 Terror principal Dulmatin shot down in Jakarta Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital,... | |
 Israeli settlement announcement riles BidenUS Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east... |
 Apology issued to Libyan leader by USThe US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar... |
 Letterman blackmailer pleads guilty to get off lightlyA former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television... |
 Prisoners allegedly raped by corrupt officialsTop prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting... |
 Senegal homosexuals condemned on all sidessenegal, africa,... |
 Mugabe changes unity government ministersZimbabwe's Unity Government has suffered what might be a fatal blow at the hands of President Robert... |
 Thai government says Thaksin supporters must not include migrantsThailand has warned it will imprison migrant workers who attend anti-government rallies scheduled for this weekend in... |
 Iraq election officials count votesWith vote counting underway in Iraq, officials have said their work is being complicated by the large number of overseas votes coming... |
 Gadahn still at large in PakistanAn American-born al-Qaeda spokesman, Adam Gadahn, who was supposedly captured in Pakistan over the weekend, has escaped an intelligence dragnet after... |
 US Vice President in Middle East for peace overturesUS Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Monday to take part in a high-level peace... |
 Drugs the issue in Iran/US meetingAt a meeting in Vienna, the United States has told Iran it would be happy to work with the country on a drug eradication... |
 Half a million Ugandans in government relocationUganda has told 300,000 people living on the slopes of Mount Elgon they will be immediately moved because of the risk of... |
 Turkey earthquake flattens homesEastern Turkey was struck by a 6.0-magnitude quake on Monday, killing 51... |
 Gay senator pushed rights issue awayA California state senator has come out as a homosexual after many years as a staunch opponent of gay... |
 Real life imitates violent art in cinemaA man attending a movie in a US cinema has been stabbed after asking a woman to turn off he... |
| Citigroup Reportedly Agrees To Sell Real Estate Investment Unit To Apollo Global Management - Update News ) reportedly agreed Tuesday to sell its real-estate investment business Citi Property Investors under Citi Holdings, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC. The unit has about 65... |
| Main Street Capital Q4 Loss Widens - Update News ) reported a net realized loss for the fourth quarter that widened from the year-ago period, hurt by a wider net realized loss from investments and a 7% decline in investment income. The... |
| U.S. Woman Accused In Terrorist Plot It was not immediately clear if the case was linked to alleged terrorist threats to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over his 2007 drawing of the Prophet... |
| Biden Condemns Israeli Settlement Plans Israel announced plans to build 1,600 more homes on land Palestinians claim for a future state during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Jerusalem. Biden met March 9 with Israeli Prime Minister... |
| Group: One-Third Of World’s Jailed Journalists In Iran Iranian authorities have detained dozens of journalists since unrest broke out over the disputed reelection of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in June,... |
| Delays on Arms Control Pact Bog Down U.S. Efforts to Reset Relations With Russia Russia last month, he was under the impression that they were finally close to wrapping up a long-delayed arms control treaty that he had originally expected to sign in... |
| City OKs Berkeley Carroll plan The city this week approved the expansionist plans of a Park Slope private school, a controversial scheme that vexed some residents who fear the new building will catalyze the very dissolution of the... |
| Pennsylvania Woman Tied to Plot on Cartoonist WASHINGTON — A Pennsylvania woman who called herself JihadJane was tied Tuesday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad atop the body of... |
| Farrah Fawcett Oscars memorial omission defended by the Academy The Academy Awards row over a perceived snub to Farah Fawcett showed no sign of abating late Tuesday, with an Oscars chief defending the decision to omit the late Charlie's Angels" star from the... |
| Flu Shots in Children Can Help Community flu shots to schoolchildren protects a whole community from the disease. Although previous studies have demonstrated what scientists call... |
| POLITICS: U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Web Services WASHINGTON, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - After U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's January address on the role of internet freedom in U.S. foreign policy, the Barack Obama administration appears to be... |
| Haitians wary of US military reduction PORT-AU-PRINCE: A US Navy hospital ship was recalled from Haiti Tuesday as the US military cut its emergency deployment to the quake-hit nation, where aid efforts are now turning to reconstruction.... |
| Red tape in Kabul hinders success Kabul ," says the report, released last week. The embassy "faces serious challenges in meeting the administration's deadline for 'success' in Afghanistan," it... |
| Iraqi parties both claim lead in election BAGHDAD (AP) The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S.... |
| Toyota faced with 2 more cases of runaway Priuses Toyota sought to contain the fallout from a California sudden-acceleration case involving a Prius, another driver's out-of-control Prius slammed into a stone wall in New York on... |
| Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from election The Political Parties Registration Law, published in official newspapers, excludes anyone convicted by a court of law from participating in the... |
| Health care ad cyclorama to clog airwaves WASHINGTON It's not quite election season, but President Obama is on the stump, pushing his health care bill. Now, millions of dollars in political ads aimed at swaying Congress are hitting... |
| China may ban eating dogs, cats Guangzhou, China (CNN) -- Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if... |
| Opinion: Gays have right to privacy, too Supreme Court was not so hands-off in gay-marriage-related cases. Twice, the court intervened in cases in which active opponents of gay marriage, in California and Washington, have claimed that their... |
| Leaping off the page - Belgian paper prints '3D edition' A Belgian French-language daily has issued what is thought to be Europe's first 3D newspaper - complete with cardboard viewing glasses.All the photos and ads in La Derniere Heure's (DH) special... |
| Formal Suu Kyi ban in Burma poll Burma's military rulers have issued a law which will bar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in planned elections.The new law prohibits anyone with a a criminal conviction from... |
| More schools likely to be failed More schools are being judged inadequate under a new inspection regime, figures from England's schools watchdog are expected to show.Ofsted introduced a new framework in September 2009 which requires... |
| Ring may be giant 'impact crater' Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say.The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered... |
| Britain protests to US over Falklands BRITISH diplomats have expressed serious concerns to the US State Department at least three times over Washington's response to the latest dispute over the Falkland... |
| Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius LOS ANGELES/DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker... |
| Obama backs bipartisan crackdown on healthcare cheats President Barack Obama welcomes El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes (not shown) to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 8,... |
| J. Roberts: State of the Union "Troubling" President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address Jan. 27, 2010. In a question-and-answer session with law students March 9, 2010 Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called Obama's... |
| Insurance icon 'Flo' all smiles You might not recognize Stephanie Courtney even if you were riding in a cramped elevator with her. This despite the fact that she's on TV more than Neil Patrick Harris and Ellen DeGeneres combined. ... |
| Marlin Jackson Visits, Could Be Your FS As I mentioned in the paper today (buy one, it's an incredible value), Jason Avant's agents also handle Marlin Jackson, the Colts CB/safety who will visit NovaCare after stopping by Baltimore today.... |
| Massa denies sexually groping male staffer By Andrew Miga ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was... |
| Rolling thunder: Motorcyclist makes big noise in robbery The victim told police that he had just come home after eating dinner and had parked his car on East 95th Street between avenues L and M at 9:15 p.m. on February 26 when the three unidentified males... |
| Judge gets tossed from 44th District City Council race Amid alleged dirty politics, Republican candidate Jonathan Judge was thrown off the ballot Tuesday for the special 44th District City Council election.State Supreme Court Judge Larry Martin ruled... |
| Angered by U.S. Security, Pakistanis Return as Heroes ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A tour of the United States arranged by the State Department to improve ties to Pakistani legislators ended in a public relations fiasco when the members of the group... |
| Butcher shop shooting solved Butcher shooter bustedInvestigators have arrested one of the men allegedly responsible for last year’s shooting at Romeo Brothers Meats and Foods.Prosecutors said that 36-year-old Andrew Gibson... |
