DailySource: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

An aerial view of devastation caused by the cyclone Nargis is seen at an unknown location in Myanmar. Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, where more than 22,000 people perished, remains largely cut off from the rest of the world. (Photo by AP)

Clinton narrowly wins Indiana as Obama wins big in N. Carolina

Senator Barack Obama won a commanding victory in the North Carolina primary but fell short in Indiana as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton prevailed by a narrow margin.

International Herald Tribune

Race crucial, but Wright's impact mixed

NPR

Economic concerns key in N.C.

CNN

3,500 US soldiers head home from Iraq despite increase in recent attacks

Times Online

Burma cyclone: victims killed by 12-foot tidal wave

Most of the victims of the Burma cyclone were overwhelmed by a 12-foot moving wall of water that bore down on their lowlying villages at the Irrawaddy river delta.

Times Online

Government keeps cyclone relief workers from entering country

ABC News

Laura Bush urges Myanmar to accept U.S. disaster team, aid

Chicago Sun-Times

Survivors on the lack of water and shelter

Guardian

Analyst warns of oil at $200 a barrel

Crude oil prices could surge to $200 a barrel in the next two years, according to the Goldman Sachs analyst who three years ago correctly predicted a price “super-spike” above $100 a barrel.

Financial Times

Japan, China leaders to take up oil rights, climate change in talks

Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao met Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in summit talks that were expected to address long-disputed oil and gas rights in the East China Sea as well as climate change.

Monsters and Critics

Japanese want stricter policy with China

Angus Reid

NATION

US drops charges against alleged '20th hijacker' in September 11 attacks

The United States has dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" in the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.

Voice of America

Georgia death row inmate executed

A man in the U.S. state of Georgia is the first convict to be executed since lethal injection was ruled constitutional.

BBC

Ca. bill targets drivers with pets on lap

Californians who drive with pets on their lap may soon face more than a tail wagged in their face: They'll also see a $35 ticket from a cop.

San Jose Mercury News

POLITICS

McCain courts blue-collar Democrats

With the other party still waist-deep in its presidential nomination fight, John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has been quietly courting the support of white working-class Democrats.

Christian Science Monitor

McCain lambastes judicial activism

The Hill

Quit or be impeached, Ohio Democrats tell state attorney general

Ohio Democrats said Attorney General Mark Dann must resign because of a litany of failings and ethical breaches that surfaced in an investigation into sexual-harassment charges involving an aide.

Columbus Dispatch

BUSINESS

General Motors, Toyota, Ford won't follow Chrysler with gas subsidies

Chrysler is offering to subsidize the cost of gasoline for car and truck buyers, but its biggest rivals - General Motors, Toyota and Ford - said they have no plans to match it.

Canadian Press

Blog:

Chrysler clings to the past

BusinessWeek

Cutting costs with online coupon sites

Web sites that offer money-saving discounts are enjoying a resurgence in the current economy, as consumers surf for bargains.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Progress reports could mean tougher penalties for teams

Nearly 150 college teams face possible scholarship losses next season and 26 others are in danger of being banned from postseason play if they don't improve.

ESPN

NBA expected to declare Kobe MVP at news conference

The NBA has scheduled a news conference at a Los Angeles hotel, where Kobe Bryant is expected to be announced as winner of his first Most Valuable Player award.

CBS SportsLine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apple strikes first non-exclusive iPhone deals in Italy

Two mobile service providers, U.K.-based Vodafone and Telecom Italia, reached separate deals with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in Italy.

Computerworld

Yahoo search to 'battle spyware'

Yahoo is introducing new technology to its search engine which will warn users if they are about to click on a website that hosts viruses, spyware and spam.

BBC

EDUCATION

American and German students take cross-ocean class on the Holocaust

Students at Vassar College in the U.S. and the University of Potsdam in Germany share ideas and cultural differences on Germany's "darkest hour".

Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Pallavi Sukhia, Conrad Hain, Lukas Dregne and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Costa Rica plants more trees to become carbon neutral

Costa Rica will plant seven million trees in 2008 to soak up as many greenhouse gas emissions as it produces, in a bid to become the world's first carbon neutral nation, a top official said.

Yahoo! News

Scientists find something good about a big bottom

A type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may actually offer some protection against diabetes, U.S. researchers said.

Reuters

WORLD

Volcano erupts in Chile; spews ash 12 miles up

Chile's Chaitén volcano spewed lava and blasted ash more than 12 miles into the sky, prompting a total evacuation of the provincial capital and other settlements.

National Geographic

Major Chilean volcano eruption

YouTube

Medvedev replaces Putin with focus on prices, corruption

Dmitry Medvedev will take the reins of Russia's presidency from Vladimir Putin with promises to fight corruption and inflation in partnership with a predecessor who may try to overshadow him.

Bloomberg

The 'Putvedev' era begins

Spiegel International

One year on, the French turn against President Sarkozy

Amid economic woes, the French president's flashy lifestyle and new celebrity wife add to his political troubles.

U.S. News & World Report

HEALTH

More killer germs are resistant to antibiotic medicines

The threat of death-defying bacteria, stubborn organisms that refuse to be conquered by antibiotic medicines, is growing more alarming.

McClatchy Newspapers

Restaurant smoking bans deter teens from starting habit

A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

'Green' banana farming gains more industry appeal

Bananas are a food staple, but growing it has become one of the worst activities for the environment. Now, an innovative agricultural school has decided to grow a banana that's better for the planet.

National Geographic

Solar hot water on the cheap

Simple, low tech, clever products or affordable high tech plug and play technologies may be the key to bringing renewable energy into the home.

Environmental News Network

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican tells bishops not to share parish information with Mormons

Seeking to stop Mormons from posthumously baptizing their Catholic ancestors, the Vatican has instructed bishops not to share parish registers with Mormon churches.

National Catholic Reporter

Fake topic

Hollywood producers suspend talks with Screen Actors Guild

Major studios and the Screen Actors Guild broke off three weeks of contract talks without agreement, stoking fears of renewed Hollywood labor unrest after a writers strike.

Reuters

Record price for Monet landscape at auction

An 1873 canvas by Monet of a riverbank landscape sold for $41.4 million at Christie's, a record price for the artist.

International Herald Tribune

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other