Asian stocks slide on gloomy US news (AP)

Asian stocks slide on gloomy US news (AP)

Asian stocks slide on gloomy US news (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:41 PM PDT

A man checks his mobile in front of at an electronic stock board in central Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index dropped below the 10,000 mark Thursday morning for the first time in three weeks, ending the morning session at 9,879.37 points, a drop of 195.68 points, from Wednesday's close. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Asian stock markets fell for a third day Thursday after a Wall Street sell-off on signs of weakness in the U.S. housing market triggered fears about the health of the global recovery.

Bad driver? Blame your genes (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:35 PM PDT

Reuters - No need to curse that bad driver weaving in and out of the lane in front of you -- he cannot help it, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.


Five Years Is a Lifetime to Wait for Affordable Health Care (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:13 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 28 (New America Media) - What do the health care proposals being discussed in Congress have in store for legal immigrants?


Bombs injured kids, exposed weaknesses

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:05 PM PDT

The force of the blast threw Rawnaq against the wall of her office at the Ministry of Justice. She instantly thought of her two children in the day care center just two floors below.

Obama flies to air base to honor slain soldiers

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:28 PM PDT

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del., (Reuters) - President Barack Obama landed at a U.S. military base early on Thursday to meet the plane bringing home the bodies of 18 American soldiers and Drug Enforcement Administration agents killed in Afghanistan this week.


ANALYSIS - China steps up climate diplomacy as Copenhagen looms

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:28 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's busy climate change diplomacy has become increasingly feverish weeks before crucial talks that could forge a new pact to fight global warming, or end in rancour that could rebound onto the world's biggest emitter.


Coyotes kill woman hiking in Eastern Canadian park

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:28 PM PDT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A 19-year-old woman died on Wednesday after being attacked by two coyotes while she was hiking in a park in Eastern Canada, police said.


Nicaraguan Congress will not debate re-election (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:00 PM PDT

AP - The Nicaraguan Congress on Wednesday narrowly rejected an initiative to force a debate on whether to annul a hotly disputed court ruling allowing President Daniel Ortega to seek re-election.


Reported jailing of British embassy worker slammed

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:33 PM PDT

LONDON -British Foreign Secretary David Miliband branded Thursday a reported jail sentence handed to an embassy worker in Iran as "wholly unjustified" and urged authorities to overturn it.

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Obama makes late-night trip to honor slain soldiers

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:56 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama flew to a U.S. military base on Wednesday night to meet the plane bringing home the bodies of 18 American soldiers and Drug Enforcement Administration agents killed in Afghanistan this week.


UK budget cut U-turn points to future battles

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:56 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government's rapid U-turn over its attempt to cut the funds for training part-time reservists is a reminder of how hard other European leaders are finding it to make even the smallest spending cuts.


Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers to boycott vote

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:10 PM PDT

The Kurdish bloc in the Iraqi parliament intends to boycott the vote on a proposed election law if the oil-rich province of Kirkuk is banned from voting in next year's national elections, two Kurdish lawmakers said.

Did India invent the nose job? (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:28 PM PDT

Visitors look at an exhibit at the Science and Technology Heritage Exhibition in New Delhi. An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.(AFP/Prakash Singh)AFP - An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.

Venezuela arrests 'Colombia spies'

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:19 PM PDT

Government to prosecute agents as Colombia denies espionage allegations.


Iran tells EU it is ready for "constructive" talks

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:29 PM PDT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili expressed readiness for constructive talks with world powers in a phone conversation with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Wednesday, official Iranian media reported.


U.N.'s Ban says undeterred by deadly Kabul U.N. attack

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:29 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the world body will not be deterred by an attack on a guest-house in Kabul on Wednesday that killed five U.N. foreign staff and wounded several more.


Chinese visit seals end of chilly ties with Australia

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:29 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The arrival of China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang in Sydney on Thursday and a glowing editorial in one of China's most popular newspapers this week seem to seal the end of diplomatic tensions between Canberra and Beijing.


S.Korea ruling party fails to add momentum for Lee

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:29 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's ruling party averted an embarrassment and picked up seats in by-elections, results showed on Thursday, but failed to win closely fought races that would have boosted President Lee Myung-bak's mandate for reforms.


Report: Official says dealers could teach farmers (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:09 PM PDT

AP - A Mexican agriculture official has caused a stir by reportedly suggesting that Mexican farmers could learn a thing or two from drug traffickers.


Obama flies to air base to honor slain soldiers (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:47 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama landed at a U.S. military base early on Thursday to meet the plane bringing home the bodies of 18 American soldiers and Drug Enforcement Administration agents killed in Afghanistan this week.


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