Soggy September will dump a month’s rain on us today
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Up to a month’s rain will pour down today in parts of Britain as autumn arrives with a vengeance. Read more
Heroin addict elephant back in China after rehab
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BEIJING – An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin at the hands of illegal traders will return home after a three-year rehab program, state media said Thursday. Read more
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 [...]
Taliban Claim Attempt on Pakistani P.M.’s Life
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Seems that Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani is now in Pervez Musharraf’s shoes, even though presidential elections aren’t until Saturday: The role of being a marked man, that is. Multiple shots were fired at Gilani’s motorcade near Islamabad’s airport today, and at least two bullets struck the bulletproof window. More: “The Taliban said it [...]
Palin’s `triumph’ — The soft sexism of low expectations
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I watched Sarah Palin’s snarky, smug by-the-numbers speech last night, and thought, you know, if you’d been camping the in wilderness for the last two weeks, switched on the TV and happened to see this woman speaking you’d have said “eh, another convention podium puppet” and changed the channel. Read more
Palin Strikes Back At Her Critics
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9:27am UK, Thursday September 04, 2008 Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has attacked Barack Obama and her critics in the media in a key speech to the Republican Convention. Palin used her [...]
‘FM 2009′ is ‘too complex’ for Xbox 360
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Sega has announced that Sports Interactive’s Football Manager 2009 will be released on PC, Apple Mac and PSP on November 14. The publisher confirmed that the eagerly-awaited management game will not be released on home consoles during a London press conference last night. Developer Sports Interactive said the title will not be appearing on the [...]
Bush announces $1 billion aid package for Georgia
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President Bush plans to send $1 billion in new economic aid to Georgia to help it rebuild after Russia’s invasion. In a statement obtained by The Associated Press, Bush says the pro-Western former Soviet republic “has a strong economic foundation and leaders with an impressive record of reform.” The additional assistance, he says, “will help [...]
US GIVES $1B AID TO GEORGIA
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TBILISI, Georgia – A US Navy flagship loaded with aid steamed through the Dardanelles yesterday en route to Georgia, as the Bush administration rolled out a $1 billion economic-aid package for the former Soviet republic. Read more
Inside the RNC: Photos from the Floor
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Don’t know how it looked on your TV/laptop/phone, but the RNCers stood for a couple of minutes post-Palin. There’s plenty of time to dissect the speech — and all the body blows Palin threw without including whole lotta policy — but it’s safe to say that Hockey Moms are the new black. Oy. Read more
Desperately Seeking [A Reason for Picking] Sarah
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That’s the question that’s apparently on the minds of some foreign observers for whom Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin – Sarah who? – as his vice-residential running mate is just too ridiculous or too out-of-thin-air or too risky or too unpredictable to fathom. Still, some of the most well-informed, sharpest analysts [...]
Cheney, in Tbilisi, Slams Russian Actions
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TBILISI, Sept. 4 — Vice President Dick Cheney arrived here on Thursday with harsh words for Russia and a message of support for the Georgian government, saying that the military conflict between the two countries had “cast grave doubt on Russia’s intentions and on its reliability as an international partner.” Read more
In India, Outcry Over U.S. Letter
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NEW DELHI, Sept. 3 — A day after a secret letter from the U.S. State Department to Congress about the controversial nuclear energy deal with India was made public, Indian opposition figures cried foul, accusing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of willfully misleading the nation about restrictive aspects of the deal. Read more
New Storms May Threaten Southeastern U.S.
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As the storm formerly known as Hurricane Gustav dumped rain on the lower Mississippi Valley today, forecasters were anxiously watching a conga line of would-be hurricanes that snaked across the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa. Read more
Ecuador Giving U.S. Air Base the Boot
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MANTA, Ecuador — When U.S. officers stationed in this humid coastal city give reasons they should continue their decade-old airborne surveillance mission, they talk not only about fighting drug runners on the open seas but about the $71 million they’ve spent to renovate and maintain the city’s airport, and the $6.5 million they inject each [...]
Aid Plane Crashes in E. Congo; 17 Aboard
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NAIROBI, Sept. 2 — A small plane carrying 17 passengers and crew members on a humanitarian mission crashed in a mountainous region of eastern Congo on Monday evening, and there appeared to be no survivors, U.N. officials said Tuesday. Read more
McCain’s Self-Association With Iraq War Carries Risk
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 3 — The 55-page Republican Party platform, approved here this week, contains exactly one paragraph devoted to the war in Iraq — a sign of how the conflict that dominated the last two national election cycles has faded as a major political issue. Read more
U.S., Afghan Troops Kill 20 in Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD, Sept. 3 — At least 20 people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday after U.S. and Afghan troops crossed from Afghanistan to pursue Taliban insurgents in an early morning attack that marked the first known instance in which U.S. forces conducted an operation on Pakistani soil since the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan began, [...]
North Korea moves mothballed equipment at Yongbyon
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea has taken out of storage some mothballed equipment at its Yongbyon nuclear complex in what appeared a sign of displeasure over talks on ending its atomic programs, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Read more
Palin defends experience, slaps Obama
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ST. PAUL (Reuters) – Sarah Palin has dominated the Republican convention for days without saying a word, but on Wednesday she takes the spotlight with a prime-time speech that will introduce her to American voters and try to answer questions about her experience and life story. Read more