The Top Ten today is a compilation of local and national sports facts, stats and opinions
1. Red Sox
* Papelbon 13 pitches / 12 strikes
* I bet Eckstein holds the...
NEW YORK - Carly Simon has more than a passing interest in this season's "American Idol" and leaves no mystery about who's her favorite remaining finalist...
BEIJING - The number of children infected with a deadly virus in eastern China has increased by nearly 700 in the last two days, state media reported Wednesday.
The virus,...
At a news conference Tuesday in North Carolina, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama strongly condemned recent remarks by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In recent days, Wright had sought to defend controversial comments he made in the past.
MUNICH, Germany - Munich police said Wednesday they have seized a large collection of Aztec, Incan and Mayan cultural artifacts that Costa Rican authorities claim were illegally...
Afghan officials in Kabul say they have killed three insurgents linked to Sunday's attack on President Karzai. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 12:04 pm
A survey of media freedom reports losses and gains in E Asia - and North Korea is still bottom of the list. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 12:02 pm
DNA tests performed by a U.S. laboratory have proved that bone fragments exhumed last year belong to the last czar whose family was murdered in 1918 as the country descended...
AP - General Motors Corp. struggled to a $3.3 billion first-quarter loss, due in part to a weak U.S. market, a strike at a major supplier and plummeting sales of sport utility vehicles and pickups.
General Motors Corp. struggled to a $3.3 billion first-quarter loss, due in part to a weak U.S. market, a strike at a major supplier and plummeting sales of sport utility vehicles and pickups. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:58 am
GENEVA (AP) -- Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired - and arguably corrupted - millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:52 am
The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:52 am
HONG KONG (AP) -- The Olympic torch returned to Chinese soil Wednesday after a turbulent 20-nation tour, landing in the bustling financial capital of Hong Kong where officials deported at least seven activists before the flame's arrival.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:50 am
AP - The Olympic torch returned to Chinese soil Wednesday after a turbulent 20-nation tour, landing in the bustling financial capital of Hong Kong where officials deported at least seven activists before the flame's arrival.
AP - A government inspection of slaughterhouses found significant problems with the treatment of cattle and two of the nation's largest beef processors both of which provide meat for the National School Lunch Program were slapped with humane handling violations.
Tensions are growing over Iran's nuclear program and American accusations that it's supporting Iraqi insurgents. As David Martin reports, the U.S. military is ready to send an unmistakable message to Tehran.
"BMW today is proudly — boastfully — showing its M1 Homage, a tribute to a legendary super-sports car that began production 30 years ago. This M1, however, is only a concept." Source: Digg | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:48 am
AP - The Federal Reserve, which began the year aggressively fighting a severe credit crunch and economic weakness, may push the pause button after delivering perhaps one more quarter-point cut in interest rates.
A new inalienable right could be enshrined soon in Ecuador's constitution: the pursuit of sexual happiness for women. Source: Digg | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
OfficeMax says its first-quarter profit climbed 9 percent, helped by a gain from its investment in Boise Cascade. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:45 am
AP - Shannon Elizabeth won't have to shed any more tears over "Dancing With the Stars." The 34-year-old actress, who cried at the judges' harsh remarks last week, was eliminated Tuesday from the ABC dance-off.
Food and drinks maker Kraft Foods Inc. says its first-quarter profit fell 13 percent, compared with the 2007 quarter which included a one-time benefit related to the Altria spinoff. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:45 am
The wife of retired pro-wrestler "Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake" claims accused baseball bad boy Roger Clemens made a pass at her 18 years ago, but the...
Reuters - President Robert Mugabe's government
dismissed the United Nations' first session on Zimbabwe's
election crisis as "sinister, racist and colonial" on Wednesday
and said it would have no impact on the country.
Now Roger Clemens wants us to believe he was just friends with a country music starlet he befriended when she was just 15 years old.
Right. Because 28-year-old men have...
HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's government dismissed the United Nations' first session on Zimbabwe's election crisis as "sinister, racist and colonial" on Wednesday and said it would have no impact on the country.
Prince William 25, piloted a C-17 Globemaster transport plane on part of the flight to Kandahar in the country's troubled south. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:43 am
The date is January 28, 1932. Haaretz' correspondent in Berlin, Gershon Savitt, reports from the courthouse. In the defendant's chair is Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, who is facing a libel suit filed by his former friend, Walter Stennes. Source: Digg | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:43 am
Procter & Gamble says its third quarter profit rose 8 percent as cost controls and price increases helped offset higher commodity costs. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:41 am
BOSTON - Nearly five years after being left paralyzed by a stray bullet, a young Boston girl will view a videotaped apology from the man who fired the shot.
Kai Leigh Harriott...
Matthew Slater had his laptop working feverishly on one side of the room. His Hall of Fame father, Jackie Slater, had his laptop going at the other end, as both were monitoring...
When Brad and Angelina visited the Hamptons last summer to rub elbows with Christie Brinkley, Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Buffett, they arrived by helicopter. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:32 am
AFP - Austrian authorities are to give new identities to the woman held prisoner by her father for 24 years and the children she bore in a cramped cellar, to help them escape the trauma of their captivity, officials said Wednesday.
The leaders of Pakistan's new government are holding urgent talks about sacked judges, in the coalition's first real test. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:31 am
AMSTETTEN (AFP) - Austrian authorities are to give new identities to the woman held prisoner by her father for 24 years and the children she bore in a cramped cellar, to help them escape the trauma of their captivity, officials said Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:31 am
Cape Canaveral's Titan launch pad gantry was demolished on Sunday. The tower was built in the 1990's to support the US Air Force Titan 4 rocket program. It was used for NASA missions as well, including the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission in 1997. Launch Complex 40 is being demolished and then refurbished to make way for the new SpaceX Launchpad Source: Digg | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:28 am
KABUL (Reuters) - Five Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house in the Afghan capital Kabul after 10 hours of clashes with besieging Afghan security forces on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters.
LONDON (AFP) - The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor said Wednesday, on the 15th anniversary of the web's effective launch. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:26 am
More than 400 people have been killed in fighting in Baghdad in April, say officials at hospitals in Iraq's capital. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:24 am
If programmers don't learn from books today, how do they learn to program? They do it the old-fashioned way: by rolling up their sleeves and writing code -- while harnessing the collective wisdom of the internet in a second window. The internet has rendered programming books obsolete. It's faster, more efficient, and just plain smarter to get your Source: Digg | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:22 am
Pakistani leaders were up against a key deadline Wednesday in efforts to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf and end a spat that has strained their month-old coalition government. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:21 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, taking the American troop death toll in Iraq for April to 46.
A sixth airline has gone bust within a month as soaring fuel prices and the
credit squeeze threatens to put even more carriers out of business. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:16 am
The Olympic torch has arrived in Hong Kong after the Chinese territory deported at least seven activists who planned to protest the flame. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:16 am
GENEVA (AFP) - Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the now-banned hallucinogenic drug LSD that was an icon of the Hippy movement, has died at the age of 102, authorities said Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:16 am
The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Wednesday, April 30, 2008: Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:13 am
Bill Gray, pioneer of hurricane forecasting, says Colorado State is scaling back support of his yearly storm predictions because of his unorthodox views on climate change. Source: Digg | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:12 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan security forces raided a Kabul hideout of militants with suspected links to the weekend attack on President Hamid Karzai, sparking a clash Wednesday that killed seven people, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
Afghan security forces raided a Kabul hideout of militants with suspected links to the weekend attack on President Hamid Karzai, sparking a clash Wednesday that killed seven people,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
General Motors Corp. says it lost $3.3 billion in the first quarter as strong overseas growth was dragged down by a strike at supplier American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. and weak U.S. sales. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
Authorities say evacuations are under way in Fort Kent, Maine because the St. John River is flooding. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:10 am
General Motors Corp. says it lost $3.3 billion in the first quarter as strong overseas growth was dragged down by a strike at supplier American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. and weak U.S. sales.
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Georgia on Wednesday slammed Russia's plans to boost peacekeeping troops in two rebel Georgian regions as the start of "full scale military aggression". Source: AFP - Wire stories | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:07 am
Longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, Ling Ling was 22.
Japan's oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure, zoo keepers said.
(Kyodo) _ Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura will visit Pakistan from Friday, where he will hold talks with his counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on support for Pakistan's fight against... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:01 am
At least 12 Somalis are shot dead by Ethiopian troops in an apparent revenge attack in Baidoa, say eyewitnesses. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Reuters - China began counting down 100
days to the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday with songs, a mass
run and prayers, as the torch arrived back on Chinese soil
after a tumultuous world tour.
DNA tests performed by a U.S. laboratory have proved that bone fragments exhumed in the Ural Mountains belong to two children of Russia's last czar, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China began counting down 100 days to the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday with songs, a mass run and prayers, as the torch arrived back on Chinese soil after a tumultuous world tour.
White House officials this week privately cautioned lawmakers not to go too far in restricting U.S. aid to Iraq, warning that doing so might only prolong the war, now in its sixth year.
Dozens of fighters ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun bursts as the American push into Sadr City increasingly faces pockets of close urban combat.
British troops criticised Prince William’s secret flying visit to Afghanistan
today as nothing more than a public relations exercise. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:58 am
Reuters - Austrian Chancellor Alfred
Gusenbauer said on Wednesday the government planned to launch
an image campaign to restore its reputation abroad after an
incest case that shocked the world.
AMSTETTEN, Austria (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer said on Wednesday the government planned to launch an image campaign to restore its reputation abroad after an incest case that shocked the world.
The European Union has approved a $7.8 billion bailout for Germany's regional WestLB bank, which was rattled by it's exposure bad U.S. debt. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:55 am
The economic engines of India and China will help keep Asia-Pacific economies on track amid a global slowdown, but a protracted U.S. slump and rising inflation pose possible hazards, a report said Wednesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:54 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:52 am
Mexican troops close off a Tijuana hospital to protect suspected drug traffickers wounded in gang warfare. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:52 am
AMSTETTEN, Austria (AP) -- The young woman whose hospitalization triggered the discovery that her family had been imprisoned and terrorized for decades was struggling for her life Wednesday, as authorities weighed the future of her five siblings.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:51 am
The young woman whose hospitalization triggered the discovery that her family had been imprisoned and terrorized for decades was struggling for her life Wednesday, as authorities weighed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:51 am
A lawyer for the Austrian man who held his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, says he needs psychiatric tests. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:44 am
(Kyodo) _ Retail regular gasoline prices are likely to rise to an all- time high of around 160 yen per liter with the reimposition of gasoline tax surcharges Thursday following the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:42 am
(Kyodo) _ Japanese monetary authorities did not intervene in foreign exchange markets in April for the 49th straight month, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Despite the yen's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:39 am
Hamas militants walk through Gaza City on April 16. All Palestinian militant groups meeting in Cairo have accepted an Egyptian-mediated proposal for a truce with Israel. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:36 am
The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September. One soldier died... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:27 am
A teenager was appearing in court charged with terrorism offences and possession of an explosive substance after police said they found bomb-making equipment at his home in Bristol. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:24 am
(Kyodo) _ Hammer thrower Koji Murofushi said Wednesday he plans to make a delayed season debut in June in the run-up to his bid for a second straight Olympic gold medal. Murofushi, who Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:24 am
(Kyodo) _ A group of about 240 conservative Japanese lawmakers adopted a resolution Wednesday urging the Japanese government to prod China to respect human rights in Tibet and to hold... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:23 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH CEREMONY AND DANISH CONSUL'S COMMENT) By Matthew Lee HONG KONG, April 30 Kyodo - The Olympic flame arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday ahead of a torch... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:21 am
Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks during a national security council meeting in Tbilisi. Neither Russia nor Georgia have informed NATO of any troop movements around the rebel regions of Abkhazia... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:20 am
BADEN-BADEN Germany (AP) -- Former SS doctor Aribert Heim tops a list released Wednesday of most-wanted suspected Nazi war criminals. He is a man so brutal that witnesses remember him as the worst they saw, though he was only at Mauthausen concentration camp for two months.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:12 am
Kenya may use funds intended to resettle the displaced to help find some $300m to pay for the new coalition cabinet. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:05 am
There's no doubt that Starbucks is having problems. It's just a matter of whether they're grande or venti. Store sales are flagging. And the economic downturn could make matters worse if consumers decide that "affordable" luxuries like lattes aren't so affordable anymore.
Beijing is pledging a tobacco-free Olympics, and as part of that promise, the city will expand its existing smoking ban in certain public areas Thursday. But past government smoking bans have been widely ignored.
The Iranian President visited India and Pakistan this week in hopes of sealing a billion-dollar gas pipeline deal, which would link Iran to growing South Asian nations. The deal is opposed by the United States.
The U.S. Border Patrol has started doing spot checks on ferries coming from Washington state's San Juan Islands. These are domestic ferry routes, completely inside the borders of Washington state. The new scrutiny has some islanders upset, saying it's a violation of their privacy to have to identify themselves when traveling inside the United States.
Many people in Britain saw Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a welcome replacement for Tony Blair, who was deeply unpopular with the public by the time he left office last year. Now, Brown's honeymoon is over. When Britons vote in local elections Thursday, the results are expected to be disastrous for the prime minister's ruling Labor Party.
With gasoline prices now nearing $4 a gallon in some parts of the country, the high cost to fill up the tank is increasingly the hot topic on Capitol Hill, at the White House and on the campaign trail.
Yoko Ono is going to court over John Lennon's legacy. Her lawyers face off Thursday in Boston against the lawyers for Ray Thomas of World Wide Video, which has almost 10 hours of videotapes of Lennon smoking pot and plotting to slip LSD to Richard Nixon. At the same time, she is suing the makers of the documentary Expelled for using part of the song "Imagine" in their film about intelligent design. Andrea Shea reports from member station WBUR.
Voters in London head to the polls Thursday to elect a new mayor. The contest is a match-up between two big personalities on London's political scene — the incumbent Ken Livingstone and his rival Boris Johnson. Host Steve Inskeep talks to Andrew Miller, political editor of the Economist magazine, about the election.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- A leading human rights group accused Zimbabwe's army Wednesday of working with ruling party militants to unleash "terror and violence" against dissent.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:58 am
Chinese police rescue more than 100 children sold to work as slave labourers in Guangdong. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:50 am
BEIJING (AP) -- China has detained scores of Buddhist monks over the past month, a Tibet activist group said Wednesday, a day after six monks were sentenced in the first trial of rioters since deadly violence in Tibet last month.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:47 am
In this Jan. 13, 2006 file photo, Albert Hofmann, discoverer of the mind-altering drug LSD and former head of the research department of Swiss chemical company Sandoz, takes part in a international symposium... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:39 am
One of the underground rooms in the Fritzl family house in Amstetten. Austrian authorities are to give new identities to the woman held prisoner by her father for 24 years and the children she bore in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:35 am
Austrian authorities are to give new identities to the woman held prisoner by Josef Fritzl for 24 years and the children she bore in a cramped cellar. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:35 am
The Fritzl family house in Amstetten. Austrian authorities are to give new identities to the woman held prisoner by her father for 24 years and the children she bore in a cramped cellar, to help them escape... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:35 am
Austrian authorities are to give new identities to the woman held prisoner by her father for 24 years and the children she bore in a cramped cellar. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:35 am
Five suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, after being surrounded by Afghan security forces, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:15 am
BADEN-BADEN, Germany (AP) -- For Heinz Heister, presiding judge of the court where wanted concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim has been indicted, it's a familiar refrain: What's the point?... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
Osama bin Laden's former driver said Tuesday that he has lost hope in American justice after nearly six years at Guantanamo Bay and will boycott his military trial. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 8:50 am
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, dies at the age of 102. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 8:48 am
The International Criminal Court published an arrest warrant Tuesday for Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted for the alleged forced conscription of child soldiers. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 8:39 am
A 24-year-old surfer from San Francisco died from wounds suffered from a shark attack at the resort of Ixtapa on Mexico's southern Pacific coast, officials said.
Legendary Indian film actor Amitabh Bachchan addresses a gathering Wednesday, April 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand, at a press conference for the International Indian Film Academy. Bangkok has been named... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 30 Apr 2008 | 8:14 am
House Republicans, who have feuded with Senator John McCain over the years, now see him as a potential savior in an off-year for the party brand. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 8:05 am
In a move that could herald warmer relations between the Vatican and Beijing, the China Philharmonic Orchestra will perform for Pope Benedict XVI next Wednesday in Rome.
Across the United States, ethanol plants are swallowing up more of the corn crop, boosting demand and tightening the link between food and fuel prices.
BEIJING (AFP) - China hailed the 100-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday, but simmering controversies over Tibet and the torch relay, as well as heavy pollution, cast a shadow over the milestone. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 30 Apr 2008 | 7:48 am
NEW YORK (AFP) - Microsoft could make its next move against Yahoo Wednesday with the software giant likely to try and replace Yahoo's board of directors, the Wall Street Journal reported. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 30 Apr 2008 | 7:42 am
Troops captured a camp that housed a bomb-making factory of al Qaeda-linked militants Wednesday after heavy fighting in the southern Philippines, a military commander said.
Nationwide's measure of house prices has suffered its first annual fall in 12
years and the pace of monthly decline is increasing, Britain's largest
building society reported today. The last time house prices fell
year-on-year was March 1996. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 30 Apr 2008 | 7:07 am
The report to the city Police Commission is greeted with skepticism. 'This is not a racist department,' Chief Bratton says in defending the report.
Los Angeles Police Department officials announced Tuesday that they investigated more than 300 complaints of racial profiling against officers last year and found that none had merit -- a conclusion that left members of the department's oversight commission incredulous.
The February drop is one of the sharpest in the nation, an index shows.
Home prices in Los Angeles and Orange counties were down 19.4% in February from a year earlier, among the sharpest drops in the nation, according to an index released Tuesday.
The biggest issue is reducing subsidies to wealthy farmers. The president calls the measure 'massive, bloated.'
House and Senate negotiators scrambled late Tuesday to meet President Bush's demands on a multibillion-dollar farm bill, considering reduced subsidies for wealthy farmers.
As prices rise and constituents call for action, officeholders float proposals and seek to deflect blame.
Rising anxiety over the economy, especially soaring gasoline and food prices, is forcing politicians from Capitol Hill to the White House to the campaign trail to scramble for a response.
Lawanda Jackson, who has since resigned after admitting to peeking at the hospital records of stars, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of obtaining identifiable health data for profit.
A former administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly selling information to the media from medical records of celebrity patients, according to a document unsealed Tuesday.
Australia will change a raft of federal laws to remove discrimination against gay couples, but will stop short of allowing same-sex marriages, the government announced.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake struck near the coastal city of Eureka in Northern California on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damage.
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's second-largest energy retailer, Origin Energy Ltd, said Wednesday it had received a 12.9 billion dollar (12.05 billion US) takeover proposal from UK-based BG Group. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 30 Apr 2008 | 4:15 am
DALLAS - A man walked out of a Dallas court on Tuesday after DNA testing overturned his conviction over 27 years ago for the murder and rape of his girlfriend, local media reported.
James Woodward, 55, spent more time in prison... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:34 am
MEXICO - A surfer has died after being attacked by a shark off Mexico, according to Associated Press.
The news agency quoted Mexican officials as saying the surfer, from San Francisco, bled to death from a 38 centimetre wound in... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:14 am
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's parliament approved a government-backed proposal Wednesday to soften a law restricting free speech that has been used to prosecute intellectuals and dissidents.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:02 am
SYDNEY - A group of teenagers on roller blades are suspected to be behind an explosion and fire at a shopping centre in Sydney's eastern suburbs which today forced the evacuation of 2500 people.
Shortly before 10am (AEST) today,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 2:44 am
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has temporarily added a second aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a "reminder" to Iran, but this was not an escalation of American forces in the region, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
CARACAS - A major power outage hit most of Venezuela and darkened the capital for hours yesterday, prompting calls for calm as workers streamed through the streets of Caracas after the transport system ground to a halt.
Power was... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 2:40 am
DHAKA - At least 50 people were injured and several vehicles were damaged in Bangladesh's capital yesterday as police clashed with students protesting over a bus fare increase due to a jump in the cost of gas, witnesses said.
Police... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
Smoking is responsible for almost a third of all cases of gum disease reported in Australia, new research shows.
A study by the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health has quantified for the first time the damage... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 2:15 am
Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday called for urgent improvement of the U.S. military's readiness, saying the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and cost overruns in weapons programs had sapped its ability to respond quickly to a crisis elsewhere.
LONDON - British consumer confidence in April plummeted to its lowest level since the economic slump of 1992, a survey showed today that will make grim reading for Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the eve of local elections.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
SHANGHAI - Advertising companies in China's commercial capital Shanghai are confused and angry after city authorities placed a sudden and mysterious ban on billboards, state media reported yesterday.
Shanghai authorities last week... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 29 Apr 2008 | 11:49 pm
MALEMA, Mozambique - Mozambique's president said yesterday the country would be hard hit by global food price rises if it does not boost agricultural output.
"Mozambique will not be spared by the food crisis, food prices are on... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 29 Apr 2008 | 11:30 pm
JAKARTA - A three-year-old boy from Indonesia's main island of Java has died from bird flu, pushing the country's total confirmed human cases to 108, a health ministry official said yesterday.
Lily Sulistyowati, the ministry's... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 29 Apr 2008 | 11:18 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Medicare is lurching toward disaster and it is too late for the Bush Administration and Congress to do anything about it, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said on Tuesday.
A controversial plan to increase pay rates for prisoners while ministers are
being deluged by the row over the 10p tax rate abolition was scrapped
yesterday on the direct orders of Gordon Brown. Source: Top stories from Times Online | 29 Apr 2008 | 11:00 pm
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, trying to quell a political firestorm that has roiled his presidential campaign, strongly denounced his former pastor on Tuesday and called his racially charged comments "appalling."
Officials on Tuesday were investigating the cause of death of a woman who died after being trampled by a herd of cows. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Apr 2008 | 5:52 pm
A governor in northern Saudi Arabia has ordered authorities to punish men who flirt with women in public places by cutting their hair, according to local media.
With 100 days to go, the battle has been lost to keep politics out of the Beijing Olympics. Can China and the International Olympic Committee restore some luster by returning sports and goodwill to the games?
Police on Tuesday released nearly 200 opposition supporters after they were arrested in a raid last week as President Bush called on neighboring countries to increase pressure on leader Robert Mugabe. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Apr 2008 | 5:26 pm
Female teachers in Saudi Arabia, whose roads are among world's most dangerous, are dying at alarming rates as they are forced into long commutes due to difficulty getting permission from males to live alone and finding landlords willing to rent to them. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Apr 2008 | 4:15 pm
Afghanistan's intelligence chief says he warned President Hamid Karzai of the assassination plot against him, and admitted it was a failure of security services. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Apr 2008 | 3:30 pm
Kate McCann’s mother wanted to shake her daughter and son-in-law for leaving Madeleine on her own the night she went missing, she has said. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Apr 2008 | 3:19 pm
India and Iran expected to push ahead with a $7 billion gas pipeline during the Iranian president's visit to New Delhi, despite opposition from the U.S. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Apr 2008 | 3:14 pm
Investigators blame speeding for China's worst train accident in a decade, a disaster that killed at least 70 people and injured more than 400. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Apr 2008 | 3:00 pm
Oil companies have been accused of ripping off motorists as they announced record profits on the day petrol crept towards the £5 gallon for the first time. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 29 Apr 2008 | 2:30 pm
A Chinese court sentenced 30 people on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in deadly riots in Tibet last month. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Apr 2008 | 2:14 pm
Workers back on the job after 48-hour strike that forced the closing of a major North Sea pipeline system in a dispute over pensions. Source: FOXNews.com | 29 Apr 2008 | 2:13 pm
AP - General Motors Corp. struggled to a $3.3 billion first-quarter loss, due in part to a weak U.S. market, a strike at a major supplier and plummeting sales of sport utility vehicles and pickups.
AP - The New Orleans Hornets and the San Antonio Spurs have advanced to the second round of the NBA playoffs.
AP - The Olympic torch returned to Chinese soil Wednesday after a turbulent 20-nation tour, landing in the bustling financial capital of Hong Kong where officials deported at least seven activists before the flame's arrival.
AP - A government inspection of slaughterhouses found significant problems with the treatment of cattle and two of the nation's largest beef processors both of which provide meat for the National School Lunch Program were slapped with humane handling violations.
AP - The Federal Reserve, which began the year aggressively fighting a severe credit crunch and economic weakness, may push the pause button after delivering perhaps one more quarter-point cut in interest rates.
AP - Shannon Elizabeth won't have to shed any more tears over "Dancing With the Stars." The 34-year-old actress, who cried at the judges' harsh remarks last week, was eliminated Tuesday from the ABC dance-off.
Reuters - President Robert Mugabe's government
dismissed the United Nations' first session on Zimbabwe's
election crisis as "sinister, racist and colonial" on Wednesday
and said it would have no impact on the country.
AFP - Austrian authorities are to give new identities to the woman held prisoner by her father for 24 years and the children she bore in a cramped cellar, to help them escape the trauma of their captivity, officials said Wednesday.
Reuters - China began counting down 100
days to the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday with songs, a mass
run and prayers, as the torch arrived back on Chinese soil
after a tumultuous world tour.
Reuters - Austrian Chancellor Alfred
Gusenbauer said on Wednesday the government planned to launch
an image campaign to restore its reputation abroad after an
incest case that shocked the world.
Across the United States, ethanol plants are swallowing up more of the corn crop, boosting demand and tightening the link between food and fuel prices.