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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is promoting tighter standards for teachers and a reduced dropout rate for students as part of an education plan that, at least for now, lacks any new legislative component.
NEW YORK - Wall Street appeared headed for a rebound Tuesday, with stock futures pointing higher after weeks of unrelenting selling.
LONDON - Google Inc. said Monday it will block U.K. users from watching music videos on its popular video-sharing site YouTube after negotiations with Britain's music royalty-collecting body broke down.
LOS ANGELES - Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend Holly Madison and "The Bachelor" reject Melissa Rycroft each have a new potential love in their lives: "Dancing With the Stars."
TULSA, Okla. - Police said a man was robbed of his casino winnings by two women he met at the casino and invited home with him. The man won about $2,000 at the Creek Nation Casino and then invited the women to gamble with him and go home with him for drinks about 4 a.m. Monday, police said. The man told the officer the women said they were massage therapists and removed his pants then left with his cash.
MIAMI - Dwyane Wade decided two overtimes were enough, in emphatic fashion. Miami's MVP candidate stole the ball from John Salmons with 4 seconds left, then made a running 3-pointer as time expired to lift the Heat to a wild 130-127 double-overtime win over the Chicago Bulls on Monday night.
TOKYO/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Top nations are likely to agree to do everything they can to support the world economy this weekend, as the IMF warned of a "Great Recession" and a central banker said Tuesday European rates could hit zero.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The five detainees at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp charged with plotting the September 11 attacks have filed a document expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting responsibility for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people, The New York Times reported on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The recession-hit U.S. economy is proving weaker than economists expected just a month ago, but forecasters still think a recovery is in the cards for later this year, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama said on Tuesday more and more Chinese were beginning to see a problem with Beijing's rule over Tibet, lamenting how the homeland he fled 50 years ago had become a "hell on earth."
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban on Tuesday turned down as illogical U.S. President Barack Obama's bid to reach out to moderate elements of the insurgents, saying the exit of foreign troops was the only solution for ending the war.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday that a U.S. Navy ship involved in a confrontation with its fleet off the southern island of Hainan had violated international and Chinese laws.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A measure of U.S. employment expectations fell to its lowest level since 1982, amid fresh evidence the job market slowdown is rapidly becoming a global phenomenon, according to a quarterly survey by Manpower Inc released on Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc was profitable in the first two months of 2009 and is confident about its capital strength after tough internal stress tests, Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said.
DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) - Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama accused China of having brought "hell on earth" to his homeland in a speech Tuesday on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A suicide bomber on Tuesday blew himself up killing tribal leaders and army officers among at least 33 dead outside the town hall in Abu Ghraib, on Baghdad's western edge, security officials said.
DAR ES SALAAM, March 10, 2009 (AFP) - The global economy could contract for the first time in 60 years in 2009, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned on Tuesday.
BELFAST (AFP) - The second deadly attack on Northern Ireland security forces in 48 hours prompted warnings on Tuesday that the province was "staring into the abyss" of a return to violence, after over a decade of calm.
AKURESSA, Sri Lanka (AFP) - At least 15 people were killed and another 60 wounded on Tuesday in a suicide bomb attack in southern Sri Lanka that officials have blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels.
BEIJING (AFP) - China on Tuesday demanded the United States cease what it called illegal activities in the South China Sea, as it rejected Pentagon assertions that Chinese vessels harassed a US Navy ship there.
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Children fathered by older men are likely to be less intelligent than the offspring of younger dads, Australian and US scientists have found in a report published Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the economic downturn forces corporations and small businesses to shed jobs, one large employer still has the 'help wanted' sign out: the U.S. government.
DHARAMSHALA, India (AFP) - Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama accused China of having brought "hell on earth" to his homeland in a speech Tuesday on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising.
(Reuters) - Prominent banking analyst Meredith Whitney warned that "credit cards are the next credit crunch," as contracting credit lines will lower consumer spending and hurt the U.S. economy.
TAMPA, Fla. - Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez underwent arthroscopic surgery Monday to repair torn cartilage in his right hip, and doctors said they found nothing that would keep him from returning to the lineup in May. "The surgery went exactly as we planned," said Dr. Marc Philippon, who performed the 80-minute procedure at Vail Valley Surgery Center in Colorado. "No surprises."
WASHINGTON - The nation's financial regulatory system must be overhauled to strengthen oversight of banks, mutual funds and large financial institutions whose collapse would put the entire economy in peril, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.