Nigeria hit by New Year ‘bomb’
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At least 11 people have been killed in an explosion at a bar in a market near a barracks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, military sources have told the BBC. Read more
Oil falls below $90 amid light year-end trading (AP)
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Oil prices slipped further below $90 a barrel Friday as investors took profits amid light year-end trading volume. Despite the fall, oil prices are set to end the year around 12 percent higher than where they started — a clear signal that the global economy has returned to growth following the worst recession since World [...]
Floods cover vast area of Australia’s northeast (Reuters)
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Floodwater rose across a vast area in Australia’s northeast on Friday, inundating 22 towns, forcing 200,000 residents out of their homes, and closing a major sugar export port. Read more
Landlord arrested in Yeates murder inquiry
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THE main suspect in the murder of Joanna Yeates helped her boyfriend fix his car for a weekend trip away only hours before the landscape architect vanished. Read more
6ft 7ins passenger ‘forced to stand for two-hour flight’
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When Brooks Anderson boarded a flight to spend Christmas with his family, he didn’t expect to be standing for the next two-and-a-half hours. 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
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 [...]
World’s Oldest Tooth Discovered in Israel?
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The world’s oldest tooth? That’s what researchers believe they’ve discovered in Israel. And the 400,000-year-old homo sapien molar would throw off everything believed to be known up until now about the origins of modern man, since the earliest remains previously discovered are about 200,000 years old. More: Read more
Time to go on the record! Fill out the Change of Subject prediction survey for 2011
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First, click here and fill out this year’s 21-question survey. Then scroll down to see my picks. Twelve months from now, you may hold me to only those among the following predictions that turned out to be accurate. They will come to underscore — [...]
Australian Floods Force Residents To Flee
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12:52pm UK, Thursday December 30, 2010 Michael Burgess, Sky News Online Flooding in Australia’s rural northeast has forced hundreds of people to flee their homes as the situation goes from bad to [...]
Pettyfer ‘idolised’ ‘I Am Number Four’ team
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Alex Pettyfer has described working with Hollywood icons Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay and D.J. Caruso as a “lifelong dream”. The Wild Child actor stars as the titular character in forthcoming blockbuster I Am Number Four, which is directed by Caruso and produced by the Jurassic Park and Transformers masterminds. Speaking to Collider, Pettyfer confessed to [...]
Queen Elizabeth II becomes great grandmother
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BUCKINGHAM Palace says Queen Elizabeth has become a great-grandmother. Autumn Phillips, wife of the queen’s grandson, Peter Phillips, has given birth to a baby girl. Read more
Former Israeli president convicted of rape
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JERUSALEM — Former President Moshe Katsav was convicted Thursday of raping an employee when he was a Cabinet minister, the most serious criminal charges ever brought against a high-ranking official in Israel and a case that shocked the nation. Read more
Ten most memorable political quotations of 2010
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You had to see it to believe it. From a Delaware Senate candidate’s witchcraft talk to Sarah Palin’s word-crafting skill, 2010 was a year of classic political quotations. Don’t… Read more
Building bridges & burning whins
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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… Read more
English-language magazine provided bomb tips to 9 terror suspects, British say
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LONDON – Nine men arrested in Britain on terrorism charges last week found inspiration and bomb-making instructions in an English-language Internet magazine published by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, British investigators reportedly said. Read more
S. Korean president faces conflicting pressures as he toughens N. Korea response
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SEOUL – The latest provocations from North Korea and the resulting rightward swing in South Korean public opinion have transformed South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s strategy for dealing with the peninsula’s troublemaker. The old method: Act with caution. The new method: Get tough. Read more
Johnson & Johnson division recalls 43 OTC medicines for infants and children
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of [...]
Despite Argentina’s efforts, artifacts of Juan Peron, Evita in private hands
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BUENOS AIRES – Like a devoted curator, Mario Rotundo affectionately recounts the history of each of the objects in his musty apartment as if they were museum pieces, from the jazz LPs to a book some two centuries old to the size-9 wingtips neatly lined up in a row. Read more
Somalis are desperate for a new life, but refugees face a dangerous road
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GALKAYO, SOMALIA — Deka Mohamed Idou sat under a tree, exhausted after a grueling six-day journey. She touched her belly, yearning for her unborn child to kick. Read more