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Germany says Namibia terror scare only security test (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

Reuters - A suspicious suitcase found at Windhoek airport that triggered an international alarm was only a test of local security and did not contain any explosives, German Interior Minister Thomas…

Red sludge only latest Hungarian calamity (AP)

October 9th, 2010

Footsteps pick their way through the toxic red sludge which covers a yard in Devecser, Hungary, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. The population of the neighboring town of Kolontar was evacuated early this morning, and Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a new sludge deluge. Authorities asked residents to put their most essential belongings into a single bag and prepare for possible evacuation. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - The disaster that buried three Hungarian villages in caustic red sludge this week is deepening the gloom of a country gripped by recession, polarization and the near-ubiquitous feeling…

The Russian Hacker Bust: Is the FBI Only Chasing Mules? (Time.com)

October 5th, 2010

Time.com - The American agency got help from the Ukrainian secret service but next to no assistance from Russia, from which most of the hacking emanates

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Man shot in head felt bullet only 4 years later (AP)

August 26th, 2010

The X-ray photo released by German police in Herne Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010 shows the skull of a man with a bullet in the back of his head. Police said a Polish man living in Germany was shot in the back of his head, but that it took him five years to realize it. Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old men was hit by a .22-caliber bullet in the western town of Herne as he was out in the street partying drunk on New Year's Eve five years ago. They say the man recalled receiving a blow to the head, but told them he didn't seek medical assistance at the time. (AP Photo/Polizei Herne)AP - A 35-year-old man who walked around for five years with a bullet lodged in the back of his head says he suspected for a while something was there…

Pakistan floods to recede only by month’s end (AP)

August 18th, 2010

A flood survivor looks as she waits for relief goods at a temporary camp for displaced people in Multan, Pakistan on Wednesday Aug. 18, 2010. The floods began three weeks ago, but there is little sign conditions are improving for some 20 million people who are affected. Tens of thousands of villages remain under water, and officials feared that more flooding could be on the way. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - The floodwaters that have ravaged Pakistan will not recede fully until the end of August, the country’s top meteorologist said Wednesday, a grim forecast for the more than…

Older Gazans recall Israelis, youth sees only army (AP)

August 6th, 2010

AP - From his ramshackle Gaza home, Palestinian Sobhi Hamami, 61, fondly recalls the 23 years he worked on an Israeli kibbutz, where he learned Hebrew, swam in the pool…

Polanski only safe in France, Poland, Switzerland (AP)

July 13th, 2010

FILE - In this April 24, 2010 file photo film director Roman Polanski walks on the balcony of his chalet named 'Milky Way', where he has been under house arrest, in Gstaad, Switzerland. The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday July 12, 2010 after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss mostly blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony about Polanski's sentencing procedure in 1977-1978. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)AP - Roman Polanski may once again be seen on the red carpet at Cannes — but he won’t be attending the Venice Film Festival or the Oscars anytime soon.


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Kyrgyzstan holds vote only weeks after riots (AP)

June 27th, 2010

A young Kyrgyz couple walk in front of a billboard reading as 'Constitution: Change our selves - change our life! June 27, Referendum' in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, June 26, 2010. The referendum on upcoming Sunday will ask the people of this country, which is on the brink of further ethnic strife, to approve a new constitution. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - The people of violence-wracked Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday on a new constitution just weeks after deadly ethnic purges — a vote that the interim government hopes will legitimize the…

Merkel: $1 trillion rescue package only buys time (AP)

May 16th, 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel adresses the audience at the Congress of the German Labor Union, DGB, in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May, 16, 2010. Merkel also discussed the consequences of the Greek debt crisis for the eurozone. (AP Photo/dapd/Berthold Stadler)AP - The euro750 billion ($1 trillion) shock-and-awe rescue package to prevent the Greek debt crisis from spreading only bought eurozone countries more time, it didn’t solve their underlying debt…

Greece says bailout is only hope (AP)

May 6th, 2010

A man talks to a police officer as he place flowers at the Marfin Egnatia Bank while police search for clues, at right, in central Athens, on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Riots broke out across Athens during a massive protest Wednesday against drastic austerity measures introduced to secure rescue loans for the country's near-bankrupt economy. Lawmakers began debating the measures and were due to approve them later Thursday.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - Greece’s only hope of avoiding bankruptcy is to take money from a joint EU and International Monetary Fund rescue package, the finance minister said Thursday during a heated…

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