The next president will be the first in 40 years to inherit the Pentagon during wartime. While the two candidates' foreign policy advisers both advocate greater accountability at the Pentagon, they disagree on how to handle Iraq.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday burned effigies as they protested a court ruling that bars the ex-premier from running in this week's parliamentary by-elections.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:54 am
Reuters - African pressure mounted on Tuesday for
President Robert Mugabe to call off a June 27 election after
the U.N. Security Council issued an unprecedented condemnation
of violence against opposition supporters.
HARARE (Reuters) - African pressure mounted on Tuesday for President Robert Mugabe to call off a June 27 election after the U.N. Security Council issued an unprecedented condemnation of violence against opposition supporters.
Reuters - A bomb killed 10 people including two
U.S. government employees and two U.S. soldiers at a council
meeting in the Baghdad stronghold of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday, officials said.
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Palestinians fired a mortar into southern Israel in the first violation of a fragile truce between Israel and Gaza Strip militants, the military said Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:48 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed 10 people including two U.S. government employees and two U.S. soldiers at a council meeting in the Baghdad stronghold of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday, officials said.
Reuters - Iran said on Tuesday that new sanctions
imposed on it by the European Union over Tehran's nuclear plans
could hurt diplomatic efforts to resolve the row.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday that new sanctions imposed on it by the European Union over Tehran's nuclear plans could hurt diplomatic efforts to resolve the row.
WORCESTER - A three-time world champion boxer is going for a knockout in the political arena.
Jose Antonio Rivera has agreed to become the campaign chairman for an independent...
Divers wriggled into an upside-down ferry Tuesday and found bodies but no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:45 am
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will leave the Dutch embassy in Harare over the next 48 hours. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:45 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Outraged at the turmoil in Zimbabwe, the U.N. Security Council declared that a fair presidential vote is impossible because of a "campaign of violence" waged by President Robert Mugabe's government.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:45 am
AP - Outraged at the turmoil in Zimbabwe, the U.N. Security Council declared that a fair presidential vote is impossible because of a "campaign of violence" waged by President Robert Mugabe's government.
AP - A plan to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners avoid foreclosure is drawing bipartisan support in the Senate, setting the stage for high-stakes negotiations among congressional Democrats. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:44 am
AP - India's Reliance Entertainment and other investors are in talks with Hollywood's DreamWorks SKG to raise up to $2 billion to create a movie venture, two people familiar with negotiations said Tuesday. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:41 am
The exact date when the Greeks used the Trojan horse to raze the city of Troy has been pinpointed for the first time using an eclipse mentioned in the stories of Homer, it was claimed today. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:41 am
Aristotle didn't have a high opinion of the octopus. "The octopus is a stupid creature," he wrote, "for it will approach a man's hand if it be lowered in the water." Twenty-four centuries later, this "stupid" creature is enjoying a much better reputation. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:40 am
AP - Don Imus is defending a remark he made about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones, saying he was trying to "make a sarcastic point."
Intimate examinations, performed by medical students on anaesthetised patients, are often carried out without adequate consent from patients, but this violates their basic human rights and should not be allowed, claims an editorial in the July issue of Student BMJ. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:38 am
It's breeding season for blackbirds in Chicago, and nothing seems to keep them from defending their nests. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:37 am
For those of us who still mourn the demise of the "Star Trek" franchise and its vision of the cosmos as a thrillingly multicultural if occasionally lethal nightclub, the announcement last week that many Sun-size stars in our galaxy are girdled with Earth-size planets was, fra … Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:35 am
Reuters - More than 138,000 are dead or missing
from the devastating cyclone that struck Myanmar last month,
the government said on Tuesday, according to an Asian diplomat.
YANGON (Reuters) - More than 138,000 are dead or missing from the devastating cyclone that struck Myanmar last month, the government said on Tuesday, according to an Asian diplomat.
WRENTHAM - Two selectmen in Wrentham have filed assault charges against each other after an alleged men's room confrontation.
John Zizza told police that Robert Cohen...
Animals reared in natural, outdoor conditions without nasty modern drugs yield healthier meat, right? Not necessarily. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:32 am
For Microsoft the loss of Gates won't be nearly as profound. Gates narrowed his involvement at the company eight years ago when he gave the chief executive job to his college buddy and right-hand man Steve Ballmer. The reality of the last few years is that Gates has been mentally checked out, pursuing loftier goals at his foundation. Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:31 am
(Kyodo) _ Following is one of main stories moving in the next few hours. -- N. Korea nuclear declaration to exclude weapons (Lead article, 30 lines) Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:30 am
Rescuers have considered boring a hole in an overturned ferry in a desperate attempt to find survivors among more than 800 missing passengers and crew, after Typhoon Fengshen carved a deadly swath through the Philippines.
(Kyodo) _ Family members and supporters of Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai, who was killed in Myanmar last year, presented a petition Tuesday with around 50,000 signatures to the Japanese Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:29 am
Aristotle didn't have a high opinion of the octopus. "The octopus is a stupid creature," he wrote, "for it will approach a man's hand if it be lowered in the water." Twenty-four centuries later, this "stupid" creature is enjoying a much better reputation. Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:29 am
Iran condemns as illegal the latest raft of European Union sanctions over its uranium enrichment programme. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:28 am
A Japanese warship arrives in southern China for a five-day port call, the first such visit since World War II. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:28 am
(Kyodo) _ The Chinese Foreign Ministry has released its second statement in less than a week defending a deal to exploit gas fields in the East China Sea with Japan amid continued online... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:28 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. officials say four Americans have been killed in an explosion at a local council building in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:26 am
AFP - Zimbabwe pushed ahead Tuesday with plans for a presidential run-off vote, even with the leader of the opposition holed up in the Dutch embassy and world leaders denouncing Robert Mugabe's rule as illegitimate.
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe pushed ahead Tuesday with plans for a presidential run-off vote, even with the leader of the opposition holed up in the Dutch embassy and world leaders denouncing Robert Mugabe's rule as illegitimate. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:25 am
(Kyodo) _ Yokohama-based real estate broker Suruga Corp. said Tuesday it has filed for court protection from creditors under the civil rehabilitation law with liabilities totaling some 62 Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:24 am
A woman relative of Lebanese Miled Yussef, held in a Syrian jail, holds his picture with a writing in Arabic that reads :" Until when!! The Lebanese prisoners in Syrian jails," during a rally organized... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:21 am
Four Americans — two soldiers and two civilians — were killed in a bomb blast Tuesday at a council office in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district, U.S. officials said. Source: News:
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Spend some time dissecting what you've been doing with the last five years of your time on this Earth and figure out it what it is that preventing you from reaching total fulfillment. OK, now, forget whatever worthless thing you were thinking about, because I've found the answer for you. It's an action figure of The Dude. Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:19 am
Is there such a thing as a "gay brain"? If so, are some people born with brains that make them more likely to be gay? Or do the brains of gay people develop differently in response to experiences? Those are just a few of the questions raised by a provocative new study that found striking differences between the brains of homosexuals & heterosexuals Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:18 am
Nearly a third of people claiming 'sicknote' benefits have been doing so for more than a decade, new figures showed yesterday. More than 800,000 people have been paid Incapacity Benefit or similar state handouts for illness for more than ten years. They make up over 30 per cent of the 2.64 million people who live on the state sick note payment Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:18 am
Americans buy billions of dollars worth of the stuff each year, with more than $29 billion in retail sales in 2007, according to the National Confectioners Association. That's about a 3 percent increase from the previous year. "People may not be able to flip for Starbucks or even to go to McDonald's. But they have the ability to pay a dollar for Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:18 am
Officials from 40 countries meet in the German capital to earmark funds for the Palestinian police and justice system. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:14 am
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Tuesday hailed an agreement between Serbia's Socialist and Democratic parties as a real chance to establish a pro-European government in the Balkan country.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian forces have battled for years in the lonely canyons and deserts on the Afghan border against opium and heroin traffickers - winning rare praise from the United States and aid from Europe for the fight along one of the world's busiest drug routes.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:10 am
Chicago residents share tips about how to avoid coming under attack by dive-bombing blackbirds. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:09 am
(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday that he would welcome North Korea's move to provide a long-delayed account of its nuclear activities expected Thursday if it would help... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:08 am
From the NYT: New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is eager to make the use of firearms a last resort for his officers. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:01 am
United Airlines says 950 of its pilots will lose their jobs as spiralling fuel costs hit earnings. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:53 am
more than five weeks, updated Tuesday the official death toll from Cyclone Nargis, raising the figure by nearly 7,000 to 84,537. Speaking at the ASEAN Roundtable on Post Nargis Joint... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:53 am
Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday burned effigies as they protested a court ruling that bars the ex-premier from running in this week's parliamentary... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:48 am
OFF SIBUYAN ISLAND (AFP) - Philippine rescue divers said they found many bodies Tuesday inside the ferry that sank with more than 850 people on board, confirming the worst fears of desperate relatives. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:46 am
Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi putts some golf at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital's fifth annual Golf Tournament and fund-raiser in Norton yesterday. Golfing...
CHIBA, Japan, June 24 (Kyodo) _ Police arrested a 77-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of killing four members of his family at their home in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture. Yoshio... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:43 am
An explosion apparently targeting U.S. troops struck a local council building Tuesday in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district, killing at least six Iraqi civilians, police and witnesses... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:41 am
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Divers wriggled into an upside-down ferry Tuesday and found bodies but no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:38 am
Young Indians are increasingly eager to put the latest iPods, brand-name sunglasses and cellphones on their credit cards, take out a loan to get an apartment or car, and worry about it all later.
BRUSSELS (AFP) - OPEC president Chakib Khelil rebuffed on Tuesday calls from oil consuming countries to increase supply, saying that the cartel had already done what it could on high prices. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:38 am
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians, including a militant, in a raid on a university building in the West Bank. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:36 am
An international conference opened in Berlin on Tuesday aiming to bolster the rule of law in the Palestinian territories and create the necessary conditions for the creation of a viable... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:34 am
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana greets US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the opening of an international conference on Palestinian security. An international conference has opened... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:34 am
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad shakes hands with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Berlin. An international conference has opened in Berlin with the aim of bolstering the rule of law in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:34 am
Palestinian police stand on the roof of a newly opened police station in the Al-Fara refugee camp near the West Bank town of Tubas June 3. An international conference has opened in Berlin with the aim... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:34 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has bolstered its Olympic security effort by deploying a battery of surface-to-air missile launchers a kilometer south of the showpiece venues for the Beijing Games.
BEIJING (AP) -- Pandas living in an earthquake-hit part of southwestern China have been evacuated to temporary shelters due to the continuing threat of landslides and other hazards, a forestry bureau report said Tuesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:32 am
The massive, quarter-hour fireworks display last night that exploded over Boston Harbor, got television airtime during the Red Sox game and could be seen as far away as Chelsea...
SIBUYAN ISLAND, Philippines (Reuters) - Divers found ghostly white bodies floating head up inside a sunken passenger ferry in the central Philippines on Tuesday raising fears of a mass grave below the waves.
'Happiness is ... " begins Professor Richard Layard. He pauses. I sit forward in my seat expectantly. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:29 am
In a landmark ruling, a US court overturns the designation of a Guantanamo inmate as an "enemy combatant". Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:26 am
Pandas living in an earthquake-hit part of China have been evacuated to temporary shelters due to the continuing threat of landslides, a forestry bureau report said Tuesday.
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany is hoping countries will commit to donating $184 million during a Tuesday conference designed to strengthen the Palestinian Authority's police force and court system - improvements officials say are needed to build a Palestinian state.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:20 am
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej listens during a no-confidence debate at Parliament House in Bangkok. Thailand's opposition has begun Samak in a no-confidence debate as his four-month-old government... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:18 am
Members of the People's Alliance for Democracy protest in front of governement house in Bangkok on June 21. Thailand's opposition has begun grilling Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej in a no-confidence debate... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:18 am
A government supporter holds roses outside the parliament building during a no-confidence debate at Parliament House in Bangkok. Thailand's opposition has begun grilling Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:18 am
With society now obsessed by the desire to prolong life, Elizabeth Grice asks if we have lost the art of dying well and examines practical steps to change our attitudes Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:07 am
Over the past year or so have been the twin impending disasters of global warming and water shortages. The more pressing issue is water; people can live with global warming - people cannot live without water. There is plenty of water. The problem is, the vast majority of Earth's water is contained in the oceans as saltwater & needs desalination. Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:07 am
EU agriculture ministers approve stricter controls on the use of pesticides, after two years of debate. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:05 am
Palestinians inspect the damage to an apartment where two young men were killed by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Nablus. The Israeli military said one of the two Palestinians was a senior member... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:03 am
A Palestlinian security guard stands next to the bodies of two Palestinians killed by Israeli troops at a hospital mortuary in the West Bank town of Nablus. The Israeli military said one of the men killed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:03 am
Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs. The colliding trends have some business leaders worried that they won't find enough workers needed to maintain expected growth... Source: Digg | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:01 am
Outraged at the turmoil in Zimbabwe, the U.N. Security Council declared that a fair presidential vote is impossible because of the "campaign of violence" waged by President Robert Mugabe's government.
SINGAPORE (AFP) - The world's water resources must be carefully managed to meet the needs of billions of people flocking to urban centres, experts said Tuesday at a conference on sustainable development. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:39 am
One-year-old panda babies rest at China Conservative and Research Center for the Giant Panda while landslide triggered by the May 12 earthquake is seen on a nearby mountain in Wolong of Aba, China's southwest... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:38 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. military court has sentenced a Canadian-Iraqi translator to five months in jail over a stabbing in Iraq, the U.S. military said.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Coalition warplanes swooped down on militants withdrawing from a firefight with police into the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 15 of them, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:17 am
SAN FRANCISCO - Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur...
An adviser of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said there was a plot to assassinate the Iranian president during a U.N. food crisis summit in Italy earlier this month, an Iranian daily reported Tuesday. Source: News:
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: Top MSNBC Headlines | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:09 am
SPRINGFIELD - A Chicopee man has beaten 300 opponents to win the national "Rock Paper Scissors" championship in Las Vegas and pocket a $50,000 prize.
The Republican...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - San Francisco Bay Area eateries are putting juicy red Romas and round red tomatoes back into pita sandwiches, cheese burgers and tortilla salads. Supermarkets...
SANTIAGO (AFP) - The 80-nation International Whaling Commission gathered here at its annual meeting Monday with its very existence at stake amid tension over Japan's perennial bid to resume commercial whale hunting. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:02 am
Outraged at the turmoil in Zimbabwe, the U.N. Security Council declared that a fair presidential vote is impossible because of the “campaign of violence” waged by Robert Mugabe’s government.
LONDON - A discrepancy regarding the health of Amy Winehouse arose yesterday after the Grammy-winning singer's father said she had early stage emphysema brought on by...
Italy is showing it can produce more than fast cars, fashion and soccer stars and that mozzarella, cannoli and Sambuca aren't the only things that need no translation.
Suddenly,...
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday condemned the European Union's adoption of new sanctions over its controversial nuclear drive, warning that the measures could damage fresh diplomatic efforts to solve the crisis. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 7:50 am
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is defending his decision to switch position in favor of U.S. offshore oil drilling as he seeks votes in environmentally conscious California.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's president spoke out Tuesday against the protests that have rattled his administration, saying the government would not tolerate any illegal, violent demonstrations against the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports.... Source: AP Top International News At 7 a.m. EDT | 24 Jun 2008 | 7:11 am
Chef Dominique Valadier once worked in the glamorous world of French Riviera restaurants. Now he is making his gourmet meals, with all local ingredients, for public school children.
Divers managed to get inside an upside-down ferry Tuesday but found only bodies and no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said.
The Bush administration is considering setting up a diplomatic outpost in Iran in what would mark a dramatic official U.S. return to the country nearly 30 years after the American embassy was overrun and the two nations severed relations.
Al-Qaida has built an increasingly prolific propaganda operation on the Internet, known as as-Sahab, enabling it to communicate with potential recruits around the world.
WASHINGTON POST A poll, by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, has found that nearly three-fourths of Americans believe in heaven as a place where people who have led good lives will be eternally rewarded. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 24 Jun 2008 | 5:26 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Federal Reserve policymakers open a two-day meeting Tuesday looking for a new message to keep inflation expectations in check, without having to boost interest rates, economists say. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 24 Jun 2008 | 4:58 am
A group of mothers build shrines on the Arlington National Cemetery graves of their sons killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ribbons in the trees, photographs leaning up against the stones and wind chimes keep the memories of their sons alive.
Many parts of Baghdad are enjoying relative calm. But the price of improved security is concrete walls, checkpoints and armed guards. In one formerly violent Baghdad market, the U.S. military is experimenting with ways to open up the walls so that merchants can flourish.
As Bill Gates formally leaves his day job at Microsoft to start work full-time at his family foundation , all eyes in the nation’s $300 billion philanthropy sector are focused on the man that many now call “the Rockefeller of our time,” Contribute magazine reports.
Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires across California, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County.
BEIJING - All the pandas still in a major breeding base in quake-devastated southwest China will be temporarily evacuated because of threats from post-quake hazards, local media reported on Tuesday.
Some of the pandas kept in enclosures... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 1:23 am
A Canadian-born software developer accused of participating in an al Qaeda-inspired cell that plotted bombings in Britain pleaded not guilty as his trial began under heavy security.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out of Zimbabwe's violence-wracked presidential runoff, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high.
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Levees held on the Mississippi River on Monday in the worst Midwest floods in 15 years as residents tackled a slow, smelly recovery from multibillion-dollar losses that may boost world food prices.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is being received at the White House Tuesday. There are calls on Capitol Hill for President Bush to make human rights a focal point of talks, but the administration is playing up economic cooperation.
A New Zealand man is appealing his 10-year sentence for sexually abusing Cambodian boys.
Malcolm Hatfield was convicted of debauchery in 2004 after being convicted of molesting four boys aged 12 to 14. He claims the evidence against... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 10:00 pm
A federal appeals court has ruled that a prisoner being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should not be designated an enemy combatant. The prisoner is a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur, who has been imprisoned for more than six years.
Forty years ago, there were protests in many European countries. Most people remember the protests movement in France. But perhaps the longest and most complex 1968 movement was in Italy, which was enjoying an unprecedented economic boom at the time.
In recent years, the number of rural and low-income South Korean men who have married foreign women has exploded. The government and civil society have responded by opening schools to help these "marriage migrants" learn to become South Koreans.
U.S. intelligence agencies have produced a classified assessment of the implications of climate change for U.S. national security. The National Intelligence Assessment has been delivered to Congress and will be the subject of a hearing later this week.
In Zimbabwe, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has taken refuge in the Dutch Embassy after dropping out of Friday's presidential run-offs. The U.S. Monday condemned President Robert Mugabe's supporters and said his government cannot be considered legitimate in the absence of a run-off.
A Macedonian journalist jailed on suspicion of murdering at least two women in crimes he wrote about for his newspaper has been found dead in his cell, police said.
Zimbabwe Association of New Zealand president Titus Katiyo is urging Helen Clark to keep chasing South Africa's president for an answer on Zimbabwe.
President Thabo Mbeki is among Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's last remaining... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 7:43 pm
SAN FRANCISCO - Fire crews battling wildfires across Northern California expect cooler weather to help them gain an upper hand on blazes sparked by lightning over the weekend, a state fire spokesman said on Monday.
"Today the weather... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 7:30 pm
Schapelle Corby's legal team owes an apology to Australian airport baggage handlers over a made-up claim they planted marijuana found in the convicted drug smuggler's bag, unionists say.
Corby's former lawyer Robin Tampoe revealed... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 7:15 pm
A corporation's plan to put its name up in red lights on a landmark Philadelphia skyscraper is generating howls of protest from luxury condominium owners who only recently began moving into the building.
They are fighting the... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 6:15 pm
MANILA - A group of 28 ferry passengers and crew washed ashore after drifting at sea for more than a day from the site where a typhoon capsized their ship and left most of the hundreds aboard missing and presumed dead.
Manila's... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
HARARE - It will be an election with no opponent and little hope of endorsement from even traditional allies.
But Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe appears determined to go through with the presidential runoff this weekend, and to extend... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
ROME - As one of the world's richest men, and a politically powerful one, too, Silvio Berlusconi often gets his way. But can the Italian Premier make the Pope change his mind?
After taking on Italy's prosecutors and far-left politicians,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
GAZA CITY - Israel has allowed dozens of trucks to deliver food, nappies and clothes to the Gaza Strip, boosting the flow of basic goods as part of a truce with Hamas militants designed to halt rocket barrages from Gaza and deadly... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 23 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
China has so far been immune to the punishing price of gas. China isn't defying the laws of economics; the government is subsidizing gas prices keeping them artificially low, Barry Petersen reports.
An American soldier was killed and five others wounded when they came under fire southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Witnesses and local police said the Americans were ambushed after a meeting with Iraqi municipal officials.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is in London for a week to celebrate his 90th birthday. Festivities in his honor include a big outdoor concert and meetings with prominent officials and supporters.
Mexican soldiers captured at least 10 suspected members of a Tijuana-based drug cartel in a raid on a child's baptism party in this border city, officials said.
European Union nations have approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze of the country's biggest bank. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Jun 2008 | 3:26 pm
Australian police say a man failed a blood alocohol test after he was found slumped in his wheelchair by the side of a highway. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Jun 2008 | 3:08 pm
U.N. Security Council nations unanimously condemn 'campaign of violence' against Zimbabwe's main opposition party and say it would be impossible to hold free and fair elections in the African nation. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Jun 2008 | 1:51 pm
A State Department spokesman said there are no official plans to open a diplomatic office in Iran but officials tell AP the idea has been floated within the Bush administration. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Jun 2008 | 1:06 pm
A thief caught napping in the house he was burglarizing for the second time is under arrest in southern Brazil. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Jun 2008 | 11:07 am
Paraguay's outgoing President Nicanor Duarte resigned Monday two months before his term is to end, but opposition parties in Congress may not accept the move. Source: FOXNews.com | 23 Jun 2008 | 9:45 am
Reuters - African pressure mounted on Tuesday for
President Robert Mugabe to call off a June 27 election after
the U.N. Security Council issued an unprecedented condemnation
of violence against opposition supporters.
Reuters - A bomb killed 10 people including two
U.S. government employees and two U.S. soldiers at a council
meeting in the Baghdad stronghold of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday, officials said.
Reuters - Iran said on Tuesday that new sanctions
imposed on it by the European Union over Tehran's nuclear plans
could hurt diplomatic efforts to resolve the row.
AP - Outraged at the turmoil in Zimbabwe, the U.N. Security Council declared that a fair presidential vote is impossible because of a "campaign of violence" waged by President Robert Mugabe's government.
AP - Don Imus is defending a remark he made about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones, saying he was trying to "make a sarcastic point."
Reuters - More than 138,000 are dead or missing
from the devastating cyclone that struck Myanmar last month,
the government said on Tuesday, according to an Asian diplomat.
AP - U.S. officials say four Americans have been killed in an explosion at a local council building in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district.
AFP - Zimbabwe pushed ahead Tuesday with plans for a presidential run-off vote, even with the leader of the opposition holed up in the Dutch embassy and world leaders denouncing Robert Mugabe's rule as illegitimate.
Young Indians are increasingly eager to put the latest iPods, brand-name sunglasses and cellphones on their credit cards, take out a loan to get an apartment or car, and worry about it all later.
Pandas living in an earthquake-hit part of China have been evacuated to temporary shelters due to the continuing threat of landslides, a forestry bureau report said Tuesday.
Outraged at the turmoil in Zimbabwe, the U.N. Security Council declared that a fair presidential vote is impossible because of the “campaign of violence” waged by Robert Mugabe’s government.
Divers managed to get inside an upside-down ferry Tuesday but found only bodies and no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said.
Al-Qaida has built an increasingly prolific propaganda operation on the Internet, known as as-Sahab, enabling it to communicate with potential recruits around the world.
Many Muslim Americans who have supported Barack Obama’s candidacy say he has not returned the embrace.
As Bill Gates formally leaves his day job at Microsoft to start work full-time at his family foundation , all eyes in the nation’s $300 billion philanthropy sector are focused on the man that many now call “the Rockefeller of our time,” Contribute magazine reports.
Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires across California, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County.