PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Police say Islamist militants have killed a Thai soldier in an ambush in the country's insurgency-plagued south.
Police Lt. Col. Sathid Chansorn says the soldier was killed when gunmen attacked the troops with automatic weapons during a routine patrol Wednesday in the southern province of Yala.
Sathid says Islamic …
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone criticized promoters of the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday but said the contract for the race will continue.
Ecclestone said the rolling contract "will go on" while bemoaning the lack of local publicity and declining crowds for the Shanghai event.
"The contract is ongoing here," Ecclestone said. "We renew every five years. It'll go on, it's a rolling contract."
Stands were all but empty for Friday's practice sessions, the first of the fourth GP weekend of the season.
"It's a shame because the whole venue is super," Ecclestone said. "They've not promoted it …
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The people at John Adams Middle want to set the record straight.
The South Hills school is not the spoiled brat of the KanawhaCounty school system. If anything, it's the red-headed stepchild.
"There's a major misconception out there that John Adams getseverything," said Arlie Woods, chairman for the Local SchoolImprovement Council there. "The truth is we don't get everything."
Schools in the George Washington attendance area met with boardmembers Monday night to discuss concerns, and let board members knowthat even though many people in the county think too much money goesto the South Hills schools, there are still major facility …
The weak dollar is posing a big challenge for Airbus and the company is open to aircraft deals in euros or in a basket of currencies to offset the impact of the declining greenback on the European aircraft manufacturer's profits, a company official said Sunday.
"The weak dollar is a huge challenge for us as the aviation industry trades in dollars and a lot of the world's manufacturers are based in the U.S.," Airbus spokesman David Velupillai told Dow Jones Newswires at the Dubai air show, which opened Sunday in this booming Gulf city-state.
A weak U.S. dollar does not make the planes more expensive, but it does lower the company's profits since …
Lightning struck and killed a recently married Chinese couple as they climbed an undeveloped section of the Great Wall in Beijing, a state-controlled newspaper said Sunday.
The force of the lightning strike caused the pair to fall from the 164-foot (50-meter) -high wall in Huairou, a Beijing suburb, the Beijing Times newspaper reported.
Rescuers arrived about two hours later but the couple, who married late last year, had already stopped breathing, the report said. They were both 27 years old.
Calls to authorities in Huairou rang …
I couldn't believe it when I heard reports that Lavelle hadordered his staffers to secretly visit a warehouse, break the sealson ballot boxes and suddenly find the exact number of write-inballots needed to force a runoff election in the 26th Ward.
I asked myself why Lavelle would damage his personal image byopenly violating an Illinois statute and a Circuit Court order forthe benefit of fading Machine bosses.
Over all, Lavelle's conduct Thursday left the impression thatthe voters of Chicago cannot trust the …
NEW YORK - Wells Fargo & Co. is introducing a new money transfer program designed to make it easier for customers to send money to family members living in Mexico, India and other foreign countries.
The service, Wells Fargo ExpressSend, which begins operation Tuesday, will provide people sending the money with more information on fees while making it easier for recipients to get the money that's transmitted.
Wells Fargo customers will be able to send the money account to account, account to cash, cash to cash and cash to account, the San Francisco-based bank said in a statement. The money can be picked up at the branches of specified overseas banks and at their …
