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| Sri Lanka army: 35 rebels killed as civilians flee (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 1:33 am
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|  AP - Sri Lankan soldiers have pushed deep into the sole remaining Tamil rebel enclave and killed 35 guerrillas while nearly 78,000 civilians have fled the northern war zone in the past two days, the military said Wednesday.
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| Fears grow for civilians in Sri Lanka conflict (AFP)
April 22, 2009 at 1:31 am
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|  AFP - US and Red Cross officials pleaded for the lives of tens of thousands of civilians trapped in Sri Lankan jungle as government troops pressed a relentless offensive against Tiger rebels.
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| Two Koreas square off over arms trade and border (Reuters)
April 22, 2009 at 12:33 am
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|  Reuters - North and South Korea squared off over Seoul's plans to crack down on Pyongyang's suspected illicit arms trade at rare and acrimonious talks on their one remaining major area of economic cooperation, an official said. |
| Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:24 am
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|  AP - In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realized that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habitable zone for potential life.
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| Police say mom ordered daughters out, drove off (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:23 am
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|  AP - Usually, it's an empty threat: "If you kids don't stop fighting, I'm going to stop this car right now and leave you here!" But a mother from an upper-crust New York suburb went through with it, ordering her battling 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car in White Plains' business district and driving off, police said Tuesday.
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| Police: Med student targeted women on Craigslist (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:21 am
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|  AP - Philip Markoff seemed to have a good life: The handsome, clean-cut, 23-year-old medical student was planning a lavish beachfront wedding this summer to a beautiful woman. But authorities say his computer and surveillance video paint a picture of a suspected serial criminal who targeted women offering erotic services through Craigslist. Now he's accused of killing one and suspected of robbing and tying up another.
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| Piracy charge with mandatory life penalty looms (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:19 am
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|  AP - The sole surviving pirate from an attack on an American cargo ship off the Somali coast will be tried as an adult after he was portrayed Tuesday as the brazen ringleader of a band of pirates who shot at the ship's captain and bragged about prior acts of piracy.
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| Senator McConnell blasts plan to close Guantanamo (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:18 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama came under fire Tuesday for including $80 million to close Guantanamo in a massive funding request to fight America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The $83.4 billion request to Congress was submitted on April 9, when lawmakers were on break over the Easter holidays.
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| Obama open to torture memos probe, prosecution (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:14 am
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|  AP - Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday opened the possibility of prosecution for Bush-era lawyers who authorized brutal interrogation of terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation.
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| Obama urges citizens to undertake national service (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 12:13 am
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|  AP - Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. "What this legislation does, then, is to help harness this patriotism and connect deeds to needs," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago.
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| Chrysler lenders offer to cut debt, take stock (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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|  Reuters - Chrysler LLC's first-lien lenders have offered to take equity in a restructured automaker allied with Fiat SpA in exchange for writing off about 35 percent of the $7 billion they are owed, according to people with knowledge of the closed-door talks.
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| Piracy charge with mandatory life penalty looms (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:17 pm
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| AP - The sole survivor of a pirate attack on an American cargo ship off the Somali coast will be tried as an adult after he was portrayed Tuesday as the brazen ringleader of a band of pirates who shot at the ship's captain and bragged about prior acts of piracy. |
| Obama open to torture memos probe, prosecution (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:16 pm
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| AP - Widening an explosive debate on torture, President Barack Obama on Tuesday opened the possibility of prosecution for Bush-era lawyers who authorized brutal interrogation of terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation. |
| Obama urges citizens to undertake national service (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:16 pm
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|  AP - Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college. "What this legislation does, then, is to help harness this patriotism and connect deeds to needs," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago.
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| Police: Med student targeted women on Craigslist (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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| AP - Philip Markoff seemed to have a good life: The handsome, clean-cut, 23-year-old medical student was planning a lavish beachfront wedding this summer to a beautiful woman. But authorities say his computer and surveillance video paint a picture of a suspected serial criminal who targeted women offering erotic services through Craigslist. Now he's accused of killing one and suspected of robbing and tying up another. |
| Senator McConnell blasts plan to close Guantanamo (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:05 pm
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| AP - President Barack Obama came under fire Tuesday for including $80 million to close Guantanamo in a massive funding request to fight America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The $83.4 billion request to Congress was submitted on April 9, when lawmakers were on break over the Easter holidays. |
| Geithner says most banks have adequate capital (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|  Reuters - Most U.S. banks have enough capital to keep lending but a pile of bad debts is fostering doubts about their health and slowing a recovery, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday.
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| Teen Somali pirate suspect to be tried as adult (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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| | Reuters - A Somali teenager accused of holding hostage a U.S. ship captain in the Indian Ocean after an attempted hijacking will be tried as an adult in New York on piracy charges, a U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday. |
| Iran sends mixed signals to US by jailing reporter (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration is reaching out to Iran. In return, Iran is — well, it's complicated. The Islamic republic sentenced an American journalist to eight years in prison and launched a fervent new campaign to brand U.S. ally Israel as racist. And in the middle of all that, it said it was ready for a new beginning in relations with the U.S. after three decades of diplomatic stalemate.
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| Police say mom ordered daughters out, drove off (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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| AP - Usually, it's an empty threat: "If you kids don't stop fighting, I'm going to stop this car right now and leave you here!" But a mother from an upper-crust New York suburb went through with it, ordering her battling 10- and 12-year-old daughters out of her car in White Plains' business district and driving off, police said Tuesday. |
| Scientists discover a nearly Earth-sized planet (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 6:17 pm
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| AP - In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European researchers said they not only found the smallest exoplanet ever, called Gliese 581 e, but realized that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habitable zone for potential life. |
| Document: Photo radar shooting suspect apologized (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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|  AP - A suspect arrested in the shooting death of a man operating a photo radar van along a freeway told police he didn't mean for anyone to get hurt, according to a court document released Tuesday.
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| Cops: Woman faked miscarriage with 'animal tissue' (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 6:11 pm
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| | AP - Deputies said a woman in South Florida has faked a miscarriage. The Broward county Sheriff's Office responded an emergency call of a possible miscarriage just before 8 a.m. Tuesday at an Oakland Park apartment. Upon arrival, they learned a woman staged the incident using what authorities described only as "animal tissue." |
| Somali teen pirate to stand trial as adult in US (AFP)
April 21, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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|  AFP - A teenaged pirate captured by US forces in a high-seas drama off Somalia was ordered to stand trial here as an adult Tuesday on charges that include "piracy under the law of nations." |
| Sri Lankan troops move in on Tigers, 62,000 flee (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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|  Reuters - Sri Lankan soldiers battled into the last redoubt of the rebel Tamil Tigers on Tuesday as the exodus of people fleeing the war zone surpassed 62,000 and the United States said the conflict was at a "decisive point".
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| Obama nudges Israel on Palestinian statehood (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 4:07 pm
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama nudged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to accept the goal of a Palestinian state, as he pressed Israel and the Palestinians to "step back from the abyss."
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| Senior Democrat denies wrongdoing in spy probe (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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|  Reuters - A senior Democratic lawmaker asked the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday to release secretly taped telephone calls to show that she did not intervene in an Israeli espionage investigation.
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| Treasury asset plan vulnerable to abuse: watchdog (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 8:43 am
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| | Reuters - The U.S. Treasury's plan to purge toxic assets from banks' balance sheets is vulnerable to fraud and abuse and needs tough rules against conflict of interest, the government's bailout watchdog said on Tuesday. |
| Somali pirate arrives in NYC, awaits court hearing (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:46 am
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|  AP - A Somali teenager arrived to face what are believed to be the first piracy charges in the United States in more than a century, smiling but saying nothing as he was led into a federal building under heavy guard.
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| Oversight panel has bailout questions for Geithner (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:43 am
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| | AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faces a slew of questions about his plans to shore up banks while a watchdog agency warns that Obama administration initiatives could increasingly expose taxpayers to losses. |
| Mayo Clinic backs new personal health record site (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:38 am
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| | AP - The Mayo Clinic has combined its medical expertise with Microsoft Corp.'s technology in a free Web site launching Tuesday that will let people store personal health and medical information. |
| India probes dispute over 'Slumdog' child star (AP)
April 21, 2009 at 7:38 am
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|  AP - Indian police are investigating claims and counterclaims by the parents of a child star in "Slumdog Millionaire" after a British tabloid alleged the father tried to sell the 9-year-old girl to an undercover reporter.
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| U.S. to give Chrysler, GM new aid (Reuters)
April 21, 2009 at 1:57 am
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|  Reuters - The Obama administration will make about $500 million available to Chrysler LLC through the end of this month as it seeks to reach an alliance with Fiat, and up to $5 billion through May to help General Motors Corp restructure outside of bankruptcy, an independent oversight report on the Treasury Department's corporate rescue fund said on Tuesday.
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