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There has been a constant narrative that aims to reduce you to an ex-wife of a former head of state. This is factual, but in mainstream media there seems to be no other description of you ||||| JFK: A Vision for America Hardcover – Illustrated by Stephen Kennedy Smith, Douglas Brinkley Published in commemoration of the... | Protests on 26 April Photo from the protest last night. Bronze Soldier of Tallinn. One man was killed and 44 hurt in clashes between demonstrators and police in Tallinn, Estonia last night after authorities removed a controversial Soviet monument. The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn is seen as a reminder of Soviet occupation... |
SEATTLE - There's a line of sewing machines, an elevator monitoring system, even a brand of detergent used to clean dairy equipment — all bearing the brand name Vista. There are plenty of computer products that claim the Vista trademark, too. So Microsoft Corp.'s choice of Vista as the name for the next version of its ... | Windows Vista logo Microsoft, the world's largest software company, announced the name of its forthcoming version of the Windows operating system from its headquarters in Redmond, Washington Friday. But in choosing the name "Vista," Microsoft may find itself in a legal fight. Microsoft has made a name for itself in leg... |
Ford's contract with the U.A.W. will be up for renegotiations next year and analyst expect the company to seek additional concessions from workers and retirees, who last year agreed to pay more for health care in a bid to save the company $850 million. Television news crews lined up this morning outside Ford's product ... | Ford Motor Company logo. The Ford Motor Company, the second-largest car manufacturer in America, will cut 30,000 jobs and 14 plants as part of a restructuring plan to relieve Ford after a US$1.6 billion loss last year in North American sales. The plan, called "Way Forward", the brainchild of Ford's Chief Executive Offi... |
The balloons were released by her friends at Parrs Wood About 100 balloons were released by friends of Kesha Wizzart at Parrs Wood Sixth Form College, Manchester. The 18-year-old was due to start a law degree at the University of Manchester. Pierre Williams, 32, of Birmingham, is charged with killing Kesha, Fred, 13, a... | Friends and family mourned further today by releasing balloons into the Manchester sky, after it was revealed that one of the triple murder victims from Fallowfield's "Triple murder massacre" achieved two As and a B in her A-level exams. Around 100 balloons were released some with her papers documenting her grades at P... |
The counterfeit cigarettes were hidden in linen and towels from Dubai The biggest ever single haul of counterfeit cigarettes in Wales has been discovered in Cardiff. The fake branded Classic Gold and Raquel cigarettes were hidden in three 40ft containers, within a cargo of bed linen and towels on a ship from Dubai. Cus... | A cigarette 22 million counterfeit cigarettes have been found in Cardiff, Wales by officials working for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). They had an estimated value of five million GBP and impersonated the Classic Gold and Raquel brands of cigarette. The details of the discovery, which took place on December 19 last year,... |
The Associated Press / WASHINGTON By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer Fed delivers 7th quarter-point rate hike MAR. 22 2:21 P.M. ET The Federal Reserve on Tuesday pushed a key interest rate up by a quarter-point to 2.75 percent as it continued its campaign to gradually nudge rates high enough to make sure that a r... | U.S. Federal Reserve raises interest rates The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) today raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point to 2.75 percent. The increase in the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other, is seen as an anti-inflationary measure and was widely expected by the financial communi... |
Jessica Willey got a face to face interview with the man accused of slaughtering eight family members on Saturday.David Conley wouldn't talk about the events of Saturday, but he certainly had plenty to say. Wearing the same yellow jail jumpsuit he wore to court Monday, Conley, a multiple violent offender now charged wi... | Location of Houston withing , Texas. Saturday night, police in Houston, Texas, United States, discovered eight people killed in a home. Six of the victims were children. Around 21:00 , (HSCO) deputies arrived at the home on a welfare check. After repeatedly trying to get someone to come to the door, officers forced the... |
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., touches upon the primary themes of his presidential campaign. MSNBC will telecast a debate between Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama Tuesday, Feb. 26, live from Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, 9-10:30 p.m. ET. NBC’s Brian Williams wil... | McCain. United States Presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ) has denied that he had a romantic relationship with a female telecommunications (Vickie Iseman) lobbyist and stated the suggestion that he displayed favoritism for her clients is "not true." The denial follows a report in Thursday's ''New York Times'' that... |
Burma says it will accept foreign aid, but not foreign relief workers Aid should be dropped by air into Burma if access to the cyclone-hit country does not improve, Conservative leader David Cameron has said. As concern grows at the limited relief reaching those in need, he said: "The sands of time are running out." Go... | David Cameron, the leader of the main UK opposition party, the Conservative Party, has said that aid to Burma should be dispatched by air if the Burmese government does not improve access to the country for aid workers. David Cameron said this in a statement, which was released today. Below is part of the statement: Ho... |
Tour the newly installed Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat and Asia Trail in the National Zoo in Washington D.C. Aug. 4: A sixteen year-old giant panda at the San Diego Zoo has given birth to it's fourth cub since 1999, weighing in at four ounces. MSNBC's Alex Witt reports. By Allison Hoffman SAN DIEGO - A giant panda gave ... | __NOTOC__ Giant panda at the San Diego Zoo in 2006 Bai Yun, a Giant Panda, has given birth Friday at the San Diego Zoo, after two and a half hours in labor. After birth, the cub was immediately taken into the arms of its mother. Bai Yun has had three other cubs, Hua Mei, 1999, Mei Sheng, 2003, and Su Lin, 2005. The new... |
GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) -- More than 300 miles of struggling salmon runs would be restored along the Klamath River as part of a landmark $1 billion proposal that represents the largest dam removal project in the nation's history. The Copco No. 1 dam in California is one of four that would be torn down to help Klamath ... | A proposal was made to remove four hydroelectric power generating dams across the Klamath River in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Intended to improve the habitat and range of salmon, the project requires agreements with the dams’ owner PacifiCorp and several federal government agencies. A coalition of Native ... |
Attacks in Afghanistan Kill 4 US, 8 Afghan Soldiers International security forces in Afghanistan say recent attacks in the country's south and east have killed four U.S. and eight Afghan soldiers. Photo: AP International security forces in Afghanistan say recent attacks in the country's south and east have killed four ... | International security forces in Afghanistan stated today that recent attacks in the country's south and east have killed four US and eight Afghan soldiers. A NATO statement said that a bomb killed one US soldier in eastern Afghanistan today; yesterday, three US troops died in gun and bomb attacks in the southern part ... |
Prominent Student Leaders Arrested By Wai Moe October 13, 2007 Email Article Print Article Prominent leaders of the 88 Generation Students group, who led protests in August, were arrested at a hiding place in Rangoon on Saturday morning, said dissident sources. The leaders, who were arrested on October 12, were named a... | Monks Protesting in Burma, September 2007. Three of the last remaining leaders of the 88 Generation Students Group, which led the recent pro-democracy rallies in Burma, have been arrested by Burma's military junta. The wave of protests, which began on August 15, 2007, was triggered by the Burmese government's decision... |
The daughter of a well-known cosmetic surgeon was rescued unharmed early Tuesday about 13 hours after being kidnapped by men who demanded 300 million yen in ransom, and three men are now in custody, police said. Kanako Ikeda (center), rescued overnight from kidnappers, leaves Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Tuesday ... | Ikeda Kanako, a 21-year-old senior student of the Meiji Gakuin University and the first daughter of celebrity surgeon Yuko Ikeda, was kidnapped at about 1225 (UTC+9), June 26, 2006, in Shibuya, Tokyo. A bullet was fired and one officer slightly cut when police stormed a Kawasaki apartment to rescue the girl. Kanako was... |
Discussing cables If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Linking to a specific paragraph in the body of a cable is also possible by copying the appropriate link (to be found at theparagraph symbol). Please mark messages for social networking serv... | Map highlighting Magway Region in Burma, where Minbu is located. In diplomatic cables released by the whistle blowing website Wikileaks on Friday, it is revealed that the United States embassy in suspects the North Korean and Burmese military are participating in "covert military or military-industrial" activities. In ... |
By David Willis BBC News, Nevada The airport in Minden is serving as a base for the rescue effort Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft took turns to taxi down the narrow runway. More than a dozen are playing their part in the hunt for Steve Fossett. They are scouring some inhospitable terrain. I took a flight in a small... | Steve Fossett Playa areas in Nevada. Largest playa areas have been used for speed record attempts. Adventurer Steve Fossett has gone missing over western Nevada. He took off in a single engine plane Monday morning, planning to return around noon, and has not been seen since. Reports say that Fossett was flying to look ... |
21-year-old set to join from Sanfrecce Hiroshima to be Arsene Wenger's second signing of summer Arsenal have announced they have agreed a deal in principle to sign Takuma Asano from Sanfrecce Hiroshima. The 21-year-old Japan forward’s move to Arsenal is subject to the completion of a medical and regulatory processes. “... | On Sunday, London-based club Arsenal F.C. agreed to sign 21-year-old Japanese forward from and their city rivals Chelsea F.C. has signed 22-year-old Belgian striker from French club . |
Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Centennial, CO (AHN) - Private small plane manufacturer Adam Aircraft Industries (AAI) has laid off 300 workers and suspended operation at its Ogden facility until early summer. The layoff of 40 percent of its 600-strong workforce and suspension of work was announced on Thursday as the ... | An Adam A700 on display Adam Aircraft Industries has laid off 300 members of its 800-strong workforce and suspended operations at their plant in Ogden, Utah. The moves come as the result of unexpected financial difficulties. In addition, Adam is transferring much of its work at Pueblo, Colorado to its headquarters at C... |
Hugh L. Carey , the governor who helped rescue New York from the brink of financial collapse in the 1970s and tamed a culture of ever-growing spending, died Sunday at his summer home on Shelter Island. He was 92. His death was announced by the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. “Governor Carey led our state during a time ... | Carey was Governor from 1975 until 1982 Former of New York has died at the age of 92. Carey was the 51st governor of the state and held office from 1975 until 1982 as a . During his tenure he held more power over the finances of than any other governor, before or after Carey's term. He saw the city through the . The of... |
'); //--> Associated Press Update 3: WHO Puts Tamiflu Maker on Bird Flu Alert By MARGIE MASON , The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family cluster in Indonesia. But WHO o... | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday asked the Swiss manufacturer of the antiviral medicine Tamiflu to prepare the global stockpile of the drug for distribution after a family of seven Indonesians died from the H5N1 avian flu virus. However, the WHO says that there is no cause for alarm at this point. "Whene... |
A Secret Service agent stands guard as U.S. President Barack Obama departs on the Marine One helicopter for travel to Colombia for the Summit of Americas, from the White House in Washington April 13, 2012. WASHINGTON | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secret Service agents and military personnel took as many as 21 women bac... | The beaches of Cartagena, Colombia with the Hotel Caribe in the background. US Senator said Tuesday US agents and personnel in , Colombia engaged around 21 Colombian women in the sex scandal last week. In addition to the eleven US Secret Service agents currently under investigation, the US military doubled the target o... |
Vacations are what you make of them. But sometimes it can be hard finding a place that covers everyone’s needs. Maybe someone in your party is craving for outdoor adventures while the others might be looking to spend their break relaxing by the pool or at a luxury spa. And, with the challenges we’ve faced in the past y... | Blue Springs, Missouri police say a woman they thought had tried to swallow her cell phone may have been the victim of assault. The cell phone was caught in the woman's throat when police arrived. Her boyfriend claimed she had swallowed it to keep it away from him. Melinda Abell required emergency surgery to remove the... |
AM - Friday, 3 March , 2006 08:12:00 Reporter: Tony Eastley TONY EASTLEY: Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, joins us now on the line from Adelaide. Good morning, Mr Downer. ALEXANDER DOWNER: Morning. TONY EASTLEY: The Prime Minister will visit India next week, do these developments make things a little di... | __NOTOC__ The Australian foreign minister, , has confirmed that Australia will not export to India while it is not a signatory of the (NPT). The confirmation was prompted by a recently announced agreement between India and the United States involving the sale of civilian nuclear technology. Uranium Ore "Well our policy... |
Capt. Richard Phillips remains held hostage by pirates on a disabled lifeboat bobbing in the Indian Ocean apparently is unharmed, according to the shipping company for which he works. (AP Photos) (AP Photos) U.S. warships are trying to stop Somali pirates from sending reinforcements to a lifeboat where an American capt... | According to the head of Kenyan seafarer's program, Somali pirates have hijacked another vessel from the United States. Gulf of Aden, located between Yemen and Somalia, the site of the most recent Pirate hijacking.An American-owned tugboat from Italy along with its 16 member crew was hijacked around 11 am EST on Saturd... |
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Polar bears will now be listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. Scientists predict that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will disappear in the next 50 years. But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should not be "misused"... | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The United States Department of the Interior today listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), due to the melting of Arctic sea ice that is the bears' habitat. The announcement of the listing was made by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. In ma... |
The tremor, whose epicentre was near the island of Simeulue, 319km (198 miles) off the coast of Sumatra, also damaged many buildings, they added. The epicentre was close to that of the earthquake which triggered the 2004 Asian tsunami, killing 200,000 people. Tsunami warning centres initially issued alerts, but later l... | Location of Aceh within Indonesia. The Indonesian province of Aceh was struck by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake at 3:08 PM local time (8:08 AM GMT). The epicentre was 319 km (198 miles) off the coast of Sumatra, close to the island of Simeulue. At least three people have been killed and several buildings have been damaged.... |
José Saramago during the International Spanish Language Congress in Rosario Argentina, 2004. Photograph: Leo La Valle/EPA The Portuguese novelist José Saramago, who explored Portugal's troubled political identity in a series of novels published over the last four decades and won the Nobel prize for literature in 1998, ... | Portuguese writer , winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, died today at his home in at 87. As Saramago Foundation reported, "today, June 18, José Saramago has died at 12:30 at his home in Lanzarote, at 87 years old, as the aftermath of a multiorgan failure, after a prolonged illness." They added that "the writ... |
The Celtics and Timberwolves have agreed on the players to make a Kevin Garnett-to-Boston trade but no deal can be completed until issues with Garnett's contract can be worked out. As the trade currently stands, Boston will send Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair and two first-round... | Kevin Garnett speaking at a press conference in Taiwan in 2006. Citing "league sources," both ''CNN/SI'' and the ''Boston Globe'' are reporting that Kevin Garnett is going to the Boston Celtics in a trade involving at least six players. This transaction in the United States' premier professional basketball league NBA, ... |
Always wondered where Springfield really is? Does anyone really know? Well the folks at 7-Eleven do – in fact they’ve been working very closely with Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. ||||| Customers visiting a dozen 7-Eleven stores in north America have been offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase Buzz Cola, Krusty ... | 7-Eleven store transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart in Seattle, Washington, July 1, 2007. To promote The Simpsons Movie that will be released July 26, 2007, over a dozen 7-Elevens in the United States have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts, the grocery store from the popular TV series. Most of the other 7-Eleven stores will... |
New Orleans' Ninth Ward under water again 9/23/2005, 2:06 p.m. CT By MICHELLE ROBERTS and BRETT MARTEL The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat ... | Rain and the storm surge from Hurricane Rita have overwhelmed one of the fragile levees in New Orleans. The Industrial Canal levee gave way, reflooding parts of the Ninth Ward. There are three significant breaches. "Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard. "We have three signifi... |
Jurors in the year-long Old Bailey trial heard of plans to target a shopping centre, nightclub and the gas network with a giant fertiliser bomb. The judge, Sir Michael Astill, said the men, all British citizens, had "betrayed their country". It has also been revealed some of the plotters met two of the 7 July London su... | Five men were found guilty Monday for their part in an unsuccessful plot to carry out bombings in the UK. The five had been arrested in 2004 in a police raid named Operation Crevice. Two other men arrested and charged at the time were found not guilty. The trial at the Old Bailey criminal court in London took place ove... |
* Benin court says Yayi wins presidential poll * Main challenger declares self as president * Observers give elections thumbs up (Recasts with presidential declaration of Houngbedji) By Samuel Elijah COTONOU, March 21 (Reuters) - Benin became the latest African state to face a disputed presidential election on Monday a... | Boni Yayi taking oath in 2006 Incumbant president has been confirmed as the winner of the 2011 Benin presidental election. The result was announced by the constitutional court. Yayi won by 53% of the vote and will start his second term as president. He has been in power of the west African nation since 2006. , the pres... |
Robert Walker BBC News, South Africa South Africa wants to accelerate the land transfer process The Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister, Lulu Xingwana, said the deadline was necessary to speed up the transfer of farms to black people who were forcibly removed from their land under apartheid. The transfers are part of... | Flag of South Africa The South African government has set a six-month deadline for some white farmers to agree on sale prices for their farms. The government will be requiring them to sell the farms as part of its land redistribution programme. Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana said that if no agreeme... |
Brazil's cabinet chief of staff resigns (Agencies) Updated: 2005-06-17 09:41 A top Cabinet official resigned Thursday over accusations he knew of a vote-buying scheme in Congress, becoming the highest-ranking official hit by a scandal that has shaken President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration. Chief of Staff ... | The Brazilian Minister of Civil Affairs José Dirceu announced this evening his resignation from the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. During his discourse José Dirceu said that he will return to his earlier position as a representative in the national congress allied with the Workers Party. He said tha... |
City economists poured scorn on Treasury forecasts that Britain will rapidly bounce back from its weakest one-year performance since 1945 to record a sustained period of rapid growth from 2011. Despite being forced to downgrade his growth expectations for this year to show a 3.5% drop in gross domestic product, Alistai... | The Rt Hon Alistair Darling, MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, yesterday announced the 2009 budget. The budget is an annual audit of the nation's finances, and decides what should be done with taxpayers' money. The chancellor fell under scorn for his GDP g... |
Dallas Braden’s handful of major league wins grew by one on Sunday. And it was one that will live in the annals of baseball. Braden, an Oakland Athletics left-hander, fired a perfect game against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays in a 4-0 victory. It was the 19th perfect game in major league history and only the 18th victory... | Dallas Braden. , a left-handed pitcher for Major League Baseball's in the United States, became one of only nineteen players in the history of the MLB to pitch a , in a 4-0 win against the . Braden, aged 26, who retired all 27 batters consecutively on 109 pitches, also earned his first career . In the process of throwi... |
Temperatures in the fire reportedly reached 1,000C Enlarge Image All 186 people on board Tam Airlines Flight 3054 died, the airline boss has confirmed, as well as several more on the ground. The plane skidded on Congonhas airport runway as it landed in driving rain. The pilot tried to take off again, but the jet slid a... | Image: Milton Mansilha/Agência Brasil On Tuesday afternoon a TAM Linhas Aéreas Airbus A320 (flight #JJ3054) crashed while attempting a landing at Congonhas airport, in São Paulo Brazil. The plane reportedly skidded off the wet runway, crossed a busy thoroughfare before careening into a fuel depot and warehouse ultimate... |
The official Xinhua News Agency said there were also foetuses among the bodies [CFP] The official Xinhua News Agency said there were also foetuses among the bodies [CFP] Video footage showed that the bodies, stashed in yellow plastic bags and at least one marked "medical waste," included some infants who were several m... | According to media reports, the bodies of 21 infants were found washed ashore along the riverbanks of the Guangfu river in eastern China over the past weekend. They are believed to have been dumped there by hospitals. Local residents found the bodies at the outskirsts of Jining, a city in the province of Shandong, unde... |
POSTED: 8:36 pm PDT April 6, 2005 Caltrans officials said today that the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge is safe despite an FBI investigation into allegations of misconduct involving substandard welding procedures during construction of the new span. Caltrans District 4 Director Bijan Sartipi, who oversees the Bay A... | '''April 7, 2005''' Caltrans'' The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating allegations of wrongdoing in the building of a new $1.5 billion "skyway" portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, according to a report published in the ''Oakland Tribune.'' The bridge spans the San Francisco Bay between Oakland... |
The communications director for Montana's lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire -- with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA -- during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer. Todd Shriber, 28-year-old pres... | Todd J. Shriber has been fired as the communications director for U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), after it was disclosed that he attempted to hire people associated with the website attrition.org to hack into his former university, Texas Christian University, to have his GPA grades raised. Once his superiors learned of... |
GO TO EARLIER STORY GO TO THE NEWS INDEX GO TO NEXT STORY Webber hails 'incredible' maiden F1 win By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde Mark Webber hailed his maiden grand prix victory as incredible after the Red Bull Racing driver put an end to a streak of 130 win-less races. The Australian overcame a drive-through pen... | Mark Webber at the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix Mark Webber gained his maiden Formula 1 win today at the German Grand Prix, after 130 races. His Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel came in second, with Ferrari's Felipe Massa third. Reigning champion Lewis Hamilton came last. Webber started from pole position, but touched Ru... |
UK STEM CELL FOUNDATION FUNDS HEART REPAIR PROJECT A pioneering research project aimed at reducing the number of fatalities and suffering of heart attack patients was announced by the UK Stem Cell Foundation today. For the first time heart attack patients are to have their own stem cells injected into their hearts with... | coronary arteries, and results in damage to the tissue of the heart. "Hardening" of the vessels (or atherosclerosis) is the main reason that the vessels become blocked. Risk factors are elevated cholesterol, obesity, smoking and high blood pressure. Therapy with stem cells (''e.g.'' for diseases like heart attack and s... |
Posted by JP on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 15:29 House Republican leader Tom Cross has sent a letter to the governor asking him to order a special session on legislative redistricting. Specifically, Cross wants a vote on a specific proposal that, if approved by Illinois voters, would have a lawmaker-appointed committee draw pol... | Illinois state capitol building. The Fair Map Amendment, a citizen-led initiative in Illinois to reform the state constitution's procedures on legislative redistricting, may not gather enough signatures to be presented before voters during the next election. As of last Friday, organizers have collected only 120,000 of... |
http:// https:// ftp:// smtp:// pop3:// imap:// ssh:// telnet:// dns:// custom:// Test any website in real-time and see if it is accessible from China. The Golden Shield Project (a.k.a. Great Firewall of China) is owned by the Government of China (MPS) and started in 1998. The system blocks content by preventing IP add... | The logo of the Chinese Wikipedia ''Wikinews'' has confirmed that the unblocking of the Chinese Wikipedia in China has probably been extended to cover the whole of China. Ting Chen, who is currently the community elected board member of the Wikimedia Foundation, said at 09:54 (UTC) today on Wikimedia’s foundation-l ma... |
March 01, 2007 An illicit steroid distribution network, which may be responsible for Internet sales of performance-enhancing drugs nationwide, has been targeted by an upstate New York prosecutor. Customers reportedly included Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr., former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfiel... | A steroid distribution network exposed by a New York prosecutor is reported to have connections to a number of high-profile professional athletes, including retired boxer Evander Holyfield and current Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gary Matthews, Jr. Federal agents raided two pharmacies in Florida and Alabama which were... |
Five teenage boys have appeared in court accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in a park in Greater Manchester. The teenager was attacked in Queen's Park, close to Bolton town centre, in the early hours of Thursday. The five boys, all aged between 13 and 17, were arrested on Friday and appeared in two sittings at Bolton... | Five boys have been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in a park in Greater Manchester, England. The boys, who are aged 13–17 years old, are alleged to have attacked the schoolgirl in Queen's Park close to Bolton town centre in the early hours of Thursday morning. Police were called at around 01:00 BST on that day.... |
A car makes it way down a street flooded by the rain from Tropical Storm Fay in Melbourne, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. Enlarge By John Raoux, AP Residents of the Groveland Mobile Home park walk down a street flooded by rain from Tropical Storm Fay in Melbourne, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21. VIDEO: FLA. IS WITNESSING HIST... | Snakes and alligators have been forced out onto Florida streets in the United States as continues to flood the state, breaking the region's two-year drought. The storm has already left over two feet of rain along Florida's central Atlantic coast with more still to come. About 60,000 homes have lost power and schools ha... |
BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao Monday asked local governments to spare no effort to save miners trapped in a coal mine by a gas explosion Monday in northeast China's Liaoning Province. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice Premier Huang Ju also instructed local officials to rescue the victims... | Fuxin city (阜新市; pinyin: Fùxīn shì) – An underground explosion in a mine in China's northeastern Liaoning Province has left over 200 miners dead. Current figures say 203 miners were killed, and another 22 were injured with 13 miners still missing. The blast occurred at 3:49pm local time on Monday afternoon. The explosi... |
Actress Anna Friel promoted 3's UK mobile phone service Pre-tax, pre-exceptional losses totalled 37.5bn Hong Kong dollars ($4.8bn; £2.5bn), as 3 spent more than US$1bn on winning new customers. The firm made a HK$19.6bn ($2.5bn) pre-tax, pre-exceptional loss in 2003 when it only traded for seven months. The firm, owned... | 3, the 3G mobile phone firm owned by Hong Kong based Hutchison Whampoa has reported pre-tax, pre-exceptional losses of HK$37.5bn (US$4.8bn/€3.7bn) for 2004. This compares with losses of HK$19.6bn (US$2.5/€1.94bn) in 2003 when the company was only in operation for seven months. Despite the losses, Hutchison Whampoa chai... |
Libya had been in talks with Russia for several days Russia is to supply Libya with small-arms and other weapons to the value of $1.8bn (£1.1bn, 1.3bn euros), Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced. The contract is worth nearly a quarter of the Russian state arms exporter's entire sales last year, which were put a... | Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced today that the country will supply US$1.8bn (€1.3bn) worth of weapons to Libya. The deal, which will include small-arms and other weapons, is worth almost a quarter of last year's arms exports. The deal was signed on Friday, during a meeting with Libyan defence minister A... |
Hitting back at reports that he waited for Bahrain’s rulers to call off next month’s season-opening race so that he would not miss out on the staging fee, Ecclestone claimed that he is not charging them a penny. Although FOM’s commercial contracts are normally a closely guarded secret, the 80 year-old said that inaccur... | left A week after Sunni and Shi'ite youth protesters marched on the capital city of Manama, the Bahrain government informed Formula One Management that it would withdraw from hosting the . The decision was made in an effort to focus on the pressing national issues facing the country. Demonstrators, who are still holdin... |
Fidesz supporters waved banners reading 'Thank you Hungary' after the party's win on Sunday [AFP] Fidesz supporters waved banners reading 'Thank you Hungary' after the party's win on Sunday [AFP] The National Election Office said Fidesz was projected to have won 263 seats in the 386-seat legislature with 98.1 per cent ... | Viktor Orbán, leader of Fidesz, is expected to take office as Prime Minister. , the conservative Hungarian party, has won a two-thirds majority in , according to official results. With about 99% of all votes counted, Fidesz is projected to have won 263 seats in the 386-seat parliament, ending eight years of Socialist g... |
Thailand (red) and Iraq failed to earn full three points in their opening match of the 2007 Asian Cup. (Photo: AP) Nhan Dan Online – Co-hosts Thailand shared points with Iraq in their opening match of the 2007 Asian Cup, drawing 1-1 at the Rajamangala national stadium, Bangkok, on July 7. Sutee Suksomkit opened the sco... | Opening ceremony fireworks at Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok. The 2007 AFC Asian Cup has begun in South-East Asia, with Thailand drawing 1-1 with Iraq in the opening match of the tournament. The Asian Cup is the premier international competition for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The 2007 tournament will run fro... |
PM - Thursday, 16 February , 2006 18:34:00 Reporter: Barney Porter MARK COLVIN: If bird-flu makes the jump from avian disease to human pandemic, 1.4 million people could die. And that's the best case scenario. A new Australian economic study says in the worst case, bird flu would kill 140 million people worldwide. For ... | Two Australian researchers at the Australian National University estimate that a global pandemic of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu could kill between 1.4 and 140 million humans and cause a global recession. They will formally present their research to the Lowy Institute in Sydney today. Professor Warwick McKibbin, ... |
Smokers invite to test vaccine against nicotine addiction UCSF enrolls patients for phase II of "proof of principle" trial of nicotine blocking vaccine Called NicVax, the investigational vaccine is being developed by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals to prevent and treat nicotine addiction and to help people quit smoking. Normal... | University of California, San Francisco Tobacco users are being invited by the University of California, San Francisco's Habit Abatement Clinic to test NicVax, a new vaccine being developed by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals. Tobacco users may be test subjects under the condition that they are at least 18 years old and willing... |
A number of factors have lifted oil prices to $94 a barrel US light crude ended the trading session up $4.15 to $94.53 a barrel, while London Brent traded at $90.63 a barrel, up $3.19. The US government's figures showed that domestic crude stocks fell by 3.9 million barrels last week. Analysts had forecast an increase ... | Another record has been set in crude oil prices. The price of oil soared past US$94.00 a barrel. New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) crude oil for December delivery closed at US$94.23 per barrel, after peaking at $94.74, the highest price on record. In after hours trading futures have crossed over the $95.00 per barre... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement The US and Israel have condemned Iran after it test-fired a long range missile capable of reaching Tel Aviv. Iran state media said nine missiles had been fired in total, including a new Shahab-3, with a range of 2,000km (1,240 miles). Tehran ha... | The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard has conducted a missile test exercise, in which nine missiles of three different types were launched simultaneously. The exercise, known as Great Prophet III was conducted early this morning from an undisclosed location near to the Strait of Hormuz. One of the missiles launched w... |
Mr Roubini, the economist who predicted the financial crisis, told daily paper Diario Economico it is "increasingly likely" Portugal will require international assistance. He said the country is approaching "a critical point" due to it high debt load and weak growth and there were ample funds to shore up Portugal, one ... | said that it is becoming "increasingly likely" that Portugal will need international monetary assistance. American economist has said that Portugal should consider seeking a because of its weak growth and high amount of debt. Roubini made the comments to the newspaper. He said that it is becoming "increasingly likely" ... |
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Scientology branded a 'criminal organisation' and may face charges THE Church of Scientology has been branded a criminal organisation by a Belgian prosecutor, who has recommended it stands trial for fraud and extortion. WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY BELIEVE The Los Angeles-based movement, whose members include the films s... | The federal prosecution in Belgium has finished an investigation into the activities of the Scientology Church in the country, and is planning to file a lawsuit against the Belgian and European sections of the religious movement, and 14 individual members. The inquiry began in 1999 after some former members accused Sci... |
VOTERS will be urged to demand a bigger dividend from the resources boom in a union campaign aimed at putting more pressure on Labor and the Coalition to abandon migration agreements at mammoth mining and gas projects. The advertising campaign steps up calls to protect Australian jobs from "cheap foreign imports" as we... | The (UNHCR) echoed criticism from other human rights groups yesterday as its new report called on Australia to cease the of holding in an uncertain status in its offshore facilities. The UNHCR spent three days in January at an Australian facility located on , Papua New Guinea. Following Australian mandatory policy, the... |
000 WTNT32 KNHC 260234 TCPAT2 BULLETIN Post-Tropical Cyclone Epsilon Advisory Number 29 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL272020 300 AM GMT Mon Oct 26 2020 ...EPSILON BECOMES A POWERFUL POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE OVER THE NORTH ATLANTIC... ...THIS WILL BE THE LAST NHC ADVISORY ON EPSILON... SUMMARY OF 300 AM GMT...03... | Hurricane Bertha is expected to become a Category 2 storm, possibly later today. became the first hurricane of the Monday, after strengthening from a overnight. As of 11:00 am , the hurricane is located in the mid-Atlantic ocean, about 775 miles east of the , according to the in , Florida. It has maximum sustained wind... |
As traditional radio battles for ear-share of the iPod generation, one of America's largest radio companies is to adopt a format that allows any listener to create a podcast and upload it to the station. Infinity Broadcasting says that its "All Podcast" format "is going to give voice to your vision." The station doesn'... | Infinity broadcasting, one of the largest radio companies in the U.S.A., announced its KYOU Radio, the world's first-ever podcasting radio station, began broadcasting on Monday, May 16 at 9:00 a.m., ET. The podcasts will also be available on San Francisco's KYCY-AM at 1550 AM. The new format allows any listener to crea... |
Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 10, 2005; Page A01 The Bush administration has decided to pull out of an international agreement that opponents of the death penalty have used to fight the sentences of foreigners on death row in the United States, officials said yesterday. In a two-paragraph letter dated Ma... | In a two-paragraph letter from Condoleezza Rice to Kofi Annan, the United States has left the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations Concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes. This treaty, which the United States remains within, gives foreign citizens the right to demand that they see ... |
Mr Bush played on his reputation for muddling his words Enlarge Image Playing up to his public persona, Mr Bush sent himself up alongside impersonator, Steve Bridges. "Let's [get] things going," said Mr Bridges imitating Mr Bush, "or I'll never get to bed". The real Mr Bush spoke of spreading his agenda "globally and a... | On Saturday, April, 29, 2006, US President appeared alongside impersonator to deliver a self-lampooning comedy act at the Dinner. The annual event is well known for its evening lineup of fun-filled theatrics, attended by politicians and people from the media and entertainment industries. In his double-act with Bridges,... |
/ Front page / News Update: 10:34AM FORMER military commander and Speaker of the House of Representatives Ratu Epeli Nailatikau was sworn in as vice-president today. In a brief ceremony at Government House slightly after 10am, Ratu Epeli took the Oath of Allegiance. The appointment follows the gazetting of the eighth d... | Interim minister for Indigenous Affairs Ratu has been appointed by Fiji's military regime. Nailatikau, a former military commander, and Minister in the military regime, was sworn in at Government House this morning. He will continue to hold his portfolios in the interim Cabinet. The appointment follows the promulgation... |
Assured of victory, Melbourne failed to provide the same amount of polish in the second half and could not manage the additional goal needed to equal the A-League record winning margin of five goals. Allsopp fired off several long-range attempts to try to secure a hat-trick, but they were comfortably saved by NZ keeper... | Melbourne Victory has won the 2006-07 A-League football (soccer) premiership after defeating New Zealand Knights 4-0 at Olympic Park, Melbourne. The win takes Melbourne to 41 points, 13 ahead of Sydney FC in second place, with only four games remaining in the regular season. This makes it mathematically impossible for ... |
ITV wrong over psychic claim repeat ITV2 breached standards with a repeat of the Montel Williams Show in which a "desperate" couple were told by a psychic their missing son was dead - even though he turned up alive last year, Ofcom has ruled. The episode was originally shown in the US in 2003 and saw the presenter inte... | This week the United Kingdom's Ofcom ruled that ITV2 "breached standards" with a repeat of The Montel Williams Show in which Pam and Craig Akers asked "psychic" Sylvia Browne where their son, Shawn Hornbeck, was. Browne told the Akers their son was dead and his body "was in a wooded area near two boulders," but he was ... |
The British Foreign Office is advising Britons against all but essential travel to Kenya because of the violence following the disputed presidential elections. As Tendai Maphosa reports from London the warning and the violence are cutting into Kenya's lucrative tourism industry, which relies heavily on European tourist... | The British Foreign Office is advising Britons against all but essential travel to Kenya because of the violence following the disputed presidential elections. The warning and the violence are heavily affecting Kenya's tourism industry, which relies heavily on European tourists escaping the winter cold. The travel warn... |
Thousands of flag-waving supporters, including key figures in the newly elected government, gathered at Bangkok's main airport to greet him. Mr Thaksin was taken straight to court to face charges of abuse of power during his time in office - charges he insists are politically motivated. He was granted bail and told not... | Thaksin Shinawatra during his time in office. Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, has returned to his country after being deposed 17 months ago in a military coup d'état. Within minutes of landing in Bangkok, he was arrested on corruption charges by immigration police, though Thaksin proclaims hi... |
Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive, has resigned after 11 days of mounting political pressure over the phone-hacking scandal. Brooks announced her decision to News International staff in Wapping just before 10am on Friday, saying her resignation had been accepted by Rupert and James Murdoch. She sai... | Logo of the News International group , the chief executive of , has resigned after two weeks of growing pressure over allegations of phone hacking at British tabloid newspaper the ''''. “I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to hav... |
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Reeling Raptors drop sixth game in a row Not as shorthanded, not as overwhelmed, not nearly as bad, but the end result would be the same. Even with Pascal Siakam and Fred VanVleet back following time on the COVID-19 healthy and safety protocol, the deficiencies plaguing this team were once again exposed by the Detroit ... | Camp Wainwright, Alberta, Canada. The 55th Canadian soldier was killed in Afghanistan, when a large roadside bomb exploded. The blast killed Matthew J. McCully, 25, from Orangeville, Ontario on Friday at approximately 8:00 a.m. local time. Another Canadian soldier and an Afghan interpreter are in stable condition after... |
Mission Status Center By Justin Ray Welcome to Spaceflight Now's live coverage of space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. ||||| Space shuttle Discovery launches on final flight Launch... | The launched on its final mission, ''(crew pictured)'', today. Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches on the STS-133 mission. (Video: NASA) At 4:53 p.m. (), took off from the in Florida on its final mission, . Its mission is to deliver and install onto the International Space Station (ISS), the , the and provide critical... |
Final 'Star Wars' film leaked to the Internet Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS By Adam Pasick LONDON (Reuters) - The final chapter of the "Star Wars" saga has gone over to the Internet's dark side. "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" has been leaked onto a major file-sharing network just hours after o... | Hours after the premiere, files purporting to be computer-viewable copies of the movie ''Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith'' were available on internet filesharing networks. The film, which is one of the years most eagerly anticipated, has already been downloaded by over 16,000 people through the BitTorrent file-shari... |
Melbourne, Oct 20 (ANI): A teenage hacker, belonging to underground group ‘Anonymous’, has confessed to have hacked Church of Scientology websites, say justice officials. According to the Justice Department, Dmitriy Guzner, 18, of New Jersey will plead guilty to computer hacking, reports News.com.au. He was accused of ... | Members of Anonymous protesting against Scientology A teenager, belonging to the anti-scientology group Anonymous, has admitted that he launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the official website of the Church of Scientology, scientology.org. Dmitriy Guzner, aged 18, will admit to the charges related... |
Interaktiv-Box Video: UCLA Gewalt (Quelle: YouTube) Story-Tools Story verschicken | drucken Top-Storys Brutale Polizei: Elektroschocks für vergesslichen Studenten Letzten Dienstag setzten mehrere Campus-Polizisten der Uni von Kalifornien UCLA ihren Elektro-Taser gegen den amerikanisch-iranischen Studenten Mostafa Tabat... | UCLA police tasered a student who repeatedly refused to show ID while the officers were making a usual 11:00PM safety sweep of a campus library. Tasers are meant to be non-lethal weapons which immobilize people by discharging an electrical charge into their bodies. Their use has been considered controversial. A stateme... |
A female reporter was also injured in the Baghdad attack Cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, died when the US military unit they were based with came under attack in Baghdad. On Sunday two members of the Queen's Dragoon Guards were killed and two injured by a roadside bomb in Basra. Nine UK servi... | A roadside bomb in the Iraq capital Baghdad has killed four people, including two journalists working for television network CBS. The two journalists, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, both British, were embedded with the American 4th Infantry Division and were on a routine patrol when a nearby car pack... |
Baseball great Kirby Puckett dies Twins Hall of Famer's death comes one day after stroke (CNN) -- Baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, who helped lead the Minnesota Twins to World Series titles in 1987 and 1991, died Monday after suffering a stroke over the weekend, the team announced. He was 45. Puckett was in a Phoe... | Kirby Puckett, a former professional baseball player and Minnesota Twins legend, died Monday afternoon, March 6, in a Phoenix, Arizona, hospital, one day after suffering a stroke and undergoing emergency surgery for the resultant cerebral hemorrhage. He was 45 years old. The Hall of Fame center fielder, whose .318 care... |
The Wikipedia Foundation hopes to sell an English version of Wikipedia on CD-ROM and DVD before the end of the year. Jimmy Wales, the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that there is still a lot of work to be done before it can be put on disk, but he expects it to be available by the end of... | Directmedia Publishing, a German publishing house founded in 1995 that specializes in digital media, announced the release of a DVD of the German Wikipedia earlier this week. The DVD may be purchased online (via sites like Amazon.de) for around 10 Euros, and a free download of the DVD image will be available in a few d... |
At 10am today Lieutenant Colonel Reg Guille opened the door of the island hall on Sark and quietly ushered in the end of more than 400 years of feudal rule. Under the watchful eye of Guille, the judge and returning officer on this tiny Channel island, along with a healthy selection of the world's press, Roger Olsen was... | An aerial view of Sark Voters in the small Channel Island of Sark, a Crown dependency of the British Crown, have voted in their first democratic election, bringing an end to almost 4½ centuries of feudal rule. Voting in the election opened at 10:00 local time (UTC) today, and closed at 18:00. The result is expected to ... |
Former Sen. Tom Daschle, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Health and Human Services, speaks to the media after a closed session meeting with the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Obama takes blame in Daschle, Killefer controversy WAS... | On Tuesday, United States President Barack Obama saw two of his cabinet nominations withdraw from consideration after issues with their taxes became public knowledge. Tom Daschle, official portrait Former Senator Tom Daschle from South Dakota withdrew after it was revealed he failed to pay US$128,203 in taxes. He has s... |
Why did this happen? Please make sure your browser supports JavaScript and cookies and that you are not blocking them from loading. For more information you can review our Terms of Service and Cookie Policy. ||||| Why did this happen? Please make sure your browser supports JavaScript and cookies and that you are not bl... | Andrews Air Force Base on April 22, 2000. The Associated Press is reporting that Elián González was among the 18,000 youths who joined Cuba's Young Communist Union on Saturday. ''Juventud Rebelde'', the communist youth newspaper, quoted González as saying that he will never let down ex-president Fidel Castro and his br... |
Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday unveiled a collaborative effort to promote Sun’s open-source software, a move that will make it easier for users to freely obtain Sun’s Java Runtime Environment, the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, the companies said at an afternoon news conference... | On Tuesday, Google and Sun Microsystems announced that they are working to get software such as Google Toolbar and OpenOffice.org (both products of Google and Sun Microsystems, respectively) more widely available. The companies stated that this collaboration will make software by each respective company more enhanced. ... |
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Pol Pot’s chief torturer took the stand on Monday, charged with crimes against humanity in the first trial of a top Khmer Rouge cadre 30 years after the end of a regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia. Chief Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, stands between his law... | 17,000 people are thought to have died at S-21. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the chief of the Khmer Rouge's infamous S-21 prison, heard charges read against him by judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday. A former maths teacher, Duch, age 66, is one of five Khmer Rouge l... |
Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Comment is free blog Newsblog Sport blog arts & entertainment blog Podcasts ---------------------- Archive search Arts and entertainment Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Environment Film Football Jobs Life and health MediaGuardian.co.uk Money Music The Observer Po... | == Pentagon's Strategic Support Teams Spark Controversy == A recent article in the Washington Post revealed the existence of a new type of battlefield intelligence group, referred to by the Pentagon as "Strategic Support Teams". The military in the field are using these units to improve their intelligence gathering cap... |
The second of two Irish Catholic priests has been sentenced to prison today in a case involving the misappropriation of more than $8 million from a church in Florida. Fr Francis Guinan and Fr John Skehan were accused in 2006 of skimming money from collection plates and bequests at their church in Delray Beach, Florida,... | Delray Beach, Florida. Two Roman Catholic Church priests in the United States, were sentenced to prison for theft. They were convicted of stealing over US$8 million from St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach, Florida. Retired Monsignor John A. Skehan and Reverend Francis B. Guinan were accused in 2006 of m... |
Air Marshal Shiri is the first senior figure to be targeted for many years The commander of Zimbabwe's air force has been wounded in what officials are calling an assassination attempt. Perence Shiri, 53, a close ally of President Mugabe, seen as one of the most feared military leaders, was shot in the arm and is said ... | Air Marshal Shiri is one of Mugabe's (pictured) closest allies. The chief of the Zimbabwe Air Force has been shot in the arm in an apparent assassination attempt. Air Marshal Perence Shiri, 53, is recovering in a local hospital. Officials blame the incident on terrorists and political opponents. They also say that the ... |
Michelle Rhee, who made a reputation for being a firebrand reformer, resigned from her job as head of the D.C. Public Schools today, a casualty of a bitterly fought mayoral race. The chancellor is working to improve the district's "crappy" education system. Though Rhee and her take-no-prisoners education reforms were n... | Michelle Rhee in 2008 , the controversial chancellor of Washington, D.C.'s , announced her resignation on Wednesday. Rhee, who has held the position for over three years, will be replaced by Deputy Chancellor Kaya Henderson at the end of this month. Rhee, aged 40, chose to step down after current Washington, D.C. Mayor... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A spokesman for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has rejected Western criticism of the country's disputed presidential run-off election. At an African Union summit in Egypt, George Charamba said the West had no basis to speak about the situation - and can ... | George Charamba, a spokesperson for the widely criticized leader of Zimbabwe, has said that critics of the situation in the country should "go hang a thousand times". At a press conference today Chambera was asked whether a national unity government, like that in Kenya, should be formed in Zimbabwe. He answered by sayi... |
Heavy rain hits SW Sichuan; 22 dead, 7 missing (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2009-07-28 11:49 People mudslide in Miyi County, Panzhihua City, southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday July 27, 2009. [Xinhua] walk onin Miyi County, Panzhihua City, southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday July 27, 2009. [Xinhua] Heavy ra... | Heavy rains and flooding hit Miyi County in Panzhihua, in the southwestern part of Sichuan Province, in China on Sunday killing 22 people. Thirty-eight others were injured and at least 7 others are still missing. Sichuang Province, in China The strong storm dropped 177 mm of rain between 21:50 on July 26 and 8:00 a.m. ... |
Larry Birkhead was steaming mad, but Howard K. Stern was quicker on the trigger. Anna Nicole Smith's former paramour filed a $60 million libel lawsuit Tuesday against journalist Rita Cosby, alleging that her tell-all, Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death, is riddled with false information,... | According to court papers, the attorney and partner of now deceased Anna Nicole Smith, Howard K. Stern has filed a lawsuit against a former FOX News Channel and MSNBC news anchor Rita Cosby for "assault, libel and slander." Cosby's publisher Grand Central Publishing, also known as Hachette Book Group USA is also named ... |
Mr Putin said the US overstepped its borders in every way Washington's "very dangerous" approach to global relations was fuelling a nuclear arms race, he told a security summit in Munich. Correspondents say the strident speech may signal a more assertive Russia. The White House said it was "surprised and disappointed" ... | Russian President Vladimir Putin heavily criticized the United States in a speech at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy Saturday for what he called its "almost uncontained" use of force in the world. Russian President, Vladimir Putin Putin also criticized US plans for missile defense systems and NATO's expan... |
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been detained by police during campaigning for the country's presidential election, his party says. A convoy carrying the Movement for Democratic Change leader was stopped at a police roadblock at 1000 GMT, pa... | According to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party in Zimbabwe, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been detained by police after they stopped his convoy. The MDC convoy transporting Tsvangirai was stopped by a roadblock at 10:00 UTC north of Bulawayo. Tsvangiarai and his people have been taken to a police... |
Mersey takeover a vote-buying ploy: Brown Updated Greens Senator Bob Brown says the Federal Government's plan to takeover a hospital in Tasmania is an attempt to buy votes. Earlier in the week, Prime Minister John Howard announced a $45 million package to improve health services at Mersey Hospital near Devonport, in Ta... | Ever since the Federal Government stepped in to take over funding of the Mersey hospital in Devonport, Tasmania, the state government and some federal MPs have criticised this act as a stunt in the prelude to the federal election to be called by November. But Prime Minister John Howard has said the act was only to safe... |
Google's Maps Street View service pilots indoor photos An Australian chocolate shop is one of the first retailers to sign up to the service Continue reading the main story Related Stories Google has started a pilot project allowing the public to look inside shops and other businesses found on its maps. The feature is a... | Internet giant Google has begun a pilot program, allowing users of its "" service to look inside businesses. This tool is aimed to further the controversial feature which already allows the public to access 360° images of streets. A spokesman for Google described the new feature: "Building on the Google Art Project, wh... |
Suspected al Qaeda militants killed nearly 200 people in a wave of car bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday, including one that was the single deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital since the 2003 US-led invasion. The bombings were by far the bloodiest in Baghdad since US and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown two m... | Several car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq have killed 190 people on Wednesday and wounded over 200 others in what is being reported as the worst string of bombings to occur in Iraq since 2003 when the United States invaded the nation. One bomb in the Sadriyah market in Baghdad killed at least 140 people. 150 others were wound... |
Analysis The mayor is dependent on the central government for most of their funds, so how much power do they really have? ||||| With his $700 billion financial recovery plan teetering on Capitol Hill, President Bush finally decided that it was time to start selling the proposal directly to the American people. After ce... | United States President George W. Bush addressed the nation on the economic financial crisis from inside the White House saying the economic situation is "serious" and is "in danger" of becoming "a long and painful recession." President Bush spoke to the nation in the East Room of the White House "We are in the midst o... |
The sale of Saturn to Nissan-Renault could see cars like this Mégane Renault Sport roaming U.S. streets. The rumor mill keeps churning out new and exciting candidates interested in buying GM’s Saturn brand. The most recent speculation is that Nissan/Renault might be interested. The Wall Street Journal is reporting the ... | , an -based investment group and Telesto Ventures have indicated separately that they are interested in purchasing the from (GM). According to '''', - is interested in purchasing Saturn. , however, indicated that Nissan-Renault may be a partner of Penske's potential bid. If Penske acquired the brand, they would distri... |
Sevilla completed a 4-3 aggregate victory over Tottenham after a thrilling 2-2 draw at White Hart Lane to reach the semi-finals of the Uefa Cup. Spurs were left with a mountain to climb in the opening ten minutes as Sevilla added to their 2-1 lead from the first leg with an own goal from Steed Malbranque and a fine Fre... | The second leg of the UEFA Cup quarter-final's occurred Thursday, with three Spanish teams looking to progress to the semi-finals. Osasuna was in the best position to advance after their 3-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the first leg in Germany. Sevilla and Espanyol also held the upper hand going into their matches... |
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