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Mumbai attacks: Terrorists took cocaine to stay awake during

436 votes | submitted 2008-12-02 08:57:59 by stachesnmullets | 170 comments

Terrorists who battled Indian commandos for 60-hours last week relied on cocaine and other stimulants to stay awake for the duration of the fight.

Court ruling brings down Thai government

644 votes | submitted 2008-12-02 09:31:48 by inggbt | 86 comments

BANGKOK, Thailand – A court dissolved Thailand's top three ruling parties for electoral fraud Tuesday and temporarily banned the prime minister from politics, bringing down a government that has faced months of strident protests seeking its ouster.

Source confirms US warned India About Attack By Sea

480 votes | submitted 2008-12-02 00:56:57 by authorfriendly | 78 comments

U.S. intelligence indicated that a group might enter the country by water and launch an attack on Mumbai, said the source

JPMorgan cutting 9,200 jobs at Washington Mutual

453 votes | submitted 2008-12-01 22:32:04 by linkserf | 84 comments

JPMorgan Chase & Co. said today that it would cut a total of 9,200 jobs at Washington Mutual, which it acquired Sept. 25 after Washington Mutual became the nation's largest bank to fail amid the ongoing credit crisis.

Big 3 out of gas

555 votes | submitted 2008-12-02 02:34:09 by TheEngineer2008 | 200 comments

Things didn't go so well on Nov. 20 when the CEOs of the Big Three automakers came to Congress, tin cups in hand, to make a pitch for $25 billion. On top of offering no plan to the lawmakers for fixing their industry, the CEOs had the distinct disadvantage of asking for money at a time when the public is becoming increasingly skeptical.

Panel warns nuclear/biological attack on US likely by 2013

380 votes | submitted 2008-12-02 03:01:14 by Dftw | 183 comments

The US can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. "Our margin of safety is shrinking, not growing," states the report obtained by The Associated Press that's scheduled to be publicly released Wednesday.

Teen shows up bruised, chained at Calif. gym

1099 votes | submitted 2008-12-02 08:38:54 by coolnepali | 228 comments

Police are questioning a couple after a bruised and half-naked 17-year-old boy showed up at a gym Monday with a chain locked to his ankle, claiming he had just fled his captors, authorities said more

It's Official: U.S. Economy in Recession

860 votes | submitted 2008-12-01 22:00:12 by gamebittk | 244 comments

The evidence of a downturn has been widespread for months: slower production, stagnant wages and hundreds of thousands of lost jobs. But the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research, charged with making the call for the history books, waited until now to weigh in.

Man Taped Rape, Laughed as he Made her Watch it

636 votes | submitted 2008-12-02 03:10:17 by VirginiaWoolfe | 310 comments

A man on drugs videotaped himself raping a woman before laughing while watching the footage in front of her, a jury in the Invercargill District Court has been told.

Circuit City Doesn't Sell Fire Extinguishers

931 votes | submitted 2008-12-01 18:05:01 by insaincain02 | 97 comments

Why Carl Icahn Didn't Buy Enough Yahoo!

270 votes | submitted 2008-12-02 04:02:38 by brainnovate | 24 comments

Yang is heading out, the stock is crazy cheap and the company is profitable. What gives, Carl?

Mumbai killers to be denied a muslim burial

1664 votes | submitted 2008-12-01 17:26:56 by vick3ii | 452 comments

A MUSLIM graveyard today refused to bury nine of the gunmen who terrorised Mumbai. The men were not true followers of the Islamic faith, according to the influential Muslim Jama Masjid Trust, which runs the 7.5-acre Badakabrastan graveyard in central Mumbai...

S. Africa ends decade of denial on AIDS

585 votes | submitted 2008-12-01 18:39:23 by KaiserArny | 63 comments

Church bells tolled, workers put down their tools and court proceedings stopped Monday as South Africa marked a minute of silence for AIDS victims and ended a decade of denial about the epidemic.

Bush FCC chairman considering 'porn-free Internet'

436 votes | submitted 2008-12-01 18:41:58 by MiddleAmerica | 230 comments

Bush Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is still considering a proposal to create a free, porn-free Internet, according to today's Wall Street Journal. Martin was Deputy General Counsel for the Bush-Cheney 2000 recount.

Highest Paid Presidents/PM's around the World

491 votes | submitted 2008-12-01 16:02:04 by DirectTulip | 83 comments

Politicians in Singapore are amongst the most highly paid government officials in the world. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore earns five times more than the American President. Lee Hsien Loong takes an annual salary of $2.46 million.

Pentagon To Deploy 20,000 Troops On US Soil

1359 votes | submitted 2008-12-01 11:44:45 by d2002 | 445 comments

Domestic emergency deployment may be just the first example of a series of expansions in presidential and military authority, or even an increase in domestic surveillance, said the ACLU.

The Perils of Blaming Pakistan for the Mumbai Terror Attacks

418 votes | submitted 2008-11-30 22:02:59 by MakiMaki | 131 comments

Most Pakistanis reacted with horror to news of the Mumbai killing spree starting Wednesday, having lived through equally devastating attacks on their own soil. Extremists would benefit if rising tension forces the Pakistan military to redeploy forces fighting the Taliban to the Indian border

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