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NAIROBI, May 17 — A major offensive by Somalia’s Islamist rebels is posing the most serious challenge yet to the country’s latest central government, reviving longstanding concerns that the chaotic Horn of Africa nation could fall entirely to al-Qaeda-linked militants. Read more
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TURIN, Italy — Almost overnight, Fiat Group has transformed itself from a bit player into a global titan in the auto industry, effectively taking over Chrysler and possibly a big chunk of General Motors. And nobody is more surprised than the Italians. Read more
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – The Tamil Tigers conceded defeat in Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war on Sunday, with some staging suicide attacks to try to repel a final assault by troops determined to annihilate them. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration’s budget chief said on Sunday there are signs that the free-fall in the economy seems to have halted. Read more
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Tamil rebels trapped in a tiny enclave of northern Sri Lanka have declared a ceasefire, a rebel spokesman says. Read more
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FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil (AFP) – US President Barack Obama’s administration should work to bringing Cuba back into international bodies such as the IMF, a Brazilian official in the fund said Saturday. Read more
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Play Video AFP  – Sri Lanka worst conflict for civilians: ICRC Slideshow:Sri Lanka Unrest Play Video Video:Sri Lankan military says all free from war zone AFP Play Video Video:Aid workers treat Sri Lanka’s refugees of war AFP AP – In this handout photo provided by the Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lankan army soldiers receive internally displaced … By BHARATHA [...]
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Michael Martin, the Speaker of the British House of Commons, was losing his fight to stay in office last night as the British prime minister appeared to abandon support on the eve of a no-confidence motion on his leadership being tabled. Read more
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HONG KONG (March 16) – Two bottles of acid were thrown into a crowd in a popular shopping district in downtown Hong Kong on Saturday, injuring 30 people, police and news reports said. Read more
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The Queen has told Gordon Brown she is worried that the scandalous revelations about MPs’ expenses could damage Parliament. Read more
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Japan confirms 16 new swine flu cases 2:29PM Sunday May 17, 2009 Swine Flu Headache in making right vaccine choice Two more swine flu cases confirmed in NZ TOKYO – Japan’s health ministry says 16 more cases of swine flu have been confirmed. The country’s tally is now at [...]
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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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Intense fighting has civilians caught in the crossfire as the International Monetary Fund is urged to reconsider a $1.9 billion loan to Sri Lanka. More: “Sri Lankan civilians caught between warring government forces and Tamil separatists are facing ‘an unimaginable humanitarian catastrophe’, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [...]
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Old Town School of Folk Music teacher Rita Ruby’s final gospel sing-along of the season will be Saturday evening, 7-9 p.m. at 4159 N. Monticello Ave. (at Berteau Ave.) in Chicago. Admission is free. Lyric sheets are plentiful and you have my blessed assurance that the songs are amazing. Read more
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“More than 50,000 people have come out of that area in the past three days and with that we have rescued all the civilians held as a human shield by the Tigers,” military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said. Read more
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Rex Features Natalie Portman has denied allegations that she is in a romantic relationship with Sean Penn. In March, Star Magazine claimed that Penn and Portman were “making out” at West Hollywood’s Sunset Tower Hotel. The actress has since insisted that the story is “completely untrue” and manufactured by the media. Portman told Us Weekly: [...]
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Officials in Mexico have found a child they believe is a 3-year-old boy abducted from his California home but that country’s identification process is slowing the family’s ability to confirm the child’s identity, authorities said Saturday. Read more
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PARIS — A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was at the center of a Supreme Court battle over inmates’ rights arrived yesterday in France, which agreed to take in the Algerian in a gesture to the Obama administration. Read more
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So Mayor Gavin Newsom tells The Economist that if The Chronicle were to disappear “People under 30 won’t even notice .” Hey Mayor Twitter — if you can hear us from wherever you are outside San Francisco… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]