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In North Korea, young Kim Jong Eun will test age-old reliance on maturity
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 16:03.At 28 or 29, Kim Jong Eun, the new leader of North Korea, will be the youngest person ever to have authority over a nuclear arsenal. read more »
U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:37.A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters. read more »
Oak Park student circulates list degrading female students (on Facebook)
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 23:02.Girls, parents band together to press for strong disciplinary action read more »
Clinton Reaches Out to Several Countries about Wikileaks
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 11/27/2010 - 19:44.U.S. read more »
Is Harry Potter Partly to Blame for India's Pet Owl Crisis?
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 11/27/2010 - 18:01.India is currently weathering an endangered owl crisis, and Harry Potter may be partly to blame. read more »
The Iraq Archive: The Strands of a War
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 17:38.A huge trove of secret field reports from the battlegrounds of Iraq sheds new light on the war, including such fraught subjects as civilian deaths, detainee abuse and the involvement of Iran. read more »
Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:41.Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday. read more »
Afghanistan's Election: A Look at the Diversity of Headlines
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 12:32.Afghans have voted in a key parliamentary election. There are a number of articles from various sources around the globe. Here is a list of some of the headlines and what agency they come from: read more »
Facebook Working Hard To Avoid Google's Fate
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:47.Brick-and-motor biggie Target will start selling Facebook Credits gift cards in-stores nationwide September 5, the retail chain announced today. read more »
Israel to open peace talks with security, water demands
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 20:08.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources. read more »
Teen Sues Mom for Hacking Facebook Account
Submitted by Mrs C on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 07:51.An Arkansas boy is suing his mom because she allegedly hacked into his Facebook account and posted slanderous remarks. read more »
Enormous Icebergs Could Affect Ocean Currents
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 12:09.A mammoth iceberg that struck a glacier off Antarctica, dislodged a newer chunk of ice that could affect ocean currents and also lower the levels of oxygen in the world’s oceans, according to Austra read more »
Obama Details Small Business Lending Initiatives
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 21:41.President Obama, who has declared creating jobs one of his top priorities for 2010, has finally unveiled details of his $30 billion plan to increase small-business lending through community banks. read more »
Fires Kill 2 and Leave a Massachusetts Town Anxious
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 16:44.BOSTON — A task force of local, state and federal officials on Monday began investigating a string of likely arsons that killed a father and son over the weekend in Northampton, Mass., and left the read more »
'Balloon Boy' Parents Get Jail Time, 4 Years Probation
Submitted by bmidwinter on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 13:14.The judge prohibited Richard Heene from receiving any form of financial benefit, whether through the media, a book, or articles he might write steming from the balloon hoax. read more »
Online churches draw believers, critics
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 19:24.(CNN) -- Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv. read more »
Wilson Taps "You Lie" Fundraising for Fellow Republicans
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 18:37.South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson has raised more than $1 million for his own campaign treasury since his "You lie" shout during President Obama's address to Congress two weeks ago. read more »
Obama's speech to kids causes uproar in schools
Submitted by newscaster on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 16:25.When President Barack Obama gives a televised address to students in schools across the country on Tuesday, some metro Detroit school districts won't be broadcasting it. read more »
Army used profiles to reject reporters (Afghanistan)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 11:59.WASHINGTON — The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to Americ read more »
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Twitter race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrows
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 11:02.The online popularity contest between celebrity Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrowed Thursday, with Kutcher's Twitter following growing considerably overnight. read more »
Snakes escape on Qantas flight
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 10:46.An Australian airliner was grounded after four baby pythons escaped from their container in the aircraft's hold. read more »
Buthelezi takes Dalai Lama issue to court
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 15:39.IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has brought an urgent court application to order the government to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama "in the nearest future" to enable him to participate in a postponed pe read more »
Opinion: Why South Carolina Doesn't Want 'Stimulus'
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 08:40.America's states are laboratories of democracy. They are both affected by, and relevant to, the larger national debate. read more »
Obama speaks of 'reaching out' to Taliban
Submitted by dontlook on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 09:45.The US president admits that the 'anti-terror' operations in Afghanistan will not lead to victory, urging dialogue with insurgents as a cure. read more »
