The unit known as the Scorpions has broken up drug rings, apprehended diamond smugglers and investigated government corruption. But after fingering some of South Africa's most powerful people, the unit's days may be numbered.
A nonprofit group in Detroit is turning unused, derelict properties into gardens that grow food for the needy. Urban Farming is pulling weeds, laying fresh topsoil, and planting free fruits and vegetables for residents to pick.
HOUSTON - Space shuttle Discovery pulled away from the international space station on Wednesday, ending a nine-day visit highlighted by the installation of a new Japanese...
DES MOINES, Iowa - Officials said Wednesday a sandbagged levee was preventing a swollen river from spilling its banks and flooding a northeastern Iowa city, but they asked...
NEW YORK - The first two games of the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers series on ABC were more popular than any National Basketball Association finals since 2004, a boon...
HOLYOKE - Police have arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection with a nine-alarm fire that destroyed a historic Holyoke paper mill.
Lt. Michael Higgins says the boy, whose...
A blind Brighton man allegedly stabbed to death a woman in his home who may have been trying to give him his medication, police said.
Louis A. Marquez, 26, of Brighton...
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(Kyodo) _ Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara sent messages to any surviving Japanese abducted to North Korea on a private shortwave radio program taped Wednesday, saying he "will never forget... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:47 am
Reuters - The eldest child of an
incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and the
daughter he confined for 24 years has been reunited with her
family after recovering from an artificial coma, doctors said.
US lawmakers approve a three-year plan to combat drug trafficking from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:46 am
Pakistan's military condemns as "a cowardly attack" what it says was an air strike by US-led forces that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:45 am
Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's
party said on Wednesday it would deploy more war veterans to
campaign in some opposition areas ahead of a presidential
election run-off marred by violence.
AP - Officials said Wednesday that a sandbagged levee prevented a swollen river from spilling its banks and flooding a northeastern Iowa city, but they asked for additional volunteers to help shore up the wall as more rain loomed.
Reuters - Cyclone-hit Myanmar has enough rice to
feed its people, the ruling junta said on Wednesday, accusing
foreign aid agencies of presenting a false picture of the
devastation in the Irrawaddy delta rice bowl.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) An industry ministry panel has produced a report urging corporate managers in Japan not to adopt self-serving takeover defense measures, officials said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:41 am
SAN DIEGO - If Angel Cabrera is smoking again this week at Torrey Pines Golf Course, it will be his golf game that's red-hot and not the Lucky Strikes and Camels.
The...
AP - Wall Street headed for a modestly higher open Wednesday as investors awaited readings on regional economic activity and U.S. oil supply and demand.
Cubs fans are talking World Series, and meaning it. On the South Side, the city's other first-place baseball team, the White Sox, are using the word "swagger" in an ad campaign. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:35 am
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Dutch office supplies distributor Corporate Express NV accepted a sweetened buyout offer Wednesday of about $2.7 billion from U.S. office supplies...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Investigators examined the scorched hull of a jetliner Wednesday to determine what caused the plane to veer off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 29 people, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:35 am
Reuters - Having lost loved ones and
their homes to an earthquake and then what was left of their
belongings to floodwaters, victims of China's worst disaster in
decades spoke stoically of starting again on Wednesday.
AP - Investigators examined the scorched hull of a jetliner Wednesday to determine what caused the plane to veer off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 29 people, officials said.
MIANYANG, China (Reuters) - Having lost loved ones and their homes to an earthquake and then what was left of their belongings to floodwaters, victims of China's worst disaster in decades spoke stoically of starting again on Wednesday.
President George W. Bush threatened Iran on Wednesday with more sanctions if it fails to stop enriching uranium and said all options were on the table to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Source: News:
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- U.S.-led coalition forces along the volatile Afghan border launched an airstrike that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, Pakistan's army said Wednesday. The military condemned it as an act of aggression that "hit at the very basis of cooperation" in the war on terrorism.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:32 am
AP - U.S.-led coalition forces along the volatile Afghan border launched an airstrike that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, Pakistan's army said Wednesday. The military condemned it as an act of aggression that "hit at the very basis of cooperation" in the war on terrorism.
One climber died on Mount Rainier Tuesday morning and two others were suffering severe hypothermia and frostbite after being caught in a blizzard that forced them to spend...
AP - President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel both want to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons but they're standing on opposite sides of a revolving door. He's on his way out of office. She's trying to stay in.
MESEBERG, Germany (AP) -- President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel both want to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons but they're standing on opposite sides of a revolving door. He's on his way out of office. She's trying to stay in.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:30 am
(Kyodo) _ A team of experts has begun the process for jointly assessing the needs of Myanmar's cyclone survivors, a spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:30 am
The U.S.-led coalition says four Afghan civilians and several militants have been killed in airstrikes, but an Afghan official says nine bystanders died. Also, Pakistan rebuffs report that security officials are helping Islamic militants.
President Bush says diplomacy is still his first choice to solve the nuclear standoff with Iran, but "all options are on the table." He seems to have Germany's backing for new sanctions if Iran's leaders remain "obstinate."
AP - NBA commissioner David Stern dismissed allegations from a former referee at the center of a gambling scandal that the 2002 playoff series was rigged by league referees and officials, calling the claims baseless.
Golf ball-sized blisters covered a Berea, Ky., toddler's shoulders when his mother retrieved the boy from his father's home Sunday, and police have charged his father...
Thunderstorms sparked over the Gulf Coast, interior Northwest and Central Plains early Wednesday, while the Northeast and Southwest both cooled somewhat. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:28 am
BEIJING, June 11 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING WITH END OF 1ST DAY OF TALKS) Japan repeated on Wednesday its demand that North Korea get to the bottom of the abduction cases of Japanese... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:27 am
Bangladeshi opposition leader Sheikh Hasina is released from detention to seek medical treatment abroad. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:27 am
Indicted Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin is arrested near Belgrade, Serbian officials say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:26 am
The 19-year-old whose illness alerted Austrian authorities to a major incest scandal is to make a full recovery, doctors say. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:25 am
ZEILLERN, Austria (Reuters) - The eldest child of an incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and the daughter he confined for 24 years, has been reunited with her family after recovering from an artificial coma, doctors said.
Three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have gone to the dogs, so why can't Cheeta the chimp get some love? The animal actor, whose credits include the 1967 comedy "Dr. Doolittle" and the "Tarzan" movies, is trying for the seventh time to get a sidewalk star and become the first monkey to get the honor. His handlers have launched an online petition to get supporters to urge the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to give him a star in 2009. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:25 am
Manuel Uribe, who once weighed a half ton but has slimmed down to about 700 pounds, celebrates his 43rd birthday with a simple wish for the coming year: to be able to stand on his own two feet to get married.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: UPDATING) The opposition-controlled House of Councillors passed a nonbinding censure motion against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday, a move unlikely to lead to Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:24 am
Academy Award-winning actress and "Dancing With the Stars" sensation Marlee Matlin is working on a memoir, scheduled to come out in 2009 and tentatively titled "I'll Scream Later." Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:22 am
(Kyodo) _ Following are some main stories moving in the next few hours. -- Japan repeats demand on N. Korea abduction cases (3rd lead, 70 lines) -- Fukuda slapped with 1st upper... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:21 am
The Dutch office supplies distributor Corporate Express NV accepted a sweetened buyout offer Wednesday of about $2.7 billion from U.S. office supplies retailer Staples Inc. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:20 am
Sudanese authorities were on Wednesday searching for passengers who escaped a jet carrying over 200 people that exploded on landing at Khartoum airport, burning at least 30 to death. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:18 am
(Kyodo) _ Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday his government hopes to resolve diplomatically the dispute over Japan's whaling activities but also stressed that Canberra's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:18 am
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's ruling military junta denied reports Wednesday that it was deducting a 10 percent tax from foreign donations to cyclone victims, saying all incoming money is being spent on relief efforts.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:16 am
Myanmar's ruling military junta denied reports Wednesday that it was deducting a 10 percent tax from foreign donations to cyclone victims, saying all incoming money is being spent on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:16 am
MESEBERG, Germany (Reuters) - President George W. Bush threatened Iran on Wednesday with more sanctions if it fails to stop enriching uranium and said all options were on the table to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
(Kyodo) _ Hong Kong has started a territory-wide slaughter of live chickens in all poultry stalls after the feared bird flu virus was found in four wet markets in the past week, the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:15 am
A woman with multiple sclerosis is due to ask the High Court to clarify the law on suicide. Should it be allowed in the UK? Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:14 am
European Union Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kuneva speaks during a news conference at the EU office in Beijing, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. The European Union's top consumer protection official... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:14 am
KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudanese authorities were on Wednesday searching for passengers who escaped a jet carrying over 200 people that exploded on landing at Khartoum airport, burning at least 30 to death. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:14 am
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's opposition on Wednesday slapped an unprecedented censure motion on Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, dealing him a stinging rebuke weeks before he hosts the Group of Eight summit. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:13 am
A young Palestinian girl is killed by tank fire in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces target militants firing rockets over the border. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:10 am
Eighteen-year-old Inuka, the polar bear, catches a live fish on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 in Singapore. The Singapore Zoo has decided to keep its male polar bear, the first and only polar bear to be born... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:03 am
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, is seen, during the X World Congress of Russian Press, where 1000 representatives of Russian-language media from 70 countries gathered in Moscow, on Wednesday, June... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:01 am
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves Downing Street to attend Prime Ministers Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Members of Parliament vote later Wednesday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
Dozens of passengers were reportedly killed when a commercial jet en route from Jordan crashed and exploded upon landing in thunderstorms at a Sudan airport Source: FOXNews.com | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:59 am
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese airliner coming from Amman and Damascus burst into flames after landing in Khartoum on Tuesday night, killing at least 29 of the roughly 214 people on board, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
Bosnian Serb Stojan Zupljanin, a fugitive wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague, looks on in this May, 1998 file photo, in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:57 am
U.S .President George W. Bush, left, is seen with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, during their joint news conference at Schloss Meseberg Palace, Wednesday, June 11, 2008 in Meseberg, Germany. (AP... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:53 am
Two lorry drivers are killed in fuel protests in Spain and Portugal as strikes over rising diesel prices continue. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:51 am
One of the offspring of an Austrian man who kept his daughter confined to a basement for decades has been reunited with her family and is expected to make a good recovery, doctors said Wednesday.
Our urban footprint covers much of the globe and is coming closer to stomping out many endangered species and posing brand new risks. We need to prepare now. Source: Digg | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:49 am
Outgoing parliament speaker Oliver Dulic, right, speaks with Party of United Pensioners of Serbia president Jovan Krkobabic during the first session of the new Serbian parliament in Belgrade, Wednesday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:44 am
Pakistani lawyers rally in Multan, Pakistan on Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Pakistan's deposed chief justice joined lawyers Wednesday protesting against President Pervez Musharraf and told them to keep struggling... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:44 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A bomb planted near a bridge in northern Baghdad killed five people on passing minibuses during rush hour Wednesday, Iraqi police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:44 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Wednesday an "unprovoked and cowardly" air strike by U.S. forces had killed 11 Pakistani soldiers on its border with Afghanistan and undermined the basis of security cooperation.
Authorities in Sudan launch an investigation into what caused a plane to burst into flames in Khartoum. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:41 am
The rival candidates are spelling out their plans to improve the economy in appearances this week. And those plans have markedly different approaches to an issue likely to dominate the presidential race.
Leaders and activists of various left parties raise slogans during a protest against the recent hike in fuel prices in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. The banner reads "Protest against price... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:37 am
LONDON (AFP) - Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday that its earnings were forecast to remain "satisfactory" excluding write-downs connected to the global credit crunch. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:36 am
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gestures, as he delivers a speech in a public gathering at the city of Shahr-E- Kord, some 330 miles (550 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:34 am
President Bush says "all options" are available to deal with Iran's nuclear programme, on a visit to Germany. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:22 am
Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo Co. said Wednesday it will buy a controlling stake in India's largest drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. in a tender offer worth as much as $4.6 billion. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:20 am
After more than eight months of hard work, including major improvements and new features (and a new website!), Banshee 1.0 is here! Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio. Sync your devices. We think you'll love it! Source: Digg | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:10 am
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party said on Wednesday it would deploy more war veterans to campaign in some opposition areas ahead of a presidential election run-off marred by violence.
When you can't quite remember a tricky word or somebody's name, trying to excavate it from your memory might be the worst thing you can do, according to new psychology research. Source: Digg | 11 Jun 2008 | 10:01 am
In 2002, he compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many his results were surprising, but they've since been corroborated by similar studies in Europe and East Asia. Source: Digg | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:59 am
President Bush admitted Wednesday that his tough rhetoric had given the world the impression was a "guy really anxious for war" and said he now wished he had used a different tone. Source: News:
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: Top MSNBC Headlines | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:58 am
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Western pressure has failed to stop Iran's nuclear program from advancing, its president said on Wednesday, a day after the United States and the European Union warned of more sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
MESEBERG (AFP) - US President George W. Bush was to pressure Chancellor Angela Merkel to cut Germany's business ties with Iran in talks Wednesday as he put the Iran nuclear dispute at the heart of his farewell European tour, aides said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:52 am
A Sudan Airways jetliner veered off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 33 of the 217 people on board, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
Colorado led the nation with a 73 percent increase in the number of children living in poverty over six years, according to a new report. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:35 am
The speaker of the Illinois House is circulating a memo outlining how legislative candidates can call for impeachment hearings against the governor, calling corruption during his tenure "a tumor." Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:29 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's unpopular president has approached his main rival in his ruling conservative party to be prime minister to stem anger over policies that have triggered mass street protests.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will pledge about $10 billion in aid for Afghanistan at a donors' conference this week, a U.S. official said on Tuesday -- less than the White House had wanted from Congress.
Pakistan's army on Wednesday accused the U.S.-led coalition of killing 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops in an airstrike along the volatile Afghan border. Source: News:
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: Top MSNBC Headlines | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:22 am
SCIENTISTS fear sharks are now HUNTING people for the first time after Jaws-style attacks on a resort. The horrifying theory emerged after two surfers were killed and one badly injured in a month. Source: Digg | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:10 am
A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. Source: Digg | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:10 am
ZUNDAO VILLAGE, China, (AP) -- The sun is low in the mountains as Wang Wenying fries up potatoes, beans and chunks of braised duck over an outdoor wood fire.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 9:05 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Officials says 31 people died in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 8:58 am
The European Union's top consumer protection official urged China on Wednesday to invest more in product safety for its myriad small producers. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 8:57 am
Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 11 Jun 2008 | 8:54 am
"The back cover copy reads 'Craig Johnson had two best friends, two caring parents, a hot girlfriend, and a nice truck--not bad for a twenty-year-old.' Already we're in trouble." Source: Digg | 11 Jun 2008 | 8:50 am
Ladies and gentlemen, rev your appetites—and steer your shopping carts toward the delicious staples of a healthy diet. We scoured the grocery aisles and chose the most reliable basics and the best secret ingredients that will improve your diet and take your cooking up a notch—all in one trip to the supermarket. Source: Digg | 11 Jun 2008 | 8:34 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's president said Wednesday that his government will make a fresh start, hours after an estimated 80,000 people gathered in the South Korean capital in the largest demonstration yet against the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 7:32 am
TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese pharmaceutical firm Daiichi Sankyo Co. said on Wednesday that it had agreed to buy a majority stake in India's top drug company Ranbaxy Laboratories for up to 4.6 billion dollars. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jun 2008 | 7:08 am
MIANYANG, China (AP) -- Evacuees hauled mattresses and carts down from temporary camps in the hills Wednesday after Chinese authorities declared the flood threat over from an earthquake-formed lake that was drained the day before.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 7:06 am
The United States will pledge about $10 billion in aid for Afghanistan at a donors' conference this week, a U.S. official said on Tuesday -- less than the White House had wanted from Congress. Source: News:
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ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama staked an ambitious claim to new political turf with the states he chose for his first two stops of the White House general election campaign -- Virginia and North Carolina.
Some say President Dmitri Medvedev's efforts to revitalize the once-powerful Soviet military have been stymied by corruption and intimidation within the ranks. A Russian contract soldier tells of hazing and thuggery within his unit.
The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 1½ hours only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead.
The 45-year-old man... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Jun 2008 | 2:53 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Smoking cigarettes has the same effect as cutting the life span by close to five years, according to a mortality risk chart released Tuesday in the US Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jun 2008 | 2:39 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- What began with high school students worried about the safety of U.S. beef has swelled into a major challenge to the government of new South Korean President Lee Myung-bak - culminating in protests of 80,000 people Tuesday who failed to be placated by his entire Cabinet offering to resign.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:40 a... | 11 Jun 2008 | 2:24 am
MADRID (AFP) - Two lorry drivers were killed on picket lines in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday as strikes by thousands of truckers over soaring fuel prices turned deadly. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 11 Jun 2008 | 2:12 am
SEOUL - South Korea's Jindo dog has stood tall against tigers, guarded the heavily armed border with the North and marched in the Olympics. Yet the Jindo is having a tough time battling poodles for trophies at dog shows abroad.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Jun 2008 | 1:39 am
OPEC's Secretary General on Tuesday appealed for calm, saying the record-high crude oil price was unbearable and did not reflect any shortage of supply in the market.
Abdullah al-Badri also called for measures to curb market speculation,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Jun 2008 | 1:36 am
Zimbabwe is now run by a "military junta", the country's opposition leader has charged, vowing not to accept victory for Robert Mugabe in a presidential run-off later this month.
There had been a "de facto coup d'etat" following... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 11 Jun 2008 | 1:32 am
Now that Hillary Clinton has left the presidential race, both Barack Obama and John McCain are courting her more than 17 million supporters. Clinton has told her backers to get behind Obama. But that seems far from a sure thing, if a recent talk with them revealed.
The U.S. government has photographic evidence that a Guantanamo Bay inmate was tortured with a knife after being taken to Morocco by U.S. forces, a British human rights group said Tuesday.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday that the risk of the U.S. economy entering a substantial downturn "appears to have diminished," but he also signaled deepening concern over inflation. Here, a look at some key indicators of where the economy stands.
The effort to put 10,000 volunteer peacekeepers on the streets of Philadelphia started with a huge rally, and plenty of media coverage, last fall. But the reality has not lived up to that initial promise. Six months later, there are still no street patrols; organizers concede they have only a few hundred reliable volunteers.
NASA has scheduled just 10 more space shuttle flights before retiring its fleet for good. But the space agency may have to add one more mission, to bring a seven-ton $1.5 billion physics experiment into space. The House will vote Wednesday on a bill that would require NASA to plan an additional flight for the gear.
In the swing state of Ohio, Gov. Ted Strickland was a strong supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton's during her primary campaign. He now says he'll support presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Strickland's name has been floated by many as a potential running mate. Michele Norris talks with Strickland.
SYDNEY - An Australian judge aborted a drug conspiracy trial Tuesday after some jurors were found to have been playing the puzzle game Sudoku while evidence was being given.
Sydney District Court Judge Peter Zahra ended the trial... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Jun 2008 | 10:05 pm
An investigation by the New York attorney general led officials at Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable to voluntarily cut off access to Web sites that display child pornography. Critics say the move will not remedy the child porn problem.
Hundreds of experts began assessing the needs of Myanmar's cyclone victims as the country's military junta finally gave them access five weeks after the disaster.
The Dutch Government says it will lift a ban on pitbulls because it did not lead to a decrease in bite incidents.
Agriculture Minister Gerda Verburg has informed Parliament of the decision, which follows the advice of a commission... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Jun 2008 | 8:15 pm
KHARTOUM - The head of medical services at Khartoum airport said on Wednesday the death toll of 120 he gave earlier from a Sudan Airways plane fire was incorrect and that the figure was now at least 28 dead.
Major-General Mohamed... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Jun 2008 | 8:07 pm
MADRID - Protesters marched in India, Hong Kong and Nepal over soaring oil prices on Tuesday and Spaniards stockpiled fuel and food, fearing shortages because of a truck drivers' strike that has halted deliveries.
South Korean... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Jun 2008 | 7:30 pm
Lawyers rallied against President Pervez Musharraf across Pakistan, burning him in effigy, calling for his ouster and demanding the reinstatement of judges in the launch of a campaign that could strain the shaky coalition government.... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Jun 2008 | 7:15 pm
Italian police have arrested 13 doctors from a clinic in Milan who investigators suspect performed needless and sometimes fatal operations to make more money.
No longer distracted by the toil of hunting for votes, Hillary Clinton is now confronting the financial hangover of her now-suspended primary campaign, with a sea of debts to pay businesses contracted by her across the country as... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 10 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
Zimbabwe's opposition candidate said talks of a unity government with President Robert Mugabe's party were premature, as the idea was raised again as a way to end the violence that has engulfed the country for two months.
Daughter of the Austrian incest victim kept for decades in a basement dungeon by her father awoke from her induced coma Tuesday, the hospital said. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2008 | 5:58 pm
A Kenyan cabinet minister and an assistant minister were killed with two other people Tuesday when their small plane crashed in southwestern Kenya, officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2008 | 5:40 pm
Churning waters poured through a sluice to engulf low-lying, empty towns devastated by last month's massive earthquake as China declared victory in its fight to drain a quake-formed lake that threatened more than a million people living downstream.
President George W. Bush and European allies threatened tougher sanctions to squeeze Iran's finances and derail its potential pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Mr. Bush said the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran would endanger world peace.
The leader of Saddam Hussein's tribal clan was killed Tuesday by a bomb that had been planted on his car, Iraqi police said. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2008 | 3:45 pm
Police arrested eight suspected members of an Islamic extremist cell that allegedly aided groups linked to an Al Qaeda affiliate based in Algeria, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2008 | 3:36 pm
Fugitive leader of Palestinian militant group blamed for fierece fighting in Lebanon this September blasts Sunnis and Shiite Hezbollah. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2008 | 3:12 pm
Britain's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that no final decision is imminent on withdrawing all remaining British troops from Iraq, as the BBC reported that the government would outline pullout plans by the end of the year. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2008 | 11:30 am
Space shuttle Discovery prepared to bid goodbye to the international space station on Wednesday. But saying "sayonara" might also be appropriate.
Reuters - The eldest child of an
incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and the
daughter he confined for 24 years has been reunited with her
family after recovering from an artificial coma, doctors said.
Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's
party said on Wednesday it would deploy more war veterans to
campaign in some opposition areas ahead of a presidential
election run-off marred by violence.
AP - Officials said Wednesday that a sandbagged levee prevented a swollen river from spilling its banks and flooding a northeastern Iowa city, but they asked for additional volunteers to help shore up the wall as more rain loomed.
Reuters - Cyclone-hit Myanmar has enough rice to
feed its people, the ruling junta said on Wednesday, accusing
foreign aid agencies of presenting a false picture of the
devastation in the Irrawaddy delta rice bowl.
AP - Wall Street headed for a modestly higher open Wednesday as investors awaited readings on regional economic activity and U.S. oil supply and demand.
Reuters - Having lost loved ones and
their homes to an earthquake and then what was left of their
belongings to floodwaters, victims of China's worst disaster in
decades spoke stoically of starting again on Wednesday.
AP - Investigators examined the scorched hull of a jetliner Wednesday to determine what caused the plane to veer off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 29 people, officials said.
AP - U.S.-led coalition forces along the volatile Afghan border launched an airstrike that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, Pakistan's army said Wednesday. The military condemned it as an act of aggression that "hit at the very basis of cooperation" in the war on terrorism.
AP - President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel both want to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons but they're standing on opposite sides of a revolving door. He's on his way out of office. She's trying to stay in.
AP - NBA commissioner David Stern dismissed allegations from a former referee at the center of a gambling scandal that the 2002 playoff series was rigged by league referees and officials, calling the claims baseless.
One of the offspring of an Austrian man who kept his daughter confined to a basement for decades has been reunited with her family and is expected to make a good recovery, doctors said Wednesday.
Comment by David Paleologos Director, Suffolk Univ. Political Research Center
Mass transit ridership is at a 50-year high. But it’s not clear that the nation’s transit systems are able to handle the load.
A Sudan Airways jetliner veered off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 33 of the 217 people on board, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic plan to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies.
Return home gives L.A. much-needed lift; Celtics still lead Finals 2-1