2013年2月16日星期六

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Vatican raises possibility of early conclave

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 02:06 PM PST

Pope Benedict XVI exchanges gifts with Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina, during a private audience at Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, pool)The Vatican raised the possibility Saturday that the conclave to elect the next pope might start sooner than March 15.


NASA: Meteor blast bigger than previously thought

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:49 PM PST

Russian Meteor Blast Bigger Than Thought, NASA SaysThe meteor that exploded over Russia Friday was slightly larger than previously thought and more powerful, too, NASA scientists say.


Uncle: Pistorius, slain girlfriend had planned future

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 01:05 PM PST

Oscar Pistorius and his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp pose for a picture in JohannesburgSouth African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, known as the "Blade Runner", was planning a future with the girlfriend he is accused of shooting dead this week, his uncle said on Saturday. Pistorius, 26, one of the world's most recognizable athletes, was charged on Friday with murdering swimsuit model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of the previous day. He broke down during a 40-minute bail hearing at a Pretoria court but was not asked to enter a plea. ...


Gun ban would protect more than 2,200 firearms

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:30 PM PST

This undated evidence photo, provided by retired FBI agent Edmund Mireles, shows the Ruger Mini–14 used by one of the shooters in the deadly April 11, 1986 bank robbery shootout in Miami that left two FBI agents dead and five others injured. New models of this firearm that have folding stocks and pistol grips would be banned under proposed gun control legislation under consideration in Congress. But a similar model without a folding stock would be exempted. Both models can take detachable magazines that hold dozens of rounds of ammunition. Mireles was among the five agents injured. (AP Photo/FBI)Congress' latest crack at a new assault weapons ban would protect more than 2,200 specific firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle that is nearly identical to one of the guns used in the bloodiest shootout in FBI history.


Dorner was hiding in nearby condo during manhunt

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:05 PM PST

Rick Heltebrake with his dog Suni looks over the burned-out cabin where Christopher Dorner's remains were found after a police standoff Tuesday near Big Bear, Calif., Friday Feb. 15, 2013. Heltebrake had been carjacked by Dorner. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)It didn't take ingenuity for Christopher Dorner to elude authorities for six days. He simply opened an unlocked door.


Texas police fatally shoot fugitive Fla. prisoner

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:32 PM PST

This file photo provided by the Miami Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department shows Alberto Morales. Morales who escaped in Texas after stabbing a detective with his eyeglasses was fatally shot early Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 after refusing to cooperate with officers and lunging at them, police said in Grapevine, Texas (AP Photo/Miami Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department )The Florida prisoner who escaped in Texas after stabbing a detective with his eyeglasses was fatally shot early Saturday after refusing to cooperate with officers and lunging at them, police said.


Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:57 PM PST

Alexander Babin, a rescuer employed by Chelyabinsk Airlines, who was injured by glass from window at his home broken by a shock wave from a meteor explosion, rests after getting medical care in Chelyabinsk Regional Hospital in Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. A meteor that scientists estimate weighed 10 tons (11 tons) streaked at supersonic speed over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, setting off blasts that injured some 500 people and frightened countless more. (AP Photo/Boris Kaulin)As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened in this troubled pocket of Russia.


Jackson Jr.'s downfall tied to objects, not power

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 02:16 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2011 file photo, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., attends the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington. For all the talk of Jesse Jackson Jr. aspiring to be a U.S. senator or mayor of the nation's third-largest city, his career wasn't ended by attempts to amass political power. Instead, it was the former congressman's desire for flashy items like a gold-plated Rolex watch and furs, and collectibles, such as Eddie Van Halen's guitar. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)For all the talk of Jesse Jackson Jr. aspiring to be a U.S. senator or mayor of the nation's third-largest city, his career wasn't ended by attempts to amass political power.


Reality TV show with Pistorius' dead girlfriend airs

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:51 PM PST

In this frame-grab from state television channel SABC 1 a tribute is devoted to slain model Reeva Steenkamp, girlfriend of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. South Africa's national broadcaster went ahead with the screening of the reality TV show "Tropica Island of Treasure" Saturday, Feb 16, 2013, featuring the dead model. Steenkamp encouraged her family to watch in one of her last conversations with them before her shooting death at the home of Pistorius. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)Reeva Steenkamp's last wish for her family before she was shot dead at boyfriend Oscar Pistorius' home was for them to watch her in a reality TV show that went on air in South Africa on Saturday night, two days after her killing.


G20 steps back from currency brink, heat off Japan

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 01:04 PM PST

Russia's Finance Minister Siluanov rises to leave after a family photo during a meeting of G20 finance ministers in MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - The Group of 20 nations declared on Saturday there would be no currency war and deferred plans to set new debt-cutting targets, underlining broad concern about the fragile state of the world economy. Japan's expansive policies, which have driven down the yen, escaped direct criticism in a statement thrashed out in Moscow by policymakers from the G20, which spans developed and emerging markets and accounts for 90 percent of the world economy. ...


Bomb rips Pakistan market, kills at least 65

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:51 AM PST

Smoke rises from the site of a bomb blast in a market in Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir said the bomb went off in a Shiite Muslim-dominated residential suburb of the city of Quetta. Residents rushed the victims to three different hospitals.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)A bomb hidden in a water tank ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southwestern Pakistani city Saturday, killing at least 65 people and wounding nearly 200, officials said.


Obama bypasses Congress, goes public with economic pitches

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 06:01 AM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about strengthening the economy for the middle class and the nations struggle with gun violence at an appearance at Hyde Park Academy, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)The effort to promote President Obama's proposals on jobs, wages and education involved visits to Asheville, N.C., Decatur Ga., and Chicago, participating in a Google+ chat and mobilizing the president's formidable former campaign apparatus.


Bright streak of light reported over San Francisco

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 03:23 PM PST

Bay Area people describe meteor sightingHours after a meteor exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,000 people and an asteroid passed relatively close to Earth, residents in Northern California reported seeing an unusual flash of light over the San Francisco Bay area that left many startled and thrilled.


Jets escort plane from where Obama is vacationing

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

STUART, Fla. (AP) — Officials say two F-16 military jets have escorted a small plane away from a no-fly zone above where President Barack Obama is vacationing along Florida's Treasure Coast.
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