BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A Lebanese man was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday for last year’s failed attempt to bomb German trains but three other defendants were acquitted, judicial officials and the defense lawyer said.
The four were charged with planting crude bombs on two trains at the Cologne station on July 31, […]
On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, two Bell Labs researchers, built the world’s first transistor.
Their device, called a point contract transistor, conducted electricity and amplified signals, a job then currently handled by bulky and delicate vacuum tubes and other components.
Their colleague William Shockley followed soon after with junction transistors. Although Bardeen and […]
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) — Residue from a large oil spill in the Black Sea region will take more than a month and a half to completely clear, Russian officials said Thursday.
The Ministry for Emergency Situations. ministry said improved weather was helping the effort to clear the spill, which environmentalists fear could damage the area […]
Moscow’s “Chessboard murderer” was formally sentenced to life imprisonment today ending one of Russia’s worst serial killer cases.
Alexander Pichushkin was convicted of murdering 48 people, but insisted he had killed 60 in his quest for one death for each square on a chessboard - a total of 64.
The sentence was the harshest possible under […]
SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — More than 320,000 people have fled wildfires that have destroyed more than 1,300 homes across Southern California, officials said Tuesday.
Fears grew north of Los Angeles that the winds may fan three wildfires into one monster blaze, with too few resources available to fight it.
More than 56,000 homes are threatened […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With Turkish-U.S. relations strained, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey would not be deterred by the diplomatic consequences if it decides to stage a cross-border offensive into Iraq against Kurdish rebels.
“If such an option is chosen, whatever its price, it will be paid,” Erdogan told reporters in […]
TOULOUSE, France — Tom Enders, the fifth chief executive of Airbus in 27 months, insists the plane maker must focus on results, rather than try to balance competing European interests, if it is ever going to regain financial stability.
“We need to prove that we are able to substantially improve our performance,” Mr. Enders said […]
The Russian President has stepped up pressure on the Bush administration to freeze plans for an anti-missile defence shield to be located in Europe, by threatening to pull out of a Cold War-era nuclear treaty and warning that the US determination to press ahead risked harming relations with Moscow.
With the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza […]
LONDON, England (AP) — Nurses who didn’t wash their hands and left patients lying in soiled beds were cited in an official report blaming mismanagement for the deaths of 90 people who contracted a bacterial infection in hospitals in southern England.
“Significant failings” at all levels contributed to infections of more than 1,000 patients […]
LONDON, England (AP) — A man who was among the first to arrive at the scene of the crash that killed Princess Diana told an inquest Wednesday that he thought it might have been a terrorist attack. His companion said her first reaction was that it was a movie set.
Testifying by video-link from the […]
