New York City plans 13,500 job cuts: officials
Apr 30, 2009 USA
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's workforce will shrink by 13,500 people and their unions will be asked to accept higher health care costs and lower pension benefits for new hires, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new budget plan, administration officials said on Thursday.L.A. police arrest man linked to 30 rape-murders
Apr 30, 2009 USA
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police said on Thursday they arrested a man suspected of killing up to 30 older women in two waves of unsolved strangulation-rapes that terrorized Los Angeles and other communities in the 1970s and '80s.Source: Souter to retire from Supreme Court
Apr 30, 2009 USA
After more than 18 years on the nation's highest court, Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring, a source close to Souter told CNN Thursday.Michelle Obama encourages spouses to volunteer
Apr 30, 2009 World
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama hopes to turn an annual White House picnic for members of Congress into a community service event for lawmakers and their families....Confirmed swine flu cases leap
Apr 30, 2009 USA
The number of confirmed swine flu cases worldwide has risen to 154, with six additional cases reported in Spain, the World Health Organization said Thursday.NASA to begin layoffs as shuttle retirement nears
Apr 30, 2009 USA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. space agency NASA plans to eliminate 900 manufacturing jobs over the next five months as it prepares to retire its space shuttle fleet in 2010, NASA officials said on Thursday.U.S. professor missing on Japan volcano hike
Apr 30, 2009 USA
Teams in southern Japan are searching for an award-winning U.S. poet and college professor who failed to return from a hike to a volcano, his university said Thursday.Virginia says has two confirmed cases of flu
Apr 30, 2009 USA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man and a woman in Virginia are the state's first two confirmed cases of H1N1 flu, the state health commissioner said on Thursday.Survey: Churchgoers more likely to back torture
Apr 30, 2009 USA
The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new analysis by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.Pasaulyje | NATO kritikuoja Rusiją už sutartį su Abchazija ir Pietų Osetija dėl jų sienos apsaugos
Apr 30, 2009 Lithuania: In Lithuanian
NATO ketvirtadienį kritikavo Rusiją už tai, kad ši su Abchazija ir Pietų Osetija pasirašė sutartis, suteikiančias jai
