Israel's Convergence Plan Likely to Hit Snags

Israel's Convergence Plan Likely to Hit Snags
OhmyNews International - 1 hour agoIsrael's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has set his newly-installed coalition government a tight and critical schedule by his commitment to implement the "convergence plan" within two years. This is the time it ...

Hard to give a "Hoot" about this family film
Reuters - 21 hours agoBy Michael Rechtshaffen. LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Carl Hiaasen's environmentally minded young people's best-seller about burrowing owls whose Florida home is being turned into a construction site ...

Miners face another night underground
The Age - 38 minutes agoTasmania's two trapped miners will have to endure at least another night underground, despite good progress towards reaching them. Rescuers drilling a metre-diameter escape tunnel were this afternoon just ...

Oil prices fall for second straight day
BusinessWeek - 9 hours agoMAY. 4 4:11 PM ET Oil prices sank more than $2 a barrel for the second straight day on Thursday, falling below $70 as traders focused on US government data that show gasoline supplies grew last week, reversing two months of declines. ...

Father and Tiger
Washington Post - 2 hours agoI found myself unexpectedly moved by the death of Earl Woods, who succumbed to prostate cancer Wednesday at 74 -- unexpectedly, since I never met the man. I knew him only through what the public has been able ...

Latin leaders unified over Bolivia
CNN International - 39 minutes ago(CNN) -- The presidents of four South American nations on Thursday presented a unified front committed to energy cooperation after an unscheduled summit prompted when Bolivian President Evo Morales moved earlier this week to nationalize his country's ...

Cruise's 'Mission': Accomplished
CNN - 11 hours agoBy Owen Gleiberman. (Entertainment Weekly) -- The summer movie season always has an official beginning, even if it gets nudged back a little earlier each year (by 2016, we'll probably be watching "The Mighty Thor IV" on President's Day). ...

Sugary Drinks To Be Pulled From Schools
Washington Post - May 2, 2006The beverage industry is scheduled to announce today that it is voluntarily removing high-calorie soft drinks from all schools. In an agreement to be announced by former president Bill Clinton, Arkansas Gov. ...

Near-record for portrait by Picasso
Daily Telegraph - 14 hours agoYesterday the late Spanish artist's painting Dora Maar with Cat sold for a staggering $US95.2 million ($A124 million) at a New York auction. The price for the 1941 portrait of Maar, a photographer who became ...

Rumsfeld: Partnerships key in fight
Online Athens (subscription) - 52 minutes agoAnti-war protester Gloria Tatum, left, is restrained by an unidentified woman after she disrupted a speech by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Thursday in Atlanta. Anti-war protesters interrupted Rumsfeld's ...