Moscow News

Archive for October, 2009

The Obama administration on Friday released a partial roster of visitors in the first six months of President Obama’s term, a disclosure that shows business executives, labor leaders, lobbyists and a sprinkling of celebrities were cleared into the White House for meetings, events or tours.

A judge Friday ordered the boyfriend and two doctors of Anna Nicole Smith to stand trial on charges of fueling the actress and Playboy model’s addiction to prescription drugs, leading to her fatal overdose in 2007.

A U.S. District Court judge in San Jose has awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case the social-networking giant filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, who is known as the “Spam King.”

Somali pirates who kidnapped a retired British couple from their yacht have demanded a £4.2 million ransom for their release.

The fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month came ashore east of the capital, Manila, on Saturday morning, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and washing away shanty houses near the coast.

A bomb killed seven Pakistani soldiers and wounded 11 others Saturday, officials said, after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Al-Qaeda is at the core of the country’s terrorist threat.