Five British women have been killed and a further 12 Britons have been injured in a bus crash in Ecuador. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:30 pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month's offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:07 pm
AP - The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month's offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC said on Sunday
it will challenge a partial poll recount and the government
promised the army would not fight Zimbabweans over the election
which has raised fears of bloodshed.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC said on Sunday it will challenge a partial poll recount and the government promised the army would not fight Zimbabweans over the election which has raised fears of bloodshed.
A pretty good description of why Mac users have paid more for OS X over the years than their Windows counterparts. Basically, it's 'cause we like OS X. A lot. Source: Digg | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:04 pm
After his latest shenanigans, I've come to the conclusion that George Bush is the first US president to march backwards. First we had weapons of mass destruction. Then, when they proved to be a myth, Bush told us we had stopped Saddam's "programmes" for weapons of mass destruction (which happened to be another lie). Now he's gone a stage further. Source: Digg | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:03 pm
Nexi rolls around on a Segway-like wheeled base, and has a "face" that can express many emotions. Two cut down arms - looking like an amputated Terminator - complete the picture. Source: Digg | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:03 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Fighting between Shi'ite militiamen and security forces in Sadr City eased on Sunday after a week of intense clashes, with hospitals in the Baghdad slum saying they had received no dead or wounded overnight.
Five British holidaymakers were killed and another 12 injured after their bus
crashed in Ecuador last night.. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
President Bush's national security adviser says it would be a "cop-out" for countries to skip the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics as a way of protesting China's crackdown in Tibet. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month's offensive against Shiite militias...
AP - A political tempest over Barack Obama's comments about bitter voters in small towns has given rival Hillary Rodham Clinton a new opening to court working class Democrats 10 days before Pennsylvanians hold a primary that she must win to keep her presidential campaign alive.
Watch this: Ay dios mio! Maria Conchita Alonso and Carlos Ponce search for the next big telenovela star in "Viva Hollywood!," premiering tonight at 10:30 on VH1.
Today...
Reuters - A blast in a mosque in Iran that killed
at least 12 people was an accident and not an attack, a senior
official said on Sunday, but others cautioned the investigation
into the cause was continuing.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A blast in a mosque in Iran that killed at least 12 people was an accident and not an attack, a senior official said on Sunday, but others cautioned the investigation into the cause was continuing.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Tired of stressing about what your pale skin and flabby muscles are going to look like on the beach during your summer vacation?
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) -- About 1,000 people cheered and marched with a team of 80 athletes and a Cabinet minister participating Sunday in the Tanzania leg of the Olympic torch relay, the flame's only stop in Africa.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:38 pm
About 1,000 people cheered and marched with a team of 80 athletes and a Cabinet minister participating Sunday in the Tanzania leg of the Olympic torch relay, the flame's only stop in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:38 pm
(Kyodo) _ A local citizens group lit candles Sunday evening at Nagano's Zenkoji Buddhist temple, the starting point for an Olympic torch relay set for April 26, to pray for the victims of Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:34 pm
Five British women have been killed and a further 12 Britons have been injured in a bus crash in Ecuador. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:32 pm
Reuters - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
said in remarks to air on Sunday that his upcoming visit to the
Middle East probably would include a meeting in Syria with
leaders of the militant group Hamas.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said in remarks to air on Sunday that his upcoming visit to the Middle East probably would include a meeting in Syria with leaders of the militant group Hamas.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian officials on Sunday ruled out an attack as the cause of an explosion that killed 11 people inside a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:24 pm
Bulgaria's powerful Interior Minister Rumen Petkov (seen here earlier this year) has resigned amid a snowballing corruption scandal that exposed links between top crime-busters and suspected criminals... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:24 pm
Reuters - Nepal's Maoists were marching to
victory in the Himalayan nation's first election in nine years,
latest tallies showed on Sunday, a result almost nobody had
expected.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's Maoists were marching to victory in the Himalayan nation's first election in nine years, latest tallies showed on Sunday, a result almost nobody had expected.
Tanzanian police officers help guard the lantern carrying the flame for the Olympic torch on arrival in Dar es Salaam on April 12. The Olympic torch has ended a shortened but trouble-free relay in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:22 pm
The Olympic torch Sunday ended a shortened but trouble-free relay in the Tanzanian capital Dar Es Salaam, the sole African leg of the flame's journey to Beijing. While no... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:22 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH EVENT IN NAGANO, CHANGING DATELINE) A local citizens group lit candles Sunday evening at Nagano's Zenkoji Buddhist temple, the starting point for an... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:22 pm
(Kyodo) _ The Olympic torch relay was held Sunday in Tanzania's Dar es Salaam amid tight security without reports of major protests against China's crackdown in Tibet. Kenyan Nobel... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:20 pm
I've always been intrigued by the alternate takes/near misses/"what ifs" accompanying huge film and TV projects, so this was of immediate interest to me .... Michael Chabon's unused script for SPIDER-MAN 2 is online in PDF form, and it probably wont be available for long Source: Digg | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:16 pm
AFP - Nepal's Maoists have maintained a strong early lead in historic polls on the country's political future, election officials told AFP Sunday as vote counting continued.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during the Annapolis Conference in 2007. Olmert and Abbas will meet later in Jerusalem at a meeting that was... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:14 pm
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will hold talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas later on Sunday in Jerusalem at a meeting that was announced only at the last minute. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:14 pm
KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal's Maoists have maintained a strong early lead in historic polls on the country's political future, election officials told AFP Sunday as vote counting continued. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:14 pm
Giving interviews right and left, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appears to have mounted a defensive public relations campaign disclaiming responsibility for...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The World Bank meets here Sunday as rising food prices spark deadly unrest in developing countries, underscoring the urgency of getting food aid to desperate people. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:13 pm
Smith was an old-time Roxbury criminal. In 1964, he arranged a meeting with Charlestown gangster Punchy McLaughlin in a garage at Beth Israel Hospital. Punchy showed but Earl...
AP - Texas law enforcers met Saturday in Utah with the man accused of abusing the 16-year-old girl whose call for help triggered a raid on the West Texas compound of a secretive polygamous sect.
ROME (AFP) - Italians went to the polls Sunday in general elections likely to return conservative Silvio Berlusconi to the prime minister's office for a third time at the expense of new centre-left flagbearer Walter Veltroni. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:03 pm
(Kyodo) _ South Korea President Lee Myung Bak, who inaugurates a "pragmatic" diplomacy with trips to the United States and Japan from Tuesday, said Sunday he will "ensure that my overseas Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:02 pm
minuteworld The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month's offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
AP - Jimmie Johnson gave Hendrick Motorsports its first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory of the year, winning a fuel gamble Saturday night at Phoenix International Speedway.
AP - Britney Spears' motoring misfortunes continue. The pop star was involved in a minor traffic accident late Saturday, but no one was injured and no vehicles were damaged, authorities said.
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- Southern African leaders discussed Zimbabwe's deepening electoral crisis in a marathon summit that ended before dawn Sunday with a weak declaration that failed to criticize the absent President Robert Mugabe.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
Southern African leaders discussed Zimbabwe's deepening electoral crisis in a marathon summit that ended before dawn Sunday with a weak declaration that failed to criticize the absent President Robert Mugabe. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:52 am
ROME (AP) -- Italians voted Sunday in a general election that could bring conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi back to power, as the nation grapples with mounting problems that are sure to challenge the winner.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:51 am
Here's what our lacrosse writer Bruce Lerch picked up along the way thuis far.
As we step into the rather large lacrosse shoes left behind by Jim Clark, we opened...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plan to hold talks on Sunday, less than a week after their previous meeting, an... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
The MVC baseball contest between Tewksbury and Lowell, regularly scheduled for 3:30 this Wednesday has been pushed to 7 p.m. the same evening at Lowell.
Pakistan's new government must immediately release dozens of people who were secretly detained by spy agencies as part of President Pervez Musharraf's cooperation with the U.S.-led war on terrorism, human rights activists said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:45 am
You'll learn about firearms and toolmarks and see how a medical examiner works. In every lab you visit you'll receive a tool you need to collect evidence at a crime scene. Source: Digg | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
Hopes that Zimbabwe's neighbours would act to end its deepening crisis were
dashed this morning when an all-night summit ended with a statement failing
to acknowledge an emergency and calling only for the immediate release of
election results. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
India clinch a thrilling eight-wicket victory against South Africa in the third Test in Kanpur to level the series 1-1. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:42 am
MUNCIE, Ind. - Democrat Barack Obama conceded yesterday that comments he made about bitter working-class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen,...
A Texas sergeant and his son recently found themselves separated not only by an eight-hour time difference, several bodies of water, hundreds of miles and a war, but by a high school official who suspended the boy for answering his dad's call during class. Source: Digg | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
Major British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley PLC was considering selling shares to raise cash as it tries to weather a punishing credit market, newspapers reported Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
Robert Mugabe is preparing to defy international pressure and launch a systematic crackdown in Zimbabwe aimed at reversing his defeat in the presidential election two weeks ago, according to dissident policemen who have been briefed on his plans. Source: Digg | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens left the ghost-filled Forum over a decade ago, but a few of those spirits with a particular ax to grind against the Bruins must have migrated...
Who put the rocket in Petro's pocket? That's the question at the State House: Who dropped - not a dime, but a bomb - on the "Speaker pro tempore" of the...
The Italian elections have been hit by allegations of vote-rigging on the final day of the campaign. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:29 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court this week hears arguments about whether the death penalty can be imposed for child rape, taking up for the first time in more than 30 years whether a crime other than murder can be punished by execution.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Benedict will carry a message of peace during a six-day U.S. visit beginning on Tuesday, but Osama bin Laden's recent condemnations of the Roman Catholic leader have put security officials on edge.
Zimbabwe's opposition says it will mount a legal challenge against plans to recount 23 contested poll results. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
A gas leak at the 13 mile point of the London Marathon meant that organisers had to hastily re-route runners after the race had started. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
A gas leak at the 13 mile point of the London Marathon meant that organisers had to hastily re-route runners after the race had started. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
Hong Kong director Peter Chan, right, and actor Tony Leung arrive at the 27th Hong Kong Film Award Presentation Ceremony in Hong Kong on Sunday, April 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:04 am
Russian authorities say a high-ranking judge with the Supreme Court in the restive southern region of Ingushetia has been shot dead. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:04 am
Former President Jimmy Carter said he feels "quite at ease" about meeting Hamas militants over the objections of Washington because the Palestinian group is essential to a future peace with Israel. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:02 am
Ethiopians were voting Sunday in a first round of elections that the main opposition coalition boycotted to protest alleged intimidation by ruling party officials. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Myanmar girls, dressed in traditional Shan costumes, perform cultural dance during the opening ceremony of the Thingyan water festival or Myanmar's annual Buddhist New Year festival in front of the City... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 10:56 am
British Army's soldiers built sand barriers in Basra, Iraq, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Sunday April 13, 2008. The Iraqi army says it had started carrying out "the second phase of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 10:55 am
Two Thai women, their faces covered in muddy mixture of water and talcum powder, celebrate the New Year with others on Silom Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, April 13, 2008. The three day event while... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 10:50 am
The Italian elections have been hit by allegations of vote-rigging on the final day of the campaign. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 10:42 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese media denounced the Dalai Lama and his supporters as "anti-human rights", and slammed top U.S. politician Nancy Pelosi as "the least popular person in China" for her stance on Tibet, in editorials on Sunday.
The Saudi Interior Ministry says authorities have beheaded two Nigerian men convicted of smuggling cocaine into the kingdom. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 10:40 am
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki will announce a coalition Cabinet on Sunday following talks with opposition leader Raila Odinga, officials said, confirming the rivals have ended protracted negotiations over how to implement a power-sharing deal. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Apr 2008 | 10:24 am
AMMAN (AFP) - The Jordanian government has signed a five-billion-dollar deal with a United Arab Emirates firm to develop the kingdom's sole Red Sea port of Aqaba, the local press reported on Sunday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 13 Apr 2008 | 10:16 am
Italians voted Sunday in a general election that could bring conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi back to power, as the nation grapples with mounting problems that are sure to challenge the winner. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:55 am
LUSAKA (AFP) - Southern African leaders issued Sunday a guarded response to Zimbabwe's presidential election impasse, calling only for the result of the March 29 poll to be delivered as soon as possible. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:48 am
A bus crash in Ecuador has killed five British citizens and injured 15 other people, Britain's Foreign Office said Sunday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:47 am
Pakistan seek to clinch the one-day series against Bangladesh by winning the third match in Lahore. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:44 am
Chinese soldiers patrol the streets of the Tibetan capital Lhasa in March 2008.China has arrested nine Tibetan Buddhist monks for bombing a government building on March 23 amid simmering tension following... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:41 am
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's president plans to announce a coalition Cabinet Sunday following talks with his main rival, officials said, confirming the end of negotiations over a power-sharing deal aimed at halting the country's political crisis.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:31 am
A general view of the two-day meeting of the Security Committee for Coordination and Cooperation on Iraq that has begun in Damascus,Syria, on Sunday, April 13, 2008 to discuss the mounting security problems... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:21 am
Nepal's Maoist party does far better than expected as results for a new constituent assembly are declared. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:11 am
A suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is to sue 12 media outlets over allegedly libellous stories. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:09 am
ATHENS (AFP) - A senior Greek archaeologist warned this week that the last original sculptures still adorning the Parthenon, Athens' iconic ancient temple, face a major pollution threat and must be removed to a museum. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:01 am
An Iranian police officer and other people look through debris at the scene of a bomb explosion in a mosque on Saturday April 12 2008 , in Shiraz some 700 kms (420 miles) south of Tehran. Iran's official... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 13 Apr 2008 | 8:55 am
Iranian official news agency says police is ruling out sabotage in an explosion in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz and is saying instead that leftover military ammunition could have caused it. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Apr 2008 | 8:42 am
China detains nine monks accused of a previously unreported bombing of a building in Tibet. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 8:36 am
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Militants launched two attacks against Afghanistan's vulnerable police, killing eight officers, including four who were destroying a field of opium poppies, officials said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 8:32 am
The Chinese ambassador to London has angrily denounced Britain for lacking respect and "demonising" China. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 8:25 am
Haitian lawmakers dismissed the country's prime minister, hoping to defuse widespread anger over rising food prices that led to days of deadly protests and looting. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Apr 2008 | 8:23 am
Southern African leaders discussed Zimbabwe's deepening electoral crisis at a marathon 12-hour summit that ended before dawn Sunday with a weak declaration and marked failure to criticize the absent President Robert Mugabe. Source: FOXNews.com | 13 Apr 2008 | 7:54 am
Bomb targets Shiites in the city of Shiraz listening to a speech against Sunni extremism, news agency reports. More than 100 are injured.
A bomb blast tore through a Shiite Muslim house of worship in a southern Iranian city Saturday night, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100 others, most of them gathered to hear a religious speech about the dangers of Sunni extremists, a semiofficial Iranian news agency reported.
Europe's enormous $8-billion particle accelerator, to be activated as early as this summer, is generating both excitement and fear.
Michelangelo L. Mangano, a respected particle physicist who helped discover the top quark in 1995, now spends most days trying to convince people that his new machine won't destroy the world.
A firm that has donated to the president's charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists. Hillary Clinton has spoken out against China's actions.
As Chinese authorities have clamped down on unrest in Tibet and jailed dissidents in advance of the 2008 Olympics, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken a strong public stance, calling for restraint in Tibet and urging President Bush to boycott the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing.
One was hit in the jaw, the other in the upper torso. The man who fired at them died at the scene.
Two El Segundo police officers were reported in stable condition at a hospital Saturday after a shootout inside a movie theater that left a 24-year-old man dead and a bystander injured, police and city officials said.
He says he didn't choose his words well, but "I said something that everybody knows is true." Clinton says the comments "are out of touch," and McCain also takes aim.
Facing an outcry from Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain, Barack Obama expressed regret Saturday for saying that small-town Americans embittered by job losses cling to religion, guns and hostility toward immigrants to explain their frustrations.
Sheriff's Department employees changed stories and compared notes during the probe into the death of inmate John Derek Chamberlain.
They lied, they changed their stories and they compared notes even after being ordered not to by a special Orange County grand jury investigating a deadly beating at Theo Lacy Jail, the testimony shows.
A 30-year-old woman is arrested on one count of murder in the death of a 19-year-old LAX worker stopped at a traffic light.
Police were still looking for other suspects Saturday after arresting a woman late Friday in the fatal shooting of a young woman driving near a freeway offramp in South Los Angeles on Thursday, authorities said.
The state funded the procedures for two young illegal migrants. But when they hit 21, coverage passed to L.A. County, which doesn't have the resources to implant the new organs they both needed again.
Ana Puente was an infant with a liver disorder when her aunt brought her illegally to the U.S. to seek medical care. She underwent two liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center as a child in 1989 and a third in 1998, each paid for by the state.
Voters' ballot choices this weekend read like a laundry list of what ails the country.
When they vote this weekend, Italians can choose among any number of convicted felons or the odd TV go-go dancer on the ballot. Not to mention the personal friends, relatives and, in one case, the physical therapist of party leaders putting together potential governments. Crime does not disqualify you from running for office in this country, nor are qualifications necessarily necessary.
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- After spending a decade leading a communist insurgency in the mountains of Nepal, former top rebel Prachanda became the newest member Saturday of an assembly that will chart the Himalayan country's future.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 6:59 am
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak Sunday urged legislators to quickly pass a sweeping free trade agreement with the United States, to set an example for Congress. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 13 Apr 2008 | 6:24 am
BEIJING (AP) -- China has detained nine Buddhist monks and accused them of planting a homemade bomb last month in a government office building in eastern Tibet, an official said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 13 Apr 2008 | 6:10 am
Italians vote in polls pitting centre-right Silvio Berlusconi against centre-left Walter Veltroni for prime minister. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 5:53 am
Two small bombs explode in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, but no injuries are reported. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 5:36 am
Comments from Bank of Canada Governor call into question the G7's willingness to back up stronger rhetoric around exchange rates with their respective treasuries
Rising prices and shortages have sparked food riots in many countries, when mnay of the poorest can now longer feed themselves. Aid organizations trying to help impoverished nations are seeking relief from higher prices.
China has arrested nine Buddhist monks and accused them of planting a homemade bomb in a government office building in Tibet last month, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 3:43 am
Voting begins for local elections in Ethiopia but the opposition says it had difficulties registering candidates. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 13 Apr 2008 | 3:43 am
Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been knocked off balance after the Democratic White House frontrunner was caught on tape apparently belittling the fears of small-town Americans who have lost their jobs. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 3:01 am
Manny Ramirez homered and added a two-run double to give the Red Sox the lead, and Josh Beckett rebounded from a bad 2008 debut to lead Boston to a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday.
Canadian officials boarded and seized the ship of a conservation group documenting the annual seal hunt Saturday, accusing its activists of interfering with the hunt. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:57 am
Tanzania says no street demonstrations or attempts to snatch the torch are expected during Sunday's procession through the country's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says he feels the pain of employers pinched by intensified efforts to control illegal immigration, but adds that until Congress enacts broad immigration reforms they shouldn't expect any changes in enforcement.
A man who worked in the admissions department at a prestigious Manhattan hospital has been charged with stealing and selling information on nearly 50,000 patients. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 1:06 am
BANGKOK - Thailand will take appropriate measures to ensure the Olympic Torch Relay in Bangkok goes smoothly next week, Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said, adding politics had no place in the games.
Newspapers reported the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:57 am
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices, ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice.
A woman has died after falling from a stationary plane at Brisbane International Airport.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said the woman was loading catering items onto a 747 when she fell about six metres onto the ground... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:29 am
Labour strategists fear bleak May Day with the prospect of a slump to 28pc of the vote in local elections. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Gordon Brown's personal support among voters has fallen faster and further than that of any Prime Minister since political polling began, it has emerged. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 13 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haiti's Senate on Saturday fired the impoverished country's prime minister after a week of food riots, brushing aside an announcement by President Rene Preval of plans to slash the cost of rice.
Sixteen of 17 senators... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 12 Apr 2008 | 11:37 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The global fight against climate change after the Kyoto pact expires will fail unless rich countries can come up with creative ways to finance clean development by poorer nations, a U.N. official said on Saturday.
Slough, like every other town in Britain in the late 1940s, was attempting to
deal with the aftermath of war: relationships reduced to rubble by affairs
forged in haste, eroded by poverty and often prematurely cemented into
marriage by an unplanned pregnancy. In April 1949, in an attempt to restore
some health to matrimony, the Marriage Guidance Council (MGC) – which had
been formed in 1938 – opened its first local branch. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 12 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
PLANS for a third runway at Heathrow, the world’s busiest international
airport, flout safety guidelines by placing a proposed crash-landing zone on
top of a motorway junction. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 12 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
GORDON BROWN is facing a cabinet revolt over controversial new terror laws
amid concern in the government about an unprecedented collapse in his
authority. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 12 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
A bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Iranian city Shiraz on Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 100, Iranian media reported.
Ambulances rushed to the scene of the blast in a crowded district of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 12 Apr 2008 | 10:48 pm
It's been a rough week for airlines -- and for travelers. American Airlines grounded thousands of flights and Frontier became the fourth airline in two months to declare bankruptcy. Aviation expert George Hobica talks to Andrea Seabrook about what passengers can do to protect themselves.
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama is scrambling to defuse remarks he used this week about "bitter working-class voters." Those voters are a key voting block in the Pennsylvania primary later this month. Hillary Clinton calls his remarks "elitist and out of touch."
Four robots were recently inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame -- two of the robots are famous ones enjoyed by kids and TV audiences, while the other two are not exactly household names. A group of robot enthusiasts has been picking their favorite machines in both real life and in pop culture since 2003.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Confessions from Shiite militiamen led Saturday to the discovery of 15 more bodies dumped in mass graves south of Baghdad, officials said - the second such find this week.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 12 Apr 2008 | 7:32 pm
A Hong Kong freighter and a Chinese fishing boat collided in the high seas off southern Japan, leaving three crew members dead and 13 others missing, the Japanese coast guard said Saturday. Source: FOXNews.com | 12 Apr 2008 | 5:58 pm
Police have found the body of an Italian artist and activist who went missing while hitchhiking in Turkey dressed in a wedding gown to appeal for peace, officials said Saturday. Source: FOXNews.com | 12 Apr 2008 | 5:52 pm
An Australian man is facing drug trafficking charges in Thailand after doctors discovered 60 condoms filled with hashish in his stomach. Source: FOXNews.com | 12 Apr 2008 | 5:50 pm
Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, has indicated he will skip the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics this summer, capping an extraordinary week of public relations disasters for the Chinese Government... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 12 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta will return to the tiny country next week for the first time since he was gunned down outside his Dili home.
The Nobel Laureate was evacuated to Darwin on February 11 after he was shot by... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 12 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
Food riots in developing countries will spread unless world leaders take major steps to reduce prices for the poor, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said yesterday.
Despite a forecast 2.6 per... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 12 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is attempting to hold on to power after a contested election, skipped a meeting of southern African leaders about the problem on Saturday, so South African President Thabo Mbeki brought the talks to him.
Taiwan's next vice president sat down with Chinese leader Hu Jintao for a brief but historic chat Saturday, raising hopes that the rivals would begin to ease six decades of hostilities. Source: FOXNews.com | 12 Apr 2008 | 4:23 pm
Internet search giant Google this week unveiled new feature for mapping programs that lets users download software to see satellite images of refugee hot spots. Source: FOXNews.com | 12 Apr 2008 | 3:36 pm
The fierce contest between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination continues in Pennsylvania, site of the next primary contest on April 22. On Wednesday, the two candidates will debate in Philadelphia.
Shiite militants fought U.S. and Iraqi forces around Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City despite a call for calm by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr following the assassination of one of his top aides.
Iranian media reported on Friday that there was no encounter in the central Persian Gulf between a U.S. Navy ship and a small Iranian high-speed boat in the central Persian Gulf. Source: FOXNews.com | 12 Apr 2008 | 3:26 pm
American Airlines canceled more than 3,000 flights this week because of safety inspections ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration -- yet another problem for a beleaguered industry. Soaring fuel prices have led four airlines to declare bankruptcy in the past few weeks.
While the United States worries about a potential recession, the rest of the world is dealing with inflation. Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, discusses why inflation now looms large for the U.S. economy.
Deadly rioting erupted this week in Haiti and Egypt, where food prices have soared amid rampant inflation. The G-7 met in Washington on Friday to address instability in the global economy, but analysts seem skeptical about how effective the organization will be at steadying inflation.
AP - The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month's offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC said on Sunday
it will challenge a partial poll recount and the government
promised the army would not fight Zimbabweans over the election
which has raised fears of bloodshed.
AP - A political tempest over Barack Obama's comments about bitter voters in small towns has given rival Hillary Rodham Clinton a new opening to court working class Democrats 10 days before Pennsylvanians hold a primary that she must win to keep her presidential campaign alive.
Reuters - A blast in a mosque in Iran that killed
at least 12 people was an accident and not an attack, a senior
official said on Sunday, but others cautioned the investigation
into the cause was continuing.
Reuters - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
said in remarks to air on Sunday that his upcoming visit to the
Middle East probably would include a meeting in Syria with
leaders of the militant group Hamas.
Reuters - Nepal's Maoists were marching to
victory in the Himalayan nation's first election in nine years,
latest tallies showed on Sunday, a result almost nobody had
expected.
AFP - Nepal's Maoists have maintained a strong early lead in historic polls on the country's political future, election officials told AFP Sunday as vote counting continued.
AP - Texas law enforcers met Saturday in Utah with the man accused of abusing the 16-year-old girl whose call for help triggered a raid on the West Texas compound of a secretive polygamous sect.
AP - Jimmie Johnson gave Hendrick Motorsports its first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory of the year, winning a fuel gamble Saturday night at Phoenix International Speedway.
AP - Britney Spears' motoring misfortunes continue. The pop star was involved in a minor traffic accident late Saturday, but no one was injured and no vehicles were damaged, authorities said.
American Airlines says it has canceled about 200 MD-80 flights scheduled for Saturday and plans to resume a full, normal schedule on Sunday.
Authorities said at least four people are badly injured after a twin-engine plane crashed in a neighborhood near Los Angeles.
U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least 13 gunmen in heavy battles around Baghdad's Sadr City, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
Manny Ramirez homered and added a two-run double to give the Red Sox the lead, and Josh Beckett rebounded from a bad 2008 debut to lead Boston to a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says he feels the pain of employers pinched by intensified efforts to control illegal immigration, but adds that until Congress enacts broad immigration reforms they shouldn't expect any changes in enforcement.
Detectives are investigating whether a Marine charged with the slaying of a pregnant colleague might have e-mailed authorities .
The last baseball Barry Bonds hit out of the park sold for $376,612 on Saturday, the winning bid coming from a buyer who wanted to remain anonymous.