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Nov 4 2009
The bodies of three missing North Dakota college softball players were found Tuesday inside a Jeep after authorities, aided by signals from the women’s last desperate phone calls, spotted the vehicle submerged in a farm pond. Police Lt. Rod...
Oct 27 2009
A vacation in Honduras can conjure up visions of spectacular destinations: the Mayan ruins of Copán, cloud forest after cloud forest filled with exotic flora and fauna, the gorgeous beaches and the dolphin-filled waters off the island of Roatán. But...
Oct 26 2009
Conservative columnist George Will went after former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday, saying the Bush administration could have used some “dithering” before they invaded Iraq. Will was responding to the VP’s widely-circulated...
Oct 22 2009
Firms in the US which received billions of dollars of government aid in the financial crisis are to be told to cut the pay of top executives, reports say. The seven companies that received the most aid from the US Treasury will have to reduce the basic...
Oct 21 2009
The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror captives off this remote base “with 10 days notice,'’ the prison camps commander said Tuesday. Navy Rear Adm. Tom Copeman told...
Oct 9 2009
Students in a UCLA chemistry lab watched helplessly Thursday afternoon as a classmate suddenly slashed the neck of a fellow student, causing serious injuries. The attack occurred just past noon on the sixth floor of Young Hall, prompting swift police...
Sep 24 2009
Poor old Gordon Brown. His joy at being given a World Statesman of the Year award must have been severely tempered by having to deny he’s been snubbed by Barack Obama and upstaged by Muammar Gaddafi on the same day. All that and denying...
Sep 24 2009
The memory of the Vietnam War is holding an increasingly powerful sway over President Obama and his White House team as they explore ways to avoid the surge of troops into Afghanistan urgently being demanded by the US military. Mr Obama and his foreign...
Sep 23 2009
Despite the prospect of an expensive two-week hospital stay, Aloy, 58, did not worry. France’s national health insurance, supplemented by a private policy for co-payments, covered the entire bill — from doctor’s fees to medication to a...
Sep 22 2009
However, the US president is planning to hold personal meetings with the leaders of Russia, China and Japan. The decision follows anger in America over the release of the Lockerbie bomber from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds last month. Mr...