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Most popular news on 29 September 2009 |
Photo of Spanish Prime Minister's daughters highlights privacy concerns for world leaders
The Yahoo! Newsroom - Last week Barack and Michelle Obama hosted a reception for visiting foreign dignitaries at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the course of the evening, the president, whose "amazingly consistent" smile created a viral video, and first lady posed for over 130 photographs with their guests, all of which were later posted to the State Department's Flickr page.
Iran says advanced missiles can target any threat
AP - Iran tested its longest-range missiles Monday and warned they can reach any place that threatens the country, including Israel, parts of Europe and U.S. military bases in the Mideast. The launch capped two days of war games and was condemned as a provocation by Western powers, which are demanding Tehran come clean about a newly revealed nuclear facility it has been secretly building.
Desperate Honduran leaders vow to restore freedoms
AP - The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by the end of the week.
Video shows teens beating Chicago student to death
AP - Cell phone footage showing a group of teens viciously kicking and striking a 16-year-old honors student with splintered railroad ties has ramped up pressure on Chicago officials to address chronic violence that has led to dozens of deaths of city teens each year.
More women having a healthy breast removed
Reuters - A small but growing number of women with breast cancer are choosing to have the unaffected breast removed in an effort to prevent a recurrence, researchers reported Monday.
France rushes to Polanski's defense
AP - Was Roman Polanski "thrown to the lions because of ancient history?" That's what the French culture minister says — though not everyone in France agrees.
Attorney: Oklahoma City bomb tapes appear edited
AP - Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
Video captures Jackman chiding cell phone offender
AP - Hugh Jackman knows how to stop the show. He did it recently when a cell phone call interrupted a preview performance of "A Steady Rain," the Broadway play that stars Jackman and Daniel Craig. The moment captured on an amateur video shown by the TMZ.com Web site appears to have been recorded by someone in the audience.
Okla. teen claims he was held in closet for years
AP - A woman was arrested after her 14-year-son told authorities he escaped from a home where he'd been kept for 4 1/2 years, spending most of his time locked in a bedroom closet, police said Monday.
World Bank's Zoellick says wary of more Fed power
Reuters - The head of the World Bank on Monday sounded a cautionary note about granting greater regulatory power to the U.S. Federal Reserve and said the dollar's future will "depend heavily on U.S. choices."
Best place for Muslims to live? America
The Christian Science Monitor - This summer Muslims were murdered in Holland, Germany, and Belgium ? four victims of hate crimes.
US income gap widens as poor take hit in recession
AP - The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets.
A breakdown of Iran's missile arsenal
AP - A breakdown of Iran's missile arsenal:
Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom get married
AP - Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian have reportedly tied the knot.
Death toll from flooding in Philippines hits 240
AP - Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers Monday as residents started to dig out their homes from under carpets of mud after flooding left 240 people dead in the Philippine capital and surrounding towns.
LA prosecutors: Polanski efforts go back decades
AP - With Roman Polanski under arrest in Switzerland, American prosecutors Monday disputed a claim by the director that they had never tried to nab him after he fled overseas to escape sentencing on charges he had sex with an underage girl.
German minister-to-be rebuffs question in English
Reuters - Guido Westerwelle, who is widely expected to become foreign minister in the next German government, admonished a reporter who asked him a question in English on Monday, saying: "We're in Germany here."
Homeless Ga. sex offenders directed to woods
AP - A small group of homeless sex offenders have been ordered to move from a makeshift camp in a densely wooded area behind a suburban office park.
Gas dips below $2.50 for first time in 2 months
AP - The average retail price for gasoline dipped below $2.50 a gallon for the first time in two months Monday as swelling oil supplies and slumping demand overshadowed even a fire at a major U.S. refinery.
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