February 2009


News28 Feb 2009 11:51 pm
Reuters - Special tribunals will try paramilitary mutineers who killed at least 80 people, mostly army officers, as more than 70 others remain missing on Sunday after the uprising, government and military officials said.
News28 Feb 2009 11:06 pm

US President Barack Obama speaks at Goettge Memorial Field House in Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, North Carolina, February 27. Obama has owed to fight for his budget proposals that include investments in clean energy and healthcare as he faces a tough battle moving the measures through Congress.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AP - President Barack Obama challenged the nation's vested interests to a legislative duel Saturday, saying he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset the status quo.


News28 Feb 2009 10:47 pm

Handout photo from the Royal Bureau shows Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej (3rd left) and other dignitaries from south east Asian nations at Klai Kang Won Palace in Hua Hin on February 28. Southeast Asian leaders are expected to call for cooperation to deal with the global financial crisis as they wrap up an ASEAN summit dominated by their collective economic woes.(AFP/HO/Royal Bureau)AFP - Southeast Asian leaders called Sunday for increased cooperation and urgent reform to deal with the global financial crisis as they wrapped up a summit dominated by their economic woes.


News28 Feb 2009 09:42 pm
Reuters - Paul Harvey, who captivated millions of radio listeners daily with his staccato delivery, firmly set opinions and old-fashioned outlook, died on Saturday at the age of 90, ABC News said.
News28 Feb 2009 07:38 pm

A stone tablet engraved with symbols at least 2,500 years old is seen at the Southwest Script Museum on Feb. 5, 2009 in Almodovar, southern Portugal. The museum has on display 20 tablets engraved with symbols of the Iron Age extinct Iberian language called Southwest Script. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated.


News28 Feb 2009 07:01 pm
Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday any unity government with Hamas would have to agree to a two-state solution with Israel, a demand quickly rejected by his Islamist rivals.
News28 Feb 2009 04:29 pm
Reuters - Britain's main opposition leader David Cameron said on Saturday the sudden death of his young son had left his family with a "hole in our life so big that words can't describe it."
News28 Feb 2009 04:26 pm

In this Sept. 16, 2008 file photo, an American International Group office building is shown in New York. Nearly six months after American International Group Inc. got its first massive bailout from the government, it is still stumbling. Expectations are that AIG and the government will announce soon, perhaps as early as Monday, March 2, 2009, their latest plan to prop up the New York-based company. AIG has confirmed it will report its fourth-quarter earnings on Monday before the market opens. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)Reuters - American International Group Inc is close to a deal with the U.S. government that would ease the terms of its bailout, provide a further equity commitment and help it pay down debt, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday.


News28 Feb 2009 04:10 pm
AP - Crews on Saturday were using sonar to search the bottom of the Colorado River after a car plunged 60 feet into a canyon and sank in the icy river, trapping a 5-year-old girl inside.
News28 Feb 2009 04:07 pm

In this May 21, 2008 file photo, U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett speaks during a news conference in Madrid. Buffett says the economic turmoil that contributed to a 62 percent profit drop last year at the holding company he controls is certain to continue in 2009, but the revered investor remains optimistic. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)AP - Warren Buffett remains optimistic about the prospects for his company and the nation even though Berkshire Hathaway Inc. turned in its worst performance in 2008 and the widely-followed investor says the economy will likely remain a mess beyond this year.


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