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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani court declared disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan free on Friday, ending five years of house arrest for the man at the center of the world’s most serious proliferation scandal. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate struggled on Friday to craft a huge stimulus package to revive the battered economy, with moderate senators trying to trim the $937 billion price tag to attract lawmakers who say it is too costly. Read more
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US President Barack Obama has said the Senate’s delay in passing his $900bn (£616bn) economic stimulus package is “inexcusable and irresponsible”. Read more
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ZURICH (AFP) – Swiss private bank Julius Baer on Friday said its 2008 net profit slumped 25 percent to 852.3 million Swiss francs (568.9 million euros, 733.5 million dollars) as the global financial crisis hit its asset management business. Read more
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AP – Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan waves to media at his home in Islamabad, Pakistan … Play Video Pakistan Video: Holbrooke’s Mission Reuters Play Video Pakistan Video: Shock after American is kidnapped in Pakistan AP Play Video Pakistan Video: India levels terror charge at Pakistan Reuters ISLAMABAD – Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who helped [...]
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THERE have been some great interruptions in history: Napoleon’s imprisonment on Elba; the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell; the Dark Ages. Read more
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(Feb. 5) – A German teenage boy who always wanted to be a girl underwent a sex-change operation last month, according to Britain’s The Sun newspaper. At age 16, Kim Petras — born Tim Petras — is believed to be the world’s youngest transsexual. She began undergoing hormone therapy when she was 12, The Sun [...]
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Jeremy Clarkson: Gordon Brown is a ‘one-eyed Scottish idiot’. Fury at Top Gear presenter’s insult Downing Street’s fury after Sarkozy attacks Brown’s economic ‘mistakes’ New BBC blunder as Breakfast News broadcasts Christian Bale’s foul-mouthed rant – UNEDITED I DID say sorry before I was sacked: Carol Thatcher in fresh attack on BBC over ‘golliwog’ remark [...]
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BEIJING – China has declared an emergency in eight provinces suffering a serious drought that has left nearly 4 million people without proper drinking water and is threatening millions of acres of crops. Read more
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Chinese soldiers and doctors wait to rescue earthquake survivors at the Zipingpu Dam on May 15, 2008, in Dujiangyan of Sichuan province, China. A major earthquake caused serious cracks in the dam; some 2,000 troops were sent to stabilize it. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images) Read more
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Unfortunately its all about politics, which has nothing to do about Public Service and all about serving private interest groups. Posted By :Rick Report This Looks as though Obama is taking his advice from his new {best-est] friend,you know the one that was [...]
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Rex Features Lily Allen has teamed up with Amazon.com and MySpace Music to sell her new album for $3.99 (£2.73). The singer has joined forces with the online music retailer and the social networking website to offer her second LP at the special price until February 16, The AP reports. Allen will also promote the [...]
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As U.S. navy ships looked on, Somalian pirates sped away Thursday with US$3.2 million in ransom after releasing an arms-laden Ukrainian freighter, ending a four-month standoff that focused world attention on piracy off Somalia’s lawless coast. Read more
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Iran has launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit, the president said Tuesday, a step forward for a fledgling space program that has been watched with concern abroad. Read more
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The furloughs ordered by the governor have Sacramento in a tizzy, with union leaders warning about how closing state offices two Fridays a month not only will hurt the workers who will lose the pay, but also harm Californians seeking to do business with the state. Read more
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LONDON, Feb. 5 — Three Christian groups in Britain are putting ads on city buses proclaiming that there is a God, a reaction to a high-profile atheist campaign here that has spread around the globe. Read more
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Asia on her first voyage as chief diplomat, skipping the more traditional itinerary of Europe or the Middle East in order to place a renewed focus on an area with half the world’s population and gross domestic product. Read more
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PARIS, Feb. 4 — Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, a media-savvy human rights campaigner and co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, has regularly been cited in opinion polls as the most popular politician in France. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 5 — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki posted significant victories in Iraq’s provincial elections, winning Baghdad and eight provinces in Iraq’s Shiite south, according to official preliminary results released Thursday. Read more