Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi and his wife, who are under house arrest in Tehran, are in "good health", their son Ali Karroubi said Monday.
The Karroubis were allowed to host their son Sunday night to celebrate Norouz, or Iranian New Year, according to Karroubi's opposition website Sahamnews.net.
When an admitted al-Qaida operative planned his itinerary for a Christmas 2009 airline bombing, he considered launching the strike in the skies above Houston or Chicago, The Associated Press has learned. But tickets were too expensive, so he refocused the mission on a cheaper destination: Detroit.
The decision is among new details emerging about one of the most sensational terrorism plots to unfold since President Barack Obama took office. It shows that al-Qaida's Yemen branch does not share Osama bin Laden's desire to attack symbolic targets, preferring instead to strike at targets of opportunity. Like the plot that nearly blew up U.S.-bound cargo planes last year, the cities themselves didn't matter. It's a strategy that has helped the relatively new group quickly become the No. 1 threat to the United States.
Bahrain's interior ministry said on Monday that security across the kingdom was "stable" amid a heavy police presence, and as the opposition announced two new Shiite fatalities.
The ministry also said in a statement that the Salmaniya Medical Complex has been "secured and is providing normal medical services," insisting that the "hospital was open for everyone."
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s School of Enlightenment (RSE) in Yelm, WA, on Saturday, March 26 starting at 7 pm PT (10 pm ET).Ms. Barr will be discussing the spiritual aspects of her new book Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm during a special session that will also be broadcasted to students worldwide via a live Internet stream.
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Struggling Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt have appointed Christophe Daum as interim coach after Michael Skibbe was fired Tuesday following a poor run of form.
The 57-year-old Daum had previously won the Turkish league with both Fenerbahce and Besiktas, took Bayer Leverkusen to Bundesliga second place in three straight seasons, helped Cologne to top flight promotion and won the German title with Stuttgart.
s National Medical Center, served as the Site Principal Investigator for a new study that may advance asthma treatment and outcomes, specifically for inner-city children and teens. Findings from a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were published and released in the March 17 issue of the .
As noted in the , the investigational use of the drug omalizumab, sold under the brand name Xolair, was conducted in eight US cities by the Inner City Asthma Consortium (ICAC), a nationwide clinical trials network supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additional support for this research was provided by the NIH National Center for Research Resources and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
