A LARGE group of Sri Lankan men believed to be seeking asylum was being held on a navy ship last night after being intercepted in an unseaworthy boat near Christmas Island.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil's unemployment rate rose to 9.3 percent in January as employers let go workers who had been hired months earlier for the busy Christmas retail season, the government said Thursday.
PARIS (AFX) - The French consumer prices index for January showed a fall of 0.3 pct compared with a 0.2 pct increase in December, according to figures from the Insee statistics office.
Blazing lights on towering pseudo-spruces shine on passing shoppers. Pine boughs weighted with gleaming baubles hang overhead. Nobody's home at Santa's Village, but there it remains in its kitschy, North Pole glory.
The wonderful life that James Stewart had been experiencing through the first six Supercross events this season took a sudden, rude downturn last night in the Amp'd Mobile AMA Supercross Series event.
WASHINGTON ¨C Rep. Dan Lipinski endures at least nine needle pricks a day to control the diabetes he's had since childhood. Rep. Joe Barton takes a half dozen prescription pills daily to ward off another heart attack. Rep.
