks to high fuel costs.
Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed a senior aide to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. The officials say Riyadh al-Nouri was the director of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:58 am
Reuters - An influential Iranian cleric on Friday
rejected President George W. Bush's accusations that Iran was
arming and funding Shi'ite militias in Iraq to kill American
soldiers, state radio reported.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An influential Iranian cleric on Friday rejected President George W. Bush's accusations that Iran was arming and funding Shi'ite militias in Iraq to kill American soldiers, state radio reported.
The Olympic torch dodged China foes in Europe and played hide-and-seek with crowds in San Francisco. Now the flame is making its only Latin American stop on a five-continent tour amid cloak-and-dagger secrecy after recent turmoil. Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:57 am
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is prodding his populist economic message Friday by demanding that company shareholders have a say in how much executives get paid. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:55 am
Medical software company TriZetto Group said Friday it agreed to a $1.4 billion takeover by private equity firm Apax Partners. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:55 am
The brother of a man that died when his Jeep smashed into Glasgow airport
during a terrorist attack today admitted withholding information about the
incident. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:51 am
AP - Americans' confidence in the economy fell to a new low, dragged down by worries about mounting job losses, record-high home foreclosures and zooming energy prices.
AP - The Bush administration is likely to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising concerns about a catastrophic outbreak.
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) -- A Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague told police he slept in fields and survived by eating fruit that he found during a three-month manhunt that ended with his arrest in western Mexico, authorities said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:48 am
AP - Michael Johns is gone from "American Idol." The Australian-born singer was eliminated Thursday from Fox's popular singing competition as the contest was narrowed down to the top seven finalists following Wednesday's "Idol Gives Back" charity event.
Leaders in southern Africa will meet this weekend to address the ongoing political crisis in Zimbabwe. That country held presidential elections March 29 -- and Zimbabwean voters still don't know who won the contest. But Bright Matonga, Zimbabwe's deputy information minister, says there is no crisis.
American Airlines has canceled more than 3,000 flights this week for inspection purposes. Several other U.S. airlines have done the same thing. The canceled flights have led to logistical chaos for the airlines.
Nicki Amouri hands her camera to a friend, throws her arm over another and smiles wide as she leans in for a shot with the monument her class came to visit. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:47 am
Recently sworn-in U.S. citizen Craig Ferguson is being embraced by his new countrymen: The late-night comic hit a ratings milestone last week with his first victory over NBC's Conan O'Brien. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:45 am
KIGALI (Reuters) - A grenade thrown by an unknown attacker killed a policeman guarding Rwanda's genocide museum on Friday, in a rare attack in the central African nation still mourning the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
British Airways has delayed plans to move half its passengers across to Heathrow's Terminal 5 in an attempt to avoid the debacle of a fortnight ago. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli forces Friday launched airstrikes and a raid on Gaza, killing two militants and a 12-year old Palestinian boy, Palestinians said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:43 am
Israeli forces Friday launched airstrikes and a raid on Gaza, killing two militants and a 12-year old Palestinian boy, Palestinians said. The fighting came after Israeli Prime Minister... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:43 am
China tries to reassure Olympic officials that the protest-hit torch relay, now in Argentina, will go smoothly. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:42 am
MELVILLE, N.Y. - Police say it was no surprise a bogus $50 bill got a Long Island man arrested: He was trying to use it to pay his bail on a traffic charge.
The transaction...
Reuters - Zimbabwe raised doubts on Friday over
whether President Robert Mugabe would attend an emergency
regional summit at the weekend to discuss deepening concern
over a post election deadlock.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe raised doubts on Friday over whether President Robert Mugabe would attend an emergency regional summit at the weekend to discuss deepening concern over a post election deadlock.
BUREIJ (AFP) - Israeli tanks and bulldozers, backed by helicopters, crossed into Gaza on Friday after the Jewish state vowed to retaliate against Hamas for an explosion of violence earlier this week. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:40 am
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina is billing Friday's Olympic torch run as an easygoing street fiesta launched by a tango orchestra. But officials are worried enough about anti-China protests to mobilize thousands of police after protesters warned of a Buenos Aires "surprise."... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:39 am
AP - Argentina is billing Friday's Olympic torch run as an easygoing street fiesta launched by a tango orchestra. But officials are worried enough about anti-China protests to mobilize thousands of police after protesters warned of a Buenos Aires "surprise."
The German parliament votes to ease restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, after a heated debate. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:37 am
Sending British soldiers out on patrol or into battle with defective equipment could amount to a breach of their human rights, a High Court judge ruled today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:37 am
Pirates have freed 30 hostages held aboard a French tourist yacht off Somalia's coast for the past week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday. In a statement, Sarkozy thanked... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:36 am
Woody Giessmann knows rock and roll. As the drummer for Boston's Del Fuegos, he played a lot of gigs, and spent a lot of time with drunk and high musicians. His organization,...
BEIJING (AP) -- An indignant China said Friday the U.S. "seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people" when Congress passed a resolution calling on Beijing to stop cracking down on Tibetan dissent and talk to the Dalai Lama.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:35 am
Cadbury Schweppes PLC reported strong growth in first quarter global confectionary sales on Friday but slower growth in its North American beverage unit, which it plans to spin off next month. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:33 am
TOKYO, April 11 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH MORE COMMENTS, BACKGROUND) The Supreme Court ruled Friday it is not unconstitutional to punish those who distribute antiwar fliers by... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:33 am
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's opposition accused President Robert Mugabe's regime on Friday of stepping up a crackdown by arresting its leader's lawyer ahead of a key summit on the country's post-election crisis. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:32 am
Israel sends tanks into the Gaza Strip after pledging to retaliate against a militant attack on a fuel depot. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:30 am
Airstrikes in Baghdad and Basra killed 12 suspected insurgents, U.S. and British military officials said Friday, as Iraqi authorities lifted a two-week ban on vehicles in the capital's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:29 am
Police say it was no surprise a bogus $50 bill got a Long Island man arrested: He was trying to use it to pay his bail on a traffic charge. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:28 am
It's a tradition unlike any other. It's a rite of spring.
It's a testament to the timeless power of money, branding and lush, green grass.
Tiger? No....
TOKYO, April 11 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH ADDITIONAL DETAILS) Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura will make a four-day trip to Russia from Saturday for talks with his Russian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:27 am
Details about the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the PS3 including pictures of the box art. Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:26 am
Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat crossed over to the Greek Cypriot part of the island's ethnically divided capital Friday — the first head of the Turkish Cypriot north to do so in more than three decades. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:26 am
BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co reported on Friday an unexpected 6 percent drop in profit, as the slumping U.S. economy and credit crunch drove down profits at its financial, industrial and healthcare units.
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda on Friday ruled out the possibility of changing the plans for the Nagano leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay scheduled... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:23 am
ROME (Reuters) - With Silvio Berlusconi talking as if he had already won the Italian election, his centre-left rival Walter Veltroni told voters on Friday that the media tycoon was "no... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:23 am
Two Pennsauken High School students have been arrested after a teacher found what was believed to be a hit list that targeted actor Chuck Norris. Camden County prosecutor's spokesman Jason Laughlin says the list also included the names of three students and a school staff member. No one was injured, because that's how Chuck Norris wanted it. Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:21 am
THE actor who played R2-D2 in Star Wars, Kenny Baker 73, is in hospital last night after being struck down by a mystery illness. Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:21 am
"It was really heart-wrenching," Arnott said. "Watching that poor guy climb into the stands between the second and third periods, buying dozens of hot dogs and filling up his helmet with popcorn so he would have enough to last a couple days. Fans loved it, though." Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:20 am
Mayor Jean-Pierre Leger was married and baptized his children at Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens church in this village in western France. Not without sadness, he is now planning to bulldoze the 19th century building. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:14 am
The Yankees and Red Sox aren't wasting any time renewing their rivalry in 2008. The two American League East behemoths will play one another five of the next seven days,...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will take military and other steps along its borders if ex-Soviet Ukraine and Georgia join NATO, Russian news agencies quoted the armed forces' chief of staff as saying on Friday.
Athletes displaying Tibetan flags at Olympic venues – including in their own rooms – could be expelled from the Beijing Games under anti-propaganda rules. Source: Digg | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:06 am
In September, they're called showdowns, in October it all turns into the apocalypse. But 10 games into the season, a Yankees-Red Sox series is about recon. Everyone will...
After the way the world reacted to her divorce settlement with Sir Paul
McCartney, Heather Mills might have been expected to keep a low profile. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 11 Apr 2008 | 11:03 am
Four months before the opening of what was supposed to be the grandest Olympics in history, the head of the International Olympic Committee is using words that convey anything but a sense of joyous enthusiasm.
Pakistan's new government moves to withdraw media restrictions imposed by President Musharraf. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:55 am
NEW YORK - Pedophile priests, Darfur, Iraq, global warming, poverty and a decline in the number of Catholics in the United States are all burning issues Pope Benedict XVI...
Ugandan government mediators leave the jungle venue where a deal was due to be signed with rebels. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:52 am
A prominent Egyptian cleric fuels debate by saying tiny amounts of alcohol are permitted in Islam. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:45 am
The Government suffered its second important legal defeat in 24 hours today
when a High Court judge rejected an attempt by Des Browne, the Defence
Secretary, to ban coroners using phrases such as "serious failure"
in their verdicts on dead soldiers. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:43 am
DENVER - Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but unlike other airlines filing for bankruptcy in recent weeks, it plans to keep...
General Electric Co. reported a smaller-than-expected first-quarter profit on Friday and lowered its outlook for fiscal 2008, as the slowing U.S. economy and difficult capital markets hurt its financial services business. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:38 am
Sending British soldiers out on patrol or into battle with defective equipment could amount to a breach of their human rights, a High Court judge ruled today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:37 am
LONDON (AFP) - Cadbury Schweppes, the world's biggest maker of chocolate, said Friday that revenue grew during the first quarter at its confectionery arm, and its US drinks business being spun off by the group. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:36 am
LONDON (AFP) - French electricity and nuclear power group EDF was assembling a takeover bid for British Energy worth more than 11 billion pounds (13.7 billion euros, 21.7 billion dollars), The Times reported on Friday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:35 am
Nona Beamer, a noted authority on Hawaiian culture and matriarch of the musical Beamer family, has died. She was 84. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:30 am
As protesters besiege the Olympic torch, a phalanx of tough-looking Chinese men in running gear have protected the flame -- too vigorously in the eyes of those who consider protest a right.
U.S. and British forces killed 12 gunmen in airstrikes on Iraq’s southern oil-hub of Basra and the eastern Baghdad militia stronghold of Sadr City overnight, military officials said Friday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's new government was under strain Friday from growing differences over how to reverse the legacy of President Pervez Musharraf.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:20 am
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Authorities began the arduous task Friday of tallying votes in Nepal's first election in nine years - a historic vote meant to secure lasting peace in a land riven by communist insurgents and an autocratic king.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:18 am
The hijacked French luxury cruise yacht "Le Ponant", seen here. Pirates off the coast of Somalia have released 30 hostages who were seized aboard the French yacht a week ago, President Nicolas Sarkozy... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:14 am
Pro-China demonstrators shout at Tibetan activists during the Olympic Torch relay in San Francisco on April 9. International Olympic Committee chiefs are meeting to wrap up a week of meetings in Beijing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:09 am
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge takes part in a meeting in Beijing. International Olympic Committee chiefs are meeting to wrap up a week of meetings in Beijing that have been overshadowed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:09 am
Pro-Tibet demonstrators display a banner in front of a McDonald's branch -one of the sponsors of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008- in down town Buenos Aires on April 10. With the flame now in Buenos Aires,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:09 am
BEIJING (AFP) - International Olympic Committee chiefs met Friday to wrap up a week of meetings in Beijing that have been overshadowed by controversy surrounding China and disruptions to the Olympic torch relay. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:08 am
About 30 people on board a French yacht held by pirates near Somalia are freed, France's president says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:06 am
Zimbabwe's opposition accused President Robert Mugabe, seen here in March 2008 regime of stepping up a crackdown by arresting its leader's lawyer ahead of a key summit on the country's post-election crisis... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 10:01 am
JAKARTA (AFP) - The discovery of a rare species of Indonesian frog that breathes without lungs could shed light on how evolution works, a scientist said Friday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:59 am
British Airways has postponed until June the planned move of its long-haul
services to Terminal 5 because of the fallout from the building's disastrous
launch. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:57 am
Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but unlike other airlines filing for bankruptcy in recent weeks, it plans to keep running while it reorganizes. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:53 am
An Iraqi man sifts through the wreckage of a building damaged in a US air strike in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Fresh US air strikes have killed at least 12 people in Baghdad and Basra as Shiite... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:39 am
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Porters carried ballot boxes on their backs along mountain paths high in the Himalayas on Friday, to trucks, tractors and helicopters waiting to take them to counting centers after Nepal's first election in nine years.
Handout picture released on April 7 by the French Defence Ministry shows the French luxury yacht "Le Ponant" in the Indian ocean. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that pirates have released 30... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:31 am
A fashionable poster is seen near Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi,Vietnam, Friday, April 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:27 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The opposition leader who says he won Zimbabwe's presidential election is pressing South Africa's president to use his influence as a key regional leader to persuade President Robert Mugabe to step down, an opposition spokesman said Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:22 am
A Marine personnel clerk wanted for the slaying of a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape was arrested Thursday night in Mexico after a three-month international manhunt, authorities said.
Workers from the Philippines' rice-importing agency the National Food Authority sell cheap imported rice in suburban Manila on April 10. Kevin Cleaver, a senior UN official, has said there is a global... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:17 am
Middle Eastern and North African leaders should invest now if they want to avoid a future water crisis, the World Bank says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:06 am
Sen. Barack Obama credits his presidential campaign with creating a "parallel public financing system" built on a wave of modest donations. But those with wealth and power also have played a critical role in creating Obama's record-breaking fundraising machine. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 11 Apr 2008 | 9:04 am
The "thug" Chinese security guards who have accompanied the Olympic
torch on its route through London, Paris and San Fransisco, will not be
allowed to make a repeat performance in Japan. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 11 Apr 2008 | 8:59 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - Impoverished North Korea is seeking international aid to battle one of its worst food shortfalls in years, a senior U.N. official based in Asia said on Friday.
Every police officer must be DNA-profiled as a matter of urgency to avoid them unintentionally contaminating crime scenes, the forensic science watchdog said yesterday. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 8:40 am
As first lady, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton supported her husband’s decision to sign into law a bill forcing welfare recipients to work and imposing a five-year limit on cash assistance.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Researchers have developed a new drug that can protect healthy cells and bone marrow against anti-cancer radiation therapy and maybe even against the effects of a nuclear bomb, a study has shown. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Apr 2008 | 8:08 am
SOUTH BEND, Indiana (Reuters) - Facing job losses, rising mortgage rates and higher gasoline prices, U.S. voters in 2008 want their next president above all to listen to their anger and fix the economy.
The UN secretary general has become the latest world leader to confirm he will not be attending the opening of the Beijing Olympics. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 7:45 am
Candidates traditionally get out the money to get out the vote. That sets up a culture clash for the April 22 primary.
Fourteen months into a campaign that has the feel of a movement, Sen. Barack Obama has collided with the gritty political traditions of Philadelphia, where ward bosses love their candidates, but also expect them to pay up.
Texas-based company would halt production off Santa Barbara decades early so it can drill this year while prices are high. Pristine land would be protected.
A Houston oil company has agreed to shut down its offshore oil production off Santa Barbara County decades early in exchange for approval this year to drill into untapped undersea reserves and cash in on the nation's record oil prices.
Contradictory remarks about the possible renewal of troop withdrawals reveal a Pentagon rift.
President Bush, accepting the recommendation of Army Gen. David H. Petraeus to halt the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in July, said Thursday that he would give the war commander "all the time he needs" to decide on future troop cuts.
The measure is overwhelmingly approved despite acknowledgment that it falls short in aiding homeowners. The House is working on its own version.
The Senate passed legislation Thursday aimed at addressing the nation's housing crisis -- setting the stage for thorny negotiations with the House, where Democrats are pushing a more sweeping measure tilted more toward aiding borrowers at risk of losing their homes.
In the serialized radio drama 'BodyLove,' characters wrestle with diabetes and high blood pressure along with traditional soap-opera problems. They get through to audiences in a way doctors can't.
The doctors had been after Loretta Ragland for years to keep her diabetes in check. Eat right. Exercise. Lose weight. She'd heard it all time and again.
Local newscasts seem to be turning away from high-priced anchors
Like the Hollywood sign and the Cinerama Dome, KCBS-TV Channel 2 news anchors Ann Martin and Harold Greene were fixtures of Hollywood, hard to miss on huge billboards plastered on the station's former headquarters as they smiled down on travelers zooming along Sunset Boulevard.
Bruce Chernof's departure comes on the same day supervisors announced that talks with a private hospital to reopen King/Harbor hospital had broken off.
Los Angeles County's profoundly troubled public healthcare system fell into further crisis Thursday when its embattled director abruptly quit, and negotiations with a private entity to reopen King-Harbor hospital fell apart.
Katie Couric, the highest-paid female news presenter in television history, looks set to lose her $15 million a year contract after her fellow Americans showed they preferred to watch the news from someone else. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 6:57 am
As Italians prepare to vote, polls suggest that Silvio Berlusconi, the right-wing former prime minister, is favored over his main rival. But a third of the electorate is undecided, and many voters say they're unimpressed with their choices.
Former President Carter will meet the exiled leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas during a visit to Syria next week, a senior Hamas official said. The Atlanta-based Carter Center did not confirm the meeting.
Demand for ethanol and other biofuels is a "significant contributor" to soaring food prices around the world, World Bank President Robert Zoellick says. Droughts, financial market speculators and increased demand for food have also helped create "a perfect storm" that has boosted those prices, he says.
A Church of England vicar has been sacked after a tribunal heard that he spat at parishioners, attacked churchwardens in sermons and was "arrogant, aggressive and rude", the church said.
The Reverend Tom Ambrose, of St Mary and... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Apr 2008 | 3:50 am
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict will pray for the conversion to love "of those whose hearts and minds are consumed with hatred" when he visits New York's Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade towers destroyed on September 11, 2001.
A... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Apr 2008 | 3:43 am
BAGHDAD - President George W. Bush yesterday announced a suspension of US troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer to allow the military to reassess the security situation, as US air strikes killed 10 people in a Baghdad slum where... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
LONDON - It begins with a coy glance or fluttering false eye lashes and always ends in nipple tassels and underpants.
Wolf-whistling revellers greeted a showdown of ostrich feathers, satin corsets and red lipstick in a chandeliered... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Apr 2008 | 2:10 am
On "Idol Gives Back" week, the voters showed no charity toward one of the stronger men in the competition and sent Michael Johns home in the first shocker of the season.
NEW YORK - Dementia is a part of Parkinson's disease for most patients and reduces survival, researchers from Norway report, and the likelihood of developing dementia increases with age.
Of 233 Parkinson's disease patients, 140... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Apr 2008 | 1:54 am
RANONG, Thailand (AP) -- Villagers who discovered a truck abandoned by its driver in the sweltering heat found evidence of the brutal cost of human trafficking: 121 illegal immigrants from Myanmar jammed inside, almost half of them dead.... Source: AP Top International News At 8 a.m. EDT | 11 Apr 2008 | 1:10 am
SHANGHAI - The general manager of a Shanghai chemical company was jailed for two years yesterday for selling fake tablets of the male impotence drug Viagra on the Internet, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Yu Bohuai made... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:12 am
The first solid evidence of ballot rigging in Zimbabwe's presidential election emerged yesterday when a senior policeman told The Daily Telegraph that officers marked extra votes for President Robert Mugabe. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
A council has used powers intended for anti-terrorism surveillance to spy on a family who were wrongly accused of lying on a school application form. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Serb prisoners had their internal organs removed and sold by ethnic Albanians during the Kosovo war, according to allegations in a new book by the world's best known war crimes prosecutor. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 11 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
LONDON - The widow of former Manchester police chief Michael Todd will join hundreds of people at a thanksgiving service today, a month after his body was found on a remote Welsh mountain.
Carolyn Todd is due to attend the service... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:48 pm
LONDON - An early Picasso painting, depicting the artist in a naked embrace with his girlfriend, fetched 81,260 pounds ($NZ203,329) at auction yesterday, including buyer's premium.
The watercolour was found propped up against a... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Apr 2008 | 10:42 pm
WASHINGTON - Leaping lemurs and crawling ants are part of a massive plan to save Madagascar's wildlife, using a new method that could be applied to other 'hot spots' of biodiversity, researchers said yesterday.
Drawing on decades... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Apr 2008 | 9:59 pm
Max Mosley, president of autoracing's Formula One Federation, is fighting to keep his job after a video surfaced allegedly showing him consorting with prostitutes in a Nazi concentration camp fantasy. Mosley, whose father was leader of Britain's fascist movement before World War II and a friend of Adolf Hitler, strongly denies the allegations.
MELBOURNE - The 18-year-old stepdaughter of missing man Russell Frik has been charged with murder following the grisly discovery of a torso in his backyard in northern Victoria.
The woman and Frik's de-facto wife, 39, were arrested... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Apr 2008 | 9:18 pm
American Airlines had plenty of financial problems, even before this week. A slumping economy and soaring fuel costs cut into earnings. Now, lost revenue from thousands of grounded flights could be a major hit to the nation's largest airline.
Last year, Congress gave President Bush only part of what he'd requested to fund the war. Now, with the domestic economy swooning, the president is asking for the rest -- $102 billion -- while his top general in Iraq is making no promises on troop drawdowns.
A modest free trade deal with Colombia has turned into a partisan brawl on Capitol Hill after the president provocatively sent the proposal to Congress with a 90-day deadline. The Democratic-led House voted to remove the timetable, which would have forced a potentially unpopular election-year vote.
The price of the raw material the U.S. biodiesel industry uses most, soy oil, has shot up, all but pricing the alternative fuel out of the U.S. market. A hefty tax credit and a big leap in exports to Europe are keeping the industry afloat, angering Europeans, who accuse Americans of flooding their market with artificially cheap fuel.
China said it had uncovered a new plot targeting the Beijing Olympics, saying a "violent terrorist gang" had planned to kidnap athletes and others and carry out suicide bombings.
Fifty-four illegal migrants from Myanmar, most of them women, suffocated in the back of an unventilated truck in southern Thailand while being smuggled to the resort island of Phuket, police. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 5:57 pm
Abu Qatada, described as 'Usama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe,' wins fight against deportation as Court of Appeals delivered two blows to attempts to remove suspected terrorists from the U.K. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 5:26 pm
Danish intelligence agency warns that the terror threat against Denmark has increased since cartoon showing Prophet Muhammad was reprinted. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 5:23 pm
New York contemporary artist Spencer Tunick is planning to pack a Vienna soccer field with at least 2,008 naked fans in the run-up to the Euro 2008 tournament. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 5:05 pm
The bell in the clock tower at Britian's Houses of Parliament, familiarly known as Big Ben, celebrates its 150th anniversary on April 10, 2008. But the real celebration comes next year on the 150th anniversary of Big Ben's first bong.
The latest theory is that it was a place of healing, not, as often suspected, an ancient, giant clock or calendar, or altar. An archeologist at the site explained, on The Early Show.
A suicide car bomber targeting a NATO convoy has killed eight civilians and wounded 25 other people in southern Afghanistan, police say. The car bomber blew himself up shortly after a NATO convoy passed near him in Kandahar city.
President Robert Mugabe and his chief rival will attend an emergency summit of southern African leaders to present their conflicting views of the crisis paralyzing the country in the wake of hotly contested elections, spokesmen for the men said Thursday. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 4:52 pm
Three Britons went on trial Thursday on charges that they helped homicide bombers plan the 2005 attacks on London's transit network that killed 52 commuters. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 4:31 pm
Sometimes, simpler is better even in war and counterterrorism. Who would have guessed that a secret weapon in the fight to defeat terrorists and insurgents would turn out to be ... the mundane cell phone? Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 3:26 pm
The Dalai Lama said he supports China's hosting of the Summer Olympics on Thursday, but insisted that nobody had the right to tell protesters demanding freedom for Tibet "to shut up." Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 3:10 pm
A nude photo of France's first lady was auctioned for $91,000, about 30 times more than anticipated, the Christie's auction house said. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:14 pm
President Robert Mugabe and his chief rival will attend an emergency summit of southern African leaders to present their conflicting views of the crisis paralyzing the country in the wake of hotly contested elections, spokesmen say.
Nepalis have voted in a historic election intended to bring communist insurgents into the country's democratic mainstream and expected to end the world's last Hindu monarchy.
AP - Frontier Airlines sought bankruptcy protection Friday, the fourth carrier to do so in the past several weeks as exorbitant fuel prices eat into earnings and a weak U.S. economy keeps more people grounded.
AP - Masters golf resumes this morning. England's Justin Rose and South Africa's Trevor Immelman share the first-round lead at 4-under-68. That's good for a one-shot lead over Englishman Lee Westwood and Americans Brian Bateman and Brandt Snedeker.
AP - Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed a senior aide to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Shiite holy city of Najaf.
AP - Air traveler angst was sure to continue Friday as American Airlines grounded hundreds more flights. The financial toll and loss of goodwill likely would grow as well, as the inspection-related mess spread further to other carriers and hurt an industry already bleeding cash thanks to high fuel costs.
Reuters - An influential Iranian cleric on Friday
rejected President George W. Bush's accusations that Iran was
arming and funding Shi'ite militias in Iraq to kill American
soldiers, state radio reported.
The Olympic torch is making its only Latin American stop on a five-continent tour amid cloak-and-dagger secrecy after recent turmoil.
AP - Americans' confidence in the economy fell to a new low, dragged down by worries about mounting job losses, record-high home foreclosures and zooming energy prices.
AP - The Bush administration is likely to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising concerns about a catastrophic outbreak.
AP - Michael Johns is gone from "American Idol." The Australian-born singer was eliminated Thursday from Fox's popular singing competition as the contest was narrowed down to the top seven finalists following Wednesday's "Idol Gives Back" charity event.
Reuters - Zimbabwe raised doubts on Friday over
whether President Robert Mugabe would attend an emergency
regional summit at the weekend to discuss deepening concern
over a post election deadlock.
AP - Argentina is billing Friday's Olympic torch run as an easygoing street fiesta launched by a tango orchestra. But officials are worried enough about anti-China protests to mobilize thousands of police after protesters warned of a Buenos Aires "surprise."
Pirates have freed 30 hostages held for the past week aboard a French tourist yacht off Somalia’s coast, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday.
As protesters besiege the Olympic torch, a phalanx of tough-looking Chinese men in running gear have protected the flame -- too vigorously in the eyes of those who consider protest a right.
U.S. and British forces killed 12 gunmen in airstrikes on Iraq’s southern oil-hub of Basra and the eastern Baghdad militia stronghold of Sadr City overnight, military officials said Friday.
A Marine personnel clerk wanted for the slaying of a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape was arrested Thursday night in Mexico after a three-month international manhunt, authorities said.
As first lady, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton supported her husband’s decision to sign into law a bill forcing welfare recipients to work and imposing a five-year limit on cash assistance.
Rose, Immelman lead at 4-under while Woods gets back to even with an eagle in the first round.
On "Idol Gives Back" week, the voters showed no charity toward one of the stronger men in the competition and sent Michael Johns home in the first shocker of the season.