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Boeing plane crashes in Russia, 50 on board killed

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 12:52 PM PST

This photo provided by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry shows debris at the crash site of the Russian passenger airliner, Boeing 737, near Kazan, the capital of the Tatarstan republic, about 720 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. A Russian passenger airliner crashed Sunday night while trying to land at the airport in the city of Kazan, killing everyone aboard, officials said. The Boeing 737 belonging to Tatarstan Airlines crashed an hour after taking off from Moscow. There were no immediate indications of the cause. (AP Photo/Russian Emergency Situations Ministry)MOSCOW (AP) — A passenger airliner crashed and caught fire Sunday night while trying to land at the airport in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people aboard, officials said.

Activists: Bombings kills 31 Syrian troops

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 12:21 PM PST

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say a bombing targeting an administrative building in a Damascus suburb has killed at least 31 government troops.

NASA aims for Mars, with robotic Maven set to soar

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 12:05 PM PST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is headed back to Mars, this time with a robotic scout named Maven that will attempt to solve the mystery of the red planet's radical climate change.

Tornadoes, damaging storms hit Midwest

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 11:49 AM PST

Fans are warned to take cover as a severe storm moves through Soldier Field during the first half of an NFL football game between the Chicago Bears and Baltimore Ravens, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)CHICAGO (AP) — Intense thunderstorms and tornadoes swept across a number of Midwestern states Sunday, causing damage in several central Illinois communities while sending people to their basements for shelter and even prompting officials at Soldier Field in Chicago to evacuate the stands and postpone the Bears game.

Tornado touches down in Illinois

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 11:03 AM PST

Tornado in IllinoisThe National Weather Service said it was part of a dangerous line of fast-moving storms ripping through the midwest.

Nobel author Doris Lessing dies at 94

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 10:17 AM PST

FILE - In this April 17, 2006 file photo, Writer Doris Lessing, 86, sits in her home in north London. Doris Lessing, the free-thinking, world-traveling, often-polarizing writer of LONDON (AP) — Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarizing author of "The Golden Notebook" and dozens of other novels that reflected her own improbable journey across the former British empire, died Sunday. She was 94.

Midwest under high storm threat; tornado hits Ill.

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 10:01 AM PST

CHICAGO (AP) — A number of Midwestern states woke up Sunday to the threat of intense thunderstorms and even tornados, with officials raising concerns that people — including fans heading to some NFL games — might be caught off guard by such severe weather at this time of year.

Boeing 737 crashes in Russia, 50 dead

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 09:29 AM PST

generic_fp_plane_crash_v2The Tatarstan Airliner was making a second attempt to land and exploded when it hit the runway.

As fighting flares, Syrians pour into Lebanon

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 09:13 AM PST

FILE - Syrian displaced children wait outside their tents for the arrival of French President Francois Hollande's companion Valerie Trierweiler, during her visit to one of the Syrian refugee camp, at Delhamiyeh village in the Bekaa valley, eastern Lebanon, in this Nov. 5, 2013 file photo. Thousands of refugees are fleeing border towns in central Syria where a high-stakes battle is raging, crossing valleys and ridges to reach safety in neighboring Lebanon, witnesses and the U.N. said on Sunday Nov. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Syrians poured into Lebanon over the past two days, finding temporary shelter in wedding halls and makeshift shacks after fleeing an outbreak of heavy fighting in a rugged mountain region just across the border in western Syria, U.N. officials and locals said Sunday.

AP IMPACT: Seeking lung donors after at-home death

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 08:11 AM PST

In this Oct. 25, 2013 photo, Lisa Bowman sits at her home in Union Grove, N.C. Bowman, who suffers from a lung disease, has been on the transplant waiting list for two years. It's a little-known twist of nature: Your lungs can live on for a while after you die. The air left inside keeps them from deteriorating right away like other organs. Now an innovative experiment aims to use that hour or more window of time to boost lung transplants by allowing donations from people who suddenly collapse and die at home instead of in a hospital. Bowman hopes the research will speed her wait for new lungs. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)The pair of lungs sits inside a clear dome, gently inflating as doctors measure how well they'll breathe if implanted into a patient who desperately needs a new set.

Midwest under high storm threat

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 07:39 AM PST

CHICAGO (AP) — A number of Midwestern states are awakening to the threat of a high risk of severe thunderstorms.

3-day-old girl dies in typhoon-wrecked hospital

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 07:08 AM PST

Genia Mae Mustacisa pumps oxygen into the lungs of her three-day-old infant in front of the altar of a Catholic chapel inside the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center in Tacloban on Saturday Nov. 16, 2013. The chapel is now being used to care for infants after Typhoon Haiyan destroyed the original facility of the hospital. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — All through her very short life, the parents had squeezed oxygen into her tiny body with a hand-held pump to keep her alive.

Pakistan to try ex-President Musharraf for treason

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 06:35 AM PST

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's interior minister says the government plans to put former President Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason.

Senate showdown over military sexual assault bill

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 06:20 AM PST

FILE - This July 16, 2013 file photo shows Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. listening at a news conference about a bill regarding military sexual assault cases on Capitol Hill in Washington. This week, the Senate is slated to consider an annual defense policy bill that would strip commanders of their ability to overturn jury convictions, require dishonorable discharge or dismissal for any individual convicted of sexual assault and establish a civilian review when a decision is made not to prosecute a case. The bill also would provide a special counsel for victims and eliminate the statute of limitations. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has secured public support from nearly half the Senate, but not enough votes, for her proposal to give victims of rape and sexual assault in the military an independent route outside the chain of command for prosecuting attackers.

Pope jokes he's a pharmacist, prescribing prayers

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 06:05 AM PST

Pope Francis shows a box shaped like a pill box but which contains a rosary during his traditional Sunday appearance in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. Pope Francis said that the rosary is like a medicine for the heart and small boxes containing rosaries were distributed to faithful at the end of Pope's traditional Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Joking that he's like a pharmacist, Pope Francis is promoting prayer as medicine for the heart.

Report: German collector hid art out of 'love'

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 05:49 AM PST

Photo provided by the Augsburg, southern Germany, prosecution Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 shows the painting by French artist Henry Matisse 'Sitzende Frau' ('Sitting Woman') that was among the more than 1400 art works that were seized by German authorities in an apartment in Munich in February 2012. Investigators, aided by a leading art historian, are trying to establish the artworks' legal status and history. It's unclear how many of the works might be subject to return to pre-World War II owners. (AP Photo/Staatsanwaltschaft Augsburg)BERLIN (AP) — The recluse German collector who kept a priceless trove of art, possibly including works stolen by the Nazis, hidden for half a century says he did so because he "loved" them and that he wants them back.

6 contractors found beheaded in Afghanistan

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 05:03 AM PST

An Afghan policeman secures an area after a suicide vehicle bomb tore through the area on the outskirts of Kabul, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. The explosion came just hours after President Hamid Karzai announced that U.S. and Afghan negotiators had finished a draft to be presented to the Loya Jirga, whom Kabul says must approve the document before Afghanistan signs it. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan villagers discovered on Sunday the beheaded bodies of six government contractors in the country's insurgency-racked south, the apparent victims of Taliban insurgents who regularly target state projects, officials said.

Yellen signals new emphasis on Fed policing role

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 04:31 AM PST

U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Yellen stands after testifying during a confirmation hearing on her nomination to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve before the Senate Banking Committee in WashingtonThe next Federal Reserve chief appears set to direct the central bank's might at ensuring financial stability and stern banking oversight with the same vigor it currently applies to its traditional mandates of fostering price stability and maximum employment. The question of monitoring and stabilizing Wall Street was a dominant issue during Fed chair-designate Janet Yellen's confirmation hearing before a Senate committee on Thursday. Yellen, widely expected to win Senate backing for the job, said financial regulation should be on par with monetary policymaking on the Fed's list of priorities. The central bank's current vice chair, Yellen appeared willing to draw fellow governors on the powerful Fed Board into more decisions on stabilizing the still-vulnerable financial system.

As ban on printed 3-D guns ends, extension sought

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 04:17 AM PST

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As the technology to print 3-D firearms advances, a federal law that banned the undetectable guns is about to expire.

Thousands of Syrian refugees flood into Lebanon

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 04:01 AM PST

FILE - Syrian displaced children wait outside their tents for the arrival of French President Francois Hollande's companion Valerie Trierweiler, during her visit to one of the Syrian refugee camp, at Delhamiyeh village in the Bekaa valley, eastern Lebanon, in this Nov. 5, 2013 file photo. Thousands of refugees are fleeing border towns in central Syria where a high-stakes battle is raging, crossing valleys and ridges to reach safety in neighboring Lebanon, witnesses and the U.N. said on Sunday Nov. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of refugees are fleeing border towns in central Syria where a high-stakes battle is raging, crossing valleys and ridges to reach safety in neighboring Lebanon, witnesses and the U.N. said on Sunday.

Death toll rises to 12 in Afghan bombing

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 03:44 AM PST

An Afghan policeman secures an area after a suicide vehicle bomb tore through the area on the outskirts of Kabul, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. The explosion came just hours after President Hamid Karzai announced that U.S. and Afghan negotiators had finished a draft to be presented to the Loya Jirga, whom Kabul says must approve the document before Afghanistan signs it. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The death toll from a suicide vehicle bomb attack on the site of a key national council in Afghanistan's capital has risen to 12, officials said Sunday. The Taliban meanwhile took credit for the blast the day before outside the huge tent where next week's Loya Jirga is to be held later this week.

Philippine president to camp in Tacloban

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 03:13 AM PST

A Filipino man prays on a statue of Jesus Christ prior to a Mass at Santo Nino church, which was damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard Nov. 8, leaving a wide swath of destruction. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday that he will stay in typhoon-battered Leyte province until he sees more progress in the aid effort following complaints from survivors that they have yet to receive proper help.

Church services held in typhoon-shattered city

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 02:54 AM PST

A Filipino man prays on a statue of Jesus Christ prior to a Mass at Santo Nino church, which was damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard Nov. 8, leaving a wide swath of destruction. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Hours after the storm hit, the Rev. Amadero Alvero was on the streets, sprinkling holy water over the dead and praying for them. By late afternoon, the 44-year-old priest had blessed about 50 corpses in the remains of this Philippine shattered city.

2 Civil War museums in Va. team up for new center

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 02:06 AM PST

Christy Coleman, left, director of the American Civil War Center at Tredegar Iron Works, left, and Waite Rawls of the Museum of the Confederacy, pose in front of the ruins of the old Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One museum has among its vast Confederate-centric collection Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's sword and the flag that flew at Robert E. Lee's headquarters. The other museum strives to tell the story of the Civil War through the eyes of Northerners and Southerners, freed and enslaved blacks, soldiers and civilians.

Jolie, Martin moved to tears at Governors Awards

Posted: 17 Nov 2013 01:49 AM PST

Actor Tom Hanks, left, takes a photo with actor and honoree Steve Martin at the 2013 Governors Awards on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin and Angela Lansbury were moved to tears at the film academy's fifth annual Governors Awards.
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