David Goodhue – AHN News Reporter Oklahoma City, OK, United States (AHN) – Robbers shot an off-duty major with the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office as the man was delivering money to a bank from a restaurant where he worked part time. Investigators think Maj. John Waldenville, 60, was targeted because he was carrying the money [...]

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Trenton, NJ, United States (AHN) – American athlete Carl Lewis (D) may have won medals in the Olympics in track and field events, but he was found not qualified to run for the New Jersey state senate on Tuesday. Lewis, who won nine gold medals in four summer games, sought [...]

Shafi’i Abokar – AHN News AHN Correspondent Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) – Al Shabaab militants, the al Qaeda proxy in Somalia, have ordered Somali teachers and their school children to pay a monthly contribution to help finance the group’s combat operations against the United Nations-backed government and African Union peacekeepers in the capital. During a meeting [...]

Abdi Hajji Hussein – AHN News Correspondent Bosaso, Puntland, Somalia (AHN) – As strife-decimated Somalia suffers under a lengthy drought, food prices have jumped in parts of Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland, a local businessman said Saturday. In an interview with All Headline News, Ahmed Awil, a businessman in Puntland’s commercial town Bosaso described price [...]

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Miami, FL, United States (AHN) – Cruise and vacation company Carnival Corporation reported a 13 percent drop in its income for the first quarter of the year but still reported a profit. Florida-based Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) attributed the decline in profit to increased fuel [...]

Bill Wine – Celebrity News Service Movie Critic United States (AHN Entertainment) – 106 minutes In theaters March 18, 2011 Rating: PG-13, Thriller Hey, there are limits. We know. But not for this guy. Not once he takes his meds. And this is his tale. A tall one at that. Limitless is an admittedly limited [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Medford, MA, United States (AHN) – Tufts University is ending a decades-long tradition of running naked through campus after the fall semester due to safety issues. In an op-ed column published Monday in the student newspaper, university president Lawrence Bacow said Tufts would no longer continue its Naked Quad [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The First Couple on Thursday hosted a White House conference on school bullying noting that all Americans including “parents and students, teachers and communities” and people in general are responsible to stop children from being threatened or intimidated by their peers. Outlining “the [...]

AHN News Staff London, United Kingdom (AHN) – In what could make the biggest foreign direct investment into India’s emerging market, British Petroleum (BP) has signed a transformational oil and gas partnership worth $7.2 billion with energy giant Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). The world’s fourth-largest energy company, BP, will buy 30 percent stake in RIL’s [...]

AHN News Staff Tunis, Tunisia (AHN) – Weeks after the popular people uprising ousted Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power and forced him to flee to Riyadh with his family, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi’s interim government on Sunday formally asked Saudi Arabia to extradite the deposed man. “The government acted following a [...]