February 22nd, 2012 |
The Internal Revenue Service knew R. Allen Stanford was taking loans from his Antigua bank and found nothing wrong with the arrangement, the Texas tycoon’s tax lawyer testified at Stanford’s fraud trial Tuesday. “The IRS always treated those as loans to Mr. Stanford,” said Larry Campagna, who represented Stanford in personal and business tax disputes [...]
February 22nd, 2012 |
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists. The barrages marked an intensification of a nearly three-week … Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-president-behind-secret-memo-us-witness-175554326.html
February 22nd, 2012 |
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Multiple explosions rocked a highway checkpoint in Nigeria’s second-largest city, witnesses said Wednesday, just over a month after a radical Islamist sect claimed an attack there that left at least 185 people dead. The attacks raise fears that the sect, Boko Haram, is taking root in the northern city of Kano. [...]
February 22nd, 2012 |
Today, four years later, the mood is far more tentative—yet the outlook is considerably brighter. Or rather, the outlook for stocks is brighter. For two years, markets have been buffeted by Aegean waves, with concern that Greece and its debts would upend the entire euro-zone economy and plunge the global financial system into disarray. This [...]
February 22nd, 2012 |
Pause Play Image 1 of 10: Arab sex symbol, Haifa Wehbe, found herself at war with the Gauls when a French website posted ‘pornographic’ images – allegedly her’s – from a sex tape. The singer denied it was her, accusing rival Rula Saad of a set-up, spreading these defamations. Also from Haifa’s ‘dossier’ are snaps of [...]
February 22nd, 2012 |
The Argyle Pink Jubilee. Photo credit: AAP via the Herald Sun newspaper. A 12.76 carat diamond was found at the Argyle diamond mine in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. It’s the biggest pink diamond ever found at the famed mine, the world’s largest producer of pink diamonds. It is expected to fetch at [...]
February 21st, 2012 |
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February 21st, 2012 |
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – A witness in the trial of an Alabama man charged with murdering his bride on a honeymoon scuba outing in Australia testified Tuesday that a diving firm violated its own rules in preparing the woman for the trip. The man who was the dive master on the trip in 2003, Wade Singleton, [...]
February 21st, 2012 |
The feds claim former New York Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. coached a woman to lie before a federal grand jury investigating corruption allegations against him, The Post has learned. Although witness tampering is a crime, Brooklyn federal prosecutors are not charging Espada with new counts stemming from the incident — but they want [...]
February 21st, 2012 |
MANILA, Philippines – Twenty-five years after the canonization of San Lorenzo Ruiz on Oct. 18, 1987 by Blessed Pope John Paul II, the country proudly welcomes its second saint, Pedro Calungsod (1654 – 1672), who will be venerated the world over as Saint Pedro on October 21, 2012. The Vatican has announced the canonization of [...]
