Breaking News latest RSS headlines - Albuquerque News.net

Search for survivors nearly over in Oklahoma as damage estimate is $2bn

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:06:51 -0400

MOORE, Oklahoma - Rescue workers were combing through the battered remains of buildings left behind in the path of the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery. Gary Bird, fire chief of the badly hit Moore suburb, said he was "98% sure" there were no ...

Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects shot dead by FBI

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:03:15 -0400

MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...

Senate panel approves plan to ease hiring of foreign techies

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:41 -0400

WASHINGTON - A US Senate panel has cleared a proposed legislation that relaxes restrictions on IT companies to hire foreign techies, thus clearing one of the major hurdles to ushering changes in American immigration law in a generation. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill after its authors won a bipartisan support with three Republicans joining 10 Democrats in the 18-member ...

Eight candidates for Iranian presidential race

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:52 -0400

TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...

Top North Korean official visits China

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:56:15 -0400

PYONGYANG, North Korea - In an indication that North Korea may give diplomacy a chance to end regional tension, its leader Kim Jong Un Wednesday sent a special envoy to China to win the confidence of its most important ally. The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party official and the military's top political officer, comes after months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give ...

Bernanke says more positive signs needed before scaling back stimulus

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:25:11 -0400

WASHINGTON - Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke Wednesday said it was too soon to scale back the monetary stimulus and the central bank needs to see further signs of traction before taking a decision. A decision to scale back the $85 billion in bonds the Fed is buying each month could come at one of the central bank's "next few meetings" if the economy looked set to maintain ...

Higher exports fail to plug widening Japan trade deficit

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:52:11 -0400

TOKYO - Japan's trade deficit rose substantially more than expected in the month April to 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion), which is a 70% jump over the trade deficit during the corresponding month a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.. The deficit, for the tenth consecutive month, was wider than what many economists had forecast. A survey from the Nikkei business daily ...

Vitamin C offers hope of tackling drug resistant TB

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:56:35 -0400

WASHINGTON - Adding vitamin C to existing tuberculosis drugs regime could shorten the therapy for drug resistant TB, claims new research findings published in the online scientific journal Nature Communications. The striking discovery, by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in laboratory ...

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 ...

Labour reforms to top US team agenda on Bangladesh visit

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:14 -0400

DHAKA - A high level US delegation led by the State Department's Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of labour safety regulations following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said Wednesday. The collapse of a nine-storey factory complex housing several garment units outside the capital last ...

German central bank sees signals of economic pick up in Q2

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:04:27 -0400

FRANKFURT - Germany's central bank Deutsche Bundesbank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter relying on signals of pick up in industrial orders and likelihood of weather related downturn in construction sector no longer impacting investment sentiments a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. "Overall ...

Mortgage lending in UK rises highest in four years

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:23:44 -0400

LONDON - The UK housing market seems to be picking up with gross mortgage lending up 4.3 per cent in April over previous month to 12.1 billion pounds, the highest in over four years, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The mortgage lending was 21% higher than April 2012, but this data is skewed by the end of the stamp duty concession on 24 March, 2012. Under the stamp duty ...

Ukrainian Journalists Protest Decision To Bar 10 From Cabinet Coverage

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:21:03 -0400

Pro- and antigovernment protesters square off in rival demonstrations in the Ukrainian capital soon after leaders of the three main opposition factions in the Ukrainian parliament agree to cooperate on backing a single candidate to oppose incumbent Viktor Yanukovych in presidential elections in ...

McCartney Urges Russia To Release Jailed Pussy Riot Members

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:21:02 -0400

Paul McCartney has written a letter supporting the jailed members of the Russian feminist performance-art group Pussy Riot. An announcement with excerpts from his handwritten letters to Russian officials was placed on ...

PM to Kerry Peace talks top Israels agenda

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:16:20 -0400

Reviving peace talks with the Palestinians tops Israel's agenda, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday as they met in Jerusalem at the start of the American diplomat's latest visit to the region."This is something that both you and I want, and I hope also the Palestinian want," Netanyahu said as they posed for the media at the ...

Israeli restaurateur faces deportation from US

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:16:18 -0400

Israeli restaurateur goes viral with online meltdown His lawyer had no comment on how Bouzaglo ended up in immigration court proceedings, but it seems it has something to do with jail time the Moroccan-born Israeli did for drug distribution and extortion charges before his arrival in the US 13 years ...

Man linked to Tsarnaev shot by FBI agent

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:15:47 -0400

Police officers block the entrance to an apartment complex where a man was fatally shot in Orlando, Florida. The FBI says the man, being questioned by authorities in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing, was fatally shot when he initiated a violent ...

Page out of book depicts towns tragedy

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:57:10 -0400

>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH.(CNN) -- The lone, tattered page from a decimated children's book sat quietly amid the rest of the rubble. But the words spoke volumes about the pain and nostalgia in the city of Moore:"I remember my old house, it's rooms so bright and wide. It's halls will echo for all time, with ...

Portuguese leaders build faith in bailout exit

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:55:08 -0400

A woman with a Portuguese flag shouts slogans during a protest against austerity in front of the presidential palace in Lisbon May 20, 2013. Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva called a state council to discuss the political and economic situation after a ''troika'' bailout ...

M23 rebels announce ceasefire for UN chiefs Congo visit

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:55:07 -0400

M23 rebel recruits stand at attention during a training session at the Rumangabo military camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, May 16, ...

Bangladesh govt probe blames owners in building collapse

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:53:26 -0400

Bangladesh ends building collapse search; final toll is 1,127 The investigating committee, appointed by the interior ministry, found that the ground Rana Plaza was built on was unfit for a multi-story building. "A portion of the building was constructed on land which had been a body of water before and was filled with rubbish," committee head Khandker Mainuddin Ahmed said. He said the ...

UK police investigate machete murder

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:51:01 -0400

British police are investigating the murder of a man who was attacked with a machete near an army base in South London. The victim was hacked to death with a machete-style knife in the Woolwich district in the southeast of the British capital on Wednesday before the attackers were shot by police. Video footage filmed by an onlooker and broadcast by Britain's ITV news channel showed a man ...

Death toll rises in Lebanon clashes

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:51:00 -0400

Seven people have been killed and more than 50 wounded in overnight clashes in Tripoli between Lebanese fighters backing rival factions in Syria's civil war, according to doctors and security sources. Tripoli has suffered sporadic sectarian violence since the Sunni Muslim-led uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad broke out in March 2011, but after a night of mortar, grenade and ...

China and Japan Show Signs of Economic Stress

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:07:53 -0400

HONG KONG ...

France backs call to put Hezbollah on EU terror list

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:05:58 -0400

Official say Paris is ready to support British initiative to blacklist armed wing of Hezbollah on EU's list of terrorist organizations; France has been cautious of such a move fearing it could destabilize ...

Peres to Sarkozy at breakfast Friends are friends

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:05:58 -0400

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who came to Israel primarily to receive an honorary doctorate from Netanya Academic College had a breakfast meeting on Thursday morning with President Shimon Peres, whom he knows well and with whom he had enjoyed previous meetings in Jerusalem and Paris over the past decade, spoken on the phone, and exchanged correspondence.If Sarkozy, instead of being ...

Formula 1 UEFA Maccabiah all on way to Jerusalem

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:05:57 -0400

attractions forming the backdrop along the route. Some of the greatest professionals in the field will be arriving for the event including a team of drivers and technicians from Ferrari in Maranello, Italy.In addition to Formula One cars, Ferrari Challenge cars will also participate in demo drives, as well as drift cars with high horsepower V8 engines and other sports cars. The road show will ...

We will never buckle to terror Cameron leads emergency Cobra committee with pledge to face down threat from extremists

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:02:05 -0400

David Cameron has convened a meeting of the government's emergency committee today after issuing a defiant message that Britain will ’never buckle’ to terrorists in the wake of the horrific knife attack in ...

French prosecutors to grill IMF chief over payout

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:00 -0400

French prosecutors were grilling IMF chief Christine Lagarde in a Paris court on Thursday as they seek to determine whether she should be charged over a state payout to disgraced tycoon Bernard Tapie during her time as finance ...

Obama to reset US terror war in key speech

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:00:59 -0400

Barack Obama will renew his failed vow to close Guantanamo Bay and argue his drone war is legal and just Thursday, in a speech reframing US anti-terror policy that will shape his presidential ...

Youths torch restaurant cars in Sweden riots

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:50:50 -0400

Groups of youth have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police in a fourth night of riots in suburbs of the Swedish capital that started following a fatal police shooting. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says at least 30 cars were set ablaze across western and southern Stockholm early Thursday. Firefighters said they have "never before seen so many fires raging ...

Pakistan Blast Kills 13 Officers in Restive Area

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:45:27 -0400

ISLAMABAD ...

Barred from election Rafsanjani lambasts Iranian authorities - report

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:44:37 -0400

DUBAI (Reuters) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sharply criticized the country's leadership, opposition website Kaleme said on Thursday, two days after he was disqualified from running in next month's presidential ...

Miners Vale Rio Tinto accused of neglecting displaced Mozambicans

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:44:36 -0400

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch accused Mozambique's government and foreign mining companies on Thursday of "serious shortcomings" in resettling communities to make way for coal mines, leaving thousands without proper homes, food or sources of ...

Five killed 50 wounded in Lebanons Tripoli

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:44:36 -0400

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Five people were killed and more than 50 wounded in overnight clashes in Tripoli between Lebanese gunmen loyal to rival factions in Syria's civil war, doctors and security sources said on ...

Octogenarian Japanese climbs Everest

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:40:10 -0400

An 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber who has had four heart surgeries has reached the top of Everest, becoming the oldest person to conquer the world's highest mountain. Yuichiro Miura, who took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reached the top of the 29,028ft mountain at roughly 9am local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday. ...

UN and World Bank in DR Congo peace push

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:40:10 -0400

The UN and World Bank chiefs are visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid reports of fresh fighting in the country’s east which has sent thousands fleeing. Ban Ki-moon and Jim Yong-kim arrived in Kinshasa, the capital, on Wednesday, embarking on a trip largely seen as a fresh push for peace and development.Ban and Kim met Joseph Kabila, the DRC president, and the country's ...

British PM seeks answers after hacking death

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:23:09 -0400

>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- Prime Minister David Cameron will convene an emergency meeting of Britain's civil emergency committee on Thursday, looking for answers in the aftermath of the daylight hacking death of a man thought to be a British soldier by two attackers. The meeting comes as security was increased at army bases around London amidst fears that ...

Car Bomb Kills 12 In Pakistans Southwest

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00:29 -0400

Police in Pakistan say a bomb planted on a vehicle in the southwest of the country has killed 12 people, including 11 police officers. Police officials said the attack just outside Quetta also wounded more than 20. Police said the bomb targeted a vehicle carrying members of the police's special forces. Quetta is the capital of southwestern Balochistan Province, which is a stronghold ...

London attack

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:54:24 -0400

>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of Britain's civil emergency committee on Thursday, looking for answers in the aftermath of the daylight hacking death of a man thought to be a British soldier. The meeting comes as security was increased at army bases around London amidst fears that additional attacks could be ...

London attack

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:54:24 -0400

Malaysian Opposition Figures Are Detained

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:52:46 -0400

BANGKOK ...

Live longer with a daily dose of calcium Women who take a supplement have a 22 lower risk of early death

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:51:18 -0400

The study is likely to reassure many who take supplements either prescribed by their doctor for osteoporosis - thinning bones - or bought over the counter as 'bone ...

Four Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes says White House

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:44:01 -0400

The disclosure comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy. The White House said Obama's speech today coincides with the signing of new "presidential policy guidance" on when the US can use drone strikes, though it was unclear what that guidance entailed and ...

Oklahoma tornado Search nears the end as first victim of Moore storm identified as nine-year-old JaNae Hornsby

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:43:58 -0400

Oklahoma tornado: Rescue effort nears an end as authorities say they are confident there are no bodies or survivors left in the ...

Man charged with mailing ricin letter to judge in Washington state

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:37:42 -0400

OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a man charged with mailing a letter containing the deadly poison ricin to a U.S. district judge in Spokane, Washington, the FBI ...

Cleaver assault in London called a terrorist attack

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:33:34 -0400

>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- They first hit the man, thought to be a British soldier, with a car in broad daylight. Then the two attackers hacked him to death and dumped his body in the middle of a southeastern London road. As the victim -- dressed in what appeared to be a T-shirt for Help for Heroes, a charity that helps military veterans -- lay prone, one of the ...

Roadside bomb kills 13 in southwest Pakistan

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:32:57 -0400

Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region's natural gas and other resources. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bomb in the city of Quetta. It was planted in a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw and blew up as a truck carrying the security men passed by. Sixteen people were wounded and the death toll could rise, said police in the ...

House panel moves to curb military sexual assaults

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:32:25 -0400

Lawmakers have advanced legislation to stem the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military. The bill approved by a House panel Wednesday authorizes changes to military law that would strip commanding officers of their authority to unilaterally change or dismiss court-martial convictions in major cases, such as rape and assault. Republicans and Democrats backing the revisions believe they ...

Now You See Me cast talks magic at N.Y. premiere

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:32:24 -0400

The cast and crew of "Now You See Me" are hoping to strike magic at the box office with their new heist thriller. Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Woody Harrelson play a group of illusionists known as the Four Horsemen. They use their magic show as a cover to rob the wealthy elite and give the stolen money to people who've lost everything during the economic crisis. ...

Early Survey Shows Contraction in Chinese Manufacturing

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:28:10 -0400

HONG KONG ...

Chechen immigrant shot to death while questioned in Boston probe

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:23:07 -0400

ORLANDO, fla. - A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities early Wednesday after he turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, officials said.Ibragim Todashev, 27, a mixed martial arts fighter, was gunned down at his Orlando townhouse during a meeting with an FBI agent and two Massachusetts state troopers, authorities said. The ...

Cameron Returns To U.K. To Coordinate Response After Brutal Killing

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:52:15 -0400

British Prime Minister David Cameron has returned to London to coordinate his government's response after a man was butchered to death by two attackers shouting Islamic slogans near an army barracks in London on May 22. Cameron condemned the attack before cutting short a visit to France. "Tonight our thoughts should be with the victim, with their family, with their friends," ...

Senate US must back Israel in case of Iran strike

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:48:05 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Democratic-led Senate voted 99-0 - with one senator not present - on Wednesday night, on a resolution that the United States should support Israel if it were forced to defend itself from an Iranian nuclear threat. The measure also urged Obama to strengthen enforcement of existing sanctions on Iran. Earlier Wednesday, a US House of Representatives committee approved legislation ...

Japanese man 80 becomes oldest climber to reach top of Mount Everest

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:34:31 -0400

KATHMANDU, Nepal - An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest -- although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week. Yuichiro Miura, who also conquered the 8,850-metre peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time Thursday, ...

Analysis Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisias stability

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:27:20 -0400

TUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian ...

How one Oklahoma family cheated death during tornado

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:25:51 -0400

CBS News Jamie was all alone in her house with her two-year-old son, and the tornado was bearing down. "I was terrified, but I didn't want him to be scared," she said. "I just thought, 'I'll hold onto him.'" What Jamie didn't know was that her husband, Matt, was racing home. "I just wanted to get home, you know?" he said. "I ...

Parents ask why some Okla. schools lack tornado shelters

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:25:50 -0400

(CBS News) MOORE, Okla. - The mayor of Oklahoma City said Wednesday as many as 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in Monday's tornado, and 33,000 people have been affected. The mayor says the damage could total $2 billion. The state medical examiner said there were 24 deaths. Two were infants: four months old and seven months ...

Deadly blast targets Pakistan security force

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

A bomb planted in a rickshaw has struck a vehicle used by security forces in southwest Pakistan, killing several security personnel and wounding many more, sources say. The bomb, containing about 100kg of explosives, targeted a lorry carrying members of a government paramilitary force on Thursday on the Northern Bypass road in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province. Quetta is the capital ...

Obama to visit Oklahoma on Sunday tornado damage could top $1 billion

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:47:37 -0400

2013 Moore Tornado: Find all the coverage from the Moore tornado, including photo slideshows and a video from the World's award winning ...

Amnesty International urges governments to do more for refugees

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:33:47 -0400

LONDON: Human rights group Amnesty International has launched its 2013 annual report into global welfare.The organisation, which focuses mainly on dangers faced by refugees, displaced people and migrants, is now calling on global governments to do ...

Amnesty condemns abuse of refugee rights

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:12:14 -0400

The rights of millions of refugees and migrants have been abused in the past year, Amnesty International has said in its annual report on global human rights. The London-based rights group said on Wednesday that state authorities and employers were equally responsible for the suffering of vulnerable groups. "The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place" said Salil Shetty, ...

Survey shows China manufacturing contracting

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:35:29 -0400

HSBC economist Hongbin Qu in a statement, "The cooling manufacturing activities in May reflected slower domestic demand and ongoing external headwinds." He said that showed a possible "downside risk to China's fragile growth recovery" while signs of weakness in the labor market "call for more policy support" from the ...

PA hammers Israel at WHO annual assembly

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:29:48 -0400

Palestinian territories, Golan only sliver on planet to gain slot on World Health Organization's Geneva meeting; Foreign Ministry urges states to oppose resolution blasting Israel for poor health conditions in ...

British soldier butchered in suspected Islamist attack

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:24:35 -0400

Two men wielding knives butchered and beheadeda man believed to be a British soldier in a busy London street on Wednesday,before delivering an Islamist tirade to ...

Oklahoma Tornado Roulette Is Part Of Life

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:16:49 -0400

If you live in this part of Oklahoma you are playing tornado roulette. That much was clear from one street we visited. On one side most houses had sustained very little damage; on the other side there was complete devastation. The capricious physics of tornadoes adds cruelty to the misfortunes of those who have lost everything. Like Rob and Jennifer Voss, picking through the remains ...

Oklahoma Tornado Frustration Amid The Rubble

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:16:49 -0400

The frustration had started to boil over. Angry residents of a neighbourhood of Moore in Oklahoma, kept from seeing what had happened to their homes for two days, took it out on the police standing guard. "America is supposed to be about freedom," yelled one. "Just let us in to see what is left." There was screaming and shouting and pointing of fingers. They feared ...

London attack Woman confronted attackers to deflect danger

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:13:12 -0400

London: A woman who challenged knife-wielding assailants suspected of hacking to death a British soldier in London on Wednesday said she intervened because "it was better having them (the weapons) aimed on one person".Cub scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, explained in Thursday's Daily Telegraph that one of the men told her they wanted "to start a war in London ...

Oklahoma tornadoes Tornado damage could exceed $2 billion

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:06:39 -0400

Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said insured losses from the tornado that hit Moore, south Oklahoma City and Newcastle on Monday could surpass $2 ...

Minn. park landslide leaves 1 child dead 1 missing

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:04:49 -0400

Rescue personnel gather near an entrance to Lilydale Regional Park above the Mississippi River during a suspension of search efforts to find a fourth child missing after a landslide swept over a group of children on a fourth grade field trip Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in St. Paul, ...

You just want to break down and cry

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:33:20 -0400

>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH.(CNN) -- With everyone missing now accounted for from this week's deadly tornado, the long and difficult work of recovery can begin. "We are beginning the recovery operations," Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin told CNN's Piers Morgan late Wednesday. "There's a lot of debris removal going on ...

FBI Arrest made in Wash. state ricin letter scare

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:22:48 -0400

SPOKANE, Wash. - A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a case in which a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.A grand jury indictment accused Matthew Ryan Buquet of mailing a death threat to U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle at the federal courthouse on May 14.A search of federal court records turned up no ...

Ellie our human rattle Cancer girl had to take FIFTY different pills to combat cancer - now shes been given the all clear

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:30 -0400

On top of the gruelling chemotherapy treatment, the 11-year-old needed nearly 50 tablets, medicines and ointments a week to combat the wide variety of side ...

Relief for Osborne at last as IMF spots signs of recovery and welcomes improvement in the economy

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:29 -0400

It will come as a relief to the Chancellor who was last month heavily criticised by the watchdog's chief economist for sticking to his austerity ...

Woolwich shooting incident Crazed animals... how news of the savage attack exploded on Twitter

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:28 -0400

Most witnesses sent messages via the Twitter social networking site and Facebook, while others contributed to internet forums and newspaper ...

Woolwich attack Were they inspired by Al Qaeda magazine Authorities investigating whether terrorists were spurred into action by publication which urges lone wolf attacks

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:28 -0400

Inspire is produced by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and contains exhortations to carry out so-called 'lone wolf' terrorist attacks by self-motivated groups and individuals. Pictured is an advert from the ...

1000 current accounts are opened daily at Nationwide Customers quit shamed banks

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:27 -0400

Consumers are turning away from scandal-ridden banks and opening 1,000 current accounts a day at Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building ...

Rising number of primary pupils cannot swim a length 40 of 11-year-olds cannot cover 25metres unaided

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:26 -0400

Two-fifths of 11-year-olds are incapable of covering 25m unaided, according to a survey. This is up from a third 12 months ago who were found to be entering secondary school without the basic ...

31 years on Hyde Park bomber in dock Man charged over IRA atrocity that killed four soldiers and seven horses

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:25 -0400

31 years on, Hyde Park 'bomber' in dock over IRA atrocity that killed four soldiers and seven horses: Man charged after leaving remote Irish bolthole to go on ...

No beach fun for insecure Brits Quarter of UK women will avoid a sunshine holiday because of swimsuit fear

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:24 -0400

According to a the study more than one in four women (27 per cent) will sacrifice a sun holiday if it means they don't have to be seen in a ...

DAILY MAIL COMMENT IMF gives a reminder of what really matters

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:24 -0400

After weeks of tension in the Coalition and bitter infighting among the Tories comes a timely reminder from the IMF of the issue that matters most to every family in this ...

MI5 bugged Edward VIIIs calls to Wallis in days before his abdication as Government paranoia grew over the crisis

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:23 -0400

It suggests a breakdown of trust between Edward and his government as he wrestled with the decision whether to give up the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis ...

The names Bond Jane Bond Riddle of the WW2 spy arrested in Spain... dressed as a woman

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:23 -0400

Such flamboyance was apparently an offence in those less enlightened days, so the dictator General Franco's police arrested him and held him for two days for questioning. The news, cabled to the Foreign Office in London by the British Embassy in Madrid, sparked fears Clarke's cover would be blown – causing embarrassment to his political masters, secret files released today by the ...

The evidence that blows apart Mr Camerons claim that gay marriage will strengthen families

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:21 -0400

Speaking yesterday on Radio 4’s Today programme, after the Commons voted on Monday to allow gay marriage in England and Wales, Mr Cameron said: ‘There will be young boys in schools today who are gay, who are worried about being bullied, who are worried about what society thinks of them, who can see that the highest Parliament in the land has said that their love is ...

Firms STILL starved of loans says Bank Companies cannot get cash a year after Government launched lifeline to help them

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:21 -0400

Small businesses are being starved of money by Britain’s banking giants, nearly a year after the Government launched its emergency cash lifeline, the Bank of England said ...

Boriss sexual shenanigans and a landmark victory over our creeping culture of Stalinist secrecy

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:20 -0400

Many of our senior judges apparently dislike the Press and increasingly insist on the rights of privacy for public figures. So it was with some astonishment that I read a story on Tuesday morning that suggested the opposite may be the ...

QUENTIN LETTS Boris yearns to be indulged... in politics and elsewhere

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:19 -0400

In the absence of PMQs I went to BMQs, Boris Mayoral Questions. London Mayor Boris Johnson does ten of these a year. He sits in the middle of his assembly chamber in a big black leather chair and chats to assembly members about the woes of the ...

Nine in 10 children born to cohabiting couples this year will see parents split by the time they are 16

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:18 -0400

Nearly nine out of ten babies born to co-habiting parents this year will have seen their family break up by the time they reach the age of 16, says a ...

Thats whey too bad for our environment How the toxic by-product of Greek yogurt is causing a world-wide pollution problem

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:17 -0400

Environmental issues: A by-product of Greek yogurt, called acid whey, is causing a world-wide toxic waste problem, and scientists are scrambling to find a way to fix ...

Coroner criticises TV shows for making light of hoarding after pensioner trapped by piles of rubbish dies during blaze

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:16 -0400

A coroner has critised television programmes for trivialising the condition of compulsive hoarding after a pensioner died in a fire at her home which was filled floor to ceiling with ...

Leeds University most popular institution for drug users as eight out of ten undergraduates admit to trying illicit substances

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:15 -0400

The vast majority of students at British universities have experimented with drugs with a staggering 85 per cent at one institution admitting to have dabbled with illegal substances, a recent study has ...

Nicky Lovell Disqualified driver who mowed down couple on their tandem bike had two children in his car as he fled

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:14 -0400

A banned driver who knocked down and killed a 'perfect' couple as they rode on a tandem bike had two children in his car it was revealed today as he was ...

Spectacular photos capture super-fit runners in some of the worlds most unforgiving terrains

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:14 -0400

The photo is just one of a series of spectacular images which capture dogged runners battling against some of the most remote and unforgiving environments on ...

Incompetent plumber caused a gas explosion which blew home from its foundations and left owners badly burned

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:13 -0400

An 'incompetent' plumber caused a gas explosion which blew a house off its foundations and injured the wealthy owner and his wife after botching a simple job, a court was ...

Mutiny on Bounty Rare copy of minutes of court martial revealed after 221 years

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:13 -0400

'Mr Peckover, what number of men did you see under arms?' 'Christian Fletcher upon deck with a bayonet': Rare copy of minutes of court martial of HMS Bounty mutineers revealed after 221 ...

Disgraced MP Eric Joyce is arrested AGAIN... this time for pushing police officer at Edinburgh Airport

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:11 -0400

Joyce, 52, had apparently left his mobile on an aeroplane after arriving on a flight from London and is said to have become abusive when he was not allowed to retrieve it ...

Plastic food packaging could cause high blood pressure in children

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:10 -0400

Exposure to the phalates used in food packaging and other items is thought to cause significant metabolic and hormonal abnormalities, especially during early ...

Strike a pose Worlds rarest animals are caught on hidden camera exploring their habitats

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:09 -0400

They may be some of the world's most endangered animals, but caught on secret camera this colourful menagerie appear not to have a care in the ...

Terrible nights sleep Blame your mobile phone How exposure to artificial light fools the brain into staying awake

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:08 -0400

Electric lights, including those which illuminate laptop computers, smartphones and tablets, often play a key role in causing people to sleep badly, a leading expert has ...

The gadget that lets you play with your pet from anywhere in the world

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:08 -0400

Neskin also created a website where friends could log on and play with Rocky during the day, which proved hugely popular - so he decided to form a company to make the ...

At the third oak the time will be... Carpenter carves functioning watches entirely from wood

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:07 -0400

Ukrainian Valerii Danevych makes his functional wrist watches almost entirely out of wood, with the sole exception of a metal spring needed to propel the ...

Firms to be told to spell out how much tax they pay in every European country in clampdown on cross-border avoidance

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:06 -0400

David Cameron today hailed a breakthrough in talks to secure an Europe-wide deal on sharing information to stop multi-national firms avoiding paying ...

Kyle Allan 8 killed bike crash with crane in front of brother in Aberdeen

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:05 -0400

Mrs Allan added that first heard about the tragedy yesterday evening when his seven-year-old brother Ryan ran home in hysterics, shouting that Kyle had been hit by a ...

You cant outfox me Cubs enjoy some boisterous fun as they wait for their mother for feeding time

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:04 -0400

Under the watchful eye of their mother, the red fur flies as five young fox cubs frolic in the grass. Enjoying the peace of a country garden, they are growing up far away from their urban cousins - but still depending on a helping human ...

Most gym goers only wash their kit after every THIRD workout

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:04 -0400

The majority of British keep fit fanatics are the pits at keeping their workout kit clean, with many confessing to only washing their sweaty rags after every third visit to the ...

The average British barbecue contains TWICE as many germs as a toilet seat

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:03 -0400

The above image shows where microbes are most concentrated in the typical garden, with red having the highest number of germs and yellow zones following closely ...

Helmet of British soldier who ran through hail of bullets to rescue his captain in 1897 during India campaign goes on sale

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:02 -0400

Perfectly preserved helmet of real-life Boy's Own hero who was awarded Victoria Cross after running through hail of bullets to rescue captain in 1897 India goes on ...

Beautiful pictures of a very foggy Chicago as it gets blanketed by the morning mist

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:14:00 -0400

Shot from the 69th floor of the iconic John Hancock Center the spectacular snaps capture the rare sight of early morning fog rolling in from Lake Michigan shrouding the Windy ...

U.S. Army sergeant accused of videotaping showering female cadets

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:06:13 -0400

WASHINGTON - An Army sergeant at the U.S. Military Academy has been accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers a West Point, a defence official said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of sex-related incidents that has rocked the armed forces. Sergeant First Class Michael McClendon was charged last week with four violations of U.S. military law in connection with the incident and has ...

CBS News goes undercover in a Bangladesh clothing factory

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:54:24 -0400

CBS News (CBS News) Many of the clothes in American stores are made in Bangladesh, which has a history of workplace disasters. Six months ago, 112 workers died when their factory burned down. Last month, another factory collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers in one of the worst industrial accidents ever. If you own clothes that were made in Bangladesh, this is where they come from. ...

Over 50 injured following Ind. school buses crash

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:54:23 -0400

This image provided by the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department shows a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in North Webster, Ind., Wednesday, May 22, ...

Who were the 4 U.S. citizens killed by drones

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:54:22 -0400

that four Americans were killed in drone strikes since 2009 as part of U.S. counterterrorism activities surrounding al Qaeda . Of the four, only one of them, Anwar al-Awlaki, was targeted, according to Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy. The following are descriptions of the four men killed in drone operations. Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar ...

Witness These two guys were crazed

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:42:05 -0400

Europe Pushes to Shed Stigma of Tax Haven With End to Bank Secrecy

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:16:54 -0400

LUXEMBOURG ...

Court Details Fatal Pakistani-U.S. Family Feud

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:10:40 -0400

She fled her husband and her family, sneaking out of her home in Pakistan to take sanctuary in the American Embassy, which then whisked her to a secret hide-out in the United States. The thrilling escape seemed to end the harrowing ordeal of Amina Ajmal, an American citizen who said she had been held captive for years by her own relatives in Pakistan and forced to marry a man there who ...

U.S. for first time acknowledges role in deaths of Americans in drone strikes

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:10:20 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one – a senior leader of al Qaida’s Yemen-based affiliate – and said nothing about the other three except to acknowledge indirectly that they’d been killed by accident. The ...

Legal Experts Debate U.S. Retailers Risks of Signing Bangladesh Accord

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:09:26 -0400

American retailers remain sharply opposed to joining an international plan to improve safety conditions at garment factories in Bangladesh as their European counterparts and consumer and labor groups dismiss the ...

Turkey translates Prophets sayings for 21st Century

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:08:46 -0400

ANKARA - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date.Turkish religious leaders and theologians received anxious calls asking about Western media reports they would edit a "radical" new set of hadiths, ...

The groom who went back to loot own wedding venue... and as hes sent to jail heavily pregnant wife is standing by him

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:05:00 -0400

But he later returned to the venue, broke in and stole hundreds of bottles of spirits, wine, beer and alcopops as he went on ...

Moore Okla. Begins Cleaning Up From Tornado

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:04:26 -0400

MOORE, Okla. ...

Afghan students protest womens rights decree

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:48 -0400

Hard-line Islamist students protested in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It was the latest sign of a backlash against the legal protections passed in the 12 years since the toppling of the Taliban regime known for its harsh treatment of women. The protest came days after conservative lawmakers' vehement opposition ...

Irans Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I.A.E.A. Report

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:47:09 -0400

International nuclear inspectors reported on Wednesday that Iran had increased its nuclear production while negotiations with the West dragged on this spring, but the new information suggested that Tehran had not gone past the ...

FBI Arrest Made in Wash. Ricin Letter Scare

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:44:01 -0400

A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week. A grand jury indictment accuses Matthew Ryan Buquet of mailing a threatening communication to U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle at the federal courthouse on May 14. The indictment did not say anything about ricin. However, the U.S. Postal ...

US tornado damage could cost $2bn

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:43:33 -0400

The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb killing 24 people and damaging as many as 13,000 homes may have caused $2bn in overall damage, officials said. Oklahoma Insurance Department spokeswoman Calley Herth told the AP news agency that the early damage tally is based on visual assessments of the disaster zone that stretches more than 27 kilometres and that Monday's tornado was ...

Washington Memo Torches and Pitchforks for I.R.S. but Cheers for Apple

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:35:05 -0400

WASHINGTON ...

Tiger undergoes surgery to remove 1.8 kg hairball + pic

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:33:54 -0400

It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 180 kilogram tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons when he couldn't hack up a soccer ball-sized hairball by himself. The 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at a veterinary center in the Tampa Bay area community of Clearwater. Doctors said in a statement that they safely removed the 1.8-kilogram obstruction from ...

Skin Deep Beach Hair Is Riding the Wave

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:29:29 -0400

The sleek look is still prevalent in the moneyed precincts of Manhattan, but for a certain segment of the population, what has come to be known as ...

All are now accounted for

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:52 -0400

>Country star Toby Keith tours the damage in his hometown of Moore, Oklahoma on AC360 tonight, 8pm ET. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH.(CNN) -- With everyone missing now accounted for from this week's deadly tornado, the long and difficult work of recovery can begin. "We are, we hope, in the recovery stages now," ...

All are now accounted for

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:52 -0400

>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH.(CNN) -- With everyone missing now accounted for from this week's deadly tornado, the long and difficult work of recovery can begin. "We are, we hope, in the recovery stages now," Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday. "It's going to take a while to get ...

Amnesty Report Notes Worldwide Abuses As Well As Courage Of Activists

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:04:25 -0400

In a new report, the global rights group Amnesty International (AI) documents abuses in 159 countries and territories that it says were "inflicted by those in power on those who stand in the way of their vested interests." The findings were published on May 23 in Amnesty International's annual report, "The State of the World's Human Rights," for 2012. It ...

German minister There is a chance for peace

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:59:47 -0400

The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.She said the new Israeli government was more disposed toward peace and that "US Secretary of State John Kerry is very much engaged [in the process]."She added that "my colleague, Justice Minister Livni, she gives me the impression that there is a chance at this moment, it is difficult, but there is a chance."Later, the German minister met ...

JA chairman Sharansky Independent probe needed

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:59:35 -0400

The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.As agency chairman, Sharansky has a seat on the board of the conference, which was established in 1951 to secure restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs from the German ...

Berman Claims Conference staff unaware of fraud

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:59:34 -0400

Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman continued to deny having any knowledge of fraud being conducted within his organization prior to 2009 - only hours before JTA reported on Wednesday that he and other senior executives had launched a probe into the matter in 2001.According to documents obtained by JTA, Berman's law firm, Kaye Scholer LLP, launched a 2001 probe that failed to ...

In China Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:56:03 -0400

BEIJING ...

Grieving mother of the red balloon brother and sister murdered by their British father leads tearful procession through French village

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:53 -0400

Mother Stephanie Morlet, who was divorced from Julian Stevenson, wore sunglasses as she joined hundreds of school children and well-wishers in her home ...

Oklahoma tornado Safety experts claim school where seven children died WAS ready despite not having shelter

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:52 -0400

The elementary school in which seven children died after a monster tornado barreled through an Oklahoma City suburb was ready for the twister, despite not having a shelter, experts ...

US House panel backs stiff new Iran sanctions

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:54:44 -0400

Iran could face tightened sanctions within months after a US congressional panel Wednesday adopted a measure targeting the nation's auto and mining industries as well as its foreign currency ...

UPDATE 1-U.S. House votes to force approval of Keystone pipeline

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:53:06 -0400

Wed May 22, 2013 7:53pm EDT By Ros Krasny WASHINGTON May 22 (Reuters) - The House of Representatives approved a bill as expected on Wednesday declaring that a presidential permit was not needed to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska leg of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a move that would take a decision on the project away from the Obama administration. The Republican-controlled House voted 241-175 ...

Victim of savage face-eating attack still recovering

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:48:04 -0400

Miami cannibal may have been high on 'bath salts' The Miami man who nearly had his face chewed off in a gruesome attack last May has a message for the public: "Just generally thanks for contributing and helping out. People in my predicament need to be helped out," Ronald Poppo says in a video posted by Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center. Poppo, 65, has been in hospital ...

Nations to boost aid to Syria rebels until Assad goes

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:46:43 -0400

AMMAN (AFP) - World powers urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to commit to peace, but warned Thursday that if he fails to negotiate a political transition they would boost their backing of the opposition.The stark warning came from a meeting of the Friends of Syria group, which held talks on Wednesday in Amman to try to agree the contours of a peace conference to end the war.The conflict, now ...

New Details Emerge in Aurora Theater Shootings

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:46:38 -0400

CENTENNIAL, Colo. ...

Poll Teens migrating to Twitter over Facebook

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:37:11 -0400

WASHINGTON Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too ...

Jordanian FM hopeful Kerry will relaunch talks

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:32 -0400

Nasser Judeh in Amman says US Secretary of State's round-the-clock-efforts may create "inducing environment" to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; Kerry scheduled to meet Netanyahu, Peres, Livni in ...

Shapira to investigate Netanyahu over foreign trips

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:30 -0400

investigate the financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as well as other public officials relating to their foreign trips.It was unclear what the scope of the investigation would be and what aspects it would add to ongoing investigations, but it was expected to include all of the latest developments in everything from the "Bibi Tours" affair to the ...

Govt bulldozers demolish 2 east Jerusalem homes

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:28 -0400

Government bulldozers demolished two residential buildings in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning for being illegally constructed on a national park, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.However, Meretz city councilman Dr. Meir Margalit, who holds the east Jerusalem portfolio, dismissed the ministry's claim as a "dirty trick" that the government was using to confiscate land from ...

High Court summons A-G over east Jlem property

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:26 -0400

In an unheard-of development, a seven-judge panel of the High Court of Justice ordered Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to appear personally to explain the state's position on using a 1950 property law to confiscate east Jerusalem properties from Arabs for the benefit of Jews and the state, the courts announced on Wednesday.Weinstein essentially never attends hearings; he sends ...

Prosor angered by UNRWA’s map of Arab Palestine

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:24 -0400

NEW YORK - Early this month, Ann Dismorr, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Lebanon, stood in front of cameras holding a map of Israel labeled "Arab Palestine." Framed in green and black and shoddily printed, the projected Palestinian state is shown surrounded by countries with modern borders: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Israeli officials are well used to seeing maps of ...

Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:24 -0400

BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...

Neighbours View Sharif as Yoked to Personal National History

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:04 -0400

- Following on Nawaz Sharif's victory in the May 11 national elections in Pakistan, many analysts are indicating cautious optimism on the prospect that the new prime minister can strengthen bilateral relations with the country's neighbours, particularly ...

Insects from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:04 -0400

MEXICO CITY, May 22 2013 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s recommendation to consider using edible insects as a food source to combat hunger may have particular repercussions in Colombia and Mexico, two Latin American countries that have a tradition of eating insects and a high degree of ...

New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:04 -0400

- PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children ...

Cuban Agriculture Needs Young People

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:03 -0400

She is not sure where her vocation came from, but she does know that this is what she wants to do. In Cuba, which is seeking to boost agricultural yields, there is a scarcity of young people working in the sector. Blanco, a petite 20-year-old, dropped her math studies after two years to try her hand at ...

Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:03 -0400

- Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water.On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of ...

Sweden riots Stockholm burns as rioters battle police after three days of violence in immigrant ghetto

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:56 -0400

It is Sweden's worst disorder in years and has shocked the country and provoked a debate on how Sweden is coping with youth unemployment and an influx of ...

Woolwich attack More than 100 English Defence League supporters gather near scene of killing

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:55 -0400

Officers formed a cordon and the men left the immediate area after the brief incident. Some of the EDL supporters gathered at The Queen's Arms pub locally, where they sang nationalistic ...

Third times a charm Angela Merkel named the most powerful woman in the world three years running

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:54 -0400

Third time lucky: German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year ...

Captain Calamity Francesco Schettino faces 20 years in jail as he WILL stand trial over Costa Concordia shipwreck

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:53 -0400

Francesco Schettino was commanding the giant cruise liner when it ran aground and sank off the island of Giglio in January last year, killing 32 people. The tragedy is considered Italy’s worst maritime disaster since the Second World ...

Ten more years of Mugabe President of Zimbabwe 89 signs new constitution limiting power to two terms - unless youve been in office for 33 years

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:53 -0400

A beaming Mugabe, flanked by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, his main political rival, and Deputy President Joice Mujuru signed multiple copies of the charter at State House in the capital Harare to cheers and applause from ...

Dominique Venner Outrage as Femen protestor mocks Notre Dame suicide by posing with gun in her mouth a DAY after right-wing historian killed himself on altar

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:52 -0400

A topless Femen activist held a fake gun in her mouth on the altar of Notre Dame cathedral - a day after a right-wing historian shot himself dead inside the iconic Paris ...

Imran Khan leaves hospital in good spirits 2 weeks after plummeting 15 feet at political rally in Pakistan

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:51 -0400

Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has left hospital two weeks after he received serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift truck at a campaign ...

IRS official refuses to testify before Congress

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:45:46 -0400

The IRS official who oversees non-profit applications refused to testify Wednesday at a congressional panel probing abuse at the US tax agency but defiantly insisted she had done nothing ...

Friends of Syria demands withdrawal of Hezbollah Iran fighters

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:29:15 -0400

AMMAN (Reuters) - The Friends of Syrian alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability. In a communiquÃ© issued after a meeting in Amman, the alliance said any transitional government in Syria being proposed as a core of a U.S. ...

Graphic video Man dead in truly shocking London attack

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:44 -0400

Warning: graphic video. A man with bloodied hands and knives appears in amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in southeast London in which a man was killed. Jessica ...

Sergio Garcia apologizes to Tiger Woods for fried chicken remark

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:43 -0400

In this photo made May 12, 2013, Sergio Garcia, of Spain, left, shakes hands with Tiger Woods at the end of the third round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, ...

Chicago Board of Ed votes to shut down 50 schools

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:42 -0400

Protesters of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's plan to close dozens of city schools rally in the rotunda at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Springfield ...

US admits drones killed four Americans

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:09 -0400

The United States has killed four of its own citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, the Barack Obama administration has formally acknowledged. Eric Holder, the US attorney general, ...

U.S. Admits for First Time Drones Killed 4 Americans

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:01:22 -0400

WASHINGTON ...

Art Basel Hong Kong Opens on Thursday

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:53:58 -0400

HONG KONG ...

School storm protection is spotty in tornado zones

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:47:33 -0400

MOORE, Okla. -; Communities in the tornado-prone Midwest are increasingly building "safe rooms" in public schools. But this week's deadly tornado near Oklahoma City highlights how storm protection in the nation's schools is ...

Doctors save Ohio boy by printing an airway tube

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:39 -0400

In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab.In the case of Kaiba (KEYE'-buh) Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth ...

Pickering agrees to be questioned over State Department’s Benghazi probe

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:28 -0400

WASHINGTON - The retired U.S. diplomat who co-chaired an internal State Department review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday ended his refusal to submit to a closed-door interview with a Republican-led House committee that is investigating the assault. No date was set for the private deposition of retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering by staff of ...

U.S. U.N. urge Gulf states to donate more for Syrian refugees

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:27 -0400

WASHINGTON - With its neat rows of carpeted cabins, security monitors and on-site hospital and school, the Mrigb al Fuhud camp in Jordan is opulent compared with the squalid tent cities that house other Syrian refugees. Humanitarian workers, however, privately deride it as a five-star hotel or the Stepford camp. Built by the United Arab Emirates for nearly $10 million, the camp holds ...

Soldier killed in Golan mine accident to be buried

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:13 -0400

killed in a minefield accident on Wednesday as Roee Yisrael Alfi, 18, of Gan Yavne, and promoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.Alfi, who had been in training and was tasked with clearing a minefield on the Golan Heights, died after one of the mines, which had been exposed and marked ahead of its clearance, went off for an unknown ...

Non-Orthodox Jews can use mikvaot for conversion

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:11 -0400

Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said on Wednesday that ritual baths, or mikvaot, could be used by Conservative and Reform groups for their conversion process, even though the Chief Rabbinate does not recognize conversions conducted by non-Orthodox Jewish denominations.Ben-Dahan was speaking during a hearing of the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee, which was reviewing the ...

Labor faction chairman Herzog forms lobby for IBA

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:09 -0400

Labor Party faction chairman Isaac Herzog has set up a Knesset lobby to protect the interests of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, for which he was responsible when he served as welfare and social services minister.Herzog formed the lobby in response to a report in ...

J’lem to offer free checkups for hearing awareness

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:05 -0400

Jerusalem's Hadassah Academic College will conduct free hearing tests for the general public, performed by Hadassah University Medical Center ear-nose-and-throat specialists along with the college's clinical-communications students on Tuesday as part of National Hearing Awareness Day events.Events will be held on Tuesday, May 28 at starting at 8 a.m. in cooperation with various ...

Jordan Red Cross tours J’lem women’s health clinic

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:03 -0400

A delegation from the Jordanian Red Cross came to Jerusalem on Wednesday to tour Bishvilaych, a nonprofit medical clinic for haredi and Modern Orthodox Jewish women in the capital's Givat Shaul neighborhood.Many traditionally religious women feel uncomfortable about being examined by male doctors and discussing intimate matters with them - and according to the heads of the clinic, ...

Shalom Gas exports to be capped at 40

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:01 -0400

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom intends to set the maximum natural gas export allocation at 40 percent rather than the expected 53% figure, he told Channel 2 on Wednesday night. As companies continue to explore and drill through Israel's eastern Mediterranean waters, export allowances have become a topic of contention across the country. The 282-billion cubic meter Tamar ...

Smartphone app updates bus proximity in real time

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:41:59 -0400

Rather than pacing at a bus stop wondering why the 8 a.m. line still has yet to show up at 8:15, Israeli travelers are now able to take advantage of a smartphone application that provides updates about their bus's proximity in real time.The iPhone and Android app NetBus is the brainchild of four young men who came up with the idea during their army service and are equal partners in the ...

Claims Conference leaders must resign now

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:41:57 -0400

Over the past few days, there have been additional mind-boggling exposures of further scandals, lack of transparency, cover-ups and ethical failures at the highest possible levels of the Claims Conference leadership and management. Unless these latest reports appearing ...

Mothers anger after officials only grant one of her disabled identical twin sons disability benefit

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:37:56 -0400

A couple have spoken of their disbelief after just one of their disabled identical twin sons, who both have Downs Syndrome, was granted vital disability benefits while the other was ...

Woolwich attack Shocking video taken by eyewitnesses to slaughter of soldier in which killer blames British Government and apologises to women who saw it

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:37:55 -0400

Shocking footage emerged this evening of one of the suspected Woolwich attackers, covered in blood and saying: 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a ...

Jodi Arias death penalty jury in deadlock

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:20 -0400

Jodi Arias looks at her family during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Rob Schumacher/Arizona ...

London attack