Continental Airlines on Thursday reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract with its flight attendants. The agreement was made with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) which represents Continental flight attendants. However, the labor contract offered by Continental must be ratified by the IAM first. In the next weeks, the [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
World |
Read More »
A Chicago man who was arrested last month for allegedly planning to travel to Somalia and engage in fighting with a foreign terrorist organization, was indicted on the same charges by a federal grand jury, prosecutors said Thursday. Shaker Masri, 27, who lived in Chicago, Illinois’ Gold Coast neighborhood, was arrested on August 3 by [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
World |
Read More »
The U.S. Labor Department on Thursday released the latest week’s jobless claims report, which shows a decrease of 16,000 from the previous report. The advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 453,000 in the week ending September 25, representing a decrease of 16,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 469,000. The 4-week moving [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
World |
Read More »
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) expressed her profound sorrow at the death of French scientist Georges Charpak, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Physics, the UN said Thursday. Charpak, who died yesterday in Paris at the age of 86, was also the creator of the association La [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
World |
Read More »
NASA on Thursday announced that it has partnered with the Park Service to inform visitors of where and when to look in order to spot the International Space Station. The space station usually appears over the western horizon and disappears over the eastern horizon in a matter of minutes. The best time to observe the [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
World |
Read More »
NATO on Thursday announced that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will be conducting an investigation after claims of Pakistani officials being killed during an ISAF air strike near the Pakistani border, which has led Pakistan to block NATO supply convoys headed into Afghanistan. Pakistan decided to block a NATO supply route into Afghanistan just [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
World |
Read More »
Tony Curtis, the Oscar – nominated actor is no more. The representative of his daughter Jamie Lee Curtis revealed the news of the death of the legendary actor to a tabloid without providing any further details. Tony debuted with Criss Cross in 1949 where he played the part of a rumba dancer but he was [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
World |
Read More »
ISLAMABAD (BNO NEWS) — Three Pakistani security personnel were killed on early Thursday morning after NATO helicopters carried out an airstrike near the Afghan-Pakistani border, officials said. A memo from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to officials said a coalition force observed what they believed was a group of insurgents attempting to fire [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
US,
World |
Read More »
BERLIN (BNO NEWS) — A 12-year-old German girl who was repeatedly raped by her elderly stepfather used a hidden video camera to film the attack as evidence, local media reported on Wednesday. Greek Georgios A., who is now 70, is accused of raping his stepdaughter at least 17 times between 2006 and May 2010. The [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
US,
World |
Read More »
NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY (BNO NEWS) — Comedian Greg Giraldo died at a New Jersey hospital on Wednesday afternoon, days after a suspected accidental overdose. He was 44. The “Last Comic Standing” judge was hospitalized at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick on Saturday after he collapsed in a hotel room at the [...]
September 30, 2010 | Posted in
Entertainment |
Read More »
