A Deadly Quake in a Seismic Hot Spot |
- A Deadly Quake in a Seismic Hot Spot
- Rebuilding Haiti 'will take years'
- N.Y. Housing Complex Is Turned Over to Creditors
- Pupils get advice to 'delay sex'
- Hundreds held over Nigeria clashes
- Fresh off a Massachusetts Victory, G.O.P. Aims at Illinois
- China to Move Against Local Lobbists
- Haiti's prime minister appeals for more international aid
- I will not go, says climate chief
- Oversight of Iraq contract 'weak'
- Karzai bid to ease Taliban curbs
- Dozens killed in Baghdad hotel blasts
- Russia Ends Diplomatic Freeze With Ukraine
- Lords reject church gay proposal
- Yemen rebels 'leave Saudi Arabia'
- Ex-Guatemalan president indicted in New York
- Ukrainian vote rivals clash over printing press
- Ex-Iraqi lawmaker sentenced to death for killings
- Guatemalan ex-president charged will embezzling millions
- Sidebar: After 34 Years, a Plainspoken Justice Gets Louder
| A Deadly Quake in a Seismic Hot Spot Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:56 PM PST Wary scientists are monitoring active fault zones in the Caribbean, worried that a powerful earthquake in Haiti could foreshadow more seismic activity. 
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| Rebuilding Haiti 'will take years' Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:53 PM PST Prime minister urges international support, but says Haiti must lead reconstruction.
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| N.Y. Housing Complex Is Turned Over to Creditors Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:35 PM PST The decision comes four years after the $5.4 billion purchase of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.
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| Pupils get advice to 'delay sex' Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:07 AM PST Young people are to given advice designed to protect them from pressure into becoming sexually active too early.
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| Hundreds held over Nigeria clashes Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:21 PM PST Calls for suspects to face trial in Jos over the violence that left at least 326 dead.
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| Fresh off a Massachusetts Victory, G.O.P. Aims at Illinois Posted: 25 Jan 2010 12:50 PM PST As Illinois prepares for its primaries, Scott Brown's election last week has raised Republican hopes of taking the Senate seat once held by Barack Obama.
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| China to Move Against Local Lobbists Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:54 AM PST China's government is reported to have ordered the closure of thousands of "regional liaison offices" that local governments and companies operate in Beijing to curry favor with high officials. 
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| Haiti's prime minister appeals for more international aid Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:25 AM PST MONTREAL -- Haiti's prime minister appealed for more international aid Monday, as foreign donors gathered for a conference here to begin plotting a path to recovery for the devastated nation.
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| I will not go, says climate chief Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:53 AM PST UN climate science body's chief Rajendra Pachauri says he will not resign after an error on glacier melt appeared in a key report.
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| Oversight of Iraq contract 'weak' Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:31 AM PST US state department failed to properly audit $2.5bn deal to train police, report says.
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| Karzai bid to ease Taliban curbs Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:48 AM PST Afghanistan's president says he will propose lifting UN sanctions against some Taliban leaders at a summit this week in London.
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| Dozens killed in Baghdad hotel blasts Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:34 AM PST At least three loud explosions were heard in Baghdad on Monday.
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| Russia Ends Diplomatic Freeze With Ukraine Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:45 AM PST Moscow sends ambassador to Kiev, ending five months of protest against Yushchenko and signaling its willingness to work with Yanukovich or Tymoshenko, frontrunners in the country's February presidential runoff.
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| Lords reject church gay proposal Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:58 AM PST The House of Lords rejects a government move churches said would prevent them denying jobs to gay people and transsexuals.
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| Yemen rebels 'leave Saudi Arabia' Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:57 AM PST Houthi fighters offer a ceasefire after three months of fighting along the border.
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| Ex-Guatemalan president indicted in New York Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:57 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in New York has indicted former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo for money laundering, alleging he embezzled tens of millions of public dollars that he washed through foreign and local banks.
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| Ukrainian vote rivals clash over printing press Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:00 AM PST KIEV (Reuters) - Supporters of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich briefly clashed with police on Monday at a printing house producing ballot papers for the presidential election next month, government officials said.
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| Ex-Iraqi lawmaker sentenced to death for killings Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:01 AM PST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A court in Baghdad sentenced a former Iraqi lawmaker to death in absentia for a series of sectarian murders, including a 2007 suicide attack in parliament, a government spokesman said on Monday.
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| Guatemalan ex-president charged will embezzling millions Posted: 25 Jan 2010 10:00 AM PST Former President Alfonso Portillo of Guatemala faces money-laundering charges in the United States, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.
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| Sidebar: After 34 Years, a Plainspoken Justice Gets Louder Posted: 25 Jan 2010 11:07 AM PST Justice John Paul Stevens, in what might be his final term, has crafted opinions that suggest the Supreme Court has lost touch with its sense of fair play.
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