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Scrap dealer's bargain turns out to be Faberge egg

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:57 PM PDT

Undated handout photo issued by London antique dealers Wartski via the Press Association on Wednesday March 19, 2014 of a rare Imperial Faberge Egg . The London antique dealer says the gold ornament bought by an American scrap-metal dealer has turned out to be a rare Faberge egg worth millions. Kieran McCarthy of Wartski says the egg was purchasd at a Midwestern flea market for about $14,000. He only began to suspect its value after seeing an article about the rare imperial Faberge Easter eggs made for Russian royalty.He contacted McCarthy, who verified the egg as genuine and negotiated its sale to a collector. Both buyer and seller want to remain anonymous, and Wartski did not disclose the sale price. (AP Photo/Wartski/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVELONDON (AP) — There is good luck, outrageous good fortune — and now there is the case of the scrap metal dealer who found one of the eight missing Faberge imperial eggs at a flea market in the American Midwest.

AP Exclusive: Jailed militant key to Mideast talks

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti appears at Jerusalem's court. According to several top officials, the Palestinians are seeking the freedom of Barghouti, who is serving multiple life sentences for his alleged role in killings of Israelis, as part of any plan to extend negotiations with Israel beyond a deadline in April, 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A prominent Palestinian uprising leader imprisoned by Israel could soon emerge as the key to keeping fragile U.S.-led peace efforts alive.

Ukraine to leave Russia-dominated alliance

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:11 PM PDT

Unarmed members of Pro-Russian self-defense forces, left, force themselves through a chain of Ukrainian military men at the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. An Associated Press photographer said several hundred militiamen took down the gate and made their way onto the base. They then raised the Russian flag on the square by the headquarters. The unarmed militia waited for an hour in the square before the move to storm the headquarters. Following the arrival of the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Crimeans took over the building. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's security chief says that the country has decided to leave Russia-dominated alliance of ex-Soviet nations.

Cat whisperer heading to Oregon after attack

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:11 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The large cat that attacked a baby and trapped an Oregon family in a bedroom touched off an Internet uproar that worries Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet's "My Cat from Hell."

No pope meeting for Russell Crowe, 'Noah' makers

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:07 AM PDT

Actor Russell Crowe, right, attends Pope Francis' general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Crowe and the makers of the big-budget film VATICAN CITY (AP) — Actor Russell Crowe and the makers of the big-budget film "Noah" attended Pope Francis' general audience Wednesday but didn't get what they most wanted: a papal meeting and photo-op.

NATO: 'Wake-up call' to new Cold War

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:07 AM PDT

President Putin Declares Russia Will Take Over CrimeaChief's speech: Advances on Ukraine by Putin's Russia are top threats to Europe security since Cold War.

Ex-Al-Qaida spokesman takes stand

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:32 AM PDT

An artist sketch shows Abu Ghaith at a hearing in a Manhattan federal court in New YorkGroup's PR man after Sept. 11 on defense in NYC trial. Charge: Conspiracy to kill Americans.

Ex-al-Qaida spokesman takes stand

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:32 AM PDT

An artist sketch shows Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a militant who appeared in videos as a spokesman for al Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 attacks, appearing at the U.S. District Court in ManhattanGroup's PR man after Sept. 11 on defense in NYC trial. Charge: Conspiracy to kill Americans.

US files charge against Toyota, $1.2B penalty

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder, left, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, announces a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota over its disclosure of safety problems, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — The government announced a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday and filed a criminal charge alleging the company defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

Maine man's 'gun' turns out to be a tattoo

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 18, 2014 photo, Michael Smith, left, stands beside a Somerset County Sheriff deputy outside his home in Norridgewock, Maine. Officers armed with assault rifles descended on Smith's home after members of a tree removal crew he'd told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun. The NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — Police armed with assault rifles descended on a Maine man's home after members of a tree removal crew he'd told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun.

US announces $1.2B Toyota settlement

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2010 file photo released by the Utah Highway Patrol, a Toyota Camry is shown after it crashed as it exited Interstate 80 in Wendover, Utah. Police suspect problems with the Camry's accelerator or floor mat caused the crash that left two people dead and two others injured. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Wednesday March 19, 2014 the U.S. Justice Department may reach a $ 1 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp., ending a four-year criminal investigation into the Japanese automaker's disclosure of safety problems. (AP Photo/Utah Highway Patrol, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. and filed a criminal charge alleging the Japanese automaker defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

What annexing Crimea will cost Russia's government

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

A member of a Pro-Russian self-defense force reaches for a knife, as he takes down a Ukrainian Navy flag at the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. An Associated Press photographer said several hundred militiamen took down the gate and made their way onto the base. They then raised the Russian flag in the square by the headquarters. The unarmed militia waited for an hour on the square before the move to storm the headquarters. Following the arrival of the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Crimeans took over the building. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)MOSCOW (AP) — Despite the pebble beaches and cliff-hanging castles that made Crimea famous as a Soviet resort hub, the Black Sea peninsula has long been a corruption-riddled backwater in economic terms. The Kremlin, which decided to take the region from Ukraine after its residents voted in a referendum to join Russia, has begun calculating exactly what it will cost to support Crimea's shambolic economy — which one Russian minister described as "no better than Palestine."

Russian military starts aviation exercises

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Ukrainian troops with white bands on their sleeves march past an unmarked Russian military vehicle outside a Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Crimea, Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014. Crimea held a referendum Sunday, in which an overwhelming majority voted for breaking off from Ukraine and joining Russia. (AP Photo/Andrei Udovichenko)By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military started large-scale aviation exercises in the northwest on Wednesday, officials said, close to Baltic ex-Soviet republics that are members of NATO and wary of Russia after its annexation of Crimea. The exercises involving jet fighters and bombers were being conducted in regions that do not border Ukraine. A senior Russian military source said they had been planned in December and had no political significance. The drill ends in late March, it cited a spokesman for the Western Military District, Colonel Oleg Kochetkov, as saying.

Israeli airstrikes kill 1 Syrian soldier, wound 7

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 04:36 AM PDT

A wounded Israeli soldier is brought to a hospital in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A roadside bomb hit an Israeli patrol near the frontier with the Golan Heights on Tuesday, the army said, wounding four soldiers in the most serious violence to strike the area since the Syrian conflict began three years ago. Israel said it responded with artillery strikes on Syrian army targets. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the strategic area in a move that was not internationally recognized. (AP Photo/Hertzel Shapira) ****ISRAEL OUT***DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian army says Israeli airstrikes against its military posts in the Golan Heights have killed one Syrian soldier and wounded seven.

Israeli air force strikes Syrian army targets

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 04:36 AM PDT

A wounded Israeli soldier is brought to a hospital in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A roadside bomb hit an Israeli patrol near the frontier with the Golan Heights on Tuesday, the army said, wounding four soldiers in the most serious violence to strike the area since the Syrian conflict began three years ago. Israel said it responded with artillery strikes on Syrian army targets. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the strategic area in a move that was not internationally recognized. (AP Photo/Hertzel Shapira) ****ISRAEL OUT***JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes unleashed airstrikes Wednesday against Syrian army targets in response to a roadside bombing in the Golan Heights that wounded four soldiers the day before, the military said.

Malaysia: Files deleted from flight simulator

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 04:36 AM PDT

Malaysia airport police officer stands in front of messages board for the passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian investigators more potential clues Wednesday for how to retrace the course of the missing Malaysian airliner, while a massive multinational search unfolded in an area the size of Australia. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)Investigators say files are missing from the home flight simulator of Flight 370's pilot.

Missing plane bolsters racial unity in Malaysia

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 03:02 AM PDT

A young Malaysian boy prays, at an event for the missing Malaysia Airline, MH370, at a shopping mall, in Petaling Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A coalition of 26 countries, including Thailand, are looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 with 239 people aboard on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Search crews are scouring two giant arcs of territory amounting to the size of Australia — half of it in the remote seas of the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The imam cupped his palms before his face and invited the congregation to pray. "Oh Allah, return to us those who are lost. Oh, Allah, grant safe passage to MH370," he said.

Read before jumping into the deep end of NCAA pool

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 01:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012, file photo, Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins calls to his team during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina State in Raleigh, N.C. If Johnny Dawkins and Craig Neal were still playing _ instead of coaching _ against each other, there's no doubt which one you'd pick. The two will be back on opposing benches Friday night March 21, 2014, 28 years after they faced off as players. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)Welcome to BracketRacket.

Expert: Pistorius' girlfriend standing when shot

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 01:14 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A police ballistics expert says Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend was standing up in a toilet cubicle when she was hit in the right hip by the first of four bullets fired by the double-amputee athlete.

Yellen to enter spotlight as new leader of Fed

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 01:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this , Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. before the House Financial Services Committee hearing. The Janet Yellen era at the Federal Reserve begins the week of March 17, 2014, with a two-day meeting, a policy statement and fresh economic forecasts. Yet all that will be a prelude to the marquee event: Yellen's first news conference as Fed chair. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Investors will be watching closely Wednesday for any hints of how a Janet Yellen-led Federal Reserve might differ from the path set by her predecessor, Ben Bernanke.

Group retracing trek of wandering Oregon wolf OR-7

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:42 AM PDT

File - This May 8, 2012 file photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Game shows OR-7, the Oregon wolf that has trekked across two states looking for a mate, on a sagebrush hillside in Modoc County, Calif. An expedition is gearing up to hike and bike along the 1,200-mile trail of wandering wolf OR-7 as he trekked across Oregon into Northern California, crossing territory that hasn't seen his kind in nearly a century as he looked for a mate. They hope the journey, as told in traditional storytelling, multimedia blogging, and a documentary film, will offer new insights into what the spread of wolves across the West means for the people who live here. (AP Photo/Richard Shinn/California Department of Fish and Game, File)GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Wildlife advocates are preparing to retrace the 1,200-mile path of a wandering wolf whose trek in 2011 across Oregon and California attracted worldwide attention.

London 'draining life' from rest of UK economy

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:42 AM PDT

Fashion designer Sam Leutton originally from Stockport northern England, poses for a portrait at her booth in Somerset House, the main centre for London Fashion Week, where she is showing her designs in London, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. A tale of two Britains has emerged after the Great Recession on this economically hobbled island. While politicians trumpet the country's recovery from the financial crisis and its status as the world's fastest growing developed economy, the figures point to a growing divide, one that pits London's growing boom against the malaise in once-affluent cities such as Manchester that are struggling to remain vibrant in the 21st century.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)LONDON (AP) — There's London. And then there's the rest of the U.K.

Clash on economy could determine Illinois governor

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:42 AM PDT

Bruce Rauner, left, thanks his wife Diana as they celebrate Rauner becoming the Republican gubernatorial candidate after he defeated the field of State Treasurer Dan Rutherford, State Sen. Kirk Dillard, and State Sen. Bill Brady, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)CHICAGO (AP) — The race for Illinois governor is shaping up as a battle of vastly different visions on how to revive a lagging economy in one of the Midwest's last Democratic strongholds.

Seattle looks at helipad rules after deadly crash

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:37 PM PDT

In this photo provided by KOMO-TV, a car burns at the scene of a news helicopter crash outside the KOMO-TV studios near the space needle in Seattle on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The chopper was taking off from a helipad on KOMO-TV's roof when it went down at a busy downtown intersection and hit three vehicles, starting them on fire and spewing burning fuel down the street. Two people on board the helicopter died. (AP Photo/KOMO-TV, Kelly Koopmans) MANDATORY CREDIT: KOMO-TVSEATTLE (AP) — The news helicopter had just stopped at a helipad to refuel on its way to another assignment when it crashed and burst into flames yards from the Space Needle in the heart of Seattle, killing the two men on board and seriously injuring a third man who was on fire when he escaped from his car.

N.C. State beats Xavier 74-59 in NCAA First Four

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:43 PM PDT

North Carolina State forward T.J. Warren dunks against Xavier in the first half of a first-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson)DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Two missed shots, two quick fouls. T.J. Warren's second chance at the NCAA tournament didn't start very well at all.
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