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Although Kevin Garnett missed the game on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics seemed to be just fine without their emotional leader.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points and fan favourite Brian Scalabrine, filling in for the suspended Garnett, fired in a game-sealing three- pointer with just over a minute left to play as the Celtics held off...
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 New York City
officials decided to suspend several crane operations in the city during the
weekend in order to focus on the Friday’s accident according to which a crane
put an end to the lives of two workers.
The crane fell from about 200 feet above the street, strongly crashed
into a luxury apartment building on East
91st...
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 The Brooklyn
Bridge, one of the oldest suspension
bridges in the United States,
attracts thousands and thousands of tourists every year and it is considered an
icon for New York, as well as for America.
The 6,000-foot-long bridge over the East
River connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn took
years to...
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 Since reinstalled in 1976 by the Supreme Court, the capital
punishment has been widely exercised among the states of the USA. On Thursday,
New Jersey became the first U.S. state to legislatively abolish it.
Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled state Assembly voted 44
to 36 in favor of a bill to eliminate the death penalty and...
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 14-year-old Asa Coon student at SuccessTech Academy in
downtown Cleveland, Ohio shot four people on Wednesday, two teachers and two
fellow students, and then committed suicide.
Asa Coon, was described by classmates and neighbors as
frequently volatile and angry. He was suspended for fighting at the beginning
of the week and was...
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 Canadian authorities forbade renown anti-apartheid activists Winnie Madikizela-Mandela from entering the country Tuesday because of her previous conviction. The ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, couldn’t attend a gala held in her honor Tuesday because Canadian laws do not permit any person that has a criminal...
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State-run China Central Television, the country's main national broadcaster, has suspended its live coverage of the Chinese Super League after the latest in a series of scandals to hit the ailing league, reports said on Tuesday.
A mass brawl at the end of last Wednesday's match between Beijing Guo'an and Tianjin Kangshifu was...
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A small cave-in and surface cracks preceded the collapse of a road into a subway tunnel in eastern China, but did not lead to the suspension of construction work, state media said on Monday.
Rescue workers were still removing the steel frame from the tunnel so that they would be able to dig for 14 people still missing since the...
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Arab stock markets suffered heavy losses this week as gloom engulfed the region amid fears of a global recession.
Thursday's suspension of trading on the Kuwait stock exchange appeared to send a negative message to other markets in the region, financial analysts said Friday.
"I believe the halting of trading in Kuwait by a...
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Kuwait halted trading in its stock exchange on Thursday after traders demanded action to stop major losses, the country's trade minister and its state news agency said.
The halt in trading came after a court order on Thursday.
Minister of Trade and Industry Ahmad Baqer told Al-Arabiya TV that trading could resume on Sunday.
The...
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Indonesia's stocks recovered from early losses and were up 0.70 per cent Monday, in line with rebounding regional markets as the government raised its guarantee on bank deposits to help restore confidence in the economy.
The Indonesian Stock Exchange closed at 1,461.87 points, up 10.20 points or 0.70 per cent. The composite index...
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Indonesia's stock exchange continued to suspend trading in the afternoon session Friday, extending a trading suspension to two consecutive days amid sharp falls on global markets.
The Indonesian Stock Exchange said in a press release that Friday's afternoon trading had been suspended. Hours earlier, the exchange announced that its...
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Iran has sent a new letter to the European Union over the ongoing nuclear dispute, ISNA news agency reported Monday.
ISNA quoted an unnamed official as saying that the Iranian ambassador in Brussels would deliver a letter by Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Monday.
Without...
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Pakistani lawyers, backed by human rights activists and political workers, staged countrywide sit-ins Thursday to press the government to reinstate dozens of senior judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf.
The powerful legal community resumed protests three days after the 6-month-old ruling coalition collapsed on...
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New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Wednesday the situation in Fiji, whose military ruler has boycotted a regional summit meeting, was like Zimbabwe in the lead-up to its suspension from the British Commonwealth.
Clark was talking to reporters at the opening of the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum in Niue, which...
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Hong Kong fire and safety experts began a one-month joint operation checking karaoke bars Monday following a fire which killed four people earlier this month.
The operation will check fire safety provisions at all karaoke bars located in old buildings shared with other businesses and residential units.
It follows a fire in a...
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Iran and the European Union on Monday reiterated their willingness to resume talks on the dispute over the country's controversial nuclear programmes, ISNA news agency reported.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeid Jalili and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana agreed in a phone contact to continue what Iran called "talks in a...
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Cambodia defused a tense border standoff
Tuesday by returning three Thai nationals, including a Buddhist monk,
who had crossed into Cambodia to protest the recent decision to list
Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage site. The Thais,
identified as Phicharn Thapsorn, 35, Chanikarn Singnok, 64, and
Buddhist monk Khamphor, were...
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 The death toll from Tuesday's suspension bridge collapse in western
Nepal has risen to at least 12, with dozens more listed as missing,
police and government officials said Tuesday.
The suspension bridge over Bheri River at Medhapura in Surkhet
district, about 400 kilometres west of Kathmandu, collapsed sending
hundreds of people...
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 Pakistan has been suspended from the Commonwealth group of nations for
the second time, because of the martial law imposed by President Pervez
Musharraf, a statement from a council of ministers from the 53-nation
club sitting in Uganda announced at midnight Thursday.
The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) had sat...
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 Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro has asked the
Commonwealth to delay a decision on whether to suspend his country's
membership over the current state of emergency, the foreign ministry in
Islamabad said Wednesday.
The 53-member grouping of Britain and its former colonies and
Mozambique "should have a...
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 Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win said Monday that his military-ruled
country would sign the landmark ASEAN Charter, including the document's
commitments to democracy and human rights.
"We agree with the charter," Nyan Win said. "We will sign it."
The assurance - the first by any Myanmar official - was given...
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 The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Sunday rejected
a call by the US Senate to suspend Myanmar following a violent
crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
ASEAN Secretary General Ong Keng Yong said the US Senate resolution
was not doable from the perspective of the 10-member regional bloc.
"Our approach is...
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 Pakistan's opposition leader and ex-premier Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday
asked President Pervez Musharraf to resign and indicated that her party
might boycott forthcoming elections if held under the army general.
"I call on Musharraf to step down, to leave. This country belongs
to people, it must return to the people,"...
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 Pakistani authorities on Monday again placed opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto under house arrest in the eastern city of Lahore to prevent her
from leading a rally against the emergency rule imposed by President
Pervez Musharraf 10 days ago, her party said.
"Thousands of policemen have surrounded the temporary residence...
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 Parliamentary elections will be held in Pakistan before January 9 as
prescribed but the current state of emergency will continue
indefinitely, President Pervez Musharraf said in Islamabad Sunday.
The National Assembly lower house would be dissolved at the end of
its five-year term on November 15 as scheduled and four...
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 Parliamentary elections will be held in Pakistan in February, President
Pervez Musharraf said Thursday amid a growing outcry at his imposition
of emergency rule.
While the pledge was rejected by opposition leader Benazir Bhutto
as insufficient, Musharraf appeared to be slowly heeding domestic and
international calls on him to...
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 One of India’s
37 districts, Nathnagar was witness on Tuesday to a scene like in the movies. After
two police officers apprehended a petty criminal off the street, they tied the
man to their motorcycle and dragged him behind them around town.
The event was caught on film and went on live that day causing
the two men to get what...
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A month after he suspended the payment system, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has decided to permit bank transfers to ease demand for cash, state media reported Thursday.
Zimbabwe is experiencing an acute shortage of cash, among other basics, including food and fuel. The situation has forced people to resort to...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe downplayed
the suspension of talks between his party and the opposition on a unity
government, echoing South African President Mbeki in assuring the
negotiations were going 'well.' 'We are still negotiating and
want success... Some areas are debatable but we debate. It is not easy
but I hear...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on
Wednesday said he was committed to a speedy conclusion of stalled unity
talks between his Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC). 'Speaking for Zanu-PF and myself we
are committed and want to see the speedy and successful conclusion of
the talks so that we can...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
was in South Africa Tuesday for talks with negotiators from his
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on the suspension of talks with
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF. Tsvangirai's spokesman
George Sibotshiwe confirmed that the MDC leader was in South Africa,
where multi-party talks...
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The Football Association (FA) is to establish a register of players with previous doping convictions as part of a series of measures aimed at combating the use of drugs in football, it emerged Tuesday.
"The identity of the players on the list will be decided by UK Sport and the FA," Andy Parkinson, the acting director of the...
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There was a mixed reaction Tuesday to the agreement with football's governing body FIFA with Polish sports officials that ensured Poland could play in two upcoming World Cup qualifiers.
Poland's Sports Minister, Miroslaw Drzewiecki, has tried to present himself as the victor in the stand-off, telling Polskie Radio that "the war...
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Football's governing body FIFA on Monday said that Poland's two World Cup qualifiers this weekend and next Wednesday will go ahead after they had reached an agreement with Polish sports officials.
FIFA had earlier given Polish officials a deadline of noon Monday to reinstate football federation (PZPN) officials suspended by a...
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Football's world governing body FIFA and European ruling body UEFA said Tuesday they did not recognize a decision in Poland to suspend the leadership of the Polish football federation.
"FIFA and UEFA do not recognize either the decision by the arbitration court of the Polish National Olympic Committee, or the appointment of an...
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Poland's plans to co-host Euro 2012 are not in danger, Sports Minister Miroslaw Drzewiecki said on Tuesday after the leadership of the Polish football federation (PZPN) was suspended by an arbitration court of the nation's Olympic Committee (PKOL).
"The Euro will be in four years, and everything that must be done for the Euro...
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Poland's plans to co-host Euro 2012 are not in danger, Sports Minister
Miroslaw Drzewiecki said on Tuesday after the leadership of the Polish
football federation (PZPN) was suspended by an arbitration court of the
nation's Olympic Committee (PKOL).
"The Euro will be in four years, and everything that must be done
for the Euro...
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European football's ruling body UEFA Friday said it had accepted a protest by Danish club Aalborg BK over the wrong red card handed out in the Champions League tie Wednesday away to Celtic.
Aalborg defender Michael Jakobsen was served a one-match suspension while Michael Beauchamp was cleared, the UEFA Control and Disciplinary body...
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 Vick’s last two co-defendants pleaded guilty on Friday and stated that Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback not only financially supported the project but helped execute dogs that didn't perform well.Quanis Phillips of Atlanta and Purnell Peace of Virginia Beach, Va. entered the plea and both agreed to testify against Vick. The controversial...
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 Two more defendants that allegedly participated at the dog fighting which took place on Vick’s property are planning to enter the plea agreements. Their decision would leave the Atlanta Falcons quarterback as the single defendant to plead not guilty.The two defendants that have scheduled hearings for 16 and 17 August are Purnell Peace,...
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 The Chicago Bears decided it’s in their best interest to let Tank Johnson go after his latest scrap with the law. Not even Tank had a hard time understanding that his former team did what they had to do."I want to thank the Bears organization and fans for their support during this difficult time," Johnson said in a statement...
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 The NFL suspended without pay Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tank Johnson yesterday for the first eight games of the 2007 season due to a violation of the league's conduct policy. If Johnson avoids legal trouble and attends counseling, Commissioner Roger Goodell might let him get away with a six games suspension. An eight-game suspension...
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French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA said it is putting an end to all clinical trials of Acomplia, a drug aimed at fighting against obesity. “It's over,” the company’s spokesman Jean Marc Podvin said in an interview, referring to Acomplia, a drug that works by blocking receptors in the brain that help control food intake.On Wednesday, the...
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 Three doctors are facing nearly 50 years of jail due to a massive insurance fraud they had been conducting for several years.
Dr. Michael Chan, an obstetrician, Dr. William Hampton, a surgeon and Dr Mario Z. Rosenberg, all over 50, were arrested Wednesday in Orange County for an insurance fraud that had been going on for years....
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The French government will establish an investment fund to support the country's strategic enterprises affected by the economic crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday in the city of Annecy.
The fund will make available loans to struggling companies in exchange for shares, which will be sold, presumably at a profit, once...
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The European Union has decided to suspend the visa bans it imposed on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and top regime figures in 2006, officials in Luxembourg said Monday.
However, regime figures who are suspected of involvement in the disappearance of pro-democracy activists in 1999-2000 will still be subject to travel bans,...
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The European Union should suspend the visa bans it currently holds against most members of the Belarusian regime, but it is not yet clear whether it should do so for President Alexander Lukashenko, EU foreign ministers and officials said Monday.
"At this moment the Belarusians are looking to the EU. The moderates are hoping that...
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Shares on the leading ATX index of the Vienna Stock Exchange fell by 10.91 per cent Friday afternoon after the market had been suspended until midday due to high volatility.
Vienna Stock Exchange spokeswoman Beatrix Exinger said the bourse had also needed time to implement new trading rules in response to the expected market...
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Russia's stock two leading stock exchanges jumped Friday minutes after reopening following a two-day suspension of trading to stop the nation's worst financial crisis sice the 1998 default.
The dollar-denominated RTS climbed 11 per cent in the start of trading while the ruble-denominated ruble-denominated MICEX soared 14.4 per cent...
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Trade on Russia's leading RTS index was arrested for a second time on Friday, after stocks soared uncontrollably following deep lows earlier in the week.
Regulators moved to halt trading on the dollar-denominated RTS at 1.55 pm Moscow time (10.55 GMT) after re-starting following an earlier closure in on Friday, as share prices...
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The European Parliament has been forced to move its first session of the autumn to Brussels following the collapse of part of the roof of its home in the French town of Strasbourg, officials said Thursday.
Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering decided on the move on the basis of expert reports, a statement from the parliament...
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 The Scottish will be the proud owners a of a new
multi-billion-pound road bridge across the river Forth to replace the current
deteriorating 40-year-old bridge linking Scotland's southeast coast with the
north. The Scottish government announced the project on Wednesday.
Finance Secretary John Swinney told the Scottish...
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 Environmental pressure group Greenpeace took its blockading tactics to
a new level Monday as activists closed off the European Union's
headquarters with a seven-ton wall of concrete blocks.
The protest was aimed at EU fisheries ministers, who are meeting this week to set quotas for fishing fleets across Europe.
"We have...
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 Russia on Wednesday suspended participation in a key Cold War treaty
limiting armed forces in Europe amid mounting East-West security
tensions.
Russia has suspended all activities towards observing the treaty on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) since midnight on December
12, The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday claimed victory in the
10-day labour dispute over a pension reform as the strike called to
protest the proposal appeared to be ending.
"I promised this reform, and I have kept my promise," Sarkozy said during a speech at the Elysee Palace.
The reform, which effectively deprives...
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 In a surprise development after declaring a state of emergency,
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Thursday announced a snap
presidential election for January 5 in response to mounting
anti-government protests.
"I am giving the opposition a chance to be elected by the people,"
the 39-year-old leader said in a...
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 Kazakh and Russian joint rocket launch failed to initiate
correctly and stopped the whole project in its tracks. The payload board the
shuttle, a Japanese communications satellite, was completely destroyed.
After 139 seconds from tacking off before dawn from the Kazakhstan's
Baikonur Space
Center, the rocket ship exploded
and...
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 After months of arguments with Western powers, Russia pulled out of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) on Saturday.The suspension comes in a time when relation between Kremlin and Washington are very strained, pressure mounting with each controversial decision like this one. Moscow said the decision was forced by...
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 The European Union resumed pre-membership talks with Serbia on Wednesday after they were suspended in May 2006 due to Belgrade's failure to deliver key fugitives to the U.N. war crimes tribunal. Over the last period Belgrade boosted its cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal determining the EU to reconsider, although Ratko Mladic...
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 According to BBC, the controversy surrounding the suspension
of Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry by President Pervez Musharraf is
due to be discussed by the British Parliament.
A debate called “Democracy in Pakistan
“ was initiated by Scottish politician and renowned anti-war legislator George
Galloway and will be...
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 Ukraine Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko turned up the heat Friday by ordering his troops to regain control over governmental buildings previously seized by security forces loyal to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. The conflict between Yushchenko and his vehement opponent Yanukovich is bound to reach unprecedented levels, clashes...
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 Romanian President Traian Basescu will regain his prerogatives after Saturday’s vote revealed the people believe in his attempt to ouster corruption from political structures and the economical sector.74 per cent of the voters didn’t agree with the president’s impeachment and voted a firm “No”, the Romanian Central Election Commission...
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New Zealand is standing firm with a number of European countries in demanding strict conditions on a proposed agreement for the United States to supply India with nuclear fuel and technology for civilian use, Prime Minister Helen Clark indicated Monday.
New Zealand, whose adoption of a legally-binding anti-nuclear policy two decades...
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the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include economist Adam Smith in 1723; Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1878; English economist John Maynard...
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 A clinic in Las Vegas was ordered to shut down after
authorities discovered that more than 40,000 patients may have been exposed to deadly
diseases such a hepatitis C and the HIV virus, through the reuse of syringes
and vials.
The Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada "was served
with an emergency suspension of its business...
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 First, baby cosmetics and now
baby bottles. There is a new concern among parents regarding baby bottles,
which might contain toxic substances. A new study has drawn attention upon the
fact that when baby bottles are exposed to heat, they release a chemical that
could cause obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab...
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The rescue teams announced Friday that the aircraft carrying
46 passengers from the provincial city of Merida,
to Simon Bolivar
International Airport
near Caracas, crashed in the Andean mountains of
western Venezuela
and that there are no survivors.
The French-made ATR 42-300 aircraft lost contact with air
traffic towers 30...
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 Two long-time hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia were freed Thursday.
They were flown to Venezuela, where they were greeted by Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, who had worked to mediate their release. The
former hostages, politicians Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez, called
for continued efforts to free hundreds of...
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 Two Venezuelan helicopters arrived Thursday in the Colombian town of
San Jose del Guaviare, in a second attempt to secure the release of two
hostages held by leftist rebels.
Irma Alvarez, spokeswoman for the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) in Venezuela, told Venezuelan state television channel
VTV that the...
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 Martina Hingis faces another round in her legal battle to clear her
name of positive drug-test charges after the independent Anti-Doping
Tribunal on Friday confirmed a 2007 verdict against the Swiss former
number one.
Hingis took her battle public last November, contesting what the
International Tennis Federation said was a...
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 The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) announced on Monday that it has suspended the Iraqi national association, a move that might endanger Iraq’s participation at the 2010 World Cup.The world governing body of soccer said that the suspension is partially due to a government decision to disband the Iraqi Olympic...
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 David Beckham continued his tour of American soccer benches as Los Angeles Galaxy lost 1-0 to the New England Revolution. Since he signed the five-year, $32.5-million contract England’s former captain hasn’t yet started for the Galaxy. He finally made his MLS debut last Thursday against DC United, but failed to remount Washington’s lead...
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 Five days after letting a potential victory at Watkins Glen slip through his fingers, Jeff Gordon, the four-time Nextel Cup champion, won his series-leading sixth pole of the season after he waited for all the other drivers of the 3M Performance 400 at the Michigan International Speedway to make their qualifying runs."Welcome back...
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 Kimi Raikkonen drove the fastest lap in his Ferrari on the 3.2-mile Nuerburgring circuit in 1 minute, 31.396 seconds edging the championship leader Lewis Hamilton, who was .231 seconds behind the Fin in his McLaren. Unfortunately the Briton crashed into a wall during qualifying Saturday for the European Grand Prix and he was taken by...
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 The Ottawa Senators rose up to the task as the Stanley Cup Final hockey returned to Canada’s capital for the first time in 80 years. They won 5-3 in Game 3 over the Anaheim Ducks cutting their lead to 2-1 and pleasing the crowd at the Scotiabank Place, who helped the Senators get back on their track.”The crowd helped us out, no...
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 Scoring machine Kobe Bryant became youngest player to reach 20.000 points, as he scored 39 for the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, defeating the New York Knicks 95-90.Bryant entered the record book at 29 years, 122 days faster than the last holders of the record, Wilt Chamberlain (29 years 13 days) and Michael Jordan (29 years, 326...
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 Indiana Pacers forward Jermaine O'Neal has discounted Internet reports that he wants to be traded to the Los Angeles Lakers."My preference is to play here and win here," O'Neal said in a telephone interview after returning from Los Angeles on Monday afternoon after on the same day Sports Illustrated's Web site posted an article...
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 The National Basketball Association suspended Stephen Jackson of the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings Ron Artest for seven games without pay.Jackson’s suspension was caused by his plead of guiltiness to criminal recklessness in Indiana where he fired a gun outside a strip club. He was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and perform...
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