| Suicide bomber kills 9 Sunni militiamen in Iraq (Reuters)
April 11, 2009 at 6:10 am
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| | Reuters - A suicide bomber targeted a group of Sunni Arab militiamen queuing to collect pay cheques at an Iraqi army post south of Baghdad, killing 9 and wounding 31 Saturday, police said. |
| Fiji president reappoints coup leader as PM (AFP)
April 11, 2009 at 5:48 am
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|  AFP - Fiji's President Ratu Josefa Iloilo on Saturday reappointed military chief Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama as interim prime minister a day after he sparked fresh turmoil by repealing the constitution.
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| Top cleric rejects changes to Afghan Shi'ite law (Reuters)
April 11, 2009 at 5:25 am
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| | Reuters - A top Shi'ite cleric said on Saturday the Afghan government had no right to change a law for Shi'ite Afghans that was widely condemned by Afghanistan's Western backers for curbing women's rights. |
| Fiji military chief returns to prime minister post (AP)
April 11, 2009 at 5:12 am
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|  AP - Fiji's president returned the country to military rule Saturday and declared a state of emergency in another tumultuous chapter in the South Pacific nation's fall from democracy.
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| 1 dead, 3 wounded in Dutch shooting rampage (AP)
April 11, 2009 at 4:54 am
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| | AP - A man pulled a gun in a crowded Dutch cafe early Saturday and opened fire on patrons inside, then rushed outside to shoot at passers-by, killing one person and wounding three others, police said. |
| Angels return to play with heavy hearts (AP)
April 11, 2009 at 4:40 am
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|  AP - Jerseys and pants were hung up, shoes were lined up neatly in a row, baseballs and a glove rested on a shelf and a tall jar of dirt from the pitcher's mound stood on the top of a lineup card.
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| Woody Harrelson likens paparazzo to zombie (AP)
April 11, 2009 at 4:23 am
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|  AP - Woody Harrelson is likening a paparazzo he tussled with at a New York airport to one of the undead zombies he battles in his upcoming film.
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| China foreign exchange reserves at $1.954 trillion (AP)
April 11, 2009 at 4:16 am
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| | AP - China's central bank said Saturday that its foreign exchange reserves rose 16 percent year-on-year to $1.9537 trillion by the end of March. |
| Thailand declares emergency, cancels Asian summit (AP)
April 11, 2009 at 4:15 am
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|  AP - Thailand declared a state of emergency in the city hosting a summit of Asian leaders and canceled the event for security reasons Saturday after more than 1,000 anti-government protesters stormed the venue.
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| Federal budget deficit sets March record $192.3B (AP)
April 11, 2009 at 4:12 am
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|  AP - The Treasury Department said Friday that the budget deficit increased by $192.3 billion in March, and is near $1 trillion just halfway through the budget year, as costs of the financial bailout and recession mount.
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| Japan to scrap plan for North Korea resolution: Kyodo (Reuters)
April 11, 2009 at 12:01 am
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|  Reuters - Japan is expected to withdraw a proposal for the U.N. Security Council to adopt a binding resolution on North Korea's rocket launch, Kyodo news reported, a day after Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso appeared to back off from insistence on a resolution.
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| Thai protesters shut ASEAN meetings: officials (AFP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:51 pm
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|  AFP - Thai anti-government demonstrators blockaded a summit of Asian leaders for a second day, forcing the postponement of two key meetings, with reports of three people injured.
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| Black man's killing by police shakes La. town (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:45 pm
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|  AP - For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe led a life in this northern Louisiana town as peaceful as they come — five kids with his wife of five decades, all raised in the same house, supported by the same job.
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| Judge rules Madoff can be pushed into bankruptcy (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 11:26 pm
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|  Reuters - Victims of Bernard Madoff may be allowed to push the swindler behind a purported $65 billion Ponzi scheme into bankruptcy, a federal court judge ruled on Friday.
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| US hostage fails in escape bid from Somali pirates (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:26 pm
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|  AP - An American skipper held hostage by pirates tried to swim to freedom Friday but was recaptured seconds later when the bandits opened fire within view of a U.S. destroyer.
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| U.S. deports former cartel kingpin to Mexico (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 11:17 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. immigration police deported a former drug cartel kingpin to Mexico, where he was wanted on charges related to organized crime and drug trafficking, authorities said on Friday. |
| Tornado kills 2, injures 41 in central Tenn. (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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|  AP - A tornado killed a woman and her 9-week-old infant and also injured dozens Friday in central Tennessee as a line of storms lifted homes, ripped off roofs and dumped hail in the Southeast.
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| Somali pirates move to aid comrades, hostage recaptured (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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|  Reuters - Pirates sailed a hijacked German freighter toward a lifeboat off Somalia early on Saturday to help four comrades holding an American ship captain hostage under the gaze of a U.S. destroyer.
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| French commandos storm yacht (AFP)
April 10, 2009 at 9:58 pm
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|  AFP - French commandos have stormed a yacht held by Somali pirates in an operation that left one French hostage and two gunmen dead, hours after an American skipper held in a separate ransom battle narrowly failed in a dramatic escape bid, officials said.
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| At least 1 of fires raging over Okla., Texas arson (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 9:56 pm
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|  AP - Oklahomans and Texans returned home to charred buildings, ruined cars and glowing rock Friday in the wake of several drought-fueled, wind-driven fires, at least one of which was deliberately set, according to fire officials.
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| Perry, Campbell share the lead at a windy Masters (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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|  AP - Kenny Perry thought nothing could top an emotional embrace with his 85-year-old father in their native Kentucky seven months ago as a Ryder Cup hero dressed in red, white and blue.
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| Tears, tributes as Italy mourns its quake dead (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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|  AP - It was a scene that moved a nation: mourners clinging to one another and sobbing over neat rows of more than 200 coffins, some with the tiny caskets of children resting on top.
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| NASA to announce module name on 'Colbert Report' (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 8:52 pm
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|  AP - Stephen Colbert is still clinging to hope that NASA will name a new room at the international space station after him.
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| Suicide blast kills 5 US soldiers, 2 Iraqi police (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 8:47 pm
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|  AP - A suicide truck driver detonated a ton of explosives near a police headquarters in the northern city of Mosul on Friday, killing five American soldiers in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in more than a year.
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| Environmental agency offices pollute Wash. creek (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 8:41 pm
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| | AP - Washington state environmental regulators say they've finally found the source of pollution that has been fouling a creek near Vancouver Lake: the agency's own sewer pipes. |
| Federal budget deficit hits March record of $192.3 billion (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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| AP - The Treasury Department said Friday that the budget deficit increased by $192.3 billion in March, and is near $1 trillion just halfway through the budget year, as costs of the financial bailout and recession mount.
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| Obama sees "glimmers of hope" in economy (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday the recession-hit U.S. economy was showing "glimmers of hope" despite remaining under strain and promised further steps in coming weeks to tackle the financial crisis.
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| Cycling chief attacks French over Armstrong test (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 12:13 pm
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|  AP - The head of world cycling on Friday accused France's anti-doping agency of unprofessional and "disturbing" behavior after it released a report saying Lance Armstrong did not fully cooperate with a drug tester.
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| China's birth limits create dangerous gender gap (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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|  AP - China has 32 million more young men than young women — a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime — because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released Friday said.
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| Faithful gather for Good Friday in Jerusalem (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:56 am
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|  AP - Thousands of Christian clergymen, worshippers and pilgrims thronged the alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City, chanting hymns and bearing crosses as they marked Good Friday by retracing Jesus' final footsteps.
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| Wildfires kill Texas couple, hurt dozens in Okla. (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:52 am
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|  AP - Firefighters mopped up hot spots Friday from wind-driven wildfires that injured at least 34 people in western and central Oklahoma and destroyed more than 100 homes.
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| Italy bids final farewell to quake dead (AFP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:52 am
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|  AFP - Italy bade a final farewell Friday to the nearly 300 people killed in the earthquake that devastated the central Abruzzo region, as thousands attended an emotional funeral.
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| Ohio's Demjanjuk is denied stay of deportation (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:23 am
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|  AP - An immigration appeals board ruled Friday that retired autoworker John Demjanjuk can be deported to Germany to face charges that he served as a Nazi death camp guard during World War II.
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| Military: Iraqi truck bombing kills 5 US soldiers (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:22 am
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| AP - A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into a sandbagged wall Friday in northern Iraq, killing five American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen in the single deadliest attack against U.S. forces in more than a year.
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| Suicide truck bomb kills 5 U.S. troops (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 10:57 am
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| | Reuters - Under a hail of gunfire, a suicide bomber charged a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Friday, detonating a truck laden with explosives and killing five U.S. troops and two Iraqi policemen. |
| Tornado roars through Arkansas town, kills 3 (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 10:13 am
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| | Reuters - At least three people were killed and two dozen injured on Thursday night when a tornado smashed through Mena, Arkansas, officials said on Friday. |
| Thai protesters besiege Asian summit (AFP)
April 10, 2009 at 9:08 am
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|  AFP - Thai protesters laid siege to a summit of Asian leaders Friday, clashing with security forces and forcing their struggle to oust the prime minister into the international spotlight.
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