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Deepening divisions with Putin over Syria to overshadow G8 meet

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:40:40 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - The escalating civil war in Syria and the deepening divisions between the western powers and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war-torn country are to be the focus of the G8 summit that opened here Monday. Putin is likely to attack US President Barack Obama over his move to arm the rebels fighting the Assad regime. "The EU is convinced that we are at ...

US wants 'credible negotiations' with North Korea

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:53:57 -0400

WASHINGTON - The United States has said it wants "credible negotiations" with North Korea as Pyongyang in its latest offer has expressed desire to start "senior-level" talks with America on regional peace and easing tensions. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, are said to have discussed the issue by telephone Sunday evening. They agreed to close ...

Czech premier quits after aide accused of power abuse

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:37:55 -0400

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, once known as 'Mr Clean Hands' in a country troubled by corruption, was forced to resign after his chief of staff was accused of abusing the state security apparatus to spy on three people including the First Lady. The announcement threw the Czech Republic into political chaos. Necas will stay on as caretaker leader until a new ...

Britain snooped on foreign leaders at G20 summits

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:48:37 -0400

LONDON - Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed secrets of the US intelligence, has disclosed that Britain's electronic intelligence agency spied on foreign politicians and officials who attended the London G20 summit in 2009, a news report said. The disclosures by The Guardian may cause diplomatic tension as they coincide with the latest G8 summit being hosted by London in Northern ...

Russian president denies charge of stealing Super Bowl ring

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:57:31 -0400

MOSCOW - Robert K. Kraft, an American business magnate and New England Patriots football team owner, has alleged that Vladimir Putin took away his Super Bowl ring in 2005, an accusation that has sparked a minor international controversy The Russian president however denied the allegation about the diamond-encrusted sporting prize that he says was gifted to him by the football team owner. ...

Al Jazeera to launch US channel in August

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:28:01 -0400

WASHINGTON - Al Jazeera's new American channel coming in summer hopes to be different with lesser focus on celebrities or other tabloid fodder found on U.S. television news. Al Jazeera America hopes to stand out with a diet heavy on "fact-based, in-depth, long-format news." According to Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of international operations for Al Jazeera Media Network, Al Jazeera ...

Private drug firm Aragon being acquired by Johnson and Johnson

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:03:46 -0400

WASHINGTON - Healthcare products conglomerate Johnson Johnson is buying privately-held Aragon Pharmaceuticals in a near $1 billion deal to gain control of its experimental drugs for prostate cancer. The acquisition of Aragon Pharmaceuticals includes its androgen receptor antagonist program targeting the treatment of prostate cancer, including its primary product candidate in phase 2 ...

No direct access provided to servers, says Apple

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:16:48 -0400

WASHINGTON Technology giant Apple Monday revealed that over the last six months it had received between 4,000 to 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement authorities relating to criminal investigations and national security matters. The disclosure comes on the heels of similar statements and data from the Microsoft and Facebook Inc last week after reaching a deal about ...

Australian consumer body reports $94mn losses due to shopping scams

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:28:51 -0400

SYDNEY - Australian consumers were fleeced of nearly $94 million last year due to various marketing scams, with the majority being perpetrated using text messages and direct calls, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in its latest report. The actual number of losses due to scams could be much higher because many go unreported, stated ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard. The ...

Chevron begins production and shipment from Angola LNG

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:14:17 -0400

SAN RAMON, California - Production and shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Angola by Chevron Corporation's subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited has commenced with the first consignment being sent to Brazil, the global energy giant has confirmed. Angola LNG is one of the largest energy projects on the African continent. "First gas at Angola LNG is an important milestone in ...

Patricia McMillan NSPCC volunteer and Wigan football club chairman give glowing character references for Stuart Hall

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:11:43 -0400

NSPCC volunteer and Wigan football club chairman give glowing character references for former BBC star Stuart Hall, 83, as he is jailed for abusing girls as young as ...

US programme marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:10:22 -0400

This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid ...

100000 line streets of Brazil to protest high taxes

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:52:23 -0400

Protestors are reflected on the glass of a building, left, as they march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. Protests in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities, set off by a 10-cent hike in public transport fares, have clearly moved beyond that issue to tap into widespread frustration in Brazil about a heavy tax burden, politicians widely viewed as corrupt and woeful ...

US identifies Guantanamo indefinite detainees

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:51:15 -0400

The Obama administration has publicly identified for the first time 46 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base whom it wants to hold indefinitely without charge or trial because it says they are too dangerous to release but cannot be prosecuted. The Defence Department released the names on Monday after ...

G8 challenges Russia to sign up to Syria peace plan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:18:49 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom (AFP) - World leaders were to fight for a consensus on Syria on the final day of the G8 summit Tuesday, after challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin to get on board or be left out in the cold.The meeting of world leaders in Northern Ireland was also due to seek a deal on tax evasion but it was the divisions over the civil war in Syria that threatened to ...

U.S. Russia still dont agree on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:10:39 -0400

>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says he still doesn't see eye to eye with the United States on Syria. But "all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria ... and to solve this situation peacefully," Putin said Monday after a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight Summit in Northern Ireland. Putin said he and ...

Obesity fuels rise in throat cancer in men Form is one of the deadliest as it is often diagnosed late

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:17 -0400

It is thought obesity which can cause acid reflux or heartburn - where the contents of the stomach flow back up the gullet - is one of the main factors behind the rise of a form of the ...

Nigella Lawson I know what its like to be throttled by your lover - but still not want to leave says Melissa Kite

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:16 -0400

Art collector Charles Saatchi has admitted assaulting his wife Nigella Lawson in an argument outside a restaurant, it is understood. Saatchi was said to have accepted a caution for assault after going to ...

Increasing amount of red meat in your diet can raise risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by nearly 50

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:15 -0400

Experts said the link may be due to the fat contained in red meat - mostly saturated fats - which means people should be encouraged to choose leaner ...

Out-of-hours phone calls with GPs could ease crisis in AE Review of emergency care says current system is unaffordable and unsustainable

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:14 -0400

Getting telephone advice could be the key to putting the brakes on soaring patient demand on A & E, according to a review of emergency healthcare in the ...

If coffee perks you up you need to STOP drinking it

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:14 -0400

Shaking the habitual: Many can't start the day without a cup of tea or coffee, but it's been proven that caffeine doesn't actually jump start your ...

Court opens floodgate to high-stakes bet machines after test case is kicked out

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:12 -0400

Last night campaigners said the ruling would be a ‘red rag’ to other bookmakers who would take more and more councils to court and force their way on to high streets ‘up and down the ...

Ive cracked it Designer creates fool-proof egg separator that sucks the yolk from the white without any mess

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:11 -0400

For many cooks, separating an egg yolk from the white is a messy business. As you juggle the yolk back and forth between the halves of the egg, your fingers get stickier and stickier as the white drains ...

Maria Miller says companies have not done enough about removing child porn as she summons them to Whitehall

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:11 -0400

'Unrelenting pressure': Culture Secretary Maria Miller said companies such as Google had not done enough to ensure sickening images are banished from the ...

In my country if they have died then they have died Dutch nurses callous reaction to unresponsive patient 81 who she and colleague failed to help

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:10 -0400

Nurses at the disgraced Stafford Hospital who left an elderly woman to die and then recorded that she was just sleeping have been allowed to keep their ...

37 and out Village cricketers banned from practising with hard balls after decades on playing field because of health and safety fears

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:09 -0400

Bacton Cricket Club in Norfolk has been told that it can only use proper cricket balls for practice inside the cricket nets and not on the field as it has done for 37 ...

Clarifications and corrections Children expelled from school for sexual misconduct

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:08 -0400

The headline of an article on April 2 said that 15 children a day are expelled from school for sexual misconduct. As the article made clear, this figure included many children who were only temporarily ...

Two in three child porn perverts spared jail Outrage as 1000 are given community or suspended sentences

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:07 -0400

In a new soft-justice outrage, 1,000 paedophiles caught in possession of obscene abuse videos and pictures were handed community sentences or suspended jail terms last ...

Mums-to-be CAN have a glass of wine a day without harming their childs development

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:06 -0400

But he added: ‘There is no strong evidence that moderate alcohol consumption of a glass of wine a day has important adverse effects on the ...

Modern mums cook nine meals a day for fussy families and admit reaching the end of their tether five times

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:05 -0400

Mothers are reaching boiling point with their kitchens turned into makeshift cafes as they cater for the multiple culinary demands of their families, according to a new report ...

Care home deaths more than double in a decade Fears raised over neglect and poor treatment

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:05 -0400

Last year there were over 103,000 deaths in residential care homes - a third of all deaths outside the home, according to figures seen by the Daily ...

Childrens phones blamed for increase in deaths on roads Sharp increase of youngsters distracted by texts and tweets

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:04 -0400

A boom in smartphone use is being blamed for an alarming rise in the number of children killed and injured on Britain's roads, a report reveals ...

Our natural IVF baby Family celebrate birth of little Heath after pioneering new hormone technique thats safer for mum

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:03 -0400

His birth – the result of a groundbreaking technique dubbed ‘the natural IVF’ – could offer hope to thousands of women who are currently unable to have ...

Is there something fishy about the smoked salmon in YOUR supermarket Prices are soaring - and as Anne Shooter reveals some brands are resorting to unsavoury short-cuts

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:02 -0400

When I was a girl, as a special treat my grandmother, who was rather sophisticated, would take me to the Jewish delicatessen at the end of her street to buy smoked ...

Murray Walker Legendary Formula 1 commentator diagnosed with cancer weeks after breaking pelvis in a fall

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:01 -0400

Get well soon Murray and hope it's not long before you are up and on the go, go, go again and giving us your Murrayisms! 'Unless I'm very much mistaken....I AM very much mistaken!'". "I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong" . "And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round ...

Modern Britons eat 600 calories less each day than 30 years ago...but weigh 30lbs MORE

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:00 -0400

Researchers found that an average person eats 600 fewer calories each day than 30 years ago – a 20 per cent drop – but weighs 30lb ...

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Its time to rein in these Town Hall truffle hounds

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:00 -0400

We’ve heard it all before. Town Halls are always pleading poverty. There’s never enough money to fill the potholes, sweep the streets or empty the dustbins once a ...

STEPHEN GLOVER Shock horror Britain spies on other nations The Guardian rightly attacks the hacking of private phones - but glories in betraying Britain by revealing our State secrets

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:59 -0400

Five pages of The Guardian newspaper were yesterday given over to what was presented as one of the most outrageous scandals of modern times. Horror of horrors, Britain has allegedly been bugging other ...

Vladimir Putin tells Barack Obama they dont agree on Syria but must push for negotiations in civil war

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:58 -0400

Russia and the U.S. disagree on how to end the conflict in Syria - but both want the bloodshed to stop and the warring parties brought to the negotiating table, Vladimir Putin said ...

DAILY MAIL COMMENT The day for action to protect our children

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:58 -0400

Speaking for countless anxious parents, David Cameron has said the ‘appalling scourge’ of online pornography makes him worry every time any of his three children grabs holds of the ...

QUENTIN LETTS Mr Straws caution no longer gets the bird...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:57 -0400

Mr Hague’s response was broadly along the lines of ‘maybe, but let’s believe their good nature by their deeds rather than by talk’. Mr Straw reported that he knew Mr Rouhani of old and had always found him ‘courteous, engaged and straight-forward to deal ...

Photographer stumbles upon huge hidden pay phone burial ground on the Upper West Side

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:56 -0400

Hidden spaces: Photographer Dave Bledsoe found 'at least a hundred' payphones in a fenced off area under the West Side Highway at West 135th Street and 12th Ave, near the parks ...

As more youngsters than ever are prescribed drugs for hyperactivity experts pose a provocative question Could children diagnosed with ADHD just need better sleep

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:55 -0400

Yet many of those may not have the behavioural disorder but could instead be suffering from sleep deprivation, says a leading U.S. doctor. He estimates more than a third of children and a quarter of adults diagnosed with ADHD actually have sleep ...

Expanding foam that stems troops wounds and stops them bleeding to death could save thousands of soldiers lives

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:55 -0400

The amazing expandable substance significantly reduces internal haemorrhaging - buying seriously-injured troops enough time to be transported to a field hospital for medical ...

Hapless fish tank thief is catch of the day Criminal was caught when he went back to pet shop to buy goldfish to put in it

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:53 -0400

Prosecutor, Rory Byrne said Ball, of Wakefield, stole the hexagonal tank from the store just after 5pm on May 29 and carried it home for more than a ...

No ties on them Dress-down Dave and the other G8 leaders opt for a casual approach at lakeside golf resort conference

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:53 -0400

And while the talk was undoubtedly 'business', the dress code was clearly 'casual' as the Prime Minister opted for an open neck shirt and dispensed with his tie as he greeted the world's most powerful ...

African killer who entered Britain on false passport butchered pensioner after he stopped taking medication for personality disorder

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:52 -0400

A delusional killer who entered the country on a false passport was today sentenced to remain indefinitely in hospital for butchering a pensioner who he believed was the ...

Worlds longest and widest cable bridge with a span of 10km is finally completed after seven years

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:51 -0400

The Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge stretches 6.2miles (10 kilometres) over the Hangzhou Bay, in Shaoxing, China. It is mainly supported by two cable-towers, both of which reach 745ft in the air, and has a main body stretching 2,560ft ...

How could this glorious alleyway be deemed health and safety risk Council bans pot plants despite handing gardening neighbours award for their work

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:51 -0400

Angry residents have been ordered to remove carefully-tended flower pots from their street as the council has deemed them a health and safety ...

Who you calling pug ugly Meet the ruff contenders battling it out at the worlds ugliest dog competition

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:50 -0400

Mangy mutts from around the globe will gather this week at the only beauty pageant they might ever stand a chance of winning - the world's ugliest dog ...

400000 households avoid paying for a TV licence by watching BBC programmes on iPlayer

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:49 -0400

The BBC has revealed more than 400,000 households have said they do not need a TV licence because they only watch the broadcaster’s iPlayer ...

Ocean Elliot Benjamin Curtis jailed for killing daughter who died after suffering terrible brain damage when he shook her

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:47 -0400

Benjamin Curtis, 30, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, was today jailed for two years at Guildford Crown Court in Surrey after admitting the manslaughter of Ocean Elliott, as his trial was due to ...

Bankrupt businessman who blasted solicitor to death with a sawn-off shotgun after losing legal battle found guilty of murder

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:46 -0400

He calmly walked into MGW Law in Devizes, Wiltshire in July last year and blasted Mr Ward in the head once at close range as he spoke to a client on the ...

Whatever you do dont kiss it Scientists successfully breed tiny blue frog thats so poisonous it can kill TEN men

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:46 -0400

A blue poison dart frog, found naturally in the tropical forests of Costa Rica and Brazil, has been successfully bred at Walford and North Shropshire ...

Forgetful groom fails to mention his mother in wedding speech after thanking everyone else including the caterers

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:45 -0400

His mother helped him battle his dyslexia and supported him in his early days as he tried to make the grade as a chef. - who was still a young boy when his dad left home - was so mortified he made his own thank you for his mother as soon as he returned from ...

Golfers have the best memories of all athletes and can remember astonishing detail psychologist claims

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:43 -0400

A combination of their visualisation techniques and the uniqueness of each shot they play contributes to their elephantine memories, said Dr Joel ...

Radio Fours Today programme in breach of broadcasting code after crime writer Lynda La Plante used the word retard

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:42 -0400

Radio 4’s flagship news show Today has been censured by Ofcom for breaching broadcasting rules after crime writer Lynda La Plante used the word ‘retard’ on the ...

Samsung Galaxy customers to get Jay-Zs new Magna Carta Holy Grail album for FREE this July - 72 hours before it goes on sale

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:41 -0400

People who own the Samsung Galaxy S4, S3 or Note 2 handsets will be able to get rapper Jay-Z's new solo studio album three days before it goes on sale in July - for ...

Welcome to America Poignant black and white pictures show the brutal hardships endured by immigrant families in 19th century New York

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:41 -0400

They may have headed to the 'Land of the Free' for a better life, but a set of poignant black and white pictures illustrate the brutal hardships endured by immigrant families in 19th century New ...

Bad news for consumers as CPI inflation expected to rise to 2.6 and squeeze household budgets

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:41 -0400

Ups and downs: The price of food rose in May, but clothing fell according to the BRC; economists think CPI may rise as high as 3 per cent before coming down after the ...

Mother-of-three dies of meningitis just five days after being admitted to hospital with EARACHE

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:40 -0400

Jo Graham, 36, was admitted to Coventry University Hospital suffering from severe earache. She was told she could probably go home the next day but her condition deteriorated ...

A cut above Artists incredible PAPER sculptures look like stained glass windows

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:38 -0400

I wish my actual windows were that beautiful!!Which reminds me to call the super-i have double windows >While the inside window is now perfectly shut(don't want the pink curtains get wet when it rains) the outside window just won't.For safety reasons i think it would be better just to have that second window closed from the ...

The Irish DO drink more than everyone else with single-sex schools cricket clubs and family gatherings to blame

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:37 -0400

The Irish have a reputation for enjoying a drink or two - partly due to TV characters such as Father Ted's Jack and the pub regulars in Mrs Browns' ...

Too many tweets make an official word in the Oxford English Dictionary as Twitter is recognised for the first time

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:06:36 -0400

David Cameron once famously voiced his disgust at the incessant use of Twitter in a 2009 radio interview, but that hasn't stopped the word 'tweet' officially entering ...

Obama defends Internet snooping program

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:05:19 -0400

President Barack Obama on Mondaysought toallay fears about secret US intelligence programs, rejecting comparisons withthe policies of his predecessors George W. Bush and Dick ...

Standing man inspires protests

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:58:32 -0400

>Are you there? Share your story on CNN iReport, but please remember to stay safe. Istanbul (CNN) -- A single man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who broke up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds of others to his vigil. For more than five hours, he appeared to stare at a portrait of Kemal Ataturk, ...

Biggest protests in 20 years sweep Brazil

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:56:46 -0400

* Sparked by cost of public transport, complaints grow * Demonstrations unfold as Brazil hosts Confederations Cup * Protests mostly peaceful, though clashes in some cities (Updates size of protests, adds fresh quotes, details) By Todd Benson and Asher Levine SAO PAULO, June 17 (Reuters) - As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on ...

Data agency to declassify foiled plots

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:49:35 -0400

Open the Google Chrome browser Click Tools icon>Options>Under the Hood>Content Settings Check Allow local data to be set Uncheck Block third-party cookies from being set Uncheck Clear cookies Close ...

Lawyer Cliff Sloan faces tough assignment Closing Guantanamo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:49:03 -0400

The interior of an unoccupied communal cellblock is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 5, ...

Day care worker accused of drugging snacks for nap-time

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:47:23 -0400

COLUMBUS, Ohio A central Ohio day care worker sprinkled drugs on snacks to get children in her day care to sleep during the day, according to police charges filed Monday that the woman adamantly denies as a misunderstood joke. Tammy Eppley was charged in Franklin County Municipal Court with six counts of child endangering after police in suburban Westerville say they obtained text messages in ...

G8 summit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:15:09 -0400

G8 summit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:15:09 -0400

Obama and Putin express cautious optimism after Iranian election

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:44 -0400

US, Russian presidents voice optimism that election of moderate cleric in Iran will open up dialogue with Tehran; two meet privately over new agreement on destroying nuclear material to prevent spread of nuclear ...

Putin faces isolation over Syria as G8 ups pressure

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:43 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - Russian President Vladimir Putin faced further isolation on the second day of a G8 summit on Tuesday as world leaders lined up to pressure him into toning down his support for Syrian President Bashar Assad.Following an icy encounter between the Kremlin chief and US President Barack Obama late on Monday, the G8 leaders will seek to find resolution to a war that ...

Runaway teacher had sex with pupil eight times a night as she tells jury He only took me away because he feared I would kill myself

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:03:03 -0400

The married 30-year-old had a four-month affair with his pupil before she persuaded him to flee to France with her amid fears she might kill ...

Obama Putin estranged on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:01:55 -0400

Barack Obama andVladimir Putin on Monday aired clashing views on Syria, but pledged to at leasttry to keep alive a frail and much-delayed effort to hold a Geneva ...

More Data on Privacy but Picture Is No Clearer

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:59:39 -0400

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Luxor protests against Morsis new governor for the city - former Islamist terror leader Adel el-Khayat

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:56:09 -0400

Hoteliers and tour operators in Luxor were beginning to mobilise against Mohamed Morsi last night after the Egyptian President appointed a former Islamist terror leader as the city's new governor - the same man whose fundamentalist group committed a notorious massacre in the city back in ...

Large Truck Bomb Reported to Kill 60 Syrian Troops

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:48:40 -0400

Syrian rebels mounted what appeared to be one of the deadliest strikes against government forces to date on Monday, sending six tons of explosives in a ...

U.S. says it will buy Russian helicopters for Afghan military

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:45:43 -0400

One of the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters purchased by Alabama-based Defense Technology Inc (DTI) is seen in Ulan Ude, Russia in this picture taken January 3, ...

Obama says will meet oversight board about NSA surveillance

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:45:42 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama glances at Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (R) during a news conference with European Union officials at the G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, ...

Colo. Black Forest fire has died down yet danger remains

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:44:06 -0400

The worst fire in Colorado's history, the Black Forrest fire, has consumed 24 square miles. While the flames have finally died down, the danger is not over yet. Firefighters still must extinguish embers deep in the forest floor. Barry Peterson ...

High Court States cant require voters to prove citizenship

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:44:05 -0400

An Arizona law required residents to show a driver's license, birth certificate, passport or other proof of citizenship when they registered to vote. The state said it was necessary to combat fraud, but the Supreme Court ruled Monday that Arizona was asking too much. Jan Crawford ...

AFRICOM head to testify on Benghazi for first time

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:44:04 -0400

The man who leads U.S. military operations in Africa will be testifying for the first time about last year's Benghazi embassy attack. Gen. Carter Ham, head of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), will be responding to questions from the House Armed Services Committee in a closed hearing on June 26 at 9 a.m. ...

Tweet added to Oxford English Dictionary

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:44:04 -0400

Need to check if crowdsourcing is one word or two? Now you can look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The iconic reference book has released a list of words that are being officially added into the English lexicon, which includes some popular tech jargon. Words like "live-blogging," crowdsourcing" and "mouseover" have been added to the 2013 OED. The dictionary ...

Whistleblower warns more detail is coming

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:38:09 -0400

Rogue US intelligence tech Edward Snowden has issued a defiant rebuke to his critics in Washington and warned more leaks were on the way, declaring: "Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.''The 29-year-old former contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) dismissed allegations he was a traitor or a Chinese agent and insisted he had exposed a dangerous US global surveillance network that ...

Iran nuclear programme advances despite sanctions IAEA chief

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:33:43 -0400

VIENNA: Iran is making "steady progress" in expanding its nuclear programme and international sanctions do not seem to be slowing it down, the UN nuclear agency chief said on Monday. Yukiya Amano's comments underlined the difficult challenges facing world powers in seeking to persuade the Islamic state to scale back nuclear activities they suspect could be used to make atomic ...

Students fly with the Israeli Air Force

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:03:41 -0400

The Aviator's Club program initiated by the Ramon Foundation, takes a group of kids with high potential and provides them with the opportunity to grow and believe in themselves, achieving goals they never thought they could before.The two year program engages fifth grade students in a variety of activities with Israeli Air Force Pilots. The program introduces them to values of self ...

Smile that says hes on the mend Prince Philip strides out... in his surgical stockings

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:00:14 -0400

Happy to be going home: Prince Philip smiles and waves as he left the London Clinic 11 days after an abdominal operation Philip was smartly dressed in a double-breasted blazer, but appeared to be wearing white surgical stockings under his loafers. He was holding a book about the British Empire entitled The Crucible Of War: The Seven Years’ War And The Fate Of Empire In British North ...

Britains foreign aid madness Cuts at home but we STILL hand out more than every other G8 country

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:00:13 -0400

Austerity-hit Britain is spending a larger share of its wealth on foreign aid than any other G8 member nation, despite making huge spending cuts at home, a report revealed ...

True or Faked Dirt on Chinese Fuels Blackmail

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:59:47 -0400

SHUANGFENG, China ...

Tensions rise as Bulgarian protesters pressure PM to resign

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:59:12 -0400

SOFIA - Thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets on Monday in a fourth day of protests demanding the resignation of new Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski after a political blunder sparked public outrage.Seven protesters and a lawmaker from the ultra-nationalist Ataka party were hurt as stones and bottles flew between demonstrators and nationalists shortly before midnight, public BNR radio ...

U.S. states greens delay lawsuit watch for Obama climate plan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:42:52 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmental groups and a dozen states and cities said Monday they will delay planned legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying they will wait to see if the White House soon unveils a climate policy ...

Irans new president-elect seen as bridge-builder

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:41:13 -0400

(CBS News) LONDON -- Say goodbye to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president who has taunted America for eight years. Over the weekend, Iranians elected a new kind of president. By the time he cast his own ballot, Hassan Rowhani knew he was on a roll. During the final days of his campaign, his rallies were drawing vast crowds of young people, convinced he could bring ...

Snowden U.S. Government is not going to be able to cover this up

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:41:12 -0400

From a secret location in Hong Kong, someone claiming to be Edward Snowden defended the leak of classified U.S. intelligence programs. The chat took place on the website of "The Guardian," which published Snowden's leaks. Bob Orr ...

Former Microsoft exec tries his luck at building marijuana brand

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:41:10 -0400

In this photo taken May 30, 2013, former Mexican president Vicente Fox, left, speaks as Jamen Shively, CEO of Diego Pellicer, looks on during a news conference in ...

Obama and Putin discuss Syria conflict

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:40:09 -0400

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama have discussed the Syrian conflict in a meeting on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.The leaders of Russia and the US openly back rival sides in the country's two-year civil war with Russia under criticism from G8 leaders for backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "Our positions do not fully ...

Protest rallies held in Brazils main cities

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:40:08 -0400

Protesters have massed across Brazil to demonstrate against the rising costs of both public transport and the 2014 World Cup to be held in the country, following clashes with police over several days. Protesters gathered in four Brazilian cities on Monday in what they hoped would be their biggest demonstrations yet against the increase in transit rates. The protest movement is mainly made up of ...

Security agency says snooping has foiled terror plots

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:15:50 -0400

The National Security Agency plans to reveal details about terror plots it says were thwarted by surveillance, part of an effort to assuage concern about its secret online snooping. In a rare move, the Agency (NSA) wants to declassify what its director says were dozens of foiled plots, which could help justify its sweeping operations in the eyes of sceptics worried about the vast amount ...

Happy Hour Links Anybody Believe Her

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:09:07 -0400

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White House Obama Would Veto Bill Restricting Post-Viability Abortions

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:09:07 -0400

ducked a question on President Obama's position on a bill banning elective abortions during the final four months of pregnancy. The White House issued a statement Monday saying that the president would veto the ...

WH Additional $300 Million for Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:09:07 -0400

The White House just announced another $300 million for Syria. "Today, during his meeting with G-8 leaders in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, President Obama announced over $300 million in additional life-saving humanitarian assistance to help feed, shelter, and provide medical care for children, women, and men affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria. The United States remains the ...

Balad pushes bill to make Israeli Arabs autonomous minority

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:26 -0400

Arabs as an official minority with autonomous national rights in fields such as culture and education. They seek to have the bill included in Israel's Basic Laws, which serve as a quasi-constitution.The head of the Balad party, MK Jamal Zahalka, ...

Knesset approves state budget on its first reading

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:25 -0400

Following Lapid's staunch defense of his austerity plan, Knesset approves budget on first reading with 58 MKs in favor of the proposed cuts and 44 ...

Pro-Beduin groups lobby against Prawer-Begin plan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:23 -0400

Pro-Beduin NGOs lobbied on Monday at the Knesset against the Prawer- Begin plan, which seeks to regulate Arab settlement in the Negev. Labor MK Omer Bar-Lev, who heads the Beduin lobby, ...

The eyes of the Old City Mabat 2000 captures all

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:22 -0400

Think twice before you swipe a tchotchke from the Old City's Arab shuk. You're being caught on candid camera - 320 of them.Braided between the oldest sites in history is one of the most modern security systems on Earth - "Mabat 2000" - a complex network of visible surveillance cameras in Jerusalem's Old City, established at the turn of the century.Sixteen staff ...

Politicians decry attack against chief rabbi candidate Stav

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:00:20 -0400

Liberman calls on haredi, religious leaders to publicly condemn attack on Stav, while Deri says his party, Shas, stands behind every word of Ovadia ...

Entire villages washed away At least 23 dead and 50 missing in India as days of torrential rains wreak havoc and leave 10000 pilgrims stranded on a mountainside

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:56:57 -0400

One building collapse today killed at least three people who were washed away when an entire apartment block toppled into a river, a government spokesman ...

Passenger on board a United Airlines flight from Hong Kong to the U.S. claims to have poisoned everyone on the plane

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:56:56 -0400

A passenger on a Newark-bound United Airlines flight was taken into custody after he allegedly began screaming that he had secrets from the CIA and repeatedly mentioned the name of NSA leaker Edward ...

Major Turkish unions rally thousands in one day strike to protest against the police crackdown on demonstrators

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:56:55 -0400

Turkish unions and opponents of prime minister Recep Erdogan have rallied by the thousands across the country, hoping to turn weeks of small-scale protests into wider ...

Militant from terror group behind Luxor massacre which left 58 foreigners dead is sworn in to govern same region by Egypts Islamist president

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:56:54 -0400

A member of the movement whose gunmen killed 58 foreigners at a temple in Luxor in 1997 was sworn in by Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Monday as governor of the vital tourist ...

Irans moderate new leader Hasan Rowhani vows to make nuclear process more transparent - but says he wont give up enrichment

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:56:53 -0400

Iran's newly-elected president has promised to follow a 'path of moderation' and bring more openness over the country's nuclear programme, but sided with the hard-line Islamic establishment that refuses to consider halting uranium ...

Six teenage footballers and a father are jailed for kicking volunteer linesman to death after amateur match in Holland

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:56:52 -0400

Six young footballers and one of their fathers have been jailed for beating a linesman to death as he officiated his son's junior match in the ...

Elephants face extinction if Beijing does not ban ivory trade China accounts for nearly half of the 40000 killed every year for their tusks

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:56:50 -0400

Joyce Poole, co-director of Elephant Voices, said the creatures had experienced their worst year in history, with more than 7 per cent killed for their tusks in only a ...

Defiant Snowden promises more leaks

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:55:54 -0400

Rogue US intelligence tech Edward Snowdenissued a defiant rebuke to his critics in Washington on Monday and warned more leaks were on the way, declaring: "Truth is coming and it cannot be ...

Opinion Rich and famous not immune to domestic abuse

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:55:47 -0400

Stay in touch!Don't miss out on the conversation we're having at CNN Living. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest stories and tell us what's influencing your life. So why should the recent public altercation between TV chef Nigella Lawson and her handsome, successful husband, Charles Saatchi, surprise anyone? In light of tabloid photographs that show Saatchi holding a tearful Lawson ...

Freedom fighters Cannibals The truth about Syria’s rebels

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:49:56 -0400

The US wants to send them arms, Vladimir Putin says they're cannibals - but what do we really know about the opposition movement fighting to topple Assad? Syria expert Aron Lund profiles some of the most powerful ...

Report Virginia governor billed taxpayers for sunscreen dog vitamins

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:48:56 -0400

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) during their annual meeting in Washington in this file photo taken February 19, 2010. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/Files WASHINGTON - Virginia Governor and possible Republican presidential candidate Bob McDonnell used taxpayer money to pay for sunscreen and dog vitamins, the Washington Post reported on Monday, ...

Greek coalition averts collapse over closure of state broadcaster

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:46:26 -0400

Greece's governing coalition avoided collapse on Monday night in the wake of a dispute over Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's decision to close the state television ...

Turkeys Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc threatens to dispatch army to quell protests

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:46:25 -0400

The Turkish government said on Monday it may send the army on to the streets to end the unrest that has gripped the country for almost three weeks. The warning came after another night of violent clashes between police and protesters calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...

Pentagon to begin training women for combat roles by 2015

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:38:11 -0400

WASHINGTON Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations ...

Disruptive man on United jet taken off flight

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:38:11 -0400

NEWARK, N.J. Passengers aboard a flight from Hong Kong jumped on a man who began ranting about national security and the CIA, then bound his hands and feet for the final six hours of the flight to the United States on Monday. The man, described by passengers as an American, asked that United Airlines Flight 116 be diverted to Canada as he screamed about being afraid of the FBI and of being ...

Foyers thatll make you smile

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:32:23 -0400

>Editor's note: Welcome to CNN's Open House, an online tour of iReporters' houses that showcases incredible decor. Space by space, we'll move through beautiful design moments that make a house a home. Want to show off your decorating skills? Submit your photos to our iReport assignment! Next week we'll feature stairwells.(CNN) -- When you open the front door, there it is: The place you leave ...

Nelson pilot victim of recent plane crash

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:29:40 -0400

6/17/2013 The BC Coroners' Service has identified the pilot killed in a recent crash near Crawford Bay as 53 year old Tony Quibell of Nelson. His Cessna "Skymaster" took off from the Nelson airport on the afternoon of June 12th, heading to Saskatchewan. The next day, wreckage from the plane was found in the mountains. The Transportation Safety Board is investigating the ...

Critics Notebook Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in All Its Multiplicity

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:06:12 -0400

MANCHESTER, Tenn. ...

Ted Cruz Urges Caution on Snowden NSA

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:06:03 -0400

Texas senator Ted Cruz, a Republican, told viewers on Fox News Monday morning that Americans should avoid a "rush to judgment" on the leaking of classified information by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency systems ...

US Russia push Syria peace talks despite divisions

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:04:44 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom (AFP) - Russia and the United States agreed at a G8 summit Monday to push for Syria peace talks, but Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama made clear their deep differences over the conflict.Gathered with other leaders of the world's top industrialised countries in Northern Ireland, Obama and Putin told reporters after face-to-face talks that they would ...

Architecture Review Le Corbusier Exhibition Opens at Museum of Modern Art

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:00:48 -0400

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Groundwork for arming Syrian rebels began before Obama’s announcement

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:58:06 -0400

AMMAN, Jordan - The U.S. military began laying the groundwork to arm and support Syrian rebels more than a week ago, using a military exercise currently being held in Jordan as a cover for bringing in personnel and equipment. Despite official statements by the Obama administration that a decision to arm the rebels was made on June 13, preparations were seen by McClatchy on the ground days ...

Livni swears on peace process despite Bennett’s comments

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:56:54 -0400

Justice minister insists that a diplomatic process with Palestinians will begin soon, regardless of economy and trade minister's eulogy for the two-state ...

Exclusive Israel India agree to start hi-tech trade fund

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:56:53 -0400

Indian Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal tells 'Post' that purpose of fund will be to enhance ties between Israel's innovative IT sector and India's burgeoning hi-tech manufacturing ...

Cameron tells Russia join the club or face isolation on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:46:50 -0400

David Cameron on Monday evening made a final attempt to bounce Russia into supporting a future for Syria without President Bashar ...

WikiLeaks breach included details on Gitmo inmates official

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:45:39 -0400

U.S. soldier goes on trial in WikiLeaks case FORT MEADE, Md. - The soldier accused of the largest release of classified data in U.S. history provided WikiLeaks with secret details of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, threatening "serious" damage to national security, the prison’s former commander testified on Monday. Data released by Private First Class Bradley Manning included ...

Bergen NSA claims dont add up

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:40:18 -0400

>Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a director at the New America Foundation. David Sterman is a graduate student at Georgetown University's National Security Studies Program.(CNN) -- Testifying before Congress on Wednesday, Gen Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, asserted that his agency's massive acquisition of US phone data and the ...

Wave of Protests Engulfs Greece

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:39:27 -0400

Greece , and fears that the country would exit the euro had faded like a bad dream. But a political firestorm that ignited here last week after Prime ...

Most Americans oppose arming Syrian rebels poll shows

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:34:57 -0400

Broad majorities of Democrats and Republicans alike disagree with President Obama's decision to supply arms to rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to ...

Stocks rise as investors keep wary eye on Fed

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:34:53 -0400

NEW YORK Stocks closed strong Monday, a sign that investors expect the Federal Reserve to leave monetary policy unchanged when central bank officials meet later this week. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had surged 191 points earlier in the session, ended up 110 points, or 0.7 percent, to close at 15,180. The Standard & Poor's 500 gained 12 points, or 0.7 percent, to finish at ...

Obama Putin cite shared goals on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:34:51 -0400

Despite tensions between the United States and Russia on how best to address the ongoing violence in Syria, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared their shared interests in "reducing violence" in the war-torn country, even while both acknowledged their differences on the issue. Speaking after a bilateral meeting at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, Mr. ...

Al Jazeera crew freed from Niger prison

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:33:51 -0400

An Al Jazeera correspondent and her team have been finally released from a Niger jail after being held by authorities since Saturday.Al ...

Putin US-Russia positions on Syria dont coincide

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:20:59 -0400

Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Barack Obama today that their positions on Syria do not "coincide" but the two leaders said during the G-8 summit that they have a shared interest in stopping the violence that has ravaged the Middle Eastern country during a two-year-old civil war. Obama acknowledged in a bilateral meeting with Putin in Northern Ireland that they have a "different ...

Observatory Rickets Plagued Children of the Medicis

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:07:16 -0400

The rich are different from you and me, F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. But according to a new study in The International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, children of the Medicis, one of ...

Boston Globe Poll Markey Ahead Big in Special Election

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:02:23 -0400

In Libya chaos is taking a toll on freedom of press speech

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:54:13 -0400

BENGHAZI, Libya - Shortly after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was toppled in 2011, a 31-year-old activist had a tattoo put on his arm with the date marking the start of the uprising and rebranded himself a journalist. He put down his gun and carried his cameras everywhere he went, reporting for a wire service. He captured photos of militias kidnapping police, soldiers and taking control of ...

Inspired by prayer Virginia politician starts errant bedsheet drive for troops in Afghanistan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:54:13 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan - This spring, a local political candidate in Roanoke, Va., started an appeal for bedsheets to help U.S. MASH units in Afghanistan, which had run short and been forced to put wounded troops on ripped, bloodstained linen, she said. “Afghanistan MASH units are in GREAT NEED of sheets!” said the Facebook page created to help. “These units treat and house our ...

Bill Clinton Only a 2 state-solution can preserve Israel as a Jewish democratic state

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:53:04 -0400

"I don't see any alternative to a Palestinian state," visiting former US president says at gala event honoring President Peres; says situation will only worsen over time because of demographic ...

Gamzu pledges more doctors and nurses in public system

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:53:02 -0400

Health Ministry director-general Prof. Ronni Gamzu promised the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday that 1,300 medical students would graduate every year to cope with the growing shortage of physicians.He did not say in what year exactly that number of students would graduate, but apparently they have already begun their studies - with a minimum seven years needed to produce an MD.A major ...

A look at Rami Hamdallah

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:53:00 -0400

I have known Rami Hamdallah for the past 15 years, and have worked side by side with him on academic, international and regional issues. Over the years, we have broadened our professional partnerships in the fields of social work, law, architecture, housing, education and medicine, and, on a personal level deepened our trust, respect and friendship. I have witnessed and come to admire the broad ...

The new Palestinian prime minister

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:53:00 -0400

I first had the opportunity to meet my colleague Rami Hamdallah in the context of his rectorship of An Najah University, a member of the Mediterranean Universities Union-UNIMED. UNIMED is an association founded in 1991 whose main aim is to develop scientific and educational cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region, by establishing collaboration between universities on the shores of the ...

Snowden defends spy programme leaks

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:52:16 -0400

"The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me," he said.He added the government "immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home", by labelling him a traitor, and indicated he would not return to the US voluntarily.Congressional leaders have called Mr Snowden a traitor for revealing once-secret surveillance ...

Snowden hits back against critics of NSA leaks

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:41:54 -0400

Photos of Edward Snowden, a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), and U.S. President Barack Obama are printed on the front pages of local English and Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong in this illustration photo June 11, 2013. (REUTERS/Bobby ...

Jury finds no negligence in trial over mans 8-month erection

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:41:54 -0400

WILMINGTON, Del. - A jury on Monday cleared a doctor of negligence in a lawsuit filed by a Delaware truck driver who underwent a penile implant procedure and ended up with an erection that lasted eight months. "We're stunned," attorney Michael Heyden said as he left the New Castle County courthouse, where his client Daniel Metzgar, 44, of Newark, Delaware, was suing urologist ...

US Cuba seek to restore mail services

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:40:12 -0400

View Photo AFP/Joe Raedle - Officials from the United States and Cuba will meet this week to restore direct mail services frozen since 1963, the State Department ...

Mandelas wife thanks world for love generosity

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:39:06 -0400

In tweets, songs, telephone calls, cards and more, messages of love have come from across South Africa and the world for 94-year-old Nelson Mandela, giving the family comfort and hope as he remains hospitalised in serious condition with a lung infection, his wife said Monday. One of Mandela's daughters, Zenani Dlamini, gave what appeared to be the most positive update yet on his situation as she ...

Embattled ex-Elmo puppeteer wins 3 Daytime Emmys

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:30 -0400

Puppeteer Kevin Clash speaks during the 'Independent Lens - Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey' panel during the PBS portion of the 2011 Summer TCA Tour held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 31, 2011 in Beverly Hills, ...

Jury Doctor not liable for patients 8-month erection

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:30 -0400

A man who claimed his 8-month long erection was due to his urologist's improper care will not be receiving financial compensation for pain and ...

94-year-old Minn. man linked to Nazi atrocities

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:30 -0400

MINNEAPOLIS The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael Karkoc. World War II survivors in both the U.S. and Europe harshly condemned the news and prosecutors in Poland have said they'll investigate. An Associated Press investigation found that Karkoc ...

McCain demands answers from Obama on secret email accounts

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:29 -0400

some of his political appointees' use of alternate government email accounts to conduct official business. McCain sent a list of questions Monday to Mr. Obama and accused the president of turning his back on his campaign promise of ushering in "a new era of government transparency." Since being elected, McCain wrote to Mr. Obama, "[Y]our administration has habitually ...

Hitman testifies Whitey Bulger broke my heart for squealing

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:29 -0400

CBS News BOSTON (CBS/AP) -- An ex-gangster who admitted killing 20 people was unemotional Monday when describing his line of work at the trial of his former partner, James "Whitey" Bulger. But he called himself heartbroken when he learned that Bulger had become an FBI ...

BBC ex-broadcaster sentenced for sex assaults

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:29:31 -0400

Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been jailed for 15 months after he pleaded guilty to 14 counts of indecent assault against girls as young as 9. The 83-year-old Hall had initially denied the charges. The prison sentence was handed down Monday, six weeks after he admitted responsibility for the crimes. The offenses happened between 1967 and ...

Tricky Ways to Pull Down a Skyscraper

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:13:02 -0400

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The Jobs No American Will Do

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:59:48 -0400

"There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can't cut it. There shouldn't be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer," the unnamed aide told Lizza. "There are people who just can't get it, can't do it, don't want to do it." The "it," here, is the sort of low-paying, labor-intensive work that Latino ...

Transparency laws give citizens tool against Mexican corruption

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:51:26 -0400

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico - One day this year, citizen activist Jose Manuel Arias Rodriguez was told by the state of Tabasco that his request under the state’s sunshine-in-government law had been granted. Sprawled before him were 14 boxes of receipts and other paperwork for the running of the stately governor’s mansion known as Quinta Grijalva.Arias began to dig, and before long he ...

PM reaffirms two-state solution after Bennett says it’s at a dead-end

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:50:11 -0400

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reaffirmed Israel's commitment to a negotiated two-state solution after Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit ...

Rohani puts moderate foot forward yet shows no sign of halting nuclear program.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:50:10 -0400

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani took only one stab at Israel during an hour-long press conference Monday where he held out the prospect of better ties with the West, but gave no indication he would stop Iran's relentless nuclear march.Rohani, now widely touted in the western media as a "moderate cleric," said the sanctions against his country were "brutal," and that ...

National service for all

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:50:09 -0400

All four of my children have undertaken their obligatory national service. Some of them spent a great deal more than the minimum three (men) or two (women) years in the service of their country, combining military service with additional years of social voluntary projects. By the time they started studying in their mid-twenties, they were at an age where most people elsewhere in the world have ...

The Iranian election Have the people really won

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:50:08 -0400

In elections heralded as being neither free nor fair - with the candidates preselected for their loyalty to the supreme leader, and the voters suffering under massive domestic repression - Iranians overwhelmingly elected a "moderate" cleric, Hassan Rohani, as president, an outcome that has been hailed as a harbinger of positive change.It is true that, during the campaign, Rohani ...

N.S.A. Leaker Denies Giving Classified Data to China

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:49:50 -0400

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Norway airline refuses passengers water food

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:45:37 -0400

Norwegian Air Shuttle, Europe's third-largest budget airline, has apologised for refusing passengers food, water and even blankets on its recently launched long-haul flights to New York and Bangkok. A 16-year-old spent his Oslo to New York flight freezing since he only had cash and no credit card with him to pay the $5 fee charged by the carrier for renting a blanket, the daily newspaper ...

British spying claims outrage Russia Turkey

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:45:19 -0400

Russia, Turkey and South Africa expressed outrage on Monday over revelations that Britain and the United States spied on foreign delegates at G20 meetings in London in ...

Editorial Talk of arming Syria’s rebels is dangerous

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:18 -0400

If only the terrible conflict in Syria were a simple case of good versus evil, a freedom movement challenging a dictatorship, then it would be easy to know what to do. The world has watched in horror for three years as that unhappy country has torn itself apart at horrendous human cost. An estimated 93,000 people have been killed, and a million refugees have spilled across Syria's ...

The corruption deal of the century How Guinea lost billions of pounds in Simandou mining licensing

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:18 -0400

As he lay on his death bed in 2008, the former president of Guinea Lansana Cont agreed to hand over a licence worth billions of pounds to mine a share of Simandou, one of the world's richest undeveloped mineral ...

Obamas approval rating tanks amid scandals

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:39:19 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at the Lough Erne golf resort where the G8 summit is taking place in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett WASHINGTON - Half of Americans think President Barack Obama is dishonest and untrustworthy, according to a new poll. And since May his approval rating has dropped eight percentage points to 45%. The CNN/ORC International ...

Mariachi singer the true American

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:39:09 -0400

>Editor's note: Ruben Navarrette is a CNN contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Follow him on Twitter: @rubennavarrette.(CNN) -- The scoreboard was clear. Winner: 11-year-old Sebastien De La Cruz, "El Charro de Oro" (the golden horseman) who became a national story after he sang the national anthem at Game 3 of the NBA playoff series between ...

Barbra Streisand raps Orthodox Jews actions against Israeli women

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:38:34 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Singer Barbra Streisand (front) waves after receiving a honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Ronen ...

Barbara Streisand Slams Treatment Of Women By Ultra Orthodox Jews In Israel Receives Hebrew University Honorary Doctorate

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:31:17 -0400

JERUSALEM - Entertainment star Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues Monday on the first major stop of her tour of the country – Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. Speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday, she took aim at cases of ultra-Orthodox Jews targeting women. "I realize it's not easy to fully grasp the ...

Books In What Doctors Feel Pain Is Not Just the Realm of Patients

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:29:41 -0400

In her new book, ...

Shock lingers after Nazi unit leader found in U.S.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:28:53 -0400

Russian tycoon seeks human immortality by 2045

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:28:52 -0400

NEW YORK A Russian multimillionaire said he would like to see the technology to allow humans to outlive their bodies made into a reality - to the point where "people" with artificial computer-driven brains and hologram bodies would exist in a mere 32 ...

Basement living in China

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:28:52 -0400

Magnum Foundation . In this photo, Big Rain, 21, a KTV lounge worker, is seen in his basement room beneath Beijing's north Third Ring Road, Beijing, China, May 9, 2011. Originally from Heilongjiang in China's northeast, he's been in Beijing for the past year. Faced with sky-high property prices, living underground is often the only option for this legion of low-waged migrant ...

Streisand takes aim at Israels sexism

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:18:04 -0400

Entertainer Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues on the first major stop of her tour of the country Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. Speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she received an honorary doctorate, she took aim at cases of ultra-Orthodox Jews targeting women, even as she warmly praised the country. "I realise ...