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Most popular news on 21 October 2007 |
Sudoku players hold first national championship
Reuters - Sudoku, the numbers puzzle that
claims 167 million U.S. players, held its first national
championship on Saturday, drawing more than 800 people from as
far away as California and British Columbia.
Wildfires force evacuations in Calif.
AP - A wildfire driven by powerful Santa Ana wind threatened a university and forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes in the Malibu Hills on Sunday, authorities said. Flames destroyed a church and several homes, one of them a landmark castle.
Teacher sex abuse scars family, town
AP - They've learned to watch their older daughter for any sign that something's wrong. She cuts her long, blond hair and dyes it jet black. And they worry. Her father picks up a book she's been reading, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, and skims it for clues.
US bride sues over wilted bouquets: press
AFP - Newlyweds in New York have filed a 400,000 dollar lawsuit against the florist who supplied the flowers for their wedding, saying they were the wrong color and wilted, press reports said Tuesday.
Clinton rejects front-runner label
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday rejected the front-runner label, but acknowledged increasing fire from rivals in both parties — which she said she will largely ignore.
Former POWS struggle with torture debate
AP - Marion Oltman spent the last eight months of World War II in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, and tears still fill his eyes when he recalls those desperate days.
US: Raid of Baghdad's Sadr City kills 49
AP - The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
The wedding's off -- see you in court!
Reuters - Instead of walking down the aisle of a
church, a former New York couple will traipse down the aisle of
a court room to settle a fight over a $48,800 diamond
engagement ring.
Weak need landmines to fight strong foe: Gaddafi
Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has
defended the use of landmines by weak countries countering
aggression by stronger adversaries, and said the Ottawa treaty
banning anti-personnel mines should be amended or scrapped.
Cuba holds first local vote without Castro
Reuters - Cubans voted on Sunday to elect 15,236
municipal council members in the first elections since ailing
Cuban leader Fidel Castro handed over power to his brother last
year.
Justice says law degree 'worth 15 cents'
AP - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school's affirmative action policies in the 1970s for his difficulty finding a job after he graduated.
Woman survives 19 hours in sea off Maui
AP - A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said.
Report: Indians pitcher bought HGH
AP - Cleveland pitcher Paul Byrd, whose win in Game 4 of the ALCS moved the Indians within one victory of the World Series, bought nearly $25,000 worth of human growth hormone and syringes from 2002 to 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday.
WWII postcard reaches Japanese man
AP - A postcard that a Japanese soldier mailed from a Southeast Asian battlefront during World War II has reached a recipient in Japan 64 years later, a university whose student helped deliver it said Saturday.
Unemployed Colombian dons iron mask
AP - Forget going on a hunger strike. In Colombia, an unemployed man has sewn shut his mouth and locked himself behind an iron mask to demand the government attend to his family's desperate economic plight.
Fisherman lands record 844-pound shark
AP - Six friends went to a fishing tournament looking to catch some grouper. They caught an 844-pound shark instead.
Beyonce wows fans in Ethiopia
AP - Beyonce Knowles joined the millennium celebrations in Ethiopia with a spirited concert in the capital of the Horn of Africa nation.
Neanderthals may have talked
Reuters - Neanderthals, often portrayed as
grunting, club-carrying brutes, may have been capable of
sophisticated speech, researchers said on Thursday.
12 Turkish troops killed in rebel ambush
AP - Kurdish rebels ambushed a Turkish military convoy on Sunday less than three miles from the Iraqi border, killing 12 soldiers in the face of growing threats by Turkey to cross the rugged frontier and root out the guerrillas.
Soyuz craft lands short of destination
AP - A technical glitch sent a Soyuz spacecraft on a wild ride home Sunday, forcing Malaysia's first space traveler and two Russian cosmonauts to endure eight times the force of gravity before their capsule landed safely.
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