Latest Breaking News Headlines For Monday Oct 13, 2008

Latest Breaking News Headlines For Monday Oct 13, 2008

Levi Johnston, who's having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, can't believe all the things he's hearing. No, he wasn't held against his will on the campaign trail. No, he's not being forced into a shotgun wedding...

The Boston Globe endorsed Democrat Barack Obama on its Web site Monday night: "Come January, a new president will take charge of a nation diminished, an America that is far shakier economically, less secure militarily,...

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mistook some of her own fans for hecklers Monday at a rally that drew thousands. A massive crowd of at least 20,000 spread across the parking lot of Richmond...

!P>!!-- AUDIO:198,199,200 -->Republican John McCain delivered his toughest criticism so far of President Bush's economic policies as he unveiled a new campaign stump speech that promised an energetic fight to reverse...

Gov. Sarah Palin's rural adviser resigned Monday amid criticism of the governor's record on hiring Alaska Natives. Rhonda McBride, who is not an Alaska Native, made the announcement in an e-mail to several Native...

A jury has convicted a woman of capital murder for the shooting and beating deaths of four people in suburban Houston in 2003. Christina Paolilla received an automatic life prison term Monday. She was not eligible for...

You can call her CutoutDissection.com, Cutout for short, but just don't call her Jennifer. The former Jennifer Thornburg _ whose driver's license now reads Dissection.com, Cutout _ wanted to do something to protest...

!!-- AUDIO:186,185,184,183,179 -->Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi toasted President Bush with pieces of a podium Monday night while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was dubbed a "prima donna" during translation in a...

A former U.S. Army sergeant who has been living in Canada as a war resister has been denied refugee status there. Patrick Hart of Buffalo, N.Y., and his family must leave Canada by Oct. 30 or they will be deported. ...

!!-- pobj:FLOCA201-0701081136 -->!!-- pobj:FLOCA202-0305081317 -->An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the...

The top war crimes judge for the former Yugoslavia on Monday urged the immediate arrest of the last two fugitives, Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and ex-Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic. Fausto Pocar, president...

A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani troops are fighting Taliban and al-Qaida militants, police said. Officers were investigating...

A security official says two foreign tourists fell to their deaths while parasailing south of Mexico's resort town of Cancun. Local Deputy Attorney General Luis Canche says the two women were killed when the rope tying...

An angry crowd in central Mexico attacked police and helped nearly three dozen illegal Central American immigrants escape from custody after hearing that officers had allegedly sold the migrants to human smugglers,...

A U.S. Marine has been charged with assaulting a prostitute while on shore leave in Sydney last weekend, police and the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday. The 25-year-old man, who was not identified, was charged late Monday...

Japanese stocks are soaring in early trading following spectacular rallies in markets across the global. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index jumped 937 points, or 11 percent, to 9,213. Japanese financial markets are playing...

Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns. The...

Wall Street stormed back after its worst week ever and staged the biggest single-day stock rally since the Great Depression on Monday, catapulting the Dow Jones industrials to a 936-point gain and finally offering...

Japan's stock market soared in early trading Tuesday, leading a second-day rally in Asian stocks after Wall Street staged a dramatic comeback from its worst week ever. Sparked by global efforts to fix the world's...

How far the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen or advanced each trading day since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15. After Lehman's fall, the credit markets seized...

Four manmade waterfalls cascaded to a close Monday, ending an ambitious public art project that inspired both admiration and complaints. Organizers estimate millions of visitors and residents saw the eye-catching...

Olga Kurylenko, the model and actress who stars in the upcoming James Bond movie, began acting by playing Santa Claus' young wife in a school play in her Ukrainian hometown. Teachers remember Kurylenko, the 28-year-old...

Alan Jackson won songwriter/artist of the year honors for his hits "A Woman's Love" and "Small Town Southern Man" during the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers country awards Monday. Other big...

Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio has signed on with Universal Pictures to distribute its films as his company parts ways with Paramount. Under the seven-year deal, Universal will distribute up to six DreamWorks...

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. Fans of "The Brady Bunch" know Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady, the wholesome older sister on the classic sitcom about a blended family. But in her new memoir, "Here's the Story: Surviving...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--When Christian journalists offer intelligent insights about the stories they cover, they increase the likelihood people will want to hear what they have to say about Jesus, David Brody said Oct....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--"Fireproof" had another solid showing in its third weekend, finishing in the top 5 on a per-theater average and passing the $16 million mark for total gross, according to studio estimates.On the...

NEW ORLEANS (BP)--An absolutely fool-proof way to stress yourself out is by staying glued to the television newscasts about the economy. "Wall Street dropped another 700 points today!" "Here is our panel of experts to...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—The pursuit of excellence in Christian journalism was the theme that drew 147 students, faculty and staff to the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Nashville, Tenn., for the eighth annual Baptist Press...

NEW DELHI, India (BP)--After police in India's state of Orissa confirmed Oct. 6 that a key Hindu nationalist was killed by Maoists, a Hindu extremist group allegedly circulated forged documents in an attempt to...

A German farmer who received the world's first complete double arm transplant said Wednesday that incredulity gave way to joy when he woke from surgery to discover he had arms again. Karl Merk, who lost his arms in a...

Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field. The new type of stem...

When drug makers made a surprise announcement this week that they no longer recommend cough and cold remedies for youngsters under 4, they didn't let on that it was the government's idea. And why age 4 rather than the...

One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday. The figures represent the government's first substantial study of...

The European Union told music lovers Monday to turn down the volume of MP3 players, saying they risk permanent hearing loss from listening too long at maximum levels. EU scientists reported that between 2.5 million and...

A Purdue University scientist who was reprimanded for research misconduct over claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments is suing two other faculty members for alleged defamation. Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, a...

German memory-chip maker Qimonda AG is cutting 3,000 jobs and selling its stake in Inotera _ a joint venture with Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corp. _ to Micron Technology Inc. for $400 million. Qimonda, which is majority...

When David Teater's 12-year-old son, Joe, was killed in 2004 by a driver who was talking on a cell phone, he tried to cut back on his own habit of driving and talking. It turned out to be very difficult. "You have to...

Forget about the boob tube. Places to watch TV on the Internet are proliferating, from NBC Universal and News Corp.'s Hulu to Joost _ a site that plans to relaunch Tuesday to make it a more interactive experience. ...

Sometimes, in the decades after he came home from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen's hand. He carried it everywhere, trained it on everything. When they...

High pressure built on either coats early Monday, while a strong storm system moved from the Rockies into the Plains. Snow was to linger across the Great Basin and northern Rockies through the morning hours, but taper...

Heavy snow fell in parts of the West on Sunday, with several counties in mountainous parts of Wyoming reporting as much as 33 inches. The storm spread snow along the Northern Rockies and into the Plains. Heavy rain and...

Unseasonably cold temperatures, rain and snow were forecast for much of the West on Saturday, while showers and thunderstorms were expected in parts of the Southeast. Snow was likely across the Rockies and into...

Light snow fell in high elevations of the northern Rockies on Friday, with overnight accumulations of about 4 inches expected in some areas. High elevations of Nevada also got 1 to 2 inches of snow, while scattered...

The season's first large western snowstorm was expected to continue across the Intermountain West and northern Rockies on Sunday, while showers and thunderstorms were forecast from the southern Plains to the upper...