| U.S. consumers aware but confused over TV switchover Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:56 pm PST  Reuters - Americans are becoming more aware of next year's switch-over to digital TV, but many are still confused about how they will be affected, according to a pair of surveys released on Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Super Bowl could be heart health hazard Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:13 pm PST  AP - For rabid fans of the New York Giants and New England Patriots, this Sunday's Super Bowl won't be just a game. It may be a health hazard. Heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich, Germany, when that nation's soccer team played in World Cup matches, a new study reports. Full Story | Top |
| Obama says Clinton would be a step back Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:55 pm PST  AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency would be a step back to the past, turning her husband's image of a bridge to the future against her. The former first lady decried the tenor of his comments in an interview with The Associated Press. Full Story | Top |
| Retired US worker becomes champion of women's fair pay Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:09 am PST  AFP - Ten years ago, someone slipped an anonymous note into Lilly Ledbetter's locker and the tire factory worker learned that she was being paid less than her male counterparts who were doing the same work. Full Story | Top |
| Detroit mayor pleads for forgiveness Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:12 pm PST  AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded for forgiveness from his wife and constituents Wednesday in an emotional but carefully worded televised speech, avoiding direct mention of racy text messages that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide. Full Story | Top |
| For the mature woman who has everything: a boy toy Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:49 am PST  Reuters - Wanted: rich older women interested in hot younger guys. Applicants must be over 35, earn at least ${dlvDollarSign}500,000 a year or have a minimum of ${dlvDollarSign}4 million in liquid assets, entrusted assets or divorce settlement. Full Story | Top |
| Tribe all but vanishes from Kenyan city Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:56 pm PST  AP - The young man hefting a machete at the burning roadblock was frustrated. He'd been looking for five days, but could not find a member of the Kikuyu tribe to kill. Full Story | Top |
| Katrina suit vs. Army Corps dismissed Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:13 pm PST  AP - A federal judge threw out a key class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, saying that the agency failed to protect the city but that his hands were tied by the law. Full Story | Top |
| Umps angry over background checks Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:08 pm PST  AP - Umpires are livid that Major League Baseball has sent investigators to their hometowns, asking neighbors a series of questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan. Full Story | Top |
| NASA photos reveal Mercury is shrinking Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:54 pm PST  AP - The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider. Full Story | Top |
| Giuliani exits race, endorses McCain Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:32 pm PST  AP - Rudy Giuliani, who sought to make the leap from New York mayor to the White House, bowed out of the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and endorsed front-runner and longtime friend John McCain. Full Story | Top |
| Rare snowstorm hits the Middle East Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:25 am PST  AP - A rare snowstorm swept the Middle East on Wednesday, blanketing parts of the Holy Land in white, shutting schools and sending excited children into the streets for snowball fights. Full Story | Top |
| Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:26 pm PST  AFP - A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Iraq conflict has killed a million Iraqis: survey Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:55 am PST  Reuters - More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain's leading polling groups. Full Story | Top |
| Man rides lawn mower to liquor store Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:49 am PST AP - A man was charged with drunken driving after going through two bottles of wine, cutting through a snowstorm on his lawn mower and riding down the center of the street to reach a liquor store, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Cannabis bigger cancer risk than cigarettes: study Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:44 am PST  Reuters - Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New Zealand have found, as they warned of an "epidemic" of lung cancers linked to cannabis. Full Story | Top |
| Vending machines dispense pot in LA Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:47 am PST  AP - The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines. Full Story | Top |
| Forbes: Madonna richest woman in music Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:47 pm PST  AP - Madonna is the richest woman in music. The 49-year-old entertainer leads Forbes.com's list of the top 20 "Cash Queens of Music," earning ${dlvDollarSign}72 million between June 2006 and June 2007. Full Story | Top |
| Australia to apologize to Aborigines Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:27 am PST  AP - Australia will issue its first formal apology to the country's indigenous people next month, a senior minister said Wednesday, a milestone that could ease tensions with a minority once subjected to policies including the removal of mixed-blood children from families on the premise that their race was doomed. Full Story | Top |
| Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:43 pm PST  AP - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau. Full Story | Top |
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