SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Google Inc. loves 23andMe Inc., a biotechnology startup conceived by co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife.
In its latest showing of financial affinity, Google disclosed Thursday that it has invested another $2.6 million in a company that analyzes people’s DNA to detect potential health problems before they occur.
Anne Wojcicki, who married Brin two years [...]
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen during a meeting in his study at Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Monday, March 2, 2009. Putin’s party has commanding leads in local elections in which non-governmental parties and independent observers report widespread voting violations.. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)
MOSCOW MILLS — In some of his strongest criticism of [...]
By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED
Associated Press Writer
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Somali pirates freed an Egyptian cargo ship and its crew of 28 after holding the vessel for more than two months, an Egyptian ambassador said Thursday.
Ambassador to Somalia Saeed Morsy said the ship was released Wednesday, but did not say if any ransom was paid.
The Blue [...]
By TOM RAUM and DANIEL WAGNER
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Depression doesn’t have to be Great – bread lines, rampant unemployment, a wipeout in the stock market. The economy can sink into a milder depression, the kind spelled with a lowercase “d.”
And it may be happening now.
The trouble is, unlike recessions, which are easy [...]
By TOBY STERLING and SLOBODAN LEKIC
Associated Press Writer
AMSTERDAM (AP) – The curt yet calm voice on the radio frequency gave no indication that anything was wrong.
“Turkish 1951 descending from level 7-0,” said one of the pilots on the Boeing 737-800 arriving from Istanbul to Amsterdam’s Shiphol Airport on Wednesday morning, referring to its altitude of [...]
By TOM MALITI
Associated Press Writer
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Italian nuns held captive in the Somali capital for more than two months “prayed all the time” but said they were well treated by kidnappers who identified themselves as being hardline Somali Islamic militants.
In a rare cross-border kidnapping, Maria Teresa Olivero, 60, and Caterina Giraudo, 67, were [...]
By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press Writer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – U.N. judges on Thursday acquittedformer Serbian President Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror against Kosovo Albanians, saying he had no role in what they ruled was a criminal plot to drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo.
The tribunal ordered Milutinovic released from custody, but [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to send the new U.S. envoy on North Korean policy to meet with negotiators in Asia trying to revive stalled nuclear disarmament talks with an increasingly hostile North, senior U.S. officials said Thursday.
The trip comes as North Korea threatens to punish anyone trying to disrupt [...]
By PARVEEN AHMED
Associated Press Writer
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) – Tanks rolled through the Bangladeshi capital Thursday in a show of force that finally persuaded mutinous border guards to lay down their arms and end a two-day revolt that had threatened to spread across the impoverished South Asian nation.
At least 11 people were killed in the insurrection [...]
By TOM ODULA
Associated Press Writer
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – The half-brother of President Barack Obama was arrested for alleged possession of marijuana on Saturday near his home in a Nairobi shantytown, police said.
George Obama, who is in his 20s and barely knows the president, had one joint of marijuana on him, said Joshua Omokulongolo, the police [...]
