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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. |
| G7 finance ministers reject protectionist measures (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 7:50 am
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|  AP - Rejecting protectionism, the Group of Seven finance ministers pledged Saturday to work together to support growth and employment and strengthen the banking system so the world can overcome its worst financial crisis in 50 years, according to a draft communique.
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| Murder trial in Italy: US student had scratches (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 6:40 am
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|  AP - An American student accused in the stabbing death of her British roommate had a scratch on her neck hours after the killing, a witness testified Saturday at the murder trial in Italy.
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| 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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| Residents return to fire-destroyed Australian town (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 3:57 am
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|  AP - Residents of the town worst hit by Australia's wildfire disaster made a brief and emotional return Saturday but were not allowed to stay because the entire village is being treated as an arson crime scene.
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| Palin's favorite store forced to change its name (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 3:50 am
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|  AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's favorite consignment shop has been forced to change its name after she brought the trendy, upscale Anchorage boutique unintended legal problems during last year's presidential campaign.
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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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| Calif. polygamist gets life term for family abuses (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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| | AP - A self-proclaimed polygamist was sentenced Friday to seven consecutive life prison terms for torturing seven of his 19 children, abusing four others and imprisoning two of his three wives. |
| 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.
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| 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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| Hamas says long-term truce with Israel imminent (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:35 am
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|  AP - Hamas officials said Friday an agreement with Israel on a long-term cease-fire in Gaza could be announced within days, but a new cycle of attacks by both sides strained a temporary truce.
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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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| Kevin Costner and wife become parents of baby boy (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:23 am
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|  AP - Kevin Costner and his wife are proud parents of a baby boy. Costner's wife Christine Baumgartner, 34, gave birth to Hayes Logan Costner on Thursday night in Los Angeles, said his publicist Arnold Robinson. He weighs 8 pounds, 15 ounces.
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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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| To save or to spend? Americans ponder their duty (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 10:22 am
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|  Reuters - After the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush urged Americans to go shopping. As he hands out $789 billion in economic stimulus, President Barack Obama has been less clear -- and Americans simply don't know whether they should save or spend.
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| Iraqi police: Female suicide bomber kills 40 (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 10:18 am
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|  AP - A female suicide bomber attacked a tent filled with women and children resting from a pilgrimage to a Shiite holy city south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 40 people and injuring 60 others, said officials. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq this year and the third straight day of bombings against Shiite pilgrims.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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