NBA suspends Bobcats G Stephen Jackson 1 game
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – When the NBA announced before the season it planned to crack down on complaining by players toward officials, Charlotte Bobcats guard Stephen Jackson played a starring role in a video sent to teams showing behavior that would no longer be tolerated.Now the volatile Jackson is serving as a costly example of just…
Sec'y Cinton: Cabinet post will be last public job
MANAMA, Bahrain – Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that U.S. secretary of state will be her final public position, seeming to close the door on speculation that she would run for president or take another post in the Obama administration."I think I'll serve as secretary of state as my last public position and then probably…
Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:___ABC's "This Week" — Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former NATO supreme commander; Bob Maginnis, national security analyst with the Family Research Council; R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans; Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness; Tammy Schultz, director of National Security and Joint…
Moroccan parliament to probe W. Sahara violence
RABAT (AFP) – Moroccan members of parliament on Monday decided to set up a commission to probe the violent events on November 8 that marked the dismantling of a settlement camp in the Western Sahara."It's the first time that a parliamentary commission of inquiry will work in the (Western) Sahara," Saad-Eddine Othmani, an MP from…
At L.A. Auto Show, California emerges as epicenter of electric car revolution
LOS ANGELES -- Thewas crowned as the Green Car of the Year here at the , held in a city that is trying to be as encouraging to electric vehicles (EVs) as possible. California is the epicenter of the EV revolution -- probably half the electric and plug-in hybrid cars installed in the first year…
Nuclear fuel bank seen winning backing at U.N. body
VIENNA (Reuters) – Member states of the U.N. nuclear watchdog are expected to approve next month a U.S.-backed fuel supply plan seen as a way to help prevent the spread of atom bombs, despite misgivings among some developing countries.Western diplomats said the stalled proposal to set up a $150 million nuclear fuel bank run by…
Internationally Renowned Pianist Valentina Lisitsa Returns to Oregon Christian college
George Fox University welcomes performer for fifth annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series Sept. 30Newberg, OR (Vocus) September 15, 2010 -- Internationally acclaimed pianist Valentina Lisitsa will perform at the fifth annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, in Bauman Auditorium on the university’s Newberg, Ore., campus.The performance, which will include a…
Hugh Jackman Takes a Hop, Skip and Jump Over the Pacific
So you think ‘Hugh’ can dance? Unseen footage and latest ads for Lipton Ice Tea hit Aus! * IMAGES AND BEHIND THE SCENES B-ROLL FOOTAGE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST*(Vocus) September 15, 2010 -- It’s taken the world by storm and now it’s coming to Australia – Hugh Jackman’s legendary dance moves from the Tokyo Dancing Hotel…
Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers
INDIANAPOLIS – The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats.Scientists concerned by reports from the public that they are seeing fewer of the…
News of the Weird:
UpdatesIn 2007 News of the Weird highlighted the clothes cults of impoverished Congo: "In (the country that) has lost an estimated 4 million people in the civil wars of the last decade and where many must get by on about 30 cents a day, 'gangs' of designer-clothes-wearing men" have fashion smackdowns in the streets of…