Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has turned to writing love songs as he recovers from an attack that left him with a broken nose and two broken teeth, reports say.
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In a lawsuit, the Christian non-profit organization Feed the Children claims that former leader Larry Jones accepted bribes and hid pornography. KWTV’s Charles Bassett reports from Oklahoma City.
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An escaped British criminal dubbed “the Facebook fugitive” has become an internet hit, taunting police via the online social networking site and notching up nearly 30,000 “friends”.
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A lone gunman killed four people in a rampage in a Finnish shopping mall and also murdered his former girlfriend before being found dead himself.
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A jubilant crowd has welcomed a new decade on the foreshores of the Sydney Harbour, in what organisers are calling the biggest New Year’s Eve show in the world.
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The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a terrorist attack on an agency base in Afghanistan.
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More than 1 million New Year revelers in Sydney, Australia, get one of the world’s biggest parties started — bidding farewell to the tough year that was 2009 and welcoming a new decade.
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The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market is healing as the economy slowly recovers.
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AP – The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market is healing as the economy slowly recovers.
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AP – A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend then slaying four workers at a suburban shopping mall near Helsinki before turning his gun on himself, police said.
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AP – As Ronak Ray hunted for his flight gate, he prepared for the prospect of a security guard peering through his clothes with a full body scanner. But Ray doesn’t mind: what he gives up in privacy he gets back in security.
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AP – The Nigerian suspected in the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner had stayed on in Yemen illegally after his visa expired three months ago and should have been stopped by authorities from leaving the country, Yemeni security officials said Thursday.
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Reuters – Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.
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Reuters – Insurgents have kidnapped two French journalists, their translator and driver northeast of the Afghan capital, a police official said on Thursday.
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AP – The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, paving the way for the procedure.
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AP – As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.
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Time.com – The populace is anxious about the bicentennial of the founding of the country because really bad things seem to happen every 100 years
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AFP – An announcement that music legend Van Morrison had become a father again aged 64 was a hoax, apparently due to hackers targetting his website, a statement issued in his name said Thursday.
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KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber penetrated a foreign army base in Afghanistan and killed seven CIA employees on Wednesday, one of the U.S. agency’s largest death tolls, while four Canadian troops and a journalist died in a separate attack.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Endangered species from polar bears to giant salamanders, great white sharks to beluga whales and Namibian quiver trees to Cuban crocodiles will have their day on the Internet throughout 2010.
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NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Prudential Financial Inc
said on Thursday it completed the planned sale of its
minority stake in a retail brokerage to Wells Fargo & Co
for $4.5 billion in cash.
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NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc shares fell
1 percent on Thursday after it said a U.S. decision on whether
to approve the company’s new version of its big-selling Prevnar
vaccine that fights pneumonia and meningitis would push past
the deadline.
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Dec 31 (Reuters) – Anika Therapeutics Inc said it
acquired a unit of privately held Italian company Fidia
Farmaceutici Spa in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $34
million.
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KABUL (Reuters) – Insurgents have kidnapped two French journalists, their translator and driver northeast of the Afghan capital, a police official said on Thursday.
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