What price a child’s love for a parent? Contrary to what countless Hallmark cards and sentimental movies have claimed over the years, such an emotion is, in fact, quantifiable. Well, it is if you’re one of Michael Jackson‘s children, and that price turns out to be an impressively bargain-basement $400 to $600. That is the [...]
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December 12, 2011
December 11, 2011
Panama ex-dictator Manuel Noriega flies home
Almost 22 years after surrendering during a US invasion, Panama‘s former dictator, Manuel Noriega, has returned home to face jail for crimes committed during his notorious 1983-1989 regime. Noriega, 77, who last set foot in Panama in 1990 and had been in prison in France since 2010, flew out of the Orly airport near Paris [...]
December 10, 2011
Death for US home invasion killer
9 December 2011 Last updated at 23:58 GMT Komisarjevsky’s defence lawyer said his client was “very accepting” of the sentence A Connecticut jury has condemned a second man to death for the murder of a woman and her two daughters in a grisly home invasion. The jury deliberated over for five days before delivering the [...]
December 8, 2011
Occupy Our Homes: bid to move families into foreclosed homes
East New York has the highest foreclosure rate in the entire city Link to this video On Tuesday afternoon, Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York – along with a coalition of activist groups and members of a Brooklyn community – opened a foreclosed home to a struggling family of four. For Doyle Coleman, the [...]
December 3, 2011
December 3, 2011
December 3, 2011
Egypt Announces Record-High Voter Turnout
Egyptian election officials say a record number of voters turned out to cast ballots this week in the first stage of the country’s post-revolution parliamentary elections. The election commissioner, Abdel-Mooaez Ibrahim, said Friday that turnout from Monday and Tuesday’s balloting in one-third of the country’s provinces was 62 percent. He said more than 8 million [...]
December 2, 2011
Clinton Ends Burma Trip With Pledge of Support
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has completed a three-day visit to Burma after discussions with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a vow that the United States is prepared to support further democratic reform. “We are prepared to go further if the reforms maintain momentum, but history teaches us to be cautious,” said [...]
November 30, 2011
November 21, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi to Run for Burma Parliament
A spokesman for Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she will run for a seat in parliament in the country’s next bi-election, expected by the end of the year. Nyan Win, a member of the National League for Democracy’s executive committee, told reporters Monday the Nobel Peace laureate will run for one of [...]
November 19, 2011
Iraq bombings kill 9, injure scores
November 19, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Iraq bombings kill 9, injure scores 18 Nov 2011 At least nine people have been killed and many others injured in a series of bomb blasts targeting Iraqi security personnel in and around the capital, Baghdad. Five Iraqi civilians were killed on Friday after a bomb exploded at dawn [...]
November 18, 2011
End night raids, house searches before Afghan deal: Karzai
November 17, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis End night raids, house searches before Afghan deal: Karzai 16 Nov 2011 Afghanistan wants the United States and NATO to agree to stop carrying out night raids on Afghan homes as a precondition to signing a partnership deal with Washington, President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday. The Afghan leader [...]
November 17, 2011
Solyndra hearing with Steven Chu – live blog
6.14pm GMT: The Republicans are giving Chu a 15-minute break before they head into a second round of questioning. No Democrats are returning for the second round, which means that Chu is going to be under non-stop attack. It looks like he is up to it, judging from the first round. One point to consider [...]
November 17, 2011
Obama Uses Asia-Pacific Trip to Nudge Burma Toward More Reform
U.S. President Barack Obama has again used a major Asia trip to nudge Burma’s government toward more rapid reforms. President Obama’s remarks calling for further concrete progress in Burma came during an address in Australia about regional security, economic and political progress in the region. In November of 2010, Obama was making his way through [...]