World News FBI called in on Wikileaks issue
Chicago News.Net
The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military documents.  Pakistan poll finds Taliban support
Chicago News.Net
The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist groups.  Floods threaten first global warming islands
Chicago News.Net
Residents of the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea have been pleading for help from the international community since their homes began sinking into the ocean.  People beat porn movie teacher to death
Chicago News.Net
The Times of India has reported that an Indian teacher has been beaten to death by an angry mob after making a homemade porn film with one of his students. General in Latin America trains eye on Middle East
Washington Times
Center for Strategic and International Studies . "I stay focused on it just because I'm paid to be skeptical. What we see right now is support -- financial support -- to parent organizations in the Mi... Thailand's military, government in sync
Washington Times
Abhisit Vejjajiva , whose legitimacy in office has been questioned, and the military, a key player in the government's stability.Local media - especially those controlled by the military - have spotli... Ousted USDA employee Sherrod to sue blogger
Washington Times
Mrs. Sherrod spoke of racial reconciliation and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) NYPD seeking 8 men involved in Times. Sq. brawl
New York Post
Police are seeking the public's assistance in identifying eight men involved in a melee outside a Times Square nightclub that left one man fatally stabbed and two others wounded.Kenyatta Cotterell, 22... Charges upheld in NY pension fund corruption case
New York Post
A Manhattan judge today pruned back the 90-count Pay-to-Play state pension indictment against a former top consultant and confidant to ex-Comptroller Alan Hevesi -- tossing 13 charges against him, inc... Sin City strip club sued by ex-waitresses
New York Post
Six former cocktail waitresses say the Sin City strip club takes its name way too literally.A class-action suit filed today accuses bosses at the Bronx jiggle joint of a host of moral outrages, rangin... Gates Assails Document Disclosures by Wikileaks
International Herald Tribune
Robert M. Gates on Thursday assailed the disclosure this week of 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war by the website Wikileaks, asserting that the security breach had endangered lives... NTSB examines fuel pump in fatal Maine plane crash
The Miami Herald
PORTLAND, Maine -- Investigators plan further examination of the fuel pump on a small plane that crashed near Portland International Jetport in Maine, killing two people.A preliminary report by the N... NTSB examines fuel pump in fatal Maine plane crash
The Kansas City Star
Investigators plan further examination of the fuel pump on a small plane that crashed near Portland International Jetport in Maine, killing two people.</p><p>A preliminary report by the Na... Hariri hit suspect is Hizbullah bigwig
Jerusalem Post
The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon is reportedly set to announce that Mustafa Badr al-Din, a senior Hizbullah operative and close relative of the former Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, is the ... Reluctant mother admits to murdering infants
New Zealand Herald
Dominique Cottrez, 45 - the woman who planted and cared for the geraniums - admitted to an investigating magistrate yesterday that she had murdered her eight babies between 1989 and 2006 "because she ... Outspoken British PM embroiled in diplomatic rows
New Zealand Herald
In just a few days, new Prime Minister David Cameron has openly declared Britain is no more than the "junior partner" of the US, irritated Israelis by calling Gaza a prison camp and enraged Pakistanis... Angry Arizonans march against immigration law
New Zealand Herald
The State of Arizona has asked an appeals court to reverse a judge's order blocking most of the state's controversial new immigration laws. Meanwhile, the city of Phoenix filled with protesters, incl... Tokyo's 'oldest man' died 30 years ago
The Independent
A man listed as the oldest-living male in Tokyo died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified. Police visited the home of Sogen Kato at the request of officials updat... The press baron who's making news in Israel
The Independent
It is the brash upstart on the Israeli media scene with money to burn and already with a reputation it's trying to shed. Israel Hayom, a free newspaper that for the first time has stormed to the front... Up to 138 killed in Congo river boat accident
The Independent
As many as 138 people died when an overloaded boat carrying passengers and goods capsized in rough water in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police said. Congo's government confirmed the incident, b... Woman attacked by bear at US campsite
The Independent
A Canadian woman who was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night at a busy US campsite was bitten on her arm and leg before she instinctively played dead. She said she adopted the tactic in the ... Obama shares sofa with TV's daytime divas
The Independent
President Barack Obama takes his seat on the chat-show couch with The View co-hosts, left to right, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck Nazi suspect 'aided death camp killings'
The Independent
The world's third-most-wanted Nazi suspect, who allegedly participated in the murder of more than 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp, was involved in the entire killing process, according to court ... Access to clean water is 'human right', says UN
The Independent
The UN General Assembly has declared access to clean water and sanitation a "human right" in a resolution that more than 40 countries, including the US and Britain, did not support. The resolution ad... Patrick Coburn: 'We need to talk to the Taliban'
The Independent
David Cameron's controversial attack on the links between the Taliban and the Pakistani military misses the point. Those links are our only hope of solving this conflict, argues Patrick Cockburn
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