COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Bombs ripped through two buses in separate attacks in Sri Lanka on Friday, including an attack during morning rush-hour traffic near the capital that killed 21 people and wounded 47, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:32 am
(Kyodo) _ Malaysia has no intention to revise the 41 percent hike in fuel prices in the face of public protests, but said Friday there will be no more increases in the near term. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:32 am
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Police stopped Zimbabwe's opposition presidential candidate at a roadblock Friday as he attempted to campaign and ordered him to proceed with his convoy to a police station.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:29 am
A Chinese court jails a man for over seven years after he stole from buildings which fell in last month's quake disaster. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:25 am
MIANYANG, China (AP) -- Soldiers were ordered to deepen a diversion channel to speed the draining of an unstable earthquake-formed lake that was threatening to burst, state television said Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:25 am
WASHINGTON - Sen. Arlen Specter reiterated his call for the NFL to initiate an independent investigation into Spygate.
The Pennsylvania Republican entered a statement Thursday...
DARTMOUTH - Authorities say a couple trying to beat the high cost of gasoline accidentally caused an apartment complex fire.
Fire Chief Richard Arruda told The Standard-Times...
TOKYO, June 6 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING FUKUDA COMMENT ON POSSIBLE PENALTY, MINOR UPDATES THROUGHOUT, CORRECTING TO NOTE IN 12TH GRAF OFFICIALS PENALIZED WERE GOVERNMENT-WIDE FIGURES, NOT... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:19 am
ROME (AP) -- World leaders at a U.N. summit embraced an ambitious strategy to combat a food crisis that is causing violent riots and threatening to push up to a billion people across the globe into hunger.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:17 am
Sri Lanka's military says that a bus has been bombed in central Sri Lanka, the second such attack in hours. Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara says the blast took place in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:13 am
BOSTON - The MBTA is being forced to spend more than $5 million to tear down and rebuild a 3-year old bridge on the Greenbush commuter rail line, further driving up the cost...
Aid agencies fear mass hunger in Zimbabwe after a relief work ban, as police stop the opposition leader as he campaigns. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:12 am
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has criticized Bangladesh's military-backed interim government for alleged wholesale arrests of political activists. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:10 am
A benchload of basketball-jonesing celebs crowded courtside at the TD Banknorth Garden last night to watch the Celtics school the Lakers 98-88 in Game 1 of the epic NBA Finals...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Calling coverage of the aftermath of a devastating cyclone distorted, Myanmar's military junta lashed out at foreign media and its own citizens Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:09 am
Calling coverage of the aftermath of a devastating cyclone distorted, Myanmar's military junta lashed out at foreign media and its own citizens Friday. The attack came after... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:09 am
WASHINGTON(AFP) (AFP) - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have held a private meeting, their campaigns said, amid feverish speculation over whom he will choose as his vice presidential running mate. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:06 am
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks said he welcomed martyrdom at U.S. hands, as he and four codefendants faced trial for war crimes without the benefit of lawyers.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:05 am
AP - The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks said he welcomed martyrdom at U.S. hands, as he and four codefendants faced trial for war crimes without the benefit of lawyers.
AFP - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have held a private meeting, their campaigns said, amid feverish speculation over whom he will choose as his vice presidential running mate.
Reuters - Zimbabwean police on Friday detained
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for the second time this
week after blocking him from reaching a campaign rally for the
June 27 presidential run-off vote, his MDC party said.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police on Friday detained opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for the second time this week after blocking him from reaching a campaign rally for the June 27 presidential run-off vote, his MDC party said.
In the second attack in three days targeting civilians in the area, a bomb ripped through a crowded passenger bus near Sri Lanka's capital during Friday's morning rush hour, killing at... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:03 am
AP - Just like that, those familiar chants of "Beat L.A.," dormant for more than two decades, were silenced once again. As Paul Pierce laid in pain near the edge of the famed parquet floor, clutching his injured right knee and weeping, a new cry "Let's go Paul" filled the air before Boston's captain was carried from the floor by his teammates and whisked to the locker room in a wheelchair.
Zimbabwe's opposition presidential candidate has been stopped at a roadblock and ordered to proceed with his campaign convoy to a police station. Reporters with the convoy heard police... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
AP - Federal prosecutors may have charged Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III in one of the largest stock-option backdating cases in U.S. history, but it was allegations that the billionaire drugged his business cohorts, hired prostitutes and maintained a drug warehouse that grabbed headlines.
AP - World leaders at a U.N. summit embraced an ambitious strategy to combat a food crisis that is causing violent riots and threatening to push up to a billion people across the globe into hunger.
AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates ousted the Air Force's top military and civilian leaders Thursday, holding them to account in a historic Pentagon shake-up after embarrassing nuclear mix-ups.
A rush-hour explosion targeting a bus in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, kills at least 20 people and injures 80. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:57 am
AP - Senate Republicans appeared ready to turn back an ambitious plan to reduce the risks of global warming after a week in which bipartisan bickering and political posturing seemed to drown out the environmental debate.
AP - For young voters, Rosa Parks' refusal to sit at the back of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 is schoolbook history. Even the racially charged 1992 riots in Los Angeles are a distant memory.
TOKYO, June 6 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING FIRST 7 GRAFS WITH MACHIMURA'S STATEMENT) Both the lower and upper houses of the Diet unanimously adopted a resolution Friday urging the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:53 am
AP - John Edwards has ruled out being Barack Obama's running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, according to interviews carried by two leading Spanish newspapers on Friday.
Magistrates in London are deciding whether four men from Rwanda should be extradited to face charges of mass murder. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:48 am
CHENGDU (Reuters) - China readied on Friday to ease pressure on a swollen "quake lake" threatening hundreds of thousands of people downstream in the southwestern province of Sichuan as the water level quickly rises toward a man-made sluice.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two suspected Shiite militia leaders surrendered Friday during American raids on their homes south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:46 am
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul agreed Friday to develop a "firmer and more dynamic" relationship, not only to strengthen... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:40 am
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani authorities arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more than a ton of explosives in a suspected terror plot near the capital, officials said Friday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:40 am
Pakistani authorities arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more than a ton of explosives in a suspected terror plot near the capital, officials said Friday. Senior... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:37 am
A U.S. district attorney for the central district of California indicted Broadcom co-founder and former CEO Henry T. Nicholas, 48, and former CFO William Ruehle, 66, on charges of stock-options manipulation. Nicholas was also charged with using and distributing illegal drugs. Nicholas is a self-made billionaire whose wealth is around $1.8 billion. Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:34 am
John Edwards has ruled out being Barack Obama's running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, according to interviews carried by two leading Spanish newspapers on Friday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:30 am
(Kyodo) _ A hula dance team from the Japanese city of Obama, calling themselves the "Obama Girls," left the city on Friday to perform at a dance contest in Hawaii, where U.S. presidential Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:27 am
Zimbabwean police blocked opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from reaching a rally on Friday in his campaign ahead of a presidential run-off vote later this month, a Reuters photographer said. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:23 am
ASUS today has given us its first glimpse of its Eee Monitor all-in-one PC and is promising to one-up the iMac: thanks to using Linux and an Intel Atom, the Eee will cost just $500 -- less than half the $1,200 price of Apple's box. Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:23 am
Israeli forces kill a militant during a raid in Gaza, as the Israeli PM warns of major military campaign in the strip. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:22 am
The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:15 am
When evaluating this best-of-seven series pitting the Lakers and the Celtics for the NBA title, don't forget what's best for the league.
That's what ran...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan's president told the U.N. Security Council that a dispute between the northern government and former southern rebels over an oil-rich border region could be settled next week, and he called for fresh peace talks on Darfur.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:12 am
If you want to build a big Web 2.0-type application, you'll need to store some huge amounts of data. Aster Data's massively parallel "Beehive" approach to database storage is a compelling option. Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:09 am
The Malaysian government has said it will not back down on its decision to increase fuel prices despite protests. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:05 am
The pro-Western coalition of Ukraine's PM Yulia Tymoshenko loses its parliamentary majority after two members quit. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 10:05 am
BOSTON - The uncertainty was over, the night was resolved, the story was written.
Despite the 90-some seconds still remaining, all that was missing from Game 1 now was...
Using a new technique called 3-D structured-illumination microscopy, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have made some of the most detailed optical images yet of the interior workings of cells, and they are gorgeous. Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:58 am
For the first time in history, a sizable and growing number of U.S. combat troops are taking daily doses of antidepressants to calm nerves strained by repeated and lengthy tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The medicines are intended not only to help troops keep their cool but to preserve soldiers on the front lines. Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:54 am
When Cindy Barclay asks visitors to her booth at the local farmers market if they want to try honey from downtown Albany, they're often shocked. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:47 am
A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but do nothing. Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:42 am
All of the pieces appear to be coming together at the right time for the Westwood High baseball team. The No. 14 Wolverines have been getting the pitching and defense, and...
As befits a gadget diva, the iPhone is picky about its companions. Most headphone plugs don't fit the phone's recessed jack. Until recently, that left iPhoners with one option: the bundled set. Now, other companies have stepped up. Here's how their products compare. Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:40 am
Don't feel like staying up late tonight to catch Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Lakers? We've got you covered. Utilizing NBA 2K8 for the xBox 360 console, we ran a computerized simulation of this year's championship series. Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:39 am
On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen aired a snippet of never-before-seen footage from his 2007 interview with Bill O'Reilly. As Stephen says, the clip makes Papa Bear O'Reilly "[seem] like a real tool." Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:37 am
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. - Even in grass up to her knees, Lorena Ochoa never panicked.
Trying to become the fourth woman to win three straight majors, Ochoa wanted to get off...
Sirhan Sirhan, walked up to Robert F. Kennedy early in the morning of June 5, 1968, and pumped three bullets into him, it seemed an open-and-shut case that he had committed the crime: The pantry at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel was full of witnesses. In March 2006, Sirhan was denied parole for the 13th time since his conviction Source: Digg | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:36 am
The Visa Championships followed the prescribed course with a few variations last night at Agganis Arena.
Defending champion Shawn Johnson scored 16.000 or better in three...
Sudan's faces a "vicious campaign", its president says, after his government is accused of crimes against humanity. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:32 am
A Long Island woman has been found by police with her skin crawling with nearly invisible bloodsucking parasites from an infested bird's nest in her home. She's been taken to a hospital quarantine unit. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:28 am
Turkey's ruling party holds emergency talks after a court ruling on headscarves threatens its future. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:26 am
A black jumbo watermelon auctioned in northern Japan fetched a record 650,000 yen (US$6,100) Friday, making it the most expensive watermelon ever sold in the country — and possibly the world.
The Oakland Raiders signed running back Darren McFadden late Thursday night, making sure their first-round draft pick will be in training camp after JaMarcus Russell's protracted holdout last year. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:22 am
Aristotle. Nietzsche. Buffy? The blond heroine of the campy television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," as well as other works by director and writer Josh Whedon, will be the focus of a three-day academic conference held at Henderson State University beginning Friday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:21 am
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe risked further international outrage Friday by ordering charities to halt their work, hours after detaining British and US diplomats in the tense build-up to a June 27 run-off election. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:17 am
Hillary Clinton's candidacy may soon be a thing of the past but debate will rage over whether the first woman to make it so far in the U.S. presidential contest was a victim of sexism by the media or in the eyes of the public.
The dollar rose against the yen Friday as investors sold the Japanese unit amid growing speculation of an interest rate hike in the United States. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:11 am
Japanese banks are saddled with $8 billion in losses linked to the bad housing credit problem in the United States, the government said Friday, a number that's still small compared to counterparts there and in Europe. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:03 am
GUANTANAMO BAY (AFP) - The alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks and two co-conspirators defiantly demanded to be sentenced to death at a US military hearing, saying they had long sought martyrdom. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:03 am
ROME (AFP) - A UN summit vowed to halve global hunger by 2015 and take "urgent" action over the global food crisis, but only after going into overtime at a fractious summit in Rome. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Jun 2008 | 9:01 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Likely U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama met privately with former rival Hillary Clinton on Thursday as the party sought to unite for the general election campaign after a long nomination battle.
Hedge funds and big Wall Street banks are taking advantage of loopholes to buy massive amounts of oil contracts, with some critics blaming the practice for pushing oil prices to record highs. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Jun 2008 | 8:51 am
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Celtics rolled to a 98-88 win over the Los Angeles Lakers to win Game One of the NBA finals on Thursday, opening another chapter in professional basketball's most storied rivalry.
Pakistani authorities have arrested three suspected suicide bombers and seized more than 1 ton of explosives near the capital, officials said Friday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Jun 2008 | 8:42 am
An Israeli Cabinet minister has said the country should attack Iran if it continues with its nuclear program, a newspaper reported Friday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Jun 2008 | 8:32 am
A top adviser to Senator John McCain says the White House hopeful believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Jun 2008 | 8:25 am
(Reuters) - UBS AG is considering whether to reveal the names of up to 20,000 wealthy American clients as federal authorities intensify an investigation into offshore bank accounts, the New York Times said on Friday, citing people close to the inquiry.
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty.
TANGSHAN, China (AP) -- The most striking feature of this industrial city is that it looks so ordinary, but there was a time when Tangshan was pancaked by a natural disaster.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:29 a... | 6 Jun 2008 | 7:34 am
Photographs of nude teenagers that prompted police to close a gallery exhibit in Australia's biggest city and launch an obscenity investigation were cleared Friday as non-pornographic. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 6 Jun 2008 | 7:26 am
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's competition regulator launched an inquiry Friday into mining giant BHP Billiton's hostile takeover of rival Rio Tinto. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Jun 2008 | 6:34 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired the Air Force's top two officials on Thursday after mistakes involving their most sensitive mission -- the safety and security of America's nuclear weapons.
SYDNEY (AFP) - China's Sinosteel said Friday it had lifted its stake in Australian iron ore miner Midwest to 40.09 percent as it bids to overcome a rival offer for its takeover target. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Jun 2008 | 5:47 am
Boston Celtics All-Star Paul Pierce was carried off the court during the opening game of the NBA finals. His return soon thereafter seemed to spark the Celtics, leading Boston to a 98-88 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.
SANTA ANA/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Broadcom Corp's former CEO took cocaine and spiked customers' drinks with ecstasy while also directing a criminal stock-options backdating conspiracy that cost the microchip company $2.2 billion, federal indictments released on Thursday charged.
The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and four alleged confederates faced a military judge in their long-awaited first appearance before a war-crimes tribunal.
Photojournalist Bill Eppridge was following Sen. Robert Kennedy into the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel when shots rang out. Despite a request for photographers to leave, he remained in the room, sensing he should document the moment.
People with milder asthma symptoms tend to fare better in the long-term if they start using inhaled steroids early on, a new study suggests.
General guidelines suggest that people with mild but persistent asthma use inhaled corticosteroids... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Jun 2008 | 1:41 am
The hunt for the winner of Australia's biggest-ever lottery prize of more than A$58 million ($73.22 million) intensified today after the winning ticket was traced to a Victorian newsagent.
Tattersall's spokesman Gerry Devine said... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Jun 2008 | 1:27 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Mars probe Phoenix was ready to dig its backhoe-like arm into the Martian arctic soil for samples scientists hope hold signs of the existence of water and life-supporting organic minerals, NASA said Thursday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 6 Jun 2008 | 1:19 am
Zimbabwe is being run by a military junta which has already staged a de-facto coup, a senior Western diplomat said yesterday. The claim came as American and British embassy staff were detained at gunpoint while investigating political... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 6 Jun 2008 | 12:14 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Phoenix lander has returned the highest-resolution pictures ever taken of dust and sand on the surface of another planet as it prepares for its primary mission of searching for signs of life on Mars, NASA scientists said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it shot down an incoming SCUD-like missile in its last seconds of flight Thursday in a successful test off Hawaii, a step the contractors said reflected their hardware's versatility.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, tells a military judge in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he would welcome the death penalty. He and four others face 2,973 counts of murder.
Rapidly rising food prices have impacted Americans in different ways. Three women with very different financial circumstances tell how they're adjusting to the increased costs.
More than 10,000 people were moved to higher ground as water continued to rise in a brimming lake formed by landslides from China's May 12 earthquake and another strong aftershock rocked the quake-battered region.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan discusses ongoing instability in Iraq, Turkey's efforts to fight Kurdish militants and efforts to broker negotiations between Israel and Syria.
U.S. and British diplomats are detained as they travel outside Zimbabwe's capital to investigate political violence. The Bush administration called the incident outrageous. James D. McGee, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe, speaks with Robert Siegel.
Detroit doesn't just throw out and bury its trash — it is one of only a few large U.S. cities that still burn refuse. But the city must now must decide whether to keep open or close its controversial incinerator. Signs point to the end of an era.
The Senate Intelligence Committee releases the final chapter in its long-running review of Iraq-related intelligence. It repeated earlier findings that some pre-war statements were true, some were exaggerated and some were totally unsubstantiated.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has obtained the resignations of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne. The move follows a series of embarrassments.
A Virginia court ruling expected Friday has major implications for Randolph College's decision to admit men — and for the school's Maier Museum of Art. School administrators hope to raise $50 million by selling four beloved paintings.
Warming to his role as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama holds two events in Virginia. He's hoping to put the state in the Democratic column this fall.
WASHINGTON - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates fired the Air Force's top two officials on Thursday after mistakes involving their most sensitive mission - the safety and security of America's nuclear weapons.
Gates said two incidents... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Jun 2008 | 7:15 pm
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton's supporters say she isn't chasing the vice-presidency, ahead of a secret meeting with rival Barack Obama at her New York residence today.
Clinton is expected to extend an olive branch to Obama, with... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
Barack Obama headed to rural Virginia as part of a presidential election strategy aimed at loosening the Republican grip on southern strongholds. John McCain is expected to put up a fierce fight in the state which has a military... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
HARARE - Zimbabwean police detained US and British diplomats for several hours on Thursday, slashing the tyres of their cars after they visited victims of political violence ahead of a presidential vote.
The United States blamed... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Jun 2008 | 6:42 pm
Senator Hillary Clinton effectively drew the curtain on her presidential dream last night, saying she will declare her strong support for Senator Barack Obama's White House bid and rally supporters around him.
Clinton said she... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
Almost seven years after terrorists hijacked airliners and used them as missiles to kill 2973 people, five men who allegedly plotted the attacks face a military tribunal today.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, founder of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, is bristling with indignation.
After four years of enforced silence, the scientist described by the CIA as "at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden" and on a Time cover... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 5 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
U.S. diplomats and their British colleagues were attacked as they tried to investigate political violence in Zimbabwe and a U.S. Embassy staffer was beaten, a spokesman said.
Turkey's highest court has upheld a ban on wearing Islamic head scarves at universities, a defeat for the nation's Islamic-oriented government. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Jun 2008 | 4:23 pm
Norway Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police dogs are public servants, making an assault on them as serious as an attack on any police officer. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Jun 2008 | 4:08 pm
Flick through a few channels on Japanese TV and Monta Mino is most likely there. And the world's most prolific television presenter, who just broke his own record for the most hours of live television in one week, says he wants to work even more. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:08 pm
More than 10,000 people were moved to higher ground Thursday as water continued to rise in a brimming lake formed by landslides from China's May 12 earthquake and another strong aftershock rocked the quake-battered region. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Jun 2008 | 2:59 pm
Diplomats say Syria has told a 35-nation meeting that it will limit what U.N. nuclear inspectors can see when they go to check on allegations that Damascus is hiding atomic facilities. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Jun 2008 | 2:51 pm
Myanmar's military regime has forced cyclone survivors to do menial labor in exchange for food and stepped up a campaign to evict displaced citizens from aid shelters, an international human rights group said.
A 15-year-old girl died of bird flu, becoming Indonesia's 109th victim, but the government decided to keep the news quiet. It is part of a new policy aimed at improving the image of the nation hardest hit by the disease.
As Burma's military junta continues to throw up barriers to bringing much-needed foreign aid into the cyclone-ravaged nation, new video recently smuggled out of the country shows the intensity of Cyclone Nargis and the damage it left behind. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:32 pm
Palestinian doctors say a 4-year-old girl has been killed and her mother wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip. The strike came shortly after Palestinian mortar fire on a southern Israeli border community killed one person on a farm.
Zimbabwe's opposition presidential candidate has resumed campaigning, the morning after he spent nine hours in police detention near the country's second main city, his party says.
A Turkish TV station is quoting a senior military commander as saying that Turkey and Iran have carried out coordinated strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
A truck loaded with rockets exploded near the home of an Iraqi police general, wounding an additional 75. Three U.S. soldiers were killed in a separate attack north of the capital.
Iran is threatening to sue countries that it says have damaged its reputation and pushed to have U.N. Security Council involvement in its nuclear program. Source: FOXNews.com | 5 Jun 2008 | 10:54 am
AP - The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks said he welcomed martyrdom at U.S. hands, as he and four codefendants faced trial for war crimes without the benefit of lawyers.
AFP - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have held a private meeting, their campaigns said, amid feverish speculation over whom he will choose as his vice presidential running mate.
Reuters - Zimbabwean police on Friday detained
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for the second time this
week after blocking him from reaching a campaign rally for the
June 27 presidential run-off vote, his MDC party said.
AP - Just like that, those familiar chants of "Beat L.A.," dormant for more than two decades, were silenced once again. As Paul Pierce laid in pain near the edge of the famed parquet floor, clutching his injured right knee and weeping, a new cry "Let's go Paul" filled the air before Boston's captain was carried from the floor by his teammates and whisked to the locker room in a wheelchair.
AP - Federal prosecutors may have charged Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III in one of the largest stock-option backdating cases in U.S. history, but it was allegations that the billionaire drugged his business cohorts, hired prostitutes and maintained a drug warehouse that grabbed headlines.
AP - World leaders at a U.N. summit embraced an ambitious strategy to combat a food crisis that is causing violent riots and threatening to push up to a billion people across the globe into hunger.
AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates ousted the Air Force's top military and civilian leaders Thursday, holding them to account in a historic Pentagon shake-up after embarrassing nuclear mix-ups.
AP - Senate Republicans appeared ready to turn back an ambitious plan to reduce the risks of global warming after a week in which bipartisan bickering and political posturing seemed to drown out the environmental debate.
AP - For young voters, Rosa Parks' refusal to sit at the back of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 is schoolbook history. Even the racially charged 1992 riots in Los Angeles are a distant memory.
AP - John Edwards has ruled out being Barack Obama's running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, according to interviews carried by two leading Spanish newspapers on Friday.
A black jumbo watermelon auctioned in northern Japan fetched a record 650,000 yen (US$6,100) Friday, making it the most expensive watermelon ever sold in the country — and possibly the world.
Hillary Clinton's candidacy may soon be a thing of the past but debate will rage over whether the first woman to make it so far in the U.S. presidential contest was a victim of sexism by the media or in the eyes of the public.
Boston Celtics All-Star Paul Pierce was carried off the court during the opening game of the NBA finals. His return soon thereafter seemed to spark the Celtics, leading Boston to a 98-88 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.