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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Australian Herald.com http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c08dd24cec417021/ en-us Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:57:56 -0500 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:57:56 -0500 30 In the third terrorist attack in two days, a Pakistani court has been targeted by a suicide bomber leaving at least ten dead. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611698/cs/1/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:31:49 -0500 Big New Network.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611698/cs/1/ US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has called the timing of the announcement by Isreal of new construction in East Jerusalem insulting. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611565/cs/1/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:51:49 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611565/cs/1/ US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejects challenge brought by doctor against religious references on currency and in the pledge of allegiance. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611575/cs/1/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:20:41 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611575/cs/1/ The Pope has defended celibacy as a commitment to God, following increasing allegations of sexual abuse. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611561/cs/1/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:32:02 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611561/cs/1/ Almost Free Warehouse, a chain of stores in Israel, hopes to benefit from the media storm surrounding the Dubai assasination with a parody advert. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611554/cs/1/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:06:16 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611554/cs/1/ 11-year-old Marcelas Owens takes his late mother's place campaigning for healthcare reform on steps of Capital Hill. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611628/cs/1/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:45:21 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611628/cs/1/ Former astronauts who landed on the moon in the hey-day of lunar missions have voiced their concern at President Obama's decision to move back further flights. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611616/cs/1/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:26:02 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611616/cs/1/ British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from the 20th of March and four days from the 27th of March, says Unite, the union representing them. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611629/cs/1/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:59:12 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611629/cs/1/ A teacher in Alaska, whose body was found by snowmobilers, was likely to have been attacked by wolves, according to the State Medical Examiner. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611546/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:45:43 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611546/cs/1/ Twin suicide bombings in the Pakistani city of Lahore have killed and wounded scores of people. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611532/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:36:32 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611532/cs/1/ A woman and her husband have been sentenced following rape of eight-year-old daughter. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611545/cs/1/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:27:05 -0500 Australian Herald.com http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611545/cs/1/ By SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A hospital official says former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains. Severan... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093856/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:02:09 -0500 Washington Times http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093856/ TOLYATTI, Russia -- AvtoVAZ, Russia's largest automaker, may be famous for producing a car that inspires fewer sales than jokes. ("The new Lada Kalina can go up to 100 kilometers an hour...if you... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093853/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:53:32 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093853/ UNITED NATIONS -- Fifteen years ago in Beijing, 189 countries adopted a "platform for action" that pledged to increase women's access to education, health care, jobs, and credit, and to prot... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093854/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:53:31 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093854/ Filed at 8:05 a.m. ET KABUL (AP) -- Afghanistan's president has agreed to reverse an earlier decision and allow two foreigners on a commission monitoring upcoming parliamentary elections, his spokesm... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093850/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:51:52 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093850/ 03/13/2010 8:57 AM Why was that person in the same car with someone she recently sued over a car crash and with someone that was drunk? Not sure that I feel to bad for her. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093851/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:51:49 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093851/ The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093844/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:34:27 -0500 USA Today http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093844/ Regulators shut down Louisiana and Florida banks on Friday FDIC finds buyers for Statewide Bank, Old Southern Bank Number of bank failures this year now stands at 30; 140 banks closed in 2009 http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093855/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:32:18 -0500 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093855/ The Afghan president has agreed to let two foreigners join a panel monitoring upcoming parliamentary elections, reversing an earlier decision.Last month Mr Karzai signed a decree letting him appoint a... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093840/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:29:41 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093840/ A Nigerian plane taking part in an exercise aimed at testing disaster response operations has crashed in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt.The air force plane - carrying dozens of officials - ski... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093841/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:29:40 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093841/ 1415: Reasons to be cheerful for Ireland: they've only lost five times at home in 26 matches since 2000. Fearful: Wales have got to play for 80 minutes at some point, haven't they? http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093842/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:29:38 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093842/ A 14-year-old boy found dead at a house in Surrey died from a single gunshot wound to the head, a post-mortem examination has revealed.The body of Liam Nelson was discovered at an address in Brook Roa... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093843/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:29:36 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093843/ The 38-year-old star of 80s films such as The Lost Boys was found dead last week after an apparent overdose in the apartment he shared with his mother. Investigators found no illegal drugs but did di... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093857/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:29:32 -0500 Sky News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093857/ (Reuters) - Irish police have released three of the seven people arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist over a drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammad wit... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093845/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:21:35 -0500 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093845/ VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican rallied around Pope Benedict on Saturday, dismissing suggestions he had tried to cover up priestly child abuse in Germany. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093846/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:21:33 -0500 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093846/ BOSSASO, Somalia (Reuters) - French navy officers handed over 22 suspected Somali pirates to semi-autonomous Puntland's authorities and they will be arraigned in local courts, officials said on Saturd... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093847/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:21:32 -0500 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093847/ Pelosi: Dems "Close" to Health Care Deal (CBS) The year-long battle to dramatically change the nation's ailing health care system may be coming to an end. House and Senate Democratic leaders are confi... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093848/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:18:29 -0500 CBS News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093848/ Recipes Galore Searching for a new dish? Get cooking with recipes presented on "The Early Show"! (CBS) Claire Robinson left a career in corporate America behind to follow her true calling. Turns ou... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093849/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:18:28 -0500 CBS News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093849/ After agreeing to a one-year contract with the Eagles, wideout Hank Baskett told reporters at NovaCare today he was glad to be back in a familiar place, where he knows the offense and is comfortable w... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093852/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:11:46 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33093852/ By Alan Fram ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092924/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:35:03 -0500 Washington Times http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092924/ The partial vote count for Baghdad shows Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the lead from last weekend's parliamentary elections. Iraqi election officials said that the vote tally for the capital ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092918/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:26:59 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092918/ Russia into a pilgrimage site in recent years. They arrive to gaze at the unadorned earth where the Bolsheviks, in one final act to defile the dynasty that they toppled, are believed to have dumped th... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092917/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:25:02 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092917/ SAARISELKA, Finland: The European Union on Saturday urged Israel to urgently resume peace talks with the Palestinians, warning that reconciliation efforts could fail definitively if the current impass... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092916/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:13:42 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092916/ Nearly 70% of civilian deaths last year were caused by insurgents. At least 2,412 civilians were killed in 2009 — a 14% increase from 2008 — according to the United Nations. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092909/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:07:57 -0500 USA Today http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092909/ DENVER (AP) — Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arres... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092910/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:07:56 -0500 USA Today http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092910/ Swat Valley was the second major attack in the country in less than 24 hours, raising fears of a new wave of violence by anti-government militants. Suicide bombers killed 55 people in near-simultaneou... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092911/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:07:55 -0500 USA Today http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092911/ BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have arrested a man suspected of taking part in the storming last weekend of a poker tournament in which armed robbers made off with the jackpot. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092912/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:07:54 -0500 USA Today http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092912/ "An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president stil... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092913/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:07:54 -0500 USA Today http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092913/ England's children's commissioner says the age of criminal responsibility should be raised from 10 to 12. Do you agree? Maggie Atkinson said the killers of James Bulger should have undergone "program... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092908/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:03:18 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092908/ By Daniel Flynn Vatican City - The head of Germany's Catholic Church apologised to victims of child abuse by priests on Friday and met Pope Benedict who encouraged him to press ahead with tough new... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092922/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:56:40 -0500 IOL http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092922/ By Megan Davies United Nations - United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday the United Nations needs more women in top positions as it strives to raise the profile of women's i... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092923/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:56:38 -0500 IOL http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092923/ BELGRADE (Reuters) -- Serbian investigators have detained nine former paramilitaries in an investigation of war crimes during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo, a sign of government resolve to deal with Serbi... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092059/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:05:12 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092059/ Ukraine's ambassador to the European Union, Andriy Veselovskyy, says integration with the bloc will remain the country's overriding policy objective under President Viktor Yanukovych. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092060/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:05:11 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092060/ 03/13/2010 6:46 AM Bibi, hi this is Hill. Hillary Clinton. Uh huh. Oh I guess he's fine. Actually I'm not sure where he is but that's not why I'm calling. I'm calling because of my boss. Barack HUSSE... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092051/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:04:05 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092051/ An American busted in a recent raid on al Qaeda in Yemen worked at nuclear-plant complexes in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. New Jersey-raised Sharif Mobley was among 11 suspects rounded up in... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092052/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:04:03 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092052/ Women who took birth-control pills beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the Pill, a study says. Experts concluded the pill cut women's risk of dying from bowel cancer by 38 per... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092053/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:04:01 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092053/ Former state banking superintendent and longtime Mayor Bloomberg girlfriend Diana Taylor is considering a Republican challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, The Post has learned. Taylor, now the managin... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092055/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:03:22 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092055/ There was enough time for straphangers to save the woman killed by a subway train while retrieving her gym bag, an investigator told The Post yesterday. But the fast-charging No. 6 train -- and the wo... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092054/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:03:21 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092054/ An Australian toddler who's a sucker for lollipops somehow crawled inside a candy machine but got some bitter along with the sweet -- he couldn't get out. Cohen Stone, 2, apparently squeezed himself t... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092056/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:03:20 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092056/ A proposed law that would impose tighter regulations on Central Park's carriage horses -- including a minimum five-week vacation break -- drew a capacity crowd to a City Hall hearing yesterday. More t... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092057/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:03:20 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092057/ Don't forget to spring forward to get a little more sunshine in your life. Daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. tomorrow, but most people will probably set their clocks one hour ahead before going to... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092058/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:03:16 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092058/ Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people and injured dozens in the northwest part of the country Saturday, authorit... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092061/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:43:38 -0500 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092061/ A teenager has appeared in court charged with the harassment of a man who collapsed and died in the garden of his Greater Manchester home.Kial Cottingham, 18, of Sylvester Way, Hattersley, appeared be... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092042/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:40:54 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092042/ Formula One racing legend Sir Stirling Moss has thanked well-wishers who wrote to him after he fell down a lift shaft at home and broke both ankles.The 80-year-old, who won 16 Grand Prix races between... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092047/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:40:53 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092047/ Hadrian's Wall will be lit from end to end later by a team of 500 volunteers holding flaming torches.The 84-mile (135km) Roman wall, which spans the width of northern England, is being illuminated for... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092046/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:40:52 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092046/ England took charge of the first Test against Bangladesh after a dominant day with bat and ball in Chittagong.Centuries from Alastair Cook (173) and Paul Collingwood (145), as well as Ian Bell's fine ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092045/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:40:50 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092045/ Actor Corey Haim's death is being linked to a major drug ring which has been illegally obtaining prescription drugs, US police have said.California Attorney General Jerry Brown said the star's name wa... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092048/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:40:46 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092048/ It comes after the elderly man was found dead at their home in the Surry Hills area of the city. Police were called to the couple's apartment complex by neighbours who had expressed concern for the p... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092063/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:40:41 -0500 Sky News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092063/ (Reuters) - A list led by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a wide lead in Baghdad, a key prize in Iraq's parliamentary election, preliminary results posted by Iraq's electoral commission show... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092049/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:33:15 -0500 Reuters http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33092049/ By Elliot Spagat SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned i... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091039/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:52:26 -0500 Washington Times http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091039/ Russian security forces have killed four militants in Daghestan. Interfax quoted an unidentified official with the local branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB) today as saying "four militan... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091035/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:43:54 -0500 RadioFreeEurope http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091035/ Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many Caesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans -- maybe even President Obama -- are being overtreated. As a med... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091034/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:42:37 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091034/ "Unless immediate action is taken to destroy the public buildings at the site, the illegal settlement there will be a fait accompli and could effectively dictate the status of the whole huge area betw... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091036/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:41:33 -0500 Haaretz http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091036/ The death toll from a massive flood that devastated a village in southern Kazakhstan has risen to 30. A dam at a reservoir in the eastern Almaty region neighboring China ruptured Thursday eve... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091033/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:23:44 -0500 The Independent http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091033/ US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday his government sent a "deeply negative signal" by taking steps that undermined renewed Midd... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091032/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:23:42 -0500 The Independent http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091032/ LOS ANGELES - The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child porn and a woman's allegations that he bought h... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091037/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:22:45 -0500 C News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091037/ The Lib Dems would not support a government which tried to make major spending cuts in the next financial year, leader Nick Clegg has said.Slashing spending so early in the recovery would be "eco... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091027/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:20:31 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091027/ Take That star Mark Owen has checked himself into rehab days after admitting he had a drink problem and had cheated on his partner of five years.A spokesman for the 38-year-old said: "I can confi... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091028/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:20:29 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091028/ Two people have escaped injury after a shot was fired at a house in Antrim. The incident happened in the Caulside area at about 2310 GMT on Friday night. Police received a report that a shot had been ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091031/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:20:26 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33091031/ Gov. Paterson yesterday ripped into his criminal-justice coordinator for resigning over his administration's scandals -- claiming she acted to serve her political needs. The governor declined to comme... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089616/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:22:00 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089616/ WASHINGTON -- Vaccines that contain the mercury-based preservative thimerosal cannot cause autism, a federal court ruled yesterday. The Special US Court of Federal Claims specifically found that such ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089614/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:59 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089614/ ORLANDO, Fla. -- The ambulance crew that responded after Tiger Woods crashed his SUV would not allow his wife to ride with him to the hospital because they suspected domestic violence, documents relea... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089615/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:59 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089615/ Three students -- one a bully allegedly slashed by a boy fed up with being tormented over his Mexican heritage -- were stabbed in separate incidents around the city yesterday. The Mexican student, who... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089617/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:58 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089617/ An American busted in a recent raid on al Qaeda in Yemen worked at nuclear-plant complexes in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. New Jersey-raised Sharif Mobley was among 11 suspects rounded up in... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089618/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:58 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089618/ Alex Rodriguez struck out swinging when he sold his bayfront Florida estate for nearly one-third less than he paid for it. A-Rod and ex-wife Cynthia Scurtis Rodriguez purchased the one-acre, six-bedro... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089619/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:39 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089619/ Athol Fugard , the renowned South African playwright, paced at the edge of a plywood stage, rubbing his head and listening intensely to two actors run through their lines. Rehearsals for his new play,... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089613/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:36 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089613/ A top NYPD Mounted Unit supervisor and his girlfriend got a no-jail deal yesterday for conspiring to doctor her $2 million bid to board retired police horses. Detective Richard DePamphilis, 51 -- quar... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089620/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:34 -0500 New York Post http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089620/ According to the well-known adage, we need to choose whether to be part of the problem or part of the solution. Visiting the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, I observed that t... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089643/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:00 -0500 Haaretz http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089643/ New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi an... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089612/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:04:03 -0500 USA Today http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089612/ Thousands of red-shirted, anti-government demonstrators converged on the Thai capital from the north and northeast today, vowing to oust the government in a mass, do-or-die display of muscle. ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089608/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:02:49 -0500 The Independent http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089608/ A suicide attacker set off a bomb at a security checkpoint in north-west Pakistan today, killing at least 10 people and injuring 52, officials and a doctor said, underscoring the relentless security... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089609/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:02:47 -0500 The Independent http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089609/ Pakistan was confronting what appeared to be a new wave of militant violence after at least 43 people were killed and more than a hundred injured by suicide bombers in Lahore. In the fourth major i... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089610/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:02:44 -0500 The Independent http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089610/ Pope Benedict XVI was directly implicated in a deepening Catholic Church sex abuse scandal for the first time late yesterday following disclosures that he unwittingly approved the transfer a priest ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089611/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:02:32 -0500 The Independent http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089611/ State Department concerned over Iran's ongoing persecution of Baha'is, Christians U.S. report claims Iranian government creates "threatening atmosphere" for religious groups President Mahmou... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089644/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:01:54 -0500 CNN http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089644/ Thousands of Thai opposition demonstrators are converging on Bangkok to press their demands for elections.The "red shirt" protesters are mainly supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Sh... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089606/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:59:07 -0500 BBC http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089606/ The crew stopped her from joining her injured husband in the vehicle because they thought the incident was a case of domestic violence, according to police records. The new twist has again raised the... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089646/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:59:03 -0500 Sky News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089646/ TWO YEARS ago, the nation turned its eyes on Philadelphia for a story that threatened to set off a powder keg of mixed emotions and racial tensions. It had all the right ingredients: a triple shootin... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089621/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:42:10 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089621/ Police and coroner's officials roll from a house in Wayne the body of Richard Porter, who was found stabbed to death there. His missing SUV figured in a later incident in Kensington that hurt a Philly... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089622/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:42:07 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089622/ Just when SEPTA is ready to bring its hundred-year-old fare system into the "smart card" 21st century and rebuild its ancient bridges and stations, the Obama administration's reluctance to a... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089623/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:42:05 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089623/ Clarence Brown Sr. told police seven different tales about how his 16-year-old stepson came to have a fatal gunshot wound to the chest in the family's Oxford Circle living room in July 2008. His expl... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089624/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:42:04 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089624/ Jay Gillian, third-generation owner of Gillian's Wonderland Pier, in Ocean City, is running for mayor of the Shore town; the job means maintaining a tricky political balance between locals and tourist... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089625/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:42:02 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089625/ Hector Ayala, the rock of a large Philadelphia family, broke into tears in court yesterday as he listened to his wife of 45 years, two of their four children and others beg a judge to have mercy on hi... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089626/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:59 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089626/ A pair of lawsuits filed this week detail a swindle that appears to have cost the Philadelphia Museum of Art $1.5 million. The museum is trying to recover the money - not from the art dealer who swin... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089628/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:57 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089628/ With improved health care, the average life expectancy in the U.S. is 78. With the country's average retirement age of 62, retirees can anticipate nearly two decades of rest and relaxation. But is tha... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089627/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:55 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089627/ And yet another honor for reporters Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman (third and fourth from left): Yesterday they were among five named Philadelphia Newspapers' Employees of the Year. Joining them are... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089639/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:53 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089639/ There's a doctor on the warpath in the Philadelphia suburbs. Manan Trivedi, a former Iraq War battalion surgeon from Berks County, sent his wife a victorious text message Thursday night as Montgomery... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089638/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:51 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089638/ I'M TURNING into one of those people I used to hate. You know the type I'm talking about. They despise anything new, condemn progress as a tool of the devil and spend their days in a wingback Archie ... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089637/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:49 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089637/ Police yesterday were seeking suspects in two unrelated Thursday-night shootings that left a Nicetown man and a Summerdale teenager dead. In the first case, police responded to a report of a shooting... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089636/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:48 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089636/ The bronze bas-relief that commemorates William Penn's landing in 1682 is missing from a monument in Chester. It cost $17,300 and replaced another, taken in 2006. http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089635/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:47 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089635/ Eight Philadelphia police officers who were fired or disciplined in 2008 after a television news helicopter captured them beating three shooting suspects are getting their jobs back or having their pu... http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089633/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:44 -0500 Philadelphia Daily News http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/33089633/