2013年12月6日星期五

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Thousands seek refuge at Central African airport

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 02:37 PM PST

Internally displaced people gathered at Bangui's airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Dec. 6 2013, cheer at the sight of landing French military helicopters, a day after gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias left over 100 dead and scores wounded. To try to put an end to sectarian violence, the UN security council passed a motion allowing French troops to deploy in the country in order to protect civilians and insure security by all necessary means. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Thousands of Christian civilians sought refuge at an airport guarded by French soldiers Friday, fleeing from the mostly Muslim ex-rebels with machetes and guns who rule the country a day after the worst violence to hit the chaotic capital in nine months.


6 detained in Mexico theft of radioactive material

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:13 PM PST

A cameraman films the radiation head that was part of a radiation therapy machine, in the patio of the family who found the stolen equipment abandoned in a nearby field, in the village of Hueypoxtla, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. The truck that was hauling the equipment was found abandoned Wednesday about 40 kilometers (24 miles) from where it was stolen, and the container for the radioactive material was found opened. Authorities continued to work on Friday at the site where the material was found to extract it safely. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six people being tested for possible radiation exposure in a hospital in central Mexico are suspects in the theft of highly radioactive cobalt-60, a government official said Friday.


Obama, Bush, Clinton to travel to South Africa

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 04:46 PM PST

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - From left, President Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush, former president William J. Clinton former President George H.W. Bush and former president Jimmy Carter arrive for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center Thursday, April 25, 2013, in Dallas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — At least three American presidents will travel to South Africa to attend memorial services for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday at age 95.


Icy storm slams Southwest, shuts down North Texas

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 04:52 PM PST

Icy conditions make for light traffic on the highways in Dallas, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. As snow and freezing rain blanketed normally sun-swept North Texas, residents accustomed to warmer temperatures appeared to heed warnings on what one hardware store manager called "Ice Friday," staying off nearly impassable roadways and out of a skin-stinging cold. (AP Photo/LM Otero)DALLAS (AP) — Freezing rain and stinging winds slammed the Southwest Friday and made a strangely blank landscape out of normally sun-drenched North Texas: mostly empty highways covered in a sometimes impassable frost, closed schools and businesses, and millions of residents hunkered down for icy conditions expected to last through the weekend.


New consumer tips for Obama's fixer-upper website

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:06 PM PST

This Nov. 29, 2013 file photo shows part of the HealthCare.gov website, photographed in Washington. President Barack Obama's fickle health insurance website is finally starting to put up some respectable signup numbers, but its job only seems to have gotten harder. Two months in and out of the repair shop have left significantly less time to fulfill the White House goal of enrolling 7 million people for 2014 by the end of open enrollment March 31. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)WASHINGTON (AP) — It doesn't rival Amazon and Travelocity, but President Barack Obama's much-maligned health insurance website finally seems to be working reasonably well most of the time.


Dylan's electric guitar sells for nearly $1M

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:27 PM PST

This undated photo provided by Christie's Auction House shows the Fender Stratocaster a young Bob Dylan played at the historic 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The festival was a defining moment that marked Dylan's move from acoustic folk to electric rock 'n' roll. The guitar was sold at auction on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 for $965,000. (AP Photo/Christie's Auction House, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Like Elvis' no-hips-allowed appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," or the Beatles' arrival in America, or Woodstock, it is considered one of the milestone moments in rock history: Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.


AP PHOTOS: Mandela remembered around the world

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 12:59 PM PST

Soweto resident Joy Chauke pauses as she lays flowers outside the old house of Nelson Mandela in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Flags were lowered to half-staff and people in black townships, in upscale mostly white suburbs and in South Africa's vast rural grasslands commemorated Nelson Mandela with song, tears and prayers on Friday while pledging to adhere to the values of unity and democracy that he embodied. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Mourners sing and dance outside Nelson Mandela's old house in Johannesburg. In Pakistan, children gather around his portrait holding candles. Well-wishers leave flowers outside South African diplomatic missions in Beijing and New York.


Defending champion Spain gets repeat of 2010 final

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 01:43 PM PST

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke holds the ticket of the Netherlands during the draw ceremony for the 2014 soccer World Cup in Costa do Sauipe near Salvador, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP) — One of the worst finals in World Cup history — Spain vs. the Netherlands — will be reprised in one of the first games of the 2014 edition.


Cargo bikes the new minivan for cycling families

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:17 PM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, Heidi Lappetito pedals her cargo bike past a parked beer truck as she hauls a trailer loaded with frozen salmon in Port Townsend, Wash. Nearly all deliveries of the wild Pacific salmon the Cape Cleare Fishery makes to its local customers is done by cargo bikes hauling loads of up to 180 pounds, about five miles into town. People in the Pacific Northwest are pushing the limits of what they can carry using so-called cargo bikes, shuttling children, groceries, fish and kegs of beer. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)SEATTLE (AP) — One fisherman uses a bike to deliver hundreds of pounds of salmon to local markets. A mom who regularly shuttles her two kids around town once tried to haul a twin mattress home. And some companies are using the bikes to deliver beer kegs or pick up recycling.


Solid US job growth cuts unemployment to 7 pct.

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 12:14 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, Jimmetta Smith, of Lithonia, Ga., right, the wife of a U.S. Marine veteran, holds her resume while talking with Rhonda Knight, a senior recruiter for Delta airlines, at a job fair for veterans and family members at the VFW Post 2681, in Marietta, Ga. The Labor Department issues the November jobs report on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market has been recovering fitfully for three years. Now, it's starting to show consistency.


Report: Central African death toll up to 280

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 01:16 PM PST

Internally displaced people gathered at Bangui's airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Dec. 6 2013, cheer at the sight of landing French military helicopters, a day after gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias left over 100 dead and scores wounded. To try to put an end to sectarian violence, the UN security council passed a motion allowing French troops to deploy in the country in order to protect civilians and insure security by all necessary means. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Christian civilians fled by the thousands to the airport guarded by French forces in this chaotic capital Friday as the mostly Muslim armed fighters who have ruled the country since March hunted door-to-door for their enemies and the death toll from inter-communal violence increased to 280 people.


Icy winter storm shuts down North Texas

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 12:34 PM PST

Icy conditions make for light traffic on the highways in Dallas, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. As snow and freezing rain blanketed normally sun-swept North Texas, residents accustomed to warmer temperatures appeared to heed warnings on what one hardware store manager called "Ice Friday," staying off nearly impassable roadways and out of a skin-stinging cold. (AP Photo/LM Otero)DALLAS (AP) — Freezing rain and stinging winds slammed the Southwest Friday and made a strangely blank landscape out of normally sun-drenched North Texas: mostly empty highways covered in a sometimes impassable frost, closed schools and businesses, and millions of residents hunkered down for icy conditions expected to last through the weekend.


Yemen: Saudis among Defense Ministry attackers

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 11:43 AM PST

In this photo provided by Yemen's Defense Ministry, security forces are on the scene after an explosion at the Defense Ministry complex in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. A suicide car bomber struck Yemen's Defense Ministry Thursday, killing more than a dozen soldiers and paving the way for a carload of gunmen wearing army uniforms to storm the heavily guarded compound in the capital of Sanaa, military and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Yemen Defense Ministry)ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni military investigators say 12 militants, mostly Saudi nationals, were responsible for a brazen attack on the Defense Ministry's complex in the capital.


Mourned Mandela to be buried Dec. 15

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 02:03 PM PST

Schoolchildren hold candles near a giant portrait of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Chennai, India, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Mandela, who died Dec. 5 at age 95, was considered a master of forgiveness. He became South Africa's first black president after spending nearly a third of his life as a prisoner of apartheid. (AP Photo/Arun Sankar K)Some worry the nation is vulnerable again to racial, social tensions.


Massive storm snarls highways, grounds thousands of flights

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 01:32 PM PST

Police and tow trucks shut down the overpass on Toll road 45 going west as they try to remove wrecked vehicles off the road Friday morning, Dec. 6, 2013, in Austin, Texas. The National Weather Service says the cold, wet weather reached Austin with light rain and temperatures near freezing. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Ricardo Brazziell) AUSTIN CHRONICLE OUT, COMMUNITY IMPACT OUT, MAGS OUT; NO SALES; INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COMThe National Weather Service has issued ice and winter storm advisories for more than a dozen states. Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee have already declared states of emergency. Snow, ice and freezing rain are moving to the Northeast.


President Obama lights National Christmas Tree

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:59 PM PST

Raw: Obama Lights National Christmas TreePresident Barack Obama and his family have flipped the switch for the 90th annual lighting of the National Christmas Tree.


Photos: Johannesburg honors Nelson Mandela

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST

Photos: Johannesburg honors Nelson MandelaLarge crowds gather outside former South African President Nelson Mandela home on Vilakazi Street in Soweto to celebrate his life on December 6, 2013. Johannesburg, South Africa on December 6, 2013. (Photo by Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images for Yahoo News)

Mexico hospitalizes six suspected of stealing radioactive material

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:42 PM PST

Container reportedly containing radioactive material cobalt-60 that was being sent from a hospital to a radioactive waste-storage center, is seen at a home near where dangerous radioactive medical material was found in a truck in town of HueypoxtlaBy Miguel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Six men suspected of stealing a dangerous radioactive cargo from a truck outside Mexico City earlier this week have been treated in a hospital for signs of radiation exposure and remain under police guard, officials said on Friday. On Monday, thieves hijacked the truck that had been carrying cobalt-60, a radioactive substance used for medical and industrial applications that can also be used as an ingredient in a "dirty bomb." Police located the truck on Wednesday but found that the robbers had removed the radioactive material from a protective case, exposing themselves to dangerous levels of radiation, before dumping it less than a mile away. Pedro Noble, the health secretary of the state of Hidalgo, told local television the men showed signs of "critical, close contact" with radioactive material. The truck, which was taking the material from a hospital in the northern city of Tijuana to a radioactive waste-storage center, was seized when its driver stopped at a gas station in the town of Temascalapa, 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Mexico City.


Travelers left behind $531,395.22 at U.S. airports in 2012

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 11:13 AM PST

AP10ThingsToSee - A plane takes off over a departure board at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)Travelers left behind a record $531,395.22 in loose change at security checkpoints in US airports in fiscal 2012, the Transportation Security Administration says. In a report to Congress, seen by the Washington Post, the TSA said more than $10,000 in change was forgotten at each of 13 major airports in such cities as New York, Dallas, Atlanta and San Francisco. Passengers at Miami International Airport, a prime gateway for Latin American travellers, left $39,613, more than at any other airport. Under US law, the TSA -- with a $7.6 billion budget for the fiscal 2012 year that ended September 30 -- is supposed to spend any loose change it finds on civil aviation security.


Supreme Court will decide if software can be patented

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 12:29 PM PST

People walk outside the U.S. Supreme Court in WashingtonThe Supreme Court agreed on Friday to rule on the divisive issue of what kinds of software are eligible for patent protection in a case being closely watched by the technology industry. The court said in a one-line order that it would hear a case brought by Alice Corporation Pty Ltd, which holds a patent for a computer system that facilitates financial transactions. The deep interest that the software industry and patent experts have in what is a threshold issue in patent litigation was underscored by the number of companies and industry groups that asked the court to decide the issue. Companies including Google Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co, Facebook Inc and Netflix Inc had already signaled their interest in the issue by asking the court to hear the WildTangent case.


Scientists to Congress: We can find alien life

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:09 AM PST

Scientists to Congress: We Have the Technology to Find Alien LifeTo find extraterrestrial life, be it microbes or intelligent life, scientists need telescopes capable of detecting Earth-like planets in Earth's neighborhood and ways to detect biological signatures of life or signs of alien technology. "This is the first time in human history we have the technological reach to find life on other planets," Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT, said at a House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing today. "Astrobiology has become a crosscutting theme of all NASA space science endeavors," and continued funding is important, said Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D., Texas). The Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets outside Earth's solar system, including 10 that are Earth-size and lie within their star's habitable zone.


U.S. draw 'group of death' in World Cup: Germany, Ghana, Portugal

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Mandela, anti-apartheid icon, mourned world over

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 04:07 AM PST

Flowers and tributes are left for South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela at South Africa's High Commission in LondonNelson Mandela inspired and challenged the world to stand up for others.


In the name of wind energy, U.S. allows killing eagles

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 12:21 PM PST

Adult bald eagles and juvenile near Big Bear Lake, March 2012. Photo by Barbara Jordan.WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Friday it will allow some companies to kill or injure bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years without penalty, an effort to spur development and investment in green energy while balancing its environmental consequences.


Photographs: Shanghai pollution stops flights, forces health warning

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST

Photographs: Shanghai pollution stops flights, forces health warningAn electronic screen and buildings are seen amid heavy smog at the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai December 6, 2013. China's stability-obsessed leadership has become increasingly concerned by the abysmal air quality in cities, as it plays into popular resentment over political privilege and rising inequality in the world's second-largest economy. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT CITYSCAPE SOCIETY)

Unemployment rate hits five-year low, eyes on the Fed

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:07 PM PST

In this Tuesday, July 10, 2012 photo, people walk by the recruiters at a jobs fair in the Pittsburgh suburb of Green Tree, Pa. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level in four years, a hopeful sign for the struggling job market. But the decline was partly due to temporary factors. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)The report, which showed broad gains in employment and a rise in hourly earnings, suggested strength in the economy heading into year-end. "It will add further confidence to the Fed of a reduced need for monetary stimulus in the U.S. economy. The unemployment rate dropped three tenths of a percentage point to its lowest level since November 2008 as some federal employees who were counted as jobless in October returned to work after a 16-day partial shutdown of the government.


Aide of Kim's uncle seeks asylum in S. Korea: report

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:32 AM PST

This picture taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on November 29, 2013 shows Kim Jong-Un (C) visiting the 991 unit of the Korean People's Army (KPA) Air and Anti-Air Force at an undisclosed locationAn aide of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's uncle is seeking asylum in South Korea after fleeing his country ahead of a leadership purge, a report said Friday. South Korean officials believe the escapee might have managed funds for Jang Song-Thaek, who until this week was regarded as Kim's political regent, said the South's cable news network YTN, citing intelligence sources. The report also said he may have information on secret funds controlled by the Kim family. The South's National Intelligence Service (NIS) told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that it believed Kim's uncle Jang had been removed and two associates executed.


Mandela, the man once branded a 'terrorist' by the US

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 02:41 AM PST

Key dates in South Africa's apartheid eraIn 2008 just before his 90th birthday, the United States gave Nelson Mandela a special present, striking him from a decades-old terror watch list and ending what US officials called "a rather embarrassing matter." By then the anti-apartheid icon had long left behind the jail cells where he was incarcerated for 27 years, and was already enjoying retirement and his status as one of the most revered statesmen of the 20th century after becoming South Africa's first black president. On Thursday, when Mandela died at age 95, President Barack Obama hailed him as belonging "to the ages" and ordered that flags on US government buildings be flown at half-mast -- a rare tribute to a foreign leader. Yet decades ago many in America did not share in the adulation of Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC), which had been billed a terrorist organization by both South Africa and the United States.


South Africa mourns Mandela, will bury him on December 15

Posted: 06 Dec 2013 01:26 PM PST

By Tosin Sulaiman and Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans united in mourning for Nelson Mandela on Friday, but while some celebrated his remarkable life with dance and song, others fretted that the anti-apartheid hero's death would leave the nation vulnerable again to racial and social tensions. President Jacob Zuma said Mandela would be buried on December 15 at his ancestral home in the Eastern Cape. South Africans heard from Zuma late on Thursday that their first black president, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, had died peacefully at his Johannesburg home in the company of his family after a long illness. Zuma also announced Mandela would be honored at a December 10 memorial service at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium, the site of the 2010 World Cup final.

World reacts to death of Nelson Mandela

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 10:00 PM PST

World reacts to death of Nelson MandelaA woman offers flowers outside the house of former President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg December 6, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died peacefully at home in Johannesburg at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection, leaving his nation and the world in mourning for a man revered as a moral giant. REUTERS/Mujahid Safodien (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: OBITUARY POLITICS SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Hillary or Biden? They’d both be great, Obama says

Posted: 05 Dec 2013 05:51 PM PST

Obama on Hillary vs. Biden: 'Not A Chance Am I Going There'There may come a day when President Barack Obama has to say whether he'd rather hand the keys to the White House to Vice President Joe Biden or former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. That day is not today.


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