Food riots last week in Haiti resulted in seven deaths and in the prime minister's ouster. These events grimly illustrate how the rising cost of commodities threatens to deepen instability in the hemisphere's poorest country.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A roadside bomb attack on a patrol of Dutch soldiers killed the son of the Netherlands' top military officer on Friday, a day after his father took command of the country's armed forces, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:56 pm
When you think of things related to science, music may not make the top of your list.But the folks involved with a small collective called ArcAttack would like you to change your associations.ArcAttack is all about one thing: building singing Tesla coils and crafting entire musical performances around them. Source: Digg | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:55 pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A company of Iraqi government troops in Sadr City retreated when they came under attack from Shiite militiamen who used the cover of a sandstorm, police said Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:54 pm
Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday
plans to nominate Steve Preston to become the head of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has been
trying to grapple with the imploding housing market.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Friday plans to nominate Steve Preston to become the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has been trying to grapple with the imploding housing market.
Citigroup reports a loss of $5.11bn and cuts 9,000 jobs as the credit crisis continues to take its toll. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:50 pm
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe bitterly attacked former colonial ruler Britain on Friday in his first major speech since disputed elections, saying London was paying the population to turn against him.
Pope Benedict XVI is to give a speech at the UN in New York on the latest stage of his six-day US tour. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:48 pm
Former US President Jimmy Carter is due to meet Hamas's political chief in Syria, as an Israeli minister offers talks. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:47 pm
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said in an audio message to mark five years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that Washington's war had brought nothing but failure and defeat.
A US military report says pilots operating the well-known Predator drone aircraft suffer far higher levels of mental stress than flyboys who are physically present aboard their planes. Source: Digg | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:44 pm
Israel invites tenders for the construction of 100 new homes at settlements in the occupied West Bank. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:44 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli government revealed plans Friday to build 100 homes in two Jewish settlements - one of them deep in the West Bank - in violation of its pledge to freeze settlement expansion.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:43 pm
The Israeli government revealed plans Friday to build 100 homes in two Jewish settlements _ one of them deep in the West Bank _ in violation of its pledge to freeze settlement... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:43 pm
AP - The Israeli government revealed plans Friday to build 100 homes in two Jewish settlements one of them deep in the West Bank in violation of its pledge to freeze settlement expansion.
AP - Citigroup Inc. lost $5.1 billion during the first quarter and will eliminate about 9,000 more jobs, as poor bets on mortgages and leveraged loans lopped billions of dollars from its investment portfolio.
WEST SALEM, Ill. - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Thursday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati...
Khaled Meshaal. Former US president Jimmy Carter has arrived in the Syrian capital for talks with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, defying strong opposition from Israel and the United States. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:34 pm
Former US President Jimmy Carter is seen here addressing audience at the American University in Cairo on April 17. Carter has met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the latest stop of a regional tour... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:34 pm
It was a spectacular week for a few of our high school baseball players. Senior Sam Finn of defending Division I state champion Lincoln-Sudbury pitched a no-hitter with 13...
The apes are part of a breakaway group that are going into town and making a nuisance as well as posing health hazards. British soldiers are thought to have introduced the apes, natives of north Africa, into Gibraltar in the miid-18th century to use for shooting practice. Source: Digg | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:34 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered in southeast Illinois startled residents in several central U.S. states before dawn on Friday, but media reports indicated there were no injuries and only minor damage.
Former President Jimmy Carter has arrived in Syria where he is due to meet the exiled leader of Hamas a day after he had asked senior officials from the militant Palestinian group he met in Egypt to stop rocket attacks into Israel.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH ADDITIONAL DETAILS) Police in Indonesia have detained three members of the East Timorese military in connection with an attempt to assassinate East Timor's Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:29 pm
MANILA (Reuters) - Galloping world rice prices should start to calm in the next month as fresh crops hit markets, but they will not return to 2007 levels anytime soon due to soaring production costs and rising demand, a top expert said.
Four years after the release of his Oscar-nominated documentary, Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock is about to release his second feature film. This one's about his search for the most wanted man on earth. The filmmaker forgoes fast-food binges for another type of physical danger: searching for Osama bin Laden. Source: Digg | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:23 pm
The Top Ten today is a compilation of local and national sports facts, stats and opinions
1. Watched my second and third hockey games of the year:
* Kessel was flying...
Eve, Heidi Klum and Nicky Hilton were among the beautiful people who turned out for US Weekly magazine's Hot Hollywood party. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:19 pm
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's top investigator will launch talks in Tehran on Monday to press for Iranian answers to Western intelligence alleging that Iran covertly studied how to devise atomic bombs.
Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigns Friday in Pennsylvania, which has its presidential primary Tuesday. She ended the day Thursday at a Philadelphia landmark where her husband campaigned in 1992. After attacking her opponent at Wednesday's debate, she seemed to strike a more positive tone.
A homeless man has come forward with two sets of confidential ground zero blueprints that he says were dumped in a Lower Manhattan trash can. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:18 pm
WASHINGTON - President Bush has chosen SBA Administrator Steve Preston to take over as head of the government's troubled housing agency at a time of deep crisis in the...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING MORE INFO IN 2ND, 10TH-12TH, 16TH, LAST GRAFS) Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi agreed Friday that the two countries should... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:15 pm
In a tear-soaked historic meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, Bay State victims of clergy sexual abuse said they opened their hearts to the Holy Father yesterday in an unprecedented...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Jimmy Carter met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday, beginning a round of talks at which the former U.S. president is expected to raise the case of a detained Israeli soldier.
ESA’s Mars Express radar sounder, MARSIS, has looked beneath the martian surface and opened up the third dimension for planetary exploration. The technique’s success is prompting scientists to think of all the other places in the Solar System where they would like to use radar sounders. Source: Digg | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:11 pm
(Kyodo) _ Tension is rising in the city of Nagano, the only Japanese city to host the Olympic flame, as thousands of spectators and demonstrators are expected to gather April 26, ahead of Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:11 pm
The Indian Premier League, with its potential to transform world cricket, begins on Friday at 1530 BST. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:11 pm
Pennsylvania's presidential primary election is four days away. Sen. Barack Obama will spend time Friday in the Keystone State. But on Thursday, he was focused on North Carolina, which has its primary next month. In Raleigh, he revisited with some sarcasm what had been a difficult debate the night before in Philadelphia.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING LATE GAME) Terrmel Sledge hit a go-ahead homer and Yu Darvish struck out 10 in his third complete game of the season Friday as the Nippon Ham Fighters beat the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:10 pm
Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's top
investigator will launch talks in Tehran on Monday to press for
Iranian answers to Western intelligence alleging that Iran
covertly studied how to devise atomic bombs.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thailand's prime minister said Friday that Thais should be honored the Olympic torch is passing through their country and protesters have no reason to disrupt the relay.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:09 pm
Thailand's prime minister said Friday that Thais should be honored the Olympic torch is passing through their country and protesters have no reason to disrupt the relay. The torch... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:09 pm
State-run radio is reporting that a military plane crashed this week off the coast of Equatorial Guinea with at least 13 people on board. There are no survivors. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:09 pm
MANILA, April 18 (Kyodo) _ The chief of the Asian Development Bank said Friday that the ongoing surge in global food prices is having serious repercussions for the underprivileged in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:08 pm
AP - Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are both sustaining dents and dings from their lengthy presidential fight. The former first lady is clearly suffering more as Democratic voters no longer see her as the party's strongest contender for the White House. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:07 pm
Reuters - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered in
southeast Illinois startled residents in several central U.S.
states before dawn on Friday, but media reports indicated there
were no injuries and only minor damage.
LONDON (AFP) - The Royal Bank of Scotland was set to ask shareholders for a massive cash boost after being hit by subprime-linked losses and surging costs related to its ABN Amro takeover, reports said Friday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:07 pm
Reuters - Jimmy Carter met Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad on Friday, beginning a round of talks at which
the former U.S. president is expected to raise the case of a
detained Israeli soldier.
Pope Benedict met Thursday with a private audience of Catholic educators at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His message was about the nature and cultivation of Catholic identity on campus.
So finally another trailer of Soul Calibur 4 for PS3 and 360. It looks gorgeous... Yoda and Darth Vader still look well out of place. Source: Digg | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:02 pm
(Kyodo) _ Britain and Japan should try to engage more with China over its assistance to Africa, amid fears that Beijing is taking a soft line on human rights abuses on the continent,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:02 pm
Hamas says an Israeli soldier it captured two years ago will "not see the light" until Palestinian prisoners are released in a prisoner exchange. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:01 pm
Vladimir Putin has denied reports that he was about to marry an agile gymnast half his age during an awkward press conference with new Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:01 pm
NEW YORK (AP) -- The tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago can be blamed on low grade rivets that the ship's builders used on some parts of the ill-fated liner, two experts on metals conclude in a new book.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:58 pm
AP - The tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago can be blamed on low grade rivets that the ship's builders used on some parts of the ill-fated liner, two experts on metals conclude in a new book.
As Pope Benedict XVI continues his first visit to the United States as pontiff, he met Thursday with victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests. Other victims were outraged that the pope would meet with such a small, hand-picked group.
The head of the International Monetary Fund warned that soaring world food prices can have dire consequences. Meanwhile, the U.N. said it will distribute 8,000 tons of food and other help for Haitians amid protests over food prices.
AP - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Thursday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.
Police have conducted a controlled explosion after the arrest of a man in Bristol under the Terrorism Act. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:54 pm
AP - After a dramatic three days in which he put America's clergy sexual abuse scandal front and center, Pope Benedict XVI turned his attention Friday to the original purpose of his first U.S. visit as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Cuban musicians Chucho Valdes, left, and Pablo Milanes present their new record 'Mas Alla de Todo' (Far Beyond Everything) before their tour of Spain in Madrid, Friday April 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul White) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:50 pm
Vinton G Cerf, Vice-President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, delivered the Inaugural Information Technologists’ Lecture at City University London on Monday 14 April 2008. Source: Digg | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:48 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japan's ruling coalition parties decided Friday to seek a general ban on the possession of child porn images and to impose prison terms on those who posses or store such images... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:47 pm
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al-Qaida's No. 2 said in an audiotape released Friday that the United States will lose whether it stays in Iraq or withdraws, and he sneered that President Bush just wants to pass the problem on to his successor.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:46 pm
While the Democrats arguing over bitter, this week Senator John McCain has been campaigning on his latest proposal to suspend the gas tax for the summer and to halt filling...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- President Robert Mugabe portrayed his political opponents as puppets of Britain, saying during independence celebrations Friday that the former colonial ruler wanted to retake control of Zimbabwe.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:42 pm
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. military will televise the Guantanamo trial of accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects so relatives of those killed in the attacks can watch on the U.S. mainland.
Flickr, Yahoo's photo sharing service, has rolled out a new website dedicated to Flickr's popular API tools. The new site, Code.Flickr, offers developers a place to review API information, discuss tools in the forums and of course rant about the future of Flickr development. Source: Digg | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:40 pm
The Celtics may be good, but they're not experienced.
When Kevin Garnett attempts to spread the playoff word to his relatively green teammates, it's with the...
A protestor jumps to chase commuters as tires are burned to block traffic in Bhubaneswar, India, Friday, April 18, 2008. Hundreds of protestors blocked traffic following a clash which broke out in connection... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:38 pm
HARTFORD, Conn. - A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false and is a piece...
A protestor jumps to chase commuters as tires are burned to block traffic in Bhubaneswar, India, Friday, April 18, 2008. Hundreds of protestors blocked traffic following a clash which broke out in connection... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:36 pm
MONTREAL - Hold those eulogies, for now at least.
The Bruins, left for dead more than once this season, rose up yet again when it was least expected.
It was a sun-splashed...
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch, right, U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Valore, second right, and U.S. Charge D'Affaires Michelle Sison, third left, plant a cedar tree... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:35 pm
The European Commission is to negotiate terms for visa-free travel to the US for all EU states. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:33 pm
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch, left, U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Valore, center, and Charge D'Affaires Michelle Sison, right, stand at attention at the playing of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:32 pm
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe came out fighting on Friday in his first major speech since disputed polls, fending off criticism over his rights record and accusing Britain of stirring up unrest. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:31 pm
The son of the Netherlands' top military officer was killed early Friday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the day after his father assumed command of the Dutch armed forces, the Defense Ministry said.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Friday agreed to open up to U.S. beef imports after Washington pledged to raise safety standards, boosting prospects for a sweeping trade deal ahead of a summit between leaders of the allies later in the day.
Russia's president Vladmir Putin, left and Italy's Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi are seen during a joint news conference after talks in Berlusconi's Villa Certosa in Porto Rotondo, on the island region... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:23 pm
NEW YORK (AFP) - US banking giant Citigroup reported Friday a first-quarter net loss of 5.1 billion dollars, hurt by at least 12 billion dollars in write-downs amid soured subprime investments and rising credit costs. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:22 pm
Obese people may be deliberately trying to put on even more weight in order to qualify for weight-loss surgery on the NHS, it has been claimed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:16 pm
Palestinian construction workers build new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel in 2007. Israel has invited bids to further develop two settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:13 pm
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea agreed to resume U.S. beef imports that had been halted over mad cow disease, clearing a key hurdle to a broader trade deal with Washington just hours before the countries' leaders were to meet Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:08 pm
Zimbabwe's President Mugabe lambasts the opposition and the UK in his first big speech since disputed elections. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:06 pm
France's film diva Audrey Tautou poses in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Friday, April 18, 2008. Tautou arrived in Hungary Friday for the French Film Festival. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:59 am
Nestling amid the peaks of the Pennines, the villagers of Denshaw believed they were part of a pretty quiet community largely untouched by the slings and arrows of fortune. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:54 am
The jolt is centered 66 miles from Evansville, Ind., and is felt in Chicago, Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
Tremors from a moderate earthquake centered in Downstate Illinois rattled people awake across the Chicago area Friday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage, authorities said.
Diversified manufacturer Honeywell International Inc. on Friday reported that first-quarter profit rose 22 percent on higher sales, and contracts from Embraer, Gulfstream and Airbus. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:50 am
TOKYO (AFP) - Monks at an ancient Japanese Buddhist temple on Friday pulled out of hosting a ceremony for the protest-marred Olympic torch relay because of China's crackdown in Tibet. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:49 am
NEW YORK (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI turned to diplomacy Friday with a scheduled speech at the United Nations to champion human rights, as the highlight of a US visit marked so far by his unprecedented attention to the pedophile priest scandal. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
U.S. officials say the amount of Colombian cocaine that passes through Venezuela has doubled since the 1990s making the country a key way station for Colombian drug traffickers. But Venezuelans say they're doing more than ever before to stop cocaine smuggling.
But many investors had been bracing for worse. Shares rise in pre-market trading.
NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. said Friday that it lost $5.1 billion in the first quarter as poor bets on mortgages and leveraged loans lopped billions from its investment portfolio.
Wages for Florida tomato pickers have stayed the same for nearly 20 years. Following the lead of McDonald's and other fast food giants, a Florida-based immigrant rights group is pressuring Burger King to pay a penny more per pound for tomatoes.
CHICAGO (AFP) - A new bird flu vaccine being developed by US researchers could provide broader protection, last longer and be easier to mass produce than existing vaccines. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:25 am
Kenyan police fire tear gas at members of an outlawed gang which called off protests after the PM was sworn in. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:24 am
A 5.4 earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region rocked people awake up to 350 miles away early Friday, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful Midwest temblor. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:20 am
PARIS (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday told the world's biggest carbon polluters that global warming was becoming a driver of hunger, unrest and conflict, with the war in Darfur a concrete example. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:20 am
Xerox Corp. said Friday a litigation charge left it with a loss of $244 million in the first quarter, but its results excluding the one-time item matched Wall Street expectations. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:15 am
South African dockers are refusing to unload a Chinese cargo ship carrying 77
tonnes of small arms destined for Zimbabwe. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:14 am
Yankton Sioux tribal members worried about odor and health risks are protesting the construction of a large hog farm on private land surrounded by tribal land in south-central South Dakota. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:11 am
Schlumberger Ltd. said Friday its first-quarter net income rose nearly 14 percent from a year ago, but the oilfield services provider missed the Wall Street forecast. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:05 am
Turmoil in credit and housing markets will be the most significant threat to growth this year, according to a survey of top financial company executives released Friday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
More than 20,000 people flooded the center of Mongolia's capital Friday to demand that the government do something about rising food prices that have nearly tripled in some cases. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Apr 2008 | 10:53 am
Citigroup, America's largest banking group, today admitted it will cut 9,000
jobs in addition to an already planned 4,200 cull as it posted its second
consecutive loss of $5.1 billion ($£2.5 billion) after writing off $15.1
billion in toxic assets.$ Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Apr 2008 | 10:53 am
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Jimmy Carter has arrived in Syria where he is due to meet the political leader of the militant Palestinian Hamas group.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 10:16 am
South Korea has agreed to resume U.S. beef imports halted over concerns of mad cow disease, just hours before a summit between the two countries' leaders that comes amid quickly-warming relations.
California's plan to spray a fine pesticide mist over much of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area has sparked protests from worried residents. The spraying is aimed at killing a moth threatening California's agricultural industry.
In the midst of a flagging U.S. economy, Google released its first-quarter earnings Thursday. The results were surprisingly positive. The search engine giant reported a 42 percent increase in revenue.
As more carbon dioxide gets pumped into the air, oceans are becoming more acidic. Scientists say that is damaging coral and other marine life that make shell or other skeletal material. But researchers have discovered a hugely abundant plankton that actually likes the ocean more acidic.
U.S. data show the number of attacks, which have spread over five continents, has spiked since 2001. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 9:51 am
A controversial $50 million contract was awarded to a company that barely existed in an effort to reward a recently retired four-star general and a millionaire civilian pilot who had grown close to senior Air Force officials and the Thunderbirds. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 9:31 am
A cross-section of superdelegates showed that none had been persuaded much by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s attacks on Senator Barack Obama. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 9:15 am
Police have conducted a controlled explosion after the arrest of a man in Bristol under the Terrorism Act. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Apr 2008 | 9:15 am
Three of the biggest global sponsors of the Beijing Olympics have scaled back
their plans for next week’s Japanese leg of the torch relay amid mounting
fears of violent anti-Chinese protests, The Times has learnt. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Apr 2008 | 9:10 am
Police have conducted a controlled explosion after the arrest of a man in Bristol under the Terrorism Act. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 18 Apr 2008 | 8:53 am
A controlled explosion was carried out at a house in southwest England on Friday after a teenager was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences, police said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 8:28 am
After a dramatic three days in which he put the country's clergy sexual abuse scandal front and center, Pope Benedict XVI will address a global audience at the United Nations. on Friday.
A major Japanese Buddhist temple withdrew Friday from a plan to host the Beijing Olympics torch relay, citing safety concerns and sympathy among its monks and worshippers for pro-Tibet protesters.
A controlled explosion was carried out in Bristol early this morning after a
man was arrested under the Terrorism Act. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 18 Apr 2008 | 7:47 am
TOKYO (AP) -- A major Japanese Buddhist temple withdrew Friday from a plan to host the Beijing Olympics torch relay, citing safety concerns and sympathy among its monks and worshippers for Tibetan protesters facing a Chinese crackdown.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:43 a... | 18 Apr 2008 | 7:46 am
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met a Hamas delegation from Gaza Thursday, part of a series of talks with the Islamic militant group that has drawn sharp criticism from U.S. and Israeli officials.
A study finds a high rate of depression and stress disorders, and many are not getting proper treatment.
The latest and most comprehensive study of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has concluded that nearly 1 in every 5 veterans is suffering from depression or stress disorders and that many are not getting adequate care.
Lovecraft Biofuels' owner and former owner are at odds. The conflict is straining some customers' loyalty.
Crawling by it in Sunset Junction traffic, past a scruffy row of mod clothing boutiques, Circus of Books and a gelato parlor, you'd hardly know the black garage on the corner is at the heart of a mushrooming environmental movement.
U.S. attorney says he sets goals. Staff lawyers say they are pressured to file relatively minor cases to boost numbers and funding.
U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O'Brien is facing sharp criticism from prosecutors within his office who say he is pressuring them to file relatively insignificant criminal cases to drive up statistics that make the office eligible for increased federal funding.
The doors are open again thanks to a tentative calm. But the owner worries about what will happen if U.S. troops leave the Baghdad neighborhood.
Faruq Tamimi looked with satisfaction at the crowd of customers filling his restaurant. They were all there, the ones suspected of ties to Shiite militias and the ones suspected of links to Al Qaeda in Iraq. They dug into burgers dripping mayo. All of them knew people who had been involved in the killings that had destroyed his west Baghdad neighborhood in the last two years.
Evidence linking him to the ex-leaders of the Weather Underground is thin. But a YouTube video is making noise.
Democrats have tried to heal their party's angry passions ever since violent protesters disrupted the Democratic National Convention here in 1968, a shock to America's collective psyche that helped Republican Richard Nixon capture the White House.
With hundreds of lawyers representing those removed from a polygamist compound, logistics became an issue.
The largest child custody case in U.S. history got off to a chaotic start Thursday as hundreds of attorneys representing 416 children seized from a polygamist compound jumped up all over the courtroom to raise a barrage of objections.
Anti-billboard activists are alarmed by a plan to allow signs along a 17-block area, saying the city should first crack down on illegal ones.
A Los Angeles city councilman has proposed the creation of a new billboard district in Koreatown, one that would run 17 blocks from east to west and take in major corridors such as Wilshire and Olympic boulevards.
The action, which affects thousands of Californians, is the boldest yet in dealing with companies' practice of rescinding coverage of sick policyholders.
Thousands of people whose policies were canceled by California health insurers will have a chance to win back their coverage and be reimbursed for outstanding medical bills, the Schwarzenegger administration announced Thursday.
South Africa, which has been reluctant to criticize Zimbabwe publicly, is now calling for the release of the African nation's presidential vote tallies. Zimbabwe's opposition leader says it's too little, too late.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pope Benedict turns to world issues on Friday when he addresses the United Nations in New York after three days in Washington overshadowed by the scandal of sexual abuse of minors by U.S. Catholic priests.
Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader claimed in an audiotape released Friday that five years of U.S. involvement in Iraq brought only defeat, and said President Bush will be forced to pass the problem to his successor.
A woman once convicted of killing her Marine husband with arsenic to pay for breast implants was cleared after new tests showed no traces of poison. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 4:16 am
Al Qaeda's No. 2 man claimed in a new audiotape that that five years of U.S. occupation of Iraq brought only "failure and defeat," which the Bush administration will pass on as a "problem" to the next American president.
DHAKA - More than half a million Bangladeshi troops have been ordered to eat potatoes in an attempt to ease the impact of surging rice and wheat prices.
Potatoes are not traditionally on the menu for Bangladesh's 140 million people... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Apr 2008 | 3:02 am
WASHINGTON - Pope Benedict, in a dramatic surprise, held an emotional meeting yesterday with victims of sexual abuse by priests, consoling them and promising them his prayers.
The 25-minute meeting, believed to be the first time... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Apr 2008 | 2:55 am
WASHINGTON - The leaders of the United States and Britain yesterday pledged a united effort to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, possibly by expanding sanctions against Tehran.
"Our position is clear: that we're going... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Apr 2008 | 2:40 am
Nepalese police detained more than 500 Tibetan exiles who protested near the Chinese Embassy in Katmandu. It was the largest number of Tibetans detained in a single day in the capital since the exiles began almost daily protests last month.
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown struck a defiant note yesterday in the face of his growing unpopularity, saying he was focused on keeping the economy on an even keel with the right long-term decisions.
While he is on a... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:12 am
A Brisbane man has been jailed for life after a jury found him guilty of murdering his wife.
Hasan Abusoud, 39, pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to murdering 33-year-old Hoda Abusoud on November 16, 2005.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:50 am
SEOUL - South Korea said on yesterday it had culled 3 million farmed birds and confirmed three more outbreaks of bird flu, as the country grapples with its worst avian influenza outbreak in four years.
In just two weeks South Korea... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:05 am
NEW YORK - College students who went through traumatic experiences as children may be at greater risk of developing an eating disorder, a new study suggests.
Two hundred nine freshmen students completed questionnaires on trauma... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Apr 2008 | 11:48 pm
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President Bush called it "naive" on Thursday to think that Iran couldn't transfer nuclear enrichment capabilities from energy development to atomic bomb production.
London - A 17-year-old youth was remanded in custody yesterday, charged with the murder of Liverpool schoolboy Rhys Jones.
The 11-year-old was shot in the neck in the Croxteth area of the city last August after returning from football... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:05 pm
A New Zealand man has been named to supervise the first general election in Fiji since the 2006 coup.
Maurice Coughlan, who has had no previous experience of running elections, will take up his three-year appointment early next... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:40 pm
MOSCOW - A Russian electrician slept off a night's drinking with a long knife stuck in his back and didn't notice until his wife spotted it in the kitchen the next day, Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda paper reported yesterday.
Yury... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:32 pm
The parents of Rhys Jones have come face-to-face with the teenager accused of shooting him dead in a pub car park eight months ago. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:54 pm
A senior aide, who allegedly claimed a married member of the Royal Family performed a sex act on him, was once the boyfriend of one of the men trying to blackmail the royal, a court has been told. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:41 pm
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 | 7:19 pm
Barack Obama's chief strategist slammed Hillary Clinton as "disingenuous" and "ridiculous" yesterday for questioning her rival's patriotism because of his link to an unrepentant former terrorist from the 1960s Weather Underground group. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 17 Apr 2008 | 7:11 pm
Palestinian militants attack crossing on border with Gaza Strip, setting off a clash with Israeli troops that thwarted the third such assault this week, the army said. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 5:48 pm
Police are investigating who might have decapitated scores of animals and drained them of their blood in a west German city, a spokesman say. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 5:07 pm
Thousands of Palestinians marched through Gaza City on Thursday at the funeral procession of a cameraman killed while covering a day of fighting that killed 20 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
An outraged father and his 10-year-old son were barred from swimming at a U.K. sports center because they were not Muslims, the London Daily Mail reported Thursday. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 4:25 pm
Teachers are being urged to stop using terms such as husband and wife when addressing students or families under a major anti-homophobia push in Australian schools. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 3:43 pm
Burundi's vice president said there have been reports of explosions in the East African country's capital city of Bujumbura. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 3:29 pm
Kenya's opposition leader was sworn into office as the country's prime minister Thursday, fulfilling a key step in a power-sharing deal aimed at ending a violent political crisis in the East African nation. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 2:53 pm
Homicide bomber strikes funeral of two anti-Al Qaeda Sunni tribesmen in a town north of Baghdad, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 2:47 pm
Zimbabwe's government accuses opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason, saying that he and Britain are plotting to overthrow the president. Tsvangirai denounces allegations as 'outrageous.' Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 1:42 pm
To the barricades! That's the message of language purists aghast that the lyrics of France's entry in a hugely popular European song contest are mon Dieu! in English. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 1:16 pm
Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday
plans to nominate Steve Preston to become the head of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has been
trying to grapple with the imploding housing market.
AP - The Israeli government revealed plans Friday to build 100 homes in two Jewish settlements one of them deep in the West Bank in violation of its pledge to freeze settlement expansion.
AP - Citigroup Inc. lost $5.1 billion during the first quarter and will eliminate about 9,000 more jobs, as poor bets on mortgages and leveraged loans lopped billions of dollars from its investment portfolio.
Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's top
investigator will launch talks in Tehran on Monday to press for
Iranian answers to Western intelligence alleging that Iran
covertly studied how to devise atomic bombs.
Reuters - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered in
southeast Illinois startled residents in several central U.S.
states before dawn on Friday, but media reports indicated there
were no injuries and only minor damage.
Reuters - Jimmy Carter met Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad on Friday, beginning a round of talks at which
the former U.S. president is expected to raise the case of a
detained Israeli soldier.
AP - The tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago can be blamed on low grade rivets that the ship's builders used on some parts of the ill-fated liner, two experts on metals conclude in a new book.
AP - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Thursday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage.
AP - After a dramatic three days in which he put America's clergy sexual abuse scandal front and center, Pope Benedict XVI turned his attention Friday to the original purpose of his first U.S. visit as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Comment by Peter Borre' Co-Chair, Council of Parishes
After a dramatic three days in which he put the country's clergy sexual abuse scandal front and center, Pope Benedict XVI will address a global audience at the United Nations. on Friday.
A major Japanese Buddhist temple withdrew Friday from a plan to host the Beijing Olympics torch relay, citing safety concerns and sympathy among its monks and worshippers for pro-Tibet protesters.
Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader claimed in an audiotape released Friday that five years of U.S. involvement in Iraq brought only defeat, and said President Bush will be forced to pass the problem to his successor.![Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band with Roy Bittan, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, Garry Tallent, Little Steven Van Zandt, and Max Weinberg perform on the Today Show.. . Ref: SPL4095 280907 .Picture by: Alexander / Splash News. . Splash News and Pictures .Los Angeles .New York .London . (Newscom TagID: spnphotos660737) [Photo via Newscom]](http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080417/080417-Danny Federici-hmed-756p.thumb.jpg)
Springsteen’s Web site says Danny Federici died Thursday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He was 58.