Provides the latest RSS feeds for General Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Africa Leader.com http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:32:43 -0400 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:32:43 -0400 30 September 30, 2008 · The House of Representatives' defeat Monday of a $700 billion financial rescue package may have come as a surprise to President Bush and top administration officials. But e... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18229104/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:15:16 -0400 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18229104/ September 30, 2008 · While politicians blame each other for the House's rejection of the $700 billion bailout bill, some economists warn that if the bill had passed, it would have signaled the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18229103/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:15:15 -0400 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18229103/ Equitable Resources has chosen a Downtown skyscraper as the base for an expansion that could bring as many as 350 jobs to Pittsburgh. The company announced today that it will be moving its corporate ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18233415/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:30:37 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18233415/ The Steelers today signed Najeh Davenport to help rejuvenate their depleted offensive backfield. Davenport worked out for the club late this morning and signed a contract early this afternoon. He pla... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18233416/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:30:24 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18233416/ Warren Buffett famously called the derivatives that were concocted, peddled and held by Wall Street firms "financial weapons of mass destruction." Now these weapons have exploded, putting the economy ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224076/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:42 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224076/ North Korea's move to restart its Yongbyon reactor means that one of the Bush administration's few foreign policy achievements - a deal to roll back Kim Jong Il's nuclear program - is on the brink of ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224077/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:40 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224077/ When five former secretaries of state talk, the nation should listen. Their collective message: The next White House administration should talk directly to its enemies, not just isolate or demonize th... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224078/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:39 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224078/ San Francisco is in the midst of rezoning a chunk of the city twice as large as Golden Gate Park. The rezoning effort, called the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan, will affect job creation, housing producti... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224082/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:26 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224082/ The bank bailout bill was the most important piece of legislation to come before Congress in years. Given its importance to our financial markets and our country's overall economic health, it was deva... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224079/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:36 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224079/ Editor - I am so sick of Washington legislators. All of them. Surely they must have, or should have, known this financial crisis was coming, but it didn't prevent them from first enjoying their five-w... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224080/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:33 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224080/ In the midst of financial meltdown, there was an amazing bit of bright news to come out of Washington last week: Thanks to the efforts of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., a crucial piece of foster care l... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224083/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:23 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224083/ Once a week, a truck brings drinking water to the small town of Bodega, just west of Santa Rosa. Without this delivery, the Bodega Water Company could not meet the needs of the town's 150 residents wh... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224081/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:31 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224081/ Editor - As I was walking down Mission Street recently, I saw what appeared to be another homeless man, bearded, wearied, on his last legs. But something about him was vaguely familiar. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224085/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:44:15 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18224085/ Federal prosecutors say a retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge spent $440,000 in insurance money on a new house, hot tub, motorcycle, jewelry and cosmetic surgery for a woman he has since married... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18226000/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:56:29 -0400 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18226000/ wedge between al-Qaeda and the Iraqi tribal resistance and led to a significant reduction in the intensity of the resistance. In Pakistan, there is no sign of this happening. Indeed, the reverse... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220340/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:12 -0400 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220340/ By Anthony H Cordesman Most of the literature on the cost of the Iraq War, Afghan War, and "war on terror" focuses on the burden it places on the federal budget and the US economy. These are ve... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220342/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:11 -0400 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220342/ By Wu Zhong, China Editor HONG KONG - China has unleashed a "storm of punishment" for top officials linked to tragedies like the Sanlu milk powder scandal and deadly catastrophes in its mining ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220345/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:06 -0400 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220345/ By Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene The US House of Representatives' 228 to 205 rejection of the financial bailout plan put forward by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reser... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220344/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:03 -0400 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220344/ By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - New evidence from former United States officials reveals that Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders were able to skip Afghanistan for Pakistan unimpeded in th... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220341/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:09 -0400 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220341/ world. So great is the alienation of the government from its people on this issue, you might have thought that the callers were making one final testament of the truth, for surely they believed that... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220343/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:02 -0400 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220343/ Creating a great depression By Martin Hutchinson Financial downturns are unpleasant, but they do not need to turn into the Great Depression, which historians now agree was the product primarily ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220346/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:01 -0400 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220346/ By John Helmer MOSCOW - The Bubble Metric Index (BMI) is a measure of the distance between the fantasy of money and financial reality. The index has been weighing unusually heavily in the p... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220347/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:00 -0400 Asia Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18220347/ It's amazing that California lawmakers were able to pass anything this year, given their inability to produce a timely and responsible budget. But they did come up with some good bills that Gov. Arnol... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219175/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:09:12 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219175/ A failure of public confidence One thing may be said with certainty: Monday's defeat of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan was a victory for representative government. The bill failed the House... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216014/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:37 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216014/ Last week I upset a good many of my fellow Republicans by questioning John McCain's intelligence. But the evidence keeps marching in. The latest indicator concerns his judgment in one of the most impo... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216017/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:32 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216017/ Congress blinked, Wall Street tanked and the mood Monday on Main Street pingponged in a narrow range between angry and anxious."Oh my gosh!" Christine Anderson, 62, of Huntington Beach exclaimed when ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219172/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:09:17 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219172/ I have had a great experience with Chris Buttars and how he looks to help those when no one else will step up. I had a neighbor named Kevin Owen who came to this country four years ago from England wi... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216016/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:31 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216016/ died in the Senate, Obama led McCain by eight points, according to Gallup. By June 24, the race was in a dead heat, a shift owed in no small part to Republicans battering Democrats on energy. Seeing t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219177/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:09:10 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219177/ In deference to Leonard Romney of Holladay (Readers' Forum, Sept. 29), I felt that McCain came across as sincere and honest in the recent debate. He may not be a slick as Barack Obama, but he is vastl... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216019/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:29 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216019/ The current financial crisis and proposed bailout remind me of Jubilee, the Jewish ritual year described in the 25th chapter of Leviticus. Jubilee occurred every 50 years, and it represented a sort of... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216012/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:35 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216012/ Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) complained that the Justice Department under Gonzales had asked several U.S. attorneys to resign before the end of their terms "not based on any allegation of miscondu... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219174/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:09:14 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219174/ The common argument people have for same-sex marriages is that when people love each other, they should be able to marry one another. Love is a strong thing, but this boils down to something else. Eve... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216015/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:33 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216015/ Last week John McCain repeated "the fundmentals of our economy are strong." Just last month he stated he would deregulate the health-care industry. A president of the United States can't suspend his p... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216020/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:28 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216020/ Regarding "Pets with a purpose: Utahns turning to poultry," (Sept. 28), I was a bit confused. In the story, Daysha Moore is pictured "visiting" with Cookie, one of her chickens, that is clearly a roos... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216018/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:30 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216018/ With the passing of Paul Newman, animals — and the people who care about them — have lost a dedicated friend and advocate. Beyond his work as an actor, Newman's companies Newman's Own and Ne... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216021/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:27 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216021/ Enter the Evening News caption competition and tell us. You'll need to register if you've not posted a comment on the website before but it only takes a few seconds. We'll feature a selection of our f... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215976/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:13:01 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215976/ WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Irving Fisher got himself a place in history books by saying, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." The first celebrity economist, Fisher... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216013/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:03:36 -0400 Deseret News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216013/ vote down the rescue package Monday that Paulson and Bernanke said was so desperately needed? Blame haste, partisanship, timidity and brinkmanship -- they all played a role. More important, though, wa... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219173/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:09:13 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219173/ Members of the House Democratic Leadership, from left, House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,D-Calif., House Democratic Ca... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219179/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:53:40 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219179/ The U.S. House of Representatives, especially the 228 members who voted to defeat a bipartisan financial rescue plan Monday, should take a bow. It's not every day, after all, that a single act of pol... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219180/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:41:35 -0400 Denver Post http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219180/ I t is tempting to try and bully the Bay State’s spend-ocrats into reforming their ways - forcing them to strip the state budget of every gazebo, every bloated pension, every “first deputy... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219181/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:39:05 -0400 Boston Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18219181/ Less noticed than it should be amidst the turmoil shaking the world’s financial system, Pakistan is fighting for its life. The spectacular recent bombing in the heart of Islamabad that destroyed the... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216479/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:32:56 -0400 Financial Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18216479/ letters@usatoday.com . Letters for print consideration are edited for accuracy, clarity and length, and comments of 250 words or fewer have the best chance of being published. Letters that include ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212546/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:41:26 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212546/ letters@usatoday.com . Letters for print consideration are edited for accuracy, clarity and length, and comments of 250 words or fewer have the best chance of being published. Letters that include ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212553/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:41:24 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212553/ gearing up his team for the playoffs and a shot at a world championship, while the Yankees are going home. Torre was not the problem in New York. Upper management and the players were to blame for kee... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212570/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:41:18 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212570/ Teen recounts '02 abduction ordeal " is Shawn Hornbeck smiling often during the interview. It's also heartening to hear that he is back in school and that therapy is helping him cope (News, Thurs... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212566/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:41:20 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212566/ If the leaders in Washington want to bail out this economy, then they should leave the $700 billion to the rightful owners: taxpayers. It's our money. We should decide who gets bailed out (" http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212577/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:41:08 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212577/ Jim Lehrer , the moderator of the first presidential debate, sounded like a marriage counselor as he admonished the candidates to talk to each other instead of directing their comments to the moderato... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215211/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:22:48 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215211/ fret over chemicals in teen cosmetics" called undue attention to yet another study by an activist group devoted to finding hazards in consumer products, especially cosmetics (USATODAY.com, Wednes... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215210/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:22:47 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215210/ Friday's presidential debate with my wife and father-in-law, two rabid supporters of Barack Obama's candidacy. After the suspense created by John McCain's threatened withdrawal, they greeted his decis... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212556/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:41:23 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212556/ Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a blank check. The sky is not falling. The market will return. Secretary Paulson is getting a lesson in civics. The world he has entered is different than the wheelin... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212550/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:41:25 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18212550/ No is not an answer. Not when Wall Street is teetering on the brink. Not when the credit market is about to collapse. Not when jobs, homes and retirement savings hang in the balance. Americans know h... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215218/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:17:50 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215218/ goal of the past seven years and say a gracious farewell. George Steinbrenner, the best boss in baseball, has asked Torre and other executives a simple question each offseason: "What will it t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215217/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:22:46 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215217/ To pimply adolescents entering manhood in 1969 or so, the cinematic duo were the new essence of cool. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were amiable, tragic anti-heroes who got the girl and pretty o... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215220/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:17:49 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18215220/ TOKYO, Sept. 30 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press: CHINA'S SPACE PROGRAM (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese- language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18213269/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:02:14 -0400 Breitbart http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18213269/ Two members of the West Virginia University basketball team who were charged in connection with an altercation at PNC Park this summer have pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Joe Mazzulla and Cam Thor... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211960/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:33:12 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211960/ AP NEW DELHI: At least one person was killed and six injured yesterday in an explosion in India’s western Gujarat state, the Press Trust of India reported. The Indian news channel Times Now repo... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211963/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:59 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211963/ An elderly East Pittsburgh woman was killed yesterday by her own car, which was being parked by a teenage boy, the Allegheny County medical examiner said. Agnes Hunnell, 83, of Center Street, was str... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211961/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:33:12 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211961/ AP SRINAGAR: Indian forces killed 11 suspected militants, including seven during a prolonged battle among Himalayan peaks 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) above sea level, in the Indian-controlled portion o... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211966/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:58 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211966/ Nilofar Suhrawardy I Arab News NEW DELHI: Russia yesterday offered its former Cold War ally India the chance to jointly develop weapon systems in a bid to remain New Delhi’s main provider of arm... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211962/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:08:00 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211962/ AP WASHINGTON: Sarah Palin, now the Republican vice presidential candidate, brought something more effective than facts and figures to an agriculture debate in the Alaska governor’s race two yea... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211970/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:49 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211970/ The Steelers made a stunning turnaround late in the third quarter to take a 17-13 lead against the Baltimore Ravens tonight at Heinz Field. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger threw a 38-yard touchdown pa... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211959/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:33:12 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211959/ Jim Gomez I AP MANILA: Philippine troops have prepared for a possible escalation of fighting with Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters after Ramadan ends, although the MILF is believed to be sufferi... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211969/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:51 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211969/ Saeed Shah I The Guardian WARI, Pakistan: Moderate tribesmen in parts of militant-ravaged northwest Pakistan are challenging Taleban extremists threatening to overrun their area, in what could develop... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211965/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:56 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211965/ Agencies WASHINGTON: Republican presidential nominee John McCain has defended running mate Sarah Palin, even as she contradicted his policy against talking publicly about attacking terrorist targets i... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211967/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:53 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211967/ Azhar Masood I Arab News ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani yesterday visited the northern tribal region of Bajaur to meet military commanders and troops engaged in the... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211964/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:55 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211964/ Stephan Majors I AP COLUMBUS, Ohio: The Ohio Supreme Court and a federal judge yesterday upheld a weeklong period in which new voters can register and cast an absentee ballot on the same day in Ohio, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211971/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:47 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211971/ David Chance I Reuters KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim scored better than the government’s pick to become the next prime minister in an opinion poll which showed that wor... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211972/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:46 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211972/ AFP MOSCOW: The Russian captain of a Ukrainian cargo ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia has died of high blood pressure, despite reports he could have been treated on a watching US ship, Russian med... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211973/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:45 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211973/ 30 September 2008 THE latest incident of piracy off the coast of Somalia with a Ukrainian vessel carrying tanks and other military equipment seized by Somali pirates has brought the issue to a head &#... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211974/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:44 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211974/ Gary Younge I The Guardian AS markets plunge, banks fail and traders panic, the core principles that have underpinned Western economic and political culture for a generation have been thoroughly discr... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211975/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:42 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18211975/ IS THIS it? Is the socialist revolution upon us at last? I refer to the actions of Broon and Bush – the Lenin and Trotsky of our times – nationalising the banks. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206257/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:16 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206257/ MY HUSBAND has had his kilt since he was at university. Like all good kilts, the waist fastening allows plenty of room for growth, but not, however, quite as much growth as my husband has undergone in... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206259/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:14 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206259/ IMPROVING chances for Scotland's children and giving them a positive start in life is at the centre of this government's approach. We have an unprecedented focus on children, especially in their early... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206261/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:10 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206261/ South Fayette Superintendent Linda Hippert today is sending parents a letter about a middle school football coach who sent an "inappropriate" e-mail to about 16 people. Dr. Hippert said she was conta... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18207848/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:56:11 -0400 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18207848/ First prize for patriarchal perversity goes to the fathers featured in last week's Cutting Edge documentary The Virgin Daughters, which focused on the American "purity movement". We saw girls who, fro... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206264/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:05 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206264/ Muhammed Mar’i I Arab News RAMALLAH: Israel would have to withdraw from most of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights if it was serious about making peace with the Palestinians and Syria, outgoin... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209345/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:10 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209345/ Samer Ak-Atrush I AFP CAIRO: A group of European tourists and their guides snatched by armed bandits in a remote desert 10 days ago were freed unharmed in a pre-dawn raid by Egyptian special forces ye... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209346/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:11 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209346/ ng outrage at the loss of green belt to unchecked urban sprawl? Well, no actually. The reason, I think, had something to do with government beginning to get serious about making at least some of these... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206262/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:09 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206262/ John Gray I The Observer OUR gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in w... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209350/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:04 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209350/ AFP TRIPOLI: Four Lebanese soldiers were killed yesterday in a car bombing targeting an army bus on the outskirts of the restive northern city of Tripoli, security and military officials said.They sai... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209347/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:08 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209347/ Iman Kurdi I Ik511@hotmail.com Perhaps it is because I am fasting in a non-Muslim country but never has the long languid French lunch seemed so appealing. Perhaps too because in the Arab world lunch i... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209351/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:03 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209351/ It has found itself at the centre of political debate in the Scottish Parliament, with alternating opposition parties using it as a stick with which to beat the SNP.The service has faced repeated crit... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206258/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:12 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206258/ Sameer N. Yacoub I AP BAGHDAD: Doctors will be allowed to carry guns to protect themselves after being so often targeted in attacks since the 2003 US-led invasion, the government said yesterday.The go... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209348/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:07 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209348/ It ought to be reassuring that while governments are living a day-to-day existence trying to prevent a global financial implosion, some people are thinking centuries ahead. The British Library is host... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209226/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:34:16 -0400 The Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209226/ Agencies MARSEILLE, France: Indian and French leaders yesterday vowed to boost nuclear energy cooperation at an annual summit on EU-India ties dominated by trade, global warming and the world financia... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209349/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:06 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209349/ EUROPE is getting bigger in more ways than one. Even if a newly right-wing Austria vetoes Turkish membership, the EU is still growing in terms of population. New data from Brussels shows that the unio... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206263/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:07 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206263/ Jonathan Power I Arab News RICHARD Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton Accords that ended the war in ex-Yugoslavia and President Bill Clinton’s former ambassador to the United Nations, is now... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209352/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:02 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209352/ Angelo Young I Arab News THE tumult in the markets is a clear sign that something is wrong: Namely a liquidity crunch that has seized up bank-to-bank lending, a key element to the health of the US &#8... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209353/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:01 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209353/ THE STV evening news programme used to be known affectionately in media circles as "the murder and fitba show", such was its reliance on court stories and the SPL for its day-to-day material. It is be... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206260/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:15 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206260/ eeking new partners for his plans to reshape Scotland.But the thought of Alex Salmond taking a trip to Qatar with, as some have put it, "a begging bowl", in the hope of being loaned possibly billions ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206255/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:16:20 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18206255/ 29 September 2008 NOT for the first time has the Middle East Quartet been criticized for haplessness in dealing with or trying to help solve the Palestinian-Israeli dispute. The damning report issued ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209354/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:31:00 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209354/ Adrian Lovett I The Independent AT the Clinton Global Initiative, there are so many people who have so much to say that everyone has to talk fast. In a meeting this morning, the education minister fro... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209355/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:30:58 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209355/ Jonathan Freedland I The Guardian BIRMINGHAM should be the scene of a celebration. For the first time in 21 years, the Tories gather for their party conference buoyed by a lead in the polls. In the pa... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209356/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:30:57 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209356/ Norman Solomon | Creators Syndicate OF course Katharine Gun was free to have a conscience — as long as it didn’t interfere with her work at a British intelligence agency. To the authoritie... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209357/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:30:56 -0400 Arab News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18209357/ Today's question: How bad is the current fiscal crisis, and why can't we just let the markets correct themselves? All week, Robert Kuttner and J.D. Foster debate election-year economics and Washington... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205380/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:43:58 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205380/ Meanwhile, it looks like the U.S. administration is now doing exactly what it advised the Russian government against doing in the 1990s -- not to subsidize the domestic economy via negative real inter... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205384/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:31:08 -0400 Moscow Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205384/ In connection with the global financial crisis, serious growth in quantity of M&A deals are expected in Russia, blue chips as well as interest in the mid cap companies. On the 22 September there was a... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205382/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:31:06 -0400 Moscow Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205382/ State police in Washington County are looking for the driver of a gray sedan who struck a pedestrian this afternoon and fled. Richard McCarthy was walking his dog along Walker Hill Road in Blaine Tow... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205386/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:27:16 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205386/ The Allegheny Regional District board is proposing an $80.3 million budget for 2009 that includes a freeze in operating assistance and the elimination of all but a few capital grants amid fears of dec... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205385/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:27:15 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/18205385/