World News
 Floods threaten first global warming islands
Guatemala News.Net
Residents of the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea have been pleading for help from the international community since their homes began sinking into the ocean.
 Japan executes two men by hanging
Guatemala News.Net
Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, and Hidenori Ogata, 33, faced the hangman's noose after being convicted of multiple murders.
 People beat porn movie teacher to death
Guatemala News.Net
The Times of India has reported that an Indian teacher has been beaten to death by an angry mob after making a homemade porn film with one of his students.
No charges filed in probe of other Jackson doctors
Washington Times
LOS ANGELES (AP) — State investigators probing the death of Michael Jackson have decided not to file charges against seven doctors who treated him, authorities said Wednesday.The doctors were pa...
Haynesworth must pass test, won't be with starters
Washington Times
Haynesworth must pass a conditioning test in order to practice. And, assuming the test is passed, the two-time All-Pro defensive lineman with the $100 million contract won't be practicing with the sta...
Congress ready to pass aviation safety measures
Washington Times
In this photo taken June 16, 2010, John Kausner of Clarence Center, N.Y., left, who's 24-year-old daughter Ellyce died in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Feb. 2009, talks to Jef...
Arizona preparing appeal of immigration ruling
Washington Times
Now that the most controversial elements of Arizona’s immigration law (which still goes into effect Thursday) have been blocked by a state judge, will the controversy quiet down?
Initial jobless claims drop to 457,000
Washington Times
Labor Department said Thursday that first-time claims for unemployment insurance dropped by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 457,000.Claims have fluctuated this month because of temporary seasonal fact...
Jury of Rangel's House peers meets in ethics case
Washington Times
Rep. Charles Rangel 's congressional peers is ready to publicly discuss charges of ethical misdeeds. But the political discussions outside the room will be far more significant.Eight House lawmakers w...
4 killed in plane crash at Alaska military base
Washington Times
Air Force Base. Their names have not been released pending notification of relatives.The plane was on a local training run Wednesday when it crashed. Witnesses say the crash sent a fireball rising hun...
2nd U.S. sailor's body recovered in Afghanistan
Washington Times
This photo, displayed on a leaflet that was distributed by the U.S. military to civilians in Logar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 25, 2010, shows a missing U.S. Navy sailor. The Navy id...
87 illegal immigrants nabbed in Va., D.C.
Washington Times
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Nearly 90 illegal immigrants who have committed crimes or ignored orders to leave the country were arrested in a two-part sweep in Virginia and the District of Columbia, U.S...
Azerbaijani Journalists 'Assaulted' In Baku
RadioFreeEurope
BAKU -- An opposition journalist in Azerbaijan says he and another reporter were assaulted on the outskirts of Baku, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.Elmin Badalov, who writes for the opposition d...
Another Showdown For The Two Faces Of Serbia
RadioFreeEurope
Around 11 p.m. on July 24, the editor of the Belgrade-based weekly "Vreme" (and a contributor to RFE/RL's Balkans Service) Teofil Pancic boarded city bus No. 83 for home. Two young men on th...
Kosovo Ruling Accelerates Erosion Of European Order
RadioFreeEurope
The decision by a UN court on Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence will not have immediate consequences. But it has become another element in the general erosion of the European order...
Gulf cleanup will change once oil stops for good
New York Post
NEW ORLEANS — The government's point man for the Gulf spill plans to meet with coastal parish officials Thursday to talk about what's next now that the oil has stopped flowing.Retired Coast Guar...
George Clooney's girlfriend in cocaine scandal
New York Post
George Clooney's girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis was implicated in a sex and drugs scandal after an escort testified that she snorted cocaine at a nightclub linked to an alleged high-class prostitution ...
Dozens Killed in Floods and Storms in Pakistan
International Herald Tribune
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - About 150 people have been killed by flashfloods and bad weather in Pakistan in the last week, with the country's northwest and Baluchistan provinces bearing the brunt of...
Judge expected to rule on Aqueduct ’racino’ deal
New York Post
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — A state judge is expected to rule on whether the New York Lottery can award a contract to a Malaysia-based company to operate 4,500 electronic slot machines at the Aqueduct r...
NYC jail doc accused of sexual abuse
New York Post
A doctor at New York City’s jail has been accused of sexually abusing a female inmate. City officials say Franck Leveille was charged Wednesday with criminal sexual act and sexual abuse. The all...
City's ABCs of clean dining
New York Post
07/29/2010 10:00 AM DemsRDone - I'm not a fan of pushcart food, but I've seen the way t hey clean them. Most restaurants in NYC are way more septic!
Israel world's 8th happiest country
Jerusalem Post
Israel is tied with Canada, Switzerland, and Australia as the world's eighth happiest country out of 155 surveyed, according to a Gallup World Poll posted by
Hamas bans women's underwear from shop windows
Jerusalem Post
The Hamas Islamic movement that controls the Gaza Strip has banned shops from displaying women’s underwear in their windows, saying it offends public morality.The prohibition is intended to “resto...
Castro’s memoirs due within weeks
The Herald
Now 83-year-old Fidel Castro has decided to slip into a gentler gear with the release of a book telling the story of the Cuban Revolution. His memoirs, The Strategic Victory, describe the years before...
French mother confesses to eight baby murders
Channel News Asia
DOUAI, France : A French mother admitted killing eight newborn babies Thursday, investigators said, as a shocked nation struggled to digest the latest grisly tragedy of village life. Dominique Cottrez...
French mother confesses to killing eight babies
The Independent
A 47-year-old woman has confessed to killing her eight new-born children and hiding their bodies in a village in northern France, a judicial source said today. The woman and her husband, ...
2nd sailor found dead in Afghanistan
CNN
Deen Mohammad Darwish, a Logar province official, said Newlove's body was found in the Baraki Barak district of the province early on Wednesday. Newlove's family was notified the same day, the Pentago...
Police: Woman admits killing 8 babies
CNN
Douai, France (CNN) -- French prosecutors said Thursday they charged a woman with murder after she admitted giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period in northern France.
French mother confesses to killing eight babies
C News
A cameraman films in front the house where the bodies of eight newborn children were found in two different places in the house and the garden in the village of Villers-au-Tertre, northern France, Jul...
Suspected Nazi charged in over 430,000 deaths
C News
BERLIN - Prosecutors in Germany have charged a suspected Nazi camp guard with helping to kill 430,000 Jews in the Holocaust and personally shooting 10 others. State prosecutors in the western city of...
U.K. vicar conducted 360 sham marriages
C News
LONDON - A vicar was found guilty on Thursday of conducting hundreds of sham marriages between African nationals and cash-strapped eastern Europeans to allow illegal immigrants to gain residency in Br...
Maradona hits out at 'betrayal'
BBC
Diego Maradona has accused the Argentine Football Association of "lies and betrayal" after his contract as national coach was not renewed.Maradona claimed national team manager Carlos Bilard...
Man injured in explosion in city
BBC
Man injured in explosion in city A man is treated for minor injuries after an explosion in a container believed to be storing detonators in Inverness.
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