July 15, 2009
A 17-year-old mimicking Brad Pitt’s Fight Club character, who planned attacks on corporate America, was arrested for masterminding a pre-dawn blast outside a Starbucks Coffee shop in New York.
Kyle Shaw was arrested on Tuesday night on charges of arson, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal mischief, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said on Wednesday.
June 23, 2009
A lawyer for disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has sought a sentence of 12 years or less for his aging client, who he says “has an approximate life expectancy of 13 years”.
June 10, 2009
The captain of the US Airways Flight 1549 jet that landed in the Hudson River in January asked his co-pilot less than 20 seconds before splashing into the river,
“Got any ideas?”
The first officer, Jeffrey Skiles, replied to the captain, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger:
“Actually not,”
April 28, 2009
New Yorkers evacuated offices in panic on Monday when an unexpected overflight by one of President Barack Obama’s Boeing 747s triggered fears of a new 9/11.
The jumbo, escorted by low-flying fighter jets, roared over southern Manhattan and the Hudson River for about 30 minutes on what officials later described as a photo-op.
9/11 plane scare over New York
April 20, 2009
Israel recalled its ambassador to Switzerland last night in protest over a meeting between the Swiss President, Hans-Rudolph Merz, and Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Mr Ahmadinejad was greeted by the Swiss President after landing in Geneva on Sunday where he was due to address a United Nations conference on racism today.
March 15, 2009
If ever the world would have forgiven a man for not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time, it would have been now. No one would blame Barack Obama if he focused exclusively on the economic crisis, pushing the foreign policy in-tray to the back of his desk. After all, there’s only so much even a Messiah can handle.
For all that, the new US President has crammed a slew of foreign policy moves into his first six weeks, any one of which would have made big news in normal times.
March 10, 2009
A right-wing pundit has been caught red-handed manufacturing controversy after claiming US President Barack Obama’s Wikipedia page was being whitewashed, in a scandal that fooled big news outlets including Fox News.
Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem bureau chief at online news publication WorldNetDaily (WND), reported that Obama’s Wikipedia entry was far too positive and did not mention his claimed links with controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright and “Weatherman terrorist” Bill Ayers.
December 27, 2008
HOLLYWOOD stars including Halle Berry and Steven Spielberg and bosses of high-tech giants including Google and Microsoft are opening their wallets to help fund US President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration party.
Mr Obama, in keeping with his vow to purge US politics of influence peddling, has ordered that the names of all inauguration donors, withheld by previous presidents, be published.
December 22, 2008
US vice-president Dick Cheney says he doesn’t know if the al-Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden is still alive – but thinks he is.
Asked if the elusive bin Laden was alive, Cheney said in an interview on Sunday: “I don’t know and I’m guessing he is.”
December 11, 2008
General Motors is saving every cent it can, from shutting down escalators at night to limiting workers’ choice of pens, in case it needs to fight to survive beyond year’s end and until a friendlier Washington takes over.
Yet even a truckload of penny-pinching might not be enough.
GM has already cut its US work force by almost 80,000 this decade, reducing it to 96,000, and it has idled five factories and laid off 11,000 domestic workers this year alone.
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