Candidates' representatives in Zimbabwe's presidential election are summoned to review the delayed results. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 1:13 pm
LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices hit a historic peak close to 120 dollars on Monday as energy supplies were disrupted in Britain and Nigeria, traders said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 28 Apr 2008 | 1:13 pm
It didn’t take long for Miley Cyrus fans (and their parents) to become outraged over racy photos of the 15-year-old that appear in the June issue of Vanity Fair.
Peter Bernstein has witnessed just about every financial crisis of the past century. Mr. Bernstein says, is worse than he has seen since the Depression and threatens to roil markets into 2009 and beyond -- longer than many people expect. Source: Digg | 28 Apr 2008 | 1:06 pm
AMSTETTEN, Austria (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police said on Monday.
It's alive. Reader Patrick is lucky enough to be using one of the few Psystar Open Computing machines that have made it into the wild, and he was generous enough to make a video showing the machine (including the connections in the back to the monitor to show that it's legit). It's also pretty fast. Source: Digg | 28 Apr 2008 | 1:03 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - Two passenger trains collided in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds as carriages jumped the tracks and toppled into a ditch, state media said.
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli fire hit a house in the Gaza Strip on Monday while a family was eating breakfast, killing six Palestinians, including four children and their mother, residents and medical officials said.
(Kyodo) _ A 48-year-old Japanese man was served a fresh arrest warrant Monday on suspicion of killing a Filipina woman whose body he also allegedly dismembered at an apartment in Tokyo's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:58 pm
AP - Candy maker Mars Inc. says it's buying confectioner Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. in an all-cash deal valued at almost $23 billion. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:54 pm
DETROIT (Reuters) - Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, said on Sunday critics portraying him as "divisive" and "bombastic" misunderstood the black church and represented a discredited tradition of intolerance in American public life.
Candy maker Mars Inc. says it’s buying confectioner Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. in an all-cash deal valued at almost $23 billion. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:50 pm
AMSTETTEN (AFP) - An elderly Austrian, portrayed by media as a "monster", confessed Monday to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, prosecutors said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:50 pm
AFP - An elderly Austrian, portrayed by media as a "monster", confessed Monday to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, prosecutors said.
Managers might think the lines of communication are open, but an unwillingness to listen to tough issues leaves many underlings fearful of speaking frankly
Reuters - Two passenger trains collided in
eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and
injuring hundreds as carriages jumped the tracks and toppled
into a ditch, state media said.
AP - Fire crews battling a wildfire had a close call early Monday as winds, which had been fairly tame, unexpectedly kicked up and sent flames within yards of several houses.
(Kyodo) _ A ceremony was held Monday in Kobe, western Japan, to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the first emigrant ship Kasato Maru to depart Japan for Brazil from the port of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:33 pm
Intellectual capital is what business is all about in the knowledge economy. Yet as with any new field of knowledge, there’s a lot of hype about the benefits that recent developments in brain science might bring—for example, the popular notion that executives can become better leaders by emulating the “management” secrets of the human brain. Source: Digg | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:33 pm
An Austrian engineer has confessed to fathering seven children on his own
daughter and keeping them captive in the cellar, Austrian police said today. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:32 pm
Two U.S. Navy sailors patrol near some flight jets aboard U.S. aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor Monday, April 28, 2008. USS Kitty Hawk has sailed to Hong Kong Monday on a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:30 pm
Indian policemen search for the dead bodies of the rebels in Palhalan, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Srinagar, India, Monday, April 28, 2008. Police say government forces have killed a top suspected... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:30 pm
AP - Those long-promised tax rebates are now on their way to U.S. taxpayers. People who chose to have their rebates directly deposited into their bank accounts will see the money there beginning Monday. The government's paper checks will start going out on May 9, a week earlier than previously announced.
Luzhniki Olympic Stadium workers unload a piece of turf to build up the soccer field, Sunday, April 27, 2008. The Luzhniki Olympic Stadium will host the Champions League Final soccer match on May 21, 2008... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:28 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH INFO ON CAUSE OF CRASH, NUMBER OF CARRIAGES DERAILED, RESCUE EFFORTS) At least 70 people were killed and 420 injured in the collision of two trains in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:28 pm
Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is under way on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant. Source: Digg | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:25 pm
Striking workers stand outside the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland Monday April 28, 2008. British Petroleum PLC on Sunday shut down a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain's North Sea... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:24 pm
Reuters - Zimbabwe election officials expect to
complete a partial recount from the disputed presidential poll
on Monday so candidates can start verifying the results,
electoral officials said.
At least 70 people die in a collision between two passenger trains in eastern China, state media say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:24 pm
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe election officials expect to complete a partial recount from the disputed presidential poll on Monday so candidates can start verifying the results, electoral officials said.
At least seven people, including four young children, are killed by an Israeli missile strike in northern Gaza. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:20 pm
In this Nov. 1, 2007 file photo , workers change the display of gasoline prices at a gas station of PetroChina in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. PetroChina said Monday, April 28, 2008,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:18 pm
AMSTETTEN, Austria (AP) -- A man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in windowless cell with a soundproofed door and fathering seven children with her, police said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:14 pm
In this Sept. 1, 2005 file photo, a Chinese worker from the Bank of China uses his mobile phone at the bank's booth during a financial exposition held in Beijing. Bank of China Ltd., China's second-biggest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:11 pm
Spain's pregnant Defense Minister Carme Chacon, left, walks in front of soldiers of the Spanish United Nations peacekeeping force, at their base in Blatt village, near the southern town of Marjayoun, southeastern... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:10 pm
Top Taleban commander Baitullah Mehsud halts talks with Pakistan's government, his spokesman says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:10 pm
A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police said on Monday.
An Austrian has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar and fathering her seven children, police say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:08 pm
AP - Miley Cyrus is taking issue with a photo of herself that's going around, and it's not another amateur, truth-or-dare Internet snapshot it's the handiwork of Annie Leibovitz.
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John
McCain on Monday will argue the way to improve U.S. health-care
coverage lies in lowering costs and increasing competition
rather than the "big-government" schemes he says the Democrats
advocate.
MIAMI (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday will argue the way to improve U.S. health-care coverage lies in lowering costs and increasing competition rather than the "big-government" schemes he says the Democrats advocate.
Bosnian Muslim woman weaves a woolen carpet at the Bosfam handicraft workshop in the Bosnian town of Tuzla, 70 kms north of Sarajevo, on Monday, April 28, 2008. The Bosfam workshop was founded... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:05 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed 38 fighters in a day of battles in northeastern Baghdad as militants took advantage of dust storms to launch apparently coordinated assaults.
BEIJING (AP) -- A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 400. Authorities were quoted as saying human error was to blame.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:04 pm
AP - A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 400. Authorities were quoted as saying human error was to blame.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Fierce clashes between Shiite militiamen and US and Iraqi forces in east Baghdad killed at least 38 people, the American military said on Monday, amid new political efforts to end the bloodletting. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:04 pm
Hungary's Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany announces a cabinet reshuffle in the Parliament Building after the junior coalition party voted to quit the government in Budapest, Hungary, Monday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:03 pm
A few years ago, there was a rush to buy property in sun-drenched Lee County, Fla. Bidding wars were common for homes that hadn't even been built yet. But those days are over, and the market now is clogged with thousands of unsold homes. The decline is so extreme that people are looking for ways to walk away from their properties.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - More American women are entering pregnancy with diabetes, raising the odds of a problem pregnancy and the potential that their children will become diabetic in the future, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
A court in Somalia's Puntland region gives seven pirates life sentences in prison for seizing a UAE ship last week. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
Kenya's government agrees to increase pay for striking prison warders, who are threatening to release convicts. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:59 am
Reuters - A wildfire that began along a
popular hiking trail forced 1,000 people to evacuate their
homes in the hills northeast of Los Angeles on Sunday,
officials said.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A wildfire that began along a popular hiking trail forced 1,000 people to evacuate their homes in the hills northeast of Los Angeles on Sunday, officials said.
A 17-year-old Iraqi girl was murdered by her father in an honour killing after falling in love with a British soldier she met while working on an aid programme in Basra, it has been claimed.Rand Abdel-Qader was stamped upon, suffocated and stabbed by her father, then given an unceremonious burial to emphasise her disgrace... Source: Digg | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:58 am
ZIBO (AFP) - Seventy people were killed and 420 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:57 am
Jack Straw today became the first senior Cabinet minister to say sorry for the
10p tax rate fiasco. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:56 am
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam is ending a child adoption agreement with the United States after being accused of allowing baby-selling and corruption, officials said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
Vietnam is ending a child adoption agreement with the United States after being accused of allowing baby-selling and corruption, officials said Monday. The agreement was being... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
Lawyers in Zimbabwe appealed for the release of some 200 jailed opposition activists on Monday as officials defied pressure from the West to release the results of last month's presidential Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, sitting right, and Turkmenistan's counterpart Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov sign the documents of their accords at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:52 am
(Kyodo) _ Police have arrested a 73-year-old man in Austria on suspicion of imprisoning his daughter in a cellar and abusing her for 24 years, a police official said Sunday evening. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:50 am
Even privacy-conscious users freely hand over personal information every time they download and install one of the thousands of third-party mini programs
The Pistons rallied to get even, the Cavs and the Hornets took commanding leads and the Suns stayed alive yesterday in the NBA playoffs. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:47 am
"Actors Helen Hunt and Colin Firth were in a naked embrace on the set of forthcoming film 'Then She Found Me' but the mood was ruined when a crew member suffered a bout of extremely loud flatulence. Helen said: 'What just happened?' Some noble soul put his hand up and admitted that they did it." 'Pics or it didn't happen!' comment in 4, 3, 2... Source: Digg | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
Another day, another high.The average price for gasoline on Long Island is at a record-setting $3.791 a gallon for regular, says the AAA. And diesel? Fuhgeddaboutit: It averaged $4.648 a gallon.But where is all that cash going? Source: Digg | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
The European Commission downgrades eurozone growth forecasts again, blaming financial market turmoil. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:43 am
Hundreds of protesters in Indonesia set fire to a mosque belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:42 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH DEPARTURE OF FLAME FROM PYONGYANG, ADDING DETAILS) The Olympic flame on Monday traveled through Pyongyang as flag-waving masses cheered on, in a sharp... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:42 am
An Austrian man has admitted imprisoning his daughter in an underground dungeon for 24 years and fathering all seven of her children, it was reported today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:42 am
The controversial former pastor of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama hits back at his critics. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama must drop out of the Democratic presidential race after the June primaries in order to unify the party by the convention and win the election in November. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:40 am
Verizon Communications Inc.'s first-quarter earnings rose 9.8 percent as its wireless division attracted more customers than other carriers. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:39 am
"I'm an originalist and a textualist, not a nut," the Supreme Court justice says in a rare interview. He breaks down why he believes it is important to "destroy" wrong opinions and why he won't be John McCain's running mate.
Business Class desktop PCs to be followed by notebooks in the second half of this year; new line is part of company's efforts to regain competitive edge against Intel after disastrous 2007
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- An Israeli tank shell slammed into a tiny Gaza Strip home Monday during a skirmish with gunmen, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children as they prepared to sit down for breakfast, officials and relatives said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:25 am
Technology is moulding a generation of children unable to think for themselves or empathise with others, says the leading brain scientist Susan Greenfield. Is it time to switch off? Source: Digg | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:25 am
TOKYO, April 28 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING COMMENTS) The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the New Komeito party, reaffirmed Monday their plan to reinstate... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:24 am
The Supreme Court is meeting to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
(Kyodo) _ ---------- Idemitsu to hike gasoline price by 32 yen on revival of extra tax TOKYO - Major Japanese oil distributor Idemitsu Kosan Co. said Monday it will raise its wholesale Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's company says it plans to make a cash offer of $8.50 per share for up to 20 million shares of Ford Motor Co. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:21 am
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright got a warm reception Sunday night at an annual Detroit NAACP dinner. Past comments from the former pastor of Barack Obama's church have caused controversy for the Democratic presidential candidate. In his speech Sunday, Wright talked about cultural differences and the changes needed to heal the country.
(Kyodo) _ ---------- India successfully launches 10 satellites in single mission NEW DELHI - India successfully launched 10 satellites on Monday using a single launch vehicle, the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:20 am
The government of Iran is closely watching the fate of the Iranian opposition group living at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Although the government views the group as a threat, some Iranians see the situation differently. An Iranian NGO is trying to help them return to Iran.
India's widespread practice of aborting female fetuses is a "national shame," the prime minister said Monday, insisting the country can no longer ignore the problem if it wants to be a modern nation. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:17 am
Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has protected Camp Ashraf, home to more than 3,000 members of a cult-like exiled Iranian opposition group. They don't want to return to Iran, but Iraqi officials don't want the group there, and no other countries will accept them.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan security officials hunted Monday for suspects in the attempted assassination of President Hamid Karzai during an attack that killed three people and underscored the fragility of his U.S.-backed government.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:15 am
An Austrian man has admitted imprisoning his daughter in an underground dungeon for 24 years and fathering all seven of her children, it was reported today. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:14 am
Japanese electronics maker Matsushita's profit more than doubled in the January-March quarter, buoyed by strong sales of cell phones, flat-panel TVs and DVD players, the company said Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
The European Union expects inflation to rise by more than a full point this year to 3.2 percent, pushed higher by soaring energy and food prices. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:01 am
Mourners filed past Army Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin's coffin Sunday in Cincinnati. His remains were found in Iraq last month, nearly four years after he was captured by insurgents.
At a festival in Vittel, French people celebrated the culinary delights of frog legs. But as Mort Rosenblum, founding editor of the magazine Dispatches, the nation's love for "cuisses de grenouille" is fading.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:57 am
Hundreds of protesters chanting "Kill, kill" set fire Monday to an Indonesian mosque belonging to a Muslim sect they claim is heretical, police said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:45 am
U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 38 militants in fierce clashes with militants in Baghdad, including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold, the U.S. military said Monday.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- American and Iraqi troops killed 38 militants in the fiercest clashes with militants in weeks in Baghdad, including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold, the U.S. military said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:37 am
Police stopped a car carrying weapons and ammunition from Kosovo toward Macedonia on Monday and arrested four Kosovo Albanians, authorities said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:35 am
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission sharply raised its 2008 inflation estimate for the eurozone to 3.2 percent while trimming back only slightly its growth forecast to 1.7 percent. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:34 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Koreans waved flags, plastic flowers and danced in the streets of Pyongyang to welcome the Olympic torch on Monday after the destitute state had promised its main benefactor China an "astonishing" show.
A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and hit into another train in China on Monday, killing at least 66 people and injuring hundreds. Authorities blamed human error.
Kris Marshall, the star of My Family, is recovering from head injuries in
hospital today after being hit by a car, police confirmed. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:04 am
Last week's Pennsylvania primary was good news for Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is hoping to pick up a win in North Carolina's primary May 6. It's a state where Obama holds a sizable lead, but Clinton is making headway.
Taxpayers this week will start receiving payments from the federal government that are supposed to help stimulate the weakening economy. Some stores are offering special deals to consumers who swap their payments for gift cards.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt Sunday from an assassination attempt for which the Taliban took responsibility. Three people were killed in the attack, which occurred at an official celebration in the nation's capital.
Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, federal investigators say. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 28 Apr 2008 | 9:53 am
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Assured of a trip free of anti-Chinese protests, the Olympic torch made its first-ever relay run Monday in authoritarian North Korea.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 28 Apr 2008 | 9:30 am
At least 66 people have been killed and hundreds injured after two passenger trains derailed and tumbled into a ditch after colliding in eastern China. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 28 Apr 2008 | 9:30 am
Afghan security forces have detained hundreds of suspects in Kabul, following
Sunday's failed assassination attempt against President Hamid Karzai. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 28 Apr 2008 | 9:28 am
A helicopter belonging to Ukraine’s state gas company crashed into the Black Sea, leaving 19 people dead, a company official said Monday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 28 Apr 2008 | 9:26 am
Hillary Rodham Clinton said the assassination attempt Sunday on the Afghan president shows that the United States has failed to give proper attention to Afghanistan.
Sean and Amelie McCann still search the house for their missing sister Madeleine one year after her disappearance, their mother Kate has disclosed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 28 Apr 2008 | 8:27 am
SEOUL (AFP) - China's close ally North Korea staged an elaborate welcome Monday for the Beijing Olympic torch, mobilising tens of thousands of cheering citizens and criticising protests elsewhere in the world. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 28 Apr 2008 | 8:24 am
A high-speed passenger train en route to a Chinese coastal resort has jumped
the tracks and slammed into another, killing at least 66 people and injuring
hundreds in the worst rail accident in the country in a decade. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 28 Apr 2008 | 8:16 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An experimental gene therapy has helped restore partial vision to people with congenital retinal disease, according to breakthrough studies which provides hope for treating various eye illnesses. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 28 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
A key Republican says evidence alleging North Korea's link to a site in Syria is a bid to gain leverage in nuclear talks.
A senior Republican congressman assailed the Bush administration Sunday for the timing and nature of its charges that North Korea helped Syria build a secret nuclear weapons facility.
Two minor injuries to firefighters are reported. Rescue helicopters make five trips to ferry revelers to safety. Blaze has burned 400 mountainous acres.
They may have a fire in their hearts for each other, but the couple who led their friends and family into the Angeles National Forest on Saturday for their wedding and reception did not expect an actual conflagration nearby.
His comments follow weeks of speculation that the carrier would join with United.
Continental Airlines Inc. said Sunday that it would not pursue a combination with another carrier right away, a surprising move after weeks of growing speculation that it would join with United Airlines to create the world's biggest airline.
The brazen attack at a public ceremony attended by local and foreign dignitaries raises questions about security despite a boost in international and Afghan troop strength.
The attempted assassination Sunday of President Hamid Karzai deepened fears that Islamic militants remain able to penetrate the defenses of security forces here despite a boost in international and Afghan troop strength.
Newspapers are full of unattributed accounts of who was involved and who was killed. Mexican officials remain tight-lipped.
On Sunday, following one of the bloodiest days in Tijuana's history, authorities held no news conferences. The death toll in the gangland-style shootings early Saturday between rival drug traffickers increased to 15 from 13, after two men died of their injuries. But not even the names of the dead were released.
The Olympic torch launched its first-ever run Monday in authoritarian North Korea, where the flame was assured of a trouble-free trip unlike other stops worldwide.
The city has little to show for the millions of dollars paid to a developer for the Santa Barbara Plaza project in the Crenshaw district.
It was supposed to have been a model of urban renewal -- a mix of housing and classy stores to replace a decaying 20-acre shopping center at the foot of the affluent Baldwin Hills.
Millions in lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government, investigators say.
BERLIN - An emotion-charged attempt to save Berlin's historic Tempelhof airport from being shut down failed yesterday when not enough of the city's voters backed the measure in a referendum.
Tempelhof, which became a symbol of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 28 Apr 2008 | 2:56 am
BEIJING - A virus outbreak in an eastern Chinese city has killed 19 children and left hundreds ill, state media reported yesterday nearly two months after the outbreak started.
The intestinal virus called "enterovirus 71" or EV71,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 28 Apr 2008 | 2:47 am
LONDON - House prices in England and Wales fell in April to stand slightly lower on a year ago, a survey showed today, in a further sign that the housing market is cooling fast.
Housing researchers Hometrack said house prices were... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 28 Apr 2008 | 2:37 am
LOS ANGELES - A wildfire that began along a popular hiking trail forced 1,000 people to evacuate their homes in the hills northeast of Los Angeles yesterday, officials said.
The cause of the nearly 160-hectare fire, which started... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 28 Apr 2008 | 2:21 am
Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by the Afghan president, unleashing automatic weapons fire that sent foreign dignitaries and senior government members running for cover. Three people were killed and eight others wounded.
BANGKOK - Thai authorities have seized more than a thousand fake Asian and Western passports and arrested a man in one of the biggest anti-counterfeiting operations in recent years, police said yesterday.
Mohammed Karim, a 56-year-old... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 28 Apr 2008 | 1:14 am
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.
OSLO - Tests of the bones of two Viking women found in a buried longboat have dispelled 100-year-old suspicions that one was a maid sacrificed to accompany her queen into the afterlife, experts said on Friday.
The bones indicated... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:22 am
Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner Chelsea Football Club, has submitted plans to build what would be the most expensive private residence in Britain. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Britain faces six weeks of record petrol price rises in the wake of the Grangemouth oil refinery strike, trade experts have warned. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
Kate and Gerry McCann could make £1 million from a book they are planning to write about their life since their daughter Madeleine vanished a year ago, a publisher said yesterday. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:01 am
PERTH - A Perth man has been charged with driving offences after he crashed his car through the roof of a house in the city's south.
An elderly couple was babysitting several of their grandchildren inside the house in Dellette... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:40 pm
An Austrian woman has told police how she was held captive in a cellar for 24 years and abused by her father, falling pregnant seven times. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 27 Apr 2008 | 8:56 pm
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) -- Police detained the owner and manager of a Casablanca mattress factory that went up in flames, killing at least 55 people, a police official said Sunday amid accusations of poor safety standards and locked doors that trapped workers.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 27 Apr 2008 | 8:48 pm
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The top U.S. envoy for Africa urged the international community on Sunday to take a tougher stance against Zimbabwe's longtime leader Robert Mugabe.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:41 a... | 27 Apr 2008 | 8:43 pm
SEOUL - Protests and scuffles greeted the Olympic flame as it began a two-day journey on the divided Korean peninsula yesterday along a route guarded by thousands of riot policeman wielding shields and truncheons.
Thousands of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:22 pm
VIENNA - Austrian police have arrested a man they believe imprisoned his daughter in a windowless basement for 24 years, abused her and fathered seven children with her.
Police said the woman, identified as 42-year-old Elisabeth... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:21 pm
CANBERRA - An Australian Special Forces soldier has been killed and four other soldiers wounded in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan, Chief of Defence Air Marshal Angus Houston announced today.
"He died during the conduct of a patrol... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:20 pm
Iran"s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Pakistani leaders are expected to discuss security issues in the region, including worsening conditions in Afghanistan, and a pipeline project that could send gas flowing to South Asia and, perhaps, China.
Massive gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers who fired at each other while speeding down heavily populated streets of this violent border city early Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine. Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Apr 2008 | 5:45 pm
China heaped more criticism on the Dalai Lama and his followers on Sunday, accusing them of using empty words and concepts as a facade for their goal of independence. Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Apr 2008 | 5:04 pm
The collective wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest people went up by nearly 15 percent last year, and more than half the country's 75 billionaires are foreign-born, according to a list published by the Sunday Times newspaper. Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Apr 2008 | 4:36 pm
Kate and Gerry McCann are to write a book about their life since the night Madeleine vanished during a family holiday in Portugal a year ago, it has been disclosed. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 27 Apr 2008 | 3:46 pm
Orthodox Easter ceremonies took on deeply political undertones as President Vladimir Putin and his chosen successor celebrated the dominant Russian church's most important holiday together Sunday. Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Apr 2008 | 3:19 pm
Tony Blair believes that Gordon Brown cannot beat David Cameron, according to the former Prime Minister's adviser Lord Levy. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 27 Apr 2008 | 2:40 pm
North Korean defector tries to set himself on fire to halt Olympic torch relay in Seoul, where thousands of police guard flame from protesters blasting China's treatment of North Korean refugees. Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Apr 2008 | 2:29 pm
Iran says a U.S. attack is unlikely since Washington has been overwhelmed by its problems Iraq and Afghanistan. Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:49 am
It didn’t take long for Miley Cyrus fans (and their parents) to become outraged over racy photos of the 15-year-old that appear in the June issue of Vanity Fair.
The Democratic Party chairman says one candidate must cede in order to unify the party by the convention and win the election in November.
AFP - An elderly Austrian, portrayed by media as a "monster", confessed Monday to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, prosecutors said.
Reuters - Two passenger trains collided in
eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and
injuring hundreds as carriages jumped the tracks and toppled
into a ditch, state media said.
AP - Fire crews battling a wildfire had a close call early Monday as winds, which had been fairly tame, unexpectedly kicked up and sent flames within yards of several houses.
AP - Those long-promised tax rebates are now on their way to U.S. taxpayers. People who chose to have their rebates directly deposited into their bank accounts will see the money there beginning Monday. The government's paper checks will start going out on May 9, a week earlier than previously announced.
Reuters - Zimbabwe election officials expect to
complete a partial recount from the disputed presidential poll
on Monday so candidates can start verifying the results,
electoral officials said.
A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police said on Monday.
AP - Miley Cyrus is taking issue with a photo of herself that's going around, and it's not another amateur, truth-or-dare Internet snapshot it's the handiwork of Annie Leibovitz.
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John
McCain on Monday will argue the way to improve U.S. health-care
coverage lies in lowering costs and increasing competition
rather than the "big-government" schemes he says the Democrats
advocate.
Reuters - A wildfire that began along a
popular hiking trail forced 1,000 people to evacuate their
homes in the hills northeast of Los Angeles on Sunday,
officials said.
U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 38 militants in fierce clashes with militants in Baghdad, including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold, the U.S. military said Monday.
Assured of a trip free of anti-Chinese protests, the Olympic torch made its first-ever relay run Monday in authoritarian North Korea.
A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and hit into another train in China on Monday, killing at least 66 people and injuring hundreds. Authorities blamed human error.
Hillary Rodham Clinton said the assassination attempt Sunday on the Afghan president shows that the United States has failed to give proper attention to Afghanistan.