Prediction time!
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What will 2010 bring? Here are 20 questions asking you to predict what will happen in the coming year. Related: Predictions for 2009 — How did Change of Subject readers do? Read more
‘Systemic Failure’ Over Jet Terror Plot
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Alex Watts, Sky News Online President Obama has attacked the “systemic failure” in his own intelligence service that nearly cost 300 lives in the skies of Detroit. [...]
Lil Wayne has farewell show before jail
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Rex Features Lil Wayne has played a farewell show for a hometown crowd in New Orleans before beginning a one-year jail term. According to The AP, many fans at the concert expressed disappointment over the artist’s weapons charges conviction. “It’s kinda sad, the stereotype and that he fell into it,” said 19-year-old Lee Farrell of [...]
Man and girl, four, found dead
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A four-year-old girl and a man have been found dead inside a house, police said. Read more
Somali pirates seize tanker, cargo ship
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates seized a ship carrying fertilizer from the U.S. in the Indian Ocean and a British-flagged chemical tanker in the heavily patrolled Gulf of Aden — the first merchant vessel to be hijacked in the gulf in nearly six months, officials said Tuesday. 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 [...]
Church billboard in increasingly secular New Zealand causes controversy
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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — The Christmas season in sun-kissed New Zealand is normally a chilled-out, festive time more likely to involve beaches and barbecues than robust debates on the story of Jesus’s birth. 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 [...]
In online posts apparently by Detroit suspect, religious ideals collide
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The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner apparently turned to the Internet for counseling and companionship, writing in an online forum that he was “lonely” and had “never found a true Muslim friend.” Read more
U.S. concerned about new Japanese premier Hatoyama
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While most of the federal government was shut down by a snowstorm last week, there was one person in particular whom Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called in through the cold: Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki. Read more
U.S. missile shield holding up nuclear deal: Putin
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday U.S. plans for a missile defense system were the main obstacle to reaching a new deal on reducing Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons. Read more
Obama says U.S. will pursue plane attackers
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KAILUA, Hawaii (Reuters) – A wing of al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Monday for a failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound passenger plane, and President Barack Obama vowed to bring “every element” of U.S. power against those who threaten Americans’ safety. Read more
China executes Briton over drugs
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A British man convicted of drug smuggling in China has been executed, the Foreign Office has confirmed. Read more
Asian markets mixed in light holiday trade (AP)
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Reuters – Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in this September 16, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Brendan … Slideshow:Stock Markets Play Video Wall Street Video:Unemployment, Economy Didn’t Deter Shoppers CBS4 Miami Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 10,547.08 +26.98 ^GSPC 1,127.78 0.00 ^IXIC 2,291.08 0.00 By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez, Ap [...]
China confirms Briton’s execution, despite UK plea (AP)
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URUMQI, China – China brushed aside international appeals Tuesday and executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling whose relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into the crime. Read more
Lithuanian energy bills to soar as EU closes power plant
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Lithuanians are braced for a devastating increase in energy prices when the Baltic nation shuts down its main nuclear power station on New Year’s Eve to comply with European Union demands. Read more
£11bn VAT rise shambles: Chaos reigns on High Street with just three days to go before sales tax goes back up
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Shoppers face a New Year sales nightmare as retailers dither over when to reimpose the full rate of VAT. Read more
Bi-polar Brit faces Chinese firing sqaud
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On the eve of his scheduled execution, relatives of Akmal Shaikh visited the condemned Briton on China’s death row. It was the 53-year-old’s first direct family contact in the two years since he was arrested for drugs smuggling, but it was no happy reunion. Read more
Top 10 News Stories of '00s
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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