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WASHINGTON (Oct. 16) – Autumn temperatures in the Arctic are at record levels, the Arctic Ocean is getting warmer and less salty as sea ice melts, and reindeer herds appear to be declining, researchers reported Thursday. Read more
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Petrol retailers were today threatened by Gordon Brown with an inquiry unless they bring down prices at the pumps. Read more
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Missing Afghan scholars found in Canada New 8:15AM Friday Oct 17, 2008 Five visiting scholars from Afghanistan who disappeared from the University of Washington were found in Canada. A spokeswoman in Seattle for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said: “They’re not in the US, so they’re not in violation of US immigration [...]
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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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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: [...]
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And what Hugo Chavez wants, Hugo usually gets. But in a country that saw about 20 percent inflation last year alone, what will it mean for the economy? More from AP: “Labor Minister Roberto Hernandez announced Monday that he would present a proposed bill before the end of the year to reduce the [...]
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A north suburban schoolteacher wrote the other day asking me nicely to remember the importance of teachers’ pensions in anything I might write about the upcoming referendum on a constitutional convention. Read more
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1:34pm UK, Thursday October 16, 2008 A Spanish judge is to question three mechanics on suspicion of manslaughter over a jet crash that killed 154 people. A total of 154 people [...]
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Porn actress Sasha Grey has been cast as the lead in Steven Soderbergh’s low-budget movie The Girlfriend Experience. Filming on the drama, which follows the life of a $1 million-a-year call girl, is currently underway in New York. Grey, 20, told Adult Video News: “To have the opportunity to work for an Academy Award-winning auteur [...]
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The Kremlin drawing up new military plans about Azerbaijan. The format of negotiations over the Qabala radar station changes. There have been noteworthy aspects in Russia’s political and military priorities in the South Caucasus after the Georgian events. The Kremlin has an intention of promoting its political and military interests in another South Caucasus country [...]
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BAGHDAD – Iraq would have the right to prosecute American troops and Pentagon contractors accused of major premeditated crimes committed outside US bases and when they were not on duty, under a draft security pact governing military operations, Iraqi officials said yesterday. Read more
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Newsy numbers in the Proposition 8 scramble Here’s some fun with numbers, courtesy of the campaigns for and against Proposition 8 campaigns. The last financial report from ProtectMarriage.Com, the main group backing the ban on same-sex marriage, was so long that the secretary of state’s Web site went “Tilt” like a pinball machine when the [...]
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Last weekend in Scotland on Sunday, commentator Kenny Farquharson observed that the U.S. presidential election that is coming up on November 4 will be “an extraordinary day – the moment America elects its first black leader…or the moment it decides it is not yet ready, 138 years after the passing of the 15th amendment that [...]
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BRUSSELS, Oct. 15 — The Group of Eight major industrialized nations announced Wednesday that they will convene a summit to plan changes in the regulation and structure of the world financial industry in hopes of heading off future economic turmoil. Read more
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Pakistan has reached a critical new phase in its long-deteriorating financial situation, as investor flight and bleeding of national reserves force the country to scramble for international funds to shore up its economy. With the global financial crisis draining coffers in the United States and Europe, the key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism [...]
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Carmen Godoy is sure the Yankees are plotting an invasion. She’s heard her president say so over and over again in the decade he has been in power. Read more
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TORONTO, Oct. 15 — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was returned to power in national elections Tuesday, strengthening his Conservative Party’s position in Parliament but still falling just short of an absolute majority. Read more
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KABALA, Sierra Leone — Saio Marah, nine months pregnant and two days into labor, lay on a hospital bed and groaned loudly with each contraction. Read more
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The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public. Read more