UK to produce Nissan electric car
Source BBC on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - Nissan is to build its new electric car, the Leaf, at its Sunderland plant, the Japanese company announces.
Iraqi election results pointing up the country's deep divides
Source WashingtonPost by Leila Fadel on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - BAGHDAD -- The emerging results from last week's parliamentary elections have made clear that Iraq remains a dangerously polarized nation, with deep regional and sectarian schisms that could widen as the U.S. military draws down.
GAO says airport body scanners may not have thwarted Christmas Day bombing
Source WashingtonPost by Spencer S. Hsu on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - President Obama's push to deploy body-imaging scanners at airports worldwide will cost U.S. taxpayers roughly $3 billion over eight years, congressional invigators report, but it is unclear that the controversial devices would have caught the man who allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound...
Fairfax County schools get a boost in Virginia's budget
Source WashingtonPost by Michael Alison Chandler on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - The dire forecast for Fairfax County's schools has brightened after state lawmakers approved a budget last weekend that funnels new resources to local schools.
Soaring IED attacks in Afghanistan stymie U.S. counteroffensive
Source WashingtonPost by Craig Whitlock on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - Taliban fighters more than doubled the number of homemade bombs they used against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan last year, relying on explosives that are often far more primitive than the ones used in Iraq.
Two accused of taking bribes in U.N. contract deal with U.S. company
Source WashingtonPost by Colum Lynch on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. anti-corruption task force has accused an Italian executive and a former U.N. official of taking bribes from a U.S. security contractor seeking to do business with the United Nations, according to a confidential U.N. letter obtained by The Washington Post.
London seminar offering free IVF from Virginia clinic sparks controversy
Source WashingtonPost by Rob Stein on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - A Virginia infertility clinic sparked an international ethical controversy Wednesday by sponsoring a seminar in London that gave away an attempt to get pregnant using an American woman's eggs.
Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes
Source WashingtonPost by Michael Birnbaum on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - Historians on Tuesday criticized proposed revisions to the Texas social studies curriculum, saying that many of the changes are historically inaccurate and that they would affect textbooks and classrooms far beyond the state's borders.
CIA director says secret attacks in Pakistan have hobbled al-Qaeda
Source WashingtonPost by Joby Warrick and Peter Finn on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - Aggressive attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal region have driven Osama bin Laden and his top deputies deeper into hiding and disrupted their ability to plan sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
Universities feel funding squeeze
Source BBC by Angela Harrison on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - Three quarters of England's universities are facing real term budget cuts - for the first time since Labour came to power.
How two little-known offices will shape healthcare reform
Source CSMonitor by Gail Russell Chaddock on Thursday, March 18, 2010
World - As efforts to pass healthcare reform progress, more responsibilities are being placed on the Congressional Budget Office and the Senate Parliamentarian's Office – two institutions famous for their devotion to fairness and attention to detail.
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