Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:33:00 GMT
DEC Regional Director Ken Lynch said he couldn?t comment on whether the entire building could be treated as hazardous waste. ?We really can?t get into any statements of what might be left or how that affects the bid process,? Lynch said.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:47:00 GMT
For now, however, he is the most vivid example of how, in a new-media age of cable television and the Web, a politician willing to step on toes and play to ideological crowds can jump the line of older colleagues in establishing a national profile.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:19:00 GMT
INDIANAPOLIS ? Northwestern's Michael Thompson still remembers how it felt to lose 20 games as a freshman. Now he can embrace the celebration of the Wildcats' first 20-win season. The junior guard scored 11 of his 16 points, leading a second-half ...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:26:00 GMT
SINGAPORE ? Oil prices hovered above $82 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors mulled whether extending a monthlong rally is justified amid evidence of weak U.S. crude demand. ... Crude has jumped 18 percent from $69.59 a barrel on Feb. 5 as ...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:33:00 GMT
President Obama is delaying his trip to Indonesia, Guam and Australia next week, an administration official said Friday, so the White House can focus on passing health care legislation in the House. The president?s international trip had grown into ...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:04:00 GMT
Chinese shares led the declines in Asia, with Shanghai?s index falling 1.2 percent. Investors there sold property shares on concerns that higher-than-expected inflation might lead the government to hike in interest rates. ?Overheated industries ...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:33:00 GMT
PANAMA CITY (AFP) ? Illegal fishing and climate change are decimating shrimp and lobster populations in Central America, threatening a two-billion-dollar industry and 136,000 jobs, regional experts said Thursday. "Pollution and warmer waters are ...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:47:00 GMT
Last year, Swaziland's CHAN qualifying campaign ended at the hands of another regional giant, Zambia , in the preliminary rounds. Swaziland drew 1-1 with Zambia in the first leg at home before losing 3-0 in Lusaka to bow out 4-1 on aggregate.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:47:00 GMT
LAHORE, Pakistan - A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in ...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:04:00 GMT
Regional officials could not immediately be reached for comment, but Russian news agency Interfax-Kazakhstan said that at least 20 people had been killed and 60 homes washed away in the raging flood waters. In the regional capital Taldykorgan ...