World News
Manhattan Church Perv Reindicted For More Victims
New York Post
A disgraced Lower Manhattan youth minister -- already charged with repeatedly raping and seducing a 12-year-old girl -- has been re-indicted for sex assaults against three new girl victims, all in the... Sen. Harry Reid’s Wife, Daughter Injured In Car Crash
New York Post
The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) were taken to a DC-area hospital Thursday after being involved in a car accident, the Washington Post reported. Reid’s wife, Lan... Iaf Strikes Two Targets In Southern Gaza Strip
Haaretz
The Israel Air Force successfully bombed two targets in the southern Gaza Strip - a weapon manufacturing facility in and an arms smuggling tunnel on the Rafah border - in a joint IDF-ISA operation ove... Israeli Airstrikes Target Gaza, Several Wounded
Channel News Asia
GAZA CITY: Israeli aircraft hit two targets in southern Gaza Strip early Friday, wounding several people, the army and witnesses said. In the first strike, they blew up a metal workshop in the town of... Israeli Soldiers Indicted Over Gaza War
New Zealand Herald
A Palestinian man examines a building damaged following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, unrelated to the charges laid over the 2009 incident. Photo / AP Uk Politicians Deny Expenses Scam
New Zealand Herald
LONDON - Four British politicians have pleaded not guilty to involvement in a fraudulent expenses scam. The three governing Labour Party MPs and a member of the House of Lords are accused of using th... Obama Announces Where His Nobel Money To Go
New Zealand Herald
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has announced which groups will get the US$1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama said on Thursday that US$250,000 will go to Fisher H... Pentagon: F-35 Fighter Jet Cost Doubles
USA Today
WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon said Thursday the cost to build its next-generation fighter jet has doubled to as much as $113 million per plane since 2001. House Votes To Impeach U.s. Judge From Louisiana
USA Today
WASHINGTON (AP) The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part becau... House Votes To Impeach Federal Judge
CNN
"Our investigation found that Judge Porteous participated in a pattern of corrupt conduct for years," said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Task... Court Oks Reciting Pledge Of Allegiance
CNN
Washington (CNN) -- Public schools in Western states can continue teacher-led reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, after a federal court ruled against a group of atheist parents. School Nixes Prom Over Lesbian Student
CNN
(CNN) -- A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student attend with her girlfriend. Turkey And Sweden In Genocide Row
BBC
Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament voted narrowly to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in World War I.The Turkish government condemned the resolution, sayin... Fans Riot At Metallica Gig In Colombia
Sky News
download Flash from the Adobe download website. The police, who were expecting crowd trouble, had deployed 1,500 officers, four tanks and several police trucks to manage the event. Some 30,000... Cardinal Questions Priest Celibacy
The Australian
A SENIOR cardinal has called for priestly celibacy to be re-examined in the light of sex scandals sweeping the Roman Catholic Church. Australia On Net Censorship Blacklist
The Australian
A TOP media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship. U.s. Boosted Financial, Tax Crime Probes In 2009
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States boosted its investigation of tax and other financial crimes by about 10 percent last year, tax authorities reported on Thursday, amid an increased push to purs... Guantanamo Prisoner Known As Hambali Seeks Release
Reuters
(Reuters) - The Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of helping plan the 2002 bombings in the Indonesian resort area of Bali that killed more than 200 people on Thursday revived his legal bid to be release... Obama Gives $1.4 Million Nobel Prize To 10 Charities
Reuters
President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama laughs after receiving his medal and diploma from Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Osl... Highway Deaths At Lowest Level Since 1950s
CBS News
(AP) U.S. highway deaths have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1950s, as more motorists bought into buckling up and embraced safety innovations. A sour economy that dampened traveling instincts... Dems Dealt Blow On Health Care Reconciliation
CBS News
After more than a year of passionate and substantive debate, the fate of the Democrats' health care reform package may rest largely on technicalities. Senate Republican sources say the Senate parliame... Flyers Showing More Discipline
Philadelphia Daily News
Oh, they aren't pacifists. They still play with an edge, still are the NHL's most penalized team. But since Peter Laviolette became their coach in early December, the Flyers are playing with more sma... Mall Owner Preit Finalizes $670 Million Financing Deal
Philadelphia Daily News
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns eight of the region's most visible shopping malls - such as the newly renovated Cherry Hill and Plymouth Meeting - announced today that it has fin... Villanova Falls To Marquette
Philadelphia Daily News
NEW YORK - Lazar Hayward gave Marquette the lead for good with a 3-pointer with 1:51 to play, then added the clinching free throws with 3.2 seconds left, and the Golden Eagles went on to another close... Ex-council Rock Teacher Sentenced For Sex With Teen
Philadelphia Daily News
A former Bucks County high school teacher who had a five-month sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student - with the apparent knowledge of his peers - was sent to prison yesterday. Robert C. Hawk... Spitzer Doc In Tribeca Film Festival Lineup
New York Post
A documentary about the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.The festival unveiled part of its lineup Wednesday.The work-in-progress film about the former New York... Eu Parliament Demands Schalit’s Release
Jerusalem Post
The European parliament on Thursday called, by a large majority, for the immediate release of IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, who has been held captive by Hamas in Gaza since June 2005.The move came just o... Women In Black Protest In Violence-hit Nigeria State
Channel News Asia
JOS, Nigeria: Dressed in black and wielding wooden crosses, thousands of women marched in a Nigerian city on Thursday to express grief at a new bout of sectarian carnage and anger at the failure to st... Us Slams Rights Abuses In China, North Korea And Iran
Channel News Asia
WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday accused China and Iran of worsening human rights abuses as it raised the alarm about growing anti-Semitism worldwide and discrimination of Muslims in Europe. ... Vatican Criticizes Condom Machines In Rome School
USA Today
But the Keplero high school vowed Thursday to go ahead with its experiment, billed as the first in the capital. While it's a relative novelty for Italy, schools in several other European countries hav... Ohio State Shooter Left Note, Tells Woman 'sorry'
USA Today
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) An Ohio State janitor who shot two supervisors in a campus maintenance shop before killing himself left behind a brief handwritten note directed to a woman named Donna that ...
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