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Most popular news on 21 June 2009 |
Election chaos grows bloodier - MiamiHerald.com
Iranian security forces lashed out against demonstrators in Tehran with the most force yet as the country's escalating standoff over disputed elections continued.
Obama's example: Putting family first - San Francisco Chronicle
On this Father's Day, the American public should proudly note that our president takes his personal role as father (and spouse) as seriously as he does his job as father of the country.
'6% see US administration as pro-Israel' - Jerusalem Post
By GIL HOFFMAN Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according to a new Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll.
Truck Bomb Kills Dozens in Northern Iraq - New York Times
By STEVEN LEE MYERS BAGHDAD - A suicide truck bomb exploded in a volatile region of northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 68 people and wounding nearly 200 more, even as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki pledged that attacks like it would not ...
Gaza mud houses are answer to a prayer for the homeless - Times Online
With no cement or construction materials being allowed by Israel or Egypt into the Gaza Strip, residents are starting to build homes out of mud, using earth excavated from smuggling tunnels that provide an uncertain lifeline to the outside world.
Obama draws guffaws after cracking wise at correspondents dinner - New York Daily News
BY Leo Standora President Obama turned jokemaster-in-chief at the 65th Annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner last night and had them in stitches.
Obama Takes the Girls For Frozen Custard - Washington Post
By Michael A. Fletcher On the eve of Father's Day, the First Father showed how it's done, taking his daughters Malia and Sasha for some frozen treats at The Dairy Godmother, a boutique custard parlor in Alexandria.
Obama may need firmer hand on health care debate - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is seeing the downside of his light touch on revamping the nation's health care system.
Jobs Said to Get Liver Transplant During Apple Medical Leave - Bloomberg
By Connie Guglielmo June 21 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, on medical leave since January, had a liver transplant about two months ago, a person familiar with the matter said.
Stanford Indicted in $7 Billion Scheme With Antiguan Regulator - Bloomberg
By Bill McQuillen, Justin Blum and Laurel Brubaker Calkins June 20 (Bloomberg) -- Texas financier Allen Stanford was indicted with a former Antiguan regulator on charges they helped direct a $7 billion fraud that US prosecutors said put the ?integrity ...
Gasping for air, Nortel to sell off wireless tech - CNET News
by Natalie Weinstein Struggling Nortel, a one-time giant in telecommunications equipment, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January in hopes of reorganizing.
IPhone upgrades could hurt some applications - San Francisco Chronicle
The iPhone caused upheaval when it appeared two years ago, changing what people thought they could do with their mobile phones. The ripples are still coming.
IPhone fever drops a notch as 3G S debuts - Los Angeles Times
Eugene Watson of Los Angeles is first in line for the new I Phone 3G S at the Apple store in The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles.
Postman IPhone App Turns Images Into E-postcards - PC World
Freeverse Software on Thursday announced the release of Postman, a new iPhone and iPod touch application. It costs $1. Postman lets you take a photograph, edit greetings and add personalized messages.
Schwarzenegger's plane makes emergency landing - The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal investigators on Saturday were looking into what prompted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plane to make an emergency landing, a mishap the governor called "a little adventure" on Twitter.
New Acropolis Museum opens with lavish party - The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Gods, heroes and long-dead mortals stepped off their plinths into the evening sky of Athens on Saturday during the lavish launch of the new Acropolis Museum, a decades-old dream that Greece hopes will also help reclaim a cherished ...
Jon & Son Plus a Doctor Visit - TMZ.com
Jon Gosselin spent his Saturday afternoon taking one of his boys to a local pediatrics office in Reading, PA. We spoke to a rep for TLC and she tells us, "When you have eight kids, someone is bound to get hurt.
Ricky Barnes is the halfway leader of a wide open US Open - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
by Brendan Prunty/The Star-Ledger John Munson/The Star-LedgerTiger Woods walks past the leaderboard and off the 18th green Saturday.
Braves-Red Sox Preview - SportingNews.com
After breaking into the majors with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Tim Wakefield won his first four starts against the Atlanta Braves - a span that included the 1992 NL championship series.
Rapids Shut Out United - Washington Post
By Steven Goff COMMERCE CITY, Colo., June 20 -- The MLS venues in Denver have changed over the years, but DC United's results have not.
Commissioner: Health Department should provide more flu data - Burlington Times News
County Commissioner Tim Sutton wants the ethnic breakdown of the six confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu virus in Alamance County and says County Health Director Barry Bass should provide it.
Drug makers offer $80 billion toward healthcare overhaul - Los Angeles Times
Pharmaceutical companies will offer drug discounts for seniors over the next decade in a deal worked out with lawmakers and the White House.
Investigators try to solve cookie dough mystery - Austin American-Statesman
By Lyndsey Layton and Valerie Strauss Federal microbiologists and food safety investigators have descended on the Danville, Va., plant that makes Nestle's refrigerated cookie dough, trying to crack a scientific mystery surrounding a national outbreak ...
Obama Defends Proposed New Agency - Washington Post
President Obama defended his proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency in his weekly radio address yesterday, saying it would tamp down the kind of deceptive lending practices and complicated contracts he said often hurt consumers.
Iran's chokehold on media brings social networking sites to the fore - Salt Lake Tribune
By Josh Awtry When the Iranian government clamped down on independent media in the wake of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, Twitter user Alison Gianotto decided to get involved.
Rockford woman killed in train derailment - Chicago Tribune
By Vikki Ortiz | Tribune reporter Several cars from a Canadian National Railway Co. train smoldered Saturday near Rockford as federal investigators continued to probe whether standing water from heavy rains was a factor in a Friday night derailment ...
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