Maldives heads to historic presidential poll

Asia's longest serving political leader is facing the prospect of losing his job as the President of the Maldives. The Indian Ocean tourist paradise is having its first taste of democracy with multi-party elections being held to choose a president for the next five years. The...

Asian governments move to halt stock market slide

Governments in Asia are pumping in big funds to fight off the credit crunch emerging out of global crisis. Governments are also cutting down cash reserve and interest rate to make more liquidity. Hong is cutting its key interest rate by 100 basis points effective Thursday....

At Least Five Million in UK Suffer 'fuel poverty'

A British energy watchdog has released a new report showing that at least 5 million homes in the UK are living in fuel poverty - that is they spend more than 10% of their income on fuel. This number is up a full million from last year's numbers. At least 2.75 million of those...

Five Alternative Bailout Plans

Brief points on 5 different plans proposed to deal with the financial market, to be compared with the $700 billion pig being pushed on the taxpayers by Paulson, Cox, Bush and Bernanke that some Dems and Reps in Congress have been trying to put lipstick on."The Bush...

Vicar jailed over child porn crimes

The Reverend Richard Hart, who became notorious in the UK after 56,000 images of child pornography were discovered on his computer, has today started his prison sentence. On the same day, a charity has used the opportunity to warn that child pornography is currently growing...

Fox News's Steve Doocy Censored Speaker For Bringing Up Keating Five

Okay, I have a few things from Fox that are interesting. First, there is a video out of Fox New's Cavuto saying that the problem with the economy is giving loans to "minorities and other high riskies". Now this, from Steve Doocy. Notice Doocy interupted the speaker numerous...

Five arrested in shooting death of Augusta, GA man

"Authorities arrested five Augusta teenagers tonight in the fatal shooting of a Grovetown man during what police described as a home invasion. According to police, an unnamed 14-year-old boy and the following others now face a charge of murder in the death of 33-year-old...

Irani Trophy 2008-09: Preview

"The new season begins in earnest in Baroda when the star studded Rest of India team takes on the Ranji champions Delhi. With the series against Australia looming large, and the selectors more or less making their intentions clear, this match has suddenly gained epic...

Musical Road Hits Sour Notes With Neighbors

Kinda like those wake up lines at the side of the road... .. only more musical." Local officials say it was a mistake to allow a television commercial company to grind grooves into a stretch of desert roadway near Lancaster to enable car tires to play a song -- "The...