The Obama administration in the US has welcomed an action by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze for 10-months any new settlement construction in the West Bank.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:29:00 -0500

British officials have told panel members reviewing Britain's role in the Iraq war that there was little information that Iraq's then president, Saddam Hussein, had been colluding with al-Qaeda.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:00:53 -0500

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India have launched their commitment to combating climate change.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:46 -0500

Two uninvited guests managed to make their way into the recent state dinner at the White House, the US Secret Service has confirmed.
Big News Network.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:23:00 -0500

Pakistani prosecutors have charged seven suspects of planning and helping to carry out last year's terror attacks in Mumbai.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:10:39 -0500

Academy Award-winning director, Roman Polanski, has been granted bail in Switzerland.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:47:59 -0500

A European medical society has expressed alarm that there is widespread opposition in Europe against the swine flu vaccine.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:42:10 -0500

The foreign-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has reported the arrests of students from universities across the country.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:33:22 -0500

Scientists in New Zealand have warned there is a chance a huge flotilla of icebergs may reach the country.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:25:59 -0500

The UK government has been accused of row allowing the funding of extremism by Tory leader David Cameron.
Big News Network.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:19:06 -0500

Ninety-five percent of animal poisonings in which the specific cause is known were done on purpose, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Nature and Parks Authority (NPA). The victims of ...
Jerusalem Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:18:01 -0500

PORT OF SPAIN: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Trinidad on Thursday, on the eve of a three-day Commonwealth summit she is to open. The monarch flew in to the capital Port of Spain on a special...
Channel News Asia Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:11:41 -0500

BUDAPEST: A student at a university in southern Hungary opened fire on his classmates on Thursday, killing one person and wounding three, the university said. A first-year male student was killed in t...
Channel News Asia Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:11:39 -0500

Philippine security forces took control of two southern towns yesterday and arrested 20 men linked to the murder of 57 people in a brutal election-related massacre this week, authorities said. Soldie...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:07:13 -0500

The jury in alleged New York Mafia boss John Gotti jnr's racketeering and murder trial was sent home yesterday until next week after failing to reach a verdict in 10 days of deliberations. The judge ...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:07:10 -0500

DUBLIN ? Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse by priests to protect the church's reputation, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year ...
USA Today Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:05:47 -0500

Obama placed calls from the Oval Office to 10 U.S. servicemen and women — two each in the Army, Navy, Air Force, the Marines and the Coast Guard — stationed in combat zones in Iraq and Afg...
USA Today Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:05:46 -0500

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Constitutional Court struck down a decades-old law Thursday that had punished men for making false promises of marriage to engage in sex with women.
MSNBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:04:52 -0500

Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- NATO's secretary-general is confident that "all allies will step up to the plate" and provide more soldiers to the fight in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama ...
CNN Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:03:39 -0500

BBC Sport's Piers Newbery Tweeting from the O2 Arena: "So everyone clear? Federer & Del Potro are about to play a tennis match, the winner gets to play another one. I think. Lively crowd ton...
BBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:00:23 -0500

Unusually warm and cold periods in Earth's pre-industrial climate history are linked to how the oceans responded to temperature changes, say scientists.The researchers focused particularly on interval...
BBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:00:21 -0500

Speaking about the coverage of the case, O'Neal told the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper: "I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye." On Sunday, more than...
Sky News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:00:17 -0500

Spaceflight Now website. It is believed that a comet or asteroid hit Mars and diverted the rock off the planet's surface, before it crashed in Antarctica 13,000 years ago. In 1996...
Sky News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:00:16 -0500

The plants, some of which are up to 1.5m in height, were allegedly found in a national park in the Coffs Harbour region.Police estimate they have a potential street value of $1.25 million.Following th...
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:44:27 -0500

THE US dollar came roaring back from recent weakness today, scrambling higher against the euro, Australian dollar and other key rivals in thin trading as fears of a debt default by Dubai World roiled ...
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:44:26 -0500

Crowds six to seven people deep lined the streets of Manhattan on Thursday for the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as merrymakers gathered nationwide for massive parades in cities such as D...
New York Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:24:52 -0500

The 26-year-old man was driving a grey BMW at Aplin Road, Bonnyrigg Heights, when a white sedan pulled up in front of him near the intersection of Brown Road, police say.Two men then got out of the ca...
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:20:08 -0500

A FIRE which broke out in a shop in Sydney's east, forcing the evacuation of 10 people living above the shop, has been contained.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:20:07 -0500

OFFICERS investigating the alleged murder of a woman during a botched bag snatch in Sydney in 1987 have arrested and charged a third man.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:20:05 -0500

The 38-year-old victim suffered minor facial injuries when he was shot at through the driver's side window outside a house in Amarco Crescent, Maribyrnong, about 6.30pm (AEDT) yesterday, police said.T...
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:20:04 -0500

AN alleged bikie has been charged with liquor and other offences after a raid of a birthday party at a bikie club in Sydney's west discovered dozens of intoxicated underage drinkers, police say.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:20:03 -0500

GOLD defied market expectations for a holiday-thinned correction and hit a new record high above $US1195 a troy ounce, before then trading lower as the euro dipped against the US dollar.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:20:02 -0500

EUROPEAN stocks fell sharply today, suffering their biggest one-day drop since April in response to the unfolding debt crisis in Dubai.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:19:59 -0500

VINELAND, N.J. - An annual pep rally at a southern New Jersey high school nearly turned tragic when a bonfire exploded, scattering numerous wood pallets. But only one minor injury was reported in Wed...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:43 -0500

Conventional thinking on Phish holds that it's love or hate - either you are into the world's largest cult rock group or you shower the quarter-century-old jam band with disdain, predictably accompani...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:41 -0500

FEASTERVILLE, Pa. - Suburban Philadelphia police say they're looking for a man who got into the Thanksgiving spirit by pilfering poultry. Lower Southampton Township Police are looking say the man has...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:39 -0500

Owners Chris Fetfatzes and Heather Annechiarico in their new, beer-centric cafe at 11th and Fitzwater. Patrons can buy beer to drink at the table or take home.
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:37 -0500

The Kelly siblings at the family's vacation home in Ocean City, N.J., during the 1940s (from left): Elizabeth, Grace, Margaret Kelly Conlan, and John Jr. All are deceased.
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:33 -0500

Dr. Marque Allen and his wife Yvette returned to Rowan University today to announce their gift of $100,000 to start a new scholarship at the new Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. ( Ed Hille ...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:18:32 -0500

Thousands lined the streets of Manhattan on Thursday for the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and crowds gathered nationwide for parades in cities such as Detroit and Philadelphia.
New York Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:58:42 -0500

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, her lawyer and Norway's government said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps they ...
New York Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:58:41 -0500

GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP) -- After two months in a Swiss jail, Roman Polanski prepared Thursday for the splendid captivity of his $1.6 million chalet in one of world's most luxurious winter resorts.
New York Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:58:40 -0500

Lebanon's newly formed cabinet has agreed on a policy statement that acknowledges Hezbollah's right to use its weapons against Israel, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday.According to the repo...
Haaretz Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:14:51 -0500

An IDF bomb squad detonated a 15-kilogram explosive seized during a search conducted along the Egyptian border on Thursday. Late Wednesday night, IDF troops on regular patrols spotted a suspicious ...
Jerusalem Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:11:29 -0500

A seemingly unending wave of sex scandals, many of them involving children, has decimated the once-proud standing of the Catholic church in Ireland and rendered its power a pale shadow of what it wa...
The Independent Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:09:47 -0500

Is Dubai the “New Lehmans”? Not quite, at least on the broad numbers. Lehmans went down with debts of $500bn; the disarray in Dubai looks like losing everyone involved about $80bn, certa...
The Independent Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:09:43 -0500

ABUJA: Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is receiving treatment for an acute condition of inflammation of the wall of the heart at a Saudi hospital, his doctor said on Thursday. He "is responding rema...
Channel News Asia Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:04:59 -0500

A government official receives a vaccination during a H1N1 swine flu virus vaccination session for members of the national parliament, in Bern, Switzerland.
MSNBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:58:22 -0500

Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts thought they were going to give thanks with pantry leftovers Thursday as their mission drew to a close, but found turkey dinners awaiting them.
MSNBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:58:20 -0500

Retailers hoping for a holiday miracle Nov. 23: On Chicago's "Magnificent Mile," one of the longest shopping strips in the country, this holiday season will be critical to the survival of many stores....
MSNBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:58:19 -0500

RAPID CITY, S.D. - A Nebraska man who told a judge he fled with his wife and children into the South Dakota wilderness to avoid authorities has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a f...
MSNBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:58:17 -0500

Three Marines in dress blues smiled and clasped their white-gloved hands in front of their bodies as the blonde joined them on what seems to be a White House portico.
CNN Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:57:03 -0500

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday killed dozens of people, but it appeared Thursday that none were Hajj pilgrims making the obligatory journey for Muslims across the globe.
CNN Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:57:01 -0500

A man, a woman and two boys were found dead Wednesday in a house in Addison, Illinois, just west of Chicago, according to a statement from the DuPage County Coroner's Office.
CNN Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:57:00 -0500

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012 as a stepping stone to a possible White House bid. (AP File Photo) Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is serious...
C News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:56:28 -0500

The government of the Indian capital, Delhi, has been paying salaries to 22,853 civic workers who do not exist.Salaries for the missing Municipal Corporation of Delhi workers add up to nearly $43m a y...
BBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:52:56 -0500

Iran ’s intransigence in a speech in Vienna, saying that it had been more than a year since Iran had answered questions about the extent of its nuclear ambitions, including suspicions that it is...
International Herald Tribune Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:50:17 -0500

Iraq ’s political leaders sought a compromise that would avoid further delay in the country’s national election, officials said on Thursday, warning that fierce disagreements on how to con...
International Herald Tribune Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:50:14 -0500

A drugs mule stunned customs officers by swallowing an amazing 67 packages of cocaine in a botched attempt to smuggle them into Britain. Hard-up college student Fidelis Ozouli, 30, risked his own l...
IOL Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:46:43 -0500

Pakistan Charges 7 in Mumbai Massacre (AP) Black-clad commandos rappelled down a building and Mumbai's police showed off their new gear Thursday in what was intended as a reassuring display of force a...
CBS News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:43:20 -0500

CANADA'S Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of the country's most prolific serial killer, a pig farmer sentenced to life in prison for murdering six prostitutes.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:47 -0500

THE electronic bracelet that Roman Polanski is to wear during his house arrest while fighting extradition will indicate if he is staying put but will not help trace him if he flees, experts say.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:46 -0500

CHINA executed two men for abducting and trafficking 15 children as the country's top court said the crime was on the rise, state media has reported.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:44 -0500

THE number of people leaving Britain has soared to a record high, with Australia the top country of choice to set up home, new statistics show.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:41 -0500

A SPATE of attacks in Iraq killed five people and struck a church and a convent overnight, with one bomb at a busy market claiming two lives as shoppers stocked up for a Muslim feast and holiday.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:38 -0500

A GREEK warship stopped a suspected pirate ship near the Seychelles and destroyed one of its fast boats before releasing its crew, the European Union naval mission said overnight.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:37 -0500

A BRITISH man who falsely claimed to be an aristocrat about to inherit a fortune has been detained in Spain on suspicion of conning women he promised to marry out of hundreds of thousands of euros, po...
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:34 -0500

FRANCE this year returned to its position as the world's top wine producer with an estimated output of 45.7 million hectolitres, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) said overnig...
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:31 -0500

THE Vatican overnight warned Italy's bishops against letting deserted churches be transformed into nightclubs if the decision was taken to sell the places of worship.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:28 -0500

BRITISH and US government officials had scrambled to find a "smoking gun" to justify invading Iraq in 2003, an inquiry into the conflict has heard.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:28 -0500

A GREEK shipping company rejected overnight a claim by Somalia pirates that one of its cargo vessels and the Ukrainian crew captured six months ago had been freed for a $US3.7 million ($3.97 million) ...
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:25 -0500

The 41-year-old doctor was charged on Wednesday night with supplying an indictable quantity of a prohibited drug."The charge relates to the death of a 22-year-old woman, whose body was found at an add...
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:18 -0500

FORMER sports minister Judy Spence will today front the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) inquiry into possible fraudulent payments despite already taking the stand earlier this week.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:16 -0500

EUROPE'S major stock markets plunged by more than three per cent today after Dubai's shock call to suspend the debt of a key state company fuelled anxiety over heavy public borrowing.
The Australian Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:37:10 -0500

Krista and Tim met in the fall of 2004, during orientation at Goshen College, a Mennonite-affiliated school in Indiana where both studied religion. "We were just friends that first year, but I w...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:35:49 -0500

Andrew Case was so passionate about lacrosse that he joked about living in his sister's basement - she was planning to be a doctor, so could afford to put him up - so he could travel around the world ...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:35:48 -0500

CRANBURY, N.J. - Heavy volume was reported along stretches of the New Jersey Turnpike on Thursday morning, as holiday travelers headed to their destinations.But officials say traffic was still moving ...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:35:45 -0500

NEWARK, N.J. - Prosecutors say a mail carrier stole two gift cards sent to a New Jersey man and used them to buy items for her Thanksgiving feast.Raquel Miller was arrested Monday at the Irvington Pos...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:35:43 -0500

MIDDLESEX, N.J. - A lengthy standoff at a central New Jersey apartment complex comes to a peaceful conclusion.Wardell Smulden of Middlesex had kept authorities at bay for several hours on Wednesday af...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:35:42 -0500

On stage, Samia Merritt is all poise and presence - a diminutive dynamo with a lilting voice and a commanding air, delivering a monologue you can't look away from. In class at Philadelphia's High Sch...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:35:39 -0500

BERNIE McGUIRE had his friends baffled. Why did he want to enlist in the Army when he was in college and easily could have avoided the draft? But Bernie was watching his buddies being drafted, and &...
Philadelphia Daily News Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:35:37 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this Thanksgiving but offered starkly different r...
New York Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:16:22 -0500

AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) -- Under threat of military attack, the scion of the clan suspected in the slaughter of 57 people in the southern Philippines turned himself in Thursday, and prosecutors say...
New York Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:16:21 -0500

NEW YORK (AP) -- When Lori Fowlkes first saw robotic Zhu Zhu Pets toy hamsters in September, she remembers her kids started jumping up and down and saying "Please! Please! Can we buy them?"...
New York Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:16:17 -0500

Palestinian militants on Thursday fired five mortars into Israel's northwest Negev region.The mortars hit the Eshkol Regional Council area, and caused no injuries or damage.Israel on Sunday bombed a m...
Haaretz Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:46:45 -0500

VLADIVOSTOK - A rare Siberian tiger that Vladimir Putin fitted with a radio-tracking collar is alive and well, the Russian Prime Minister's spokesman said yesterday, after concerns were raised when an...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:14 -0500

Brennan said he and Lindhout - who were held separately - had no idea they were about to be released before being "ripped out of our rooms". "[We were] stripped of everything, told to put on new clot...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:12 -0500

CONAKRY - One of Africa's most brutal rebel movements relies on a vast, international network of supporters in at least 25 countries including the United States and Europe, a United Nations report say...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:10 -0500

Shrink New pictures of conjoined twin sisters Trishna and Krishna show two bright and happy little girls - days after they were separated by surgeons after spending their young lives connected at the ...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:06 -0500

Prime Minister John Key is scheduled to land in Trinidad late tonight for the Commonwealth summit, where United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will make a personal plea for leaders to also atte...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:05 -0500

Shrink CANBERRA - Feral camels have given the tiny Outback hamlet of Docker River the hump. Known locally by the Anangu name of Kaltukatjara, the township nestling at the western foot of the Peterman...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:04 -0500

JERUSALEM - The Israeli Cabinet has approved a restriction of West Bank settlement construction for 10 months in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says is a bid to show the world Israel wants pea...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:03 -0500

WASHINGTON - Every cent of loose change helps. For decades that has been the pitch of the United Homeless Organisation (UHO), whose workers operate on dozens of street corners in Manhattan, urging pa...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:02 -0500

Shrink ATHENS - The ruined theatre under the Acropolis where the works of Euripides and other classical playwrights were first performed some 2500 years ago will undergo partial restoration over the n...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:00 -0500

The British Conservative Party has raised more than £5 million ($11.5 million) for its election war chest in just three months - far more than all the other political parties put together. A series ...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:32:58 -0500

One of eight women on an Antarctic ski trek to the South Pole has been forced to quit the adventure after suffering frostbite three days into the 40-day journey, the team announced on its website. Ki...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:32:58 -0500

Almost 20 years ago, the democratic urge first stirred in Tonga. Deep-seated affection for the king, Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, was not enough to dissuade the organisers of a first convention on democracy. ...
New Zealand Herald Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:32:56 -0500

Shaquille O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed.
USA Today Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:31:36 -0500

MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia - Muslim pilgrims holding white umbrellas against the blazing sun clambered up a rocky desert hill for prayers Thursday during the annual hajj, a day after torrential rains ...
MSNBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:30:38 -0500

Motorists have been putting their lives at risk by crossing a bridge in Cumbria which is at risk of imminent collapse.Calva Bridge in Workington has been closed to traffic since it was damaged by floo...
BBC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:26:10 -0500