| Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500 (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 12:29 am
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|  AP - Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for the country's largest publicly traded companies.
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| Mexico says 8 killed in attack on prison convoy (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 12:27 am
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|  AP - In the latest of a series of brazen, drug-related attacks, gunmen ambushed a prisoner transfer convoy in western Mexico, killing eight officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level cartel member, police said Sunday.
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| US boycotting, Iran starring, at UN racism meeting (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 12:23 am
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|  AP - The United Nations opens its first global racism conference in eight years on Monday with the U.S. and at least seven other countries boycotting the event out of concern that Islamic countries will demand that it denounce Israel and ban criticism of Islam.
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| Driver charged in Texas crash that killed 5 kids (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 12:22 am
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|  AP - Police filed intoxication manslaughter charges Sunday against a driver who lost control of his car while using a cell phone, plunging the vehicle into a rain-filled ditch and killing five children inside.
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| AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 12:19 am
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|  AP - U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.
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| Obama says reaching out to enemies strengthens US (AP)
April 20, 2009 at 12:15 am
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|  AP - Defending his brand of world politics, President Barack Obama said Sunday that he "strengthens our hand" by reaching out to enemies of the United States and making sure that the nation is a leader, not a lecturer, of democracy.
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| Author J.G. Ballard dies aged 78 (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 11:40 pm
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| | AP - Author J.G. Ballard, a survivor of a Japanese prison camp whose vision was so dark and distinctive it was labeled "Ballardian" and who reached a wide audience with the autobiographical "Empire Of The Sun," died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78. |
| Cancer "culprits" in tobacco smoke revealed (Reuters)
April 19, 2009 at 5:46 pm
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| | Reuters - Scientists have detected two substances in tobacco smoke that directly cause lung cancer, and they said on Sunday the finding may help one day predict which smokers will develop the disease. |
| US boycotting, Iran starring, at UN racism meeting (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 4:42 pm
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| AP - The United Nations opens its first global racism conference in eight years on Monday with the U.S. and at least six other countries boycotting the event out of concern that Islamic countries will demand that it denounce Israel and ban criticism of Islam.
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| Police plan to charge driver in fatal Texas crash (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 4:35 pm
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| AP - Police planned to charge a driver suspected of being intoxicated when he lost control of his car while using his cell phone, plunging the vehicle into a rain-filled ditch where five young passengers died, a spokesman said Sunday.
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| NATO ships, helicopters hunt down 7 pirates (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 3:09 pm
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|  AP - NATO warships and helicopters pursued Somali pirates for seven hours after they attacked a Norwegian tanker, NATO spokesmen said Sunday, and the high-speed chase only ended when warning shots were fired at the pirates' skiff.
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| Chavez book pick rockets up bestseller lists (AFP)
April 19, 2009 at 2:45 pm
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|  AFP - A book accusing the United States of being a neo-colonial bully in the Americas has rocketed up the sales charts, after a copy was given as a gift by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to US leader Barack Obama.
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| AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 2:24 pm
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| AP - U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.
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| Diabetes? Some beat it, but are they cured? (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 2:13 pm
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|  AP - JoAnne Zoller Wagner's diagnosis as prediabetic wasn't enough to compel her to change her habits and lose 30 pounds. Not even with the knowledge her sister had died because of diabetes.
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| Tattoos from Auschwitz horror reunite lost inmates (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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|  AP - As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numbers tattooed on their arms. Sholowicz was B-14594; Sieradzki was B-14595.
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| Reverse discrimination case could transform hiring (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 11:57 am
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|  AP - Inside a burning building, fire doesn't discriminate between Matthew Marcarelli and Gary Tinney. Inside the New Haven Fire Department, however, skin color has put them on opposite sides of a lawsuit that could transform hiring procedures nationwide.
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| Coins, mummies and statues point to Cleopatra tomb (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 11:45 am
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|  AP - Egypt's top archaeologist made his version of a sales pitch Sunday, presenting 22 coins, 10 mummies, and a fragment of a mask with a cleft chin as evidence that the discovery of the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is at hand.
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| Obama plans credit-card push (Politico)
April 19, 2009 at 10:00 am
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|  Politico - White House economic adviser Larry Summers told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that President Obama plans to join a push planned by congressional Democrats on “credit card abuses” as part of looking out for the little guy while rebuilding the nation’s financial system.
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| China to build new panda breeding center (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 9:18 am
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|  AP - China will begin building a new panda breeding center next month to replace a world-famous preserve badly damaged in last year's devastating earthquake in southwestern Sichuan province, state media reported Sunday.
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| 2 Koreas to hold first dialogue in a year (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 7:51 am
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|  AP - South Korea on Sunday accepted North Korea's proposal for talks on a troubled joint industrial complex, setting up the first official dialogue between the two countries in a year amid tensions over the North's recent rocket launch.
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| Obama assessing Cuba's next steps (AP)
April 19, 2009 at 2:34 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama says America's estranged relationship with Cuba will not change overnight. It just did — at least in tone.
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