NEW DELHI -- Foreign militants, possibly from al-Qaida, may beplanning to bomb New Delhi and Bombay, the U.S. Embassy warnedFriday, raising fears that Osama bin Laden's network may be targetingIndia for its rising economic power and links to the United States.
An e-mail sent to Americans registered with the embassy said NewDelhi, the capital, and Bombay, the country's financial andentertainment hub, were targeted for attacks around …
The United States Department of Agriculture is expected to release new dietary guidelines and a new food pyramid in January. We figure: Why should you have to wait?
A 13-member federal advisory panel is currently revising dietary guidelines that will be incorporated into revisions of the traditional Food Guide Pyramid. On August 11, 2004, that panel issued a health warning: Americans must cut calories and salt, eat more whole grain products and get 30 minutes of daily moderate exercise, such as brisk walking or gardening.
With almost two-thirds of Americans overweight or obese, calorie intake needs to be curtailed, the panel said. Members agreed with federal exercise …
Defending champion Tommy Armour III made a 36-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a three-way playoff with Scott Simpson and Brock MacKenzie on Sunday to win the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational.
The 49-year-old Armour, a two-time PGA Tour winner, began the day with a five-stroke lead over Rich Beem. But Armour finished with a 4-over 76 in a round that included four bogeys, a double bogey and two birdies.
Simpson, a former U.S. Open champion, finished with a 70 after beginning the final round trailing Armour by six shots.
MacKenzie, a former Nationwide Tour player without tour status for 2009, rallied from a nine-shot deficit with a …
Circuit Court clerk Angel Gonzales yesterday pointed the fingerat attorney Robert Daniels for handing him cash bribes to steer 60clients to the attorney.
Testifying under a grant of immunity in the Greylordcourt-corruption trial of Daniels, six other attorneys and JudgeRaymond C. Sodini, Gonzales recalled the cash payoffs averaging $20apiece at the Belmont and Western branch court where he once worked.
Once Daniels gave him $150 for one case, Gonzales told a federaljury. Questioned by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Rogers, Gonzalessaid he was paid off in hallways, the lockup, washroom and clerk'soffice of the branch court.
Gonzales, now assigned to the …
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday called the Bush administration "phonies" for suggesting a modest withdrawal of troops from Iraq is the result of progress rather than the fact that the U.S. has no more troops to send.
In a conference call with reporters, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Democrats made the "right decision" to not claim that the drawdown was a result of their congressional pressure.
"I think it would have made us look as bad as they are, the phonies that they're being," said the Delaware senator.
In a televised address Thursday, President Bush said that 5,700 U.S. forces would be home by …
READING, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man is being sought on charges he fired a gun inside a home, causing the death of a baby the floor below.
Authorities are searching for Akeem Page, of Reading (REH-'ding), on involuntary manslaughter charges.
Berks County District Attorney John Adams says Page was upstairs with the baby's mother Sunday when he was handling a rifle …
Doire, René, French composer; b. Evreux, June 13, 1879; d. Paris, July 9, 1959. He studied in Rouen and later in Paris with Widor and d'Indy; he then was engaged as a bandleader in the casinos of various French spas. He composed an opera, …
