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BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami brought international fame to Baby 81, but the parents of the two-month-old who miraculously survived the deadly wave say it has only brought misfortune. Read more
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen asked Russia on Wednesday to give the Western military alliance more help in Afghanistan but failed to get an immediate pledge of assistance from the Kremlin. Read more
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Summit venue is sealed off as police and demonstrators clash outside African countries soften their demands for climate finance from rich developed nations Danish environment minister Connie Hedegaard resigns as president of the summit to be replaced by Danish PM UN chief Ban Ki-moon suggests climate change deal might not include [...]
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REYKJAVIK (AFP) – Iceland’s government and the second-biggest bank Landsbanki have reached agreement on the bank’s refinancing after it was nationalised in the financial crisis in 2008, the two sides said Wednesday. Read more
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COPENHAGEN – The 10-day-old climate talks ran into disputes and paralysis as they entered a critical stage Wednesday, just two days before President Barack Obama and more than 100 other national leaders hope to sign a historic agreement to fight global warming. Poorer nations stalled the talks in resistance to what they saw as efforts [...]
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Nursery worker Vanessa George was jailed indefinitely yesterday after she admitted feeding the lust of a Facebook accomplice with sick pictures of children in her care. Read more
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(Dec. 10) — Amnesty International accused Iranian authorities Thursday of perpetrating the worst human rights abuses in more than 20 years as they try to tamp down broad dissent following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s contested re-election in June. The charge comes amid allegations that some of the regime’s top officials, including one who supervised those elections, [...]
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London and the Home Counties saw the first showers of the cold snap this morning, as forecasters predicted some places could see up to 20cm in the coming days. Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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The Copenhagen climate summit heats up this week with U.S. President Barack Obama speaking at the U.N. conference on Friday, and the arrival today of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called upon participating nations to step up the climate talks and “seal the deal” for the good of all mankind. More from the U.N. press center: [...]
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Carol Marin, our town’s journalistic triple threat (WTTW-Ch. 11 moderator, WMAQ-Ch. 5 investigator and Sun-Times columnist), yesterday called out Chicago Department of Revenue Director Bea Reyna-Hickey for refusing to sit for an on-camera interview about parking ticket revenues. Instead, Marin wrote, Reyna-Hickey agreed only to respond to questions submitted in writing: [...]
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9:07am UK, Wednesday December 16, 2009 Graham Fitzgerald, Sky News Online Gordon Brown has warned that a climate change agreement will be an “uphill struggle” at the start of a second day [...]
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WENN Mutya Buena has revealed that she never plans to speak to her former bandmate Heidi Range again. The 24-year-old singer, who left the Sugababes in 2005, said that she would love to work with original band members Siobhan Donaghy and Keisha Buchanan again at some point in the future. Buena wrote on her Twitter [...]
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Police have found the decapitated bodies of four men in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. Read more
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She’s the best-selling author of “Going Rogue,” a former VP candidate and governor of Alaska, and now Sarah Palin has a surprising new role — as the most bankable star in Democratic fundraising drives… 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 [...]
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Long denied access to foreign technology because of sanctions, Iran has nevertheless learned how to make virtually every bolt and switch in a nuclear weapon, according to assessments by U.N. nuclear officials in internal documents, as well as Western and Middle Eastern intelligence analysts and weapons experts. Read more
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ISLAMABAD — Twenty-two people were killed in central Pakistan and eight people died in Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday in separate car bombings, both of which were aimed at politicians and blamed on Islamic extremists. Read more
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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 [...]