
Save $20 off with the promo code: "20BUCKSOFF"
Pilot blinded by stroke is guided safely to ground (AP)
AP - A British pilot who was suddenly blinded by a stroke during a solo flight was talked safely down by a military pilot, the Royal Air Force said Friday.
more
Monks brawl at Christian holy site in Jerusalem (AP)
AP - Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.
more
USGS: 6.5-magnitude quake strikes northwest China (AP)
AP - A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck remote northwestern China on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.more
Accident on Russian nuclear sub suffocates 20 (AP)
AP - The fire safety system on a brand-new Russian nuclear submarine accidentally turned on as the sub was being tested in the Sea of Japan, spewing a gas that suffocated 20 people and sent 21 others to the hospital, officials said Sunday.
more
China announces $586 billion stimulus plan (AP)
AP - China unveiled a $586 billion stimulus package Sunday in its biggest move to inoculate the world's fourth-largest economy against the global financial crisis.
more
French say 'Yes, we can!' too, to ending racism (AP)
AP - Inspired by Barack Obama, the French first lady and other leading figures say it's high time for France to stamp out racism and shake up a white political and social elite that smacks of colonial times.
more
Bomb attacks kill 8, wound dozens across Iraq (AP)
AP - Bombs killed at least eight people Sunday across Iraq and wounded dozens of others, officials said. Syria's president blamed the U.S. military presence for Iraq's instability and called on U.S. troops to leave.
more
Report: Peru to sue Yale for Inca artifacts (AP)
AP - Peru has reportedly approved a plan to sue Yale for thousands of Inca artifacts excavated by a U.S. scholar at Machu Picchu.more
Germany, Israel mark 70 years since Kristallnacht (AP)
AP - "We must not be silent" about condemning anti-Semitism, German chancellor Angela Merkel declared Sunday as Germany and Israel commemorated the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.
more
French scientists discover new species of gecko (AP)
AP - French scientists say they hatched a new gecko species from an egg plucked from its nest in a South Pacific island and carried it 12,000 miles to Paris in a box lined with Kleenex.
more
In food crisis, Mexican valley offers lessons (AP)
AP - On the walls of some farmhouses here, a photo of a one-time Iowa farm boy hangs along with a portrait of the pope. The American long ago wrought a kind of miracle in the wheat fields of this valley, one that today's world hungers for anew.
more
Poland condemns lawmaker's anti-Obama slur (AP)
AP - Poland's Foreign Ministry has condemned a conservative lawmaker who called U.S. president-elect Barack Obama the "black messiah of the new left" and said his victory marks the "end of the civilization of the white man."more
Doctors fight cholera oubreak in eastern Congo (AP)
AP - Doctors struggled Sunday to contain an outbreak of cholera in a sprawling refugee camp near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, as renewed fighting ignited fears that patients could scatter and launch an epidemic.
more