Sen. Edward Kennedy is being released from the hospital Wednesday morning and returning home to Cape Cod. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 21 May 2008 | 1:17 pm
Two people were arrested Wednesday after a worker was stopped at the entrance of a Swedish nuclear plant with a bag containing traces of an explosive which has been used in terror attacks.
AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is being released from the hospital, one day after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor that experts say is almost certainly fatal.
It has now been more than three months since Karl Rove first appeared on television as a Fox News political analyst on Feb 5. In no fewer than 57 appearances. They have yet to acknowledge the fact that he is an adviser to John McCain. Source: Digg | 21 May 2008 | 1:10 pm
Israel and Syria on Wednesday said they were holding indirect peace talks through Turkish mediators — the first official confirmation of contacts between the longtime enemies. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 21 May 2008 | 1:06 pm
AFP - Barack Obama's camp Wednesday celebrated a potent milestone on the road to the Democratic presidential nomination after sharing the spoils with Hillary Clinton in the two latest contests.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Barack Obama's camp Wednesday celebrated a potent milestone on the road to the Democratic presidential nomination after sharing the spoils with Hillary Clinton in the two latest contests. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 May 2008 | 1:05 pm
Reuters - Israel and Syria said on Wednesday
they had launched indirect peace talks mediated by Turkish
officials in Istanbul, the first confirmation of negotiations
between the long-time enemies in eight years.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and Syria said on Wednesday they had launched indirect peace talks mediated by Turkish officials in Istanbul, the first confirmation of negotiations between the long-time enemies in eight years.
Sen. John McCain pays a visit to a reliable Republican voting bloc, addressing Cuban-American voters in Miami. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee hopes anti-Castro sentiment will help him carry Florida in November's general election.
BOSTON (Reuters) - As U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy battles a brain tumor in Massachusetts General Hospital, his home state is hoping his illness will not bring a swift end to the Kennedy era.
AP - Late in the game, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are courting voters in Florida, a state so far shut out of their Democratic presidential race, after trading wins in a pair of primaries that brought Obama within sight of his party's nomination.
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel and Syria said on Wednesday they had resumed peace talks through Turkish mediators, ending an eight-year freeze, with Damascus saying it had a prior Israeli undertaking to return the whole of the occupied Golan Heights. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 May 2008 | 12:52 pm
AFP - Israel and Syria said on Wednesday they had resumed peace talks through Turkish mediators, ending an eight-year freeze, with Damascus saying it had a prior Israeli undertaking to return the whole of the occupied Golan Heights.
As Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton split the Oregon and Kentucky primaries, Obama proclaimed that he had won “an absolute majority” of elected Democratic delegates.
Reuters - Oil climbed to a life-time high above
$130 a barrel on Wednesday, driven higher by a combination of
long-term production worries and a near-term focus on tight
fuel stocks.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil climbed to a life-time high above $130 a barrel on Wednesday, driven higher by a combination of long-term production worries and a near-term focus on tight fuel stocks.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As prices at gasoline pumps and grocery stores rise U.S. consumers say they are driving less but they can't cut down on eating, a new poll found.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Lebanon's feuding factions reached a breakthrough deal Wednesday that ends the country's 18-month political stalemate, but also gives the militant Hezbollah group and its allies veto over any government decision.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 21 May 2008 | 12:37 pm
Officials say violence in Afghanistan has left 18 dead, including two NATO soldiers and 14 insurgents. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 21 May 2008 | 12:34 pm
Reuters - Barack Obama passed a major
milestone to move within reach of the Democratic presidential
nomination on Tuesday but rival Hillary Clinton refused to
surrender.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama passed a major milestone to move within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday but rival Hillary Clinton refused to surrender.
The Dalai Lama, leader of Tibet's government-in-exile, appeals for Tibetans not to protest during the Olympic Torch visit to the region. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 12:33 pm
LONDON (AFP) - The price of oil soared past 130 dollars a barrel for the first time on Wednesday in a wave of anxiety about stretched supplies and strong demand for energy, and as the dollar weakened, analysts said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 May 2008 | 12:26 pm
Reuters - Iraqi troops set up checkpoints and
intensified patrols in strategic streets they had taken over in
the Baghdad bastion of Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday, testing a
truce with the Shi'ite cleric's Mehdi Army militia.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops set up checkpoints and intensified patrols in strategic streets they had taken over in the Baghdad bastion of Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday, testing a truce with the Shi'ite cleric's Mehdi Army militia.
DOHA (AFP) - Rival Lebanese leaders clinched a deal on Wednesday to end an 18-month political feud that exploded into deadly sectarian fighting this month and nearly drove the country to a new civil war. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 May 2008 | 12:21 pm
India and Pakistan sign a prisoner exchange accord and agree to meet again in July after talks in Islamabad. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel and Syria on Wednesday said they were holding indirect peace talks through Turkish mediators - the first official confirmation of contacts between the longtime enemies.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 21 May 2008 | 12:16 pm
AP - Israel and Syria on Wednesday said they were holding indirect peace talks through Turkish mediators the first official confirmation of contacts between the longtime enemies. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 21 May 2008 | 12:16 pm
When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught — recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.
Life in Nepal's capital is brought to a halt by a shutdown in protest at a killing by Maoist former rebels. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Myanmar to focus on saving lives, not on politics, after the military government on Wednesday shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone survivors.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 21 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
The leader of the Basque separatist group Eta along with three other suspects are held in France, officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 11:59 am
The Beijing Olympics could be a target for terrorists using radioactive materials, the UN nuclear watchdog warns. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 11:58 am
State agencies were told to cut planned spending by 5 percent this year, which will go to create a 70 billion yuan (US$10 billion) reconstruction fund, the State Council, China's Cabinet, said in a statement.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- At least 11 people were killed Wednesday when gunfire broke out after a roadside bombing in a Shiite militia stronghold in eastern Baghdad near Sadr City, scene of a major military clampdown, Iraqi police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 21 May 2008 | 11:50 am
Israel and Syria say they are holding indirect talks to reach a comprehensive peace agreement. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 11:49 am
CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - China vowed on Wednesday to deal severely with anyone found responsible for shoddy state building work, as grieving parents demanded to know why a quake destroyed so many schools, killing thousands of children.
The beige 2003 Honda Civic sat on Mike Haile's used car lot in Atlanta for only three days before he sold it for $8,200. And that was $300 more than the asking price. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 11:47 am
Israel and Syria today confirmed for the first time that they've been holding indirect peace talks with the help of the Turkish government. The Middle Eastern neighbors have fought three wars and recently clashed in Lebanon.
GENEVA (AFP) - Child obesity is ballooning into a big problem in China as 'little emperors' are increasingly getting an appetite for the Western couch-potato way of life, according to a study presented in Geneva. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 May 2008 | 11:38 am
The man who created the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync is scheduled to be sentenced in Florida on four federal charges. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 11:36 am
The Palestinian territories hold their biggest ever economic conference, in an attempt to encourage investment in the region. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 11:33 am
The number of conflicts in which child soldiers were involved dropped sharply from 27 in 2004 to 17 at the end of last year, according to a report by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 11:32 am
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Dozens of heavily armed gunmen kidnapped two Italian aid workers and their Somali colleague in southern Somalia on Wednesday in what a government official described as a "terrorist act."... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 21 May 2008 | 11:25 am
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua demands two major oil companies pay the government $2bn. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 11:24 am
BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. reported a nearly 26 percent increase in its first-quarter profit and raised earnings expectations for the full year, reaping the benefits of a tough economy that's increasingly sending shoppers to discounters in search of deals. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 11:22 am
Hamilton Jordan helped Jimmy Carter win the presidency, then served as his White House chief of staff. Later, he dabbled in third-party politics, working on Ross Perot's presidential campaign. And for the last 20 years of his life, he battled cancer. He lost that fight Tuesday at 63.
CHENGDU, China (AP) -- A woman trapped in a tunnel at a power plant was rescued nine days after an earthquake struck central China - the only person found alive Wednesday - while the government ordered budgets slashed to free money for relief efforts.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 21 May 2008 | 11:21 am
Italy's prime minister is holding a cabinet meeting in the southern city of Naples, battling a rubbish crisis. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 11:16 am
Georgians vote for a new parliament, amid fears of political unrest and rising tension with Russia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 May 2008 | 11:15 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has opened an 8-point national lead on Republican John McCain as the U.S. presidential rivals turn their focus to a general election race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
In today’s world of short attention spans it is more important than ever to make a compelling first impression. A brilliant business card that speaks to your profession, serves some unusual function or that transforms into something else can be a great way to grab attention and inspire those you meet. Organized into 5 helpful groups: Source: Digg | 21 May 2008 | 11:10 am
DOHA (AFP) - Rival Lebanese leaders clinched a deal on Wednesday to end an 18-month political feud that exploded into deadly sectarian fighting this month and nearly drove the country to a new civil war. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 May 2008 | 11:09 am
Myanmar shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone victims, according to state-run media, dimming hopes that the vessels could provide a major boost to relief efforts.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Police said on Wednesday they were interrogating a man who had entered a nuclear plant on Sweden's southeast coast carrying highly explosive material.
China's Cabinet has told government departments to cut planned spending by 5 percent this year to free up funds for reconstruction of earthquake-hit areas. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 10:47 am
Rival Lebanese leaders have reached a deal to end 18 months of political conflict, agreeing on a new president. Hezbollah and its allies will gain more representation in the Lebanese government.
A Death Valley ranch used by Charles Manson and his murderous clan nearly 40 years ago may be a burial site for murder victims. Inyo County investigators suspect Manson, serving a life sentence for the "Helter Skelter" killings of 1969, may have hid more bodies at the ranch.
Authorities sealed off a nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden after a welder arrived for work with a plastic bag containing traces of an explosive substance, police and plant officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 10:41 am
Indian authorities insisted that a controversial case against a jailed human rights activist will go forward, with one official saying Wednesday that a group of Nobel laureates pressing for his freedom have no respect for the law. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 10:32 am
Rival Lebanese factions have reached an agreement to resolve their 18-month political crisis after months of demonstrations, which erupted sporadically in violence and threatened to destabilize the entire Middle East region.
Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. and cable television arm Time Warner Cable Inc. said Wednesday their boards have approved the companies' legal separation, with Time Warner Cable expected to pay a hefty $10.9 billion one-time dividend to shareholders. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 10:27 am
Movie Websites & Bloggers Beware! If you break exclusive movie news or content, VARIETY and The Hollywood Reporter will steal it from you for their publications! Source: Digg | 21 May 2008 | 10:20 am
YANGON (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon began a mission on Wednesday for Myanmar's cyclone victims, saying "our focus now is on saving lives", as the military government gave approval for foreign helicopters to distribute aid.
Europeans get jazz and they get Woody Allen — more so than they do in America, the native land of both the filmmaker and the music form he loves. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 10:18 am
Indian police detained 62 protesters calling for a cleanup of the 1984 Bhopal industrial disaster as they demonstrated near the prime minister's official residence, an organizer said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 May 2008 | 10:17 am
The Florida legal career of Jack Thompson may be nearing an end as the judge presiding over his trial at the Florida Bar has recommended guilty verdicts be returned on 27 of 31 charges. The State Supreme Court will now decide whether Thompson should be disbarred. Source: Digg | 21 May 2008 | 10:04 am
What does response to the earthquake in Sichuan province and other newsworthy events tell us about the direction of China's political leadership? Jeff Wasserstrom, a professor at the University of California Irvine, says China is trying to seize a chance to present a more open face to its people and the world.
President Bush is scheduled to deliver the commencement address at Furman University on May 31. But faculty members at the South Carolina school are leading opposition to the visit, citing objections to his administration's policies on Iraq.
The Democratic presidential rivals split Tuesday's primary races. Sen. Hillary Clinton won big in Kentucky, but Sen. Barack Obama's victory in Oregon pushed him closer to the nomination.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's Capitol Hill colleagues react to news of his malignant brain tumor with sadness, prayers and disbelief. Some are contemplating what Congress might look like without one of the Senate's most prolific legislators.
With oil at $129 dollars a barrel, some might expect the U.S. economy to be near collapse. There is a slowdown. But while some sectors are definitely feeling the pain, others have adapted much better than anticipated.
SEOUL (AFP) - A Japanese centre which says it has trained a dog to sniff out human cancer cells is cloning the animal in South Korea, a Seoul bio-technology company and the dog's owner said Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 May 2008 | 9:53 am
(Kyodo) _ Jasdaq Securities Exchange Inc., the operator of the Jasdaq market for emerging firms, announced a major reshuffle of its board Wednesday after the board rejected in March a key Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:46 am
(Kyodo) _ A 55-year-old judge of the Utsunomiya District Court was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stalking a woman in her 20s, police said. Yoshiharu Shimoyama is accused of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:46 am
(Kyodo) _ Crude oil futures in New York hit a new all-time high of $129.75 per barrel on Wednesday. The benchmark July futures contract for West Texas Intermediate crude oil logged the Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:33 am
(Kyodo) _ A strike called by family members of a local businessman killed by Maoist fighters, and backed by three mainstream parties, brought life to a standstill in Kathmandu on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:24 am
In American culture, prom is a rite of passage, a time to slut it up and break out our most stylish get-ups. Let’s take a little promenade to the proms of yester years … Source: Digg | 21 May 2008 | 9:20 am
(Kyodo) _ A day after taking office, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday said the Dalai Lama would be welcome to visit Taiwan and touted plans to boost relations with rival... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:19 am
(Kyodo) _ Yuki Goto, a member of the now-defunct pop music duo EE JUMP, was sentenced Wednesday to five years and six months in prison for stealing an electric cable from a construction... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:19 am
Rival Lebanese leaders signed a deal on Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict that had pushed their country to the brink of a new civil war. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 21 May 2008 | 9:14 am
(Kyodo) _ Kotooshu took a significant step towards becoming the first ever European grappler to win the Emperor's Cup when he pulled off a stunning win over Mongolian grand champion... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:09 am
Israel says it is holding indirect peace talks with Syria mediated by Turkey. The statement from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was the first official Israeli confirmation of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:05 am
(Kyodo) _ Results of makuuchi division bouts for Wednesday, the 11th day of the 15-day Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan (+ denotes juryo-division wrestler): Won ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:03 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING GOVT SPOKESMAN'S COMMENTS AT 5TH-7TH GRAFS) Parliament on Wednesday enacted Japan's first law setting out the country's basic policy on the use of space, changing Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 May 2008 | 8:58 am
The three necessary components for decomposition—sunlight, moisture, oxygen—are hard to come by in a landfill; items are more likely to mummify than to break down. But how long do things last? Source: Digg | 21 May 2008 | 8:50 am
Diplomats say forthcoming report from IAEA will charge that Iran stymied probe of allegations that it tried to develop nuke weapons. Source: FOXNews.com | 21 May 2008 | 8:47 am
Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.
The Republican Senator from Nebraska was a political thorn in McCain's side on Tuesday night, repeatedly lavishing praise on the presumptive Democratic candidate and levying major foreign policy criticisms at the GOP nominee and the Republican Party as a whole...Hagel even urged the Arizona Republican to elevate his campaign discourse to a higher, Source: Digg | 21 May 2008 | 8:30 am
One is a series of latest ANON releases:To the Leaders of Scientology and the General Public:We are Anonymous.We support the right of all people to worship freely, to read and write freely, to think, speak and assemble... Source: Digg | 21 May 2008 | 8:10 am
Residents walk past Myanmar's national flag at half mast in Yangon. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is heading for Myanmar in a bid to convince the generals who have snubbed his phone calls to accept... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 6:40 am
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon addresses the media prior to a Security Council meeting in New York on May 20. Ban is heading for Myanmar in a bid to convince the generals who have snubbed his phone calls... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 6:40 am
A woman shelters under an umbrella as she walks along a flooded street in Shwepoughkan township near the city of Yangon on May 20. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is heading for Myanmar in a bid to convince... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 6:40 am
Displaced families shelter in makeshif huts in cyclone-hit Shwepoughkan township near the city of Yangon on May 20. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is heading for Myanmar in a bid to convince the generals... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 6:40 am
Clashes pitting the poorest of the poor against one another have killed 22 people in South Africa and underscored bitter frustration with the government's failure to deliver enough jobs, housing and schools.
Tibetan monks in exile gather to express their solidarity and condolences to the victims of the earthquake that struck southwest China, in Kathmandu on May 18. The Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 5:47 am
File photo shows Somali soldiers running to a vehicle in Mogadishu. Three aid workers, including two Italians, were kidnapped by gunmen Wednesday in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region, a security official... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 5:24 am
Quake survivors reach out for aid like clothing and batteries before the roadblock leading to the deserted quake-ravaged town of Beichuan, which was closed off for fear of aftershocks and landslides. A... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 5:09 am
A quake survivor listens to radio news in a makeshift shelter near the quake-ravaged town of Beichuan. Chinese soldiers man a road-block to halt people leaving with infected clothing in Shifang, Sichuan... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 5:09 am
Despite the tale of miracle survivors that have surfaced, time has all but run out for the many thousands still trapped beneath the rubble of China's earthquake. For the five million people left homeless... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 5:09 am
Chinese workers repair railway tracks in Shifang, Sichuan province on May 20.China is scrambling to deliver tents and other essential materials to the five million people made homeless by last week's earthquake... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 5:09 am
A fire sent plumes of acrid gray smoke pouring from the roof of the Berlin Philharmonic's landmark home, where musicians and firefighters rushed to save precious instruments.
Myanmar slowly relented to international pressure to accept more outside help, but state media said Wednesday that the government will not allow U.S. warships and helicopters poised off its shores to deliver aid to cyclone victims.
YANGON- Myanmar slowly relented to international pressure to accept more outside help, but state media said Wednesday that the government will not allow United States warships and helicopters poised off its shores to deliver aid to... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 4:22 am
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippine disaster agency says the death toll from a tropical storm that battered the northern Philippines over the weekend has risen from 12 to 37.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 21 May 2008 | 3:19 am
A 60-year-old woman has been rescued alive after being trapped for 195 hours following the earthquake in China. Phoenix Satellite Television said the woman survived by drinking rainwater. The confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000.
United States presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the Oregon primary and now has a majority of pledged delegates in the race for the Democratic nomination, CNN has said.
The network said Obama, despite losing heavily to... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 12:48 am
GOLD COAST - Party brat Corey Worthington has been fined A$225 by police for trying to enter a Gold Coast nightclub with a fake ID.
The 17-year-old, who made headlines in January for holding a riotous party at his Melbourne family... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 12:10 am
DOHA - Rival Lebanese leaders were close to agreeing a deal on Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict that has pushed their country to the brink of a new civil war.
A senior Lebanese opposition official at the crisis... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 May 2008 | 11:21 pm
A judge has reprimanded a British pensioner who plagued his neighbours by repeatedly playing Bruce Springteen's hit Born in the USA at high volume in the early hours.
John Norman, a 61-year-old, was on Tuesday given a three week... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 May 2008 | 11:11 pm
The news that Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of America's most famous political dynasty, has a malignant brain tumour will shock Americans.
Democrats and Republicans alike see him as a living link to a less divisive, more optimistic... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 May 2008 | 10:00 pm
YANGON - Myanmar's junta has given the World Food Program permission to use helicopters to send aid to cyclone survivors, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as flags flew at half-staff across the country to mourn the dead.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 May 2008 | 8:36 pm
CHENGDU -China raised the number of dead or missing from a devastating earthquake to more than 70,000 on Tuesday, as rescuers found more survivors eight days after the huge tremor hit.
A government statement said the number killed... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 May 2008 | 8:30 pm
German-born Murat Kurnaz says that he was held underwater, shocked with electricity and hung from a ceiling by his arms. All the while, says his lawyer, U.S. officials had no evidence of terrorist involvement.
MIANYANG, China (AP) -- As he lay pinned by a concrete slab on his chest, Yuan Jiang heard the stuttering beep of the alarm clock on his cell phone, the only thing helping him keep track of time while trapped in a collapsed office building.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 20 May 2008 | 7:12 pm
Aid workers in Johannesburg are struggling to feed and shelter the thousands of immigrants who have fled a wave of xenophobic attacks in which 24 people have been killed.
The Institute for Race Relations, a respected think-tank,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
TUSCON - Willis Lamb Jr, a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose work on the electron structure of the hydrogen atom revolutionised the quantum theory of matter, has died. He was 94.
Lamb died in a Tucson hospital from complications... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
More than 30 sources of radiation were buried by debris from the massive earthquake in central China last week, but all have either been recovered or safely cordoned off, state media reported.
Amid cries of 'Allah o Akbar" (god is great), a young boy, barely 12 years old, lifts his machete and strikes at his victim who is lying on the ground, all tied up for the kill.
An Iraqi military spokesman says Iraqi troops have moved into Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City to seize control. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 May 2008 | 5:57 pm
BEIJING (AP) -- More than 30 sources of radiation were buried by debris from the massive earthquake in central China last week and all have either been recovered or safely cordoned off, state media reported Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 8:38 a... | 20 May 2008 | 5:21 pm
U.N.'s top humanitarian official made fresh pleas to Burma's military government Tuesday to allow in more foreign aid for cyclone survivors, as the country began three days of mourning for the 134,000 dead and missing. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 May 2008 | 4:40 pm
Donkey locked up at local jail that normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances after it bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas state, police say. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 May 2008 | 3:55 pm
A proponent of improved ties with China took office as Taiwan's president Tuesday, calling on the larger rival to open a new page in their long-strained relationship while rejecting any move to seek unification with the mainland. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 May 2008 | 3:28 pm
An Iraqi military spokesman says Iraqi troops have moved into Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City to seize control. The troops are moving in as part of a truce reached last week with anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Australian authorities have started the controversial killing of about 400 kangaroos on the outskirts of Australia's capital of Canberra, animal rights activists said Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 May 2008 | 1:55 pm
NEW YORK - Wall Street is falling sharply in early trading after oil prices spiked to a new record high and the government said wholesale inflation rose more than forecast...
Last week I made the mistake of hiring a lawyer without meeting him first. We talked on the phone for about an hour, but never got together face-to-face. When he arrived this...
BOSTON - Like many moms of newborns, Caitlin Hume's work doesn't end when she gets home. There's the herring-and-krill formula to prepare, followed by a little...
SPRINGFIELD - Police in Springfield are looking for a bird thief who smashed the window of a pet store and made off with about 50 parakeets.
The break-in occurred Sunday...
BROOKLINE - Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry has won approval to demolish a historic mansion and build a new home on the property in Brookline.
The town's...
Obama are you stupid or naive? Yesterday Barack suggested that the United States should negotiate with Iran like we did with the Soviet Union.
Let me explain why this...
Millions of female Democrats may be on the verge of doing it again: throwing principles out the window because they can't get their own way.
And once again, it revolves...
A young man who nearly got away with murder - not once, but four times - couldn't stop from taking credit for the 2005 rap studio massacre that horrified Boston's...
Ever since receiving word that he had defeated lymphoma a year-and-a-half ago, Jon Lester has been trying to do everything within his power to shed the unsought labeling of...
When Jack Kerouac wrote "On the Road," the Lowell-born literary giant had no idea that so many NBA teams would revile his work.
But that's what has happened...
The British government says gay Iranian teenager will not be deported after his lover was charged with sodomy and hanged in Iran. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 May 2008 | 12:52 pm
Two people were arrested Wednesday after a worker was stopped at the entrance of a Swedish nuclear plant with a bag containing traces of an explosive which has been used in terror attacks.
AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is being released from the hospital, one day after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor that experts say is almost certainly fatal.
Oil prices rose above $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday in Asia as supply concerns mounted and the dollar weakened.
AFP - Barack Obama's camp Wednesday celebrated a potent milestone on the road to the Democratic presidential nomination after sharing the spoils with Hillary Clinton in the two latest contests.
Reuters - Israel and Syria said on Wednesday
they had launched indirect peace talks mediated by Turkish
officials in Istanbul, the first confirmation of negotiations
between the long-time enemies in eight years.
AP - Late in the game, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are courting voters in Florida, a state so far shut out of their Democratic presidential race, after trading wins in a pair of primaries that brought Obama within sight of his party's nomination.
AFP - Israel and Syria said on Wednesday they had resumed peace talks through Turkish mediators, ending an eight-year freeze, with Damascus saying it had a prior Israeli undertaking to return the whole of the occupied Golan Heights.
As Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton split the Oregon and Kentucky primaries, Obama proclaimed that he had won “an absolute majority” of elected Democratic delegates.
Reuters - Oil climbed to a life-time high above
$130 a barrel on Wednesday, driven higher by a combination of
long-term production worries and a near-term focus on tight
fuel stocks.
AP - Oil prices rose above $130 a barrel Wednesday for the first time, as supply concerns mounted and the dollar weakened.
Reuters - Barack Obama passed a major
milestone to move within reach of the Democratic presidential
nomination on Tuesday but rival Hillary Clinton refused to
surrender.
Reuters - Iraqi troops set up checkpoints and
intensified patrols in strategic streets they had taken over in
the Baghdad bastion of Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday, testing a
truce with the Shi'ite cleric's Mehdi Army militia.
When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught — recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.
Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.
Myanmar slowly relented to international pressure to accept more outside help, but state media said Wednesday that the government will not allow U.S. warships and helicopters poised off its shores to deliver aid to cyclone victims.