News
Bangladesh election marks end of emergency rule, secular party wins big
December 31, 2008DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladeshis voted in droves Dec. 29 in elections that marked the end of two years of emergency rule, with ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed 's Awami League-led coalition claiming a landslide victory. Hasina,...
Read more
Eartha Kitt, pioneer in art and protest
December 30, 2008NEW YORK (AP) — Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died. She was 81. Family spokesman Andrew...
Read more
Playwright Harold Pinter, Iraq war critic, remembered
December 30, 2008LONDON (AP) — British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, who produced some of his generation’s most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, has died. He was 78. Pinter died...
Read more
The year in headlines: election and economy
December 30, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--The election, the election, the election…and the economy. Or maybe, by the end of the year, it was: The economy, the economy, the economy and the election. Or, actually, it was both. As reflected in...
Read more
Ash flood may change way TVA handles coal waste
December 30, 2008KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) — The spill of more than a billion gallons of coal ash from a power plant in East Tennessee may change the way the nation’s largest government-owned utility stores coal waste. Roane County...
Read more