Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald strode across the federal courthouse plaza early Tuesday afternoon as if straight from central casting: a serious government man in an off-the-rack dark blue suit, standing a head taller and walking 2 feet in front of the rest of his team, aiming purposefully for the array of microphones, cameras, and shivering reporters awaiting him.
Although high-tech gurus helped to triple venture capital investment in alternative energy in 2006, a large share of that $2.4 billion went in a decidedly low-tech direction. A new study by investment research firm Clean Edge and San Francisco venture firm Nth Power shows that instead of pouring money into the breakthrough idea that will free the nation from the grip of oil, the financiers focused on workaday projects like factories and electric transmission enhancement.
AP - An Indonesian jetliner carrying 140 people burst into flames as it landed on Java island Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 96, the airline and witnesses said.
AP - Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush administration.
AP - Two suicide bombers turned a procession of Shiite pilgrims into a blood-drenched stampede Tuesday, killing scores with a first blast and then claiming more lives among fleeing crowds. At least 114 were killed amid a wave of deadly strikes against Shiites heading for a solemn religious ritual.
A commercial airliner burst into flames on landing at the Yogyakarta airport in Indonesia, an airport official said. There were 133 passengers and seven crew members onboard, and 93 people were evacuated and taken to local hospitals, the airline told CNN. The number of fatalities was uncertain.
Vice President Cheney is disappointed by the guilty verdict against his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. One juror said the panel had sympathy for Libby, but were convinced of his guilt. CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said, "He is virtually certain to go to prison if this conviction is upheld."