admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA — During a pretrial hearing here Thursday, military prosecutors played a 25-minute video that showed Canadian detainee Omar Khadr building roadside bombs in Afghanistan with several reputed al-Qaeda operatives. Read more
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
UNITED NATIONS – President Obama warned Sudanese leaders Friday to proceed with a referendum on independence in the southern part of the country or face increased international isolation, saying their decision “cannot be delayed any longer.” Obama appeared at a ministerial meeting on Sudan in order to prod the government in Khartoum, which is reluctant [...]
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
NEW DELHI – An Indian court ruled that a disputed Hindu-Muslim holy site in the northern part of the country should be divided between the two faith communities, an attorney for one of the Hindu parties in the suit said Thursday. The 60-year-old case has been a tinderbox of religious tensions and has triggered thousands [...]
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – An Indian court ruled on Thursday that the site of a demolished mosque would be split between Hindus and Muslims, dousing immediate fears of a violent backlash in one of the country’s most religiously divisive cases. Read more
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
NEW YORK (Reuters) – American International Group Inc and the U.S. government laid out a plan for the insurer to eventually repay taxpayers in full, just over two years after it was rescued from the brink of collapse. Read more
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The cost would push the Irish Republic’s fiscal deficit to 32% of gross domestic product (GDP). Read more
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
MADRID – Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Spanish government debt Thursday, joining two other major credit rating agencies who have taken similar steps out of concern over the country’s public finances. Read more
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
AP – The front page of North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper of Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 shows a group photo … Slideshow:North Korea Play Video North Korea Video:North Korean leader’s son promoted, seen as heir AP Play Video North Korea Video:Analyst: N.Korea political system is ‘paralyzed’ AFP – 11 mins ago SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea has published a [...]
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
An al-Qaeda plot to attack Britain in a Mumbai-style attack has been thwarted by a drone strike in Pakistan. Read more
admin @ September 30, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Thirty officers launched a mole hunt after the classified letter in which the Defence Secretary denounced the Treasury’s demand for ‘draconian’ 10 per cent cuts as ‘virtually impossible’ was published. Read more
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
A truck weaves its way through Lalomanu, after last year’s tsunami. Photo / Greg Bowker APIA – An earthquake was felt today in Samoa almost at the same hour the tsunami struck a year ago. With a magnitude of 5.5 it was significantly less than the the 8.8 earthquake [...]
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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 [...]
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
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 [...]
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The Paris landmark was closed for the second time this month due to a bomb threat but re-opened this evening. More from CNN: “The threat was called in from a phone booth near the Paris icon, French police told CNN. No further details of the threat were immediately available, but the tower reopened [...]
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Anyone want to try to make the case that the elderly woman in this story shouldn’t be able to have a pistol in her home? I can’t. Read more
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
9:59am UK, Wednesday September 29, 2010 Dominic Waghorn, Middle East correspondent The first computer virus designed to damage targets in the real world has not hit Iran’s nuclear power plant, the country’s [...]
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
First Second has announced two new titles to be released this winter. Ben Hatke’s Zita the Spacegirl and Nick Bertozzi’s Lewis & Clark are both due out in February, reports Robot 6. “Zita accidentally gets transported into space, and she has to figure out how to get home and also make friends with many alien [...]
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Smokers may soon be filtered out of the workplace because employing them is “too much trouble”, a lobby group has warned. Read more
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Davis — Are you ready for some foooooooooooot-ball ? …..uh, we mean California’s first Gubernatorial Debate, live from UC-Davis. And, trust us, you need to be watching/listening with your favorite… Read more
admin @ September 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Farmer Darrell Anderson burns whins in the hills on the outskirts of Menstrie in Perthshire. Fires are lit to clear undergrowth so that lambs don’t get trapped. I had hoped that this silhouette might work with a piece about the odd rural consituency of Ochil and Perthshire south, in which Gordon Banks is defending a [...]