2013年12月4日星期三

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Senior Hezbollah commander killed in Beirut

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 12:27 PM PST

Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of Hassan al-Laqis, a senior commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, who was gunned down outside his home, during his funeral procession at his hometown in Baalbek city, east Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. The assassination was a major breach of the Shiite militant group's security as it struggles to maintain multiple fronts while it fights alongside President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) — The attackers waited in an olive grove around midnight. As the Hezbollah commander pulled into the garage of his nearby apartment building, they went in after him. Five bullets were pumped into his head and neck from a silencer-equipped pistol — an assassination that reverberated across the Middle East.


Obama: Income inequality a defining challenge

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 04:07 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy and growing economic inequality, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, at the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus in Washington. The president said the income gap between America's rich and poor is a "defining challenge of our time." Obama said income inequality has jeopardized the nation's middle class. And he is urging Washington to take steps to ensure that the economy works for everyone. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress to raise wages and secure the social safety net as he issued an overarching appeal Wednesday to correct economic inequalities that he said make it harder for a child to escape poverty. "That should offend all of us," he declared. "We are a better country than this."


10 whales dead, dozens stranded in Everglades

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 04:50 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, photo provided by the National Park Service, pilot whales are stranded on a beach in a remote area of the western portion of Everglades National Park, Fla. Federal officials said some whales have died. The marine mammals are known to normally inhabit deep water. (AP Photo/National Park Service)EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. (AP) — Wildlife workers in boats struggled unsuccessfully Wednesday to coax nearly four dozen pilot whales out of dangerous shallow waters in Florida's Everglades National Park, hoping to spare them the fate of 10 others that already had died.


Report: NSA tracks billions of cellphones daily

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 04:34 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, file photo, a man looks at his cellphone as he walks on the street in downtown Madrid. The National Security Agency tracks the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day overseas, including those belonging to Americans abroad, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. Such data means the NSA can track the movements of almost any cellphone around the world, and map the relationships of the cellphone user. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency tracks the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day overseas, including those belonging to Americans abroad, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.


Boxing champ turns opposition leader in Ukraine

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 01:41 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013 file photo Ukrainian lawmaker and chairman of the opposition party Udar (Punch), WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko attends a rally in front of parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine. Towering over his fellow protest leaders, reigning world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko has emerged as Ukraine's most popular opposition figure and has ambitions to become its next president. As massive anti-government protests continue to grip Ukraine, Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013, Klitschko is urging his countrymen to continue their fight to turn this ex-Soviet republic into a genuine Western democracy. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Towering over his fellow protest leaders, Vitali Klitschko, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, has emerged as Ukraine's most popular opposition figure and has ambitions to become its next president.


Bashir leaves MSNBC over inflammatory remarks

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 02:42 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 22, 2013 file photo shows Martin Bashir at the EA SimCity Learn. Build. Create. Inauguration After-Party, in Washington. The MSNBC host Bashir resigned from the network Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, nearly three weeks after making graphic remarks on the air about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. (Photo by Nick Wass/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC host Martin Bashir resigned from the network Wednesday, nearly three weeks after making graphic remarks on his show about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.


Universal shuts down 'Fast & Furious 7' production

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 02:57 PM PST

FILE - Sheriff's deputies work near the wreckage of a Porsche that crashed into a light pole on Hercules Street near Kelly Johnson Parkway in Valencia, Calif., in this Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013 file photo. A publicist for actor Paul Walker says the star of the "Fast & Furious" movie series died in the crash north of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County coroner's office said it completed autopsies Tuesday Dec. 3, 2013, but would not release results of the autopsies and identifications until later Wednesday.(AP Photo/The Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Dan Watson, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Universal Pictures has shut down production on "Fast & Furious 7" indefinitely following the death of its star, Paul Walker.


NFL fines Steelers coach Mike Tomlin $100,000

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 04:00 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2013 file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin watches his players warm up before an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, in Baltimore. Tomlin says he's embarrassed about his unintentional but inexcusable foray onto the field in last Thursday night's loss to Baltimore. (AP Photo/Gail Burton, File)PITTSBURGH (AP) — Here's another adjective Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin can call his ill-timed two-step onto the field last Thursday night against Baltimore.


Mexico official: Stolen cobalt-60 found

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 03:50 PM PST

This image released Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013 by the National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards of Mexico's Energy Secretary (CNSNS) shows a piece of machinery that is part of the cargo of a stolen truck hauling medical equipment with extremely dangerous radioactive material, in Tepojaco, Hidalgo state, north of Mexico City. The cargo truck was stolen from a gas station in central Mexico, and authorities have put out an alert in six central states and the capital to find it, Mexican and U.N. nuclear officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/CNSNS)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's nuclear safety director says that missing radioactive cobalt-60 has been found near where the stolen truck transporting the material was abandoned in central Mexico state.


Lawyer: Engineer in 'daze' before NYC train crash

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST

Annotated graphic shows the site of the deadly New York train derailment; 2c x 4 1/4 inches; 96.3 mm x 107 mm;YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — An engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, experienced a hypnotic-like daze and nodded at the controls before he suddenly realized something was wrong and hit the brakes, a lawyer said as a federal regulator called for the railroad to make immediate safety improvements.


Mexico: Stolen radioactive cobalt box found empty

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 03:37 PM PST

This image released Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013 by the National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards of Mexico's Energy Secretary (CNSNS) shows a piece of machinery that is part of the cargo of a stolen truck hauling medical equipment with extremely dangerous radioactive material, in Tepojaco, Hidalgo state, north of Mexico City. The cargo truck was stolen from a gas station in central Mexico, and authorities have put out an alert in six central states and the capital to find it, Mexican and U.N. nuclear officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/CNSNS)MEXICO CITY (AP) — A stolen container of radioactive material was found empty Wednesday and radioactivity was detected nearby, Mexico's nuclear safety director said.


Mexico: Stolen box with radioactive material found

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 03:13 PM PST

This image released Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013 by the National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards of Mexico's Energy Secretary (CNSNS) shows a piece of machinery that is part of the cargo of a stolen truck hauling medical equipment with extremely dangerous radioactive material, in Tepojaco, Hidalgo state, north of Mexico City. The cargo truck was stolen from a gas station in central Mexico, and authorities have put out an alert in six central states and the capital to find it, Mexican and U.N. nuclear officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/CNSNS)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's nuclear safety director says a stolen container of radioactive material has been found empty.


Nearly week of frigid temperatures for West

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 04:38 PM PST

A woman braces against the cold and blowing snow on Denver's 16th Street Mall on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. A wintry storm pushing through the Rockies and Midwest is bringing bitterly cold temperatures and treacherous driving conditions. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)DENVER (AP) — The jet stream hunkered to the south Wednesday, promising to bring nearly a week of temperatures that could dip to 20-below or worse in the northern midsection of the country, and forcing much of the rest of the nation to deal with unexpectedly cool temperatures. In Minnesota, the cold has forced Salvation Army bell ringers inside and canceled holiday parties, while dense, cold air sunk into Rocky Mountain valleys and kept some lower elevations freezing in the West.


Newtown 911 audio: calm and chaos

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 11:08 AM PST

In this photo provided by the Newtown Bee, Connecticut State Police lead children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., following a reported shooting there Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks) MANDATORY CREDITNewtown 911 recordings: Chaos in an impossible situation.


Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may have tried to buy crack video

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Could your ancestors be Denisovans? Compelling DNA findings

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 10:11 AM PST

Oldest Human DNA Reveals Mysterious Branch of HumanityThe oldest known human DNA found yet reveals human evolution was even more confusing than thought, researchers say. These new findings could shed light on a mysterious extinct branch of humanity known as Denisovans, who were close relatives of Neanderthals, scientists added. Although modern humans are the only surviving human lineage, others once strode the Earth. These included Neanderthals, the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, and the relatively newfound Denisovans, who are thought to have lived in a vast expanse from Siberia to Southeast Asia.


Land of Fire and Ice

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

Land of Fire and IceIceland is known as the Land of Fire and Ice and these images capture the essence of that perfectly.  (IURIE BELEGURSCHI/CATERS NEWS)

Bitter-cold storm leaves six dead

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 09:59 AM PST

Cold snap felt across western half of nationStorm pushes through Rockies, Midwest; bitter cold's effects reach Calif. crops.


Better pay for U.S. teachers might help improve student scores

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 09:24 AM PST

In this January 2013 photo, preparatory students sit for National Center Test for University Admissions at the University of Tokyo. Students from Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea were among the highest-ranking groups in math, science and reading in test results released Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) coordinated by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The group tests students worldwide every three years. In Japan, the government added 1,200 pages to elementary school textbooks after its children fell behind in those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong in 2009, although Japan's scores for 2009 were tops for rich industrialized countries. Japan has since improved its standings in all three areas. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORYAmerica's lackluster performance on international math, reading and science tests released Tuesday has rekindled the debate over the status and pay of U.S. teachers.


Walker died of trauma, thermal injury, says coroner; movie shoot shut down

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 02:26 PM PST

U.S. actor Walker presents a creation from Colcci's 2013/2014 summer collection during Sao PauloBy Eric Kelsey and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Fast & Furious" actor Paul Walker died from multiple injuries in a weekend car crash, the Los Angeles County coroner said on Wednesday, as Universal Pictures suspended production of the seventh instalment in its lucrative car racing film franchise. Walker, 40, was a passenger in a fiery one-car crash on Saturday in Santa Clarita, California, about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Los Angeles, that also killed 38-year-old driver Roger Rodas. The coroner said Walker's death resulted from "traumatic and thermal injuries." While the coroner did not elaborate, thermal injuries are heat-related and are commonly burns.


Newtown 911 calls show calm response

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 09:26 AM PST

FILE - In this photo provided by the Newtown Bee, Connecticut State Police lead a line of children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 after a shooting at the school. Recordings of 911 calls from the Newtown school shooting are being released Wednesday Dec. 4, 2013, days after a state prosecutor dropped his fight to continue withholding them despite an order to provide them to The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks, File) MANDATORY CREDIT: NEWTOWN BEE, SHANNON HICKSTapes released today in response to legal challenge.


Dozens of whales beached in Florida's Everglades, 10 die

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 01:36 PM PST

Stranded whalesBy Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - Ten whales have died and rescuers were trying to save dozens more that beached in Everglades National Park in southwest Florida, park and wildlife officials said on Wednesday. Wildlife officers euthanized four whales because they could not be saved, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, said. NOAA said via Twitter that survival rates were typically low in such instances. The whales were first sighted on Tuesday afternoon in a remote part of the park near the Gulf of Mexico, park spokeswoman Linda Friar said.


Woman drives 'Liberty Van' 5,000 miles to fight ticket, wins

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 06:42 AM PST

Liberty vanA 56-year-old grandmother drove from Kentucky to New Jersey several times in order to fight a $56 traffic ticket over her so-called "Liberty Van." Good news for the woman: She won.


Mexico finds stolen radioactive material outside box

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 04:32 PM PST

A barrel marked with the nuclear radiation symbolThe vehicle was transporting a "teletherapy source" containing cobalt-60 from a hospital.


A drop in the bucket? Christie's appraises Detroit's art

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 02:33 PM PST

FILE - In a June 13, 2013 file photo, Detroit Institute of Arts docent Lea Schelke points out details in the Portrait of Postman Roulin by Van Gogh displayed at the museum in Detroit. A closer look at the DIA art collection now being appraised by Christie's. It's report to state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr could come out by mid-December. It's looking more and more like that's what debtors want to go after. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)By Joseph Lichterman DETROIT (Reuters) - The auction house Christie's put a price tag on one of Detroit's highest-profile city assets, its share of the Detroit Institute of Arts collection, stating that nearly 3,000 works controlled by the city are worth between $452 million and $866 million. The finding by Christie's, hired to place a value on art treasures that could become a contested element of the Detroit bankruptcy, puts a range of value on 2,781 works owned or partially owned by the city. The holdings represent only about 5 percent of the DIA's full collection, but with the finding Tuesday that Detroit is bankrupt under Chapter 9 of the federal bankruptcy code, it is possible the city may seek to monetize some of the artwork. Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr retained Christie's in August to appraise city-owned works as part of Detroit's bankruptcy case.


'Dangerous' radioactive material stolen in Mexico truck: IAEA

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 03:30 AM PST

Roban un camión con material radiactivo "peligroso" en México, dice el OIEAThieves have made off with a truck in Mexico carrying a dangerous radioactive material used in medical treatments, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear body, did not give details on how much of the radioactive source, cobalt-60, was in the truck at the time. Cobalt-60 can potentially also be used to make a so-called "dirty bomb", where conventional explosives are used to disperse radiation from a radioactive source. But the IAEA made no mention of this in its statement.


Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson admits cocaine use

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST

Celebrity chef, Nigella Lawson, arrives at Isleworth Crown Court in London, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson could face questions Wednesday about alleged drug use when she appears as a witness at the fraud trial of her former personal assistants. Lawson is due to testify as a prosecution witness against Italian sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo. The pair are accused of living the high life by using credit cards loaned to them by Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)LONDON (AP) — Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson admitted in court Wednesday that she had taken cocaine, but denied being a habitual user. She accused her ex-husband of trying to "destroy" her, during a lacerating day of testimony that laid bare a materially affluent but deeply troubled marriage.


Afghanistan won't sign U.S. pact unless Karzai's demands met - spokesman

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 06:32 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during the opening of the Loya Jirga, in KabulKarazi is demanding the United States end U.S. raids on Afghan homes.


'The Car Poolers' documents Mexican workers doing what it takes to get by

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 06:31 AM PST

Alejandro Cartagena – "The Car Poolers": Winner of "The Fence"Photographer Alejandro Cartagena offers a new perspective on how some workers commute to their jobs in Monterrey, Mexico


Feds blast NY railroad in wake of fatal derailment

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 06:05 AM PST

Annotated graphic shows the site of the deadly New York train derailment; 2c x 4 1/4 inches; 96.3 mm x 107 mm;YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — The head of the Federal Railroad Administration is blasting a New York railroad following a derailment that killed four people and injured more than 60.


Cold snap felt across western half of nation

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 02:34 AM PST

A woman walks dogs through the snow-covered limbs in Liberty Park, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. The National Weather Service said up to 16 inches of snow are expected to fall in higher elevations of Utah. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Tom Smart) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE OUT; MAGS OUTFrigid temps prompt safety warnings in the Rockies and threaten crops in California.


News from North Korea, but is it true?

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 03:24 AM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, July 27, 2013 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second left, flanked by Yang Hyong Sop, second right, vice president of the Presidium of North Korea's parliament, his uncle Jang Song Thaek, right, and Choe Ryong Hae, vice Marshal, left, as he tours the newly opened Fatherland Liberation War Museum, as part of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice in Pyongyang, North Korea. Two South Korean lawmakers say they were told by intelligence officials that two associates of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle Jang were executed last month. They say the uncle has not been seen in public since then and may have been dismissed. There was no way to independently confirm the report about Jang. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It's intriguing news: the claim by South Korea's spy agency that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un probably sacked the country's second-most-powerful official — his uncle. But the first question is, is it true?


Mandela putting up 'courageous fight'

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 06:21 AM PST

This photo taken on August 25, 2010 in Johannesburg shows former South Africa's President Nelson Mandela in a handout photograph released by the Nelson Mandela FoundationJOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela is not "doing well" but is continuing to put up a courageous fight from his "deathbed," members of his family have told the South African Broadcasting Corporation in an interview.


Lawyer: Engineer had 'daze' before deadly crash

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 11:37 PM PST

In this photo taken on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, Metro North Railroad engineer William Rockefeller is wheeled on a stretcher away from the area where the commuter train he was operating derailed in the Bronx borough of New York. The National Transportation Safety Board reported Monday that the train Rockefeller was driving was going 82 mph around a 30-mph curve when it derailed killing four people and injuring more than 60. (AP Photo/Robert Stolarik)The engineer nodded at the controls before realizing something was wrong and hitting the brakes, a lawyer said.


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