AP Worldstream back issues from Tuesday, March 11:
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Mar 11, 2008 ... EDITORS: The Associated Press closes its news cycle for Monday, March 10, 2008, and begins its report for Tuesday, March 11, 2008. The AP news report is protected by copyright, which gives the AP ...
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Mar 11, 2008 ... SOCCER: COLOMBIAN RIOT: Police ponder jealous boyfriend as spark for brawl that injured 83 BOGOTA, Colombia _ A jealous boyfriend angry that his girlfriend was flirting with another man may have been the cause of a riot at a soccer game that injured 83 people _ including ...
Tuesday, March 18
Mar 11, 2008; ... Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 78th day of 2008. There are 288 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1554 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth is sent to the Tower of London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great ...
US wireless companies fighting requirement for cell tower backup power
Mar 11, 2008; ... When Hurricane Katrina assaulted the Gulf Coast in 2005, wind and flooding knocked out hundreds of cell towers and cell sites, silencing wireless communication exactly when emergency crews and victims needed it. To avoid similar debacles in the future, the Federal Communications ...
Circuit City reinvents itself amid economic woes, increased competition
Mar 11, 2008; ... Dressed in jeans and black T-shirts and armed with touch-screen laptops, Generation Y employees at "The City" help customers choose the latest gadgets. Far from its old "stack 'em high, watch 'em fly" ...
Welcome to America: Reports show foreign students still owed pay
Mar 11, 2008; ... The young workers came from Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, spending their own money to work in summer resort towns desperate for labor. Many of them wound up cheated out of wages and overtime pay, working jobs that violated child labor laws or docked pay to cover room and board. ...
Tuesday, March 18
Mar 11, 2008; ... Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 78th day of 2008. There are 288 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1554 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth is sent to the Tower of London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great ...
Tuesday, March 18
Mar 11, 2008; ... Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 78th day of 2008. There are 288 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1554 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth is sent to the Tower of London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great ...
US wireless companies fighting requirement for cell tower backup power
Mar 11, 2008; ... When Hurricane Katrina assaulted the Gulf Coast in 2005, wind and flooding knocked out hundreds of cell towers and cell sites, silencing wireless communication exactly when emergency crews and victims needed it. To avoid similar debacles in the future, the Federal Communications ...
US wireless companies fighting requirement for cell tower backup power
Mar 11, 2008; ... When Hurricane Katrina assaulted the Gulf Coast in 2005, wind and flooding knocked out hundreds of cell towers and cell sites, silencing wireless communication exactly when emergency crews and victims needed it. To avoid similar debacles in the future, the Federal Communications ...
Circuit City reinvents itself amid economic woes, increased competition
Mar 11, 2008; ... Dressed in jeans and black T-shirts and armed with touch-screen laptops, Generation Y employees at "The City" help customers choose the latest gadgets. Far from its old "stack 'em high, watch 'em fly" approach, struggling electronics retailer Circuit City Stores ...
Circuit City reinvents itself amid economic woes, increased competition
Mar 11, 2008; ... Dressed in jeans and black T-shirts and armed with touch-screen laptops, Generation Y employees at "The City" help customers choose the latest gadgets. Far from its old "stack 'em high, watch 'em fly" approach, struggling electronics retailer Circuit City Stores ...
Welcome to America: Reports show foreign students still owed pay
Mar 11, 2008; ... The young workers came from Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, spending their own money to work in summer resort towns desperate for labor. Many of them wound up cheated out of wages and overtime pay, working jobs that violated child labor laws or docked pay to cover room and board. ...
Welcome to America: Reports show foreign students still owed pay
Mar 11, 2008; ... The young workers came from Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, spending their own money to work in summer resort towns desperate for labor. Many of them wound up cheated out of wages and overtime pay, working jobs that violated child labor laws or docked pay to cover room and board. ...
Report: NKorean, US nuclear negotiators to meet in Geneva this week
Mar 11, 2008 ... The chief U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators will meet this week in Geneva to discuss Pyongyang's declaration of its nuclear activities, a news report said Tuesday. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan are expected to ...
Report: NKorean, US nuclear negotiators to meet in Geneva this week
Mar 11, 2008 ... The chief U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators will meet this week in Geneva to discuss Pyongyang's declaration of its nuclear activities, a news report said Tuesday. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan are expected to ...
Report: NKorean, US nuclear negotiators to meet in Geneva this week
Mar 11, 2008 ... The chief U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators will meet this week in Geneva to discuss Pyongyang's declaration of its nuclear activities, a news report said Tuesday. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill and North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan are expected to ...
BALCO figure objects to medical records made public
Mar 11, 2008; ... A former Olympic cyclist charged with lying to a grand jury about doping accused prosecutors on Monday of foul play by including "unnecessarily graphic details" of her medical records. Tammy Thomas asked a judge to toss out her case. Prosecutors included ...
BALCO figure objects to medical records made public
Mar 11, 2008; ... A former Olympic cyclist charged with lying to a grand jury about doping accused prosecutors on Monday of foul play by including "unnecessarily graphic details" of her medical records. Tammy Thomas asked a judge to toss out her case. Prosecutors included ...
BALCO figure objects to medical records made public
Mar 11, 2008; ... A former Olympic cyclist charged with lying to a grand jury about doping accused prosecutors on Monday of foul play by including "unnecessarily graphic details" of her medical records. Tammy Thomas asked a judge to toss out her case. Prosecutors included ...
Down from ivory tower: top law schools making it real for students through on-the-job training
Mar 11, 2008; ... Medical students learn the ropes on real patients during hospital rounds. Student journalists practice by writing stories. But if learning-by-doing seems an obvious way to master a profession, one corner of higher education has largely avoided it: law schools. Critics say the ...
Down from ivory tower: top law schools making it real for students through on-the-job training
Mar 11, 2008; ... Medical students learn the ropes on real patients during hospital rounds. Student journalists practice by writing stories. But if learning-by-doing seems an obvious way to master a profession, one corner of higher education has largely avoided it: law schools. Critics say the ...
Down from ivory tower: top law schools making it real for students through on-the-job training
Mar 11, 2008; ... Medical students learn the ropes on real patients during hospital rounds. Student journalists practice by writing stories. But if learning-by-doing seems an obvious way to master a profession, one corner of higher education has largely avoided it: law schools. Critics say the ...
NY governor Spitzer, known as 'Mr. Clean,' is linked to high-end prostitution ring
Mar 11, 2008; ... The political career of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career teetered on the brink of collapse after the corruption-fighting politician once known as "Mr. Clean" was accused of paying for a romp with a high-priced call girl. The scandal Monday drew immediate calls ...
NY governor Spitzer, known as 'Mr. Clean,' is linked to high-end prostitution ring
Mar 11, 2008; ... The political career of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career teetered on the brink of collapse after the corruption-fighting politician once known as "Mr. Clean" was accused of paying for a romp with a high-priced call girl. The scandal Monday drew immediate calls ...
NY governor Spitzer, known as 'Mr. Clean,' is linked to high-end prostitution ring
Mar 11, 2008; ... The political career of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's political career teetered on the brink of collapse after the corruption-fighting politician once known as "Mr. Clean" was accused of paying for a romp with a high-priced call girl. The scandal Monday drew immediate calls ...
Russia says US warships off Lebanon are not helping to resolve political crisis
Mar 11, 2008 ... Russia says the presence of U.S. Navy warships in the Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon is not helping resolve the political crisis in Lebanon. Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he raised the U.S. deployment at a closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council. ...
Russia says US warships off Lebanon are not helping to resolve political crisis
Mar 11, 2008 ... Russia says the presence of U.S. Navy warships in the Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon is not helping resolve the political crisis in Lebanon. Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he raised the U.S. deployment at a closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council. ...
Russia says US warships off Lebanon are not helping to resolve political crisis
Mar 11, 2008 ... Russia says the presence of U.S. Navy warships in the Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon is not helping resolve the political crisis in Lebanon. Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he raised the U.S. deployment at a closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council. ...
Harrah's ends involvement in Bahamas resort complex
Mar 11, 2008; ... U.S. casino operator Harrah's Entertainment Inc. has announced that it has pulled out of a six-hotel resort proposal in the Bahamas worth more than US$2 billion (1.3 billion) because it has taken too long to organize. Harrah's had agreed to team up with developer Baha Mar Resorts Ltd ....
Herrera, Costa and Kors among the nominees for top fashion awards
Mar 11, 2008; ... Carolina Herrera, a stateswoman of the New York fashion scene, is being honored for her long career by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. "She is a lady of elegance," said CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg as she told a crowd of fashion insiders gathered Monday ...
Herrera, Costa and Kors among the nominees for top fashion awards
Mar 11, 2008; ... Carolina Herrera, a stateswoman of the New York fashion scene, is being honored for her long career by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. "She is a lady of elegance," said CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg as she told a crowd of fashion insiders gathered Monday ...
Herrera, Costa and Kors among the nominees for top fashion awards
Mar 11, 2008; ... Carolina Herrera, a stateswoman of the New York fashion scene, is being honored for her long career by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. "She is a lady of elegance," said CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg as she told a crowd of fashion insiders gathered Monday ...
President of disgraced slaughterhouse taps high-profile adviser
Mar 11, 2008; ... The head of the California slaughterhouse involved in the largest beef recall in U.S. history has brought on a high-profile adviser as he prepares to testify under subpoena before Congress. Steve Mendell, president of the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. of Chino, California, is being ...
President of disgraced slaughterhouse taps high-profile adviser
Mar 11, 2008; ... The head of the California slaughterhouse involved in the largest beef recall in U.S. history has brought on a high-profile adviser as he prepares to testify under subpoena before Congress. Steve Mendell, president of the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. of Chino, California, is being ...
President of disgraced slaughterhouse taps high-profile adviser
Mar 11, 2008; ... The head of the California slaughterhouse involved in the largest beef recall in U.S. history has brought on a high-profile adviser as he prepares to testify under subpoena before Congress. Steve Mendell, president of the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. of Chino, California, is being ...
2 veteran US senators, congresswoman to convene hearings on AP's probe of medications in water
Mar 11, 2008; ... Two veteran U.S. senators said they plan to hold hearings in response to an Associated Press investigation into the presence of trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans. Also, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, a Pennsylvania Democrat, ...
2 veteran US senators, congresswoman to convene hearings on AP's probe of medications in water
Mar 11, 2008; ... Two veteran U.S. senators said they plan to hold hearings in response to an Associated Press investigation into the presence of trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans. Also, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, a Pennsylvania Democrat, ...
2 veteran US senators, congresswoman to convene hearings on AP's probe of medications in water
Mar 11, 2008; ... Two veteran U.S. senators said they plan to hold hearings in response to an Associated Press investigation into the presence of trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans. Also, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, a Pennsylvania Democrat, ...
Satellite photos show illegal loggers clear-cutting core of monarch's habitat
Mar 11, 2008 ... Satellite photographs show illegal loggers have clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico, threatening the insects' habitat, a researcher said Monday. The images show illegal loggers chopped 1,100 acres (450 hectares) of trees since 2004 in ...
Satellite photos show illegal loggers clear-cutting core of monarch's habitat
Mar 11, 2008 ... Satellite photographs show illegal loggers have clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico, threatening the insects' habitat, a researcher said Monday. The images show illegal loggers chopped 1,100 acres (450 hectares) of trees since 2004 in ...
Satellite photos show illegal loggers clear-cutting core of monarch's habitat
Mar 11, 2008 ... Satellite photographs show illegal loggers have clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico, threatening the insects' habitat, a researcher said Monday. The images show illegal loggers chopped 1,100 acres (450 hectares) of trees since 2004 in ...
No time for Spanish prime minister to savor election victory as economy and ETA violence loom
Mar 11, 2008; ... Forget about savoring victory. Spain's freshly re-elected Socialist prime minister begins a second term facing immediate challenges from a slumping economy and surging violence by the Basque separatist group ETA. Although he was cheered by emerging from Sunday's election with a bigger ...
No time for Spanish prime minister to savor election victory as economy and ETA violence loom
Mar 11, 2008; ... Forget about savoring victory. Spain's freshly re-elected Socialist prime minister begins a second term facing immediate challenges from a slumping economy and surging violence by the Basque separatist group ETA. Although he was cheered by emerging from Sunday's election with a bigger ...
No time for Spanish prime minister to savor election victory as economy and ETA violence loom
Mar 11, 2008; ... Forget about savoring victory. Spain's freshly re-elected Socialist prime minister begins a second term facing immediate challenges from a slumping economy and surging violence by the Basque separatist group ETA. Although he was cheered by emerging from Sunday's election with a bigger ...
Putin takes in some Moscow theater _ and offers criticism for the cast
Mar 11, 2008; ... He has driven trains, sailed on a submarine, flown a fighter jet and holds a black-belt in judo. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin is dabbling in a new area _ theater criticism. The outgoing president and wife, Lyudmila, paid a surprise visit to a Moscow theater Sunday to view a ...
Putin takes in some Moscow theater _ and offers criticism for the cast
Mar 11, 2008; ... He has driven trains, sailed on a submarine, flown a fighter jet and holds a black-belt in judo. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin is dabbling in a new area _ theater criticism. The outgoing president and wife, Lyudmila, paid a surprise visit to a Moscow theater Sunday to view a ...
Putin takes in some Moscow theater _ and offers criticism for the cast
Mar 11, 2008; ... He has driven trains, sailed on a submarine, flown a fighter jet and holds a black-belt in judo. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin is dabbling in a new area _ theater criticism. The outgoing president and wife, Lyudmila, paid a surprise visit to a Moscow theater Sunday to view a ...
Serbia's caretaker government calls for early elections in May after Cabinet collapse
Mar 11, 2008; ... Serbia's caretaker government urged the president to call early parliamentary elections in May after the Cabinet collapsed in a political impasse over Kosovo's declaration of independence and ties with the European Union. The European Union called on Serbia's leaders to shun ...
Serbia's caretaker government calls for early elections in May after Cabinet collapse
Mar 11, 2008; ... Serbia's caretaker government urged the president to call early parliamentary elections in May after the Cabinet collapsed in a political impasse over Kosovo's declaration of independence and ties with the European Union. The European Union called on Serbia's leaders to shun ...
Serbia's caretaker government calls for early elections in May after Cabinet collapse
Mar 11, 2008; ... Serbia's caretaker government urged the president to call early parliamentary elections in May after the Cabinet collapsed in a political impasse over Kosovo's declaration of independence and ties with the European Union. The European Union called on Serbia's leaders to shun ...
Croatian generals go on trial for alleged war crimes trial
Mar 11, 2008; ... Three Croat generals still widely regarded as national heroes for leading a 1995 military campaign that seized back land taken over by rebel Serbs in 1991 go on trial Tuesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac are accused of orchestrating ...
House Judiciary Committee seeks to enforce subpoenas against 2 White House officials
Mar 11, 2008; ... The House Judiciary Committee has sued former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten, setting up a constitutional clash over the Bush administration's refusal to provide testimony and documents about the firing of U.S. attorneys. The lawsuit, ...
Croatian generals go on trial for alleged war crimes trial
Mar 11, 2008; ... Three Croat generals still widely regarded as national heroes for leading a 1995 military campaign that seized back land taken over by rebel Serbs in 1991 go on trial Tuesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac are accused of orchestrating ...
Croatian generals go on trial for alleged war crimes trial
Mar 11, 2008; ... Three Croat generals still widely regarded as national heroes for leading a 1995 military campaign that seized back land taken over by rebel Serbs in 1991 go on trial Tuesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac are accused of orchestrating ...
9 Mexican school children killed as SUV falls into canal
Mar 11, 2008 ... A sports utility vehicle fell into a canal in central Mexico Monday, killing nine small children but leaving their teacher unharmed, a city official said. The eight girls and one boy, ages 3 to 6, were heading to their teacher's house for lunch Monday when the SUV they were traveling ...
House Judiciary Committee seeks to enforce subpoenas against 2 White House officials
Mar 11, 2008; ... The House Judiciary Committee has sued former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten, setting up a constitutional clash over the Bush administration's refusal to provide testimony and documents about the firing of U.S. attorneys. The lawsuit, ...
House Judiciary Committee seeks to enforce subpoenas against 2 White House officials
Mar 11, 2008; ... The House Judiciary Committee has sued former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten, setting up a constitutional clash over the Bush administration's refusal to provide testimony and documents about the firing of U.S. attorneys. The lawsuit, ...
9 Mexican school children killed as SUV falls into canal
Mar 11, 2008 ... A sports utility vehicle fell into a canal in central Mexico Monday, killing nine small children but leaving their teacher unharmed, a city official said. The eight girls and one boy, ages 3 to 6, were heading to their teacher's house for lunch Monday when the SUV they were traveling ...
9 Mexican school children killed as SUV falls into canal
Mar 11, 2008 ... A sports utility vehicle fell into a canal in central Mexico Monday, killing nine small children but leaving their teacher unharmed, a city official said. The eight girls and one boy, ages 3 to 6, were heading to their teacher's house for lunch Monday when the SUV they were traveling ...
Kenyan army crackdown reported in west; parliament to debate power-sharing agreement
Mar 11, 2008; ... The army used heavy firepower to crack down on a group linked to bloody clashes over land, officials in western Kenya said, a day before parliament was to debate and possibly adopt a power-sharing deal. The violence on Monday in the western Mount Elgon region underlines how difficult ...
Kenyan army crackdown reported in west; parliament to debate power-sharing agreement
Mar 11, 2008; ... The army used heavy firepower to crack down on a group linked to bloody clashes over land, officials in western Kenya said, a day before parliament was to debate and possibly adopt a power-sharing deal. The violence on Monday in the western Mount Elgon region underlines how difficult ...
Kenyan army crackdown reported in west; parliament to debate power-sharing agreement
Mar 11, 2008; ... The army used heavy firepower to crack down on a group linked to bloody clashes over land, officials in western Kenya said, a day before parliament was to debate and possibly adopt a power-sharing deal. The violence on Monday in the western Mount Elgon region underlines how difficult ...
Olympic security takes center stage following China's terror plot claims
Mar 11, 2008; ... Beijing Olympic organizers said they were confident about security arrangements for the August Games despite a Communist Party official's revelation that authorities had foiled a plot by Islamic terrorists targeting the event. "An efficient Olympic security command system is in ...
Olympic security takes center stage following China's terror plot claims
Mar 11, 2008; ... Beijing Olympic organizers said they were confident about security arrangements for the August Games despite a Communist Party official's revelation that authorities had foiled a plot by Islamic terrorists targeting the event. "An efficient Olympic security command system is in ...