Thursday, June 02, 2005

Reuters Stories

  • Prosecutors blast Jackson as pedophile, alcoholic 
    Michael Jackson was portrayed on Thursday as a serial pedophile, an alcoholic and a man obsessed with pornography as prosecutors summed up their child sex abuse case with a blistering character assassination of one of the world's best-known entertainers....
  • Bomb attacks across Iraq kill 24 
    Insurgents killed at least 24 people in motorcycle and car bomb attacks on Thursday, one targeting the bodyguards of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister and another killing a deputy provincial governor.
  • 'Runaway bride' sentenced to probation 
    The Georgia "runaway bride" whose highly publicized disappearance days before her wedding turned out to be a case of cold feet pleaded no contest on Thursday to a felony charge of making a false statement to police.
  • Animal rights activists face trial under terror law 
    New Jersey is using an anti-terrorism law for the first time to try six animal rights activists charged with harassing and vandalizing a company that made use of animals to test its drugs.
  • Goal to reverse AIDS by 2015 won't be met, UN says 
    The world will not meet its goal of halting and reversing the spread of AIDS in 10 years if the disease continues to race faster than efforts to stop it, a senior U.N. AIDS specialist said on Thursday.
  • Israel frees nearly 400 Palestinian prisoners 
    Israel freed nearly 400 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday in a long-delayed gesture that fulfilled a ceasefire pledge to President Mahmoud Abbas, but Palestinians said the release did not go far enough.
  • Bush selects Cox to head SEC 
    President Bush has picked California Rep. Christopher Cox, a Republican who has championed lower taxes on investment income, as his choice to become chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a senior administration official said on Thursday.
  • Wolfowitz test is to keep World Bank relevant 
    Paul Wolfowitz has promised to make the World Bank more attractive to fast-growing but still poor countries like China and India, which feel the development institution has less and less to offer them.
  • Double 'No' vote on treaty bounces EU into action 
    European Union leaders, shocked by the French and Dutch rejection of their constitution, tried on Thursday to show that it would not paralyze the 25-member bloc.
  • Spelling bee morphs into media darling 
    The U.S. National Spelling Bee, that ultimate anxiety fest for brainy schoolkids, has morphed into a media darling, inspiring a novel, a documentary, a feature film and a Broadway musical.
  • Pulso sa DYAB Abante Bisaya, Maayong Buntag, Kapamilya ug TV Patrol Central Visayas

    Tagbaw ka ba sa pagpatuman sa gobyerno sa iyang sports programs?
    Please text your answer to DYAB REACT (opinion) and send to 2366.

    Typhoon Dante Is Here

    Typhoon "DANTE" was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 1,080 kms east of Visayas (12.1°N 135.4°E) with maximum sustained winds of 150 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 185 kph. It is forecast to move west northwest at 19 kph. Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. Southwesterly surface windflow prevailing over Western Luzon.

    Metro Cebu: Cloudy with rainshowers and thunderstorms, winds will be light to moderate blowing from the south and southwest, coastal waters will be slight to moderate, temperature range 24 to 30°C (75 to 86°F).
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