IOWA CITY, Iowa - Record-high floodwaters that brought misery to some of Iowa's smaller river towns may have helped spare Iowa City from cataclysmic flooding, but the...
TAKANEZAWA, Japan - Honda's new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to southern California, where Hollywood...
(Kyodo) _ Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Danish Climate and Energy Minister Connie Hedegaard agreed Monday to cooperate in achieving the success of two key events to tackle... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:05 am
(Kyodo) _ ---------- Gov't cuts economic assessment for 1st time in 3 months TOKYO - The government downgraded its assessment of the Japanese economy Monday for the first time in three Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:02 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean construction workers joined striking truckers on Monday in the latest blow to new President Lee Myung-bak, whose repeated policy stumbles have seen his popularity plunge after less than four months in office.
British nationals in the United Arab Emirates have been warned there is now a high risk of a terror attack there. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:59 am
Gordon Brown and George Bush are holding talks on the second day of the US president's two-day visit to the UK. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:58 am
Athens, GA band Mass Solo Revolt hasn't lost sight of its predecessors — Pavement, Built to Spill — harnessing those raw sounds from the early '90s to create a less polished, yet still infectious, throwback indie rock sound. The opening chords to the band's debut CD, Easy Mark could have been pulled straight off Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted... Source: Digg | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:55 am
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is recommending approval of the $5 billion merger between the nation's two satellite radio broadcasters...
LONDON (AFP) - Oil crude futures fell on Monday to stand slightly above 134 dollars after the UN chief said top OPEC crude producer Saudi Arabia had agreed to increase output to help cool record high prices. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:53 am
NEW YORK (AFP) - American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurer, has sacked chief executive Martin Sullivan after a bumpy three-year tenure which saw record losses and plummeting share prices. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:52 am
In an Oriental-themed, tricked-out parlor, Nicholas, his friends and a bevy of prostitutes would party and have sex for days - abusing cocaine, laughing gas and other drugs, as music from such chart-toppers as Led Zeppelin and Phil Collins played. Source: Digg | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:48 am
A raw food regimen is not just another diet, it's a way of life that requires serious commitment to reap the health benefits, and the long-term implications need to be considered carefully as well. Source: Digg | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:47 am
Reuters - Officials moved paintings,
books and documents out of harm's way on Sunday as record
flooding in parts of the U.S. Midwest partly submerged the
University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Officials moved paintings, books and documents out of harm's way on Sunday as record flooding in parts of the U.S. Midwest partly submerged the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.
(Kyodo) _ The government has begun examining damage to public infrastructure and other facilities from the powerful quake that hit northeastern Japan on Saturday but has no plans at the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:45 am
AP - Record-high floodwaters that brought misery to some of Iowa's smaller river towns may have helped spare Iowa City from cataclysmic flooding, but the lingering high level of the Iowa River is giving the city's flood protections a marathon test.
TURLOCK, Calif. - A crazed man parked on a dark country road Saturday night, took a baby boy from the car seat in his pickup and beat the child to death until a Modesto police...
(Kyodo) _ Japan and the other Group of Eight nations will aim to send out a strong message when their foreign ministers meet in Kyoto next week for progress on the North Korean and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:43 am
AFP - Tens of thousands of victims of China's Sichuan earthquake were evacuated Monday as torrential rain lashed the region, triggering flood warnings on major rivers including the Yangtze and the Pearl.
AP - A Missouri woman accused of taking part in a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl's suicide has so far avoided state charges but not federal ones.
(Kyodo) _ Taiwan's top representative to Japan slammed Monday his own government's handling of a diplomatic row with Tokyo as their bilateral ties appeared to further unravel and Taipei... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:41 am
LOS ANGELES - The West Coast, Sunday heroics all happened at San Diego's Torrey Pines Golf Course, where Tiger Woods forced a playoff in the U.S. Open with a long birdie...
BEIJING (AFP) - Tens of thousands of victims of China's Sichuan earthquake were evacuated Monday as torrential rain lashed the region, triggering flood warnings on major rivers including the Yangtze and the Pearl. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:38 am
A Missouri woman accused of taking part in a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl's suicide has so far avoided state charges — but not federal ones. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:36 am
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO) The owner of a home for people with learning difficulties was arrested Monday on suspicion of arson-murder in connection with a fire at the facility in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:33 am
Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan is summoned after Kabul threatens to send troops across the border. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has accused foreign aid agencies of using food as a weapon to try to remove him from power and will investigate their operations, state media reported on Monday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The death toll in a powerful earthquake that hit northern Japan at the weekend rose to 10 on Monday as troops and rescue workers searched for survivors in the remote, mountainous area worst hit by the tremor.
(Kyodo) _ Striker Hisato Sato earned a call-up for the first time since Takeshi Okada took over as national coach last December as the Japan Football Association announced the 25-man... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
(Kyodo) _ Rescue operations continued Monday at a hot-spring inn in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, which collapsed following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake Saturday and buried seven people... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
LOS ANGELES - Wheezing. Gasping. Erratic. Underwhelming.
And those were the winners.
The Lakers squeezed out a 103-98 victory over the limping Celtics on Sunday night...
Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has
accused foreign aid agencies of using food as a weapon to try
to remove him from power and will investigate their operations,
state media reported on Monday.
SYDNEY (AFP) - Climate change threatens to devastate coral reef fish populations and increase the likelihood of fishery collapses, Australian researchers warned Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:24 am
BOSTON - The Boston Celtics are opening up a limited number of tickets for the final games of the NBA Finals at TD Banknorth Garden.
After Boston lost 103-98 Sunday night...
URUMQI, China (Reuters) - Authorities in China's troubled far-western region of Xinjiang are telling people who want to watch the Olympic torch as it passes through the area to stay at home and tune into the television instead.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and 22 injured in a suspected Tamil Tiger rebel suicide blast in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the military said.
In a last-ditch move, South Korea and the US resume talks aimed at modifying a controversial beef deal. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:19 am
LONDON (AFP) - Wrapping up a farewell Europe tour, US President George W. Bush held talks Monday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, notably on Iraq, as well as Mideast envoy and good friend Tony Blair. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:19 am
AFP - Wrapping up a farewell Europe tour, US President George W. Bush held talks Monday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, notably on Iraq, as well as Mideast envoy and good friend Tony Blair.
LONDON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will present a united front against Iran's nuclear ambitions Monday and seek to dispel media suggestions of a rift over troop levels in Iraq.
A top UN official is due in Zimbabwe amid continuing political violence ahead of this month's presidential run-off. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:10 am
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proposes leaving hard decisions on Jerusalem's future out of any agreement that may be reached this year with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, his office said on Monday.
(Kyodo) _ The government downgraded its assessment of the Japanese economy Monday for the first time in three months, noting weak signs in exports and production. "The economic... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:08 am
(Kyodo) _ The U.S. dollar hit a five-month high in the mid-108 yen level Monday in Tokyo on Asian stock gains the same day and the Group of Eight finance ministers' tacit support for a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:08 am
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -- Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media reported Monday.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:05 am
The little town of Columbus Junction put up a good fight against the Flood of 2008. But, in the end, the water won. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:04 am
UN police in East Timor are considering handing over responsibility to the local force, amid worsening ties. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:04 am
The Irish foreign minister says it is too early to seek a solution to the Irish rejection of the Lisbon reform treaty, ahead of talks. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:03 am
Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
proposes leaving hard decisions on Jerusalem's future out of
any agreement that may be reached this year with Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas, his office said on Monday.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, both unpopular with their constituencies, have met behind closed doors in London to discuss Afghanistan, Iraq and how to step up pressure on Tehran to stop enriching uranium.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police have launched a more extensive crackdown on "social corruption" such as women flouting Islamic dress codes, the Farhang-e Ashti newspaper reported on Monday.
Flooding around the Somali capital, Mogadishu, leaves at least six people dead and affected thousands in camps. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:56 am
Keeper Petr Cech is disconsolate after his error contributed to the Czech Republic's Euro 2008 exit. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:55 am
SAN DIEGO - They call the U.S. Open the people's championship. If it's true to the name, Rocco Mediate will win Monday.
His opponent will be Tiger Woods. Perhaps...
Nine Taiwanese coast guard vessels entered Japanese waters Monday near disputed islands in the East China Sea to accompany a ship of protesters angry over the sinking nearby of a Taiwanese fishing boat, officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:51 am
LOS ANGELES - In an NBA Finals stocked with blown opportunities on both sides, what's one more?
The Celtics have become master escape artists in this series, again...
Japanese car maker Honda begins the first commercial production of a hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:51 am
The United Nations plans to launch a massive anti-dengue campaign this week in cyclone-hit areas of Myanmar where mosquitoes that carry the disease have become a major concern, an official said Monday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:50 am
Israeli strikes in southern Gaza killed three Palestinian gunmen Monday and injured three others, militants said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:35 am
Jon Bellona was devastated when he learned that a good friend had been killed in an ambush in Iraq. While out on a jog, he came up with a way to honor his fallen pal. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:35 am
LONDON (AP) -- President Bush, capping his European trip on Monday in London and Belfast, will return home having further smoothed trans-Atlantic ties frayed over the war, but with only seven months left to advance his goals in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and the Mideast.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:30 am
Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China has killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media report.
Reuters - President George W. Bush and British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will present a united front against
Iran's nuclear ambitions Monday and seek to dispel media
suggestions of a rift over troop levels in Iraq.
KURIHARA, Japan (AP) -- Soldiers digging through the wreckage of a hot spring resort buried in a landslide discovered the body of one of the missing Monday, bringing the death toll in the weekend quake to 10, police said.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:27 am
A government spokesman says Pakistan has summoned Afghanistan's ambassador to protest President Hamid Karzai's threat to send Afghan troops to fight notorious Taliban leaders inside Pakistan. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:26 am
AP - Broadway looked to the future and to its past at the 2008 Tony Awards with "In the Heights," the best musical winner, and "August: Osage County," the best play, sharing the spotlight with a nearly 60-year-old "South Pacific."
AP - Barack Obama's campaign envisions a path to the presidency that could include Virginia, Georgia and several Rocky Mountain states, but not necessarily the pair of battlegrounds that decided the last two elections Florida and Ohio.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hundreds of Afghans gathered in eastern Afghanistan Monday in support of President Hamid Karzai's threat to send troops after Taliban militants inside Pakistan, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:19 am
Barack Obama's campaign envisions a path to the presidency that could include Virginia, Georgia and several Rocky Mountain states, but not necessarily the pair of battlegrounds that decided the last two elections — Florida and Ohio. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:10 am
Confined to the bench back in his high school basketball days, Barack Obama felt the need to campaign for change. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
One look at Eileen Mulligan lying soberly on the exam table and Dr. John Marshall knew the time for the Big Talk had arrived. He began gently. The chemotherapy is not helping. The cancer is advanced. There are no good options left to try. It would be good to look into hospice care... Source: Digg | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
Jamming the right two pieces of plastic together creates a thin but strongly conducting channel along the junction that acts like a metal, say Dutch researchers. The discovery could lead to a whole new way of making electronics from non-metallic materials, and even new superconductors. Source: Digg | 16 Jun 2008 | 7:59 am
The conundrum raised in Orwell's novel Animal Farm has perplexed zoologists since the discovery of dragon lizards that can run on two legs and on four. Researchers have speculated that it is an evolutionary advance. But, close analysis reveals the ability to rear up on their hind legs as they scuttle across the Outback is simply a design fault. Source: Digg | 16 Jun 2008 | 7:58 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of victims of China's earthquake are moving to escape a new threat from rain-triggered landslides, officials said on Monday, while floods battered the nation's southern trade powerhouse.
Egypt's official news agency says film director Youssef Chahine is in a coma after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 16 Jun 2008 | 7:25 am
The housing boom had powered the U.S. economy for five years. Now, in early 2006, signs of weakness within the subprime industry were harder to ignore.
LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - It would be "risky" for EU nations to declare that they are going to save the EU's Lisbon Treaty, rejected by Irish voters last week, the EU's Slovenian presidency warned Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Jun 2008 | 7:17 am
There are new concerns that advanced nuclear weapons designs may be in the hands of North Korea and Iran. CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras has the story from Washington.
It was not an auspicious beginning. The year was 2004 and the newest federal agency had no desks, no computers, and no office to put them in. It had neither an address nor a phone number. Early meetings convened in a Starbucks near a Metro stop in downtown Washington.
An online survey reveals that Microsoft may be working on its own version of Nintendo's Miis called "Avatars." The new Avatars will replace Gamer Pictures beginning this holiday. The Avatars will be completely customizable. No word yet on what other functions they may have, though it's possible they could be integrated in to games in the future. Source: Digg | 16 Jun 2008 | 6:15 am
Kobe Bryant scored 25 points, including a decisive dunk in the final minute — and Lamar Odom added 20 as the Lakers, playing with pride on their star-studded stage, prevented the Celtics from winning a 17th title with a 103-98 win in Game 5 on Sunday night to close to 3-2 in this restored rivalry.
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel and Syria resumed over the weekend indirect peace talks under Turkish mediation, Israeli military radio reported on Monday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 16 Jun 2008 | 5:31 am
Sri Lanka's military says a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber on a motorbike has blown himself up near a police building in a northern town, killing 12 police officers and wounding 23 others.
LIVINGSTON - Condemned inmate Charles Dean Hood does not dispute he drove from Texas to his native Indiana in a $70,000 car that belonged to the man he's convicted of killing.
But Hood, a former topless bar bouncer set to die Tuesday... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Jun 2008 | 5:22 am
CANBERRA - Conflicting advice between two manuals contributed to the emergency landing of a Qantas jet in Los Angeles earlier this year, the aviation safety investigator has found.
The Sydney-bound plane, with 232 passengers and... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Jun 2008 | 5:03 am
With little fanfare, Congress has embarked on a push to protect as many as a dozen pristine areas this year in places ranging from the glacier-fed streams of the Wild Sky Wilderness here to West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest.
Tiger Woods wasn’t sure if his left knee would allow him to finish 72 holes of the U.S. Open. After yet another defining moment at Torrey Pines, he was thrilled to get a chance at 18 more.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's military says that a suicide bomber on a motorbike has blown himself up near a police building in a northern town, killing nine people and wounding 19 others.
A military official said Monday's blast... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 16 Jun 2008 | 2:58 am
Sri Lankan troops on patrol in Madhu in the northern district of Mannar. A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel detonated explosives carried on his motorcycle in northern Sri Lanka Monday, killing at least five... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 16 Jun 2008 | 2:42 am
Since the day a statue of Vladimir Ilich Lenin went up outside the trendy Red Square restaurant at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in 2005, Al Garrett has wanted it torn down. Source: News:
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: Top MSNBC Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 2:37 am
As President Bush visits U.S. allies in Europe for the last time during his presidency, a new poll shows that a majority of Britons, French and Germans can't wait for a fresh face in the White House.
Authorities say a man and his dog survived a 60m fall down a remote cliff face in southern England.
Coast guards say the man's car went over a cliff near the town of Swanage early Sunday morning.
Local police believe the man... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Jun 2008 | 10:12 pm
SKOPJE - Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's centre-right coalition won a landslide 50.42 per cent after reruns Sunday at dozens of polling stations where violence and irregularities marred the June 1 parliamentary vote, election... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Jun 2008 | 10:01 pm
President Bush wraps up what might be his last trip to Europe as president of the United States. Don Gonyea, who's traveling with the president, talks about the trip.
As thousands of same-sex couples get ready to marry in California on Monday, some questions remain unanswered. For one, what happens if California voters approve a constitutional ban on gay marriage this fall? Another: Are couples who wed in June still married in November?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened to send Afghan troops across the border to fight militants in Pakistan, a forceful warning to insurgents and the Pakistani government that his country is fed up with cross-border attacks.
The McClatchy newspaper chain begins a series Sunday documenting abuses of detainees at American military bases in Afghanistan. The series also alleges that many of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have little or no connection to terrorism.
About half of the general surgeons in each of Adelaide's three major public hospitals are preparing to resign, as the crisis in the state's health system worsens.
Last week about half of Adelaide's emergency department doctors... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Jun 2008 | 8:15 pm
There's another battle brewing in California — and like just about everything in the Golden State, it's happening on the highway. Legislators are trying to crack down on the black market for a little yellow sticker that allows drivers of hybrid vehicles to use carpool lanes when they're driving solo.
The United States-led coalition in Afghanistan says more than 15 insurgents were killed by Afghan Army and coalition forces in the southern province of Kandahar during a search for escaped prisoners.
The US says it has not been... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Jun 2008 | 7:15 pm
Muddy floodwaters were receding Sunday from neighborhoods in Iowa's two largest cities. In Cedar Rapids, many residents got their first look inside their flood-ruined homes. Lifelong resident Dan Bowers says much of the damage is in areas where people didn't have flood insurance.
There's been a call for New Zealand to follow Australia and adopt official guidelines on the risks of drinking.
Australia's media is awash with reports that the country's National Health and Medical Research Council is set to release... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
CEDAR RAPIDS - The dark, filthy water that flooded Iowa's second-largest city finally started to recede yesterday after forcing 24,000 people to flee, following storms that killed 15 people last week.
An estimated 24sq km, or 1300... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's persistent building of Jewish homes on disputed land undermines the U.S.-backed attempt to write an Israeli-Palestinian peace draft this year and invites questions about Israel's motives, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:56 pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will run candidates on other party tickets in upcoming Iraqi provincial elections, a top aide said Sunday, in an apparent bid to sidestep what they believe is a government campaign against their movement.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:52 pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened Sunday to send Afghan troops after notorious Taliban leaders inside Pakistan in an angry warning to his eastern neighbor that he will no longer tolerate cross-border attacks.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:44 pm
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has secured a comfortable head start of at least 130,000 votes through rigged voting by members of the security forces in this month's run-off election against the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:35 pm
JUYUAN, China (AP) -- In a town where parents are grieving for the nearly 300 children killed when last month's earthquake toppled a middle school, a photograph hinting at shoddy school construction has disappeared from a public exhibition.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:11 pm
PARIS (AP) -- President Bush is a straight-talking guy, so what's he doing talking about the EU-3?... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:28 pm
Flooding in the Midwest comes at a time when the world is facing a global food crisis. Host Liane Hansen talks to George Naylor about the impact of the floods on his crops in Iowa and on the international market. Naylor is past president of the National Family Farm Coalition in Iowa, a grassroots advocacy group for family farmers.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Andrew Makoni wants change in Zimbabwe, his homeland. But he won't be there to vote for it. Instead, the human rights lawyer will be in neighboring South Africa, hiding from government-hired killers he says have targeted him.... Source: AP Top International News At 5:45 a... | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:17 pm
Shop owners wait for flooding to subside after torrential rain in Hong Kong on June 7. Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 65 people dead or missing, while more than one million... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:11 pm
People cross flooded streets after torrential rain in Hong Kong on June 7. Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 65 people dead or missing, while more than one million residents... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:11 pm
A Sri Lanka Police Special Task Force motorcycle unit patrol near Colombo in February, 2008. Sri Lankan war planes destroyed a suspected Tamil Tiger logistics base in the northeast Sunday after ground... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
Sri Lankan troops walk in the premises of a Roman Catholic church in Madhu in April, 2008. Sri Lankan war planes destroyed a suspected Tamil Tiger logistics base in the northeast Sunday after ground attacks... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
Both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain reference their fathers in the titles of their autobiographical books. We look at what the candidates say about their fathers and the influence they had on their sons' lives.
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski celebrates after scoring a landslide parliamentary victory in June 2008. Macedonia's fledgling democracy is under renewed scrutiny as it stages a partial re-run... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 4:03 pm
Macedonian police check IDs at a cafe close to a polling station in Tetovo. Macedonia's fledgling democracy is under renewed scrutiny as it staged a partial re-run of violence-marred elections that threaten... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 4:03 pm
An Albanian prepares to cast his ballot at a polling station in Celopek. Macedonia's fledgling democracy is under renewed scrutiny as it staged a partial re-run of violence-marred elections that threaten... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 4:03 pm
US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush walk off Air Force One upon their arrival at Heathrow airport, west London. Bush arrived in Britain for talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Iran... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 3:54 pm
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (left) and John Edwards shake hands during a May 14 election rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Edwards -- a former Democratic vice presidential nominee under... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 15 Jun 2008 | 3:29 pm
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, officials warn that the city's fresh water supply may run out within three to four days. In Iowa City, more than 200 homes have been evacuated because the Iowa River is still rising. At the University of Iowa, people who were filling thousands of sandbags abandoned their work when the flood was considered too dangerous.
Once a staple of Father's Day gifts, the necktie is loosening its grip on the throats of American men, thanks to casual Fridays and, in some workplaces, casual Mondays through Thursdays as well.
The flooding in the Midwest has displaced thousands of people. Some residents of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the water is beginning to recede, discuss finding the destruction left by the floods.
Soldiers fighting through a torrent of mud and rocks dug out three bodies at a hot spring Sunday, bringing the death toll from a magnitude 7.2-earthquake that hit the mountains of northern Japan to at least nine, with more than 200 injured. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 Jun 2008 | 11:28 am
Reuters - Officials moved paintings,
books and documents out of harm's way on Sunday as record
flooding in parts of the U.S. Midwest partly submerged the
University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.
AP - Record-high floodwaters that brought misery to some of Iowa's smaller river towns may have helped spare Iowa City from cataclysmic flooding, but the lingering high level of the Iowa River is giving the city's flood protections a marathon test.
AFP - Tens of thousands of victims of China's Sichuan earthquake were evacuated Monday as torrential rain lashed the region, triggering flood warnings on major rivers including the Yangtze and the Pearl.
AP - A Missouri woman accused of taking part in a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl's suicide has so far avoided state charges but not federal ones.
Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has
accused foreign aid agencies of using food as a weapon to try
to remove him from power and will investigate their operations,
state media reported on Monday.
AFP - Wrapping up a farewell Europe tour, US President George W. Bush held talks Monday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, notably on Iraq, as well as Mideast envoy and good friend Tony Blair.
Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
proposes leaving hard decisions on Jerusalem's future out of
any agreement that may be reached this year with Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas, his office said on Monday.
It seems President Bush is learning to enjoy the perks of traveling abroad as the most powerful man in the world.
Reuters - President George W. Bush and British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will present a united front against
Iran's nuclear ambitions Monday and seek to dispel media
suggestions of a rift over troop levels in Iraq.
AP - Broadway looked to the future and to its past at the 2008 Tony Awards with "In the Heights," the best musical winner, and "August: Osage County," the best play, sharing the spotlight with a nearly 60-year-old "South Pacific."
AP - Barack Obama's campaign envisions a path to the presidency that could include Virginia, Georgia and several Rocky Mountain states, but not necessarily the pair of battlegrounds that decided the last two elections Florida and Ohio.
The housing boom had powered the U.S. economy for five years. Now, in early 2006, signs of weakness within the subprime industry were harder to ignore.
It was not an auspicious beginning. The year was 2004 and the newest federal agency had no desks, no computers, and no office to put them in. It had neither an address nor a phone number. Early meetings convened in a Starbucks near a Metro stop in downtown Washington.
Kobe Bryant scored 25 points, including a decisive dunk in the final minute — and Lamar Odom added 20 as the Lakers, playing with pride on their star-studded stage, prevented the Celtics from winning a 17th title with a 103-98 win in Game 5 on Sunday night to close to 3-2 in this restored rivalry.
With little fanfare, Congress has embarked on a push to protect as many as a dozen pristine areas this year in places ranging from the glacier-fed streams of the Wild Sky Wilderness here to West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest.
Barack Obama is more inclined to focus on the big picture over the day-to-day whirl while managing his campaign.
“August: Osage County,” Tracy Letts’ scabrous tale of a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, was named best play Sunday at the 2008 Tony Awards ceremony.
Tiger Woods wasn’t sure if his left knee would allow him to finish 72 holes of the U.S. Open. After yet another defining moment at Torrey Pines, he was thrilled to get a chance at 18 more.
At least 57 people have died and seven are missing in flooding across a broad stretch of southern China, state media reported Sunday.