Mauritanians expected to approve new constitution
Monsters and Critics.com - 4 hours agoNouakchott - Mauritanians voted Sunday in a referendum expected to approve a new constitution, which was intended to usher in a democratic era in the north-west African desert country, one of Africa's new oil producers. ...

Coming soon -- mind-reading computers
Reuters - 2 hours agoBy Patricia Reaney. LONDON (Reuters) - A raised eyebrow, quizzical look or a nod of the head are just a few of the facial expressions computers could soon be using to read people's minds. An "emotionally aware ...

US Iraq commander drafts plan for troop cuts
People's Daily Online - 29 minutes agoThe top US commander in Iraq has drafted a plan for troop reductions in the Middle East country, with the first cuts coming in September this year, The New York Times reported Sunday. The plan, drafted by ...

Camera stops working on Hubble telescope
Reuters - Jun 24, 2006WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the main cameras on the aging Hubble Space Telescope, known for its unparalleled views of distant galaxies and infant stars, has stopped working and engineers are studying the problem, scientists said on Saturday. ...

Iraqi PM offers olive branch to insurgents
Telegraph.co.uk - 1 hour agoBy Jim Muir in Baghdad. The Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, yesterday trumpeted a grand plan for reconciliation aimed at ending the violence tearing Iraq apart but faced criticism for providing little ...

Shuttle crew prepared for risks
Houston Chronicle - 20 hours agoBy MARK CARREAU. A member of Texas A&M University's Corps of Cadets, a British-born environmental researcher, the second black female astronaut and a one-way traveler from Germany are among the seven Discovery ...

Kidman Weds Urban in Intimate Ceremony
Forbes - 5 hours agoBy MERAIAH FOLEY , 06.25.2006, 04:49 PM. Church bells rang out over Nicole Kidman's hometown Sunday to announce her marriage to country music star Keith Urban in a lavish but intimate ceremony attended by relatives ...

Explosion in Turkish resort town kills 3
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour agoISTANBUL, Turkey -- An explosion in the Turkish Mediterranean resort town of Antalya on Sunday killed three foreign tourists and a Turk and injured about 25 people, a local official said. Initial assessments ...

Gates is giving away more money, more quickly
Independent Online - 2 hours agoWashington - The foundation run by Bill and Melinda Gates has a net worth of $29,1-billion - putting it on a par with the gross domestic product of Luxembourg and ahead of many of the African nations it helps. ...

Interview: Press Junket - director Bryan Singer - Superman Returns
Monsters and Critics.com - 21 hours agoBy Anne Brodie Jun 25, 2006, 3:50 GMT. Singer chuckles indulgently at suggestions that his is a gay Superman, allowing that whatever gets people talking is fine. You can t pay for that kind of publicity . ...

Fears for Somalia talks as wanted cleric heads Islamic militia
Monsters and Critics.com - 10 hours agoMogadishu - A prominent Somali cleric who is on the United States list of terror suspects has been elected as head of an Islamist militia that controls the Somali capital and most of the southern regions. ...

Survivor Portugal 1 x 0 Holland match review
World Cup Blog - 33 minutes agoWhat a game! After 60 years of peace, Nuremberg was once again a battlefield. Portuguese and Dutch fought for 90 minutes in a game filled with emotion. Maniche showed to be lucky against the Dutch and Portugal reached the quarter-finals. ...

2 Men Nabbed in Mich. in Bad Heroin Probe
ABC News - Jun 23, 2006A woman leaves an entrance guarded by authorities Wednesday, June 21, 2006, at a public housing complex on Chicago's South Side where authorities said federal and local officers executed arrest warrants on street gang members suspected of selling tainted ...

Controversies plagued late UCSC chancellor
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 5 hours agoBy JORDAN ROBERTSON. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Shocked community leaders wondered Sunday whether the pressure of the job prompted the apparent suicide of the University of California, Santa Cruz chancellor. "Everybody's ...

Women key to victory in Mexico
Grand Forks Herald - 16 hours agoBY LENNOX SAMUELS. MEXICO CITY - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to be president of Mexico. To get there he needs the support of people like homemaker Alejandrina Castro, who says she has been let down by the ruling National Action Party. ...

East Timor Ruling Party Retains Embattled Prime Minister
Voice of America - 13 hours agoBy Chad Bouchard. The ruling party of East Timor has decided to keep Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri in office, despite widespread calls for his resignation. The country's foreign and defense minister has also ...

Weather hampers Curtis' efforts
BBC Sport - 1 hour agoBen Curtis must wait until Monday as he chases his first victory since the 2003 Open at the Booz Allen Classic in Maryland. Curtis was eight shots clear of Ireland's Padraig Harrington when play was suspended due to a storm. ...

Andre Agassi: a winner on and off the tennis court
The Herald - 35 minutes agoHe was a triumph of substance over style. Andre Agassi was once all flowing, dyed hair with a chest like a burst mattress and shorts as colourful as an explosion in a paint factory. He is now a bald, father ...

Slaughter of Russian hostages posted on web video
Scotsman - 1 hour agoAN AL-QAEDA-led group posted video footage on the internet yesterday showing the killing of three men it said were Russian hostages seized in Iraq this month. The images, on a website often used by militants ...

Feingold says most senators are out of touch with the public
San Jose Mercury News - 2 hours agoBY CRAIG GILBERT. WASHINGTON - Sen. Russ Feingold said Sunday that the lopsided defeat of his plan to withdraw from Iraq showed that most of his colleagues, including fellow Democrats, were out of touch with the public over the war. ...

Competitive steel firms to get Arcelor lift-analyst
Reuters - 44 minutes agoBy Tim Hepher. PARIS, June 26 (Reuters) - Steel producers with competitive costs will nab the biggest prizes from Europe's 26 billion euro steel merger, while carmakers are among those with most to lose, a New York research analyst said. ...

Cadbury hid salmonella for months
Irish Independent - 22 hours agoCADBURY failed to inform food watchdogs about salmonella contamination at one of its factories, despite nine cases of the bacterium being identified over a four-month period. The confectionery giant admitted ...