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| Madonna's adoption ruling delayed until Friday (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 6:31 am
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|  AP - A Malawian judge held a closed-door hearing Monday on Madonna's application to adopt a second child from this southern African nation but delayed ruling on the matter until Friday, a court official said.
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| Suicide bomber in police uniform kills 9 Afghans (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 6:28 am
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|  AP - A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing nine people and wounding eight others, an official said.
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| Thirty years on, Khmer Rouge torturer in dock (Reuters)
March 30, 2009 at 5:07 am
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|  Reuters - Pol Pot's chief torturer took the stand on Monday, charged with crimes against humanity in the first trial of a top Khmer Rouge cadre 30 years after the end of a regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia.
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| Khmer Rouge prison chief faces war crimes trial (AFP)
March 30, 2009 at 3:16 am
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|  AFP - The Khmer Rouge regime's prison chief heard charges Monday that he oversaw the execution of 15,000 people as a Cambodian court resumed the first trial over the "Killing Fields" atrocities.
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| Gunmen storm Pakistan police academy (AFP)
March 30, 2009 at 2:11 am
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|  AFP - Gunmen stormed a Pakistan police academy Monday, triggering an intense battle with security forces that left at least 20 dead, weeks after a brazen assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team.
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| Obama conditions bailout funds for automakers (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 1:52 am
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|  AP - The White House says neither General Motors nor Chrysler submitted acceptable plans to receive more bailout money, setting the stage for a crisis in Detroit that would dramatically reshape the nation's auto industry.
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| Gunmen storm Pakistan police academy (AFP)
March 30, 2009 at 1:51 am
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| AFP - At least 20 people were killed Monday after gunmen stormed a Pakistan police training school near the eastern city of Lahore, police officials told AFP. |
| GM CEO Wagoner forced out as part of gov't plan (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 1:24 am
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|  AP - Time and time again, General Motors Corp.'s board of directors reaffirmed its support for Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner, even as the company piled up billions of dollars in losses and begged for government loans to stay alive.
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| Khmer Rouge prison chief faces war crimes trial (AFP)
March 30, 2009 at 1:21 am
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| AFP - The Khmer Rouge regime's prison chief heard charges Monday that he oversaw the execution of 15,000 people as a court in Cambodia opened the first trial into the atrocities of the "Killing Fields". |
| Gunmen attack police in Pakistan (Reuters)
March 30, 2009 at 1:10 am
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|  Reuters - A group of attackers were holed up in a police training center in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday after storming the building with guns and grenades, killing at least eight policemen, officials said.
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| 7 residents, 1 nurse die in nursing home shooting (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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|  AP - A gunman barged into a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning and started "shooting everything," going room to room in a terrifying rampage that killed seven residents — most in their late 80s — and a nurse who cared for them.
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| GM CEO forced out as U.S. to give automakers more time (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 11:35 pm
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| | Reuters - General Motors Corp, whose chief executive was forced out by the Obama administration on Sunday, and Chrysler LLC will each be given capital and time to accelerate their attempts to restructure and survive, according to a government aid plan set for release on Monday. |
| U.S. deploys anti-missile ships before N.Korea launch (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 10:29 pm
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|  Reuters - The United States plans to deploy two missile-interceptor ships from South Korea on Monday, a military spokesman said, days ahead of a North Korean rocket launch seen by many as a test of its longest-range missile.
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| Longtime NFL, college coach Lou Saban dies at 87 (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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|  AP - Lou Saban, who coached O.J. Simpson in the NFL and ran the New York Yankees for George Steinbrenner during a well-traveled career that spanned five decades, died Sunday. He was 87.
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| AP Exclusive: UN suggests power-sharing for Kirkuk (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 9:43 pm
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|  AP - Seeking to head off an explosion of ethnic violence, the United Nations will call for a power-sharing system of government for Iraq's deeply divided region of Kirkuk in the oil-rich north.
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| U.S. school swamped by flood river, weather helps (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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|  Reuters - A dike holding back the swollen Red River failed early on Sunday and swamped a school in Fargo, North Dakota, but a backup dike contained the spill as cold weather favored flood fighting and evacuation efforts.
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| Fargo divides day between church, city's salvation (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 8:28 pm
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|  AP - Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath. A brief levee break that swamped a school provided a warning of the kind of threat that still hangs over them in the days ahead.
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| North Carolina leaves Oklahoma behind 72-60 (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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|  AP - Blake Griffin might be the nation's best player. North Carolina brushed him aside with a total team effort. Ty Lawson scored 19 points and Danny Green added 18 to lead the top-seeded Tar Heels to a 72-60 win over Griffin and Oklahoma on Sunday in the South Regional final.
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| Obama seeks strong message of unity at G20: report (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 7:53 pm
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Sunday that leaders of the G20 major global economies should send "a strong message of unity" on confronting the world financial crisis when they meet this week.
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| GM CEO Wagoner to step down at White House request (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 7:43 pm
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House, administration officials said Sunday. The news comes as President Obama prepares to unveil additional restructuring efforts designed to save the domestic auto industry.
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| GM CEO forced out as U.S. readies autos aid (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 7:42 pm
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| | Reuters - General Motors Corp Chief Executive Rick Wagoner resigned under pressure from the Obama administration on Sunday as the government prepared to announce a second bailout for the company and its smaller rival Chrysler LLC. |
| Double-digit unemployment looms, OECD tells G8 (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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| | Reuters - The global economic crisis will hit jobs hard, with unemployment set to reach double digits in many developing and advanced countries, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Sunday. |
| GM CEO is resigning: reports (AFP)
March 29, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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|  AFP - GM CEO Rick Wagoner will be resigning at President Barack Obama's behest, US media reported Sunday just hours before Obama was to unveil an auto industry rescue package.
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| Officials warn North Dakota levees may fail (AFP)
March 29, 2009 at 5:27 pm
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|  AFP - Officials warned Sunday that more of North Dakota's strain levees were likely to fail under the pressure of record flood waters, as approaching snow storms threatened more misery for anxious residents.
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| Urban coyote attacks on rise, alarming residents (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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|  AP - A coyote ambling into a Chicago sandwich shop or taking up residence in New York's Central Park understandably creates a stir. But even here on the high plains of Colorado, where the animals are part of the landscape and figure prominently in Western lore, people are being taken aback by rising coyote encounters.
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| Treasury secretary says market won't solve problem (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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|  AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended his approach to fixing the country's economic mess Sunday, saying "the market will not solve this" while disclosing a bailout fund for battered banks has $135 billion left and might need more.
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| Obama rules out US troop raids into Pakistan (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 2:47 pm
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|  AP - As he carries out a retooled strategy in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama says he will consult with Pakistan's leaders before pursuing terrorist hideouts in that country.
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| Study: Cholesterol drug lowers blood clot risk (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 2:47 pm
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| | AP - Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing dangerous blood clots that can lodge in the legs or lungs, a major study suggests. |
| Officials warn North Dakota levees may fail (AFP)
March 29, 2009 at 1:26 pm
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|  AFP - Snow storms closing in on North Dakota Sunday threatened more misery for anxious residents, as officials warned strained levees will likely fail under the pressure of record flood waters.
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| School in Fargo swamped by flood river (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 12:45 pm
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|  Reuters - A dike holding back the swollen Red River failed early on Sunday and swamped a school, but a backup dike contained the spill and cold weather favored flood fighting efforts.
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| China-based network caught in cyber-espionage (AFP)
March 29, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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|  AFP - A shadowy cyber-espionage network based mostly in China has infiltrated secret government and private computers around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers said Sunday.
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| Obama says GM, Chrysler "not there yet" (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that struggling U.S. automakers had not done enough yet to become "lean, mean and competitive" under federal oversight. |
| Thousands of toxic toads killed in Australian fest (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 11:38 am
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|  AP - Thousands of poisonous cane toads met their fate Sunday as gleeful Australians gathered for a celebratory mass killing of the hated amphibians, with many of the creatures' corpses being turned into fertilizer for the very farmers they've plagued for years.
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| Spain may decide Guantanamo probe this week (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 10:37 am
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| | Reuters - Spanish prosecutors may decide this week whether to press ahead with a probe into six former Bush administration officials in connection with the torture of detainees at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison, court sources said. |
| Air traffic controllers: Madonna arrives in Malawi (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 10:08 am
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|  AP - Madonna, the original Material Girl, landed in a decidedly un-material nation Sunday, flying into the capital of Malawi where she was expected to begin proceedings this week to adopt a young girl.
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