GOMA, Congo - Conservationists say Congolese schoolchildren will soon be able to take a closer look at baby mountain gorillas. Virunga National Park spokeswoman Samantha Newport says the park is building a sanctuary where schoolchildren and tourists can observe the 2 1/2-year-old orphan gorillas from hidden platforms.
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Trishna awoke Thursday morning and her sister, Krishna, was also being brought out of the coma, Royal Children's Hospital spokeswoman Vanessa Whatmough said. The hospital planned to give details on the girls' status at a news conference later in the day, she said. |
Police spokeswoman Renee Witt wrote in a department Web site posting that officers thought the man might have been involved in the reported assault, but he insisted he was just a ninja trying to clear a 4- to 5-foot-tall fence. |
In a statement Tuesday, family spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer called a plan to make a movie about Dugard's life "exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind." |
BRUSSELS - EU defense and foreign ministers will discuss how to shore up the government of Afghanistan amid plummeting public support in Europe for the U.S.-led war in Central Asia. An EU spokeswoman says Kai Eide, the top U.N. official in Kabul, will brief ministers Monday on President Hamid Karzai's efforts to form a new government in Afghanistan after his recent re-election.
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STOCKHOLM - Sweden is returning 22 skulls taken from a native Hawaiian community at a solemn ceremony at Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities. Museum spokeswoman Ulrika Mannberg says Saturday's hand-over will be attended by around 30 special guests, including representatives of the Group Caring for Ancestors of Hawaii and the Nordic countries' own indigenous Sami population.
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Tennessee spokeswoman Tiffany Carpenter says the team will travel to Oxford without wide receiver NuKeese Richardson, safety Janzen Jackson and defensive back Mike Edwards. |
OSLO - Police say thieves stole a valuable artwork by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch from an Oslo art dealer. Police spokeswoman Britt Boerve said Friday the thieves stole "Historien" - or "History" - from Nyborgs Kunst, a private art dealership in downtown Oslo, after smashing one of the dealership's windows with a stone.
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OSLO - Norway's Foreign Ministry says that a Norwegian journalist who was kidnapped last week in eastern Afghanistan has been released. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ragnhild Imerslund says the Norwegian was abducted along with his Afghan interpreter near the border with Pakistan.
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"A vote did not take place. They are negotiating," a spokeswoman for the assembly's upper house, the State Senate, told AFP. |
Portland Fire Bureau spokeswoman Kim Kosmas says the school's 17 teachers also made it out safely late Tuesday morning. |
Jim Nolan, a spokesman for Mutual, and Angela DePaul, a spokeswoman for Winfrey's Chicago-based Harpo Productions Inc., would only say Monday that the case was resolved amicably. Documents filed last month in U.S. District Court in Omaha do not outline details of the settlement. |
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province. Police say Erhard Bauer, 50, was shot Thursday in the arm and stomach. The motive is unknown. Red Cross spokeswoman Svenja Koch says Bauer was flown to Singapore for treatment. She could not say if the injuries were life threatening.
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"The University of Central Florida has chosen not to deliver on their contractual commitment to adidas," adidas spokeswoman Andrea Corso wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "As a result we have chosen not to continue our relationship with them moving forward." |
One body had been recovered and 11 people were still missing in the remote spot 2,700 kilometres (1,700 miles) from Australia's mainland, a customs spokeswoman told AFP. Some 27 survivors had been picked up by a passing tanker. |
SEOUL, South Korea - Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea following a secret trip to Pyongyang, died Saturday. He was 85. Lee, who had been hospitalized since early May, died of old age and a brain tumor, said Park Yu-kyoung, a spokeswoman at Kyung Hee University East-West Neo Medical Center in Seoul.
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ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - A small plane crashed into a field and burst into flames shortly after taking off Thursday in St. Croix, killing all three people on board, authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands said. The single-engine Cessna was en route to the nearby island of St. Thomas when it plunged into the field, police spokeswoman Melody Rames said.
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A spokeswoman for the Oklahoma City-based restaurant chain says Smith died Monday at an Oklahoma City hospital after a recent decline in health. |
As redress for last Wednesday's incident, Boise forbid the Idaho Junior Steelheads team from using Idaho Ice World for four days; one 17-year-old player who shed his underwear briefly was suspended until next week. In addition, police are investigating, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. |
KABUL - Two helicopters collided Monday in southern Afghanistan, killing four American troops and injuring two, the military said. A third U.S. helicopter crashed in a separate incident in the west, leaving "some dead," U.S. military spokeswoman Elizabeth Mathias said. She did not have details on how many or their nationalities.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The real estate investment manager who led the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the nation's largest pension fund, into a money-losing land venture has resigned as an adviser to the fund, a spokeswoman for MacFarlane Partners said on Saturday.
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Officers recovered items that were reported stolen by "well known celebrities," police spokeswoman Rosario Herrera said. She said she didn't know who the celebrities were. |
A spokeswoman said the company could now deliver 75.3 million doses of bulk vaccine ingredients by December. |
No passengers were hurt in the incident, which happened Sunday night near the small town of Kulgera in the Northern Territory, said Sophie Dent, spokeswoman for Great Southern Rail, which operates The Ghan. |
Yankees spokeswoman Alice McGillion said Friday a woman sent an e-mail to a team official a day earlier claiming the Irish tenor made the remark while the woman was being shown an apartment in the building where Tynan lives. |
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is establishing an international commission to investigate the attack on unarmed protesters in Guinea last month that left dozens dead and many injured, the U.N. said. A mission was leaving Friday to look into arrangements for setting up a commission to determine who was responsible, U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said.
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KABUL - A U.N.-backed panel has completed most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election will require a runoff, a spokeswoman said Friday as the U.S. military announced the deaths of four more American troops. Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States says he expects a second round vote will be required.
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KABUL - The U.N.-backed panel investigating fraud in Afghanistan's contested election has completed the bulk of its work, but commissioners are still analyzing complaints and calculating figures that will determine if there will be a runoff, a spokeswoman said Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from a hospital on Thursday after experiencing extreme drowsiness that caused her to fall from her seat on an airplane before it departed for London, a spokeswoman said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized overnight after experiencing extreme drowsiness, but was released on Thursday morning, a court spokeswoman said.
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Illinois Department of Transportation spokeswoman Marisa Kollias says pavement buckled Wednesday afternoon on the Kennedy Expressway, also known as Interstate 90/94. |
"We're testing this to see what the feedback is. In terms of any plans going forward, we haven't made any decisions," said Betty Riess, a spokeswoman for Bank of America. She said the fee is being "tested" on less than 1 percent of its credit card accounts globally, but declined to give specific numbers. |
PARIS - A NATO spokeswoman says 11 suspected pirates have been captured after a foiled attack on French fishing ships in the Indian Ocean.
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A spokeswoman for the governor says Rendell signed the bills Friday night after the state Legislature held a flurry of votes on the $27.8 billion budget's primary appropriations bill and a key companion bill. |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A surveillance plane assigned to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti crashed into a mountain Friday, killing all 11 military personnel on board, the United Nations said. U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas in New York said the Uruguayan CASA212 aircraft went down in rugged terrain west of Fonds-Verrettes near the border with the Dominican Republic.
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TIJUANA, Mexico - The mutilated body of a man has been found hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. Prosecutors' spokeswoman Prisma Perez says authorities have not identified the man, but believe he is Rogelio Sanchez, a Baja California state government official in charge of driver's licenses who went missing Tuesday.
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Eleven of the 143 confirmed dead in the tsunami on Tuesday last week were to be buried together later Thursday following a memorial service for the victims in Apia, National Disaster Council spokeswoman Vaosa Epa said. |
Leaders of five unions that earlier rejected concessions demanded by would-be buyer Jim Tyree tentatively agreed to contract changes in talks Wednesday with the parent company, said Sun-Times Media Group Inc. spokeswoman Tammy Chase. |
ABUJA, Nigeria - A Nigerian official says key militants have accepted a government amnesty offer to disarm. Government amnesty committee spokeswoman Timiebi Koripamo-Agari says militant leader Government Tompolo is among those taking part. Another leader, Farah Dagogo, surrendered over the weekend.
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GENEVA - The United Nations is appealing for $74 million to aid flood victims in the Philippines. U.N. spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs says the money is needed to help 1 million people severely affected by the flooding resulting from Tropical Storm Ketsana.
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