Pastor Asks for End to Big Dig Divisions
Forbes - 7 hours agoBy KEN MAGUIRE , 07.15.2006, 04:10 PM. All "politics and divisions" should be set aside so the deadly Big Dig highway tunnel complex can be fixed, a pastor said Saturday at a memorial for the woman who was ...

relatives anxious over Lebanon
BBC News - 2 hours agoLebanon has been bombed for several nights by Israel. Two Royal Navy ships have been put on standby for an evacuation of British nationals but while ministers and defence staff are considering a plan no order for an evacuation has yet been given. ...

Sawtooth 40 percent contained
Big Bear Grizzly - 6 hours agoBy JUDI BOWERS. The Sawtooth Complex Fire and Millard Complex Fire merged July 14 around 2 pm While they are one big fire they are still being treated as separate incidents. The Sawtooth Complex Fire is 40 percent contained, the Millard 5 percent. ...

Syria Defends Hezbollah as Arab Foreign Ministers Discuss Crisis
FOX News - 14 hours agoCAIRO, Egypt Foreign ministers of 18 Arab countries held an emergency summit in Cairo Saturday over Israel's expanding assault on Lebanon, but squabbles over the legitimacy of Hezbollah's attacks on Israel including the capture of two Israeli ...

Jackson Can't Win for Losing
E! Online - Jul 14, 2006by Natalie Finn. The verdict is in for the latest Michael Jackson trial and everyone's a winner, er, loser. A Santa Monica jury on Friday awarded $900,000 to the former gay porn producer who sued Jackson in ...

Toshiba Delays HD DVD Recorder Launch
PC World - Jul 13, 2006TOKYO -- Toshiba is delaying the launch of its first HD DVD recorder by about two weeks, the company said today. The RD-A1 will go on sale in Japan on July 27 instead of tomorrow as originally planned. Toshiba ...

India: Bombers had Pakistani help
CNN International - 22 hours agoDo you think the Mumbai bombings will be a setback to India-Pakistan relations? BOMBAY, India (AP) -- The bombers who targeted Bombay's rail system had support from inside Pakistan, India's prime minister ...

Seventh case of mad cow disease confirmed in Canada
Newstarget.com - Jul 14, 2006(NewsTarget) Canada has reported seven cases of mad cow disease since 2003, two of which were announced within the past two weeks. Thursday's case, a 4-year-old dairy cow that died on a farm in Western Alberta ...

Wie deserves the right to play
San Jose Mercury News - 39 minutes agoBy Jennifer Floyd Engel. FORT WORTH, Texas - Michelle Wie did not reach the weekend of the John Deere Tractor Pull Classic, bounced by bogeys and blistering temps. Seriously, what sports fan would want to tune ...

G8 SUMMIT US' Schwab sees Russia WTO entry deal in 2-3 months ...
Forbes - 13 hours agoSAINT PETERSBURG (AFX) - US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said she expects an agreement between the US and Russia on Russia's accession to the WTO in 'two to three months'. 'Obviously, the issues that ...

NASA keeps looking for heat shield problems, but can't find them
Fort Worth Star Telegram - 7 hours agoHOUSTON - Try as they may, NASA engineers and astronauts could not find anything wrong with the space shuttle Discovery's heat shield. Saturday was the final - but far from the first - time NASA pored over the shield looking for something to worry about. ...

Ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame sues US Vice-President
Hindu - Jul 14, 2006Washington, July. 14 (PTI): Former undercover operative of the Central Intelligence Agency Valerie Plame and her husband have sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his one time Chief of Staff I Lewis 'Scooter' Libby ...

With heavy rains comes familiar buzz
Bradenton Herald - Jul 14, 2006MANATEE - Eight horses on Cheryl Ferraraccio's property on 18th Avenue East off Morgan Johnson Road are being sprayed three times daily with an insect repellent called Bronco. And Ferraraccio's 8-year-old ...

Pitt launches green design competition for rebuilding New Orleans
EiTB - 9 hours agoPitt attended a press conference to give an update on a project he is promoting: a competition to choose ecologically sound designs for rebuilding New Orleans neighbourhoods. Recent father and Hollywood veteran ...