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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 4 — Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday welcomed U.S. plans to sell the island almost $6.5 billion in weaponry in a move that appeared to repair years of frayed ties between Taiwan and the Bush administration.
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UNITED NATIONS — The Bush administration’s support for the appointment of a Rwandan general to a top U.N. peacekeeping job in Sudan last year came despite a warning from the State Department human rights bureau that there was “credible evidence” linking the officer to human rights abuses in Rwanda in the 1990s, according to internal […]
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 3 — U.S. soldiers killed a man in Baghdad on Friday whom the military described as a senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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ORMOC, Philippines — Ferdinand Marcos, the despot who ruled here for 21 years, is remembered mainly for the staggering quantity of his wife’s shoes. But there is another Marcos legacy, and it is drawing new attention at a time of high oil prices, global warming and urgent questions about the role of government in alternative […]
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PARIS (Reuters) - European leaders vowed at the start of an emergency summit on Saturday to do what they could to fend off a financial crisis that snowballed out of Wall Street and is now hitting banks in Europe.
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PARIS (Reuters) - European leaders vowed at the start of an emergency summit on Saturday to do what they could to fend off a financial crisis that snowballed out of Wall Street and is now hitting banks in Europe.
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The president of the European Parliament has criticised the summit, warning that the leaders of Europe’s four largest economies have no power to decide for the entire European Union.
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The military also said al-Zubaydi was reportedly responsible for a May 1 car bombing that killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad, as well as attacks in Salahuddin and Diyala provinces to the north of the capital.
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‘Eastern Europe does not need coal, it needs to switch to a sustainable energy supply’
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SYDNEY, Australia (Oct. 3) - A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo’s director said Friday.
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Gordon Brown hauled Labour back to its worst days of sleaze after he brought Peter Mandelson back for a jaw-dropping third job in the Cabinet.
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Even before she reached the podium, the first words out of Governor Sarah Palin’s mouth set the tone for her debate night: “Hey, can I call ya Joe?”
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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 […]
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Saudi Arabia’s king called for greater dialogue and openness between the world’s monotheistic religions on March 24, 2008. In the face of rising tensions over Mohammed cartoons, al-Qaida claiming Pope Benedict XVI is leading a crusade, and a stalled Middle East peace process, King Abdullah’s outreach took on extra weight. From the International Herald Tribune:
“‘The […]
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Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870) was a Texas land baron, slave owner and state legislator who kept a small herd of cattle on a free-range tract of land south of San Antonio.
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10:00pm UK, Friday October 03, 2008
The revised $700bn bail-out plan for the USÂ financial system has become law after being passed by the House of Representatives and signed by President Bush.
The House of Representatives passed the revised version of the bill
The plan is designed to prop up the failing economic institutions that were victims of the […]
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Rex Features
Cameron Diaz has revealed that she nearly turned down the title role in 1998 comedy There’s Something About Mary.
The actress told Fox News that she was close to rejecting the opportunity after her managers advised that the movie could end her career.
“My agent and manager thought that doing this film was an insane move […]
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A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo’s director said Friday.
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These amazing X-rays tell a stunning story of survival - in which a 16-year-old boy somehow lived through a horrifying attack by a thug who plunged a knife into his skull. The miracle kid was stabbed and left for dead during a robbery at a bus…
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