WASHINGTON – It’s time to help Africa. It has been reported that President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a “moral imperative” to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world. Obama announced $3 billion in private sector pledges to help boost agriculture and [...]
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News cooked for youNew Mad cow cases in California
FRESNO, California – It has been reported that officials have lifted quarantines on two Central California dairies linked to a case of mad cow disease, after investigators found the illness didn’t come from cattle feed. Tests performed by the World Organization for Animal Health confirmed what U.S. labs had found: The diseased cow had a [...]
Mexico: Journalist kidnapped
MEXICO CITY – It has been reported that masked gunmen have kidnapped a police-beat reporter in the northern state of Sonora. State prosecutors’ spokesman Jose Larrinaga says reporter Marcos Antonio Avila Garcia was at a car wash in Ciudad Obregon when he was kidnapped Thursday by three people with automatic rifles. Larrinaga said Friday no [...]
New food security bill could raise 50 million people out of poverty
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is set to announce a new $3 billion food security initiative to help alleviate hunger and poverty in Africa. The money is being put up by 45 private sector companies and seeks to build on food security commitments made by the U.S. and other countries. The White House says [...]
Barack Obama was born in Kenya says 1991 booklet
Breitbart.com has discovered a story that might shed light on the mistery surrounding President Barack Obama’s origins. In 1991, Breitbart reports that Mr Obama’s literary agent published a booklet aimed at promoting the future president’s first book. The book itself was not published but the booklet, writes Breitbart, has a line many jounralists had been [...]
John Edwards finance fraud trial drawing to an end
DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) – Jurors were set to begin deliberating the fate of John Edwards on Friday, weighing nearly four weeks of testimony and evidence from the former presidential candidate’s corruption trial. Edwards is charged with six criminal counts of campaign finance fraud that could send him to prison for up to 30 years [...]
Obama to put Camp David on full display for G8 summit
WASHINGTON (AP) – Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill huddled there with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943 to pore over plans for the invasion of Normandy. The [...]
Doug Dillard died at the age of 75
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – It has been reported that Doug Dillard, an influential banjo player who helped introduce the nation to bluegrass music and shape rock ‘n’ roll during a popular run on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. He was 75. Lynne Robin Green, president of Dillard’s publishing company, says he died Wednesday night in [...]
New 911 system ready for Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A new and improved 911 system is ready. It has been reported that the government of Puerto Rico will soon launch a system to allow those in emergency situations to contact 911 through text messages or send pictures or videos if they are unable to talk. Officials expect to launch [...]
Michigan stabber considered mentally ill
FLINT, Michigan – It has been reported that a man accused of a deadly series of stabbings in Michigan was mentally ill and couldn’t resist the spell of “evil forces” that compelled him to attack people, a psychiatrist testified Thursday as attorneys tried to overcome strong evidence with an insanity defense. Elias Abuelazam is paranoid [...]
Facebook to decide initial public offering price
NEW YORK – It has been reported that Facebook’s initial public offering is shaping up to be one of the largest in history. It’s expected to be a big payoff for a company that started out eight years ago with no way to make money. Facebook Inc. will likely price its IPO late Thursday, meaning [...]
africa
Malawi's president wants to stand out and repeal gay ban
BLANTYRE, Malawi – It has been reported that President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi’s laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution. Banda, who assumed the presidency in April when her predecessor died, made the announcement in her first [...]
asia
International troops die in insurgent attack in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – An insurgent attack in Afghanistan has killed two members of the international military coalition. NATO says the two died Friday in eastern Afghanistan, but did not disclose any other information. The heaviest fighting in the war is currently concentrated in the south and east of the country, although insurgents have opened [...]
australia
Australia: Gay political staffer lodges new complaints
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – A gay political staffer who is suing the Australian Parliament’s speaker for sexual harassment has also lodged formal complaints of discrimination against the foreign minister and a senior opposition senator. Speaker Peter Slipper has stood aside over his former media adviser James Ashby’s suit lodged in the Federal Court last month [...]
business
Facebook’s IPO at the top: $104 billion for the company
NEW YORK – Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of “likes” are worth on Wall Street. Facebook’s stock is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday, the day after the world’s definitive online social network raised $16 billion in an initial public [...]
entertainment
20 months of erection after a moto ride, man sues BMW
LOS ANGELES – A man filed sued BMW, because after a moto ride as an effect he had a 20 months lasting erection. Accoring to the man his long lasting erection was due to the 4 hour ride with his BMW moto. The man asked a refund for medical expenses, and mental issues.
environment
PICTURES: Giant rat killed in north east England
A farmer from a small town in England has found and killed a a 4ft long giant rat on his farm. Brian Watson spotted and killed found the ‘giant rat’ after his granddaughter’s boyfriend was scared off by the beast while mowing the grass.Watson, 67, killed it with a lump of wood. He told Mail [...]
europe
Cyprus gas search: Turkey warned companies
ANKARA, Turkey – It has been reported that Turkey on Friday called on major international oil and gas companies seeking licenses to search for gas deposits off Cyprus to withdraw their bids, saying it will not allow exploration to go ahead and threatening to ban them from Turkish energy projects. Companies such as Russia’s Novatec, [...]
health
Diet during pregnancy good for women: babies’ birth weights are not affected
LONDON – According to The British Medical Journal and 44 studies involving more than 7,000 women diet during pregnancy is a good thin for women. The advice from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), published in 2010, says: “Dieting during pregnancy is not recommended as it may harm the health of the [...]
last news
Facebook stock debut
NEW YORK – It has been reported that Facebook stock is rising more than 10 percent in the world’s biggest online social network’s debut as a publicly traded company. The stock rose to $42.05 on the Nasdaq Stock market on Friday morning. CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, [...]
middle-east
Baghdad: bomb in market death toll 5
BAGHDAD – It has been reported that three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said. Two police officials said the bird market in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City was crowded with shoppers when the bombs [...]
sci – tech
Gulf of Mexico. 19th Century Shipwreck site discovered
MEXICO – Scientists in the Gulf of Mexico uncovered a shipwreck site believed to be 200 years old. “Artifacts in and around the wreck and the hull’s copper sheathing may date the vessel to the early to mid-19th century,” Jack Irion, a maritime archaeologist with the BOEM, said. “Some of the more datable objects include [...]
sports
World Match Play Results
CASARES, Spain – Following the results Friday from the World Match Play Championship, a €2.75 million ($3.5 million) European Tour event at the par-72, 7,290-yard Finca Cortesin Golf Course: Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Spain, def. Richard Finch, England, 4 and 2 Richard Finch, England, def. Martin Kaymer, Germany, 1 up Robert Rock, England, def. Darren Clarke, Northern [...]
video
Los Banos, California. Puppy “falls” from the sky
LOS BANOS (CALIFORNIA) – A puppy falls from the sky in Los Banos, California. As this video shows the puppy was dropped an estimated 30 feet by a hawk, as KSEE24 News reports. Elaine Bouschard and her grandson, Taylor Callaway, have this gift “Taylor started yelling that he saw a puppy. I looked up and the [...]
vips
Jessica Simpson designs maternity clothes
NEW YORK – Jessica Simpson will design a maternity clothes collection. It has been reported that brand-new mother Jessica Simpson is launching a line of clothing for moms-to-be. The 31-year-old singer-actress, who gave birth to daughter Maxwell Drew Johnson on May 1, announced Monday a partnership between Camuto Group, the master licensee behind her label, [...]