CJ - Instablogs
Nov 3 2009
If, like many on the far side of the Atlantic, you were upset by revelations about David Letterman’s extramarital office romances, it’s probably best to keep your TV firmly tuned away from the sports channels. In the week that a former...
Oct 31 2009
Iraq has called for more support from the international community to help it combat insurgent suicide bombings. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday’s bombings, which killed more than 150 people, had shaken confidence in the...
Oct 30 2009
A mother’s plot to blame a stranger for killing her sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut his throat, then moved on to his younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday.
Oct 28 2009
The very-much-alive British writer is referred to as “the late V.S Naipaul, a Nobel prize winning author” in the footnote of sworn testimony from an FBI agent. The error is included in documents filed at a court in Chicago for the trial of...
Oct 23 2009
Eric Williamson, from Springfield, Virginia, was brewing coffee in his kitchen when a woman and a seven-year-old boy walked past the window and saw him. The woman complained to police who arrested Williamson shortly after the incident on Monday...
Oct 15 2009
The United States spends about $3.6 billion a month in Afghanistan, according to data provided by the Congressional Research Service. The average cost per month is calculated at an average 51,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but that number likely will...
Oct 14 2009
More than 1,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 900,000 displaced in eastern Congo by Rwandan Hutu militiamen and Congolese forces since January, humanitarian groups said Tuesday. The report released by a coalition of 84 organizations said that...
Oct 14 2009
George Davis — a former mayoral candidate known around the city as naked yoga guy –had pretty high ambitions for the second-annual Naked Olympics. Scheduled for Saturday, the competition was supposed to include barefoot races, ancient Greek...
Oct 8 2009
Pakistan’s powerful military rejected U.S. attempts to link billions of dollars in foreign aid to increased monitoring of its anti-terror efforts, complicating American attempts to strike al-Qaida and Taliban fighters on the Afghan...
Oct 7 2009
Iran has shut down three daily newspapers critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, according to reports by state-run news agencies. While no reason was given, the newspapers had been considered sympathetic towards those protesting over...