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|  Reuters - A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business -- he opened a "milk filling station."
09/08/2010 10:43 AM |
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|  AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asserted Wednesday that the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy is beginning to pay important dividends.
09/08/2010 05:22 AM |
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|  AFP - Two asteroids were set to pass close to Earth on Wednesday but posed no risk, the US space agency NASA said.
09/08/2010 11:22 AM |
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|  AP - Reggie Bush declined to go into any detail Wednesday on what he knows about the status of his 2005 Heisman Trophy.
09/08/2010 03:40 PM |
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The Christian Science Monitor - Ohio makes or breaks presidencies. That’s one reason why President Obama picked Cleveland to unveil a new plan for economic recovery just 55 days before voters decide whether Democrats keep their majorities in the House and Senate.
09/08/2010 11:27 AM |
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Macworld.com - To coincide with the release of iOS 4.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch on Wednesday, Apple also released iPhone Configuration Utility (iPCU) 3.1, an update to its device management utility for businesses and the enterprise.
09/08/2010 11:54 AM |
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|  The Christian Science Monitor - A new round of tax incentives for US businesses could have some positive impact on the job market, but it's not likely to ignite massive employment.
09/08/2010 12:12 PM |
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The Christian Science Monitor - In mid-August in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz, the Taliban carried out a horrific sentence against two young Afghan lovers who had eloped against their families’ wishes. The punishment was death by stoning. Deemed by Islamic extremists to be justified under sharia law, the process involves partially burying the accused, after which a male crowd hurls stones at the victims’ exposed heads until they die.
09/08/2010 01:12 PM |
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|  AP - Florida's governor is concerned about safety at home and around the world, a feeling shared by national and world leaders, over a plan by the head of a small church to burn copies of Islam's holiest text to mark the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
09/09/2010 02:35 AM |
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|  AP - Angelina Jolie on Wednesday condemned a Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
09/08/2010 05:17 AM |
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|  AP - The European Union presidency has said that Iran's suspension of a stoning sentence against a woman convicted of adultery is not enough and demands it be completely overturned.
09/09/2010 02:40 AM |
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Reuters - Daily tablets of large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression toward dementia, data from a British trial showed on Wednesday,
09/08/2010 07:05 PM |
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Reuters - The cause of a mystery eye ailment that struck about 50 visitors to a dairy pavilion at an agricultural show in Australia has been traced -- to cow urine.
09/08/2010 10:21 AM |
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|  AFP - Speculation swirled Wednesday that US President Barack Obama may shake up his White House staff if his top political enforcer Rahm Emanuel decides to run for Chicago mayor.
09/08/2010 02:22 PM |
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|  AP - The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising.
09/08/2010 11:26 AM |
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Reuters - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has warned that a deal with the players' union over a new collective bargaining agreement will be "more complicated" to reach if it is not struck before March.
09/08/2010 06:30 PM |
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|  Reuters - Fidel Castro said Cuba's economic model no longer works, a U.S.-based journalist reported on Wednesday following interviews with the former president last week.
09/08/2010 11:28 AM |
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|  AP - Google Inc. stepped on its Internet search accelerator Wednesday by adding a feature that displays results as soon as people begin typing their requests.
09/08/2010 10:27 PM |
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|  AP - House Republican Leader John Boehner onWednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy.
09/08/2010 04:32 AM |
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The Christian Science Monitor - A year ago, the practice of mass rape by militias in eastern Congo made headlines in the United States as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the region to speak out against rape as a weapon of war.
09/08/2010 01:10 PM |
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