Appearing on the same stage for the first time in months, although they overlapped only briefly, the two men shared their views on a range of moral, foreign and domestic issues as they near their respective nominating conventions.
Obama said he would limit abortions in the late stages of pregnancy if there are exceptions for the mother's health. He said he knew that people who consider t...
Ronnie Drew, the legendary Irish folk singer and musician, has died, his family said.
The 73-year-old founder of The Dubliners had been battling ill health for some time.
In a brief statement, his family confirmed he passed away at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Dublin at 2pm.
Drew founded the then-Ronnie Drew Group in 1962 which later came to be known as The Dubliners.
..."Increasingly, women with breast cancer are able to make choices about their treatment," Dr. John A. Olson, Jr. from Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina told Reuters Health. "While we certainly do not want to turn one operation into two for most women with breast cancer and sentinel node metastasis, these data suggest that taking a stepwise approach to axillary management is ...
KUWAIT, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Kuwait signed more than $27 billion of investment agreements with nine Asian countries, including Brunei and the Philippines, during an Asian tour this month, its finance minister said in remarks published on Sunday.
The agreements were in the economic, oil, health and foreign affairs sectors, daily Awan cited Mustapha al-Shamali as saying.
"The value of t...
DENVER (AP) — Qwest Communications International Inc. and members of its largest union kept negotiating Sunday as a labor contract expired.
Workers represented by the Communications Workers of America had voted to authorize a strike if needed, but CWA organizing coordinator Al Kogler said no strike had been called when the contract expired after 11:59 p.m. Saturday.
"As long ...
Loyce Mbewa-Ong'udi was late. Family and friends milledaround her parents' house in the green hills overlooking LakeVictoria, waiting for the daughter from America to return home.
At last the taxi bounced over the ruts and made a sharp turninto the compound of small brick and stucco houses. Loyce sprangout to a shower of greetings in the Luo language, hugs, helpinghands for 12 enormous ...
OTTAWA - Concerns over meat-borne Listeria bacterial contamination have prompted a health warning from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
CFIA and Burlington, Ont.-based Maple Leaf Consumer Foods are warning the public not to serve or consume Sure Slice brand Roast Beef and Corned Beef in one-kilogram packages.
The affected roast beef products have a best-before date of Aug. 9, wh...
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said Sunday she's only seen her babies on television and hopes to hold them and name them soon.
Ghazala Khamis was still hospitalized after giving birth a day earlier to four boys and three girls. She said she is "very anxious to see them" and to breast-feed at least some of them.
"I saw...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — As soaring home prices set the stage for America's great housing meltdown, a critical step in making sure those home sales were a fair deal — the real estate appraisal — was undermined from within.
After the nation's last major banking disaster, Congress set up a system to catch rogue appraisers. Their game: inflating the value of homes at the...
SYDNEY (AFP) — More Australian soldiers are likely to have health problems in the future as a result of being deployed to war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan, Veterans' Affairs Minister Alan Griffin said Sunday.
Griffin said officials were beginning to deal with the relatively new dilemma of mental health issues posed by troops who had served in not only one, but multiple, war zones.
A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to ``John McCain's president, George W. Bush,'' and chided his Republican rival's campaign team for trying to make him look unpatriotic and weak.
At a town hall meeting with several hundred union members, Obama said he had had a...
The annual figure is based on official statistics from 37 countries, but includes estimates for nations where data is unavailable.
The report hopes that better records will encourage more responsible policy-making and regulation.
Reported in the journal Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, the figure has been contested by pro-experiment groups.
The global estimate is the result...
By GARRY SHEERAN - Sunday Star Times Monday, 18 August 2008
ACC VIEWS: National's John Key may have misjudged the mood of the business community on privatising accident compensation, writes Garry Sheeran.
Five years ago, Joel Storey was paralysed from the waist down in an apparent gang attack in the car park of his employer Affco's Wairoa premises.
The event started a lo...
MONTREAL — A group of doctors from across Canada is calling on the Canadian Medical Association to support reforms that would strengthen Canada's public health care system.
"Canadian doctors believe in the fundamentals of access based on need, not on the ability to pay," said Dr. Danielle Martin, who heads the group Canadian Doctors for Medicare.
Discussions about reforms to...
DENVER (AP) — Qwest Communications International Inc. and members of its largest union headed back to the bargaining table Sunday for further negotiations after a labor contract expired.
The talks come a little more than a week before the start of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, where Qwest is providing phone and Internet services. Qwest also is providing service to t...
Fresh figs have a preciously short season (typically from August-October), so now is the time to indulge. Though the vast majority of figs are produced here in California because of its Mediterranean climate, they can be found in most supermarkets across the country. This is a good thing since fresh figs are di rigeur, appearing in everything from sweet jams and tarts to savory salads and chutn...
Last Modified: Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 10:19 p.m. High-profile bank failures and constant news of multi-million-dollar bank losses from foreclosures have consumers questioning the vitality of their own banks.
But experts and bankers say bank failures are rare, and even if one does fail, federal insurance will keep most depositors from losing their money.
All banks and credit uni...