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• Isaac upsets plans for GOP lobbyists, wealthy donors
• Survivors: strong gas odor before deadly Venezuela blast
• Livestrong donations skyrocket after Armstrong’s decision
• Florida’s GOP governor touts recovery; Tampa convention to disagree
• Tropical Storm Isaac starts lashing Florida Keys
• Romney reaches out to women before GOP convention
• Isaac casts shadow over GOP convention, campaign
• Romney stars in Obama camp’s ‘The Do-Over’
• Report: Germany wants EU convention to forge new treaty
• NASA's pioneering astronauts: Where are they now?
• Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital
• Scotland's Catholic priests blast gay marriage plan
• Forecaster: Isaac could later be a Cat 2 hurricane
• Iran, defying Western isolation, opens developing nations summit
• AP Interview: Obama Calls Romney's Ideas 'Extreme'
• Murdoch supports Prince Harry over nude photos
• Stronger Isaac heads to Fla. after drenching Cuba
• Powerful typhoon approaches Japan's Okinawa island
• 'Hundreds of bodies' found in Syria town
• Grizzly bear kills Calif. man in Denali National Park
• Man mistakes son for monkey, shoots him dead
• Bus collides with tanker in China, killing 36
• Man charged in case of teen allegedly held captive
• Grizzly bear kills hiker in Denali National Park
• Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, dies at 82

Isaac upsets plans for GOP lobbyists, wealthy donors Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:22 PM PDT A tropical storm may accomplish what watchdog groups, newspaper editorials and ethics laws have not: it put a dent in the over-the-top entertaining and partying by lobbyists and special interests trying to buy access and influence.

Survivors: strong gas odor before deadly Venezuela blast Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:41 AM PDT Venezuelans who live next to the country's biggest oil refinery said they smelled a strong odor of sulfur hours before a gas leak ignited in an explosion that killed at least 39 people and injured more ...

Livestrong donations skyrocket after Armstrong’s decision Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:12 AM PDT Last week, after iconic American cyclist Lance Armstrong said he would no longer fight the charges brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, many wondered if Livestrong--the foundation for cancer survivors founded by the seven-time Tour de France winner and testicular cancer survivor--would suffer as a result. It doesn't look like it. On Friday, [...]

Florida’s GOP governor touts recovery; Tampa convention to disagree Posted: 26 Aug 2012 09:13 AM PDT Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, likes to tell voters that his state has experienced a major economic turnaround since he took office 19 months ago. In a press release last week, Scott's office pointed to numbers indicating that Florida's unemployment rate had the "fastest in the nation" decrease since early 2011. On the [...]

Tropical Storm Isaac starts lashing Florida Keys Posted: 26 Aug 2012 08:43 AM PDT Tropical Storm Isaac gained fresh muscle Sunday as it bore down on the Florida Keys, with forecasters warning it could grow into a dangerous Category 2 hurricane as it nears the northern Gulf Coast.

Romney reaches out to women before GOP convention Posted: 26 Aug 2012 08:13 AM PDT Mitt Romney said it is "sad" that President Barack Obama's campaign is trying to link him to Rep. Todd Akin's statements about abortion, as top Republicans preparing for the party's nominating convention urged the GOP presidential challenger to reach out to women and Hispanics.

Isaac casts shadow over GOP convention, campaign Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:43 AM PDT Undaunted by Mother Nature, Republicans descended on Florida as Mitt Romney's team worked Sundays to cram four days of events into three after the threat of Tropical Storm Isaac forced the soon-to-be nominee to cut short his national convention.

Romney stars in Obama camp’s ‘The Do-Over’ Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:13 AM PDT Tampa - President Barack Obama's campaign may be tempted to throw everything but the kitchen sink at Mitt Romney before election day, but for now they'll settle for "Sirens, Etch-A-Sketches, Fire, Severely Conservative VP Choices, The Go Back Team, Press Quotes, And Romney Jogging." Team Obama has released a movie trailer-style digital video mocking Romney [...]

Report: Germany wants EU convention to forge new treaty Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:15 AM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants an EU 'convention' to draw up a new treaty for closer European political unification to help overcome the bloc's sovereign debt crisis, weekly Der Spiegel said on Sunday. Germany, the European Union's biggest economy, has long argued for more national competences, including over budgets, to be transferred to European institutions but faces strong resistance from other member states. Merkel hopes a summit of EU leaders in December can agree a concrete date for the start of the convention on a new treaty, Spiegel said. ...

NASA's pioneering astronauts: Where are they now? Posted: 26 Aug 2012 05:46 AM PDT As space exploration has become more common and the number of astronauts has risen past 300, many names have faded into the background. But some will forever be associated with the golden age of space exploration. Some examples:

Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital Posted: 26 Aug 2012 05:19 AM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army on Sunday of massacring scores of people in a town close to the capital that it recently recaptured from rebels. More than 200 bodies, some of them women and children, were found in houses and basements around Daraya, according to activists who said most had been killed "execution-style" by troops during house-to-house raids. Due to restrictions on non-state media in Syria, it was impossible to independently verify the accounts. ...

Scotland's Catholic priests blast gay marriage plan Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:54 AM PDT Scotland's Roman Catholic priests on Sunday condemned plans by the devolved government in Edinburgh to legalise gay marriage.

Forecaster: Isaac could later be a Cat 2 hurricane Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT A meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Isaac, which is expected at or near hurricane-strength once it reaches the Florida Keys later Sunday, could become a category 2 hurricane in coming days as it takes eventual aim at the northern Gulf Coast.

Iran, defying Western isolation, opens developing nations summit Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:47 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran welcomed a group of 120 developing nations on Sunday to a summit it says proves that Washington has failed to isolate it from the rest of the world. Opening the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Tehran, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said he hoped for a show of solidarity against sanctions the West has imposed to punish Iran for its nuclear activities. "The non-aligned (movement) must seriously oppose ... unilateral economic sanctions which have been enacted by certain countries against non-aligned countries," Salehi told the summit's opening session. ...

AP Interview: Obama Calls Romney's Ideas 'Extreme' Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:31 AM PDT AP Interview: Obama says Romney lacks serious proposals and deals in dishonest arguments

Murdoch supports Prince Harry over nude photos Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:15 AM PDT Media mogul Rupert Murdoch came to the defence of Britain's Prince Harry on Sunday, urging critics to "give him a break" over photographs of him frolicking naked in a Las Vegas hotel suite.

Stronger Isaac heads to Fla. after drenching Cuba Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:58 AM PDT Tourists in the Florida Keys mustered party faces and locals followed time-worn rituals as the islands prepared for a lashing Sunday from a strengthening Tropical Storm Isaac after it swamped the Caribbean and shuffled plans for the Republican National Convention.

Powerful typhoon approaches Japan's Okinawa island Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:20 AM PDT The strongest typhoon to approach Okinawa in several years was bearing down on the southern Japanese island on Sunday as residents were told to stay indoors and warned its strong gusts could overturn cars and cause waves of up to 12 meters (40 feet).

'Hundreds of bodies' found in Syria town Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:04 AM PDT Hundreds of bodies have been found in a town outside Damascus after a ferocious five-day assault by the Syrian army, a watchdog said on Sunday, as activists accused government forces of a "massacre".

Grizzly bear kills Calif. man in Denali National Park Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:15 AM PDT A hiker in Alaska's Denali National Park photographed a grizzly bear for at least eight minutes before the bear mauled and killed him in the first fatal attack in the park's history, officials said Saturday.

Man mistakes son for monkey, shoots him dead Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:43 PM PDT A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead, police said on Sunday.

Bus collides with tanker in China, killing 36 Posted: 25 Aug 2012 09:18 PM PDT A double-decker sleeper bus rammed into a tanker loaded with highly-flammable methanol on a northern Chinese highway early Sunday, causing both vehicles to burst into flames and killing 36 people, state media said.

Man charged in case of teen allegedly held captive Posted: 25 Aug 2012 09:02 PM PDT A southwestern Illinois man was charged Saturday with aggravated criminal sexual abuse in connection with a St. Louis teenager who told police she was held captive in his home for three years and conceived a child with him before escaping.

Grizzly bear kills hiker in Denali National Park Posted: 25 Aug 2012 07:25 PM PDT A hiker in Alaska's Denali National Park photographed a grizzly bear for at least eight minutes before the bear mauled and killed him in the first fatal attack in the park's history, officials said Saturday.

Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, dies at 82 Posted: 25 Aug 2012 06:36 PM PDT Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.

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