Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:51:53 GMT
 Reuters - The Dow and S&P 500 closed the week with their seventh gain in eight sessions in a turnaround period for stocks that has seen investors' worst fears about the economy start to dissipate.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:38:20 GMT
 Reuters - Nokia has hired Stephen Elop, a Canadian Microsoft executive with Silicon Valley credentials, to replace its embattled chief executive and renew its drive to compete with Apple.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:53:35 GMT
Reuters - The Treasury Department has selected Patricia Geoghegan to replace Kenneth Feinberg as the "pay czar" overseeing compensation at companies bailed out by the government.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:41:01 GMT
Reuters - Google Inc's Android software will become the world's second most popular operating system for cell phones this year, leapfrogging rival offerings from Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion and Apple Inc, according to a new report.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:25:05 GMT
Reuters - Toys R Us Inc , which is looking to go public, reported a quarterly loss on higher costs and weakness in its international business.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:46:30 GMT
 AP - For almost a decade, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber reflection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. Not this time.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:43:02 GMT
 AFP - Thousands of Afghans hurled rocks at a NATO military outpost Friday in a wave of Muslim anger at a US pastor's threat to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:37:05 GMT
 AFP - An impassioned President Barack Obama Friday warned Americans must not turn on one another over religion, after rows over Islam sparked global fury, nine years after the September 11 attacks.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:32:06 GMT
 AP - The son of a pastor who suspended plans to burn copies of the Quran to mark the 9/11 anniversary says Islam's holiest text will not be torched at their Florida church Saturday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:06:13 GMT
AP - An Army major is hitting the pavement this weekend in a test of physical endurance to honor the 10 soldiers who died under his command in Iraq.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:22:44 GMT
 AP - Iraq has agreed to pay $400 million to Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:04:22 GMT
 AFP - The United States is pushing a new power-sharing deal in Iraq that could solve the political deadlock by retaining Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki but curbing his power, a report said Friday.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:50:22 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq has quietly agreed to pay $400 million in claims to American citizens who say they were tortured or traumatized by Saddam Hussein s regime after his 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:31:17 GMT
Reuters - Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni cleric Thursday and cut his head off before setting him alight in an attack that bore the hallmark of insurgents, a police spokesman said.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:05:00 GMT
 AFP - The imam of a Sunni mosque and a policeman's wife were both beheaded in separate incidents in the central Iraqi province of Diyala on Thursday, police said.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:56:39 GMT
 AP - Nokia Corp. is replacing CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with Microsoft executive Stephen Elop as the world's top maker of mobile phones aims to regain lost ground in the fiercely competitive smart phone market.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:14:09 GMT
 AP - As co-president at Oracle Corp., ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd will have to adapt to a new role playing second fiddle to one of Silicon Valley's most domineering bosses — Larry Ellison.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:47:07 GMT
AP - U.S. investigators have widened their probe of alleged kickbacks paid to Russian authorities by employees of a Hewlett-Packard Co. subsidiary in Germany.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:18:34 GMT
Ben Patterson - DVD rental kiosks from Redbox and Blockbuster seem to be popping up on every corner these days, but home-video market analysts are predicting that demand for the ultra-convenient kiosks could soon start cooling off as video streaming and video-on-demand gain in popularity.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:58:47 GMT
Ben Patterson - We’ve already got a slew of Android-powered tablets poised to hit the market in the coming months, most notably the just-announced Samsung Tab. But a Google exec is saying that the current version of Android was never intended for tablets, and that could mean no Android Market access — at least in some cases.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:08:53 GMT
 AP - The government said Friday it's back in the business of funding embryonic stem cell research — at least for now — after an appeals court temporarily lifted a judge's ban.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:09:11 GMT
AP - Toyota will build a 300 million Australian dollars ($277 million) plant in Melbourne that will produce greener engines that deliver reduced carbon emissions, the company said Friday.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:21:26 GMT
 AP - The La Nina climate phenomenon is strengthening, increasing the likelihood an active hurricane season could get even busier.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:50:44 GMT
LiveScience.com - The dread and fear that can come with a cancer diagnosis have their roots in its killer nature: It's the No. 2 cause of death in Americans, second only to heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even when diagnosed early and attacked with the latest treatments, it still has the power to kill.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:27:18 GMT
Reuters - Major U.S. corporations DuPont Co and United Parcel Service Inc were among eight companies removed from a social investment index series because of concerns about human rights, climate change and similar matters, the UK index provider FTSE Group said.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:59:03 GMT
 AP - Investigators searched the smoldering rubble of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood tucked into the hills overlooking San Francisco on Friday, looking for answers to why a gas line ruptured and fed a giant fireball that killed at least four people.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:52:53 GMT
 AP - Facing big Democratic losses in November, President Barack Obama blamed Republicans and election-year politics Friday for thwarting his efforts to do more to spur a listless national economy. He challenged Congress to quit squabbling and quickly approve "what we all agree on" — a reprieve for expiring tax cuts for the middle class.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:46:30 GMT
AP - For almost a decade, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber reflection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. Not this time.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:32:06 GMT
AP - The son of a pastor who suspended plans to burn copies of the Quran to mark the 9/11 anniversary says Islam's holiest text will not be torched at their Florida church Saturday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:20:06 GMT
 AP - An Iranian news agency says Tehran has canceled the planned release of a jailed American woman because the necessary legal procedures have not been completed.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:05:58 GMT
 AFP - US President Barack Obama called Friday on Israel to extend a freeze on settlements as he pledged a never-say-die approach to the new Middle East peace talks, calling the effort "a risk worth taking."
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:49:03 GMT
Reuters - President Barack Obama said Friday he saw "enormous hurdles" ahead in Middle East peace negotiations, but said it was a risk worth taking and the United States would remain engaged even if talks break down.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:15:11 GMT
Reuters - The United Arab Emirates has donated $42 million to the Palestinian Authority, boosting support for President Mahmoud Abbas' cash-strapped government as it embarks on direct peace talks with Israel, Arab officials said on Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:21:20 GMT
AP - Obama says 'we are not at war against Islam,' but against terrorist factions.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:58:23 GMT
 AFP - US President Barack Obama said Friday that talks between Israel and the Palestinians here last week "exceeded expectations" and vowed to stand with both sides in peace moves.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:46:30 GMT
AP - For almost a decade, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber reflection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. Not this time.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:34:58 GMT
 AFP - From blue-eyed Jihad Jane to naturalized US citizens born in Muslim countries, homegrown terrorists have become a serious threat in the United States since the attacks of September 11, 2001, a report issued Friday says.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:23:41 GMT
 Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday that capturing or killing al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden remains a high priority as the United States marks the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:49:06 GMT
AP - The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report compiled by the former heads of the Sept. 11 Commission.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:16:59 GMT
AP - President Barack Obama is asking the country to observe the Sept. 11 anniversary as a day of "service and remembrance." He says Americans should find a way to serve their fellow citizens and rekindle the spirit of unity and common purpose felt in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:05:31 GMT
AP - Film critic Roger Ebert, who lost his ability to speak and eat after cancer surgeries, said Friday that he is returning to television on a movie review show that he is producing for public television.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:25:59 GMT
 AP - Bono and the Edge wrote the music for the upcoming Broadway production "SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark," and a new song previewed from the production Friday sounds like it could be part of the U2 catalog.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:50:39 GMT
AP - A man has been sentenced to prison after drunkenly breaking into a famous Philadelphia recording company's headquarters and starting a fire.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:50:46 GMT
omg! - LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Tensions between Kim Kardashian and Scott Disick erupted into a Twitter war on Friday, with the two parties slinging allegations at each other - including bizarre rumors about someone's alleged sexual relations with a "pool boy." But was the fight real?
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:36:18 GMT
 AP - A key witness at the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial has retracted a previous statement that she saw Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern inject the former Playboy model.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:31:48 GMT
 AP - Juan Mari Bras, an elder statesman of Puerto Rico's independence movement who gave up U.S. citizenship in an act that inspired hundreds of other activists, died Friday. He was 82.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:57:52 GMT
AP - Gospel singer Marvin Sapp is mourning the death of his wife and manager, MaLinda Sapp.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:51:47 GMT
 AP - Rich Cronin, whose band LFO sang the breezy summer hit "Summer Girls" that name-checked Abercrombie & Fitch, has died after struggling with health setbacks including leukemia and a stroke. He was 36.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:32:13 GMT
 AP - Allen Dale June, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 91.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:22:33 GMT
AP - In a Sept. 8 obituary for John Kluge, The Associated Press misspelled names of two ex-wives and his widow. The correct names of the former wives are Yolanda Galardo, not Tolanda Zucco; and Patricia Maureen Rose, not Patricia Rose Gay. His widow's correct name is Maria Tussi Kutner, not Maria Tussi.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:13:32 GMT
 AP - Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:40:17 GMT
AP - More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:49:59 GMT
 AP - A Kraft Foods plant worker who had been suspended for feuding with colleagues, then escorted from the building, returned minutes later with a handgun, found her foes in a break room and executed two of them with a single bullet each and critically wounded a third, police said Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:32:06 GMT
AP - The son of a pastor who suspended plans to burn copies of the Quran to mark the 9/11 anniversary says Islam's holiest text will not be torched at their Florida church Saturday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:48:24 GMT
 Reuters - The murders of 25 people by suspected drug hitmen on the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday was the bloodiest day in almost three years in an area gripped by an escalating drug war, officials said on Friday.
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:25:20 GMT
 Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 15: Coming HomeIn this final chapter of "A World of Conflict," Kevin Sites returns home to the U.S., only to confirm what he suspected -- that in the year that he was gone little had changed.
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:15:31 GMT
 Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 14: Israel-Hezbollah WarThe war between Israel and Hezbollah shook the landscape in the Middle East.
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:26:19 GMT
 Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 13: Sri LankaKevin Sites covered Sri Lanka as violence erupted between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, pushing a nation with so much to lose back to the brink of all-out war. In rebel-held territory Sites interviewed Tiger fighters about their tactics and reported on the many effects of war still seen in the region.
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:48:03 GMT
 Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 12: Nepal and KashmirKevin Sites covered Nepal during a time of sweeping political change that followed mass nationwide protests, forcing the autocratic King to cede power.
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:31:45 GMT
 Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 11: Child BrideIn Afghanistan, Kevin Sites met a 12-year-old girl named Gulsoma, whose incredible story of resilience resonated with millions of people worldwide. She was only six years old when she was sold to a neighbor family in Kandahar as a child bride.
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Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:51:35 GMT
Reuters - Democrats in Congress are distancing themselves from President Barack Obama's push to let taxes rise for the wealthiest Americans, fearing it will further harm them in November's mid-term elections.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:48:56 GMT
 Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday named a member of his inner circle as top White House economist and gave a strong personal endorsement to a leading candidate to run his new consumer protection bureau.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:45:45 GMT
 Exclusive to Yahoo! News - Just over two weeks ago, Kenneth Feinberg took over the process for handling damage claims from the Gulf oil spill, pledging to cut down the response time from BP’s widely criticized system to two days for individuals and seven days for businesses that file fully documented claims.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:08:42 GMT
The Upshot - The national media have come under fire this week for giving so much ink and airtime to Terry Jones, the fringe Florida pastor who planned or possibly still plans? to burn Qurans on Sept. 11. Some journalists have questioned giving Jones such a huge platform to spout anti-Islam rants. So an NBC reporter's ...
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:17:00 GMT
Politico - In the political world, it was the viral video of the day: The impassioned, way-over-the-top, Raging-Bull-style stump speech delivered Wednesday evening by Minerva, Ohio, Councilman Phil Davison.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:25:01 GMT
 Reuters - A Paris man who registered 55 children by 55 different mothers faces up to 10 years in jail and fines for suspected paternity fraud and for helping to obtain residency under false pretences, police said on Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:24:03 GMT
 Reuters - A Berlin pub has set up an advice desk to help the long-term unemployed get back on their feet.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:43:15 GMT
 Reuters - German officials have created a labyrinth in the shape of a giant sausage to help people learn about the health risks associated with the popular fast food currywurst (curried sausage).
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:41:27 GMT
Reuters - Chinese pilots who had lied about their flying experience have been allowed to return to work after they took remedial action to make up their hours, according to the country's aviation watchdog.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:41:07 GMT
Reuters - A trickle of newly separated Swiss fathers looking for shelter and help after marital breakdown have been finding a warm bed and a sympathetic ear from a pilot project on the shores of Lake Zurich.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:20:06 GMT
AP - An Iranian news agency says Tehran has canceled the planned release of a jailed American woman because the necessary legal procedures have not been completed.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:13:32 GMT
AP - Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:22:44 GMT
AP - Iraq has agreed to pay $400 million to Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:44:08 GMT
 AP - Fidel Castro said Friday his comments about the Cuban economic model no longer working were misinterpreted by a visiting American journalist — taking back an admission that caused a stir around the globe.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:47:34 GMT
AP - Pfc. Sean Provenzano saw it whiz by out of the corner of his eye: a dark object hurled from a rooftop as he patrolled the medieval maze of alleyways in this fort-like walled village at the center of America's Afghan surge.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:46:16 GMT
AP - An Ohio politician looking for a promotion has become a YouTube sensation with his double-fisted pitch to GOP leaders.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:44:03 GMT
 AP - Elated by a major court victory, gay-rights activists are stepping up pressure on Congress to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy this month. They want to avoid potentially lengthy appeals and fear their chances for a legislative fix will fade after Election Day.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:37:02 GMT
 AP - Two and a half weeks after Vermont's oh-so-close Democratic gubernatorial primary, a winner finally emerged Friday when a re-count upheld state Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin's first-place finish — and then some.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:33:12 GMT
 AP - A 25-year-old soldier from Iowa who exposed himself to enemy gunfire to try to save two fellow soldiers will become the first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:31:40 GMT
 AP - For all the Democrats' strength and swagger in New York, the party could lose as many as eight U.S. House seats in the Empire State alone in November.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:01:30 GMT
 AP - Vera Zvonareva reached her second straight Grand Slam final, defeating top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-3 at the U.S. Open on Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:30:58 GMT
 AP - Tiger Woods is now a long shot to get to the FedEx Cup finale.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:48:14 GMT
 AP - Coach Sean Payton says his offense played better than the score indicated in the New Orleans Saints' 14-9 season-opening win over the Minnesota Vikings.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:04:49 GMT
 AFP - Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said Friday he would like to see former Spain manager Luis Aragones replace the recently sacked Carlos Queiroz as Portugal?s national team coach.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:47:03 GMT
 AP - Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been freed from a jail in Las Vegas after posting bail on a felony theft charge stemming from a domestic violence complaint by his ex-girlfriend.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:00:00 GMT
 The Week - Last week Gallup had a record 10-point GOP lead in its generic party matchup; this week, the two parties are tied. Is the race for control of Congress really that fluid?
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:14:39 GMT
 The Atlantic Wire - A new government report estimates that the health care overhaul passed in March won't stem the country's ballooning medical costs. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Americans on average will spend $256 more per year in 2019 than they would have had the bill not passed. To some, the additional cost is a small price to pay for expanding coverage for the uninsured. Opponents of the bill note that Democrats insisted health care reform would reduce, not increase, costs.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:26:22 GMT
 The Atlantic Wire - The dark art of search engine optimization (SEO) focuses on getting a website to appear prominently in search results. And since a number of websites live or die based on how much Web traffic search engines send them, Google's new update to search, Google Instant, has some worried. Should they be? Yes, according to Steve Rubel, a Forbes columnist and Internet marketing guru. He says the introduction of Google Instant, which instantly provides search results as you type, is a game changer:
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:44:49 GMT
 The Atlantic Wire - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has compared the worsening drug violence in Mexico to Colombia of the 1980s and 90s, when cartels challenged the state police and military for control of whole swathes of the South American nation. "It's looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago," Clinton said of Mexico in comments on Wednesday, comparing the cartels to an insurgency. "It got to the point where more than a third of the country, nearly 40% of the country at one time or another was controlled by the insurgents." Journalists and experts are evaluating this claim, which Mexican officials have unsurprisingly rejected. Is Mexico really as bad as rock-bottom Colombia? If so, what are the implications?
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:55:10 GMT
 The Atlantic Wire - Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are rendezvousing in Alaska this Saturday to commemorate 9/11. The event will likely share some similarities to Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in DC. But with one important difference:
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:59:03 GMT
AP - Investigators searched the smoldering rubble of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood tucked into the hills overlooking San Francisco on Friday, looking for answers to why a gas line ruptured and fed a giant fireball that killed at least four people.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:46:30 GMT
AP - For almost a decade, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber reflection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. Not this time.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:44:03 GMT
AP - Elated by a major court victory, gay-rights activists are stepping up pressure on Congress to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy this month. They want to avoid potentially lengthy appeals and fear their chances for a legislative fix will fade after Election Day.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:33:12 GMT
AP - A 25-year-old soldier from Iowa who exposed himself to enemy gunfire to try to save two fellow soldiers will become the first living service member from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:15:59 GMT
AP - A surgical team amputated the arm of a conductor Friday to free him from the wreckage of a locomotive that struck a slow-moving freight train on tracks 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:35:27 GMT
 AP - Patients jammed rudimentary clinics and health workers in surgical masks sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 Nigerians in two months.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:53:58 GMT
 AP - Doctors and AIDS activists on Friday urged African governments to fulfill a decade-old pledge to spend more of their own money on health if they want international help in fighting AIDS.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:24:10 GMT
AP - Federal health regulators are warning doctors that a class of injectable drugs used in MRI medical imaging scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal condition in patients with kidney disease.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:49:17 GMT
AP - An apple a day? Apparently not in the United States.
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:52:15 GMT
 AP - John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:17:59 GMT
 AP - Tropical Storm Hermine gave a wet and windy punch to Texas on Tuesday but left only minor scrapes in the storm-weary Rio Grande Valley, which is proving resilient this hurricane season after taking a third tropical system on the chin.
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:30:00 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - At a ceremony in this city commemorating the five years since hurricane Katrina, a brass band played a final round of music Sunday, and out of nowhere, Mayor Mitch Landrieu sprang from his seat to join the musicians onstage. What he then did would be almost unthinkable for most buttoned-up leaders, but here, it s as much a part of the job as fixing potholes and cutting ribbons.
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:57:27 GMT
 AFP - New Orleans residents Sunday marked five years since Hurricane Katrina and the devastating floods that followed with a memorial service in the Lower Ninth Ward, where the storm hit hardest.
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:20:29 GMT
 AFP - US President Barack Obama, marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, praised the city's resilience and pledged support for rebuilding "until the job is done."
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:08:34 GMT
 AP - The red carpet at the Emmys is usually all about celebrities shmoozing each other, reporters shmoozing celebrities and fans ogling them all. But Sunday was also the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, so some stars had their minds on New Orleans and its recovery since the storm devastated the city.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:45:00 GMT
Time.com - Having pleaded guilty to the 2002 murder of her husband and stepson, Teresa Lewis is scheduled to be put to death on Sept. 23. Will the governor grant her clemency?
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:36:40 GMT
AP - A key witness at the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial has retracted a previous statement that she saw Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern inject the former Playboy model.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:23:32 GMT
AP - An Ohio man has pleaded guilty in a $400,000 fraud that used stolen identities to file more than 100 false federal income tax returns.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:28:32 GMT
Reuters - An investment adviser, whose clients included director Martin Scorsese and singer Carly Simon, pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud charges as part of a deal with U.S. prosecutors who accused him of swindling up to $50 million.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:28:18 GMT
AP - Sen. Roland Burris has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in his battle to avoid being pushed out of office in November, his attorney said Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:10:19 GMT
AP - Iran's state news agency has confirmed that Tehran has postponed the planned release of an American woman who has been jailed for more than a year.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:02:09 GMT
AP - Foreign carriers may be invited to fly routes served by the troubled flag carrier Philippine Airlines if its flight attendants go on strike, the tourism chief said Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:36:40 GMT
AP - A key witness at the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial has retracted a previous statement that she saw Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern inject the former Playboy model.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:50:44 GMT
LiveScience.com - The dread and fear that can come with a cancer diagnosis have their roots in its killer nature: It's the No. 2 cause of death in Americans, second only to heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even when diagnosed early and attacked with the latest treatments, it still has the power to kill.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:12:26 GMT
Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: "Pam" and I have been friends since childhood, when we attended preschool together. Our backgrounds are similar and we share the same religious views.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:40:20 GMT
AP - Clad in Spiderman pajamas, a 5-year-old southern Illinois boy on a scooter had someplace to be. And he apparently wasn't going to let busy highways stand in his way. Authorities said Jackson County sheriff's deputies picked up the boy and his Razor-type scooter about 2 a.m. Wednesday along Old Illinois 13 in Murphysboro after fielding two 911 calls about the child's trek.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:49:06 GMT
AP - The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report compiled by the former heads of the Sept. 11 Commission.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:12:56 GMT
 Reuters - China will launch its second lunar exploration probe by the end of 2010, boosting the country's effort to rise as a space power eventually capable of landing on the moon, official media said Friday.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:22:46 GMT
 Reuters - The New Orleans Saints celebrated last season's Super Bowl championship then launched the defense of their crown with a rousing 14-9 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday to open a new NFL season.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:11:14 GMT
 AFP - China is on track to launch its second lunar satellite by year's end, as the country pursues its plans for a manned mission to the moon by 2020, state media said Friday.
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