Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:37:21 +0100
President-elect promised change, picking insiders
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts....
Fed sees economic woes persisting into next year
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pounded by a fierce financial crisis, the country is sinking deeper into economic despair and is likely to be in the hole well into next year, forcing more Americans into the ranks of the unemployed....
Detroit automakers' rescue stalls in Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit's once-venerable car companies hanging in the balance....
Global markets extend rout on recession fears
HONG KONG (AP) -- World stock markets tumbled Thursday, with benchmarks in Tokyo and Seoul losing almost 7 percent each, after recession fears sent Wall Street plunging and Japan suffered its biggest drop in exports in seven years....
Dems look to stop endangered species rule changes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the Bush administration on the verge of relaxing regulations protecting endangered species, Democratic leaders are looking at ways to overturn any last-minute rule changes....
Astronauts vow remaining tool bag won't drift away
HOUSTON (AP) -- Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week....
China to overhaul battered dairy industry
BEIJING (AP) -- China announced a complete overhaul of its dairy industry Thursday to improve safety at every step - from cow breeding to milk sales - saying its worst food quality scandal in years had revealed "major problems" in quality control....
Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize
NEW YORK (AP) -- The economy hung like a cloud over the 59th annual National Book Awards. Barack Obama was the silver lining....
Ind. inmates sneak through ceiling to have sex
BLOOMFIELD, Ind. (AP) -- Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex....
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