Daily News Digest: Most Popular News

Yahoo! Alerts

Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 09:00 PM PDT

Today's Most Popular News: Brits driving Austrians bonkers over rude village name Judy Garland's Famed Ruby Slippers Stolen World's Oldest Person Dies in Netherlands GM Recalling 800,000 Pickups, SUVs Crews Pass Dead to Reach Storm Survivors Garfunkel Faces Another Pot Charge in NY This gives new meaning to "cat burglar" New Structure Found at Ancient Ohio Site Looting Takes Place in View of La. Police Skinny London House on Sale for $933,000 Venezuela offers fuel, food to hurricane-hit US 427 Meth Arrests Made in Over 200 Cities iTunes Phone Launch Expected Next Week Hundreds feared dead on storm-ravaged U.S. coast Katrina Cripples Gulf Gambling Industry Crisis Grows As Flooded New Orleans Looted Floodwater inundates New Orleans after hurricane Scientist: Brazil Nearly Built Atom Bomb AP: Asian Militants Sharing Bomb Designs Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent Brits driving Austrians bonkers over rude village name Sun, 28 Aug 2005 03:35 am PDT AFP - British tourists have left the residents of one charming Austrian village effing and blinding by constantly stealing the signs for their oddly-named village. Full Story Top Judy Garland's Famed Ruby Slippers Stolen Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:47 pm PDT AP - A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" and insured for $1 million is missing from a Grand Rapids museum. Full Story Top World's Oldest Person Dies in Netherlands Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:56 am PDT AP - A woman listed as the world's oldest person died Tuesday at age 115, according to the director of the home for the elderly where she lived. Full Story Top GM Recalling 800,000 Pickups, SUVs Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:47 pm PDT AP - General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it was recalling about 800,000 sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks in 14 northern states because corrosion was affecting the antilock brake system, leading to more than 200 low-speed crashes. Full Story Top Crews Pass Dead to Reach Storm Survivors Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:43 pm PDT AP - Rescuers along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast pushed aside the dead to reach the living Tuesday in a race against time and rising waters, while New Orleans sank deeper into crisis and Louisiana's governor ordered storm refugees out of this drowning city. Full Story Top Garfunkel Faces Another Pot Charge in NY Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:08 pm PDT AP - Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to pot possession in upstate New York, was charged again Sunday after a marijuana cigarette was allegedly found in the ashtray of his car, state police said. Full Story Top This gives new meaning to "cat burglar" Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:02 am PDT Reuters - German police called to a break-in at an apartment in the northern town of Itzstedt found the intruder still on the premises and hiding under a kitchen cabinet. Full Story Top New Structure Found at Ancient Ohio Site Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:56 am PDT AP - Archaeologists say they have something new to study at Fort Ancient State Memorial. A previously unknown circular structure about 200 feet in diameter was detected recently during preliminary work for an erosion-control project at the site of 2,000-year-old earthworks, state authorities said. Full Story Top Looting Takes Place in View of La. Police Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:59 pm PDT AP - With much of the city flooded by Hurricane Katrina, looters floated garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street in a dash to grab what they could. In some cases, looting on Tuesday took place in full view of police and National Guard troops. Full Story Top Skinny London House on Sale for $933,000 Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:13 pm PDT AP - This thin house requires a bankroll that's fairly fat. A home in London that measures just over 5 feet at its skinniest and 9 feet, 11 inches at its widest is up for sale for $933,868, estate agents said Tuesday. Full Story Top Venezuela offers fuel, food to hurricane-hit US Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:48 pm PDT AFP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send food and fuel to the United States after the powerful Hurricane Katrina pummeled the US south, ravaging US crude production. Full Story Top 427 Meth Arrests Made in Over 200 Cities Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:20 pm PDT AP - When police visited an assisted-living facility near Pittsburgh they found employees cooking more than just the evening meal — authorities seized a lab used to make methamphetamine. Full Story Top iTunes Phone Launch Expected Next Week Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:00 pm PDT PC World - Apple and Motorola expected to team up with Cingular to introduce an iTunes mobile phone. Full Story Top Hundreds feared dead on storm-ravaged U.S. coast Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:52 pm PDT Reuters - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops, debris-fouled water flooded historic New Orleans and hundreds were feared dead on Tuesday after Hurricane Katrina's rampage across the U.S. Gulf Coast. Full Story Top Katrina Cripples Gulf Gambling Industry Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:42 pm PDT AP - Hurricane Katrina picked up several Gulf Coast casinos and hurled them hundreds of yards inland, crippling the region's gambling industry for months and potentially even years. Full Story Top Crisis Grows As Flooded New Orleans Looted Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:15 pm PDT AP - Helicopters dropped sandbags on two broken levees as the water kept rising in the streets. The governor drew up plans to evacuate just about everyone left in town. Looters ransacked stores. Doctors in their scrubs had to use canoes to bring supplies to blacked-out hospitals. Full Story Top Floodwater inundates New Orleans after hurricane Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:44 pm PDT Reuters - Floodwaters engulfed much of New Orleans on Tuesday as officials feared a steep death toll and planned to evacuate thousands remaining in shelters after the historic city's defenses were breached by Hurricane Katrina. Full Story Top Scientist: Brazil Nearly Built Atom Bomb Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:14 am PDT AP - Brazil's military continued work on an atomic bomb after it was ordered to scrap the program in 1985 and by 1990 had nearly finished building one, a leading nuclear scientist said. Full Story Top AP: Asian Militants Sharing Bomb Designs Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:17 pm PDT AP - Al-Qaida's Southeast Asian ally is sharing bomb-making expertise with Muslim militants in the Philippines, providing at least nine explosive designs and eight chemical recipes to help ragtag insurgents become more lethal, according to government reports. Full Story Top Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:31 pm PDT AFP - Even with a robust economy that was adding jobs last year, the number of Americans who fell into poverty rose to 37 million — up 1.1 million from 2003 — according to Census Bureau figures released Tuesday. Full Story Top

You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.