"They have legitimised the murder of their own children by killing the children of Palestine," said Zahar, in a video recorded from his hiding place in Syria and broadcast on Hamas's al-Aqsa television.
The pope's minister for peace and justice was accused yesterday of speaking like a Holocaust denier after comparing Gaza to a "big concentration camp"...
After killing 50 civilians in UN schools sheltering refugees - "C'est la guerre", the Israeli minister Meir Shitreet told the BBC when asked about the atrocities - the Israeli government agreed a three-hour daily lull in the carnage for "humanitarian purposes", as diplomatic manoeuvring intensified over a possible ceasefire deal. All this at the cost of only 10 Israeli dead, six of them soldiers.
The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence services, would represent a definitive break with the Bush presidency's ostracising of the group. The state department has designated Hamas a terrorist organisation, and in 2006 Congress passed a law banning US financial aid to the group...
Devyn Simone is a Kansas City native, a graduate of Notre Dame de Sion High School, and a former host of KPRS 103.3's popular morning show Generation Rap.
Eric Wiegandt says when he found out he got a 36, he was so proud. A total of 506,000students nationwide took the ACT in October and only 69 of them earned a top score.
Protests over the fatal by Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle turned violent Wednesday night, with windows broken, streets shut down and train stations closed.
It is not unusual to have undergone a life, or at least, a period of time of desiring to transition towards femininity. Because of this, often patients feel compelled to be led down a path of what constitutes a feminine appearance, taking strides to conform to a genetic female standard. ....
Dr. Ian K. Smith shares how to face the biggest roadblock to weight loss.Tame temptations, lose weight..
Nancy Killefer, a director at McKinsey & Company and a former assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, will work with economic officials to increase efficiencies and eliminate waste in government spending.
While the man is now an Internet hit the situation could have been very tragic. His right ski is what caught and it jammed the lift. Once he fell his pants also got stuck and they ripped and went down to about his ankles.
Cheerleaders and scandal go together quite well and apparently they are getting younger. High school cheerleaders are taking off their shirts and posing for photos and then sending those racy photos of themselves to their boyfriends and other friends via e-mail.....
Sources said Obama has chosen Nancy Killefer, a director at McKinsey & Company and a former assistant secretary of the treasury in the Bill Clinton administration. Obama is expected to announce his choice this morning...
She was once known as a beauty queen. Now she’s just a chick giving policemen a hard time when they try to arrest her....
There was much talk at the time of a movie about Che's life. Tony Richardson was going to make one from a screenplay by Alan Sillitoe and one of the greatest political film-makers, Italian Marxist Francesco Rosi, sent posters all over Europe announcing his search for an unknown Che lookalike.
This film documented the first ever ‘World’s Most Beautiful Transsexual Pageant’ held in Las Vegas. The pageant followed the standard format; evening gown, talent, and swim suit. The top 3 winners won small amounts of money, which wouldn’t have covered the cost of the trip.....
In words unfailingly human and sometimes disturbingly graphic, Swayze opens up to ABC's Barbara Walters, who first met the sinewy leading man 20 years ago, at the height of his post-"Dirty Dancing" fame...
Card issuers make it sound like a marriage made in heaven when they solicit your business. But they never tell you how much it will cost you down the line, in dollars and tears.....
Hamas's Syrian-based chief Khaled Meshaal told Israel that "if you commit the stupidity of launching a ground offensive then a black destiny awaits you…..
"Israel has destroyed the buildings, but Hamas is still here," Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas spokesman, said Thursday, the sixth day of the bombing campaign. "There is no anxiety over the existence of Hamas even if they destroy all of Gaza because we are among the people."..
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso vowed to turn around the ailing economy Thursday, promising to make his nation the world's first to emerge from the global recession. "The government will do its utmost to ease people's worries about the...
A small group of placard-waving pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's vacation retreat in Hawaii on Tuesday to protest against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza…
The US stock market has risen about 20 percent from its climactic lows reached on Nov. 21 and “chances that we saw the bottom of the bear have increased because of the massive easing done by the Federal Reserve since then,” said Alfred Goldman, chief market strategist at Wachovia Securities…
"Unlike other conflict zones where there is the possibility to flee the war zone, Gaza itself has become the war zone. There is nowhere for the population to go, they are in the middle of all these attacks."..
Israeli leaders said they would press ahead with the Gaza campaign, despite enraged protests across the Arab world and Syria’s decision to halt indirect peace talks with the Jewish state...
Gordon Johndroe, the Bush administration spokesman, said Israel must try to avoid civilian casualties, but laid the blame for deaths on the Palestinian groups that controls the impoverished territory.
The recession in the UK economy in the three months to September was worse than previously thought, official data out on Tuesday showed, underlining the speed of the downturn…
Israel's foreign minister brushed off a call for restraint from Egypt's president, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a direct appeal to Gaza's people to pressure their leaders to stop the barrages.
Governments across the world have tried to boost expenditure to ease a recession ushered in by a credit crisis in the United States, with Japan and Germany becoming the two latest countries to unveil new spending programs…
Rumor mill, this time 'inside' the Microsoft campus, is that people are hearing a 'buzz' going around that there may layoffs sometime in January, if not later in the year. The word "layoffs", is still buzzing in Redmond....
Actors? you decide:
US forces in Afghanistan, frustrated by a spreading Taliban insurgency that is getting support from militant enclaves in northwest Pakistan, have stepped up strikes by pilotless drones despite Pakistani objections…
The 2006 death of 13-year-old Megan Meier prompted Missouri lawmakers to update state harassment law earlier this year so that it now covers bullying and stalking done through electronic media, like e-mails or text messages…
Eleven of the world’s biggest banks were downgraded Friday by Standard & Poor’s after the ratings agency said the current downturn could be longer and deeper than previously thought…
Paulson could soon exhaust the first $350 billion with the bailout that President George W. Bush’s administration has pledged for General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC. The Treasury chief is discussing with aides strategies to seek congressional approval for the rest of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, people familiar with the deliberations said….
A journalist for a Cairo news agency chucked two shoes at President Bush earlier this week, CNN reporter Zain Verjee tries telling Condoleezza Rice that this proves the US is “loathed” around the world. Rice almost leaps out of her seat to reject that...
With Mr. Madoff struggling to convince his rapidly diminishing circle of friends to cough up the remaining $3 million to meet the terms of his bail, Marc Litt, the New York…...
Bernard Madoff, accused of the largest fraud in U.S. history, will be allowed to remain in his $7 million Park Avenue apartment instead of being sent to jail, under terms of an agreement announced today by federal prosecutors....
Rick Warren, the senior pastor of Saddleback Church in southern California, opposes abortion rights but has taken more liberal stances on the government role in fighting poverty, and backed away from other evangelicals’ staunch support for economic conservatism.
Around the United States, the nonprofit community is reeling from the Bernard Madoff scandal. At least two other foundations have been forced to close their doors, having lost virtually all their assets to what the authorities describe as a Ponzi scheme that depended on new investment money to pay off earlier investments...
Japan and major European countries have joined the United States in falling into recession. China has seen its remarkable three-decades long export-fueled rise slowed. Oil-based economies on Washington’s worry list such as Iran, Russia and Venezuela, are reeling, too...
With the passing of Bettie Page, new revelations about her past have again surfaced, here is more information about her life:
As we have said many, many times over, the threat from violent extremists is as much a threat to Pakistani people and the Pakistani government as it is to anybody else...
Here at 'Celebrity Status Quo' were always searching for new ways to impliment new marketing techniques.
In selected watering holes across America, it's party time tonight. In Washington, the festivities will centre on the venerable City Tavern in Georgetown; for $90 (£61), you can taste the cocktail offerings of the capital's most expert bartenders (or "mixologists" as they like to term themselves), listen to a jazz band and, in the words of the invitation, "party like it's 1933".....
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The Mumbai terrorists used cocaine and stimulants to stay awake during the 60-hour fight with Indian commandos last week.
Fear of a prolonged global recession also helped drive down both crude prices and the yield on U.S. government debt, which hovered near record lows last seen more than five decades ago.
"I would hope that when it's all said and done, people say, 'This is a guy who showed up to solve problems,'" Bush said at a global health forum. "And when you have somebody say there's a pandemic that you can help, and you do nothing about it, then you have frankly disgraced the office." ..
