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2010-03-13 10:17	AP International	Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests (AP) - ATLANTA - Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks....
2010-03-13 10:12	AFP	Thaksin supporters flood Bangkok for mass rally DOHA (AFP) - The fate of bluefin tuna, African elephants and polar bears will be topping the agenda on Saturday as the top UN body with the power to ban trade in endangered species gathers for a summit in Doha. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 10:12	AFP	Clinton rebukes Israel over settler homes ATHENS (AFP) - Greek Prime Minister Georges Papandreou hailed the support Greece has received from its European and US partners to fend off international speculation over its debt crisis in remarks published Saturday. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 10:12	AP Top News	Child abuse claims sweep Catholic Church in Europe DUBLIN (AP) - It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons. Ireland was the first in Europe to confront the church's worldwide custom of shielding pedophile priests from the law and public scandal. Now that legacy of suppressed childhood horror is being confronted in other parts of the Continent - nowhere more poignantly than in Germany, the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI....
2010-03-13 10:05	Reuters UK	Pavlyuchenko fires Tottenham to victory over Blackburn
2010-03-13 09:52	AP Top News	Afghan leader to allow foreign election monitors KABUL (AP) - Afghanistan's president has agreed to reverse an earlier decision and allow two foreigners on a commission that will monitor upcoming parliamentary elections, his spokesman said Saturday. President Hamid Karzai's move comes amid pressure to avoid a repeat of last year's fraud-tainted presidential vote....
2010-03-13 09:52	AP Top News	Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries. A proposed overhaul of the education law championed by President George W. Bush will put the impetus for change on states, school districts and schools, Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday. "We set a high bar, but we also provide educators the flexibility to reach it," he said....
2010-03-13 09:42	AP Top News	Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plotDENVER (AP) - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist. Christine Mott of Leadville told The Associated Press that she was told of the arrest of her 31-year-old daughter in the case by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies....
2010-03-13 09:42	AP International	AP Top Political News At 8:40 a.m. EST (AP) -...
2010-03-13 09:32	AFP	Maliki leads key Baghdad vote count BANGKOK (AFP) - Thousands of supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra gathered near ministry buildings in Bankgkok on Saturday to rally against the government, sporting their signature red shirts. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 09:32	AP Top News	Senators resist Obama over projects in health bill WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. The Senate-approved health measure lawmakers hope to send to Obama soon would steer $600 million over the next decade to Vermont in added federal payments for Medicaid and nearly as much to Massachusetts....
2010-03-13 09:32	AP International	AP Top New Mexico Headlines At 5 a.m. PST (AP) -...
2010-03-13 09:32	AP International	AP Top Extended Political Headlines At 8:40 a.m. EST (AP) -...
2010-03-13 09:22	AP International	Obama prepares education overhaul (AP) - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation's sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards....
2010-03-13 09:22	AP International	Court says thimerosal did not cause autism (AP) - WASHINGTON - The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection....
2010-03-13 08:55	Reuters UK	Euro finministers to agree on Greek aid - source
2010-03-13 08:47	AFP	Thaksin supporters flood Bangkok for mass rally DOHA (AFP) - The fate of bluefin tuna, African elephants and polar bears will be topping the agenda on Saturday as the top UN body with the power to ban trade in endangered species gathers for a summit in Doha. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 08:47	AFP	Tuna, polar bears to dominate UN wildlife summit CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AFP) - Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad shared five wickets as England tightened their grip on the opening Test against Bangladesh on Saturday despite Tamim Iqbal's fighting 81 not out. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 08:42	AP International	Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot (AP) - DENVER - A Colorado woman says her 31-year-old daughter is one of seven Muslims arrested this week in Ireland in an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks....
2010-03-13 08:32	AP International	Today in History (AP) - Today is Saturday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2010. There are 293 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight-Saving Time begins Sunday at 2 a.m. local time. Clocks go forward one hour....
2010-03-13 08:20	Reuters UK	UBS may return to commodities in 2010
2010-03-13 08:17	AFP	Maliki leads key Baghdad vote count LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A California prosecutor has filed a civil lawsuit against Toyota, accusing the Japanese carmaker of intentionally hiding deadly defects from consumers. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 08:12	AP Top News	Afghan leader to allow foreign election monitors KABUL (AP) - Afghanistan's president has agreed to reverse an earlier decision and allow two foreigners on a commission monitoring upcoming parliamentary elections, his spokesman said Saturday. President Hamid Karzai's move comes amid pressure to avoid a repeat of last year's fraud-tainted presidential vote....
2010-03-13 08:05	Reuters UK	Kuwait Dar seeks gov't support
2010-03-13 08:05	Reuters UK	"Baby Schumi" Vettel outguns returning ace
2010-03-13 08:02	AP Top News	Afghan leader to allow foreign election monitors KABUL (AP) - The Afghan president has reversed an earlier decision and agreed to allow two foreigners on a commission monitoring upcoming parliamentary elections. The move comes amid pressure to avoid a repeat of last year's fraud-tainted presidential vote....
2010-03-13 07:57	AP Top News	Iraq's PM leads in early Baghdad vote count BAGHDAD (AP) - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital and a Shiite province in the south, according to a partial tally of election results released Saturday. If the Baghdad trend continues, the results would be a substantial boost to al-Maliki and his chances to retain the prime minister's post. Baghdad accounts for 70 of the parliament's 325 seats and would go a long way toward deciding who will be tasked with forming a government that will oversee the country as U.S. forces go home....
2010-03-13 07:52	AFP	Bomber kills 10 in Pakistan's Swat valley PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - At least 10 people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 07:52	AFP	Maliki leads key Baghdad vote count LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A California prosecutor has filed a civil lawsuit against Toyota, accusing the Japanese carmaker of intentionally hiding deadly defects from consumers. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 07:52	AFP	Tuna, polar bears to dominate UN wildlife summit CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AFP) - Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad shared five wickets as England tightened their grip on the opening Test against Bangladesh on Saturday despite Tamim Iqbal's fighting 81 not out. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 07:42	AFP	Bomber kills 10 in Pakistan's Swat valley PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - At least 10 people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 07:40	Reuters UK	Swann and Broad put England on top
2010-03-13 07:32	AFP	At least ten killed in Pakistan suicide attack PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - At least ten people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 07:32	AFP	Tuna, polar bears to dominate UN wildlife summit CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AFP) - Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad shared five wickets as England tightened their grip on the opening Test against Bangladesh on Saturday despite Tamim Iqbal's fighting 81 not out. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 07:32	AP Top News	Senators resist Obama over projects in health bill WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. The Senate-approved health measure lawmakers hope to send to Obama soon would steer $600 million over the next decade to Vermont in added federal payments for Medicaid and nearly as much to Massachusetts....
2010-03-13 07:32	AP Top News	Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plotDENVER (AP) - Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist. Christine Mott of Leadville told The Associated Press that she was told of the arrest of her 31-year-old daughter in the case by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies....
2010-03-13 07:32	AP Top News	Suicide attack in northwest Pakistan kills 13 SAIDU SHARIF, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 13 people, injuring 52 and underscoring the nation's relentless security threat. The blast in the small town of Saidu Sharif in Pakistan's violence-battered Swat Valley was the second major attack in the country in less than 24 hours, raising fears of a new wave of violence by anti-government militants. Suicide bombers killed 55 people in near-simultaneous blasts Friday in the eastern city of Lahore....
2010-03-13 07:32	AP Top News	Anti-government protesters head for Thai capital BANGKOK (AP) - Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged on the Thai capital Saturday, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the city. Although protest leaders stressed they would not resort to violence in their quest to oust the government, many businesses closed down, social events were canceled and Bangkok's normally chaotic traffic was unusually light....
2010-03-13 07:32	AP Top News	US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme. Much of the 2005 meeting to take stock of what countries had done to implement the landmark platform of action adopted at the 1995 U.N. women's conference in Beijing was consumed by the Bush administration's demand that the final declaration make clear that women are not guaranteed a right to abortion....
2010-03-13 07:32	AP Top News	Thousands expected to mourn death of SoCal teen POWAY, Calif. (AP) - Students have wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at a memorial service for Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated. "A lot of people are getting ready to bring closure to it," said Evan Shirley, 17, a friend of Chelsea's. "I hope to see everyone come out to support the family and honor their friend in whatever way they see fit."...
2010-03-13 07:32	AP Top News	Authorities: Haim's name on illegal prescription LOS ANGELES (AP) - The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring. California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office said records of the prescription in the name of the former teen heartthrob were found during an investigation of the ring that illegally obtained prescription pads and used the stolen identities of doctors to fill them out....
2010-03-13 07:32	AP Top News	West Virginia vs. Georgetown for Big East title NEW YORK (AP) - Now that West Virginia is in the Big East tournament final, coach Bob Huggins and his Mountaineers have a large problem on their hands. His name is Greg Monroe....
2010-03-13 07:20	Reuters UK	Kuwait Dar seeks legal protection
2010-03-13 07:17	AFP	Maliki leads key Baghdad vote count LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A California prosecutor has filed a civil lawsuit against Toyota, accusing the Japanese carmaker of intentionally hiding deadly defects from consumers. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 07:12	AP Top News	Iraq's PM leads in early Baghdad vote count BAGHDAD (AP) - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday. If the trend continues, the vote tallies would be a substantial boost to al-Maliki and his chances to regain the prime minister's office. Baghdad accounts for 70 of the parliament's 325 seats and would go a long way toward deciding who will be tasked with forming a government which will oversee the country as U.S. forces go home....
2010-03-13 06:57	AFP	At least ten killed in Pakistan suicide attack PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - At least ten people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of Lahore, police said. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 06:52	AP Top News	Obama prepares education overhaul WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation's sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards. Obama said he would send Congress his proposed overhaul of the 2001 education law that focused on accountability in the classroom but has fallen short of its original goals. The announcement's timing suggests Obama is looking beyond the health care proposal that still lingers in Congress, has delayed the president's international trip next week and threatens his party's electoral prospects in November....
2010-03-13 06:47	AFP	Maliki leads key Baghdad vote count LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A California prosecutor has filed a civil lawsuit against Toyota, accusing the Japanese carmaker of intentionally hiding deadly defects from consumers. Full Story »...
2010-03-13 06:47	AP Top News	Iraq's PM leads in early Baghdad vote count Iraq's PM leads in early Baghdad vote countBAGHDAD (AP) - A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday. If the trend continues, the vote tallies would be a substantial boost to al-Maliki and his chances to regain the prime minister's office. Baghdad accounts for 70 of the parliament's 325 seats and would go a long way toward deciding who will be tasked with forming a government which will oversee the country as U.S. forces go home....
2010-03-13 06:45	Reuters UK	Whitbread buys out Indian JV partner - report


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