Indictments against Cheney Gonzales dismissed - Yahoo! News
Snow covered caricatures of Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. AP - Snow covered caricatures of Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush rest in a toy vehicle ... RAYMONDVILLE, Texas - A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the southern Texas prosecutor who brought the case to ...
The Associated Press: Somalia's premier wants Ethiopian troops to stay
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The Somali prime minister says he hopes Ethiopia won't withdraw its troops from Somalia unless there is an international peacekeeping force to replace them. Nur Hassan Hussein says he wants the United Nations and international community to "avoid the vacuum" and send peacekeepers to back the country's shaky transitional government. Nur Hassan Hussein ...
The Associated Press: Israel buries victims of India attack
By ARON HELLER - 4 hours ago, JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israelis on Tuesday began burying the six Jews killed in the 60-hour terror rampage in the Indian city of Mumbai, the grimness of the occasion deepened by the conviction that the victims were targeted because of their religion. The six died when gunmen struck the Chabad House, the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitch movement, on ...
The Associated Press: Court ruling brings down Thai government
By AMBIKA AHUJA - 4 hours ago, Protest leaders said a decision on whether to end the airport protests -- and allow hundreds of thousands of stranded travelers to leave the country -- would be made later Tuesday. The head of Thailand's airports says that Suvarnabhumi international airport will remain closed to passenger flights until at least Dec. 15 due to the disruption caused by ...
The Press Association: Radcliffe heads top London field
Paula Radcliffe will line up against five of the first six finishers at the Olympic Games when she chases a fourth win in next year's Flora London Marathon. Radcliffe heads a stellar field headed by gold medallist Constantina Dita, Catherine Ndereba and Zhou Chunxiu - the first three across the line in Beijing where the ill-prepared Briton had to settle for 23rd position. Radcliffe said: ...
LONDON (Dow Jones)--United Utilities said Wednesday that for the six months ended 30 September pretax profit stood at GBP305.9M versus a previous profit of GBP252.4M; pre-items pretax profit stood at GBP252.7M. Commenting, Philip Green, Chief Executive, said: "I am pleased to report another good set of results, in what is a challenging economic climate. We continue to make good progress on ...
IAEA says irradiated crops could ease food crisis | Environment | Reuters
By Mark Heinrich, The technique has been around since the 1920s and proven effective but its spread has been limited by phobias over the words "radiation" and "mutation," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement. But unlike bio-engineered genetic modification of crops (GM), irradiating plant species -- known as "induced mutation" -- does not ...
The Press Association: Robinho thinks big
Brazilian superstar Kaka heads Robinho's January transfer wish-list for Manchester City. Manager Mark Hughes is preparing to spend big next month as he gets the first real chance to dip into the vast wealth of City's new Abu Dhabi-based owners and it is Kaka that Robinho feels Hughes should break the bank for. "We have good players but if the club wants to be big, we have to sign ...
AFP: World stocks tumble as economic fears deepen
Stocks slumped in Asia, with Tokyo closing down 6.35 percent LONDON (AFP) -- World stock markets tumbled Tuesday, dragged down by heavy losses the previous day on Wall Street after the United States confirmed it was in recession and a raft of grim data suggested worse lay around the corner. A steep interest rate cut by Australia's central bank and fresh steps by Japan to tackle the credit ...
The Press Association: Chemical Ali sentenced to death
A special Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as Chemical Ali, to death for his role in the 1991 suppression of a Shiite uprising. Chemical Ali, whose real name is Ali Hassan al-Majid, is already under death sentence for the crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s. Former Defence Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai also faced the gallows in the 1980s ...
AFP: Zimbabwe says "indisciplined soldiers" beat up forex dealers
The use of foreign currency has become rampant in Zimbabwe, where inflation has reached 231 million percent Zimbabwe says "indisciplined soldiers" beat up forex dealers HARARE (AFP) -- Zimbabwe's army on Tuesday denied sending troops into the capital to beat up foreign currency dealers and blamed indisciplined forces for the violence. Soldiers clashed with foreign currency dealers ...
With Decrease in Violence in Baghdad Iraqi Women Slowly Go Back to Driving Cars - washingtonpost.com
By Mary Beth Sheridan, Ashwa Mejid, 28, is taking driving lessons at "Al Fahed for Learning Art Driver and Technical" in Baghdad. Ashwa Mejid, 28, is taking driving lessons at "Al Fahed for Learning Art Driver and Technical" in Baghdad. (Andrea Bruce - Post) Even the Iraqi army, when I am at the checkpoint, they encourage me. They say; "You're a hero! You're ...
By Mike Ramsey and Jeff Green, The automakers are facing a deadline today for the plans after Congress's partisan deadlock last month over how to pay for the loans. The companies also will report November sales today that likely extended a 15 percent slide through October. CEOs Wagoner, Alan Mulally of Ford and Robert Nardelli of Chrysler failed to show Congress in November how much ...
By Saijel Kishan, Highbridge Asia Hedge Fund Said to Limit Withdrawals (Update1) Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Highbridge Capital Management LLC, the hedge fund company owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co., is limiting client withdrawal requests to avoid selling assets at distressed prices, according to a person familiar with the matter. Investors who ask for withdrawals from the .9 billion Asia Opportunities ...
Israel buries victims of India attack - Yahoo! News
Mourners pray over the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife AP - Mourners pray over the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivkah, 28, killed in ... JERUSALEM - Throngs of mourners on Tuesday packed the funerals of the six Jews killed in the 60-hour terror rampage in the Indian city of Mumbai, a grim occasion deepened by the conviction that the victims ...
The Associated Press: EU members ready to embrace public spending plan
By ROBERT WIELAARD - 4 hours ago, The ministers were drafting a declaration calling an economic recovery proposal by the European Commission a good basis to stimulate the economy of the 27-country EU, which fell into recession by shrinking 0.2 percent in the third quarter. They welcomed public spending "in the magnitude of 1.5 percent" of the EU gross domestic product but ruled out a ...