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| Military exercise sparks earthquake panic in China (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 7:52 am
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| | AP - A military exercise in southern China set off mass panic among local residents who thought an earthquake had struck with about 100,000 people fleeing their homes, state media reported Saturday. |
| Suspected US missile strike kills 27 in Pakistan (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 5:08 am
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|  AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike by a drone aircraft flattened a militant hide-out in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing 27 local and foreign insurgents, intelligence officials said.
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| Groups question Hamas on `extra-judicial' killings (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 3:29 am
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|  AP - The day after Israeli tanks entered Gaza last month, masked Palestinians opened fire on the al-Najar family outside their home, killing the father and wounding 10 others, including two teenage girls and a 78-year-old grandmother.
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| Democrats muscle huge stimulus through Congress (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:36 pm
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|  AP - In a major victory for President Barack Obama, Democrats muscled a huge, $787 billion stimulus bill through Congress late Friday night in hopes of combating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
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| Kidnappers threaten American abducted in Pakistan (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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|  AP - Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was "sick and in trouble." A letter accompanying the video delivered to a Pakistani news agency said the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless authorities released 141 women it said were being held in Pakistan.
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| VA clinic warns of possible contaminant exposure (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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| | AP - Thousands of patients at a Veterans Administration clinic in Tennessee may have been exposed to the infectious body fluids of other patients when they had colonoscopies in recent years, and now VA medical facilities all over the U.S. are reviewing their own procedures. |
| British boy reportedly becomes a father at age 13 (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 8:37 pm
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| | AP - He's 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid, he's a father. Baby-faced and only 4 feet tall, the boy, Alfie, was just 12 when he impregnated Chantelle, now 15, The Sun reported Friday. Shown in a video posted Friday on the tabloid's Web site, the diminutive Alfie takes the newborn girl in his arms. |
| Jet's nosewheel collapses during landing in London (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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|  AP - The nosewheel of a British Airways passenger jet collapsed with a loud bang as it landed Friday at London City Airport, sending the plane scraping across the tarmac with 71 people aboard, officials and witnesses said. All aboard escaped by emergency slides, but one person was taken to a hospital with a minor injury.
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| Kidnappers threaten American abducted in Pakistan (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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| AP - Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was "sick and in trouble." A letter accompanying the video delivered to a Pakistani news agency said the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless authorities released 141 women it said were being held in Pakistan. |
| Peanut Corp. of America files for bankruptcy (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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|  AP - The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. The Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut Corp. of America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Virginia Friday, the latest bad news for the company that has been accused of producing tainted peanut products that may have reached everyone from poor school children to disaster victims.
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| VA clinic warns of possible contaminant exposure (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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| | AP - Thousands of patients at a Veterans Administration clinic in Tennessee may have been exposed to the infectious body fluids of other patients when they had colonoscopies in recent years, and now VA medical facilities all over the U.S. are reviewing their own procedures. |
| British boy reportedly becomes a father at age 13 (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:12 pm
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| | AP - He's 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid, he's a father. Baby-faced and only 4 feet tall, the boy, Alfie, was just 12 when he impregnated Chantelle, now 15, The Sun reported Friday. Shown in a video posted Friday on the tabloid's Web site, the diminutive Alfie takes the newborn girl in his arms. |
| In shift, Blackwater dumps tarnished brand name (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 5:33 pm
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|  AP - Blackwater Worldwide is still protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq, but executives at the beleaguered security firm are taking their biggest step yet to put that work and the ugly reputation it earned the company behind them.
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| Female suicide bomber kills 40 in Iraq (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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|  AP - A female suicide bomber struck a tent filled with women and children resting during a pilgrimage south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 40 people and wounding about 80 in the deadliest of three straight days of attacks against Shiite worshippers.
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| Congress readies final vote on $790B stimulus bill (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:32 am
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|  AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted Friday that Congress will finish its work on a massive, $790 billion economic stimulus plan, possibly by day's end, giving President Barack Obama a big victory.
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| Fiery plane crash in upstate NY kills 50 (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:30 am
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|  AP - A commuter plane dropped out of the sky without warning and nose-dived into a suburban Buffalo house in a fiery crash that killed all 49 people aboard and one person in the home. It was the nation's first deadly crash of a commercial airliner in 2 1/2 years.
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| Sept. 11 widow killed in Buffalo plane crash (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:25 am
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|  AP - One of the victims of the Buffalo commuter plane crash, Beverly Eckert, was a Sept. 11 widow who put her never-ending grief to good use to make the country safer.
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| Somali Pirates release Japanese ship (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 10:53 am
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|  AP - Somali pirates released a Japanese ship held hostage for months, but a maritime watchdog on Friday warned that pirates are stepping up their attacks as weather improves in the Indian Ocean and they look to rake in more ransoms.
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| Space crash called "catastrophic," lots of debris (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 10:52 am
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|  AP - The crash of two satellites has generated an estimated tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that could circle Earth and threaten other satellites for the next 10,000 years, space experts said Friday.
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| Last Russian general warns US on Afghanistan (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 10:17 am
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|  AP - Twenty years after Red Army troops pulled out of Afghanistan, the last general to command them says the Soviets' devastating experience is a dismal omen for U.S. plans to build up troops there.
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| Suspect charged in deadly Australian fire (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 9:51 am
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|  AP - Authorities charged a man Friday with lighting one of the wildfires that killed more than 180 people in Australia, and whisked him into protective custody to guard him from public fury.
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| Female bomber kills 32 on Iraqi pilgrimage route (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 8:28 am
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|  Reuters - A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims on Friday, killing 32 people and wounding 84 others south of Baghdad during one of the holiest events of the Shi'ite calendar, police said.
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| The Most Tragic Love Stories in History (LiveScience.com)
February 13, 2009 at 8:20 am
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| | LiveScience.com - Nothing celebrates Valentine's Day quite like a good love story. And by good, we mean tragic, of course. Though Shakespeare's plays are littered with doomed lovers - unrequited passion and death makes for good reading, apparently - couples equally as star-crossed can be found in the world's history books. |
| How Banks Are Worsening the Foreclosure Crisis (BusinessWeek Online)
February 13, 2009 at 8:08 am
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|  BusinessWeek Online - The bad mortgages that got the current financial crisis started have produced a terrifying wave of home foreclosures. Unless the foreclosure surge eases, even the most extravagant federal stimulus spending won't spur an economic recovery.
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| Stimulus Aims Two-Phase Jolt at Fading U.S. Economy (Bloomberg)
February 13, 2009 at 8:04 am
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|  Bloomberg - Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The stimulus plan emerging from Congress may jolt the U.S. economy in successive waves: relief to cash-strapped consumers, businesses and states, then a job- creating lift from spending on roads, utilities and public transit.
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| Jury: Florida smoker died because of addiction (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:56 am
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|  AP - The jury that decided a 40-year chain-smoker was helplessly addicted to nicotine must now decide whether tobacco giant Philip Morris owes his family potentially millions of dollars for his death from lung cancer.
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| Gregg flip-flop emboldens GOP (Politico)
February 13, 2009 at 4:07 am
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|  Politico - Judd Gregg was all but dead to his Republican colleagues just a few days ago, another collaborator drinking the Obama Kool-Aid.
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| Peanut plant owner becomes recluse after outbreak (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 4:03 am
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|  AP - In his hometown in central Virginia, the peanut company executive at the center of a criminal investigation over the national salmonella outbreak is known as a respected businessman who just weeks ago told friends and clients his life was going well.
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| How emotional distance ruins marriage (The Christian Science Monitor)
February 13, 2009 at 3:00 am
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| | The Christian Science Monitor - Today's couples are quick to squelch the urge to argue with each other. But just because you seldom argue doesn't mean your marriage is strong. The real silent killer of marriage is distancing yourself from your partner. |
| Estelle Bennett, member of The Ronettes, dies (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 1:49 am
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|  AP - Estelle Bennett, one of the Ronettes, the singing trio whose 1963 hit "Be My Baby" epitomized the famed "wall of sound" technique of its producer, Phil Spector, has died at her home in Englewood, N.J. She was 67.
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| Clinton aims to soothe jittery allies, woo China (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 1:31 am
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|  Reuters - Hillary Clinton hopes to reassure allies jittery about U.S. policy on North Korea and to set the tone for a productive relationship with China when she visits Asia next week on her first trip as secretary of state.
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| When toddlers point a lot, more words will follow (AP)
February 12, 2009 at 11:36 pm
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|  AP - Don't just talk to your toddler — gesture, too. Pointing, waving bye-bye and other natural gestures seem to boost a budding vocabulary. Scientists found those tots who could convey more meaning with gestures at age 14 months went on to have a richer vocabulary as they prepared to start kindergarten. And intriguingly, whether a family is poor or middle class plays a role, the researchers report Friday.
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