World Takes Drastic Steps To Contain Swine Flu (ap)
AP – From Egypt’s order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing, the world is taking drastic ? and some say debatable ? measures to combat swine flu. Read more
Swine Flu An Epidemic Of Losses For Mexico Economy (ap)
AP – The music of James Brown plays to an empty Starbucks. A woman has virtually an entire airliner to herself as she flies into Mexico City. Beach chairs go begging on Cancun’s sugary sand. Read more
Dwight Howard Of Orlando Magic Suspended One Game For Elbow
Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard has been suspended for one game without pay for elbowing 76ers center Samuel Dalembert. Read more
Car Bombs Kill At Least 41 In Baghdad Shiite Area (ap)
AP – Twin car bombs ravaged a popular shopping area in Baghdad’s biggest Shiite district Wednesday, killing at least 41 people in another powerful strike by suspected Sunni insurgents seeking a return to sectarian chaos. Read more
Huge Ice Chunks Break Away From Antarctic Shelf (ap)
AP – Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice ? an area larger than Rhode Island ? was in danger of breaking off in coming weeks. Read more