| Why Clicking Isn't Enough: Unblock The Pop-ups Courtesy of Ken Fisher Ken Fisher says blocking ads hurts Web sites. That's why you have to think about the sites you love. Blocking ads on those sites can be devastating. I am not arguing that... | |
| Bullying Flap Shakes Japan’s Royals announced last week that 8-year-old Princess Aiko was refusing to go to school because of bullying, he did more than just disclose a mundane problem facing a member... |
| Cyprus Ex-leader's Stolen Body Is Reburied Filed at 2:22 p.m. ET NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- The body of former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos was reburied on Thursday, three months to the day after it was dug up from its grave and stolen... |
| Thousands Of Clients’ Data Was Stolen, Hsbc Says PARIS — HSBC said Thursday that the theft of Swiss client data at the heart of a recent tax dispute with France was vastly larger than it had previously acknowledged, and added that it was... |
| Sweden Labels Mass Killing Of Armenians Genocide Filed at 2:23 p.m. ET STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide. Swedish news agency TT said... |
| Report: Ex-vienna Choir Boys Say They Were Abused Filed at 2:03 p.m. ET VIENNA (AP) -- Two former members of the famed Vienna Boys' Choir say they were sexually abused by their supervisors, a top Austrian newspaper reported Thursday, as allegations... |
| Police: Us Troops Shoot Iraqi Reporter And Husband Filed at 1:05 p.m. ET BAGHDAD (AP) -- A police official says U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband. The official says the incident took... |
| Obama Lauds Colombian President For Heeding Court Barack Obama is applauding Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for accepting a court decision that prevents him from running for a third term. Obama says Uribe's respectful heeding of the Feb. 26... |
| Us Report: Afghan, Iraq Human Rights Abuses Up More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, the State Department is blaming the Iraqi government for arbitrary killings of civilians and other human rights... |
| Pair To Head Doj Unit Probing Public Corruption More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- The troubled Justice Department unit that investigates corruption of public officials is getting new leadership amid a criminal probe into how it handled... |
| Minneapolis Schools End Lockdown In 2nd Day Filed at 2:21 p.m. ET MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A lockdown has ended at Minneapolis Public Schools after police say a threat made on a social networking site turned out to be not credible. The district... |
| Can A Mouse Cut The Cable? watch television — sometimes plenty of it — but don’t own a cable box. Those who belong to this crowd are only too happy to remind you that they can watch most of what you watch,... |
| Bmw And Vw Results Show Money Is Still In Selling Luxury Cars FRANKFURT — The market for luxury cars is recovering, but makers of the lower-priced cars that most people drive could struggle with meager profits for years to come. That was the message to be... |
| Five Countries Fall Behind On European Renewable Energy Goals The European Commission said on Thursday that five countries were failing to meet goals for renewable energy but that they could make up their quotas by buying electricity from North Africa and the... |
| Changes Likely To Phantom Sequel For Broadway Run Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess in “Love Never Dies.” It seemed like almost everyone who’s anyone in the Broadway theater biz was in London this week for the opening of... |
| Bomb Planted Outside Store Kills 4 In Nw Pakistan Filed at 11:06 a.m. ET PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A homemade bomb placed outside a store in northwestern Pakistan where locals watch movies exploded Thursday, killing four people, including a child,... |
| France's Sarkozy Faces Whipping In Regional Vote Nicolas Sarkozy is looking politically lonely in his presidential palace. Voters hit by France's worst recession since World War II are fearing for their jobs, and are worried and conflicted about... |
| Ukraine Creates New Ruling Coalition, Gets New Pm Filed at 11:34 a.m. ET KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian lawmakers formed a new majority coalition around President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday, allowing him to consolidate power by quickly... |
| Israeli Soldiers Indicted For Gaza War Conduct Filed at 12:31 p.m. ET JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military says two soldiers have been indicted on criminal charges for their actions during last year's military offensive in Gaza. The soldiers... |
| Mummy Of Egypt's Monotheist Pharaoh To Return Home Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries -- the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a... |
| Ex-new Orleans Officer Pleads In Shooting Cover-up Filed at 12:39 p.m. ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to covering up the deadly shooting of unarmed residents... |
| Nc-bound Jet Hits Birds, Returns To Ny Airport Filed at 12:35 p.m. ET ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- The pilot of a US Airways jet reported a bird strike and an engine problem shortly after takeoff from an upstate New York airport Thursday, forcing the... |
| Apnewsbreak: Aclu Sues Private Prison Company American Civil Liberties Union is suing state prison officials and a private company, claiming violence is so rampant at the Idaho Correctional Center that it's known as ''gladiator school'' among... |
| Dogs That Detect Bedbugs Bed Bug Inspectors , has vetted hotels, college dorms and Midtown office buildings, suburban homes, bare-bones Brooklyn rentals and tony Manhattan co-ops. (Mr. Ecker, who charges $350 for a... |
| National Review: Why You Won't Be Gone Fishin' March 11, 2010 So Pres. Barack Obama's "Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force" has decided that the opinions of America's 60 million anglers aren't worthy of its consideration.This task force, headed... |
| Pardon Us While We Lose It: Betty White Hosts 'snl' May 8 If this meetup at a post-Oscar party between Betty White and Victoria Beckham wasn't the best thing that happened that night, we're pretty sure we couldn't handle whatever... |
| Look Great And Save Money, Too Looking like a million bucks can cost a pretty penny. So Good Housekeeping asked industry insiders to share their smartest money-saving strategies for buying cosmetics and skin care and hair... |
| Quake Jolts Chile As President Inaugurated Spectators and journalists at the inauguration of Sebastián Piñera as Chile’s new president reacted to an aftershock a few minutes before the start of the ceremony inside Congress in Valparaiso... |
| Spain Marks 6th Anniversary Of Madrid Bombings Filed at 11:07 a.m. ET MADRID (AP) -- Hours after terrorist bombs ripped through Madrid commuter trains six years ago Thursday, an outpouring of grief engulfed the city, with people flocking to... |
| German Schools Angry Over Church Abuse Scandal Filed at 10:56 a.m. ET BERLIN (AP) -- German educators sharply criticized Roman Catholic church officials on Thursday for their handling of a spiraling child abuse scandal -- comments that came a... |
| Un Wildlife Watchdog Considers Ban On Bluefin Tuna U.N. body best known for protecting tigers and elephants will focus on the world's overfished oceans beginning this week with proposals to regulate the shark trade and ban the export of a tuna... |
| Chile Leader Enters Changed Political Landscape Chile ’s powerful earthquake buried people and homes in a broad section of the coastal south, but it may also have given the country’s new right-wing coalition government a chance to... |
| Haitian Kidnappers Release 2 European Aid Workers Doctors Without Borders says kidnappers have released two European aid workers snatched off the streets of Port-au-Prince and held for five days. It is the first reported kidnapping since Haiti... |
| Author Assumes Guise Of 10-year-old To Punk Famous O.J. Simpson's lawyer told him how to get off the hook on accusations he destroyed a doll. A publisher of racy magazines, asked whether there was a version for kids, told him to read the Sears... |
| As Earthquakes Rattle Globe, Interest In Steel Rises As a horrified public has seen in Chile and Haiti, most of the hundreds or thousands of victims were killed or left homeless because of poor construction materials and building methods. And Roger... |
| U.n. To End Some Somalia Contracts Somalia operations. For months, World Food Program officials had denied mounting allegations that the contractors they use to haul hundreds of millions of dollars of food into Somalia were stealing... |
| China Increases Security In Tibet To Prevent Protests BEIJING — For a second straight year, the Chinese government has increased security across parts of the vast Tibetan plateau to dissuade any Tibetans from holding protests this week to mark the... |
| Court Oks Extradition Of Swede In Auschwitz Case Filed at 9:01 a.m. ET STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A Swedish court ruled Thursday that a former neo-Nazi leader arrested in Sweden can be extradited to Poland, where he is suspected of being involved in the... |
| Vatican Criticizes Condom Machines In Rome School Filed at 8:45 a.m. ET ROME (AP) -- A Rome high school has incurred the ire of the Catholic Church after its decision to install condom-vending machines for students. Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the... |
| Ba Employee In Court On Suicide Bombing Charge Filed at 8:35 a.m. ET LONDON (AP) -- A British Airways computer expert is in court charged with plotting suicide bombings -- including one he allegedly planned to carry out himself. Prosecutor... |
| Early Results: Iraqi Pm Winning In 2 Provinces Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is winning in two Shiite provinces in southern Iraq. The results were the first vote tallies to be released in Iraq's historic elections, which took place last Sunday.... |
| Hrw: West Should Press Syria On Human Rights Filed at 8:35 a.m. ET BEIRUT (AP) -- A human rights group is calling on Western nations to press Syria on its human rights record. Some Western countries -- including the United States and France... |
| Bachelet Says Chile Is In Good Shape For Pinera Michelle Bachelet said Thursday that she's leaving Chile in good shape for President-elect Sebastian Pinera, having already resolved a number of the country's most urgent needs in the wake of a... |
| Nigerians Recount Night Of Their Bloody Revenge Men detained by police after violence around Jos, Nigeria, at police headquarters on Wednesday. The man, Dahiru Adamu, 25, was crouching on the floor in the sprawling police headquarters here,... |
| Trade Deficit Shrinks As Auto And Oil Imports Drop More Politics News WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly shrank in January, reflecting a big drop in imports of oil and foreign cars. American exports also fell, a potential blow to... |
| Fbi Looking Into Nj Man Linked To Attack In Yemen Filed at 9:18 a.m. ET HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) -- The FBI is investigating the case of an al-Qaida member from New Jersey who's accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. FBI... |
| Signature Bank Warrants Bring $11.15 Million Treasury Department has received $11.15 million from the sale of warrants it received from New York's Signature Bank as part of the support it provided during... |
| In Legal Ruling, Emi Told, Hey, Label, Leave Those Tracks Alone Pink Floyd against its longtime label, EMI, took hardly any time at all: A British court ruled on Thursday that the record company cannot sell songs from its concept albums as individual singles on... |
| The New Republic: Rahm Emanuel's Media White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10,... |
| Foreign Policy: Biden's Broken Gift From Jerusalem Vice President Biden gestures during a speech in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2010. Biden said he 'appreciates' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response to a row caused by the announcement of... |
