Khaleej Times2010-09-08
JALOZAI, Pakistan – American movie star Angelina Jolie met flood victims in northwestern Pakistan and appealed to the international community to provide aid needed to help the country recover from its worst natural disaster. The flow of aid money has stalled in recent days, and officials expressed hope the two-day visit by Jolie – [...]
The Daily Mail2010-09-07
The man who shot and killed Beatles star John Lennon almost thirty years ago has been denied parole – for the sixth time. Mark David Chapman shot Lennon outside the musician’s apartment in Manhattan, New York on December 8, 1980. The now 55-year-old Chapman was interviewed at the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility [...]
The Star2010-09-07
MIAMI (Reuters) – Civil and military leaders stepped up calls on Tuesday for an obscure U.S. pastor to drop his plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, as fears grew it would fan religious hatred. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addresses the media in [...]
The Star2010-09-07
KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police residential complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, officials said, in another blow for a country grappling with devastating floods. The blast in the northwestern garrison town of Kohat came hours after the Taliban threatened more [...]
NZ Herald2010-09-07
Another big aftershock measuring 5.1 has shaken Canterbury this morning after a sleepless night for many residents with at least 10 tremors. The state of emergency in Christchurch is likely to remain in place today as authorities warn of more to come. Civil Defence has issued a warning that an [...]
Irish Times2010-09-08
LARA MARLOWE in Washington US PRESIDENT Barack Obama will today announce $300 billion (Euro236 billion) in tax breaks for businesses as part of his campaign to restore the Democratic Party’s flagging fortunes before midterm elections on November 2nd. Mr Obama will explain the measures at a community college in Cleveland, Ohio, this afternoon. Businesses [...]
How bad is it out there? Even a cursory scan of the news paints a grim picture of an America on the brink: broken roads, crumbling bridges, dimmed streetlights, shuttered clinics and scrapped school programs. Everywhere one turns, the nation’s basic infrastructure—built in the twentieth century to connect communities and care [...]
By Matt Patterson-The Washington Times
Poor Al Gore. As if an im- pending divorce and allegations of sexual misconduct from an Oregon masseuse weren’t bad enough (he has since been cleared of wrongdoing), the apparent collapse of “cap-and-trade” legislation in the U.S. Senate has driven the former vice president to despair.
As reported [...]
By KARL ROVE
In what will rank as one of the all-time presidential PR disasters, we’re now well over half way through what the White House called “the summer of recovery.” And what a recovery it’s been.
Earlier this month, first-time claims for unemployment hit a nine-month high. The unemployment rate remains at [...]
By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — When the 9/11 museum opens in two years, its most poignant items will include two $2 bills, some cellphone bills, a 1993 “Welcome Back to the World Trade Center” mug and the contents of a woman’s pocketbook.
All have been donated to the museum, which is [...]
