MSNBC: Robot Bartender Serves Up Cold Ones in London
Last Updated: 8:42 AM 07/03/08 -
A japanese brewing company has invented a robot that serves beer. (Full Story) |
Bulldozer Driver Goes On Rampage
Last Updated: 8:00 AM 07/02/08 -
Authorities say a Palestinian bulldozer driver plowed into a string of vehicles on a busy Jerusalem street today. Two people were killed and dozens wounded before the driver was shot dead by police. (Full Story) |
TODAY SHOW: Why Hasn't Bin Laden Been Found?
Last Updated: 9:21 AM 07/01/08 -
A new report claims that disputes between military and intelligence agencies and the Bush Administration have hindered the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. (Full Story) |
MSNBC: Accused Killer's Diary Made Public - all 10,000 pages
Last Updated: 9:16 AM 07/01/08 -
Amanda Knox, accused of Slashing her ex-roommate's throat, is under closer scrutiny after her jail-house diary has been made public. (Full Story) |
MSNBC VIDEO: North Korea Destroys Reactor Tower
Last Updated: 8:15 AM 06/27/08 -
North Korea destroys the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program as it commits to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs. (Full Story) |
Protests by French Vintners Turn Violent
Last Updated: 3:07 PM 06/26/08 -
Winemakers in southern France have burned two police cars and vandalized supermarkets during protests to demand government aid. (Full Story) |
Unicef: 4.6m Ethiopians Need Urgent Food
Last Updated: 3:02 PM 06/26/08 -
The U.N. Children's fund says 4.6 million Ethiopians need food urgently because of drought. (Full Story) |
Car Bomb in Northern Iraq Kills 18, Wounds 60
Last Updated: 1:41 PM 06/26/08 -
Officials say a car bomb has exploded near the government office in the northern city of Mosul and 18 people are dead. (Full Story) |
Mandela in London For Events Marking His 90th Birthday
Last Updated: 9:45 AM 06/23/08 -
Nelson Mandela is in London for a week of events to celebrate his 90th birthday. (Full Story) |
Oil Rises Despite Saudi Output Pledge
Last Updated: 9:11 AM 06/23/08 -
Saudi Arabia's pledge to boost oil production if needed hasn't brought any relief to the oil markets. Crude prices have passed $136 a barrel in today's trading. (Full Story) |
Survey Says 500,000 Iraqis Fled Fighting in 2007
Last Updated: 3:18 PM 06/19/08 -
A new survey says Iraq was the source of the world's worst refugee problem last year. (Full Story) |
Iraq Nears First Major Oil Service Deals
Last Updated: 1:28 PM 06/19/08 -
Iraq's oil ministry says Baghdad is close to signing deals with several major western companies in an effort to boost its output capacity. (Full Story) |
Rain Threatens Aid to China's Quake-Hit areas
Last Updated: 2:29 PM 06/18/08 -
a Red Cross official warns that the delivery of aid to earthquake victims could be hindered during China's peak rainy season, which has begun. (Full Story) |
US Blames Iran-backed Shiites for Bomb
Last Updated: 2:17 PM 06/18/08 -
The death toll has risen to 63 in a massive Baghdad car bombing. (Full Story) |
Panda Habitat Damaged by China Quake
Last Updated: 2:26 PM 06/17/08 -
China says at least 80 percent of the habitat for giant pandas in china's earthquake-hit province is damaged or destroyed. (Full Story) |
Two Charged With Giving Amy Winehouse Drugs
Last Updated: 1:10 PM 06/12/08 -
Police have charged a man and a woman in London with supplying drugs to Amy Winehouse. (Full Story) |
Red Cross: Myanmar dead may never be identified
Last Updated: 1:05 PM 06/12/08 -
Tens of thousands of people who died in last month's Myanmar cyclone may never be identified. (Full Story) |
G-8 Energy Chiefs Meet as Oil Prices Soar
Last Updated: 10:12 AM 06/12/08 -
Japan's energy chief warns that soaring oil prices could trigger a global recession. (Full Story) |
China Declares Quake Lake Crisis Over
Last Updated: 1:16 PM 06/11/08 -
A top Chinese Communist Party official is declaring a “decisive victory” after solders were able to blast away debris blocking a huge earthquake-formed lake. (Full Story) |
Report: UK to Announce Final Iraq Pullout
Last Updated: 2:22 PM 06/10/08 -
The BBC reports British Cabinet Ministers will announce within months when a final pullout from Iraq will take place, as long as a lull in violence holds. (Full Story) |
Military Engineers Work to Defuse Giant World War II Bomb in London
Last Updated: 2:08 PM 06/06/08 -
British Army engineers are trying to defuse a giant World War II-era bomb discovered in east London. (Full Story) |
Fuel protests erupt in India, Malaysia
Last Updated: 9:35 AM 06/05/08 -
Americans aren't the only ones upset with high gasoline prices. (Full Story) |
Iraqis Say Marines Handed Out Christian Coins
Last Updated: 11:07 AM 05/30/08 -
The U.S. military says an American service member has been removed from duty in Iraq following complaints that marines were handing out coins promoting Christianity. (Full Story) |
Myanmar Still Hinders Foreign Aid
Last Updated: 10:39 AM 05/30/08 -
Aid groups continue to complain that Myanmar's military government is hindering international help for cyclone victims. (Full Story) |
Egypt Planning DNA Test For 3,500-Year-Old Mummy
Last Updated: 9:36 AM 05/30/08 -
Egypt's antiquities chief says there are plans to conduct a DNA test on a 3,500-year-old mummy to determine if it is king Thutmose I -- one of the most important of the pharaohs. (Full Story) |
Uk Cabinet Warned Of Cancer-Smoking Link 50 Years Ago, But Ignored It
Last Updated: 9:18 AM 05/30/08 -
Newly released documents show the British cabinet received warnings about the link between smoking and lung cancer more than 50 years ago. But officials didn't do much because they thought the threat minor and feared losing tax revenue. (Full Story) |
Chemical Fire, Rain Hamper China Quake Recovery
Last Updated: 8:48 AM 05/30/08 -
Add a chemical fire to the woes plaguing the earthquake disaster recovery efforts in china. (Full Story) |
Study: Stonehenge Used as Burial Ground in all its Main Stages
Last Updated: 1:38 PM 05/29/08 -
New research indicates that Stonehenge in England served as a burial ground far longer than first believed. (Full Story) |
South Korea To Resume Importing US Beef
Last Updated: 11:30 AM 05/29/08 -
South Korea's government says it will resume importing U.S. beef despite fears of mad-cow disease that have led to street protests. (Full Story) |
Iraq To Ask For Debt Forgiveness
Last Updated: 9:52 AM 05/29/08 -
Iraq's prime minister is expected to ask the international community today to forgive his nation's debt dating back to the Saddam years. (Full Story) |
Motorists Plan Gas Price Protest
Last Updated: 8:37 AM 05/27/08 -
Hundreds of truckers plan to jam part of central London to protest the rising price of fuel. (Full Story) |
Soaring Death Toll In China
Last Updated: 12:35 PM 05/23/08 -
Chinese officials say the earthquake death toll in one province alone has climbed by nearly 14,000 in the past two days to more than 55,000. (Full Story) |
Study: Humpback Whale Population Rises
Last Updated: 12:29 PM 05/23/08 -
The humpback is making a comeback. (Full Story) |
Possible Breakthrough on Myanmar Aid
Last Updated: 12:17 PM 05/23/08 -
A crucial two-hour meeting between the U.N. Head and military leaders in reclusive Myanmar today may have produced a breakthrough for cyclone victims. (Full Story) |
China: Three Years to Rebuild Quake Area
Last Updated: 9:17 AM 05/23/08 -
The latest fear from central China's devastating earthquake is flooding from new lakes that could be unleashed by more aftershocks. (Full Story) |
UN Chief Arrives in Myanmar in Bid To Gain Relief Access
Last Updated: 12:24 PM 05/22/08 -
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is on the diplomatic mission of a lifetime. He hopes to persuade Myanmar's military regime to open its border to international relief efforts. (Full Story) |
Olympic Torch Relay Resumes as Mourning Period Ends For China Earthquake
Last Updated: 9:52 AM 05/22/08 -
China has concluded a three-day mourning period for earthquake victims with a toned-down resumption of the Olympic torch relay. (Full Story) |
Lost Parrot Tells Vet His Name and Address
Last Updated: 2:55 PM 05/21/08 -
When the little guy got lost, he did just what he had been taught recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help. (Full Story) |
State Media Reports Myanmar Fears U.S. Invasion, Shuns Offer of Help
Last Updated: 2:46 PM 05/21/08 -
Myanmar's military rulers fear an American invasion intended to seize the country's oil. (Full Story) |
Myanmar Shunning Aid From Warships
Last Updated: 2:41 PM 05/21/08 -
Help is tantalizingly close, but still being denied to hundreds of thousands of disaster survivors in Myanmar. (Full Story) |
Death Toll Now Tops 41,000
Last Updated: 9:39 AM 05/21/08 -
Nine days after the 7.9 earthquake that killed more than 41,000 people in Central China, the massive recovery effort has prompted Beijing to order some belt-tightening. (Full Story) |
Bad Weather = More Expensive Beer
Last Updated: 8:47 AM 05/21/08 -
Bad weather in Europe led to a huge shortage in specialty hops that many microbreweries use for their lagers and ales, rising the costs of craft beers to lager lovers. (Full Story) |
World Bank Says No to Myanmar Financial Aid
Last Updated: 1:46 PM 05/20/08 -
A top World Bank official says the bank won't give financial aid or a loan to cyclone-hit Myanmar because of its outstanding debts. (Full Story) |
Quake deaths top 40,000
Last Updated: 1:37 PM 05/20/08 -
More staggering numbers from the earthquake in central China. (Full Story) |
Update: Bush Apology to Al-Maliki
Last Updated: 11:51 AM 05/20/08 -
President Bush has called Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to apologize after an american sniper used a copy of the quran for target practice. (Full Story) |
Myanmar: 3 Days Of Mourning For Cyclone Victims
Last Updated: 11:08 AM 05/19/08 -
Myanmar's military government has announced a three-day mourning period for victims of the deadly cyclone. It begins tomorrow. (Full Story) |
China Says Quake Losses Total $9.5 Billion
Last Updated: 10:43 AM 05/19/08 -
The financial toll from china's massive earthquake is mounting a week after the tremor struck. (Full Story) |
China Mourns As Word Comes Of More Tragedy
Last Updated: 12:25 PM 05/19/08 -
China has marked the one week anniversary of a massive earthquake with a solemn observance. Meanwhile, the search for survivors in the disaster area has become a search for bodies. (Full Story) |
Aftershocks Bury Vehicles In Sichuan
Last Updated: 2:39 PM 05/16/08 -
A Chinese state news agency says new aftershocks have cut off roads and telecommunications in quake-hit Sichuan province, burying a number of vehicles. (Full Story) |
Red Cross: Clean Water Most Urgent for Myanmar
Last Updated: 9:00 AM 05/16/08 -
The International Red Cross says a lack of clean water will be the biggest killer in Myanmar in the coming days. (Full Story) |
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