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TEHRAN, June 13 — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared a “new beginning” for Iran late Saturday after he was declared victor in the presidential election, but as he spoke on national television violent demonstrations rolled through several areas of Tehran. Supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi burned dumpsters, threw stones and clashed with police in [...]
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RAMAT GAN, Israel (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Sunday to uncommon pressure from Washington by finally giving his endorsement — with conditions — to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Defeated candidate Mirhossein Mousavi demanded on Sunday that Iran’s presidential election be annulled and urged more protests, while tens of thousands of people hailed the victory of the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read more
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced he will back a Palestinian state – but only if it is completely demilitarised. Read more
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund’s plan to issue bonds for the first time has attracted several large emerging countries looking to diversify investments to the detriment of the dollar, whose luster is dimming under the mushrooming US budget deficit. Read more
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Play Video ABC News  – Israel’s Plan for Peace Slideshow:Mideast Conflict Play Video Video:Israel PM to outline Mid-East peace plan BBC Play Video Video:Israelis react to Netanyahu’s ‘peace’ declaration AFP AP – A Palestinian watches Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a televised speech in the West … 1 min ago JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Sunday called for [...]
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Former Unionist leader David Trimble remembers nothing of his meeting with the former American state department official Kendall Myers, who has been accused of spying for Cuba for nearly 30 years. Read more
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TEHRAN, Iran (June 14) – Protesters set fires and smashed store windows Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities that have responded with anti-riot squads and blackouts of Web networks used to rally the pro-reform campaign. Skip over this content Skip over [...]
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The woman who mistakenly received the couple’s embryo was told of the devastating error shortly after it occurred and agreed to have a termination. Read more
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Finnish millionaire’s daughter freed by kidnapper 10:50AM Sunday Jun 14, 2009 HELSINKI – Police say they have captured a kidnapper who won a large ransom by taking the daughter of a millionaire hostage. Until the police announcement, the public had not been told that 26-year-old Minna Nurminen had been missing since May 27 [...]
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A Georgian civilian is checked at a Russian army position on Aug. 16, 2008, in the village of Igoeti on the road from Gori to Tbilisi, about 45 kilometers from Tbilisi, Georgia. Read more
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About “Change of Subject.” “Change of Subject” by Chicago Tribune metro columnist Eric Zorn contains observations, reports, tips, referrals and tirades, though not necessarily in that order. Links will tend to expire, so seize the day. For an archive of Zorn’s latest Tribune columns click here. An explanation of the title of this [...]
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9:30am UK, Sunday June 14, 2009 More than 100 political activists have been arrested in Iran following yesterday’s controversial election result, reformists say. Protests hit Tehran as President Ahmadinejad remains defiant [...]
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WENN Megan Fox has revealed that she did not always “get along” with Lindsey Lohan, it has emerged. The Transformers star has admitted that while filming Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen in 2004, the two were not very close on set, according to WENN. Fox has said that their adolescence and “natural” female rivalry [...]
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Johanna Ganthaler, an Italian womand and a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province and her husband Kurt were on vacation in Brazil. The couple was supposed to take the doomed Air France Flight 447 back to Paris. However, they missed the plane and took a different one home instead. It was just a brief reprieve, however, as [...]
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That’s the conciliatory message from the four Chinese Uighur men sprung from Guantanamo Bay after seven years of captivity Thursday and transferred to the sun-splashed island of Bermuda. Read more
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Yes, Miss California, aka Carrie Prejean, got fired today by The Donald, for not living up to the obligations that the magic sash demands. Fear not, Carrie, there is a prize waiting for you this month… Read more
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…are so American. Tipping into one on a Black Hawk from Baghdad, looking like I’d been microwaved, I stumbled into a world of cavernous dining halls hung with red-white-and-blue streamers, of concrete blast walls painted with logos of baseball teams and every flavour of Baskin Robbins available. It’s a shock sometimes to step outside an [...]
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Another school very evident at Chelsea Flower show was Writhlington School. Pupils embarked in March 2009 on a trip to Sikkim in the Himalayas to take part in the Gangtok Schools’ Orchid project. This has furthered the work of the botanical team at the school and resulted in a stand in the Continuous Learning area [...]
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Recientemente tuve la oportunidad de hablar con dos de los empresarios más prominentes de México, Emilio Azcárraga Jean, presidente de Grupo Televisa, y Roberto Hernández RamÃrez, presidente del consejo de administración de Banamex. Entre otros temas, conversamos sobre las promesas hechas por los candidatos Hillary Clinton y Barack Obama de renegociar el Tratado de Libre [...]