Marines in Garmsir, a district in Helmand province, Afghanistan, are paying for home repairs in an effort to curry favor with locals. They're also on the lookout for suicide bombers and deadly roadside bombs.
Fire crews from Nevada and Oregon have arrived to help California firefighters battle hundreds of blazes that are darkening skies over the San Francisco Bay area and Central Valley.
Coalition airstrikes killed 22 militants who were attacking two towns in eastern Afghanistan, and explosions killed two more foreign soldiers in the south, officials said Wednesday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:17 am
Police in the US state of Kentucky say a member of staff at a plant shot four people dead before killing himself. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:14 am
Israel closes its border crossings with Gaza in response to a Palestinian rocket attack that breached a ceasefire. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:04 am
TOKYO, June 25 (Kyodo) _ The government said Wednesday that a total of 1,402 ministry and agency bureaucrats have received favors in such forms as cash and cans of beer from taxi drivers Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:03 am
U.S. stocks headed for a higher open Wednesday as investors awaited economic reports and the Federal Reserve's latest decision on interest rates. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:58 am
AFP - Southern African leaders met Wednesday for talks on the Zimbabwe crisis as President Robert Mugabe indicated he was open to negotiations with the opposition, but only after this week's run-off election.
UK millionaire Stuart Wheeler loses a court battle to force a UK referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:56 am
(Kyodo) _ The government said Wednesday that a total of 1,402 ministry and agency bureaucrats have received favors in such forms as cash and cans of beer from taxi drivers when being... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:56 am
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev played down differences with his predecessor Vladimir Putin in an interview with Reuters but the contrast in style and tone between the two men was striking.
HARARE (AFP) - Southern African leaders met Wednesday for talks on the Zimbabwe crisis as President Robert Mugabe indicated he was open to negotiations with the opposition, but only after this week's run-off election. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:54 am
General Mills says commodity hedging costs drove fiscal fourth-quarter profit down 17 percent, but strong sales of its yogurt, cookie mixes and Cheerios boosted revenue above Wall Street expectations. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:53 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- The militant group Hamas said it remains committed to a cease-fire with Israel, but will not act as Israel's "police force" in confronting militants who breach the truce.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:53 am
Two military jets have collided above an urban area of Inner Mongolia, reports China's state news agency. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:52 am
Galleries of all kinds of sea life from multiple Atlantic Ocean expeditions -- from National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin (NOAA). Scorpion fish is particularly ugly. Galleries are uneven; but overall an amazing collection of images. Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:52 am
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert averted a split in Israel's restive coalition on Wednesday by striking a deal with his biggest partner, the Labour party, that stopped it backing a bill to dissolve parliament.
US conservationists hail a deal under which Florida will buy a huge tract of Everglades land from a sugar company. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:51 am
Between 1950 and 2000, the death rate from heart disease in the United States plummeted nearly 70 percent, and the death rate from stroke nearly 80 percent. Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:51 am
AP - An employee shot and killed four people at a plastics plant before killing himself early Wednesday, police said. Source: Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:50 am
Last week's introduction of new federal copyright legislation ignited a firestorm with thousands of Canadians expressing genuine shock at provisions that some MPs argued would create a "police state." As opposition to the copyright bill mounts, the most commonly asked question is "Why"? Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:50 am
Talk about fast food: One school is searching for more than 130 bison that wandered away from its lunch program. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:49 am
Plans to store the majority of our nation’s spent nuclear fuel and other highly radioactive waste at a central repository underneath Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert 80 miles from Las Vegas were first hatched in the mid-1980s. But the project has languished primarily due to opposition from Nevadans... Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:49 am
These trailblazers come from all sorts of businesses—automotive, design, technology—unburdened by the conventions of their new industry. They introduce products some consider shocking. Traditionalists scoff at them. But these outsiders are revolutionizing one of the world's oldest professions: the funeral industry. Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:48 am
By 2015, 17% of Americans will get cosmetic procedures. In 2007, Americans spent more than $13 billion for nearly 11.7 million cosmetic procedures. Up from nearly 8.5 million procedures in 2001. What was hot in 2007? Breast augmentation: 399,440 procedures thenLiposuction: 398,848 followed by Eyelid surgery: 208,199 . . . Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:48 am
Not long ago, a caller dialed the toll-free number of an energy company to inquire about his bill. Forty years after “2001,” how close are we to talking to a computer? Current applications of speech technology are a far cry from HAL. Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:48 am
Boston's two major daily newspapers are going through another round of painful cost-cutting measures.
Boston Globe unions have been asked by management to take an...
For a while last night, it looked as if the Red Sox had become stuck in a time and space warp, their usual interleague success and home-field advantage sucked into a pernicious...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Violence-wracked Zimbabwe needs United Nations peacekeepers to help prepare the way for new elections, the country's opposition leader said in a call from his haven at the Dutch Embassy.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:39 am
AP - Violence-wracked Zimbabwe needs United Nations peacekeepers to help prepare the way for new elections, the country's opposition leader said in a call from his haven at the Dutch Embassy.
Reuters - Pakistan's Supreme Court postponed on
Wednesday a by-election in a constituency where former prime
minister Nawaz Sharif had hoped to stand, pending a ruling on a
decision by a lower court to bar him from the poll.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court postponed on Wednesday a by-election in a constituency where former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had hoped to stand, pending a ruling on a decision by a lower court to bar him from the poll.
Retired Air Force Sgt. Mark Evans wanted to send a taste of Chicago to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:36 am
(Kyodo) _ At least 35 Taliban militants were killed in clashes with Afghan-Coalition forces after the militants attacked two towns in eastern Afghanistan overnight, police and U.S.-led... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:35 am
(Kyodo) _ Japan's 16 major fishermen's associations said Wednesday that they plan to suspend operations on July 15 to bring public attention to the plight of their businesses amid soaring Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:33 am
MBABANE (Reuters) - Southern African leaders will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss Zimbabwe's crisis, but the region's designated mediator, South African President Thabo Mbeki, will not attend, officials said.
Several commanders of a leading separatist group in India's restive northeast announced a cease-fire Wednesday and called for an end to their 30-year rebellion, separatist leaders and government officials said. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:25 am
The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Wednesday, June 25, 2008: Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:22 am
Barclays PLC hopes to raise $8.85 billion through a share issue that will draw in new investment from the Middle East and Asia, the company said Wednesday. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:18 am
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tight end Alge Crumpler, who knows the importance of a good relationship with a quarterback, thinks he has found something splendid working with Tennessee's...
TOKYO, June 25 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS, BACKGROUND) The Tokyo metropolitan assembly enacted Wednesday an amendment to an ordinance to oblige large office buildings, shops,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:11 am
NEW YORK - Within minutes of his introduction as the newest member of Fox's NFL pregame show, Michael Strahan was spouting his opinion on Plaxico Burress' contract...
Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson is facing foreclosure on her home in Seattle in yet another sign that the mortgage loan crisis is hitting traditional working-class neighborhoods hard. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:05 am
A supporter of Nawaz Sharif jumps over burning tyres during a protest in Lahore on June 24. The rally was in protest against the Lahore High Court banning Sharif from standing in a by-election. Pakistan's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:05 am
Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif gestures during a press conference in Islamabad on June 11. Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the postponement of a crucial by-election while it decides on a government... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:05 am
Pakistan's Deputy Attorney General Raja Abdur Rehman answers questions after leaving the Supreme Court in Islamabad. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:05 am
HENDERSON, Ky. - An employee shot and killed four people at a plastics plant before killing himself early Wednesday, police said.
The shooting happened after an employee...
The northbound lanes of Rte. 128 in Danvers have been re-opened following a head-on collision involving a wrong-way driver early this morning.
The crash happened around 4...
A state news agency says two Chinese air force jets crashed in a city suburb in Inner Mongolia after a midair collision. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:01 am
(Kyodo) _ North Korea's long-due nuclear declaration anticipated Thursday will be "significant" as a step in the country's fulfillment of its six-party talks commitment to eventually... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:00 am
"It was the wrong decision, and I think anybody that knows anything about the game knows that. There's no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves."
U.S....
Pakistan's supreme court delays a parliamentary by-election that former PM Nawaz Sharif was barred from contesting. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:56 am
FORT WORTH, Texas - In a world where the TV viewer can routinely see kicks to the chin, eight-man indoor football and 24-hour poker, it's not surprising that there are...
At least five people have died after an argument with a supervisor sparked a workplace shooting, police said on Wednesday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:53 am
The US says it will not recognise the result of this Friday's presidential election run-off in Zimbabwe. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:53 am
For lack of $10, Margo Kindred was forced to move with her teenage son and three young grandchildren to a homeless shelter. Source: Newsvine - Get Smarter Here | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:52 am
(Kyodo) _ A Japanese businessman living in Hawaii who promoted sumo tournaments in the United States has been found dead at a park near Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, and the Honolulu Medical Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:51 am
With Tuesday's opening of the free agent market fast approaching, Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli took care of one piece of in-house business yesterday by signing...
Reuters - U.N. nuclear investigators were winding
up a four-day visit to Syria on Wednesday after checking an
alleged atomic site bombed by Israel in September.
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear investigators were winding up a four-day visit to Syria on Wednesday after checking an alleged atomic site bombed by Israel in September.
Royal Dutch Shell resumes production at its main offshore oil field in Nigeria, following a militant attack. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:43 am
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed up to 35 Taliban insurgents after the militants attacked two towns in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border overnight, a police chief said on Wednesday.
Scientists are using the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to go prospecting in a rich molecular cloud in our Milky Way Galaxy. They seek to discover new, complex molecules in interstellar space that may be precursors to life. The GBT and Molecules The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope and some molecules it has discovered. CREDIT: B Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:41 am
One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe. Indeed, there is a great deal of speculation on the subject, with different theories about how the universe began, and what may have existed before the universe came into being. Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:41 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Coalition airstrikes killed 22 militants who were attacking two towns in eastern Afghanistan, and explosions killed two more foreign soldiers in the south, officials said Wednesday.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:40 am
Coalition airstrikes killed 22 militants who were attacking two towns in eastern Afghanistan, and explosions killed two more foreign soldiers in the south, officials said Wednesday. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:40 am
AP - Coalition airstrikes killed 22 militants who were attacking two towns in eastern Afghanistan, and explosions killed two more foreign soldiers in the south, officials said Wednesday.
(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) Beijing Olympics organizers confirmed Wednesday they have scrapped the international legs of the Paralympics torch relay. The director of the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:38 am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers and an interpreter north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Wednesday, and Iraqi police reported 14 Shiite gunmen were arrested after fighting south of the capital.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:36 am
AP - A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers and an interpreter north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Wednesday, and Iraqi police reported 14 Shiite gunmen were arrested after fighting south of the capital.
(Kyodo) _ Newly appointed Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Ryozo Kato hopes to find a way for Japanese baseball to prosper despite an exodus of star players to the major leagues... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
AP - Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday asked his finance team to help Hillary Rodham Clinton pay off a debt of at least $10 million from her failed presidential campaign, setting the stage for joint appearances by the two former rivals later in the week.
BUNGOMA, Kenya (AP) -- Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of being forced to crawl through barbed wire tunnels and of genitals squeezed by pliers.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:26 am
AP - Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of being forced to crawl through barbed wire tunnels and of genitals squeezed by pliers.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is investigating a speech made by Tibet's Communist Party boss at the end of last weekend's Beijing torch relay leg in Lhasa in which he denounced the Dalai Lama.
Bill Clinton's spokesman says the former US president is committed to helping Barack Obama win the US presidential election. Source: BBC News | World | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:11 am
An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself in the head at an airport farewell ceremony Tuesday for French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Source: Digg | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:01 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Florida has reached a tentative 1.75-billion-dollar deal to buy the largest US sugar producer and turn its vast swaths of farmland into reservoirs to protect the fabled Everglades wetlands, US media reported Wednesday. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 25 Jun 2008 | 8:39 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will allow the resumption of U.S. beef imports starting Thursday, the farm ministry said, implementing an unpopular deal that sparked street protests and caused a crisis for the government.
The U.S. government secretly gathered personal data on more than 130,000 immigrants in the run-up to the war in Iraq, according to a purported FBI document attached to a lawsuit filed Tuesday demanding more detail about how the information was gathered and used. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 25 Jun 2008 | 8:13 am
Authorities say they are investigating the "suspicious" death of a pregnant soldier whose body was found at a Fayetteville motel. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 25 Jun 2008 | 8:13 am
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea announced it will resume US beef imports from Thursday after negotiating extra safeguards against mad cow disease, despite protests by tens of thousands over recent weeks. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 25 Jun 2008 | 8:13 am
The U.S. military says three American soldiers and an interpreter have been killed in a bombing in northern Iraq's Nineveh province, where troops have been fighting Sunni insurgents. It came hours after a Baghdad blast left four Americans dead.
The U.S. has given Pakistan nearly $6 billion to pursue terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against America, but with little to no proof that the money has been used for that purpose, an independent audit has found.
File picture shows US soldiers on patrol with Iraqi soldiers in the northern city of Mosul the capital of Nineveh province. A bomb attack in Nineveh province killed three US soldiers hours after a bomb... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 7:42 am
File picture shows Iraqi soldiers on patrol in the northern city of Mosul. A car bomb attack in Mosul has wounded at least 90 civilians, the American military said Wednesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 7:42 am
LONDON (AFP) - British bank Barclays announced on Wednesday a share issue to raise 4.5 billion pounds (8.9 billion dollars, 5.7 billion euros) with the state-run Qatar Investment Authority and Asian investors taking leading roles. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 25 Jun 2008 | 7:38 am
SAN FERNANDO, Philippines (AP) -- Bodies in life jackets washed up on islands and drifted at sea Wednesday as divers resumed the grim work of exploring the inside of a Philippine ferry that capsized during a powerful typhoon.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 25 Jun 2008 | 7:35 am
The Israeli military said it closed the crossings where cargo enters the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire that violated a new truce between Israel and Gaza militants.
SAN FERNANDO (AFP) - Philippine investigators opened an inquiry Wednesday into a ferry disaster believed to have killed 800 as rescuers ended slim hopes of finding survivors in the stricken vessel. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 25 Jun 2008 | 7:18 am
US envoy to North Korea Sung Kim at a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC in mid May. Kim is set to attend North Korea's demolition on Friday of its nuclear cooling tower under an... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 7:02 am
Demonstrators in orange jumpsuits and black hoods march in Washington, DC on May 27. A majority of people in 14 countries favour a total ban on torture according to the results from a survey which has... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 6:48 am
A noose, similar to the ones used by Saddam Hussein's regime to hang convicted people is displayed at a makeshift "museum of horrors" exhibition in Baghdad in mid March. A majority of people in 14 countries... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 6:48 am
Members of the Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change who claim they were beaten by supporters of President Mugabe south of Harare on May 3. A majority of people in 14 countries favour a total ban on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 6:48 am
Israeli members of parliament and French President Nicolas Sarkozy stand during the Israeli national anthem after Sarkozy's speech at the Knesset June 23 in Jerusalem. Israel's Labour party on Wednesday... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNImagesWorld | 25 Jun 2008 | 6:47 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday is expected to hold interest rates steady and indicate slightly greater unease on inflation, while stopping well short of signaling higher borrowing costs are imminent.
Japan's toilets - plumbing fixtures that have been reengineered into comfy energy hogs -embody one weakness in an otherwise energy-conscious nation. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 25 Jun 2008 | 6:40 am
This week in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe's opponent Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the race, leaving 12 million people without a choice. Katie Couric spoke with Tsvangirai - and examines what's behind the country's turmoil.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former president Bill Clinton gave terse backing to Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama Tuesday, as his wife returned to politics for the first time since her agonizing primary defeat. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 25 Jun 2008 | 6:24 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The World Health Organization has unveiled a safety checklist to be used in operating rooms around the world aimed at reducing the risks of complications resulting from major surgery. Source: AFP - Wire stories | 25 Jun 2008 | 6:07 am
A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers and an interpreter north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Wednesday. Source: MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines | 25 Jun 2008 | 5:39 am
LONDON (AP) -- A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $80 million Tuesday, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist, Christie's said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 25 Jun 2008 | 1:45 am
Despite new economic sanctions imposed by the EU, Iran's president vows to continue full speed ahead on his nuclear program. David Martin reports the U.S. and Israel are discussing the possible next step - a military attack.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has called for armed
Peacekeepers to secure the safety of voters in a new presidential election.
Tsvangirai feared supporters could be injured if a runoff took place, CNN reported.
Tsvangirai... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:51 am
A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet was sold for more than $80 million at auction, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn.
OKEECHOBEE - A Florida teen who was attacked by an 11 1/2-foot alligator lost his arm, but managed to escape with his life after poking the animal in the eye.
A sheriff's office report says Kasey Edwards, 18, was hanging out with... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:27 pm
US presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday criticised his rival John McCain's proposal to encourage the building of 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030.
Obama, a Democrat, said the Republican candidate lacked a plan for storage... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:23 pm
HAVANA - Cuban scientists said on Tuesday the first vaccine to extend lives of lung cancer patients has been approved by Cuban authorities for use and is available in the island's hospitals.
The drug, CimaVax EGF, has been shown... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:18 pm
LONDON (AP) -- A murder trial collapsed Tuesday in the wake of a House of Lords ruling that bars the use of anonymous witnesses in court.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:14 pm
WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday offered to help Barack Obama win the White House, although what work he'll do for his wife's former rival remained uncertain.
The Obama campaign is still smarting over some... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 10:05 pm
More than 800 wildfires across Northern California have been sparked by over 5,000 lightning strikes, prompting a plea for help. Paul Van Gerwen, battalion chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, talks about how the fires are being tackled.
Four Americans were among at least nine people killed in a bomb blast at a municipal government office in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood on Tuesday. The U.S. military blamed Iran-backed Shiite militants for the bombing.
Evangelical leader James Dobson says a 2006 speech made by Barack Obama was "distorting" the Bible and offered a "fruitcake" interpretation of the Constitution. His comments come as the Democratic presidential hopeful tries to woo evangelical voters.
Despite skyrocketing oil prices, freight railroads are thriving. They are taking advantage of their greater fuel efficiency to haul more goods across the country. And they've mounted an aggressive marketing campaign to take even more.
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) returned to Congress Tuesday for the first time since she suspended her presidential campaign. On Friday, she will appear with Barack Obama — her onetime rival for the Democratic presidential nomination — in New Hampshire.
U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee says the world can't stop Friday's presidential runoffs, but that diplomats can be involved. In a teleconference from Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, McGee says political brutality is continuing.
More than 200 homes were lost in last year's Angora Fire in scenic South Lake Tahoe. The community is rebuilding quickly but now faces tough new building codes, requiring fire-safe construction methods. Tamara Keith reports from member station KQED.
TEL AVIV - An Israeli guard on the perimeter of a farewell airport ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy shot himself dead on Tuesday, causing a security stir but not endangering the visiting leader, police said.
"This... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:30 pm
During the recent floods in Iowa, Cedar Rapids' National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library was surrounded by 15 feet of water. Stefanie Kohn, the museum's curator, talks about the effort to clean and preserve soaked artifacts.
Immokalee, Fla., is the largest center for migrant farmworkers on the East Coast. Juan Medina, a former agricultural worker, is part of a town effort to help the children of migrant farmworkers in school. His new tool is free laptops.
China was due to receive its first visit by a Japanese warship since World War II in a military exchange aimed at putting relations between the former bitter enemies on a firmer footing.
The destroyer Sazanami was to dock in Zhanjiang,... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 8:15 pm
Authorities in the northern Malaysian city of Kota Baru have forbidden Muslim women from wearing bright lipstick and noisy high-heeled shoes to work, saying the ban will enhance their dignity and prevent them from getting raped.
If... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 7:15 pm
Divers got inside an upside-down ferry yesterday but found only bodies three days after the vessel capsized with more than 800 people aboard during a powerful typhoon.
Philippine Navy spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Edgard Arevalo... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 6:15 pm
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.
BEN-GURION AIRPORT, Israel (AP) -- An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself in the head at an airport farewell ceremony Tuesday for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, prompting bodyguards to whisk the visiting leader and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to safety, officials said.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 24 Jun 2008 | 5:58 pm
The United States said it expects North Korea to hand over a declaration of its nuclear activities by Friday, allowing for the resumption of disarmament talks.
Japan's Kyodo news agency said North Korea would give the report to... Source: New Zealand Herald - World | 24 Jun 2008 | 5:15 pm
President Bush offered condolences Tuesday to those in the Philippines harmed by Typhoon Fengshen, and said the U.S. was sending the USS Ronald Reagan to the scene to help. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 4:55 pm
Ram Singh Munda was arrested and jailed for violating wildlife laws after he rescued an orphan bear. Now animal activists are trying to win his freedom. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 4:52 pm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Drug traffickers in well-armed desert convoys roll across the border from Afghanistan. Standing in their way are Iranian soldiers and drug agents trying to choke off one of the world's busiest pipelines for opium and heroin.... Source: AP Top International News At 7:05 a... | 24 Jun 2008 | 4:45 pm
The USS Reagan and its strike group left a day early on Sunday as Typhoon Fengshen approached the territory, but about 100 U.S. sailors were left behind, an official said on Tuesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 4:29 pm
China has augmented security for the Olympic Games with surface-to-air missile launchers, placed just 328 yards from the venue that will host soccer and modern pentathlon when the games open in Beijing August 8, Reuters reported. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 2:58 pm
Amanda Knox, the American student accused of involvement in the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, last November, wrote in her diary that she was only a target in the case because she is attractive. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 2:04 pm
Welsh cops have locals scratching their heads with an official police computer sketch of a robber whose face is almost entirely covered by a cap. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 2:02 pm
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: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 1:48 pm
The world will end in 2012 or so say thousands of people in the Netherlands who are taking precautions to prepare themselves for the apocalypse in four years, the Dutch-language newspaper de Volkskrant reported Tuesday. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 1:04 pm
David Veness, the U.N.'s undersecretary-general for security and safety, voluntarily offered his resignation over security lapses at an Algiers field office where 17 staffers were killed by truck bomb. Source: FOXNews.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 11:36 am
Fire crews from Nevada and Oregon have arrived to help California firefighters battle hundreds of blazes that are darkening skies over the San Francisco Bay area and Central Valley.
AFP - Southern African leaders met Wednesday for talks on the Zimbabwe crisis as President Robert Mugabe indicated he was open to negotiations with the opposition, but only after this week's run-off election.
AP - Violence-wracked Zimbabwe needs United Nations peacekeepers to help prepare the way for new elections, the country's opposition leader said in a call from his haven at the Dutch Embassy.
Reuters - Pakistan's Supreme Court postponed on
Wednesday a by-election in a constituency where former prime
minister Nawaz Sharif had hoped to stand, pending a ruling on a
decision by a lower court to bar him from the poll.
AP - The Chicago Cubs finally lost at home, Minnesota is winning everywhere and the big story in Kansas City was another broken maple bat.
Reuters - U.N. nuclear investigators were winding
up a four-day visit to Syria on Wednesday after checking an
alleged atomic site bombed by Israel in September.
AP - Coalition airstrikes killed 22 militants who were attacking two towns in eastern Afghanistan, and explosions killed two more foreign soldiers in the south, officials said Wednesday.
Generations of Chinese have learned to "eat bitter," but in quake's aftermath optimism masks despair.
AP - A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers and an interpreter north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Wednesday, and Iraqi police reported 14 Shiite gunmen were arrested after fighting south of the capital.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday asked his finance team to help Hillary Rodham Clinton pay off a debt of at least $10 million from her failed presidential campaign, setting the stage for joint appearances by the two former rivals later in the week.
AP - Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of being forced to crawl through barbed wire tunnels and of genitals squeezed by pliers.
Southern African heads of state gathered Wednesday for an emergency meeting to discuss Zimbabwe's crisis.
The Israeli military said it closed the crossings where cargo enters the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire that violated a new truce between Israel and Gaza militants.