Archive for January 2010
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A Spanish lawmaker says he was stunned to find that the FBI used his photograph as part of a digitally enhanced image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today. Gaspar Llamazares says he
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Twenty-six patients at Cuba's top hospital for the mentally ill died this week during a cold snap, the government said Friday. Human rights leaders cited negligence and a lack of resources as factors in the
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A 1,000 strong crowd answered a national government call to march here on Saturday against terrorism and in support of the Togo national side following the deadly attack on their team bus. "We are here
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A former Iraqi airline pilot who has been in custody for seven months was accused on Saturday by Iraqi authorities of orchestrating the 2003 bombing of the UN Baghdad headquarters in which 22 people were
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A church in southern Malaysia has been vandalised, apparently the latest in a string of attacks on Christian houses of worship in this Muslim-majority nation, police said Saturday. Eleven churches _ as well as one
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Johnson & Johnson issued a massive recall of over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol, Motrin and St. Joseph's aspirin because of a moldy smell that has made people sick. It included caplet and geltab products sold in
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Russia has suspended flights of one of its main fighter jets, the Sukhoi Su-27, until an investigation is completed into the causes of a crash earlier this week in the Far East, local news agencies
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday said the replacement for the START nuclear arms reduction treaty, currently in the final stages of negotiation, would need to be simultaneously ratified in the US, Ria Novosti reported."I
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"Precious," "Avatar" and "Inglourious Basterds" won early prizes on Friday at the Critics' Choice Awards, a ceremony that has an uncanny knack of foretelling Oscar success. Quentin Tarantino's Nazi revenge fantasy "Inglourious Basterds" picked up
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US President Barack Obama, flanked by his predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, on Saturday said the two former presidents would lead a national drive to raise money for Haiti's earthquake survivors. "By coming
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