San Francisco (US), Feb. 17 : Attempts by a novelty shop in the Noe Valley neighbourhood to sell greeting cards and candles featuring the halo-adorned head of President Barack Obama, has led Reverend Tony La Torre of the St. Philip the Apostle Church to call for a boycott of these items.
The 15-dollar candles feature the president''s halo-adorned head plastered onto the crucifix-clutching body of St. Martin de Porres, the Peruvian-born friar regarded as one of the first black saints in the Americas.
New York - The casino companies owned by flamboyant US businessman Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in another indication of how the economic slump is picking off some of the most famous names in the business world.
Washington - The centrepiece of Barack Obama's economic rescue plans will become law Tuesday, the culmination of a six-week process full of partisan wrangling that handed the US president his first significant victory since inauguration.
New Delhi, Feb. 17 : Calling for vision and a steadfast determination to end violence and the menace of terrorism across the globe, US civil rights leader Martin Luther King III on Tuesday said there was an urgent need to begin laying the groundwork for a moral, social, and political climate that rejects both terrorism and war. 
New York - Retailing giant Wal-Mart reported Tuesday that its net earnings fell nearly 8 p
London - The use of torture by the US at the prison camp of Guantanamo Bay has served as a "recruiting sergeant" for suicide terrorists, a former British intelligence chief alleged Tuesday.
