CJ - Instablogs
Sep 26 2009
Backed by other world powers, President Barack Obama declared Friday that Iran is speeding down a path to confrontation and demanded that Tehran quickly “come clean” on all nuclear efforts and open a newly revealed secret site for close...
Sep 26 2009
Switzerland’s world number one Roger Federer has pulled out of next month’s Japan Open and Shanghai Masters 1000. The 28-year-old told organisers he was withdrawing to rest his body “after a physically challenging year”.
Sep 18 2009
President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he’s mulling the possibility of allowing Venezuela’s air force to shoot down suspected drug planes, but he is not convinced it’s a good idea. “We are studying it. This is something tough....
Sep 15 2009
WATCHING President Barack Obama deliver his stirring speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, may have experienced a powerful sense of déjà vu. In 1993 her husband, President Bill...
Sep 14 2009
Aimee Louise Sword, 35, who is free on bond after her arrest, was initially charged with three counts of felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct. A judge this week reduced the charges to one count, but police say she is accused of a “very...
Sep 12 2009
Although she liked her bacon crispy and her chicken fried, she never drank, smoked or fooled around, Gertrude Baines once said, describing a life that lasted an astonishing 115 years and earned her the title of oldest person on the planet. It was a...
Sep 11 2009
The Cayman Islands is sacrificing beauty for bucks. The government is telling beauty pageant participants that all contests have been postponed until the economy improves. The move is expected to save some $120,000 — a small windfall for one of the...
Sep 11 2009
Sierra Leone — More than 200 people, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays, were missing and feared dead Thursday, a day after a boat capsized at sea, authorities said. Thirty-nine passengers have been rescued so far off the coast of...
Sep 4 2009
North Korea can also now enter the final stage of uranium enrichment, it said in the letter to the president of the U.N. Security Council, according to state-run KCNA. When enriched to a high degree, uranium can be used as weapons-grade material....
Sep 3 2009
Fifteen young people in rural south-central Wisconsin, including some from Beaver Dam High School, made a game out of chasing down and beating small animals to death with bats and clubs, authorities said Wednesday. The 10 adults and five juveniles...