TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says fishermen on a Taiwanese boat fought back against Somali pirates and freed themselves after a hijacking in the Indian Ocean.
Some of the 28 crew on the Chin Yi Wen overcame the hijackers then the boat met up with British anti-piracy vessels nearby. Three crew had minor injuries.
The government news agency said the fight …
Uruguay faced a stark choice in Sunday's presidential election between a former rebel who yearns to create enduring socialism and a former president who would distance the nation from leftist Latin American governments.
Uruguayans also considered a voter initiative to remove amnesty for human rights abuses under the 1973-85 dictatorship.
Jose "Pepe" Mujica, the former guerrilla and candidate of the ruling leftist coalition, was the clear front-runner, but polls suggested he would narrowly miss the majority needed to avoid a runoff.
His closest rival, center-right candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle, pushed hard to privatize government as …
NEW YORK Stocks rose modestly today, extending this week'sblue-chip rebound after a one-day pause, but technology sharescontinued to struggle despite a strong profit report from Microsoft.
The Dow rose 44.95 points to close at 6,703.55, bringing theweek's gain to about 310 points.
The Nasdaq composite index was up just 5.47 at 1,222.54 even asMicrosoft surged 9 1/2 to 107 5/8. The software giant smashed WallStreet's expectations late Thursday by reporting an 85 percentimprovement in profits for the first three months of the year.``Even though Microsoft said that its earnings can't stay thisgood, the market is ignoring that and buying it,'' said Alfred E.Goldman, …
JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted Thursday on new corruption charges for allegedly seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in a wide-ranging real estate scandal that dwarfs the other cases in which he's accused.
According to the indictment, millions of dollars illegally changed hands to promote a series of real estate projects, including a controversial housing development in Jerusalem that required a radical change in zoning laws and earned the developers tax breaks and other benefits.
Jerusalem residents have long suspected that the hulking Holyland housing development, built on a prominent hilltop, was tainted by corruption. …
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are making their first public appearance together since the divisive Democratic primary race ended.
They are making their show of unity in a hamlet named for it.
Some 6,0000 people were gathered to watch in one of the wide-open fields of the tiny town of 1,700. It's a carefully chosen venue in a key general election battleground state: Unity awarded exactly 107 votes to each candidate in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary in January.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) _ Putting …
AUTO RACING
NASCAR Sprint Cup
Schedule-Winners
Through Sunday
Feb. 9 - x-Budweiser Shootout (Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
Feb. 14 - x-Gatorade Duel 1 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
Feb. 14 - x-Gatorade Duel 2 (Denny Hamlin)
Feb. 17 - Daytona 500 (Ryan Newman)
Feb. 24 - Auto Club 500 (Carl Edwards)
March 2 - UAW-Dodge 400 (Carl Edwards)
March 9 - Kobalt Tools 500 (Kyle Busch)
March 16 - Food City 500 (Jeff Burton)
March 30 - Goody's Cool Orange 500 (Denny Hamlin)
April 6 - Samsung 500 (Carl Edwards)
April 12 - Subway Fresh Fit 500 (Jimmie Johnson)
April 27 - Aaron's 499 (Kyle Busch)
May 3 - Crown …
The campus of Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg appeared in a made-for-TV movie that aired on ABC television on December 11. CMU was used as the location for the Christmas movie Naughty or Nice, which starred comedian George Lopez and Lisa Vidai. Film crews were on the campus last June and used a number of rooms in the 1922 neo-Gothic administration building for scenes involving a college professor. The story featured Lopez as a …
