The drought that has dogged the Southeastern U.S. hasn't hurt one county in Georgia. Clayton County's reservoirs are full, thanks to a unique water treatment system. "It's raining everyday in Clayton County," the water authority's general manager says.
An Austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her seven children repeatedly warned his captives that they would be gassed if they tried to escape, a spokesman for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 1 May 2008 | 1:38 pm
The U.S. military killed a man identified as the head of the main al- Qaida cell in Somalia and 10 others in an airstrike overnight, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday. The U.S.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 1 May 2008 | 1:27 pm
An Iraqi delegation traveled to Iran with evidence that proves the Islamic republic is arming and training of Shiite militias in Iraq, an official said Thursday. Five Shiite... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 1 May 2008 | 1:23 pm
TOKYO, May 1 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING 'AVIAN' IN LEAD GRAF) A dead swan found in the Notsuke Peninsula in eastern Hokkaido tested positive for avian influenza virus in a simple... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 1 May 2008 | 1:15 pm
A lodger at Josef Fritzl's house tells the BBC he saw another man go to the cellar where he abused his daughter. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 1:08 pm
A survey by the Inter-American Development Bank shows the percentage of Hispanic immigrants sending money to their home countries in Latin America is down dramatically in just two years. The report cites the U.S. economic slowdown and a tougher line on illegal immigrants.
Romanian Roma children watch a May Day parade in Bucharest Romania Thursday May 1 2008. The May Day parade, organized by a leftist party, was attended by a small number of people.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 1:03 pm
Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday record crude prices helped its net income grow 17 percent in the first quarter, but the results came in below Wall Street forecasts. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 1:03 pm
Pakistan's new ruling coalition resume talks on sacked judges, with one minister saying agreement is likely. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 1:02 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US consumer spending rose 0.4 percent in March from the prior month, while household income climbed 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 1 May 2008 | 1:02 pm
(Kyodo) _ Tyrone Woods homered to break a scoreless tie and Kenshin Kawakami threw seven shutout innings for his first win of the season as the Chunichi Dragons edged the Yokohama... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 1 May 2008 | 1:01 pm
AP - Soaring prices for food, gas and other everyday products pushed up consumer spending to a faster pace than expected in March. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 1 May 2008 | 12:59 pm
MOGADISHU (AFP) - The United States carried out an air strike in Somalia on Thursday which killed at least 10 people, including Al-Qaeda's military leader in the war-torn country, officials and rebels said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 1 May 2008 | 12:59 pm
AFP - The United States carried out an air strike in Somalia on Thursday which killed at least 10 people, including Al-Qaeda's military leader in the war-torn country, officials and rebels said.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put the controversy that has rocked his presidential campaign to rest.
Commons was unanimously resolved to eliminate child poverty, Statistics Canada says there are still almost 900,000 children living in the poorest of homes. The latest census numbers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:56 pm
HONG KONG (AP) -- Actress Mia Farrow was briefly questioned at Hong Kong's airport Thursday before officials allowed her to enter the Chinese territory to give a speech criticizing China's relations with Sudan.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 1 May 2008 | 12:55 pm
Actress Mia Farrow was briefly questioned at Hong Kong's airport Thursday before officials allowed her to enter the Chinese territory to give a speech criticizing China's relations with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:55 pm
Serbian workers march with a banner, reading: " Say no to both EU and NATO and to Russia", during a May Day rally , in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 1, 2008. Dozens of workers jeered Serbian President... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:52 pm
the poor get poorer and the middle class stagnates, according to the latest census data released Thursday by Statistics Canada. Between 1980 and 2005, median earnings among Canada's top Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:52 pm
Consumer spending rose at a faster pace than expected in March. But almost all the gain occurred because of big increases in the price of energy and other products. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 12:47 pm
Muslims burn tires to protest against a question found in the Ranchi University masters degree test asking students to explain how Prophet Muhammad began his career as a trader and ended as a raider,'... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:47 pm
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A runoff will be necessary to decide Zimbabwe's presidential election, a Cabinet minister said Thursday, citing the government's own election results.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 1 May 2008 | 12:46 pm
This New York Times blog article describes how the release of GTA IV affects Take Two's stock price and any potential deal with EA. Source: Digg | 1 May 2008 | 12:44 pm
Bodyguards of Serbia's President Boris Tadic, right, protect him during a workers protest, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 1, 2008. Tadic attended the May Day rally at a central Belgrade square to express... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:43 pm
Several Iraqi deputies bitterly attack PM Maliki over a bloody military campaign against forces loyal to Moqtada Sadr. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 12:42 pm
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The American military launched an airstrike Thursday targeting the head of al-Qaida in Somalia, a U.S. defense official said. The head of an Islamic insurgent group said the attack killed its leader.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 1 May 2008 | 12:41 pm
AP - The American military launched an airstrike Thursday targeting the head of al-Qaida in Somalia, a U.S. defense official said. The head of an Islamic insurgent group said the attack killed its leader.
A leading Somali Islamist militant and 10 others are killed in an alleged US air strike, reports say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 12:39 pm
Craigslist has become so clogged with scams - not to mention postings for child sex rings, ads soliciting hit men, listings for prostitutes and calls to trash homes - that some users are logging off
We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean.The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex. There, they discussed Source: Digg | 1 May 2008 | 12:37 pm
Russian tourist Vera Baurina, who survived the bus crash, is treated at the International Hospital in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, Thursday, May 1, 2008. A speeding tourist bus carrying dozens of Russians, other... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:32 pm
How does our classical world emerge from the counterintuitive principles of quantum theory? Can we even be sure that the world doesn't 'go quantum' when no one is watching? Source: Digg | 1 May 2008 | 12:31 pm
After 37 years, the existence of memristors, or memory resistors, has finally been verified by a group of researcher from HP Labs. Scientists says the discovery will pave the way for self-learning machines, more power efficient computers, and a possibly new forms of non-volatile memory. Source: Digg | 1 May 2008 | 12:31 pm
It looks like Mark Hamburg, a Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom programming guru, will be leading work to give Microsoft Windows a better user interface. And given the dramatic user interface differences between earlier and later Adobe projects that Hamburg worked on, that raises some very intriguing possibilities. Microsoft and Adobe Systems had... Source: Digg | 1 May 2008 | 12:31 pm
Turkish riot police used clubs, tear gas and water cannons Thursday to break up crowds of workers and students trying to reach a main Istanbul square for a Labor Day rally banned by the government. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 12:30 pm
ROME (AP) -- Rescuers on Thursday found the bodies of five French ski mountaineers who had been missing since they were swept away by an avalanche during an excursion in Italy's northwestern Alps.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 1 May 2008 | 12:28 pm
Sin cities in which you can pursue vice and debauchery have existed throughout history -- from Rome’s glory days where you could follow up your bet on a gladiator fight with an orgy to Shanghai where you could float for days on drug and sex highs in opium dens. Here are the 21st century's top 10 sin cities list. Source: Digg | 1 May 2008 | 12:28 pm
Really nice stuff. Some gorgeous wide scenes (sunsets, mtns, animals), as well as close ups: elephants, leopards, lions, cheetahs, hippos, etc. Photog knows what he's doing; beautiful work. Source: Digg | 1 May 2008 | 12:28 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday said he had grown up in less privileged circumstances than his rivals as he fought a perception among some voters that he is "elitist."
Candles are set up in commemoration on the main square of Amstetten, Lower Austria , Thursday, May 1, 2008 while an atrocious crime of incest and abuse that happened here is still shaking this town. A... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:23 pm
Russian ultranationalist demonstrators from the Movement Against Illegal Migration shout during their authorized rally marking the May Day holiday, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 1, 2008. Thousands of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:18 pm
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's electoral commission was to present presidential candidates with initial results Thursday, as the opposition leader said there was no need for a run-off against veteran incumbent Robert Mugabe. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 1 May 2008 | 12:18 pm
An Iraqi laborer melts metal in a furnace at a factory in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 1, 2008. As part of International Labor Day, Iraqi offices and schools remained closed but the laborers say they... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:15 pm
World's largest publicly traded oil company says its first-quarter earnings jumped 17 per cent or $2.03 per share; analysts were looking for a slightly larger profit of $2.13 per share
Members of Iraqi Communist party wave flags with the hammer and sickle during a rally to mark the May Day in Firdos Square, central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:14 pm
Kashmiris are seen silhouetted as they look at photographs of Kashmiri civilians allegedly killed during the 17 year armed insurgency in Indian Kashmir, at an annual photo exhibition in Srinagar, India,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 1 May 2008 | 12:13 pm
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama on Thursday said he had grown up in less
privileged circumstances than his rivals as he fought a
perception among some voters that he is "elitist."
A State Department report on global terrorism says Iraq suffered the largest number of terrorist attacks in 2007. Ambassador Dell Dailey says the U.S. visited the home countries of foreign fighters in Iraq to get help in curbing the suicide attacks — stressing that the fighters will pose a danger if they return home.
AP - Diamond wasn't Brooke White's best friend on "American Idol" Wednesday night. The tearful 24-year-old folkster from Mesa, Ariz., was eliminated as the Fox show trimmed the competition to the top four finalists.
The number of new people signing up for unemployment benefits last week shot up to the highest level in more than two years. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 11:56 am
BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing introduced sweeping new rules against smoking in public places Thursday in an effort to create a "smoke-free Olympics," state press said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 1 May 2008 | 11:54 am
A small but growing number of what you might call American adventure capitalists are going to Baghdad. They're defying ongoing insurgent attacks, the country's dysfunctional government ministries and the skeptics.
Hundreds of reptiles including some endangered species were rescued from traffickers and released into their natural habitat in Cambodia, a conservation group said Thursday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 11:52 am
ABU ZINEMA (AFP) - At least nine people were killed and 28 injured when a coach carrying European and North Americans overturned and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday, a security official said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 1 May 2008 | 11:48 am
AFP - At least nine people were killed and 28 injured when a coach carrying European and North Americans overturned and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday, a security official said.
Reuters - U.S. war planes killed an Islamist
rebel said to be al Qaeda's leader in Somalia and as many as 30
other people on Thursday in Washington's biggest blow against
an insurgency raging since 2007.
The U.S. military said Thursday it launched an attack against an al-Qaida target in Somalia, and an Islamic insurgent group said the head of the terror network was killed in an American airstrike. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 11:46 am
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. war planes killed an Islamist rebel said to be al Qaeda's leader in Somalia and as many as 30 other people on Thursday in Washington's biggest blow against an insurgency raging since 2007.
AP - A city outside California has for the first time been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine the most polluted cities in the country.
AP - The rain-swollen St. John River crested early Thursday after hitting a new record high, forcing residents to flee to higher ground as more than 100 homes flooded.
Burger King Holdings Inc. said Thursday that strong same-store sales in each of its segments and new restaurant growth helped to boost profit 21 percent in its third fiscal quarter. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 11:35 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pittsburgh, a former steel-making center once known for its sooty skies, is the worst U.S. city for short-term particle pollution, the American Lung Association announced on Thursday.
Crack users openly suck on glass pipes, gang members deal drugs on sidewalks and streets are speckled with human feces. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 11:31 am
Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday its first-quarter loss narrowed to $115 million as it chases a bigger stake in digital photography. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 11:30 am
Walt Disney Co. said Thursday it has taken over the Disney Store chain in North America from Children's Place Retail Stores, and will close about 98 stores U.S. and two in Canada. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 11:27 am
CVS Caremark Corp., the nation's biggest pharmacy chain, said its first-quarter profit jumped 84 percent, helped by surging sales in the wake of last year's purchase of Caremark. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 11:21 am
Faced with chronic budget woes, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is taking aim at what some call "multiple municipal madness" — the large number of individual towns and school districts in the state. He's threatening to cut off funds to some towns if they don't merge with their neighbors to save money.
LONDON (AFP) - The dollar rose in thin trade on Thursday, clawing back earlier losses, as the foreign exchange market focused on the US Federal Reserve's latest interest rate cut. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 1 May 2008 | 11:16 am
South Africa has lifted a moratorium on elephant culling to combat a surge in population numbers. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 11:06 am
Comcast Corp. on Thursday reported a 12.5 percent decline in first-quarter profits from a year ago, when the company's earnings were inflated by a $300 million one-time gain. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 11:02 am
Tyco International Ltd. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit tumbled 67 percent, as it had substantial profits from now-discontinued operations a year ago. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 10:57 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this weekend makes her fourth visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories since the November Annapolis peace conference with little to show for the U.S. effort.
An overcrowded tour bus lost control on a slope and flipped over Thursday in Hong Kong, killing 17 members of a local religious group and injuring 45 others. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 10:53 am
Haiti faces a "major crisis" unless the international community increases food aid to offset rising prices. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 10:52 am
Rescuers say they have found the bodies of five French ski mountaineers who were missing since being swept away by an avalanche during an excursion in Italy's northwestern Alps. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 10:51 am
ROME (AFP) - Italian authorities closed down a government website that for a few hours showed millions of tax declarations, after a storm of protests. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 1 May 2008 | 10:36 am
An aide says the Palestinian president has successfully undergone an angioplasty at a Jordanian hospital. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 10:34 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China is likely to achieve great-power status this century and maintain a military buildup but is not an inevitable enemy, CIA Director Michael Hayden said on Wednesday.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol in Baghdad on Thursday killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 1 May 2008 | 10:26 am
A 12-year-old girl died of a methadone overdose after taking pills she bought from a 15-year-old boy, authorities said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 1 May 2008 | 10:26 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The weekend plot to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai was masterminded by militants with links to al-Qaida members who reside in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, an Afghan intelligence official said Thursday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 1 May 2008 | 10:06 am
A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to “heal the rift in our party” and unite behind the senator.
Last year's big immigration rally in Los Angeles turned into chaos when police in riot gear clashed with demonstrators and news media. In the aftermath, some high-ranking officers of the Los Angeles Police Department were blamed for mishandling the event. That led to big changes in police communication and media relations. Those changes will be put to the test later Thursday, when a May Day rally is held in Los Angeles.
A seriously ill Briton serving time in a notorious Indian jail is to see out his 10-year sentence in the UK. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 9:46 am
A five-hundred-year-old shipwreck laden with treasure has been discovered off the coast of Namibia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 9:45 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Hispanics in the United States grew to 45.5 million last year, and the country's largest minority group now makes up more than 15 percent of the U.S. population, the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Thursday.
The raging St. John River spilled its banks, flooding more than 100 homes as emergency management officials feared the region could face its worst flooding in modern history Thursday.
The bodies of five French mountaineers hit by an avalanche are found in Italy's northwestern Alps. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 1 May 2008 | 9:32 am
Actress Mia Farrow was briefly questioned at Hong Kong's airport Thursday before officials allowed her to enter the Chinese territory to give a speech criticizing China's relations with Sudan.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran complained to the United Nations on Wednesday about U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's comment the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.
For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne.
Iran strongly condemned presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for threatening to attack and "totally obliterate" the country if it uses nuclear weapons against Israel. Her comment was called "a flagrant violation" of the U.N. Charter.
The 'Mogul sequence' is especially shallow and is growing over time, defying patterns and predictions.
An unusually intense swarm of earthquakes -- more than 1,000 over the last two months -- has struck beneath a small suburb of Reno, leaving residents shaken and scientists puzzling over the cause.
The private eye keeps it brief as he sums up his own defense.
The bizarre "self-defense" of private detective Anthony Pellicano -- a mixture of Perry Mason, "The Rockford Files" and Woody Allen's "Bananas" -- came to a close Wednesday with a simple message from the defendant's attorney: Pellicano says "Mr. Pellicano" is not guilty.
A little-noticed amendment to last year's energy bill requires House members who lease vehicles to select those that emit low levels of greenhouse gases.
Rep. Elton Gallegly of Simi Valley likes his taxpayer-funded Ford Expedition. He isn't worried that it's not the most fuel-efficient car. It's reliable, suits his mountainous district and is cheaper to lease than many other vehicles.
The $750-million upgrade will include four 14-story office buildings.
New owners of NBC Studios in Burbank unveiled plans Wednesday for $750 million worth of upgrades to the historic lot where top entertainers and newscasters have broadcast to the nation since the 1950s.
It was the highest in months for U.S. troops as well as Iraqi civilians.
The four U.S. soldiers who died in a series of roadside bombings Wednesday lifted the number of American service members killed in April to a seven-month high of 50.
MOSCOW (AP) -- For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 1 May 2008 | 6:31 am
A tour bus crashed and overturned Thursday in suburban Hong Kong, killing at least 17 people and injuring 45, officials said. Police said they charged the driver with dangerous driving causing death.
Pentagon officials are quietly considering a significant change in the war command in Afghanistan to extend US control of forces into the country's volatile south.
About 5 percent of patients are unhappy with the results of their LASIK procedure. Some cite lack of information about possible results to be key. The FDA is beginning a LASIK study and wants to hear from those who are dissatisfied.
HAGATNA, Guam (Reuters) - They can't vote for the president, but thousands of people in the tiny U.S. territory of Guam will do their bit to decide the Democratic candidate this weekend.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by a modest quarter percentage point on Wednesday, as expected, and hinted the move could be the last in a series meant to buffer the economy from a credit crunch and housing downturn.
PHOENIX - A wildfire burning out of control toward the Grand Canyon was largely contained late yesterday, forest service officials said.
Fire crews with trucks, bulldozers and aircraft achieved "60 percent containment" of the so-called... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 May 2008 | 2:57 am
A famous giant panda called Ling Ling has died at Tokyo's main zoo. He was 22.
He moved to Tokyo from the Beijing Zoo in 1992, when the two zoos exchanged pandas for breeding purposes.
But Ling Ling failed to produce any panda... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 May 2008 | 1:45 am
NEW YORK - Siberia's Lake Baikal has warmed faster than global air temperatures over the past 60 years, which could put animals unique to the world's largest lake in jeopardy, US and Russian scientists said.
The lake has warmed... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 May 2008 | 12:19 am
ROME - Rescue officials say five French citizens are missing after being swept away by an avalanche during an excursion in Italy's northwestern Alps.
The civil defence agency in the city of Aosta said the group was overrun by the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 1 May 2008 | 12:11 am
The Telegraph has just made a major upgrade to its web delivery platform and now has new addresses for News RSS feeds. The new feeds are: All News - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/rss; Top News - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majornews/rss; UK News - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/rss; World News - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/rss. Alternatively go to www.telegraph.co.uk/rss for a complete list. Source: Telegraph News | Top News | 1 May 2008 | 12:01 am
MOSCOW - Six Russian men were found guilty yesterday of staging a racist bomb attack that killed 14 people and wounded 61 at a Moscow market two years ago.
The Moscow jury found the men guilty after three days of deliberation,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
LIMA - More than 1000 women protested outside Peru's Congress on Wednesday, banging empty pots and pans to demand the government do more to counter rising food prices, which have squeezed the poor from Kazakhstan to Haiti.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 11:21 pm
LONDON - A British court has sentenced a government worker to prison for telling passengers on a London Underground train he had a bomb in his backpack.
Forty-three-year-old George McFaul received a one-year sentence after admitting... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:27 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday dismissed speculation that it was drafting new plans to attack Iran but again charged Tehran with supporting Iraqi militias and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Gender-conscious Sweden plans to make room for women on its crosswalk signs.
The government has ordered the National Road Administration to design a female alternative to the walking-man signs found at the Scandinavian... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 10:07 pm
Osama bin Laden's former driver can ask senior al Qaeda suspects imprisoned at Guantanamo for help in his war-crimes tribunal, a judge said, overruling concerns that any communication between the detainees could threaten national security.
LONDON - In theory, modern Britons have it all. They've never been as healthy or prosperous, but they have been happier - as testified by a rash of first-hand accounts of depression that have hit the shelves this year.
Following... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:25 pm
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) -- To Nayfa Shatat, the widowed mother of 11, Hebron's biggest Islamic charity is a lifeline: It schools her daughters and helps feed her family.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:16 pm
NEW YORK - Among patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, initiating antiretroviral therapy, there are significant differences in specific adverse events according to sex and race, but not in the overall rate of adverse... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:03 pm
Munich police have seized a large collection of Aztec, Incan and Mayan cultural artifacts that Costa Rican authorities say were illegally taken from their country.
Security is paramount at Camp Victory, a U.S. base in Iraq, because of its proximity to Baghdad International Airport. Humvee-mounted soldiers patrol the nearby farms and towns around the clock.
On the trail in Indiana, Sen. Barack Obama seeks to get his campaign message back on track. He has been mired in the controversy over remarks by his outspoken former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says 13 countries are the worst offenders in letting killers of journalists get away with murder. The countries range from war-torn Iraq and Somalia to Mexico and Russia.
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Police say Josef Fritzl left a lot of human wreckage in his wake: the daughter he imprisoned and raped for 24 years, the seven children he fathered with her and the wife whose life he shattered.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 30 Apr 2008 | 7:22 pm
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's new leaders failed to meet their Wednesday deadline to restore judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf, but said they would keep trying to resolve a dispute that is threatening their month-old coalition government.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 30 Apr 2008 | 6:48 pm
The parents of Madeleine McCann said it was a last-minute decision to leave their children alone on the night the girl disappeared from their vacation dwelling in Portugal, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 5:59 pm
To Palestinian widow Nayfa Shatat, a mother of 11, this city's biggest Islamic charity is a lifeline. It gives her daughters a first-class education and sustains her family with food coupons. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 5:59 pm
The Bush administration reports a 16 percent increase in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2007 because of resurgent extremist activity there and in neighboring Pakistan.
Foreign Ministry in Belarus says a number of American diplomats have been declared persona non grata and must leave. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 5:27 pm
Pope Benedict XVI says he is 'particularly satisfied' after meeting with Islamic scholars from Iran to discuss faith and reason in Christianity and Islam. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 5:00 pm
The Olympic torch returned to Chinese soil 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.
Afghan security forces raid Kabul hide-out where militants with suspected links to the attack on President Hamid Karzai were holed up, a top official said. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 4:08 pm
Usama bin Laden's former driver can ask senior Al Qaeda suspects imprisoned at Guantanamo for help in his war-crimes tribunal, a military judge says, overruling concerns that communication between the detainees could threaten national security. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:37 pm
China is investigating whether hundreds of children, most aged between 9 and 16, were sold to factories in the southern province of Guangdong over the past five years to work as virtual slave laborers. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:36 pm
As the Simon Wiesenthal Center prepares to publish its list of most-wanted suspected Nazis on Wednesday, the AP investigates the case of the concentration camp doctor who tops the list Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:35 pm
From the war-torn Iraq to the peaceful democracy of India, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that 13 countries account for at least 199 unsolved journalist murders between 1998 and 2007. Source: FOXNews.com | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:34 pm
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,...
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...
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...
AFP - The United States carried out an air strike in Somalia on Thursday which killed at least 10 people, including Al-Qaeda's military leader in the war-torn country, officials and rebels said.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put the controversy that has rocked his presidential campaign to rest.
AP - The American military launched an airstrike Thursday targeting the head of al-Qaida in Somalia, a U.S. defense official said. The head of an Islamic insurgent group said the attack killed its leader.
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama on Thursday said he had grown up in less
privileged circumstances than his rivals as he fought a
perception among some voters that he is "elitist."
AP - Diamond wasn't Brooke White's best friend on "American Idol" Wednesday night. The tearful 24-year-old folkster from Mesa, Ariz., was eliminated as the Fox show trimmed the competition to the top four finalists.
AFP - At least nine people were killed and 28 injured when a coach carrying European and North Americans overturned and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday, a security official said.
AP - A city outside California has for the first time been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine the most polluted cities in the country.
AP - The rain-swollen St. John River crested early Thursday after hitting a new record high, forcing residents to flee to higher ground as more than 100 homes flooded.
A parked car bomb aimed at a U.S. patrol Thursday in Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, police said.
A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to “heal the rift in our party” and unite behind the senator.
The raging St. John River spilled its banks, flooding more than 100 homes as emergency management officials feared the region could face its worst flooding in modern history Thursday.