Venezuela has quarantined the passengers and crew of a visiting cruise ship for 10 days after three crew members tested positive for swine flu.
Health official Jorge Alchaer says 1,219 passengers and 460 crew members of Ocean Dream are still on board. The ship is moored off Venezuela's Margarita Island, a popular Caribbean destination.
Ocean Dream is managed by Spanish …
The Kansas City Royals earned their first victory of the seasonafter five losses Sunday by nipping the visiting Minnesota Twins 2-1behind the hitting of rookie third baseman Phil Hiatt.
Hiatt singled home a run in the second, singled in the fifth andhomered off losing pitcher Kevin Tapani (0-2) in the seventh to breaka 1-1 tie. It was the first career home run for Hiatt, who leads theRoyals with six RBI.
Reliever Tom Gordon (1-0) pitched two innings for the victorybefore yielding to Jeff Montgomery, who got the last six outs for thesave.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 1: Kevin Brown came off the disabled list andheld Boston to five hits in 7 2/3 innings to pace host …
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Australian defender Sasa Ognenovski has been named the Asian Player of the Year by the region's football governing body.
Ognenovski, the 31-year-old captain of South Korea's Seongnam Ilhwa club, edged out four other finalists from Iran, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Attendance at the Asian Football Confederation's awards ceremony Wednesday in Malaysia was …
More than 1 million baby slings made by Infantino were recalled Wednesday after claims linking them to three infant deaths.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said babies could suffocate in the soft fabric slings. The agency urged parents to immediately stop using the slings for babies under 4 months.
The recall involves 1 million Infantino "SlingRider" and "Wendy Bellissimo" slings in the United States and 15,000 in Canada.
Infantino President Jack Vresics said the company has been working closely with the commission on its sling concerns.
"Our top priority is the safety of infants whose parents and caregivers …
Why the Bush White House cooperated so assiduously with BobWoodward for his new book, Plan of Attack, remains puzzling.Woodward's career has been unique: Having gotten a taste for changinghistory with his early 1970s Watergate reporting, he continues towant to be a player in current events, not merely history'schronicler.
Woodward's first book on the Bush presidency, Bush at War, wasconsidered a plus for President Bush. But why was that book aided bythe White House?
One answer, of course, is that Bush's handlers decided Woodwardcould write a book without the president's approval, so bycooperating they could help shape it. Woodward is a curious hybrid:an …
Is Zimbabwe safe? Should Mennonite World Conference (MWC) hold an assembly in a region facing serious food shortages and political problems? With two-thirds of MWC members now living in Africa, Asia and Latin America, MWC leaders face questions such as these as they prepare world gatherings. While MWC reaffirms its decision to hold the assembly in Africa for the first time in 2003, it takes seriously the questions that arise.
1. Should MWC hold a large international gathering in a part of the world facing serious food shortages?
Food shortages currently face much of southern Africa, not just Zimbabwe, where Assembly Gathered is scheduled. Poverty and hunger are constant …
Here is what some newspapers had to say about the Bush administration's move to ask Congress for $700 billion to buy up troubled mortgage-related assets from U.S. financial institutions:
_ The Philadelphia Inquirer:
"The unprecedented taxpayer bailout of Wall Street and the banking industry is as necessary as it is infuriating. Spawned by greed and reckless lending, the worst financial crisis in decades has left policymakers without any good options for fixing the mess."
_ The Los Angeles Times:
"The main question for politicians isn't whether to act _ the comments Friday by congressional leaders and top administration …
Police swooped on two men in Charlton Adam on Wednesday, seizingdrugs worth more than Pounds 21,000.
Shortly after 7pm on July 14, police stopped a car on KingwestonRoad in Charlton Adam, as part of an ongoing operation.
A search of the car revealed approximately three kilos of what isbelieved to be skunk cannabis, and estimated to be worthapproximately Pounds 21,000.
The two men in the vehicle, aged 44 and 40 and from Yeovil, wereboth arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply ofcontrolled drugs.
In a co-ordinated strike, officers also executed a warrant at anaddress in Hendford Court in Yeovil at around 9.30pm.
The building was …
NEW YORK - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration who remained a proud liberal even as others dared not use the word, has died. He was 89.
Schlesinger was dining with family members in Manhattan on Wednesday when he suffered a heart attack, his son Stephen said. He died at New York Downtown Hospital.
Schlesinger was among the most prominent historians of his time, widely respected as learned and readable, with a panoramic vision of American culture and politics. He received a National Book Award for "Robert Kennedy and His Times" and a National Book Award and a Pulitzer for "A Thousand Days," …
President Barack Obama's top spokesman says the administration ultimately will be judged on whether it can restore sustained economic growth, not on the daily gyrations of Wall Street.
Speaking in advance of a news conference the president will hold Tuesday night, press secretary Robert Gibbs said the American people genuinely are worried about their jobs and the administration doesn't spend a lot of time "worrying about what happens each day in the market."
Gibbs did say on CBS's "The Early Show" that officials were heartened by the Wall Street rally Monday in the wake of the announcement of a plan to buy out the bad assets that banks …
