Latest World News Update ENGLISH http://www.currentglobalnews.com admin@currentglobalnews.com The cruise ship MV Explorer is sinking in Antarctic waters, near the South Shetland Islands. Having struck an unknown underwater object and taking on water, all but the captain and chief officer of the 156 on board, have abandoned ship for life boats and await rescue. Despite having a strong reinforced...2007-11-23http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2526 A Batavia Air Boeing 737-400 has landed safely after a segment of wing up to two metres in size separated from the aircraft 15 minutes after takeoff on a domestic flight between Jakarta, Indonesia and Pontianak late on Wednesday night. Batavia spokesman Anton Situmeang commented that the aircraft,...2007-11-22http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2524 A tree known as the Anne Frank Tree, a 150 year-old chestnut tree that was made famous in the writings of Anne Franks diary, has been saved from being chopped down by a Dutch court. Frank was a Jewish girl who was hiding from the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II and often...2007-11-22http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2522 On November 27, the United States will host Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, along with the Members of the Quartet, the Members of the Arab League Follow-on Committee, the G-8, the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and other key...2007-11-22http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2521 British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced to a shocked House of Commons today that two password-protected — but not encrypted — computer disks containing the entire Child Benefit database have been lost in transit between the offices of Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in...2007-11-22http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2519 Stanford biochemist Arthur Kornberg , winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , died on October 26, 2007 of respiratory failure. He was 89. He is survived by his third wife, Carolyn Frey Dixon. Kornberg is best known for his discovery (with Severo Ochoa ) of the mechanisms in...2007-11-08http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2514 Following dozens of raids across New Zealand a few weeks ago, the Solicitor General has advised the Police Commissioner, Howard Broad, the New Zealand Police will not lay charges against those arrested under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002. On October 15, when the raids occurred, 17 people were...2007-11-08http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2512 Bindeez beads a childrens toy from Australia and manufactured by Moose Enterprise in Hong Kong, is being pulled off toy store shelves in the United Kingdom after traces of an illegal drug, which is manufactured into gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), were found inside the toy. So far at least three children...2007-11-07http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2510 Constable Douglas Scott, 20, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was shot to death late Monday night while answering a call about an impaired driver. The incident took place in the community of Kimmirut in Canadas northern territory of Nunavut. Constable Scott, who had been on the job for...2007-11-07http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2509 Six men were charged Monday with the attempted assassination of Commodore Frank Bainimarama, the commanding officer of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and the self-appointed interim Prime Minister of Fiji since January 5, 2007. Police Commissioner Commodore Esala Teleni said Monday that sixteen...2007-11-07http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2508 The nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey as the next Attorney General of the United States, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee today and will move to a vote before the entire United States Senate. Two Democrats joined the nine Republicans to yield a 11-8 vote. Observers believe that Mukasey will easily...2007-11-07http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2507 The bodies of 22 people have been found in a mass grave according to the United States military in Iraq, in the Lake Thar Thar region of Baghdad. The bodies, discovered by Iraqi troops working with U.S. coalition forces on Saturday, were found during an operation known as Operation Fahwat al Asad...2007-11-07http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2505 After federal elections on June 10, 2007, coalition talks in Belgium have still failed to result in compromises on the main electoral issue. The previous record from 1988 was broken today after 149 days without a new government. Christian-democrat Yves Leterme won the elections in Flanders together...2007-11-06http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2503 On 31 October 2007 the National Court in Madrid issued a decision recognizing that the National Church of Scientology of Spain should be entered in the Registry of Religious Entities. The administrative tribunal of Madrids High Court ruled that a 2005 justice ministry decision to scrap the church...2007-11-06http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2501 Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo, considered to be one of the successors of the former boss of bosses Bernardo Provenzano (arrested in April 2006), was arrested at 9:30 a.m. CET (UTC+1) in a villa in Giardinello, between Cinisi and Terrasini on Sicily. He had been on the run since 1983. His...2007-11-06http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2499