The organization declared the first global flu pandemic in 41 years, but an official noted that the pandemic is “moderate” in severity and that scientists are tracking it carefully.
AP - American households lost $1.33 trillion of their wealth in the first three months of the year as the recession took a bite out of stock portfolios and dragged down home prices.
AP - The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic Thursday the first global flu epidemic in 41 years as infections in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere climbed to nearly 30,000 cases.
AP - An 88-year-old white supremacist has been charged with murder for killing the security guard who had opened the door to let him into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, officials said Thursday.
The security guard killed at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened the door for the gunman, who raised a rifle and shot him, authorities said today. Stephen Tyrone Johns was trying to help the man, police said. James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, will be charged with murder.
The World Health Organization scheduled an emergency meeting for Thursday to decide whether to declare a global swine flu pandemic as confirmed cases of H1N1 virus continue to soar worldwide.
There should be no assumed link between on-board speed sensors and the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean last week, the airline's chief executive said Thursday.