Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Apologizes
The Iraqi journalist who tried to bean President Bush with his shoes is begging not to be sent to prison.
Describing his action as “an ugly act,” Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, Egypt, said in a letter that he would like to be forgiven.
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Scientists seek ways to ward off killer asteroids
A blue-ribbon panel of scientists is trying to determine the best way to detect and ward off any wandering space rocks that might be on a collision course with Earth.
“We’re looking for the killer asteroid,” James Heasley , of the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy , last week told the committee that the [...]
Brazil protesters say 9,000 have disappeared in 2 years
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) — Protesters took to the fabled Brazilian beaches of Copacabana on Tuesday to draw attention to the 9,000 people they say have disappeared in Rio de Janeiro since January 2007.
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Obama poised to rebrand America, experts say
President-elect Barack Obama is poised to restore the United States’ image in the international community, but experts say the president-elect must show the world that his actions will live up to his rhetoric.
Receiving a warm welcome is not the same as maintaining one, and Obama has a lot of work to do to improve the [...]
Zawahiri warns ‘house negro’ Obama
Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Zawahiri ridiculed US president-elect Barack Obama as a “house negro” and warned him against sending more troops to Afghanistan, in an Internet audio message released on Wednesday.
Zawahiri insulted Obama and other black Americans who have held high office in the US administration with the term used by the late Muslim black [...]
CIA head says bin Laden isolated, fighting to survive
U.S. intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden is isolated from al Qaeda and spending much of his energy merely surviving, the head of the CIA said on Thursday.
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Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon
On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago.
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Collapsed Haiti school owner arrested; toll at 88
Haitian police on Sunday were holding the owner of a school that collapsed, killing at least 88 people and setting off a desperate search for survivors trapped in tons of rubble.
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President-elect Obama inherits a world of troubles
President-elect Barack Obama will face some of the most daunting challenges that any new president has confronted since at least 1981, when America tumbled into a severe recession with its prestige ebbing around the world.
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Families reject Iraq’s mental patients
The man sits gently rocking on the bed, one hand clutching a cloth, the other hiding his face — body language that screams despair. He is one of about 1,000 mentally ill patients abandoned to Iraq’s sole treatment facility for severe psychiatric disorders. Most patients never go home again, though doctors have new hope the [...]
