Roman Catholic militiamen are gearing up for clashes with Muslim rebels again, more than 30 years after all-out communal war tore through the island of Mindanao.
President Bush?s fourth and final trip to Iraq was interrupted by an incident in which a man threw his shoes at the president during a news conference.
AP - On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference.
AP - A handful of Illinois' top politicians called disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich incapacitated Sunday, issuing fresh calls for his resignation as lawmakers gear up for a session that could lead to his impeachment.
AP - With the country spiraling deeper into recession, the Federal Reserve is ready to slash its key interest rate — perhaps to an all-time low_ in hopes of cushioning some of the economic fallout felt by many struggling Americans.
President Bush made an unannounced farewell visit Sunday to Baghdad, Iraq, where a man threw shoes at him. In Arab culture, throwing shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom of a shoe faces another person, is considered an insult. The man was dragged out screaming. As the man continued to scream from another room, Bush said: "That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me, you may want to know."
Gas prices rose for the second consecutive day following eighty-six consecutive declines, CNNMoney.com reports. The motorist group AAA said the national average price for a gallon of gas rose to $1.663 a gallon from $1.66 the previous day. Jason Toews, co-founder of GasBuddy in Minneapolis, has warned that gas prices may be bottoming out.