SAN FRANCISCO - A fast-moving fire erupted yesterday along the Northern California coast, burning homes, forcing hundreds of residents to flee and backing up traffic for miles...
(Kyodo) _ Nepalese police broke up an anti-China protest in Kathmandu and temporarily detained over 600 Tibetan protesters on Saturday, police said. About 1,000 Tibetans had gathered... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:05 pm
Kimi Raikkonen takes pole for the French Grand Prix, while Lewis Hamilton will start 13th despite finishing third in qualifying. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:04 pm
KABUL, Afghanistan - Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops in Afghanistan today, military officials said, extending a series of daily attacks that have lifted the death...
(Kyodo) _ Japan coach Takeshi Okada has warned his players not to take their foot off the pedal in Sunday's final third-round World Cup qualifier against Bahrain. Both teams have... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:01 pm
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is warning that any attack on Iran could turn the Mideast into a "ball of fire."... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:59 pm
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is warning that any attack on Iran could turn the Mideast into a "ball of fire." IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei spoke in an interview with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:59 pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, military officials said, extending a series of daily attacks that have lifted the death toll for foreign forces this year to more than 100.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:58 pm
AP - Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, military officials said, extending a series of daily attacks that have lifted the death toll for foreign forces this year to more than 100.
GROTON, Conn. - The U.S. Navy's newest attack submarine, the USS New Hampshire, will be christened by the widow of a pilot who died in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The...
(Kyodo) _ Shuichi Murata played hero twice Saturday, delivering a game-tying three-run homer in the eighth inning before hitting a walkoff shot in the bottom of the 10th to lift the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:57 pm
The state Lottery has launched an all-out ticket bonanza, handing out hundreds of thousands in seats to high-demand sporting events, including giving more than a dozen Bay...
Mass Pike commuters, already getting hosed at the gas pump, could get soaked by as much as $100 million in new toll hikes unveiled yesterday by agency officials.
The...
BOSTON - The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is recommending an average 4.5 percent rate hike in the next fiscal year.
If approved, that would bump the average...
AP - A fast-moving fire erupted Friday along the Northern California coast, burning homes, forcing hundreds of residents to flee and backing up traffic for miles on a scenic highway.
Winners at the 35th annual Daytime Emmys:
- Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Gina Tognoni, "Guiding Light."
- Talk Show - Informative: "The Tyra...
LOS ANGELES - Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have set a wedding date, and to hear the talk show host tell it, the ceremony is going to be a doozy.
DeGeneres, who won...
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears is back in Los Angeles, and it didn't take long for trouble to find her.
Within moments of arriving at Los Angeles International Airport...
Reuters - Iran is pressing on with uranium
enrichment "non-stop," its envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency was
quoted as saying on Saturday, despite a world powers' offer of
economic incentives to coax Tehran into halting such
activities.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is pressing on with uranium enrichment "non-stop", its envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency was quoted as saying on Saturday, despite a world powers' offer of economic incentives to coax Tehran into halting such activities.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton needs Barack Obama's donors to help retire her sizable debt. Obama, who's forgoing public funds for the general election, could use her donors to boost his ample fundraising.
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea announced Saturday it has secured extra health safeguards from the United States on beef imports, a move aimed at ending weeks of mass protests that rocked the government here. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:40 pm
NEW YORK - America's banks and brokerages are scrambling to raise badly needed cash, but it may be at the expense of shareholders.
Since the subprime mortgage market...
Peer-to-peer traffic management was a hot topic at this year's NXTcomm convention in Las Vegas, as keynote speakers and telecom industry panelists highlighted new methods for handling P2P traffic crunches. Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:35 pm
In Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses), Douglas & Annie Brown go on a "sexpedition" that incorporates not just a new sex schedule, but silk pjs, porn & other adventurous accessories. And in 365 Nights Ms. Muller gives a year of unlimited sex to her husband, Brad, for his 40th Bday. Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:34 pm
Nearly a century after the discovery of strange star-shaped cells in the brain, scientists say they have finally begun to unravel their function. Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:33 pm
Most of us know that tornadoes are unpredictable, uncontrollable, and dangerous. But a Canadian engineer thinks they could be the future of electricity generation. He wants to make electricity from artificial tornadoes. Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:32 pm
Which is the world's fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn't beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. Of course, Zimbra was testing for how these browsers perform with the Zimbra Web application. Your mileage may vary with other applications. Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:32 pm
18-yo student Omar Khan, charged with 69 felony counts — after allegedly getting into Tesoro High School's computers to change his grades from C, D & F grades to As and Bs, He watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off & War Games 5,405 times— The Matthew Broderick wannabe was not very subtle, though, leaving a trail the size of the Exxon Valdez's oil spill. Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
Paris Mayor Bernard Delanoe blamed "organised gangs" on Saturday for clashes overnight near the Eiffel Tower between police and high school students celebrating the end of their final... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:29 pm
(Kyodo) _ Japan came from behind twice to edge Turkey in five sets to claim its second straight victory at the women's volleyball World Grand Prix on Saturday. Asako Tajimi played a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:23 pm
SENDAI, June 21 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: RECASTING, ADDING INFO) People evacuated from their homes in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures following a major earthquake last week offered prayers at 8:43 Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:21 pm
LHASA (AFP) - Hand-picked spectators cheered runners as the Olympic torch relay passed through Tibet's capital Lhasa on Saturday, just three months after deadly riots against China's rule here. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:21 pm
AFP - Hand-picked spectators cheered runners as the Olympic torch relay passed through Tibet's capital Lhasa on Saturday, just three months after deadly riots against China's rule here.
LHASA, China (AP) -- Hundreds of police and paramilitary troops stood watch and hand-picked onlookers cheered as the Olympic torch passed through the Tibetan capital on Saturday, the scene of bloody anti-government riots three months earlier.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:19 pm
AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe dismissed opposition claims of violence in state media on Saturday, remaining defiant in the face of Western criticism ahead of next week's tense run-off election.
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe dismissed opposition claims of violence in state media on Saturday, remaining defiant in the face of Western criticism ahead of next week's tense run-off election. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:12 pm
Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, military officials said, extending a series of daily attacks that have lifted the death toll for foreign forces this... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
A street is submegered by floodwaters in the business district of Iloilo city in the Philippines. Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen left at least 19 people dead in the Philippines,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:56 am
Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen left at least 19 people dead in the Philippines, while an overflowing dam stranded tens of thousands on rooftops, officials said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:56 am
Thousands of partygoers, pagans and self-styled druids cheered and banged drums Saturday to greet the dawn at Stonehenge on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice.
Reuters - Angola's veteran leader has added his
weight to appeals to Zimbabwe's government to end the political
violence and intimidation that is threatening the legitimacy of
its June 27 presidential run-off election.
HARARE (Reuters) - Angola's veteran leader has added his weight to appeals to Zimbabwe's government to end the political violence and intimidation that is threatening the legitimacy of its June 27 presidential run-off election.
MANILA (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed as Typhoon Fengshen lashed the Philippines on Saturday causing flash floods and landslides. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:41 am
KABUL (AFP) - Six foreign troops including a Polish national were slain in bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, the forces said, making it the deadliest day for international soldiers in the war-torn nation this year. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:38 am
AP - The home where six young people died when a jealous off-duty sheriff's deputy went on a shooting rampage eight months ago has been likened to an infection in this small northern Wisconsin city. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:32 am
Hundreds of police and paramilitary troops stood watch and hand-picked onlookers cheered as the Olympic torch passed through the Tibetan capital on Saturday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pakistan's new ambassador to the United States is urging patience for those in Washington frustrated with his government's pursuit of peace deals with tribes along the lawless Pakistani-Afghan border.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:13 am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Asia next week amid signs of an imminent breakthrough in efforts to get North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons and bring a formal end to the Korean War.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:10 am
European Union Force spokesman Ian Pratt holds a wanted poster for indicted war criminals (from top left) Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Stojan Zupljanin and Goran Hadzic on the outskirts of Sarajevo... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:09 am
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- A Saudi newspaper says religious police have arrested 21 allegedly homosexual men and confiscated large amounts of alcohol.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:03 am
A Saudi newspaper says religious police have arrested 21 allegedly homosexual men and confiscated large amounts of alcohol. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
LHASA, China (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party officials in charge of restive Tibet used the passing of the Olympic torch relay through the capital Lhasa on Saturday to defend their control and denounce the exiled Dalai Lama.
Jonny Hogg finds cattle traders in Madagascar are facing attacks from armed and dangerous bandits. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:54 am
Kasey Kahne continued his recent hot streak Friday by winning the pole at Infineon Raceway for his best career starting position on a road course. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:51 am
The BBC's Andrew Harding hears that conditions for militant prisoners can be fairly relaxed in Indonesia. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:47 am
Aboriginal leaders threaten to ban tourists from a top Australian landmark in protest at "racist" government policies. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:45 am
Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:36 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- All U.S. beef exported to South Korea will come from cattle less than 30 months old, officials said Saturday, in a deal made to placate South Korean protesters worried about mad cow disease.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:29 am
Bosnian Serb Stojan Zupljanin, one of the most wanted war crimes suspects, arrives in a convoy at the UN prison in Scheveningen, The Hague. Zupljanin has been transferred to the custody of The Hague-based... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:08 am
A guard was stabbed to death by two inmates at a federal prison in California, officials said. Source: News:
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Thousands of South Koreans hold a candle-lit rally outside the City Hall in Seoul in May 2008 to protest a government decision to resume US beef imports. South Korea has announced it has secured extra... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:42 am
Beef on display at a restaurant in Seoul. South Korea has announced it has secured extra health safeguards from the United States on beef imports, a move aimed at ending weeks of mass protests which rocked... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:42 am
Houses along a river are inundated by rising floodwaters in the central Philippines city of Iloilo. Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen have left at least 14 people dead and forced... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:33 am
Residents wade through floodwaters in the central Philippines city of Iloilo. Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen have left at least 14 people dead and forced the evacuation of tens... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:33 am
Google Street View, the eye-level mapping service that lets billions of web users peek into gardens and through front windows, has its sights set on you. Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:32 am
At least 14 people are killed in the Philippines as the south of the country is hit by Typhoon Fengshen. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
President Mugabe of Zimbabwe accuses the opposition of lying about political violence to cast doubt on next week's run-off poll. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
A former restaurant cook has pleaded guilty to inserting hairs in a steak before giving it to a dissatisfied customer. Source: News:
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It's 2008 and sex seems to be everywhere. So who holds the line between permissiveness and obscenity? What is obscene these days? And how do those people entrusted to make these calls cope with the harrowing work? Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:27 am
An impoverished town in Illinois has had its flood insurance revoked by the federal government. Now the floods are coming. And don't even talk about earthquakes. Source: Digg | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:26 am
Some desperate late hitting takes New Zealand to a total of 182 in the third one-day international in Bristol. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:23 am
The home where six young people died when a jealous off-duty sheriff's deputy went on a shooting rampage eight months ago has been likened to an infection in this small northern Wisconsin city. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:13 am
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called Saturday for his country's thousands of death sentences to be commuted to life in prison as part of a birthday tribute to slain leader Benazir Bhutto. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 9:06 am
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Flash floods and landslides killed at least 17 people in the southern Philippines on Saturday as heavy rains from Typhoon Fengshen inundated the region, causing widespread damage.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:58 am
The US agrees not to export beef to South Korea from cattle older than 30 months to allay fears over meat safety, Seoul says. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:57 am
A top U.S. health official says the threat of a flu pandemic remains high. And while the world has made great strides to prepare, it's not enough. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:43 am
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- With civil war raging in Sri Lanka, the journalists trying to cover the conflict find themselves increasingly under siege.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:22 am
Hillary Rodham Clinton needs Barack Obama's donors to help retire her sizable debt. Obama, who's forgoing public funds for the general election, could use her donors to boost his ample fundraising. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:20 am
Nepalese authorities jailed three Tibetan activists for three months for leading protests against China's crackdown in Tibet, an official said Saturday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:18 am
A news report says villagers and forest guards have beaten to death a protected Royal Bengal tiger after it killed three people near the world's largest mangrove forest in southwestern Bangladesh. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:17 am
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A police raid on a crammed Mexico City nightclub on Friday turned into a deadly stampede that killed 12 people, including nine youths and three police, officials said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:03 am
JEDDAH (AFP) - Oil powers and consumers haggled Saturday over how much to blame market speculators for the spectacular rise in crude prices ahead of a summit on the energy crisis, officials said. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:02 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has obtained new intelligence that raises new questions about whether North Korea pursued an alternative route to producing a nuclear weapon, The Washington Post reported in Saturday editions.
A roadside bomb killed four troops with the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan on Saturday, military officials said. Source: News:
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Communist Party of Nepal Maoist supporters in Kathmandu. Nepal was thrown into political limbo on Saturday after the Maoists quit the interim government of the newly republican nation and demanded the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 7:15 am
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has surged to a 15-point lead over Republican John McCain in the latest Newsweek poll out Friday, by far the biggest margin of any recent survey. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 7:14 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Panicked youths rushed for the exits during a police raid on a Mexico City nightclub on Friday, leaving at least 12 people dead in the crush of bodies, the capital's police chief said.... Source: AP Top International News At 9 a.m. EDT | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:47 am
Afghan soldiers in Kandahar province. Four US-led soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar on Saturday, the force said in a statement Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 21 Jun 2008 | 6:34 am
PALMYRA, Missouri (Reuters) - The crest of the swollen Mississippi River moved relentlessly downstream on Saturday as volunteers manned sandbagged levees, nursed hopes and coped with the costs of the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years.
White House disregard for legal warnings about its detainee strategy leads to more judicial scrutiny. Source: News:
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has opened up a double-digit lead over Republican John McCain two weeks after he clinched the nomination, a new poll published on Friday showed.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush did not know about a White House effort to leak the identity of a CIA agent but tried to protect staffers who were involved in one of the biggest scandals of his administration, former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan told Congress on Friday.
MIAMI (Reuters) - South Carolina on Friday electrocuted a man for murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 1994, the second execution in the state since a Supreme Court ruling lifted a de facto national moratorium, a state official said.
Though cited by Senator Barack Obama as a reason not to accept public campaign financing, no major independent effort to help Senator John McCain’s campaign has materialized. Source: News:
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As the two countries pursue negotiations over the future role of the U.S. military in Iraq, the evolution of Basra suggests that Iraqi troops can provide security largely on their own.
The Olympic flame traveled through Tibet's isolated capital amid tight security following a March crackdown on rioting that fueled international protest.
Thousands of demonstrators delivered anti-government speeches, sang nationalistic songs and vowed to stay until the prime minister resigns. He has refused.
Edinson Volquez (10-2) pitched seven sharp innings in Cincinnati’s first game at Yankee Stadium in 32 years, and the Reds beat Mike Mussina and New York 4-2 Friday night to end a five-game skid.
A chill went through the international community as details emerged about an Israeli Air Force drill - one that seems designed to send an unmistakable message to Iran. David Martin reports from the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists rejoiced after the Phoenix Mars lander confirmed their long-held belief that ice is hiding under the surface in the Red Planet's northern region. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:33 am
AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) - Supporters of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr accused Iraqi security forces on Friday of heavy-handed action in a crackdown in the southern city of Amara, calling it a "clear provocation".
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe's main opposition group, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), will decide tomorrow whether to boycott what is seen as the country's most important election since independence.
The run-off next week... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:15 am
LONDON - To his comrades in the Black Watch, Sgt Michael Ross was nothing other than a hero.
When his armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2004, he put himself in danger to administer first aid before organising... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:12 am
MUMBAI - A premature baby girl declared stillborn by doctors in Mumbai "came to life" several hours later as the relatives were carrying her to a cemetery to be buried.
The baby was born two months early after her mother, Aruna... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Jun 2008 | 11:53 pm
For the first time, a NASA lander has touched Martian ice. Scientists say they are convinced white chunks dug up by the Phoenix craft are in fact frozen water on the Red Planet.
The birthday boy, who's turning 26, is concerned about his thinning hair, reports Elizabeth Palmer. She says the prince is also being seen in nightclubs less and less and at charity events more and more.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that could shield phone companies from billions of dollars in lawsuits for their participation in the warrantless surveillance program begun by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks.
The FBI has arrested more than 400 people in a sweep that's revealed a broad array of alleged mortgage scams across the country. Some alleged schemes involved real-estate twists on identity theft; others preyed on those facing foreclosure.
With gas prices now topping $4 a gallon in much of the United States, some are taking advantage of cheap fuel across the border in Mexico. Big pickups with Texas plates are streaming across the border into Mexico to fill up with cheap gas.
Sen. Barack Obama this week blamed his decision to reject public financing on 527 groups that work on behalf of John McCain. Jonathan Martin of Politico says there really aren't any major 527s working against Obama. Michele Norris talks to Martin.
The flooding this month in the Midwest has caused some major commercial delays. Nearly 300 miles of the Mississippi River are off-limits to barges. The closing of the Mississippi is costing some barge operators upward of a $1 million a day.
Bill Burke is the owner of Burke's Den Rock Mobile, an independently owned Exxon Mobil station in North Andover, Mass. He says he and his wife are facing the harsh reality of closing their gasoline retail business after 35 years. Michele Norris talks to Burke.
Gerald E. Galloway, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, is a retired Army brigadier general. He talks about the state of the levee system of the upper Mississippi River, and things that can be done to prevent the next natural disaster. Michele Norris talks to Galloway.
The FBI says it has arrested more than 400 people in the last three months on charges related to mortgage fraud. Agents have arrested real estate agents and others. On Thursday, the FBI arrested two Bear Stearns investment fund managers. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston and Michelle Norris discuss the arrests.
The wave of foreclosures spreading around the country is hitting Latinos especially hard. Many Hispanic homeowners could only qualify for subprime loans. Now as foreclosures mount, crime is up and businesses are struggling.
Poor achievement and low attendance at Manual High School in Denver led the district to close its doors and open a year later. Closing Denver's oldest high school was not without controversy or protest. But administrators said starting fresh was the only fix.
A 60 Minutes and ProPublica investigation finds the government's broadcasts to the Arab world woefully mismanaged and poorly supervised despite complaints from Congress. Sunday, June 22, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
LONDON - Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid community work on Friday after the supermodel pleaded guilty to assaulting two police officers during an expletive-filled "air rage" incident in April.
The 38-year-old... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Jun 2008 | 8:00 pm
WASHINGTON - Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River in the centre of the United States, and scientists fear the deluge will increase dramatically this year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
The... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 20 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
British detectives are back on the trail of a Cold War-era killer who used a poison-tipped umbrella to slay a communist defector. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 5:38 pm
Austrian authorities say a passenger from Slovakia has been arrested at Vienna's international airport after he caused a disturbance aboard a Delta jetliner, but dispute reports that he set a curtain on the plane on fire. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 5:36 pm
An Iranian militant group said Friday that it has executed two Iranian police officers that it abducted about a week ago and threatened to kill 14 others unless the government released its imprisoned members. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 5:21 pm
Bolivian officials say they have arrested two men who may have been planning to kill President Evo Morales. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 5:07 pm
After rescue workers in Japan recovered another body from a landslide triggered by a powerful earthquake, the death toll has reached 12, police say. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 4:40 pm
Several thousand protesters pushed through a heavy police cordon around Thailand's seat of government Friday, vowing to peacefully besiege it until the prime minister resigns. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 3:54 pm
An American tourist was charged with murder in Australia on Friday for allegedly drowning his wife during a honeymoon dive on the Greet Barrier Reef. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 3:22 pm
Japan arrests two men for pilfering whale flesh from postal warehouse, which pair showed to authorities last month as evidence whalers profiting from 'scientific' hunts. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 2:17 pm
A Thai army helicopter crashed in an insurgency-plagued area of southern Thailand on Friday, killing all 10 people on board. Source: FOXNews.com | 20 Jun 2008 | 1:59 pm
AP - Roadside bombs killed five foreign troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, military officials said, extending a series of daily attacks that have lifted the death toll for foreign forces this year to more than 100.
AP - A fast-moving fire erupted Friday along the Northern California coast, burning homes, forcing hundreds of residents to flee and backing up traffic for miles on a scenic highway.
Reuters - Iran is pressing on with uranium
enrichment "non-stop," its envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency was
quoted as saying on Saturday, despite a world powers' offer of
economic incentives to coax Tehran into halting such
activities.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton needs Barack Obama's donors to help retire her sizable debt. Obama, who's forgoing public funds for the general election, could use her donors to boost his ample fundraising.
AFP - Hand-picked spectators cheered runners as the Olympic torch relay passed through Tibet's capital Lhasa on Saturday, just three months after deadly riots against China's rule here.
AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe dismissed opposition claims of violence in state media on Saturday, remaining defiant in the face of Western criticism ahead of next week's tense run-off election.
Reuters - Angola's veteran leader has added his
weight to appeals to Zimbabwe's government to end the political
violence and intimidation that is threatening the legitimacy of
its June 27 presidential run-off election.
Hundreds of police and paramilitary troops stood watch and hand-picked onlookers cheered as the Olympic torch passed through the Tibetan capital on Saturday.
AP - America's banks and brokerages are scrambling to raise badly needed cash, but it may be at the expense of shareholders.
AP - Ellen DeGeneres has no plans to stop with her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for talk show host.
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John McCain raised almost as much money as Barack Obama in May, placing him virtually on the same financial footing as his Democratic rival.
Ellen DeGeneres has no plans to stop with her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for talk show host.
As the two countries pursue negotiations over the future role of the U.S. military in Iraq, the evolution of Basra suggests that Iraqi troops can provide security largely on their own.
Edinson Volquez (10-2) pitched seven sharp innings in Cincinnati’s first game at Yankee Stadium in 32 years, and the Reds beat Mike Mussina and New York 4-2 Friday night to end a five-game skid.