A woman enraged at her lover threw the firebomb that destroyed two young, innocent lives in a South Boston walkup early on April 6, prosecutors said yesterday after the arrest...
A leader of a Darfur rebel group says hundreds of his fighters are on the outskirts of Sudan's capital, clashing with security forces. An Associated Press reporter in Khartoum said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 3:15 pm
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid today but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the...
(Kyodo) _ Kyodo World Service now closes the news cycle for Saturday, May 10. The service will reopen at 9 a.m. Sunday Tokyo time. We may reopen the service at any moment to cover... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 3:09 pm
FORT RILEY, Kan. - As a boy, Michael Conner Humphreys made a splash on the silver screen as "Young Forrest Gump." As an adult, he somewhat mirrored the life of his...
BOSTON - Boston police say they've fixed a software glitch that sent officers to the wrong neighborhood to investigate a homicide.
In March, a caller to 911 reported...
Two reputed gangbangers were held without bail yesterday after pleading not guilty to gunning down a 13-year-old boy they allegedly mistook for a rival.
Nurudeen Alabi,...
(Kyodo) _ Taiwan's Interior Minister-designate Liao Feng-te died Saturday after having earlier in the day collapsed while hiking, local media reported. The Central News Agency quoted... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:56 pm
James Posey recently said he gets much more of a thrill from taking a charge than hitting a 3-pointer.
In the larger context of Posey's team, the thrill is understandable.
...
Sure, you're probably not suiting up to take on Jeff Gordon or Dale Jr. for the NASCAR Dodge 500 tonight in South Carolina - but that shouldn't keep you off the...
Passengers walk beside a Via passenger train at Toronto's Union Station after being quarantined on it near Timmons, Canada, Saturday, May 10, 2008. The Vancouver to Toronto train was quarantined in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:52 pm
Hot blasts of wind on a diabolical course made the PGA Tour's The Players Championship tough enough to turn someone's hair gray. Not that the leaders needed any...
Kadisa Umma, left, mother, and Nafrin Jamaldeen, son of Mustafa Jamldeen, unseen, a victim of Provincial Council election violence, greave at Batticaloa General hospital in Batticaloa, about 180 kilometers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:47 pm
Depressed teens looking to lift their spirits with dope could in fact become even more depressed, suicidal, schizophrenic and dependent on pot, according to a new White House...
The American Civil War has claimed another casualty. Sam White, a memorabilia collector, found a Civil War-era shell, took it to his Virginia home and it detonated in his driveway.
Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents, so she and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford.
Three hundred workers at Plymouth's Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station are gearing up for a potential strike next week if bitter conTract talks aren't resolved.
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Police in Philadelphia are having an especially tough week. First, one of their officers was fatally shot while responding to an armed robbery. Then, in an unrelated incident, three other officers were caught on videotape beating three suspects.
In this Wednesday April 10, 2002 file photo, Italian film director Ermanno Olmi, left, waves after receiving the "David di Donatello" award for the category of best director, during a televised ceremony... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:36 pm
(Kyodo) _ The United Nations on Saturday sent its first land convoy of emergency aid into cyclone-hit Myanmar, crossing over from neighboring Thailand to bring tents and plastic sheets to Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:36 pm
AP - No constituency is more eager to see a woman win the presidency than America's feminists, yet despite Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic candidacy the women's movement finds itself wrenchingly divided over the Democratic race as it heads toward the finish.
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar held a rare election to approve a new army-drafted constitution on Saturday while many of the 1.5 million survivors of a devastating cyclone waited in vain for a concerted aid effort to bring them food and medicine.
A Tibetan exiled monk with his hands tied up, demonstrates during a gathering to support Tibet, in Paris, Saturday May 10, 2008 and to protest against a Chinese crackdown in Tibet against rioters and against... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:31 pm
In this undated photo released by Teatro alla Scala, Saturday, May 10, 2008, Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer performs during Giuseppe Verdi's Aida. Turkey's state opera says Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer who... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:28 pm
Deliveries of aid to help Burma cyclone victims are arriving sporadically, as aid agencies continue to face obstacles. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 10 May 2008 | 2:27 pm
Secret Service supervisors engaged in crude sexual jokes and racially derogatory banter about blacks, and passed around an anecdote about a possible assassination of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, according to internal e-mails disclosed in a federal court filing on Friday by lawyers for black Secret Service agents. Source: Digg | 10 May 2008 | 2:27 pm
New research on cane toads in Northern Australia has discovered a way to control the cane toad invasion using parasites and toad communication signals. Professor Rick Shine from the University of Sydney has been studying the biology of cane toads, and will reveal his new research May 7 at the Academy of Science's peak annual event... Source: Digg | 10 May 2008 | 2:27 pm
This is a textbook example of how not to look when hot girls are being photographed and you happen to be caught in the frame. Source: Digg | 10 May 2008 | 2:26 pm
Paraguay's President-elect Fernando Lugo, right, shakes hands with Portugal's Foreign Minister Luis Amado before a meeting in Asuncion, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Amado is on a two-day official visit to Paraguay... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:24 pm
Reuters - The Lebanese army overturned on Saturday
two government measures against Hezbollah that had triggered
the group to take control of Beirut, and the military urged
gunmen to withdraw from the streets.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese army overturned on Saturday two government measures against Hezbollah that had triggered the group to take control of Beirut, and the military urged gunmen to withdraw from the streets.
BEIRUT (AFP) - The Lebanese army said on Saturday that it was revoking measures taken by the government against the Shiite Hezbollah movement and called for all armed militants to withdraw from the streets. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 10 May 2008 | 2:20 pm
1. President Bush's daughter, Jenna, is not the first twin to be married while their father was in the Oval Office. Andrew Jackson Jr., a twin boy born to President Jackson's sister-in-law, was adopted at birth by the president and his wife, Rachel, and raised as their own child. He married Sarah Yorke in 1831 while his father was president. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 2:19 pm
Lebanon's army overturns two key government measures in an attempt to defuse its tensions with Hezbollah. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 10 May 2008 | 2:19 pm
Iraq's government on Saturday agreed a truce with the movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end weeks of fighting in an eastern Baghdad slum between Shiite militia and security forces, officials said.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 2:18 pm
AP - Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
Getting supplies to survivors suffering from a brutal cyclone in Myanmar is now a "race against time" to prevent a disease disaster, experts warned Saturday.
AP - Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. She and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford where the corn is thigh-high, roads are named Cattle Drive and the Texas flag is painted on the rooftops of barns.
Here are basic facts about President Bush's daughter Jenna's wedding Saturday to Henry Hager. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 2:14 pm
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Lebanon's army command is ordering troops to establish security in the capital and is calling on all parties to withdraw their gunmen from the streets.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 2:13 pm
Lebanon's army command is ordering troops to establish security in the capital and is calling on all parties to withdraw their gunmen from the streets. The army statement also says an... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 2:13 pm
AP - Lebanon's army command is ordering troops to establish security in the capital and is calling on all parties to withdraw their gunmen from the streets.
It's hard to resist the lure of the open road when summer rolls around — and with our editors' favorite scenic drives across the United States, you'll know exactly where to point your car this year. We've listed our favorites from west to east — Source: Digg | 10 May 2008 | 2:12 pm
In this in-depth opinion piece, Gamasutra and Game Developer publisher Simon Carless takes a look at Sony's PlayStation Network for the PS3 - and the surprising positive and negatives of how it works for independent and third-party downloadable games. Source: Digg | 10 May 2008 | 2:05 pm
Reuters - The Palestinians' top peace
negotiator said on Saturday he feared a criminal investigation
of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could damage the chance
of a deal this year on Palestinian statehood.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinians' top peace negotiator said on Saturday he feared a criminal investigation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could damage the chance of a deal this year on Palestinian statehood.
"He said, as people will, anything to make the pain stop. And we essentially followed every word and various uniformed public servants of the United States went running all over the country to various places that Zubaydah said were targets, and were not. Ultimately, we tortured an insane man and ran screaming at every word he uttered." Source: Digg | 10 May 2008 | 2:03 pm
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government on Saturday agreed a truce with the movement of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to halt weeks of fighting in eastern Baghdad between Shi'ite militia and security forces, officials said.
World War II was over, but as the 1940s gave way to the 1950s, a new evil lurked in the land. It attracted a youthful audience who fell victim to its colorful images, dripping in red, and gave money to its purveyors. Authorities took notice. The United States had a new menace: Comic books. Source: Digg | 10 May 2008 | 2:01 pm
AP - The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory a surprising victory, surprisingly large.
A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be reworked because it is too "confrontational" and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states. Source: Digg | 10 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
Reuters - Iraq's government on Saturday agreed a
truce with the movement of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to
halt weeks of fighting in eastern Baghdad between Shi'ite
militia and security forces, officials said.
PRETORIA (AFP) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader said Saturday he would contest a presidential runoff poll in his violence-wracked country, but he called for peacekeepers and observers to ensure a fair vote. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 10 May 2008 | 1:56 pm
AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader said Saturday he would contest a presidential runoff poll in his violence-wracked country, but he called for peacekeepers and observers to ensure a fair vote.
A man moves pallets of aid supplies bound for Myanmar, at UNICEF warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday, May 10, 2008. 25 tons of medical equipment and field hospitals were Saturday packed and sent... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 1:54 pm
One week ago, Barack Obama's campaign was shadowed with doubts about his durability as a candidate and his electability in the fall. But a big win in North Carolina and a strong showing in Indiana served him well.
The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory — a surprising victory, surprisingly large. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 1:50 pm
A mother plays with her child in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Mother's Day will be celebrated on Sunday, May 11. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 1:43 pm
U.S. musician Usher looks on, during his performance at Radio 1's Big Weekend, held at Mote Park in Maidstone, England, Saturday May 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Nathan Strange) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 1:43 pm
In a country devastated by a cyclone that killed tens of thousands of people, and where the last election was held 18 years ago, many people had no idea how to vote
(Kyodo) _ China should lead international efforts to "persuade or compel" its ally Myanmar to lift restrictions on international assistance to allow disaster relief aid to reach survivors Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 1:40 pm
Men hold a banner that reads, " Future news", during a rally where journalists walked toward the Hariri's Future TV station that was forced to close by Hezbollah guerrillas in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 10 May 2008 | 1:33 pm
A Shiite Muslim shop owner opened fire on a funeral procession, killing two people and wounding six others in a Sunni neighborhood, police said, a day after Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized most of the capital's Muslim sector.
PRETORIA (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader said on Saturday he would return home within two days to contest a run-off against President Robert Mugabe and deal him a "final knock-out" after almost three decades in power.
(Kyodo) _ Narita International Airport Corp. has decided to send letters as early as June to about 1,200 people, who own land the company wants to purchase, asking them to sell their... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 1:23 pm
AP - Embattled and embarrassed by the confession he fathered a child from an extramarital affair, New York Rep. Vito Fossella is facing public calls for his resignation. Secluded with his family, he must decide if he wants to keep his job badly enough to grapple with the lingering questions and fallout from the scandal.
Zimbabwe's top opposition leader said Saturday he will contest a presidential runoff and will soon return to his homeland. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 May 2008 | 1:21 pm
HLEGU, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar held a referendum Saturday that likely will solidify the ruling junta's hold on power, even as it appeared overwhelmed by a devastating cyclone that killed tens of thousands of people.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 1:14 pm
On a recent visit to the Spanish Basque country, Nick Rankin found himself on the fringes of a story involving piracy. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 10 May 2008 | 1:11 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH CHUNICHI-YOMIURI GAME) Linescores of Saturday's games in Japanese baseball: CENTRAL LEAGUE At Tokyo Dome Chunichi 000 012 010 - 4 8 0 Yomiuri ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 1:07 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH YOMIURI-CHUNICHI GAME) Left-hander Toshiya Sugiuchi pitched a four-hitter for his first shutout of the season as the Softbank Hawks defeated the Nippon Ham Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 1:03 pm
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide diver sinks a naval ship on a day of key local elections in eastern Sri Lanka. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 10 May 2008 | 12:46 pm
(Kyodo) _ Alex Miller is looking forward to the challenge of trying to revive JEF United Chiba's fortunes after he was unveiled as the J- League club's new manager on Saturday. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 10 May 2008 | 12:43 pm
Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the cyclone relief effort into a propaganda exercise. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 12:33 pm
Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 May 2008 | 12:33 pm
Shiite militants have agreed on a ceasefire in Baghdad's embattled neighborhood of Sadr City, holding out hope that weeks of clashes in the capital could be at an end.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The movement of anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday it had struck a deal with Iraqi officials to end weeks of fighting in Baghdad that left another 13 people dead overnight. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 10 May 2008 | 12:13 pm
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will face Robert Mugabe in a poll run-off, amid fears of violence. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 10 May 2008 | 12:08 pm
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Zimbabwe's top opposition leader said Saturday he will take part in a presidential runoff against longtime leader Robert Mugabe and soon will return to the country.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
An Austrian judge ruled that a man accused of fathering seven children with a daughter he held captive for more than two decades should remain in custody, an official said.
Unknown gunmen opened fire on a funeral procession Saturday in a Sunni neighborhood of Beirut earlier seized by Shiite gunmen, killing two and wounding two, police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 May 2008 | 11:49 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Shiite militants agreed on a ceasefire in Baghdad's embattled neighborhood of Sadr City, an aide to a high level cleric said Saturday, holding out hope that weeks of clashes in the capital could be at an end.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 11:35 am
The Iraqi Army launches a major operation in the northern city of Mosul against al-Qaeda and its allies. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 10 May 2008 | 11:34 am
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Air strikes launched in retaliation for a rebel raid killed 19 Kurdish fighters in Turkey's southeast, the military said Saturday. Six soldiers died in the violence, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 11:33 am
PATHEIN (AFP) - Myanmar held a national referendum Saturday despite warnings that more people would die unless the government focussed on delivering emergency aid for survivors of last week's cyclone. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 10 May 2008 | 11:32 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Dozens of protesters blocked a road Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, claiming U.S.-led coalition forces killed three civilians, and a local official said police fatally shot one of the protesters and injured three of them.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 11:31 am
Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 11:29 am
The BBC's Mark Doyle fulfils a lifelong dream of travelling along the Congo and discovers much more than the cliches. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 am
The board of Children's Place Retail Stores Inc. said Friday it has approved a request from its former chief executive Ezra Dabah to work on a proposal to acquire the company with a private equity firm. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 10:48 am
Felipe Massa secures pole position at the Turkish Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton third and Kimi Raikkonen in fourth. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 10 May 2008 | 10:45 am
Three Chinese construction workers who were abducted in southern Nigeria's troubled oil region have been released, the government said Saturday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 10:38 am
South Korea says it will double its stockpile of the antiviral drug Tamiflu as bird flu spreads among poultry across the country. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 10:37 am
VALAICHCHENAI, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A climate of fear hung over elections in Sri Lanka's tumultuous east Saturday following a series of attacks blamed on the rebels and accusations of intimidation against a breakaway rebel group backing the ruling party.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 10:35 am
Speaking in South Africa, Morgan Tsvangirai calls for regional peacekeepers and international observers. He also urges a revamp of the electoral commission, which he sees as biased.
PRETORIA, South Africa — Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will return to Zimbabwe in coming days to contest a runoff presidential election, promising a "victory tour" of his country.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday documents handed over by North Korea detailed its weapons-grade plutonium program as far back as 1986 and were an "important first step" in getting a full declaration of the North's nuclear activities.
Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 10:10 am
News reports say three people were injured as passengers evacuated a Chinese jetliner at Beijing airport following a fire alarm. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 10:07 am
An aide to a radical Shiite cleric says extremists have agreed to a cease-fire in Sadr City. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 10 May 2008 | 9:56 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas fired rockets at southern Israel on Saturday, hitting a house and a Jewish seminary just hours after five Hamas policemen were killed in Israeli air strikes.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 9:37 am
A U.S. diplomat left North Korea on Saturday with boxes of documents detailing activities at the nuclear reactor that is at the heart of the communist country's nuclear weapons program. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 May 2008 | 8:25 am
The U.S. Forest Service is looking for "SpongeBob fanatics" who painted the cartoon character on the chimney of a historic building. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 8:00 am
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Eastern Sri Lanka residents voted Saturday in their first major election, less than a year after the separatist rebels lost control of the region. The poll was hailed as a democratic milestone but marred by a rebel attacks, one that left 11 people dead.... Source: AP Top International News At 10:18 ... | 10 May 2008 | 7:26 am
Scant support among white working-class Democrats, especially men, could dog him into November.
In Hardy County, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1. But there is little enthusiasm for Barack Obama in this mountainside enclave, a portent of trouble for the Illinois senator in next week's West Virginia primary and the general election beyond.
The potential loss of talented instructors prompts parents to gather near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to protest.
Drawn by pink slips issued to thousands of teachers, recruiters from school districts nationwide are wooing California teachers with greater fervor than usual.
Rugby has become a big sport in the small L.A. County city. What started as a youth diversion is now a quest for a championship.
When flag football season ended, Gonzalo Rios and his teammates found themselves with too much time on their hands. So Rios and others formed graffiti tagging crews.
The Pentagon abruptly ordered changes Friday in the way it handles service members' remains after learning that one business used by the Air Force performs both human and animal cremations.
Backers say it gives new life to the proposed Foothill South extension. But fish and game officials say further permits are needed, and environmentalists call the accord insignificant.
An agreement to protect wildlife was announced Friday between the toll road agency and a state agency on the proposed extension of an Orange County toll road, a controversial link that would cut through a popular state park and famed surf spot.
Great tits adjust their breeding season so that chicks hatch when winter moth caterpillars -- their main food source -- are most plentiful, long-term research shows.
Researchers have found that at least one bird population in England has managed to adjust to global warming.
Almost all postal service prices rise Monday. Although it's just a penny increase for a first-class stamp, it's being felt at a time when prices for most things are soaring.
Gas prices are skyrocketing, food is going through the roof. And to add insult to inflationary injury, it will soon cost more to pay your bills.
Four people are arrested after a lunchtime melee involving as many as 600 students.
A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs.
Jimmy Rollins couldn’t have asked for a better return. Well, other than hitting the triple he needed for the cycle. Rollins led the Philadelphia Phillies to victory in his long-awaited comeback, and did so playing in front of family and friends in his native Bay Area no less. The reigning NL MVP came off the disabled list and hit a two-run homer, an RBI double and also singled, sending the Phillies past the struggling San Francisco Giants 7-4 on Friday night.
NGHI SON (AFP) - Energy-hungry Vietnam started building its second oil refinery on Saturday, a 6.2 billion dollar complex, in a bid to feed the nation's booming economy, the State Oil company announced. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 10 May 2008 | 5:55 am
Villagers say they are getting rotting rations from the government. Local charities are overwhelmed as they await foreign aid.
While Myanmar's military regime Friday restricted the rush of international aid offered to help hungry and homeless cyclone survivors, the government was exporting tons of rice through its main port.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Good weather will help the world's farmers reap record wheat and rice crops this year, the U.S. government said on Friday, which should allay fears of shortages and help bring prices down from current high levels.
Perhaps hinting at strategy for the general election, Senator John McCain portrayed Barack Obama as being the favorite of Hamas, and implied that he would also be friendly with Iran. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 4:51 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. military judge has disqualified a Pentagon general who has been a key figure in Guantanamo war crimes tribunals from playing any role in the first case headed for trial, The New York Times reported on Saturday,
Carlos Boozer broke out of his slump with 27 points, leading the Utah Jazz to a 104-99 victory over Los Angeles on Friday night, cutting the Lakers’ lead in the series to 2-1.
PARIS (AFP) - Enrolling an influential student to convey an anti-smoking message to schoolmates is a valuable way of getting youngsters to say no to cigarettes, a British study suggests. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 10 May 2008 | 4:17 am
LONDON - Five teenagers have been jailed for their part in the stabbing to death of a 14-year old boy in east London last year.
Paul Erhahon was stabbed through the heart by a seven-inch blade near his home in Leytonstone in a... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 4:00 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday announced changes to procedures for the cremation of slain U.S. troops after concerns emerged about the military's use of a crematorium that burns both human and animal remains.
BEAVERTON, Oregon (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama turned his focus to a U.S. general election showdown with John McCain on Friday and said the Republican White House candidate would continue the "failed policies" of President George W. Bush.
PUERTO MONTT, Chile - A towering plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile's remote Patagonia could rain down on the surrounding area and cause devastating damage, a volcano expert warned today.
Luis Lara, a scientist with... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 2:41 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review of the handling of the remains of US war dead and apologized after learning that some were cremated in a commercial facility that also cremates pets, the Pentagon said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 10 May 2008 | 2:30 am
BEIRUT - Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group took control of the Muslim half of Beirut today in what the US-backed governing coalition called "an armed and bloody coup".
The United States pointed to Hezbollah's links with... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 2:23 am
A major artery in a young man's leg has been severed in an overnight stabbing incident in Sydney's Kings Cross entertainment district.
Police say the victim, in his 20s, was walking on Bayswater Road about 2am this morning when... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 May 2008 | 2:20 am
A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the isolated country.
Bridget Welsh, assistant professor of Southeast Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University, talks about the military government of Myanmar and why it's been so reluctant to accept outside assistance in the aftermath of the cyclone.
Several more superdelegates threw their support behind Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama on Friday, all but erasing the once-substantial lead of his rival, Hillary Clinton. Political analysts E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and David Brooks of The New York Times say the race is essentially over.
The United Nations was in a tense stand-off with the Myanmar's junta last night over access to the victims of Cyclone Nargis.
The authorities accepted two planeloads of aid destined for 95,000 people but refused to release the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 9 May 2008 | 11:18 pm
ST POELTEN, Austria - An Austrian court has ordered Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and had seven children with her, to be kept in custody for a further month, a court spokesman said.
Lawyer Rudolf... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 9 May 2008 | 9:29 pm
TORONTO/OTTAWA - Canadian health officials have said that a death and reported outbreak of flu-like symptoms aboard a cross-Canada train were not due to an infectious disease and in fact were likely not related at all.
About 290... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 9 May 2008 | 9:17 pm
Despite troubles with Myanmar's military rulers, U.N. World Food Program spokesman Paul Riley says the agency has 240 staffers on the ground hurriedly working with government ministries to get aid to survivors of the cyclone. The agency fears running out of time.
As soon as the Texas sun starts going down this evening, Jenna Bush will become the first presidential child in decades to get married during her father's term.
"We will be laughing, weeping, hollering," predicts George Bush.... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 9 May 2008 | 8:46 pm
Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of key parts of Beirut from Sunni rivals loyal to the U.S.-backed government, in a dramatic show-of-force certain to strengthen the Iranian-allied group's hand.
Investors have been growing cautiously optimistic in recent days that the worst of the credit crisis is over. But now, there's fresh evidence that there's still trouble looming. The insurance giant AIG announced a huge loss related to bad mortgage debt, and Citigroup, the nation's largest bank, is going to sell off some $400 billion in assets as it seeks to become more efficient.
The big question in Cuba is how far the new president, Raul Castro, is willing to go in changing the country. Many elements of his brother Fidel's rigid system of state socialism are still in place, such as food rationing.
"Either you pay or your people get killed," Chiquita's CEO tells 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft about his company's payments to murderous Colombian paramilitaries in his first TV interview. This Sunday, May 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, responding to fresh accusations that he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a United States citizen, says he will step down if he is indicted.
Olmert said yesterday that... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 9 May 2008 | 7:15 pm
Spain has formally laid claim to a shipwreck that yielded a US$500 million ($646.4 million) treasure, saying it has proof the vessel was Spanish and demanding the return of the booty recovered last year by a US deep-sea exploration... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 9 May 2008 | 6:15 pm
The U.S. military denied Friday that the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, had been captured and saying a man with a similar name had instead been arrested in the northern city of Mosul. Source: FOXNews.com | 9 May 2008 | 1:33 pm
Zimbabwe's top opposition leader said Saturday he will take part in a presidential runoff and will soon return to his homeland.
Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents, so she and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford.
AP - No constituency is more eager to see a woman win the presidency than America's feminists, yet despite Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic candidacy the women's movement finds itself wrenchingly divided over the Democratic race as it heads toward the finish.
Reuters - The Lebanese army overturned on Saturday
two government measures against Hezbollah that had triggered
the group to take control of Beirut, and the military urged
gunmen to withdraw from the streets.
Iraq's government on Saturday agreed a truce with the movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end weeks of fighting in an eastern Baghdad slum between Shiite militia and security forces, officials said.
AP - Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
Getting supplies to survivors suffering from a brutal cyclone in Myanmar is now a "race against time" to prevent a disease disaster, experts warned Saturday.
AP - Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. She and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford where the corn is thigh-high, roads are named Cattle Drive and the Texas flag is painted on the rooftops of barns.
AP - Lebanon's army command is ordering troops to establish security in the capital and is calling on all parties to withdraw their gunmen from the streets.
Reuters - The Palestinians' top peace
negotiator said on Saturday he feared a criminal investigation
of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could damage the chance
of a deal this year on Palestinian statehood.
AP - The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory a surprising victory, surprisingly large.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora on Saturday ordered the army to restore law and order across the country and remove gunmen from the streets.
Reuters - Iraq's government on Saturday agreed a
truce with the movement of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to
halt weeks of fighting in eastern Baghdad between Shi'ite
militia and security forces, officials said.
AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader said Saturday he would contest a presidential runoff poll in his violence-wracked country, but he called for peacekeepers and observers to ensure a fair vote.
AP - Embattled and embarrassed by the confession he fathered a child from an extramarital affair, New York Rep. Vito Fossella is facing public calls for his resignation. Secluded with his family, he must decide if he wants to keep his job badly enough to grapple with the lingering questions and fallout from the scandal.
Jimmy Rollins couldn’t have asked for a better return. Well, other than hitting the triple he needed for the cycle. Rollins led the Philadelphia Phillies to victory in his long-awaited comeback, and did so playing in front of family and friends in his native Bay Area no less. The reigning NL MVP came off the disabled list and hit a two-run homer, an RBI double and also singled, sending the Phillies past the struggling San Francisco Giants 7-4 on Friday night.
Carlos Boozer broke out of his slump with 27 points, leading the Utah Jazz to a 104-99 victory over Los Angeles on Friday night, cutting the Lakers’ lead in the series to 2-1.