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| G7 finance ministers reject protectionist measures (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 7:50 am
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|  AP - Rejecting protectionism, the Group of Seven finance ministers pledged Saturday to work together to support growth and employment and strengthen the banking system so the world can overcome its worst financial crisis in 50 years, according to a draft communique.
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| US envoy to meet Afghan president (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 7:40 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama's new envoy to Afghanistan met with the Afghan foreign minister on Saturday, hours ahead of a planned meeting with President Hamid Karzai that comes amid a downturn in U.S.-Afghan relations.
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| Obama: Stimulus bill 'major milestone' (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 7:25 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama, savoring his first major victory in Congress, said Saturday that newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus legislation marks a "major milestone on our road to recovery."
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| Murder trial in Italy: US student had scratches (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 6:40 am
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|  AP - An American student accused in the stabbing death of her British roommate had a scratch on her neck hours after the killing, a witness testified Saturday at the murder trial in Italy.
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| Ice buildup reported on US plane before crash (AFP)
February 14, 2009 at 6:40 am
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|  AFP - An ice buildup may have contributed to the crash of a Continental Airlines plane that went down outside of the northern US city of Buffalo, killing 50 people, federal investigators have suggested.
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| G7 strives to couple crisis response and free trade (Reuters)
February 14, 2009 at 6:23 am
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|  Reuters - The G7 industrial powers, fearing a rise of protectionism, will do all they can to combat recession and avoid distorting free trade on the way, according to a joint statement being prepared for release after talks on Saturday.
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| Obama vows to act fast on economic stimulus (Reuters)
February 14, 2009 at 6:11 am
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama on Saturday hailed congressional approval of a $787 billion economic stimulus bill as a "major milestone on our road to recovery" and vowed to move swiftly to set the plan in motion.
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| Suspected US missile strike kills 27 in Pakistan (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 5:08 am
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|  AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike by a drone aircraft flattened a militant hide-out in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing 27 local and foreign insurgents, intelligence officials said.
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| Residents return to fire-destroyed Australian town (AP)
February 14, 2009 at 3:57 am
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|  AP - Residents of the town worst hit by Australia's wildfire disaster made a brief and emotional return Saturday but were not allowed to stay because the entire village is being treated as an arson crime scene.
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| Congress sends $787 billion stimulus to Obama (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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|  Reuters - The U.S. Congress, handing President Barack Obama a major legislative victory, approved on Friday a $787 billion stimulus bill that aims to rush emergency government spending and tax cuts to a nation in the grip of a severe recession.
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| Kidnappers threaten American abducted in Pakistan (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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|  AP - Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was "sick and in trouble." A letter accompanying the video delivered to a Pakistani news agency said the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless authorities released 141 women it said were being held in Pakistan.
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| Clinton makes offer to North Korea, appeals to China (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 7:35 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday offered North Korea a peace treaty, normal ties and aid if it eliminates its nuclear arms program and stressed her desire to work more cooperatively with China.
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| Jet's nosewheel collapses during landing in London (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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|  AP - The nosewheel of a British Airways passenger jet collapsed with a loud bang as it landed Friday at London City Airport, sending the plane scraping across the tarmac with 71 people aboard, officials and witnesses said. All aboard escaped by emergency slides, but one person was taken to a hospital with a minor injury.
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| Kidnappers threaten American abducted in Pakistan (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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| AP - Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was "sick and in trouble." A letter accompanying the video delivered to a Pakistani news agency said the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless authorities released 141 women it said were being held in Pakistan. |
| Peanut Corp. of America files for bankruptcy (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:31 pm
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|  AP - The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. The Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut Corp. of America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Virginia Friday, the latest bad news for the company that has been accused of producing tainted peanut products that may have reached everyone from poor school children to disaster victims.
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| VA clinic warns of possible contaminant exposure (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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| | AP - Thousands of patients at a Veterans Administration clinic in Tennessee may have been exposed to the infectious body fluids of other patients when they had colonoscopies in recent years, and now VA medical facilities all over the U.S. are reviewing their own procedures. |
| US churches to discuss evolution vs creation (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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|  AP - After a lifetime in the church, the Rev. William L. Rhines Jr. lately has started to question one of the Bible's fundamental teachings, that God created man. It's an especially touchy topic in his Wilmington, Del., congregation, where generations of black worshippers have leaned on faith to endure the indignities of racism.
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| Kisses unleash chemicals that ease stress levels, study finds (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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|  AP - "Chemistry look what you've done to me," Donna Summer crooned in Science of Love, and so, it seems, she was right. Just in time for Valentine's Day, a panel of scientists examined the mystery of what happens when hearts throb and lips lock. Kissing, it turns out, unleashes chemicals that ease stress hormones in both sexes and encourage bonding in men, though not so much in women.
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| Heat swap Shawn Marion for Jermaine O'Neal (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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|  AP - Shawn Marion's most memorable play with the Miami Heat was his last. Hours after Marion's last-second dunk lifted the Heat past the Chicago Bulls, he was traded Friday to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for Jermaine O'Neal, ending a weekslong saga involving the expected deal. NBA officials approved the swap Friday afternoon by conference call, the Heat said.
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| Man hoping to get fired allegedly trashes eatery (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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| | AP - A restaurant worker was accused of trashing the place in an attempt to get fired and collect unemployment compensation. A criminal complaint filed Thursday said a 35-year-old man showed up at a Qdoba restaurant and started throwing brownies and cookies on the floor. |
| Clinton makes offer to North Korea, appeals to China (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday offered North Korea a peace treaty, normal ties and aid if it eliminates its nuclear arms program and stressed her desire to work more cooperatively with China. |
| Kevin Costner and wife become parents of baby boy (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:23 am
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|  AP - Kevin Costner and his wife are proud parents of a baby boy. Costner's wife Christine Baumgartner, 34, gave birth to Hayes Logan Costner on Thursday night in Los Angeles, said his publicist Arnold Robinson. He weighs 8 pounds, 15 ounces.
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| APNewsBreak: Blackwater dumps tarnished brand name (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:22 am
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| | AP - Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its tarnished brand name. Blackwater officials said Friday its family of two dozen business will now operate under the name Xe (zee), pronounced like the letter "z." |
| Survey: peanut recall known but misunderstood (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 11:18 am
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|  AP - Most Americans know about a peanut-driven national salmonella outbreak but many are wrong about what products are involved and few have confidence in food safeguards, according to a Harvard survey released Friday.
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| Plane hits house near Buffalo, 50 dead (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 11:12 am
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|  Reuters - Fifty people were killed when a commuter plane nosedived into a house in snowy western New York state and burst into flames that burned through the night.
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| Fiery plane crash in upstate NY kills 50 (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 10:56 am
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|  AP - A commuter plane dropped out of the sky without warning and nose-dived into a suburban Buffalo house in a fiery crash that killed all 49 people aboard and one person in the home. It was the nation's first deadly crash of a commercial airliner in 2 1/2 years.
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| Hamas says long-term truce with Israel imminent (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 10:54 am
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|  AP - Hamas officials said Friday an agreement with Israel on a long-term cease-fire in Gaza could be announced within days, but a new cycle of attacks by both sides strained a temporary truce.
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| Iraqi police: Female suicide bomber kills 40 (AP)
February 13, 2009 at 10:18 am
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|  AP - A female suicide bomber attacked a tent filled with women and children resting from a pilgrimage to a Shiite holy city south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 40 people and injuring 60 others, said officials. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq this year and the third straight day of bombings against Shiite pilgrims.
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| New U.S. envoy in Afghanistan to assess security (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 10:11 am
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|  Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama's new envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan met key ministers in the Afghan capital on Friday, two days after triple Taliban attacks in the city demonstrated just how much security is deteriorating.
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| G7 powers converge on Rome as crisis rages (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 9:03 am
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|  Reuters - G7 finance ministers headed to Rome to discuss the global economic crisis on Friday with a warning from Germany that the world could be plunged back into the dark days of the 1930s if governments resorted to protectionism.
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| Female bomber kills 32 on Iraqi pilgrimage route (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 8:28 am
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|  Reuters - A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims on Friday, killing 32 people and wounding 84 others south of Baghdad during one of the holiest events of the Shi'ite calendar, police said.
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| Woman bomber kills 32 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AFP)
February 13, 2009 at 6:51 am
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| AFP - A woman suicide bomber dressed in a black abaya blew herself up in a crowd of women and children Shiite pilgrims south of the Iraqi capital on Friday, killing 32 worshippers, officials said. |
| Clinton aims to soothe jittery allies, woo China (Reuters)
February 13, 2009 at 1:31 am
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|  Reuters - Hillary Clinton hopes to reassure allies jittery about U.S. policy on North Korea and to set the tone for a productive relationship with China when she visits Asia next week on her first trip as secretary of state.
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