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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page The US News.com http://www.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/10/id/09c0947bd4eaa867/ en-us Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:09 -0500 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:09 -0500 30 Filed at 3:47 p.m. ET LONDON (AP) -- United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domesti... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956756/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:09 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956756/ Filed at 3:42 p.m. ET DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A traditional Islamic concept about protecting the faith and its followers has become a judicial weapon for Iran's rulers: charging opponents... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956755/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:08 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956755/ Filed at 3:55 p.m. ET BOGOTA (AP) -- Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin.... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956758/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:07 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956758/ hunger strike to demand the release of ailing political prisoners has refused a Spanish offer of asylum, saying on Tuesday that he is determined to continue with his protest until he dies. Guillermo ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956757/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:05 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956757/ Barack Obama's health care overhaul to a fast-track process that will make the bill tough for Republicans to derail in the Senate. But GOP lawmakers will still be able to force votes and make argument... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956760/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:04 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956760/ Filed at 3:48 p.m. ET HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- An envelope containing a suspicious powder burst open Tuesday while being handled by state workers in a Montana government office. Three Department of Lab... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956759/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32956759/ There is something morally impressive in the Democrats' passion on health-care reform, writes David Brooks. But where's the passion for helping small businesses create jobs, or for the federal deficit... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953175/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:56:59 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953175/ The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble, writes columnist Bob Herbert, because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the issue that most Americans want them to: the... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953176/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:56:57 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953176/ Monday's announcement that federal oversight of Baltimore City's special education programs will be ending within two years was rightly hailed by civic and educational leaders as a major milestone. It... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953177/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:35:53 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953177/ The compromise Del. Maggie McIntosh brokered among environmentalists, the O'Malley administration and builders over storm water regulations that are set to go into effect this spring will mean more po... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953178/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:35:51 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953178/ China ’s onerous household registration system, which restricts where people can live, has been forced out of his job in a fresh warning that journalists who challenge government policy too dire... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953162/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:25:10 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953162/ Filed at 1:15 p.m. ET NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's upper house of parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a historic bill that would reserve one-third of legislative seats for women, despite a boyco... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953161/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:25:09 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953161/ Filed at 1:57 p.m. ET BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Northern Ireland lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create a new Justice Department, the next key step in making their Catholic-Protesta... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953163/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:25:07 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953163/ Filed at 1:27 p.m. ET TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The trial in Iran opened Tuesday for 12 suspects accused of torturing to death three anti-government protesters tortured in prison during the turmoil follow... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953164/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:25:04 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953164/ Filed at 2:08 p.m. ET BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- An Iranian accused of masterminding the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed 85 people dismissed the allegations as ''lies'' on T... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953165/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:25:02 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953165/ Filed at 2:03 p.m. ET HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba has replaced the official who oversees the country's airlines and airports, a general who fought alongside http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953166/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:25:00 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953166/ David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers, a person familiar with the case said. Robert ''Joe'' Halderman was due to plead guilty to attempted grand larceny in ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953167/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:24:54 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953167/ More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Navy says that three dogs died and dozens more were in poor health after being neglected by a private security contractor in Chicago that had been hired to t... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953170/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:24:52 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953170/ The road is getting bumpy as Texans become acquainted with so-called “smart” electric meters. So-called “smart” electric meters, heralded as vital for an energy-conscious era, ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953171/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:24:50 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953171/ finances almost cost her the rights to her work and her homes last year, has reached an agreement with Colony Capital, a Los Angeles firm not known for bailing out artists, to help her restructure her... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953173/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:24:49 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953173/ “Boys, have at it and have a good time,” Nascar’s vice president for competition, Robin Pemberton, said in January. If drivers wanted to use their fenders to bump others on the track... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953172/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:24:48 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32953172/ did poorly at the box office. It failed to attract boys. This is because boys don't go to princess movies. Thus, we have to add a swashbuckling male protagonist to http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950090/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:29:33 -0500 NPR http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950090/ judges Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres watch a performance on stage, though the real drama is at the judging table. Cowell plans to move on to another show while DeGeneres's longevity is also in ques... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950091/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:29:32 -0500 NPR http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950091/ China ’s onerous household registration system, which restricts where people can live, has been forced out of his job in a fresh warning that journalists who challenge government policy too dire... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950069/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:19 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950069/ PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered s... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950068/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:18 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950068/ Nigeria fraught with tensions between Christians and Muslims, and called on the government to bring the perpetrators of the killings to justice. Navi Pillay, the http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950070/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:17 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950070/ Filed at 11:51 a.m. ET BEIJING (AP) -- So this is how you get through China's biggest political event of the year: ''Sit still, stare toward the front, pretend like you're looking but you're really n... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950072/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:16 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950072/ Filed at 12:10 p.m. ET BERLIN (AP) -- The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also sa... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950071/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:14 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950071/ Filed at 11:57 a.m. ET THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Dutch Catholic bishops announced an independent inquiry Tuesday into allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests at church schools, and ap... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950073/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:12 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950073/ Filed at 12:11 p.m. ET BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's election commission says ballots are still being counted in the historic parliamentary elections and backed off from an expected announcement of partial ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950074/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:10 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950074/ Filed at 12:14 p.m. ET CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt will shoulder the costs of restoring the country's Jewish houses of worship said the culture minister Tuesday, two days after a historic synagogue in Cairo'... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950075/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:08 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950075/ SANTIAGO, Chile — From outside, there is no sign that the century-old building where Cecilia Painaqueo lived with her four children was damaged by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950081/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:06 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950081/ Filed at 12:23 p.m. ET JACKSON, Mich. (AP) -- A man opened fire at two police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance call, killing one officer and wounding the other early Tuesday bef... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950080/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:05 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950080/ Filed at 12:19 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- Internet con artists appear to be targeting victims of Bernard Madoff. The Securities Investor Protection Corporation warned Tuesday that someone had set up a... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950079/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950079/ And Dan, to follow up on my answer to Roberta… Excessive busyness is a frequent problem in opera productions, and directors are especially tempted to fill the stage with madcap activity in comi... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950078/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:01 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950078/ PARIS — Germany’s proposal to establish a European Monetary Fund ran into skepticism at home and abroad Tuesday, highlighting the political and legal hurdles that such an undertaking would... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950077/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:35:00 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950077/ LONDON — The London theater has hanging over it at the moment a question so pressing that you might think that time — or at least all other entertainment options — had stopped: Will ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950076/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:34:59 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32950076/ India ’s Parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would amend the Constitution to reserve one-third of the seats in India’s national and state legislatures for women, after two days of politi... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946581/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:46 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946581/ Filed at 10:38 a.m. ET DUBLIN (AP) -- Police in Ireland on Tuesday arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. I... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946582/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:45 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946582/ Filed at 8:53 a.m. ET JERUSALEM (AP) -- David Kimche, the Israeli spy-turned-diplomat who played a key role in the Iran-contra scandal that rocked President http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946583/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:44 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946583/ Filed at 10:34 a.m. ET KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A roadside bomb killed two Afghan border police and a civilian riding in their vehicle Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, police said, as Britain's ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946584/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:43 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946584/ climate change chief says a global deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions may not be possible before 2011. EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says it would be risky to expect a legally bindi... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946585/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:42 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946585/ Hamas edict banning them from cutting women's hair. Gaza's Islamic militant rulers announced the ban last week. It affects only five coiffeurs but highlights Hamas' increasing attempts to impose a st... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946587/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:40 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946587/ Filed at 9:31 a.m. ET TEHRAN, Iran (AP)-- Iran's official news agency says its navy has successfully test fired a sea missile from a newly commissioned destroyer in its southern waters. IRNA said Tu... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946589/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946589/ Filed at 9:45 a.m. ET NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Fighting between Islamist insurgents and Somali government forces killed five people in the capital on Tuesday, residents said. Ahmed Dahir Hussein saw t... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946590/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:37 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946590/ European Union Naval Force said Tuesday. Cmdr. John Harbour said Tuesday the Sakoba was taken last week, but many details remain unclear. The owner has not been in touch and the ship was not register... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946591/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:36 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946591/ Filed at 9:26 a.m. ET HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A Zimbabwean court has rejected an attempt to oust the Parliament speaker, who is a top aide to the prime minister. A supporter of longtime President http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946586/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:35 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946586/ space shuttle manager says it wouldn't be hard to add more shuttle flights. The real question is money. Program manager John Shannon said Tuesday it costs $200 million a month to keep the fleet flyin... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946592/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:34 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946592/ Annie Leibovitz has entered into an agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her portfolio of celebrity images. Colony Capital LLC spokeswoman Caroline Luz said Tue... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946593/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:33 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946593/ More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks fo... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946594/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:32 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946594/ Ramin Karimloo as The Phantom and Sierra Boggess as Christine in “Love Never Dies.” “Remember,” warns the title character of a long running Broadway musical, “there are w... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946595/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:30 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946595/ largest mining companies – appears set to build a $3.5 billion hydroelectric plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo to power a $5 billion dollar aluminum smelter. Details of a presentation revea... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946596/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:29 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32946596/ Japan ended decades of denials on Tuesday by confirming the existence of secret cold-war-era agreements with Washington that, among other things, had allowed American nuclear-armed warships to sail in... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943907/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:15 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943907/ India ’s national and state legislatures for women plunged Parliament into chaos on Tuesday and threatened to whittle the governing coalition’s majority to a dangerously thin margin. The ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943910/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:14 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943910/ Filed at 7:47 a.m. ET CHENGDU, China (AP) -- After a month in quarantine, American-born panda Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the fir... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943909/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:13 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943909/ Filed at 8:17 a.m. ET HILDESHEIM, Germany (AP) -- A German judge has sentenced the husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco to pay a fine of euro200,000 ($270,000) after convicting him for a decade-old... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943908/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:11 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943908/ Filed at 8:29 a.m. ET NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Southern Sudan's leader says a 2011 referendum on his oil-rich region's independence is more important to his people than Sudan's upcoming national electi... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943914/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:09 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943914/ As Iraq returns to normal life after nearly a week of election curfews and holidays, New York Times correspondents and Iraqi stringers have spoken to Iraqis around the country about their choices, hop... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943913/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:07 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943913/ told a Senate committee last week that the agency’s distribution of recovery funding to foreign renewables companies was creating American jobs. Amid http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943912/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:06 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32943912/ Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir of Iceland gets the key to the office from her predecessor Thogerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir on February 1, 2009 in Reykjavik. The 2009 Global Gender Gap report cite... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940235/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:21:04 -0500 NPR http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940235/ JAKARTA — Indonesian counterterrorism forces stormed an Internet cafe and a nearby house on the outskirts of Jakarta on Tuesday, killing three suspected terrorists and arresting two others. Cou... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940211/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:38 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940211/ hunger strike after just one day after authorities allowed him to use a telephone again, a party official said Tuesday. Former army chief Sarath Fonseka was arrested a month ago, accused of sedition,... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940213/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:35 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940213/ nuclear weapons arsenals in the latest attempt to find a successor deal to the expired 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The U.S. and Russian delegations were meeting in Geneva, said Michael Parm... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940214/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:34 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940214/ Filed at 7:07 a.m. ET LONDON (AP) -- Sir Kenneth Dover, a distinguished historian of Greek culture who gained wider fame by admitting his wish to kill a troublesome colleague, has died at 89. Dover ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940210/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:33 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940210/ Filed at 6:37 a.m. ET JERUSALEM (AP) -- David Kimche, the Israeli spy-turned-diplomat who played a key role in the Iran-contra scandal that rocked President http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940215/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:32 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940215/ President Obama's spokesman is brushing aside allegations by a resigned New York congressman who says he was forced out by the administration and Democratic leaders because of his opposition to http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940216/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:31 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940216/ Ohio State University says an overnight shooting at a campus maintenance building left one of its employees dead and two others wounded. The shooting was first reported at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday. Universi... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940217/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:30 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940217/ Filed at 7:10 a.m. ET CLEVELAND (AP) -- An Ohio doctor convicted of aggravated murder in his wife's cyanide-poisoning death faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced. Forty-one-year-old Yazeed... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940218/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:29 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940218/ A. System Restore can be a lifesaver by allowing you revert Windows back to an earlier state if a software installation or configuration tweak wreaks havoc. It can also eat up some room by hoarding ol... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940219/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:28 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940219/ PARIS — Eurotunnel Group said Tuesday that it managed to make a profit in 2009, despite lingering repercussions from a 2008 fire and the disastrous breakdown of Eurostar trains at the height of ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940220/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:33:26 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32940220/ Despite some modest help from the federal stimulus plan, times are tough for public transportation. Across the country, agencies are seeing ridership and government funding drop even as they reduce se... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937670/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:04:42 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937670/ PARIS — Burgeoning cost overruns at two of its biggest aircraft programs pushed European Aeronautic Defense and Space into a steep loss for 2009. But the parent company of Airbus expressed confi... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937631/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:44 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937631/ Filed at 5:38 a.m. ET STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Sweden's National Heritage board says a dozen centuries-old shipwrecks have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company preparing to build an underwater pipe... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937629/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:41 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937629/ Filed at 4:27 a.m. ET PARIS (AP) -- A senior Syrian official says his country would like to pursue nuclear power to meet growing energy needs. Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad says ''the peacef... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937632/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937632/ Hezbollah's weapons are a main topic on the agenda. Leaders of more than a dozen factions are meeting at the presidential palace for Tuesday's talks headed by President Michel Suleiman. The dialogue ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937633/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:37 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937633/ Mexico in a straitjacket, one that threatens both the welfare of the country and the oil supply of the United States. The national oil company created after the 1938 seizure, Pemex, is entering a per... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937634/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:35 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937634/ Filed at 5:21 a.m. ET TORONTO (AP) -- A sports doctor at the center of drug investigations in Canada and the United States said Monday he treated http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937635/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:35 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937635/ Barack Obama that his country's financial woes are a problem the United States cannot afford to ignore. But Papandreou also says he is not looking for a handout from Washington. Instead, Greek offic... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937636/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:33 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937636/ Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister George Papandreou (pah-pahn-DRAY'-oh) of Greece on Tuesday before sitting down with senators from both parties to talk about energy. Obama and the Greek leader ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937637/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:31 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32937637/ Saddam Hussein 's dictatorship boycotted the vote in protest, and the emergence of a Shiite-dominated coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - then newly elected - brought the deeply divided ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935417/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:35:08 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935417/ Filed at 4:01 a.m. ET BEIJING (AP) -- China on Tuesday warned the United States against any future arms sales to Taiwan, including F-16 fighter jets the island has been pushing for in hopes of upgrad... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935405/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:55 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935405/ Filed at 4:02 a.m. ET PARIS (AP) -- Israel's infrastructure minister says his country wants to build nuclear power plants in cooperation with its Arab neighbors. Uzi Landau says all nuclear plants b... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935406/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:53 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935406/ Filed at 3:53 a.m. ET ISTANBUL (AP) -- A security officer guarding the Ukrainian Consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday shot and injured a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb, Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935407/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:51 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935407/ Joseph Biden says there is a ''moment of opportunity'' for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Biden is making the highest-level visit to Israel and the http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935408/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:49 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935408/ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Afghanistan on Wednesday. Tuesday's announcement coincided with a visit to Kandahar by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Gates has accused Tehran of ''playing a doub... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935409/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:47 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935409/ Filed at 4:00 a.m. ET LOME, Togo (AP) -- More than 1,000 opposition protesters have gathered in Togo's capital on the fourth day of rising tensions since the son of the former dictator was announced ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935410/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:45 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935410/ Filed at 4:04 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a day of wedding bells for some gay couples in Washington. Tuesday is the first day same-sex couples can pick up marriage licenses and tie the knot in t... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935411/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:41 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935411/ Filed at 4:06 a.m. ET SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going t... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935412/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32935412/ For Americans, the vote has another message: There's no stopping a scheduled drawdown of U.S. troops this summer. President Obama, committed to the phased withdrawal, said the vote "demonstrates that ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933303/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:46:05 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933303/ Edgar Wayburn isn't a household name, but he should be. The long-lived physician (he died Friday at the age of 103) from San Francisco served five terms as the Sierra Club's president. Along the way ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933302/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:46:03 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933302/ The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee is expected to vote Wednesday on a nominee for the Legal Services Corp. board whose past advocacy work would suggest that she is the wrong... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933301/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:45:55 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933301/ Flash forward to today. Adoption now stands at 74 percent, and broadband speeds are slowly improving. Harvard Business School professors John Deighton and John Quelch estimate that the Internet is res... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933304/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:45:51 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933304/ my opinion column last week I wrote of a would-be farmer who said King County had tried to charge him $22,000 to review one page of blueprints for a driveway-paving job. This statement was http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933300/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:22:58 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933300/ Politicians understand what it means to "kick the can down the road." It means putting off problems, either by ignoring them or by covering them temporarily with a quick fix. Congress has been kicking... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933306/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:05:07 -0500 Deseret News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933306/ Tell me if you can wrap your mind around this twisted reasoning. Fred Phelps says the deaths of American service members are punishment for the United States' tolerance of homosexuality. Phelps, past... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933305/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:05:05 -0500 Deseret News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933305/ We pause to note the passing of Fred Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee. His memory will linger every time someone says, "can't you kids toss that thing somewhere else?" http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933308/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:05:03 -0500 Deseret News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933308/ Sunday's "LifeEtc." section had an interesting, but somewhat misleading, article on Jane Austen's England by Gary Warner. Gary writes of Jane Austen's "tussles with Victorian manners and morals" along... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933307/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:05:02 -0500 Deseret News http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933307/ Filed at 1:38 a.m. ET NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- A Cyprus police spokesman has confirmed that a body discovered in a Nicosia cemetery is the stolen corpse of ex-president Tassos Papadopoulos. Spokesman... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933292/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:58:04 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933292/ Filed at 2:35 a.m. ET TOKYO (AP) -- A government-mandated panel has confirmed the existence of once-secret Cold War-era pacts between Japan and U.S. on nuclear arms and other issues, ending decades o... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933293/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:58:02 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933293/ Filed at 2:24 a.m. ET JOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The U.S. government and an international human rights group are calling on Nigeria to properly investigate and prosecute those responsible for slaughtering ... http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933296/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:57:59 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.theusnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/32933296/