http://www.newslookup.com/ Compilation of lead headlines scraped from: BBC, CBS, CNN, CBC, Deutsche Welle, Euronews, FOXNews and Reuters. en Wed, 20 May 2009 16:30:12 -0400 5 http://www.cnn.comhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/05/20/news/economy/credit_cards/index.htm?postversion=2009052014 Congress today sent to President Obama a bill that makes it tougher for credit card issuers to raise fees and interest rates. The move caps a years-long crusade by consumer groups and Democrats to rein in what they say are abusive practices that prey on consumers, CNNMoney reports. The approval came despite objections by banking industry advocates, who say it could result in tightened credit. Wed, 20 May 2009 15:20:00 -0400 CNN Lead Headline http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8060442.stm Victims of child abuse at Irish Catholic institutions express anger that a damning report will not result in prosecutions. Wed, 20 May 2009 15:10:00 -0400 BBC Lead Headline http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/20/wall.street.graduates/index.html?iref=t2test_livingwed Mohamed Desoky says his friends are skeptical when he tells them he's landed a job on Wall Street. The financial sector is hemorrhaging jobs, friends point out, so how did you find work in such a troubled field? Even though many seasoned bankers can't find work, a handful of new graduates will start careers in the financial sector. Wed, 20 May 2009 13:30:00 -0400 CNN Lead Headline http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/20/iran.missile.test/index.html Iran announced Wednesday that it had successfully tested another Sajil missile -- a new generation of surface-to surface missiles. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pictured above Wednesday, said the new rockets are powered by solid fuel and could travel longer distances. Wed, 20 May 2009 11:50:00 -0400 CNN World Lead Headline http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/20/terror/main5027316.shtml Top Official Says Congress Should Think More "Strategically" About Prisoner Transfer Wed, 20 May 2009 10:40:00 -0400 CBS News http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/20/elpaso.juarez.school/index.html Marina Diaz, 18, lives in two worlds. Each morning, she leaves a town riddled with drug war violence and crosses the U.S.-Mexico border to a place where students feel safe. She is not alone. Seventy percent of the 459 students at her school in El Paso, Texas, live across the border in Juarez. The recent spike in drug cartel violence is forcing middle-class Mexicans to send their kids to school in the U.S. Wed, 20 May 2009 10:30:00 -0400 CNN Lead Headline http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8059826.stm An inquiry into child abuse at Catholic institutions in Ireland has found that sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys institutions. Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:00 -0400 BBC Lead Headline http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/20/2576524.htm?section=world An Indonesian military transport plane carrying 110 passengers and crew crashed and burst into flames in East Java on Wednesday, killing at least 98 people on board and on the ground, officials said. More Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:00 -0400 ABC Australia - World Lead http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/20/michael.vick/index.html Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick left a federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, early today, according to his publicist and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Vick, who pleaded guilty to bankrolling a dogfighting operation, will serve the last two months of his 23-month sentence in home confinement in Virginia, according to his publicist. Wed, 20 May 2009 09:00:00 -0400 CNN Lead Headline http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/20/business/main5026927.shtml Government Limits Ability To Raise Rates, Impose Fees, But Will Lenders Go Quietly? Wed, 20 May 2009 08:30:00 -0400 CBS News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8058736.stm Commons leader Harriet Harman sets out major reforms to MPs expenses to end the "gentlemen's club approach". Wed, 20 May 2009 08:20:00 -0400 BBC Lead Headline http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/19/world/main5026393.shtml At Least 109 People Aboard, Including Soldiers And Their Families; Crashed Into Neighborhood Wed, 20 May 2009 07:40:00 -0400 CBS News http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/indonesia.crash/index.html An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a residential area in east Java early Wednesday, killing 97 people, military officials said. Wed, 20 May 2009 03:50:00 -0400 CNN World Lead Headline http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/19/minnesota.forced.chemo/index.html A Minnesota judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for the mother of Daniel Hauser, a 13-year-old boy who is refusing treatment for his cancer, after neither she nor the boy showed up for a court appearance. The boy's father, Anthony Hauser, testified Tuesday that he last saw the mother, Colleen Hauser, at the family's farm on Monday night. He said she told him she was going to leave "for a time," but he did not know where they had gone. Wed, 20 May 2009 03:30:00 -0400 CNN Lead Headline http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/myanmar.suu.kyi.trial/index.html In an unusual move, Myanmar's military government allowed some media inside the courtroom Wednesday as the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi entered its third day. Wed, 20 May 2009 02:40:00 -0400 CNN World Lead Headline http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/19/eveningnews/main5026117.shtml Electronic Records Could Reduce Medical Mistakes, But Not All Doctors Are Ready To Pay For It Wed, 20 May 2009 01:00:00 -0400 CBS News http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/20/2575786.htm?section=world An Indonesian military transport jet has crashed in East Java, killing at least 64 people as it ploughed into homes and caught fire, an air force spokesman said. More Wed, 20 May 2009 00:50:00 -0400 ABC Australia - World Lead http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/19/illinois.slaying.arrests/index.html Police arrested a southwestern Illinois man in connection with the slayings of his 31-year-old wife and their two young sons. Chris Coleman was arrested Tuesday at his parents' home. He is being held without bond at a local jail. Police found the bodies of Sheri Coleman and the children, Garret, 11, and Gavin, 9, in the bedrooms of their two-floor home in the St. Louis suburb of Columbia, Illinois, on the morning of May 7. Indications were they had been strangled. Wed, 20 May 2009 00:10:00 -0400 CNN Lead Headline http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/19/human.ancestor/index.html Scientists hailed on Tuesday a 47-million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate as a possible common ancestor of monkeys, primates and humans. Scientists say the fossil, dubbed "Ida," is a transitional species, living around the time the primate lineage split into two groups: A line that would eventually produce humans and monkeys, and another that would give rise to primates such as lemurs. Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 CNN Lead Headline http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8058721.stm At least 57 people die when an Indonesian army transport plane crashes near Madiun in Java, military officials say. Tue, 19 May 2009 23:00:00 -0400 BBC Lead Headline