The writer of Friday's Movie Projector column, which looks at weekend box-office prospects, finds going to the multiplex is still a relative bargain.
In Berkeley circa 1971, a weekend matinee at the local movie house cost about a buck. Ten-year-old Projector, flush with his $5 weekly allowance, could catch "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," hit the concession stand for popcorn, a Coke and Bon-Bons, and still have enough cash left over to buy the next week's essentials at the corner store: baseball cards, Hershey bars and comic books.
Zimbabwe poll recounts published in state media suggest the opposition MDC is on track to keep its majority. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:51 pm
Teresa Stanley, Whitey Bulger's longtime galpal, tells people that when the feds finally catch up with the geriatric fugitive, he's going to look 15 years younger...
The man who pulled the trigger and put little Kai Leigh Harriott in a wheelchair is speaking publicly from behind bars for the first time, to reveal how the girl's forgiveness...
AP - The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday lambasted the judge who acquitted three police officers in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed man on his wedding day, saying a jury should been seated to decide guilt or innocence.
HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's party has failed to secure control of Zimbabwe's parliament in a partial recount of the March 29 election, results showed on Saturday, handing the ruling party its first defeat in 28 years.
Two Massachusetts sons are coming home, 64 years after their B-24 bomber went down in the jungles of New Guinea.
The bodies of Lt. Ronald Ward of Cambridge and Lt. Kenneth...
The Navy is going to be swamped with new recruits.
For that it can thank, of all things, PBS.
Yes, the government-funded network routinely accused of lefty bias...
AP - President Bush said tax rebates will start going out Monday, earlier than previously announced, and should help Americans cope with rising gasoline and food prices, as well as aid a slumping economy.
DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- The Dalai Lama said Saturday he welcomed China's offer to meet his envoy and said the two sides needed to talk seriously about how to resolve the problems that triggered riots in the Tibetan capital last month.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:41 pm
AP - The Dalai Lama said Saturday he welcomed China's offer to meet his envoy and said the two sides needed to talk seriously about how to resolve the problems that triggered riots in the Tibetan capital last month.
Check out the camaraderie between Rafer Alston & Carl Landry 62 seconds into the video. That's what I call teamwork!! Source: Digg | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:41 pm
AP - The electoral road to the White House favors Democrats this fall either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton and has Republican John McCain playing defense to thwart a presidential power shift.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai criticized the U.S. and British conduct of the war in Afghanistan, telling The New York Times in an interview published on Saturday his government must be accorded the lead in policy decisions.
AP - Elliott Reed said the scene was surreal: As he walked toward the Chicago Transit Authority train station in the midst of an otherwise normal, busy rush hour, a tractor trailer exiting a nearby expressway made a sudden and violent detour.
MOSCOW, April 26 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING THROUGHOUT WITH CONTENTS OF TALKS) Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to continue talks on a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:30 pm
AP - Amy Winehouse left a London police station Saturday after questioning about reports that she scuffled with two men during a raucous night out. She received a formal police caution for assault.
AP - An overpowering bad odor at a Bank of America branch office in New Milford prompted an emergency response from state environmental officials who discovered a bad check. It wasn't a check that was fake. It was smelly. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:27 pm
AP - President Bush said Saturday that the credit crunch is threatening the availability of student loans. He said his administration is doing what it can to help with emergency loans but prodded Congress for authority to do more.
Fulham, Birmingham, Bolton and Reading face crucial games after Chelsea beat Man Utd 2-1 to keep the Premier League title race alive. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:26 pm
AP - Joe Flacco sat near Brett Favre and Matt Hasselbeck and didn't flinch. He didn't appear intimidated and he held his own while joking with the star quarterbacks. Flacco appeared at a quasi-roast for Favre on Friday. One day later, the spotlight was to shift to the NFL draft, and neither the former Green Bay quarterback or the Seattle signal-caller would be a topic.
Hingham's Samuel Lincoln House certainly has a solid pedigree: Abraham Lincoln's great-great-great-great grandfather built it.
Samuel Lincoln - a forefather...
The City Hall investigation into payroll abuse that could involve dozens of public works employees began with one irate West Roxbury taxpayer's phone call.
Jeffrey...
Scott Piechocinski roamed the rows of a CarMax dealership in Charlotte, N.C., on a recent afternoon, searching for something small to replace his son's 2001 Nissan Pathfinder sport utility vehicle. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:21 pm
Following a jury's award of more than $325,000 to nine skycaps, three more lawsuits have been filed against United Airlines, US Airways and American Airlines by skycaps...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush pressed Congress on Saturday to pass legislation to ease a credit crunch in the $85 billion student loan market that could make it harder for students to go to college.
When Natalya M. was rushed to a hospital in Voronezh, Russia, the doctors did not believe their eyes: the woman had a gigantic skin-fat growth on her belly that did not let her walk normally. It was 36 inches long and weighed 125 pounds. Source: Digg | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:20 pm
Angry about the price of gas? Just imagine paying for gas you don't get. Some alert consumers have noticed it over the years: A pump that seems to hesitate a second when the lever is squeezed. Anywhere from 2 to 6 cents tick off before the rush of gasoline starts. That's what happens with a common, hard to diagnose and mostly ignored problem with the "check valve," which is supposed to make sure gas flows at the same time the price meter starts. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:19 pm
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces detained four people and have accused them of plotting to buy fuel for a pilotless aircraft for Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, security sources said on Saturday.
"WBBH-TV says a fight over crayons led to felony charges against an 8-year-old boy in Fort Myers, Fla. The second-grader was charged with aggravated battery after a teacher told police that he hit some of his classmates and then punched his teacher during a violent outburst at Royal Palm Exceptional School." Source: Digg | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:18 pm
NEW YORK - Three detectives were acquitted yesterday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another...
A sign and locked gate prohibit water activity at Tide Beach after a shark attacked and killed a swimmer in Solana Beach, Calif., yesterday. He was training in the ocean off...
Three Ugandan journalists including a well-known editor are arrested for publishing seditious material. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:15 pm
President Bush said Saturday that the credit crunch is threatening the availability of student loans. He said his administration is doing what it can to help with emergency loans but prodded Congress for authority to do more. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:14 pm
Scorching rhetoric and negative campaigning aren't confined to the long presidential contest. They're spilling over into other segments of public life. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:13 pm
(Kyodo) _ Singapore Airlines on Saturday took delivery of its fourth Airbus A380 superjumbo in preparation for the launch of A380 flights to Japan next month, the airline said. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:12 pm
DHARAMSHALA (AFP) - Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has been pushing for talks with China on the future of his homeland for years but now is making clear they must be "serious discussions". Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:59 pm
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle near the U.S. border on Saturday, one of the bloodiest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war.
(Kyodo) _ An Air China airplane carrying the Olympic flame left for South Korea Saturday night from Tokyo's Haneda airport after completing a torch relay in Nagano Prefecture in central... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:53 pm
(Kyodo) _ The death toll in a bus explosion rose to 26 on Saturday as President Mahinda Rajapakse accused the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of "resorting to killing innocent civilians... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:52 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING NIGHT GAMES) Linescores of Saturday's games in Japanese baseball: CENTRAL LEAGUE At Yokohama Stadium Hiroshima 000 000 110 - 2 8 1 Yokohama 000 000 010 Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:50 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING YAKULT-CHUNICHI GAME) Ikuro Katsuragi drove in three runs and Minoru Iwata threw his first career complete game, leading the Hanshin Tigers to a 6-2 win over the Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:50 pm
ESHKASHEM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Lunch at Gada Mohammad's single-room mud-brick house in Afghanistan's far north is the same as most other meals: dry bread washed down with tea. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:50 pm
Iran's conservatives have consolidated their election win, taking more seats in a run-off. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:38 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Saturday to cooperate in encouraging North Korea to fully declare its nuclear activities based... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:38 pm
A former teacher at a Muslim school in Maryland was again sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for providing support to a Pakistani terrorist group, even though a federal appeals court had ordered the trial judge to reconsider the original sentence. Source: Digg | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:33 pm
Edubuntu is a customized version of Ubuntu aimed at children in educational environments. According to the distributions homepage, Edubuntu is "Linux for Young Human Beings." That works out well for me, since I have three of those in my house. I homeschool my children and use Edubuntu on a couple of our computers. Source: Digg | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:32 pm
A 53-year-old knuckleballer named Jon Secrist isn't giving up on his goal of pitching in pro baseball, and the St. Paul Saints are giving him another chance. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:32 pm
High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world's elite hackers have warned. Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia's government and some firms last year. Source: Digg | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:31 pm
"Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam email ever." Source: Digg | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:31 pm
Motorists pass by an abandoned house and clinic allegedly owned by Filipino Dr. Alberto Marzan along a national highway at Moncada, Tarlac province in northern Philippines on Friday April 25, 2008. Dr... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:30 pm
Authorities are questioning a 73-year-old driver who sped through a security gate at Miami International Airport and ended up on one of the main runways. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:30 pm
President Bush met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House this week. Bush sounded upbeat about the meeting, but Abbas said any deal brokered by the U.S. on a Palestinian state is unlikely this year. Aaron David Miller of the Wilson Center for International Scholars talks with John Ydstie about what role, if any, the U.S. can play in promoting peace between Israel and its neighbors.
"There's free software and then there's open source," he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its software in developing countries. With open source software, on the other hand, "there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with." Source: Digg | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:28 pm
The owner of an Indiana County pet store is sure of one thing: 25 ornamental pond fish didn't walk away from his aquarium. Mike Pearce, the owner of Pearces' Pet Place in White Township, says someone took the koi sometime between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Tuesday. He says the total value of the fish is $800 to $1,000. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:27 pm
Last night, Congress may have resolved the legislative knot that is the farm bill, which governs the massive presence of the federal government in farming, food and fiber production, nutrition, even the lumber industry. It also involves one of the most complex lobbying operations in Washington. Brian Naylor speaks with John Ydstie from the Capital.
Luck doesn't even to begin to describe golfer Ted Kemp's round on Monday. Kemp, a 12-handicapper, knocked in holes-in-one on back-to-back par 3s at the Muscatine Municipal Golf Course. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:25 pm
XIJIN, China (Reuters) - Chinese media kept up its tough language on the Dalai Lama on Saturday, a day after a surprise offer of talks with his envoys, as analysts expressed caution about whether dialogue would ease tensions in Tibet.
NAGANO, Japan (Reuters) - Crowds of Chinese students waving red flags scuffled with pro-Tibet protesters and Japanese nationalists in Saturday's leg of the Olympic torch relay.
NAGANO, Japan, April 26 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING, ADDING CITIZEN'S COMMENTS, CHANGING ORDERS) The Japan leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay ended Saturday in Nagano, central Japan,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:22 pm
An overpowering bad odor at a Bank of America branch office in New Milford prompted an emergency response from state environmental officials who discovered a bad check. It wasn't a check that was fake. It was smelly. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:21 pm
Kimi Raikkonen produces a blistering final lap to qualify in pole position for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:17 pm
Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama head into the Indiana and North Carolina primaries next month. Amy Walter, editor-in-chief of The Hotline daily political brief, talks with John Ydstie about which voters might give a boost to either Democratic presidential candidate.
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The teenage daughter of a Hamas chief was killed and eight people wounded in a dawn Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health officials and Hamas said on Saturday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:05 pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The U.S. military reported a relative lull in fighting Saturday, a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said his threat of an "open war" applied only to American-led foreign troops.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:58 pm
LONDON (AFP) - A North Sea pipeline which supplies around 40 percent of Britain's oil and gas as well as international markets will shut down within hours because of a strike, operator BP said Saturday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:48 pm
A swimmer is killed by a shark in the Pacific Ocean, a few miles north of San Diego, California. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:41 pm
The Dalai Lama welcomed China's offer to meet his envoy and said the two sides needed to talk seriously about how to resolve the problems that triggered riots in the Tibetan capital last month.
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's main opposition party said Saturday it had retained a historic victory over President Robert Mugabe's ruling party and accused the authorities of stepping up a campaign of violence. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:26 pm
Russia's Anna Chakvetadze reacts during the Fed Cup semifinal tennis match against U.S.'s Vania King, unseen, in Moscow, Saturday, April 26, 2008. Anna Chakvetadze won 6-4, 7-5. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:22 pm
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama said on Friday he would fine-tune his U.S. presidential campaign and remind voters of his humble roots after a defeat in Pennsylvania fueled in part by his failure to win over working-class voters.
Zimbabwe's electoral commission said that a recount of votes for 10 parliamentary seats confirmed the original results, including opposition victories, making it unlikely that the ruling party can wrest control of parliament.
A South Korean protester wearing Chinese police uniform, center, and former North Korean defectors, wearing a mask, participate in a rally against Beijing Olympics at Olympic Park in Seoul, South Korea,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:16 pm
Demonstrators, hold banners that read, 'No to nuclear power station', and chant slogans in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, April 26, 2008. Environmentalists and peace activists gathered in Istanbul's Asian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:11 pm
Demonstrators, hold banners that read, 'No to nuclear power station', and chant slogans in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, April 26, 2008. Environmentalists and peace activists gathered in Istanbul's Asian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:09 pm
Pakistan's famous human right activists Asma Jehangir, center, greets to the family members of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner who is facing execution on spy charges in Pakistan, upon their arrival... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:03 pm
A villager harvests wheat on the outskirt of Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, April 26, 2008. In recent months, a 20 kilogram (44 lbs) sack of wheat flour has risen to Rs. 400 (US$6.50) from its usual... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:57 am
Zimbabwe: Recounts for 10 parliamentary seats confirm original results; opposition still ahead Source: ABC News: International | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:57 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's electoral commission said Saturday that a recount of votes for 10 parliamentary seats confirmed the original results, including opposition victories, making it unlikely that the ruling party can wrest control of parliament.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:56 am
Exile Tibetans line the streets to welcome the Dalai Lama, in co-driver's seat, on his arrival in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, April 26, 2008. The Dalai Lama said Saturday he welcomed China's offer to meet... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian conservatives won a big majority in parliament after two rounds of elections, according to final results Saturday, but the chamber could still prove critical of controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
Map of Georgia showing the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The UN Security Council will meet over Georgia's accusation that Russia shot down one of its unmanned spy planes, as Moscow... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean defectors vowed Saturday to disrupt the South Korean leg of the Olympic torch relay in protest of China's repatriation of refugees to the North where they could face execution.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli forces entered a northern Gaza town early Saturday and seized a local Hamas leader from his home amid heavy fighting with Palestinian gunmen, Hamas militants and a Palestinian health official said. The wanted man's 14-year-old daughter was killed in the clashes.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:32 am
A 14-year-old girl was killed Saturday as Israeli forces seized a local Hamas leader from his Gaza home amid heavy fighting with Palestinian gunmen, Hamas militants and a health official said.
Sarah Rainsford reflects on tough legislation in Turkey forcing many in the pork industry out of business. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Microsoft's unwanted courtship of Yahoo hits a critical point Saturday as a deadline arrives for the struggling Internet pioneer to accept the software giant's 44.6 billion dollar takeover offer. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:15 am
Doctors tend to the wounded bus passengers. The death toll from the bus blast rose to 26 as Sri Lanka warned of more indiscriminate attacks against civilians while security forces remained locked in combat... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:13 am
A court-martial panel on Friday found a U.S. soldier not guilty in the killing of an unarmed Iraqi during a raid on a suspected insurgent hideout last year. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
President Robert Mugabe's party has failed to win back control of Zimbabwe's parliament in a partial vote recount, official results showed on Saturday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 Apr 2008 | 10:51 am
Russia's North Caucasus is largely off-limits to foreign journalists, but James Rodgers has been to the region. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 10:49 am
Turkey's air force bombs Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, saying they were trying to launch operations against Turkey. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 10:46 am
The Green Revolution made the Punjab India's richest farmland but cancer fears have soured the dream says David Loyn. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 10:35 am
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish warplanes and artillery units struck Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq who were preparing to cross the border to carry out attacks, the military said Saturday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 10:26 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman has submitted a $580 million bid for Tribune Co's Newsday daily newspaper on Long Island, New York, matching a bid by News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, according to a source familiar with the matter.
BERLIN (AP) -- Berlin's Tempelhof airport has had a special connection with the city's people since it opened in 1923.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 9:32 am
Another earthquake in the Reno area has dumped cans off shelves, knocked pictures off walls and sent rocks off hillsides. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 Apr 2008 | 9:08 am
Another earthquake in the Reno area has dumped cans off shelves, knocked pictures off walls and sent rocks off hillsides. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 Apr 2008 | 9:08 am
Afghan President Hamid Karzai criticized the U.S. and British conduct of the war in Afghanistan, insisting that his government must be accorded the lead in policy decisions. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 Apr 2008 | 8:43 am
Heavy security and a large contingent of pro-Chinese supporters thwarted protesters who tried to disrupt the Japanese leg of the Olympic torch relay Saturday.
NAGANO (AFP) - Protesters hurled rubbish and flares Saturday at the Beijing Olympic torch and brawled with Chinese supporters in a chaotic Japanese leg of the troubled round-the-world relay. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 26 Apr 2008 | 7:53 am
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Police swarmed a Rio de Janeiro slum in search of a drug lord on Friday, touching off a shootout that killed 11 people including a 70-year-old woman, Brazil's government news agency said. Two bystanders were wounded.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 7:41 am
TORONTO (AP) -- Toronto Transit Commission workers went on strike after voting against a tentative contract agreement, a surprise development that paralyzed public transportation in Canada's biggest city.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 7:40 am
The deadly attack on a 66-year-old swimmer had all the hallmarks of a great white, authorities say. It's the first death attributed to a shark in San Diego County since 1994.
The attack was swift and deadly. A shark expert who examined the mangled body said the bite marks showed the classic pattern of a great white: Strike from underneath and then retreat quickly.
The state will search its database for relatives of unidentified suspects in hopes of developing leads. Critics voice privacy concerns.
California will adopt the most aggressive approach in the nation to a controversial crime-fighting technique that uses DNA to try to identify elusive criminals through their relatives, state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown announced Friday.
A study of murals in the Bamian caves in Afghanistan shows that oil-based paint was used perhaps 800 years before it appeared in Europe in the 15th century.
The technique of painting in oils was developed in Asia as long as 800 years before it appeared in Europe, according to a new analysis of murals found inside caves at Bamian in Afghanistan.
The report, prepared by a youth group with help from Loyola Marymount, says that the conditions of their schools is contributing to a loss of hope and drive.
A survey of 6,008 South Los Angeles high school students shows that many are frightened by violence in school, deeply dissatisfied with their choices of college preparatory classes, and -- perhaps most striking -- exhibit symptoms of clinical depression.
Stars such as Danica Patrick, who notched up her first win last week, may help female athletes finally break the barrier and compete with men for lucrative endorsements.
Race car driver Danica Patrick finally beat the boys at their own game Sunday, grabbing the checkered flag at the Indy Japan 300. And, thousands of miles away in Florida, golfer Lorena Ochoa tied an LPGA record by notching her fourth consecutive tour victory.
Supercar Life leads the all-access drive for dream machines at almost $5,000 a spin. For exotic car fans, it's a chance to switch from one high speed to another.
How much would you pay to puke in a Porsche 997 Turbo?
T he advertising flier left no doubt about its pitch: a giant marijuana leaf with a phone number that ended GOT KUSH. A friend's teenage daughter brought it home from last weekend's Earth Day celebration on the Santa Monica Pier.
A surge of nationalism and warmer opinions of Beijing are emerging among some migrants in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
It was far from the biggest protest in Los Angeles. But when more than 1,000 demonstrators including students, business people and engineers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia rallied in front of CNN's Hollywood headquarters a week ago, it marked a milestone for the local Chinese community.
A suspected terrorist who scored a legal victory against the Government this
week is a senior al-Qaeda operative living openly in London, security
agencies say. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Apr 2008 | 6:00 am
Britain forced Zimbabwe on to the UN Security Council agenda yesterday as
regional efforts to resolve the election stand-off faltered. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Apr 2008 | 6:00 am
The era of the amateur landlord has all but ended, with banks effectively
refusing to lend to new entrants to the buy-to-let market. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Apr 2008 | 6:00 am
Somewhere in Kilburn, North London, a Frenchman, a Spaniard, a German and I
are eating sandwiches and waiting for an audience with Gwyneth Paltrow. The
house, of course, is not Gywnnie’s. Oscar-winning actresses, particularly
those with such over-developed privacy issues they won’t appear in public
with their own husbands, would never sanction such intimacy. Instead, this
is a home rented out for photo shoots and thus the owner has crammed it with
a lens-grabbing mishmash of Perspex tables, tailor’s dummies, black flock
wallpaper and absurd sofas, as if Salvador Dalí had styled a bordello. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Apr 2008 | 6:00 am
Motorists were this morning warned not to panic buy at the pumps on the eve of
a planned strike at one of Britain’s biggest oil refineries. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 26 Apr 2008 | 6:00 am
Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon, a former ambassador to Chile under President Clinton, is joining the Illinois senator's national finance committee.
One of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's major fundraisers, who was ambassador to Chile under President Clinton, is defecting from the campaign and joining Sen. Barack Obama's national finance committee, campaign aides said Friday.
Tony Parker had a career-high 41 points along with 12 assists and San Antonio routed Phoenix 115-99 on Friday night to take a 3-0 lead in their first-round series.
The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies -- African Americans and wealthy liberals. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 26 Apr 2008 | 5:15 am
Harvest House in downtown Harare had become a refuge for Zimbabwean opposition supporters who were fleeing violence meted out by the henchmen of President Robert Mugabe.
Yesterday armed riot police swooped on the building, rounding... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 26 Apr 2008 | 1:18 am
Iran is ratcheting up its support for militias in Iraq, providing them with newly manufactured weapons and bringing them across the border to receive training from members of Tehran's elite Republican Guard, U.S. military officials said.
How's one school in Indiana helping kids 8,000 miles away get a hearty lunch? They're playing word games online, at FreeRice.com. Allen Pizzey visits one Ugandan school benefitting from American kids playing games.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged key players in Iraq on Friday to keep violence down and to put aside party, ethnic and sectarian interests so a real political dialogue and national reconciliation can take place.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:29 am
Motorists were urged not to panic-buy fuel last night as a strike by refinery workers forced BP to begin the closure of Britain's largest oil pipeline. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
The mother of a disabled young man is believed to have hidden his body in a suitcase in her back garden for up to four months, it emerged today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
A pipeline which carries 30 per cent of Britain's output from North Sea oil fields is to be shut down tonight. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Heather Wardle killed herself because she feared she was about to be exposed for hiding her son's body in the garden, a friend has said. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
The United States navy fired warning shots at two Iranian boats in the Gulf yesterday in the worst confrontation yet in the world's busiest oil shipping lanes. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
A former Miss United Kingdom from Staffordshire has joined the ranks of Britain's wealthiest people, in the Sunday Times Rich List 2008. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 26 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo prisoner accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks has met for the first time with the U.S. military lawyer assigned to defend him on war crimes charges that could lead to his execution, the attorney said on Friday.
Three New York City detectives were found not guilty on Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man killed in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day, prompting angry reactions and a federal review of the case.
A New York... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 11:38 pm
In Alabama, there's a new battle brewing in the immigration debate. Some counties have decided to enforce a decade-old law that requires a Social Security card to get a marriage license. The Catholic Church says this has led to a surge of couples living in sin.
A 66-year-old man was attacked and killed by a shark in the ocean near San Diego on Friday, the first person to die in a shark encounter off Southern California in nearly 50 years.
The victim, identified as retired veterinarian... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 10:06 pm
Two years ago, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new strategy for immigration enforcement. It said it would start bringing criminal charges against companies that employ illegal workers. Since then, there's been a dramatic increase in raids on businesses, but few prosecutions against employers.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday he failed to achieve any progress in Middle East peace talks with President Bush and he was returning home with little to show for his visit.
Around 3000 New Zealanders and Australians attended the first joint Anzac Day dawn service at the New Zealand War Memorial in London overnight.
The Duke of Kent represented the Queen at the wreath laying ceremony.
Earlier in... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:17 pm
The Pakistani government and elders of a militant tribe on the border of Afghanistan are negotiating a pact that would expel foreign members of al-Qaida, but not home-grown members of the Taliban. The hope is to rein in domestic attacks organized by Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who is accused of being behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Three New York City police officers charged in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell are acquitted of all charges Friday. The undercover police officers fired 50 shots at Bell and two of his friends as they left a club on the morning of what was to be Bell's wedding day. The victims were all unarmed.
Microsoft Corp. is offering $44.6 billion in cash and stock for search engine operator Yahoo Inc. in a move to boost its competitive edge in the online services market.
Puddles, the winsome looking (and apparently not entirely house-trained) Shih Tzu puppy at the centre of America's most talked about custody struggle, is going home - by orders of the bench.
Those happy tidings come from the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 8:48 pm
The Israeli air force - the best in the Middle East - has to prepare for anything says one of its officers, because if Israel loses just one war, it will cease to exist. Bob Simon reports.
Spain's new Defence Minister Carme Chacon has banned her staff from using ministry computers to trawl sports and leisure websites during office hours.
The military has fiercely opposed the measure and accuses the minister of censorship.... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 8:15 pm
Zimbabwean security forces have staged a series of violent raids on critics of President Robert Mugabe, arresting hundreds of opposition activists, election monitors and even hospital patients. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 25 Apr 2008 | 7:19 pm
Tariq Aziz, one of the most famous faces of Saddam Hussein's regime, is to go on trial next week accused of ordering the execution of 42 merchants for increasing food prices in 1992.
Aziz was the former deputy prime minister and... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 7:15 pm
Syria's president scoffed at U.S. claims that his country was building a nuclear reactor at a site attacked by Israel seven months ago, according to excerpts of an interview published.
The post of United Nations Secretary-General is not exactly a low-profile job.
But the world's top diplomat, Ban Ki Moon of South Korea, is struggling for name recognition more than a year after taking over from Kofi Annan.
Ban's... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 6:15 pm
The economy may be souring across the country, but western Kansas is thriving. Thanks to record oil prices and soaring prices for grain, home values are up, foreclosures and unemployment are down, and gas-guzzling trucks are flying off the lot.
Damaged after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Baghdad Zoo has made a startling comeback, and thousands of Iraqis are flocking there to escape the city's grungy streets. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Apr 2008 | 5:35 pm
The Conservatives in Britain have opened up their biggest opinion poll lead since former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's heyday in October 1987.
David Cameron's Tories now have an 18 point lead according to a YouGov poll for... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 5:15 pm
Starvation in African countries often stems from food shortages caused by war. Now people in some of the poorest countries in the world fear starvation for another reason - globally spiralling food prices.
Already there have been... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
Heavily armed police raided opposition headquarters in Harare, beating, shoving and arresting scores of people, opposition officials said. Independent election observers were hit at the same time.
"I will do whatever it takes to get those children back," says a mother from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Child Protective Services has dozens of children from the ranch.
Two people arrested on suspicion of murdering disabled James Hughes have been released without charge. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 25 Apr 2008 | 4:57 pm
China agreed Friday to meet an envoy of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, bending to rising calls for talks after weeks of anti-government protests by his supporters that threatened to tarnish the Beijing Olympics. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Apr 2008 | 4:45 pm
Widespread protests along the Olympic torch relay route and reports of foiled terrorist plots in China suggest a real possibility for violence during the Beijing games, the head of Interpol said.
The top U.S. military official accused Iran of increasing arms and training support to insurgents in Iraq as well as militants battling U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
When most schoolgirls were playing with their Barbie dolls, Amanda Brooks was dreaming of growing up to be a prostitute. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Apr 2008 | 4:02 pm
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for an end to clashes between his militia fighters and Iraqi troops, saying Friday that his threat of an "open war" applied only to U.S.-led foreign forces. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Apr 2008 | 3:28 pm
Scores of heavily armed police raided opposition headquarters in Harare on Friday, forcibly taking hundreds into custody and arresting 300 people, opposition officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Apr 2008 | 2:50 pm
He was tied this year to one of the largest securities scandals in history and faces charges ranging from forgery to unauthorized computer use, yet the former trader at French bank Societe Generale is gainfully employed, again. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Apr 2008 | 2:15 pm
A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Apr 2008 | 1:56 pm
AP - The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday lambasted the judge who acquitted three police officers in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed man on his wedding day, saying a jury should been seated to decide guilt or innocence.
AP - President Bush said tax rebates will start going out Monday, earlier than previously announced, and should help Americans cope with rising gasoline and food prices, as well as aid a slumping economy.
AP - The Dalai Lama said Saturday he welcomed China's offer to meet his envoy and said the two sides needed to talk seriously about how to resolve the problems that triggered riots in the Tibetan capital last month.
AP - The electoral road to the White House favors Democrats this fall either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton and has Republican John McCain playing defense to thwart a presidential power shift.
AP - Swimmers, surfers and casual beachgoers know now a great white shark might be lurking below the glassy blue surface of the ocean here.
AP - Elliott Reed said the scene was surreal: As he walked toward the Chicago Transit Authority train station in the midst of an otherwise normal, busy rush hour, a tractor trailer exiting a nearby expressway made a sudden and violent detour.
Swimmers, surfers and casual beachgoers know now a great white shark might be lurking below the glassy blue surface of the ocean here.
AP - Amy Winehouse left a London police station Saturday after questioning about reports that she scuffled with two men during a raucous night out. She received a formal police caution for assault.
AP - President Bush said Saturday that the credit crunch is threatening the availability of student loans. He said his administration is doing what it can to help with emergency loans but prodded Congress for authority to do more.
AP - Joe Flacco sat near Brett Favre and Matt Hasselbeck and didn't flinch. He didn't appear intimidated and he held his own while joking with the star quarterbacks. Flacco appeared at a quasi-roast for Favre on Friday. One day later, the spotlight was to shift to the NFL draft, and neither the former Green Bay quarterback or the Seattle signal-caller would be a topic.
A 14-year-old girl was killed Saturday as Israeli forces seized a local Hamas leader from his Gaza home amid heavy fighting with Palestinian gunmen, Hamas militants and a health official said.
Heavy security and a large contingent of pro-Chinese supporters thwarted protesters who tried to disrupt the Japanese leg of the Olympic torch relay Saturday.
Tony Parker had a career-high 41 points along with 12 assists and San Antonio routed Phoenix 115-99 on Friday night to take a 3-0 lead in their first-round series.