Detectives investigating the disappearance of Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon
Matthews arrest her mother, following the release of two other members of her
stepfather's family on police bail pending further investigations.

DEWSBURY, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM  (ITN)...   more »

A new report by the British House of Lords has rejected government claims
that immigration benefits Britain's economy. Last year one third of all
immigrants coming to Britain were Eastern European.

LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM ...   more »

A letter written by President Abraham Lincoln sells for record 3.4 million
dollars (USD) in what was otherwise a lacklustre auction of historic American
manuscripts at Sotheby's auction house in New York.

NEW YORK CITY, ...   more »

Downtown Belfast buzzes with new life as peace takes hold in
Northern Ireland a decade after the Good Friday peace agreement was signed on
April 10, 1998. 

Tourism is booming, unemployment is low and foreign ...   more »

* IMF warns of market turmoil spreading
* UK house prices shock drop
* Banks lead European shares lower

The International Monetary Fund warned turmoil in credit markets could
spread, posing further losses to banks ...   more »

Iranian President announces the start of the installation of 6.000 new
centrifuges.

TEHRAN, IRAN (APRIL 8, 2008) (IRINN)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday (April 8) that
Iran had started to install 6,000 advanced ...   more »

Celtel Zambia, the country's largest mobile firm, lists 20 percent of its
shares on the Lusaka Stock Exchange. The company predicts that its subscriber
base will reach 2.7 million by December 2008.

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA (APRIL ...   more »

Washington Mutual added to the jitters after it warned of a
bigger-than-expected quarterly loss.

On the economic front, pending homes sales fell to a record low in
February, according to an industry trade group.

Investors ...   more »

Flocke, whose name means "flake" or "snowflake" in
German, has been hand-reared by keepers at the southern German zoo since being
separated from her mother for her own safety.   Her first outing was in front...   more »

All three White House hopefuls will get the chance to question
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, who told Congress that
the security gains in Iraq were what he called "fragile and...   more »

Moshe Katsav has reneged on a plea bargain agreement under which he was to
have admitted sexual crimes against women employees.
Prosecutors now can reconsider whether to file rape charges against Katsav.
They had opted ...   more »

The world of golf turns to Augusta National as all eyes focus on the
Masters tournament. Golfers spend all day practicing on the course, from world
number one, Tiger Woods, to American amateur, Drew Weaver.  ...   more »

The Soyuz TMA-12 spaceship disappeared into a clear sky at 1116 GMT (Tues,
8 April 2008) after lifting off from the world's oldest space launch pad in
Kazakhstan. South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon, a ...   more »

Israeli entrepreneurs present a new data analysis system which they say
provides a deeper insight of players and referees behaviour. 

RISHON LEZION, ISRAEL (RECENT) (REUTERS )

Ever wonder how accurately Ronaldinho passes the ball during...   more »

Ukrainian journalists demand the trial of those responsible for the death
of Reuters journalist Taras Protsyuk in Baghdad five years ago, in protest in
fron of the U.S. embassy in Kiev.

KIEV, UKRAINE (APRIL 8, ...   more »

Six Maasai warriors from a remote village in Tanzania, who normally survive
on fresh blood drained from the neck of a living cow, and often run for days
and nights on end to find water, ...   more »

A British jury decides Princess Diana and her lover Dodi al-Fayed were
unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of their chauffeur and
paparazzi photographers pursuing them into a Paris road tunnel 10 years ago....   more »

Parisians say they are relieved the inquiry into Princess Diana's death has
reached its conclusion and that they hope the extensive media speculation
about the cause of the fatal accident will also be laid to ...   more »

Clinton's chief political strategist, Mark Penn, steps aside days after
news surfaced on his meeting with Colombia on free-trade deal that Clinton
opposes.

MANCHESTER, NEW HAMSHIRE, UNITED STATES (REUTERS)

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's chief ...   more »

Ten years after the signing of Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement,
former gunmen from both sides of the sectarian divide turn to community work
to heal a province deeply scarred by years of the "Troubles". ...   more »

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consulting firm Pearl Research today released a study detailing Chinese consumer purchase intent for Apple’s iPhone. The iPhone has not been officially released in China, but can be found ...   more »

Alicia Keys’ Documentary ''Alicia in Africa: Journey to the Motherland'' Available for Exclusive Download on SpiralFrog™

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpiralFrog, Inc., (www.spiralfrog.com) the free and legal, ad-supported web-based music service, ...   more »