By KEN RITTER 2010-08-28T20:06:58Z LAS VEGAS (AP) — Paris Hilton was arrested late Friday after a police motorcycle officer smelled marijuana smoke wafting from a black Cadillac Escalade driven by…
Day: August 28, 2010
Putin visits site of Russia's new launch center
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA 2010-08-28T19:39:55Z MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will launch its manned space missions from a new center in the Far East in 2018, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Saturday,…
Pakistan floods just one of its water woes
By TIM SULLIVAN 2010-08-28T15:28:03Z SHIKARPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of farmers have crowded this once-quiet Pakistani town. They live on the hospital’s lawn, they camp on overpasses. Their fields are…
Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons
By MANSUR MIROVALEV 2010-08-28T11:05:53Z KOKAND, Uzbekistan (AP) — For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing…