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Sri Lanka held remembrance ceremonies in various parts of the island nation to mark the fourth anniversary of the devastating tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004, that claimed over 40,000 lives and displaced more than half a million people..
An island-wide two-minute silence was observed Friday morning as friends and relatives of those...
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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners in Thursday's first-round first-leg matches.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup).
After being...
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Third-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta shook off her own jet-lag to reach the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Bank Classic on Thursday despite a distracting injury timeout from opponent Anastasia Rodionova.
US Open quarter-finalist Pennetta was fuming as the 77th-ranked Russian took a 4-0 lead in the second set, then began feeling...
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Tirunish Dibaba of Ethiopa completed the first Olympic women's long distance gold medal double on Friday with an emphatic 5,000 metres triumph at the Beijing Games.
Dibaba, 22, ran away from her rivals on the last lap to win a slow-paced race a week after she dominated the 10,000m gold with the second best time in event...
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Roger Federer will begin
resuscitating his summer after last week's Canadian crash out, as the
opening day of the Cincinnati Masters was hit by a pair of late injury
defections on Monday. The Swiss superstar learned the name of
his opening opponent in Tuesday's second round, as US player Robby
Ginepri overcame Swedish veteran...
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 Tropical Storm Dolly formed in the Caribbean is approaching Yucatan Peninsula and maybe it will head toward southern Texas. Local emergency management officials are monitoring it but aren’t excessively alarmed, saying the tropical storm doesn’t pose a threat yet to the upper Texas Gulf Coast. The emergency management coordinator for the...
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 Anglican bishops from all over the world were gathering in Canterbury for the
opening of the Lambeth Conference on Wednesday, with the once-in-a-decade
meeting appointed to be eclipsed by discussions regarding the position of women
and homosexuals.
The 650 bishops will have three days dedicated to prayer and
contemplation led by...
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 World Youth Day began Tuesday, with tens of thousands of young Catholics from all around the world. 100,000 individuals waited for a Mass opening the event which is considered by the Roman Catholic Church the biggest gathering of young people in the world.The official start of the 6-day-festival was at midnight when a huge countdown...
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Venus Williams may be heading into tennis orbit after winning her fifth Wimbledon title.
'It puts you in the stratosphere, to be honest, just because of what
this tournament means,' said the American who came third time lucky
against her younger sister Serena in the weekend title match at the All
England club. 'If I'd had...
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A woman suffering from a psychiatric disease died on the
floor, inside Kings County Hospital
Center in Brooklyn,
on June 19. A video tape that recorded the tragic event was handed over to the
attorneys of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The death of Esman Green, 49, was graphically revealed
yesterday when the...
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In an attempt to prove its commitment to halt its nuclear
weapons program, North Korea destroyed a water cooling tower that was part of
its Yongbyon nuclear plant where it processed weapon-grade plutonium.
The move comes a day after Kim Jong II’s regime submitted a
detailed inventory of nuclear plants and materials, which was...
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 A Pakistani military bus
transporting medical corps staff to work in the city of Rawalpindi was attacked by a suicide bomber Monday,
at 7.30 AM, outside the gate of the army's National Logistics Cell on a road
connecting the Royal Artillery Bazar to the General Headquarters in the nearby
garrison city.
Some media reports said...
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Look to the sky tonight as you will witness a rare and
amazing astrological event.
According to the Shanghai Observatory, on the 28 of August
we should be able to see a full lunar eclipse. This is not just any lunar eclipse,
for tonight the moon will turn bright red as the earth and sun align on either side.
It is the...
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 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is due to be decommissioned from service in 2008.
The vessel's owner, Cunard Lines, says it expects demand to be high for tickets on the ship's last scheduled voyage before it leaves for Dubai where it will converted into a floating hotel and museum.
"Many fans will take the opportunity to...
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Fourteen people, including several children, were hospitalized Thursday after an elderly man lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a Hanukkah celebration in Long Island, New York.
Police said a 78-year-old man drove his car through a storefront where Chabad-Lubavitch of the Five Towns was holding its Hanukkah Wonderland...
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Filmmakers in Bollywood, India's prolific film industry based in Mumbai, have registered about 30 titles for movie projects about the November terrorist attacks, a news report said Thursday.
26 Taj, Operation 5 Star Mumbai and Bird's Point of View: Taj Terror are some of the titles that have been registered by film-makers planning...
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At the 2009 Confederations Cup, the United States will be anxious to test their progress on the international stage along the way to the 2010 World Cup.
Getting to the world's showpiece event shouldn't be a problem - the US are champions of their region and figure to make their sixth consecutive finals appearance in South Africa - but...
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 The Great Southern California Shake Out is a weeklong event that is meant to teach people how to act during a big earthquake. The education program starts today at 10 a.m. when 5.2 million residents of California will have to roll under the tables and spend two minutes holding its leg tightly. The organizers of the events say that it’s...
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Election day finally arrived Tuesday for the record throngs of US voters planning to cast their presidential ballots for either Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain.
Obama held a significant lead in opinion polls as state officials braced for an unprecedented turnout and massive lines at polling places in an election...
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As Chicago braced for a throng of 1 million people at a public park in anticipation of Democrat Barack Obama's victory Tuesday, Republicans Monday were wishing them bad weather and a cliff-hanger election.
"I hope the million or so people who are planning to gather in Chicago have a long, cold night," quipped Mitt Romney,...
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 On Friday during Halloween trick-or-treat a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed from inside a house while he was accompanied by his family. The incident took place in South Carolina and his father and brother were injured by the gunfire too, according to the authorities.Quentin Patrick is the prime suspect in the murder of the boy, as a...
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Behind the scenes after a US presidential election debate, so-called spin doctors wrestle to impose their own side's interpretations of what the country just heard.
Campaign specialists evaluate and parse every event, comment and speech. Their prime goal is to make an impression on the US media, which are covering the longest and...
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 The authorities released a report announcing that a man shot and killed his wife inside a hospital, in her bed. The 88-year-old man then shot himself. Michael Mastronardy, police chief, stated that the man was in a critical condition and immediately after he had shot his 87-year-old wife he was taken to the trauma center at Jersey Shore...
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Banking rivals Citigroup and Wells Fargo have postponed for a day legal action over their tug-of-war for Wachovia, the United States' fourth-largest bank, it was disclosed Tuesday.
Citigroup on Monday filed a lawsuit against rival Wells Fargo & Co and Wachovia for 60 billion dollars in punitive and compensatory damages after a...
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 California Highway Patrol has released a statement saying that seven people were killed and 30 others were wounded last night after a bus which was carrying casino-bound gamblers had got off the road near Colusa County town of Williams and rolled over. CHP Dispatcher Terry Troth said that "the (bus) was northbound on Lonestar Road...
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US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a fast-paced debate Thursday night, in which both reached out to middle-class Americans and touted their own running mate as best able to bring about change for the country.
In a highly anticipated debate...
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US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during a fast-paced debate Thursday night, in which both reached out to middle-class Americans and touted their own running mate as best able to bring about change for the country.
In a highly anticipated debate...
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Sarah Palin, the running mate of Republican White House hopeful John McCain, has erased some of the doubts over her fitness for the top job after a fast-paced and wide-reaching debate with Joe Biden, vice presidential pick of Democrat Barack Obama.
Coming into Thursday night's debate, Palin, a one-term governor of Alaska, had faced...
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 A swimmer from Florida hit a shark after the animal had bitten the his dog. The swimmer saved his dog, but his courage is nevertheless, unquestionable. It seems that Greg LeNoir wasn’t scared at all about the shark’s attack and that was what gave him the strength to punch it. The man was swimming on Friday together with his puppy, Jack,...
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 With the help of actress Barbara Streisand, the leader of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, raised $9 million for his party and his presidential campaign on Tuesday night when he partied along with many Hollywood celebrities. The party split into two glamorous events. A reception and dinner which cost $28,500 each at the Greystone...
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The US presidential election campaign was put on ice Thursday out of respect for the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The nominees participated in some of the formal commemoration activities at the sites where 19 hijackers crashed passenger planes into the symbols of US financial and military might on that September...
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Ground Zero in New York relived on Thursday the tragic event that changed the city with the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center seven years ago.
A minute of silence was held at 8:46 am, the exact moment when the north tower of the center's 110-storey twin buildings was first hit by a commercial plane hijacked by...
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The police believe that a Sheriff Deputy from Fresno County shot and killed a suspect after being threatened with a knife. The witnesses who saw the event said that this could have been a case of suicide cop because they had heard the suspect screaming at the cop to kill him.The suspects’ family friends said that after seven months of...
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The 4x400 metres world record from a United States quartet was on Tuesday nullified by the world governing body IAAF because one of the team-members, Antonio Pettigrew, recently confessed to drug abuse at the time.
Pettigrew was on the US team which ran the record of 2 minutes 54.20 seconds in 1998. He recently admitted to substance...
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 On Saturday evening people in Hartford celebrated the end of the annual West Indian and festival which takes place in the North End and where most of the Hartford’s West Indian population lives. Unfortunately, during the festival one person was killed and six people, including a child, were wounded during a shooting.Authorities have...
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Matthew O’Sullivan, 37, of Los Angeles, California, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual act on Wednesday. O’Sullivan is an employee at the company that produces the video series of “Girls Gone Wild.” His accusations came after he had groped a woman aboard a bus outside a New York bar called Nubar. On Tuesday night, the “Girls...
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 Two people were taken to hospital in order to be treated for critical burn injuries Sunday night after their rental truck upturned and burst into flames on a main freeway interchange in downtown Los Angeles. Brian Ballton, spokesperson for Los Angeles Fire Department, stated that a Ryder truck caught fire Sunday on southbound Interstate...
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 Monsignor Wallace A. Harris, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Harlem, has been accused of sexual abuse of a minor. He was asked to step down by the Archdiocese of New York after everyone had found out that monsignor Harris had abused a minor 20 years ago.Still, the pastor denied the charges, as the archdiocese said Sunday in a...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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Barack Obama's celebrated overseas trip has
left the Democratic presidential candidate open to accusations of
taking victory for granted, and of wowing international audiences when
he should be focussing on the problems of ordinary US voters.
His Republican rival John McCain this week turned to mocking Obama's
celebrity treatment...
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Home from a week-long trip to Europe and the
Middle East, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama turned his
attention back to the struggling US economy and met Monday with a
collection of top economic officials. Republican rival John
McCain spoke of his own plans to combat surging energy prices at a
townhall meeting...
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Samuel Snow, 83, black veteran from World War II, died after he had arrived to Seattle to receive an apology from the Army because he had been wrongfully convicted on rioting charges. Snow died several hours after the ceremony took place. The ceremony was honoring him and other 27 soldiers who were convicted on the same charges. While...
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 About 25,000 people marched through Golden Gate Park Sunday in the 22nd annual AIDS Walk San Francisco, raising the astonishing amount of $4,512,934 to overcome the AIDS pandemic, event organizers said.Volunteers at the finish line welcomed the participants who took the streets of San Francisco, walking 6.2 mile in Golden Gate Park.Since...
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US President George W Bush Thursday toured
areas of California devastated by wildfires over the past three weeks
and was briefed by fellow Republican California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger and other officials. Bush did not speak to
reporters before the briefing or the aerial tour which took him above
the Trinity National...
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US President George W Bush will attend the
opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics this August, the White House
confirmed Thursday, setting aside months of uncertainty over his
intentions.
Whether world leaders would attend the August 8 event has been the
subject of much speculation since the beginning of the year, given
protests...
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 San Francisco
is preparing for the 38th annual gay pride parade, when big crowds
are expected to celebrate their recently approved right to marry. As gay
marriage became legal earlier this month, Friday was the city’s busiest day for
weddings.
The San Francisco
county clerk said he had 259 marriage license appointments and 284...
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 Progress was made on Friday in what concerns the wildfires
that have affected approximately 300 square miles of California,
while the famous resort areas of Big Sur have
been devastated by a 27,000-acre wildfire.
Firefighters tried to face the disaster breaking out at the
well-known coastal resort. A lot of restaurants, houses and...
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Maryland
state prosecutors raided the home of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon yesterday, as
part of an investigation regarding her financial dealings during her tenure as
City Council president. Arriving at 6:30 a.m., the investigators’ team left
Mayor Dixon’s house with six cardboard boxes and a large cooler on wheels seven
hours...
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 On Sunday, Fifth Avenue became the perfect place for
celebration in the sounds of salsa and cheers and the colours of thousands of
white and blue flags. Thousands of Puerto Ricans celebrated their ethnic pride,
an event also known as the National Puerto Rican Day Parade which takes place
every year on Fifth Avenue
in New York...
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 A bride, a groom and two other people were wounded in a
shooting at a creekside wedding in rural Pope County,
the Associated Press reports. The stranger who shot them was arrested after
being chased by outraged guests, a sheriff’s official said Sunday.
The shooting happened at Piney Creek on Rushing Road, just north of...
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 Thousands of students decided to skip classes today to
protest on the “National Day of Silence” and to participate at events marking
the 93rd anniversary of the American Genocide. The “Day of Silence” should
spread a message of tolerance toward their colleagues with different sexual
orientation. 199 schools in North
Carolina,...
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 Puddles had died, Panchito is alive. The former mayor of Alice, Tex.
took the dog which belonged to Grace Saenz-Lopez and gave him a new name,
claiming Puddles had died. After a trial, the original owners, Rudy Gutierrez
and Shelly Cavasos, got their pet Shih Tzu back.
“I think a lot of this is just plain ridiculous,” the...
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 Pope Benedict XVI made his first papal visit to the United States,
on Wednesday, his 81 birthday. He is due to meet U.S. President George W. Bush
at the White House and U.S. Roman Catholic bishops at a Washington basilica on Wednesday, his 81st
birthday, Reuters reports.
According to Bush’s spokeswoman Dana Perino, more than...
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 Minghui Yu, 24, a Colombia
University student, was
struck by a car and killed near the institution on Friday. The investigations lead
the police officers to a suspect, a 13-year-old boy, who was arrested and
afterwards charged with second-degree manslaughter. Police said he was arrested
late Saturday, but didn’t release his...
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 Former first-daughter, Chelsea Clinton, spoke Monday on behalf
of her mother Hillary Clinton’s campaign in front of hundreds of students from North Carolina State
University, Peace Collage and the University of North Carolina. During the town hall
meeting, Chelsea
answered to several questions concerning her mother’s campaign, but...
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 A Continental Airlines flight landed Sunday afternoon at George Bush
Intercontinental Airport, carrying on board a dead fetus
in a trash bag. He was found in one of the plane’s rest rooms after all
passengers had disembarked.
The New York-to-Houston
flight arrived in Houston
just before 5 p.m. on Sunday, about 30 minutes...
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 In the small town of Alamosa, Colo., water is
contaminated with salmonella bacteria. This was found after drinking water
engineers for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Joey
Talbott had made a test on the water in Almosa on Tuesday, March 25. Contaminated
water can’t be used for drinking, washing dishes...
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After two little girls were reported missing Sunday, the
South Florida police canceled the amber alert for Vanessa Rivas, 3, and Frida
Gonzales, 7, as they were found safe in Hialeah Gardens, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
informs.
The police stated the amber alert was issued Sunday, after
the girls were last seen at about 1...
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Naperville
police was alerted Friday morning when a two-month-old Pomeranian dog was
stolen from a pet store. Sgt. Ken Keating said the theft occurred at about
11.40 a.m. when a man aged 18 to 22 entered the store and asked for more
information about the puppy, the Chicago Tribune informs.
The dog’s recuperation can be easier...
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A giant crane collapsed Saturday afternoon at a construction
site on Manhattan’s East
Side, killing four construction workers and injuring more than 10
other people, officials report. Mayor Michael Bloomberg named the crush one of New York City's worst
construction accidents.
“It is a tragic event,” he said in a news conference....
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 A man made flood will be set up in the Grand Canyon by federal agencies. Such controlled floods had been released before in 1996 and 2004 and their main purpose is to refresh the canyon’s ecosystem. The flood release will begin Wednesday morning as a three-day torrent of water will be released from Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah...
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 Identical triplets were born Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island – and such an event happens once in 200 million births.
According to the Washington Post, the three boys, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn were delivered by Doctor Victor Klein, a specialist in multiple births and high-risk pregnancies. This is...
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Serena Williams arrived in Australia on Thursday vowing to begin her tennis year in style and playing down any talk of the injuries which plagued her in late 2008.
The self-absorbed three-time Australian open winner will take her place in the field at next week's Medibank International after weeks of speculation about her fitness -...
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German Nicolas Kiefer was rushed to hospital for treatment of an ankle injury suffered as the Slovak Republic backed into a fifth final at the Hopman Cup teams event on Thursday.
The 31-year-old fell victim to the worst possible luck as he suffered a freak mishap while leading Slovakia's Domink Hrbaty 3-1.
The Europeans,...
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Only hours after a first-round upset in Brisbane on Tuesday, Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic was set to head to Sydney to tune his tennis at the Medibank International.
The world number three was granted a late wildcard into the men's and women's event which starts on Sunday, one week prior to the Open.
The Serb crashed...
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Novak Djokovic's upcoming defence of his Australian Open title was plunged into disarray on Tuesday as the Serb crashed out 6-4, 6-4 in his opening match at the Brisbane International.
The world number two was upset in his first match of the season and now has no chance to gain ranking ground this week on Roger Federer, who...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made successful injury comebacks at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 in the eight-nation team event.
The Slovak Republic hammered the defending champion and five-time holder the US through singles victories from teenager Dominika Cibulkova and...
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Lleyton Hewitt and partner Casey Dellacqua both made a successful injury comeback at the Hopman Cup on Monday as Australia went down to Germany 2-1 at the eight-nation team event.
Hewitt made a resounding return after summer hip surgery, winning his singles over Nicolas Kiefer 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 6-2.
Dellacqua, who had to...
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Legend Rod Laver will be honoured for his part in tennis history next month as the Australian Open brings together the great man and those he defeated on the 40th anniversary of his tennis Grand Slam.
It was 1969 when the man they called the Rockhampton Rocket won all four majors in the same calendar year, the last man to achieve...
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Jelena Dokic will have to fight to keep her tennis dream alive after losing to a Brisbane teenager Tuesday in the wild card playoffs for next month's Australian Open.
Former world number four Dokic lost on the second day of play at Melbourne Park, falling to Monica Wejnert 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
"She's probably the highest...
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US cyclist Lance Armstrong will make his official comeback to professional road racing in January at the Tour Down Under in Australia, organizers of the Adelaide stage race said Wednesday.
Armstrong announced his retirement after winning the Tour de France a record seven times in 2005 but has said he would try for an eighth triumph in...
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 An exploding cylinder might have made a hole in the fuselage of a Qantas Airways plane while it was flying on Friday, therefore the crew had to make an emergency landing in the Philippines. No passenger was injured.`”We've likely had a cylinder event,'' said today Neville Blyth, senior transport safety inspector at the Australian...
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 An Australian court on Tuesday ruled Japanese whaling in the Antarctic illegal but admitted it had no power to stop it.
The Federal Court, in a hearing brought by the Humane Society
International, declared the Japanese in contravention of Australian
environment protection legislation because they were killing and
injuring minke and...
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The critics have been silenced, organizers of the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa said on Wednesday.
"Plan B is dead," Danny Jordaan, head of the World Cup local organizing committee told reporters in Johannesburg in a year-end review of preparations for the tournament.
Jordaan was referring to speculation earlier...
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In 2010 South Africa hosts the world's premier footballing event, the World Cup, for the first time, yet there are still many who doubt whether South Africa will be ready to host the huge event.
Infrastructural problems, an alarmingly high crime rate and delays with the building of stadiums are some of the obstacles that need to be...
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Germany is not available to host Euro 2012 if Poland and Ukraien are stripped of the event, the German football federation DFB said on Tuesday.
"This is not an issue. We respect the hosts and fully support them. There has been no query from UEFA either," DFB general secretary Wolfgang Niersbach told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Often described as a cup of losers, this season's UEFA Cup has its fair share of winners when the first round kicks off with first leg matches on Tuesday and Thursday.
Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam is one of only a handful of clubs that has won all three European club competition (European Champions' Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners'...
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The president of football's governing body, Joseph Blatter, said Thursday that he hoped that the Olympic football tournament would be integrated into the international match calendar.
Blatter's call follows problems involving several European clubs, who were reluctant to release their players for the tournament and were told by the...
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