Eldaneyis Mosquera, also known as "Karina," was one of the most senior women in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 May 2008 | 5:42 pm
The Iraqi Interior Ministry reported the arrest Monday of a top al- Qaida in Iraq figure in the northern city of Mosul, where security forces have been carrying out an intensified... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 1:06 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japan's Yusuke Kobori stopped champion Jose Alfaro in the third round Monday to successfully claim the WBA lightweight crown on his first attempt in a world title match. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 1:04 pm
Myanmar's military government on Monday announced a three-day mourning period for victims of the cyclone that left at least 130,000 people dead or missing earlier this month. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 12:58 pm
WENCHUAN, China (AP) -- China stood still Monday in mourning over tens of thousands of earthquake victims, and the government appealed for more international aid to cope with the country's deadliest disaster in a generation.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 12:48 pm
AP - China stood still Monday in mourning over tens of thousands of earthquake victims, and the government appealed for more international aid to cope with the country's deadliest disaster in a generation.
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Thousands of foreigners sought refuge at crowded community centres and police stations in Johannesburg on Monday amid new attacks in a wave of xenophobic violence that has killed 22 people. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 19 May 2008 | 12:47 pm
Thousands of foreigners sought refuge at crowded community centres and police stations in Johannesburg on Monday amid new attacks in a wave of xenophobic violence that has killed 22 people. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 12:39 pm
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH HIGHER DEATH TOLL) At least 17 people were killed and scores went missing when a passenger bus skidded off a highway and plunged into a river in mid- ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 12:39 pm
AP - Residents forced to flee a toxic chemical spill returned home, but a narrow evacuation perimeter remained around the site of a freight train derailment.
Burma's military rulers declare three days of mourning for the victims of Cyclone Nargis - 17 days after it struck. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 12:38 pm
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy remained in the hospital Monday, awaiting test results that could explain why the 76-year-old Democrat suffered a seizure over the weekend.
(Kyodo) _ Japan will release 200,000 tons of rice from the government's stockpile of imported rice in emergency exports to the Philippines, which is unable to secure sufficient supplies... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 12:34 pm
Sengoku 2 - Second Battle MMA video of Roger Gracie Vs Yuki Kondo at Ariake Colosseum Tokyo, Japan. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:33 pm
Flags are flying at half-staff, public entertainment has been canceled and 1.3 billion people observed three minutes of silence as China began three days of mourning for victims of the country's massive earthquake.
YANGON (Reuters) - Southeast Asian nations will take the lead in an international aid effort for cyclone-hit Myanmar, but the military junta will not give Western relief workers unfettered access to disaster areas, Singapore said on Monday.
Moroccan police have broken up a "terrorist network" of 11 people with links to Al-Qaeda that was planning attacks in Morocco and Belgium, the MAP national news agency said Monday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 12:30 pm
A minister at one of Texas' largest megachurches was arrested this week after driving his wife's car 200 miles for a planned liaison with a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:30 pm
It is amazing that some of these myths still persist. Good information from a real PC-to-Mac switcher. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:29 pm
A private collector has paid £6,600 for poems by the man ridiculed as "the world's worst poet".
A total of 35 of William McGonagall's works - many of them autographed - have been up for auction in Edinburgh. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:28 pm
The Neocon Series is a Newsvine exclusive.
Fourteenth in a Series.
Phase One of the Neocon series continues with the second Minister of Fear, er, Head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff.
Let's face it, folks. The first guy didn't quite fit. He Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:28 pm
Senator John McCain's wife, Cindy McCain, has decided not to release her tax returns — not now and not in the future. In the interest of transparency and to support her husband's frequent calls for clean and open government, she should rethink that decision. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:27 pm
Governments have changed. War erupted and ended. Neighbours had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left her tiny apartment in Croatia's capital — until her mummified body was carried out this week, 35 years after she died. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
PINGTONG, China (Reuters) - From tent cities in stricken Sichuan province to Beijing's Tiananmen Square, sirens wailed and millions of Chinese stood for three minutes on Monday to mourn tens of thousands who died in last week's earthquake.
The ESA( European Space Agency) has some Fascinating and high resolution pictures depicting satellites that are in orbit around the earth along with various other pictures of the control centers and other equipment here on earth used to track them. Source: Digg | 19 May 2008 | 12:20 pm
Prodded by Congress, the Food and Drug Administration has finally acknowledged that it needs a lot more money than the Bush administration has been willing to give it to protect the public from unsafe drug and food imports and other dangerous products. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
"...they were enlisting President Bush, a formidable fund-raiser who has raised more than $36 million this year for Republican candidates and committees, for three events on Mr. McCain's behalf. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 19 May 2008 | 12:18 pm
Nintendo's hotly anticipated Wii Fit goes on sale Monday. Other companies are already trying to jump on the "active gaming" bandwagon by coming out with devices of their own that plug into the Wii.
After walking away from a merger offer, Microsoft has proposed a different kind of deal to Yahoo. According to The New York Times, the proposal could mean a partnership or joint venture in online search-related advertising.
Some 6,000 people have fled a wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa leaving at least 22 dead. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 12:14 pm
Reuters - A wave of xenophobic attacks
spread through South African townships on Monday and mobs beat
foreigners and set some ablaze in scenes reminiscent of
apartheid era violence.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A wave of xenophobic attacks spread through South African townships on Monday and mobs beat foreigners and set some ablaze in scenes reminiscent of apartheid era violence.
(Kyodo) _ Cambodian police confiscated Monday the Burma Daily, an insert into the Cambodia Daily, just two days after it hit the Cambodian markets. The confiscation came after an order Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 12:12 pm
LONDON (AFP) - The online financial information giant Thomson Reuters has decided to axe 140 editorial positions as part of wider staff cuts, a spokeswoman for the recently formed group said on Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 19 May 2008 | 12:11 pm
TAIPEI, May 19 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH REMARKS ON CONTENT OF MA'S INAUGURAL SPEECH BY INCOMING SENIOR GOV'T OFFICIAL) Taiwan's President-elect Ma Ying-jeou will be inaugurated... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 12:10 pm
Democrats are trying to unseat Republican Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon. Tuesday's primary will decide which Democratic candidate will face him in the fall — the state House speaker or an activist who plays up the fact that he has a metal hook for a hand.
An immigration crackdown by Italian authorities has been accompanied by vigilante justice against the Roma — or gypsies — in Naples. Now the new right-wing government wants to create a special body to deal with the Romanian ethnic group.
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Myanmar agreed Monday to an international relief effort led by its regional allies to help more than two million cyclone victims still critically short of life-saving food, shelter and medicines. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 19 May 2008 | 12:05 pm
We humans have the ability to learn, to reason and solve problems. We're self-aware, and we’re also conscious of the presence, thoughts and feelings of others. We make tools and practice the art of deception. We're creative. We think abstractly. We have language and use it to express complex ideas. All of these are arguably signs of intelligence. Source: Digg | 19 May 2008 | 12:04 pm
China began three days of national mourning Monday for the tens of thousands of people killed in last week's 7.9-magnitude earthquake. Meanwhile, state media reported that 200 rescue workers were buried in a landslide.
AFP - Myanmar agreed Monday to an international relief effort led by its regional allies to help more than two million cyclone victims still critically short of life-saving food, shelter and medicines.
BEIJING, May 19 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING HOMELESS FIGURE, FOREIGN MINISTRY QUOTE) China came to a standstill Monday as it observed three minutes of silence to commemorate the victims... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 19 May 2008 | 12:01 pm
Myanmar's military government is allowing United Nations officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to tour this week the southern delta region flooded by a devastating cyclone. However, the regime continues to resist large-scale foreign aid for the hundreds of thousands of survivors.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military government has announced a three-day mourning period for victims of Cyclone Nargis beginning Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 11:56 am
Reuters - Southeast Asian nations will take the
lead in an international aid effort for cyclone-hit Myanmar,
but the military junta will not give Western relief workers
unfettered access to disaster areas, Singapore said on Monday.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama fired off a broadside linking likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain to U.S. President George W. Bush's unpopular economic policies, a tactic he is likely to rely on to woo voters worried about economic uncertainty as he looks toward his general election strategy.
AP - News Corp. is pooling some of its Web sites, including the newly acquired Wall Street Journal properties, to better sell financial ads targeting Latin America. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 19 May 2008 | 11:52 am
AP - Kenny Chesney won entertainer of the year for a fourth straight time Sunday, then promptly took issue with the way the Academy of Country music awarded the honor: through fan votes.
AP - Ryan Malone, the one Penguins player with firsthand memories of the team's two previous Stanley Cup appearances, scored twice and set up a third goal and Pittsburgh routed rival Philadelphia 6-0 Sunday to win the Eastern Conference championship and a trip to the NHL finals.
DUBLIN (AFP) - Representatives from around 100 countries opened a 12-day conference Monday in a bid to agree a global ban on cluster bombs, one of the most lethal weapons facing civilians caught up in conflict. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 19 May 2008 | 11:41 am
Two major supermarkets were cordoned off by police today after a man shocked shoppers by spraying urine on the food. Source: Digg | 19 May 2008 | 11:38 am
A wave of xenophobic attacks spread through South African townships on Monday and mobs beat foreigners and set some ablaze in scenes reminiscent of apartheid era violence.
DUJIANGYAN (AFP) - From the heart of Beijing to the devastated southwest, China came to a standstill Monday to mourn its earthquake victims as the number of dead, missing or buried soared past 71,000. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 19 May 2008 | 11:29 am
A German psychologist has warned "professional smilers" such as flight attendants and shop assistants that too much forced smiling can cause stress, depression and even heart problems. It's unlikely to become a major health issue though -- German customer service isn't renowned for its friendliness. Source: Digg | 19 May 2008 | 11:27 am
To confront the Obama juggernaut, Senator John McCain, whose fund-raising has badly trailed that of his Democratic counterparts, is leaning on the Republican National Committee.
Curved features on Jupiter's moon may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°. Such an extreme shift suggests the existence of an internal liquid ocean beneath the icy crust, which could help build the case for Europa as possible habitat for extraterrestrial life. Source: Digg | 19 May 2008 | 11:20 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A police chief was killed Monday by a bomb planted in his office, in a southern Iraqi town that saw heavy clashes last month between government forces and the Shiite militia of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 11:20 am
It seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks. Source: Digg | 19 May 2008 | 11:20 am
The Qatari hosts of Lebanon crisis talks await a response from rival factions to a unity cabinet proposal Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 11:02 am
The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
Coffee snobs will tell you that stored beans won't oxidize and turn bitter as quickly if they're held in a vacuum. The problem is, sucking on the hole in the bag as you roll it up and bend over those little twisty tabs doesn't really work very well. This Bean Vac canister from The Sharper Image should do the trick however. Source: Digg | 19 May 2008 | 10:59 am
At the moment of greatest despair, Wang Zhijun tried to kill himself by twisting his neck against the debris. Breathing had become harder as day turned to night. The chunks of brick and concrete that had buried him and his wife were pressing tighter by the hour, crushing them. Their bodies had gone numb... Source: Digg | 19 May 2008 | 10:56 am
Zimbabwe’s opposition party accused the country’s military Monday of plotting to assassinate the group’s presidential candidate using snipers. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 May 2008 | 10:53 am
Diplomats from around the world are gathering in Dublin to secure a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 10:47 am
China begins three days of mourning for earthquake victims, with a three-minute silence and half-mast flags. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 10:41 am
MPs are to vote on a series of possible reforms to the UK's embryology laws, including the creation of hybrid embryos. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 10:32 am
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Zimbabwe's opposition party accused the country's military Monday of plotting to assassinate the group's presidential candidate using snipers.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 10:31 am
NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 10:17 am
Ethiopia's ruling party wins all but a handful of local council seats, including the capital, after an opposition boycott. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 10:15 am
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the media during a press conference on May 16. A top official of Zimbabwe's opposition MDC party has accused... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 10:11 am
A Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporter holds a placard with a picture of MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai at a rally in Bulawayo, May 18. Zimbabwe's opposition accused Robert Mugabe's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 10:11 am
Myanmar's military regime allowed the U.N. humanitarian chief into the devastated Irrawaddy delta for a brief tour on Monday, a U.N. official said, as the government's dealings with the international community appeared to thaw.
The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 May 2008 | 9:42 am
Hundreds of Algerian police officers head to a southern town after days of clashes between Berbers and Arabs. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 9:42 am
Zimbabwe's opposition alleges the military is plotting to assassinate its presidential candidate using snipers. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 9:39 am
Police look at the body of an unidentified man who was killed during violent riots in central Johannesburg. Another foreigner has been killed in South Africa as a wave of xenophobic violence spreads across... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 9:32 am
An man is questioned by Johannesburg police as they try to disperse crowds of rioters on May 18 in central Johannesburg. Another foreigner has been killed in South Africa as a wave of xenophobic violence... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 9:32 am
French sappers from the United Nations peacekeeping forces based in southern Lebanon stack cluster bombs and other devises as they prepare to detonate them in late February. Representatives from around... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 9:29 am
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the media during a press conference on May 16. A top official of Zimbabwe's opposition MDC party has accused... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 9:18 am
FRANKFURT (AFP) - Yahoo shares jumped in early trading here on Monday after Microsoft said it was considering a new deal with the second biggest-Internet advertising platform, but not a new takeover bid. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 19 May 2008 | 9:08 am
Matiur Rahman Nizami, leader of Bangladesh's main Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, waves as he arrives at the High Court for anticipatory bail in Dhaka on May 18. Nizami has been arrested as part of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 9:02 am
At least 12 people have been killed in South Africa in weekend violence aimed at immigrants from other nations in the region. The country which only cast off the dehumanizing cloak of apartheid several decades ago is again wrestling bigotry.
SEATTLE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Sunday it proposed an alternative deal to Yahoo Inc rather than a full acquisition, but the move was unlikely to win favor with financier Carl Icahn, a person familiar with his thinking said.
Myanmar's junta leader Senior General Than Shwe (C), along with top military brass, inpects relief goods provided to cyclone-affected families on the outskirts of Yangon on May 18. Singapore Foreign Minister... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 8:49 am
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama turned his attention to a general election campaign against Republican John McCain on Sunday, slamming him for having lobbyists as top advisers.
DAEJEON, South Korea (AP) -- Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 8:38 am
The credit crunch continues and the worst might not be over, the European Central Bank's boss tells the BBC. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 19 May 2008 | 8:36 am
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A Taliban militant group claimed responsibility Monday for a suicide bombing that killed at least 11 people at the gate of an army base in Pakistan's volatile northwest.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 8:35 am
Democrat Barack Obama was greeted by the biggest crowd of his campaign: 65,000 who packed into a riverside park in Portland, Ore. Fire officials said 15,000 more were left outside.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- The West Bank is open for business after years of bloody turmoil.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 7:53 am
A foreigner (centre) gets inside a police van to be escorted safely out of Jeppestown in Johannesburg. Another foreigner has been killed in South Africa as a wave of xenophobic violence spreads across... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 7:52 am
The body of an unidentified man, who was killed during violent riots, lies in a street in central Johannesburg. Another foreigner has been killed in South Africa as a wave of xenophobic violence spreads... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 19 May 2008 | 7:52 am
DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) -- A little lime green car with "Hello Kitty" written on the side may be an unlikely symbol of salvation.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 7:27 am
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A stack of pornographic films at Mg Zaw's street stall hides some even more sought-after contraband: raw footage of the death and destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:08 a... | 19 May 2008 | 7:26 am
The giant pension fund negotiates to prevent a 15,000-acre Santa Clarita Valley deal from sinking into bankruptcy.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System, which poured about $1 billion into a troubled real estate deal, is in negotiations to keep a related loan default from turning into a bankruptcy.
Alan Kaname Hamai, 22, of Redondo Beach had graduated hours earlier with a degree in anthropology. He apparently fell from the roof of his apartment building.
Authorities are investigating the death of a UC Berkeley student whose body was found on the patio of his apartment building hours after he graduated with a degree in anthropology.
Ecuador's capital, home to colonial-era churches and historic treasures, had been beset by crime and urban flight. But a revitalization program has paid off.
Once a jewel of the Spanish colonial empire, the historic core of this capital city spent decades in a downward spiral, reeling from urban flight, high crime and official neglect.
The high-stakes state exams measure campus' achievement each year. Getting students to show up is a major concern; dull pencils and the wrong type of scratch paper can create havoc as well.
Five-foot-two Erica O'Brien pushes a tall stack of gray cartons across the floor, straining as if they were full of coal, not tests. The office on the top floor of Banning High School is stuffy, even though it's only 6 a.m. But when the phone rings, O'Brien answers affably.
The president wraps up his five-day trip by calling on Middle East nations to embrace economic reforms and women's rights.
In vivid contrast to his effusive stopover in Israel, President Bush ended a five-day Middle East trip on Sunday by criticizing Arab nations for political repression and urging them toward economic reforms and women's rights.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top adviser overseeing finances for Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has quit over his ties with lobbying, a McCain campaign official confirmed on Sunday.
BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy remained in hospital in Boston on Sunday as doctors tried to determine what caused the patriarch of America's most prominent political dynasty to suffer a seizure on Saturday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new book on the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon alleges that White House counsel John Dean ordered the infamous Watergate break-in in 1972, a charge Dean strongly rejected.
Police in the Philippines say that five children are among the dead after a man went on a shooting spree early Monday in a town south of Manila. The gunman strafed several houses, killing eight people and wounding six others.
Hundreds of thousands stuck in the rain-soaked disaster area, waiting for assistance, which, two weeks after the cyclone, arrives in dribs and drabs, if at all
MANILA - Philippine police say a man went on a shooting spree in a town south of Manila, killing eight people and wounding six others.
The Laguna provincial police chief, Senior Superintendent Felipe Rojas, says five of the dead... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 May 2008 | 4:34 am
Since the Taliban was ousted in 2001, billions of dollars in foreign aid have poured into Afghanistan. Yet despite progress in cities such as Kabul, much of the country looks the same today as it did seven years ago — and many Afghans feel helpless.
First the good news: The worst of the painful housing slump and the credit crunch might come to an end this year. Now the bad: The economy will weaken further and unemployment will rise. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 May 2008 | 4:09 am
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will travel to Myanmar this week to speak directly with the government about the aid crisis. The trip is aimed at increasing pressure on the junta to allow food and aid workers into the country.
US soldier removed from Iraq for using Quran in target practice; commander apologizes in ceremony Source: ABC News: International | 19 May 2008 | 2:37 am
LONDON (AFP) - British lawmakers will debate Monday a bill which would allow scientists to use animal-human hybrid embryos in research after Prime Minister Gordon Brown passionately defended the controversial plan. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 19 May 2008 | 2:24 am
The bottom should be hit faster, experts say. But the U.S. may have to lean on other sectors for a recovery.
Nearly two years into a housing decline that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of foreclosures, frozen credit markets and dragged the nation's economy toward recession, many Americans hope the end is near.
Addressing the leaders at the opening of the World Economic Forum in the Middle East, U.S. President encouraged them to embrace democracy, including women's rights
John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down, becoming the latest adviser to leave the Republican's presidential campaign because of ties to lobbyists. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 19 May 2008 | 1:29 am
YANGON - The leader of Myanmar's ruling junta made his first visit to a relief camp since Cyclone Nargis, patting heads of babies and shaking hands of survivors, amid growing international criticism over his government's handling... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 May 2008 | 1:05 am
ZAGREB - Governments have changed. War erupted and ended. Neighbours had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left her tiny apartment in Croatia's capital - until her mummified body was carried out this week,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 May 2008 | 12:44 am
JOHANNESBURG - Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighbouring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared with Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 19 May 2008 | 12:30 am
BEICHUAN - A fresh tremor in southwestern China killed three people on Sunday, injured 1,000 others and sent thousands of people already traumatised by last week's massive earthquake fleeing their homes into the streets.
The tremor,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 May 2008 | 11:00 pm
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" seems to be more of a sequel to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" than to the last film in the adventure series 19 years ago.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The average retail price of a gallon of regular grade gasoline in the U.S. rose to a new record high as the cost of a barrel of crude oil price continued its ascent, an industry analyst said on Sunday.
WASHINGTON - John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down, becoming the latest adviser to leave the Republican's presidential campaign because of ties to lobbyists.
Former Texas Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, one of McCain's... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 May 2008 | 10:19 pm
PESHAWAR - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of an army base in Pakistan's militancy-plagued northwest on Sunday, killing at least 11 people including four soldiers, officials said.
The attack was the deadliest in more... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 May 2008 | 10:10 pm
President Bush tried to lift the cloud of gloom over Mideast peace talks. Yet his five-day trip to the region ended with Palestinians more pessimistic and complaining that the U.S. favors Israel in the difficult negotiations.
The Democratic contender, speaking to retirees in Oregon, continues to essentially ignore rival Clinton. The state holds its primary Tuesday.
Sen. Barack Obama today continued his efforts to tie presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain to President Bush, contending that the Arizona senator's Social Security proposal was simply a continuation of Bush's failed attempt to privatize the government-sponsored retirement plan.
An American soldier used a Quran, the Islamic holy book, for target practice in a predominantly Sunni area west of Baghdad, prompting an apology from the U.S. military. Meanwhile, a parked car bomb killed 2 soldiers.
Chinese citizens from across the country have been organizing food convoys, setting up blood drives and raising money for the victims of the earthquake that hit last Monday. While this sort of reaction may not be unusual in the West, this disaster is teaching the Chinese to rely on each other in ways they never have before.
Dealing with multiple disasters is a challenge for international aid organizations such as Doctors Without Borders. The group's director, Nicolas de Torrentes, discusses the obstacles involved in providing aid to two countries simultaneously.
President Bush returns to the U.S. Sunday after a five-day visit to the Middle East. The aim of the trip: to reinforce the Middle East peace process. Winding up the tour with a speech at the World Economic Forum in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, he got a frigid reception, however.
EUGENE - After sharpening his attacks on Republican John McCain, Barack Obama is ready to lay a symbolic claim to the Democratic presidential nomination following the next round of primaries.
Wednesday's primaries in Oregon and... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 May 2008 | 7:45 pm
WINDSOR - The Queen's eldest grandson married his Canadian fiancee yesterday in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly wed at the castle's 15th-century St George's Chapel in front of 300 guests including... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 May 2008 | 7:40 pm
WASHINGTON - John McCain, 71, has made light of his age on Saturday Night Live .
"I ask you, what should we be looking for in our next President?" the certain Republican presidential nominee said in a satirical campaign ad. "Certainly,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 May 2008 | 7:35 pm
Pakistan"s top military commander for the country"s Afghan-border region promised to keep his troops deployed in the area after last week"s peace agreement between the newly-elected government and a hardcore pro-Taliban tribal militant.
A police chief says a homicide bomber killed four civilians and wounded three more along with five police officers. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 May 2008 | 5:08 pm
Drug cartels are telling Mexican police and soldiers across Mexico: 'Join us or die' via recruiting banners hung across roadsides, in publicly posted death lists, and over cops' two-way radios. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 May 2008 | 4:34 pm
An Afghan journalism student sentenced to death for insulting Islam denied the charges before an appeals court Sunday, saying he only confessed to questioning the religion's treatment of women because he was tortured. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 May 2008 | 4:09 pm
Danish press freedom group says it has invited a Dutch lawmaker to talk about an anti-Koran film he made that sparked angry street protests in Muslim countries earlier this year. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 May 2008 | 3:36 pm
The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 May 2008 | 2:06 pm
Britain's prime minister says he backs a new law that would allow the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 May 2008 | 1:19 pm
Soldier uses a Koran, the Islamic holy book, for target practice in a predominantly Sunni area west of Baghdad, prompting an apology from the military, a spokesman says. Source: FOXNews.com | 18 May 2008 | 12:56 pm
Legendary Boston real estate developer Thomas J. Flatley, an Irish immigrant who became one of the richest men in America while becoming one of the area's most generous...
The Parole Board is open Under New Management - liberal bleeding-heart management.
This is splendid news for stone killers and rapists, bad news for everybody else.
...
AP - China stood still Monday in mourning over tens of thousands of earthquake victims, and the government appealed for more international aid to cope with the country's deadliest disaster in a generation.
AP - Residents forced to flee a toxic chemical spill returned home, but a narrow evacuation perimeter remained around the site of a freight train derailment.
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy remained in the hospital Monday, awaiting test results that could explain why the 76-year-old Democrat suffered a seizure over the weekend.
Reuters - A wave of xenophobic attacks
spread through South African townships on Monday and mobs beat
foreigners and set some ablaze in scenes reminiscent of
apartheid era violence.
AFP - Myanmar agreed Monday to an international relief effort led by its regional allies to help more than two million cyclone victims still critically short of life-saving food, shelter and medicines.
AP - Myanmar's military government has announced a three-day mourning period for victims of Cyclone Nargis beginning Tuesday.
Reuters - Southeast Asian nations will take the
lead in an international aid effort for cyclone-hit Myanmar,
but the military junta will not give Western relief workers
unfettered access to disaster areas, Singapore said on Monday.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama fired off a broadside linking likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain to U.S. President George W. Bush's unpopular economic policies, a tactic he is likely to rely on to woo voters worried about economic uncertainty as he looks toward his general election strategy.
AP - Kenny Chesney won entertainer of the year for a fourth straight time Sunday, then promptly took issue with the way the Academy of Country music awarded the honor: through fan votes.
AP - Ryan Malone, the one Penguins player with firsthand memories of the team's two previous Stanley Cup appearances, scored twice and set up a third goal and Pittsburgh routed rival Philadelphia 6-0 Sunday to win the Eastern Conference championship and a trip to the NHL finals.
A wave of xenophobic attacks spread through South African townships on Monday and mobs beat foreigners and set some ablaze in scenes reminiscent of apartheid era violence.
To confront the Obama juggernaut, Senator John McCain, whose fund-raising has badly trailed that of his Democratic counterparts, is leaning on the Republican National Committee.
Myanmar's military regime allowed the U.N. humanitarian chief into the devastated Irrawaddy delta for a brief tour on Monday, a U.N. official said, as the government's dealings with the international community appeared to thaw.
China stood still and sirens wailed Monday to mourn tens of thousands of earthquake victims in the country's deadliest disaster in a generation.
Democrat Barack Obama was greeted by the biggest crowd of his campaign: 65,000 who packed into a riverside park in Portland, Ore. Fire officials said 15,000 more were left outside.