| Strong quake hits Italy, injuries feared in Aquila (AFP)
April 5, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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|  AFP - A strong earthquake shook central Italy on Monday, causing buildings to collapse in the old town of Aquila in the Abruzzo region, the ANSA news agency reported.
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| Strong earthquake hits Italy, some houses damaged (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 11:07 pm
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| | Reuters - An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale rocked central Italy on Monday, seriously damaging some houses and causing a few structures to collapse in a mountainous region east of Rome, officials said. |
| Carrie Underwood wins ACM entertainer of the year (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 11:05 pm
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|  AP - Carrie Underwood became the first female act to win entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards since the Dixie Chicks did it back in 2000.
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| NKorea rocket fizzles, US says; Obama urges action (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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|  AP - The U.S. and its allies sought punishment for North Korea's defiant launch of a rocket that apparently fizzled into the Pacific, holding an emergency U.N. meeting in response to the "provocative act" that some believe was a long-range missile test.
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| U.N. fails to agree response to North Korea rocket launch (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 10:36 pm
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|  Reuters - The United Nations failed to agree on a response to North Korea's long-range rocket launch despite pressure from Washington and its allies for action, while regional powers weighed the extent of the new security threat.
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| AP sources: Sun deal cloudy after IBM pulls offer (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 10:25 pm
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| | AP - IBM Corp. withdrew its offer to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for about $7 billion this weekend, clouding the prospects for a deal that would shake up the computing industry, The Associated Press has learned. |
| Taliban threaten 2 attacks per week in Pakistan (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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|  AP - A suicide bombing at a crowded Shiite mosque south of Pakistan's capital killed 22 people Sunday, the latest evidence of how security in the U.S.-allied nation is crumbling well beyond the Afghan border region where al-Qaida and Taliban fighters thrive.
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| Volunteers help salamanders avoid roadway massacre (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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|  AP - The black salamander with yellow spots sat on the roadside in the dark, ready to make a go of it.
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| AP INVESTIGATION: Terrorist eludes US in Iraq (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 10:04 pm
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|  AP - As Pan Am Flight 830 descended toward Honolulu and passengers finished their breakfast, a blinding burst of light washed over them. And then, "BOOM!"
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| Binghamton officials defend response to massacre (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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|  AP - Even if police officers had immediately entered the immigrant center where a gunman had just shot down 13 people, the victims' injuries were so severe that none would have survived, a county prosecutor said Sunday.
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| Fight over urinating dog got police to Pa. ambush (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 9:51 pm
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|  AP - A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.
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| Obama outlines sweeping goal of nuclear-free world (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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|  AP - Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Barack Obama on Sunday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms and that the U.S. had a "moral responsibility" to lead because no other country has used one.
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| Redmond O'Neal Busted for Drugs at a Jail (E! Online)
April 5, 2009 at 7:57 pm
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|  E! Online - Note to self: When going anywhere near a jail, leave the drugs at home.
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| U.S. spies on China from Kyrgyz base: Russian TV (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 5:18 pm
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| | Reuters - Russian state television accused the United States on Sunday of spying on China and Russia after secretly turning its only remaining air base in Central Asia into a state-of-the-art surveillance center. |
| Dubai: Chechen leader's ally behind assassination (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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|  AP - The assassination of a Chechen renegade — the first reported political killing in this glitzy city — was masterminded by a close ally of Chechnya's president, Dubai authorities said Sunday, calling on Russia to untie "the knot of this crime."
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| Volunteers help salamanders avoid roadway massacre (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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|  AP - The black salamander with yellow spots sat on the roadside in the dark, ready to make a go of it.
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| Pa. man, 73, accused of killing wife of few weeks (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 4:13 pm
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| | AP - A 73-year-old western Pennsylvania man was charged with killing his 73-year-old wife after authorities said he was upset by her decision to end their marriage of just a few weeks. |
| AP INVESTIGATION: Terrorist eludes US in Iraq (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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| AP - As Pan Am Flight 830 descended toward Honolulu and passengers finished their breakfast, a blinding burst of light washed over them. And then, "BOOM!"
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| Farrah Fawcett in L.A. hospital: reports (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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|  Reuters - Actress Farrah Fawcett, who has been battling cancer for almost three years, has been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital, according to news reports.
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| Obama in Turkey for first visit to Muslim country (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in NATO member Turkey on Sunday in his first visit as president to a Muslim country.
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| Wine thrives in Muslim Morocco (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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|  AP - The gently rolling hills planted thick with vineyards are an unlikely sight for a Muslim country partly set in the deserts and palms of North Africa. Yet the grapes, and the wine they produce, are thriving in Morocco despite Islam's ban on alcohol consumption.
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| Recession erodes conveniences shoppers got used to (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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|  AP - First came the housing bust, followed by eroding job security and dwindling retirement accounts.
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| US law fights submarine-like boats hauling cocaine (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 1:05 pm
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|  AP - It's a game played out regularly on the high seas off Colombia's Pacific coast: A U.S. Navy helicopter spots a vessel the size of a humpback whale gliding just beneath the water's surface.
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| `Fast & Furious' accelerates to $72.5M opening (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 11:36 am
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| | AP - "Fast & Furious" has left its competition in the dust with a $72.5 million opening weekend. |
| Farrah Fawcett Hospitalized (E! Online)
April 5, 2009 at 11:08 am
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|  E! Online - Farrah Fawcett's fight against cancer continues.
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| NKorean missile launch tests Obama (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 10:54 am
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|  AP - North Korea's defiant rocket launch has confronted President Barack Obama with his first global security crisis and a difficult diplomatic challenge for his young administration.
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| GM CEO open to bankruptcy 'if it's required' (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 10:29 am
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. is softening its opposition to bankruptcy reorganization a little more, with new CEO Fritz Henderson saying in an interview broadcast on Sunday, "if it's required, that's what we'll do."
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| At least 22 killed in Pakistan suicide bombing (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 10:02 am
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|  Reuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of minority Shi'ite Muslims in Pakistan on Sunday killing 22 people a day after a deadly suicide attack in the capital, police said.
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| New troops will turn tide on Taliban: U.S. military (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 9:58 am
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|  Reuters - The top U.S. military officer said on Sunday extra troops being sent to Afghanistan this year would start to turn the tide against the Taliban-led insurgency that has been gaining ground for three years.
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| FBI suspects link between truckers, serial killers (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 7:34 am
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| | AP - The FBI suspects there's a link between long-haul truckers and serial killers, and runs a national program to track murders along popular trucking routes, according to a newspaper report. |
| Obama launches effort to reduce nuclear arms (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 5:58 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama on Sunday launched an effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons, calling them "the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War" and saying the U.S. has a moral responsibility to lead as the only nation to ever use one.
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| Obama sets out vision of nuclear-free world (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 5:30 am
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|  Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama set out his vision for a world free of nuclear weapons on Sunday, vowing to involve all states with atomic weapons in the process of reducing arsenals.
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