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  • FDA stresses birth defect risks with Roche drug (AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 20:56:32
    AP - Health regulators warned again Friday that Roche and Novartis drugs prescribed to organ transplant patients can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.
  • Ageing Aussies strip in pension protest (AFP) Fri, 16 May 2008 06:20:20

    Pensioners brought traffic to a stand still in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, as some stripped to demand more money from the government(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Protesting pensioners brought traffic to a stand still in Australia’s second largest city on Friday when some stripped to demand more money from the government.


  • Yahoo seeks to conceal parts of shareholder suit (AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 22:38:03
    AP - Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company’s board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.’s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder questions over the motives for the secrecy.
  • MySpace Hoaxster Indicted After Teen Commits Suicide (NewsFactor) Fri, 16 May 2008 14:59:24
    NewsFactor - On Thursday, a Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace. The woman posed as a teenage boy who feigned romantic interest in a 13-year-old girl, Megan Meier, who later committed suicide after the “boy” spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.
  • CDC: Syringe reuse linked to hepatitis C outbreak (AP) Sat, 17 May 2008 00:40:06

    A syringe is seen in a file photo. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)AP - A hepatitis C outbreak was caused by workers improperly reusing syringes and medicine vials at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday.


  • Calif. wine patriarch Robert Mondavi dies at 94 (AP) Sat, 17 May 2008 05:06:17

    In this photo originally provided by Departures Magazine, wine makers, Robert Mondavi, left, and his brother Peter Mondavi, hold hands at the 26th annual Auction Napa Valley at Meadowwood Resort, on June 3, 2006, in St. Helena, Calif. Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who put California wine country on the global map, died Friday, May 16, 2008. He was 94. (AP Photo/George Nikitin, Departures Magazine)AP - Robert Mondavi, the vintner who built his career and helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the best in the world, died in the valley Friday. He was 94.


  • Lawmakers concerned over Charter’s Web tracking (AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 23:48:33
    AP - Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers’ Web use in collaboration with an online advertising firm.
  • France criticizes Myanmar for barring aid ship (AP) Sat, 17 May 2008 03:24:24

    Crew members sit on CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters on the USS Essex, about 50 nautical miles south of Myanmar's Irawaddy Delta, May 17, 2008. The USS Essex is currently stationed in international waters to the south of the delta pending permission to carry out the delivery of humanitarian relief goods to people hit by Cyclone Nargis. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (INTERNATIONAL WATERS)AP - France criticized Myanmar’s military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food and medicine with small boats and helicopters.


  • As food prices shoot up, so do backyard gardens (The Christian Science Monitor) Thu, 15 May 2008 09:00:00
    The Christian Science Monitor - Think of it as a modern-day Victory Garden.
  • Texas assesses whether sect ‘girls’ are adults (AP) Sat, 17 May 2008 00:59:16

    This Tuesday, April 8, 2008 file photo shows the temple at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Yearning For Zion Ranch, near Eldorado, Texas. In five years, the West Texas polygamist sect transformed 1,700 acres of scrub land purchased for $700,000 into a bustling ranch with a blazing-white limestone temple, sprawling three-story log cabins, woodworking shops and a dairy. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)AP - When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch were pregnant or had children, they seemed to prove what was alleged all along: The sect commonly pushed girls into marriage and sex.


  • Half-eaten Snickers bar implicates hungry burglar (AP) Sat, 17 May 2008 00:17:04
    AP - Police say DNA found on a half-eaten candy bar helped them zero in on a robbery suspect.
  • China’s Heaviest Toll: Schoolchildren (Time.com) Fri, 16 May 2008 17:30:00

    Bi Kaiwei holds a photo of his daughter Bi Yuexing, who was killed when her schoolroom collapsed in Monday's earthquake, at the school in Wufu, in China's southwest Sichuan province Friday May 16, 2008. Most of the students killed when Wufu's school collapsed were only children, deepening the pain of parents who had stuck to China's one-child policy. Parents complained that the school was shoddily built, a common allegation with almost 7,000 schoolrooms destroyed in the earthquake. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)Time.com - Too many children died in poorly constructed schools flattened by the quake, and now their parents want answers


  • Suspected drug hit men dump head in Mexican city (Reuters) Fri, 16 May 2008 21:32:05
    Reuters - Suspected Mexican drug hit men dumped the head of a murdered man on top of a car in the street, police said on Friday, in a rare outrage in the wealthy city of Monterrey.
  • Wis. man won’t buy gas for 31 days, maybe longer (AP) Sat, 17 May 2008 00:13:03
    AP - Brian LaFave couldn’t care less how high gasoline prices climb these days — he’s parked his pickup truck and is refusing to buy gas for a month, possibly longer.
  • Ex-Army Corps consultant indicted in bribery case (AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 07:31:35

    Sheila Dulien stands outside her Ninth Ward home that is under renovation in New Orleans Monday, April 28, 2008. Much of the work on the home was done by foreign labor, but now many immigrants who swelled New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina have begun leaving as work dries up, and deportation fears rise. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP - A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a dirt subcontractor were indicted Thursday on bribery charges stemming from an investigation into levee work after Hurricane Katrina.


  • Afghan aid that works (The Christian Science Monitor) Fri, 16 May 2008 08:00:00
    The Christian Science Monitor - In Afghan areas where the international aid groups fear to tread, the National Solidarity Program (NSP) is one of the country’s most successful development initiatives. The community-led approach to reconstruction and to rural infrastructure has made achievements in empowering local people, strengthening democracy, and increasing faith in the Afghan government. Yet it risks being underfunded.
  • Prosecutor: Landlord tried to kill man over rent (AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 07:30:44
    AP - Prosecutors say a New York landlord who tried to kill a tenant with a bomb has been indicted on attempted murder and other charges. The tenant lost a leg in the blast.
  • Wildlife numbers plummet globally: WWF (AFP) Fri, 16 May 2008 11:35:08

    A polar bear on the edge of Hudson Bay in Canada. The world's wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report by the WWF conservation organization.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - The world’s wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report published Friday by the WWF conservation organization.


  • Listening to music found to lower blood pressure (Reuters) Fri, 16 May 2008 15:49:16

    A visitor listens to music on a mobile phone at the 41st MIDEM music market in Cannes, France, January 22, 2007. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)Reuters - Listening to half an hour of music each day may significantly lower your blood pressure, according to research reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in New Orleans this week.


  • Nintendo’s latest game wants you off the couch (AP) Fri, 16 May 2008 19:56:57

    Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Wii Fit, does a yoga pose as he demonstrates the game Thursday, April 17, 2008 in New York. 'Our main premise in creating Wii Fit was (to) create a game that allows you to check your weight,' said Miyamoto. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - Sumo wrestlers were the main inspiration behind Wii Fit, Nintendo’s latest attempt at getting you off the couch when you play video games.