Progress gives climate deal hope
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A deal at the UN climate summit looks more likely following a frantic day of behind the scenes diplomacy. Read more
World stocks drop as dollar hits 3-month euro high (AP)
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LONDON – World stock markets fell Thursday while the dollar strengthened to a three-month high against the euro after the Federal Reserve signaled it would start undoing some of its emergency supports next year as the economic recovery gathers pace. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 64.53 points, or [...]
Police: Brazil boy stuck with needles for a ritual (AP)
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Play Video Reuters  – 50 needles found in Brazilian boy AP – In this frame taken from a TV Globo video, a person points at a X-ray of a 2-year-old boy showing needles … By MARCO SIBAJA Marco Sibaja – 1 hr 1 min ago BRASILIA, Brazil – The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy found with 42 needles in his body confessed to [...]
MEPs given €32,000 to help bring in Lisbon
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MEPs are to get an extra €32,000 a year — phased in over two years — to spend on staff to help them implement the European Union‘s Lisbon Treaty, writes Bruno Waterfield. It will take the total annual allowance for each MEP to €248,000 by 2011. Read more
Iraqi Insurgents Hack US Drones
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(Dec. 17) — Insurgents in Iraq have used inexpensive computer software to capture live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, which may be helping them evade and monitor U.S. military operations, The Wall Street Journal reported. Senior defense and intelligence officials told the newspaper that Iranian-supported insurgents used programs such as SkyGrabber, which costs about [...]
British Airways WINS court bid to stop cabin crew’s 12-day Christmas strike
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The High Court upheld the airline’s application for an injunction to stop its staff walking out from December 22 until January 2. Read more
Germany: Support for memorial
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Germany has given €60 million ($121 million) to a global fund that aims to preserve the site of the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum said the money represented half the total it needs to ensure the future of the site as a permanent memorial to the Nazis’ victims. [...]
World's Worst Earthquakes
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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 [...]
Fashion Pakistan Week: Ather Hafeez
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Attendees look onwards as they watch a model wearing creations by Pakistani designer Ather Hafeez during the second day of Fashion Pakistan Week on Nov. 5, 2009, in Karachi, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) Read more
How’d they do?
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0FUTURAMA Chicago Tribune January 2, 2000 BYLINE: Contributing: Carolyn Alessio, Alan G. Artner, Mark Caro, Richard Christiansen, Monica Eng, Judy Hevrdejs, Allan Johnson, Steve Johnson, Blair Kamin, Julia Keller, Greg Kot, Achy Obejas, Patrick T. Reardon, Howard Reich, John von Rhein. Â There’s no need to call some 1-900 psychic to see into the future [...]
Spiritual Healer On Vegas Murder Charge
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10:10am UK, Thursday December 17, 2009 Mark Langford, Sky News Online A British spiritual healer is accused of killing a Las Vegas woman with frying pan and stuffing her body in a [...]
Corrie’s Keegan: ‘I don’t get chatted up’
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Rex Features Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan has admitted that she rarely gets chatted up by fans of the soap. The 22-year-old actress, best known for playing Weatherfield favourite Tina McIntyre, claimed that men are more likely to approach her friends when she goes for girls’ nights out on the town. Speaking to The Mirror, [...]
Mexico: Top drug cartel leader killed
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Arturo Beltran Leyva, the leader of one of Mexico’s top drug cartels, died in a shootout with navy personnel, the government-run news agency reported. Read more
Pelosi is runner-up for Time’s Person of the Year
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made runner-up as Time Magazine’s person of the year, losing out to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. In a glowing profile , Time says Pelosi has “consolidated more power than any… Read more
Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
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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 [...]
At Copenhagen, both rich and developing nations offer concessions
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COPENHAGEN — As President Obama prepared to visit the historic climate conference here, there were signs Wednesday of a break in the impasse between rich and developing nations. Read more
New Delhi’s filth continues to choke once-sacred Yamuna River
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NEW DELHI — With his blue-gloved hands, Rizwan Ali lowered the forked dredging tool slowly into the foul-smelling river and pulled out rotting marigold garlands, shoes, plastic bags, decaying fabric, gooey industrial waste and broken bangles. Read more
Venezuela’s Chávez Takes a Mighty Swing at Golf
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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 [...]
As thousands flee regime, Eritrea would go it alone
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ASMARA, ERITREA — With the threat of U.S.-backed sanctions looming over this isolated Red Sea nation, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki recently summed up his defiant attitude toward the United States, and indeed most things he deems foreign — a free press, certain religions, electoral democracy, political parties, global warming. Read more
Pakistan’s Zardari resists U.S. timeline for fighting insurgents
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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has resisted a direct appeal from President Obama for a rapid expansion of Pakistani military operations in tribal areas and has called on the United States to speed up military assistance to Pakistani forces and to intervene more forcefully with India, its traditional adversary. Read more