Chinese warships will continue to patrol waters where Beijing has territorial claims, a top general said on Sunday, amid simmering rows with neighbouring countries over the South China Sea and islands controlled by Japan. Lieutenant General Qi Jianguo, deputy chief
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s helicopter had to make an emergency landing in the northeast after an unspecified “accident,” the presidency reported, adding that he was unhurt. He had been en route to inaugurate a local project in a mountainous region
A permanent resident alien of Lebanese descent was sentenced on Friday to 23 years in federal prison for attempting to set off a bomb on a crowded street in downtown Chicago. Sami Samir Hassoun, a 25-year-old Chicago man, pleaded guilty in April 2012 to
(AP) Steelers player Adams stabbed in robbery attemptPITTSBURGHPittsburgh police say an offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers was stabbed twice during an attempted carjacking on the city’s South Side district. Police said 23-year-old Michael Adams told officers he was standing
(AP) Haas beats Isner at French on 13th match pointBy HOWARD FENDRICHAP Tennis WriterPARIS After letting 12 match points–12!–slip away in the fourth set, 35-year-old Tommy Haas came back from a break down in the fifth and beat John Isner
BERLIN, June 1 (Reuters) – Bayern Munich capped a spectacular season on Saturday by becoming the first German team to win the treble, holding on to beat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 in the German Cup final after the outsiders hit back
(AP) Woods has highest 9-hole score of careerDUBLIN, OhioTiger Woods made the wrong kind of history Saturday in the Memorial. Woods posted his highest nine-hole score as a professional when he had an 8-over 44 on the back nine at
(AP) – Convicted Dutch murderer Joran van der Sloot is in love and planning to marry a Peruvian woman in the prison where he’s serving a 28-year sentence, his lawyer said Friday. The couple is awaiting permission from penal authorities
(AP) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called on demonstrators to end anti-government protests now into a second day, but he remained defiant, insisting police would break down protests at a main Istanbul square and indicating that
(AFP) – Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has called on Sunni Muslims to join the rebels fighting the Syrian regime, as he lashed out at Shiite group Hezbollah for sending its men to fight the mostly-Sunni insurgents in Syria. Qaradawi,
(AP) – A Chinese military leader on Saturday pointedly questioned the expanded U.S. role in the Pacific after the Pentagon chief said he hoped for better military ties between the two powers. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in a speech
(AFP) – Russia’s ambitious smoking ban, which aims to cut the number of smokers in half and improve public health, went into effect Saturday amid doubts that its measures can be fully enforced. The first stage of the so-called anti-tobacco
By Jonah Goldberg — In Our Enemy, the State, Albert Jay Nock distinguished between the government and the State. Sadly, these terms have become interchangeable in everyday parlance: “Statism” is simply a more euphonious and serviceable word for “governmentism.” But until
(AP) BOSTON–Comedian Dane Cook is being criticized for his decision to bar organizers of a benefit concert for Boston Marathon bombing victims from streaming or televising his performance. Cook tweeted a brief apology Friday, saying he didn’t want any of
On Friday, reports broke that Former IRS chief Doug Shulman’s wife works with a liberal lobbying group, Public Campaign, where she is the senior program advisor. Public Campaign is an “organization dedicated to sweeping campaign reform that aims to dramatically
The Guardian: A New York woman has filed a lawsuit after contracting herpes at a Rihanna concert. Starkeema Greenidge claims she was infected by the virus when she sampled a lipstick offered by one of the singer’s sponsors. Greenidge is seeking unspecified
(AFP) – Four people have died after drinking home-made alcohol in southern Iran and 298 others were poisoned, the ISNA news agency quoted a local health official as saying on Friday. “Nine of the victims are in a coma and
(AP) – In many circumstances, a piglet without the use of its hind legs would be put down. But Chris P. Bacon’s unusual condition has made him an international star and an inspiration to those with disabilities. When Chris was
Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Oscar-winning actor known for his work in Moneyball, Doubt and The Master, recently checked himself out of a substance abuse center to help him stop sniffing heroin. TMZ reports that Hoffman, who was nominated for an Oscar
(AP) Clinton supporter gets 2 years for funneling cashBy MATTHEW BARAKATAssociated PressALEXANDRIA, Va.A northern Virginia businessman was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison for illegally funneling nearly $200,000 to Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns in 2006 and 2008.
(AP) – Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law is running to recapture the Philadelphia-area U.S. House seat that she lost almost 20 years ago, a defeat ascribed to her vote for then-President Bill Clinton’s budget proposal that increased taxes on the wealthy. Marjorie
A group of alumni, students, parents, and faculty of Georgetown University have sent a letter to Cardinal Donald Wuerl asking him to remove the label “Catholic” from the school based on the school’s embrace of secularism. William Peter Blatty, author
Don’t drink the bubble tea. At least that’s the rumor coming from the Taiwanese health authorities, who have confiscated more than 312 tons of food starch, the central ingredient in bubble tea, which was tainted with maleic acid, which can
An expensive new youth center in Oakland, California may not open at all thanks to budget concerns. The West Oakland Youth Center, which was slated to cost $7.6 million and has been in planning stages for five years, does not
The list of Chicago horror stories grew longer on Thursday when police charged a 21-year-old local woman with murdering her 5-month-old son at a North Side motel. Kimberlynn Bolanos was charged with first-degree murder after stabbing her son, Isaac, to
