World News
- US forces eliminate top al-Qaeda figure
Indianapolis News.Net
It has been announced that US troops have killed a leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
- George Bush to review peace talks with Israeli PM
Indianapolis News.Net
President George W. Bush will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday to review Middle East peace efforts.
- Jordanian king asks for Israeli restraint over rocket attacks
Indianapolis News.Net
Jordan's King Abdullah has warned Israel not to put further constraints on Palestinians.
- Judge says Guantanamo inmates must go free
Indianapolis News.Net
A US federal judge has ordered the release of five Algerian detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
- Australian terror man relieved of strict order
Indianapolis News.Net
The Australian lawyer of a convicted supporter of terrorism has said his client can finally move on after the dropping of a control order.
- Greece to free half its prison population
Indianapolis News.Net
The Greek Justice Ministry has announced plans to free around half of the country's 12,000 inmates within the next few months.
- Indian police on the trail of child murderer
Indianapolis News.Net
Police in Lucknow, India, claim to have solved the murder of a seven-year-old boy whose body was found in a suitcase on a train.
- Report says nuclear explosion is an abiding risk
Indianapolis News.Net
A new report has been released to say the world still faces a serious risk of nuclear explosion, with weapons-making materials falling into wrong hands.
- Pakistan guarantees supplies to NATO soldiers
Indianapolis News.Net
NATO commanders meeting in Brussels have been assured by Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, that supply lines will remain open to alliance troops in Afghanistan, even with attacks occurring along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
- Flight attendant helps with landing
Indianapolis News.Net
A flight attendant aboard an Air Canada passenger jet helped to land the aircraft in Ireland after its co-pilot suffered a mental breakdown.
- Blast in Bangkok kills protestor
Indianapolis News.Net
An anti-government protester has been killed in a Bangkok bomb explosion.
- Storms wash away people in Vietnam
Indianapolis News.Net
Nine people, including three children, have been killed in heavy rains during a storm in central Vietnam.
- Australian terrorist wants greater freedom
Indianapolis News.Net
Australian man, David Hicks, who was convicted of terrorism offences in the US, has broken his self-imposed silence and called on police to relax stringent controls over his freedom.
- Congress OKs extension of jobless benefits
USA Today
Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress hurriedly approved legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a...
- Obama is 1st Columbia graduate to become U.S. president
C News
It's taken 2 1/2 centuries but Columbia College, one of the oldest in the United States, will finally see one of its graduates occupy the Oval Office. And rumour has it...
- Conrad Black seeks clemency from Bush
The Australian
Black once ran the world's third largest media empire. He is now serving a six-and-a-half-year jail term for fraud and obstruction of justice in Coleman, Florida. Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper...
- Oil retreats below $US50 a barrel
The Australian
Benchmark crude ended at levels not seen since But it's the early 1980s, when the US entered a deep recession and world oil demand declined four years running on a conservation push and...
- Name of dead cyclist is released
BBC
The cyclist who died after being struck by a lorry on the outskirts of Belfast was Patrick O'Hara from the Antrim Road in Glengormley. The accident happened on Enterprise Way in Mallusk at about...
- Rebels, Sudanese troops clash in Darfur
New Zealand Herald
A Sudanese woman refugee walks past the site of four mass graves in the Kalma refugee camp in Darfur. Photo / Darfur rebels clashed with Sudanese government forces in northern Darfur...
- Einstein proven right a century later
The Australian
IT'S taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac halt some foreclosures
Reuters
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two biggest home loan finance companies, on Thursday said they would suspend foreclosures of occupied homes until early 2009, one of the biggest...
- The body of Copernicus, discoverer of the solar system
BBC
Researchers in Poland say they have solved a centuries-old mystery and identified the remains of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. A comparison of DNA from a skeleton in Poland and strands of the...
- HIV tests not yet as routine as cholesterol checks
USA Today
An HIV test that can be conducted orally (without taking blood). The CDC estimates that 232,000 Americans have HIV and don't know it.
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