Member 5485Celestial Show Set for New Year's Eve (SPACE.com)31-12-2008 01h47SPACE.com - A delightful display of planets and the moon will occur on New Year's Eve for anyone wishing to step outside and look up just after sunset. NASA chief's wife to Obama: Don't fire my husband (AP)01-01-2009 05h53AP - Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife. Blackout looms in Time Warner Cable-Viacom fight (AP)01-01-2009 06h30AP - A spat between Time Warner Cable Inc. and Viacom Inc. over how much the cable company pays to carry channels such as MTV and Comedy Central headed down to the wire on New Year's Eve with little sign of movement as a blackout looked likely at a minute past the stroke of midnight. NY Democratic advisers talk up 'caretaker' senator (AP)01-01-2009 08h05AP - Sen. Bill Clinton? Sen. Mario Cuomo? Don't completely rule it out. The former president and the former New York governor are among several boldface names being touted as possible "caretakers" for New York's Senate seat people who would serve until the 2010 elections but wouldn't be interested in running to keep the job. Bangkok nightclub fire kills 54, injures 100 (AP)01-01-2009 07h40AP - A fire swept through a high class nightclub jammed with hundreds of New Year's revelers in the Thai capital, killing at least 54 people and injuring about 100, officials said early Thursday. Victims died from burns, smoke inhalation and injuries during the stampede to escape from the club, which had only one door for entry and exit, police Maj. Gen. Chokchai Deeprasertwit said. Snow and wind add bitter chill to end of 2008 (AP)01-01-2009 07h22AP - Winter storm warnings and plummeting temperatures put a chill on New Year's Eve plans for hundreds of thousands of revelers. Israel moves forward and sends more troops to Gaza (AP)01-01-2009 08h08AP - Israel sent more troops to the Gaza border Wednesday, rapidly moving forward with preparations for a possible ground offensive as the next stage of its military assault on the coastal territory's Hamas rulers. Israel rebuffed calls by world leaders for a truce, and Hamas also was cold to a cease-fire. Warren's inauguration prayer could draw more ire (AP)31-12-2008 11h35AP - President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another. At George W. Bush's 2001 swearing-in, the Revs. Franklin Graham and Kirbyjon Caldwell were criticized for invoking Christ. The distinctly Christian reference at a national civic event offended some, and even prompted a lawsuit. "Australia" another letdown for Nicole Kidman (Reuters)31-12-2008 08h07Reuters - Maybe Crocodile Dundee should have starred in "Australia." <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 1402 Member 5107 Member 2906 Member 1655 Member 239 Member 388 Member 3365 Member 3617 Member 806 Member 3615 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 | |
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