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Feb 27, 2008 ... EDITORS: The Associated Press closes its news cycle for Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008, and begins its report for Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008. The AP news report is protected by copyright, which gives the AP ...
Poet Bukowski's home now a landmark after Council vote
Feb 27, 2008 ... The home of Los Angeles poet Charles Bukowski has become a landmark. The City Council approved that designation Tuesday in a consent vote with no opposition. The move means the building's owner needs special approval to alter the modest adobe-colored bungalow and could have ...
Poet Bukowski's home now a landmark after Council vote
Feb 27, 2008 ... The home of Los Angeles poet Charles Bukowski has become a landmark. The City Council approved that designation Tuesday in a consent vote with no opposition. The move means the building's owner needs special approval to alter the modest adobe-colored bungalow and could have ...
Terror trial exposes network of terror camps in picturesque rural England
Feb 27, 2008; ... Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslim men trained in picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings. Tourists and others who stumbled across this sight _ described by ...
Terror trial exposes network of terror camps in picturesque rural England
Feb 27, 2008; ... Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslim men trained in picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings. Tourists and others who stumbled across this sight _ described by ...
2 Britons cleared of crimes ask rights court to have their DNA samples destroyed
Feb 27, 2008 ... Lawyers for two British citizens cleared of crimes will ask the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday to order their DNA samples destroyed in a case that could lead to changes in British criminal law. The case concerns a 19-year-old man, identified only as S., who was charged ...
German prosecutors net 163 in expanding tax investigation
Feb 27, 2008; ... A wide-ranging investigation of tax evasion by Germans stashing their money abroad has led to the recovery of more than 27 million and netted 163 people, a prosecutor said. Similar probes have been spawned elsewhere in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. In brief televised comments from ...
WORLD SPORTS at 0000 GMT
Feb 27, 2008 ... CYCLING: PARIS-NICE: ASO defies UCI, vows to go ahead with Paris-Nice race under house rules PARIS _ The Paris-Nice race will go ahead next month under French rules despite opposition from the International Cycling Union, which wants teams to boycott the event. Race owner ...
German prosecutors net 163 in expanding tax investigation
Feb 27, 2008; ... A wide-ranging investigation of tax evasion by Germans stashing their money abroad has led to the recovery of more than euro27 million and netted 163 people, a prosecutor said. Similar probes have been spawned elsewhere in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. In brief televised comments ...
Chrysler, Plastech agree to continue temporary supply agreement
Feb 27, 2008 ... Chrysler LLC is continuing to get parts from supplier Plastech Engineered Products Inc. until March 3. Plastech had agreed to supply parts to Chrysler until Wednesday under a previous agreement, but Chrysler announced the new agreement Tuesday evening. A message seeking ...
Chrysler, Plastech agree to continue temporary supply agreement
Feb 27, 2008 ... Chrysler LLC is continuing to get parts from supplier Plastech Engineered Products Inc. until March 3. Plastech had agreed to supply parts to Chrysler until Wednesday under a previous agreement, but Chrysler announced the new agreement Tuesday evening. A message seeking ...
Nigerian court upholds elections and sets up Supreme Court showdown
Feb 27, 2008; ... A Nigerian election tribunal ruled in favor of President Umaru Yar'Adua in a dispute with the opposition, and his challengers vowed to appeal _ sticking to the legal, peaceful route, perhaps a sign of maturing democracy in Africa. In a three-hour oral judgment delivered Tuesday in a ...
Nigerian court upholds elections and sets up Supreme Court showdown
Feb 27, 2008; ... A Nigerian election tribunal ruled in favor of President Umaru Yar'Adua in a dispute with the opposition, and his challengers vowed to appeal _ sticking to the legal, peaceful route, perhaps a sign of maturing democracy in Africa. In a three-hour oral judgment delivered Tuesday in a ...
Consumer confidence plunges while wholesale inflation rises at fastest pace in 26 years
Feb 27, 2008; ... In more bad economic news, U.S. consumer confidence and home prices posted sharp declines while higher costs for such basics as food, energy and medicine left wholesale inflation rising at a pace unseen since late 1981. The new reports Tuesday documented the latest in a series of ...
North Koreans and NY Philharmonic herald warming ties between U.S. and Pyongyang
Feb 27, 2008; ... The New York Philharmonic's unprecedented concert in North Korea could herald warmer ties between the communist nation and the West. After three encores, some musicians left the stage in tears as the audience waved fondly. Between horn fanfares and the flourishes of a conductor's ...
Wednesday, March 5
Feb 27, 2008; ... Today is Wednesday, March 5, the 65th day of 2008. There are 301 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1496 - England's King Henry VII commissions John and Sebastian Cabot to discover new lands. 1684 - Holy League of Linz is formed by Holy ...
History of underwear _ from corsets to thongs _ revealed in Polish museum exhibit
Feb 27, 2008; ... Victoria has no secrets in this Polish town. In an exhibition that's making some Poles to a double-take, the Museum of Industry in Opatowek has chronicled the evolution of women's underwear from the knee-length knickers and tight corsets of the early 20th century to the skimpy thongs ...
Consumer confidence plunges while wholesale inflation rises at fastest pace in 26 years
Feb 27, 2008; ... In more bad economic news, U.S. consumer confidence and home prices posted sharp declines while higher costs for such basics as food, energy and medicine left wholesale inflation rising at a pace unseen since late 1981. The new reports Tuesday documented the latest in a series of ...
North Koreans and NY Philharmonic herald warming ties between U.S. and Pyongyang
Feb 27, 2008; ... The New York Philharmonic's unprecedented concert in North Korea could herald warmer ties between the communist nation and the West. After three encores, some musicians left the stage in tears as the audience waved fondly. Between horn fanfares and the flourishes of a conductor's ...
Wednesday, March 5
Feb 27, 2008; ... Today is Wednesday, March 5, the 65th day of 2008. There are 301 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1496 - England's King Henry VII commissions John and Sebastian Cabot to discover new lands. 1684 - Holy League of Linz is formed by Holy ...
History of underwear _ from corsets to thongs _ revealed in Polish museum exhibit
Feb 27, 2008; ... Victoria has no secrets in this Polish town. In an exhibition that's making some Poles to a double-take, the Museum of Industry in Opatowek has chronicled the evolution of women's underwear from the knee-length knickers and tight corsets of the early 20th century to the skimpy thongs ...
Prosecutors in ex-sailor's terror case play violent jihadist videos they say he ordered
Feb 27, 2008; ... Prosecutors played videos promoting violent jihad at the trial of a former sailor accused of communicating with suspected terrorists and leaking information that could have doomed his own Navy ship. Prosecutors allege that Hassan Abu-Jihaad ordered the videos. His attorneys have said ...
US Shootings exact a toll beyond the dead and wounded; families and taxpayers suffer too
Feb 27, 2008; ... Antoine Rosenbaum, shot in the back by a stranger and paralyzed from the chest down, carries a heavy load for someone just 25. So does Sophorina Wright as she gets him out of bed, cradles him in her arms and carries his 6-foot (180-centimeter) frame into their living room. There, the ...
Prosecutors in ex-sailor's terror case play violent jihadist videos they say he ordered
Feb 27, 2008; ... Prosecutors played videos promoting violent jihad at the trial of a former sailor accused of communicating with suspected terrorists and leaking information that could have doomed his own Navy ship. Prosecutors allege that Hassan Abu-Jihaad ordered the videos. His attorneys have said ...
US Shootings exact a toll beyond the dead and wounded; families and taxpayers suffer too
Feb 27, 2008; ... Antoine Rosenbaum, shot in the back by a stranger and paralyzed from the chest down, carries a heavy load for someone just 25. So does Sophorina Wright as she gets him out of bed, cradles him in her arms and carries his 6-foot (180-centimeter) frame into their living room. There, the ...
Worries grow for twin evils of 'stagflation' _ stagnant economy, lost jobs, surging inflation
Feb 27, 2008; ... It is a toxic economic mix America has not seen in three decades: Prices are speeding upward at the fastest pace in a quarter century, even as the economy loses steam. Economists call the disease "stagflation," and they are worried it might be coming back. ...
Interfaith leaders say Jewish groups may be overestimating impact of revised Catholic prayer
Feb 27, 2008; ... The Anti-Defamation League was "deeply troubled" by the prayer. Conservative Jewish rabbis said they were "dismayed and deeply disturbed" by its language. But some veteran interfaith leaders _ Jewish and Roman Catholic _ say there's no evidence that a ...
Worries grow for twin evils of 'stagflation' _ stagnant economy, lost jobs, surging inflation
Feb 27, 2008; ... It is a toxic economic mix America has not seen in three decades: Prices are speeding upward at the fastest pace in a quarter century, even as the economy loses steam. Economists call the disease "stagflation," and they are worried it might be coming back. ...
Interfaith leaders say Jewish groups may be overestimating impact of revised Catholic prayer
Feb 27, 2008; ... The Anti-Defamation League was "deeply troubled" by the prayer. Conservative Jewish rabbis said they were "dismayed and deeply disturbed" by its language. But some veteran interfaith leaders _ Jewish and Roman Catholic _ say there's no evidence that a ...
Fact Check: Misrepresentations fly in Clinton-Obama dustup over NAFTA
Feb 27, 2008 ... Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are paying a price for artful dodges on trade over the years. Thanks to past equivocations, the Democratic presidential candidates have left themselves open to the criticisms and misrepresentations they are now throwing at each other as ...
Fact Check: Misrepresentations fly in Clinton-Obama dustup over NAFTA
Feb 27, 2008 ... Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are paying a price for artful dodges on trade over the years. Thanks to past equivocations, the Democratic presidential candidates have left themselves open to the criticisms and misrepresentations they are now throwing at each other as ...
Serbs mourn youth who died in riots targeting U.S. embassy
Feb 27, 2008; ... Thousands of Serbs gathered to bury a 20-year-old engineering student killed inside Belgrade's U.S. embassy after a mob set it on fire following protests over Kosovo's declaration of independence. Students, teachers and relatives surrounded Zoran Vujovic's flower-laden white casket in ...
Serbs mourn youth who died in riots targeting U.S. embassy
Feb 27, 2008; ... Thousands of Serbs gathered to bury a 20-year-old engineering student killed inside Belgrade's U.S. embassy after a mob set it on fire following protests over Kosovo's declaration of independence. Students, teachers and relatives surrounded Zoran Vujovic's flower-laden white casket in ...
Red Cross: Venezuelan helicopters fly to Colombia on Wednesday to pick up hostages
Feb 27, 2008; ... Venezuelan helicopters have been given the green light to fly into Colombia on a mission to recover four rebel-held hostages after more than six years of captivity, a Red Cross official confirmed on Tuesday. Two Venezuelan aircraft marked with the Red Cross logo will travel to the ...
Senate Republicans have change of heart, welcome Iraq debate
Feb 27, 2008; ... In an turnabout, Senate Republicans are agreeing with Democrats to advance an anti-war bill because they said the debate would give them an opportunity to praise the U.S. military's progress in Iraq. The change of heart came after months of blocking similar measures. Unlike most of ...
Red Cross: Venezuelan helicopters fly to Colombia on Wednesday to pick up hostages
Feb 27, 2008; ... Venezuelan helicopters have been given the green light to fly into Colombia on a mission to recover four rebel-held hostages after more than six years of captivity, a Red Cross official confirmed on Tuesday. Two Venezuelan aircraft marked with the Red Cross logo will travel to the ...
Senate Republicans have change of heart, welcome Iraq debate
Feb 27, 2008; ... In an turnabout, Senate Republicans are agreeing with Democrats to advance an anti-war bill because they said the debate would give them an opportunity to praise the U.S. military's progress in Iraq. The change of heart came after months of blocking similar measures. Unlike most of ...
Kenyan graffiti artist tries for peace with a paintbrush
Feb 27, 2008; ... Peace graffiti has taken over Nairobi's battered Kibera slum. "Don't Kill Innocent Kenyans" and "Keep Peace" beg slogans hand-painted on the charred walls of shacks and storefronts destroyed by looting mobs _ messages from a local artist trying to heal a ...
World Golf Glance
Feb 27, 2008; ... Site: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: PGA National Resort and Spa, Champion Course (7,158 yards, 6,545 meters, par 70). Purse: $5.5 million (3.7 million). Winner's share: $990,000 (665,600). Last year: Mark Wilson won ...
Kenyan graffiti artist tries for peace with a paintbrush
Feb 27, 2008; ... Peace graffiti has taken over Nairobi's battered Kibera slum. "Don't Kill Innocent Kenyans" and "Keep Peace" beg slogans hand-painted on the charred walls of shacks and storefronts destroyed by looting mobs _ messages from a local artist trying to heal a ...
World Golf Glance
Feb 27, 2008; ... Site: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: PGA National Resort and Spa, Champion Course (7,158 yards, 6,545 meters, par 70). Purse: $5.5 million (euro3.7 million). Winner's share: $990,000 (euro665,600). Last year: Mark ...
Copa Libertadores: Lanus in scoreless draw with Estudiantes
Feb 27, 2008 ... Lanus and rival Argentine rival Estudiantes played out a listless, scoreless draw in Copa Libertadores Group 2 on Tuesday. Both teams produced few scoring chances. Estudiantes muffed an opportunity in the ninth minute when Ezequiel ...
Copa Libertadores: Lanus in scoreless draw with Estudiantes
Feb 27, 2008 ... Lanus and rival Argentine rival Estudiantes played out a listless, scoreless draw in Copa Libertadores Group 2 on Tuesday. Both teams produced few scoring chances. Estudiantes muffed an opportunity in the ninth minute when Ezequiel ...
US PGA Tour tweaks playoff points to give more players a chance
Feb 27, 2008; ... Tiger Woods won the FedEx Cup so handily last year that he skipped the first playoff event and could have stayed home during the U.S. Tour Championship to collect the $10 million (6.7 million) prize. He wound up 12,578 points ahead of Steve Stricker. Under the new points ...
US PGA Tour tweaks playoff points to give more players a chance
Feb 27, 2008; ... Tiger Woods won the FedEx Cup so handily last year that he skipped the first playoff event and could have stayed home during the U.S. Tour Championship to collect the $10 million (euro6.7 million) prize. He wound up 12,578 points ahead of Steve Stricker. Under the new ...
Nature is fertile inspiration for Paris fashion designers
Feb 27, 2008; ... As rainclouds gathered over Paris on Tuesday, fashion designers drew inspiration from nature for outfits intended to brave the elements next fall. French designer Jean Paul Gaultier, fresh from dressing Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard for the Oscars in a mermaid gown, delved ...
Nature is fertile inspiration for Paris fashion designers
Feb 27, 2008; ... As rainclouds gathered over Paris on Tuesday, fashion designers drew inspiration from nature for outfits intended to brave the elements next fall. French designer Jean Paul Gaultier, fresh from dressing Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard for the Oscars in a mermaid gown, delved ...
Junior World Figure Skating Results
Feb 27, 2008 ... Results Tuesday from the junior world figure skating championships: Ice Dance Compulsory Dance 1. Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates, United States, 35.11 points. 2. Maria Monko and Ilia Tkachenko, Russia, 34.99. 3. Vanessa Crone and Paul ...
Junior World Figure Skating Results
Feb 27, 2008 ... Results Tuesday from the junior world figure skating championships: Ice Dance Compulsory Dance 1. Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates, United States, 35.11 points. 2. Maria Monko and Ilia Tkachenko, Russia, 34.99. 3. Vanessa Crone and Paul ...
Oscar De La Hoya plans to fight 3 more times, then hang up his gloves
Feb 27, 2008; ... Oscar De La Hoya plans to fight three times this year, then retire. "I'm at that stage of my career now where I can't take it further," the 35-year-old De La Hoya said on Tuesday. "I can't go on for the next two years, three years. It's just time to hang up the ...
Clinton, Obama debate in Ohio; she hopes to slow him for next week's primaries
Feb 27, 2008 ... Hillary Rodham Clinton was getting her best chance to slow Barack Obama before the must-win March 4 primaries as the two faced off in the latest debate of an increasingly contentious Democratic presidential race. Obama has won 11 straight primaries and caucuses, and even some of ...
Clinton, Obama debate in Ohio; she hopes to slow him for next week's primaries
Feb 27, 2008 ... Hillary Rodham Clinton was getting her best chance to slow Barack Obama before the must-win March 4 primaries as the two faced off in the latest debate of an increasingly contentious Democratic presidential race. Obama has won 11 straight primaries and caucuses, and even some of ...
NHL commissioner Bettman to testify on doping to U.S. Congress subcommittee
Feb 27, 2008 ... NHL commissioner Gary Bettman plans to tell a U.S. Congress subcommittee on Wednesday that his league is steroid-free. Bettman will testify before the congressional subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. "We shouldn't all be painted with the same ...
NHL commissioner Bettman to testify on doping to U.S. Congress subcommittee
Feb 27, 2008 ... NHL commissioner Gary Bettman plans to tell a U.S. Congress subcommittee on Wednesday that his league is steroid-free. Bettman will testify before the congressional subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection. "We shouldn't all be painted with the same ...
Iraq: Troubled northern regions flare up as Shiites gather in the south
Feb 27, 2008; ... Insurgents targeted passenger buses north of Baghdad, as a suicide bomber killed at least eight people west of Mosul and gunmen seized 21 men traveling through Diyala province. The latest bloodshed on Tuesday highlighted the slow-going, punch-counterpunch U.S.-led campaign against ...
Iraq: Troubled northern regions flare up as Shiites gather in the south
Feb 27, 2008; ... Insurgents targeted passenger buses north of Baghdad, as a suicide bomber killed at least eight people west of Mosul and gunmen seized 21 men traveling through Diyala province. The latest bloodshed on Tuesday highlighted the slow-going, punch-counterpunch U.S.-led campaign against ...
Substation problems sends blackouts through Florida's power grid, affects up to 3 million
Feb 27, 2008; ... A relatively minor glitch in Florida's electrical grid somehow triggered a chain reaction Tuesday that caused a nuclear plant to shut down and briefly cut power in patches around the state. Up to 3 million people _ about a fifth of Florida's population _ lost power at various points ...
Substation problems sends blackouts through Florida's power grid, affects up to 3 million
Feb 27, 2008; ... A relatively minor glitch in Florida's electrical grid somehow triggered a chain reaction Tuesday that caused a nuclear plant to shut down and briefly cut power in patches around the state. Up to 3 million people _ about a fifth of Florida's population _ lost power at various points ...
12 young Republican veterans draw on combat experience, help each other run for US office
Feb 27, 2008; ... Scott Radcliffe believes two tours of duty in Iraq gave him the stuff to serve in Congress. As a platoon commander, he helped spearhead economic development, built citizen coalitions and made many tough decisions, often amid enemy fire, he says. "I would be putting all I learned ...
Benazir's party vows to make Pakistan judiciary independent
Feb 27, 2008; ... The party of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, set to form Pakistan's next government, has vowed to strengthen the country's judiciary by making it fully independent. Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of the party, said Tuesday that a weak judiciary had ...
Benazir's party vows to make Pakistan judiciary independent
Feb 27, 2008; ... The party of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, set to form Pakistan's next government, has vowed to strengthen the country's judiciary by making it fully independent. Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari, the co-chairman of the party, said Tuesday that a weak judiciary had ...
Beating the best not always tougher than beating the rest
Feb 27, 2008; ... Forget the World Golf Championships were ever created, and no one would dispute the world supremacy of Tiger Woods. At the very worst, he still would have 48 career victories on the U.S. PGA Tour and be miles ahead of everyone else. Woods has won 15 times against the best players in ...
Beating the best not always tougher than beating the rest
Feb 27, 2008; ... Forget the World Golf Championships were ever created, and no one would dispute the world supremacy of Tiger Woods. At the very worst, he still would have 48 career victories on the U.S. PGA Tour and be miles ahead of everyone else. Woods has won 15 times against the best players in ...
Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return Thursday: foreign minister
Feb 27, 2008; ... Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup 17 months ago, will return from exile to Thailand onThursday to fight corruption charges, the foreign minister said. Critics warned the billionaire-politician's homecoming could plunge the country back into the kind ...
Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return Thursday: foreign minister
Feb 27, 2008; ... Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed by a military coup 17 months ago, will return from exile to Thailand onThursday to fight corruption charges, the foreign minister said. Critics warned the billionaire-politician's homecoming could plunge the country back into the kind ...