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Mar 17, 2008 ... EDITORS: The Associated Press closes its news cycle for Sunday, March 16, 2008, and begins its report for Monday, March 17, 2008. The AP news report is protected by copyright, which gives the AP ...
Monday, March 24
Mar 17, 2008; ... Today is Monday, March 24, the 84th day of 2008. There are 282 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1267 - St. Louis of France calls his knights to Paris to prepare for the Eighth Crusade. It ends in failure before reaching the Holy Land, and becomes ...
Monday, March 24
Mar 17, 2008; ... Today is Monday, March 24, the 84th day of 2008. There are 282 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1267 - St. Louis of France calls his knights to Paris to prepare for the Eighth Crusade. It ends in failure before reaching the Holy Land, and becomes ...
Monday, March 24
Mar 17, 2008; ... Today is Monday, March 24, the 84th day of 2008. There are 282 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1267 - St. Louis of France calls his knights to Paris to prepare for the Eighth Crusade. It ends in failure before reaching the Holy Land, and becomes ...
Rescuers dig for 3 people missing in the rubble, wreckage of deadly crane collapse in NYC
Mar 17, 2008; ... Rescuers dug through debris for three people still missing in the rubble and wreckage left when a construction crane toppled like a tree across a city block and killed at least four construction workers. Among the missing Sunday were two workers and a woman who was staying in an ...
Timing saves survivors as falling crane wreaks neighborhood havoc
Mar 17, 2008; ... Timing was everything for Jean Squeri and her husband, Kerry Walker, who left their top-floor apartment in an East Side town house just minutes before a towering construction crane toppled on it, reducing the 19th century building to rubble. Timing also was everything for Rabbi Shmuly ...
'Boot camps' treat chronic pain sufferers: biofeedback, therapy, exercise under one roof
Mar 17, 2008; ... Ballet teacher Gayle Parseghian thought she might never dance again after a back ...
Pollsters: Sarkozy's conservative party lags in local elections
Mar 17, 2008; ... French voters dealt a stinging warning to President Nicolas Sarkozy by throwing his party out of office in a string of towns and cities, a ballot box setback that prompted immediate promises of reinvigorated reforms from his government. While of only limited national import, the ...
Rescuers dig for 3 people missing in the rubble, wreckage of deadly crane collapse in NYC
Mar 17, 2008; ... Rescuers dug through debris for three people still missing in the rubble and wreckage left when a construction crane toppled like a tree across a city block and killed at least four construction workers. Among the missing Sunday were two workers and a woman who was staying in an ...
Rescuers dig for 3 people missing in the rubble, wreckage of deadly crane collapse in NYC
Mar 17, 2008; ... Rescuers dug through debris for three people still missing in the rubble and wreckage left when a construction crane toppled like a tree across a city block and killed at least four construction workers. Among the missing Sunday were two workers and a woman who was staying in an ...
Timing saves survivors as falling crane wreaks neighborhood havoc
Mar 17, 2008; ... Timing was everything for Jean Squeri and her husband, Kerry Walker, who left their top-floor apartment in an East Side town house just minutes before a towering construction crane toppled on it, reducing the 19th century building to rubble. Timing also was everything for Rabbi Shmuly ...
Timing saves survivors as falling crane wreaks neighborhood havoc
Mar 17, 2008; ... Timing was everything for Jean Squeri and her husband, Kerry Walker, who left their top-floor apartment in an East Side town house just minutes before a towering construction crane toppled on it, reducing the 19th century building to rubble. Timing also was everything for Rabbi Shmuly ...
'Boot camps' treat chronic pain sufferers: biofeedback, therapy, exercise under one roof
Mar 17, 2008; ... Ballet teacher Gayle Parseghian thought she might never dance again after a back injury while moving heavy furniture left her with unrelenting pain. But an intensive, four-week "boot camp" got the 55-year-old dancer from Toledo, Ohio, back to the barre. The program at the ...
'Boot camps' treat chronic pain sufferers: biofeedback, therapy, exercise under one roof
Mar 17, 2008; ... Ballet teacher Gayle Parseghian thought she might never dance again after a back injury while moving heavy furniture left her with unrelenting pain. But an intensive, four-week "boot camp" got the 55-year-old dancer from Toledo, Ohio, back to the barre. The program at the ...
Pollsters: Sarkozy's conservative party lags in local elections
Mar 17, 2008; ... French voters dealt a stinging warning to President Nicolas Sarkozy by throwing his party out of office in a string of towns and cities, a ballot box setback that prompted immediate promises of reinvigorated reforms from his government. While of only limited national import, the ...
Scientists, environmentalists, utilities agree: More testing needed on drugs in drinking water
Mar 17, 2008; ... Test it, study it, figure out how to clean it _ but still drink it. That is the range of reactions raining down from community leaders, utilities, environmental groups and policy makers in reaction to an Associated Press investigation that documented the presence of pharmaceuticals in major ...
Pollsters: Sarkozy's conservative party lags in local elections
Mar 17, 2008; ... French voters dealt a stinging warning to President Nicolas Sarkozy by throwing his party out of office in a string of towns and cities, a ballot box setback that prompted immediate promises of reinvigorated reforms from his government. While of only limited national import, the ...
Scientists, environmentalists, utilities agree: More testing needed on drugs in drinking water
Mar 17, 2008; ... Test it, study it, figure out how to clean it _ but still drink it. That is the range of reactions raining down from community leaders, utilities, environmental groups and policy makers in reaction to an Associated Press investigation that documented the presence of pharmaceuticals in major ...
Scientists, environmentalists, utilities agree: More testing needed on drugs in drinking water
Mar 17, 2008; ... Test it, study it, figure out how to clean it _ but still drink it. That is the range of reactions raining down from community leaders, utilities, environmental groups and policy makers in reaction to an Associated Press investigation that documented the presence of pharmaceuticals in major ...
Fed takes new steps to ease financial crisis
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Federal Reserve announced a series of new steps to help provide relief to a spreading credit crisis that threatens to plunge the U.S. economy into recession. The central bank on Sunday approved a cut to its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, ...
Paterson prepares for unexpected role as governor of New York
Mar 17, 2008; ... Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who is legally blind, will be sworn in Monday as New York state's 55th governor. Just a week after the world learned of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement in a prostitution ring, Paterson will become the state's first black governor and the nation's first ...
Fed takes new steps to ease financial crisis
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Federal Reserve announced a series of new steps to help provide relief to a spreading credit crisis that threatens to plunge the U.S. economy into recession. The central bank on Sunday approved a cut to its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, ...
Fed takes new steps to ease financial crisis
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Federal Reserve announced a series of new steps to help provide relief to a spreading credit crisis that threatens to plunge the U.S. economy into recession. The central bank on Sunday approved a cut to its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, ...
Paterson prepares for unexpected role as governor of New York
Mar 17, 2008; ... Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who is legally blind, will be sworn in Monday as New York state's 55th governor. Just a week after the world learned of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement in a prostitution ring, Paterson will become the state's first black governor and the nation's first ...
Paterson prepares for unexpected role as governor of New York
Mar 17, 2008; ... Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who is legally blind, will be sworn in Monday as New York state's 55th governor. Just a week after the world learned of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement in a prostitution ring, Paterson will become the state's first black governor and the nation's first ...
Animal rescue workers seek donations to help hundreds of rescued cats
Mar 17, 2008 ... Animal rescue workers were seeking donations of animal carriers and other supplies to help hundreds of cats rescued from a facility where they had been living in squalid conditions. Officials discovered 600 to 700 cats _ many sick and dying _ during a raid Thursday at the secluded ...
Animal rescue workers seek donations to help hundreds of rescued cats
Mar 17, 2008 ... Animal rescue workers were seeking donations of animal carriers and other supplies to help hundreds of cats rescued from a facility where they had been living in squalid conditions. Officials discovered 600 to 700 cats _ many sick and dying _ during a raid Thursday at the secluded ...
Animal rescue workers seek donations to help hundreds of rescued cats
Mar 17, 2008 ... Animal rescue workers were seeking donations of animal carriers and other supplies to help hundreds of cats rescued from a facility where they had been living in squalid conditions. Officials discovered 600 to 700 cats _ many sick and dying _ during a raid Thursday at the secluded ...
Group that seized 2 Austrian tourists in Tunisia extends deadline for demands to be met
Mar 17, 2008; ... Hostage-takers who seized two Austrian tourists last month in Tunisia have extended a deadline for their demands to be met, Austria's Foreign Ministry said. Austrian authorities received a message "making more time available for efforts to secure the release of Wolfgang Ebner and ...
Group that seized 2 Austrian tourists in Tunisia extends deadline for demands to be met
Mar 17, 2008; ... Hostage-takers who seized two Austrian tourists last month in Tunisia have extended a deadline for their demands to be met, Austria's Foreign Ministry said. Austrian authorities received a message "making more time available for efforts to secure the release of Wolfgang Ebner and ...
Group that seized 2 Austrian tourists in Tunisia extends deadline for demands to be met
Mar 17, 2008; ... Hostage-takers who seized two Austrian tourists last month in Tunisia have extended a deadline for their demands to be met, Austria's Foreign Ministry said. Austrian authorities received a message "making more time available for efforts to secure the release of Wolfgang Ebner and ...
JPMorgan says it will buy ailing Bear Stearns for $2 a share, or $236.2 million
Mar 17, 2008; ... JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million (151.79 million) _ or $2 a share _ a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks. The last-minute buyout was aimed at averting a Bear Stearns ...
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly blast at Albanian ammunition dump
Mar 17, 2008; ... Rescue teams worked into the night to try to locate nine people still missing after a chain of massive explosions flattened an Albanian ammunition dump and hundreds of nearby houses over the weekend, killing at least nine and injuring nearly 300. Defense Ministry spokesman Igli Hasani ...
Blast at ammunition depot leaves shattered lives in poverty-ridden Albania
Mar 17, 2008; ... Shkelqim Prini was engaged to be married. On Sunday the 21-year-old had all but lost hope rescuers would claw his fiancee, Zeli Elezi, from the rubble left behind by a powerful explosion at an ammunition depot. The two were working in the depot in the village of Gerdec, just north of ...
JPMorgan says it will buy ailing Bear Stearns for $2 a share, or $236.2 million
Mar 17, 2008; ... JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million (euro151.79 million) _ or $2 a share _ a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks. The last-minute buyout was aimed at averting a Bear Stearns ...
JPMorgan says it will buy ailing Bear Stearns for $2 a share, or $236.2 million
Mar 17, 2008; ... JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million (euro151.79 million) _ or $2 a share _ a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks. The last-minute buyout was aimed at averting a Bear Stearns ...
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly blast at Albanian ammunition dump
Mar 17, 2008; ... Rescue teams worked into the night to try to locate nine people still missing after a chain of massive explosions flattened an Albanian ammunition dump and hundreds of nearby houses over the weekend, killing at least nine and injuring nearly 300. Defense Ministry spokesman Igli Hasani ...
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly blast at Albanian ammunition dump
Mar 17, 2008; ... Rescue teams worked into the night to try to locate nine people still missing after a chain of massive explosions flattened an Albanian ammunition dump and hundreds of nearby houses over the weekend, killing at least nine and injuring nearly 300. Defense Ministry spokesman Igli Hasani ...
Blast at ammunition depot leaves shattered lives in poverty-ridden Albania
Mar 17, 2008; ... Shkelqim Prini was engaged to be married. On Sunday the 21-year-old had all but lost hope rescuers would claw his fiancee, Zeli Elezi, from the rubble left behind by a powerful explosion at an ammunition depot. The two were working in the depot in the village of Gerdec, just north of ...
Blast at ammunition depot leaves shattered lives in poverty-ridden Albania
Mar 17, 2008; ... Shkelqim Prini was engaged to be married. On Sunday the 21-year-old had all but lost hope rescuers would claw his fiancee, Zeli Elezi, from the rubble left behind by a powerful explosion at an ammunition depot. The two were working in the depot in the village of Gerdec, just north of ...
War crimes trial to begin of Milosevic's former security chiefs
Mar 17, 2008; ... Two former Serbian security officers were to go on trial Monday charged with directing murder and ethnic cleansing by Serb paramilitary gangs in Bosnia and Croatia, where hundreds of non-Serbs were executed and thousands were expelled from their villages. Jovica Stanisic, once Serbian ...
Analysts see sovereign wealth funds playing contributing role in record oil prices
Mar 17, 2008; ... As oil prices charge past $110 (71) a barrel, analysts say government-run investment funds from oil-rich nations may be adding speculative heat to an already red-hot market. By placing bets in futures markets, these sovereign-wealth funds are no different than hedge funds, pension ...
War crimes trial to begin of Milosevic's former security chiefs
Mar 17, 2008; ... Two former Serbian security officers were to go on trial Monday charged with directing murder and ethnic cleansing by Serb paramilitary gangs in Bosnia and Croatia, where hundreds of non-Serbs were executed and thousands were expelled from their villages. Jovica Stanisic, once Serbian ...
War crimes trial to begin of Milosevic's former security chiefs
Mar 17, 2008; ... Two former Serbian security officers were to go on trial Monday charged with directing murder and ethnic cleansing by Serb paramilitary gangs in Bosnia and Croatia, where hundreds of non-Serbs were executed and thousands were expelled from their villages. Jovica Stanisic, once Serbian ...
Analysts see sovereign wealth funds playing contributing role in record oil prices
Mar 17, 2008; ... As oil prices charge past $110 (euro71) a barrel, analysts say government-run investment funds from oil-rich nations may be adding speculative heat to an already red-hot market. By placing bets in futures markets, these sovereign-wealth funds are no different than hedge funds, pension ...
Analysts see sovereign wealth funds playing contributing role in record oil prices
Mar 17, 2008; ... As oil prices charge past $110 (euro71) a barrel, analysts say government-run investment funds from oil-rich nations may be adding speculative heat to an already red-hot market. By placing bets in futures markets, these sovereign-wealth funds are no different than hedge funds, pension ...
Turkish Islamic-oriented party faces closure amid tension with secular circles
Mar 17, 2008; ... Turkey's prime minister has criticized legal efforts to have his Islamic-oriented party disbanded as undemocratic, and proclaimed his loyalty to the country's secular traditions. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party have faced months of pressure, ...
Iraq war has nearly vanished from U.S. TV screens
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Iraq war has nearly vanished from Americans' TV screens over the past few months, replaced by stories about the fascinating presidential campaign and faltering economy. Yet Americans continue to fight and die there, five years after the war started in March 2003. ...
Iraq war has nearly vanished from U.S. TV screens
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Iraq war has nearly vanished from Americans' TV screens over the past few months, replaced by stories about the fascinating presidential campaign and faltering economy. Yet Americans continue to fight and die there, five years after the war started in March 2003. ...
Iraq war has nearly vanished from U.S. TV screens
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Iraq war has nearly vanished from Americans' TV screens over the past few months, replaced by stories about the fascinating presidential campaign and faltering economy. Yet Americans continue to fight and die there, five years after the war started in March 2003. ...
Municipal employees extend strike as protests over pension reform escalate
Mar 17, 2008; ... Municipal workers will carry their strike into next week to oppose government plans to reform the pension system, union officials said Sunday. The POE-OTA union has called for a general strike on Wednesday to protest the government's plan to eliminate most early retirement schemes, ...
Municipal employees extend strike as protests over pension reform escalate
Mar 17, 2008; ... Municipal workers will carry their strike into next week to oppose government plans to reform the pension system, union officials said Sunday. The POE-OTA union has called for a general strike on Wednesday to protest the government's plan to eliminate most early retirement schemes, ...
Municipal employees extend strike as protests over pension reform escalate
Mar 17, 2008; ... Municipal workers will carry their strike into next week to oppose government plans to reform the pension system, union officials said Sunday. The POE-OTA union has called for a general strike on Wednesday to protest the government's plan to eliminate most early retirement schemes, ...
Red Cross says Iraqis lack basic services 5 years after invasion
Mar 17, 2008 ... Five years after the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein many Iraqis still lack access to basic health care, sanitation and clean water, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday. The humanitarian situation in Iraq is among the most critical in the world, the Red ...
WORLD SPORTS at 0000 GMT
Mar 17, 2008 ... SOCCER: LA LIGA: Barcelona allows late goal, settles for 2-2 draw with Almeria MADRID, Spain _ Kalu Uche heads in an 85th-minute equalizer Sunday to give Almeria a 2-2 draw against 10-man FC Barcelona in the Spanish league. BC-EU-SPT-SOC--SPANISH ROUNDUP. Has moved. By Paul ...
Judge set to rule in Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce case
Mar 17, 2008; ... It's been a hard day's night, but Paul McCartney will finally learn Monday how much of his huge fortune he must hand over to estranged wife Heather Mills. The rest of the world may have to wait a bit longer. British law dictates that divorce cases are heard in private, and judge Hugh ...
Judge set to rule in Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce case
Mar 17, 2008; ... It's been a hard day's night, but Paul McCartney will finally learn Monday how much of his huge fortune he must hand over to estranged wife Heather Mills. The rest of the world may have to wait a bit longer. British law dictates that divorce cases are heard in private, and judge Hugh ...
Judge set to rule in Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce case
Mar 17, 2008; ... It's been a hard day's night, but Paul McCartney will finally learn Monday how much of his huge fortune he must hand over to estranged wife Heather Mills. The rest of the world may have to wait a bit longer. British law dictates that divorce cases are heard in private, and judge Hugh ...
Fed takes new steps to ease financial crisis
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Federal Reserve announced a series of new steps Sunday to help provide relief to a spreading credit crisis that threatens to plunge the economy into recession. The central bank approved a cut to its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, ...
Arnold Palmer Invitational Scores
Mar 17, 2008 ... Tiger Woods (4500), $1,044,000 70-68-66-66_270 Bart Bryant (2700), $626,400 68-68-68-67_271 Cliff Kresge (1300), $301,600 67-68-71-67_273 Vijay ...
Fed takes new steps to ease financial crisis
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Federal Reserve announced a series of new steps Sunday to help provide relief to a spreading credit crisis that threatens to plunge the economy into recession. The central bank approved a cut to its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, ...
Fed takes new steps to ease financial crisis
Mar 17, 2008; ... The Federal Reserve announced a series of new steps Sunday to help provide relief to a spreading credit crisis that threatens to plunge the economy into recession. The central bank approved a cut to its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25 percent from 3.50 percent, ...
Tibet protests spread to other provinces, as Dalai Lama warns of cultural genocide
Mar 17, 2008; ... Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces as Tibetans defied a Chinese government crackdown, while the Dalai Lama decried what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place in his homeland. Demonstrations widened Sunday to Tibetan communities in Sichuan, ...
Tibet protests spread to other provinces, as Dalai Lama warns of cultural genocide
Mar 17, 2008; ... Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces as Tibetans defied a Chinese government crackdown, while the Dalai Lama decried what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place in his homeland. Demonstrations widened Sunday to Tibetan communities in Sichuan, ...
Tibet protests spread to other provinces, as Dalai Lama warns of cultural genocide
Mar 17, 2008; ... Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces as Tibetans defied a Chinese government crackdown, while the Dalai Lama decried what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place in his homeland. Demonstrations widened Sunday to Tibetan communities in Sichuan, ...