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  • Fed chairman says Obama bank legislation might not be enough

    Fed chairman says Obama bank legislation might not be enough

    Boston News.Net

    The head of the US Federal Reserve has partially opposed president Barack Obama's new rules to regulate financial firms.

  • Iran offers to exchange uranium with the West

    Iran offers to exchange uranium with the West

    Boston News.Net

    The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, has told local television the country will make concessions to the West by exchanging Tehran's low-grade uranium for highly enriched uranium that it needs for its medical research

  • Drone attacks target Waziristan militants

    Drone attacks target Waziristan militants

    Boston News.Net

    US drone strikes have killed at least 10 militants in Pakistan.

  • Christian TV station shut down by Palestinian government

    Christian TV station shut down by Palestinian government

    Boston News.Net

    The Palestinian Authority has closed down the only Christian TV broadcaster in the Territories.

  • Nazi tainted Picasso to be sold by Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Nazi tainted Picasso to be sold by Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Boston News.Net

    A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which was once withdrawn from sale due to links with Nazis, is to be sold by its current owner, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

  • Tools found in Indonesia over one million years old

    Tools found in Indonesia over one million years old

    Boston News.Net

    A scientific discovery has shown early humans were living on the Indonesian island of Flores many years before first thought.

  • Nigerian politicians pushed out by acting president

    Nigerian politicians pushed out by acting president

    Boston News.Net

    The acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed his Cabinet.

  • Aid goes to Fiji after Cyclone Tomas

    Aid goes to Fiji after Cyclone Tomas

    Boston News.Net

    Aid is being sent to the Fiji islands which have been hard hit by Cyclone Tomas.

  • French policeman killed in ETA action

    French policeman killed in ETA action

    Boston News.Net

    The French government has blamed the Basque terror organisation ETA for the killing of a French police officer on Tuesday.

  • Airline staff sentenced to jail in Dubai over phone texts

    Airline staff sentenced to jail in Dubai over phone texts

    Boston News.Net

    The court said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the man and the woman had actually had an affair, which could have brought a harsher sentence.

  • Price Tag In Hand, Dems Prepare For Final Health Care Vote

    Washington Times

    Jennifer Haberkorn The Democrats' revised health care overhaul plan would cost $940 billion over the next decade and is likely to come up for a vote in the House on Sunday. The health care bill al...

  • Somaxon Stock Soars On Fda Approval Of Insomnia Treatment

    RTT News

    News ) skyrocketed over 100% to touch a new intraday high of $7.98 before retracing to the current trading price of $6.55 following FDA approval of the company's amended New Drug Application for Silen...

  • Kazakh Prison Warden Arrested For Extortion

    RadioFreeEurope

    KUSHMURUN, Kazakhstan -- The warden of a notorious Kazakh jail and one of his subordinates have been arrested on suspicion of extortion, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. Police today said the two offi...

  • U.s. Again Urges Armenia, Turkey To Honor Historic Accord

    RadioFreeEurope

    A senior U.S. official has reiterated Washington's call for Armenia and Turkey to unconditionally adhere to their U.S.-brokered agreements to normalize bilateral relations, RFE/RL's Armenian Service r...

  • Obama Signs Jobs Bill, Says More Must Be Done

    New York Post

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the nation a jobs boost by encouraging the private sector to start hiring ag...

  • Aussie Comic: Bindi Irwin Is 'creepy,' Needs Slap In Face

    New York Post

    Australian comedian Fiona O'Loughlin has sunk to a new low, calling the late Steve Irwin's 11-year-old daughter Bindi a creep who needs a slap in the face, the Herald Sun reported Friday. Viewers bran...

  • Man Pleads Guilty To 1968 Cuba Plane Hijacking

    New York Post

    A hijacker who spent more than four decades as a fugitive in Cuba pleaded guilty this morning to charges that prosecutors say could send him to the slammer for nearly 30 years.Luis Armando Pena Soltre...

  • Democrats Inch Toward Securing Votes For Health Bill

    International Herald Tribune

    Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, said that the nonpartisan budget office had determined that the package of legislation, which would cost about $940 billion over ten years, would produce “the largest...

  • O: 'deem' Scheme's Ok By Me

    New York Post

    03/18/2010 12:08 PM JFK?????? ARE YOU SERIOUS, This is about Obama and The President before him, what are you talking about. I'm not one of these idiot people that vote strictly on party. I vote what...

  • Peru: Priest On Campaign Trail Defrocked By Church

    IPS

    LIMA, Mar 18, 2010 (IPS) - A priest who is touring the country in his bid to run for president next year, at the head of a leftist movement, was indefinitely suspended by the Catholic Church for getti...

  • British Hospital To Treat Internet-addicted Teens

    Channel News Asia

    LONDON: British teenagers who cannot tear themselves away from the Internet, computer games or their mobile phone can get help from a new addiction service, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. A private L...

  • Thief In Death Pact

    New Zealand Herald

    A British bank clerk who fled court moments before she was due to be sentenced for stealing almost £120,000 from customers is believed to have killed herself in a suicide pact with her husband. Bind...

  • Activist Cleared Of Charge

    New Zealand Herald

    An animal rights activist who piloted a gyrocopter that decapitated a hunt supporter in Britain was cleared of manslaughter yesterday. Bryan Griffiths, 55, and his cameraman were trying to take off f...

  • Govt Plea To Union And Ba To Talk

    New Zealand Herald

    LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson will plead with British Airways and the Unite union over the next 24 hours to return to the negotiating table so the ...

  • French Game Show Slammed

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink PARIS - Most people would kill for the right to appear on a reality television programme. Literally so, if you believe a documentary which was broadcast on French television. The programme - ...

  • Divers Gatecrash Sharks' Meal

    New Zealand Herald

    One diver took a close-up picture of an approaching tiger shark, and another grabbed a 3m shark by the dorsal fin and was towed a short distance. Photo / Supplied Two thrill-seeking adventure divers ...

  • 'this Is Our Land, Our Country'

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink Ask Rabbi Sam White what he thinks of the global political row over plans to expand the community in which he lives, prays and studies, and he answers bluntly: "I don't see the problem. God ga...

  • Merkel: Tell Truth On Abuser Priests

    New Zealand Herald

    BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel called the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms ...

  • Famed Vienna Choir Old Boys Report Abuse

    New Zealand Herald

    VIENNA - The Vienna Boys' Choir said yesterday it had heard from eight possible abuse victims following an initial report of allegations last week. The famed institution said the men range in age fro...

  • Life Sentence Upheld For One Of China's Top Judges

    New Zealand Herald

    A court in northern China has upheld a life sentence for a former supreme court judge convicted of embezzlement and bribery, a state-run newspaper reported. Huang Songyou, former vice-president of th...

  • How Ad Men Tickle Your Tastebuds

    New Zealand Herald

    Consumer psychologist Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, of Anglia Ruskin University, says: "Food companies have many cues to play with when it comes to making sure they attract the particular consumers they want...

  • Warships Blasting Somali Pirates Out Of Water

    USA Today

    The Dutch frigate Tromp, on the horizon, disarmed three boats with nine suspected pirates and a large amount of weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles and a rocket launcher, the Dutch defense ministr...

  • Clinton Sees Progress In Arms Reduction Treaty

    USA Today

    The long-awaited replacement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — which expired Dec. 5 — is a pillar of the so-called reset in relations between the

  • Estimates Show Health Bill Would Cost $940b

    CNN

    Washington (CNN) -- A long-awaited compromise health care bill drafted by top Democrats will cost $940 billion over the next 10 years, according to a preliminary analysis released Thursday by the nonp...

  • Racist Pa Remark Stuns Wal-mart Store

    CNN

    "I can't go back in," said Patricia Covington, who was also in the store and spoke to Philly.com. "I went to Target instead. I can't bring myself to go back in there."

  • Wolves Shot To See If They Killed Woman

    CNN

    Tenino, Washington (CNN) -- Authorities in Alaska are examining two wolves to see if they are the animals that killed a jogger last week, said a wildlife biologist investigating the attack.

  • Teen's Remains Believed Found In Italian Church

    C News

    Forensic police inspect the church where the remains of a body were found Wednesday, Thursday, March 18, 2010. The case of a Italian teenager who disappeared in 1993 has returned to the spotlight afte...

  • Man Guilty Of Dog Attack Murder

    BBC

    A man has been found guilty of murdering a 16-year-old boy who was mauled by dogs before being stabbed in south London.Chrisdian Johnson, 23, used his dog as a weapon on Oluwaseyi Ogunyemi before stab...

  • Us Health Bill 'will Cut Deficit'

    BBC

    The US Congressional Budget Office says the final version of the Democrats' healthcare plan will cut the federal deficit by $138bn over 10 years.The non-partisan body said the proposed legislation, wh...

  • Choice Screen Gives Browser Boost

    BBC

    Web browser Opera says that downloads of its software have doubled since Microsoft introduced browser choice to Windows users on 1 March.Microsoft now offers customers a choice of 12 browsers rather t...

  • Clinton Urges Russia To Delay Iran Nuke Deal

    Sky News

    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Russia to delay launching Iran's nuclear plant until Tehran proves that it's not pursuing atomic weapons.

  • Brewing Tensions Between The Tea Party And Gop

    Reuters

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  • Obama Signs $17.6 Billion Jobs Bill

    Reuters

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  • Obama Signs $17.5 Billion Jobs Bill

    CBS News

    (Credit: CBS) President Obama today signed into law a $17.5 billion jobs bill that he said will spur hiring and help small business owners. In signing the bill, called the HIRE Act, the president s...

  • Qaeda-linked Imam Urges U.s. Muslim Revolt

    CBS News

    U.S.-Born Cleric Key Player in Bomb Plot? (CBS/AP) A Yemeni-American Muslim preacher known for his ties to extremists operating in the U.S. called on American Muslims in a new audio message to turn ag...

  • New Details On Madoff Prison Beating

    CBS News

    NEW YORK (CBS/AP) There are a lot of people who would love to hit Bernie Madoff in the face. According to The Wall Street Journal, someone finally did. According to three unnamed sources who spoke ...

  • Woman To Admit To Theft Of Dying Man’s Watch

    Philadelphia Daily News

    A woman charged with stealing a watch from Joaquin Rivera as the Puerto Rican community leader was dying in a Frankford hospital waiting room has agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor theft charges, a...

  • Motorist Charged With Dui In Crash With Cop Car

    Philadelphia Daily News

    A 23-year-old man was charged with DUI and other offenses after he ran a red light in his SUV and collided with a Philadelphia Police patrol car in the Northeast.The officer, not identified, was treat...

  • Grand Sport Returns To Corvette Line

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Already bargain priced for the handling, power and iconic status it delivers, the Chevrolet Corvette ratchets up its value-for-the-dollar appeal this year with a new Grand Sport model. The first Corv...

  • Reynolds, Fisher Won't Start

    Philadelphia Daily News

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - All-American guard Scottie Reynolds and Corey Fisher, Villanova's two leading scorers, were kept out of the starting lineup for today's NCAA first-round game against Robert Morris a...