AP - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.
Two suicide bombers attacked military vehicles in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday killing at least 39 people and wounding more than 50, officials said. The dead included soldiers,…
BEIJING: China on Saturday announced a sharp increase in the number of Internet users. The timing of the announcement suggests Beijing is trying to persuade Google to stay and give up plans to pull out its Chinese version from the country. “There is no sense blowing things out of proportion and turning a business issue into a political or diplomatic dispute,” Xinhua, the Chinese official news…
AP - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks. Duke University researchers found a link between how a key stock index performed and how many heart attacks were treated at their North Carolina hospital shortly after the recession began in December 2007 through July 2009, when signs of recovery emerged.
Lawyers for music producer Phil Spector, 70, are appealing his murder conviction on the grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct. They claim Spector, who was jailed for at least 19 years for shooting an actress at his Californian home, was denied his right to a fair trial. The appeal states lawyers improperly used testimony of five women to damage Spector’s character in jurors’ eyes. The producer had pleaded not guilty to murdering Lana Clarkson in 2003. A five-month retrial took…
AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election’s all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation.
LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - British Conservative leader David Cameron told French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday he would be an “active and energetic” participant in the European Union if he became prime minister after a forthcoming election. The Conservatives, who are hostile to closer European integration, are seeking to end 13 years of Labour Party government in Britain by winning an election expected on May 6. They are ahead in the polls by a slim margin. “He (Cameron) told President Sarkozy that on the EU generally, a Conservative government would be an active and energetic participant,” a spokesman said after the two men met at the French ambassador’s residence in London. Sarkozy…