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India on alert after two days of bombings kill 40 (Reuters)

By newscrape.com in Features on July 27th, 2008

Onlookers stand near a damaged bus after a bomb blast in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 26, 2008. (Amit Dave/Reuters)Reuters - India’s major cities were put
on high alert on Sunday, with fears of more attacks after at
least 40 people were killed in two days of bombings that hit a
communally-sensitive western city and a southern IT hub

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Johnson wins Brickyard pole; Martin optimistic (AP)

By newscrape.com in Sports on July 27th, 2008

Jimmie Johnson waves to fans outside his garage after he captured the pole for the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard auto race with an average speed of 181.763 mph at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Saturday, July 26, 2008. The 15th running of the race is Sunday. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AP - Mark Martin picked Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the spot he plans to end his 97-race winless streak. Then he announced it to all of NASCAR, an uncharacteristic burst of boldness that literally raised eyebrows.

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Yankees beat Red Sox; 8-0 since All-Star break (AP)

By newscrape.com in Sports on July 27th, 2008

New York Yankees' Jose Molina, left, and Robinson Cano celebrate the Yankees' 10-3 win over the Boston Red Sox in a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Saturday, July 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Robinson Cano homered and drove in three runs, Andy Pettitte gave the Yankees another strong start and New York beat the Boston Red Sox 10-3 Saturday for its season-best eighth straight win.

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AP IMPACT: Relatives of televangelist prosper (AP)

By newscrape.com in Features on July 27th, 2008

In this May 22, 2008 file photo, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, listens to a colleague speak with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Televangelist Kenneth Copeland is one target of a Senate Finance Committee investigation into allegations of questionable spending and lax financial accountability at six large televangelist organizations that preach health-and-wealth theology. Copeland has fought back the hardest, refusing to answer most questions from Grassley. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)AP - Here in the gentle hills of north Texas, televangelist Kenneth Copeland has built a religious empire teaching that God wants his followers to prosper.

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Qantas to inspect oxygen bottles after 747 emergency (Reuters)

By newscrape.com in Features on July 27th, 2008

Australian pilot Captain John Francis Bartels (R) looks at the damage to a Qantas Airways plane after it made an emergency landing at the Manila International airport July 25, 2008. (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Qantas was ordered on Sunday to check
all oxygen bottles on its fleet of Boeing 747s after
investigators said an exploding oxygen bottle might have ripped
a hole in a Qantas 747, forcing it to make an emergency landing
at Manila.

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Miami’s vice? City at bottom in volunteering (AP)

By newscrape.com in Features on July 27th, 2008

Bush-Cheney volunteer Ana Santos, left, listens in as Maggie Mustelier handles a call in this Monday, Oct. 25, 2004 file photo at Bush-Cheney headquarters in Miami. Miami has secured the bottom spot</p> <p><span>Comments Off</span> | <a href=Read full story »

Experts say no bomb in Qantas jet hole (AP)

By newscrape.com in Features on July 27th, 2008

An airline mechanic looks at the damaged right wing fuselage of a Qantas Airways Boeing 747-400 passenger plane following an emergency landing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Friday July 25, 2008 in Manila, Philippines. The plane, with 350 passengers and 19 crew, was enroute to Australia from London when a loud bang punched a hole in the right wing fuselage, passengers said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - Australian investigators were focusing on the possibility that an oxygen cylinder could have exploded mid-flight on the Qantas jumbo jet that made an emergency landing in the Philippines with a giant hole in its fuselage, officials said Sunday.

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Israeli army kills top militant, Hamas vows revenge (Reuters)

By newscrape.com in Features on July 27th, 2008

Reuters - The Israeli army killed a top Hamas
militant in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, prompting vows of
revenge by the Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip.

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San Francisco Mayor Newsom weds in Montana (AP)

By newscrape.com in U.S. National on July 27th, 2008

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom poses with his new wife Jennifer Siebel on the banks of the Bitterroot river Saturday July 26, 2008 shortly after being married on her parents' ranch . Newsom took a break from his busy job and gubernatorial ambitions to marry actress Jennifer Siebel on Saturday at Siebel's parents' Montana ranch. It is the 34-year-old Siebel's first marriage and the second for Newsom, who divorced legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle in March 2006. (AP Photo/Meg Smith)AP - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took a break from his busy job and gubernatorial ambitions to marry actress Jennifer Siebel on Saturday at Siebel’s parents’ Montana ranch.

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39 dead in explosions in western Indian city (AP)

By newscrape.com in Features on July 27th, 2008

Geetaben, center, and her husband Ashwin Patel, second left, grieve at the Civil Hospital in Ahmadabad, India, Sunday, July 27, 2008. Geetaben lost her father-in-law Purshottam Patel, and her two children are still missing after Saturday's blasts. Bombs exploded near a busy market and a hospital in a western Indian city, killing 29 people and injuring 88 on Saturday, a day after deadly blasts struck the southern technology hub of Bangalore. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh)AP - Police says that 39 people have been killed in the serial blasts that hit the western Indian city of Ahmadabad.

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