Economic Woes Dampen Holiday Cheer
New Year’s Eve, 2008. Along with the happiness and celebration of years past, this day brings an additional feeling: relief.
New Year’s Eve, 2008. Along with the happiness and celebration of years past, this day brings an additional feeling: relief.
The Egyptian President says his country will not fully open its crossing into the Gaza Strip unless Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian authority is in control of the border post.
Israel’s Prime Minister says the aerial destruction in Gaza is only phase one.
Finding a crocodile on Australia’s southern coast is strange, but finding an American Alligator there is even stranger.
An Israeli official says Israel’s Navy has turned back a boat trying to carry pro-Palestinian protesters to the Gaza Strip, where Israeli air strikes are continuing.
The trial of the journalist who threw his shoes at President George w. Bush has been postponed.
Scottish police have charged a 35-year-old man with attempting to murder a nurse who was found locked in the trunk of her car. Police say it’s possible she’d been there for up to 10 days.
Eight people are unaccounted for after two avalanches in southeastern British Columbia—and it’s feared some are dead.
A prominent Zimbabwean activist and eight others have been brought to court in connection with a plot to overthrow President Robert Mugabe.
A prominent Iranian conservative political party is registering volunteers to fight against Israel in response to the air assault against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Israel’s foreign minister says the jewish state had “no alternative” but to launch a series of attacks in Gaza.
An airplane was stuck circling a southern Philippine airport today because there were no air traffic controllers around to guide the plane in for a landing.
It’s a day of national mourning in Ukraine, where the death toll from an apartment building explosion has reached 26.
The U.S. coalition says its forces have killed 11 Taliban militants including the leader of a bomb-making cell in an operation in southern Afghanistan.
The police chief in the Iraqi city of Ramadi says six of his officers are dead, along with seven Iraqi prisoners, after a jailbreak today. At least three prisoners escaped.
Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan. Intelligence officials say roughly 20,000 Pakistani troops are moving away from positions along the Afghan border and heading toward areas closer to Pakistan's border with India.
Thousands of mourners have been holding vigils on beaches from Indonesia to India today.
Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip have been bombarding southern Israel with mortars and rockets, hampering Diplomatic efforts to revive a truce that expired over the weekend. No injuries have been reported.
A beauty queen from Mexico’s drug-plagued Sinaloa state has been arrested after she was found riding with suspected gang members in a truck filled with weapons.
Britain’s Channel 4 says Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will deliver the TV channel’s annual Christmas Broadcast.
The head of Gaza’s tiny Roman Catholic Community has canceled Christmas Eve’s Midnight Mass, to protest Israel’s blockade of the territory.
The newly resigned Iraqi Parliament Speaker has praised the journalist who threw shoes at President George W. Bush and says the legislature should have supported him.
India’s Prime Minister says “nobody wants war,” seeking to lower tensions with neighboring Pakistan over the Mumbai attacks.
China is about to take on the pirates.
A pair of giant pandas has arrived in Taiwan as a gift from China in the latest move symbolizing warming ties between the rivals.
