| Howard, Mavericks beat Spurs 105-97 in Game 1 (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 11:35 pm
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|  AP - Relax now, Dallas Mavericks: the playoff road drought is over.
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| Madonna falls from horse in NY, gets bruised (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 11:31 pm
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|  AP - Madonna has taken a tumble while horseback riding in New York's Hamptons and has suffered "minor injuries" and bruises.
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| U.S. says watching China's naval expansion closely (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 11:28 pm
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|  Reuters - The United States would like to have a better idea about the intentions behind China's naval build-up, a senior U.S. navy officer said on Sunday, but downplayed worries over Chinese plans for an aircraft carrier.
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| Obama extends hands to Chavez, Ortega at summit (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 11:15 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama offered a spirit of cooperation to America's hemispheric neighbors at a summit Saturday, listening to complaints about past U.S. meddling and even reaching out to Venezuela's leftist leader.
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| France, Spanish police arrest ETA chief, 8 others (AFP)
April 18, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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|  AFP - Security forces in France and Spain have arrested the military chief of ETA and eight other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist organisation, the Spanish government said Sunday.
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| Savard scores twice as Boston beats Montreal 5-1 (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 11:00 pm
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|  AP - Marc Savard scored two power-play goals and the Boston Bruins moved two wins away from their first playoff series victory since 1999 with a 5-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
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| Geithner sees no new banking crisis: report (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner does not see a second wave of banking collapses and the government is ready to support capital-raising when needed, a Japanese newspaper said on Sunday. |
| Obama wins summit praise (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 10:02 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday won praise for offering a closer partnership with the Americas, even from left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who moved to restore normal ties with Washington.
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| Couple, their 3 kids found dead in Maryland home (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 9:27 pm
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|  AP - An accountant for a railroad operator killed his wife and their three children before fatally shooting himself in a northwest Maryland home, leaving a gruesome scene that was discovered Saturday by the youngsters' grandfather, authorities said.
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| US 'will not join' anti-racism conference (AFP)
April 18, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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|  AFP - The United States "will not join" the UN conference on racism starting Monday in Geneva because its final declaration still includes language the US "is unable to support," the State Department said.
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| US to boycott United Nations racism meeting (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 9:10 pm
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| | AP - The Obama administration will boycott "with regret" a U.N. conference on racism next week over objectionable language in the meeting's final document that could single out Israel for criticism and restrict free speech, the State Department said Saturday. |
| Grisly slayings brings Mexican drug war to US (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 9:08 pm
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|  AP - Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.
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| NATO frees 20 hostages; pirates seize Belgian ship (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 9:05 pm
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|  AP - NATO forces rescued 20 fishermen from pirates who launched the latest attack in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, but let the Somali hijackers go because they had no authority to arrest them.
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| US 'deeply disappointed' as Iran convicts reporter (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 8:51 pm
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|  AP - Iran convicted an American journalist of spying for the United States and sentenced her to eight years in prison, her lawyer said Saturday, complicating the Obama administration's efforts to break a 30-year-old diplomatic deadlock with Tehran.
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| Shells hit Baghdad's Green Zone after 3-month lull (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 8:24 pm
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|  AP - Suspected militants shelled Baghdad's protected Green Zone on Saturday in the first such bombardment in more than three months.
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| U.S. will boycott U.N. conference on racism (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 7:59 pm
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|  Reuters - The United States will boycott a United Nations conference on racism next week, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday, citing objectionable language in the meeting's draft declaration.
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| Obama says he'll cut dozens of wasteful programs (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would soon announce the elimination of dozens of wasteful or ineffective government programs as part of a broad effort to restore fiscal accountability to the federal budget.
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| Kohn says Fed can prevent inflation surge (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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| | Reuters - The Federal Reserve will not allow its unorthodox policies to trigger a surge in inflation, but may still need to do more to ease credit if the economy remains weak, the Fed's No. 2 official said on Saturday. |
| Iran jails U.S.-Iranian reporter for 8 years (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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|  Reuters - An Iranian-American journalist accused in Iran of spying for the United States has been jailed for eight years, her lawyer said on Saturday, five days after she was put on trial.
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| NATO frees pirate hostages, Belgian ship seized (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 1:55 pm
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|  Reuters - Dutch commandos freed 20 Yemeni hostages on Saturday and briefly detained seven pirates who had forced the Yemenis to sail a "mother ship" attacking vessels in the Gulf of Aden, NATO officials said.
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| Colo Guard takes aid to snowbound travelers (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 11:12 am
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|  AP - National Guard crews delivered two truckloads of cots, blankets and food Saturday morning to hundreds of travelers snowbound after a storm dropped more than 3 feet of snow on the foothills west of Denver.
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| At summit, Obama gets friendly with Chavez (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 11:04 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama extended a hand to America's hemispheric neighbors on Saturday at a summit where he offered a new beginning for U.S.-Cuba relations and accepted a book about the exploitation of Latin America from Venezuela's fiery, anti-American leader.
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| Pirates seize Belgian ship; NATO frees 20 hostages (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  AP - Somali pirates attacked two ships off the Horn of Africa on Saturday, capturing a Belgian dredger and its 10 crew. NATO forces intervened in the other assault, chasing the pirates down and freeing 20 fisherman on a Yemeni dhow.
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| Obama: Like families, govt to make hard choices (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 10:53 am
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|  AP - Families are making tough decisions about their money and so too will their government, President Barack Obama said Saturday, promising that spending cuts are coming — and soon.
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| Analysis: Obama policy on torture has two sides (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 10:32 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama is trying to close a chapter in the nation's history that continues to haunt U.S. foreign policy.
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| Iran sentences US reporter to 8 years in jail (AFP)
April 18, 2009 at 10:17 am
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|  AFP - An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi to eight years in jail on charges of spying for the United States, her lawyer said on Saturday.
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| Lawyer: Iran convicts US journalist of spying (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 10:13 am
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| AP - An American journalist jailed in Iran has been convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison just days after she was tried behind closed doors, her lawyer said Saturday, dashing any hopes for her quick release.
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| An energized Paul McCartney opens Coachella fest (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 8:22 am
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|  AP - Energized by the desert air and memory of his late wife, a playful and passionate Paul McCartney riffed on "Foxy Lady," led an after-midnight "Hey Jude" singalong and dedicated songs to his former bandmates at the Coachella music festival that kicked off Friday.
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| Solar finds it hard to squeeze water from desert (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 7:45 am
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|  AP - A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert's most abundant resource — sunshine — is clashing with efforts to protect the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise and stinginess over the region's rarest resource: water.
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| China says key currency countries need watching (Reuters)
April 18, 2009 at 7:40 am
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|  Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday that the economic polices of countries which issue global reserve currencies require closer supervision as part of building a diversified international monetary system.
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