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Suicide blasts in southern Russia kill 9 (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:33 AM PDT

AP - Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed at least nine people and injured 18 others in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, officials said.

17 reported dead in south Afghan blast (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:56 AM PDT

Pakistani soldiers carry the coffin of an army officer killed during an operation against militants. US missiles and clashes between Pakistani troops and militants killed up to 36 people, including five soldiers, as pre-dawn violence swept the tribal badlands on the Afghan border Wednesday.(AFP/File/Hasham Ahmed)AP - Police say a bomb concealed on a bicycle has killed 17 people in southern Afghanistan.

Obama to allow oil drilling off Virginia coast (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:37 PM PDT

AP - In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska.

DC officials: 9 shot, 3 dead; arrests, no motive (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:53 PM PDT

AP - A drive-by shooting killed three people and wounded six others in the nation's capital Tuesday night, and three people were in custody, officials said.

Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning' (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2007 file photo, the magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) is shown in Geneva, Switzerland. The world's largest atom smasher set a record for high-energy collisions on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 by crashing proton beams into each other at three times more force than ever before. In a milestone in the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider's ambitious bid to reveal details about theoretical particles and microforces, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, collided the beams and took measurements at a combined energy level of 7 trillion electron volts. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini, File)AP - The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang — a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began.

Clinton to co-chair Haiti rebuilding authority (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:34 PM PDT

AP - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will co-chair a committee overseeing at least $3.8 billion in post-quake aid to Haiti, the ravaged country's prime minister said.

Vatican offers 3 reasons it's not liable for abuse (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:03 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI handles a staff with crucifix during a memorial Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, Monday, March 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him answer attorneys' questions under oath.

Flooding expected to worsen in drenched Northeast (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:41 AM PDT

A man leaps across flooded Valley Street in Providence, R.I., Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Heavy rains and swollen rivers have caused flooding in the area. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - The second record storm that socked the Northeast this month was reduced to drizzle as it began to wind down early Wednesday but the worst of widespread flooding is yet to come, forecasters say.

Garcia, Dewyze win back 'American Idol' judges (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:22 PM PDT

In this image released by Fox, Paige Miles acknowledges the audience after her elimination on the singing competition series, 'American Idol,' wednesday, March 24, 2010 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Fox, Michael Becker)AP - Andrew Garcia and Lee Dewyze are back in the "American Idol" judges' good graces.

Nash helps Suns clinch playoff spot (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:04 PM PDT

Chicago Bulls' Taj Gibson (22) gets elbowed in the face by the Phoenix Suns' Amare Stoudemire as the Chicago Bulls' Joakim Noah grabs the rebound during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)AP - Jason Richardson scored 27 points and Channing Frye hit a clutch 3-pointer with 41.6 seconds to go Tuesday night and the Phoenix Suns clinched a playoff berth by beating the Chicago Bulls 111-105 for their eighth straight win.

Obama wants U.N. sanctions on Iran in weeks (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:40 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks during a joint news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 30, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he wanted tougher U.N. sanctions in weeks against Iran over its nuclear program, and the world's leading industrial nations expressed optimism that China will agree on possible next steps.

U.S. rebound on good footing: Fed's Fisher (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 07:22 PM PDT

Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, answers a question from the audience after delivering the 2009 Albert H. Gordon Lecture about the current financial crisis at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts February 23, 2009. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - The U.S. economic recovery is gathering speed as business activity picks up pace, despite lingering weakness in employment, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Tuesday.

Bombs kill 11 in Dagestan after Moscow metro attack (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:51 AM PDT

Reuters - Two blasts, one set off by a suicide bomber, rocked Kizlyar in Russia's Dagestan region on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people just two days after twin bombs hit Moscow, officials told Reuters.

Some Yahoo email accounts hacked in China, Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Yahoo email accounts of some journalists and other users whose work relates to China were compromised in an attack discovered this week, days after Google announced it would move its Chinese-language search services out of China due to censorship concerns.

Putin orders Moscow bombers "scraped from sewers" (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:09 AM PDT

Flowers, left in memory of victims of a bomb explosion, are seen at Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. REUTERS/Vladimir DavydovReuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Tuesday said the culprits behind twin suicide bombings that killed 39 people in Moscow's metro must be scraped "from the bottom of the sewers" and exposed.

Iranian nuclear scientist defects to U.S.: report (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:03 PM PDT

Reuters - An Iranian nuclear scientist who has been missing since June has defected to the United States and is helping the CIA, ABC news reported on Tuesday.

Final suspect in raid on U.S. militia group arraigned (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:54 AM PDT

Reuters - A ninth member of a Christian militia group accused of conspiring to kill law enforcement officers to trigger a wider war against the U.S. government appeared before a federal judge on Tuesday.

AIG lawsuit alleging missed "red flags" dismissed (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Reuters - A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit accusing current and former American International Group Inc executives and directors of ignoring "red flags," leading to the insurer's near collapse and about $180 billion of federal bailouts.

Russia rocked by new deadly suicide attack (AFP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 12:13 AM PDT

File picture shows Russian troops at the Gimri tunnel near Makhachkala, Dagestan. A suicide bomber detonated one of two blasts which killed nine people Wednesday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, the Interfax agency and police said(AFP/File/Timur Abdullayev)AFP - A suicide bomber wearing police uniform set off one of two blasts that killed nine people Wednesday in Russia's volatile Dagestan region just two days after attacks on Moscow's metro left 39 dead.

Obama wants Iran sanctions within 'weeks' (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:05 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy step up to the podium for a press conference at the White House. Obama said Tuesday he wanted tough new UN sanctions imposed on Iran within AFP - US President Barack Obama said he wanted tough new UN sanctions imposed on Iran within "weeks" as visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy blasted Tehran's "mad" nuclear race.
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