Obama budget to cut Moon base plan

Obama budget to cut Moon base plan

Obama budget to cut Moon base plan

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:28 AM PST

US President Obama is set to announce his budget with more than 100 government programmes expected to be cut or reined in, including an ambitious plan to establish an American base on the Moon.


ANALYSIS - Stabilising Yemen will test stamina of donors

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:18 AM PST

BEIRUT (Reuters) - For once the world is attending to Yemen, thanks to a botched al Qaeda attack on a U.S. airliner.


Gunmen kill 14 at high school party in Mexico

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:01 AM PST

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen burst into a high school birthday party and killed 14 people in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday, the latest massacre in one of the world's deadliest cities.


Nine killed in China after man seizes bus

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:01 AM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - A man hijacked his employers' bus on Monday, knocking down pedestrians and killing nine people as he careened through the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin, state media reported.


Six reported killed in Somali capital fighting

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:01 AM PST

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in the Somali capital overnight, prompting return fire by troops that killed at least six people, medical officials and residents said on Monday.


U.S. arms may boost Taiwan leader; threaten trade

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:49 PM PST

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A U.S. arms sale to Taiwan is likely to give a short-term boost to the flagging popularity of the island's president by making him look strong in standing up to China, but may delay the critical trade deals he has pushed.


China fumes at latest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:18 PM PST

BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Chinese state media blasted the United States on Monday for a planned $6.4 billion arms package for Taiwan, while a U.S. official said Washington was committed to helping the island defend itself.


Most Japan voters want party kingpin to resign - poll

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 11:18 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Three quarters of Japanese voters think ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa should quit if a former aide is charged in a funding scandal, a poll showed on Monday, raising pressure on the master strategist ahead of an election.


Toxic risk from cigarette butts

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 10:37 PM PST

The National Institute of Technology in Italy has released a report the highlights the environmental and health risk from discarded cigarette butts.


Ban Ki-moon to visit Cyprus

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 10:15 PM PST

The UN secretary general is making his first visit to Cyprus where he will host separate and joint meetings with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders.


Chinese web users rebuke U.S for Taiwan arms sales

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 09:52 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Enraged Chinese web users are venting their anger at the United States after the Obama administration proposed its first arms sale to Taiwan, with some calling for a boycott of U.S. goods or even military action.


New Zealand to sign up to Copenhagen Accord

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 09:52 PM PST

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand will join the Copenhagen Accord on climate change, maintaining its conditional target of a reduction in emissions of 10 to 20 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels, the government said on Monday.


China fumes after U.S. arms sales to Taiwan

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 09:18 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media laid into the United States on Monday after the Obama administration unveiled its first arms package for Taiwan, a move that prompted China to impose sanctions on the firms involved.


Row over Korean capital likely to block legislation

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 09:18 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - A dispute over a proposal to move parts of South Korea's capital is likely to hinder parliamentary passage of economic reforms and a trade deal with the United States at a new session that opened on Monday.


UN deadline for climate plans

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:29 PM PST

The United Nations secretary general urged African nations among others to join the Copenhagen accord.


Egypt arrests 26 suspected of plotting terrorism

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:18 PM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has arrested 26 suspects who the prosecutor said belonged to a cell of militant group Islamic Jihad and were plotting "terrorist acts" against tourists and state installations, the official news agency MENA reported on Sunday.


Pope calls on business, govt to save jobs

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:18 PM PST

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Sunday called on businesses and officials to stem job losses and made an explicit reference to two Italian plants to be shut soon, in a surprise boost to union efforts to keep the factories open.


U.N. political chief to visit North Korea next month

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 07:53 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The top U.N. political official will travel to North Korea next month for wide-ranging talks with the reclusive communist state locked in a nuclear dispute with the West, the United Nations announced on Sunday.


China fumes after U.S. arms sales to Taiwan

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 07:18 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media laid into the United States on Monday after the Obama administration unveiled its first arms package for Taiwan, a move that prompted China to impose sanctions on the firms involved.


U.S. to resume Haiti medevac flights

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 07:18 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Sunday it would resume military evacuation flights to the United States for badly injured Haitian earthquake victims after a four-day suspension over cost and treatment questions.


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