The trucks have long been a favorite spot for cheap Mexican food in Los Angeles. But a new law goes into effect next week in Los Angeles County that truck owners say could drive them out of business.
Myanmar's foreign minister says the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis could reach 10,000. Foreign diplomats said Nyan Win made the comment at a Monday briefing given to them and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 1:39 pm
AMSTETTEN, Austria - Police say the Austrian man accused of holding his daughter captive for 24 years planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when she was just...
The latest Suffolk University poll shows New York Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Illinois Sen. Barack Obama by 6 points in Indiana, while another poll has Obama winning both...
Police say the Austrian man accused of holding his daughter captive for 24 years planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when she was just 12 years old. Investigators also... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 1:11 pm
AP - Police say the Austrian man accused of holding his daughter captive for 24 years planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when she was just 12 years old.
Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton took their fight over gas price relief to the morning talk shows Monday as they braced for the crucial Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
Until Red Sox Nation pardoned the expatriate last month with a 10-hankie standing ovation 22 years overdue, few associated heroism - let alone Broadway show tunes - with Bill...
Somali troops kill at least two people in the capital as they try to halt riots over rising costs and counterfeit money. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 1:09 pm
Using the Freedom of Information Act, the Houston Chronicle analyzed 451,000 charges (totaling more than $265 million) made on NASA credit cards between Jan. 04 & July 07. NASA employees have used government credit cards to ring up iPods, video games & clothes, despite that the cards are supposed to be used to buy items essential to NASA's mission. Source: Digg | 5 May 2008 | 1:09 pm
One year ago Monday, residents of Greensburg, Kan., awoke to a tornado ripping through their small town. The storm destroyed homes and possessions, and leveled all of the town's churches. After a year of rebuilding, many Greensburg residents have found renewed faith in their town and in themselves.
The emerging effort to use videogames as a channel for selling music is entering its next phase with the recent release of "Grand Theft Auto IV." Source: Digg | 5 May 2008 | 1:08 pm
YANGON (Reuters) - A devastating cyclone killed nearly 4,000 people and left thousands more missing in army-ruled Myanmar, state media said on Monday, a dramatic increase in the toll from Saturday's storm.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATES WITH REPORT FROM YANGON, BANGKOK) Almost 4,000 people were killed in Myanmar as Cyclone Nargis swept through the military-ruled country Saturday, state-run radio Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 1:06 pm
The national average price for regular gasoline rose about 15 cents in the last two weeks, according to a survey. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 1:05 pm
When a song perfectly complements a movie's on-screen action it creates a magical moment. CNN pick their favorites -- but do you agree? Source: Digg | 5 May 2008 | 1:05 pm
OLPE, Germany (AP) -- German police arrested the mother of three infants whose bodies were found stuffed into a basement freezer, a prosecutor's spokesman said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 1:04 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga on Monday expressed Japan's intent to contribute to the world's achieving a Japan-presented plan of halving global greenhouse gas... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 1:04 pm
Polish police arrest a man - believed to be from the Middle East - who held three Brazilian Jewish youths hostage. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 1:01 pm
Troops opened fire and killed at least two people as tens of thousands of people rioted over high food prices in Somalia's capital Monday. Several people also were injured in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Troops opened fire and killed at least two people as tens of thousands of people rioted over high food prices in Somalia's capital Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
Kevin Garnett performed last rites with - typical for him - a gesture not intended for a family venue.
He laid the ball in with 3:04 left in the third, got pushed by...
A state radio station says the death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar has risen to almost 4,000. The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital Naypyitaw said Monday that almost 3,000 more people are unaccounted for.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 12:59 pm
AP - Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday.
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Envoys of the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials agreed to further contact during a day of talks aimed at mending fences following a wave of unrest that pushed Tibet to centre stage ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Rescue workers on Monday found two more bodies near the site where a boat ferrying people home from a religious festival sank in Brazil's Amazon region. The discovery raised the death toll to 17, with dozens still missing.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 12:54 pm
A new technology aims to make computer power, like electricity, a pay-as-you-go enterprise, potentially bringing supercomputing to the masses. Craig Balding, an information technology chief for a Fortune 500 company, talks about what is known as "cloud computing."
BERLIN (AFP) - In the latest case to shock Germany, authorities said on Monday they have discovered three dead babies in a freezer and arrested the woman believed to be the childrens' mother. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 5 May 2008 | 12:52 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - Shares of Yahoo fell 22 percent in premarket trading as hopes for the once dominant search engine dimmed on the withdrawal of a $43.7 billion bid from Microsoft...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A young man was shot and killed when thousands of Somalis protested in Mogadishu on Monday over food traders' refusal to take old currency notes amid spiraling inflation, witnesses said.
Residents of the largest state in Bolivia voted Sunday on a measure seeking greater political and economic autonomy from the central government. President Evo Morales said the vote in Santa Cruz, where there was scattered violence during the balloting, was illegitimate.
(Kyodo) _ Japan announced a plan Monday for issuing a Japan-China joint statement on climate change during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the country from Tuesday. In the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 12:46 pm
Nearly 4,000 people have been killed by a cyclone that hit Burma on Saturday, state media say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 12:46 pm
Reuters - A devastating cyclone killed nearly
4,000 people and left thousands more missing in army-ruled
Myanmar, state media said on Monday, a dramatic increase in the
toll from Saturday's storm.
As Russia prepares for a transition of power to a new president, many Americans dismiss Dmitry Medvedev as simply a front-man for Vladimir Putin. But Medvedev, a former oil chief, will likely use Russia's leverage in the energy sector to forge closer ties to China and Europe.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday dismissed the "elite opinion" of economists who criticized her gas tax proposal, using a term that has dogged rival Barack Obama in recent weeks.
German police arrested the mother of three infants whose bodies were found stuffed into a basement freezer, a prosecutor's spokesman said Monday. Police made the grisly find Sunday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 12:41 pm
PARIS (AFP) - New investigations into obesity may identify people with an inherited risk of weight gain, explain why crash diets often fail and address a danger period in childhood that leads to obesity in adult life. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 5 May 2008 | 12:41 pm
(Kyodo) _ Taiwan and Japan signed an aviation safety agreement Monday that will facilitate joint investigations into aviation accidents and the exchange of related technical knowledge,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 12:40 pm
Shares of Yahoo fell 22 percent in premarket trading as hopes for the once dominant search engine dimmed on the withdrawal of a $47.5 billion bid from Microsoft Corp. over the weekend. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 12:40 pm
AP - Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton took their fight over gas price relief to the morning talk shows Monday as they braced for the crucial Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
Yahoo shares plunge in trading in Frankfurt after Microsoft drops its bid for the internet firm. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 12:38 pm
(Kyodo) _ Myanmar's state-media reported Monday nearly 4,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others left without shelter and supplies, including clean drinking water, in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 12:38 pm
Reuters - A young man was shot and killed when
thousands of Somalis protested in Mogadishu on Monday over food
traders' refusal to take old currency notes amid spiraling
inflation, witnesses said.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Rescue workers on Monday found two more bodies near the site where a boat ferrying people home from a religious festival sank in Brazil's Amazon region....
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft Corp's $47.5 billion takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on price.
VIENNA (Reuters) - The lawyer of the Austrian man who held his daughter captive and fathered her seven children said on Sunday his client was "emotionally a broken man".
AP - Shares of Yahoo fell 22 percent in premarket trading as hopes for the once dominant search engine dimmed on the withdrawal of a $43.7 billion bid from Microsoft Corp. over the weekend.
(Kyodo) _ Japanese synchronized swimmers won the team, duet and solo events in the Japan Open international meet Sunday. The Beijing Olympics-bound team of Emiko Suzuki, Naoko... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 5 May 2008 | 12:22 pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Three accidental explosions in the Afghan capital have left nine people dead and more than 20 wounded, including some counternarcotics police, officials said Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 12:17 pm
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama faces tests in the North Carolina and Indiana
primaries this week that will help determine whether he has
survived a rough patch and can finally defeat Hillary Clinton.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama faces tests in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries this week that will help determine whether he has survived a rough patch and can finally defeat Hillary Clinton.
Tens of thousands of people rioted over high food prices in Somalia’s capital Monday, hurling stones and prompting hundreds of shops to close. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 12:06 pm
Dorchester resident Royal Nunes, 17, was presented with an award for community activism last week. Nunes helped to rebuild New Orleans, organized a Peacefest...
BASEL (AFP) - Global growth is still strong owing to the resilience of emerging markets but inflation risks are significant, European Central Bank chief and G10 spokesman Jean-Claude Trichet said on Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 5 May 2008 | 12:02 pm
The Iraqi government is creating a special committee to look into allegations that Iran is funneling arms to Shiite militia groups in Iraq. U.S. military officials say there is evidence of Iranian-supplied munitions, but it's uncertain whether there is complicity by the Iranian government.
Just 18 days ahead the official premier, Paramount Pictures has released the second trailer of the long awaited “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Source: Digg | 5 May 2008 | 11:57 am
With two of three presidential candidates proposing a gas tax “holiday,” some readers are wondering why the government can't do more to cut energy prices. The Answer Desk. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 11:56 am
Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, on board of the International Space Station, has proved that a boomerang returns to the person throwing it even in the zero-gravity conditions. The idea came to him by request from his friend Yashuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion. The result is exactly what the science behind boomerangs predicts. Source: Digg | 5 May 2008 | 11:55 am
Imagine having Al Gore living in your house reminding you each time you forget to turn off the lights! The intent is to keep residents aware of how much resources are being consumed through daily activities ... and maybe guilt them into changing their ways. Source: Digg | 5 May 2008 | 11:54 am
YANGON (AFP) - The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more could be dead. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 5 May 2008 | 11:53 am
AFP - The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more could be dead.
Representatives of the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama met Monday in South China for a second day of talks to try to resolve their differences. Foreign governments have been pressuring Beijing to open a dialogue with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader after weeks of riots.
Just as you would suspect the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Moveon.org are running two false ads distorting statements by Senator John McCain. Both the ad on the...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Big Brown had given the thoroughbred racing world every reason to dream big Saturday, but an empty stall in Barn 43 on the Churchill Downs backstretch yesterday...
SHELBYVILLE, Indiana (Reuters) - U.S. presidential primaries often divide party loyalists, but the drawn-out battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama may leave some Democrats too bitter to band together against the Republicans in November.
AP - Iran said Monday it would not hold a new round of talks with the U.S. on security in Iraq until American forces end their current assault against Shiite militias.
AP - Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 5 May 2008 | 11:35 am
WORTHINGTON - State police have suspended the search for a 64-year-old man missing since last Wednesday in a wooded area of Worthington.
William Guidi's family say...
European Union regulators on Monday cleared South Korea's STX Corp. to buy a 39 percent stake in Europe's largest shipbuilder, Aker Yards ASA. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 11:31 am
Top officials say they have arrested two Afghan government employees for alleged involvement in a plot to kill President Hamid Karzai last month. Three people were killed in the unsuccessful assassination attempt.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, said Monday it will offer 90-day prescriptions for $10 and lower the prices of more than 1,000 over-the-counter medications to $4 or less. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 11:25 am
In the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi sits on nearly 10 percent of the world's oil reserves. So it may be surprising to hear that climate leaders there have launched a major initiative in sustainability. Masdar, a demonstration city of 50,000 inhabitants, will have a zero carbon footprint.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A U.S. Air Force gunship strafed Shiite extremists who attacked U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Monday, and the military said it killed at least nine militants in recent clashes in the capital.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 11:18 am
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it would not consider any incentives offered by world powers that violated its right to nuclear technology, ruling out a precondition to halt atomic work the West believes is aimed at making bombs.
Billionaires Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger say the pain many financial institutions are feeling because of the credit crunch is well deserved. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 11:06 am
Deutsche Telekom AG is considering a bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., according to a media report Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 11:00 am
The national average price for regular gasoline rose about 15 cents in the last two weeks, according to a survey. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 10:58 am
The bodies of three babies are found in a freezer in Germany and their suspected mother arrested, prosecutors say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 10:55 am
Wall Street headed for a lower open Monday, with investors downbeat about Microsoft Corp.'s withdrawal of its bid for Yahoo Inc. over the weekend. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 10:55 am
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met on Monday on the heels of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest bid to boost the Middle East peace process. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 5 May 2008 | 10:52 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wound up a weekend trip to spur Israeli-Palestinian talks with a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, and Olmert was scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later in the day.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 10:32 am
KABUL (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Pakistan was behind last week's assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's intelligence chief said on Sunday.
Kenyan authorities begin resettling the remaining 140,000 people made homeless in post-poll violence. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 10:30 am
Envoys of the Dalai Lama left Monday after a day of talks with Chinese officials that ended in an agreement to meet again, an apparent sign of progress in easing tensions raised by violent anti-government riots in Tibet. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 May 2008 | 10:27 am
The U.S. State Department's top Korean affairs specialist plans to visit North Korea this week for further discussions on the country's nuclear declaration, a South Korean news report said Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 10:24 am
Residents of Myanmar's biggest city lit candles Monday, lined up to buy water and hacked their way through trees felled in a cyclone that killed more than 350 people, destroyed thousands of homes and caused widespread power cuts. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 May 2008 | 10:23 am
Factory owners in Bangladesh start subsidising food for thousands of their lowest paid workers. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 10:23 am
The death toll from an intestinal virus affecting thousands of children in China continues to rise. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 10:22 am
PARIS (AFP) - A new, simplified family tree of humanity has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our forebears. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 5 May 2008 | 10:22 am
Latvian authorities begin evacuating more than 700 people from a cruise ship stuck on a sandbank. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 10:19 am
BEIJING (AP) -- The China Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform this week for Pope Benedict XVI, state media reported Monday, the latest indication that the often-strained ties between Beijing and the Vatican are improving.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 10:15 am
The China Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform this week for Pope Benedict XVI, state media reported Monday, the latest indication that the often-strained ties between Beijing and the Vatican are improving. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 10:08 am
Older baby boomers are approaching retirement age, but many aren't calling it quits in the workplace just yet. For some, it's a matter of choice, but for others the faltering U.S. economy has pinched retirement funds, forcing them to delay retirement.
The rate of Afghan civilians killed in Taleban attacks has risen from 12 months ago, Nato-led forces say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 5 May 2008 | 9:49 am
An Australian doctor proposed Monday that the government pay up to $47,000 for kidney donations to overcome a chronic shortage. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 9:36 am
No one doubts she's hard-driving. But she has never learned to drive, Barbara Walters reveals in her new memoir, "Audition." Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 5 May 2008 | 9:28 am
Chinese police patrol at the scene of an explosion and fire on a bus in Shanghai on May 5. Three people were killed and 12 others injured when a bus with 50 passengers onboard exploded after catching fire... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 7:47 am
A Chinese policeman controls onlookers at the scene of an explosion and fire on a bus in Shanghai on May 5. Three people were killed and 12 others injured when a bus with 50 passengers onboard exploded... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 7:47 am
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice listens to Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (right) as she speaks during a joint press conference in Jerusalem May 4. Rice wrapped up her latest Middle East visit... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 7:43 am
Penatgon backs plan to create a $5 billion 'zone of influence' around a $700 million U.S. embassy that would include condos, luxury hotels and possibly an amusement park. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 May 2008 | 7:42 am
BEIJING (AFP) - China's state press on Monday accused the Dalai Lama of "monstrous crimes", keeping up its fiery rhetoric against the exiled spiritual Tibetan leader despite agreeing to maintain dialogue with him. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 5 May 2008 | 7:29 am
File photo shows a worker cleaning a a bus in Shanghai. Three people were killed and at least three others were injured in a bus explosion in Shanghai on Monday, China's official Xinhua news agency reported... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 7:25 am
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) -- President Evo Morales faced an invigorated state autonomy movement that could cripple his populist agenda after a vote by Bolivia's largest and richest state for greater freedom from his central government.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 7:23 am
The Democratic presidential candidates take to the Sunday talk shows then make nice at an Indianapolis fundraising dinner.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday dismissed criticism of her proposed summer gas tax "holiday" as "elite opinion" that reflects the views of economists, not ordinary Americans who drive a long way to work.
Yahoo stock is likely to dive. Suitor has other means to pursue goals.
In calling off its offer for Yahoo Inc. , Microsoft Corp. proclaimed its determination to build a bigger online advertising and services business by itself.
The instructor at Lincoln Middle School has been with the school system 30 years. He is suspected of molesting four female students.
A popular 60-year-old teacher at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica has been arrested on suspicion of molesting four of his female students in incidents that occurred during school hours, authorities said.
Eight years after the USS Cole was attacked by a motorboat packed with explosives, all of the six men convicted of the strike have escaped from prison, or been freed by Yemeni officials. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 May 2008 | 6:43 am
A Brazilian ferry carrying 100 people capsized and swiftly sank in the Solimoes River, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries, Sunday. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 May 2008 | 6:03 am
File picture shows special forces soldiers taking part in a training exercise in the center of Grozny, Chechnya. Five policemen were killed when a home-made mine loaded with shrapnel exploded in the restive... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 5:40 am
Headscarved Muslim women (bottom R) walk along Batu Burok Beach in Malaysia in February . Malaysia's home minister Monday shot down a proposal that would require women travelling abroad on their own to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 5:36 am
Activists, citizens and intellectuals shout pro-Tibet slogans during a peace march in New Delhi. China's state press accused the Dalai Lama on Monday of "monstrous crimes," a day after Chinese officials... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 5:36 am
Tibetan Spiritual Leader His Holiness The Dalai Lama addresses a meeting of Lamas in Dharamsala on May 2. China's state press accused the Dalai Lama on Monday of "monstrous crimes," a day after Chinese... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 5:36 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, a shopping center and even condos in the heart of Baghdad.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:08 a... | 5 May 2008 | 4:49 am
A powerful cyclone killed more than 350 people, destroyed thousands of homes and knocked out power in the country's largest city, state-run media said.
Destroyed fishing boats at the port of Yangon after cylone Nargis on May 4. At least 351 people were killed and nearly 100,000 left homeless when Nargis tore through Myanmar, razing thousands of buildings... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 3:16 am
This photo released by the Democratic Voice of Burma shows people looking at a downed tree in Yangon after tropical cyclone Nargis. At least 351 people were killed and nearly 100,000 left homeless when... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 5 May 2008 | 3:16 am
Despite it being a milder summer than usual, Victoria fire services attended more than 5370 bushfires and grass fires over this year's fire season.
Victorian Environment Minister Gavin Jennings said services had responded to a... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 May 2008 | 1:31 am
AMSTETTEN, Austria - The wife of an Austrian man accused of holding their daughter captive for 24 years fought to keep the troubled family together but never knew their child was in a soundproofed cellar beneath the apartment, the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 May 2008 | 1:03 am
YANGON - A cyclone has killed more than 350 people in Myanmar, flattening at least two towns.
The death toll is likely to climb as the authorities manage to contact outlying islands and villages that felt the full force of Cyclone... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 May 2008 | 8:00 pm
INDIANAPOLIS - Barack Obama likened Hillary Rodham Clinton to President George W. Bush Sunday for threatening to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacks Israel and called her gas-tax holiday a gimmick as he tried to fend off her challenge... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 May 2008 | 7:30 pm
VIENNA - The Austrian man who held his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children by her was convicted of rape around the time the daughter was born, his sister-in-law told Austrian media.
The newspaper... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 May 2008 | 7:30 pm
A top Iraqi official said there was no "conclusive" evidence that Shiite extremists have been directly supplied with some Iranian arms as alleged by the United States.
CANBERRA - Horrific new allegations involving the deaths of 15 mothers and babies have been levelled against the New South Wales doctor dubbed the "Butcher of Bega".
Nicknamed for the southern coastal town in which he allegedly... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
SHENZHEN - China's President said he was hoping for a "positive outcome" from talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama, which were due to start overnight.
"I hope that the contacts with the Dalai Lama's side from today will yield a... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
SAO PAULO - A boat ferrying at least 80 people home from a party sank in Brazil's Amazon region early Sunday, killing at least 15 and leaving dozens missing, according to rescue officials and Brazil's government.
The wooden Comandante... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 May 2008 | 6:00 pm
A United Nations spokesman has backed the New Zealand Defence Force's (NZDF) denial that New Zealand soldiers damaged what was left of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
The famous structures were blown up by the Taleban... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
As Boris Johnson - known to all simply as Boris - takes his place tomorrow in an airy office overlooking Tower Bridge and the Thames, he will be facing the most fraught northern summer of any politician in Britain - with the exception,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 4 May 2008 | 5:00 pm
A bomb hit a motorcade carrying Iraq's first lady through Baghdad, while a roadside explosion killed four Marines in the deadliest attack in western Anbar province in months. A woman journalist was also killed in a botched kidnapping.
At least eight people killed and 14 others injured after being swept away by a sudden large wave that crashed over a breakwater on South Korea's west coast, the coast guard says. Source: FOXNews.com | 4 May 2008 | 1:09 pm
The wife of an Austrian man accused of imprisoning their daughter for 24 years never believed her husband was involved in her disappearance, even though he served 18 months for a 1967 rape conviction, her sister said.
AP - Police say the Austrian man accused of holding his daughter captive for 24 years planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when she was just 12 years old.
Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton took their fight over gas price relief to the morning talk shows Monday as they braced for the crucial Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday.
AP - Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday.
China’s capital is tightening security around the highly symbolic Tiananmen Square ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games.
Reuters - A devastating cyclone killed nearly
4,000 people and left thousands more missing in army-ruled
Myanmar, state media said on Monday, a dramatic increase in the
toll from Saturday's storm.
AP - Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton took their fight over gas price relief to the morning talk shows Monday as they braced for the crucial Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
Reuters - A young man was shot and killed when
thousands of Somalis protested in Mogadishu on Monday over food
traders' refusal to take old currency notes amid spiraling
inflation, witnesses said.
AP - Shares of Yahoo fell 22 percent in premarket trading as hopes for the once dominant search engine dimmed on the withdrawal of a $43.7 billion bid from Microsoft Corp. over the weekend.
A new study has confirmed what firstborns have always suspected: The oldest kid in the family really does bear the brunt of parental strictness.
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama faces tests in the North Carolina and Indiana
primaries this week that will help determine whether he has
survived a rough patch and can finally defeat Hillary Clinton.
AFP - The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more could be dead.
AP - Iran said Monday it would not hold a new round of talks with the U.S. on security in Iraq until American forces end their current assault against Shiite militias.
A stranded cruise ship off Latvia with nearly 1,000 people on board will be evacuated Monday, the country's coast guard said.