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29 Aug 16 : 55 | FOX News: McCain chooses Alaska governor Palin - Update Washington - John McCain's campaign has told FOX News that he has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate. Palin, 44, was a surprise pick but brings strong conservative credentials to the ticket. FOX reported that it has... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper 6 hours ago |
29 Aug 15 : 18 | At least two dead in Turkish munitions factory blast - Update Ankara - At least two people were killed and 16 injured in an explosion Friday afternoon at a munitions factory in the central Anatolian town of Kirrikkale, Turkish media reported. NTV news channel reported that the two dead were workers at the facto... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper 8 hours ago |
29 Aug 11 : 15 | Fall in oil price triggers slide in European inflation - Update Berlin - A slide in oil prices led the annualized inflation rate in the 15-member eurozone to drop to 3.8 per cent in August from 4.0 per cent in July, data released Friday showed. The fall raised the prospects that consumer prices might have peaked ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper 12 hours ago |
29 Aug 10 : 45 | Report: Iran to install 54,000 centrifuges - Update Tehran - Iran plans to install 54,000 centrifuges at the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz in central Iran, the news network Khabar reported Friday on its news ticker. Iran moves towards large-scale uranium enrichment in Natanz involving 54,000 cent... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper 12 hours ago |
28 Aug 23 : 03 | Blake, Fish follow Roddick example with home Open wins - Update New York - James Blake and Mardy Fish followed Andy Roddick in a continuing an American US Open revival with wins into the third round on Thursday. Blake, the ninth seed who struggled for five sets in his opening match to subdue teenaged Donald Young... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper 24 hours ago |
28 Aug 20 : 01 | Security Council discusses crisis in Georgia - Update New York - The UN Security Council met behind closed doors Thursday to discuss the crisis in Georgia, the first meeting of the powerful body since Russia recognized the independence of the two breakaway provinces at the heart of the military conflict... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper 27 hours ago |
28 Aug 13 : 45 | Georgia calls for Security Council action on Russia - Update Vienna - Georgia's foreign minister called on the UN Security Council on Thursday to take action against Russia, alleging it had breached international security by its action in her country. At a special meeting of the Organization for Security and C... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper 33 hours ago |
28 Aug 01 : 23 | Obama nominated as Democratic presidential candidate - 2nd Update Denver, Colorado - Barack Obama was formally chosen as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate at the party's nominating convention Wednesday evening. Obama was nominated to a resounding cry of aye from the thousands of delegates in attendanc... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper 46 hours ago |
27 Aug 14 : 48 | Sudanese hijackers free passengers, still hold crew - 2nd Update Tripoli - Two men who hijacked a Sudanese plane in Darfur and forced it to fly to Libya released all 87 passengers on Wednesday but kept six of the crew hostage, the Libyan news agency Jana reported. A Libyan civil aviation official said negotiations... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
27 Aug 13 : 27 | German soldier killed in bombing in Afghanistan - 2nd Update Kabul - A German soldier was killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan while three others were injured. The German Defence Ministry in Berlin confirmed the casualties, calling the attack cowardly and underhanded. ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
26 Aug 20 : 19 | Members of Darbur rebel group hijack Sudanese plane - 2nd Update Dubai - Three members of a Sudanese rebel group hijacked a Sudanese aircraft with more than 80 passengers aboard, Arabic language media reported Tuesday. According to the al-Arabiya news broadcaster, three hijackers were from one of the numerous rebe... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
26 Aug 20 : 05 | Federal attorney to discuss possible threat to Obama - Update Denver, Colorado - A federal attorney will discuss later Tuesday details of the arrest of three men in connection with what authorities believe could have been a threat against presidential candidate Barack Obama, officials said. In a statement earli... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
26 Aug 13 : 14 | Russia recognizes Abkhazia, South Ossetia independence - Update Sochi, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday recognized the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia calls on other nations to recognize their independence. It is not an easy choice, but it is the... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
26 Aug 11 : 08 | German economic mood dampens, 2 surveys show - Update Munich/Nuremberg - The late-summer mood in the German economy has taken a turn for the worse with two key indices Tuesday showing both businesses and consumers increasingly worried about their prospects. In Munich, the Ifo-Institut for economic resea... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
26 Aug 10 : 41 | Japanese aid worker kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan - 2nd Update Kabul - Hundreds of local villagers and security forces were searching the area for a Japanese aid worker, who along with his Afghan driver was kidnapped Tuesday in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, officials said. The two men's vehicle w... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
26 Aug 06 : 37 | Indonesia cancels tsunami warning after powerful quake - Update Jakarta - Indonesia issued a tsunami warning after a powerful magnitude-6.6 undersea earthquake Tuesday morning struck parts of the western tip of Java and southern Sumatra province of Lampung, triggered panic among office employees in Jakarta's high... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
25 Aug 15 : 24 | Pakistan's ruling coalition falls apart - Update Islamabad - Pakistan's feeble governing alliance collapsed Monday when the second-largest party pulled out due to irreconcilable differences over the reinstatement of judges sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf. With utter disappointment, wit... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
25 Aug 12 : 49 | 3 killed, 70 injured as protestors defy curfew in Kashmir - Update Srinagar, Kashmir - Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said. Police earlier arrested three promine... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
25 Aug 12 : 25 | Kyrgyzstan rules out terrorism in fatal air crash - 2nd Update Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan/Moscow - Kyrgyz authorities Monday ruled out terrorism as the cause of an air crash in which at least 65 passengers died near the Central Asian state's capital of Bishkek, saying mechanical failure was the probable cause. Reports ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
25 Aug 11 : 48 | Professor assassinated, Iraqi soldier injured in Baghdad - Update Baghdad - Unknown gunmen killed a university professor in Iraq in west Baghdad early Monday, while a bomb targeting an army patrol injured an Iraqi soldier in the area, police and witnesses said. Police found the body of Professor Khaldoun Sabry in i... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
25 Aug 04 : 14 | Tropic Thunder conquers second weekend at box offices - Update Los Angeles - The Hollywood war-movie spoof Tropic Thunder remained atop the North American box-office rankings for a second straight weekend with three-day ticket sales of 16.1 million dollars, according to preliminary studio estimates issued Sunday... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
24 Aug 20 : 02 | Officials confirm around 25 survivors of Kyrgyz crash - 2nd Update Bishkek/Moscow - Kyrgyz officials could only confirm around 25 survivors so far of the 123 passengers and crew aboard an airliner that crashed near the country's capital Bishkek on Sunday. Ambulances took the survivors to hospitals in the capital Bis... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
24 Aug 16 : 38 | Chelsea maintain perfect start - Update London - Chelsea beat Wigan Athletic 1-0 Sunday to keep up their 100 per cent start to the season. Deco scored the only goal in the third minute - his second goal of the season and his second from outside the box. ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
24 Aug 09 : 33 | Second gold for Tishchenko, wins for Enkhbat and Zou - 2nd Update Beijing - Alexey Tishchenko added a lightweight Olympic gold medal to the featherweight one he won four years ago in Athens when the Russian beat France's Daouda Sow Sunday in a bruising encounter. On a day when six boxing finals were to be decided, ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
24 Aug 06 : 58 | Ruling party wins handily in Sri Lanka provincial poll - Update Colombo - The ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) won an easy victory in provincial elections, the election commission confirmed with final results Sunday. The UFPA won in all 27 districts in the North Central and Sabaragamuwa provinces, a... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
23 Aug 15 : 39 | Lomachenko destroys Djeklhir, mixed fortunes for Thais - 3rd Update Beijing - Ukraine's Vasyl Lomachenko stopped Khedafi Djelkhir in the first round to claim featherweight gold Saturday while Felix Diaz brawled his way to victory over defending light welterweight champion Manus Boonjumnong of Thailand. Djelkhir was s... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
23 Aug 13 : 06 | Argentine football gold, Russia goes third in medals table - Update Beijing - Argentina won the Olympic football tournament on Saturday. Russia moved into third place in the medals table with two more golds while Germany suffered rowing disappointment after winning the women's mountain bike competition. Benfica winge... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
23 Aug 06 : 59 | Report: Obama picks Biden as vice president - Update Washington - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has chosen veteran Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his pick to campaign alongside him as the vice presidential candidate, broadcaster CNN reported early Saturday citing two Democratic sources. O... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
22 Aug 13 : 48 | Argentina beat Germany to win women's hockey bronze - Update Beijing - Argentina beat Germany 3-1 to win the women's hockey bronze medal on the final day of the Olympic tournament Friday. Playing before a capacity crowd including football icon Diego Maradona, the Argentines repeated their bronze medal success ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
22 Aug 12 : 15 | Typhoon Nuri weakens to tropical storm, hits Hong Kong - 2nd Update Hong Kong - A typhoon that left seven people dead in the Philippines hit Hong Kong Friday, snarling traffic and disrupting business activity. However, Typhoon Nuri had weakened into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong, bringing l... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
22 Aug 10 : 59 | Germany looking strong as they take two canoe gold medals - Update Beijing - Germany looked strong Friday at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, as they took two of the first four gold medals on offer for the day. They won the women's kayak four (K4) 500m and the kayak two (K2) 1,000m, while Briton Tim Brabants... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
21 Aug 15 : 58 | Germany beat Japan to win women's football bronze - Update Beijing - Germany beat Japan 2-0 on Thursday to win the bronze medal in the Olympic women's football competition. Substitute Fatmire Bajramaj scored both goals in the second half for the world champions, who were eliminated in the semi-finals by Braz... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
21 Aug 12 : 37 | Two suicide bombings at Pakistan garrison town kill 30 - 2nd Update Islamabad - Two simultaneous explosions ripped through a garrison town in northern Pakistan on Thursday, leaving 30 people dead and up to a 100 or more injured. The blasts targeted the workers of an ordnance factory in the Wah cantonment area of the ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
21 Aug 11 : 30 | Rice meets Al-Maliki during unscheduled Iraq visit - Update Baghdad - Visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday began talks that centred around the presence of US troops in the country and the security situation in Iraq's restive Diyala province. Rice met al-... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
21 Aug 09 : 39 | 16 injured in bomb attack in Turkey - Update Istanbul - At least 16 people were injured in a bomb attack on a police mini bus in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir on Thursday, two days after a suicide attack in the countryleft nine injured. Among the injured were a eight police men, one militar... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
21 Aug 04 : 59 | Kaniskina gets walk gold for Russia in driving rain - Update Beijing - Olga Kaniskina of Russia led from start to finish on Thursday to win the women's 20 kilometres race walk Olympic gold in atrocious conditions. The world champion Kaniskina clocked 1 hour 26 minutes 31 seconds in driving rain on a course jus... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
20 Aug 18 : 52 | Health ministry: More than 100 dead in Madrid crash - 3rd Update Madrid - More than 100 people died Wednesday when a Spanair flight from Madrid-Barajas airport veered off the runway during takeoff, the Spanish Health Ministry confirmed. The number of injured has been revised down to around 25 persons out the 164 p... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
20 Aug 14 : 02 | Al-Maliki, Seniora agree on Iraqi oil exports to Lebanon - Update Baghdad - Visiting Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora and Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday agreed, among other things, on the export of Iraqi crude oil to Lebanon during talks in Baghdad. Seniora arrived in the Iraqi capital amid ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
20 Aug 11 : 56 | Heptathlon silver medallist Blonska fails doping test - Update Beijing - Heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska has failed a doping test at the Beijing Games, the president of the world governing athletics body IAAF, Lamine Diack, confirmed on Wednesday. I have just been informed that there has been a pos... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
19 Aug 15 : 10 | OSCE green-lights military observers for Georgia - Update Vienna - Military observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be deployed in Georgia starting this week, after Georgia and Russia reached a compromise and the organization approved the mission on Tuesday. Twenty m... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
19 Aug 13 : 42 | Georgia, Russia trade prisoners amid slow Russian pullout - Update Tbilisi/Moscow - Georgia and Russia made their first prisoner exchange on Tuesday as NATO leaders were set to meet in Brussels on the Ossetia war and Moscow defended the delays so far in pulling its forces out of Georgia. Russian officials at the Igo... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
19 Aug 08 : 45 | Suicide bombers attack US base in eastern Afghanistan - Update Kabul - A group of Taliban militants, including suicide bombers, attacked a US military base in south-eastern Afghanistan but were pushed back by Afghan and foreign forces using airstrikes, officials said Tuesday. The attack late Monday against Camp ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
18 Aug 15 : 48 | China takes three more gold - Yang medal for quake victims - 2nd Update Beijing - Chen Yibing and He Kexin continued China's strong showing in the gymnastics disciplines with victories in the men's rings and women's uneven bars Monday while Poland's Leszek Blanik took gold in the men's vault. China also took gold in the ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
18 Aug 12 : 48 | Pakistani President Musharraf steps down - 3rd Update Islamabad - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Monday that he was resigning from his post in the best interest of the country in a bid to avoid facing an impeachment planned by the ruling coalition in the parliament. No charge sheet can sta... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
18 Aug 09 : 05 | Australians collect first two sailing golds of Games - Update Beijing - Australian crews won both the men's and women's two person 470 dinghy races at Qingdao Monday to register the country's first sailing Olympic gold medals of the Beijing Games. Three-time world champions Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page easily... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
18 Aug 08 : 10 | Russia set to exit Georgia; South Ossetia government sacked - Update Moscow/Tbilisi, Georgia - Georgians on Monday were awaiting a promised pullout of Russian troops as the leadership of South Ossetia sacked its local government and declared temporary authoritarian rule. Russian troops as of Monday morning were still ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
17 Aug 16 : 08 | China continues gymnastics gold rush - 2nd Update Beijing - Xiao Qin overcame the challenge of Croatia's Filip Ude Sunday to add the Olympic title in the men's pommel horse to his world championship crown as Chinese athletes continued to dominate the gymnastics disciplines. Zou Kai also took gold fo... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
17 Aug 13 : 53 | Merkel in Tbilisi for talks on Georgian-Russian crisis - Update Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel landed in the Georgian capital Tbilisi Sunday as part of the European Union's mediation efforts in the Georgian-Russian stand-off over the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Merkel was expected... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
17 Aug 10 : 23 | British and Dutch medal in rowing - Update Beijing - Britain's Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter took gold in the men's lightweight sculls final at Shunyi Olympic Park Sunday while Kirsten van der Kolk and Marit van Eupen of the Netherlands prevailed in the women's event. Purchase and Hunter took ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
17 Aug 04 : 40 | Romania's Tomescu wins Olympic marathon, Radcliffe flops - Update Beijing - Constantina Tomescu of Romania won the gold medal in the Beijing Olympics marathon as world record holder Paula Radcliffe flopped again on the big stage. Tomescu, 36, raced away from her rivals at the halfway mark and never looked back en r... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper |
