Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
Friday, November 20, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday....
Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
Friday, November 20, 2009
ROME (AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus....
Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
Friday, November 20, 2009
ROME (AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei''s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday....
Afghan police are weak link in security force
Friday, November 20, 2009
KABUL (AP) -- Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan''s 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home....
Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
Friday, November 20, 2009
COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) -- Raging floods engulfed northern England''s picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes....
Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken
Friday, November 20, 2009
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl''s body was found dumped off a rural road....
Moderate Dems pivotal in Saturday health care vote
Friday, November 20, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana....
Winfrey: Prayer, careful thought influenced exit
Friday, November 20, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision....
