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The former smoker, 61-year old Cindy Naugle has emphysema, a disease commonly linked to smoking.
Big News Network.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:59:22 -0500
Two hundred games, all played in 2009, are being investigated by German prosecutors.
Big News Network.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:47:57 -0500
Every day people in Southeast Asia, the Gulf, and African nations receive scam emails.
Big News Network.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:06:15 -0500
Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar has shifted his base from Quetta to Karachi with the help of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence, the Washington Times reports.
ANI Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:50:19 -0500
The US launched a missile strike at Taliban rebels in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing eight of the Islamists...
Big News Network.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:23:11 -0500
Peruvian police have arrested four people who are under suspicion of killing dozens of people for their fat.
Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:06:42 -0500
Three Iranian men have been sentenced to hang for raping a 17-year-old boy, who reportedly committed suicide after the event.
Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:34:43 -0500
The Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, will be the new president of the European Union.
Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:41:47 -0500
US talk show star Oprah Winfrey will stop production of her influential daytime show in 2011.
Big News Network.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:06:50 -0500
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has denied rebel groups in Yemen are being assisted by Tehran.
Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:29:38 -0500
The Israel Air Force has attacked two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip.
Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:50:20 -0500
The BBC has reported that hundreds of people have fled severe flooding in parts of Cumbria.
Big News Network.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:20:42 -0500
World Democratic Sen. Carl Levin said after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other e-mails involving Hasan were handled and why they...
Jerusalem Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:18 -0500
A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Gr...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:35 -0500
Pope Benedict XVI will today greet Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, for the first time since the Vatican announced the creation of a canonic...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:31 -0500
Maoist rebels in India have blown up a railway track, leading to the derailment of a crowded passenger train, killing two people and injuring dozens. The train was travelling at night from the easter...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:26 -0500
Never mind the "hand of Henry" – the "foot of Yahia" has caused an even greater World Cup fallout in north Africa as rioting erupted in the early hours of yesterday morning in Cairo. It was Alge...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:25 -0500
A French murder suspect who caused a media sensation after escaping from prison in a cardboard box and evading a huge manhunt during weeks on the run, has been recaptured, the interior ministry said...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:22 -0500
A body believed to be that of a Brazilian prostitute involved in a scandal that brought down the governor of the Rome area was found in an apartment fire yesterday. The woman, known as Brenda, was on...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:19 -0500
A police officer in Lima shows off bottles of human fat that were allegedly found on gang members who confessed to murdering local peasants to harvest fat...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:15 -0500
Tony Blair will not seek another big international job after being rejected for the new post of "President of Europe", his allies said yesterday. Close friends of the former prime minister said he ...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:07 -0500
Professional Sarah Palin and Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonators look for a gun prop for Sarah Palin's address during the Sunburst Convention of Professional Tribute Artists...
The Independent Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:02:03 -0500
MISSOURI - A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbour should be sent to a psychiatric hospital because she shows signs of severe depression and anxiety, her attorney said. A judge had not a...
New Zealand Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:51:13 -0500
MELBOURNE - The birth mother of twins Krishna and Trishna who gave them up due to poverty says she wants them to remain in Australia to be educated. The two-year-old conjoined Bangladeshi twins were ...
New Zealand Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:51:12 -0500
Fort Bragg officials said Friday in a news advisory that any interested media will be able to attend. A day earlier, a spokesman said media would be prevented from attending so the Palin book signing ...
USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:49:28 -0500
Knowing that viewers were tuning in to her Friday show to hear the queen of talk confirm that the "Oprah Winfrey Show" was coming to an end, Winfrey had not one, not two, but three guests on...
CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:45:51 -0500
Maintenance man David Lee of Arvada, Colo., puts the finishing touches on a sign featuring drawings of President Barack Obama. The billboard, completed by an artist Thursday, shows a grinning cartooni...
C News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:45:31 -0500
Police should visit every victim of crime no matter how minor the offence, the home secretary has said.Alan Johnson made the call as he launched an advertising campaign on what should be expected of p...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:23 -0500
UK troops could be withdrawn from Germany if the Tories win power, the shadow defence secretary has said.Dr Liam Fox said maintaining the current presence of more than 20,000 was "no longer neces...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:22 -0500
US prosecutors have asked for charges against one of five Blackwater security guards accused of killing up to 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians to be dropped.No reason was given for the move to dismiss charg...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:21 -0500
Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini has left hospital after undergoing wrist and pelvic surgery, but is unlikely to play again this season.The 36-year-old Italian fractured both his wrists and injured...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:20 -0500
The south west of Scotland remains on flood standby with more rain forecast to hit the region over the weekend.The wettest November day on record in Dumfries and Galloway caused widespread problems on...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:19 -0500
Banks are still finding "sneaky ways" to make money out of people, the consumers' association Which? has said.It claims the rate on authorised overdrafts is at its highest level since record...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:18 -0500
Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body's ageing process, US research suggests.A team from Brown University focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes th...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:17 -0500
GENEVA (AP) -- Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.It took a year ...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:38:55 -0500
Gustavo Dudamel , was striving for clarity in a rocketing downward string passage in the hair-raising Dies Irae movement. He demonstrated by singing solfège syllables at lightning speed. Orchestr...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:38:54 -0500
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government.
Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:46 -0500
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped below 50 percent in a second major poll in an indication he is suffering from the long healthcare debate and weakness in...
Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:46 -0500
25th Suicide at France Telecom Since 2008 (CBS) If you work, no one has to tell you that stress is part of just about every job. But at one company it's out of control. France Telecom is undergoing a...
CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:22 -0500
Maintenance man David Lee of Arvada, Colo., puts the finishing touches on a sign featuring drawings of President Barack Obama for a sales lot for pre-owned vehicles along Interstate 70 in the northwes...
CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:21 -0500
Civil Rights March On Jena After a series of racial incidents led to the indictment of six black high-schoolers, thousands of protestors are converging on Jena, La. Al Sharpton talks to Hannah Storm a...
CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:20 -0500
AN art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th Century.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:20 -0500
CUBA'S government has offered its first free penis implants, part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, an official newspaper reported.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:17 -0500
"There will be no cuts to National Parks firefighters on my watch,'' Mr Robertson said.He said all frontline staff across the state, including firefighters and fire management officers, were quarantin...
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:15 -0500
IINET yesterday accused Hollywood studios of trying to "outsource" its copyright enforcement to internet firms as it continued to battle in the Federal Court.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:14 -0500
As Dr Shetty pulls the thread tight with scissors, an assistant reads aloud a proposed agreement for him to build a new hospital in the Cayman Islands that would primarily serve Americans in search of...
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:11 -0500
THE BANK of Japan and the Japanese Finance Ministry have embarked on a bizarre public row over the threat of deflation and whether the country's economy is poised for a recovery or slump.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:08 -0500
US stocks have drifted downward for a third straight session, with the tech sector in focus after weak results from computer-maker Dell on the heels of a downgrade of key semiconductor stocks.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:07 -0500
With Thanksgiving around the corner, you'd think turkeys would be lying low. But in recent weeks, some wild gobblers in Lancaster County and Jersey City have brazenly stopped traffic, perched on a ro...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:29 -0500
MAYS LANDING, N.J. - A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing an underage drinking companion on the Atlantic City beach. Thirty-seven-year-old Jerry "Wolf" Soto...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:28 -0500
WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights. The agency told employees in a briefing memo Friday that air travelers experienced ...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:27 -0500
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, gestures during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. From left are, Sen. Mike Enzi, R-...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:25 -0500
NEW YORK - Hershey Co. may make a $17 billion bid for UK candy company Cadbury PLC, topping the recent $16.5 billion hostile offer by Kraft Foods Inc., the Wall Street Journal reports Friday.The bid w...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:23 -0500
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Corey Fisher scored 18 points to lead No. 5 Villanova past No. 18 Dayton 71-65 on Friday in the second round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. Fisher was 10 for 12 from the free-thr...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:20 -0500
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisi...
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:36 -0500
WASHINGTON (AP) -- There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the S...
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:34 -0500
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually as...
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:33 -0500
ROME (AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an ...
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:28 -0500
ROME (AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:26 -0500
Now she's ready to say goodbye, leaving a huge void for broadcast TV even as she raises the possibility of more Oprah than ever when she starts her own cable network.
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:24 -0500
The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussion, saying that is not an ade...
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:23 -0500
Sa’ad Hariri. Photo: AP Syria has for years fought long and hard to keep Lebanon under its thumb, but in 2004, with the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, its influence took a bi...
Jerusalem Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:56:55 -0500
WASHINGTON - A planned November hearing by the US Senate Armed Services Committee to consider ending a ban on gays serving openly in the US military will be postponed, a spokeswoman indicated Friday. ...
Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:39 -0500
TIRANA : Thousands of opposition supporters on Friday began a weekend of protests accusing Prime Minister Sali Berisha's government of electoral fraud and demanding a recount of ballots cast in June p...
Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:36 -0500
SAN FRANCISCO - Student protests spread at California state universities over a big tuition hike Friday, with protesters barricading themselves inside a building at the University of California, Berke...
Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:34 -0500
PARIS - A police official says a 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment. The official ...
New Zealand Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:45:21 -0500
THOUSAND OAKS, California - A 39-year-old man has been arrested on a misdemeanour charge of child annoyance for allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face. Authorities in California's Ventur...
New Zealand Herald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:45:20 -0500
The shooting in busy Nisoor Square left 17 Iraqis dead and inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad. It touched off a string of investigations that ultimately led the State Department to cancel the com...
USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:34 -0500
U.S. Sen. John McCain told a news conference at the Halifax International Security Forum that the delay in reaching a decision on Afghan strategy is creating uncertainty within the military as the sit...
USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:32 -0500
After a year's delay, scientists at Europe’s CERN physics research center have sent beams of protons circulating all the way through the Large Hadron Collider.
MSNBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:42:36 -0500
Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- Accompanied by two smitten young men vying to impress her, a resentful Amanda Knox toyed with a knife and then plunged it into her roommate's neck, killing her, an Italian pros...
CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:41:27 -0500
According to Hollywood trade magazine Variety, "New Moon" is the biggest midnight showing in history, grossing $26.3 million when it opened in 3,514 theaters at 12:01 a.m. Friday.
CNN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:41:25 -0500
A host of stars have taken to the stage in a concert at the Wales Millennium Centre in aid of Children in Need.Only Men Aloud!, Stereophonics, opera singer Bryn Terfel and Swansea's Bonnie Tyler toppe...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:38:07 -0500
The leader of a group which plotted to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago has been sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison.Narseal Batiste, 35, also planned to bomb FBI offices, along with four oth...
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:38:06 -0500
Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.The shooting in busy Nisoor Square left 17 Iraqis dead and inflamed anti-Ame...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:35:31 -0500
CAIRO ? History has proven there are two subjects that will move Egyptians to pour into the streets in riotous numbers, crashing windows, burning cars, battling each other and defying an army of ...
International Herald Tribune Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:35:29 -0500
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
Reuters Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:13 -0500
Bob Schieffer hears from Washington correspondent Nancy Cordes on the votes Democratic senators will need to start a formal debate on their healthcare bill. And, how did Ronald Reagan really get elect...
CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:27:27 -0500
A few notes on the spotlighted players in the Senate's health care vote, in the context of the 2010 elections and their electorates back home. As Majority Leader, Harry Reid (at left) is at center sta...
CBS News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:27:26 -0500
AN elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years have pleaded guilty in the conspiracy, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:24 -0500
MORE than $1 million of heroin concealed inside tiles normally used for indoor games has arrived at Sydney International Airport, police said.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:20 -0500
The middle-aged man was travelling west on the Central Coast Hwy at Erina in a silver Toyota Lexcen about 6.30pm (AEDT) yesterday when he apparently exchanged angry words with the driver of a red car ...
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:17 -0500
Light, sweet crude for December delivery settled down US74 cents, or 1 per cent, at $US76.72 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was the last trading day for the December contract. The mo...
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:12 -0500
NEARBY gold futures posted a record settlement in New York today as a stronger US dollar failed to pierce the bullish momentum that has pushed the metal into uncharted territory this week.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:08 -0500
THE European Central Bank has taken its first small step towards unwinding the unprecedented stimulus measures installed to rescue the financial system after the global credit crisis.
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:05 -0500
US stocks were also hurt by Dell after the computer maker reported a 54 per cent drop in its fiscal third-quarter profit. Dell closed down $US1.58, or 10 per cent, to $US14.29, weighing on the entire ...
The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:02 -0500
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Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:33 -0500
Police tonight are holding six males, ranging in age from 16 to 52, all charged in the assault of a young woman they dragged out of a Chinese take-out in West Philadelphia, and then gang-raped inside ...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:32 -0500
SCRANTON, Pa. - Two former Pennsylvania judges accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send juveniles to private detention facilities have been granted partial immunity from civil liabil...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:29 -0500
WASHINGTON - The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's h...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:26 -0500
DIMOCK, Pa. - Pat Farnelli says there's something in the water at her house. The last time she drank it, she says she vomited four times. It's made her children sick, too. Like her neighbors in this ...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:25 -0500
Mark Soifer, who's worked to put Ocean City on the map for almost four decades, remembers his early years in town when the Shore closed down after Labor Day and the entire tourist industry started thi...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:15 -0500
Here they are, just as everyone expected. The archrivals, who met for 29 years on Thanksgiving Day, will slug it out for top honors in what has the makings of a classic football game. Friday night at...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:12 -0500
A vigil will be held tonight in Philadelphia for Jorge Lopez Mercado, 19, who was found dead on the roadside in his hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico on Nov. 14. Mercado was found partially burned, dec...
Philadelphia Daily News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:09 -0500
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.
New York Post Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:56:19 -0500
COCKERMOUTH, England - A policeman died after being swept away by floods in Britain's scenic Lake District, officials said Friday, as helicopters helped evacuate hundreds of stranded residents. The po...
Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:57 -0500
SANTIAGO : Chilean airports resumed normal activity on Friday, after some 2,000 airport workers launched a country-wide strike that caused flight delays, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation said...
Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:55 -0500
PRISTINA : Kosovo's main ruling party withdrew on Friday its threat to split from its junior coalition partner in the first such rift since Pristina proclaimed independence in 2008. The clash between ...
Channel News Asia Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:53 -0500
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