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President Nambariin Enkhbayar declared a state of emergency for four days late on Tuesday, after protesters clashed with police and set fire to the headquarters of the ruling party. At least one foreigner, a Japanese citizen, was among those injured in the rioting, the justice minister told a news conference. “The president has declared a [...]

The company, Space Adventures, planned to announce the flight and Brin’s participation in a news conference Wednesday morning at the Explorers Club in New York. Space Adventures, which is based in Virginia and is the only company that sends tourists to space, has sent five of them so far. In April, Vitaly Lopota, the president [...]

David Paterson showed Wednesday he is no fan of the franchise extension the state is giving the New York Racing Association, but said he will live with it. As he talked about the state’s weak financial shape and ways to improve it, Paterson said the deal struck among NYRA, Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the Legislature [...]

Walsh declined to comment to reporters as he walked into the league offices followed by horde of cameramen and photographers. Walsh is scheduled to meet with Sen. Arlen Specter in Washington later in the day. Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been critical of the NFL’s handling of the investigation. Goodell [...]

Brian Schmitz of the Orlando Sentinel reported the news earlier today. The Magic have called a news conference for tomorrow afternoon but haven’t specified a reason. The award is indeed Hedo’s, and deservedly so (no disrespect intended to Rudy Gay, Rajon Rondo, or Andrew Bynum). Regarding advanced metrics, Turk had a career-best in Player Efficiency [...]

The rest of the state fair Grandstand lineup apparently will be confirmed Thursday. Yankovic is scheduled to perform Saturday, Aug. 9, and Lewis on Sunday, Aug. The Web sites say only that the performances will be at the fairgrounds, but both probably will be Grandstand shows. Fair spokesman Jeff Squibb said Tuesday that, until contracts [...]

The Indianapolis Star began publishing on June 6, 1903. The Star has won the Pulitzer Prize twice for investigative reporting. The Star won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for special local reporting; the series revealed widespread corruption in the Indianapolis Police Department. Black politicians got together yesterday, Amos Brown, WTLC-AM radio host and Indianapolis [...]

State radio reported Saturdays vote on a draft constitution would be delayed until May 24 in 40 townships around Yangon and seven in the Irrawaddy delta, which bore the brunt of the killer storm. Kyaw Hsan confirmed at a news conference that some 4000 people had died in Yangon and the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region. [...]

“It’s a place for guards. There’s a lot to like about it, but when he got out of school today he said it was just a little too far.” Jones III has scheduled a news conference Monday to announce a choice between Minnesota, Indiana and Kentucky. On the cusp of turning the corner. Silence and [...]

“The reason that our campaign has been so successful is that we had moved beyond these arguments,” Obama said at a news conference in North Carolina, which will hold its presidential primary Tuesday. Wright first became an issue in the Obama campaign last month when video clips surfaced of some of his most controversial sermons. [...]

“He was lying on his back as he died, giving the impression that he had lived a full life,” Ueno Zoo director Teruyuki Komiya told a news conference. “It was a peaceful death and it did not look like he had suffered.” According to the zoo, Ling Ling was the fifth oldest male among pedigree-registered [...]

‘We’re a city that’s used to hosting major events; we do this eight times a year,’ Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox said at the welcoming news conference Thursday afternoon. ‘We know what it’s like to host champions. This is a city that’s filled with championships, and, as you ride around our city, we understand what it [...]

It was the 16th time since 1991 that a Kenyan has won the world’s oldest annually contested marathon. “The course is so tough, so it feels great to me,” he told a news conference after winning the $150,000 winner’s prize and becoming only the fourth man to win four Boston Marathons. Cheruiyot also earned a [...]