mardi 24 septembre 2013

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Long, strange trip ending for lovable VW Bus

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:50 PM PDT

Long, strange trip ending for lovable VW BusThe front of a VW bus is seen during the 29th annual "MaiKaeferTreffen" (May Beetle meeting) in Hanover, May 1, 2012. Around 3.500 air-cooled Volkswagen vehicles took part in this event hosted by the Maikaeferteam Hannover car association. (REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz)

Obama opens door to direct diplomacy with Iran

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:34 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Barack Obama opened the door to direct nuclear talks with Iran's moderate new government on Tuesday, declaring diplomacy worth pursuing though skepticism persisted about Tehran's willingness to back up friendly overtures with concrete action.

Major quake kills 39 in Pakistan

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:19 PM PDT

A Pakistani woman speaks on her mobile phone after rushing out of her apartment following a major earthquake that struck Baluchistan province in southwest Pakistan, 693 Kilometers (430 miles) from Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. A deadly earthquake struck Tuesday in southwestern Pakistan sending poeople fleeing into the streets and praying for their lives as buildings swayed, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A major earthquake struck a remote area in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 39 people as houses collapsed and possibly pushing up the earth to create a new island off the country's southern coast.

Israel delegation to snub Iran president's U.N. speech

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:04 PM PDT

Iraniani President Hassan Rowhani delivers a speech in Tehran, on September 22, 2013JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli delegation will boycott Iranian President Hassan Rowhani's address to the UN General Assembly later Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced.

A look at US, Iran, Israeli hopes from nuke talks

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2013 file photo, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani speaks during the debate on the proposed Cabinet at the parliament, in Tehran, Iran. As Rouhani prepares to address the United Nations for the first time on Tuesday, he has already made a deep impression on world leaders with his markedly milder tone and apparent willingness to reopen negotiations with the West on Iran's disputed nuclear program. In contrast, Ahmadinejad was jeered and pilloried during his eight visits to U.N. headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)Since taking office last month, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani has signaled his country could be more conciliatory about international fears his country is seeking nuclear arms — something Tehran denies.

6 more found alive and well after Colorado floods

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:18 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden, center right, arrives with Gov. John Hickenlooper, left, in Greeley, Colo. after surveying the flood damage in the area, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Kathryn Scott Osler, Pool)DENVER (AP) — The remaining six people listed as unaccounted for in the Colorado floods have told authorities they are alive and well.

In U.N. speech, Brazil lashes out at U.S. spy program

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Brazil's President Roussef addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New YorkBrazil's president delivered a stinging rebuke Tuesday to the United States over its surveillance program that has swept up data from billions of telephone calls and emails that have passed through Brazil ...

Kenya declares mall siege over, 'losses immense'

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 10:15 AM PDT

Terror Group: Meet Our Demands or Kenya Mall Attack 'Only the Beginning'President Kenyatta said 11 suspects are in custody, 5 killed.

The political paradoxes of Obamacare

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Worries mounting over ObamaCare as implementation loomsThe Republican intra-party warfare over Obamacare is just one part of the confusion the health care law has triggered.

Major quake in southwestern Pakistan kills 39

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:44 AM PDT

A Pakistani woman speaks on her mobile phone after rushing out of her apartment following a major earthquake that struck Baluchistan province in southwest Pakistan, 693 Kilometers (430 miles) from Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. A deadly earthquake struck Tuesday in southwestern Pakistan sending poeople fleeing into the streets and praying for their lives as buildings swayed, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A major earthquake struck a remote area in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 39 people and wounding dozens as houses collapsed on top of people inside while others fled into the streets and prayed for their lives.

Benedict emerges and defends his abuse record

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:32 AM PDT

In this Saturday, March 23, 2013 photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, left, meets Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo Saturday, March 23, 2013. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has emerged from his self-imposed silence inside the Vatican to publish a lengthy letter to one of Italy's most well-known atheists. In it, he defends his record on handling sexually abusive priests and discusses everything from evolution to theology to the figure of Jesus Christ. Excerpts of the letter were published Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 by La Repubblica, the same newspaper which just two weeks ago published a similar letter from Pope Francis to its own atheist publisher. The letters indicate the two men in white, who live across the Vatican gardens from one another, are pursuing a collaborative campaign of sorts to engage non-believers. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, Files)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has emerged from his self-imposed silence inside the Vatican walls to publish a lengthy letter to one of Italy's most well-known atheists. In it, he denies having covered up for sexually abusive priests and discusses everything from evolution to the figure of Jesus Christ.

Pa. board nixes transgender homecoming king entry

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:56 AM PDT

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania school board won't let a student who was born female but identifies as male run for homecoming king.

Obama: Wary but ‘encouraged’ by Iran's tone

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:41 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New YorkThe president also had tough words for the U.N. on Syria.

2 popes reach out to atheists in apparent campaign

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:10 AM PDT

In this Saturday, March 23, 2013 photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, left, meets Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo Saturday, March 23, 2013. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has emerged from his self-imposed silence inside the Vatican to publish a lengthy letter to one of Italy's most well-known atheists. In it, he defends his record on handling sexually abusive priests and discusses everything from evolution to theology to the figure of Jesus Christ. Excerpts of the letter were published Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 by La Repubblica, the same newspaper which just two weeks ago published a similar letter from Pope Francis to its own atheist publisher. The letters indicate the two men in white, who live across the Vatican gardens from one another, are pursuing a collaborative campaign of sorts to engage non-believers. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, Files)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has emerged from his self-imposed silence inside the Vatican walls to publish a lengthy letter to one of Italy's most well-known atheists. In it, he defends his record on handling sexually abusive priests and discusses everything from evolution to theology to the figure of Jesus Christ.

UN chief urges leaders to stop fueling Syria war

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 07:54 AM PDT

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders on Tuesday to stop fueling the bloodshed in Syria with weapons and get both sides to the negotiating table to end the "biggest challenge to peace and security in the world."

Pregnant Clinton Global Initiative staffer killed in Kenya mall shooting

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 07:26 AM PDT

Yavuz and ClintonA 33-year-old pregnant Clinton Global Initiative staffer and her boyfriend are among those killed in the Kenya mall shooting, former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday.

Cherokee girl transferred to adoptive parents

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 07:08 AM PDT

RE-TRANS WITH UPDATED INFO - FILE - This July 21, 2013 file photo provided by Shannon Jones, attorney for Dusten Brown, shows Brown with his daughter, Veronica. The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 said it won't intervene in an adoption dispute involving Veronica, a Cherokee girl, and dissolved a court order that was keeping her with Brown, her biological father. Cherokee Nation spokeswoman Amanda Clinton later confirmed that Veronica was handed over to her adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco of South Carolina on Monday night. (AP Photo/Courtesy Shannon Jones, File)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The South Carolina couple who adopted a Cherokee girl at the center of a yearslong custody dispute came to Oklahoma last month vowing not to leave without the child.

Car bombing in Syrian capital kills at least 3

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:52 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 photo, a Syrian internally displaced mother comforts her baby at an abandoned land where she and her family have taken shelter after fleeing their village that turned into a battlefield between government forces and Free Syrian Army fighters in Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP Photo)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say a car bomb has exploded in Damascus, killing at least three people. Activists say the blast killed at least seven people.

Major quake kills 2 in southwestern Pakistan

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:37 AM PDT

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A major earthquake struck Tuesday in southwestern Pakistan, killing two people and sending others fleeing into the streets and praying for their lives as buildings swayed, officials said.

Russia to file piracy charges against Greenpeace

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:22 AM PDT

Greenpeace ship 'Arctic Sunrise' is escorted by a Russian coast guard boat, in Kola Bay at the military base Severomorsk on the Kola peninsula in Russia, at dawn Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Russia has filed piracy charges against Greenpeace activists who tried to board an offshore drilling platform in the Arctic owned by state-controlled natural gas company Gazprom. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)MURMANSK, Russia (AP) — Russian investigators say they will file piracy charges against Greenpeace activists who tried to climb onto an offshore drilling platform in the Arctic owned by the state-controlled gas company Gazprom.

Major quake hits southwestern Pakistan

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:06 AM PDT

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A major earthquake struck Tuesday in southwestern Pakistan, sending people fleeing into the streets and praying for their lives as buildings swayed, officials said.

Police: Gunman killed near NC campus after pursuit

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 05:22 AM PDT

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — An armed man pursued onto the campus of North Carolina Central University was shot and killed in nearby woods after challenging officers, police said Tuesday.

Report: Shooter lied about previous arrest, debts

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 04:49 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Navy Yard shooter lied about a previous arrest and failed to disclose thousands of dollars in debts when he applied for a security clearance in the Navy.

Mexico storms, flooding reveal human errors

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 04:33 AM PDT

Rescuers search for victims of a landslide in La Pintada, Guerrero state, Mexico on September 23, 2013MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Human nature is sharing the blame with Mother Nature in Mexico for the destruction spawned by twin storms, with critics pointing to shoddy construction, endemic corruption and political wheeling-and-dealing.

Kenyan forces defusing explosives in mall

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 04:18 AM PDT

A Kenyan police officer on September 23, 2013 at the entrance of a building near the beseiged Westgate shopping mallThe devices were set by militants who claim to still hold hostages, police say.
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