admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
10:29pm UK, Wednesday November 25, 2009 Jo Couzens, Sky News Online Dubai is asking creditors to accept a six-month suspension on debt repayments for its severely cash-strapped conglomerate Dubai World. [...]
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
ABC Last night’s Dancing With The Stars performed well for ABC, according to the latest viewing figures. The two-hour finale, which saw the winner crowned, pulled in 19.19m between 8pm and 10pm. Earlier on ABC, the latest episode of V pulled in 9.2m. The fourth instalment of the miniseries – the final one of 2009 [...]
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Mullah Omar, leader of the Afghan Taliban, has rejected peace overtures from Hamid Karzai, the country’s president, and again demanded that foreign troops leave the country. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said yesterday. The nearest one was 160 miles southeast of New Zealand’s Stewart Island and was part of a “flotilla” of [...]
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It was a love fest at this morning’s news conference in East Los Angeles, where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-announced that he is appointing Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria (Santa Barbara County… Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
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 [...]
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
AUTOMOTIVE GM asks Europe for restructuring help General Motors asked European governments to help pay most of the $4.9 billion that it needs to restructure its struggling European operations. At talks in Brussels, E.U. nations where GM has plants vowed to avoid individual negotiations with the company before a Dec. 4 meeting, where they will [...]
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
President Obama on Tuesday welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is in Washington for the first state visit under the Obama administration, and moved to calm India’s concerns that the United States is neglecting the Asian power as it seeks closer ties with China and Pakistan, India’s competitors. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican military has convicted just one soldier of a serious human rights violation during a bloody, three-year campaign against drug traffickers, according to Interior Ministry figures that are significantly lower than those reported by the U.S. government. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
PHILIPPINES Killings in south spark warnings The slaying of at least 46 people in the southern Philippines on Monday could herald a surge in political violence, with powerful clans exacting revenge on one another while stepping up the fight for next year’s elections, local residents and analysts warned Tuesday. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared [...]
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
LONDON — Six years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a panel probing Britain’s role in the war began public hearings Tuesday, with the chairman declaring that he would “get to the heart” of what had happened. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran could consider sending its low-enriched uranium abroad, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, apparently softening its opposition to a U.N. plan aimed at keeping a check on its nuclear ambitions. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to “finish the job” of an unpopular and costly eight-year war in Afghanistan, and officials said he could announce an increase of around 30,000 troops next week. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A new report by UN-mandated experts says that UN operations against Rwandan-Hutu rebels in the eastern Congo region have been a failure. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund announced Tuesday athat a lending scheme to aid countries hit hard by the financial crisis had grown to 600 billion dollars. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Play Video AP  – Philippines: 46 gunned down, emergency declared Play Video Video:Philippine massacre leaves 24 dead Reuters AP – The hand of one of dead victims lies across a police line at a hillside in Datu Ampatuan, Maguindanao … By AARON FAVILA, Associated Press Writer Aaron Favila, Associated Press Writer – 45 mins ago AMPATUAN, Philippines – A few miles [...]
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A GERMAN academic claims to have uncovered the most conclusive evidence to date that the works of William Shakespeare were in fact written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A convicted Mafia boss who got out of jail by faking paralysis and anorexia has been arrested at a restaurant after more than two months on the run, police in Sicily said Tuesday. Read more
admin @ November 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A ‘stubborn core’ of incompetent teachers is holding pupils back and fuelling indiscipline and truancy, Ofsted warned. Read more