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Syrian forces launch new Aleppo strikes

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 01:35 PM PST

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 . Activists said the latest Syrian government shelling has killed and wounded several people in a rebel-held area of the northern city of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)Syrian military helicopters dropped barrels packed with explosives, activists said.


GOP ponders scandal's toll on Christie's future

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 03:07 PM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a ceremony to pass official hosting duties of next year's Super Bowl to representatives from Arizona, Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 in New York. Fellow Republicans are assessing the damage of new allegations that Gov. Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Fellow Republicans on Saturday debated the fallout over new suggestions that Gov. Chris Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides as apparent political payback earlier than he has acknowledged.


Dylan Farrow resurrects Allen molestation claim

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 04:25 PM PST

FILE - This Aug. 27, 2013 file photo shows director and actor Woody Allen at the French premiere of "Blue Jasmine," in Paris. Allen was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 for the film. The 86th Academy Awards will be held on March 2. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Dylan Farrow has renewed allegations against movie director Woody Allen that he molested her when she was 7 after he and actress Mia Farrow adopted her.


UN chief pushes for quick return to Syria talks

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 10:35 AM PST

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses during the 50th Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The United Nations' secretary-general pressed the U.S. and Russia to help ensure that peace talks aimed at stemming Syria's civil war can soon resume, while Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that it was "very difficult" to push Syrian President Bashar Assad's government to make concessions.


United Airlines drops Cleveland as hub airport

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 03:39 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — United Airlines said Saturday it will drop its money-losing hub in Cleveland, slashing its daily flights and eliminating 470 jobs.

Kerry: Ukraine should be free to align with Europe

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 09:48 AM PST

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel , center, and Wolfgang Ischinger, right, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, listen as US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 in Munich, southern Germany. The annual meeting was set to deal with thorny international issues, from the Syrian war and Ukraine's turmoil to Iran's nuclear program and US online surveillance. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski,Pool)MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Ukraine, confronting a political crisis and massive anti-government protests, should be free to align with Europe if it wants and not feel coerced by more powerful neighbors such as Russia.


SC Supreme Court to rule on public autopsy reports

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 08:44 AM PST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Are autopsies medical records or public records?

Different QB styles clash at Super Bowl

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 01:43 PM PST

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning passes during practice Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Florham Park, N.J. The Broncos are scheduled to play the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game Sunday, Feb. 2, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo)EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (AP) — This Super Bowl has just about everything a fan, a player, a coach — and certainly a league — could ask for.


AP PHOTOS: Gunfire erupts on eve of Thai elections

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 11:45 AM PST

Gunfire erupted during protests in Thailand's capital Saturday, injuring 7 people, including an American photojournalist, and sending people scrambling for cover. The shooting broke out as government supporters clashed with protesters trying to derail nationwide elections one day before the vote begins. People caught in the mayhem crouched behind cars and ducked behind a pedestrian bridge while other fled inside a nearby shopping mall.

Guy, Brooks, Jones among 7 elected to Hall of Fame

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 04:39 PM PST

Football fan Brian Jackson, of Newark, N.J. stops to look at autographed memorabilia of NFL Hall of Fame players, Walter Payton, Johnny Unitas, and Jim Brown at a store along Super Bowl Boulevard Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, in New York. The Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII Sunday at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)NEW YORK (AP) — Ray Guy is the first punter elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


NJ Gov. Christie playing offense over accusation

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 03:55 PM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a ceremony to pass official hosting duties of next year's Super Bowl to representatives from Arizona, Saturday Feb. 1, 2014 in New York. Fellow Republicans are assessing the damage of new allegations that Gov. Christie knew about a traffic-blocking operation orchestrated by top aides. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie is going on the offensive over suggestions he knew more than he has said about apparently politically motivated traffic jams ordered by one of his staffers.


Knox's judge says he suffered over guilty verdict

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 08:13 AM PST

Amanda Knox co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito leaves the Udine police station, northern Italy, Friday, Jan 31, 2014. Police on Friday found Amanda Knox's ex-boyfriend near Italy's border with Slovenia and Austria, hours after he and the American student were convicted for a second time in the death of British student Meredith Kercher. They brought him to the Udine police station, took his passport and put a stamp in his Italian identity papers showing that he cannot leave the country, as mandated by the appeals court in Florence. (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini)ROME (AP) — The judge who presided over Amanda Knox's second murder conviction says he suffered over the verdict, but that he and the jury reached agreement that she was guilty in the death of British student Meredith Kercher.


Clashes grip Thai capital on eve of vote; 7 hurt

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 08:38 AM PST

An anti-government protester takes cover after firing his pistol at pro-election demonstrators in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. Gunfire rang out across a busy intersection in Thailand's capital for more than an hour Saturday as clashes between protesters and government supporters erupted on the eve of tense nationwide elections. At least seven people were wounded, including an American photojournalist. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)BANGKOK (AP) — Gunfire rang out across a busy intersection in Thailand's capital for more than an hour Saturday as government supporters clashed with protesters trying to derail tense nationwide elections one day before the vote begins. At least seven people were wounded, including an American photojournalist.


Diver killed working on Concordia in Italy

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 01:18 PM PST

FILE -- In this undated file photo released by the Italian Fire Brigade, Vigili del Fuoco, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, firemen scuba divers check one of the propellers of the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia that run ashore off the Tuscany island of Isola del Giglio, Italy. A diver has died Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014, while working on the shipwrecked Costa Concordia in Italy. The consortium of firms working to prepare the Concordia for removal says the Spanish diver died Saturday while working underwater in the area around the wreckage site. (AP Photo/Vigili del Fuoco)ROME (AP) — A diver died Saturday while working on the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, apparently gashing his leg on an underwater metal sheet while preparing the wreck for removal, officials and news reports said.


Report: Diver killed working on Concordia in Italy

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 11:11 AM PST

ROME (AP) — A diver has died while working on the shipwrecked Costa Concordia in Italy.

Trial of Egypt's ousted leader resumes

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 08:57 AM PST

A supporter of the head of Egypt's military, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, wearing a t-shirt with his image, scuffles with a Muslim Brotherhood lawyer, Ahmed Kamel, after she struck him outside a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, in an eastern suburb of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. The trial of Egypt's ousted president, Mohammed Morsi and 14 others also accused of inciting the killing of protesters resumed on Saturday. The trial is one of four Morsi and top leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood face with the charges levelled against them mostly carrying the death penalty. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar)CAIRO (AP) — A lawyer for Egypt's ousted president on Saturday told a Cairo court that it lacked jurisdiction to try Mohammed Morsi, saying the Islamist leader remained Egypt's legitimate president because there has been no official decree removing him from office.


SpaceX's Elon Musk, Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk manned Mars missions

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 04:49 AM PST

SpaceX's Elon Musk and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talk Manned Mars Missions (Video)Billionaire Musk shared his big vision for a "self-sustaining civilization" on Mars with actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a short documentary set to air this weekend.


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