News on February, 2010


Tiger Woods Set To Make Public Apology, Discuss Future

Tiger Woods Set To Make Public Apology, Discuss Future

Golfer Tiger Woods will break his silence Friday morning, nearly three months after his infamous car crash that spiraled into a sex scandal. Woods will apologize for his behavior at a news conference in front of a small hand-picked crowd at 11 a.m. ET, according to Mark Steinberg, Woods’ agent. After Woods delivers his mea [...]

Market Bomb, US Missiles Kill 20 In Pakistan

Market Bomb, US Missiles Kill 20 In Pakistan

A bomb attack and a US missile strike killed 20 people in north-west Pakistan as Islamabad raised fresh concerns about knock-on instability from a major US-led offensive in Afghanistan. The bomb exploded in a market controlled by Islamist militants in Khyber, which is part of a NATO supply route to troops in Afghanistan and has [...]

Five Australians Jailed For Jihad Plot

Five Australians Jailed For Jihad Plot

Five Australian Muslims found with weapons and chemicals to make bombs and convicted of plotting a terror attack in Australia were jailed on Monday for terms ranging from 23 to 28 years. The men were found guilty in October 2009 of conspiring to commit an attack between July 2004 and November 2005 in retaliation for [...]

NBA All-Star Game Sets Record For Most-Attended Basketball Game

NBA All-Star Game Sets Record For Most-Attended Basketball Game

The NBA All-Star game at Cowboys Stadium set a record for the most-attended basketball game ever with a crowd of 108,713 people filling the stadium Sunday night. “It’s meant to be a party,” Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said. “We say we’re going to throw the biggest party like you’ve never seen before and that’s [...]

Yemen Cease-Fire Violated

Yemen Cease-Fire Violated

The same day a cease-fire agreement was to go into effect, a high-ranking Yemeni official accused rebels of trying to assassinate him. Deputy Interior Minister Gen. Mohammed Bin Abdullah al-Qawsi told Almotamar, the newspaper of the ruling party, Friday that “his car came under intensive fire shots in an attempt to assassinate him.” He added [...]

Professor Charged In Alabama University Shooting

Professor Charged In Alabama University Shooting

A Harvard-trained biology professor is facing murder charges in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, police said early Saturday. Authorities said Amy Bishop wounded three other employees Friday. She was arrested outside the sciences building where the shooting occurred, authorities said Bishop is an assistant professor of [...]

Coroner Releases New Details About Michael Jackson’s Death

Coroner Releases New Details About Michael Jackson’s Death

With Dr. Conrad Murray officially charged in Michael Jackson’s death, the Los Angeles coroner has released the autopsy report that said it was a homicide. The 51-page report gives vivid detail supporting last August’s conclusion that Jackson died from “acute propofol intoxication.” Murray told investigators he gave Jackson propofol, a powerful anesthetic, to help him [...]


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