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LONDON (Sept. 16) – Trafalgar Square routinely serves as a stage for mimes, jugglers and other acts, but the tourist attraction drew an exceptionally curious crowd Tuesday when the shortest man who can walk met the woman with the longest legs. Read more
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Is Halifax next? Crunch time as Britain’s biggest mortgage leader loses a third of its value in 48 hours Man held in Dover after two young ‘party’ women are found murdered in luxury flat Shannon Matthews’ stepfather to receive round-the-clock protection after release from jail after child porn conviction Bank of England: Interest rates ‘to [...]
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Myanmar’s detained democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has accepted her food rations for the first time in a month, a Government official said. Read more
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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 [...]
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The ruling majority faced little opposition in Monday’s contest: “…President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda Patriotic Front won 42 of the 53 seats contested in Monday’s direct voting, while the Social Democratic party took seven and the Liberal Party won four, [election commission chairman] Chrysologue Karangwa told reporters. Twenty seven lawmakers are to be elected [...]
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Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant …[.McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin]Â told reporters Tuesday, “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.” Read more
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12:49pm UK, Tuesday September 16, 2008 Investigators say wing flaps failed to deploy on a holiday jet just before it crashed at Madrid airport last month, killing 154 people. The crash [...]
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ActivisionÂ’s success could enable the firm to influence the design of future generations of consoles, its chief executive has claimed. Speaking at the Activision Blizzard Analyst Day in Los Angeles, Robert Kotick stated his belief that the Guitar Hero developer now has “the weight” to start influencing hardware design. Kotick said such a move could [...]
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NATO’s chief said Tuesday the Western alliance will continue its expansion despite Russian opposition and warned Moscow that it has no veto on Georgia’s bid to become a member. In a strong message of support for Georgia after its debilitating war with Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said ‘the road to NATO is [...]
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Reuters Posted: 4:17 amSeptember 16, 2008 LONDON – People born with a certain genetic mutation are likelier to develop the most dangerous form of skin cancer, Portuguese researchers have found. Their study, presented yesterday at the Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology in Stockholm, showed that the variation, in the cyclin D1 gene, [...]
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Joe Biden exaggerated a little (surprise!) when frothing in Michigan Monday, trying to link Sen. John McCain to President Bush when comparing their reactions to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Then again, so did McCain in his original comments. Read more
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Boom! Bang! In Europe, the super-collider experiments begin What does 10 billion Swiss francs (almost $9 billion) buy? In the rarified world of particle physics, that amount covers the costs of one of modern science’s most high-tech tools for some of its most ambitious experiments. That’s the price tag for the Large Hadron Collider that [...]
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TSAGVERI, Georgia — Around noon on Aug. 15, hours before his president signed a cease-fire agreement ending the war with Russia, Viktor Aksashvili saw a camouflage-painted helicopter in the sky. “I saw it coming from Borjomi,” a nearby town, said Aksashvili, 58, a school bus driver. “It went up the valley, turned around, and went [...]
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Sept. 15 — Pakistani troops turned back a U.S. attack in Pakistan’s tribal areas on Monday by firing warning shots toward U.S. troops as they attempted to cross from Afghanistan in pursuit of Taliban insurgents, a Pakistani intelligence official said. U.S. and Pakistani military spokesmen denied the report. Read more
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2 — Even though Hurricane Gustav did not wreak the destruction expected when it struck the Gulf Coast on Monday, officials said Tuesday that they were not ready to allow many of the 1.9 million Louisiana residents who had evacuated to return to their homes. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 15 — President Robert Mugabe ceded a large share of control over Zimbabwe’s government Monday, in a power-sharing agreement that loosened his absolute hold over a nation he helped lead to independence nearly three decades ago. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 15 — More than 30 people were killed in bombings in Iraq on Monday, including one in Diyala province in which a female suicide bomber attacked policemen gathered to celebrate the release of a fellow officer from an American detention facility, Iraqi officials said. Read more
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MOSCOW — At the height of the crisis over Russia’s invasion of Georgia last month, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin summoned the top executives of his nation’s most influential newspapers and broadcasters to a private meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Read more
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe signed a power-sharing agreement with opposition rival Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday, relinquishing some of his powers for the first time in nearly three decades of iron rule. Read more
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street had its worst day since markets reopened after the September 11 attacks as fears about the U.S. financial system’s stability surged on Monday after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and insurer AIG struggled for survival. Read more