Spate stories:
Spate of airline pilot mishaps triggers concerns
Nov 10th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
Police arrested a United Airlines pilot Monday who flunked a Breathalyzer test at London Heathrow Airport minutes before his Boeing 767 jet was to take off for Chicago. Scotland Yard later charged Erwin Washington...
Eight killed in spate of Iraq bombings
Nov 1st, 2009 - The Raw Story
A spate of bombings across Iraq, including two suicide attacks and a bicycle bomb, killed eight people and wounded more than 50 others on Sunday, police said. In the deadliest attack...
Spate of attacks shows Taliban’s Pakistan muscle
Oct 13th, 2009 - Boston
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - At summer's end, there were hints of optimism in the battle against Pakistan's Islamist insurgents. The military said it had routed the Taliban from the verdant Swat Valley...Entrenched Chicago mayor gives no sign of leaving
Oct 9th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
A Daley has run Chicago and its all-powerful Democratic political machine for 41 of the last 54 years, and despite a recent spate of bad publicity for the nation's third-largest city, Mayor Richard M...
Is El Nino behind spate of Pacific typhoons?
Oct 7th, 2009 - CNN
(CNN) -- With all of the recent deadly storms in the news, it may seem has though this year as been more active than a normal year. Since September 1 we have seen eight tropical cyclones...



