(Kyodo) _ A government think-tank said Wednesday that last month's massive earthquake in western China caused economic losses of up to 500 billion yuan (about $73 billion). The report... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 11:14 am
Three men have been charged for the killing of Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 but the actual assassin remains at large, investigators said on Wednesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 11:07 am
PEABODY - A Peabody police officer charged with beating his mother into a coma wants to be released from a state psychiatric facility.
A judge earlier this month sent 37-year-old...
TOKYO, June 18 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING THROUGHOUT WITH DETAILS) Japan and China have reached political agreement on gas exploration projects in the disputed East China Sea, with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:55 am
(Kyodo) _ Japanese challenger Junichi Ebisuoka suffered a knockout in the ninth round Wednesday at the hands of WBC minimumweight champion Oleydong Sithsanerchai, failing in his first... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:42 am
(Kyodo) _ Following is one of main stories moving in the next few hours. -- Japan-China deal on joint gas project in E. China Sea (2nd Lead story, 60 lines) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:41 am
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The economy will likely avoid a formal recession, but its outlook through the end of next year is decidedly "subprime" with the deep housing downturn restraining growth to just above 1 percent, a UCLA Anderson Forecast report released on Wednesday said.
Reuters - Israel said on Wednesday it accepted
an Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas Islamists ruling the Gaza
Strip but voiced skepticism the ceasefire involving all
Palestinian militant groups in the territory would hold.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Wednesday it accepted an Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas Islamists ruling the Gaza Strip but voiced skepticism the ceasefire involving all Palestinian militant groups in the territory would hold.
ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan and Canadian forces moved into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan's largest city Wednesday to root out any Taliban militants there, while an explosion elsewhere killed four British soldiers, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:35 am
AP - Afghan and Canadian forces moved into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan's largest city Wednesday to root out any Taliban militants there, while an explosion elsewhere killed four British soldiers, officials said.
Four British soldiers are killed in Afghanistan when as their vehicle is caught in an explosion, the Ministry of Defence says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:31 am
HARARE (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma said he did not expect a free presidential election run-off in Zimbabwe ahead of a meeting on Wednesday between President Thabo Mbeki and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates ranked among the top five nations globally for consumer confidence despite fears over rising inflation in the oil-fueled economy, a U.S. research... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:29 am
KASHGAR, China (Reuters) - The Olympic torch was paraded on Wednesday through China's sensitive former Silk Road city of Kashgar, home to ethnic-minority Muslim Uighurs, under the scrutiny of soldiers and choreographed cheering crowds.
Turkey keeper Volkan Demirel is given a two match ban after being red carded against the Czech Republic. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:28 am
KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 (Kyodo) _ Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will face an unprecedented vote of no-confidence in Parliament next week, a small party in his ruling... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:27 am
AFP - Afghan and Canadian NATO troops launched a major "clean-up" operation to drive out Taliban holed up near Kandahar, leaving 23 rebels and two soldiers dead, officials said Wednesday.
ARGHANDAB (AFP) - Afghan and Canadian NATO troops launched a major "clean-up" operation to drive out Taliban holed up near Kandahar, leaving 23 rebels and two soldiers dead, officials said Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:27 am
Police in Italy arrest more than 30 suspected members of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group in a series of raids across the country. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:26 am
Afghan and Canadian forces moved into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan's largest city Wednesday to root out any Taliban militants there, while an explosion elsewhere... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:24 am
ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Helicopter gunships and troops with small and heavy arms blasted a valley in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday as local and NATO forces launched a huge offensive against hundreds of Taliban insurgents, many of whom broke out of jail last week.
Reuters - Iran will never surrender to an
"illegitimate" demand by major world powers that it halt
uranium enrichment, Iran's state radio on Wednesday quoted the
country's envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog as saying.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will never surrender to an "illegitimate" demand by major world powers that it halt uranium enrichment, Iran's state radio on Wednesday quoted the country's envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog as saying.
KASHGAR, China (AP) -- Shops and roads were closed and people were kept off the streets Wednesday as part of a huge security effort to safeguard the Olympic torch as it wound its way through this predominantly Muslim city in China's restive far west.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:18 am
AP - Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing among the American Film Institute's best genre movies.
AP - Wearing everything from T-shirts to tuxedos and lavish gowns, hundreds of same-sex couples rushed to county clerks' offices throughout California to obtain marriage licenses and exchange vows as last-minute legal challenges to gay marriage failed.
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A Shiite militant "special group" seeking to re-ignite sectarian violence that swept through a Shiite neighborhood 18 months ago is believed responsible for a deadly car bombing there, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:14 am
AP - A Shiite militant "special group" seeking to re-ignite sectarian violence that swept through a Shiite neighborhood 18 months ago is believed responsible for a deadly car bombing there, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
Reuters - South Africa's ruling ANC leader Jacob
Zuma said he did not expect a free presidential election
run-off in Zimbabwe ahead of a meeting on Wednesday between
President Thabo Mbeki and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.
AP - Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group.
Russian officials charge three men over the killing of journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:13 am
PHILADELPHIA - It wasn't how Curt Schilling had planned to exit town.
At 4 p.m. yesterday, Schilling made his way out of Citizens Bank Park, heading to Philadelphia...
With 4:01 left, Doc Rivers made like Carol Burnett and tugged on his left ear.
As the crowd wailed, "Hey, hey, hey, goodbye," to the Lakers, Glen Davis, Leon...
A Pakistani judge sentenced a Muslim man to death Wednesday on charges he insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a court official said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:08 am
Authorities used boats to ferry food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by monsoon floods that have killed at least 29 people in the past week in eastern India, officials said Wednesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:07 am
A federal judge in San Diego has ruled that Blackwater Worldwide's new counterterrorism training facility may remain open. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:07 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Wednesday urged Lebanon to open peace talks, the latest move in a flurry of developments aimed at easing the multiple conflicts in the region.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:06 am
(Kyodo) _ Chinese demonstrators demanded Wednesday that Japan leave the disputed East China Sea, as they protested a joint gas exploration deal between Tokyo and Beijing in the contested... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:05 am
Palestinians wheel the body of a man into a hospital following an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. Israel says it has agreed to a truce in and around Gaza but showed little enthusiasm for... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:04 am
Israeli police and bomb experts inspect the site where a rocket fired by Gaza militants landed in the Israeli port city of Ashkelon earlier this week. Israel says it has agreed to a truce in and around... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:04 am
Palestinian children gather near the wreckage of a car hit by an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. Israel says it has agreed to a truce in and around Gaza but showed little enthusiasm... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:04 am
(Kyodo) _ Brunei will raise pump prices for foreign-registered vehicles from Thursday, mainly to curb the purchase of cheap gasoline by drivers from neighboring Malaysia where the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:03 am
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel confirmed on Wednesday that it had agreed to a truce in and around Gaza but showed little enthusiasm for the Egyptian-brokered deal with Hamas, which it boycotts as a terror group. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:03 am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel officially confirmed Wednesday that a cease-fire with the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip will begin this week in an effort to end a year of fighting that has killed more than 400 Palestinians and seven Israelis.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:00 am
Gambian footballers accuse their Algerian opponents of saying they are "terrorists" who will blow up the Gambian hotel. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 10:00 am
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan and China agreed Wednesday to jointly develop a disputed gas field in the East China Sea, resolving a longstanding row between the Asian powers, a Japanese foreign ministry statement said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:56 am
In the 50 hours she was trapped under rubble after last month's earthquake, mother-to-be Zhang Xiaoyan prayed hardest not for her own life but for her baby's survival.
PROVINCETOWN - Police say a Provincetown man has been arrested and charged with child rape.
Police say 57-year-old Gregory Perkins was arrested on Tuesday based on evidence...
A secondary school in rural Thailand has designed a new bathroom that it calls a "transvestite toilet" for its growing community of cross-dressers. Source: News:
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For teen boys who prefer to dress as girls at one rural high school in Thailand, taking a bathroom break no longer means choosing between "male" and "female" restrooms. There's now a "transvestite toilet." Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:26 am
TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Two thousand Turkish soldiers took part in an operation against Kurdish separatists on Wednesday, killing three rebels in southeast Turkey, security sources said.
Much of Gaza's economy has been driven, literally, underground. Unemployment has soared. Businesses have shuttered. And the prices for many goods have tripled or quadrupled amid rampant shortages. But smugglers, and sometimes Hamas, are profiting.
Nato and Afghan forces launch an operation to drive Taleban insurgents from Kandahar's outskirts. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:21 am
Georgian authorities on Wednesday released four Russian peacekeepers who were briefly detained on charges of carrying unauthorized weapons to a buffer zone near Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:14 am
A party in Malaysia's ruling coalition said Wednesday it plans to seek a vote of no-confidence against the prime minister in an unprecedented act of rebellion that could force him to resign or call for new elections. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:13 am
Tea Tree oil is a great multipurpose treatment to use on a number of ailments. Whether you are looking to repel insects in your garden or if you are looking to clear up your acne, tea tree oil is a great alternative. Source: Digg | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:10 am
The head of an African observer mission in Zimbabwe warns he will not endorse the run-off if violence continues. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:08 am
The tradition of farming the land in northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley had been passed down from Don Bustos' Spanish ancestors who tilled the same soil centuries before. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:07 am
Washington has been talking with Lithuania about basing part of a missile defense system in that country in case negotiations with Poland break down, a top Polish diplomat said Wednesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:05 am
The US military blames a rogue Shia militia for Tuesday's deadly car bombing in a Shia area of Baghdad, as the death toll rises to 63. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 9:05 am
Israel has confirmed that a cease-fire with the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip will begin Thursday. If the fighting indeed ceases, Israel will next week agree to ease the blockade of the Gaza Strip, Israeli defense officials say.
Afghan and Canadian forces are moving into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan's largest city to root out any Taliban who have infiltrated the area, but so far, they say, only "minor contacts" have been made.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A meeting between the Indian government and its communist allies to break a deadlock over a controversial nuclear deal with the United States has been postponed, a senior communist leader said on Wednesday.
OMAHA, Neb. - How 'bout that?
Two games into the College World Series and Fresno State remains undefeated, in the winner's bracket and a win shy of advancing...
BOSTON - Boston police say 14 people have been arrested so far in connection with Celtics celebrations.
A department spokeswoman says most of the arrests are for disorderly...
FORT MADISON, Iowa (Reuters) - The Mississippi River surged up through storm drains and flooded part of an eastern Iowa river town on Tuesday as the worst Midwest floods in 15 years ruined cropland and drove up world food prices.
Ray Allen held the championship trophy on the podium for a brief moment.
As soon as he let it go, he reached for his son Walker.
It has been an emotional week for...
Malaysian lawmakers say they will present a motion of no confidence in beleaguered leader Abdullah Badawi. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 8:48 am
SAN DIEGO - Paul Azinger answered his phone during the final round of a U.S. Open that attracted a prime-time audience, the Ryder Cup captain among those in front of the TV.
...
Italy advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Championship with a 2-0 win over short-handed France in Zurich, Switzerland, yesterday in a rematch of the 2006 World Cup...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Celtics captured a record 17th NBA championship by trouncing the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92 on Tuesday to seal the best-of-seven title series 4-2.
Hannibal, Mo., is braced for record flooding later this week. But the confident air here is in sharp contrast to the apprehension felt in many communities along the Mississippi River. Source: News:
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Afghan soldiers stand guard at Kabul military airport on June 17. Afghan forces backed up by Canadian NATO troops pushed into villages near the strategic city of Kandahar in a major "clean-up" operation... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 8:35 am
An Afghan soldier and his Canadian counterpart guard at a checkpoint in Kandahar on June 17. Afghan forces backed up by Canadian NATO troops pushed into villages near the strategic city of Kandahar in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 8:35 am
An Afghan National Army soldier searches passengers at a checkpoint near Kandahar on June 17. Afghan forces supported by Canadian NATO soldiers launched a "clean-up" operation Wednesday to drive out Taliban... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 8:35 am
Afghan National Army soldiers stand on the tarmac at Kabul military airport on June 17 as they prepare to depart for Kandahar. Afghan forces supported by Canadian NATO soldiers launched a "clean-up" operation... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 8:35 am
One of Turkey's most popular singers, Bulent Ersoy, is due in court accused of turning the public against the military. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 18 Jun 2008 | 8:24 am
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe has lifted a ban on charities involved in food distribution and AIDS treatment, state media said Wednesday, ahead of next week's tense presidential run-off. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Jun 2008 | 8:03 am
Residents make their along a flooded street in Sansui, southern China's Guangdong province on June 16. Surging waters in southern China's swollen Pearl river delta threatened millions of people on Wednesday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 7:51 am
Cypriot President Demitris Christofias (right) translates a journalist's question for Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat during a news conference in May. Top UN official Lynn Pascoe said on Wednesday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 7:39 am
Pedestrians pass through a "no man's land" in the UN-controlled buffer zone at the newly-opened Ledra street crossing in the heart of Nicosia's old city in April. Top UN official Lynn Pascoe said on Wednesday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 18 Jun 2008 | 7:39 am
BEIJING (AFP) - China has scrapped its original plans for a three-day Olympic torch relay tour of Tibet and will send the flame there just for one day this weekend, a Beijing Olympic official said Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Jun 2008 | 7:35 am
Gas prices are hitting all-time highs. Our country is in the midst of a recession thanks in part to our crippling dependence on oil, so what's John McCain's plan? Will he hold the corporate leaders of the energy industry accountable when he addresses them today in Houston? Probably not, considering they are some of his biggest fund-raisers. Source: Digg | 18 Jun 2008 | 7:30 am
British officials have reacted angrily to a judge's decision freeing Abu Qatada, a radical preacher once called Osama bin Laden's "spiritual ambassador in Europe."
Pentagon officials solicited CIA opinions on harsh interrogation techniques, implemented them over opposition from military lawyers, papers show. Source: News:
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In creating the new attraction, Walt Disney Imagineering used the familiarity and simplicity of classic carnival games to make the experience comfortable for a variety of players. What do you get when you combine a shoot-'em-up video game with an amusement park ride? Source: Digg | 18 Jun 2008 | 6:43 am
With how much thought and resources that are being poured into a project of this stature, there is no reason that a tower of this magnitude shouldn't integrate some innovative and environmentally friendly design characteristics. Source: Digg | 18 Jun 2008 | 6:25 am
Big reason: Plaintiff's lawyers would get almost $2 million while the class-action plaintiffs, among 6.2 million individuals whose personal info was exposed by TD Ameritrade's carelessness, would get a year's worth of free (after rebate) antispam service. Even by class-action standards, the judge is finding this one hard to swallow. Source: Digg | 18 Jun 2008 | 6:09 am
Tents, sacks of food and a replica of a burnt-out village hut appeared in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday as a tourist hotspot became a refugee camp to highlight the plight of millions of people displaced in Darfur and elsewhere. Source: Digg | 18 Jun 2008 | 5:55 am
LONDON (AFP) - Female chimpanzees are hungry for sex with as many males as possible, and keep their mouths shut about it to boost their chances of luring the top chimps, a British university said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Jun 2008 | 5:26 am
Democrat Barack Obama says he'll take no lectures from Republicans on who will keep America safer. GOP rival John McCain's campaign criticized Obama Tuesday for speaking approvingly of the successful prosecution of terrorists. Source: Digg | 18 Jun 2008 | 5:20 am
What started as a literary genre has since evolved into an art form with incredible real-life inventions, modifications and redesigns. The following is an introduction to the art of Steampunk, with everything from awesomely altered retrofuturistic guitars to a Steampunked iPod. Source: Digg | 18 Jun 2008 | 5:05 am
ANNAPOLIS (AFP) - The United States pressed China on Tuesday to advance market-opening measures but faced criticism over its weakening dollar as the two nations opened talks to address economic issues. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 18 Jun 2008 | 5:02 am
HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban television on Tuesday showed the first images of Fidel Castro in more than five months, broadcasting a silent video of the ailing revolutionary chatting in a garden with visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 18 Jun 2008 | 4:27 am
Physicians for Human Rights alleges finding evidence of U.S. torture and war crimes and accuses U.S. military health professionals of allowing the abuse of detainees, denying them medical care and providing confidential medical information to interrogators that they then exploited. Source: News:
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E-mail and other electronic communications have dramatically changed the contemporary legal landscape. Some estimate that more than 90 percent of a lawsuit's cost can come from sorting through e-mails and other electronic documents.
BEIJING (AP) -- Organizers of the Olympic torch relay say the flame will reach Tibet on Saturday in a one-day stop that has been shrouded in secrecy.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 18 Jun 2008 | 2:16 am
BEIJING -Giant panda habitat in China's Sichuan province, the endangered animal's main preserve, was devastated by last month's massive earthquake, a forestry official said.
The world-renowned Wolong Nature Reserve and 48 others... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Jun 2008 | 1:36 am
ROME - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Jun 2008 | 1:33 am
VIENNA - Austria drew first blood on the weekend when their topless women's soccer team beat Germany 10-5.
The traditional swapping of shirts afterwards was not an option as the six-a-side teams wore nothing but g-strings, with... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Jun 2008 | 1:31 am
CANBERRA - Prime minister Kevin Rudd is less trustworthy than Bindi Irwin and the Wiggles and opposition leader Brendan Nelson is only slightly more trustworthy than David Hicks, a survey has found.
The latest Reader's Digest... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Jun 2008 | 1:28 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.S. presidential envoy to Sudan's troubled Darfur region joined activists Tuesday in blaming the world for failing to protect residents of the African nation from widespread violence.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 18 Jun 2008 | 1:24 am
BOGOTA - Diplomatic tensions between Colombia and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez have generated fierce rhetoric, political protests and even troop movements along the frontier between the Andean neighbours.
Now a Colombian designer... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Jun 2008 | 12:12 am
MACCLESFIELD - Two callers didn't answer a 911 dispatcher's repeated questions about what a 13-year-old boy was doing before he stopped breathing on a tape released Tuesday by investigators, who have said the teen was tied to a tree... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Jun 2008 | 12:07 am
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana - Call it a lemonade standoff.
A young girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of US$17.50 ($23) chased the suspect to a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the man into surrendering.
"The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 18 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
WASHINGTON - A defiant Barack Obama said Tuesday he would take no lectures from Republicans on which presidential candidate would keep the US safer, a sharp rebuke to rival John McCain's aides who said the Democrat had a naive, Sept.... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:53 pm
Parts of Iowa are still underwater after days of heavy flooding. That means roads are closed and bridges are washed out, making simple transportation more difficult.
Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples tie the knot as same sex-marriage becomes legal in California. San Francisco's City Hall was a popular spot Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - John McCain has outraged environmentalists by demanding a return to offshore oil drilling in Florida and California, where it has been banned for the past 27 years.
Any new oil supplies would take years to come on... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Jun 2008 | 10:00 pm
Sen. Barack Obama returned to Michigan this week for two days of campaigning. It's the first state to get such attention from the likely Democratic presidential nominee.
Iraqi officials say at least 11 people have been killed and 35 wounded in a car bombing in Baghdad. It's the deadliest car bombing in weeks as the capital has been relatively calm amid stepped up security measures.
The 2005 shooting death of a Reuters journalist in the midst of a firefight in Baghdad was justified because U.S. soldiers believed the camera protruding from a car was a rocket propelled grenade, the Pentagon's internal watchdog concluded.
BAGHDAD - A powerful car bomb exploded in a crowded market area of Baghdad overnight, killing 51 people and wounding 75, in the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in months.
Police said the bomb was placed in a pickup truck... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 17 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
Capitol Hill scandals involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham prompted the state of Oregon to institute well-received ethics reform laws. But as the laws take effect, the state is seeing mass resignations from elected office and public boards.
LONDON (AP) -- Radical preacher Abu Qatada, once called Osama bin Laden's "spiritual ambassador in Europe," was released on bail Tuesday in a court decision that dealt an embarrassing blow to the British government's anti-terror campaign.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 17 Jun 2008 | 8:08 pm
Chinese human rights activist Huang Qi was taken into custody June 10. He had been critical of the government's handling of the Sichuan earthquake. John Kamm, founder and director of the Dui Hua Foundation, discusses Huang's case with Robert Siegel.
Taliban militants have seized a string of villages and fruit orchards just outside the southern city of Kandahar, within a few miles of a major NATO base. The move comes just days after Taliban militants attacked Kandahar's main prison, freeing more than 1,000 detainees, including many Taliban members.
A car bombing in Baghdad has killed more than 50 people and left dozens wounded. The explosion took place at an outdoor market in a Shiite district of the Iraqi capital.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is trying to determine how and when U.S. interrogators began using harsh methods as they questioned terrorism suspects at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at Guantanamo Bay.
Sen. John McCain unveils his proposed energy policy Tuesday. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee argues the United States should lift its ban on offshore drilling.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- The 24-year-old Guatemalan mother had already given up her baby once. Now, months later, the baby girl was back in her lap, smiling and playing with her mother's fingers.... Source: AP Top International News At 6:36 a... | 17 Jun 2008 | 7:52 pm
Japanese police arrested four people for allegedly threatening copycat killings online after a man posted similar messages on Web sites before stabbing seven people to death, officials said Tuesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Jun 2008 | 5:41 pm
Afghan officials say Taliban militants are destroying bridges and planting mines in several villages they control outside southern Afghanistan's largest city. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Jun 2008 | 3:55 pm
Palestinian officials say five militants have been killed and two wounded in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Jun 2008 | 3:38 pm
The Iraqi parliament will start holding sessions outside the confines of the Green Zone, the deputy speaker said. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Jun 2008 | 2:57 pm
Police arrested 70 Sikh protesters after the MTV music channel's office in western India was vandalized over posters showing a Sikh girl massaging a man, officials said Tuesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Jun 2008 | 2:23 pm
The owner of a New Zealand cafe that mistakenly served dishwashing liquid as mulled wine has been fined for causing emotional harm to two women, court officials said Monday. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Jun 2008 | 2:06 pm
Prince William was made a Royal Knight of the Garter on Monday at a ceremony presided over by his grandmother the British monarch and attended by his father, brother and girlfriend. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Jun 2008 | 1:27 pm
Soldiers scrambled to shore up soggy levies with sandbags Tuesday in southern China as forecasters warned that more heavy rain in the central region could trigger flooding on the country's second-longest river. Source: FOXNews.com | 17 Jun 2008 | 10:31 am
Reuters - Israel said on Wednesday it accepted
an Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas Islamists ruling the Gaza
Strip but voiced skepticism the ceasefire involving all
Palestinian militant groups in the territory would hold.
AP - Afghan and Canadian forces moved into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan's largest city Wednesday to root out any Taliban militants there, while an explosion elsewhere killed four British soldiers, officials said.
AFP - Afghan and Canadian NATO troops launched a major "clean-up" operation to drive out Taliban holed up near Kandahar, leaving 23 rebels and two soldiers dead, officials said Wednesday.
Iraqi police officials say at least 63 people were killed in a car bombing in a mainly Shiite section of Baghdad.
Reuters - Iran will never surrender to an
"illegitimate" demand by major world powers that it halt
uranium enrichment, Iran's state radio on Wednesday quoted the
country's envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog as saying.
AP - Snow White, Dorothy Gale, the HAL 9000 computer, Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Marlon Brando's Godfather share top billing among the American Film Institute's best genre movies.
AP - Wearing everything from T-shirts to tuxedos and lavish gowns, hundreds of same-sex couples rushed to county clerks' offices throughout California to obtain marriage licenses and exchange vows as last-minute legal challenges to gay marriage failed.
AP - Barack Obama is answering a question he faced often on the campaign trail. Whom would he turn to for advice when making foreign policy decisions?
AP - A Shiite militant "special group" seeking to re-ignite sectarian violence that swept through a Shiite neighborhood 18 months ago is believed responsible for a deadly car bombing there, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
Reuters - South Africa's ruling ANC leader Jacob
Zuma said he did not expect a free presidential election
run-off in Zimbabwe ahead of a meeting on Wednesday between
President Thabo Mbeki and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.
AP - Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group.
In the 50 hours she was trapped under rubble after last month's earthquake, mother-to-be Zhang Xiaoyan prayed hardest not for her own life but for her baby's survival.
Much of Gaza's economy has been driven, literally, underground. Unemployment has soared. Businesses have shuttered. And the prices for many goods have tripled or quadrupled amid rampant shortages. But smugglers, and sometimes Hamas, are profiting.
Comment by Allan J. Lichtman Professor of History, American University
Afghan and Canadian forces moved into a series of villages outside of southern Afghanistan's largest city Wednesday to root out Taliban militants.
Boston caps amazing turnaround season by routing Lakers for 17th crown
Texas has halted the scheduled execution of a former topless-club bouncer condemned for a double slaying almost 20 years ago.