Liberians suspend Ghana protest24.03.2008 21:44 - source: BBC News Liberian women refugees halt a five-week sit-in protest against their repatriation from a refugee camp in Ghana. Read more… |
Football: Beckham seeks caps24.03.2008 21:45 - source: BBC News David Beckham says he would be honoured to earn his 100th cap against France but wants to continue beyond that. Read more… |
Comoros president orders assault24.03.2008 21:45 - source: BBC News The president of the Comoros islands authorises military force to retake the island of Anjouan from rebels. Read more… |
JP Morgan raises Bear Stearns bid24.03.2008 21:45 - source: BBC News JP Morgan Chase raises its offer for troubled bank Bear Stearns to $10 a share, from an original $2. Read more… |
Earthquake strikes northern Chile24.03.2008 21:45 - source: BBC News A 6.1-magnitude quake hits northern Chile close to the border with Bolivia, the US Geological Survey says. Read more… |
US mayor charged in texting scandal24.03.2008 21:45 - source: BBC News The mayor of the US city of Detroit is charged with perjury over explicit text messages he allegedly sent to a top aide. Read more… |
Tibetan riots continue in China24.03.2008 21:45 - source: BBC News Riots continue in Tibetan-populated areas of China, with state media reporting the death of a policeman. Read more… |
Pakistan PM vows to free judges24.03.2008 21:45 - source: BBC News New Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gillani says he will order the release of all judges detained under emergency rule. Read more… |
Flu flattens part of workforce24.03.2008 21:45 - source: USATODAY.com During the second and third weeks of February, every state except Florida reported widespread flu activity. The increased absences ... Read more… |
Can wealth affect health?24.03.2008 21:45 - source: USATODAY.com A few years ago, psychologist Sheldon Cohen conducted an experiment. First, he asked adults a key question about their childhoods. ... Read more… |
Food program brings together schools, farmers24.03.2008 21:45 - source: USATODAY.com Schools are joining a growing movement to make sure kids get produce, meats and dairy from area farmers who have it fresh and ... Read more… |
Top 10 Reasons To Have Sex Tonight24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS When you're in the mood, it's a sure bet that the last thing on your mind is boosting your immune system or maintaining a healthy weight. Yet good sex offers those health benefits and more. Read more… |
Japan Pushes For Easier Emissions Target24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS Japan will push for an easier target for reducing greenhouse gases in the next international pact on global warming than in the previous one, a top bureaucrat said Monday. Read more… |
New Pakistan PM Elected, Judges Freed24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS Pakistan"s new prime minister ordered the release of judges arrested last November under orders from President Pervez Musharraf, within minutes of winning a sweeping majority in a vote by members of the parliament to elect the new prime minister. Read more… |
1987 Message In Bottle Drifts 1,735 Miles24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS A 1987 message from an elementary school student in a suburb of Seattle washed up on the shore of a tiny Alaska fishing villag 21 years later. Read more… |
Protesters Disrupt Oympics Torch Ceremony24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS Press freedom and pro-Tibet protesters disrupted the flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Games and the early stages of the torch relay. Read more… |
Stocks Jump On New Bear Stearns Bid24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS Wall Street extended its big advance as investors applauded a new agreement that will give Bear Stearns Cos. shareholders five times the payout that was set in a JPMorgan Chase & Co. buyout deal a week ago. Read more… |
Detroit Mayor Charged In Sex Scandal24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS The Wayne County prosecutor says she plans to bring perjury and other charges against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide. Kilpatrick said he expects to be cleared. Read more… |
McCain Walks A Fine Line On Bush Policy24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS Throughout a week-long trip that took him to more than a dozen meetings with leaders in five countries, John McCain walked a fine line as he confronted perhaps the central dilemma of his presidential campaign, the Washington Post reports. Read more… |
XM-Sirius Radio Merger Gets Green Light24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS The Justice Department has approved Sirius Satellite Radio's $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio. Read more… |
5 Found Dead In Iowa City Home24.03.2008 21:45 - source: CBS The bodies of a woman and four children were found in an Iowa City home. Officers said they were not able to find the adult male resident, Steven Sueppel, and that the family's van was missing. Read more… |
EA CFO Warren Jenson leaving (AP)24.03.2008 21:45 - source: Yahoo tech AP - Warren Jenson, the chief financial officer of Electronic Arts Inc. since 2002, is leaving the video game publisher in the midst of its hostile buyout bid for smaller rival Take-Two. Read more… |
Intelligence community to start using virtual worlds (InfoWorld)24.03.2008 21:45 - source: Yahoo tech InfoWorld - IBM announced? last week? that it would integrate a virtual worlds platform into Lotus Sametime, Big Blue's collaboration software, that will be used by the U.S. intelligence agencies to communicate on key topics such as terrorism. Read more… |
Plastic SCM 2.0 set for parallel development projects (InfoWorld)24.03.2008 21:45 - source: Yahoo tech InfoWorld - Codice Software on Monday introduced Plastic SCM 2.0, a software configuration management system that the company said streamlines how applications are assembled. Read more… |
Google suggests safe harbor for wireless mics (InfoWorld)24.03.2008 21:45 - source: Yahoo tech InfoWorld - Google has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to carve out a set of off-limits channels for proposed wireless devices that could operate in unused television spectrum bands, in hopes that the proposal will help the FCC approve the use of so-called white-space devices. Read more… |