A new political party in Germany has made saving the working class and the country's welfare system rallying points for attracting votes. Die Linke, or the Left Party, is drawing support from mainstream parties with a radical message.
Anti-terrorist asset-freezing orders introduced during Gordon Brown's spell as Chancellor are legally flawed because Parliament was "bypassed", the High Court ruled today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:51 am
On paper, John Tassinari was a child prodigy awarded a student Nobel Peace Prize and hailed by state educators as a "model" scholar.
Online, the muscle-bound...
Anti-terrorist asset-freezing orders introduced during Gordon Brown's spell as Chancellor are legally flawed because Parliament was "bypassed", the High Court ruled today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:34 am
(Kyodo) _ Class hours and learning content will increase for students in primary school and junior high school in the 2009 school year, the starting year of the three- to four-year... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:32 am
Britain's foreign secretary held talks Thursday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as at least 13 people were reported killed in the ongoing fighting between Shiite militiamen and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:27 am
Eat your heart out, Massachusetts.
Every Pennsylvania homeowner will be getting a 10 percent tax rebate check this summer because of the Keystone State's approval...
The UN says it will have to suspend humanitarian work in Gaza within hours unless it receives fresh fuel supplies. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:21 am
A shipment of weapons meant for Zimbabwe will return to China because there was no way to deliver it to the landlocked country in political turmoil, China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has surpassed the United States to become the world's largest Internet-using population, reaching 221 million by the end of February, state media said on Thursday.
After drinking a 10 litre box of wine, a man dressed as Darth Vader took out two members of a Kentucky 'Jedi Church' using a crutch. Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:16 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea expressed optimism Thursday over talks this week with a U.S. delegation on its nuclear program, raising hopes of breaking the impasse that has deadlocked arms negotiations.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:14 am
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Genetic engineering, combined with organic farming, may be the best way to grow food for a rising population as the world confronts climate change and environmental degradation, a U.S. rice scientist said.
North Korea expressed optimism Thursday over talks this week with a U.S. delegation on its nuclear program, raising hopes of breaking the impasse that has deadlocked arms negotiations. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:14 am
Reuters - More than 10,000 Chinese Australians
staged the biggest pro-Beijing rally of the protest-marred
Olympic torch relay on Thursday, bringing a sea of red Chinese
flags and drowning out Tibetan demonstrators.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - More than 10,000 Chinese Australians staged the biggest pro-Beijing rally of the protest-marred Olympic torch relay on Thursday, bringing a sea of red Chinese flags and drowning out Tibetan demonstrators.
Since the moment last summer when the Patriots agreed not to place the 2008 franchise tag on Asante Samuel, it was clear the team would be drafting a corner this weekend.
...
The Patriots released the following statement yesterday: "The New England Patriots are pleased to learn that Matt Walsh is finally willing to come forward to meet with...
With the end of every season comes change and, no matter how happy management is with the way the team performed in 2007-08, the Bruins will be no different.
The B's...
One thing that can be said about the Bruins' surprising level of success in 2007-08 is that it came easily.
With all the positive words being thrown their way now...
Looking back at a very successful season and forward to what could be a fairly uneventful offseason, Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli yesterday sounded like a guy who...
Craig Hansen came back a different pitcher, a different person.
The relief pitcher's transformation includes everything from improved sleep thanks to surgery to...
A revolving door to the Red Sox clubhouse has spun furiously over the past few days. With seemingly half of the team crushed by the flu, the Sox could be forgiven if they...
The Pakistan Taleban rebel accused of ordering Benazir Bhutto's assassination orders his men to stop attacks. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:04 am
They could handle the Yankees, had no problem in sweeping the Rangers and seemed to have a pretty good handle on the Angels.
But then came a foe the Red Sox simply couldn't...
Asset-freezing orders imposed on terrorism suspects are unlawful because
Parliament was “bypassed”, the High Court ruled today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:02 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: FIXING DATE) North Korea said Thursday its talks with a team of U.S. officials in Pyongyang have achieved progress on advancing the stalled six-party talks aimed at... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:02 am
(Kyodo) _ North Korea said Thursday its talks with a team of U.S. officials in Pyongyang have achieved progress on advancing the stalled six-party talks aimed at ending the country's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:01 am
The U.S. military says two of its soldiers in Iraq died when their vehicle rolled onto its side north of Baghdad. A third American soldier died in a road accident in neighboring Kuwait.
On last week's episode of "South Park," residents of our favorite made-up mountain hamlet woke up to a new kind of horror: a townwide Internet outage. No e-mail, no WebMD.com to check rogue symptoms and, most harrowing of all, no Internet porn. Panic-stricken and Net-starved, Stan Marsh and his family lash their belongings to the roof of their SUV Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 10:00 am
Microsoft may feign disinterest in the women, kiddos and seniors who've caught the Wii-waggle bug, Rare may be sick of Conker and prefer not to be a "casual developer," and Gyration swears it's not involved. But Darwin developer Motus is keeping the truth close to its chest, so it's unlikely the rumors about the "Newton" will die down anytime soon. Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:58 am
Today marks the 57th annual Administrative Professionals Day, the Wednesday of the last full week of April (Administrative Professionals Week). The office holiday began in 1952 as National Secretaries Week to "recognize secretaries for their contributions in the workplace, and to attract people to secretarial/administrative careers." In a "Fine ... Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:55 am
A ship that was transporting weapons to Zimbabwe is now returning to China, a Chinese official says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:53 am
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Organizers claimed victory Thursday after torchbearers skirted pockets of protesters under a sky where a plane had spelled out "Free Tibet" to carry the Olympic flame through Australia's capital.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:53 am
TOKYO (AP) -- Prosecutors charged a U.S. sailor Thursday in the stabbing death of a taxi driver, one of a series of alleged crimes against American service members that has stirred anger in Japan.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:51 am
Crime is falling in England and Wales according to two sets of figures
published today by the Home Office. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:50 am
Prosecutors charged a U.S. sailor Thursday in the stabbing death of a taxi driver, one of a series of alleged crimes against American service members that has stirred anger in Japan. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:50 am
The hundreds of children from a polygamist compound taken into state custody are on their way to group homes, shelters and residences, but experts and lawyers fear their transition may be much harder than it is for other foster children. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:49 am
(Kyodo) _ The Chinese government rejected Thursday suggestions that recent demonstrations criticizing Western countries' response to the security crackdown in Tibet could damage China's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:49 am
AP - Kobe Bryant scored big at the start and finish Wednesday night. In between, he set up his teammates for easy baskets. It turned out to be a winning formula. Bryant had 49 points and 10 assists, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets 122-107 to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.
AP - Snips and snails and puppydog tails ... and cereal and bananas? That could be what little boys are made of, according to surprising new research suggesting that what a woman eats before pregnancy influences the gender of her baby.
AP - Youth boot camps and their referral services are using deceptive marketing practices when trying to convince parents of troubled kids to try the programs, a federal investigation has found.
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Former communist rebels won the most seats in Nepal's new governing assembly, taking more than double the number of their nearest rival, an election official said Thursday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:39 am
AP - President Bush is promoting his top Iraq commander, Army Gen. David Petraeus, and replacing him with the general's recent deputy, keeping the U.S. on its war course and handing the next president a pair of combat-tested commanders who have relentlessly defended Bush's strategies.
AP - House Democratic leaders have a plan to try to add extended unemployment benefits and new education funding for veterans to President Bush's war funding bill while dropping lots of other party priorities.
(Kyodo) _ The likelihood of a major earthquake hitting Japan's extensive Pacific coast areas, from the Kanto to Shikoku regions, has heightened compared with data issued last year,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:38 am
AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants the Bush administration to press Israel to stop expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank a step he says is needed to make progress in Mideast peace talks.
AP - U.S. intelligence officials will show House and Senate members a videotape and other evidence supporting their case that Syria was building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance before it was bombed by Israeli planes last year, a U.S. official says.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes fired on a group of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Wednesday as they tried to cross into Turkey, the army said on Thursday.
North Korea says progress was made during a visit this week by a U.S. delegation meant to resolve stalled talks on its nuclear program. The North's Foreign Ministry said Thursday that... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:33 am
YOKOHAMA, April 24 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH FURTHER INFO) Public prosecutors indicted 22-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Olatunboson Ugbogu on Thursday for murder-robbery in connection... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:31 am
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Counting of votes in Nepal's key election is expected to end on Thursday, a contest likely to cement the former Maoist rebels as the largest party and give them a chance to lead a minority government.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Iran has been kicked out of an international defense show in Malaysia for exhibiting missile equipment in violation of U.N. rules, an official said Thursday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:29 am
Britain's biggest banks today lost a landmark test case at the High Court over
unauthorised overdraft charges. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:26 am
Youth boot camps and their referral services are using deceptive marketing practices when trying to convince parents of troubled kids to try the programs, a federal investigation has found. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:20 am
Chastised for showing "seriously flawed" judgment in awarding the governor's daughter a master's degree she didn't earn, West Virginia University is weighing what must be done to recover from the scandal. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:17 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, the public face of Saddam Hussein's regime, will face trial next week over the execution of dozens of merchants in 1992, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai answers questions during a visit to Maputo, Mozambique. Zimbabwe's electoral commission has said that the MDC retained its hold of one of 23... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:14 am
Ethiopia denies Amnesty International accusations that its troops killed civilians in a raid on a mosque. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:14 am
North Korea says progress was made during a visit this week by a U.S. delegation meant to resolve stalled talks on its nuclear program. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:10 am
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga tour an area hard hit by post-election violence. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:09 am
Former communist rebels won the most seats in Nepal’s new governing assembly, taking more than double the number of their nearest rival, an election official said Thursday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:06 am
"We were able to confirm the old wives' tale that eating bananas and so having a high potassium intake was associated with having a boy, as was a high sodium intake," research leader Fiona Mathews, a specialist in mammalian biology at Exeter University. Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:05 am
Chang Tsun-tsung -- a spokseman for Taiwan's High Court -- speaks during a press conference in Taipei. Taiwan's Supreme Court has cleared president-elect Ma Ying-jeou of corruption charges in the final... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:01 am
Taiwan's president-elect Ma Ying-jeou will take office on May 20. Taiwan's Supreme Court has cleared Ma of corruption charges, delivering a final ruling in the high-profile case less than a month before... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 9:01 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities will harshly deal with anyone who spreads rumors which "excite popular feelings" or disturb social harmony in the already restive region of Tibet, the government said on Thursday.
The PBS documentary series "Carrier" discovers conflict and camaraderie among the (shockingly young) inhabitants of the USS Nimitz. Imagine a floating city, cramped and volatile, powered by two nuclear reactors, populated by 5,000 working people with the average age of 19 who do tedious, grueling, dangerous jobs around the clock...... Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:59 am
Malawi's former President Bakili Mukuzi seeks to contest next year's elections amid doubts over his eligibility. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:59 am
NeoGAF is proof that, though ancient by Internet standards, message boards are a vital part of the gaming ecosystem, providing an outlet for passionate players to be heard by and influence industry tastemakers, creators, and deciders. It also allows them to indulge in that most cherished of Internet traditions: thumbing your nose at authority. Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:58 am
Striking teachers on the picket line outside schools today insisted they "felt
no guilt" after telling parents that their children would have to stay
at home. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:53 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - In a move that could upset US policy towards North Korea, US intelligence officials are set to tell lawmakers in Washington that Pyongyang shared nuclear know-how with Syria, an official said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:50 am
Credit Suisse becomes the latest bank to report big losses because of its exposure to the credit markets. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:49 am
MONTREAL (AFP) - Arctic sea ice is melting "significantly faster" than predicted and is approaching a point of no return, conservation group the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned in a new study. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:47 am
Ok, we know bad things can happen when the general public use tasers, but cops tasing a guy and setting him on fire? No... really? Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:45 am
Although there are several commercially available feed aggregators, it's easy to develop your own feed aggregator, which you can integrate with your Web applications. You'll appreciate this article's fully functional PHP code snippets, demonstrating the use of PHP-based server-side functions to develop a customizable RSS feed aggregator. Source: Digg | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:44 am
Hopes dimmed for a priest who vanished earlier this week after sailing into the air under hundreds of colorful balloons. The cleric's former flight teacher called his disappearance a "tragedy foretold."
BEIJING (AP) -- A shipment of weapons meant for Zimbabwe but which neighboring countries refused entry to will return to China because there was no way to deliver it to the landlocked country in political turmoil, China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:40 am
A shipment of weapons meant for Zimbabwe but which neighboring countries refused entry to will return to China because there was no way to deliver it to the landlocked country in political turmoil, China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:40 am
China's main share index rises 9% after the government decides to cut taxes on share trading. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:36 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama entered the final phase of an increasingly nasty U.S. presidential fight on Wednesday, with Clinton saying her decisive Pennsylvania win proved she was the best candidate to lead the Democrats back to the White House.
Credit Suisse Group on Thursday posted a $2.1 billion net loss for the first quarter as the global effects of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis continued to spread. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:28 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The case of an 84-year-old New Jersey man charged with passing secrets to an Israeli agent a quarter-century ago has created speculation that more Americans may have been serving Israeli intelligence than previously thought.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:25 am
The U.S. military says two of its soldiers in Iraq died when their vehicle rolled onto its side north of Baghdad. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:24 am
Only hours after the city announced plans to ratchet up scrutiny of construction dangers, a construction worker was seriously hurt in a 25-foot plunge off a scaffold at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, authorities said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:24 am
TOKYO (AFP) - The monthly discomfort many women see as a curse could pay off someday as Japanese researchers say menstrual blood can be used to repair heart damage. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:16 am
Two Indian wedding celebrations were marred by separate accidents that left 43 people feared dead, police said Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:13 am
The Kyodo News agency says Japanese prosecutors have charged a U.S. sailor in the stabbing death of a taxi driver near Tokyo. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:13 am
CANBERRA (AFP) - Australian police tussled with Chinese torch escorts Thursday as the Olympic flame was run through Canberra to rowdy demonstrations by thousands of Chinese supporters and pro-Tibet protesters. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:13 am
Indonesia does not want money for its samples of a deadly bird flu virus, a health official said Wednesday after the U.S. criticized his country for refusing to share the samples with the international community. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:05 am
By promoting his top Iraq commander, President Bush keeps the country on its war course and hands the next president a combat-tested commanders who has relentlessly defended Bush’s strategies.
British shoppers are being conned out of £7 billion a year by unscrupulous producers who are dressing up cheap food as top quality fare, it is claimed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 24 Apr 2008 | 8:01 am
US officials say they have evidence that North Korea has been helping Syria build a nuclear reactor. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:59 am
A Chinese girl looks at a Toyota Vios on display at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing, Thursday, April 24, 2008. Japan's top automaker, Toyota Motor Corp., said Wednesday its global... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:57 am
Russian army APCs are seen during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in front of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, late Wednesday, April 23, 2008. For the first time since the Soviet collapse,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:52 am
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej visits a vegetable market in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, April 24, 2008. (AP Photo) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:52 am
An employee of Hyundai Motor Co. works inside a showroom in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 24, 2008. Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday its first-quarter net profit rose 28 percent on higher sales,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:49 am
KARNEI SHOMRON, West Bank (AP) -- When the Ventura family moved to this West Bank settlement from a Tel Aviv suburb 20 years ago, they sought open spaces and mountain air.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:49 am
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The biggest German bank, Deutsche Bank, is getting set to unload several billion dollars in loans, a press report said on Thursday in a sign that corporate credit markets could be starting to rebound. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:48 am
Map of Sri Lanka locating Jaffna peninsula, where recent intense fighting between government troops and Tamil rebels took place. Tamil rebels said they had killed at least 100 Sri Lankan soldiers as the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:46 am
In this Aug. 14, 2007 file photo, presidential hopeful Ma Ying-jeou smiles to media with his legal staff after a not-guilty verdict on corruption charges was announced by prosecutors in Taipei, Taiwan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:36 am
Danilo Ocampo, a genetic engineering campaigner of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, displays sacks of US long grain rice that made it to the shelves of a high-end supermarket chain in the Philippines... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:35 am
Fighting between Sri Lanka's military and the rebels in Jaffna peninsula ends with both sides claiming victory. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:32 am
ZURICH (AFP) - Credit Suisse bank plunged into its first quarterly loss for five years on Thursday, reporting heavy extra writedowns because of the subprime home-loan crisis in the United States. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:25 am
SAMARRA, Iraq (AP) -- It was the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine here that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war, bloodshed that has left tens of thousands dead and this ancient city in ruins.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:09 am
TOKYO (AFP) - The European Union said Thursday it will press China in talks this week to engage in a dialogue with the Dalai Lama to bring about "concrete improvement" in people's lives in restive Tibet. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:08 am
Kobe Bryant scored 49 points, one short of his career playoff best, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 122-107 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday.
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog calls the accord to discuss alleged evidence of a weapons program a milestone.
International arms inspectors have reached an agreement with Tehran to discuss alleged evidence of nuclear weapons experiments, officials said Wednesday, signaling a potential breakthrough in negotiations over Iran's controversial research program.
Chen Si patrols the Nanjing Bridge on the Yangtze River, looking to save those intent on suicide, which has grown into an epidemic amid China's dizzying change.
The woman was still wearing her kitchen apron when Chen Si spotted her on the other side of the Nanjing Bridge.
An official with the independent group that conducted the survey says it indicates the widespread nature of the problem.
More than half of the scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency who responded to a survey said they had experienced political interference in their work.
Many party leaders say an ongoing Democratic contest can't hurt. Others want it over well before the convention.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's Pennsylvania win has bought her time -- but not much -- to make her case to the Democratic Party's superdelegates, many of whom expressed a strong desire Wednesday to end the nominating contest once the final votes are cast.
At House panel meeting, most witnesses push instead for a comprehensive approach at public schools.
Continued federal funding of abstinence-only sex education in public schools was debated before a House committee Wednesday amid questions about whether the government should sponsor a program that many experts say doesn't work.
A day after Clinton's win in Pennsylvania, the rivals continue their bickering over who is best equipped to win the general election.
A day after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated Sen. Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary, the epic battle for the Democratic presidential nomination lurched onward to Indiana, with new squabbling Wednesday over who is best equipped to win the general election.
Michael B. Mukasey renews the war on what he calls a growing threat that touches 'all sectors of our economy.'
Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey offered a stark assessment Wednesday of a rising threat from international organized crime, saying that a new breed of mobsters around the world was infiltrating strategic industries, providing logistical support to terrorists and becoming capable of "creating havoc in our economic infrastructure."
A backlash builds over the network's tactics, including suicide attacks. Its leaders try to defuse the anger.
Al Qaeda increasingly faces sharp criticism from once-loyal sympathizers who openly question its ideology and tactics, including attacks that kill innocent Muslims, according to U.S. intelligence officials, counter-terrorism experts and the group's own communications.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush hosts Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Thursday to try to bolster him and shore up a fragile U.S.-backed peace effort with Israel.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has wounded three militants and tanks have begun moving toward the area.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:14 a... | 24 Apr 2008 | 6:13 am
SYDNEY - A New Zealand man has pleaded guilty to drink-driving and causing the death of a female pedestrian when his 4WD mounted the kerb in Sydney's Chinatown.
Poasa Logova, 30, of Punchbowl in Sydney's south-west, appeared in... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Apr 2008 | 4:08 am
A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government that North Korea was helping to construct a reactor similar to one that produces plutonium, according to senior U.S. officials.
Runners bearing the Olympic torch completed a 10-mile relay through the Australian capital’s crowd-lined streets Thursday, unimpeded by sporadic anti-China protests that left several people arrested.
WASHINGTON - Federal government figures show a steep spike in US cases of a common but serious infection that gives hospital patients sometimes deadly diarrhoea and blood poisoning.
They show a 200 percent increase in the number... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Apr 2008 | 3:07 am
Tattooed singer just never built the fan base she needed to go all the way. Syesha Mercado, who also performed well this week, joined her in the bottom two.
NEW YORK - Keeping the heart fit with aerobic exercise may also boost older adults' brainpower, a research review suggests.
In an analysis of pooled data from previous clinical trials, researchers in the Netherlands found that... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Apr 2008 | 3:01 am
The Tennessee Titans finally washed their hands of suspended cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones on Wednesday, agreeing in principle to trade him to the Dallas Cowboys.
SYDNEY - Motorists can expect to pay more at the bowser amid long-term upward pressure on petrol prices, Caltex Australia says.
"There is long-term upward pressure on petrol prices and Australians, like motorists around the world,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Apr 2008 | 2:45 am
NAIROBI - Amnesty International accused Ethiopian soldiers yesterday of killing 21 people, including an imam and several Islamic scholars, at a Mogadishu mosque and said seven of the victims had their throats slit.
The rights group... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Apr 2008 | 2:38 am
CANBERRA - Police arrested seven people after scuffles broke out between Tibetan protesters and Chinese Australians as the Olympic torch relay began under heavy security in Canberra today.
After a traditional Aboriginal smoking... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Apr 2008 | 1:30 am
LOS ANGELES - A grizzly bear featured in the recent Will Ferrell film Semi-Pro and touted as one of the "best trained" in show business has killed its handler, but officials said they were puzzled by what provoked the attack.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Apr 2008 | 12:05 am
LONDON - Thousands of schools will be forced to close today as teachers stage their first national strike in 20 years, in a dispute with the government over pay.
Up to 200,000 members of the National Union of Teachers will take... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Apr 2008 | 12:05 am
Turkeys' prime minister told Syria's president that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was ready to fully withdraw from the occupied Golan in return for peace with Syria. Political analysts questioned the credibility of the Israeli offer.
The Last Cigarette, Simon Gray's memoir about giving up smoking - or, rather,
musing about one day quitting since by page 243 his ashtray still
overfloweth - ends with an arresting postscript. “I have a tumour in my
lung... absolutely certainly, one way or another, I'm coming up to the last
cigarette.” There is a burning inevitability, of course, that a habit begun
aged 7, pursued tirelessly, heroically even, through past health horrors
including aneurysms and prostate cancer, peaking at 65 fags a day, would get
him in the end. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 23 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
NASA is trying to downplay fears that the recent bone-rattling landing of a Russian capsule could mean it is less reliable than thought. Once NASA retires the space shuttle in 2010, the Russian Soyuz will be the only means of getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
HARARE - Uncertainty increased in Zimbabwe yesterday over a disputed election as pressure intensified for results to be announced from a presidential vote more than three weeks ago.
Former colonial power Britain called for an arms... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Apr 2008 | 10:29 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s Sam's Club and Costco divisions are placing limits on the amount of rice that customers can buy. Company officials say demand for rice has shot up sharply in the wake of concerns about global food shortages.
The Senate begins debate on a bill that would overturn a Supreme Court ruling in an equal pay lawsuit. The Supreme Court said the claim should have been filed sooner. Congressional Democrats want to pass legislation allowing such lawsuits regardless of when the alleged discrimination occurred.
Democratic Congressman Brad Miller of North Carolina is known these days as an undecided superdelegate. Miller talks with Melissa Block about the decisions he has to weigh before choosing which candidate to support.
CIA officials are expected to tell Congress on Thursday that a site Israel bombed in the Syria desert last fall housed a nuclear reactor that was being built with the help of North Korea. Jay Solomon, who reported the information for The Wall Street Journal, talks with Robert Siegel.
CHICAGO - Using powerful radio telescopes, scientists have captured a supermassive black hole just as it was belching out a jet of supercharged particles, offering a first look at how these cosmic jets are formed, they said yesterday.
Supermassive... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Apr 2008 | 9:55 pm
Syria handed over a trove of some 700 looted artifacts to Iraq after seizing the items from traffickers since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Rescuers reached a cluster of brightly colored party balloons floating in the ocean off Brazil's coast but did not find the Roman Catholic priest who had been using them in a bid to set a flight record.
State Department and White House officials say they are skeptical but supportive of efforts by the new Pakistani government to seek peace with pro-Taliban militants. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 4:37 pm
Vandals painted swastikas and graffiti on a Holocaust memorial site to mark the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth, according to a Belarusian Jewish leader. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 4:00 pm
Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained a suspected female homicide bomber who was preparing to attack a police station in the country's south. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 3:55 pm
An American mountain climber with a "Free Tibet" banner was forced to turn back from Mount Everest, which Chinese climbers carrying the Olympic torch plan to summit next month, officials said Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 3:44 pm
School director preparing exhibition finds Christmas correspondence from Anne Frank in father's antique shop. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 3:38 pm
Denmark has evacuated staff from its embassies in Algeria and Afghanistan because of terror threats following reprint in Danish newspapers of caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad, officials say. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 3:11 pm
Elephant rampages through Hindu temple in southern India, killing three people, including one of its handlers, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:57 pm
U.S. investogator says trafficking of stolen Iraqi artifacts was helping fiance Al Qaeda in Iraq and Shiite militants. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 2:31 pm
The Olympic flame reaches Australia for next leg of the troubled torch relay, and was whisked away to a secret location to avoid potential trouble from anti-China protesters. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Apr 2008 | 1:25 pm
Iran has agreed to cooperate with the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog in its probe of allegations that Tehran tried to develop nuclear weapons, the organization said.
The Afghan government is trying to ban the wildly popular television dramas imported from India for being un-Islamic. It's a sign of the growing tensions between religious conservatives and liberals in Afghanistan's post-Taliban era.
A shipment of weapons meant for Zimbabwe will return to China because there was no way to deliver it to the landlocked country in political turmoil, China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Reuters - More than 10,000 Chinese Australians
staged the biggest pro-Beijing rally of the protest-marred
Olympic torch relay on Thursday, bringing a sea of red Chinese
flags and drowning out Tibetan demonstrators.
Reuters - South Africa's ruling party leader Jacob
Zuma said on Thursday it was not yet time to impose an arms
embargo on Zimbabwe.
AP - Kobe Bryant scored big at the start and finish Wednesday night. In between, he set up his teammates for easy baskets. It turned out to be a winning formula. Bryant had 49 points and 10 assists, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets 122-107 to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.
AP - More than 85,000 people want to be Paris Hilton's best friend.
AP - Snips and snails and puppydog tails ... and cereal and bananas? That could be what little boys are made of, according to surprising new research suggesting that what a woman eats before pregnancy influences the gender of her baby.
AP - Youth boot camps and their referral services are using deceptive marketing practices when trying to convince parents of troubled kids to try the programs, a federal investigation has found.
AP - President Bush is promoting his top Iraq commander, Army Gen. David Petraeus, and replacing him with the general's recent deputy, keeping the U.S. on its war course and handing the next president a pair of combat-tested commanders who have relentlessly defended Bush's strategies.
AP - House Democratic leaders have a plan to try to add extended unemployment benefits and new education funding for veterans to President Bush's war funding bill while dropping lots of other party priorities.
AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants the Bush administration to press Israel to stop expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank a step he says is needed to make progress in Mideast peace talks.
AP - U.S. intelligence officials will show House and Senate members a videotape and other evidence supporting their case that Syria was building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance before it was bombed by Israeli planes last year, a U.S. official says.
By promoting his top Iraq commander, President Bush keeps the country on its war course and hands the next president a combat-tested commanders who has relentlessly defended Bush’s strategies.
Kobe Bryant scored 49 points, one short of his career playoff best, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 122-107 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday.
Is the Democratic Party hesitating about race as it moves to the brink of nominating an African-American to be president?
A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government that North Korea was helping to construct a reactor similar to one that produces plutonium, according to senior U.S. officials.
Runners bearing the Olympic torch completed a 10-mile relay through the Australian capital’s crowd-lined streets Thursday, unimpeded by sporadic anti-China protests that left several people arrested.
Tattooed singer just never built the fan base she needed to go all the way. Syesha Mercado, who also performed well this week, joined her in the bottom two.
The Tennessee Titans finally washed their hands of suspended cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones on Wednesday, agreeing in principle to trade him to the Dallas Cowboys.