WASHINGTON – President Obama is hoping that lessons learned from a 1976 flu outbreak can help the country act wisely to combat the current spread of swine flu.
NEW YORK – Bernard Madoff, even as he faces the prospect of dying behind bars for his epic swindle, has never wavered on one point: He acted alone.
LOS ANGELES – The first hints about Michael Jackson’s final wishes surfaced Tuesday in a will he signed nearly seven years ago to the day, and although details won’t be available until the document is filed in a court, there’s nothing to indicate that its instructions are at odds with the hasty arrangements made by the singer’s mother and father.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras’ ousted president won overwhelming international support Tuesday as he planned a high-profile return to his chaotic country. The politicians who sent soldiers to fly him into exile in his pajamas said he will be arrested for treason if he tries.
SAN GERARDO, Ecuador – In the highlands of the Andes, near the base of Chimborazo, one of the Western Hemisphere’s tallest mountains, rests a small village of about 600 people called San Gerardo.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race.
NEW YORK – Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to those who might imitate his fraud and to victims who need relief.
COPENHAGEN – Lately Denmark has been battling an influx of immigrants that has resulted from the war in Iraq. In late May, Danish officials made an agreement with the Iraqi government to “forcibly” return Iraqi refugees that were rejected from citizenship.
DUBENDORF, Switzerland – This Friday, a team of European engineers revealed their finished, full-sized prototype of the Solar Impulse. With a wingspan of more than 200 feet and a weight of approximately 3,500 pounds, the Solar Impulse is one of the first plausible aircrafts to be entirely powered by solar energy.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – More than a dozen soldiers arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn Sunday, his private secretary said. Protesters called it a coup and flocked to the presidential palace as local news media reported that Zelaya was sent into exile.
LONDON – On the afternoon following the popstar’s death, droves of fans gathered outside London’s Liverpool Street train station for a mass moonwalk in tribute to the late Michael Jackson.
A sequined white glove and a moonwalk made history March 25, 1983.
In Iran, people speak of a Twitter uprising. Was this the first major Twitter celebrity death? Because it wasn’t just HOW lots of people first learned of Jackson’s demise, but what they did once they found out.
WASHINGTON – Federal investigators planned to test the automated controls for Metro trains for the first time Wednesday, looking to see why the computerized system designed to prevent such disasters failed.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday he’s been having an affair with a woman he visited on a secret trip to Argentina and said he’ll resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.
OSAKA, Japan – The only nation to be bombed by nuclear weapons is not allowed to own them, and its next-door neighbor is brazenly flaunting them.
QUITO, Ecuador – As Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa continues the reforms he promised when re-elected in April as part of the Revolucion Ciudadana (Citizen’s Revolution), lingering questions remain about his very recent agglomeration of power.
WASHINGTON – The subway train that plowed into another, killing nine people in the nation’s capital, was part of an aging fleet that federal officials had sought to phase out because of safety concerns, an investigator said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the United States is committed to helping the world’s 34 million refugees build safe and fulfilling lives, calling their struggle a “humanitarian emergency.”
LONDON – It’s a spelling mantra that generations of schoolchildren have learned – “i before e, except after c.”
