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Suspect killed in Orlando has confessed to 2011 triple murders says FBI

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:03:51 -0400

NEW YORK A Chechen acquaintance of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has confessed to slashing the throats of three people in a 2011 gruesome triple murder, federal law enforcement officials have said. Ibragim Todashev, who made the confession, was killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law ...

Obama seeks more transparency in use of drones

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:41:57 -0400

WASHINGTON - In a major counter-terrorism speech, President Barack Obama Thursday defended the covert US drone program and stressed that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save lives. He also said the use of lethal force extends to U.S. citizens as well. This disclosure comes a day after his administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that four US ...

Taliban car bomb kills 13 in Pakistan

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:37:50 -0400

QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 13 people, including two civilians, were killed in a car bomb targeting a police vehicle in western Pakistani city of Quetta Thursday, police officials said. The bombing also injured at least 20 people in the capital of Baluchistan province, riven by Islamist militancy and a violent separatist insurgency. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the ...

Kerry begins efforts to restart Israeli and Palestinian peace talks

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:37:23 -0400

JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials but appeared doubtful about his success on getting the two warring sides back to peace negotiations. This is Kerry's fourth trip to the Middle East in as many months of his assuming the office of the top US diplomat. He was been trying to revive a peace process that has been ...

Istanbul hosts meeting of Syrian opposition leaders

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:33:08 -0400

ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition leaders Thursday began their three-day meeting in this Turkish capital city to decide on their participation in talks aimed at end the civil war in the country. As the meeting began in Istanbul a prominent Syrian figure in the opposition proposed a transition plan for the country that requires President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to a senior aide and leave ...

Canada threatens to retaliate against change in US meat labeling rules

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:33:00 -0400

OTTAWA - Canada has threatened "retaliatory measures" against the United States move changing the so-called country of origin labeling that would track beef and hogs through the meat processing and distribution systems, stating that it is discriminatory, a view shared by the World Trade Organisation. On Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a final modification to its ...

After breaches Twitter beefs up security with two-step login

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:11:08 -0400

NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...

Irish biotech firm Elan rejects revised Royalty Pharma bid

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:52:46 -0400

DUBLIN/ WASHINGTON Ireland-based biotechnology firm Elan Thursday rejected Royalty Pharma's increased $6.4 billion takeover bid, shortly after the U.S. firm cut the acceptance bar for its latest offer to 50 percent plus one share. Royalty raised its hostile cash bid to $12.50 per share on Monday, from $11.25 previously, but made the new offer conditional on Elan shareholders rejecting, at a ...

Import alert by USFDA hits Wockhardt shares

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:26:11 -0400

MUMBAI - Shares of Wockhardt, one of the leading Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, witnessed a sharp fall of 20% to Rs. 1,315 ($23.61) on the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) on Thursday after the US FDA published an import alert on one of its three manufacturing facilities near Aurangabad. The import alert, 'detention without physical examination of drugs from firms which have ...

Ford Motor to shutdown 2 units in Australia

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:26:07 -0400

MELBOURNE - Ford Motor Company Wednesday announced plans of closing its local manufacturing operations in Broadmeadows and Geelong in October 2016 thereby forcing 1,200 people out of work. Spelling the end of the iconic Ford Falcon in the country, Ford Australia president Bob Graziano announced that the carmaker would shut its Victorian facilities in October 2016, bringing an end to nearly ...

IMF warns UK against continuing austerity programme

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:53:31 -0400

LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...

High Court rules Sally Bercows tweet about Lord McAlpine WAS libellous

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:48 -0400

Mrs Bercow faces legal bills running to tens of thousands of pounds after losing a court battle over her tweet in November last year which read: ‘Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent ...

UK weather Rain threatens to turn the Bank Holiday weekend into a washout... but millions of Brits vow to make the most of it as they take to the roads

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:47 -0400

It traditionally signals the countdown to summer, but wind and lashing rain today threatened to turn the late May Bank Holiday weekend into a ...

BREAKING NEWS Prison van of police killer Dale Cregan crashes on way to Preston Crown Court

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:46 -0400

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: 'Shortly before 9.40am on Friday, 24 May, a road traffic collision occurred by the roundabout at the exit of junction 31A of the M6 ...

Michael Adebowales childhood friend speaks about normal murder suspect 22

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:45 -0400

and Michael Adebolajo, 28, ran the soldier down with their car before 'hacking, chopping and cutting' at his body like 'crazed animals' screaming 'Allah Akbar!’ – an Islamic phrase meaning ‘God is great’, witnesses ...

Huge earthquake hits Russias east coast

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:05:15 -0400

A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometres (4,400 miles) west of the ...

Video Bridge linking Washington and Canada collapses

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:05:15 -0400

Authorities have said no one was killed, but three people were rescued and taken to hospital.The four-lane motorway bridge, which is over 50 years old, crosses the Skagit River near Mt Vernon on the Interstate 5, about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver.The cause of the collapse, which came at the beginning of one of the US's busiest holiday weekends, is still unknown. The state ...

Stockholm riots Clashes grip surburbs as violence flares for fifth night

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:05:14 -0400

Fire fighters were called to a school in Tensta, north Stockholm and a Montessori school in the Kista suburb which were set ablaze by rioting youths. Emergency services were also called to Rinkeby, northern Stockholm to extinguish six vehicles that were set alight whilst parked next to each other.Father of two Aleks Sakala, whose children attend the Montessori school, said setting schools on ...

Czech Murders Kevin Dahlgren Detained In US

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:03:37 -0400

A California man wanted over a quadruple murder in the southern Czech city of Brno has been detained by police as he flew into Washington DC. "Kevin Dahlgren, charged with quadruple homicide, was detained on Thursday evening," Czech regional police chief Leos Trzil told reporters on Friday. He added that the suspect had flown to Dulles Airport on a regular flight from Vienna. ...

Africa backs Kenya call for Hague court to drop Kenyatta case

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:55:30 -0400

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African nations have backed a request by Kenya for charges of crimes against humanity by its president to be referred back to the east African country, African Union documents ...

Group linked to Algeria gas plant attack claims Niger raids

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:55:30 -0400

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday's attacks in ...

British security services in spotlight after soldier murder

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:55:29 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's security services faced questions on Friday over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence ...

Rand Paul uses 2016 bully pulpit to push Obama on drones

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:54:04 -0400

President Obama Thursday gave a sweeping national security speech outlining his approach to fighting global terrorism, the legality of his administration's use of unmanned aircraft to hunt and kill suspected terrorists, and his desire to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The speech was an hour long and in the middle of it were two sentences aimed squarely at one of his ...

No deaths as bridge collapse sends vehicles into river

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:54:03 -0400

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a holiday weekend barbecue when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." "I hit the brakes and we went off," Sligh told reporters from a hospital, adding he "saw the water approaching ... you hold on as tight as you can." He said a semi-truck carrying a ...

Is Obama ending war on terror

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:54:02 -0400

He came to talk about the future, but the past keeps pulling him back. President Obama outlined his vision for a revised American counterterrorism policy during Thursday's speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., renewing his call to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and announcing new guidelines to govern the use of targeted drone strikes on foreign soil. ...

Attacks on soldiers incredibly hard to prevent ex-MI6 chief warns as ministers say controls are difficult in a free society

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:19:18 -0400

Preventing the brutal killing of soldier would have been ‘incredibly hard’, a former MI6 chief warned as the security services face questions about its failure to intercept the ...

Heathrow airport closed after smoking British Airways plane makes emergency landing

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:09:50 -0400

The plane was evacuated and none of the passengers or crew have been injured.Heathrow airport have confirmed that both runways had been closed as a result of an incident, which happened around 9am.Amateur video footage of the incident appears to show smoke coming from one of the aircraft engines. There was speculation that the aircraft had run into a flock of birds.The incident is not thought to ...

Syria opposition struggles to forge transition plan before talks

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:03:14 -0400

George Sabra (L), a veteran Christian opposition figure and acting President of the Syrian National Coalition, speaks during the opening session of a meeting by members of the Syrian opposition in Istanbul May 23, ...

IMF chiefs trial over payout resumes

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:58:35 -0400

Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, is being questioning by French prosecutors in order to decide if she should be charged over a state payout to a well-connected entrepreneur during her time as finance minister. Lagarde has played ...

Russia Serbia To Sign Strategic Agreement

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:13:49 -0400

Serbia and Russia are due to sign an agreement later in the day on strategic partnership. The document is scheduled to be signed by President Vladimir Putin and his Serb counterpart Tomislav Nikolic in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Serbian media say the agreement calls on the bolstering of ties across a spectrum of areas, including business, trade, and infrastructure projects. It also ...

Kazakh Journalist Jailed Over Unsanctioned Protest

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:13:48 -0400

ASTANA -- A court in Astana has sentenced a journalist to 15 days in jail for taking part in an unsanctioned protest. Berik Zhaghyparov's lawyer told RFE/RL that her client was sentenced late on May 23. Zhaghyparov pleaded not guilty, saying he was at the protest as an independent journalist to cover the event. Police detained Zhaghyparov along with several demonstrators. The ...

Russian Far East Hit By Okhotsk Earthquake Tsunami Alert Lifted

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:13:47 -0400

A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East region, sending tremors across the country and sparking a short-lived tsunami warning. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake, whose epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan, was a preliminary magnitude of 8.2. It struck at a depth of more than 600 kilometers below sea level. Minor tremors ...

Kerry Initiative can create breakthrough in peace process

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:38 -0400

In a meeting with British Secretary of State Hague, President Peres says that though the process to renewing Palestinian-Israeli talks is long and hard, it is important to note positive developments in the ...

Hague Israel losing support in UK because of settlements

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:37 -0400

After Steinitz questions whether Britain is still a friend of Israel, British foreign secretary says settlement activity causing support for Israel to wane in UK, other European ...

Analysis Sinai is becoming a major threat to Egypt

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:34 -0400

kidnapped last week in the Sinai Peninsula . They were released unhurt after marathon negotiations that lasted until dawn Wednesday between a representative of military intelligence, a Salafi sheikh and a representative of the Swarka tribe, one of the largest in the peninsula.No one will guarantee it will be the last kidnapping. The official version is that no deal was struck, and it may be ...

Olmert W. Bank policies behind bad intl press

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:32 -0400

The government is at fault for its own negative image in the international press because of its policies in the West Bank, former prime minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday."I think it is inarguable that Israel's main problem isn't public diplomacy; it's first of all a policy problem," Olmert said. "We won't be able to convince the world we're right ...

Nochi Dankner set to lose control of IDB

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:32 -0400

An agreement bondholders reached overnight on Thursday may oust Nochi Dankner from controlling IDB, the Israeli conglomerate that controls companies such as Cellcom and Shufersal.The bondholders from two tiers of the pyramid company, IDB Holdings and IDB Development, would merge the two companies and convert bonds to stocks, thus wresting control from Dankner. IDB Holdings bondholders would get ...

Google mulls buying Waze presaging bidding war

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:30 -0400

Google Inc., maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying Israeli map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said.Waze is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties and is seeking more than $1 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The ...

Israel near bottom of BBC poll ranking countries

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:30 -0400

Israel placed near the bottom of a BBC poll released Thursday ranking the world's most positively viewed countries.Some 26,000 people from 25 countries around the world were asked if they viewed a list of 16 countries and the European Union as having a "mainly positive" or "mainly negative" influence in the ...

Muslim writer touts Israeli tolerance of minorities

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:26 -0400

British author Dr. Qanta Ahmed spoke on Wednesday at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem about the difficulties for minorities in Islamic societies and how Israel is the only country in the Middle East that tolerates them.The event was organized by Alan Schneider, director of the B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem, and cosponsored by the Ecumenical Theological ...

UK Israel agree to expand scientific cooperation

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:23 -0400

Britain and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their scientific cooperation - despite calls in Britain for an academic boycott of this country. It was signed in Jerusalem on Thursday by Science, Technology and Space Minister Yaakov Peri and British Foreign Secretary William Hague.British Ambassador Matthew Gould and HU president Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, along with ...

Star Catcher Astrology for the week of May 24 2013

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:22 -0400

GEMINI (AIR) MAY 21 - JUNE 21 Your mind is working overtime and you are so highly charged right now that it may be difficult for you to unwind enough to sleep. Rather than working things out in your mind, write them down and give your hard disc a breather. This is the week for taking care of personal business and for putting your own needs first. Someone from your past is seriously ...

Israel backing Hungary to chair Holocaust forum

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:20 -0400

The Foreign Ministry is backing Hungary's quest to assume the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2015, Hungarian prime ministerial chief adviser Zsigmond Perenyi ...

Shalom Zemach Committee protocols to be published

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:19 -0400

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom announced on Thursday that he has decided to publish, in the near future, all of the protocols of the Zemach Committee, which made recommendations this fall about natural gas export quantities."I studied the issue at length since I took office and after talks with the Justice Ministry, I reached the conclusion that we must increase transparency in ...

Walking buses Parents bring kids to school on foot

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:17 -0400

Every Tuesday and Friday - barring inclement weather - groups of children mill their way through the streets of Binyamina together, with a parent acting as their "driver" for their "walking bus" to school."It's like a big caterpillar, a lot of legs and a lot of kids," Orit Yoav, one of the parents leading the project at Amirim elementary school in Binyamina, ...

Engine fault forces BA plane to land

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:40 -0400

London - British Airways said on Friday that a plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing after a fault in one of the ...

Heathrow closes both runways

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:37 -0400

London - Both runways were closed at London's Heathrow airport on Friday, a spokeswoman said, after a British Airways plane reportedly had to make an emergency ...

Attacker was one of their own

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:36 -0400

Investigators have not found any link between the London attack and Nigeria's own Islamist insurgency, which is based in the north of that West African country. The Adebolajos were a Christian family, and their surname suggests they are members of the Yoruba community from the mainly Christian ...

Hundreds mourn young tornado victim

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:35 -0400

This undated handout photo provided by Brandie Candelaria shows Antonia Candelaria. Candelaria was killed when a tornado struck Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Texas on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Brandie ...

US expects up to 11 hurricanes in 2013

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:34 -0400

MIAMI - The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season could be ';extremely active'; and spawn 13 to 20 tropical storms, seven to 11 of which are expected to become hurricanes, the U.S. government's top climate agency predicted on ...

Hundreds attend Nigerian writer Chinua Achebes funeral

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:07 -0400

Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honours, never fearing to criticise those he felt ruined his country. Yesterday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise ...

Ring Of Fire Earthquake Tremors Felt In Moscow

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:56:03 -0400

Two earthquakes have hit the Ring of Fire area, registering magnitudes of 8.2 and 5.7 and prompting a tsunami warning. Moscow felt tremors from the more powerful quake, causing some people to evacuate buildings despite the epicentre being more than 4,000 miles to the east. The US Geological Survey said the epicentre of Thursday's quake was in the Kuril-Kamchatka arc, one of the most ...

Meat labels getting facelift under new USDA rules

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:47:07 -0400

MILWAUKEE Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from, due to new federal labeling rules that went into effect Thursday. The rules require labels on steaks, ribs and other cuts of meat to say where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered. Earlier U.S. Department of Agriculture rules only required that countries of origin to be noted, so a package ...

Now some unions upset over Obamacare

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:47:04 -0400

WASHINGTON When President Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters. But some unions leaders have grown frustrated and angry about what they say are unexpected consequences of the new law -- problems that they say could jeopardize the health benefits offered to millions of their members. The issue could create a political ...

Russia Syria agrees to take part in talks

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:44:43 -0400

Russia says the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend an international peace conference proposed by Russia and the US, and criticised what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts. The summit has been suggested by the US and Russia and could take place in the Swiss city of Geneva. "We note with satisfaction that we have received an agreement in principle from Damascus to ...

Lebanon sectarian unrest toll rises

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:44:42 -0400

At least 23 people have been killed since Sunday in Syria-linked clashes between Sunni and Alawite residents of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a security source said. Thursday was the bloodiest day yet in the clashes, with at least 11 people killed in 24 hours, the source said on Friday. Sporadic gunfire was heard on Friday between the neighbourhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh and the ...

Russia says Syrian government agrees in principle to conference

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:04:44 -0400

Russia and the United States , and criticized what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts. "Damascus has expressed its readiness in principle to participate in ...

Massive Far East quake felt in Moscow no casualties

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:04:41 -0400

MOSCOW (AFP) - A massive undersea earthquake Friday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami warning and was felt in cities including Moscow far to the west, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.The USGS estimated the quake at 8.2 magnitude and placed its epicentre in the Sea of Okhotsk off the shore of the Kamchatka Peninsula at a depth of more than 600 kilometres (370 ...

China says hopes visit of North Korean envoy can ease tension

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:08 -0400

Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, walks with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai (2nd R) before departing Pyongyang airport for China, in this May 22, 2013 picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in ...

Video shows British police shooting soldiers suspected killers

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:55:55 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - Dramatic video footage showing the moment when police shot the two men suspected of hacking to death a soldier in London was published on a British newspaper's website on Friday. The shaky, 10-second clip shows one of the men sprinting towards a police car with a knife in his hand before he is shot and tumbles to the ground. The second man appears to aim a gun at the ...

Amanda Bynes arrested on bong-related counts

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:55:18 -0400

NEW YORK Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window. It happened at an apartment building on West 47th Street at about 7:40 p.m. Thursday. Police say a building official called police to complain that Bynes was smoking marijuana and rolling a joint in the building's ...

US tax official put on leave over scandal

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:52:59 -0400

Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the centre of the scandal over the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups, has been put on administrative leave after she refused to resign, according to a US politician. Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa said on Thursday that Daniel Werfel, the new acting IRS commissioner, was the one who asked for Lerner's ...

Briton John Steele found hanged in French jail

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:14:36 -0400

John Steele, 38, was found by prison guards hanging in his cell on Tuesday, four days after he was remanded in custody. Steele, who had lived near Paris for some years, was believed to be behind a scheme which took more than 1 million in loans from French banks. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of the death of a British national in France on 21 May and we stand ready to ...

London attack

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:42:52 -0400

>Are you from the area affected, or London in general? What is your reaction to the incident? Send us your images, video and experiences. London (CNN) -- Why did Lee Rigby have to die?That's what people around Britain -- its officials, its authorities, its citizens -- asked themselves Thursday, a day after the soldier was hit with a car, then hacked to death on a London street in broad ...

London attack

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:42:52 -0400

London attack

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:42:52 -0400

Woolwich attack How MI5 had ex-prisoner in sights as he preached at Poundland just yards from murder scene

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:04 -0400

Betrayal of a hero father: How MI5 spent EIGHT YEARS watching violent ex-prisoner who preached outside Poundland just yards from murder scene only days before soldier was hacked to ...

WikiLeaks releases transcript of critical US film

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:29:02 -0400

WikiLeaks has released an annotatedversion of what it said is a leaked transcript of a documentary that takes acritical look at the anti-secrecy group ahead of the film's US premiere ...

Egypts cash-strapped rulers woo former regime tycoons

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:29:01 -0400

Almost three years after an uprising fuelled bythe old regime's venality, Egypt's cash-strapped Islamist government is makingamends with businessmen who offer to pay their way back into the ...

Satellite collides with Soviet-era rocket

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:10:39 -0400

A small Ecuadoran satellite that collided in space with the remains of a Soviet-era rocket has survived the crash, but is damaged and not transmitting, Quito's space agency says. Ecuador's space agency EXA had warned on Wednesday that a space fender-bender was imminent between its Pegaso (Pegasus) nanosatellite and the remains of an S14 rocket launched by the Soviet Union into space in ...

Gibraltar pushes to play in the big league

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:10:38 -0400

But now their football team is aiming for a place on the European stage. European football's governing body UEFA will vote on whether to include Gibraltar as its 54th ...

Major highway bridge collapses in US

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:38:41 -0400

A bridge carrying a freeway over a riverin the northwestern US state of Washington partially collapsed on Thursday,sending cars and people plunging into the water below, police ...

Scouts vote sends confused message

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:38:41 -0400

>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a human rights and social change columnist at CNN Opinion. E-mail him at CTL@CNN.com or follow him on Twitter (@jdsutter), Facebook or Google+.(CNN) -- When the Boy Scouts of America found out den leader Jennifer Tyrrell is a lesbian, the organization's Ohio River Valley Council sent her a letter saying "you must immediately sever any relationship you may ...

5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:24:26 -0400

GREENVILLE, Calif. – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Northern California Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage. The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered near Greenville, about 25 miles southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael Abreu, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National ...

Obama seeks end to perpetual U.S. war on terror

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:23:33 -0400

1 of 5. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about his administration's counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University at Ft. McNair in Washington, May 23, ...

Reporters notebook Undercover in a Bangladesh garment factory

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:31 -0400

(CBS News) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Getting inside a garment factory in Bangladesh isn't easy. It's an enormous industry. There are more than 4,000 factories, employing an estimated 4 million people. Garments and textiles make up about 80 percent of Bangladesh's export ...

Blake Shelton Carrie Underwood aiding fellow Oklahomans

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:31 -0400

Blake Shelton has a date and location for his benefit and fellow Oklahoman Carrie Underwood is writing a large check to help benefit those affected by this week's storms in their home state. Organizers say Shelton's "Healing in the Heartland" benefit concert will be held May 29 at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. The event will be televised live on ...

No fatalities in I-5 bridge collapse in NW Wash.

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:29 -0400

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. Authorities say there were no fatalities when an Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed. The Thursday evening bridge failure dumped vehicles and people into the water. Marcus Deyerin , a spokesman for the Northwest Washington Incident Management team, said there were no fatalities or suspected fatalities. He said three people were rescued from the water ...

Muslim hardliners ID suspect in London attack

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:29 -0400

LONDON A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday. Police raided houses in connection with the brazen slaying of the off-duty soldier, identified as Lee Rigby, of the 2nd Battalion The Royal ...

Boy Scouts of America vote ends long-standing ban on gay scouts

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:33:16 -0400

GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a ban on openly gay scouts that had been in place throughout the organization's 103-year history, capping weeks of intense lobbying on both sides, the group said in a ...

Freeway bridge collapses in Washington state

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:44:01 -0400

Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher said. Washington State Patrol dispatcher A.J. Cooper could give no further details and said she did not know if people were in the water under the portion of Interstate 5 that collapsed over the ...

USA Swimming Officials Ouster Sought by Victim of Coachs Abuse

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:38:50 -0400

A woman who was sexually abused as a teenager in the 1980s by a Hall of Fame swimming coach used the occasion of his sentencing Thursday to demand the departure of three leaders in USA Swimming who she said knew about the ...

Venezuela prosecutor to open probe over leaked recording

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:34:54 -0400

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's prosecutor's office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new ...

Bridge collapses in Washington state sending cars into river

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:34:54 -0400

(Reuters) - Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher ...

Highway bridge collapses into US river

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:33:10 -0400

The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed late Thursday, dumping at least a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge collapsed about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, Trooper Mark Francis said. Francis said he did not know ...

Kids teachers from destroyed Okla. school reunite

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:37:33 -0400

Class photos still decorate a classroom wall amid the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla., Thursday, May 23, ...

Two more arrested over UK soldiers killing

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:35:03 -0400

Police in London have arrested a man and a woman in connection with the murder of a British soldier near a military barrack.Detectives said on Thursday they had arrested the unidentified suspects, both aged 29, over the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, who was hacked to death in Woolwich on Wednesday."This is a large, complex and fast-moving investigation which continues to develop," ...

Small plane crash reported in Gregg County

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:32:42 -0400

Sgt. David Roberts, with the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office, said the crash occurred around 6:30 p.m. on County Road 2156D and Farm-to-Market 2011, near the county ...

Woolwich attack Descent into evil of teenager Michael Adebolajo from devout Christian family

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:49 -0400

His mother and father are hard-working Nigerian immigrants from an academic family in West Africa who settled in London in the early 1980s. A Christian couple, they believed in assimilating into British life, and Michael seems to have forged easy friendships with schoolmates of all colours and ...

One in five firms will freeze or cut wages to pay for staff pensions after introduction of new rules

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:48 -0400

All staff over 22 who do not have a private pension are automatically signed up to the state scheme. But the report, from the Institute of Directors, says one in five bosses plan to recoup the cost by freezing, or even cutting, their workers’ ...

Summer diets Women overhaul their bodies five times a year for holidays and the wedding season

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:47 -0400

Being beach ready for a Summer holiday topped the survey as a reason to kickstart a new diet or workout regime. Taking part in a wedding as a bridesmaid placed ...

Female unemployment Number of young women out of work or education soars by 26000

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:46 -0400

While the number of young men among Neets – under-24s not in education, employment or training – fell by 8,000, there were 28,000 more women Neets compared with the end of ...

What makes us itch Scientists pinpoint the rogue chemical thats to blame

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:45 -0400

Researcher Dr Mark Hoon said: ‘The challenge is to find similar biocircuitry in people, evaluate what’s there and identify molecules that can be targeted to turn off chronic itch without causing unwanted ...

Police pair who were suspended over leak of commissioners expenses are cleared of any wrongdoing

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:44 -0400

The two men were quizzed by police after details of chauffeur-driven trips taken by Police and Crime Commissioner Richard Rhodes were leaked to the ...

Breast cancer cells can SUPPRESS tumour growth by releasing protective proteins

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:43 -0400

Scientists originally believed the production of the enzyme - MMP-8 (matrix metalloproteinase-8) - by breast cancer cells worked to promote tumour ...

17 MILLION Britons risk starting a house fire by cooking while drunk

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:42 -0400

And it seems that celebrity chefs who are seen glugging glasses of wine while whipping up culinary delights might be partly to blame for the trend in drunken ...

Woolwich attack Baroness Warsi tells TV to stop giving air time to idiots and nutters

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:40 -0400

Baroness Warsi spoke out amid a growing furore at Westminster about the amount of coverage given to Anjem Choudary and other militant Islamists on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 ...

The purple tomatoes with double the shelf life Compound that could help them stay fresh may also have health benefits

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:39 -0400

Scientists say adding a compound high in antioxidants, anthocyanin, to purple GM tomatoes can more than double the shelf life of the world’s most popular fruit from 21 days to 48 ...

The final moments of Richard IIIs burial revealed King was squashed into tiny grave with his hands still tied by gravediggers in a hurry

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:38 -0400

Richard III was squashed into a tiny, badly prepared ‘lozenge’ shaped pit with his hands tied as gravediggers rushed to bury him, a new paper ...

DAILY MAIL COMMENT A grotesque attack on Britains values

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:37 -0400

It's the most terrible irony: Drummer Lee Rigby, the married father of a young child, had survived fighting in Afghanistan – a country which had claimed the lives of 444 of his heroic colleagues – only to be murdered in a grotesque act of terrorism in a London suburban ...

TOM UTLEY Listen up folks this British snob has a confession to make. Americans speak better English than us... its a no-brainer

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:37 -0400

During my childhood in the Fifties and Sixties, I was brought up with an ingrained patriotic belief, widespread among my generation, that the British and all things British were superior to Americans and all things American in every conceivable ...

Pictured The dramatic moment Woolwich killers are shot by officers after one charged at a police vehicle

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:36 -0400

Dramatic footage has emerged of the moment two terrorists were shot as they charged police officers called to the scene after a soldier was hacked to death in the ...

Parents forced to turn to payday loans to fund baby daughters head deformation treatment after NHS refuse to help

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:36 -0400

Doctors diagnosed her with a severe skull deformity called plagiocephaly or ‘flat head syndrome’ – but told Michelle and Peter Askham that treatment wasn’t available on the ...

Scientists warning over poisons in your home Experts say chemicals in items including tin cans and till receipts should face stricter controls

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:35 -0400

Phthalates are found in everything from car dashboards to shower curtains while bisphenol A is used in regular items such as till receipts, tin cans and ...

Easy access to web porn is making teen boys see girls as sex objects and encouraging them to engage in risky sexual behaviour

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:33 -0400

Easy access to online pornography encourages teenage boys to see girls as sex objects and to engage in risky sexual behaviour, according to a major ...

1200 extra police on the streets to guard key locations as EDL thugs exploit tragedy

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:32 -0400

More than 1,200 additional police officers took to the streets last night amid heightened fears of further violence targeted at the Muslim community by far-Right ...

Diabetes warning over use of statins People who take the drugs are at increased risk of developing condition

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:31 -0400

The study involved 1.5 million people in Ontario, Canada, and the statins involved were fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, simvastatin, atorvastatin and ...

Drummer Lee Rigby killing The enemy within that hates our tolerance by MAX HASTINGS

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:30 -0400

Yet now, instead, we are confronted with the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, of the Royal Fusiliers, in the most brutal fashion imaginable, in broad daylight before witnesses in a London street, by savages bent upon flaunting their martyrdom before the ...

Drummer Lee Rigby murder RICHARD LITTLEJOHN on the Toytown jihadists and a lack of political willpower

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:28 -0400

The senseless slaughter of a British serviceman on the streets of South-East London by a pair of deranged Toytown jihadists has followed the usual script, with the odd ...

How first gentleman of football Sir Stanley Matthews ditched his wife for a blonde communist spy

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:27 -0400

On the right wing, their legendary player, Stanley Matthews, known as the Wizard of the Dribble, had seemed subdued. At 38, perhaps the bandy-legged hero was finally slowing ...

A classic Concert tribute to Valery Gergiev the maestro at 60

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:26 -0400

Mr Gergiev, the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), carefully planned the programme for the special Gala at London’s Barbican Hall, and described the evening as ‘full of ...

A tearaway boy. His frail great grandad. And the magical mutt who transformed both their lives

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:26 -0400

He’d relished the company of dogs all his life. Before my grandmother Joyce, a tireless charity worker and magistrate, died in 2000 they’d had a succession of hyperactive hounds — most memorably Sheba, an assertive border collie who would round up guests and trap them in a ...

Get ready for the McMega potato McDonalds creates 1400 calorie fries dish with more than half the recommended daily intake

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:24 -0400

The box of chips is not only double the size of a normal large order of fries at the restaurant, but it contains more than half the recommended daily amount of calories for ...

Students who created conductive paint that can be used for wiring a light switch without sockets see product take off around the world

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:23 -0400

The paint acts as a form of liquid wiring and, unlike conventional wires, it can be applied to almost any surface, including paper, plastic, metal and even ...

Photographer who shot iconic Second World War images after serving with elite Navy unit dies aged 94

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:22 -0400

His best-known wartime photograph shows a wounded pilot being pulled from a downed fighter plane - an aircraft Miller himself had been scheduled to be aboard before it was shot down. The photographer who took his place was ...

Charlotte 8 has an IQ of 130 and is perfectly well behaved at home.... so why has she been expelled from THREE schools for attacking her teachers

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:21 -0400

Eight-year-old Charlotte Tait has an IQ of 130 but she has been known to slap, bite and pull the hair of her teachers after quickly losing her temper when she feels she is not being listened ...

Woolwich attack Man and woman both 29 arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder following terror attack

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:21 -0400

A total of four people including the two men shot by police have now been arrested in connection with the killing - and the latest two arrested were being questioned at a south London police ...

Two jailed for carrying out cold blooded execution to settle a gangland feud in the family of celebrity gangster Dave Courtney

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:20 -0400

Two killers who carried out a 'cold blooded execution' to settle a gangland feud in the family of celebrity gangster Dave Courtney have each been jailed for a minimum of 31 ...

The Queen hops on a single decker as she tours Cambridge Nobel Peace Factory

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:18 -0400

Well she does qualify for a bus pass ... the Queen hops on a single decker as she tours Cambridge 'Nobel Prize Factory' (and true to form, it turned up 15 minutes ...

Alaskan volcano pictured from space Nasa astronauts capture eruption from International Space Station

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:16 -0400

Belching ash and spewing lava, Pavlof Volcano in Alaska has been erupting for ten days - and Nasa today released this remarkable picture of it, taken by crew on board the International Space ...

Open-plan offices make employees less productive less happy and more likely to get sick

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:14 -0400

Research published in the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health revealed that people who work in open plan offices take 62 per cent more sick days than those who work in their own, enclosed ...

University education is a financial gamble as study shows advantage of a degree has dropped drastically over the last 20 years

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:13 -0400

The graduate premium is shrinking rapidly and makes getting a degree a ‘gamble’ despite the fact that more and more jobs now require higher ...

Charles and Camilla in hairy mid-air drama as helicopters technical fault forces them to land minutes after take-off

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:11 -0400

Prince Charles, pictured as he is welcomed into the historic town of Hay-on-Wye had to sit through a 'hairy' mid-air drama today when the royal helicopter was forced to divert to a nearby ...

Police officers son 21 with underwear fetish broke into womans home to steal her knickers

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:10 -0400

At Northampton Magistrates Court Cox pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary, one count of possessing a weapon designed for the discharge of CS gas and possessing a police ...

Hands up who knows which one this belongs to Fascinating palm prints from famous names of the 1920s including Albert Einstein to go on sale

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:09 -0400

They were collected by German palmist Marianne Raschig who spent 60 years taking more than 2,000 handprints of around 1,000 leading artists, actors, scientists, musicians and writers in ...

14-year-old schoolboy becomes Britains youngest football HOOLIGAN after being banned from all matches for three years

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:08 -0400

A 14-year-old Hartlepool pupil is officially the youngest football hooligan in Britain after he was slapped with a three-year banning order by ...

A reason to do the washing up boys Women DO use sex to reward good behaviour

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:08 -0400

Two thirds of British women admit using sex to reward their partner for good behaviour, with helping around the home being the most common reason they will give their partner saucy payback, according to new ...

How JFK secretly ADMIRED Hitler Explosive book reveals former Presidents praise for the Nazis as he travelled through Germany before Second World War

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:05 -0400

The news comes embarrassingly close to a visit being paid to Berlin next month by President Obama - one week before 50th anniversary commemorations of JFK's memorable 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech pledging US solidarity with Europe during the Cold ...

Mystical light that occurs only a few days every year captured in a series of stunning images

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:04 -0400

The almost supernatural light at Keyhole Arch in Pfeiffer Beach, California, acts like a magnet to photographers desperate to capture its stunning ...

Is your JOB the reason you cant get a date Stress hormones created by high pressure careers make women less attractive

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:04 -0400

In addition to long hours, which can make finding time for romance hard, the stress of a busy job causes an increase in the level of the hormone cortisol, which research suggests makes women less good-looking to ...

Nissan recalls 500000 British-built Micras over fears steering wheel could fall off in drivers hands

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:03 -0400

Japanese car giant Nissan is recalling half a million of British--built Micra super-minis over a fault that can cause the steering-wheel to come off in the driver’s ...

Doctors save little boys life by 3D printing tiny plastic artificial airway for him in medical first

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:02 -0400

A baby boy, who doctors said would probably never leave hospital alive, has had his life-threatening condition cured by a medical first achieved using plastic particles and a 3D laser printer ...

Shelton Underwood coming to aid of Oklahomans

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:48:38 -0400

Blake Shelton has a date and location for his benefit and fellow Oklahoman Carrie Underwood is writing a large check to help benefit those affected by this week's storms in their home ...

Katha Journal Orwells House Links Myanmar to Its Burmese Days

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:41:19 -0400

KATHA, Myanmar ...

Obama to tour Jersey Shore with Gov. Christie

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:40:00 -0400

Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., greets President Obama upon arriving in Atlantic City, N.J., on October 31, 2012 to visit areas hardest hit by the unprecedented cyclone ...

Rioters continue to battle police in Sweden

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:37:31 -0400

At least six cars were torched in Stockholm as police braced for a fifth night of riots in the Swedish capital's immigrant-dominated suburbs.Police said on Thursday they would be calling in reinforcements from other parts of the country as they prepared for more trouble in coming days.The riots have sparked a debate in Sweden about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 percent ...

Online dating assault Mother hospitalised with fractured cheekbone by online date Gavin Taylor met on plentyoffish.com

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:03:43 -0400

Susan Hulbert, 31, signed up to popular website plentyoffish.com last December and was wooed by Gavin Taylor, a high-flying salesman who claimed to be a former ...

Nursery attacks Police investigating alleged child sex attacker arrest five suspects

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:03:41 -0400

Investigation: Detectives today raided three nurseries and arrested five male nursery workers after a toddler claimed to have been sexually assaulted. This is the Bright Eyes nursery in ...

Banned from every school woman geography teacher who tried for years to seduce 15-year-old pupil

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:03:40 -0400

A professional conduct panel heard that the boy tried to telephone his father three times, saying he felt uncomfortable and compromised being alone with the ...

Mark Bridger admits dumping April Jones body and claims he viewed child porn accidentally

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:03:39 -0400

The man accused of murdering five-year-old April Jones in a sexually motivated attack today told a jury he put her body 'somewhere where it has not been ...

US Senate approves first India-born senior judge

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:02:26 -0400

The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved Srikanth Srinivasan as the most senior US judge of South Asian descent, amid speculation that he may one day be tapped for the Supreme ...

New Strife in Darfur Leaves Many Seeking Refuge

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:58:21 -0400

ZAM ZAM CAMP, Sudan ...

Obama Seeks to Narrow Terror Fight

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:38 -0400

WASHINGTON ...

Jodi Arias Jury Deadlocks On Sentence

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:54:17 -0400

A new jury will be picked to decide the fate of boyfriend killer Jodi Arias as jurors say they have cannot agree on her sentence. The 12 people who have sat through Arias' five-month trial will be dismissed after telling the judge they cannot agree unanimously on whether Arias, 32, should spend life in prison or be given the death penalty. The jury began deliberating the sentence on ...

The oddly calm scene

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:47:33 -0400

Angry Pakistanis fight to end U.S. drone strikes

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:43:33 -0400

(CBS News) ISLAMABAD - More deaths from U.S. drone strikes are happening in Pakistan than in any other country. The figures can't be reliable, but it is estimated that since 2004, as many as 2,700 militants have died in drone strikes. Estimates of civilian deaths range from 250 to ...

Hung jury in Arias penalty phase new panel to be chosen

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:43:31 -0400

Jodi Arias reacts to being found guilty of first-degree murder, May 8, 2013, in a Maricopa County courtroom, in the death of her onetime lover Travis ...

Oklahoma miracle baby -- born amidst tornado chaos

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:43:31 -0400

Shayla Taylor was in labor when the devastating Moore, Oklahoma tornado hit. She had to moved to the operating room where there were no windows and braced herself along with the ...

Survivor of Bangladesh factory collapse speaks out

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:43:31 -0400

(CBS News) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- When she was 11 years old, Tahmina Akhter Sadia went to work in a garment factory. Four years later, she's her family's breadwinner -- and a survivor of one of the worst industrial accidents in ...

Fed Fears Shake Global Markets but Fade on Wall St.

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:40:23 -0400

Investors are contemplating a future without support from one of the biggest engines of the global economy in recent years: the Federal Reserve. Fears that the Fed is about to reduce its stimulus helped send stock, bond and currency prices on a wild ride on Wednesday and Thursday, with Japanese stocks experiencing their worst one-day decline since the 2011 tsunami and United States ...

Will New Yorkers want a Mayor Weiner

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:29:59 -0400

>Editor's note: Errol Louis is the host of "Inside City Hall," a nightly political show on NY1, a New York City all-news channel.(CNN) -- Anthony Weiner's long-anticipated official announcement that he's running for mayor of New York City began with a slight glitch this week: A video announcing his candidacy was posted on YouTube in the middle of the night, then yanked off the site -- and ...

Jodi Arias Jury Fails to Reach Decision on Death Penalty

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:05:05 -0400

An Arizona jury tasked with determining whether convicted killer Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal murder of an ex-boyfriend failed to reach a unanimous verdict on Thursday, and a judge ordered a retrial in the penalty phase. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in ...

French Upset Over More English Proposal

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:03:25 -0400

PARIS ...

Syria’s exile opposition opens conference in Turkey amid anger confusion

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:56:57 -0400

ISTANBUL - Syria’s political opposition met Thursday in Istanbul to elect new leadership, choose a government-in-exile and deliberate on a negotiating stance for peace talks, but it hit a controversy when the immediate past president of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, a Muslim cleric who no longer holds any post in the group, presided over the opening session and released a surprise peace ...

Experts reject that Israel may directly intervene in Syria

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:55:41 -0400

Following 'NY Times' report that Israel mulling creation of buffer zone inside Syria or support of proxy force, several Israeli experts, ex-officials say any direct intervention in civil war ...

Senate resolution US will back Israeli force on Iran

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:55:32 -0400

NEW YORK - With the support of 99 senators both Republican and Democrat, a resolution passed Congress's upper chamber on Wednesday declaring US support for Israeli military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.Asserting that such preemptive action is within Israel's right to defend itself, the Senate resolution - strategically telling, but not self-binding by any meaningful ...

US Boy Scouts to allow gay youths not leaders

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50:23 -0400

The Boy Scouts of America said Thursday it will allow openly gay youths to join the organisation but maintain a ban on gay adult leaders, after a vote at its annual meeting in ...

IRS suspends division chief after agency scandal

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50:22 -0400

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) placed the head of its tax-exempt organisations division Lois Lerner on administrative leave, according to an IRS statement Thursday, after she refused to testify about a scandal at the tax ...

US Atlantic braces for active hurricane season

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50:21 -0400

The United States is gearing up for more Atlantic hurricanes than usual this year, triggered by warmer water temperatures than average, US forecasters said ...

European Commission Tables Olive Oil Rule

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:47:29 -0400

BRUSSELS ...

Father of Chechen shot by FBI says he thinks son was tortured

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:43:41 -0400

Ibragim Todashev is pictured in this undated booking photo courtesy of the Orange County Corrections Department. An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on May 22, 2013, NBC News reported. The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. REUTERS/Orange County Corrections ...

UPDATE 3-Former Goldman banker settles SEC pay-to-play charges

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:38:09 -0400

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker has agreed to a five-year securities industry ban and a record fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he broke rules against influence peddling to win bond underwriting business in ...

Kansas reporters run for tornado shelter during newscast

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:32:14 -0400

Television cameras were rolling when staff at an NBC affiliate in Kansas had to run for cover as a tornado approached in Wichita. JD Rudd, KSN-TV's weatherman, was reporting on a tornado warning in the area, to the point where the news team needed to follow their own advice and take ...

Ex-baseball slugger accused of sex assault tweets about it

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:32:13 -0400

Christian Petersen/Getty Images, via CBS New York (AP) LAS VEGAS - Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco Jr. has been accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas, in an investigation that the former baseball slugger made public with postings on a social media website claiming that a woman falsely accused him of rape. No arrest was made and police said no charges were immediately filed against the ...

Why Ford reached end of road in Oz

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:20:16 -0400

Intense competition, a strong Australian dollar and a move away from large cars has driven the Ford Falcon off the road. Ford will cease its manufacturing operations in Australia by October 2016, with the loss of 1200 jobs - and the Falcon nameplate. An icon of Australian and New Zealand motoring since it first rolled off the Melbourne production line in 1960, the brand has fallen victim to the ...

Teacher confronted terrorists