World News
Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Sobriety Sorority
International Herald Tribune
PARIS — It could have been a scene from a Fellini film: black-clad nuns with strange habits; hats encasing the heads like wimples; gilded chains dangling with graven images; capes in sheer plast...
Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Beige Is Beautiful
International Herald Tribune
The problem for brands, like Chloe, that have embraced the menswear style: How to tell them apart? Almost any piece from the designer Hannah MacGibbon — the camel coats, the darker tan versio...
Vatican on Defense as Sex Scandals Build
International Herald Tribune
note read on Vatican Radio, the Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, also cautioned against limiting the concerns over child sex abuse to Catholic institutions, noting that it also affected th...
Get ready! Here’s your chance to become a Beach Bum
New York Post
Hey ladies! It’s time to get in touch with your inner beach bum.Open tryouts have been scheduled for the Coney Island Beach Bums, the dancers/cheerleaders who keep fans fired up at Brooklyn Cycl...
Lox of luck to not being kosher
New York Post
A Brooklyn bris without a lox plate is like Coney Island without the ocean.Thus Brooklyn businesses that specialize in serving lox to Orthodox Jews bristled at the notion that smoked salmon, a.k.a. lo...
Israel, Syria eye nuclear power plants
Channel News Asia
PARIS: Israel and Syria are separately eyeing plans to develop nuclear power to meet the energy needs of the volatile Middle East, ministers told a conference hosted by France on Tuesday to promote re...
Google welcomes chance to export sevices to Iran, Cuba
New Zealand Herald
GENEVA - A senior Google executive welcomed a US decision to relax restrictions on exporting internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba. Bob Boorstin, Google's director of policy commun...
U.S.: Terror charges for 'Jihad Jane'
CNN
Colleen LaRose, known as "Jihad Jane" and "Fatima Rose," has also been charged with making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.
Rahm Emanuel in political cross hairs
CNN
Washington (CNN) -- White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is accustomed to working in the shadows, but he now finds himself the subject of newspaper stories.
U.S. serial killer won 'The Dating Game'
C News
This Jan. 11, 2010 file photo shows Rodney Alcala, a former death row inmate who was twice convicted of the 1979 killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl, sitting in Orange County Superior Court...
Court denies atom smasher would destroy world
C News
BERLIN - A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction. Germa...
Man admits blackmailing Letterman
BBC
A US television producer has pleaded guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his sexual affairs.Robert Halderman was charged after threatening to reveal all unless pai...
Medal honours Holocaust 'heroes'
BBC
A medal honouring ordinary Britons who helped Jews and other persecuted groups escape the Nazis has presented to two men by Gordon Brown at Downing Street.Sir Nicholas Winton helped saved nearly 700 J...
Bali Bomb Mastermind 'Killed In Shootout'
Sky News
Jemaah Islamiah , was apparently killed in a raid on a property south of the capital Jakarta. A police source said it was "strongly suspected" that Dulmatin had been killed. If true, his death would...
Two Charged Over Killing Of Scarlett Keeling
Sky News
Indian media said local men Samson D'Souza and Placido Carvalho had been charged with culpable homicide, grave sexual assault, administering a drug with intent to harm, outraging modesty and destroyin...
Lohan Sues Over Baby Advert 'Likeness'
Sky News
In a lawsuit filed in Nassau County, New York state, the actress accuses E*Trade of invoking her "name, characterisation and personality" without permission. The firm's advert features a "milkaholic"...
Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked ...
Guilty Plea in Letterman Extortion Case
CBS News
Judge Won't Toss Letterman Case (CBS/AP) Last updated 3:57 p.m. Eastern A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's aff...
Gov't: Baby Slings Can Cause Suffocation
CBS News
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to issue a warning about popular "baby slings" which can force the infant into a position that constricts breathing, leading to at least seven deaths.
Report: Massa Allegedly Groped Male Staffers
CBS News
reports . Citing three unnamed sources, the Post reports that the allegations date back at least a year and involve "a pattern of behavior and physical harassment." Massa resigned this week after it c...
U.S. Condemns New Israeli Settlements
CBS News
Israel's approval of 1,600 new settlement homes in disputed East Jerusalem Tuesday. Israel approved the new construction earlier in the day- a move that immediately clouded a visit by Vice Presiden...
Meet The 15-Year-Old Conservative Wunderkind
CBS News
Bob Schieffer spoke with Jonathan Krohn, the 15 year-old wunderkind about his new book, "Defining Conservatism". Plus; Unplugged gives a health care primer with Norm Ornstein and Keli Goff.
As Chile Shook, Cities Shifted to the West
CBS News
Using GPS technology, scientists have measured significant movement from the magnitude-8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27. Concepcion, the largest city near the quake's epicenter, shifted...
Drexel board expected to name John Fry as president
Philadelphia Daily News
Drexel University trustees tomorrow are planning to name John A. Fry - president of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster and a former University of Pennsylvania executive - as the new president,...
George Chavanne Sr.: Mummer, court officer dies
Philadelphia Daily News
George H. Chavanne Sr., 84, of South Philadelphia, a retired court officer, Mummer, and commander of the Philadelphia Municipal War Veterans Association, died of complications from a stroke Sunday at ...
Two men arraigned in Camden torture killings
Philadelphia Daily News
Two men were arraigned today in connection with the brutal slaying of a couple who was tortured and buried in the back yard of a Camden row home. Darrel Pierre, 19, and Clive Hinds, 18, were both cha...
NBC10 reporter's higher calling
Philadelphia Daily News
WHEN NBC10's Tracy Davidson tells people she's pursuing her master's degree in pastoral counseling at Chestnut Hill College, she's quickly asked "What are you going to do with that?" Her re...
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