AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-12

1. The Maersk Alabama is back in port in Kenya. The American ship whose captain is still being held hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia arrived with the other 19 crew members. The US is still trying to secure the release of the captain. 2. P

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-11

1.Pirates reportedly threatened to kill their American hostage if the US attacked them. That's according to a Somali who's been in contact with the pirates. Captain Richard Phillips earlier tried to swim to freedom but was recaptured. 2.Fans and tea

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-10

1. FBI negotiators are working to free an American cargo ship captain being held by Somali pirates. Captain Richard Phillips and the pirates are in a lifeboat, while the cargo ship itself is said to be headed to Kenya. Keeping an eye on the standoff

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-09

1.A US vessel seized by pirates off Somalia is now back in the hands of the crew after they retook control of the ship. But one person aboard the ship reached by satellite phone tells the AP the pirates are holding the captain hostage in a lifeboat.

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-08

1.President Barack Obama has ended his eight-day international trip with an unannounced visit to Iraq. Obama met with the top US commander there along with hundreds of troops. He's urging Baghdad to take the leadership reins, saying it's time for Ir

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-07

1.A solemn ceremony in Delaware has marked the end of nearly a two-decade ban on news coverage of returning US war dead. The remains of a Virginia airman killed in Afghanistan returned to Dover Air Force Base Sunday, the 20-minute ceremony was mostl

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-02

1.President Barack Obama's meeting with Britain's Queen Elizabeth is just one item on his busy agenda ahead of the G-20 summit in London. During his first European trip as president, Obama also accepted invitations to visit Russia and China later th

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-01

1. President Barack Obama is leaving this morning for his first overseas trip since taking office. Obama is heading out on an eight-day tour of Europe. First stop, the G20 summit in London. 2. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he expects diff

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-03

1. President Barack Obama has taken the world stage at the G20 summit, calming jitters over the US economy and jump-starting arms negotiations with Russia. It was also a day of protests in central London where demonstrators clashed with riot police

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-06

1. The rocket launched by nuclear-armed North Korea on Sunday appears to have fizzled in the Pacific Ocean. But it still got the international community worry that North Korea has the capacity to fire a long-range missile. Speaking from Prague, Pres

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-04

1. Multiple people have been killed in an attack on an immigration services center in Binghamton, New York. The gunman reportedly barricaded the rear door of the building with his car before entering the front door and opening fire. 2. Courting Euro

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-15

1. A last-minute stay of deportation for alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk after US immigration officers carried the 89-year-old from his Ohio home, headed for Germany where he faces an arrest warrant. 2. A woman in Northern California ha

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-01

1. Legendary investor Warren Buffett is warning shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway that economic turmoil is likely to continue. Turmoil have helped bring a 62% drop in profits at the company last year. 2. President Barack Obama used his weekly m

美联社新闻一分钟 2008-03-16

1. The president's chief economic adviser calls the tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses paid out by AIG outrageous. Larry Summers says these kinds of bonus payments should be a matter of future regulations. AIG has gotten more than 170 billio

美联社新闻一分钟 2008-03-15

1. President Bush says its obvious the economy is going through a tough time. He wants the country to be optimistic about the future with unemployment low, productivity high. On Wall Street, stocks tumbled, the Dow giving up about 195 points. 2. By

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-14

1. A change at the top in New York. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson is taking over for disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer. In a press conference, Paterson said if legislators can pass the budget on time, the state will be back on track. 2. A teenag

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-12

1.As expected, the federal budget deficit is climbing skyward. Its hit 765 billion dollars in just the first five months of the fiscal year and its well on its way to the administrations projection of 1.75 trillion for the whole year. The blame goes

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-11

1. President Barack Obama is announcing a wide-ranging education policy that embraces merit pay for teachers and a longer school day and year. He also wants to end limits on charter schools. 2. Police in Northern Ireland say they have two suspects i

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-10

1.President Barack Obama calls his decision to lift restrictions on funding for stem cell research a difficult and delicate balance. The order Obama signed today aims to increase research into cures for paralysis and other ailments, though he notes

美联社一分钟新闻 2009-03-09

The pastor of a suburban Saint Louis church dead after a gunman opened fire in the middle of a Sunday service.Police said minister deflected one bone as the Bible before the re-struckened the chest. Two other were slashed as they wrestled the shoote