Associated Press

Flashy style seen behind downfall of China's Bo

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
BEIJING (AP) -- As big city politician Bo Xilai rose to nationwide prominence with an anti-mafia crusade and mass sing-alongs of communist anthems, many of China's leaders trekked to his metropolis approvingly. Not President Hu Jintao....

Iran cut off from global financial system

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Iran was effectively cut off from global commerce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks - part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons....

Troubled Spain, Portugal now desperate for rain

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
ROBRES, Spain (AP) -- Fernando Luna, a burly Spanish farmer, yanks a barley sprout from a field as dry as powder. He examines its roots, which are mostly dead, then tosses the stunted shoot away in disgust....

Judge moves Clemens trial up a day, to April 16

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal judge overseeing Roger Clemens' trial has moved jury selection in the case up one day, to Monday, April 16....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Schools will get to opt out of "pink slime" beef

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- School districts soon will be able to opt out of a common ammonia-treated ground beef filler critics have dubbed "pink slime."...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Feds probe equipment failure at Calif. nuke plant

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal regulators are sending a special team to investigate the San Onofre nuclear power plant on the Southern California coast after tubes that carry radioactive water failed a pressure test....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ex-Ill. Gov. Blagojevich headed to Colorado prison

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
CHICAGO (AP) -- Convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich stepped off a plane in Colorado on Thursday and headed to a federal prison to begin a 14-year sentence for corruption, the latest chapter in the downfall of a charismatic politician that seemed more like a bizarre reality TV show than a legal battle....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Sobbing families identify Swiss bus crash victims

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
GENEVA (AP) -- Relatives of the 28 people killed when a bus from Belgium crashed inside a Swiss tunnel faced a heartbreaking task Thursday: identifying the bodies ahead of their repatriation. Most of the dead were children....

NATO raid rescues 4 aid workers in Afghanistan

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO forces swooped in by helicopter before dawn Saturday to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues who were held by militants for nearly two weeks in a cave in northern Afghanistan....

Mom to be reunited with son who vanished in '04

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A Texas mother whose infant son vanished eight years ago will soon be reunited with him, after authorities found the boy living with his former baby sitter and her family in another part of the state....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Indian state reopens debt, suicide investigations

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
MUMBAI, India (AP) -- A southern Indian state is actively investigating 76 criminal cases - some that had been closed by police - against employees of Indian lenders accused of driving overindebted borrowers to suicide, officials said Thursday....

German celeb bunny meets untimely demise

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
BERLIN (AP) -- An earless baby bunny that was a rising star on Germany's celebrity animal scene had his 15 minutes of fame brought to an abrupt end when he was accidentally stepped on by a television cameraman....

Jewish, Muslim scribes keep calligraphy art alive

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
JERUSALEM (AP) -- In a world overwhelmed by electronic gadgets that have changed the way we read, write and learn, the Jewish and Islamic arts of calligraphy have preserved their methods for generations....

Tibet exiles see rise of American-style politician

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- Lobsang Sangay is the prime minister of a country that doesn't exist. His government fills a moldy cluster of yellow brick buildings clinging to an Indian hillside. His budget depends on donor countries and wealthy supporters....

Egypt charges 75 people in deadly soccer riot

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's top prosecutor on Thursday charged 75 people in connection with a deadly soccer riot last month in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which authorities said fans were thrown to their death off the stadium walls and others killed by explosives as they tried to flee....

Egypt charges 75 people in deadly soccer riot

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's top prosecutor on Thursday charged 75 people in connection with a deadly soccer riot last month in the Mediterranean city of Port Said in which authorities said fans were thrown to their death off the stadium walls and others killed by explosives as they tried to flee....

That's fishy: Feds fight fraud in seafood sizes

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
BOSTON (AP) -- Those plump and tempting scallops behind the fish counter glass might be a lot smaller than they look - a sodium-based compound can bloat scallops well past their actual size. And that pollock fillet isn't such a good deal if the price includes the layers of ice glazed onto it to keep it fresh....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Prison job, tedium await Blagojevich

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
CHICAGO (AP) -- Convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich left his home early Thursday morning and hopped in a car, the first leg of a trip that will end with him behind bars in a federal prison in Colorado, and the latest chapter in the stunning downfall of one of the most charismatic political figures in Illinois' history....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Italian police arrest terror suspect

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
MILAN (AP) -- Italian police arrested a Moroccan man early Thursday on suspicion of plotting an attack against a Milan synagogue, while authorities in Britain detained a woman possibly linked to the alleged plot....

'Good Samaritan' thieves jailed over UK riots

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 03:50
LONDON (AP) -- Two men have been jailed for posing as Good Samaritans and then stealing from an injured Malaysian student during the London riots....
Syndicate content