First Photos of Fallen Soldier Ends 18-Year BanABC News - 16 minutes ago
By DAVID KERLEY and KI MAE HEUSSNER For the first time since the Obama administration reversed an 18-year-old ban on news coverage of returning fallen soldiers, the military allowed media to cover to cover the arrival tonight of an airman killed in ...
Media witness return of war casualty at Dover Seattle Times Italian Earthquake Kills 27Voice of America - 48 minutes ago
By VOA News A strong early morning earthquake in Italy has killed at least 27 people, and left thousands homeless. Italian officials say four children are among the dead and others are missing after Monday's earthquake that shook central Italy, ...
Italian media: Powerful quake kills 20 CNN International At Least 16 Dead as Buildings Fall in Quake in Italy New York Times Obama Arrives in Turkey to Strengthen TiesFOXNews - 2 hours ago
President seeks Turkey's help in the US pullout from Iraq, turning around the Afghanistan war and blocking Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Obama Urges EU to Accept Turkey, But Member Nations Remain Cool Wall Street Journal |
S Korea Shares End Up; No Reaction To N Korea Rocket Launch
Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago
SEOUL (Dow Jones)--South Korean shares closed higher Monday as investors continued to hold on to hopes of an economic recovery, with North Korea's rocket launch over the weekend being largely ignored.
North Korea missile test draws tough talk, no action
MiamiHerald.com - 1 hour ago
BY STEVEN THOMMA AND WARREN P. STROBEL PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- From New York to Prague, world leaders criticized North Korea's long-range rocket launch on Sunday, but there appeared to be little appetite for escalating the confrontation with the ...
Sri Lankan troops 'not in hurry'
BBC News - 1 hour ago
By Anbarasan Ethirajan Sri Lankan government forces are not in a hurry to storm a safe zone to pursue Tamil Tiger rebels in the north-east, the defence secretary says.
Sri Lankan president says rebels must surrender The Associated Press
Fighting Intensifies in Sri Lanka New York Times
Immigration-center shootings: Police delayed, and it doesn't matter
Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago
People place flowers in front of the American Civic Assn. in Binghamton, NY, to pay their respects to the 13 shooting victims. Immigrants understand the hardships of gunman Jiverly Wong.
No way police could have saved Jiverly Wong's 13 Binghamton ... New York Daily News
'Safe on 17' campaign dramatically reduced deaths on dangerous highway
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago
By Gary Richards Traffic and safety officials will gather today at the Summit off Highway 17 to celebrate one of California's greatest success stories in reducing carnage on a dangerous state road.
Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels The Associated Press
Indiana traffic deaths down along with US rates Chicago Tribune
Documents In Stevens Case Are Requested
Washington Post - 3 hours ago
By Del Quentin Wilber A federal judge yesterday ordered the Justice Department to give him documents concerning allegations of misconduct by the team that prosecuted former senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) on corruption charges.
Holder has a long to-do list at Justice USA Today
Ted Stevens: Rested, and ready to be Alaska governor? Seattle Post Intelligencer
Sun Slumps as Talks to Be Bought by IBM Said to Have Collapsed
Bloomberg - 23 minutes ago
By Connie Guglielmo and Katie Hoffmann April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. slumped as much as 28 percent in European trading after talks to be bought by International Business Machines Corp.
IBM talks to buy Sun Microsystems break down Times Online
Geithner: Worst Not Over For Jobless, GM Is Here To Stay
Wall Street Journal - 15 hours ago
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Sunday that unemployment could go higher before the economy begins to recover and insisted that ailing auto maker General Motors Corp.
Treasury chief puts bailed-out bank CEOs on notice The Associated Press
US 'may remove bank executives' BBC News
HSBC Rights On The Money
Forbes - 55 minutes ago
Investors take up 96.6% of shares in lender's rights issue, giving it $17.7 billion in much-needed capital. HSBC shareholders have given the bank a $17.7 billion cash cushion to weather the downturn, cover potential custody liabilities in the Bernard ...
Samsung confirms Android handsets as Google adapts to market
Ars Technica - 5 hours ago
Handset maker Samsung has confirmed that it will launch three Android-based phones this year. The company cited mobile carrier concerns about Google's vision as one factor that contributed to the delays, but Google has been doing its best to court the ...
T-Mobile to Use Google Software in Devices for Home New York Times
T-Mobile To Sell Devices With Google's Android Software - NYT Wall Street Journal
The toy that roared: Ars reviews the DSi
Ars Technica - 1 hour ago
Nintendo has launched a new entry into the Nintendo DS line, with two cameras, media functions, and a new slimmer case. While the hardware additions may be used in upcoming games, the real draw is DSiWare, Nintendo's new portable digital distribution ...
A look at Nintendo's DSi San Francisco Chronicle
Nintendo's new DSi may be the final form of portables San Jose Mercury News
Google Acquisition Rumors Reflect Twitter's Importance
PC World - Apr 3, 2009
Twitter, a microblogging service in which millions of people post brief text messages, has emerged as the custodian of a valuable online index of real-time facts, comments, musings and announcements, information that is clearly valuable for Google's ...
Twitter Co-Founder Addresses Google Rumors PC Magazine
Twitter: Building Businesses Tweet by Tweet BusinessWeek
Leary rescues FX, but can ABC survive Saget?
San Francisco Chronicle - 4 hours ago
The crazed mind of a network (ABC) and a star (Denis Leary) are back on display this week in wildly contrasting examples of how being messed up internally can be, well, messy or borderline genius.
ABC's 'Suburbia' is no place for a good laugh Chicago Tribune
Son of Ryan O'Neal, Farrah Fawcett arrested on drug charges
CNN - 1 hour ago
(CNN) -- Redmond O'Neal, the son of Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O'Neal and actress Farrah Fawcett, was arrested Sunday morning on drug charges, authorities said.
Condition of Farrah Fawcett has doctors worried New York Daily News
Carrie Underwood's big night
Chicago Tribune - 1 hour ago
By Alison Bonaguro | Special to the Tribune There was plenty of contentious competition at Sunday night's Academy of County Music Awards.
Carrie Underwood wins Entertainer of the Year at ACM Awards Entertainment Weekly
Hansbrough spurs many a bull session
Boston Globe - 37 minutes ago
By Bob Ryan All college basketball fans have their feelings about North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough, and they're not always favorable.
If it's not a feel-good movie, Izzo, Williams aren't interested Detroit Free Press
If opener any indication, Braves' rotation formidable
FOXSports.com - 2 hours ago
by Ken Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.
Lowe dominates champion Phils Detroit Free Press
Myers' opener marred by early mistakes Philadelphia Daily News
UConn women leave Stanford a bit red-faced
Boston Globe - 37 minutes ago
By Michael Vega Although the Big East's two men's basketball Final Four representatives, Connecticut and Villanova, were unable to advance in the national semifinals Saturday night, the women did them one better last night.
Michelle Smith At the Final Four San Francisco Chronicle
No. 1 Connecticut 83, No. 2 Stanford 64 New York Times
FDA wants more data on Astra's Symbicort for kids
Reuters - 43 minutes ago
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc faces a delay in marketing its asthma drug Symbicort to young children in the United States after regulators asked for more information, dealing a blow to an important growth driver.
AstraZeneca Says FDA Wants More Data On Symbicort Wall Street Journal
Stem cell grant on the way to SJSU
The Spartan Daily - 1 hour ago
Campuses in the California State University system will receive about $16 million for stem cell research, one of the first grants after President Barack Obama's lift on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
The stem-cell funding ban is a step backwards for Texas Corpus Christi Caller Times
Stem cells: will hope triumph over hype? Times Online
Georgia might close caves to protect bats
Atlanta Journal Constitution - 3 hours ago
By Mark Davis A disease is heading toward Georgia, and state officials say they may close caves to stymie its arrival. Yes, caves.
Request Seeks To Put Caves Off Limits Rocktown Weekly
Four car bombs kill 10 in Baghdad
Washington Post - 42 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four car bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing 10 people and wounding dozens, police said.
Bombs kill 16, wound 56 in Baghdad, police say The Associated Press
Breakup ignited dad's deadly rage in Graham
Seattle Times - 1 hour ago
The father's final hours and the circumstances behind the slayings of his five children are based on interviews with officials from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, the state Department of Social and Health Services and dozens of relatives, ...
They argued, then he killed TheNewsTribune.com
Indonesia court jails pilot over deadly 2007 crash
Reuters - 7 minutes ago
SLEMAN, Indonesia, April 6 (Reuters) - An Indonesian court sentenced the pilot of a Garuda Indonesia aircraft to two years in jail on Monday for negligence in an air crash in 2007 in which 21 people were killed, the judge said.
Indonesian crash pilot sentenced BBC News
Garuda pilot jailed over fatal crash ABC Online