CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A political scandal that threatens to bring down Australia’s fragile government deepened on Wednesday, with a trade union reporting to police allegations that a lawmaker paid prostitutes with thousands of dollars of union money. The allegations date back to 2005 and 2007 when Craig Thomson was national secretary of the Health [...]
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An overnight house fire in eastern Australia has killed 11 people, including eight children, from two families, officials said Wednesday. Three people managed to escape the fire, which broke out in the two-story home around midnight in Logan City, south of the Queensland state capital of Brisbane, police Superintendent Noel Powers [...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government worked Wednesday to end an eight-day protest fast by a popular activist, and called for all the parties in Parliament to debate his demands for stringent anti-corruption legislation. Anna Hazare’s hunger strike has drawn tens of thousands of supporters to his protest in the heart of the capital and [...]
MOSCOW (AP) — After a “fun trip” across Siberia on his armored train, North Korea’s autocratic leader Kim Jong Il met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday for talks expected to focus on nuclear disarmament and economic aid. The two also struck a deal on the transit of Russian natural gas to South Korea. The [...]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An international human rights group on Wednesday accused law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh of routinely torturing suspects and carrying out hundreds of extrajudicial killings. Amnesty International said a special anti-crime force, the Rapid Action Battalion, has killed at least 200 people without trial since January 2009, when the current government of [...]
BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai court has acquitted the ex-wife of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a three-year-old tax evasion case. The Bangkok Appeals Court overturned Potjaman Na Pombejra’s 2008 conviction and three-year jail sentence for evading tax payments. The court also acquitted her secretary Kanchanapa Honghern who had been sentenced to two years [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Our world is a much wilder place than it looks. A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we’ve only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of the yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists say. So far, only 1.9 million species have been [...]
Earlier this year, David Segura walked into a popular burger joint near his office in Santa Monica, Calif. to see if he could negotiate a corporate discount for his team. The six employees at Giant Media, Segura’s online-video startup located around the corner, were obsessed with the restaurant. Something about the beef patties topped with [...]
Pitt’s place is on the market! Brad Pitt has listed his sprawling beach house in Malibu, Calif. for $13.75 million, Realtor.comconfirms. The 47-year-old actor (and design/architecture buff) bought the residence for $8.4 million in 2005 just after splitting from wife Jennifer Aniston. PHOTOS: Look back on Brad and Jen’s romance Situated stunningly between the Pacific Ocean and [...]
Irrational commitment to an arbitrary policy defeated common sense on Tuesday when the USTA announced it wouldn’t change Serena Williams’ seed at the upcoming U.S. Open despite the fact that the three-time champion is the prohibitive favorite to hoist the trophy Sept. 10. We saw this coming and ranted plenty about it Monday. Click the link [...]
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