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RENO, Nev. - University of Nevada swimmers Marichi Gandionco and Heidi Gem Ong will represent the Philippines at the 25th Southeast Asia Games being held Dec. 9-18 at Vientiane, Laos. Both swimmers are from Quezon City and are scheduled to take the pool on Thursday.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks climbed after Chinese industrial production rose more than economists forecast and U.S. jobless claims fell to a one-year low. The yen and credit- default swaps for bonds in Asia fell.
City leaders and the U.S. secretary of education applaud L.A. superintendent's strategy, which includes getting rid of the staff and forming integrated hiring committees. The union president objects. L.A.'s top school official on Thursday unveiled his plan to shut down Fremont High and start over from scratch -- a move denounced by the teachers union but applauded by city leaders and the nation ...
PROSPERIDAD, Philippines (AFP)--Tribal gunmen on Friday released 10 of 57 hostages being held in a mountainous southern Philippine area, the government's chief negotiator with the kidnappers said.
Wellington - A Russian immigrant to New Zealand accused of taking a dead seal from a beach had an unusual diet and often ate road kill, a court was told, according to a news report on Friday. Platon Malakhov, 32, pleaded guilty to possessing a sealsk...
San Francisco - California is to get its first openly gay speaker of the Assembly after John Perez, a Latino Democrat from Los Angeles, was chosen by fellow legislators for the position. I think it says more about California than about me. It means ...
Hong Kong - A British financial advisor was beginning a 21-month jail sentence in Hong Kong Friday after she lied to her client and invested 272,000 US dollars of his money in a high-risk technology firm that collapsed. Pauline Cousins, 66, told Dr L...
COPENHAGEN -- European nations pressed former East bloc neighbors yesterday to help create a multibillion-dollar fund for poor countries suffering the most from global warming, while key U.S. senators signaled progress on legislation in line with what President Barack Obama will pledge at the U.N. climate conference next week.
What do sliced deer horn, dried beef strips and lizards have in common? They're all prohibited from being brought into the country.
Hong Kong - Nineteen people, including a housewife and her teenage son, have been arrested in Hong Kong, for selling fake designer goods on internet auction sites, customs officials said Friday. The arrests were the result of an on-going crackdown in...
Ankara - A methane explosion trapped 16 miners in Turkey late Thursday. The Turkish media reported that rescuers could not reach the trapped coalminers because of the high concentration of gas at the pit in Devecikonagi in Western Turkey. ...
Manila - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is unlikely to be missed when she steps down next year after a nine-year rule marked by graft scandals and u...
Next on your Christmas to-do list, consider this: Choose one of 20 gifts for less than $20 to make a difference for a child in need. For $4, you could provide chicken and feed for a family in Gambia. For $5, two children in India could be protected by mosquito nets. For $7, you could buy a book bag for a student in Sri Lanka or an educational toy for a child in Indonesia.
Grandma’s gone.That news might dishearten some hoping to be — at the least — in near proximity of a genuine Grandma Moses painting, one of the crown jewels of the estate sale of Abilene geologist Gus Edwards and his wife, Evelyn.The 33- by 48-inch oil-on-board image, “A Checkered House,” awash in green, red, sand and other shades and styles typical of the famous folk artist’s scenes, was snapped ...
MANILA -- Government-armed former militiamen accused of murder and banditry kidnapped more than 70 villagers and children Thursday from a southern Philippines village, demanding that charges be dropped against them before they would free the hostages.
Seoul- North Korea indicated Friday it was ready to resume mothballed international talks to end its nuclear weapons programme, following a meeting with a US special envoy. Quoting an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman, the state-run Korean Cent...
