Las Vegas in the red
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The normally decadent desert town is beginning to feel the pinch as the credit crisis hits hard.
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McCanns’ fresh hope as Maddy leads are passed on
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Kate and Gerry McCann
have been given fresh hope of a breakthrough in the search for their missing
daughter Madeleine after police agreed to give them access to some of their
files on the case.
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White House Is Sorry for Biography Gaffe
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TOYAKO, Japan (July - Sorry about that, Silvio.
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Black Tuesday as FTSE plummets, bank shares tumble and Britain faces recession 'within months'
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Britain was facing a deepening economic crisis today as the FTSE plunged into a so-called ‘bear market’ for the first time in five years and a series of reports laid bare the full extent of the problems facing the nation’s economy.
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Eat as we say, not as we do - a rich answer to hunger
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World leaders are not renowned for their modest wine selections or reticence at the G8 summit’s cheese board.
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What's next for Zimbabwe?
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Question: What’s next for Zimbabwe?
On June 27, 2008, Robert Mugabe ran for his sixth term as president of Zimbabwe, a position he’s held since the country’s 1980 independence. However, Mugabe competed in the runoff election against himself: Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who led after the first round of voting and is widely […]
France's Worst Serial Killers?
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
What a bunch of bull!
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The bulls are off and running in Pamplona, Spain, at the famous San Fermin festival, and so far the score is: Bulls, 13; People, 0. (That’s 13 injuries, not goring deaths.)
Hoping not to get hooked on horns, the first four-minute chase saw a wave of thrill-seekers running through the cobblestone streets donning red kerchiefs. None […]
How to make ’summer’ just 1 day longer: Move Memorial Day!
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King Day, President’s Day, Pulaski Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day and so on are all observed on Mondays. And while Monday holidays off have their charms, so do Friday holidays, as many of us realized last weekend.
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Pakistan Linked To Embassy Bomb
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2:43pm UK, Tuesday July 08, 2008
The Afghan government has said that “foreign intelligence” was behind a bomb blast outside the Indian embassy in Kabul in an apparent reference to Pakistan.
Explosion outside Indian embassy killed 41 people and wounded about 150
The explosion killed 41 people and wounded about 150 in one of the worst atrocities in […]
Matthew McConaughey becomes a father
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Rex Features
Matthew McConaughey and Camilia Alves have become parents for the first time.
Alves gave birth to a boy in Los Angeles on Monday at 6.22pm, according to People. The name of the child is not yet known.
A friend of the couple commented: “They’re so happy!”
McConaughey, who started dating Alves two years ago, confirmed the pregnancy […]
Skilled labor shortage hits booming Brazil
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For almost any nation other than China or India, achieving more than 5 percent growth a year is hard. Doing it without skilled labor is even harder.
But that is the challenge facing Brazil, the B in the BRIC economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China — today’s version of economic tigers.
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BUSH BATTLES HARSH CLIMATE AT G8 SUMMIT
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TOYAKO, Japan - President Bush encountered resistance on his climate-change policy yesterday as he and other world leaders sought a balance between framing a deal on global warming and coping with inflation and slumping economic growth.
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Pelosi says she’s ”thrilled” at Obama’s convention coup
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Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who will chair this summer’s Democratic National Convention — said Monday that she is ”thrilled” that Sen. Barack Obama will accept his party’s presidential nomination in a huge public rally instead of the typical closed convention arena. It’s a move she said will bring back one of the great […]
Veteran revolutionaries tell Colombian rebels: Fight less, negotiate more
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It might seem like an unlikely comment coming from a most unlikely source, but in response to last week’s dramatic rescue and liberation by Colombia’s military of the well-known politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages who had been held captive for years by Marxist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Cuba’s Fidel […]
Honduras Losing Steam on Corruption Fight
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WASHINGTON — Honduras was supposed to have turned the corner on corruption. In 1998, the Central American nation ratified the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption and adopted measures to fight such behavior as money laundering, influence-peddling, embezzlement and obstruction of justice. It also became one of the first countries in the region to deny immunity for […]
Europe Debates Perfection It Demands of Its Produce
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PARIS — When is an onion more than an onion, or less? How can consumers choose between a carrot and a mere pretender? That bendy cucumber, those wannabe peaches — do they have the firmness of character to be on the shelf?
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Suicide Bombing Leaves 40 Dead In Central Kabul
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KABUL, July 7 — At least 40 people were killed and 141 injured Monday in a powerful suicide blast near the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital, Afghan officials said.
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In South Florida, a Familiar Drill
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MIAMI, Aug. 28 — Florida residents rushed to fill their prescriptions and stood in long lines for gasoline, food and other supplies Monday as officials warned people not to wait for Tropical Storm Ernesto to become a hurricane again before taking precautions.
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He’s Big in Canada. Above Superior. Yet Popular, Too.
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TORONTO — Canadians have spoken: At the top of their list of “Seven Wonders of Canada” is a rock. A rock that some say is shaped like a reclining figure.
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