 Terror principal Dulmatin shot down in Jakarta Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital,... | |
 Grenades thrown at World Vision employeesPakistani police have reported a militant incident at the offices of a US-based Christian aid... |
 Aung San Suu Kyi banned from election platformIn Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the... |
 Rohingya refugees finding life hard in BangladeshBangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya... |
 Israeli settlement announcement riles BidenUS Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east... |
 Apology issued to Libyan leader by USThe US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar... |
| China now able to sail through Sea of Japan China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North... |
 Letterman blackmailer pleads guilty to get off lightlyA former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television... |
 Prisoners allegedly raped by corrupt officialsTop prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting... |
 Senegal homosexuals condemned on all sidessenegal, africa,... |
| Poll: Obama more popular than Congress By Liz Sidoti ASSOCIATED PRESS Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Obama, a bright... |
| German diocese to examine choir abuse By Juergen Baetz and Kirsten Grieshaber ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN (AP) -- A spokesman for the Regensburg Catholic diocese in Germany says the diocese will investigate allegations of physical and... |
| Gates keeps up pressure on Iran with Gulf visit By Anne Gearan ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was keeping up the pressure on Iran on Wednesday, consulting with the United States' closest and most... |
| Google to digitize old books from Rome, Florence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME -- Google says it will scan up to 1 million old books in national libraries in Rome and Florence, including works by astronomer Galileo Galilei, in what's being described... |
| McDermott Subsidiary, Thermax Form Indian JV To Build Boilers - Update News ) said Wednesday that one of its subsidiaries has set up a joint venture with Indian energy-environment solutions provider Thermax Ltd. to supply equipment to the Indian power sector. Houston,... |
| Bank Of America To End Overdraft Fees On Debit Purchases - Update News ) said Wednesday that beginning this summer, it will eliminate overdraft fees on debit card purchases. As part of the move, the bank said it will only allow debit card purchases to go through at... |
| Business Associate Of Kyrgyz President's Son Wanted By Italy BISHKEK -- A business associate of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev's son says he will step down as head of his company after a warrant was issued for his arrest in Italy, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service... |
| Tide Of Protest Engulfs More Russian Cities Like millions of Russians, Tatyana had been bracing for the annual hike in utility tariffs that comes with the new year.But her bill for January exceeded her worst nightmares. It had jumped 25... |
| Focus On Iran As Prague's One World Festival Kicks Off of Europe's largest human rights film festival shows a 20-something brunette in leather pants ready to lasso, cowgirl-style, the attention of potential attendees.She's also wearing a green jacket.... |
| Yanukovych Eyes Coalition, Cabinet This Week KYIV (Reuters) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych pushed today for a new ruling coalition within the week to avoid snap elections and tackle a deep economic crisis.The ex-Soviet republic,... |
| Protesters Try To Send Presidential Son Into Exile NARYN, Kyrgyzstan -- Some 3,000 people rallied today in the central Kyrgyz city of Naryn to demand that President Kurmanbek Bakiev's son, Maksim, resign as head of a state agency and leave the... |
| New OSCE Media Representative Faces Challenge Of Upholding Universality Miklos Haraszti, the representative on freedom of the media for the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), completes his second term in office today. Haraszti, a former Hungarian... |
| Uncharted Waters Of The Holocaust In The Soviet Union The American Forum of Russian Jewry, with the help of the Russian Mission to the UN, launched on March 9 at the UN headquarters in New York the "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust on the Territory of... |
| LI 'hit' mom got glammed up before arrest She's a coldblooded hottie. The Long Island mom of four charged with trying to hire a hit man to knock off her hubby looked in her mug shot like she had just walked out of a salon -- and it turns out... |
| Kathryn Bigelow: How Oscar Found Ms. Right No matter if they’re a source of loathing and laughter, the Oscars matter as a cultural flashpoint, perhaps now more than ever. All those Oscar viewers might not be ticket buyers, but when they... |
| Iran and U.S. Trade Barbs in Kabul Visit Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , shot back Wednesday at American allegations that Iran was providing support to Afghan insurgents, accusing the United States of playing its own “double game” in the... |
| WARNING TO MR. BIDEN: WE NEGOTIATE LIKE WE DRIVE Memo to Mr. Biden: Everything you need to know about these people, my friends, the Israelis, you'll see from your motorcade window.You may see the garbage piling up alongside the streets, the... |
| PM Brown fires gun on British election with budget date LONDON : The British government will unveil a pre-election budget on March 24, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday, fuelling expectations of a general election in May. Brown added that... |
| Families: Three Americans detained in Iran call home MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran. When the time came, the conversation lasted... |
| Lag time in tracing tainted food puts kids at risk Dee Clements, food services director for the Reef-Sunset Unified School District in Kings County, Calif., says she heard from three different USDA staff members about a recent beef... |
| 'Jihad Jane' held in plot to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks An indictment against a woman from suburban Philadelphia accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an American woman... |
| Actor Corey Haim dies Actor Corey Haim, 38, pronounced dead at Burbank, California, hospital Haim's death appears to be accidental, possibly a drug overdose, police say Haim's most famous role was in 1987 movie "The... |
| Analyst: Trouble at Chrysler NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The car company that is off to the worst start of 2010 isn't Toyota. It's Chrysler Group. Industry experts say that even though Chrysler's overall sales are down only 3%... |
| Airlines seek exemption to delay rule JetBlue, Delta ask for exemption at JFK to new tarmac delay limit Rule will impose fines on airlines with flights that sit on tarmac for more than three hours Major runway closure at JFK prompted... |
| Rollins: 'Hurt Locker' Oscar timely Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He was White... |
| Woman charged with recruiting jihadists online American Colleen LaRose was indicted Tuesday March 9, 2010, accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas. A federal indictment charges that Colleen R.... |
| Lost Boys actor Haim dies aged 38 The Lost Boys actor Corey Haim has died aged 38, the Los Angeles coroner's office has confirmed.A spokeswoman said he passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at Providence St Joseph... |
| Man guilty of murdering daughter A 48-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering his teenage daughter.Gary Fisher, from Solihull, West Midlands, had denied the murder of Chanelle Sasha Jones, 17, in a car park in Ceredigion on... |
| UK global clout 'waning' - Hague The Conservatives have pledged to reverse what they say is the UK's "shrinking" influence in the world.Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said the UK's economic and diplomatic clout had... |
| Daly 'fighting' to save marriage Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly has said that her marriage to fellow TV host Vernon Kay is "worth fighting" for.It is the first time Daly has spoken on TV about her husband since... |
| Carla Bruni: Sarkozy Would Never Cheat What is even more surreal is asking a taxi driver to take you to a secret address across the city, so secret in fact, even you don't know it. We wait in a corner bistro cafe until it's time to go up... |
| Overdose Kills Eighties Pin-up Corey Haim The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the Lost Boys star died at 3.30am on Wednesday. He was found unresponsive at an apartment in Oakwood, near Burbank, said the LAPD's North Hollywood... |
| Driver Smashes Through Gardens In Cop Chase download Flash from the Adobe download website. Jeffrey Haywood was followed by police helicopters and cars, as he drove through garden fences trying to escape. Pedestrians were forced to... |
| Junta bars Suu Kyi from election RANGOON: A new election law unveiled by Burma's ruling military yesterday bars pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from running in upcoming elections, forcing her own political party to say... |
| Ex-producer admits Letterman threats NEW YORK: A former television producer has admitted trying to extract vengeance and money from David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night talk show host's affairs with... |
| Time for rethink on Indian race issue Kumar, 33, was a single, hard-working Indian engineer who came to Australia last year for work.He settled in Mildura, in northwest Victoria, picking fruit on contract for local producers and studying... |
| Police tracked terrorist for weeks INDONESIAN police were shadowing Bali bombing planner Dulmatin for several weeks before shooting him and two other suspected terrorists in execution-style killings in... |
| US condemns Israeli plan US attempts to restart the Middle East peace process were in serious doubt last night after Israel announced 1600 new homes in sensitive East Jerusalem during a visit by US Vice-President Joe... |
| Indian bill backs women MPs INDIAN politicians and activists have hailed a historic vote to reserve one-third of all state and national parliamentary seats for women, even as the 14-year-old bill faced stiff opposition in the... |
| Bulger killer posed 'trivial' risk on release LONDON: A psychiatric report that paved the way for the release of Jon Venables, one of the killers of British toddler James Bulger, concluded that he posed a "trivial" risk to the... |
