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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Jamaican Times.com http://www.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/10/id/b8de8e630faf3631/ en-us Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:22:10 -0500 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:22:10 -0500 30 In what the UN has described as collective punishment, the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip continues. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433138/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:05:36 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433138/cs/1/ A store in Standish, Maine, has come under fire after asking customers to place bets on an assassination of President-elect Barack Obama. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432797/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:59:46 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432797/cs/1/ US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who collapsed during a speech in Washington, has been recovering in hospital and is said to be conscious and alert. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432796/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:58:14 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432796/cs/1/ The US military will execute a former Army cook on December 10th due to his guilt in murder and rape incidents. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432795/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:53:54 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432795/cs/1/ An outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease that killed 37 people in Uganda last year is being regarded as a new strain of the virus. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432794/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:52:07 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432794/cs/1/ Qurban-Bibi and Nahil Abu-Rada are two women, one Afghan and the other Palestinian, who made news with similar tragedies. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432930/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:00:05 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432930/cs/1/ Chinese officials have revealed that more than 19,000 people died in schools that collapsed when an earthquake hit Sichuan province in May. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432793/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:50:38 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432793/cs/1/ The Verizon Wireless company in the US has revealed that Verizon employees accessed records for one of Barack Obama’s phones during the election campaign. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432792/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:48:13 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432792/cs/1/ A wealthy businessman who stole pages from books in the British Library and Bodleian Library has pleaded guilty to theft. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432791/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:46:53 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432791/cs/1/ It has been announced that US troops have killed a leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432696/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:26:24 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432696/cs/1/ American pop rock singer-songwriter, and occasional actress Ashlee Simpson has given birth to her first child from musician husband Pete Wentz. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433126/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:54 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433126/cs/1/ Pop star Britney Spears has spoken candidly for the first time about her bitter split with former boyfriend Justin Timberlake in 2002. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433121/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:33 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433121/cs/1/ The European Union said Friday that unexpected massive interest was the cause for the shut-down of Europe 's digital library 'Europeana' hours after it was launched Thursday. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433115/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:07 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433115/cs/1/ US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a divorce after nearly eight years http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433067/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:02:00 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433067/cs/1/ Team A1 India had an excellent outing during the free practice session ahead of the weekend's third round of the A1 Grand Prix race at the Sepang International Circuit, here Friday in hot and humid conditions. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433060/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:01:24 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433060/cs/1/ Moscow, Nov 21 (RIA Novosti) Russia's Neustrashimy (Fearless) missile frigate was escorting an international convoy of nine vessels past the Horn of Africa to protect them from Somali pirate attacks, a Russian Navy spokesman said Friday. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433052/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:00:39 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433052/cs/1/ Moscow/Athens, Nov 21 (RIA Novosti) Somali pirates have released the Greek tanker Genius after receiving a ransom payment, Russia's Sovfracht maritime bulletin said Friday. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433045/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:00:07 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433045/cs/1/ London, Nov.21 : Ecologists, academics, scientists and religious leaders from around the world will gather in London next week. Their aim will be to prevent the destruction of the Gulf of Mannar, one of the last remaining intact ecosystems on earth and home to the famous Ram Sethu or Adam's Bridge, a site sacred to one billion Hindus worldwide. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433042/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:00:31 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433042/cs/1/ A baby girl was born aboard a Finnair flight from Bangkok to Helsinki, above Kazakhstan at an altitude of 11,000 metres, officials said. The baby's Swedish mother, who was returning from Thailand, and the child are in good health. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433031/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:01:33 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433031/cs/1/ London, Nov.21 : It is interesting to note how countries across the world have been performing in this temporary phase of global slowdown. Asia, which has comparatively been a little less 'harmed' than the Western world, has had its share of impact and is still trying to cope with it. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433013/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:03:59 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433013/cs/1/ The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell to $44.06 Thursday, the first time it went below $45 since May 2005. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433006/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:03:24 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/433006/cs/1/ Baghdad, Nov 21 : A new 'status-of-forces agreement' between Washington and Baghdad will make it mandatory for the US forces in Iraq to first obtain warrants before searching Iraqi homes or detaining terrorist suspects. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432985/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:02:10 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432985/cs/1/ The United Arab Emirates (UAE) next month will host an international maritime convention on 'green shipping' that will present the latest energy-efficient and environment friendly technologies, WAM reported Friday. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432984/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:02:04 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432984/cs/1/ Britain’s vehicle licensing agency has banned offensive number plates that could be read as Osama and other words supporting terrorism. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432976/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:01:13 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432976/cs/1/ Moscow, Nov 21 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has urged the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum to play a stronger role in ensuring global security and overcoming the financial crisis. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432970/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:00:14 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432970/cs/1/ President George W. Bush will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday to review Middle East peace efforts. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432695/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:25:35 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432695/cs/1/ Jordan's King Abdullah has warned Israel not to put further constraints on Palestinians. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432694/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:24:22 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432694/cs/1/ A US federal judge has ordered the release of five Algerian detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432693/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:22:28 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432693/cs/1/ The Australian lawyer of a convicted supporter of terrorism has said his client can finally move on after the dropping of a control order. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432692/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:21:25 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432692/cs/1/ The Greek Justice Ministry has announced plans to free around half of the country's 12,000 inmates within the next few months. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432691/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:19:05 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432691/cs/1/ Pop legend Michael Jackson will give evidence in person at London's High Court to defend allegations that he owes $7 million to an Arab sheikh. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432690/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:17:26 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432690/cs/1/ Police in Lucknow, India, claim to have solved the murder of a seven-year-old boy whose body was found in a suitcase on a train. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432689/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:16:32 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432689/cs/1/ Chicago, Nov 21 : The Shanghai World Financial Center, which some describe as an elegant bottle opener, has been adjudged the world's the best skyscraper. The tower is world's second-tallest building. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432955/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:01:39 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432955/cs/1/ London, Nov 21 : Hollywood actor Ben Affleck is urging the world to help stop the suffering of innocent civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432946/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:01:03 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432946/cs/1/ This weekend's Confederations Cup draw in Johannesburg will be adorned by some of the world's most beautiful women, world football body FIFA said Friday. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432940/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:32 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432940/cs/1/ A British police officer has been taken off duty after his name figured in a list of the far-right British National Party (BNP) that was put up anonymously on the Internet. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432936/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:20 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432936/cs/1/ London, Nov.21 : British tennis star and World Number four Andy Murray has handed over a selection of his own candid snaps to the "The Right To Play" to help it to raise cash for poverty-stricken kids around the globe. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432929/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:02:20 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432929/cs/1/ Washington, Nov.21 : The National Intelligence Council (NIC), America's leading intelligence organization, has forecasted an unpredictable world in which the advance of western-style democracy is far from guaranteed. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432926/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:02:14 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432926/cs/1/ London, Nov 21 : The makers of the anti-impotence drug Viagra have withdrawn an application to make the 50-milligram tablets available over the counter in Europe. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432910/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:01:35 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432910/cs/1/ Former Pakistan cricket chief Lt Gen (retd) Tauqir Zia believes Shoaib Akhtar's international career is over and has advised the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to show the door to the controversial fast bowler by giving him one last farewell match. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432905/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:01:18 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432905/cs/1/ Berlin, Nov 21 : A unique three year research project has determined that there are more than 11,000 alien species present in Europe, that have biologically invaded the continent. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432898/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:01:02 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432898/cs/1/ German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung has promised UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon assistance in the fight against piracy off Somalia. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432899/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:01:02 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432899/cs/1/ London, November 21 : A Meghalayan man's claim that he has the most fingers and toes on Earth has prompted Guinness World Records bosses to probe whether he has become the third Indian national to hold world record for having the larges number of digits. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432895/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:00:46 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432895/cs/1/ A huge haul of fake medicines in a raid by Spanish police suggests that it's not a good idea to log on to buy pills to treat erectile dysfunction. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432892/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:00:02 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432892/cs/1/ Two British schoolboys with an alleged 'nasty attitude' toward Asians have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the unprovoked killing of an Asian man in the town of Bolton. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432883/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:01:32 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432883/cs/1/ Sean Penn believes that fewer gays would have died of AIDS if San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk hadn't been assassinated in his prime. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432879/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:01:20 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432879/cs/1/ Sydney, Nov 21 : Almost all the leading news agencies across the world have decided to boycott covering the first Test between Australia and New Zealand, which began yesterday at the Gabba, because of 'conditions imposed by the organizers'. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432875/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:01:16 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432875/cs/1/ London, Nov 21 (DPA) The end of the seven-year marriage between US pop star Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie is to be sealed before the High Court in London Friday, it has been announced. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432867/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:01:02 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432867/cs/1/ Bodhgaya, Nov 21 : Thousands of Buddhists from across the world congregated at Bodh Gaya for Krodhi-Kali ceremony for world peace on Thursday. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432862/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:00:53 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432862/cs/1/ Chennai, Nov.21 : World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand today returned to his hometown. He was given a warm welcome at the Chennai Airport for retaining his world title and doing the country proud at international level. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432850/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:00:32 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432850/cs/1/ Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh, on a roll after winning the Singapore Open, is hoping to make a serious charge in the company of Jyoti Randhawa at the World Cup starting here Thursday. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432847/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:00:23 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432847/cs/1/ London, Nov.21 : A think tank in The Netherlands has warned that the European Union is developing a military space policy that has the "potential for triggering an arms race in region". http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432837/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:02:53 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432837/cs/1/ London, Nov.21 : Two U.S. soldiers have been charged by the military with conspiracy to commit premeditated murder relating to the shooting deaths of four Iraqi prisoners in Baghdad in early 2007. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432828/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:02:07 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432828/cs/1/ London, Nov 21 : UK commander in Basra Major Gen Andy Salmon has dropped enough hints that British combat troops, nearly 4000 in number, will start withdrawing from Iraq by early next year, shortly after key local elections (in Iraq) held at the end of January. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432822/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:01:37 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432822/cs/1/ The UN has approached India and several other nations to send more troops to the conflict-prone African nation of Congo, where the world body has a peacekeeping mission. India is now the largest troop contributor to the UN's mission in Congo, accounting for more than one-fourth of the over 17,000 UN peacekeeping forces in Congo. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432811/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:00:59 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432811/cs/1/ A UN body has received complaints about the presence of child soldiers in certain militancy and Maoist-affected parts of India and has started the process to verify them, officials said. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432806/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:00:47 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432806/cs/1/ Former 'Friends' star Jennifer Aniston is happy for fans to take pictures of her as long as they don't try to sell them. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432798/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:00:05 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432798/cs/1/ Sydney, Nov 21 : Defending his "third world country" remark, Australian opener Matthew Hayden has insisted that he meant no disrespect to any nation or its citizens in that category. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432757/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:02:43 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432757/cs/1/ Astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour Thursday completed a second spacewalk on their construction mission to the International Space Station, which was marking its 10th anniversary. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432713/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:00:02 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432713/cs/1/ Citing the continued lack of security in Somalia as a threat to international peace and security, the UN Security Council Thursday imposed a travel ban and a freeze of financial assets on some individuals considered obstacles to the peace process. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432708/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:01:11 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432708/cs/1/ Austrian steelmaker voestalpine AG announced Thursday it would throttle production by three to five percent and was considering layoffs, in an effort to cut costs in the current global financial and economic crises. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432707/cs/1/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:01:07 -0500 Jamaican Times.com http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/432707/cs/1/ BARACK Obama is "on track" to nominate Hillary Clinton as secretary of state after next week's Thanksgiving holiday, according to an aide to the president-elect's transition team. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745165/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:47:19 -0500 News.com.au http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745165/ THE German town portrayed in the fairytale of the Pied Piper has been overrun by rats and officials have been prompted to call for a modern-day pipe player. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745167/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:47:15 -0500 News.com.au http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745167/ LIMA, Peru (AP) — President George W. Bush, struggling to get ahead of a global financial crisis, hopes to win more converts at a summit here for an action plan aimed at showing governments have ... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743010/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:57:55 -0500 USA Today http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743010/ Reporting from Washington - Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey was rushed to the hospital Thursday night after collapsing and losing consciousness during a speech on the war on terrorism, a Justice Departm... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745180/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:43:34 -0500 Newsday http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745180/ by Howard Stutz Las Vegas Gaming Wire LAS VEGAS, Nevada –- Dubai's investment arm was given permission to increase its ownership of MGM Mirage on Thursday, but one of its executives said that won'... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743463/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:25:29 -0500 RGT Online http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743463/ A SOUTH African court has sentenced a white youth to 169 years for shooting dead four black people including a baby and a 10-year-old boy in a farming town.Swartruggens Johan Nel, 18, randomly opened ... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745163/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:47:21 -0500 News.com.au http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745163/ The price of a barrel of crude yesterday fell below $US50 ($80), bringing losses in the past four months to an incredible $US100 a barrel. Putting that in perspective, until January, a barrel of West... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743061/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:28:59 -0500 The Australian http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743061/ Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is granting 500,000 euros to Iraq. The funds, to be channelled through the Red Cross/Red Crescent, are intended to improve conditions for prisoners, bolster healt... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745187/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:35:47 -0500 YLE News http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745187/ Washington - US telephone operator Verizon Wireless has acknowledged that some of its employees accessed president-elect Barack Obama's cellphone records without authorisation. "This week we learne... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743042/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:45:36 -0500 IOL http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743042/ (7267.TO) Friday announced further car production cutbacks for this fiscal year and said it plans to shed its domestic temporary work force by 270 staff as the economic crisis reduces auto demand w... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743764/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:00:30 -0500 Morning Star http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743764/ A protester uses his shoe to strike an effigy of President Bush, as thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converge on Firdous Square in central Baghdad, Iraq, for a protest agaisnt a... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745192/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:20:31 -0500 MSNBC http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745192/ The United States and Iraq signed a pact this week which would require U.S. forces to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, more than eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Demonstrators... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745196/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:17:47 -0500 Khaleej Times http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745196/ VIENNA (Reuters) - Syria said on Friday a U.N. watchdog report on an alleged secret Syrian nuclear site bombed by Israel proved nothing and the investigation should be closed. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745174/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:01 -0500 Reuters http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745174/ YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's courts continued a crackdown on activists Friday, handing out a 45-year prison sentence to a comedian who went to the delta to help cyclone victims and criticized the... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745209/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:58:53 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745209/ A constellation of Indian stars will come out for the upcoming Live Earth India concert next month, joined by a handful of international celebrities also set to take the stage at the eco-minded fundra... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19744857/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:55:06 -0500 CBC News http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19744857/ Nov 21 2008 WalesOnline Police say a blast at the funeral of a Shiite Muslim cleric has killed at least six people in northwestern Pakistan. Today’s attack in the city of Dera Ismail Khan a... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745211/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:58:51 -0500 IC Wales http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745211/ DETROIT - General Motors Corp. will extend its holiday shutdown or make other production cuts at up to 10 factories as it deals with a continued U.S. auto sales slump and fights to stay solvent. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743017/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:33 -0500 MSNBC http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743017/ BURMA'S most famous comedian Zarganar has been sentenced to 45 years in prison, while sports writer Zaw Thet Htwe was handed a 15-year jail term, according to Zarganar's sister. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745164/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:47:20 -0500 News.com.au http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745164/ NEW YORK - Hundreds of people lined up at Verizon Wireless stores on Friday to buy the BlackBerry Storm, the first touch-screen phone from Research In Motion that aims to compete with Apple's iPhone. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743018/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:32 -0500 MSNBC http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743018/ Tehran - Somali pirates have set demands for releasing a Hong Kong-flagged ship that was chartered by an Iranian company, the Iranian shipping firm said on Friday, without disclosing what they were. ... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743041/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:45:39 -0500 IOL http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743041/ Rottweil, Germany - A German court jailed a woman for three and a half years on Friday for killing her baby by putting the newborn in a chest-style home freezer. The woman, 21, sobbed as she claime... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743039/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:45:45 -0500 IOL http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743039/ DHARMSALA, India (AP) -- Out of the hundreds of Tibetan leaders who have flocked here for a pivotal summit on Tibet's future, few understand the hardships there better than a recently arrived barley f... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745212/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:58:51 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745212/ GOMA, Congo (AP) -- Shootings, looting and rape plague the already desperate lives of refugees in eastern Congo, where people caught between soldiers and rebels live in constant fear, U.N. officials s... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745213/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:58:50 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745213/ ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani soldiers practiced shooting at pilotless "drone" aircraft Friday, the military said a day after the government lodged a protest with the U.S. ambassador over drone miss... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745176/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:43:58 -0500 Reuters http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745176/ The lifting of immunity was expected after 17 civilians died in Baghdad last year when guards escorting a convoy on behalf of a private security firm opened fire http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745188/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:31:54 -0500 Taipei Times http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745188/ The former Ludlum Elementary School, in Long Island's Hempstead Union Free School District, was renamed at a school board meeting Thursday — effective immediately. http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743004/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:58:03 -0500 USA Today http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743004/ MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's former drug czar was accused Friday of taking $450,000 from a powerful cartel, further evidence the country's drug gangs are being protected by the highest levels of gover... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745206/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:58:54 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745206/ A judge in Washington has ruled that the US government has no grounds to continue holding five Algerian men who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for seven years, and should free them without d... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745154/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:02 -0500 Belfast Telegraph http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745154/ More than 100 primary school students in Guangdong Province were taken to a hospital after they inhaled gas emitted by an illegal refinery nearby, a local official and state media said yesterday. The ... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743451/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:31:45 -0500 Taipei Times http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743451/ Daisuke Matsuzaka plans on helping Japan defend its title at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. The Boston Red Sox right-hander, who was named the most valuable player at the inaugural international ev... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743403/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:55:02 -0500 CBC News http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743403/ Indian anger over the issue was fuelled yesterday when it was disclosed that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had cut back next month's New Delhi visit to a single day. In 2004, amid much fanfare ab... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743063/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:28:50 -0500 The Australian http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743063/ DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) -- Police said a bomb killed eight mourners at the funeral of a Shiite cleric gunned down Friday in northwestern Pakistan, fanning sectarian tension as the U.S. shifted... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745208/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:58:49 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745208/ A massive online library and museum project crashed within 24 hours of its launch after millions sought to view treasures collected from museums, national libraries and archives, the European Union sa... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745215/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:58:47 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745215/ Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama looks appears at a function in Dharmsala, India, on Thursday. The Dalai Lama has said he does not seek to separate from China, but wants the region to be grante... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745161/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:54:59 -0500 CBC News http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745161/ Mr Hatzistergos took aim at the outgoing judge's support for a charter of rights and his claim last week that the tenure of judges should be limited to 10 years. While the conservative side of politi... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743065/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:28:44 -0500 The Australian http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743065/ DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) named its international chief, Mike Duke, to succeed Lee Scott as president and chief executive when the company's new fiscal year starts Feb. 1. The... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743248/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:26:41 -0500 Smart Money http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743248/ In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Liberian-flagged oil tanker MV Sirius Star is at anchor, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia. Pirates hijacked the Saudi... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743392/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:58:30 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19743392/ STOCKS NEWS Reuters Results diary Stocks on the move Real-time Equity News 16:54GMT 21Nov2008-UK Small Caps close 0.4 percent lower -------------------------------------------------------- The FTSE Sm... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745194/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:19:30 -0500 London South East http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19745194/ A young man in New York may have been spared a wrongful conviction in a capital murder case thanks to an unlikely ally, the little plastic card that millions in the city use to ride its buses and su... http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19744123/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:01 -0500 Belfast Telegraph http://story.jamaicantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/19744123/