| UK taxi driver crushed to death in windstorm Posted: 15 Feb 2014 10:34 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Strong winds that pummeled Britain killed a taxi driver, whose car was crushed by falling chunks of stone from a building, and an elderly man who died after a "freak wave" struck a cruise ship in the English Channel, officials said Saturday. Another 15 cruise ship passengers were injured.
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| Italian president poised to tap Renzi as country's youngest PM Posted: 15 Feb 2014 10:34 AM PST  By Paolo Biondi ROME (Reuters) - Italy's president may ask young center-left leader Matteo Renzi to become its youngest ever prime minister this weekend after a party coup that forced Enrico Letta to resign as premier of the euro zone state struggling to pull out of recession. Letta bowed out on Friday after the leadership of his Democratic Party (PD) forced him to step aside and make way for Renzi, 39, who is promising bold economic reforms and a government than can survive until 2018. President Giorgio Napolitano expects to complete a round of consultations with parties in the evening and could summon Renzi, the PD secretary and current mayor of Florence, soon afterwards to form a government, sources in the party said. The party, which split from scandal-plagued tycoon and ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi last year, has ruled out liberal social policies that Renzi has advocated, including gay civil unions, and wants a clear center-right stamp on the government.
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| Oshie's 4 shootout goals lead US past Russia 3-2 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 09:46 AM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — T.J. Oshie brainstormed while he skated to center ice, desperately trying to come up with one last move to end an epic shootout. He had already taken five shots at Sergei Bobrovsky, and the Russians were still even.
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| Oshie's shootout goals lead US past Russia 3-2 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 09:46 AM PST SOCHI, Russia (AP) — T.J. Oshie scored four times in the shootout and got the winner in the eighth round, leading the United States past Russia 3-2 Saturday in the thrilling revival of a classic Olympic hockey rivalry. |
| Obama: Figure out how to satisfy US water needs Posted: 15 Feb 2014 07:57 AM PST  PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama drew a link between climate change and California's drought, and said the U.S. must do a better job of figuring out how to make sure everyone's water needs are satisfied.
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| Russian skicross racer Komissarova breaks spine Posted: 15 Feb 2014 06:54 AM PST KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Russian officials say Olympic skicross racer Maria Komissarova broke and dislocated her spine while training Saturday and underwent emergency surgery. |
| Gay-marriage foes scrambling after court setbacks Posted: 15 Feb 2014 06:39 AM PST  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Opponents of same-sex marriage are scrambling to find effective responses, in Congress and state legislatures, to a rash of court rulings that would force some of America's most conservative states to accept gay nuptials.
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| Olympics: Earth's most political apolitical event Posted: 15 Feb 2014 06:39 AM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Each time an Olympics approaches, the ideal is articulated once more: The true spirit of the games, those who oversee them say, brings humanity together to promote amity and athletic excellence. It is most certainly not a place for the affairs of nations and vested interests to play out on a global stage.
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| Two killed as storm batters Britain Posted: 15 Feb 2014 04:01 AM PST  Two people were killed overnight and thousands of homes were without power on Saturday as a new winter storm hammered Britain. After the wettest start to the year for 250 years, the Met Office national weather service said a "multi-pronged attack" of wind, rain and snow was sweeping the country. In central London, police said a woman died and a man was taken to hospital after a building collapsed onto their car in Holborn, not far from the West End theatre district. Several of the Marco Polo's 735 mainly British passengers were injured and two were airlifted off the ship, including the elderly man who later died, according to Cruise & Maritime Voyages.
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| Competition for presidency heats up staid Algeria Posted: 15 Feb 2014 03:15 AM PST  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — In Algeria, which has been run by a succession of military men for decades, presidential elections often are foregone conclusion. But not this year.
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| 'Juno' actress Ellen Page comes out as gay Posted: 15 Feb 2014 02:43 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Ellen Page who won the hearts of moviegoers as the pregnant teenager in the film "Juno" has come out as gay.
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| Olympics a test for ambitious developing countries Posted: 15 Feb 2014 01:56 AM PST  BEIJING (AP) — Playing host to the Olympics or World Cup can showcase an ambitious country's rise and cast a harsh light on its weaknesses.
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| Federal guidance on pot business leaves banks wary Posted: 14 Feb 2014 11:21 PM PST  SEATTLE (AP) — For marijuana dispensaries around the country, the days of doing business in cash — driving around with bill-stuffed envelopes to pay the rent, or showing up at a state revenue office with $20,000 in paper bags for the tax man — can't end soon enough.
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| Havana mob hotel Capri reopens after renovation Posted: 14 Feb 2014 09:49 PM PST  HAVANA (AP) — In its heyday, Havana's Capri hotel and casino was the playground of men known as The Blade and The Fat Butcher.
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| Obama: Calif. drought is everyone's concern Posted: 14 Feb 2014 05:52 PM PST  President warns of difficult choices ahead as to how America uses and conserves water.
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| A changing judicial landscape for gay rights Posted: 14 Feb 2014 05:04 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The overturning of Virginia's gay marriage ban places the legal fight over same-sex unions increasingly in the hands of federal appeals courts shaped by President Barack Obama's two election victories.
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| Homosexuals may soon face threat of life sentence in Uganda Posted: 14 Feb 2014 01:55 PM PST  KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for "aggravated" homosexual acts, officials said Friday.
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| What Facebook knows about love, in numbers Posted: 14 Feb 2014 01:55 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — With 1.23 billion users in all the flavors and up-and-down stages of romantic relationships, Facebook knows a thing or two about love.
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| Switzerland and Japan are big winners at Olympics Posted: 14 Feb 2014 01:55 PM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A pair of skiers from Switzerland collected gold medals at the Sochi Games on Friday, and a teenager from Japan overcame a pair of falls to become the first Asian man to win an Olympic title in men's figure skating.
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| Crimes against humanity in NKorea, UN panel finds Posted: 14 Feb 2014 01:55 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.N. panel has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and will call for an international criminal investigation, The Associated Press has learned.
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