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ATHENS, Greece – Greek customs officials and finance ministry employees walked off the job Tuesday to protest government austerity measures designed to pull the country out of a debt crisis that has shaken the entire euro zone. Read more
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Play Video Earthquakes Video:AP top stories AP Play Video Earthquakes Video:Brother’s Brother Sends More Supplies To Haiti KDKA Pittsburgh Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 10,268.81 +169.67 ^GSPC 1,094.87 +19.36 ^IXIC 2,214.19 +30.66 By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer – 17 mins ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Damage from Haiti’s catastrophic [...]
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A commuter train, which pulled into the path of a late-running express during the morning rush hour in Belgium yesterday after apparently missing a “stop signal”, caused one of the worst rail disasters in European history. Read more
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Oxford graduate Anjool Malde was just days short of his 25th birthday when he fell to the ground outside No 1 Poultry, home to Coq d’Argent, on Sunday July 5 last year. Read more
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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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Whether sparked by Mother Nature or by the carelessness or maliciousness of man, these fires have ripped across the Earth with alarming ferocity and deadly consequences. Read more
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The Winter Olympics got off to a tragic start with the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili during a training run Friday at the Whistler track. Despite the shock and disbelief, the Olympics started on schedule, with the Georgia contingent wearing black armbands and draping their flag with a black ribbon in the opening ceremonies. [...]
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Veteran Chicago commentator Dennis Byrne is a weekly contributor to the Tribune’s commentary pages and the proprietor of The Barbershop, a ChicagoNow blog. In Tuesday’s Tribune he joins me in The Rhubarb Patch to discuss school voucher programs From Dennis to Eric: State Sen. James T. Meeks, D-Chicago, one of [...]
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“He has not been captured. They want to spread this rumour just to divert the attention of people from their defeats in Marjah and confuse the public,” Zabihullah Mujahid said. Read more
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Rex Features Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire helmer Mike Newell will co-write and direct a movie about the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko. Newell is to team with Warner Bros and screenwriter David Scarpa for the political thriller, which is based on Alan Cowell’s book The Terminal Spy. Former Russian agent Litvinenko [...]
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The four women were arrested last October after being accused of offering Buddhist monks alms that included religious literature, said Nyan Win, spokesman for the opposition party headed by detained Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more
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Incoming, Meg Whitman! It’s a plane, it’s an ad, it’s an independent expenditure Meg Whitman, better buy a sword and a shield on eBay — the real jousting is about to begin in the 2010 California governor’s race. As in: New IPhone apps that track “the last time she did a press conference,” planes with [...]
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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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Haiti’s creaky, quake-damaged electrical system has delayed a ruling on whether 10 Americans charged with child kidnapping can be released. Prosecutor Josephe Manes Louis said that he had written his recommendation but that a power outage Monday kept him from printing it out and giving it to the judge. Read more
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The Afghan Taliban’s second in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was captured last week in Karachi during a joint operation by Pakistan’s intelligence service and the CIA, according to U.S. and Pakistani sources. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI E arthly spasms could not undo the Village of God. ¶ The pitching and convulsing of the Jan. 12 earthquake dismantled shacks and stole lives, young and old, in this divinely named neighborhood, a landscape of wreckage like so many in this addled city. But the essence of the place, the warp and [...]
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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 [...]
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UNITED NATIONS — Charles Taylor, the former Liberian warlord and president on trial in The Hague on war crimes charges, saw the value of purchasing a good reputation in Washington. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Last month’s earthquake battered Reginald Boulos’s small empire, destroying one of his supermarkets, badly damaging a hotel and killing two workers at his car dealership. Read more
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RIYADH (Reuters) – The United States believes Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are driving the country toward military dictatorship and should be targeted in any new U.N. sanctions, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday. Read more