The U.S. military says a helicopter strike targeting Al Qaeda militants may have killed eight civilians, some of them children, in Iraq. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 May 2008 | 2:27 pm
CN8 has fired veteran TV journalist Barry Nolan for publicly protesting the decision by the local Emmy Awards to honor Fox News blowhard Bill O'Reilly.
Nolan tells...
(Kyodo) _ Visiting Laotian President Choummaly Sayasone expressed appreciation of Japan's proposal to work toward halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in his meeting with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 2:13 pm
Hopes for a global agreement to outlaw cluster bombs were given a boost Thursday after Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a total ban on the use of the weapons by the British military. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 2:11 pm
China said the death toll from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 51,000, while the government appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 May 2008 | 2:10 pm
Gunfire broke out Thursday at a protest in western Afghanistan against a U.S. sniper in Iraq who used a Quran for target practice and officials said a NATO soldier and two civilians were... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 1:59 pm
A U.S. helicopter strike north of Baghdad killed eight civilians, including several children, an Iraqi police official said Thursday. The U.S. military said the assault targeted al-Qaida... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 1:55 pm
SHIZUOKA, Japan, May 22 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) A blind Peruvian woman who lives in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, has been denied admission by two sports clubs with one... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 1:55 pm
More and more Bay State residents are batting back sky-high gas prices by climbing behind the wheel of an eco-friendly hybrid.
The number of Massachusetts motorists...
Gov. Deval Patrick's new Registry of Motor Vehicles boss is a longtime state lawmaker whose estranged husband made headlines when he was nabbed three times for drunken...
Since he signed in late February for short money, the feeling all along with Bartolo Colon has been: What do the Red Sox have to lose?
Last night, in his first major...
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO IN 5TH-7TH GRAFS) JFE Steel Corp. skipped hydraulic pressure tests required by the American Petroleum Institute and forged test data for some of the steel... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 1:44 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japan will take up the Afghanistan issue as one of the top agenda items in the Group of Eight political process and as G-8 president call for further international efforts to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 1:40 pm
TBILISI (AFP) - Georgia's parliamentary elections were marred by "a number of problems," observers from the Organisation for Security and Coooperation in Europe said in a statement on Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 May 2008 | 1:39 pm
(Kyodo) _ A blind Peruvian woman who lives in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, was denied admission by two sports clubs out of concern for "inconveniencing other guests," the woman said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 1:37 pm
(Kyodo) _ Toy sales chain Toys "R" Us-Japan Ltd. said Thursday it will recall 15,000 packs of children's hair clips, pins and barrettes after amounts of lead up to 50 times the norm... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 1:32 pm
(Kyodo) _ ---------- Toyota Motor to pay overtime linked to 'voluntary' work NAGOYA - Toyota Motor Corp. will start making full overtime payments in June for the voluntary quality... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 22 May 2008 | 1:32 pm
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel set terms for concluding a peace deal with Syria on Thursday, closing ranks with Washington in demanding Damascus distance itself from Iran and stop supporting Palestinian and Lebanese militants.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is seeking to persuade Myanmar's ruling generals to let in a torrent of foreign assistance for cyclone victims rather than the current trickle.
China's government has raised the death toll from the devastating May 12 earthquake to more than 51,000 people. An official says almost 30,000 are still missing, and millions of tents are desperately needed to house the survivors.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives will vote again on sending the $289 billion U.S. farm bill to the White House to clear up an embarrassing clerical error discovered after the bill was vetoed, Democratic leaders said on Thursday.
BOSTON - The Coast Guard has rejected the latest appeal by the company that wants to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in New Bedford.
The Coast Guard has already...
YINGXIU, China (Reuters) - More than 80,000 people are dead or missing from China's worst earthquake in decades, the government said on Thursday, as concerns rose that disease, the rainy season and aftershocks could bring yet more pain.
BERLIN - A herd of wild boars has thwarted a suspected car thief's getaway in northern Germany.
Police in Schwerin say the 18-year-old abandoned a stolen SUV he was...
American national guardsman who refused to redeploy to Iraq pleads with Canadian government to let him stay in Canada, despite an order from immigration officials that he leave within three weeks. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 May 2008 | 1:21 pm
Bangladesh's Health Ministry says the nation's first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 May 2008 | 1:18 pm
Reuters - A U.S. helicopter airstrike on
Wednesday night killed eight civilians, including two children,
north of Baghdad, police officials said on Thursday.
Iraqi police say eight civilians have been killed by a U.S. helicopter strike north of Baghdad. The U.S. military says the strike was targeting al-Qaida militants but acknowledges some civilian deaths including children. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 May 2008 | 1:16 pm
BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. helicopter airstrike on Wednesday night killed eight civilians, including two children, north of Baghdad, police officials said on Thursday.
Ford Motor Co. says it is cutting North American production for the rest of the year as high gas prices and the weak economy continue to hurt sales. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 May 2008 | 1:14 pm
Reuters - Oil sped to new peaks for a third
straight day on Thursday to top $135 a barrel as investors
fretted over long-term supply constraints and a big drop in
U.S. crude stocks.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil sped to new peaks for a third straight day on Thursday to top $135 a barrel as investors fretted over long-term supply constraints and a big drop in U.S. crude stocks.
It's been said that Nintendo has already exhausted their franchises on the Wii and don't really have a lot up their sleeve for the next year or so since Brawl, Mario Kart Wii and other favorites have already made an appearance on the console, but we beg to differ. Join the Slobs as we dish out 20 games we want to see come to the Wii! Source: Digg | 22 May 2008 | 1:10 pm
The amount being spent globally on food imports is set to top $1 trillion (£528bn) in 2008, a report estimates. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 1:10 pm
Seven weeks ago when major oil company executives spoke to Congress, oil cost about $100 a barrel. Now it's over $130. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday asked the oil executives why gas prices were so high.
The NBA Conference finals are underway. In the East, the Boston Celtics won Game 1 against the Detroit Pistons. In the West, the Los Angeles Lakers beat the San Antonio Spurs in the first game of their series.
Hormel Foods said Thursday its profit rose in the second quarter as pork costs fell and Spam continued to sell well. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 May 2008 | 1:04 pm
The new Italian government announces measures to deal with the Naples garbage crisis, and to combat illegal immigration. The plans include declaring the dumps national strategic areas to be protected by the military and tighter scrutiny of immigrants.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Officials say a NATO soldier and two Afghan civilians have been killed in a protest over the shooting of the Quran by a U.S. sniper in Iraq.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 1:03 pm
Officials say a NATO soldier and two Afghan civilians have been killed in a protest over the shooting of the Quran by a U.S. sniper in Iraq. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 May 2008 | 1:03 pm
AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday toured Myanmar's disaster area, on the first day of a visit aimed at pushing through a full emergency relief effort after Cyclone Nargis.
A woman who had just crashed her Mercury Sable on Interstate 95 in Wakefield was struck and killed by a car early this morning as she walked across the highway, police say....
A local election to fill a vacant seat in Parliament could spell more bad news for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The outcome is being closely watched for an indication of his declining popularity.
YANGON (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday toured Myanmar's disaster area, on the first day of a visit aimed at pushing through a full emergency relief effort after Cyclone Nargis. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 May 2008 | 1:01 pm
Microsoft plans to entice advertisers and users of its search engine with savings on online purchases on a site called Live Search cashback. Microsoft unveiled plans Wednesday to entice advertisers and users of its search engine with cash back savings on online purchases, launching a site called Live Search cashback. Source: Digg | 22 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
Democrats in Michigan have been trying for months to get their pledged delegates counted. The state was stripped of its delegates after it defied Democratic Party rules and held its primary early. Host Renee Montagne talks with Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, who recommends splitting the delegates among the two candidates so the delegates can be seated at the Democratic National Convention.
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Barack Obama sounded like the Democratic presidential nominee on a visit to the November election battleground of Florida on Wednesday, praising rival Hillary Clinton and targeting Republican foe John McCain.
The Democratic presidential candidates Wednesday focused on Florida. Hillary Clinton promised to keeping fighting to get the state's delegates seated at the Democratic National Convention. With an eye to the November election, Barack Obama will spend several days campaigning in the important swing state.
Be sure to check out today's MediaBiz column. CN8's Barry Nolan was fired this week for speaking out over honoring a certain Fox News host (at right) ....
"When...
Oil prices rose above $135 a barrel for the first time Thursday, with supply worries, global demand and an ever weakening U.S. dollar driving crude futures up.
The summer season in New Hampshire's Lakes Region is just getting started, but as gas prices continue to set records on land, some boat owners are keeping their vessels in storage or selling them altogether. That's already starting to affect marinas that store, dock, rent and sell boats. Other businesses, such as charter boats and tourist cruises, are setting their summer rates and weighing whether to swallow high fuel costs or pass them on to customers.
Proposed changes in New Brunswick to allow pharmacists to alter a patient's prescription or assign new medications for minor conditions without checking with doctor
The army was deployed Thursday to help quell anti-foreigner violence that has killed at least 42 people and shredded South Africa's reputation for economic and political stability.
How the Clinton campaign disenfranchised Florida voters in the Democratic primary for the presidential nomination. Source: Digg | 22 May 2008 | 12:50 pm
The US city of San Francisco passes new rules requiring businesses to pay for the amount of CO2 they emit. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 12:48 pm
Insurgents attacked an army base in Mali's restive northern desert, setting off a battle that left 10 soldiers and 17 rebels dead, the Defense Ministry says. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 May 2008 | 12:47 pm
Republican John McCain says same-sex couples should be allowed to enter into legal agreements for insurance and other purposes, but he opposes gay marriage and believes in "the unique status of marriage between and man and a woman."
Faced with a need for deeper blood reserves, blood banks are stepping up their recruitment in high schools. And teenagers as young as 16 and 17 years old are responding to the blood drives, contributing about 10 percent of the nation's blood supply.
Poor black South Africans have attacked poor black foreigners in and around Johannesburg who they say steal their jobs and commit crimes. At least 40 immigrants have been killed and thousands have fled to refugee shelters. Renee Montagne talks to Frans Cronje of the South African Institute of Race Relations about the outbreak of violence.
French workers hold a day of strikes in a challenge to President Sarkozy's pension reform plans. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 12:37 pm
A Massachusetts man accused of stealing 330 iPhones from a Salem, New Hampshire, store with a former co-worker has surrendered to Salem police after fighting extradition for...
There are technical signals in the futures market, including price differences between near-term and longer-term contracts, that crude may soon fall. But few are willing to call an end to the rally.
The cost of groceries is going up this year, and so are the numbers of people who have started growing their own produce. Now seed companies are reporting a surge of orders. From member station WUOT in Knoxville Matt Shafer Powell reports.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- The army was deployed Thursday to help quell anti-foreigner violence that has killed at least 42 people and shredded South Africa's reputation for economic and political stability.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
SUNRISE, Florida (Reuters) - The souvenir vendors outside Hillary Clinton's campaign appearances have added a new button to their wares that reads "Chelsea in 2016" with a picture of the former first daughter.
At least 43 soldiers have been killed in a road crash in northern Nigeria, the country's military says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into Myanmar's disaster zone Thursday as he pressed the country's leaders to open the doors to critical international aid for some 2.5 million cyclone survivors.
BEICHUAN, China (AP) -- China said the toll of dead and missing from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 80,000, while the government appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 12:08 pm
AP - China said the toll of dead and missing from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 80,000, while the government appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors.
The EU should keep strong ties with Russia despite "serious questions" about its commitment to democracy, say peers. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 12:07 pm
UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrives in Burma to urge military leaders to accept more aid for cyclone survivors. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 12:05 pm
In his latest column, Mike Sylvester details his incredibly cheap DIY solution for making you a better racer with the Wii Wheel, as well as a simple way to get non-gamers in on the action without embarrassing themselves. Source: Digg | 22 May 2008 | 12:01 pm
Brain cancer "used to be considered a death sentence, and it's not anymore," says Thomas Sedowski, one of dozens of survivors sharing experiences on iReport.com. With his diagnosis, Sedowski entered the complicated world of cancer, just as Sen. Ted Kennedy has. Source: Digg | 22 May 2008 | 12:01 pm
One in eight U.S. high school biology teachers presents creationism or intelligent design in a positive light in the classroom, a new survey shows, despite a federal court's recent ban against it. The research also revealed that between 12 percent and 16 percent of the nation's biology teachers are creationists. Source: Digg | 22 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
AP - Democrats are picking up the pieces after an embarrassing technical gaffe that delayed a triumphant rejection of President Bush's veto of a massive farm bill.
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's dramatic announcement that he is negotiating a peace deal with Syria was greeted Thursday with overwhelming skepticism in Israel.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 11:54 am
The Al Qaeda terror group in Iraq appears to be at its weakest state since it gained an initial foothold in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion five years ago, acting commander of U.S. forces in Middle East said Wednesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 May 2008 | 11:54 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded with explosives as he tried to ram a crucial crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel early Thursday, militants said. There were no casualties besides the bomber.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 11:53 am
Reuters - Israel set terms for concluding a
peace deal with Syria on Thursday, closing ranks with
Washington in demanding Damascus distance itself from Iran and
stop supporting Palestinian and Lebanese militants.
A Japanese farmer who committed suicide by drinking pesticide vomited the poison at a hospital before he died, releasing toxic fumes that sickened more than 50 people, the hospital said Thursday.
The all-day physical exercises that mark the end of a midshipman's first year at the Naval Academy were never exactly fun. But this year, they've gotten even more serious. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 May 2008 | 11:40 am
Thousands of Mozambicans and other foreigners flee South Africa after days of violent attacks. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 11:37 am
Pakistani scientist AQ Khan makes a rare trip from home where he has been held since a nuclear leaks scandal. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 11:34 am
Investigators and scientists went to Charles Manson's last hideout to hunt for clandestine graves that could contain other possible victims. The closest thing they found were animal bones.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into Myanmar's disaster zone Thursday as he pressed the country's leaders to open the doors to critical international aid for some 2.5 million cyclone survivors.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 11:27 am
The grown-up rocker triumphed over the smooth-voiced kid as David Cook claimed the "American Idol" title Wednesday, and it wasn't as much of a surprise as it seemed. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 May 2008 | 11:27 am
Government officials say 27 people are dead following an insurgent attack on an army base in northern Mali. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 22 May 2008 | 11:12 am
ALONG THE XINGU RIVER, Brazil (AP) -- Indians fish from canoes along the curves of this Amazon tributary and tend manioc crops near the site of a proposed dam talked about for decades - but now pushing forward under Brazil's multi-billion-dollar construction spree.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 11:09 am
LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices broke yet more records on Thursday, catapulting above 135 dollars a barrel for the first time on runaway fears about rampant demand exceeding supply, analysts said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 May 2008 | 11:06 am
A Japanese farmer who committed suicide by drinking pesticide vomited the poison at a hospital before he died, releasing toxic fumes that sickened more than 50 people, the hospital said Thursday. Source: FOXNews.com | 22 May 2008 | 10:59 am
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will return home on Saturday to begin his run-off campaign. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 22 May 2008 | 10:58 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's prime minister met with the country's most influential Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Thursday as he seeks support for his government in the wake of recent offensives against Sunni and Shiite extremists.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 10:53 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China reacted coolly on Thursday to a suggestion from the Dalai Lama that he would be happy to attend the Beijing Olympics, and suggested talks with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader's envoys may be delayed by the Sichuan earthquake.
PARIS (AFP) - Air France-KLM, the world's biggest airline, warned on Thursday that operating profit would fall by about a third this year because of fuel costs, and its shares slumped for a three-day loss of about 16 percent. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 May 2008 | 9:49 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Lee Myung-bak apologized Thursday to South Koreans over a beef import accord with the United States that has sparked fears of mad cow disease and sent his popularity plummeting in his first months in office.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 9:34 am
China said the death toll from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 51,000, while the government appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors.
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki has called in troops to halt attacks on foreigners as the death toll from more than a week of violence nearly doubled and attacks began to spread. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 May 2008 | 7:49 am
MIAMI (AFP) - Invoking Democratic nightmares of the 2000 Florida presidential recount, Hillary Clinton demanded the revival of two voided primaries as she sought to halt Barack Obama's march toward the party's nomination. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 May 2008 | 6:45 am
Pakistan's government has signed a controversial peace agreement with hard-line Islamic militants in a key northern valley, with the government accepting the introduction of Islamic law to the region and agreeing to free dozens of prisoners.
PARIS (AFP) - Astronomers on Wednesday said they had witnessed for the first time how a dying star erupted into a supernova, one of the mightiest yet most elusive sights in the Universe. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 22 May 2008 | 5:48 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, praised for curbing violence in Iraq, seeks to persuade senators on Thursday he can handle the task of heading the U.S. military in the entire Middle East and beyond.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Reports of an increase in terrorist violence around the world have been distorted by the high number of civilian casualties in Iraq, and omitting those deaths reveals a decline in terrorism, a research group argued in a new report Wednesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 9:11 a... | 22 May 2008 | 2:16 am
BEIJING - Hundreds of Chinese orphaned by the devastating 1976 Tangshan earthquake have offered to take care of victims of last week's devastating tremor in Sichuan, state media said on Thursday.
And more than 300 children orphaned... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 May 2008 | 1:56 am
A mob in Western Kenya hunted down and burned to death 11 people suspected of being witches and wizards. Most of the victims were between 70 and 90 years old.
Xenophobic violence in South Africa, which has caused 24 deaths and forced 13,000 people to flee their homes, has spread from Johannesburg to the volatile Zulu heartland, prompting President Thabo Mbeki to deploy the army on the streets... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 May 2008 | 12:33 am
Teachers have started schooling the children Josef Fritzl fathered with his daughter while holding her prisoner in a cellar for 24 years, a doctor helping the victims overcome their ordeal said.
Berthold Kepplinger, director of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 May 2008 | 12:30 am
John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, made big strides on Wednesday in a legal feud over footage of the former Beatle smoking pot, writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug LSD in President Richard Nixon's tea.
Ono... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 22 May 2008 | 12:20 am
Kenya's Public Services Minister Dalmas Otieno speaks at a news conference about his son Isaiah, in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Isaiah Otieno was killed Tuesday, May 13... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 11:48 pm
A man and a woman have been charged with child neglect in Britain after reports that a seven-year-old girl starved to death in Birmingham.
The girl, Khyra Ishaq, was taken to hospital on Saturday where she was pronounced dead,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 11:48 pm
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, talks with OPEC Secretary General Abdalla Salem El-Badri in Quito, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. El-Badri is leading a delegation on a visit to two of its member countries... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 11:44 pm
A man is held by riot police as Chelsea fans confront them after the Champions League final soccer match between Manchester United and Chelsea, which was played in Moscow, near Chelsea's Stamford Bridge... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 11:26 pm
A priest reads from the Bible in front of 18 coffins with the bodies of those killed at a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, camp earlier this year, during funeral services in Quito, Wednesday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 11:13 pm
British actress Julia Ormond arrives for the premiere of "Surveillance" during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Thursday, May 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 10:38 pm
El Salvadoran presidential candidate Mauricio Fune, of the Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front (FMLN), left, shakes hands with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, during a meeting at the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 10:37 pm
Firewalkers walks across smoldering coals in the northern village of Lagada, Greece, 20 kilometers (11 miles) north of the of Thessaloniki, on Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Each year, the firewalkers open... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 10:24 pm
A woman of the Chinese community in Romania lights candles for those killed in the May 12 quake in the Sichuan province in China, during a memorial service in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday May 21 2008... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 10:22 pm
Diana Sanchez Lavenant, 21, wipes away tears during a demonstration against the recent wave of crimes and kidnappings in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Sanchez's brother, Guillermo Sanchez Lavenant,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 10:22 pm
Activists from environmental protest group Greenpeace project the slogan "Go For Clean Energy" onto the scene below Prague Castle, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, to draw attention to the risk of weakening the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 May 2008 | 9:50 pm
President Bush is announcing a policy change that will let Americans send cell phones to Cubans -- a move that he hopes will push the regime to increase freedom of expression for Cuban citizens.
Israel and Syria are making their first attempt for more than seven years to reach a comprehensive peace which, if successful, would mean Israel giving up the Golan Heights, seized in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Both governments confirmed... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
BOSTON (Reuters) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, an elder statesman of U.S. liberal politics and brother of slain President John Kennedy, was released from hospital on Wednesday after being diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is moving the Cabinet to Naples, vowing to clean the city's streets of the garbage that has piled up for months and become a stinking symbol of government inadequacy.
Berlusconi may announce measures,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 8:15 pm
Renowned food critic Patricia Wells and her editor husband Walter discuss their lives in Paris and how Patricia shook up the established food critic establishment in France.
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.
The murder of a 2-year-old girl, allegedly at the hands of two boys aged 7 and 9 in Buenos Aires, has shocked Argentina.
Jaquelin Milagros was found dead on Monday with a wire around her neck and hanging from a wall in a vacant... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 7:15 pm
Inching towards the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidential election, a beaming Barack Obama ignited rolling chants of "Yes we can" in a packed Tampa arena yesterday at the start of a three-day visit to Florida n a state... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
LONDON - Police in Jersey said on Wednesday that the discovery of human remains beneath a former care home at the centre of a child abuse inquiry could lead to a murder investigation.
The island's deputy police chief Lenny Harper... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
The bodies of at least 20 whales have washed up on a Dakar beach and residents say as many as 100 swam up to the shore. Villagers living nearby said the whales veered closer and closer to the shore until many of them were beached.
A mob armed with sticks and bottles approached a Durban tavern, possibly owned by a foreigner. Over 20 people have died in recent weeks in alleged xenophobic attacks in and around Johannesburg.
Authorities sealed off a nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden and made two arrests after a welder arrived for work with a plastic bag containing traces of an explosive substance, police and plant officials said.
Ford Motor Co. says it is cutting North American production for the rest of the year as high gas prices and the weak economy depress its sales.
AP - Democratic officials say Barack Obama has begun a top-secret search for a running mate.
AP - Ford Motor Co. says it is cutting North American production for the rest of the year as high gas prices and the weak economy depress its sales.
Reuters - A U.S. helicopter airstrike on
Wednesday night killed eight civilians, including two children,
north of Baghdad, police officials said on Thursday.
Reuters - Oil sped to new peaks for a third
straight day on Thursday to top $135 a barrel as investors
fretted over long-term supply constraints and a big drop in
U.S. crude stocks.
Comment by Jordan Lorence Senior Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund
AP - The number of newly laid off workers filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week to the lowest level in a month.
AFP - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday toured Myanmar's disaster area, on the first day of a visit aimed at pushing through a full emergency relief effort after Cyclone Nargis.
Oil prices rose above $135 a barrel for the first time Thursday, with supply worries, global demand and an ever weakening U.S. dollar driving crude futures up.
The army was deployed Thursday to help quell anti-foreigner violence that has killed at least 42 people and shredded South Africa's reputation for economic and political stability.
Republican John McCain says same-sex couples should be allowed to enter into legal agreements for insurance and other purposes, but he opposes gay marriage and believes in "the unique status of marriage between and man and a woman."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into Myanmar's disaster zone Thursday as he pressed the country's leaders to open the doors to critical international aid for some 2.5 million cyclone survivors.
AP - China said the toll of dead and missing from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 80,000, while the government appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors.
AP - Democrats are picking up the pieces after an embarrassing technical gaffe that delayed a triumphant rejection of President Bush's veto of a massive farm bill.
Reuters - Israel set terms for concluding a
peace deal with Syria on Thursday, closing ranks with
Washington in demanding Damascus distance itself from Iran and
stop supporting Palestinian and Lebanese militants.
A Japanese farmer who committed suicide by drinking pesticide vomited the poison at a hospital before he died, releasing toxic fumes that sickened more than 50 people, the hospital said Thursday.
Investigators and scientists went to Charles Manson's last hideout to hunt for clandestine graves that could contain other possible victims. The closest thing they found were animal bones.
Controversy erupts over the creation of the next edition of the DSM, the psychiatric rule book.
China said the death toll from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 51,000, while the government appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors.