The most important news for Wednesday, December 30th, 2009....
U.S. officials have announced that eight Americans died on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at a military base in eastern Afghanistan.
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in the Baja area rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway more than 100 miles to the west in downtown San Diego.
Iran's police chief threatened on Wednesday to show "no mercy" in crushing any new opposition protests and said that more than 500 demonstrators have been arrested in the wake of this week's deadly clashes.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the now infamous "underwear bomber", apparently had jihadist fantasies in which he imagined a great "holy war" that resulted in Muslims ruling the world.
It has now come out that the CIA failed to circulate a warning that they had about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before the bombing.
As hundreds of thousands of people prepare to gather for New Year's Eve, Hong Kong police are on high alert as fears grow that a mysterious "acid attacker" terrorizing the city will strike again.
Investigators are now asking how Goldman Sachs ended up making tens of billions of dollars in profits during the U.S. housing crash.
A small Chinese company is refusing to pay $80 million in derivative losses to Goldman Sachs.
According to one report, the U.S. Treasury Department is planning to give GMAC around 3.5 billion dollars in additional capital.
It turns out that in America, the top 1 percent controls 42 percent of the financial wealth in the United States.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum wants the states to resist implementation of the federal health care bill.
A Chinese rear admiral is urging his nation to set up navy supply bases overseas.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that Russia needs more weapons in order to stop the United States from doing "whatever it wants".
Over 3.6 million people in Ukraine have reported coming down with the flu in that nation and at least 675 are now confirmed to be dead.
The WHO is warning that the swine flu crisis is not over and that the virus could still mutate.
No more needles? Scientists are reportedly now working on edible vaccines.
One team of scientists is searching for an endangered mushroom that they say could cure smallpox, TB and bird flu.
The new French carbon tax that was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2010 has been ruled unconstitutional.
A new "eco-snoop" iPhone application is designed for people to be able to rat out their neighbors.
Israel's population stands at 7.5 million people at the end of 2009.
Africa's population has now passed one billion people.
The head of Russia's space agency said on Wednesday that Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years.
A shopping center in the northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang has built a car park with extra-wide spaces to accommodate female drivers.
Lastly, a 7 year old boy that is amazing the world with his painting talent is already being compared to the "old masters" and is already selling paintings for over a thousand dollars.
