LiveNetMedia.com - World http://www.livenetmedia.com/ en-us POLICE shot dead a gunman and freed three people taken hostage overnight in a four-hour standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington.
Reported by The Australian Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:11 +0000 Joseph Thomas Hansen Wanted To Blow Up Sisseton High School, Claire City, SD - Pleads Not GuiltySouth Dakota teenager, 18 year old Joseph Thomas Hansen, has plead not guilty to various explosives offenses in his alleged plan to blow up Sisseton High School.""Thanks to an...
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Reported by NowPublic Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 US police have shot dead a gunman after he held three people hostage in a dramatic four-hour standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington.
Reported by The Age Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 British Foreign Secretary William Hague's special adviser has resigned in the wake of gay rumours after the pair shared hotel rooms during this year's election.
Reported by The Age Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 Cardinal Godfried Danneels is distancing himself from his colleague and friend, Roger Vangheluwe, the former bishop of Bruges who is accused of abusing his own nephew.
Reported by NYTimes.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 Stephen Farrell talks with Iraqi citizens on growing frustrations as the United States brings an end to its combat mission.
Reported by NYTimes.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 Obama says Middle East talks 'can build a just, lasting and comprehensive peace' between Israel and Palestine
Hailing today's Middle East talks at the White House as "very productive," Barack Obama urged the leaders of Israel and Palestine to "recognise this as an opportunity that must be seized" for lasting peace in the region.
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 Chinese students in the South West province of Yunnan will receive chastity lessons from a conservative US Christian ministry.
Reported by Telegraph.co.uk Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 Thousands of oil industry workers rallied to lift the moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and try to head off new taxes and punitive measures in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill
Reported by FT.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:55:01 +0000 (OSH) - "They don't stop beating me. Please, sell your house, your car, your last things to get me out of here." Nafiza (not her real name) recalls the words from memory, written by her 37-year-old son in a letter smuggled out of prison by a policeman who took her bribe. Nafiza's youngest son, 15, is still recovering from his own 24-hour ordeal at the hands of Kyrgyzstan's police,... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 Fabio Capello has suffered another injury blow as Peter Crouch was ruled out of the Euro 2012 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Switzerland with a back injury.
Reported by Sydney Morning Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 Caster Semenya's surprisingly slow performance at a meet in northern Italy can be explained by fatigue and sickness, the world champion's manager says.
Reported by Sydney Morning Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 Sweltering conditions and gusting winds proved a handful at the US Open on Wednesday, but it was a simple training stumble by Belarus starlet Victoria Azarenka that shocked fans.
Reported by Sydney Morning Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 An initiative to raise awareness about cancers affecting men and urge them to take preventive action has spread to Hollywood from NZ and Australia.
Reported by Sydney Morning Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 Australian investigators are on their way to the remote Papua New Guinea island where a charter plane crashed killing three Australians and one New Zealander.
Reported by Sydney Morning Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 US President Barack Obama has pleaded with Israelis and Palestinians not to let slip a fleeting opportunity for peace, as he launches landmark peace talks.
Reported by Sydney Morning Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:34 +0000 Votes are in, the script is written for the Australian election outcome - Liberals in power; Labor into electoral oblivion.Now that all the seats are settled (73 Coalition - 72 Labor) the Australian federal election can end only...
Reported by New Zealand Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:28 +0000 After seven years of blood and treasure poured into Iraq, President Barak Obama has sought to "turn the page" on the war that defined the presidency of his predecessor, George W. Bush.Obama spoke briefly to Bush by telephone yesterday...
Reported by New Zealand Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:27 +0000 US weather forecasters say Hurricane Earl has become a Category 4 storm with top sustained winds of 135 mph (217 kph), as the dangerous and powerful storm heads toward the East Coast.Hundreds of holidaymakers from North Carolina's...
Reported by New Zealand Herald Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:26 +0000 A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico's most savage assassins says he personally knew the country's top drug lords.
Reported by msnbc.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:25 +0000 A group of marijuana growers have been arrested after they started to throw bags full of pot into a pickup truck belonging to game wardens.
Reported by News24 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:25 +0000 Police have shot a man upset with the Discovery Channel network's programming who took three people hostage at the company's headquarters.
Reported by News24 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:16:23 +0000 Fabio Capello has suffered another injury blow as Peter Crouch was ruled out of the Euro 2012 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Switzerland with a back injury.
Reported by The Age Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 Caster Semenya's surprisingly slow performance at a meet in northern Italy can be explained by fatigue and sickness, the world champion's manager says.
Reported by The Age Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 An initiative to raise awareness about cancers affecting men and urge them to take preventive action has spread to Hollywood from NZ and Australia.
Reported by The Age Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 A US coroner says a Central California doctor whose decomposing body was found in the chimney of her boyfriend's house died of asphyxiation.
Reported by The Age Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 United States prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban over the attack that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December.
Reported by ABC News Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 JERUSALEM: Israel is ready to cede parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians in the framework of a peace deal, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday ahead of the start of talks in Washington.
Reported by Straits Times Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 ABOARD RSS ENDURANCE IN THE GULF OF ADEN: The Gulf of Aden is 3,000 nautical miles, or 5,600km, away from Singapore, but what the crew members of the RSS Endurance are doing there has direct relevance to the Republic's security.
Reported by Straits Times Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 LONDON: Mr Gordon Brown had zero emotional intelligence and his reign as British prime minister was 'a disaster' that was 'never going to work', his predecessor Tony Blair says in his memoirs out yesterday.
Reported by Straits Times Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 LONDON: Thousands are putting their health and savings at risk to travel to private clinics around the world for unproven and potentially dangerous stem cell treatments, British experts said on Tuesday.
Reported by Straits Times Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 Police marksmen shot a lone gunman who had taken at least three people hostage at the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Washington.
Reported by Telegraph.co.uk Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000 By LARA JAKES and MAYA ALLERUZZO 2010-09-01T21:59:58Z
HAWIJA, Iraq (AP) -- Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents....
Reported by AP Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:15:18 +0000