March 8 (Bloomberg) -- In California’s Napa Valley, producer of the most expensive U.S. wines, 2010 may be a vintage year for foreclosures as the industry is squeezed by falling land values and a consumer shift to cheaper brands. As many as 10 wineries and vineyards in Napa will change hands in dis...

BBC | A Swedish pilot without a valid licence to fly has been arrested at Amsterdam as he was about to fly a jet with 101 passengers to Turkey, Dutch police say. The 41-year-old man said he had been flying for European airlines for 13 years and had logged 10,000 hours. Police said he once had a li...

PressTV | Former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency Hamid Gol says the United States is seeking to create and train terrorist groups in the region. In a Wednesday interview with Fars news agency, Gol said Washington had been making efforts to destabilize the region throu...

theepochtimes CARACAS, Venezuela —In the past seven days there have been more than 258 recorded earthquakes of a magnitude higher than 4.5 on the Richter's scale. Chile alone has already experienced 81 aftershocks at a rate of 4 per hour since the first big earthquake of 8.8 struck on Saturday, Feb....

rumormillnews | German TV station ProSieben finds what appears to be some evocative proof of gold counterfeiting, in the form of tungsten gold substitutes coming to the W.C.Heraeus foundry, which is the world’s largest privately-owned precious metals refiner and fabricator, located in Hanau, Germany...

  rumormillnews. | Egypt is concerned Israel could be in a conflict in the very near future with Syria or the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, a senior Egyptian security official told WND. The security official said in any future war with Syria or

Yahoonews | The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.   The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened t...

TimesOnline | A model of the US Embassy in Battersea, complete with moat 30m wide and rolling parkland to not show enlarge option -->     Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent     -->     div#related-article-links p a, div#r...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) believed it had saved over $100 million by convincing U.S. regulators to end a 2007 investigation of sudden acceleration complaints with a relatively cheap floormat recall, according to an internal company document.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch coalition government collapsed on Saturday after the two largest parties disagreed over whether to withdraw the 2,000 Dutch troops from Afghanistan as planned this year.

adSetType('I'); htmlAdWH('93305230','120','60'); adSetType(''); AOLNews | (Feb. 18) -- The minister in charge of domestic law enforcement and passports in Britain is used to close scrutiny. But the government figured ...

BEIJING, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- In the Chinese government's most direct warning ever over a Dalai Lama meeting, it has told the United States to "stop interfering in China's internal affairs

NYTimes | JERUSALEM — The initial nods, winks and pats on the back here over the assassination last month of a senior Hamas official in Dubai are turning to puzzlement and concern as mounting evidence, including extensive surveillance videos, points to a remarkably clumsy operation many Israelis dee...

ubaalert.com | A meteorite has smashed into the ground in Mexico, leaving a 30 meter (100 feet) wide crater, reports said. The meteorite impact was in the Ahuazotepec Municipality in Central Mexico between the cities of Puebla and Hidalgo. The precise impact area of the meteorite was in a relatively...

China warns against talks of Iran sanctions   China has warned world powers against threatening Iran with sanctions over its nuclear energy program, saying such a move could prove to be counterproductive.  Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Thursday that threats of sanction...

Afua Hirsch, legal affairs correspondent The Guardian, Wednesday 27 January 2010 News that the secrecy ruling would be lifted came after the Guardian reported that five doctors were considering a legal challenge to the decision to keep the material secret. "Lord Hutton made a request for the record...