Video game firm THQ sees buying opportunities (Reuters)04.04.2008 11:44 - source: Yahoo tech Reuters - THQ Inc is looking at buying other video game developers, but the publisher of games like "Cars" and "Saints Row" can grow without making acquisitions, Chief Executive Brian Farrell said on Thursday. Read more… |
Opposition: Mugabe Has "Unleashed A War"04.04.2008 11:44 - source: CBS Zimbabwe's main opposition party says President Robert Mugabe has "unleashed a war" in his bid to stay in power after party offices were raided and foreign journalists detained five days after presidential elections. Read more… |
CBS Poll: Views On Economy At All-Time Low04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS Americans' views on the economy and the general state of the country have hit an all-time low in the history of the CBS News/New York Times poll. Eighty-one percent of those polled say the country is on the wrong track. Read more… |
40 Years Later, MLK Murder Still Haunting04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS It was 40 years ago that Martin Luther King Jr. collapsed on a motel balcony, dying from a gunshot. But for those who were there with him, the crack of the rifle has barely faded. Read more… |
McCain Cast As Warrior For Better Or Worse04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS John McCain is spending this week emphasizing his military background, a strategy that could bolster the candidate but is not without risk, writes Brian Montopoli. Read more… |
FAA Whistleblower Says He Was Threatened04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS A House committee reported the findings of its investigation into the Federal Aviation Agency's safety oversight and heard testimony from airline safety inspectors and the Transportation Department's inspector general. Read more… |
Bernanke Defends Bear Stearns Bailout04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was the top witness at a Congressional hearing called to examine whether the Fed was justified in providing up to $30 billion to facilitate the sale of Bear Stearns Cos. to JP Morgan Chase & Co. Read more… |
Are Women Getting The Wrong Operation?04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS Dr. Jon LaPook reports that hundreds of thousands of American women undergo an operation that can mean weeks of painful recovery - but there's an easier way. Read more… |
Cops: Man Threatened To Re-Enact Va. Tech04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia Tech-style massacre, authorities said. Read more… |
New Way To Cut Budget: Release Prisoners04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS Lawmakers across the country are considering releasing inmates -- even violent ones - to save money. An Associated Press analysis finds at least eight states are thinking about freeing inmates or sending some to rehab instead of prison. Read more… |
Brazil Battles Mass Dengue Fever Outbreak04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS Brazil's government has deployed the army to fight an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever in an epidemic that has sickened more than 45,000 people this year. Fifty four people have died in the state of Rio de Janeiro this year. Read more… |
Insider: Iraq Attack Was Preemptive04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS In the first Pentagon insider"s account of the run-up to war, Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense for policy, tells Steve Kroft the U.S. attack on Iraq was "anticipatory self-defense;" not about 9/11 retaliation. Read more… |
Feds To Scrap High-Tech Census System04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS Technology problems will force the Census Bureau to return to using paper and pencil to count the nation's 300 million residents in the 2010 census. Read more… |
Teen Tried To Flush Newborn Down Toilet04.04.2008 11:43 - source: CBS A 14-year-old girl gave birth in a restroom at her junior high, and the baby boy cried once before she tried to flush him down the toilet, killing him, officials said. Read more… |
Abuse, neglect seen in 90,000 infants04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com About 1 in 50 infants in the U.S. have been neglected or abused, according to the first national study of the problem in that ... Read more… |
Kidney donor posts journey online04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com We like to think there isn't anything we wouldn't do for a friend, but Michael A. Moore has the proof: On Thursday, he donated ... Read more… |
Drug costs rise as economy slides04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com People with health insurance are having more trouble paying for prescription drugs, according to surveys and health care analysts. Read more… |
Drug poisoning deaths on the rise04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com Poisoning continues to be the second-leading cause of injury deaths in the USA, outstripping deaths caused by firearms for the ... Read more… |
Set yourself up for diet success04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com If you want to lose weight and lose it for good follow the 10% rule. Try to lower your body weight by that percentage and then ... Read more… |
Therapists: Only minutes needed for best sex04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed. A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal ... Read more… |
Studies: Gene variants raise risks of nicotine addiction04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com Three independent research teams have found genetic variations that increase the risk of lung cancer, a finding that may help ... Read more… |
Study: 25% of very premature babies show autism signs04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com A small study of toddlers finds that about one-quarter of babies born very prematurely had signs of autism on an early screening ... Read more… |
Counselors struggle to reach war-zone troops04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com Soldiers in hard-to-reach outposts in Iraq and Afghanistan lack timely access to mental health care, according to Pentagon officials ... Read more… |
The Final Word: Which direction are you going, and for how long?04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com I have an elderly friend whom I visit every now and then. She's in her 90s. To her credit, she won't say where in her 90s. As ... Read more… |
AIDS drug nearly doubles heart attack risk04.04.2008 11:43 - source: USATODAY.com The anti-retroviral abacavir, included as part of many anti-AIDS regimens worldwide, almost doubled patients' chances of heart ... Read more… |