| Accused man says SC wildfire not his fault (AP)
April 25, 2009 at 3:15 am
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|  AP - Marc Torchi and his family have been getting death threats since South Carolina officials blamed him for the wildfire that has destroyed more than 70 homes and scorched 31 square miles, causing an estimated $16 million in damage.
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| Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico (AP)
April 25, 2009 at 2:40 am
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|  AP - The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico's most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. And while bars and nightclubs filled up as usual, even some teenagers were dancing with surgical masks on.
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| In Iraq, Clinton says country on right track (AP)
April 25, 2009 at 2:37 am
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|  AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says this week's deadly suicide bombings in Iraq are a sign that extremists are afraid the Iraqi government is succeeding.
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| Clinton makes surprise visit to Iraq (Reuters)
April 25, 2009 at 2:12 am
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| | Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday and said she saw no sign the country was sliding back into sectarian warfare despite recent attacks. |
| Deadly flu strain threatens Mexico and U.S. (Reuters)
April 25, 2009 at 2:09 am
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|  Reuters - Mexican and U.S. health officials searched on Saturday for signs an outbreak of a new flu strain is spreading further, after it killed up to 68 people in Mexico and infected eight in the United States.
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| Concern grows in Mexico, US over killer flu (AFP)
April 25, 2009 at 2:08 am
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|  AFP - Concern was on the rise in Mexico and the United States Saturday after officials in both countries took emergency steps to contain a new multi-strain swine flu that has killed up to 60 in Mexico, and infected eight in the United States.
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| North Korea says has started extracting plutonium (Reuters)
April 25, 2009 at 12:58 am
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|  Reuters - North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear arms plant, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, further raising regional tensions already stoked by its defiant rocket launch this month.
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| Obama pushes for more direct financial aid for college students (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 11:23 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama on Friday renewed his call for the government to stop backing private loans to college students and replace them with direct government loans to young people, a challenge to a decades-old program with strong congressional support.
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| Chrysler, CAW in tentative deal, GM draws $2 billion (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 10:50 pm
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|  Reuters - Chrysler won a round of concessions from its Canadian union on Friday while General Motors Corp soaked up $2 billion more in U.S. government aid and Ford Motor Co posted a narrower-than-expected loss that sent its shares soaring.
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| Petraeus: Shippers should consider armed guards (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 10:31 pm
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|  AP - The global shipping industry should consider placing armed guards on its boats to ward off pirates who have become increasingly violent, the U.S. military commander who oversees the African coastline said Friday.
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| G7 signals worst of world recession may be over (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 10:19 pm
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| | Reuters - Finance chiefs from the G7 powers said on Friday the global economy may be past the worst phase of a recession although recovery was not yet assured, and they pledged to make sure that big financial firms are sound. |
| Rihanna seeking return of pricey jewelry (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 9:38 pm
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|  AP - Rihanna is seeking the return of $1.4 million in jewelry she was wearing the night she was allegedly beaten by Chris Brown. Donald Etra, an attorney for the "Umbrella" singer, filed a motion Tuesday asking that Los Angeles police and prosecutors return a pair of earrings and three rings, which were seized as evidence.
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| Fed says gov't ready to save stress-tested banks (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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|  AP - The government signaled Friday that some distressed banks will need to raise more cash to meet stricter standards it has set for the 19 financial firms that took its "stress tests" and suggested it's ready to step in with more federal help.
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| WWII-era dive-bomber lifted from Lake Michigan (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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| | AP - A dive bomber that had ditched in Lake Michigan on a training run in 1944 was brought to land Friday for restoration in Florida for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. The Douglas SBD Dauntless lifted from the water Friday to a pier in Waukegan, Ill., is among 130 to 300 or more planes estimated to have sunk in the lake during training late in World War II. |
| Deadly new flu strain erupts in Mexico, U.S. (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 7:34 pm
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| Reuters - A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday.
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| Stanford's inner sanctum had bar, bathroom exit (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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| | Reuters - If Texas billionaire Allen Stanford ever wanted to make a low-profile departure from the inner sanctum within his lavish Houston headquarters, there was a private exit through his personal bathroom. |
| G7 signals worst of world recession may be over (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 7:12 pm
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|  Reuters - Finance chiefs from the G7 powers said on Friday the global economy may be pulling out of the depths of a recession although recovery was not yet assured, and they pledged to make certain big financial firms are sound.
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| Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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|  Reuters - A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said.
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| Mavs guard Jason Terry wins NBA sixth man award (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 5:26 pm
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|  AP - Mavericks guard Jason Terry is the best off the bench. Terry, mostly a full-time starter before taking on a different role the past two seasons, was presented Friday with the NBA sixth man award that goes to the league's top reserve.
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| Mexican, US officials rush to tackle killer flu (AFP)
April 24, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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|  AFP - Mexican and US officials Friday took emergency steps to contain outbreaks of a new multi-strain swine flu, which has sickened hundreds in Mexico, causing 20 deaths, and infected seven in the US.
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| North Korea to boycott nuclear talks: Russia (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 3:18 pm
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|  Reuters - North Korea will stay away from international nuclear disarmament talks, Russia's foreign minister said on Friday after visiting the secretive state and pressing Pyongyang to return to the sputtering discussions.
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| Man, 84, fights off carjackers with groin kick (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 3:10 pm
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| | AP - An 84-year-old man has a black eye, but he still has his car, after fighting off two would-be carjackers. Ted Mazetier said he stopped Wednesday night to help two men with a disabled car when one punched him in the face and demanded his keys. Mazetier said he kicked the man in the groin and the other in the belly. The two men fled as a passer-by stopped to help. |
| Ford shares rise as Q1 loss smaller than expected (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 12:59 pm
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|  Reuters - Ford Motor Co posted a smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss and said it was on track to at least break even in 2011 and did not expect to seek U.S. government loans, sending its shares up as much as 20 percent.
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| Pair of suicide bombers kill 60 at Baghdad shrine (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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|  AP - Two suicide bombers killed 60 people outside a heavily guarded Shiite shrine in Baghdad on Friday, prompting Iraq's prime minister to order an investigation into security shortcomings that allowed the assailants to slip through.
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| WHO worries Mexico flu deaths could mark pandemic (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:52 pm
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| | AP - Mexico closed its schools across its capital Friday after at least 16 otherwise healthy people died and more than 900 others fell ill from what could be a new strain of swine flu. The World Health Organization worried that it could mark the start of a flu pandemic. |
| Congressional Democrats near agreement on budget (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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| | AP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress have agreed to let his signature $400 tax cut for most workers expire after next year but are moving to give him a better chance at passing his health care bill. |
| Authorities rush to tackle killer flu in Mexico (AFP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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|  AFP - Mexican and US officials on Friday took emergency measures to contain outbreaks of a new multi-strain swine flu blamed for scores of deaths in Mexico and seven infections in the United States.
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| Bank industry to hear results of 'stress tests' (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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|  AP - The nation's 19 largest banks are receiving report cards showing how they performed in the government's stress tests to assess their soundness, a process that could roil the industry.
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| Ford posts $1.4 billion 1Q loss, uses less cash (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 11:42 am
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|  AP - Ford Motor Co. reported a first-quarter loss of $1.4 billion Friday and said it depleted less of its cash, emphasizing that it doesn't expect to seek any of the government assistance that is keeping the rest of the Detroit Three alive.
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| Durable goods, new home sales better than expected (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 11:22 am
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|  AP - Demand for big-ticket manufactured goods and new home sales both were better than expected in March, raising some hopes that the long slides in manufacturing and housing are slowly coming to an end.
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| Pakistani Taliban withdraws from key valley (Reuters)
April 24, 2009 at 9:36 am
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|  Reuters - A Pakistani Taliban commander withdrew his fighters from a key northwestern valley on Friday, amid growing alarm in the United States that the Taliban were creeping closer to the capital of nuclear-armed Pakistan.
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| Analysis: Obama walks thin line on interrogations (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 6:32 am
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|  AP - Barack Obama, facing perhaps the trickiest political issue of his young presidency, is trying to appease his liberal base without losing control of a potentially volatile inquiry into George W. Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects.
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