Bahamas-born Andre Deveaux moved up to the big league -- in ice hockey -- this week as he started with the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs. Deveaux, who was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama, moved to Canada at age three and grew up playing hockey for the Welland (Ontario) Tigers. Deveaux signed with the Leafs as a free agent last July.

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Barack Obama has named former rival Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.

The President said Robert Gates would stay on as Defence Secretary as part of a national security team charged with recasting America's leadership of world affairs.



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Even after he returns to the wild, a city-raised lion remembers where he came from. Friends forever...a must see. It brings tears to ones eyes, we have so much to learn !! (video).

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He has promised to double America’s investment in "building just, secure and democratic societies" around the world to $50 billion a year by 2012, and to seriously address "US foreign assistance funding."

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Use the live interactive map below to track and check the results from the 2008 United States national elections. (Hit REFRESH on your web browser for the latest data.)




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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.


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The Presidential race was called for Barack Obama at 11p.m. on the East Coast, 8p.m. on the West. An hour later he was on stage at Grant Park in Chicago, speaking to the tens of thousands of supporters gathered there. Here are the highlights of his acceptance speech:



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Two comedians posing as the French President speak candidly with the Governor.

Republican VP hopeful Palin falls prey to Canadian pranksters.

Listen to the full clip.

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The Cuban ambassador to The Bahamas, Jose Luis Ponce is criticizing the US government for maintaining the embargo against his country despite the $5 billion in damage it received as a result of direct hits from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

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Hankering for a taste of home, but you just happen to be in Florida, well no worries, because Tyrone Nabbie and his partners, Chad and Bassel Maali have taken the cuisine of The Bahamas to the United States — specifically Central Florida.

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John McCain came here Tuesday hoping the second presidential debate would help him jar loose a campaign that for the past three weeks has been about the economy, the economy and the economy.

He didn't get his wish.



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OJ Simpson has been found guilty of all 12 counts in his armed robbery and kidnapping trial 13 years to the day he was acquitted of the double murder of his wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.

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From Joe Biden's choke-up to Sarah Palin's "say it ain't so, Joe", we present the top moments from the Biden-Palin debate.

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One expert says we're safe from another Great Depression, but not because we're smarter.

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Swiss adventurer has become the first person to fly solo across the English Channel using a single jet-propelled wing.

Known as Fusionman, Yves Rossy, 49, landed in an English field after around ten minutes having jumped from a plane above France and fired up the four kerosene-burning jets on his homemade wing to soar across the Channel.



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CHICAGO - Authorities say a man arrested near Barack Obama's Chicago home told police officers he wanted to speak with the presidential hopeful about getting a job. (video)

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Magician David Blaine's doctor is concerned that his latest stunt may irrevocably damage his health.

Blaine is still hanging upside-down in New York Central Park and Dr Ronald Ruden, who has advises him on all of his challenges said he was particularly concerned about blood clots and blindness.

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In the early days of August, a suspected drug-running boat zoomed through the Straits of Florida, trying to outrun her American pursuers. The drug boat zigged and zagged near reefs and sandbars at 42 knots, and skimmed over water as little as five feet deep. Ordinarily, that would have been enough shake off any Coast Guard cutter or Navy frigate chasing her -- those vessels can't be in such shallow water.

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A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved a revised version of Barclays' deal to purchase the core U.S. business of Lehman Brothers.

In a Manhattan court hearing that started on Friday and lasted past midnight, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck approved the sale, saying he had found no better alternative for the assets Lehman sought to sell.



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Three executives dubbed "Germany's stupidest bankers" in the press have been suspended from state bank KfW over erroneous transfers of more than 500 million euros (710 million dollars) to the bankrupt Lehman Brothers, the KfW said.


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The US Government is stepping in with a $85 billion rescue package to prevent the world's biggest insurance company from going under. (VIDEO NEWS INCLUDED)

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The drop came after Lehman brothers announced it was filing bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch agreed to be bought by bank of America, Sue Turner reports (2:23)

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PERM, Russia (Reuters) - An Aeroflot Boeing 737-500 plane crashed in Russia on Sunday, killing all 88 passengers and crew including 21 foreign nationals.

The passenger jet was flying from Moscow to Perm near the Ural mountains when it plunged into scrubland and railway tracks on the edge of the city narrowly short of houses.



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The United States Embassy in Nassau was saddened to learn of the tragic murder of DEA Group Supervisor Thomas J. Byrne. Tom was valuable members of the U.S. Embassy Nassau team from early 2002 to 2006 were he served his country with great honor, passion and courage.

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Gov. Sarah Palin explains her quote that U.S. soldiers are in Iraq on a "task that is from God."

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Gloria Luna, Representative for Archdiocese of Miami Dade talks about the hurricane relief efforts area churches are doing for Haiti

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Four Caribbean nations have banded together to pursue the formation of a pan-Caribbean political union by 2013, but despite a recent visit from the regional leader promoting the idea, The Bahamas is not considering joining that union.


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Cornelius Smith, ambassador of the Bahamas to the U.S., will meet with Detroiters in the tourism, real estate and construction industries Friday at two Booker T. Washington Business Association events.


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A lot of attention was paid Tuesday morning to John McCain's inability to answer how many houses he owns.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the featured guest at the Iowa delegation's morning meeting, both took a poke at their colleague for his non-answer to a question from a reporter about his house holdings.


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Just as England once lived under the Tudor, China once lived under the Ming and the American League East once lived under the Torre, we earthlings live under a dynasty these days.

It’s a benevolent dynasty, the Bahamas dynasty -- they do let us come visit their islands and serve us drinks with tiny umbrellas sticking out of them -- until it comes to the quadrennial test known as the Olympics, when they fluster the rest of us again.



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Two of the 19 survivors of the Spanish jet which crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 153 people, have spoken of the moment they escaped from the burning wreckage.

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An airliner packed with families bound for the Canary Islands has crashed during take-off, killing 153 people on board as it turned into a massive fireball.

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The red lionfish is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean, swallowing native species, stinging divers and wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate region.

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Accused drug smuggler Keva Major has been freed from the Federal Detention Center.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, Major, 39, was released on August 6. However, it is understood that Mrs. Major, a mother of four, will remain in the United States until she is processed for deportation by immigration officials.



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This is what Morgan Freeman's car looked like by the time it got done rolling off the highway. The red circle shows Freeman still in the vehicle waiting to be cut out. He was driving but the car, a '97 Nissan Maxima, belonged to his passenger Demaris Meyer. The crash happened near his home in Mississippi. Freeman is said to be resting comfortably after surgery on his broken arm. Meyer's condition has yet to be updated. Neither alcohol nor drugs are believed to have played a part. Look for broken bits of the car to soon appear on eBay.

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AN ANGRY Rangers fan flew 5000 miles from the Bahamas for a game - only to be locked out in a ticket fiasco.

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WASHINGTON - John McCain wants the presidential campaign to be about Barack Obama — that's why he talks about him so much.

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Earlier yesterday, the Marlins were said to be holding a slim chance of pulling off a trade for Manny Ramirez.

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The Bahamas High Commissioner to Canada His Excellency Michael Smith recently toured the North Pole weather station operated by the Canadian Govern-ment. He was with a contingent of 19 Ambassadors and High Commissioners from countries representing Eu-rope, Asia, The Americas, and Africa.



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A Qantas passenger airliner en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne in Australia was forced to land in Manila, the Philippines capital, on Friday after a hole appeared in the fuselage of the Boeing 747-400 and the cabin decompressed.


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White House hopeful Barack Obama has landed in Berlin to begin the European leg of his international tour, ahead of November's US presidential poll.

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Gloria Luna, Representative for Archdiocese of Miami Dade talks about the hurricane relief efforts area churches are doing for Haiti

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