Pennsylvania voting officials are preparing for heavy turnout expected for the state's primary on April 22. Like voting officials nationwide, they worry about myriad voting problems and the effectiveness of the fallback provisional ballots.
A bus plunged into a canal in western India early Wednesday, killing at least 45 people, most of them schoolchildren, an official said. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:56 pm
The battered economy and the housing market could see a turnaround by this fall, Boston Federal Reserve Bank president Eric Rosengren said yesterday.
But he warned that...
Gas prices set new records in Massachusetts and across the nation yesterday while GOP presidential candidate John McCain proposed a federal "gas tax holiday" this...
BLACKSBURG, Va. - A white candle lit at the stroke of midnight began a day of mourning Wednesday on Virginia Tech's campus, exactly one year after the worst mass shooting...
Whom can we trust to do hard-headed calculations to prove that a scientific experiment will not lead to the end of the world? Source: Digg | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:26 pm
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Runners carried the Olympic flame around the outside of a sports stadium Wednesday - an invitation-only event in front of an elite, sparse crowd with heavy security to deter any anti-China protesters or terrorist attacks.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:23 pm
AP - Runners carried the Olympic flame around the outside of a sports stadium Wednesday an invitation-only event in front of an elite, sparse crowd with heavy security to deter any anti-China protesters or terrorist attacks.
ORDWAY, Colo. - Firefighters hoped rain and snow Wednesday would help them stop wildfires that blazed through thousands of acres of grass, forced hundreds of residents to...
Russia's President Putin orders his government to forge closer links with Georgia's breakaway regions. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:19 pm
Reuters - Six-nation talks about Iran's nuclear
program on Wednesday failed to secure full agreement on a new
package aimed a restarting negotiations with Tehran, but the
Iranian president said the country was open for discussions.
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Jimmy Carter rebuffed a call Wednesday from an Israeli lawmaker to halt his contacts with Hamas, and senior leaders of the Islamic militant group rushed to Egypt in anticipation of a meeting with the former U.S. president.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:16 pm
Zimbabwe's opposition says more than 50 of its supporters have been arrested after striking over poll results. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:15 pm
AP - A white candle lit at the stroke of midnight began a day of mourning Wednesday on Virginia Tech's campus, exactly one year after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history left 32 people and the gunman dead.
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran is installing vending machines in Tehran to sell cheap condoms and syringes to drug addicts to prevent the spread of AIDS and hepatitis, an official said on Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:14 pm
AP - Consumer prices pushed higher last month as increases in energy, food and airline tickets overwhelmed the biggest drop in clothing prices in nearly a decade.
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Three Israeli soldiers and four militants were killed on Wednesday as troops backed by assault helicopters stormed into the Gaza Strip and battled heavily armed Palestinians. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:11 pm
AFP - Three Israeli soldiers and four militants were killed on Wednesday as troops backed by assault helicopters stormed into the Gaza Strip and battled heavily armed Palestinians.
Palestinian militants ambushed an Israeli ground force in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing three soldiers. Four Hamas gunmen also were killed in separate clashes. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:05 pm
BERLIN (AP) -- An 86-year-old man who acted as a Nazi hit man for a Waffen SS death squad that executed Dutch civilians during World War II has been charged with three counts of murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:04 pm
Price increases and favorable currency shifts helped SABMiller PLC offset the impact of higher costs and slowing volume growth in the past fiscal year, the maker of Miller Lite and Pilsner Urquell beer said Wednesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:02 pm
What is making NASA's twin Pioneer spacecraft mysteriously drift off course, apparently defying the laws of physics? A rigorous new analysis suggests ordinary heat emission can at least partly explain the wayward probes' strange trajectories. Source: Digg | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:01 pm
Best known for his prose about Snickers and Kit Kat bars, author Steve "Candy Freak" Almond also has enjoyed a cult following among "Babbleonians."
...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China shrugged off atrocious winter weather and a global credit crunch to post surprisingly strong economic growth of 10.6 percent for the first quarter.
At least two people died after wind-driven wildfires burned into a southeast Colorado town and an Army post. An air tanker pilot was also killed when his plane crashed while battling another blaze.
Four Hamas gunmen were killed in intense fighting in several locations in the Gaza Strip, the militant group said. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:55 pm
Spain's first majority female cabinet - including a seven-months-pregnant Defence Minister - reflects a greater European shift away from 'criminal machismo'
Reuters - Pope Benedict, on his first papal
visit to the United States, meets President George W. Bush at
the White House and U.S. Roman Catholic bishops at a Washington
basilica on Wednesday, his 81st birthday.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US consumer prices rose modestly in March after a surge in gasoline and food costs in recent months, a government report showed Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:53 pm
The economy didn't make Western PA cling to God and guns -- those are the foundations of Western PA. Jon Stewart lays it into the MSM for their actions over "Bitter-gate" and responds directly to their claims that Barack Obama is "elitist". The last third of the video is the best. Source: Digg | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:48 pm
Six Somali pirates captured after the rescue of hostages aboard a French luxury yacht have arrived in Paris for eventual trial, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:46 pm
WASHINGTON - Consumer prices pushed higher last month as increases in energy, food and airline tickets overwhelmed the biggest drop in clothing prices in nearly a decade.
The...
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The Pakistani leg of the Olympic global torch relay took place behind closed doors in Islamabad on Wednesday, guarded by thousands of troops and police on alert for both anti-China protests and militant attacks. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:46 pm
Shutdown Day is back with a bang! More than 1.6 million people worldwide participated in Shutdown Day last year ... and this year there's a crazy global Flash Mob too!A massive global experiment to spread awareness about the pitfalls of excessive use and abuse of computers and Internet. Source: Digg | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:44 pm
Pope Benedict is visiting the United States for the first time as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. R. Scott Appleby, a professor of religious history at the University of Notre Dame, says Benedict's message to America's "Cafeteria Catholics" will likely be a positive one, rather than focusing on differences with the Vatican.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready for negotiations on nuclear and other issues provided such talks do not violate the country's rights, the president said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Negotiators from the United States and
North Korea believe they have settled a thorny dispute over
Washington's allegations that Pyongyang had a program to enrich
uranium for weapons and proliferated nuclear technology to
Syria, diplomatic sources in Tokyo said on Wednesday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Negotiators from the United States and North Korea believe they have settled a thorny dispute over Washington's allegations that Pyongyang had a program to enrich uranium for weapons and proliferated nuclear technology to Syria, diplomatic sources in Tokyo said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's oil minister on Wednesday questioned the need for OPEC to hike production to cool surging oil prices, snubbing calls for more crude from its Western foes, the United States and Britain.
GOMA, Congo (AP) -- U.N. peacekeepers and rescue workers searched for bodies Wednesday in the smoldering rubble after a jetliner rammed into a bustling market area and burst into flames, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 100.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:38 pm
A new tactical head camera worn by U.K. police for surveillance operations offers the perfect portable camera device for recording your every move. Source: Digg | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:36 pm
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese radio station will broadcast a 1955 tape of an execution in a special program next month, a rare move to raise public awareness as the government increases the frequency at which it hangs death row inmates.
BILLERICA - The EMD Serono biotech company is planning a $50 million addition in Billerica and hopes to hire 100 more researchers there by 2012.
The company says the 125,000...
AP - President Bush has quite a birthday present for Pope Benedict XVI: at least 9,000 excited guests gathered on the White House's South Lawn for a 21-gun salute, a famed soprano's rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" and an emotional presidential welcome.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain runs even with Democratic rival Barack Obama and narrowly leads Hillary Clinton in potential match-ups in November, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Wednesday former U.S. President Jimmy Carter would meet two of its leaders from Gaza in Egypt, in further defiance of Israeli leaders, who have shunned him over his contacts with the Islamist group.
Reuters - Hamas said on Wednesday former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter would meet two of its leaders from Gaza
in Egypt, in further defiance of Israeli leaders, who have
shunned him over his contacts with the Islamist group.
The member of the Royal Family at the centre of alleged gay sex blackmail plot was also said to have taken drugs, a court has heard. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:23 pm
The royal at the centre of an alleged homosexual sex blackmail plot was said to have taken drugs, the Old Bailey has been told. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:23 pm
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes fired on a group of Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq on Tuesday as they tried to enter Turkey, the General Staff said on Wednesday.
This year, the job market for graduating college students is tougher than it's been since the 2001 recession especially in finance and manufacturing. Career counselors say the days when students got to juggle job offers are over.
Reuters - Thousands of Pakistani police and
paramilitary soldiers were deployed in Islamabad on Wednesday
for the Olympic torch relay, as Australia braced for clashes
between pro-Tibet supporters and Chinese students.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Pakistani police and paramilitary soldiers were deployed in Islamabad on Wednesday for the Olympic torch relay, as Australia braced for clashes between pro-Tibet supporters and Chinese students.
Home Office plans to redirect 300 police officers and staff to counter-terror duties have been denounced as a 'political smokescreen’ by the Tories. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:13 pm
Students and staff at Virginia Tech begin a day of mourning a year since 32 people died in a campus massacre. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:04 pm
SYDNEY (AFP) - Anglo-American mining giant Rio Tinto said on Wednesday that iron ore sales reached record levels in the first quarter despite lower production from Western Australia. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:01 pm
Oil prices surged to record highs as the weakening U.S. dollar drives investors to dump money into commodities. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:56 am
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today announced an extra 300 police officers to
work with communities on preventing radicalisation, but within hours was
reported to the Cabinet Office for an alleged breach of election rules. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
"Richard Shinnick, the department's buildings chief, said problems with the mammoth, 27-building complex's fire-safety systems have been fixed, and the embassy compound will now be turned over to U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.." Source: Digg | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
A Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) purse one's lips as it looks at visitors in the Zoo of Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:50 am
Polar bear cub "Wilbaer", right, plays in the outdoor enclosure at the Stuttgart Zoo with mother Corinna, in Stuttgart, southern Germany, Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Zoo officials introduced Germany's latest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:50 am
Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt Wednesday over the U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks, calling it a pretext used to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:49 am
The mother of Shannon Matthews is to stand trial alongside the man accused of kidnapping her nine-year-old daughter. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:48 am
NEW YORK - During Pope Benedict XVI's visit to New York, thousands will converge on city streets, outside churches and the hallowed stadium home of the Bronx Bombers,...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI was expected Wednesday to raise thorny topics such as the Iraq war and Hispanic immigration in talks with President George W. Bush on the second day of his US visit. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, right, talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Al-Maliki said Wednesday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
Thousands of police with sniffer dogs stood guard as Pakistan hosted the Olympic torch Wednesday for what the pro-China government hopes will be a trouble-free leg of its world tour. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:43 am
Yearly inflation in euro nations rose to a record of 3.6 percent in March on higher prices for transport fuel, heating, dairy products and bread, the EU's statistical agency Eurostat said Wednesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:40 am
(Kyodo) _ Japanese and European Union leaders will agree at their talks next Wednesday in Tokyo that the two sides will push for launching a new energy-saving framework to curb global... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:39 am
Building and auto systems maker Johnson Controls says global demand for energy efficient buildings helped boost second-quarter earnings 27 percent. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:38 am
Britain has been forced to seek a compromise between finding greener ways to fuel its economy and growing food to feed its population. A new law went into effect there Tuesday that requires 2.5 percent of all gasoline and diesel sold for any vehicle to come from biofuels.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday he's more confident than ever his government will defeat al-Qaida in Iraq and that confrontation with militia fighters will help achieve political stability.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:37 am
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday he's more confident than ever his government will defeat al-Qaida in Iraq and that confrontation with militia fighters will help achieve... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:37 am
HARARE (AFP) - President Robert Mugabe's security forces clamped down hard on unrest during a general strike in Zimbabwe, arresting dozens of opposition supporters before the stoppage fizzled out on Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:35 am
The Patriots are coming off the most dominant regular season in history.
So naturally they have the easiest schedule in the NFL.
Such are the vagaries of the NFL's...
A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. Source: Digg | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:33 am
Southern California home prices plunged 24 percent last month, dropping the median home price to a four-year low. More than one-third of the homes bought in the region last month were foreclosure sales.
The European Parliament calls for a new strategy to prevent the Indian tiger from becoming extinct in the wild. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:32 am
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has been accused of breaching election rules by making a major anti-terrorism announcement during the run-up to local polls. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:30 am
U.N. peacekeepers and rescue workers searched for bodies Wednesday in the smoldering rubble after a Congolese jetliner careened off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 38... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:29 am
Palestinians attend the funeral of four killed Hamas militants in the al-Omari mosque in Gaza City. Three Israeli soldiers and four militants were killed as troops backed by assault helicopters stormed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:27 am
Who lost it on Lost Temper Creek? What horror befell the village of Eek? Does it have anything to do with another town being Chicken? Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:26 am
The Olympic torch arrives in Islamabad, where thousands of police have been deployed to prevent unrest. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:24 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- An unmanned U.S. drone fired two Hellfire missiles at militants attacking Iraqi soldiers in a Shiite militia stronghold in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday, killing four of the gunmen, the military said.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s profit fell 50 percent in the first quarter after the bank took a provision of $5.1 billion to strengthen its reserves by $2.5 billion and account for $2.6 billion in losses in its loan portfolio. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:21 am
The Coca-Cola Co. said Wednesday acquisitions, growth in its key carbonated beverage brands and success overseas helped boost its first-quarter profit by 19 percent on a 21 percent increase in sales. The results beat Wall Street expectations, and its shares rose more than 2 percent in premarket trading. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:16 am
An unmanned U.S. drone fired two Hellfire missiles at militants attacking Iraqi soldiers in a Shiite militia stronghold in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday, killing four of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:16 am
An 86-year-old man who acted as a Nazi hit man for a Waffen SS death squad that executed Dutch civilians during World War II has been charged with three counts of murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:13 am
A South Korean cosmetics company said Wednesday it will halt an ad campaign with Nazi references following complaints from a leading anti-Semitism group and the Israeli Embassy in Seoul. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:11 am
Six Somali pirates captured after the rescue of hostages aboard a French luxury yacht arrived in Paris on Wednesday for eventual trial, police said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:11 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH FURTHER RISE AND ADDING 3RD-4TH GRAFS) The benchmark crude oil futures price soared to an all-time high of $114.50 per barrel during off-hours trading... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
CNN, the American news network, has apologised after a one of its most senior commentators referred to the Chinese as a "bunch of goons and thugs" on air. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
Rodney Atkins, Dolly Parton and Carrie Underwood are among the country stars lined up to perform at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards show, organizers announced Tuesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:09 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Police arrested 36 people for barricading streets and other charges during a nationwide strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to force the release of presidential election results, a state-run newspaper reported Wednesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:08 am
Large amounts of lime, which can be used to disintegrate corpses, have been found in a pit uncovered at a former children’s care home at the centre of abuse allegations. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:02 am
Six Somalis suspected of taking a French luxury yacht's crew hostage arrive in Paris, judicial sources say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:58 am
(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and visiting Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt reaffirmed Wednesday that their countries will continue to cooperate closely in tackling global Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:58 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, on his first papal visit to the United States, meets President George W. Bush at the White House and U.S. Roman Catholic bishops at a Washington basilica on Wednesday, his 81st birthday.
(Kyodo) _ The nationwide average retail price for regular gasoline in Japan stood at 130.60 yen per liter as of Monday, down 0.10 yen from the previous survey conducted last Thursday, the Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:54 am
MPs camped out in Mexico's Congress force both houses to relocate for the first time in almost 20 years. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:47 am
President Bush has quite a birthday present for Pope Benedict XVI: at least 9,000 excited guests gathered on the White House's South Lawn for a 21-gun salute and an emotional presidential welcome. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:46 am
Extra troops deploy in Nigeria's oil-rich Bayelsa State after a court quashes the election of its governor. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:38 am
The television presenter Mark Speight left two suicide notes before he hanged
himself in an office building next to Paddington railway station, an inquest
heard today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:35 am
Nepal's King Gyanendra and Queen Komal, pictured in 2007. A senior leader of Nepal's Maoists, who are on track for victory in landmark elections, has called on the country's embattled king to step down... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:27 am
Pirate attacks rose worldwide in the first quarter of the year, with Nigeria overtaking Indonesia as the country worst plagued by sea bandits, a global maritime watchdog said Wednesday.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING) The Japan Coast Guard on Wednesday commenced the reenactment of a collision between the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis destroyer Atago and a fishing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:25 am
(Kyodo) _ The benchmark crude oil futures price soared to an all-time high of $114.41 per barrel in off-hours trading before a regular session on the New York Mercantile Exchange on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:16 am
(Kyodo) _ Ai Sugiyama has been named to Japan's Fed Cup team for the upcoming World Group playoff against France as the Japanese No. 1 is set to make her first Fed Cup appearance since... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:15 am
Relatives sit near the dead body of a bus accident victim in Bamroli village, about 175 kilometer (108 miles) south of Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, April 16, 2008. A bus plunged into a canal in western... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:14 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An opposition group says its leaders, including a former president, have been meeting with the Taliban and other anti-government groups in hopes of negotiating an end to rising violence in Afghanistan.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:12 am
Surging food and fuel prices push up annual inflation in the eurozone to a record 3.6% last month. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:11 am
A once clandestine pot-smoking “holiday” will attract thousands to public celebrations this year and has sparked marketing campaigns that tout a trio of marijuana movies. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.
The country's biggest financial institutions have been raising billions of dollars in new capital after losing money on bad investments in the mortgage market. They're collecting the money from private investors, new stock offerings and foreign governments. Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal about how these moves affect the economy.
For the first time, Spain's newly re-elected prime minister has announced a 17-member cabinet that has more women than men. One of them is Spain's first female defense minister, who is also seven months pregnant. Her appointment is causing waves in the Spanish media and beyond.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin is holding on to power after he steps down from office in May. He announced Tuesday that he will become chairman of Russia's largest political party in addition to becoming prime minister.
A boy walks around giant symbolic Easter eggs in the town of Axakovo, Bulgaria, Monday, April 14, 2008. The Christian Orthodox church will celebrate Easter on Sunday April 27. The banner reads in Bulgarian:... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:54 am
Three Israeli soldiers are killed during an incursion into Gaza in which four Hamas militants also died. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:45 am
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, today announced an extra 300 police officers to fight terrorism and radicalisation within communities. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:42 am
Damage to the guided missile destroyer USS Cole after the October 2000 bomb attack during a refueling operation in the port of Aden, Yemen. Three Yemeni policemen were killed and four wounded when a bomb... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:41 am
Sacha Gervasi was a music-mad London teen when he first met the members of Anvil. Twenty-five years later, his film about the Toronto metal band that keeps chasing a dream of stardom is also a story of an enduring friendship
North Koreans queue for food at a kiosk in Pyongyang in February. Timing is running out to avert a humanitarian tragedy in North Korea due to acute food shortages, a United Nations agency has warned. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:33 am
A woman collecting food rations in Sohung County, North Korea earlier this year. Time is running out to avert a humanitarian tragedy in North Korea due to acute food shortages, a United Nations agency... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:33 am
The mother of Shannon Matthews will go on trial alongside the man accused of
abducting her nine-year-old daughter, she learnt today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:24 am
AHMADABAD, India -- A bus plunged into a canal in western India early Wednesday, killing at least 45 people, most of them schoolchildren, an official said.
Gordon Brown will today urge Wall Street bankers to show greater transparency
in revealing the extent of their losses to help bring a quick end to the
global credit crunch. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 16 Apr 2008 | 8:37 am
Olympic officials are hoping the next leg of the official torch relay, through Pakistan, will be smooth. The two countries are close allies with huge economic ties and a shared border, but with Muslim extremists on both sides, security is tight.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- With his 28-year grip on power slipping, President Robert Mugabe's government has again lashed out at Zimbabwe's white community, calling his black opponents tools of former colonial master Britain and stoking anger against the nation's whites.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 8:22 am
ABOARD AN IRAQI PATROL BOAT (AP) -- The unidentified speedboat fails to respond to warnings as it races toward Iraq's vital oil terminal in the Persian Gulf. A young Iraqi marine radios to the vessel, warning it to turn away: "I will be required to use deadly force."... Source: AP Top International News At 9:22 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 7:03 am
Ask any female biker and she'll tell you the same thing: A motorcycle is a great prop for soliciting male attention. Stares, smiles, honks, devil horns -- it starts happening as soon as you throw a leg over.
In a forlorn stretch of desert, a tirelessly inquisitive Frenchman confidently builds his History of Humanity.
A stiff wind blows grit across Jacques-Andre Istel's latest and greatest undertaking, a History of Humanity etched on hundreds of granite panels a few turns of a tumbleweed from the Arizona border.
An abandoned theater under renovation in the San Fernando Valley suburb is seen as a centerpiece of the area's renewal.
The double feature advertised on the Reseda Theater marquee made Pat Towers' father laugh out loud when they drove by some 50 years ago: "Friendly Persuasion" and "At Gunpoint."
Recently declassified documents reveal a little-known side of the network: an internal culture that has been surprisingly bureaucratic and persistently fractious.
His economic agenda also includes federal 'spending restraint' and an increase in some Medicare premiums.
Sen. John McCain on Tuesday outlined his agenda for reviving the nation's troubled economy with a mix of tax and spending cuts, starting with a summerlong suspension of federal gasoline taxes to ease the pain of soaring fuel prices.
A marvel of power and speed, the all-wheel-drive GT-R coupe is so safe and serene that it's curiously lacking in thrills.
I know what you want from me. You think I'm just your little word slut, that I'm here just to arouse you with steamy descriptions of the new and instantly legendary Nissan GT-R. You want me to parade around in frilly verbiage, like: "The acceleration of the twin-turbo, all-wheel-drive, 480-hp GT-R is much like a 50-yard field goal in the NFL, wherein your butt is the football." Sigh. I feel so used.
A federal report finds 'some concern' that fetuses, babies and children are at risk from bisphenol A. But plastics industry officials see no serious risk.
A controversial, estrogen-like chemical in plastic could be harming the development of children's brains and reproductive organs, a federal health agency concluded in a report released Tuesday.
Riverside-area cement plant's neighbors react to news about toxic carcinogen in the air.
The air above the TXI Riverside Cement Plant was blinding white Tuesday, blocking out the blue sky. For as long as Mary Alfonso, 79, can remember, dust from the factory has been a feature of life on "the Hill" just above it.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a key death penalty case testing whether capital punishment is constitutional for rape of a child. It is the first time the newly constituted court will examine the standards for determining crimes punishable by execution.
For some people, Charles Steger will always be the president who didn't warn his students after two students were shot in a dorm. Still, some students remain fiercely protective of the university chief as expressions of grief continue.
A Congolese jetliner trying to take off with 79 people aboard careened off a runway in this eastern town, bursting into flames and killing at least 21 people in a busy market neighborhood. Airline officials said most of those aboard survived.
The State Department is warning diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year and will soon identify prime candidates for upcoming vacancies in Baghdad and outlying provinces.
VIENNA - Melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warming water could lift sea levels by as much as 1.5 metres by the end of this century, displacing tens of millions of people, new research showed yesterday.
Presented at... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 3:01 am
SANAA - A Yemeni court ordered the marriage of an eight-year-old girl terminated yesterday because she had not reached puberty.
The court also ordered the child's family to pay about $US250 ($NZ320) in compensation to the 30-year-old... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 2:54 am
LONDON - Plagued by crumbling popularity and slumping house prices at home, Prime Minister Gordon Brown will tell Wall Street bankers today to reveal their losses quickly to help end a global credit crunch.
On a three-day tour... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 2:50 am
BERLIN - Three days after stealing a rare collection of coins, a thief in Germany took them to the bank for safe keeping - and delivered them into the hands of the man he had robbed.
"I don't think the thief was expecting that,"... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 2:43 am
LONDON - Britons have "problem" unsecured debt of 25 billion pounds and the credit crunch could double the number of people succumbing to debt woes this year, according to a report.
Debt management company TDX Group estimates that... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 2:35 am
A series of bombings blamed on al Qaeda in Iraq tore through market areas in Baghdad and outside the capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people and shattering weeks of relative calm in Sunni-dominated areas.
GIBRALTAR - A pack of at least 25 of Gibraltar's famous monkeys are being culled because they are a nuisance and a threat to health in some of the Rock's tourist areas.
Two of the monkeys, a national symbol for the British colony... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:23 am
NEW YORK - Just one in five adults, 55 years and older, who commit suicide are using antidepressants at the time of their death, according to a report in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
The findings also indicate... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
China executed more people than any other country in the world last year by putting at least 470 people to death, but the number of executions in the country actually fell compared to the year before, Amnesty International said.
The influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe into Britain has not fuelled a rise in crime, according to a police study. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
The Pope said yesterday that he felt "profoundly ashamed" by sexual abuse by American priests at the start of his first visit to the United States. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
PARIS - French former film star Brigitte Bardot has gone on trial for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of "inciting racial hatred" over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers.
Prosecutors... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 11:25 pm
Former President Jimmy Carter embraced a leading Hamas figure Tuesday, according to participants in a meeting that infuriated Israeli officials already upset by Carter's freelance Mideast peace mission.
Iran would "eliminate Israel from the global arena" if it was attacked by the Jewish state, the deputy commander of the Army General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani warned last night.
"We are not worried by Israeli manoeuvres, but if Israel... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:15 pm
ROME - Italy's Silvio Berlusconi pledged yesterday to use his big election win to push through economic reforms, and vowed to close the border to illegal immigrants in a crackdown on criminals he called "the army of evil".
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:36 pm
The identity of a royal family member who was victimized in an alleged extortion remains unknown, even as lurid details emerge in the trial of the accused blackmailers.
Car bombs and a homicide attacker struck crowded areas in Baghdad and former insurgent strongholds to the north and west of the capital, killing nearly 60 people and breaking recent lull in violence in predominantly Sunni areas. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 5:59 pm
An Islamic terrorist told his brother to "pray to Allah for acceptance of my deeds" in an e-mail sent two days before the terrorist died driving a flaming Jeep into Glasgow airport Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 4:04 pm
Nuclear watchdog agency says it is checking hundreds of people for contamination after finding that a nuclear plant leak in northeast Spain was larger than thought. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 2:52 pm
The U.N. Security Council called Tuesday for the disarming of Hezbollah and other militias in Lebanon along with greater progress toward a cease-fire and a solution to the conflict between Lebanon and Israel. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 2:22 pm
Amid chaos following the 2012 torch relay in areas around the world, London organizers say they are unsure if the relay will go international or not. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 2:04 pm
China executed more people than any other country in the world last year by putting at least 470 people to death, but the number of executions in the country actually fell compared to the year before, Amnesty International said. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 1:50 pm
AP - Runners carried the Olympic flame around the outside of a sports stadium Wednesday an invitation-only event in front of an elite, sparse crowd with heavy security to deter any anti-China protesters or terrorist attacks.
Reuters - Six-nation talks about Iran's nuclear
program on Wednesday failed to secure full agreement on a new
package aimed a restarting negotiations with Tehran, but the
Iranian president said the country was open for discussions.
AP - A white candle lit at the stroke of midnight began a day of mourning Wednesday on Virginia Tech's campus, exactly one year after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history left 32 people and the gunman dead.
AP - Consumer prices pushed higher last month as increases in energy, food and airline tickets overwhelmed the biggest drop in clothing prices in nearly a decade.
AFP - Three Israeli soldiers and four militants were killed on Wednesday as troops backed by assault helicopters stormed into the Gaza Strip and battled heavily armed Palestinians.
One year ago today, Seung Hui Cho killed 32 people at Va. Tech before turning his gun on himself. The damage from that day is still raw and extensive.
At least two people died after wind-driven wildfires burned into a southeast Colorado town and an Army post. An air tanker pilot was also killed when his plane crashed while battling another blaze.
Reuters - Pope Benedict, on his first papal
visit to the United States, meets President George W. Bush at
the White House and U.S. Roman Catholic bishops at a Washington
basilica on Wednesday, his 81st birthday.
Reuters - Negotiators from the United States and
North Korea believe they have settled a thorny dispute over
Washington's allegations that Pyongyang had a program to enrich
uranium for weapons and proliferated nuclear technology to
Syria, diplomatic sources in Tokyo said on Wednesday.
AP - President Bush has quite a birthday present for Pope Benedict XVI: at least 9,000 excited guests gathered on the White House's South Lawn for a 21-gun salute, a famed soprano's rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" and an emotional presidential welcome.
Reuters - Hamas said on Wednesday former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter would meet two of its leaders from Gaza
in Egypt, in further defiance of Israeli leaders, who have
shunned him over his contacts with the Islamist group.
Reuters - Thousands of Pakistani police and
paramilitary soldiers were deployed in Islamabad on Wednesday
for the Olympic torch relay, as Australia braced for clashes
between pro-Tibet supporters and Chinese students.
A bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a canal in western India on Wednesday, killing at least 44 children and three adults, police said.
Pirate attacks rose worldwide in the first quarter of the year, with Nigeria overtaking Indonesia as the country worst plagued by sea bandits, a global maritime watchdog said Wednesday.
A once clandestine pot-smoking “holiday” will attract thousands to public celebrations this year and has sparked marketing campaigns that tout a trio of marijuana movies. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.