BAGHDAD, Iraq – A British military helicopter crashed in Basra on Saturday, and Iraqis hurled stones at British troops and set fire to three armored vehicles that rushed to the scene. Clashes broke out between British troops and Shiite militias, police and witnesses said. Police Capt. Mushtaq Khazim said the …
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BEIJING – Work on a shooting range for the 2008 Beijing Olympics has been suspended after the discovery of imperial-era tombs on the site, newspapers and an antiquities official said Monday. The tombs, found in mid-April, are believed to date back five to six centuries to the Ming dynasty, and …
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WASHINGTON – Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists have confirmed that the HIV virus plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon. Solving the mystery of HIV’s ancestry was dirty work. Scientists employed trackers to plunge through dense jungle and collect the …
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WASHINGTON – Two days after expressing qualms about U.S. policy in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister gave a strong vote of confidence Friday to President Bush’s approach. Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s longtime foreign minister, met at the White House with Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. …
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – Alleged organized crime boss Ryspek Akmatbayev, who won a seat in parliament last month, was killed in a shooting attack in the Kyrgyz capital late Wednesday, his spokesman said. Ismail Kochkarov confirmed the death, but declined to elaborate. Russian news reports said the attack took place at …
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. (TIVO) is teaming up with an online video service to deliver Web-based programming to TiVo’s broadband television boxes. The deal with Brightcove Networks Inc., to be announced Wednesday, means some TiVo users will soon have not only TV shows to …
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NEW YORK – The company behind the BlackBerry on Thursday said it will launch its mobile e-mail service in China, where it already has homegrown competition: the Redberry. BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) is teaming up with China Mobile Communications Corp., the country’s largest cell phone company, to launch …
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UNITED NATIONS – In a widely expected vote, the U.N. General Assembly blocked reform proposals that would have given Secretary-General Kofi Annan more budget power. A powerful bloc of developing nations said the reforms would rob them of powers over the U.N. budget. Because of their overwhelming numbers, the developing …
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ROME – Center-left leader Romano Prodi was sworn in Wednesday as premier of Italy’s 61st postwar government, officially ending the conservative and sometimes rocky rule of Silvio Berlusconi. Five weeks after his narrow election victory, Prodi submitted a Cabinet list to President Giorgio Napolitano that gave some indication of the …
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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. – A former Nazi who was linked to experiments on prisoners in the infamous Dachau concentration camp in Germany has been ousted from the International Space Hall of Fame. The New Mexico Museum of Space History‘s commission voted unanimously last week to remove German-born Hubertus Strughold from the …
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