A 17-year-old youth was charged last night with the murder of Rhys Jones, the
11-year-old boy who was shot dead in a pub car park in Liverpool last August. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 17 Apr 2008 | 10:49 pm
When you see girls playing baseball in their bikinis, you know spring has finally arrived in Boston.
Temperatures hit the mid-60s yesterday as the Hub continues to come...
Bay State parents are using Pope Benedict XVI's U.S. visit as a teaching tool, snapping up colorful kids' books about the aging pontiff - including one published...
Six firefighters were injured and eight people were left homeless yesterday when a three-alarm blaze ripped through a two-family home in Brookline.
Three of the firefighters...
NEW YORK - By the fifth inning your scorebook had dissolved into pure anarchy, a hopeless jungle of lines and squiggles and filled-in circles. That's the surcharge for...
Zimbabwe's justice minister accuses opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason, as poll results are awaited. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:59 am
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Authorities sealed off streets and advised workers to keep a low profile Thursday as about 15,000 police officers spread through India's capital to try to keep protesters from disrupting the latest leg of the Olympic torch relay.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:58 am
NEW YORK - These 2008 Yankees carry dual missions, giving them one more than any pinstriped predecessor. The first assignment calls for Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi to build...
PARIS (Reuters) - The world needs tougher action to combat global warming than a plan by President George W. Bush to halt a rise in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions only by 2025, delegates at a climate conference in Paris said on Thursday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Thursday it had culled three million farmed birds and was probing seven fresh cases of suspected bird flu, as the country grapples with its worst avian influenza outbreak in four years.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's opposition leader was sworn in Thursday as the country's prime minister, part of a power-sharing deal with President Mwai Kibaki that ended weeks of violence following disputed presidential elections.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:51 am
Critics of the US defence missile shield say the US is wasting money on a system that will not work. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:51 am
"Gibson and Stephanopoulos dwelled entirely on specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another over disputes that are no longer news. Some were barely news to begin with." ....Disappointing SOAP OPERA version of a serious debate. Source: Digg | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:50 am
Reuters - Japan's dispatch of air force troops to
Iraq breaches the country's pacifist constitution, a court said
on Thursday, but the government said the court's comments will
not affect the current dispatch.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's dispatch of air force troops to Iraq breaches the country's pacifist constitution, a court said on Thursday, but the government said the court's comments will not affect the current dispatch.
Services have been scheduled for Acia O. Johnson and her baby sister, Sophia A. Johnson, who died Wednesday, , in an arson fire. Acia was 14. Sophia was 3.
The girls,...
A suicide bomber struck a funeral in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 45 mourners , police said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:47 am
AP - The 416 children who once led cloistered lives on their church's ranch outside a tiny town in West Texas have spent the past two weeks sleeping on cots, shuffled from shelter to shelter.
Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, died at his home in Cambridge yesterday. He was 90.
He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he...
Reuters - The world needs tougher action to combat
global warming than a plan by President George W. Bush to halt
a rise in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions only by 2025, delegates
at a climate conference in Paris said on Thursday.
The NBA announced that the Celtics will open their first-round playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks Sunday night at the Garden at 8:30. Game 2 follows next Wednesday at...
Living web sites that grow, develop and evolve to suit the taste of the people that read them are now finding their way on to the internet. Source: Digg | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:43 am
The 416 children who once led cloistered lives on their church's ranch outside a tiny town in West Texas have spent the past two weeks sleeping on cots, shuffled from shelter to shelter. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:43 am
AP - Pope Benedict XVI spent the first full day of his U.S. journey sharing a platform with President Bush and laying out his analysis of the American church to the nation's bishops, including strong words about the pain caused by the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 30 mourners in the latest attack in a region where al Qaeda militants have regrouped, police said.
Police say a suicide bomber has struck a funeral in northern Iraqi town, killing at least 45 people. Officials say the bomber detonated his explosives during a funeral for two slain Sunni Muslim tribesmen who had been battling al Qaeda militants.
Amid rumblings that Benedict XVI may meet with clergy sex abuse victims during his inaugural U.S. trip this week - with no stop in Boston - some Hub Catholics marred by the...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Police say a suicide bomber has struck a funeral in a town north of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:39 am
Aid agencies say millions of Bangladeshis are still in dire need of help five months after Cyclone Sidr. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:38 am
KIRKUK (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, a police officer told AFP. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:38 am
AP - Many states wasted little time trying to get executions back on track following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the use of a three-drug lethal cocktail.
AFP - More than 2,000 protesters held a rival torch relay in Delhi on Thursday, hours before the Olympic flame was set to be taken on a short and high security jog in the city.
NEW DELHI (AFP) - More than 2,000 protesters held a rival torch relay in Delhi on Thursday, hours before the Olympic flame was set to be taken on a short and high security jog in the city. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:34 am
Reuters - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in
northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 30 mourners in the latest
attack in a region where al Qaeda militants have regrouped,
police said.
At least 45 people are killed when a suicide bomber attacks a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:33 am
Pope Benedict XVI’s expression of remorse for the church’s sexual abuse scandal prompted an angry response from victims. Source: Digg | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:29 am
Heavy security is in place in India's capital, Delhi, to protect the Olympic torch relay from anti-China protesters. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:29 am
Players really do see things differently from the line judges. The study concludes the arguments could be reduced by making players, umpires and line judges take more care to see what happens to balls that bounce near the ends of the court, rather than the sides. Source: Digg | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:29 am
Researchers can gather all the hard-nosed evidence they want about the effectiveness of a particular drug or treatment. But there's one figure doctors don't much talk about despite its importance. It's called number needed to treat, or NNT, a new measure developed in the past 20 years...... Source: Digg | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:26 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On the third day of his visit to the United States, Pope Benedict will celebrate Mass in Washington's new baseball stadium, address Catholic educators and meet with leaders of five non-Christian religions.
Turkey says a soldier is killed during clashes between troops and Kurdish rebels near its south-eastern border. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:25 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Thousands of Palestinians are marching in Gaza in a funeral procession for a Reuters cameraman killed while covering fighting between militants and Israeli troops.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:25 am
The Cassini spacecraft observations of Saturn's largest moon, the orange-colored Titan, have given scientists a glimpse of what Earth might have been like before life evolved. They now believe Titan possesses many parallels to Earth, including lakes, rivers, channels, dunes, rain, snow, clouds, mountains and possibly volcanoes. Source: Digg | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:24 am
Dovale, a 12-year-old male giraffe, receives a manicure from safari park workers in the Ramat Gan safari park near Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:20 am
Police say a suicide bomber has struck a funeral in a town north of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:17 am
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga took oath Thursday at the head of a new coalition government after the east African nation's worst political crisis since independence which claimed hundreds of lives. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:14 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI chided Americans for a moral breakdown he said had fueled the church's child sex abuse scandal, ahead of an open-air mass before tens of thousands here Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:14 am
Chinese cheerleaders and Tibetan protesters greeted the Olympic flame amid a massive security clampdown for the latest leg of the international torch relay in India, home to the world's largest Tibetan exile community.
A African White Rhino is seen in the Iziko South Africa Museum after it horn's were stolen over last weekend in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, April. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:04 am
Pope Benedict XVI spent the first full day of his U.S. journey sharing a platform with President Bush. On Thursday morning, the soft-spoken theologian is due to meet the people.
FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE, Nepal-Tibet Border (AP) -- Three lithe Chinese security men shift silently into position so they are anchored abreast exactly midway across Friendship Bridge, high above a Himalayan river gorge.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:02 am
A woman hangs laundry next to parked cars in Beijing Thursday, April 17, 2008. On display at next week's Beijing auto show: Global automakers' hopes that booming China will drive sales this year as demand... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:59 am
Two Palestinians are killed in an Israeli raid targeting militants near Jenin in the West Bank. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:59 am
South Korea wants stalled talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear programs to resume quickly, Seoul's new nuclear envoy said Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:58 am
Special prosecutors said Thursday they indicted Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust, though cleared the conglomerate of allegations it kept a slush fund used for bribery. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:58 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING FURTHER COMMENT) The Chinese government has formally reprimanded CNN, rejecting an apology issued by the TV network after one of its political commentators... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:58 am
(Kyodo) _ The U.S. dollar remained mostly locked at the upper 101 yen level Thursday in Tokyo as investors remained vigilant ahead of critical U.S. financial earnings reports and economic Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:57 am
AP - Authorities sealed off streets and advised workers to keep a low profile Thursday as about 15,000 police officers spread through India's capital to try to keep protesters from disrupting the latest leg of the Olympic torch relay.
(Kyodo) _ Japan's industrial output growth during February was revised upward to a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent from a preliminary reading of 0.9 percent, the Ministry of Economy,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:55 am
GAZA (Reuters) - A medical examination showed on Thursday that metal darts from an Israeli tank shell that explodes in the air caused the death of a Reuters cameraman killed a day earlier in the Gaza Strip, doctors said.
A fishing boat that sunk in the Bering Sea last month had sailed through rough, broken pack ice on recent voyages, concerning crew members and leading to a yelling match involving the ship's captain, survivors said at a federal hearing. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:49 am
(Kyodo) _ Households in Japan headed by mothers whose husbands have died in accidents or natural disasters, or committed suicide, have an average monthly income of about 120,000 yen while Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:49 am
East Timor's president flies back to Dili, after treatment for gun wounds received during a rebel attack. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:48 am
Ducks swim in the algae-rich Taihu Lake in Huzhou in east China's Zhejiang province Wednesday April 16, 2008. Lake Taihu, China's third-largest lake which supplies water to 30 million people, has been... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:48 am
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government on Thursday accused opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason and of working with former colonial power Britain to topple President Robert Mugabe in recent elections.
Police officers search the scene of a car bomb that exploded outside of the Basque Socialist headquarters in the small Basque town of La Pena near to Bilbao, northern Spain, Thursday April 17, 2008. A... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:47 am
Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga officially becomes prime minister as a new coalition cabinet takes office. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:42 am
SEOUL (AFP) - Special prosecutors Thursday charged Samsung chairman Lee Kun-Hee with tax evasion and breach of trust, after a three-month probe into corruption allegations against South Korea's biggest group. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:33 am
Private guards push back environmentalist activists from Greenpeace after they managed to enter the compound of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and dumped about 200 kilograms of charcoal... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:32 am
(Kyodo) _ East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta arrived back in his country Thursday after spending more than two months in Darwin, Australia, recovering from an assassination attempt on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:31 am
A Tibetan woman breaks down as she is detained in a police van during a demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy, in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:28 am
A Tibetan woman breaks down as she is detained in a police van during a demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy, in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:28 am
(Kyodo) _ The yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond briefly hit the highest level in about six weeks Thursday on rises in Japanese and U.S. stocks. In interdealer... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:25 am
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya began swearing in its largest and costliest-ever cabinet on Thursday, a power-sharing coalition created to soothe fury over a disputed election that plunged the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:19 am
(Kyodo) _ The United States will take initial steps to remove North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring nations "almost simultaneously" with Pyongyang's submission of a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:19 am
Nearly seven thousand comments on ABC's website, mostly complaining about a lack of substantive discussion. If you watched it and felt the same let them know. WE'VE GOT TO HOLD OUR MEDIA TO THE FIRE. Source: Digg | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:10 am
Press 1 if you are stealing content, 2 if you are using too much bandwidth, 3 if Comcast hates your guts, 4 if you're a criminal. (I don't remember the exact wording, this wasn't it, but the word "criminal" was actually part of the presentation, to me, a paying customer, in good standing. Amazingly bad customer service.) Source: Digg | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:10 am
Accompanied by Iran's armed forces commanders, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, reviews the army's marching band, during a parade ceremony commemorating Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:03 am
The father of Bilal Komel, 25, a military commander of the Islamic Jihad, cries next to his body at a hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, April 17, 2008. Palestinian security officials say... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:01 am
The Pope last night criticised American church leaders for their handling of sex abuse scandals but also added that an increasingly secular society also needed to shoulder some of the blame. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:01 am
A fatigued and hesitant Barack Obama appeared badly rattled when peppered with almost relentlessly hostile questions combined with strident attacks from his rival Hillary Clinton during a televised debate this morning. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:54 am
Two elderly women have been found guilty of conspiring to murder homeless men in an elaborate plot to collect millions of dollars in life insurance while one of them was convicted of carrying out the killings. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:54 am
Officials say a Turkish soldier has been killed in a clash with Kurdish rebels near Turkey's southeastern border with Iraq. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:53 am
(Kyodo) _ The men's marathon gold medalist at the 2004 Olympics in Athens said Thursday he is worried more about heat and humidity than air pollution during the upcoming Games in Beijing, Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:49 am
Borneo's pygmy elephants may be descendants of an extinct Javan elephant race, saved by chance by an 18th century ruler, according to a new study released Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:46 am
An attacker hurled a hand grenade into a crowd of people dancing at a Buddhist temple to celebrate Cambodia's traditional New Year, killing one villager and wounding 25 others, police said Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:39 am
Seven police officers are wounded in a bomb blast in northern Spain blamed on Basque separatist group, Eta. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:29 am
Military interrogators assaulted Afghan detainees in 2003, using investigation methods they learned during self-defense training, Pentagon documents released Wednesday show.
Union, yes. Contract, no. That's the reality right now in Atlantic City, where dealers at four casinos have won elections allowing them to form unions over the past year. But none of the unions has succeeded in getting a contract with any of the gambling houses. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:22 am
Three lithe Chinese security men shift silently into position so they are anchored abreast exactly midway across Friendship Bridge, high above a Himalayan river gorge. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:20 am
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tried to explain recent controversial remarks during a tense debate on Wednesday, with Obama accusing Clinton of taking political advantage of his characterization of small-town residents.
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. is expected to suffer its first drop in operating profit in nine years because of sluggish US sales and a stronger yen, a report said Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:03 am
What's that whisper under the urban din? It's nature beckoning us . . .
THIS weekend, you could celebrate Earth Day -- which is technically Tuesday -- among L.A.'s stalled freeways, its overbooked apartments and endless arid concrete sidewalks. Or, like the hundreds of thousands of us who trek through Southern California's public gardens each year, you could put spring to better use. Don't know a genus from a phylum? Not a problem.
City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo says the health insurer made false promises of coverage and hid a scheme to drop sick policyholders. The company denies the allegations.
The state's largest for-profit health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, was accused Wednesday of a widespread pattern of false advertising and fraud in a $1-billion lawsuit that claims that the company's coverage "is largely illusory."
Blogs, websites and ads that induce 'excessive thinness' could bring down fines and jail time on their makers if the Senate passes pending legislation. Judges would make the call.
"Too thin" may soon be defined in France by judges who would be asked to enforce new legislation aimed at websites, blogs and fashion advertising that encourage eating disorders among girls.
Helen Golay is found guilty of killing the victims to cash in on life insurance. Olga Rutterschmidt is convicted of conspiracy and still faces murder charges.
In a case that drew worldwide attention, a jury has convicted a 77-year-old woman of murder and her 75-year-old co-defendant of conspiracy to commit murder in a chilling slow-motion plot to kill two homeless men for $2.8 million in life insurance.
State lawmakers balk at a plan to use tax money to lure a team to a proposed site in the city of Industry.
Faced with angry opposition from Los Angeles County supervisors, state lawmakers Wednesday sidelined an effort by the city of Industry to get millions of dollars in tax subsidies that could help lure a National Football League team back to the area.
What's good for Bear Stearns is good for struggling homeowners, the Times/Bloomberg survey is told.
Democratic voters in key primary states don't oppose the Bush administration's action to save investment firm Bear Stearns Cos. from bankruptcy, but most also think the government should bail out homeowners caught between rising mortgage payments and falling home values, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
In the more than a century since 'perfect' platinum-iridium cylinders were first used as the world's kilogram standards, their weights have mysteriously fluctuated. Scientists are rethinking what the
Forty feet underground, secured in a temperature- and humidity-controlled vault here, lies Kilogram No. 20.
Clinton and the moderators put him on the defensive for the first half of the tense Democratic face-off.
The Democratic candidates for president debated forcefully Wednesday over who would prove more electable in November, with Hillary Rodham Clinton repeatedly raising questions about Barack Obama's past associations and Obama contending that her approach typified the blowtorch political style that Americans decry.
Barack Obama was given stark warning last night of the perils that await him
if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee during a debate against
Hillary Clinton in which he was forced to defend his patriotism and links to
a violent 1970s US militant. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 17 Apr 2008 | 6:58 am
The Office of Fair Trading has today formally accused 112 construction firms
in England of participating in "bid rigging", in its biggest
investigation of cartel activity to date. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 17 Apr 2008 | 6:46 am
Hillary Rodham Clinton warned that Barack Obama would be deeply vulnerable in a general-election fight. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 6:43 am
Special prosecutors probing alleged corruption at Samsung Group say they've indicted Chairman Lee Kun-hee for tax evasion and breach of trust while clearing the conglomerate of bribery allegations.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling aside, the state faces a number of legal hurdles before it can resume capital punishment.
Despite a top prosecutor's prediction that executions could resume this year in California -- at a rate of one a month -- the state still faces significant legal hurdles before it can send more inmates to their deaths, legal experts said Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday that he does not regret ordering a cross-border raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador, despite the deaths of four Mexican students there.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 5:18 am
DILI, East Timor (AP) -- President Jose Ramos-Horta returned to East Timor on Thursday after recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt he linked to "elements" in Indonesia, his nation's former occupying ruler.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 5:12 am
Tom Hicks has launched another blistering attack on Rick Parry by deriding the
Liverpool chief executive's tenure as a "disaster" and reiterating
demands for his resignation. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 17 Apr 2008 | 5:09 am
PARIS (AFP) - President George W. Bush's plans for tackling global warming faced a litmus test in Paris on Thursday among ministers representing the world's biggest carbon polluters. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 17 Apr 2008 | 5:06 am
BEIJING (AP) -- China rejected on Thursday CNN's response to its demand for an apology over remarks made by commentator Jack Cafferty after the Foreign Ministry summoned the network's bureau chief in Beijing the night before.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 4:47 am
In the 21st Democratic debate, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama traded barbs about "bittergate," Rev. Jeremiah Wright and a certain Bosnia tarmac. Neither candidate would say if they share the ticket with the other. The debate falls just before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary.
The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested for any federal crime and many illegal immigrants detained by federal authorities. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 3:31 am
They emerge in Asia and eventually disappear in South America. The findings should help improve vaccines.
Solving a 60-year-old mystery, researchers have concluded that new flu strains emerge in eastern and southeastern Asia, move to Europe and North America six to nine months later, then travel to South America where they disappear forever.
Authorities tried futilely for decades to bring the admitted Nazi hit man to justice for killing civilians. Now a German prosecutor has filed new murder charges against 86-year-old Heinrich Boere in a last-ditch effort to see him prosecuted.
GOMA, Congo (AP) -- A hand reached out from beneath the smoldering, crushed seat. Marybeth Mosier grabbed it and pulled, but she couldn't help the burning man trapped inside the wrecked jetliner.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 17 Apr 2008 | 2:55 am
Gaza erupted in the worst day of violence in a month, with at least 20 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers dead and Egyptian efforts to mediate a cease-fire in jeopardy.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding lethal injection sent a shudder through death row Wednesday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 1:03 am
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, made $4.2 million last year as widespread interest in the presidential candidate pushed the sales of his two books. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 12:15 am
Gordon Brown has tossed a verbal hand grenade into the United Nations Security Council by denouncing Robert Mugabe for "stealing" Zimbabwe's presidential election. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
The Pope and President George W Bush emphasised yesterday the fundamental role of religion in America. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
People who have more than two alcoholic drinks a day develop Alzheimer’s disease five years earlier than those who do not drink, a comprehensive study linking the condition to lifestyle has found. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Over the years, the popemobile has become recognizable around the world. See how the popes' vehicles have changed since Pope Pius XI received a Mercedes-Benz that had been converted for him in 1930.
A 14-year-old boy survived a frigid night in the wreckage of a helicopter crash that killed four other people and was recuperating at a hospital Wednesday, state troopers said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Apr 2008 | 11:13 pm
A recent study done by an education-reform think tank finds that poor funding and shifting demographics have led to shuttering of 1,300 American Catholic schools since 1990. The Fordham Foundation's Mike Petrilli discusses the report's details.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Four days after the government took steps to lower the price of rice to counter food riots, Haitians complained on Wednesday that the cost of other staples needed to drop too. Business owners whose properties were looted or vandalized during recent violence over the spiraling cost of living said they would sue the government of the impoverished Caribbean nation for failing to protect their investments. At least six people have died in demonstrations that began two weeks ago in the southern city of Les Cayes. The unrest prompted the Senate to fire Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis on Saturday for failing to increase food production. On the same day, President Rene Preval moved to ease tensions and forestall further unrest by announcing a deal with importers to cut rice prices by about 15 percent. But the deal produced angry confrontations in markets during the past few days as hungry Haitians expected prices to fall immediately... Source: ABC News: International | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:29 pm
Michael D. Shelby, director of the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction, says a report on the safety of Bisphenonal A, a chemical used in some plastics, finds it might cause cancer, early puberty and neural and behavioral changes.
In his first major speech on climate, President Bush named a goal of halting the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. He also reiterated his belief that new technology will solve the problem of climate change.
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.
Sen. Arlen Specter, who has been promoting his book about beating cancer, is dealing with a recurrence of Hodgkin's disease. Meanwhile, 90-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd counters whispers that he's too frail to continue chairing the appropriations committee with a feisty diatribe on the Iraq war at a hearing Wednesday.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton take part in a Democratic presidential debate Wednesday in Philadelphia. Clinton has had high expectations for next week's Pennsylvania primary, but her lead has dwindled in recent polls. Randall Miller, history professor at St. Joseph's University, talks about the peculiarities of Pennsylvania politics.
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states may execute condemned prisoners with a sequence of three drugs that had been challenged as "cruel and unusual punishment" in a Kentucky case. In a separate case, justices are weighing whether it's constitutional to sentence someone to death for raping a child.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is hopeful Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations will offer diplomatic and financial help to Iraq at a conference of its neighbors next week, said a senior U.S. official on Wednesday.
It was one year ago when a student at Virginia Tech gunned down 32 of his classmates and instructors in a nightmarish killing spree. At the Blacksburg campus, students, administrators and residents gather to honor those who died.
On Thursday, the Texas legal system will begin the arduous process of reviewing the cases of hundreds of children removed from a polygamist compound earlier this month. Wade Goodwyn examines the social and legal issues involved.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was reunited with family and colleagues Wednesday, ending more than two years in U.S. military custody after Iraqi judges dropped all legal proceedings against him.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:51 a... | 16 Apr 2008 | 8:25 pm
CNN said it did not mean to cause offence when one of its commentators said the Chinese were "goons" and that their products were "junk".
Jack Cafferty's comments prompted an angry demand from China for an apology.
"It was... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 8:15 pm
WASHINGTON - Saying he had come as a friend of the United States, Pope Benedict urged Americans and their leaders yesterday to base their political and social decisions on moral principles and create a more just society.
The pope... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 7:44 pm
GAZA - A Reuters cameraman was killed in the Gaza Strip on yesterday in what appeared to be an Israeli military strike.
Fadel Shana, 23, was covering events in the enclave for the international news agency on a day of intense violence... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 7:43 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration opposes a sweeping plan to refinance troubled home loans because a more modest one will achieve similar results without too much risk to taxpayers, a senior housing policy-maker told lawmakers on Wednesday.
UNITED NATIONS - Western states joined the UN in expressing concerns about Zimbabwe's recent election but most African nations avoided the issue at a Security Council-African Union summit yesterday.
"No one thinks, having seen... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 7:31 pm
LONDON - Karen Matthews is to go on trial in November over the disappearance of her 9-year-old daughter Shannon, a court official said yesterday.
Shannon was found safe, 24 days after she went missing following a school swimming... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein embraced sobbing relatives and thanked colleagues after being released from more than two years in U.S. military custody.
LONDON - International experts called yesterday for greater cooperation to fight threats to computer networks but they differed on the definition of cyberterrorism, with a top British security official describing it as a "myth".
Estonian... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
At least 44 school children were killed last night when their bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a canal in western India.
Their bodies have been recovered, but more than 20 people, including children, were still missing.... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 7:15 pm
A video posted on YouTube showing Philippine doctors laughing while removing an object from a patient may lead to charges against the surgeons and cost them their medical licenses.
Crimes committed by Eastern European immigrants have increased by up to 800 per cent in some parts of the country, new figures show. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 6:42 pm
Hillary Clinton, struggling to contain a tidal wave of youth support for Barack Obama is dispatching the most trusted person in her life to implore university students to give her a chance - her daughter Chelsea. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 6:35 pm
Surgeons at a hospital in the Philippines are under fire for allegedly filming an operation to remove a can of body spray from a male patient's bottom.
The video, which was posted for several weeks on YouTube, showed dozens of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 6:15 pm
The Daily Telegraph asked all 43 forces in England and Wales for details of (a) nationalities of suspects accused of crimes in the area in each of the past three years; (b) a list of offences by foreigners by nationality in the area in each of the past three years. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 16 Apr 2008 | 6:00 pm
Four Hamas gunmen were killed and several Israeli soldiers were hurt in intense fighting in the Gaza Strip. Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 5:15 pm
One warns that police are "targeting fat chicks." Another urges people to "get over" the death of Princess Diana. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 5:11 pm
Air raids and rocket fire disrupt his training, his running shoes are cheap and scruffy and even getting Israeli permission to leave the Gaza Strip was a struggle.
But armed with "faith and self-confidence", Palestinian athlete... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
Palestinian officials say an Israeli military strike in the Gaza Strip has killed a Palestinian cameraman who worked for the Reuters news agency. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 4:15 pm
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 | 4:00 pm
An American college student has gone missing in northern Japan amid news reports that the 21-year-old is suicidal and wants to die after seeing cherry blossoms bloom. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 3:51 pm
Miltary records made public by ACLU detail probe into misconduct of Afghan prisoners by U.S. soldier in 2003. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 3:50 pm
The cremation site of the genocidal Cambodian leader Pol Pot is now a shrine for some visitors, who pray for good luck and happiness from the deceased dictator's spirit. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 3:40 pm
A bus plunged nearly 50 feet into a canal in western India, killing at least 41 schoolchildren going to take an examination and three others, an official said.
Seven middle-aged Spanish moms who posed for a tongue-in-cheek erotic calendar a fundraiser for their children's tiny, rural school are now saddled with debt and 5,000 unwanted copies. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:42 pm
A cosmetics commpany in South Korea is pulling an ad campaign that featured Nazi references, after the Israeli Embassy in Seoul and a leading anti-Semitism watchdog group complained. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:05 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
Israeli army attacks series of targets throughout the Gaza Strip, killing at least 20 Palestinians including a Reuters cameraman, medical officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 10:24 am
Reuters - Japan's dispatch of air force troops to
Iraq breaches the country's pacifist constitution, a court said
on Thursday, but the government said the court's comments will
not affect the current dispatch.
AP - The 416 children who once led cloistered lives on their church's ranch outside a tiny town in West Texas have spent the past two weeks sleeping on cots, shuffled from shelter to shelter.
Reuters - The world needs tougher action to combat
global warming than a plan by President George W. Bush to halt
a rise in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions only by 2025, delegates
at a climate conference in Paris said on Thursday.
AP - Pope Benedict XVI spent the first full day of his U.S. journey sharing a platform with President Bush and laying out his analysis of the American church to the nation's bishops, including strong words about the pain caused by the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, a police officer told AFP.
AP - Police say a suicide bomber has struck a funeral in a town north of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people.
AP - Many states wasted little time trying to get executions back on track following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the use of a three-drug lethal cocktail.
AFP - More than 2,000 protesters held a rival torch relay in Delhi on Thursday, hours before the Olympic flame was set to be taken on a short and high security jog in the city.
Reuters - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in
northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 30 mourners in the latest
attack in a region where al Qaeda militants have regrouped,
police said.
Pope Benedict XVI spent the first full day of his U.S. journey sharing a platform with President Bush. On Thursday morning, the soft-spoken theologian is due to meet the people.
AP - Authorities sealed off streets and advised workers to keep a low profile Thursday as about 15,000 police officers spread through India's capital to try to keep protesters from disrupting the latest leg of the Olympic torch relay.
U.S. executions are all but sure to resume soon after a nationwide halt, cleared Wednesday by a splintered Supreme Court.
A three-day trial over an unauthorized "Harry Potter" encyclopedia ended Wednesday with a flash of anger from J.K. Rowling.