Some of the world's biggest banking institutions and hedge funds reported potential huge losses on Monday as the impact of alleged fraud by arrested Wall Street investment manager Bernard Madoff spread far beyond U.S. borders. ...more

December 15, 2008

Surfing the boob tube one afternoon a few days ago, I stumbled across a local station televising a Hernando County Commission workshop. ...more

December 7, 2008

The 346 passengers were cruising at 29,000 feet Friday when an explosive bang shook the Qantas jumbo jet. The plane descended rapidly. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling as debris flew through the cabin from a hole that had suddenly appeared in the floor. ...more

July 26, 2008

Secret government documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were left on a commuter train, prompting a major police investigation into the latest in a series of embarrassing security breaches, British officials said Wednesday. ...more

June 12, 2008

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in a visit to Iran where he met Sunday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pledged closer ties between the two neighbors at the same time Baghdad is negotiating a long-term security pact with the United States. ...more

June 9, 2008

Britain is rethinking its decision to stay out of the manned space race, the country's science minister said Thursday as the government outlined plans to build an international space research facility. ...more

February 15, 2008

In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is accused of making unauthorized bets on stock markets that cost the bank nearly $7.2 billion but may not have netted him a cent. ...more

January 25, 2008

Jane Roylance Smith, a former British Broadcasting Corp. announcer and writer who now lives in Port Richey, did volunteer work at Sumter County exotic animal park that was once home to tigers, other big cats. ...more

January 9, 2008

Heather Mills McCartney accused Paul McCartney of failing to protect her and their 3-year-old daughter Beatrice from abuse, which she says ranges from lies and slander to death threats. ...more

November 1, 2007

Lois Maxwell, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, has died, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Sunday. She was 80. ...more

October 1, 2007