Physicist John Wheeler, who coined the term "black hole" and helped the develop the atom bomb, has died. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 10:07 am
China put to death at least 470 people last year but probably executed many more, Amnesty International says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 10:02 am
MANCHESTER, England - Job well done. Well, not quite yet for Manchester United.
After rallying to beat Arsenal 2-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday, Man United's players...
ROME (AFP) - Italy has shifted back to the right with the return of flamboyant media baron Silvio Berlusconi after a convincing election victory, but expectations for significant change were muted on Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:57 am
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- An overnight fire destroyed a primary school dormitory in Uganda, leaving 19 schoolgirls and two adults dead, police said Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:56 am
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he'll meet with a Hamas leader at a West Bank reception Tuesday, a sign he has not been cowed by criticism...
MOSCOW (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday agreed to become leader of Russia's ruling party in a significant shift of the political landscape three weeks before he hands power to successor Dmitry Medvedev. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:54 am
Iraqi women line up for food supplies distributed by al-Zahra humanitarian organization in Baghdad, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Al-Zahra distributed food on Tuesday, to about 43 families that suffered a loss... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:53 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi police say a car bomb that exploded in Baqouba killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens of others.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:53 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 25 people and wounded 60 when it exploded outside a government office in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Tuesday, police said.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Rescuers were searching for up to eight teenage students at an outdoor program who were missing after being swept away by a raging river in New Zealand,...
ROME (AP) -- Silvio Berlusconi quickly laid out his strategy Tuesday for resolving Italy's crises, from its ailing national airline to garbage in Naples, a day after the media mogul triumphed in parliamentary elections.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:51 am
Many Zimbabwean businesses open as usual despite opposition calls for a strike over undeclared poll results. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:51 am
AP - Silvio Berlusconi quickly laid out his strategy Tuesday for resolving Italy's crises, from its ailing national airline to garbage in Naples, a day after the media mogul triumphed in parliamentary elections.
A car bomb has killed at least 30 people and injured 50 in the Iraqi city of Baquba, police report. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:48 am
Alain Robert, a French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spiderman," climbs up the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Robert is climbing in Hong Kong to raise awareness for rising global... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:45 am
Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves arrives for the Sydney premiere of his new movie "Street Kings," Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:44 am
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's whalers began arriving home Tuesday as authorities prepared to investigate high-seas clashes with activists that prevented the fleet from killing almost half its intended catch. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:42 am
Rescuers were searching for up to eight teenage students at an outdoor program who were missing after being swept away by a raging river in New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:41 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home foreclosure filings surged 57 percent in the 12 month-period ended in March and bank repossessions soared 129 percent from a year ago, as homeowners struggled to make mortgage payments, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Tuesday.
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spent a fourth day on Monday defending himself for calling people in small towns with economic blight "bitter" in a controversy that rival Hillary Clinton is trying to use for a comeback.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The anti-U.S. movement of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is now Iraq's main humanitarian organization helping needy Iraqis, a relief group said in a report that is certain to cause concern in Washington.
LONDON - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger blamed two months of bad luck for his team's failures in the Champions League and Premier League.
Two wins in 13 games sounds...
Reuters - Former U.S. President Jimmy
Carter, shunned by Israeli leaders over his plans to meet
Hamas, said on Tuesday he sought permission to enter the
Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip but was turned down.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he'll meet with a Hamas leader at a West Bank reception Tuesday, a sign he has not been cowed by criticism of his plans to meet with the violently anti-Israel group. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:33 am
Police arrest one of the Tibetan during a demonstration outside Chinese consulate, in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Tibetan exiles in Nepal resumed their protests against China , which, they... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:32 am
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, shunned by Israeli leaders over his plans to meet Hamas, said on Tuesday he sought permission to enter the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip but was turned down.
President Vladimir Putin agrees to become chairman of Russia's biggest party, United Russia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:31 am
CHICAGO - The U.S. and Canadian women's soccer teams will play a May 10 warmup match for the Beijing Games.
The game will be held at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.,...
Reuters - Iran will eliminate Israel if it
launches a military attack on the Islamic state, a senior army
commander was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:29 am
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will eliminate Israel if it launches a military attack on the Islamic state, a senior army commander was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Reuters - Home foreclosure filings surged 57
percent in the 12 month-period ended in March and bank
repossessions soared 129 percent from a year ago, as homeowners
struggled to make mortgage payments, real estate data firm
RealtyTrac said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK - Sean Avery found yet another way to annoy Martin Brodeur, and forced the NHL to change a rule in his honor.
The Hall of Fame resume of the New Jersey Devils...
Danvers baseball coach Rogery Day knew he would get a quality start from ace Bobby Dean.
The hitting turned out to be an unexpected surprise.
The Falcons (2-0) reached...
Ceremonies are being held in Poland to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:19 am
AFP - A general strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to force the release of last month's election results got off to a slow start Tuesday with shops and services open for business as usual.
HARARE (AFP) - A general strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to force the release of last month's election results got off to a slow start Tuesday with shops and services open for business as usual. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:18 am
Zimbabwe's riot policemen walk on a street in Harare outside the High Court. A general strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to force the release of last month's election results has got off to a slow... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:17 am
Zimbabweans read a paper on a street in Harare with riot policemen in the background. A general strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to force the release of last month's election results has got off... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:17 am
Riot policemen in a street in Harare. A general strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to force the release of last month's election results has got off to a slow start with shops and services open for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:17 am
Montreal coach Guy Carbonneau spent yesterday afternoon at TD Banknorth Garden analyzing a player who could prove pivotal in the remainder of the team's first-round playoff...
Reuters - The anti-U.S. movement of Shi'ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is now Iraq's main humanitarian
organization helping needy Iraqis, a relief group said in a
report that is certain to cause concern in Washington.
AP - John McCain wants the federal government to free people from paying gasoline taxes this summer and ensure that college students can secure loans this fall, a pair of proposals aimed at stemming pain from the country's troubled economy.
AP - Texas officials who took 416 children from a polygamist retreat into state custody sent many of their mothers away Monday, as a judge and lawyers struggled with a legal and logistical morass in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.
ROME (AP) -- From a presidential welcome, to two Masses at baseball stadiums, to a stop for prayer at ground zero in New York, Pope Benedict XVI will get a heavy dose of the American experience in his first pilgrimage to the United States.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:13 am
The onslaught of homes facing foreclosures has yet to ebb, a research report showed Tuesday, with bank repossessions skyrocketing last month as more troubled homeowners mailed in their keys and walked away. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:12 am
CAMP EDWARDS - The Massachusetts National Guard wants to expand the use of lead bullets at firing ranges at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod.
Federal environmental regulators banned...
SALEM - A Haverhill chiropractor faces arraignment for his alleged role in an auto insurance fraud ring.
Prosecutors say 40-year-old Troy Wheelwright of Amesbury was involved...
Mexican politicians vow to remain barricaded in Congress to protest at the proposed reform of state oil giant Pemex. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:06 am
MOSCOW (AP) -- Vladimir Putin has accepted the leadership of the dominant United Russia party.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:06 am
Spain's Nuclear Safety Council is checking some 800 people for contamination after a radioactive leak in a nuclear plant turned out to be bigger than originally reported. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:02 am
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The death toll in street clashes between police in Kenya and members of an outlawed gang protesting the imprisonment of their leader has reached 13, a mortuary official said Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:53 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Lawmakers from Pakistan's newly elected parliament have passed a resolution seeking a U.N. probe into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, officials from her party said Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:52 am
An overnight fire in a school dormitory near Uganda's capital has killed 19 children, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:50 am
Tibetan exiles protested at the Chinese Embassy on Tuesday, shouting "We want a free Tibet" before more than 100 were hauled away by Nepalese riot police. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:36 am
A U.S. Navy hospital ship will visit the eastern and southern Philippines next month on a humanitarian mission, including areas where Muslim separatist rebels are active, Philippine and American officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:32 am
For years now, Linux has been known primarily only to people in technology fields. While average home users may have heard of it, it is still surrounded in a cloud of mystery for the majority of people. When people think alternatives to the Windows operating system, they usually think of Apple's Mac OSX, but is it time to take a look at Linux? Source: Digg | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:30 am
Be it Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Alone in the Dark or Clock Tower, there are many frightening examples of interactive horror to choose from, where the primary goal is simply to get out of there alive. In general, they follow a set of distinct rules. While not 100% true in all cases, there are ten important golden rules that a survival horror... Source: Digg | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:30 am
Colombia's Nevado del Huila volcano has erupted in a shower of hot ash, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of people and declare a state of alert.
Map locates Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where explosions at gas stations killed at least two; 1c x 1 7/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 47.6 mm Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal's Maoists said Tuesday the abolition of the Himalayan nation's monarchy was now just a "matter of procedure" as they held a commanding lead in the count from last week's landmark elections. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:28 am
Gov. Edward G. Rendell is an undeniable asset for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:24 am
Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, delivers a speech to students during a lecture in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. The online hangout MySpace is continuing its international... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:16 am
Emergency services officials say a rain-swollen river swept away as many as eight teenagers in New Zealand. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:13 am
The daughter of the slain Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi says she met a woman convicted for her father's assassination. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:13 am
On TV's Brothers & Sisters, Canadian Luke Macfarlane plays a gay man in a serious relationship. In an exclusive interview, the 28-year-old actor talks about his character's trip to the altar, and why he's decided to go public with his own sexuality
Police in Liverpool have arrested 11 people in connection with the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones, a police spokesman said. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:07 am
Police in Liverpool have arrested 11 people in connection with the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones, a police spokesman said. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:07 am
Police in Liverpool have arrested 12 people in connection with the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones, a police spokesman said. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:07 am
YAMAGUCHI, Japan, April 15 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING OZAWA COMMENT) Campaigning for a House of Representatives by-election started Tuesday in Yamaguchi Prefecture, with the ruling Liberal Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:59 am
Explosions at two national oil company gas stations killed two people in the Ethiopian capital, police said Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:59 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, who is sometimes seen as insensitive to other faiths, will reach out to other religious leaders during his first visit to the United States, even though the trip is aimed at Roman Catholics.
(Kyodo) _ Hiroki Kuroda pitched three-run ball over six innings and left the mound with a chance at the win, but closer Takashi Saito surrendered a three-run homer in the ninth as the Los Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:56 am
(Kyodo) _ The yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond closed higher Tuesday as Japan's key Nikkei stock index gained ground, prompting investors to sell bonds. In... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:54 am
TOKYO, April 15 (Kyodo) _ Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura on Tuesday expressed hope that the dispute between Japan and China over gas exploration rights in the East China Sea... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:52 am
In an era saturated with entertainment and politics, a key question looms as Pope Benedict XVI leaves here Tuesday for Washington: Is his style too dense to get Americans' attention?
(Kyodo) _ The Okinawa prefectural police on Tuesday sent papers to prosecutors on a 21-year-old U.S. military policeman in connection with his involvement in a taxi holdup in March. A... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:44 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's opposition political party called a nationwide strike Tuesday after the country's High Court rejected an appeal for the immediate release of delayed presidential election results.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:43 am
Tesco, Britain's largest retailer, reported a 12 per cent jump in underlying
pre-tax profit for the 12 months to February 23, and announced plans for
30,000 new jobs across the group. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:37 am
SHANGHAI (AFP) - Italian fashion group Gucci has won a suit against a Chinese shoe maker that counterfeited the exclusive "GG" logo in its footwear, state media said Tuesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:35 am
Seliethia Parker always saw her role as protector for her 7-year-old daughter, Alexis Goggins. But it was Alexis who ended up saving her mother's life by using her little body to shield her mom from a fusillade of bullets. Doctors told Parker that her heroic little daughter, who was shot six times, would never walk or talk again. Source: Digg | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:30 am
US firms Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines are set to join forces to create the world's biggest carrier. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:24 am
Authorities are evacuating thousands of people after a volcano in Colombia erupted in a shower of hot ash. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:24 am
From a presidential welcome, to two Masses at baseball stadiums, to a stop for prayer at ground zero in New York, Pope Benedict XVI will get a heavy dose of the American experience in his... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:22 am
A second Saudi Arabian embassy car has been damaged in an overnight homemade bomb attack one day after suspected leftists burnt another Saudi vehicle, police said on Tuesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:21 am
Conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi faces a laundry list of problems after avenging his loss at the polls two years ago to win a third stint as Italy's premier. His victory in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:21 am
At least 1,200 people were executed globally last year with China leading the way amongst the world's most prolific users of the death penalty, Amnesty International said in a report... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:18 am
An overnight fire a primary school dormitory in Uganda killed 19 school children and two adults, police said Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:14 am
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Coral is again flourishing in the crater left by the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States, 54 years after the blast on Bikini Atoll, marine scientists said on Tuesday.
Silvio Berlusconi secures a decisive victory in Italy's general elections, but warns of "difficult months ahead". Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:13 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines are combining to form what will be the world's largest airline by traffic if the deal is approved, the two carriers said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:11 am
The question is, if she succeeds, what kind of party will she be left to lead? She's burning down the village to save it -- or to prove that she would make the best fire chief. But the village won't be saved; only one house will be left standing. A house with room for just two occupants. Hill and Bill. Source: Digg | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
The deal, which would form the world's largest airline, comes as jet fuel prices soar and the U.S. economy totters.
Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. agreed to a merger Monday that would create the world's largest airline and could trigger a wave of industry consolidation and fare increases.
Fault-laced Southern California has a greater chance of a huge quake by 2038 than the North, researchers say.
Southern California stands a much greater chance of a huge temblor in the next 30 years than Northern California, according to a statewide earthquake forecast released Monday.
The violence may be driving Tehran's efforts to back its own allies in Iraq.
A series of conflicts with insurgent groups along Iran's borders may be impelling Tehran to back its own allies in Iraq in what it regards as a proxy war with the U.S., according to security experts and officials in the U.S., Iran and Iraq.
He says oil companies should have warned owners that the additive could cause damage. The oil companies say ethanol's effect on fiberglass has been known for a long time.
Something was wrong with Sally Ann. ¶ For months, she sputtered and choked, and Barry Treahy's remedies weren't working. He kept changing her fuel filters. Then he rebuilt her carburetor. Finally, he cut into her gas tank, cleaned out the mysterious caramel-colored gunk and patched her up -- twice.¶ Disaster struck on a summer day in San Diego, when Treahy's beloved 20-foot fishing boat was parked street side with the outer hull plug open to drain any residual water. The boat's 55-gallon gas tank failed and gasoline streamed into the bilge and down the street. ¶ "I wasn't smart enough to figure it out at first," Treahy said of Sally Ann's chronic troubles. Finally, he found the answer in a boating magazine. Ethanol-laced gasoline was dissolving his boat's fiberglass fuel tank, sending bits of resin to clog filters and ultimately eating a hole all the way through the tank. ¶ Years of adding ethanol to gasoline to reduce air pollution and foreign oil dependence has had a nasty side effect: The stuff appears to damage boat fuel tanks made of fiberglass. And California is a floating testing ground for the ethanol effect.
The age-old tactic more frequently found in foreign bazaars and rug stores is returning to the malls and Main Street.
With jobs getting scarcer, stocks on a roller coaster and economists talking recession, not many people feel like paying full price for, well, anything.
Attorney says client's daughter plotted with codefendant to kill homeless man.
In an eleventh-hour shift in defense strategy, one of two septuagenarian women charged in a hit-and-run murder case turned on her co-defendant Monday, a move some legal experts said could backfire.
He agrees with her and supports the Dalai Lama, he says.
In brief comments on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania, former President Clinton said that his fundraising relationship with a Chinese company involved in Internet censorship did not pose a potential conflict of interest for his wife's presidential campaign.
Around the world, rising food prices have made basic staples like rice and corn unaffordable for many people, pushing the poor to the barricades because they can no longer get enough to eat. But the worst is yet to come. Source: Digg | 15 Apr 2008 | 6:50 am
Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, according to a study commissioned by four groups advocating more government action to bolster marriages. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 6:46 am
Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care. Source: Digg | 15 Apr 2008 | 6:22 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc will buy Northwest Airlines Corp for more than $3 billion under a proposal unveiled Monday to create the world's biggest airline, as carriers seek to counter skyrocketing fuel prices and a weak economy.
Conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi has scored a decisive victory in Italy's parliamentary elections, setting the colorful billionaire and staunch U.S. ally on course for his third stint as premier.
The U.S. is wrestling with the worst food inflation in 17 years, and analysts expect new data due on Wednesday to show it's getting worse. That's putting the squeeze on poor families and forcing bakeries, bagel shops and delis to explain price increases to their customers. Source: Digg | 15 Apr 2008 | 5:52 am
On Monday, with the Pennsylvania primary just days away, Hillary Clinton continued to hammer Barack Obama over his comments that small town Americans "cling to guns or religion" because they are "bitter." The crowd didn't like the attack. Source: Digg | 15 Apr 2008 | 5:40 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An emotional J.K. Rowling said on Monday she had stopped working on a new novel because her creativity was stifled by a fan's bid to print an unofficial encyclopedic companion to her Harry Potter series.
NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony was arrested early Monday on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, hours after his worst game of the season.
The woman's Web post prompts charges of elitism against Obama, and exposes her to waves of vitriol.
Mayhill Fowler grew up with a mother who didn't like her talking politics in the home. As an adult, she faced publishers who wouldn't put her writing in print.
Iraq's financial free ride may be over. After five years, Republicans and Democrats seem to have found common ground on at least one aspect of the war: making Iraq use its oil revenue to pick up the tab. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 4:00 am
The presidential candidates are in the middle of an escalating battle for Catholic voters — most immediately between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, but also between the two parties as they look ahead to the general election. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 3:04 am
LONDON - The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors house price balance fell in March to its lowest in the 30-year history of the survey, RICS said today, sending a strong signal that the housing market is cooling fast.
The net... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 2:44 am
SEOUL - South Korea said today it was investigating four new suspected cases of bird flu, including one near Seoul, adding to a string of recent outbreaks and raising concerns the disease may be spreading across the country.
South... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 2:18 am
LONDON - The body of missing BBC children's television presenter Mark Speight was found hanging from the roof of a London railway station, it was confirmed yesterday.
Network Rail staff discovered the body in a remote area next... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 2:10 am
LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will sound the alarm today over surging energy costs, saying oil producing countries must act to counter high prices.
Brown's comments, to be made to a business audience, show his concern that... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 1:38 am
President Bush ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid to help nations where surging food prices have deepened hunger woes and sparked violent protests.
The White House has told a group of House GOP conservatives it may be forced to support a limited cap on greenhouse gases and avoid a "train wreck" of regulations involving climate change, sources familiar with the meeting said Monday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 1:16 am
NEW YORK - Dental practices may be a source of a dangerous form of mercury contamination in the water supply, a small study suggests.
In tests of wastewater from two dental practices, researchers at the University of Illinois found... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 1:13 am
WASHINGTON - Eight out of 10 Arabs have an unfavourable view of the United States and only six percent believe the US troop build-up in Iraq in the last year has worked, said a poll of six Arab countries released yesterday.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 1:03 am
After a year of negotiations, Delta and Northwest Airlines have agreed to a stock-swap merger. The combined airline would be called Delta and be based in Atlanta. It would also be the world's biggest carrier.
Texas officials who took 416 children from a polygamist retreat into state custody sent many of their mothers away Monday, as a judge and lawyers struggled with a legal and logistical morass in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.
PITTSBURGH - US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spent a fourth day yesterday defending himself for calling people in small towns with economic blight "bitter" in a controversy that rival Hillary Clinton is trying to... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:38 am
HAVANA (AP) -- Lines stretched for blocks outside phone centers Monday as the government allowed ordinary Cubans to sign up for cellular phone service for the first time.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:29 am
MADRID - Up to 800 people are being examined for contamination after a leak of radioactive material at a nuclear plant in northeast Spain last November, the nuclear watchdog said yesterday.
The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) said... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:27 am
ROME - Conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi won a third term as Italy's prime minister yesterday with an unexpectedly strong mandate to deal with deep economic and social problems.
Centre-left rival Walter Veltroni conceded... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:15 am
NEW YORK - Overactivity of a gene called ODC1 is associated with poor survival of neuroblastoma, a common, often fatal cancer seen mostly in young children, according to research presented on Sunday at the American Association for... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:10 am
JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author, swept into a Manhattan court yesterday to tell how she was left devastated and unable to write because of an American publisher's plans to release an unauthorised Potter encyclopaedia. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Silvio Berlusconi has won a crushing victory in the Italian general election to become prime minister for the third time. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
British gap year students who survived the Ecuador bus crash spoke yesterday of their despair at losing five friends. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Gordon Brown is spending as much on personal advisers as Tony Blair did despite his pledge to end the culture of spin at No 10. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
A scientific technique that could allow same-sex couples to create their own biological child in a laboratory should be allowed under law, a group of influential scientists said on Monday. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 15 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
A multibillion-dollar loophole that would have helped conceal abuse of overseas contracts has been eliminated from a Bush administration proposal to protect taxpayer dollars, according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
Few people know that New Orleans is the vagina of America. Few would suggest
it. “It is fertile. It's a delta. And everyone wants to party there,”
explains Eve Ensler, activist, feminist icon - and the author of The Vagina
Monologues. Never one to act on a small stage when a bigger one would do,
last weekend she turned the New Orleans Superdome into the Superlove - a
two-day global event to mark the tenth anniversary of her V-Day movement,
the campaign to stop violence against women which she founded on the back of
her play. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
An e-mail sent by Indira Swann, one of the Ecuadorian bus crash victims,
expressing her love for her family and describing the fun she was having,
was discovered by her parents just hours after they learnt of her death. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
Gordon Brown’s Trade Minister has told businessmen that he will resign before
the next election because he is not prepared to support the Prime Minister
publicly during the campaign. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States comes at a time when Roman Catholic seminary enrollment is down 60 percent since 1968. Two seminarians talk with Michele Norris about the shrinking pool of priests and other issues facing the U.S. church.
In the highly charged political atmosphere at the Beijing games, the world will be watching to see if any athletes criticize China's human rights record. Already, officials are walking a fine line barring protests at Olympic venues, but insisting that athletes have the right to express their views elsewhere.
A controversial new immigration law in Prince William County, Va., is getting mixed reviews so far. Some laud the arrest of dozens of illegal immigrants for minor crimes and the deportation of hundreds as a sign of success. Others lament a 40-percent drop in sales at some businesses and worsening housing foreclosures.
Will Rinta, an emergency medical technician in Yacolt, Wash., talks with Michele Norris about the helicopter rescue of a 52-year-old man who fell hundreds of feet into the gaping crater of Mount St. Helens on Saturday. It's believed to be the first time a person has fallen into the crater.
A 40 percent rise in food prices globally is being deeply felt in impoverished Haiti, where most people live on less than $2 a day. Aid organizers say a World Bank pledge of $10 million along with government subsidies for rice may be too little to ease Haitians' anger.
In fighting in Sadr City that left hundreds of Iraqis dead over the past two weeks, U.S. soldiers in support roles observed Iraqi forces firing weapons indiscriminately. They also say communication was lacking and logistics were poor.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The U.S. military said Monday it will release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, more than two years after he was detained by U.S. Marines on suspicions of links to insurgents. The military said it has determined Hussein is not a threat and plans to free him Wednesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6 a.m. EDT | 14 Apr 2008 | 9:03 pm
With final voting ending Monday in Italian national elections, conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi leads in both houses of Italy's parliament as his chief rival for prime minister concedes.
Leftist lawmakers erected makeshift barricades around the podium in Mexico's lower house of Congress, where they have been camped out for more than five days to protest the president's oil reform proposal.
The head of Brazil's National Petroleum Agency says a deep-water exploration area in the Atlantic Ocean could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil.
The Department of Defense has released its latest military causality numbers for those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the figures reveal non-fatal casualties that go well beyond the more than 4,000 U.S. troops who have died so far.
Japan spends half as much on health care as the U.S., yet its people have the longest healthy life expectancy. Diet and lifestyle are key, but affordable health care plays a major role.
Early projections show that conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi looks likely to be headed for a third term in office. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 5:55 pm
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demanded Monday that the Iraqi government reinstate all security forces fired for deserting during fighting in Basra. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 5:47 pm
A father and daughter who shocked Australia by publicly admitting they had a child together say it is society that has a problem with their incestuous relationship and they are OK with it. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 5:36 pm
Zimbabwe's High Court rejects opposition demand for the immediate release of long-delayed election results, prolonging a political crisis that has paralyzed this southern African nation for more than two weeks. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 5:02 pm
The Olympic torch arrived in Oman amid tight security and expectations of a smooth relay on the Middle Eastern leg of the flame's round-the-world tour.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who has angered Israel in recent years with his criticisms, visiting a rocket battered Israeli town near the Gaza Strip and deplored the Palestine militants' attacks.
Zimbabwe's High Court rejected an opposition demand for the immediate release of long-delayed election results, prolonging a political crisis that has paralyzed this southern African nation for more than two weeks, a lawyer for the opposition said.
Several hundred protesters rioted in Pakistan Monday, burning a bank and setting vehicles ablaze in the face of power cuts they say are hurting businesses. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 1:54 pm
The Olympic torch arrives in Oman amid tight security and expectations of a smooth relay on the Middle Eastern leg of the flame's round-the-world tour. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 12:59 pm
Lines stretched for blocks outside phone stores Monday as ordinary Cubans were allowed to sign up for cellular phone service for the first time. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 12:24 pm
The U.S. military says it will release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein after more than two years in custody. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 9:02 am
The head of the Dominican drug control agency says agents have seized more than a ton of cocaine on an outlying island. Source: FOXNews.com | 14 Apr 2008 | 8:50 am
AP - Iraqi police say a car bomb that exploded in Baqouba killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens of others.
AP - Silvio Berlusconi quickly laid out his strategy Tuesday for resolving Italy's crises, from its ailing national airline to garbage in Naples, a day after the media mogul triumphed in parliamentary elections.
Reuters - A car bomb killed 25 people and wounded
60 when it exploded outside a government office in the Iraqi
city of Baquba on Tuesday, police said.
Reuters - Former U.S. President Jimmy
Carter, shunned by Israeli leaders over his plans to meet
Hamas, said on Tuesday he sought permission to enter the
Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip but was turned down.
Reuters - Home foreclosure filings surged 57
percent in the 12 month-period ended in March and bank
repossessions soared 129 percent from a year ago, as homeowners
struggled to make mortgage payments, real estate data firm
RealtyTrac said on Tuesday.
AFP - A general strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to force the release of last month's election results got off to a slow start Tuesday with shops and services open for business as usual.
Reuters - The anti-U.S. movement of Shi'ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is now Iraq's main humanitarian
organization helping needy Iraqis, a relief group said in a
report that is certain to cause concern in Washington.
AP - John McCain wants the federal government to free people from paying gasoline taxes this summer and ensure that college students can secure loans this fall, a pair of proposals aimed at stemming pain from the country's troubled economy.
AP - Texas officials who took 416 children from a polygamist retreat into state custody sent many of their mothers away Monday, as a judge and lawyers struggled with a legal and logistical morass in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.
In an era saturated with entertainment and politics, a key question looms as Pope Benedict XVI leaves here Tuesday for Washington: Is his style too dense to get Americans' attention?
NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony was arrested early Monday on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, hours after his worst game of the season.
Delta Air Lines says it has reached an agreement with Northwest Airlines to take over Northwest and create the world’s biggest carrier.
Texas officials who took 416 children from a polygamist retreat into state custody sent many of their mothers away Monday, as a judge and lawyers struggled with a legal and logistical morass in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.