Scientists use disabled HIV in gene therapy
WASHINGTON (AP) French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn t cause AIDS, and then us...
 3.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 89.0 France hunts for bank heist driver
PARIS (AP) French police conducted a nationwide search Friday for a security driver who vanished with $7.4 million in cash from a bank in the central city of Lyon, authorities said. Lyon prosecutor Xavier Richard said 39-year-old Tony Musulin ...
2.2K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 89.0 EU feels employment pinch
PARIS (AP) Despite signs of an economic revival gathering pace around the globe, the millions of people laid off are unlikely to see relief any time soon as joblessness is still climbing in many of the world s largest economies. The European Union ...
1.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 89.0 French court convicts 4 in Angola arms trial
PARIS (AP) A Paris court has jailed former interior minister Charles Pasqua and given a suspended sentence to the son of late President Francois Mitterrand for involvement in arms trafficking to Angola. The court sentenced Pasqua to a year in priso...
0.9K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 141.0 Iran doesn't accept U.N. uranium plan
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran today failed to accept a U.N.-drafted plan that would ship most of the country s uranium abroad for enrichment, saying instead it would prefer to buy the nuclear fuel it needs for a reactor that makes medical isotopes. The re...
4.7K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 89.0 U.S. files Polanski extradition request
GENEVA (AP) The United States has asked Switzerland to hand over Roman Polanski to authorities in California, where he could serve up to two years in prison for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl, Swiss authorities said today. The Justice M...
3.0K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 89.0 Iran backs new enriched uranium deal
VIENNA (AP) Iranian negotiators today expressed support for a deal that if accepted by their leaders would delay Tehran s ability to make nuclear weapons by sending most of its existing enriched uranium to Russia for processing, diplomats said....
4.4K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 89.0 Iran talks stall over French participation
VIENNA (AP) Talks meant to persuade Iran to send most of its enriched uranium abroad and thus delay its potential to make a nuclear weapon bogged down today over fierce Iranian resistance to French participation, diplomats said. Today was the s...
4.6K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 89.0 Pyrenees will challenge riders during 2010 Tour
PARIS The next chapter in the rivalry between seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and defending champion Alberto Contador will take place in a majestic landscape next July the Pyrenees. Riders of the most prestigious three-week cycli...
5.5K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 179.0 Golf will return to Olympics in 2016
COPENHAGEN All those beautiful beaches and Tiger Woods, too! After more than a century on the sidelines, golf will return to the Olympics at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Rugby, last played in 1924, is coming back as well. Both were reinstate...
5.7K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 141.0 Smart may face alleged abductor
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Elizabeth Smart would tell a court the former street preacher accused of abducting her was motivated by sex, not religion, if she is allowed to testify at his competency hearing, a federal prosecutor said Friday. If Smart s test...
2.6K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 89.0 Vaccine helps prevent AIDS
BANGKOK (AP) For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possi...
8.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 89.0 Obama wants to end fossil fuel subsidies
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is calling on the world to end massive government subsidies that encourage the use of fossil fuels blamed for global warming. The president, who is set to host the G-20 economic summit opening Thursday in Pitt...
5.3K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 89.0 G20 leaders face economic concerns
PITTSBURGH (AP) Bolstering a wobbly global economy, restraining greedy bankers and plotting a future course for sustainable growth the leaders of the world s major economies have no shortage of items on their to-do list when they meet Thursday an...
4.8K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 89.0 U.N. climate summit puts China, India in spotlight
UNITED NATIONS ” The highest-level conference yet on climate change opened today with 100 world leaders gathering at the United Nations to try to jump-start stalled negotiations toward a global climate pact. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-m...
5.3K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. All About Steve Mary Horo...
7.4K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. All About Steve Mary Horo...
7.5K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 89.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. All About Steve Mary Horo...
7.4K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 89.0 Arrest exposes Iran arms smuggling
WASHINGTON The arrest of a reputed arms dealer known as The Field Marshal is the latest success in a global cat-and-mouse game between federal agents and a network of shadowy business figures trying to smuggle weapons and equipment to Iran from ...
4.0K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 89.0 U.S. fares poorly in child welfare survey
PARIS America is among the industrialized world s worst victims of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though it spends more per child than better-performing countries such as Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands, a new su...
2.9K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 141.0 | 
