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Cigarette smuggling ring with terror links busted in New York

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:38:55 -0400

NEW YORK - Authorities in New York are claiming to have busted a multi-million cigarette smuggling ring and arrested at least 16 Palestinian immigrants having alleged links with known terror organisations. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly Thursday said that the 16 members of the criminal ring in New York City, Albany County and Schenectady County ...

Obama turns table on Republicans, seeks more money for security at embassies

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:34:14 -0400

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has called for more security at American embassies around the world, urging Congress to help him "as a partner" to fully fund the State Department in this regard. By seeking Congress support for stepping up the security at embassies, Obama has turned the tables on Republicans amid criticism that the government's response to Benghazi attack on a US ...

Dozens killed in Iraq bomb blasts

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:20:50 -0400

BAGHDAD - Scores of people were killed in Iraq Friday, in a day marked by several bombings including two outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba after Friday prayers, killing at least 43 worshipers in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence. One bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba while a second ...

Boston suspect scribbled note in boat while hidding from police

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:22 -0400

NEW YORK - Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scribbled a note in a boat he hid in while the manhunt was on, saying the attacks were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and described the victims as "collateral damage". Tsarnaev wrote the note with a marker in the boat, describing the Boston victims "collateral damage" in the same way Muslims have been ...

Syria receives advanced cruise missile batteries from Russia

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:39:06 -0400

WASHINGTON - Russia has sent advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria in a move that underscores its support to the beleaguered regime of President Bashar Al Assad in the war-torn Arab nation, officials citing credible intelligence reports said here. The New York Times reported Friday that the new missiles sent to Syria have an advanced radar system that makes them "more effective". ...

Energy Department gives nod for more US LNG exports

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:28:40 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Energy Department Friday gave a conditional nod authorizing Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. and FLNG Liquefaction, LLC (Freeport) to set up a second facility for export of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. The approval means that gas-hungry markets like Japan and India could start ...

Minor setback reported on Nippon's test flight of Dreamliner

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:28:04 -0400

TOKYO - Japan's All Nippon Airways said Friday a modified Dreamliner had suffered a "minor" setback while conducting a test flight of an aircraft this month, but assured it was not due to overheating of lithium batteries. All Nippon Airways, the Japanese airline that is the largest operator of Boeing's beleaguered Dreamliner, said an electric distribution panel overheated and blackened during ...

Three days after closure Bangladesh factories reopen

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:34:08 -0400

DHAKA - Bangladesh has re-opened hundreds of garment factories after just three days of closure following protests over pay and poor work conditions. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association had called for the re-opening on Friday. The shutdown of factories this week was prompted by worker protests over low pay and poor working conditions sparked by the country's worst ...

Developing nations set to dominate global investments says World Bank

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:44 -0400

WASHINGTON - The share of developing countries led by China and India in global investment is expected to triple by 2030 to three-fifths, from one-fifth in 2000, says the latest edition of the World Bank's Global Development Horizons (GDH) report, which explores patterns of investment, saving and capital flows as they are likely to evolve over the next two decades. Seventeen years from now, ...

Morrisons signs deal to use Ocado logistics facility

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:53 -0400

LONDON - Morrisons Supermarkets, one of the major British retail chains, has entered into a 170 million pounds and 25-year agreement with Ocado Group plc ("Ocado"), to acquire its recently opened Dordon Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) in the Midlands, and lease it back with commitment to use its logistics and distribution facilities to start grocery deliveries to customers by January 2014. ...

Depression doubles risk of stroke in middle-aged women

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:20:09 -0400

Middle-aged women suffering from depression are more than twice as likely to have a stroke, a new study has warned. In a 12-year Australian study of 10,547 women 47-52 years old, researchers found that depressed women had a 2.4 times increased risk of stroke compared to those who weren't depressed. Even after researchers eliminated several factors that increase stroke risks, depressed women were ...

North Korea may have 200 mobile missile launchers

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:01 -0400

North Korea may have up to 200 mobile missile launchers, or twice the number previously estimated by South Korea's authorities, South Korean media reported Friday. South Korea's state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) said that in line with a report submitted to the US Congress by the Pentagon, North Korea has probably accumulated up to 200 so-called transporter erector launchers ...

Afghan Police Chief Assassinated

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:34:24 -0400

Officials say Police Chief Abdul Ghani was near his home late Friday when gunmen shot him. No one has been detained in the case. The Associated Press quotes a local official as saying Ghani had led a crackdown on insurgents in his district of Khaki Safad that resulted in the killing and capture of several Taliban leaders. The spokesman said that made him a target for Taliban ...

Afghan District Police Chief Killed

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:29:39 -0400

An Afghan police chief has been killed after two militants riding on motorcycles opened fire on his vehicle in western Afghanistan. Abdul Ghani, police chief of Khak-e Safid district in Farah Province, was killed instantly outside his home late on May 17. Provincial spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai said that Ghani was rushed to hospital but was declared dead upon arrival. Ghani had led ...

Five people critically injured and sixty hospitalized after two New York commuter trains collide in Connecticut

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:15:14 -0400

Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy ...

British child dies in a pool at Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in Egypts Sharm el-Sheikh resort

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:15:12 -0400

The company said the child died in a waterpark at the Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed the death of a British national and said it was providing consular assistance.First Choice said it would carry out a "full and thorough investigation" in partnership with the hotelier.A spokeswoman said: "First Choice can ...

North Korea launches short-range missiles

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:02:37 -0400

North Korea has launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, according to South Korea's Ministry of Defence quoted by Yonhap news agency. The ministry said it detected two missiles fired on Saturday morning, followed by another in the afternoon. It said the country had reinforced monitoring on North Korea and was maintaining a ...

Russias grand football designs

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:02:35 -0400

A combined league bringing together the best football clubs in Eastern Europe, including three winners of the UEFA cup - CSKA Moscow, Zenit St Petersburg and Shakhtar Donetsk - may become a reality following UEFA’s deadline to force financial fair play requirements.Ukraine and Russia’s leading football clubs are heavily subsidised by sponsorship and, unless they manage to considerably ...

China Man arrested over fake plane bomb threats

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:07:10 -0400

A man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for Shanghai. It was the second time in a week that Chinese flights were grounded because of fake bomb threats. Another man was arrested Thursday for allegedly making such calls the previous day. The Civil Aviation Administration of China, or CAAC, said a 43-year-old man surnamed Ji and from the ...

UKs Litvinenko inquest suffers setback

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:57:27 -0400

A long-delayed inquiry to determine circumstances that led to the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian intelligence officer, could be abandoned after the official responsible for leading it partly upheld a British government request to withhold crucial evidence. Robert Owen, a senior judge acting as coroner, said on Friday that keeping some of the evidence secret would make it impossible ...

Several killed in China rainstorms

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:57:26 -0400

Heavy rainstorms blamed for this week's landslides in southern China have killed 55 people and left 14 others missing, Chinese authorities say. At least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website said on its website on Saturday. Ten provincial localities in south China have been affected including Anhui, ...

Navy pilot earns masters degree in engineering while in combat zone

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:57:13 -0400

The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes — transmitted live via the Internet — but he ...

Feds to investigate Conn. train crash

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:26:30 -0400

>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the hospital. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board will be at the site of the crash this morning, the agency said. The two Metro-North passenger trains, ...

Gosnell Seeps into the News

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:25:22 -0400

By most accounts, Kermit Gosnell seemed stunned last week when a jury found him guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in what seemed to have been his routine killings of newborn babies at his abortion clinic in Philadelphia; he thought he was doing his job. Abortion is legal and is a much-touted right. The president recently lavished praise on Planned Parenthood, a lobbyist for which had ...

Report Israel prefers Assad survive Syria conflict

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:17:01 -0400

Israeli intelligence officer tells 'Times of London' that Israel prefers a "devil it knows than demons it can only imagine"; another source said Assad's staying power had been ...

British woman could face death penalty for smuggling

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:14:54 -0400

A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said. The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms of the drug, the Indonesian narcotics agency said. "Because ...

Earthquake strikes Japan

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:09:54 -0400

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has stuck 278km north east of Tokyo, Japan. The US Geological Survey says the quake was 41km deep. - Herald ...

Earthquake strikes Japan

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:09:54 -0400

A strong 6.1 earthquake has struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island, seismologists say, but no tsunami warning was issued and there are no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit at 2.48pm (local time) in the Pacific some 50 kilometres from the town of Namie near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, the United States Geological Survey said. Japan's ...

48 Hours Unraveling the lies of Jodi Arias

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:55:20 -0400

Jodi deserves the DP she deserves no mercy she has no redeeming qualities. She premeditated the slaughter of Travis and an overkill only because if she could not have him then in her mind neither would anyone else. She has no ...

Somaliland hopes for independence

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:53:05 -0400

The Horn of Africa has been ravaged by war and famine for decades, and now one of Somalia's regions, hopes to become an independent state. Somaliland sits on the Gulf of Aden and is officially regarded as an autonomous region of Somalia. The two were, however, separate until 1960. During the civil war in the 1980s, 40,000 people from Somaliland were killed, and nearly half a million fled. ...

US scolds Russia for sending arms to Syria

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:53:04 -0400

The US has scolded Russia for sending missiles to the Syrian government, with plans for an international peace conference promoted by the two major powers appearing to founder on diplomatic rifts over its scope and purpose. General Martin Dempsey, the most senior US military officer, has described Russia's recent delivery of anti-ship missiles to President Bashar al-Assad as "ill-timed ...

Exclusive EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade violations

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:19:07 -0400

By Daniel BasesNEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe's top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said he was prepared to launch a formal investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by these Chinese ...

Reports of 60 injured in US train accident

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:06:54 -0400

NEW YORK: A rush-hour collision between two commuter trains in a suburb north of New York City Friday injured 60 passengers, five of them seriously.A spokesman for the Metro North commuter train line said the incident involved a train headed into the city and one traveling in the opposite direction toward New Haven, Connecticut."Sixty people have been taken to the hospital," Connecticut ...

France legalises same-sex marriage

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:59:31 -0400

France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed it into law following months of bitter political debate. Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. French ...

Dozens injured in Conn. train collision

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:52:53 -0400

>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Two Metro-North passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured -- some of them critically -- authorities said. A train heading from New Haven to New York City derailed around 6:10 p.m., hitting the other ...

France set to legalise same-sex marriage

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:48:37 -0400

French President Francois Hollande is due to sign a gay marriage and adoption bill into law, after the country's Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. Hollande, trying to turn the page on months of bitter opposition to the measures, said it was "time to respect the law and the Republic". The Constitutional Council approved the bill on ...

U.S. Criticizes Russia On Missiles To Syria

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:10:23 -0400

The top U.S. military officer has denounced Russia for providing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons will only worsen the Syrian war. The comments by General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came after "The New York Times" reported that Russia recently delivered a shipment to Syria’s government of ...

Stars at NBA 2013 playoffs

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:44:47 -0400

Rihanna attends Game One of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs between the Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks at American Airlines Arena on April 21, 2013, in Miami, ...

South Sudan town trashed by army

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:28 -0400

Al Jazeera has gained access to a South Sudanese town, where fighting and looting have forced most of the population to leave. Homes and a hospital have been looted and destroyed, with the UN blaming South Sudanese soldiers who have been fighting a regional rebel group. The army denies the charge, but medical staff and patients at the hospital, the only such facility for 150km, said they had ...

U.S. Quiet On Iran Women President Bar

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:03:57 -0400

The United States has declined to take a firm stand after a member of Iran’s electoral authority said women will be barred from standing in Iran’s June presidential election. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington would not comment on specific candidates. She also noted that Iranian authorities must approve all candidates. The spokeswoman said that, broadly, the ...

Lisbon to hold first Jewish film festival

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:59:38 -0400

Hundreds of people were expected to attend Lisbon's first-ever Jewish film festival next week.The three-day festival, entitled "Judaica: 1st exhibition of cinema and culture," was scheduled to open on May 22 at Lisbon's main art cinema, Cinema Sao Jorge, and will include 15 Jewish and Israeli documentary and feature productions, according to a report by the Jornal Digital news ...

UN panel sanctions delaying N.Korea nuke program

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:57:01 -0400

North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, UN experts say in a new report. Key parts of the expert panel's report, obtained Friday by the Associated Press, provide further information on North Korea's attempts to evade four rounds of increasingly ...

French President Francois Hollande to sign gay marriage bill into law today

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:50:47 -0400

gay marriage and adoption bill into law on Saturday after it was cleared by the Constitutional Council which turned down a challenge by the right-wing opposition. Hollande, who had made "marriage for all" a key election pledge, made the announcement saying it was "now time to respect the law and the Republic" after the top French institution cleared the bill on Friday. The ...

O.J. Simpsons ex-lawyer contradicts his testimony on guns

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:37:05 -0400

LAS VEGAS O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his buddies had guns when they went to a hotel room together to reclaim some sports memorabilia. Miami-based attorney Yale Galanter quickly found himself under withering ...

60 taken to hospitals as commuter trains collide in Conn.

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:37:04 -0400

FAIRFIELD, Conn. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says a total of 60 people have been taken to hospitals with injuries from a collision between two New York-area commuter trains. The governor said from the scene of the accident Friday night that most people were not seriously hurt but five were critically injured, including one very critically injured. The trains on the Metro-North Railroad ...

Connecticut gov. 5 are critically hurt

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:18:17 -0400

Commuter train wreck

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Church of Scotland amends disputed Israel paper

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:51:30 -0400

paper it had published rejecting Jewish scriptural-based rights to the land of Israel after it caused waves of controversy among the Jewish community in the UK, BBC reported Friday. The report entitled "The Inheritance of Abraham" was changed after a meeting with representative of the British Jewish community and was set to be discussed and voted on next week at the convening of the ...

Videla Dies in Prison – a Victory Against Impunity

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:50:57 -0400

BUENOS AIRES, May 17 2013 (IPS) - Thirty-seven years after leading the coup d'etat that ushered in the most brutal dictatorship in the history of Argentina, former army commander Jorge Rafael Videla died in a common prison ...

U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arsenals Cling to Bygone Era

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:50:56 -0400

World Nuclear Stockpile Report , an estimated 8,500 nukes belong to Russia and 7,700 to the U.S. The seven other nations with a nuclear arsenal trail far behind: they include France (300), China (240), the U.K. (225), Pakistan (90-110), India (60-110), Israel (60-80) and most recently North Korea (<10). "It's hard to imagine any military mission that will require the use of one ...

Six-year-old British girl drowns in hotel swimming pool at popular Egyptian holiday resort

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:46:14 -0400

A First Choice spokesman said: 'First Choice can sadly confirm that a child has died while staying at the Coral Sea Waterworld hotel in Egypt. The incident occurred in a pool in the hotel's ...

Facebook taunt from criminal results in him being captured

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:46:13 -0400

‘Thankfully, we managed to track him down in no time at all and he is now back where he belongs for the time being – behind bars.’ Greenwood, from Rochdale, was sentenced to four months in a Young Offenders’ Institute in January after his driving conviction. He was freed on licence last month, but failed to attend mandatory appointments at Rochdale Probation ...

Tory activists are swivel-eyed loons Cameron ally hits back after Philip Hammond says gay marriage plans have caused a real sense of anger

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:46:13 -0400

The senior figure was responding to comments by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond who suggested the Prime Minister’s proposals to legalise gay marriage had upset vast numbers of ...

Im not half the woman I used to be Morbidly obese woman shamed into losing 21st after dentist chair failed under strain of trying to lift her

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:46:11 -0400

When she plucked up the courage to go to her GP, he warned her she was morbidly obese but it took the shock of what happened at the dentists to force a change of ...

Litvinenko UK inquest in doubt after Russia evidence excluded

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:45:00 -0400

The inquest into the death in Britain of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko is close to being scrapped after the coroner ruled Friday he could not hear evidence about the alleged role of the Kremlin in his ...

Rights Group Says It Finds Proof of Torture in Syria

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:33:17 -0400

CAIRO -- An international human rights group said Friday that visits to two Syrian security centers recently captured by rebel fighters contained proof of widespread, arbitrary detentions and torture by the government of President Bashar ...

Nearly 50 hurt as two trains collide in Connecticut

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:30:26 -0400

1 of 4. Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday in a train accident near Fairfield, Connecticut, a Fairfield Police spokesman said on ...

Golf champion and CBS analyst Ken Venturi dies

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:28:54 -0400

This June 2, 2011 file photo shows retiring CBS golf broadcaster Ken Venturi waves to Kemper Open winner Bob Estes from the broadcast booth during the final round of the Kemper Open at the TPC at Avenel in Potomac, ...

Toronto Mayor Is Accused of Using Cocaine

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:04 -0400

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At least 29 hurt in Connecticut derailment

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:25:23 -0400

>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Two Metro-North passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured, authorities said. A train heading from New Haven to New York City derailed around 6:10 p.m., hitting the other train in Bridgeport, ...

Salacious and Sober Collide Illustrating Hurdles for Italys Government

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:02:08 -0400

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Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:47:16 -0400

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U.S.-Russian Diplomacy With a Personal Touch

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:45:15 -0400

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Huge ash plumes erupt from Alaska volcano

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:40:00 -0400

One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes shot an ash cloud 4,580 metres into the air in an ongoing eruption that is visible for kilometres. An air traffic controller in the region said small planes have flown around the plumes from Pavlof Volcano. Ash would have to rise tens of thousands of feet to threaten larger planes. The eruption began Monday, and a photograph shows lava spraying out from the ...

Its Fault-on Towers New roller coaster BREAKS DOWN on opening ride leaving guests which included Tinchy Stryder and Towies Jessica Wright dangling in mid-air

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:38:06 -0400

Tinchy, who travelled from to Alton Towers from London and never got his turn on the ride, said: 'I was in the carriage behind the one that broke down so if I was two seconds earlier I would have been ...

Woman on Prince Harry stalker watch-list arrested for trying to sneak into his Connecticut polo game TWICE

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:38:05 -0400

Canadian Wen Qi, 26, was twice caught trying to gain entry to Greenwich Polo Club on Wednesday – the last day of Prince Harry’s successful US ...

The diamond nine is back The Red Arrows famous formation is complete once more after an 18 month suspension following the death of two pilots

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:38:05 -0400

The display team had been grounded following the deaths of Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunnigham due the failure of his ejector seat in November 2011 and that of Flight Lieutenant of Jon Egging at the Bournemouth Air Show in August ...

Valuables stolen on holiday Dont rely on travel insurance as experts warn most policies are USELESS

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:38:04 -0400

For example, policies from Virgin Money and Insure & Go have a cap on the value of any claim for stolen valuables of ...

Cheire Blair sets up private health company in a tax haven with a U.S. Right-winger

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:38:02 -0400

Can Cherie cut it as a capitalist? The wife of a socialist ex-prime minister is setting up a private health company in a tax haven with a U.S. ...

Im not a voyeur Im an artist

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:31:37 -0400

>Editor's note: Arne Svenson is a fine art photographer and a former therapist/educator working with severely disabled children. (CNN) -- Photographer Arne Svenson's show, "Neighbors," consists of photographs taken of the residents of a building near his studio in New York through the windows of their apartments. A few residents, unaware they were being photographed, have raised objections. In ...

Commuter trains collide in US

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:30:00 -0400

Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. About 700 people were on board the Metro-North trains when one heading east from New York City's Grand Central Station to New Haven derailed about 6:10pm just outside Bridgeport, officials said. The ...

Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:25:45 -0400

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on ...

Powerball jackpot grows to a record $600 million

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:57 -0400

(Reuters) - The jackpot for the Powerball lottery has soared to a record $600 million and the top prize may swell to nearly $1 billion if no one draws the winning numbers this weekend, a lottery official said on ...

Train derails in Connecticut at least 20 people hurt

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:54 -0400

(Reuters) - Some 20 to 25 people were injured on Friday when a train derailed near Fairfield, Connecticut, but there were no reports of fatalities a police spokesman said on ...

U.K. police announce new leads in missing girl case

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:16 -0400

In this handout photo, relased September 16, 2007 missing child Madeleine McCann smiles. The McCann family have returned from Portugal after local police questioned them on the disappearance of daughter Madeleine, who vanished from their hoiliday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, ...

8-year-old fights to get WWII vet recognition he deserves

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:16 -0400

CBS News "And he put himself in danger for others," said 8-year-old Leanna Morris. Asked if she thought Charles was scared, Leanna replied, "I don't think so." But how can you be in a situation like that and not be scared? Leanna answered: "Because he's brave." Leanna is Charles Mowbray's biggest fan. Every time he visits for a living history ...

Calif. dollars add to growing Powerball jackpot

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:15 -0400

(CBS News) HAWTHORNE, Calif. - Talk about the miracle of compounding interest: Interest in Saturday night's Powerball drawing has grown so much, it's driven the jackpot to $600 million. That would be a 30 billion percent return on a $2 investment. Because of this, there are now longer lines facing even longer odds. The Primm Valley lotto store is in Nipton, California, just a few yards ...

Domestic abuse victim A prisoner in my own home

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:20:15 -0400

Many abused women may be sexual "coercion" victims Jessica: I was a prisoner in my own home. I couldn't look out the window. My mom was in the hospital for surgery. I couldn't go to the hospital to see my mother unless he was with me. Jim Axelrod: What do you mean you couldn't go? Jessica: I wasn't allowed to. There was cameras inside my house so he could watch my ...

Hackers target Saudi government website

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:17:52 -0400

Several government websites in Saudi Arabia were hacked in a series of heavy cyber attacks from overseas in recent days, disabling them briefly until the attacks were repelled, the government has said. An investigation traced the "coordinated and simultaneous attacks" to hundreds of Internet protocol addresses in a number of countries, an unnamed source at the Saudi Interior Ministry ...

Republicans Expand I.R.S. Inquiry With Eye on White House

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:12:21 -0400

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A tiger cub Im not a robot

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:02:05 -0400

>Editor's note: Grace Liu, a former corporate attorney, is a research officer at California State University, Fresno. She is the vice president of the Central California Asian Pacific American Bar Association. (CNN) -- It's time for some tiger cubs to approvingly roar for our strict parents, their domineering ways and their inflexibly high standards. The current depiction of tiger parenting is ...

Rush-hour derailment in Connecticut

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:59:31 -0400

>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Two Metro-North passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening, damaging both trains and leaving some "bloody" and wounded as a result, a witness and transit official said. A train heading from New Haven to New York City derailed around 6:10 p.m., hitting the other train in ...

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