Girls school attacked in troubled NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan today, police said. The school was empty at the time of the blast and no one was injured. A timed explosive device is believ...
 3.2K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 141.0 Clinton makes push to end nuke program
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) North Korea must completely and irreversibly end its nuclear weapons program or face further isolation and the unrelenting pressure of international sanctions, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday. A...
6.2K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 89.0 Clinton defends US demands for anti-terror help
MUMBAI, India (AP) Off the injured list and back on the world stage, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday gave an impassioned defense of American demands that India and other countries do more to tackle terrorism and global wa...
5.0K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 89.0 Indonesia suspects fugitive terrorist in bombings
JAKARTA, Indonesia Suspicions hardened Saturday that the fugitive leader of a Southeast Asian terrorist group masterminded suicide bomb attacks on two American luxury hotels in Indonesia s capital that killed seven people. Investigators examined bo...
5.8K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 89.0 Another Slumdog child star s home torn down
MUMBAI, India (AP) The shanty home of another Slumdog Millionaire child star was torn down by Mumbai authorities Wednesday as they demolished part of a city slum where she lived. Munni Qureshi the stepmother of 9-year-old Rubina Ali, who portra...
1.7K - May. 22, 2009; scored 141.0 Banned charity helping Pakistani refugees
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A banned charity with alleged links to the Mumbai attacks is helping refugees fleeing the fighting between the Pakistani military and the Taliban, a group member said today, raising questions about the government's pledge to...
1.4K - May. 14, 2009; scored 89.0 Just what are those unusual blocks of brown sugar?
Pervaiz Shallwani For The Associated Press Even adventurous cooks might be intimidated the first time they discover palm sugar tucked among the Asian ingredients at the grocer. These hard, sometimes oddly large chunks of brownish sugar don t exactly ...
4.3K - Mar. 31, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Duplicity CIA officer Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) and MI6 agent Ray Koval (Clive Owen) look to cash in on a highly profitable cold war raging between two rival multinational corporations ...
7.9K - Mar. 27, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Defiance Three Jewish brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber,Jamie Bell) living in Nazi occupied Poland escape into the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling t...
7.8K - Mar. 20, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Confessions of a Shopaholic Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a big problem: she s hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of deb...
7.8K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Confessions of a Shopaholic Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a big problem: she s hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of deb...
9.4K - Mar. 6, 2009; scored 89.0 Sri Lanka cricket team attacked in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan A team of heavily armed gunmen, some traveling in rickshaws, ambushed Sri Lanka s national cricket team Tuesday as it arrived for a match, killing six police guards and wounding seven players. The brazen attack heightened fears tha...
7.9K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 207.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Bride Wars Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal must have list: ...
9.6K - Feb. 27, 2009; scored 89.0 Pakistan court bars opposition leader from office
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistan s Supreme Court today barred opposition leader Nawaz Sharif from elected office, raising the prospect of fresh political instability in the country as its shaky government struggles against rising Islamist militancy. The cou...
4.3K - Feb. 25, 2009; scored 89.0 Paring the Oscars
I ve been watching the Academy Awards since Bob Hope was a baby. Back then, they didn t have a different host each year: It was always Bob Hope. Now they audition someone new every few years but it s such a no-win gig, you wonder why anyone wants it....
3.1K - Feb. 23, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Confessions of a Shopaholic Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she s hopeless...
7.9K - Feb. 20, 2009; scored 89.0 Oscars: 'Slumdog,' Ledger, Winslet are sure bets
LOS ANGELES Associated Press movie writers David Germain and Christy Lemire would like to agree to disagree more often so they could make fun of each other s Academy Awards picks, but they re in general consensus this time. Among the top six catego...
11.8K - Feb. 20, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Confessions of a Shopaholic Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she s hopeless...
8.0K - Feb. 13, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters: Coraline Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is a girl of 11 who is feisty, curious, and adventurous. Missing her friends after a move to Oregon and finding her parents to be distracted b...
7.9K - Feb. 6, 2009; scored 89.0 SAG Awards boost 'Slumdog'
LOS ANGELES (AP) Slumdog Millionaire continued its unlikely rise from low-budget underdog to the highest Hollywood heights earlier this week, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for best cast of a motion picture. The prize, which is tantamount ...
3.4K - Feb. 2, 2009; scored 89.0 | 
