2013年12月29日星期日

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Formula One legend in a coma after ski accident

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 04:00 PM PST

A helicopter is parked in front of the emergency department of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire hospital in Grenoble, French Alps, on December 29, 2013 where Formula One legend Michael Schumacher is receiving treatment after a ski accidentRetired driving champ Michael Schumacher was injured while skiing in the French Alps.


Report: NSA intercepts computer deliveries

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 03:13 PM PST

The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, as seen from the air on January 29, 2010LONDON (AP) — A German magazine lifted the lid on the operations of the National Security Agency's hacking unit Sunday, reporting that American spies intercept computer deliveries, exploit hardware vulnerabilities, and even hijack Microsoft's internal reporting system to spy on their targets.


Deadly suicide bombing in Russia's south

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 01:52 PM PST

In this photo made by a public camera and made available by the Associated Press Television News the flash of an explosion illuminates the entrance to Volgograd railway station in Volgograd Russia on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. More then a dozen people were killed and scores were wounded Sunday by a suicide bomber at a railway station in southern Russia, officials said, heightening concern about terrorism ahead of February's Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. (AP Photo/ Associated Press Television News)A suicide bomber struck a busy railway station in southern Russia on Sunday, killing herself and at least 15 others and wounding scores more, officials said, in a stark reminder of the threat Russia is facing as it prepares to host February's Olympics in Sochi.


FBI: Cellphone records linked suspect to robberies

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 04:53 PM PST

Stauffer Presser, center, reacts on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, as FBI Special Agent in Charge Danile McMullen announces they believe the bank robber who killed her husband, Sgt. Gale Stuaffer on Monday, was killed attempting another bank robbery in Phoniex, Ariz., on Saturday in Tupelo, Miss. (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells) MANDATORY CREDITPHOENIX (AP) — A suspect killed by Phoenix police in a bank robbery attempt is believed to be the same man accused in the shooting death of a Mississippi police officer and the wounding of another, the FBI said Sunday.


Former F1 driver Schumacher in critical condition

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 04:29 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2006 file photo, Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher of Germany speeds down a course in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. Schumacher is in this Italian Alps ski resort for the yearly meeting between Ferrari drivers and the press. French radio says retired Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has been injured in a skiing accident. RMC radio reported Sunday Dec. 29, 2013 that the seven-time champion had fallen while skiing off-piste at the French Alpine resort of Meribel. The radio quoted resort director Christophe Gernigon-Lecomte as saying that Schumacher was wearing a helmet when he fell and hit a rock. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)PARIS (AP) — Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher was in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery following a skiing accident in the French Alps on Sunday, doctors said.


Fear pulses through crowded S. Sudan refugee camp

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 02:04 PM PST

A displaced child stands in front of the makeshift tents where she and others live next to shipping containers at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Some 25,000 people live in two hastily arranged camps for the internally displaced in Juba and nearly 40,000 are in camps elsewhere in the country, two weeks after violence broke out in the capital and a spiralling series of ethnically-based attacks coursed through the nation, killing at least 1,000 people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The women and girls leave the main United Nations refugee camp here during the day. The men do not. To exit is to risk death, they say.


Saudi to give Lebanon $3B to strengthen army

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 02:09 PM PST

Relatives and friends of Mohammed Chatah, a senior aide to former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who was assassinated on Friday by a car bomb, weep as Lebanese people carry his coffin during his funeral procession at Martyrs' Square in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Angry mourners have chanted against Hezbollah as they buried the slain Lebanese politician who was critical of the Shiite militia. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia has pledged $3 billion to Lebanon to help strengthen the country's armed forces and purchase weapons from France, Lebanon's president said Sunday, calling it the biggest grant ever for the nation's military.


"Hobbit," "Frozen" lead box office to record year

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Martin Freeman, left, and John Callen in a scene from "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug."The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" continued to top the box office, landing at No. 1 over the Christmas holiday for the third weekend in a row. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Mark Pokorny)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Over the bustling post-Christmas weekend, Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" continued to lead the box office, landing in the No. 1 slot for the third weekend in a row.


Among Cuban exiles, an old toast goes silent

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 10:05 AM PST

A recipe for Cuban eggnog by Cuban food blogger Marta Darby is written on a small blackboard in her home on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, in Mission Viejo, Calif. Darby will be making a toast to Cuba this year, accompanied with a glass of the rum-based eggnog known as the "creme de vie" or "cream of life." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)MIAMI (AP) — In their first years of exile from Cuba in the 1960s, Gustavo Pérez Firmat's family uttered the toast as a wish they anxiously waited to fulfill.


Feeling US snub, Saudis strengthen ties elsewhere

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 10:05 AM PST

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, right, speaks with French President Francois Hollande during their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Increasingly vocal in its frustration over United States policies in the Mideast, Saudi Arabia is strengthening ties elsewhere, seeking out an alignment that will bolster its position after it was pushed to the sidelines this year. (AP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard, Pool)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Increasingly vocal in its frustration over U.S. policies in the Mideast, Saudi Arabia is strengthening ties elsewhere, seeking out an alignment that will bolster its position after it was pushed to the sidelines this year.


Secret Service arrested robbery suspect in 2010

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 04:38 PM PST

Stauffer Presser, center, reacts on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, as FBI Special Agent in Charge Danile McMullen announces they believe the bank robber who killed her husband, Sgt. Gale Stuaffer on Monday, was killed attempting another bank robbery in Phoniex, Ariz., on Saturday in Tupelo, Miss. (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells) MANDATORY CREDITPHOENIX (AP) — The Secret Service says a man suspected in bank robberies in Mississippi and Phoenix over the last week was arrested in 2010 after making online threats against the president.


Police: Robbery suspect had no Arizona connections

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 03:10 PM PST

Stauffer Presser, center, reacts on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, as FBI Special Agent in Charge Danile McMullen announces they believe the bank robber who killed her husband, Sgt. Gale Stuaffer on Monday, was killed attempting another bank robbery in Phoniex, Ariz., on Saturday in Tupelo, Miss. (AP Photo/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Thomas Wells) MANDATORY CREDITPHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police say a man killed by officers during a bank robbery attempt on Saturday was a 40-year-old from the Midwest who appears to have no connections to Arizona.


Former F1 champion Schumacher injured while skiing

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 02:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2006 file photo, Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher of Germany speeds down a course in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. Schumacher is in this Italian Alps ski resort for the yearly meeting between Ferrari drivers and the press. French radio says retired Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has been injured in a skiing accident. RMC radio reported Sunday Dec. 29, 2013 that the seven-time champion had fallen while skiing off-piste at the French Alpine resort of Meribel. The radio quoted resort director Christophe Gernigon-Lecomte as saying that Schumacher was wearing a helmet when he fell and hit a rock. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)PARIS (AP) — Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher was hospitalized with a head injury Sunday after a skiing accident in the French Alps, French authorities and his manager said.


Gun magazine supplier expands in Iowa college town

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 08:08 AM PST

This Dec. 9, 2013 photo shows workers outside the Brownells, Inc. distribution and retail facility under construction along Interstate 80, in Grinnell, Iowa. The central Iowa city of 9,100 is home to Grinnell College, the selective liberal arts institution known for its commitment to social justice. Billed as the world's largest supplier of firearms accessories, Brownells is a family-owned company that has long been based 20 miles south of Grinnell in Montezuma, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)GRINNELL, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa college known for liberal activism is welcoming an unlikely neighbor: one of the nation's largest suppliers of high-capacity ammunition magazines and accessories for assault rifles and other guns.


Obama's presidency beset by fits, starts in year 5

Posted: 28 Dec 2013 10:07 PM PST

FILE - This Jan. 20, 2013 file-pool photo shows President Barack Obama officially sworn-in by Chief Justice John Roberts, not pictured, in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, as first lady Michelle Obama, holds the Robinson Family Bible. It was a moment for Barack Obama to savor. His second inaugural address over, Obama paused as he strode from the podium last January, turning back for one last glance across the expanse of the National Mall, where a supportive throng stood in the winter chill to witness the launch of his new term. "I want to take a look, one more time," Obama said quietly. "I'm not going to see this again."There was so much Obama could not _ or did not _ see then, as he opened his second term with a confident call to arms and an expansive liberal agenda. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, File-Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a moment for Barack Obama to savor.


Rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 08:16 AM PST

A Lebanese army soldier holds remains of a rocket that struck northern Israel, while inspecting an area in the southern village of Sarada, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Rockets from Lebanon struck northern Israel Sunday, causing no injuries but sparking an Israeli reprisal shelling in a rare flare-up between the two countries. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)JERUSALEM (AP) — Rockets from Lebanon struck northern Israel on Sunday, causing no injuries but sparking an Israeli reprisal shelling in a rare flare-up between the two countries.


Federal health market surpasses 1M sign-ups

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 12:54 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2013 file photo, Lisa Donlea, left, and Susan Roberts, a certified enrollment officer, celebrate after working on Donlea's federal health insurance exchange enrollment online for one hour and 47 minutes in Laguna Beach, Calif. The Obama administration says following a December surge, more than 1.1 million people have now enrolled for health insurance through the federal government's improved website. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Cindy Yamanaka, File)A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government's rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new vigor for the problem-plagued federal insurance exchange.


NSA 'spying on Europe-Asia undersea telecom cables'

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 09:54 AM PST

The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, as seen from the air on January 29, 2010The US National Security Agency has collected sensitive data on key telecommunications cables between Europe, north Africa and Asia, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Sunday citing classified documents. Spiegel quoted NSA papers dating from February and labelled "top secret" and "not for foreigners" describing the agency's success in spying on the so-called Sea-Me-We 4 undersea cable system. The massive bundle of fibre optic cables originates near the southern French city of Marseille and links Europe with north Africa and the Gulf states, continuing through Pakistan and India to Malaysia and Thailand. "More operations are planned in the future to collect more information about this and other cable systems," Spiegel quoted the NSA documents as saying.


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