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Most popular news on 28 August 2009 |
Woman kidnapped as child resurfaces 18 years later
AP - Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: kept in captivity by a convicted rapist in his backyard and forced to bear two of his children.
Suicidal planet seems on death spiral into star
AP - Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet.
'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood
AP - It's not green cheese, but it might as well be.
Sen. Kennedy's body takes final poignant tour
AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy began his final journey Thursday, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family's famous name and then to his slain brother's presidential library where mourners lined up by the thousands to bid farewell to him and an American political dynasty.
Is Unemployment the Worst Since the Great Depression?
U.S. News & World Report - The "Great Recession" is the name that has stuck for the economic decline that began in late 2007. But there's some reason to think that using the word recession is being kind.
Police: Blood, evidence of struggle in model's car
AP - Police said Thursday they found blood and evidence of a violent struggle inside a car belonging to an ex-model whose brutal slaying prompted a manhunt for a reality TV contestant that ended in his suicide.
Pacific Ocean garbage patch worries researchers
AP - A tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman.
Suicide bomber lightly injures senior Saudi prince
AP - A suicide bomber lightly wounded a senior prince largely credited for Saudi Arabia's anti-terrorism campaign when he blew himself up just before going into a gathering of well-wishers for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the state news agency said Friday.
McCain speaks with angry crowd at Ariz. town hall
AP - Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop yelling that she had to leave.
Plus-size model Crystal Renn fits in her own skin
AP - Crystal Renn was miserable as a super-thin model who had heart palpitations when she'd worry that there might be calories in Diet Coke.
Koreas close to agreement on family reunions
AP - North and South Korea were close to agreement Friday on a schedule for reuniting families long separated by the Korean War, in rare talks being held amid Pyongyang's push to reach out to Seoul and Washington, reports said.
Jenkins: `Great white hope' remark not about Obama
AP - A freshman Kansas congresswoman said Thursday that her remark about fellow Republicans seeking a "great white hope" was not a reference to someone who could challenge President Barack Obama or his political agenda.
Garcia tied for first-round lead, Woods five back
Reuters - Sergio Garcia of Spain fired a six-under-par 65 to tie Americans Paul Goydos and Steve Marino for the first-round lead in the Barclays Classic at Liberty National on Thursday with Tiger Woods five shots back.
Toyota closing California plant it ran with GM
AP - Toyota is shutting the California factory it ran with General Motors for 25 years — the first time the Japanese automaker is closing a major auto assembly plant ever.
New Theory Questions Why We Sleep
LiveScience.com - The purpose of sleep remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. Although we spend roughly one-third of life asleep, researchers still do not know why.
"Too tall" player sparks fan violence
Reuters - A bizarre row over a player's height caused a Chinese basketball game to be abandoned and sparked violent scenes that left several cars destroyed in Guangdong earlier this week, local media reported Thursday.
Awash in natural gas, prices hit new 7-year lows
AP - Natural gas prices slumped to their lowest level in seven years Thursday after the government reported that salt caverns, aquifers and other underground areas where it is stored are filling up.
Worker at NY museum in Stiller film had child porn
AP - A former security manager at a New York City museum featured in the Ben Stiller family film "Night at the Museum" has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
New fat-fighting drug has anti-diabetes action too
Reuters - Researchers searching for a cure for obesity said on Thursday they have developed a drug that not only makes mice lose weight, but reverses diabetes and lowers their cholesterol, too.
Israel's Netanyahu given Holocaust plans in Berlin
Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on a visit to Germany on Thursday that one lesson Israel drew from the Holocaust was that threats to its existence could not go unchallenged and must be "nipped in the bud".
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