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Tyler Perry treats Philly kids to Disney World
Seeded on Sat Aug 1, 2009 9:41 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Tyler Perry is paying for 65 children from a Philadelphia day camp to go to Walt Disney World after reading about allegations that a suburban swim club had shunned them because of racism.
Fatah, West's hope for peace, faces critical test
Seeded on Sat Aug 1, 2009 10:20 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
Fatah, the divided and demoralized movement of the late Yasser Arafat and the West's best hope for delivering a Mideast peace deal, is trying to stage a comeback.
Cuba enters crisis mode as economy worsens
Seeded on Sat Aug 1, 2009 8:11 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
Cuba clicked into crisis mode Friday, postponing a key Communist Party congress aimed at charting a post-Castro future and announcing that its woeful economy is even worse than expected.
Indian rights activists blast baby-dropping ritual
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:27 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Rights activists lashed out Friday at local officials who allowed hundreds of infants to be dropped from the roof of a mosque in western India in the belief that the fall - which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet - would ensure good health and prosperity for their fam …
Remains of last 2 Australian MIAs found in Vietnam
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:50 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Remains of the last two Australians listed as missing in action in the Vietnam War have been found in the wreckage of a bomber that crashed in a jungle 39 years ago, the government said Thursday.
Venezuelans protest dramatic rise in kidnappings
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:59 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
A dramatic rise in kidnappings has prompted several protesters to trek across Venezuela, calling on President Hugo Chavez's government to crack down on abductions that are terrifying families.
Jackson kids to live with grandma, visit mother
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:50 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Michael Jackson's children will live with their grandmother under an agreement reached with the King of Pop's ex-wife that ensures the youngsters won't have to endure a public fight over who raises them.
ESPN allows NY Post sports writers back on the air
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:34 PM EDT (NBC Sports)
ESPN has reconsidered its decision to ban New York Post sports writers from its airwaves after the newspaper printed images from a videotape showing ESPN reporter Erin Andrews nude in a hotel room.
UK judges: Intelligence officer visited Morocco
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:50 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
A British intelligence officer repeatedly visited Morocco at the same time that a former U.K. resident was allegedly being tortured there, two senior judges said Friday.
Police: SC man charged with having sex with horse
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:25 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
A South Carolina man was charged with having sex with a horse after the animal's owner caught the act on videotape, then staked out the stable and caught him at shotgun point, authorities said Wednesday.
Congress trying to save 'cash for clunkers' sales
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:34 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
The House raced Friday to pass legislation pouring an additional $2 billion into the popular - but financially strapped - "cash for clunkers" car purchase program.
Mexico shuts Cancun beach, alleges sand was stolen
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:46 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
Surprised tourists found their little piece of Cancun beach paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors on Thursday.
AP IMPACT: Bad bridges passed up for stimulus cash
Seeded on Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:24 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
Tens of thousands of unsafe or decaying bridges carrying 100 million drivers a day must wait for repairs because states are spending stimulus money on spans that are already in good shape or on easier projects like repaving roads, an Associated Press analysis shows.
Afghan women candidates campaign in burqas
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:23 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Sima Matin's burqa limits her vision. It gives her migraines. Now it's causing another problem: It's hiding her from the voters she hopes will elect her in next month's provincial election.
Court declines treason case against Musharraf
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:21 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Pakistan's top court on Thursday turned down a request to launch a treason case against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf, while the former president failed to show up and explain his 2007 imposition of emergency rule for a second day of hearings.
Pakistani villagers re-create anti-Taliban militia
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:45 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Village leaders in a former Taliban stronghold are rebuilding their own militia to protect the area from militants holding out in nearby hills after fleeing the Pakistani army's offensive last spring.
Jackson chef recalls doctor's role, final days
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:03 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
On the day Michael Jackson died, his personal chef says her first hint of something amiss was when his doctor didn't come downstairs to get the juices and granola he routinely brought the King of Pop for breakfast each morning.
Life sentence closes chapter in Arizona shootings
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:02 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
A sentence of life in prison for one of two men convicted in a series of random nighttime shootings closes a significant chapter in a case that unnerved metropolitan Phoenix residents in 2005 and 2006.
Israeli report defends actions during Gaza war
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:00 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
An Israeli government report says Hamas rocket attacks forced Israel to hit Gaza hard earlier this year, defends Israel's actions against charges of war crimes but acknowledges that more than a dozen criminal inquiries are underway.
Gaza children go for world record for kite flying
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:59 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip attempted to set a new world record Thursday by flying colorful homemade kites amid the ruins of Israel's bruising offensive earlier this year - a rare display of joy in the isolated seaside territory ruled by Hamas militants.
Mexican radio journalist found dead in Acapulco
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:21 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
The body of a Mexican radio journalist was found beaten, gagged and partially buried the resort city of Acapulco, police said Wednesday.
Nigeria: Rights worker says civilians being killed
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:12 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
Nigeria's League for Human Rights says overzealous security forces are killing innocent civilians as the military tries to crush an Islamist militant sect.
Britain begins Iraq war inquiry
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:52 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
The head of a British inquiry into the Iraq war said Thursday he will call former Prime Minister Tony Blair to testify about the run-up to the conflict, but acknowledged it is unlikely that senior Bush administration officials would give evidence.
Baby girl cut from mom's womb is found; 2 arrested
Seeded on Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:03 AM EDT (msnbc.com)
A baby girl cut from her mother's womb was found and a woman arrested after acquaintances became suspicious of her claims that she was the baby's mother, police said.
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