Anger as rapist avoids deportation

The Tories and Liberal Democrats have called for an urgent explanation from the Government over how a convicted rapist facing deportation was allowed to stay in Britain to get married. A senior judge pointed to apparent confusion in the Home Office when making his decision over the case of Alphonse Semo, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Monday he won a High Court battle to remain in the UK for his wedding just hours before he was due to board a plane back to Africa. Mr...

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21 Babies Killed in China

The bodies of 21 babies have been discovered in plastic bags in a river in eastern China, and authorities suspect they were dumped there by local hospitals, state media reported. An initial investigation showed that eight of the 21 babies wore identification tags on their feet tracing them back to Jining Medical College Hospital in Shandong province, according to the People's Daily website. The other 13 were unidentified. Three of the eight were admitted to the hospital in critical condition,...

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China Disable Google

Chinese censors have disabled all Google searches on the mainland, blocking the US company's Hong Kong servers from delivering results. In almost every major Chinese city, users reported that trying to access Google searches returned an error page. The hiatus began at around 5pm on Tuesday in China. Although it was still possible to access Google's websites, searches on any topic delivered an error message. Google was unable to immediately confirm the cause of the problem,...

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Nasa To Help Toyota's Problem

U.S. auto safety regulators said on Tuesday they will tap the expertise of the country's top space and aeronautics experts to analyze Toyota Motor Corp's electronic throttles to see if they are behind the reports of unintended acceleration that have hounded the automaker. The news that NASA scientists will join the probe came as Toyota, reeling from a recall crisis sparked by the acceleration reports, launched a task force aimed at regaining consumer trust and pledged to...

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"Responsible will be Caught" - Putin

Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday to "drag out of the sewer" the masterminds of the twin suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system that killed 39 people and left scores wounded. The powerful prime minister spoke as Russia mourned the dead from Monday's attacks; teary passengers lit candles and left carnations at both of the central stations that were hit. The blasts shocked a country that had grown accustomed to such violence being confined to a restive southern...

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Core Group Questions Obama's Call

President Barack Obama says he believes the Tea Party is built around a "core group" of people who question whether he is a U.S. citizen and believe he is a socialist. But beyond that, Obama tells NBC he recognizes the movement involves "folks who have legitimate concerns" about the national debt and whether the government is taking on too many difficult issues simultaneously. In an interview broadcast Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show, Obama said he feels "there's...

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Obama Approved Bill

Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process. Both domestic priorities came in one bill, pushed through by Democrats in the House and Senate and signed into law by a beaming president. The new law makes a series of changes to the massive health insurance reform bill that he signed into law with even greater...

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Stephenie Meyers New Book

Attention "Twilight" fans: Stephenie Meyer has a new book coming out. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will release "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" on June 5. The novella is told from the viewpoint of Bree, a newborn vampire featured in "Eclipse." That's one of the books in Meyer's best-selling teen-vampire saga. Meyer says in a statement Tuesday the novella had originally been planned for "The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide."...

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Christian Militia in US confirmed

The U.S. attorney leading the prosecution against nine suspected members of a Michigan-based Christian militia says authorities "needed to arrest them and take them down." Barbara McQuade said Tuesday that federal investigators had been watching the group called Hutaree for some time and felt compelled to act based on an imminent threat against police. McQuade says the "most troubling" finding was that Hutaree members plotted to make a false 911 call, kill...

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Sentenced Death

A judge on Tuesday sentenced serial killer Rodney Alcala to death before hearing emotional testimony from the families of four women and a 12-year-old girl he strangled in the 1970s. The sentence was announced three weeks after a jury recomended death for the 66-year-old Alcala, who was convicted last month of five counts of first-degree murder after a bizarre and sometimes surreal trial. After the sentencing, Bruce Barcomb, the brother of victim Jill Barcomb,...

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Still Trapped Below

Rescuers pumped water from a flooded mine in northern China where time is running out for 153 trapped workers as efforts stretched into a second day with no communication from those stuck deep underground. Some 1,000 rescue workers were rotating on shifts to try to drain enough water to reach the trapped miners, but the rescue effort could take days. It was unclear if anyone was still alive in the shafts, some which extended a half-mile (one kilometer) into the earth. ...

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US President Offer Help to Russians

President Barack Obama has phoned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to discuss the rush-hour bombings on the Moscow metro. The White House says the two leaders spoke Monday and that Obama conveyed the condolences of the United States. The White House is calling the attack an "outrageous terrorist act." Obama told the Russian leader that the United States is ready to cooperate with Russia to bring to justice the attackers. ...

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May 1 Winner SHOULD Face Manny Pacquiao

Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao may be considering three more fights before actually hanging his gloves for good. But he will have to kneel before his mother to get her blessings as he will have to renege on his earlier promise for one last fight. Despite his announcement of possible retirement from professional boxing in deference to his mother's wishes for him to retire now for good, many of his local boxing fans believe that the pound-for-pound king will remain active for at least one...

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Mosley Mayweather Update

Floyd Mayweather & Shane Mosley are the same but yet so different. They are the same because they are both one punch fighters. Mosley lost to Miguel Cotto because for every hard right hand or left hook he would throw Cotto would answer back with 2 and 3 punch combinations. When Mayweather fought Marquez he threw one punch at time. Rarely does either fighter throw combinations. When Mosley throws combinations it’s usually in the midst of a storm. When Mayweather throws combinations...

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Boeing 787 Update

The Boeing Co. completed its "ultimate wing load" test on its 787 jet Sunday and will spend weeks analyzing the results.Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner has been in flight testing for more than three months. The wing load test was performed on the company's static 787 test plane. During the testing, loads were applied to the airframe to replicate 150 percent of the most extreme forces the airplane is ever expected to experience while in service. The wings were flexed upward by approximately...

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Grasshopper Attack

Grasshopper infestations have taken on mythic tones here on the arid prairie of northeastern Wyoming — they blanket highways, eat T-shirts off clotheslines and devour nearly every scrap of vegetation on ranches and farms. The myth may come closer to reality this summer than at any time in decades in several states in the West and the Plains. A federal survey of farm areas taken last fall found high numbers of adult grasshoppers in parts of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota,...

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Rebel Denies Massacre

A Ugandan rebel group has denied accusations it took part in the massacre of hundreds of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A spokesman for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA ) Justin Labeja said Monday a Human Rights Watch report of the massacre in Congo's northeastern area of Makombo is, in his words, "fabricated."The human rights group says LRA rebels attacked at least 10 villages during a four-day rampage in December, killing at least 321 people. Human Rights Watch says most...

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Sony Bids Farewell

One of the most distinguishing features in the pre-Slim era PlayStation 3s is the ability to install other operating systems, including Linux. Starting in April, Sony will remove this capability from pre-Slim PS3s. Sony will release the PS3 firmware update v3.21 on April 1, and with it comes the removal of the “install other OS,” feature from older PS3s. It seems this change has to do with security concerns. Patrick Seybold, Sr. Director of corporate communication and social media, wrote this on the PlayStation blog: “In addition, disabling...

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Bomb Explodes in Athens

An overnight pipe bomb explosion outside an Athens business management institute killed a 15-year-old Afghan passer-by and severely injured his 10-year-old sister, Greek police said Monday. There was no claim of responsibility for the blast, which lightly injured the children's 45-year-old mother. The bomb exploded at 10:40 p.m. (1940GMT) Sunday, in the capital's densely populated Patissia residential district. The blast instantly killed the youth. His sister...

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World Cup Update

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson on Monday warned that his side were gunning to improve on their poor European record against German giants Bayern Munich. The sides meet in the Champions League quarter-final first leg here on Tuesday night in a match that re-unites the teams that contested the 1999 final, in which United won 2-1 thanks to two injury-time goals to record their only win over Bayern in Europe's top club competition. "The two clubs...

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Latest Discovery Open New Doors?

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, the Egyptian antiquities authority said Monday. These recessed niches found in nearly all ancient Egyptian tombs were meant to take the spirits of the dead to and from the afterworld. The nearly six-foot- tall (1.75 meters) slab of pink granite was covered with religious texts. The door came from the tomb of User, the chief minister...

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US Threaten in Aussies Filter

The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said Monday. The concerns of Australia's most important security ally further undermine plans that would make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among the world's democracies. "Our main message of course is that we remain committed to advancing the free flow of information which we view...

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Myanmar Reports: Opposition to Boycott Polls Result

In a bold gamble, the party of Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi decided Monday to boycott the military-ruled country's first election in two decades, saying it would carry on its struggle for democracy even if it was officially disbanded. The decision by the National League for Democracy, approved by an unanimous vote of the 113 executive members present at an all-day meeting, spotlights the question of the polls' credibility. The NLD won the most parliamentary...

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Nigeria's Ethnic Line

 Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi suggested Monday that Nigeria be split along ethnic lines, like Yugoslavia, into several mini-states as a way of resolving violence in Africa's most populous nation. Gadhafi drew Nigeria's anger last week by saying the oil-rich nation should be divided into Muslim and Christian nations along the model of the 1947 partitioning of the Indian subcontinent, which led to the independence of India and Pakistan. In those comments,...

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Tornado Hit Bahamas

Police in the Bahamas say a tornado has apparently touched down in at least two places on the island of Grand Bahama. Police spokeswoman Loretta Mackey says there are no immediate reports of fatalities. Mackey says authorities are still checking reports of damage at the island's container port and elsewhere. Monday's storm uprooted trees in the tourist area of Lucaya. There are also reports of damaged cars and businesses. ...

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Britain's Credit Risk

Britain's credit rating could be lowered if a new government fails to cut massive public debt, Standard & Poor's warned on Monday as rival parties traded barbs over strained public finances. With polls widely expected in early May, S&P affirmed Britain's top-grade AAA rating but said it remained on "negative outlook," meaning the rating could be lowered -- a move that would cause shockwaves in the global economy. "The outlook on the United Kingdom remains negative based on our view that ... the...

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