STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 1 (UPI) – A Swedish pediatrician accused of the alleged mercy killing of a 3-month-old brain-damaged baby has been charged with manslaughter, court documents show. The doctor at Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital […]
Wellington (dpa) – New Zealand’s Reserve Bank left its benchmark interest rate at a record low of 2.5 per cent on Thursday, said governor Alan Bollard. He said although the economy was continuing to recover […]
SYDNEY, Jan. 29 (UPI) — Australian Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor says the SmartGate system offers an easier and more efficient alternative to airport customs efforts. O’Connor credited the SmartGate system, which uses ePassports and […]
Wellington (dpa) – New Zealand will not join allied governments incontributing to an international fund to pay Taliban fighters to give up their guns in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Murray McCully told a newspaper Monday. Australia, […]
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM – A Hamas military commander slain in a Dubai hotel room played a key role in smuggling antiaircraft missiles and other weapons into the Gaza Strip, Israeli and […]
KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 31 (UPI) – A statement reportedly written by Taliban leaders denies a meeting with a U.N. envoy and vows to keep fighting in Afghanistan until NATO-led forces leave. The denial was in […]
LONDON, Jan. 31 (UPI) – China is running a massive program to spy on British business executives and hack into their computers, leaked intelligence documents indicate. A report written by the British spy agency MI5 […]
TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp., currently in the midst of a massive recall of vehicles in the United States, Europe and elsewhere over potentially faulty accelerators, was aware of a gas pedal flaw as early […]
BOSTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) – Prosecutors will use Internet evidence to build a case against a Massachusetts man accused of providing material support to terrorists, authorities said. Tarek Mehanna, 27, allegedly used his laptop and […]
By Robert Nolin, Sun Sentinel HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – The whiff of evil still lingers in a nondescript apartment off Hollywood’s Young Circle. There, a second-floor walk-up in a doomed and crumbling building, is where terrorists […]
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Weighing 70 tons, traveling up to 45 mph and possessed of a smash-mouth name, the Assault Breacher Vehicle is the Marine Corps’ latest answer to […]
ROME, Dec. 9 (UPI) — U.S. college student Amanda Knox, convicted of murder by an Italian court, says she still has faith in the country’s judicial system. Knox, 22, who has indicated she will appeal […]
SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 1 (UPI) – The president of a Chinese electronics firm claimed the iPad, Apple Inc.’s recently unveiled foray into the tablet market, was a copy of one of their products. Xiaolong Wu, […]
TORONTO, (UPI) — The Winter Olympic Games gave Canada’s minority Conservative government a significant boost in popularity, a poll published Tuesday showed. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a 46 percent popularity rating in the Ipsos […]
BUENOS AIRES,(UPI) — Argentina tightened its security noose around the Falkland Islands with a tough new warning to Australian oil explorer Billiton to stay out of the controversial hydrocarbon prospecting operations in the Falklands, which […]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday amid new signs that the two remain deeply divided over continued Israeli construction in disputed Jerusalem. In […]
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM – By drawing a line against expansion of Israeli housing units in Jerusalem, the Obama administration is confronting a policy that enjoys a strong consensus among Israelis: the […]
By Janet Stobart, Los Angeles Times LONDON – Britain expelled a high-ranking Israeli diplomat Tuesday in retaliation for alleged misuse of British passports by Israeli agents suspected in the assassination of a senior Hamas commander […]
MOSCOW, (UPI) – Riyadh has reportedly been mulling the purchase of S-300PMU Russian air-defense missile systems and other arms worth as much as $4 billion, possibly as an inducement to Moscow not to supply such […]
NEW YORK, (UPI) – U.S. medical researchers say the nation’s hospital emergency department workers suffered from H1N1 influenza more than any other healthcare professionals. The study, led by Cynthia Santos of Weill Cornell Medical School, […]
Gaia or God? Is the Pope making a bad mistake? BY AMY BROOKE Any perception that it would prefer to thunder forth in condemnation of any opposition, rather than encouraging a genuine environmental debate, is not […]
A person is dead after being shot outside a medical centre in the town of Warkworth, north of Auckland. Patients and staff at the medical centre were confined to rooms while the drama played out […]
The New York Times columnist whose Dot Earth blog became a beacon to global warming believers has joined his transatlantic counterpart George Monbiot in delivering death to senior IPCC climate scientists by a thousand cuts in […]
White House crashers met president WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) — Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the couple who crashed U.S. President Obama’s first state dinner, got to meet the president, the White House said Friday. The […]
Tiger Woods’ silence makes real story all the more intriguing By Rick Morrissey, Chicago Tribune A story involving a fire hydrant and a tree normally is the province of Dog World magazine. But when the […]
Thermal imaging puts man behind bars BOSTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) — A young Boston man is going to prison after learning that a gun tossed into a snow bank still retained his body heat — […]
Miley Cyrus is tonight mourning the death of her tour bus driver after a road crash RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 20 (UPI) — Miley Cyrus’s manager said the teen pop star and actress was not on […]
John Key says game-on Prime Minister John Key announced today he will be attending the leaders’ meeting at the end of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later this month. The leaders’ […]
Kowhai discovery boosts industry – Minister The security of New Zealand’s natural gas supply has been strengthened by Greymouth Petroleum’s discovery of the Kowhai field, Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee said today. The Kowhai […]
SPITFIRE DITCHES Wellington, Dec 3 NZPA – A group of aviation enthusiasts, the New Zealand Warbirds Association, will be missing one of its warbirds on Sunday when it stages an open day at Ardmore aerodrome […]
Enhancing victims’ rightsfrom media release A consultation document on victims’ rights in the criminal justice system has been released for further input from the public, Justice Minister Simon Power said today. “The public consultation document […]
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PILLOWFIGHT PING A HOLDING CHARGE, POLICE ARGUE Wellington, Dec 5 NZPA – Police have hit back at media reports that the attempted prosecution of a man who allegedly threw a pillow at his nephew was […]
LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) – E-mails purporting to show a coverup by British climate change scientists were hacked in a sophisticated operation originating in Russia, sources say. Citing an unnamed senior member of the U.N.’s […]
Sydney (dpa) – Australia’s major newspapers have boycotted a common editorial published in 45 countries and in 20 languages calling on delegates to the Copenhagen conference to agree global action on climate change. “We applaud […]
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) – Conspiracy charges in the 2008 Mumbai attacks were filed against a Chicago man, U.S. officials said Monday. David Coleman Headley allegedly attended Lashkar-e-Toiba-operated terrorism training camps in Pakistan and conspired […]
PERM, Russia, Dec. 8 (UPI) — The death toll from last weekend’s nightclub fire in Perm, Russia, has risen to 119, medical officials said Tuesday. A local medic told RIA Novosti that one more victim […]
Sydney (dpa) – Last weekend’s by-election results presented Prime Minister Kevin Rudd with an inconvenient truth: Australians are warming to the opposition Liberal Party’s do-nothing approach to climate change. With an election to contest next […]
Los Angeles (dpa) – Advertisers have been quick to drop Tiger Woods, media tracking firm Nielsen said Wednesday. The golfer has not appeared in a primetime ad on US television since November 29, a few […]
MOSCOW, Dec. 9 (UPI) — An archivist with Russia’s Federal Security Service said his country is in possession of a fragment of Adolf Hitler’s skull despite a report to the contrary. Lt. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov, […]
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