Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva narrowly survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote on Saturday, ensuring his government remains in office in the run-up to what is likely to be a close election.
Abhisit was backed by 249 lawmakers, or 52 percent of the eligible house voters, in a censure motion after four days of debate marked by allegations of corruption, mismanagement and conflicts of interest leveled at him and nine of his ministers.
Libya's opposition National Council is "off to a good start" in organizing politically, providing basic services and embracing a vision of human rights, US ambassador Gene Cretz said Friday.
But Cretz, who served in Tripoli until December, said there remained legal hurdles to US recognition of a group that could one day replace Moamer Kadhafi's regime if it falls in Libya's weeks-old armed conflict.
The lawyer for a man who has admitted killing a New Hampshire mother and maiming her daughter in a machete and knife attack maintains he suffers personality disorders that justify a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
During closing arguments Thursday, attorney Donna Brown is telling jurors the state's own psychiatric expert diagnosed 21-year-old Christopher Gribble as having depression, a developmental disorder and personality disorders.
s first Pizza Bakery on Monday, March 14th. We will be located at 6505 Dublin Center Drive, Dublin, OH 43017, in the old Tumbleweed building in front of Lowes and across from Germain Lexus of Dublin.
Jon, Jan, Colby, Luke, and Jessica Zacharich, owners, are ecstatic about bringing Mellow Mushroom to Dublin, Ohio. This will be the Zachrich’s second Mellow Mushroom Franchise, the first being in Columbus, Ohio.
Labor Department releases employment data for March, 8:30 a.m.
Washington — Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for March, 10 a.m.
Best Buy Co Inc beat quarterly profit estimates as strength in its mobile business offset weak demand for televisions and entertainment software in the all-important holiday season.
But analysts were cautious about the longer term outlook for the company.
When viewed under the microscope, its spores resemble mini-Saturns," Ian Roberts, curator at the National Collection of Yeast Cultures, Institute of Food Research in the U.K., told LiveScience.
Roberts and his colleagues have been hunting for yeast that can , such as ethanol, though they aren't yet sure whether this new ringed yeast is a candidate. []
Japanese scientists have found measurable concentrations of radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137 in seawater samples taken 30 km (18 miles) from land, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Thursday.
"The iodine concentrations were at or above Japanese regulatory limits, and the cesium levels were well below those limits," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
Bayern Munich coach Louis van Gaal admitted his side were lucky to leave Freiburg with three Bundesliga points thanks to Franck Ribery's late winner.
Bayern are still licking their wounds after being dumped from the Champions League last Tuesday when holders Inter Milan earned a 3-2 win in Munich to reach the quarter-finals and Saturday's 2-1 win at Freiburg boosted moral.
A 25-year-old woman has been arrested for investigation of first-degree murder in the death of a baby boy born prematurely and found decapitated, Centralia police say.
Laura Lynn Hickey was arrested Wednesday after a weeklong investigation, which included a post-mortem examination of the baby by a forensic pathologist.
