Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 7:06:22 PM CEST
US Could Be Ready for War in Iraq This Year
The U.S. military could be prepared for war with Iraq as soon as December even though President Bush has not decided whether to pull the trigger on Baghdad, according to U.S. officials and analysts.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 7:00:48 PM CEST
Ex-Lucas Employee Charged with "Star Wars" Theft
A former production assistant for Marin County-based LucasFilm, also known as Skywalker Ranch, was booked in Los Angeles County Jail Tuesday for allegedly stealing a bootlegged copy of "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" and circulating it over the Internet for early review. The employee, identified as Shea O'Brien Foley by Marin Deputy District Attorney Paul Haakenson, was employed by LucasFilm between September 2000 and April 2002.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:55:57 PM CEST
Toumai man is really a female ape, say anthropologists
A skull described as the oldest human fossil is more likely the head of a female ape, say leading anthropologists. Milford Wolpoff and colleagues from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor believe the skull of "Toumai man" which was unearthed in the Djurab desert of northern Chad is not actually human.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:53:06 PM CEST
Police Probe New Killing for Link to Sniper
Sniper: 9? Cops:0
Police investigating the shooting death of a man at a Virginia gas station said on Thursday it was too early to say whether an elusive sniper in the Washington area had murdered his seventh victim. In the past week, the gunman has killed five people and wounded one in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, killed one person in the U.S. capital, and wounded another in Fredericksburg, Virginia, about 80 miles south of Washington.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:46:28 PM CEST
Alinghi gives Conner 4th loss in a row UIIII
Stars & Stripes helmsman Ken Read came up against Alinghi helmsman Russell Coutts this afternoon for the first time in America's Cup Class racing, and the outcome was decided before Stars & Stripes crossed the start line.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:36:16 PM CEST
U.S. Used Chemical Weapons Against Own Troops
The Pentagon has admitted that during the Cold War, it tested chemical and biological weapons on its own troops in the U.S., United Kingdom and Canada. James Turner, spokesperson for the Defense Department, declared on Thursday that around 500 people were involved in these tests which were conducted “under strict control”.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:33:33 PM CEST
First Time in France, Prostitute Clients Convicted
A court for the first time in France convicted four men on Wednesday for having sex with prostitutes, finding them guilty of sexual exhibitionism. The men were caught during a police sweep of a red-light area in the southwest city of Bordeaux while they were having sex in their cars at night.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:29:10 PM CEST
out of ideas Hollywood Does 'Dallas' Remake PART ?
Villainous oilman J.R. Ewing is about to get shot again. Regency Enterprises, a production company based at Twentieth Century Fox, is striking a seven figure deal to turn the primetime soap opera "Dallas" into a feature film. "I like the idea of doing it for the 21st century, with a new cast," series creator Dave Jacobs told Daily Variety.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:08:40 PM CEST
College kids caught in gun smuggling
The three men are part of an expanding web of college students in the South who have bought more than 800 guns, purportedly for personal use, then shipped them north, where they were sold illegally, federal authorities say. "This is not unique to Georgia Southern," said Sonny Fields, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms supervisory agent in Atlanta. "We've had cases at many universities."
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 6:03:21 PM CEST
Murderer escapes from one jail and tries to break into another
A convicted murderer waiting for a transfer in Montenegro escaped and tried to break into a better prison after he got sick of waiting. Savo Radovanovic took matters into his own hands after long delays over his request for a transfer to a 'posh' new jail.
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 5:58:00 PM CEST
Boy, 4, takes crack to school
A 4-year-old boy took crack cocaine to his preschool class, possibly thinking it was candy, and officials are trying to determine where he got it. Child welfare workers have placed the boy, who on Tuesday brought the drug to Early Childhood Campus in a prescription pill bottle, and his two younger siblings in foster care. "This should be considered a very serious hazard," said Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne. "I would equate it to allowing a child access to a firearm."
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 5:47:49 PM CEST
Royal Navy's £100m cocaine bust
The Royal Navy has busted a drug-smuggling fishing boat in the Caribbean and seized cocaine worth £100m. In one of the Navy's biggest ever seizures, HMS Grafton tracked the drug runners' boat off Venezuela. Spy planes and the warship closed in on the suspicious boat after a tip-off from the US drugs agency.
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