Angelina Jolie has arrived in Pakistan to help with fundraising efforts as United Nations officials warned that a slow response to a global appeal for aid was putting lives at risk. The Hollywood star travelled to the north-west of the country to meet Afghan refugees w...
Los Angeles prosecutors have charged 33 immigration activists with a variety of misdemeanor crimes related to three protests beginning in May that blocked city streets. The protesters face charges, such as remaining at an unlawful assembly, resisting, delaying or ob...
(Sept. 7) -- Condoleezza Rice shouted on the phone at President George W. Bush during the initial chaos after the 9/11 attacks and ordered him to stay away from the nation's capital. Then she hung up on him.
In a History Channel documentary that will be shown Thursday, ...
President Obama disagrees with his former budget director’s proposal that the Bush tax cuts for the rich be extended for two years, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
(CNN) -- Scientists have found a decline in oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil spill but have found no "dead zones" as a result, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration reported Tuesday.
Levels of dissolved oxygen in deep water have drop...
Mayor Richard Daley says he will not run for re-election in 2011.
"The truth is I have been thinking about this for the past several months," Daley said at a City Hall news conference. "In the end this is a personal decision, no more, no less."
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) practice of searching laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the ACLU, the New York Civil Liberti...
The U.S. military says a gunman wearing an Iraqi army uniform has killed two American soldiers in northern Iraq.
A military statement says the Americans were among a group of U.S. soldiers meeting with Iraqi security forces Tuesday at an Iraqi army compound near the city...
BP PLC said Tuesday that it will provide $10 million to the National Institutes of Health to support a study that will look into the potential public health issues coming out of the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, along with other spill-relat...
With polls and prognosticators predicting a massive Republican rout -- and the likely election of uncompromising, out-of-the-mainstream conservatives -- in the fall, the Obama administration has begun raising dire alarms in its pitch to voters. Remember the Bush admin...
The Obama White House has joined those who say a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Koran on 9/11 threatens U.S. personnel in Muslim countries.
Endorsing the comments of Afghanistan commander David Petraeus, White House spokesman Rober...
Does happiness rise with income? In one of the more scientific attempts to answer that question, researchers from Princeton have put a price on happiness. It's about $75,000 in income a year.
They found that not having enough money definitely causes emotional pain ...
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United ... thousands demonstrated in Le Mans, western France, yesterday as workers across the country protested against plans to raise the retirement age.
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The prominent Iraqi television presenter Riad al-Saray has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Baghdad.
Mr Saray, who presented religious and political programmes on al-Iraqiya TV, was killed as he was leaving his home on Tuesday, the campaign group Reporters without Bo...
Man claimed he was being held at the U.S. base unlawfully because he was a shopkeeper, not a terrorist.
A federal judge has agreed with the government that it can indefinitely hold at Guantánamo an Afghan man whom military intelligence says belonged to an anti-...
Former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush is expected to be stripped of the Heisman Trophy by the end of the month, Yahoo Sports is reporting.
Yahoo Sports cited two sources close to the Heisman trust, which oversees the award given to college foot...
Taser Used On Man Trying To Save Pets From Burning Home
Homeowner Uses Garden Hose To Fight Flames In North Belle Vernon
NORTH BELLE VERNON, Pa. -- Police said they were forced to use a Taser on a man who was trying to rescue his pets from a house fire in Westmoreland C...
Church 'praying' about plan to burn Quran, pastor says after warning
Gen. Petraeus said protest 'could endanger troops'
MIAMI — A church planning to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 is 'definitely praying' about the controversial demonstration, its pastor said after...
Less than three weeks before publication, Bob Woodward's new book finally has a cover design and a title: "Obama's Wars." And the focus will not be on the economy - the top issue of the fall elections - but on foreign policy.
CNN tried to catch up with Rep. Michele Bachmann at the State Fair. But reporter Gary Tuchman figured out that these days, the congresswoman rarely talks to anyone other than known allies.
The cable news network's cameras were allowed to watch as she practically ran through th...
France was gripped Tuesday by a major strike and protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to raise the retirement age to 62 from 60. Also, a subway strike in London led the government to make available additional boats and buses and to encourage commuters to c...
Whopping rate increases are coming soon for many people with individual health-insurance policies.
Most insurers offering individual policies in the state have asked for and been granted rate increases, effective Oct. 1, according to the state's insurance commissione...
Beyond the 15 million Americans who have no jobs at all, millions more are caught in part-time or limited jobs that don't pay them enough to maintain their standard of living — much less contribute to the strong consumer spending needed to power the nation out of th...
Iran says it has the right to bar UN inspectors
By NASSER KARIMI (AP) – 49 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's nuclear chief said Tehran has the right to bar some U.N. inspectors from monitoring its disputed nuclear program, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported.
TANAH KARO, Indonesia — An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early Tuesday — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.
The force of Mount Sinabung's explosion could be felt five miles (eight...
Labor has won the support of the two remaining independent MPs to form a minority government.
The independents, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, dramatically announced their decisions separately, with Mr Oakeshott being the last to signal his position to back ...
In a snapshot of systemic waste, researchers have calculated that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year for acute medical care, like for fevers, stomachaches and coughs, are not with a patient’s primary physician, and that more than a quart...
Mexican state reduces penalty for abortion 'crime'
Published on 7 September 2010 - 3:17am
Six women condemned to up to 29 years in prison for abortion will see their sentences reduced to eight years thanks to a reform in central Mexico, defense groups said Monday.
The Republican candidate who defeated U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's primary election has been cited with failing to exercise due care to avoid a recent three-car collision.
Joe Miller was involved in the crash in his hometown of Fairbanks three days after the Aug. ...
George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, plans to announce on Tuesday that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch to expand the organization’s work globally.
It is the largest gift he has made, the largest gift by far that Huma...
It didn't take long for Mark Hurd to land on his feet.
Just one month after being pushed out of HP for reasons still somewhat unclear, Oracle is hiring Hurd as co-president. (Oracle's other president is Safra Catz.)
The 57-year-old Russian Prime Minister appeared to deliberately fan speculation on Monday when he met with foreign academics and journalists at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
When asked whether his potential re-election to the presidency would jeopardise Russia’s politi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose on Wednesday that businesses be allowed to write off all their new investments in plant and equipment through 2011, an administration official said on Monday.
The plan, aimed at jump-starting job growth, would cu...
John Hithon, a black man, spent 13 tough years working his way into the lower ranks of management at a Tyson Foods chicken plant in Gadsden, Ala. He started out as a “live hanger,” hoisting 24 squirming birds onto moving metal hooks every minute. Then he moved up to wh...
I wrote this tool some months ago while developing on the xPresso publishing system (NO), and has done some rewriting this week to implement further functionality.
The Codificator now provides: - automatic code wrapping in DC board format - conversion of regular HTML-formatted text to DC board formatted text - link extraction from HTML to DC board format - auto fetch of webpages, with on-select conversion of content to DC board format.
It won't boil your coffee or knit you a warm sweater for the winter, but it may help you to be more efficient when you're online discussing politics.
AnoBBS is a opensource 3DES-encrypted Bulletin Board where users encrypt their messages before submit with a common known phrase, using javascript. The server does not know the key, so this is end-to-end encryption where the key is never submitted. The technology used is Ajax and PHP, the forum files are stored as XML. Below is a list of the basic functionality: - user authentication - topic list and topic view - three userlevels; admin, moderator and user - post threads - post and edit replies - print or save threads - edit, delete and lock threads (mod) - edit forumdata and users (admin) - save BBS (admin) - delete BBS (admin)
The BBS is very simple to install and even simpler to use. It requires only a standard php distro on the server and a javascript enable browser to function.
AnoChat is an opensource 3DES-encrypted chat where users encrypt their messages before submit with a common known phrase, using javascript. The server does not know the key, so this is end-to-end encryption where the key is never submitted. The technology used is JX, similar to Ajax. The chat is very simple to install and even simpler to use. It requires only a standard php distro on the server and a javascript enabled browser to function.
Large number of US citizens demonstrated against the war in Iraq (and the possible war in Iran) during this October weekend. Massive turnout in Boston and San Fransisco, and also in Chicago, LA and DC people took to the streets. The message was: NO more war in Iraq! NO to a war with Iran!
