SINGAPORE (AFP) – World oil prices fell by more than a dollar in Asian trade Monday amid fresh concerns energy demand would be affected by the slowing US economy, dealers said.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Ten years ago this month the lives of millions of men and women were changed almost overnight by the advent of a little blue pill — the first oral treatment for impotence.
GENEVA (AFP) – Scientists at CERN, Europe’s atom-smashing laboratory, are preparing for the greatest experiment in the history of particle physics which could .unveil a sub-atomic component, the Higgs Boson, which is so tantalising that it has been called “the God Particle”.
The campaigns of the two Democratic presidential hopefuls traded fresh assaults Saturday, with a Barack Obama advisor assailing comments by ex-president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s camp lashing back over alleged character attacks.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s claims about her role in foreign policy as first lady have come under intense scrutiny.
Merrill A. McPeak, a retired Air Force general, defended Mr. Obama’s patriotism and accused former President Bill Clinton of trying to use “divisive attacks” to promote his wife’s candidacy.
CHICAGO (AP) — The new pastor of Barack Obama’s Chicago church said during Easter Sunday services that recent national scrutiny of the church is a test that will only make the congregation stronger….
Whether Barack Obama’s speech on race helped or hurt him, the moment was unlike virtually any other in American politics since the civil rights movement.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lived hand to mouth during the rush of presidential primaries while Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama outspent her and put money in the bank….
The folks over at NewsHounds have been watching their Fox News Channel quarry dither over Senator Barack Obama’s associations with pastor Jeremiah Wright, and noted Fox’s own Sean Hannity getting himself tripped up in the guilt-by-association tango. Seems that one of Hannity’s close chums is a neo-Nazi named Hal Turner who used to be a radio host, is apparently the top man in Bergen, NJ white-supremacist circles, and probably spends a lot of his time in his basement with Star Wars action figures acting out Holocaust-denier versions of The Return of the Jedi. In short, just the sort of person with whom you’d imagine Sean Hannity spends a lot of formational time with.