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Most popular news on 25 September 2009 |
Divorce in America: Ind., Fla. counties are tops
AP - It's easy to see why bookkeeper Linda Mortimer moved to the Florida Keys 20 years ago: the impossibly blue water, the year-round sunshine, a lifestyle so laid-back that every day is like a Jimmy Buffett lyric.
Huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure uncovered in UK
AP - It's an unprecedented find that could revolutionize ideas about medieval England's Germanic rulers: An amateur treasure-hunter searching a farmer's field with a metal detector unearthed a huge collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver artifacts.
G-20 leaders near banker-pay limits amid protests
AP - As police clashed with protesters in the streets, world leaders on Thursday closed ranks on pay limits for bankers whose risky behavior contributed to the global financial meltdown. With economies on the mend, a summit mood of cautious optimism replaced last year's fear and uncertainty.
Glenn Beck's homecoming riles up people in Wash.
AP - Glenn Beck's visit to his hometown in Washington state this weekend seemed simple enough on the surface, with a ceremonial key to the city awaiting him and the mayor naming the day in the Fox News personality's honor.
Children Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs
LiveScience.com - Spanking can get kids to behave in a hurry, but new research suggests it can do more harm than good to their noggins. The study, involving hundreds of U.S. children, showed the more a child was spanked the lower his or her IQ compared with others.
Justice Ginsburg hospitalized after feeling faint
AP - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Thursday after becoming ill in her office at the court following treatment for an iron deficiency.
Fallingwater offers exclusive access to famed home
Reuters - Fans of Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater have long been able to visit the architect's modernist masterpiece as a museum, but soon they can enjoy the house almost as if they were living in it.
Men accused of unrelated bomb plots in Ill., Texas
AP - A man who idolized American born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh and a Jordanian national who frequented extremist Web sites are charged in unrelated cases after attempting to detonate what they thought were bombs outside an Illinois courthouse and a Texas skyscraper, federal officials said.
Medvedev says Russia may support sanctions on Iran
AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that Russia would support new sanctions against Iran if diplomatic efforts should fail.
G-20 opponents, police clash on Pittsburgh streets
AP - Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke and rubber bullets at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after anarchists responded to calls to disperse by rolling trash bins, throwing rocks and breaking windows.
Quaid free on bail after arrest on Calif. warrant
AP - Actor Randy Quaid and his wife were released from a West Texas jail late Thursday after their arrest for allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 California hotel bill. The pair posted bail after the sheriff provided a ride to a bank.
Venezuela to fine networks that air 'Family Guy'
AP - Venezuelan authorities plan to impose fines on cable television companies that refuse to stop airing the animated television series "Family Guy."
Netanyahu attacks Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial
Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brandished at the U.N. on Thursday Nazi-era documents on the extermination of Jews, dramatically rebutting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust.
Russia's Chechen chief blames CIA for violence
Reuters - The Kremlin-backed chief of Russia's turbulent Chechnya region said his forces were fighting U.S. and British intelligence services who want to split the country apart, according to an interview published Thursday.
State-by-state divorce rates
AP - State-by-state divorce rates
AIDS vaccine protects people, shocks researchers
Reuters - An experimental AIDS vaccine made from two failed products has protected people for the first time, reducing the rate of infection by about 30 percent, researchers said on Thursday.
All-round pessimism after dud Middle East "summit"
Reuters - A cloud of pessimism is suffocating hopes that U.S. President Barack Obama can pull off a miracle in the Middle East by setting negotiations on course for rapid progress toward a comprehensive peace agreement.
America armed, but guns not necessarily loaded
AP - Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can't keep up with the nation's demand for ammunition.
Analysis: Pakistan unlikely to cooperate with US
AP - Pakistan's doubts about U.S. commitment to the Afghan war make it less likely to cooperate in targeting Taliban commanders said to be directing the insurgency across the border.
Drop in home sales, tumbling oil weigh on stocks
AP - Investors pulled away from stocks after an unexpected drop in home sales and a slide in oil prices fanned worries about the pace of the economy's recovery.
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