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Terror threat sends flight back to England

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Jan. 12,2005 11:12 p.m.

LONDON -- A British Airways flight from London to New York was forced to turn back Wednesday after U.S. authorities refused to allow one of the passengers to land, saying he posed a terrorist threat, the airline said.

Supreme Court orders change in sentencing system

By Alyson Brodsy and Gina Holland · Wednesday, Jan. 12,2005 11:12 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- A splintered Supreme Court threw the nation's federal sentencing system into turmoil Wednesday, ruling that the way judges have been sentencing some 60,000 defendants a year is unconstitutional.

Judge nominated to head Homeland Security

By Alyson Brodsy and John Solomon · Wednesday, Jan. 12,2005 1:13 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Tuesday chose federal appeals court judge Michael Chertoff to be his new Homeland Security chief, turning to a former federal prosecutor who helped craft the early war on terror strategy.

Several missing after California mudslide

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Jan. 12,2005 12:34 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Scattered rain showers lashed waterlogged Southern California again Tuesday, hampering efforts to find survivors buried by a mudslide in a coastal community and prompting hundreds to flee a mountain town below a rain-swollen reservoir and along rising streams.

Sharon calls Abbas after election win

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Jan. 11,2005 10:50 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday to congratulate him for winning the Palestinian presidential elections, the latest sign the two sides are eager to restart peace efforts after years of stalemate.

Iraqi vote threatened by ongoing violence

By Alyson Brodsy and Nick Wadhams · Tuesday, Jan. 11,2005 10:49 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Some areas of Iraq probably will be too unsafe to take part in the Jan. 30 elections, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Tuesday in his first acknowledgment of limited voting, and he promised to increase the size of the army in the face of a bloody insurgency, whose latest victims included 13 Iraqis killed by two bombings.

2nd case of mad cow disease discovered in Canada

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Jan. 11,2005 10:48 p.m.

OTTAWA -- Canadian government inspectors have confirmed another case of mad cow disease in the western province of Alberta, the nation's food agency said Tuesday.

Particles

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Jan. 11,2005 12:35 a.m.

Tsunami seismic waves recorded on IU instruments On Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake shook the ground beneath the Indian Ocean causing a tsunami that devastated the surrounding countries. On that same day, halfway around the world, IU's scientific instruments began recording the seismic waves that consequently caused the deaths of more than 140,000 people.

The skinny on South Beach

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Jan. 11,2005 12:19 a.m.

Dr. Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist in South Beach, Fla., developed the South Beach Diet in response to his patients' disappointing results with the standard, low-fat American Heart Association diet. Agatston formed the diet to help people lose weight while improving their blood chemistry, including lowering "bad" LDL cholesterol and high blood sugar.

Geology department examines science behind tsunami

By Rami Chami · Tuesday, Jan. 11,2005 12:05 a.m.

Natural phenomena like the devastating tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean Dec. 26 are among the incidents the IU Department of Geological Sciences studies. The geology department offers both undergraduate and graduate courses that examine seismic activity. Department Chairman Professor Abhijit Basu said on the opening day of classes that several professors in the department discussed the recent tragedy with their students.

Trial witness accuses officer of punching Abu Ghraib prisoner

By Alyson Brodsy and T. A. Badger · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 11:32 p.m.

FORT HOOD, Texas -- A military guard testified Monday that he saw Spc. Charles Graner Jr. punch an Iraqi detainee in the face a moment after a notorious photo was taken at Abu Ghraib prison. Another witness said Graner was "laughing and having a good time" while making naked prisoners pose.

Unofficial results show Mahmoud Abbas as Arafat's successor

By Alyson Brodsy and Ravi Nessman · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 12:39 a.m.

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian Authority president by a wide margin Sunday, exit polls showed, giving him a decisive mandate to renew peace talks with Israel, rein in militants and try to end more than four years of Mideast bloodshed.

U.S. troops kill 5 after bombing wrong house

By Alyson Brodsy and Bassem Mroue · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:40 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- American troops opened fire after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least two policemen and three civilians, police said Sunday, a day after the U.S. military acknowledged five people were killed when it bombed the wrong house during a search operation in northern Iraq.

Sudanese government reaches peace deal with rebels

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Tomlinson · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:39 p.m.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sudanese leaders signed a peace deal that, if implemented, will end Africa's longest-running conflict and transform politics in a nation that has spent 40 of the last 50 years at war with itself. Turning the incredibly detailed agreement into reality, though, may prove more difficult than the eight years of talks required to draft it.

United Nations takes over relief plans for tsunami victims in Asia

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Jan. 7,2005 1:08 a.m.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- With health officials warning that the death toll from last month's tsunami could jump sharply without a continual supply of aid, world leaders struggled Thursday to figure out the best way to help victims -- and to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again.

Democrats challenge electoral votes

By Alyson Brodsy and Alan Fram · Thursday, Jan. 6,2005 11:47 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Congress certified President Bush's re-election Thursday but only after Democrats forced a challenge to the quadrennial count of electoral votes for just the second time since 1877.

Bodies of 18 executed Iraqis discovered in field

By Alyson Brodsy and Bassem Mroue · Thursday, Jan. 6,2005 11:46 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The bodies of 18 young Iraqi Shiites killed last month while seeking work at a U.S. base have been found in a field near Mosul, police said Thursday, as the Iraqi government extended a state of emergency for a month because of violence ahead of landmark elections.

Attorney general nominee faces criticism at confirmation hearing

By Alyson Brodsy and Jesse J. Holland · Thursday, Jan. 6,2005 11:44 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under sometimes-scorching criticism from senators, pledged Thursday at his confirmation hearing to prosecute prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay and to abide by international treaties on torture.

Brehm named provost finalist

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 13,2004 1:57 a.m.

Former IU-Bloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm is one of the finalists for the provost position at the University of Connecticut, according to an article in The Hartford Courant.

Ukraine prosecutors reopen investigation

By Alyson Brodsy and David Rising · Sunday, Dec. 12,2004 11:53 p.m.

VIENNA, Austria -- Ukrainian prosecutors reopened their investigation into allegations Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned after doctors who treated the opposition leader confirmed he had been slipped the toxic chemical dioxin, as Yushchenko returned home Sunday to campaign for this month's presidential run-off vote.

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