New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed North Korea's decision to accept verification measures of its nuclear plant and called on the government there to completely disable its plutonium processing facility.
Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, welcomed Pyongyang's decision to re-admit inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after the United States government removed North Korea from the list of states sponsoring terrorism.
Los Angeles - The dreaded Santa Ana winds, which fan dangerous wildfires every autumn in southern California, roared through an area east of Los Angeles Monday burning over 1,500 hectares and forcing the closure of three major freeways.
Washington- US President George W Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met on Monday vowing to take steps to prevent broader economic fallout caused by the financial crisis and to ensure US and European government continue to cooperate.
New York - Stocks opened higher on Wall Street on Monday as news of European financial rescue plans heartened US investors.
Within the first hour of trading, stocks were up about 5 per cent on the major US indices. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average picked up 420.62 points, or 4.98 per cent, to 8,871.81 by
10:36 am (1436 GMT). The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 46.52 points, or 5.17 per cent, to 945.74, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index gained 86.63 points, or 5.25 per cent, to 1,736.14.
Washington, Oct 13 : Republivan presidential candidate John McCain and the other US servicemen held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam in the 1960s developed a number of survival techniques.
None was quite as effective as the one former Navy pilot Richard Stratton remembers: "If you kept your mind occupied, you were going to be okay."
Stratton would imagine meticulously assembling a large glider and flying it over the Alps. Another prisoner imagined himself fishing, the Washington Post reported.
New York, Oct 13 : ''Blink-182'' drummer Travis Barker has on his MySpace page taken a jab at his ex-wife Shanna Moakler, while in hospital.
Barker, 32, expressed his "deepest thanks" to his fans for their support during his recovery from a deadly plane crash in September, but also dissed his ex-wife Moakler, who had been at his side since the accident.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed North Korea's decision to accept verification measures of its nuclear plant and called on the government there to completely disable its plutonium processing facility.
Los Angeles - The dreaded Santa Ana winds, which fan dangerous wildfires every autumn in southern California, roared through an area east of Los Angeles Monday burning over 1,500 hectares and forcing the closure of three major freeways.
Washington- US President George W Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met on Monday vowing to take steps to prevent broader economic fallout caused by the financial crisis and to ensure US and European government continue to cooperate.
New York - Stocks opened higher on Wall Street on Monday as news of European financial rescue plans heartened US investors.
Washington, Oct 13 : Republivan presidential candidate John McCain and the other US servicemen held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam in the 1960s developed a number of survival techniques..jpg "Travis Barker disses ex-wife Shanna Moakler on MySpace")
New York, Oct 13 : ''Blink-182'' drummer Travis Barker has on his MySpace page taken a jab at his ex-wife Shanna Moakler, while in hospital.
