January 7th, 2009 02:27 AM
Israel's top leaders mulling cease-fire offer (AP)

A Palestinian youth, protesting Israel's offensive in Gaza, holds up stones behind tyres set ablaze during scuffles with Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Yatta near Hebron January 5, 2009. (Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters)AP - Israel's top leaders are meeting to discuss whether to accept a cease-fire plan or expand their military offensive in Gaza.




January 7th, 2009 02:02 AM
Stimulus aside, Obama vows future budget restraint (AP)

President-elect Barack Obama speaks to reporters after a meeting with his top economic advisers at his transition office in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - To a public wary of government spending, President-elect Barack Obama is offering a salve with his massive economic stimulus package: the promise of long-term fiscal discipline.




January 7th, 2009 01:56 AM
Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(R), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(L) addressing reporters on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. The new US Congress was convening Tuesday at the dawn of an era of dominance for Barack Obama's Democrats in Washington with lawmakers consumed by the worst economic crisis in generations.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer.




January 7th, 2009 12:42 AM
Ukraine: Russia stops sending gas to Europe (AP)

A woman passes by a gas pipe of the gas-compressor station in the small Ukrainian city of Boyarka, near Kiev on January 4. Ukraine said Tuesday that Russia had drastically cut gas supplies to Europe and warned of AP - Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that Russia had cut off all gas supplies through pipelines crossing Ukrainian territory, the latest move in a devastating pricing dispute between the two neighbors that has already left a number of countries without gas.




January 7th, 2009 02:16 AM
Transcript: Mumbai gunmen were commanded by phone (AP)

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, and Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, front left, attend a conference of Chief Ministers on internal security in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo)AP - "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone. The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by cheering that could be heard over the phone.




January 7th, 2009 01:15 AM
CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post (AP)

In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a screening of the environmental documentary 'Planet in Peril,' in New York.  President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)AP - President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn't had that much clout in decades.




January 6th, 2009 08:05 PM
Lisa Marie Presley defends Scientology (AP)

This Dec. 6, 2007, file photo shows Lisa Marie Presley in New York. Lisa Marie Presley is expressing her condolences over the death of Jett Travolta, the son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston, and is defending Scientology, the controversial religion created by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard that Presley, Travolta and Preston follow.  (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)AP - Lisa Marie Presley is expressing her condolences over Jett Travolta's death and defending Scientology, the religion that Presley, John Travolta and Kelly Preston follow.




January 6th, 2009 09:55 PM
Grand Canyon, Loch Ness compete as nature wonders (AP)

In this March 6, 2008 file picture, tourists get their picture taken at the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon, Loch Ness and Niagara Falls are among over 200 natural sites competing to become the New 7 Wonders of Nature in a global poll that is expected to draw around a billion voters, organizers said Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009. The 261 nominees from 222 countries around the world include some of the most famous mountain peaks, lakes, national parks or reefs, such as Mount Everst or the Great Barrier Reef.  (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Meyers)AP - The Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Loch Ness will vie with more than 200 other spectacular places in the next phase of the global competition for the New 7 Wonders of Nature, organizers said Wednesday.