Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:01:58 -0500

Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital, Jakarta.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:17:35 -0500

In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the party.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:53:41 -0500

Bangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya refugees.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:31 -0500

US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:52:22 -0500

The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:25:59 -0500

China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North Korea.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:40:06 -0500

Pakistan's new coach Waqar Younis was Wednesday shocked over the cricket board's decision to ban and fine several leading national players.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:40:05 -0500

Hundreds of Tibetans, including Buddhist monks and nuns, Wednesday remembered their forefathers' uprising against the Chinese annexation of their land in 1959 and chanted slogans for a free Tibet in Kathmandu despite a massive police crackdown and arrests.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:40:04 -0500

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has banned two of its world-class batsmen, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf, from playing international cricket for life and barred former captain Shoaib Malik and medium-pacer Rana Naveed-ul-Hassan for one year for 'unbecoming behaviour' leading to Pakistan's poor showing recently in Australia.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:40:04 -0500

Gunmen armed with assault rifles and hand grenades raided the office of a Christian aid group in northern Pakistan Monday, killing six staffers, police said.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:40:03 -0500

One-ninth of Nepal's nearly 27 million population face starvation, the UN warned Wednesday.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:10:02 -0500

A centre run by followers of Swami Paramhamsa Nithyananda, allegedly involved in a sex scandal in southern India, will not close down and will continue to promote his teachings, a Hindu leader said.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:50:02 -0500

Dark, untouchable and a slave, yet Kali is the heroine of a campaign to protect the rights of the disadvantaged communities of Nepal, especially women.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:30:02 -0500

Canadian-owned Pacific Rubiales has made a new oil discovery at an exploration well located in Colombia's Llanos Orientales region, a media report said.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:30:01 -0500

A Russian-owned company will begin production of caviar in the northwestern Argentine province of La Rioja, a spokesman for the regional government said.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:20:02 -0500

Gursewak Dhillon, a part-time taxi driver who dumped three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa's body nearly 20 km from his home in this Australian city, was being probed for 'possible immigration fraud', an official said Wednesday.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:20:02 -0500

David Gurnani, an Indonesian of Indian origin, has been adjudged The Biggest Loser Asia (TBLA) in the weight loss reality show organised in Malaysia.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:10:02 -0500

Argentine oil company YPF has said that it plans to import 50 million litres of gasoline as demand outstrips supply in the South American nation.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:40:03 -0500

Brazil will bring in a grain harvest of 145.1 million tonnes this year, a volume very close to the record 145.8 million tonnes gathered in 2008, authorities said.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:40:02 -0500

An American woman, nicknamed as 'Jihad Jane' and 'Fatima LaRose,' has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:40:02 -0500

Chilean police have recovered roughly $3 million worth of goods that were looted in the southern city of Concepcion and neighbouring towns after the Feb 27 earthquake, authorities said.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:20:01 -0500

Dulmatin, who is alleged to have made the bombs that killed 202 people in Bali nightclubs in 2002, has been killed in a police anti-terrorism raid near Jakarta, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono confirmed Wednesday.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:01 -0500

A 17-year-old New Zealand youth was sent to prison Wednesday for 15-and-a-half years for murdering a taxi driver who was a refugee from Afghanistan.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:02 -0500

The Dubai Mall, world's largest shopping and entertainment destination, hosted a record five million visitors in the 15th edition of Dubai Shopping Festival Jan 28 to Feb 28, WAM news agency reported.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:40:02 -0500

Nicklas Bendtner scored a superb hat-trick as Arsenal produced a virtuoso performance to crush Porto 5-0 to storm into the quarter-finals of the Champions League Tuesday.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:40:02 -0500

The US government has charged a Pennsylvania woman with conspiring to commit terrorism by using the internet to find recruits to carry out attacks in Europe and South Asia, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:40:01 -0500

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) were selected Tuesday winners of the 2010 UN Population Award.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:20:01 -0500

Representatives of over 60 top South Korean companies have arrived here in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to explore business opportunities, WAM news agency reported.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:20:03 -0500

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan may not be getting the plum film roles anymore, but she might bring in millions in a lawsuit over a widely viewed television ad.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:20:02 -0500

The 34th Arab Health Ministers' Conference will begin in Cairo Wednesday to discuss ways to improve primary healthcare in the region, WAM news agency reported.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:50:02 -0500

The first gay couples to take advantage of a law that allows same-sex couples to marry in Washington gave their 'I dos' Tuesday.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:50:02 -0500

Cypriot authorities Tuesday arrested two people, including an Indian national, for allegedly stealing the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave three months ago and said the suspects had earlier demanded a ransom.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:47:28 -0500

A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television compere.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:39:39 -0500

Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting trial.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:13:34 -0500

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:58:02 -0500

UPDATED: PHILADELPHIA -- The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woman ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:50:21 -0500

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet arrives to Constitucion, Chile, Monday, March 8, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Feb. 27, causing widespread damage. (AP Photo/Fernando V...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:50:18 -0500

MOSCOW — Russian traffic police are under investigation for ordering civilian motorists to park their cars across a highway - and remain inside - to block a fleeing criminal suspect, prosecutors ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:50:15 -0500

KAYALIK, Turkey — Turkish officials on Wednesday lowered the death toll in this week's magnitude 6 earthquake from 51 to 41. A statement issued by the governor's office in the eastern provi...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:50:13 -0500

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 9:14 a.m. Israel's plan to build 1,600 new apartments in contested east Jerusalem has thrown a spotlight on the city at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:50:08 -0500

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Fighting between Islamist insurgents and government forces killed at least 17 people in the Somali capital on Wednesday, a medical official said. The head of the Mogadi...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:50:01 -0500

EDITOR'S NOTE - Miles Edelsten is a senior producer for Associated Press Television News and has covered Japan for 10 years. OTSUCHI, Japan (AP) - As soon as the fishermen saw my TV camera, one r...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:49:57 -0500

JERUSALEM — An Israeli supermarket commercial is looking to cash in on the infamous surveillance footage of an assassination team killing a Hamas commander in Dubai. A new TV campaign for t...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:49:55 -0500

BRUSSELS — In a move likely to worsen EU ties with Israel, the European Parliament urged its 27-member states Wednesday to monitor the Israeli and Palestinian probes into alleged war crimes in G...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:49:53 -0500

Swedish artist Lars Vilks speaks on his phone in his home in Nyhamnslage in southern Sweden Tuesday March 9, 2010. Seven persons were arrested on Ireland Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to murder V...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:46:26 -0500

Police inspected the offices of aid group World Vision in Oghi, Pakistan on Wednesday after militants killed at least six people there in an attack.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:46:26 -0500

Boris A. Berezovsky , a self-exiled Russian tycoon, won a libel suit in London on Wednesday against a Russian satellite broadcaster that had linked him to the murder in 2006 of

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:46 -0500

bob.herzog@newsday.com Police are investigating a fight that delayed a Long Island championship high school boys basketball game for 20 minutes Tuesday night, forcing officials to empty the gym at Ba...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:41 -0500

erik.boland@newsday.com TAMPA, Fla. - Alex Rodriguez said his meeting with federal authorities could come soon."My attorneys are working with authorities right now as we speak on scheduling issues an...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:35 -0500

The Associated Press Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week, inaugurating what TV makers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room.Samsung Electronics Co. a...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:33 -0500

Where does Canton meet County Cork? In a new pub classic: the Irish egg roll. It's corned beef and cabbage (and maybe mashed potatoes) wrapped in dough and deep-fried to create a bar bite more heartwa...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:30 -0500

MARYCLAIRE DALE The Associated Press The self-described “Jihad Jane” who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in  Sweden is a rare case of ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:51 -0500

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Nomar Garciaparra has retired as a member of the Boston Red Sox.The 1997 American League MVP signed a one-day contract with his former team Wednesday, then announced he's ending h...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:50 -0500

TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Rodriguez's lawyers are setting up an interview with federal authorities as part of an investigation into a Canadian doctor who is the focus of a cross-border drug smuggling case ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:48 -0500

LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant hit a 17-foot fallaway jumper with 1.9 seconds left, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter to snap their three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:46 -0500

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Jakub Voracek scored during Columbus' first power play and set up another second-period goal by Fedor Tyutin to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 5-2 victory over the Anaheim Duc...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:43 -0500

NEW YORK -- Fertilizer company Terra Industries said Wednesday its board favors a bid to be acquired by CF Industries instead of a previous agreement with Norway's Yara.Terra, based in Sioux City, Io...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:42 -0500

MIAMI -- A well-known South Florida attorney has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in what federal prosecutors say was a $2.5 million embezzlement scheme.Attorney Lewis Freeman pleaded guilty Wed...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:40 -0500

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Senate President Jeff Atwater has proposed spending a bit less for public schools, health care and criminal and civil justice than House Speaker Larry Cretul.Atwater on Wednesday...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:39 -0500

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida senator wants to give residents preference over out-of-state workers for construction jobs funded by state and local governments.Sen. Dan Gelber, D- Miami Beach, presen...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:25 -0500

EDITOR'S NOTE - Miles Edelsten is a senior producer for Associated Press Television News and has covered Japan for 10 years.OTSUCHI, Japan (AP) - As soon as the fishermen saw my TV camera, one ran at ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:16 -0500

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- First it was drugs among the flowers. Now, drug traffickers have stuffed real drugs into fake fruit in an effort to smuggle cocaine into the Netherlands, authorities said We...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:14 -0500

LONDON -- The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole" will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and Playboy playma...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:39:29 -0500

The father of a five-year-old British boy held captive in Pakistan has returned to the UK, sources said.Sahil Saeed, from Oldham in Greater Manchester, was grabbed by gun and grenade-wielding raiders ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:39:28 -0500

Actor Corey Haim, a 1980s teenage heartthrob for his roles in Lucas and The Lost Boys, has died from an apparent drug overdose aged 38. Haim, whose career was blighted by drug abuse, had flu-like symp...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:39:27 -0500

Paris gossips were trying to sort out fact from fiction as the blogosphere raised tantalising questions about the glamorous pop 'n' politics marriage of President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni.While...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:28:10 -0500

Two women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father, bearing him seven children over 25 years, were given a formal apology by child protection agencies on Thursday for systemic...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:26:09 -0500

Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, chats with Winnie Mandela, as they march to the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the 45th annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 2010.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:24:38 -0500

Paris gossips were trying to sort out fact from fiction as the blogosphere raised tantalising questions about the glamorous pop 'n' politics marriage of President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. Whi...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:23:11 -0500

Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish aid worker kidnapped by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) last November in Mauritania has been freed unharmed, but the group continues to hold two other Spanish w...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:23:10 -0500

(CNN) -- Some people who didn't file a federal tax return for 2006 have more than 1 billion reasons to reconsider, but they need to do it fast, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:23:08 -0500

Marie Osmond's return to the stage Tuesday after her son's death was emotional Osmond dedicated the show to the 18-year-old, who committed suicide February 26 Despite their grief, Donny and Marie Osmo...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:21:21 -0500

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Others, Yesterday (on March 9) a provincial prosecutor in the province of Ontario standing before a provincial judge withdrew charges of impaired driving and cocaine p...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:18:00 -0500

ROME (AP) -- Google said Wednesday it will scan up to 1 million old books in national libraries in Rome and Florence, including works by astronomer Galileo Galilei, in what's being described as the fi...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:16:09 -0500

(Reuters) - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoome...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:16:07 -0500

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:12:21 -0500

Lost Labours: Where Now for the Liberal Left? , on a platform with the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, hosted by the liberal thinktank Centre:Forum. He argued that the authoritarianism of New Labour and it...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:12:19 -0500

when .After alleging he was the victim of sinister forces within the Democratic party, Massa got an invite to spend an hour talking to Glenn Beck on Fox. And if you want to see what an encounter betwe...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:12:17 -0500

M: It started as a song but expanded into something I always wanted to do – unite visual and conceptual art with music. Something about the climate changing, the magic of the 21st century and the te...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:10:13 -0500

Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi enters a press conference to accuse opponents of preventing his party from registering candidates for regional elections. But when a heckler disrupted t...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:17:18 -0500

By Juergen Baetz and Kirsten Grieshaber ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN (AP) -- A spokesman for the Regensburg Catholic diocese in Germany says the diocese will investigate allegations of physical and sexual...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:17:17 -0500

By Anne Gearan ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was keeping up the pressure on Iran on Wednesday, consulting with the United States' closest and most in...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:11:21 -0500

T he committee that selects the Nobel Peace Prize winner will consider a record 237 nominations for the 2010 award, a Nobel official said Wednesday. Surpassing last year's record of 205 nominations, ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:56 -0500

GENEVA — A U.N. torture investigator said Wednesday he is very concerned about the fate of missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng and believes he has been severely tortured. Gao, known for def...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:53 -0500

On Sunday, when daylight-saving time takes effect, people will spring forward to turn their alarm clocks ahead one hour. Adjustments to their biological clocks might ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:51 -0500

ABUJA, Nigeria — Hundreds of protesters in Nigeria's capital are demanding to see the ailing president, who has not appeared publicly since returning from hospital treatment abroad last month. ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:50 -0500

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:48 -0500

ROME — Italian police say several Mafia suspects have been arrested in raids in Sicily, New York and Miami. Police in Palermo say the crackdown on the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate was still ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:46 -0500

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom has signed a law making Holocaust denial punishable by three years in prison. The law was approved last month by Hungarian lawmakers, a...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:40 -0500

KINSHASA, Congo — A United Nations official says 90 Rwandan rebels have been killed in restive eastern Congo. Spokesman Madnodje Mounoubai said Wednesday that Hutu rebels from neighboring R...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:39 -0500

DUBLIN — Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, will resist extradition to Northern Ireland where he faces 18 charges of sexually abusing his daughter, his lawyers told a Dublin ju...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:37 -0500

NICOSIA, Cyprus — A suspect's remorse over his alleged role in the theft of the body of Cyprus' former president led to the corpse's discovery and three arrests, a police official testified Wedn...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:08:34 -0500

MOSCOW — Russian traffic police are under investigation for ordering civilian motorists to park their cars across a highway - and remain inside - to block a fleeing criminal suspect, prosecutors...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:04:43 -0500

No matter if they’re a source of loathing and laughter, the Oscars matter as a cultural flashpoint, perhaps now more than ever. All those Oscar viewers might not be ticket buyers, but when they ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:04:42 -0500

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , shot back Wednesday at American allegations that Iran was providing support to Afghan insurgents, accusing the United States of playing its own “double game” in the c...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:03:55 -0500

bob.herzog@newsday.com Police are investigating a free-for-all brawl that delayed a Long Island championship high school boys basketball game for 20 minutes Tuesday night, forcing officials to empty ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:03:53 -0500

reid.epstein@newsday.com Gov. David A. Paterson pushed back Wednesday morning against reports that the state will seek to borrow its way out of its projected $2.1 billion budget shortfall."This whole...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:02:22 -0500

A sharply divided Homestead City Council decided Tuesday night to give their acting city manager the permanent job. At a special meeting Tuesday, Homestead's council voted 4-3 to begin negotiating a p...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:02:21 -0500

HOUMA, La. -- More than 2,000 licensed Gulf of Mexico charter boat captains from Texas to Florida will be asked how they see the health of the recreational fishing industry.Louisiana Sea Grant, LSU's...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:02:18 -0500

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany -- Lindsey Vonn finished second to Maria Riesch of Germany in the final downhill of the season Wednesday, failing to clinch the World Cup overall title but maintaining...