Zimbabwe Prime Minister Tsvangirai announced that his party will boycott meetings with President Mugabe's ZANU-PF party until they resolve their differences. Mugabe foe Bennett was released from jail on bail today after being detained Wednesday.
Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who made a controversial film about Islam, won his appeal against a British ban imposed to stop him from spreading hatred and violent messages.
The deficit is the largest relative to the size of the economy since 1945, underscoring the challenge to shrink the fiscal gap even as the White House considers more steps to stimulate a slow recovery.
The third-quarter loss came as growing numbers of consumer loans soured and the bank paid millions of dollars to wean itself off government life support.
If Obama wants to create jobs then he has to start chipping away at the uncertainty his administration has created ["Patience Wearing Thin as Obama Turns to Jobs," usnews.com].
AP - The Pakistani military is setting its sights on the Taliban's remote sanctuary after nearly two weeks of big bombings across the country, as hundreds flee the Afghan border region each day before what promises to be the army's riskiest offensive yet.
AP - A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves is under investigation in at least two deaths and could face criminal charges that could test the limits of the First Amendment.
AP - But would he go so far as to hide his 6-year-old son in the rafters of his garage for five hours and make it seem like the boy floated away in a helium balloon?
Laura Geraghty was down for 57 minutes. No blood pressure, no pulse, no oxygen. During that time, Geraghty says she saw deceased loved ones. She was shocked 21 times before she came back. Dr. Kevin Nelson, a neurologist who studies near-death experiences, says they're not imagined. The explanation, he says, lies in the brain itself.
Amanda Knox's parents are hopeful that an Italian court's decision not to re-evaluate the evidence against their daughter means she will be found not guilty of killing her roommate. Knox, of Seattle, Washington, has been in an Italian jail and on trial for nearly two years on charges that she helped murder British student Meredith Kercher.
A 6-month-old baby miraculously survived after his stroller rolled off a railway station platform and into the path of an incoming train. The incident, which happened Thursday at a train station in Melbourne, Australia, was captured on camera. The footage shows the baby's mother momentarily letting go of the stroller, which then rolls over the edge of the platform. Seconds later, a train pulls in to the station. The stroller and baby were dragged several feet up the track before the train stopped.
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