| Death toll in Sri Lanka garbage mound collapse rises to 26 Posted: 16 Apr 2017 01:32 PM PDT  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a massive garbage mound near Sri Lanka's capital rose to 26 on Sunday, and activists said 20 more people could still be buried underneath the debris.
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| Easter Parade in New York Posted: 16 Apr 2017 01:14 PM PDT ![Easter Parade in New York]( "Easter Parade in New York") New Yorkers showed off their festive chapeaus and garb as they promenaded along Fifth Ave. for the annual Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival.
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| Amazon, Flipkart battle in India for e-commerce's 'last frontier' Posted: 16 Apr 2017 12:56 PM PDT  With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown rival Flipkart means the battle to dominate the fast-growing e-commerce market is set to heat up. Flipkart announced this week that top international companies including Microsoft, eBay and China's Tencent had pledged investments totalling $1.4 billion, among the largest sums ever raised by an Indian start-up. The 10-year-old e-commerce company needs all the help it can get to compete with Amazon after the Seattle-based giant made India's 1.25 billion inhabitants a global strategic priority, earmarking $5 billion in investment funds.
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| A look back at the Virginia Tech shootings: 10 years after shooting that killed 32 Posted: 16 Apr 2017 12:40 PM PDT ![A look back at the Virginia Tech shootings: 10 years after shooting that killed 32]( "A look back at the Virginia Tech shootings: 10 years after shooting that killed 32") In one of America's worst school attacks, a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life, April 16, 2007. College senior Seung-Hui Cho opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus. The shooting at Virginia Tech was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
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| The biggest 'Star Wars' reveals we learned at Celebration 2017 Posted: 16 Apr 2017 12:26 PM PDT  Rian Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni reveal new details of the future of the "Star Wars" franchise at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando.
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| Terrorism jokes no laughing matter for Spain's judges Posted: 16 Apr 2017 12:10 PM PDT  When she posted jokes on Twitter about a 1973 assassination committed by Spain's Basque separatist group ETA, Cassandra Vera never for one moment thought they would land her a one-year jail sentence. "They ruined my life," Vera tweeted about the 13 posts about the 1973 murder of Luis Carrero Blanco, the prime minister and heir-apparent of dictator Francisco Franco who was killed in an ETA bomb attack that sent his car hurtling into the air. "ETA combined a policy against the use of official vehicles with a space programme," read one of her posts.
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| Trump hits back at tax protests, asks 'who paid' for rallies Posted: 16 Apr 2017 11:54 AM PDT  US President Donald Trump on Sunday hit back at nationwide protests calling for him to release his tax returns, questioning "who paid for" the "small" rallies. "Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!" the president tweeted Sunday morning.
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| Rouhani says Iran needs "no one's permission" to build missiles Posted: 16 Apr 2017 11:37 AM PDT  Iran will ask "no one's permission" to build up its missile capability, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, in what appeared to be a defiant response to U.S. efforts to hamper the Iranian military. Facing an election in May where he hopes to secure a second four-year term, Rouhani has had to defend himself from opponents who say he has been too eager to appease the West, after agreeing to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized the nuclear deal and said during his election campaign he would stop Iran's missile program.
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| On Good Friday, Pope speaks of shame for Church and humanity Posted: 16 Apr 2017 11:20 AM PDT ![On Good Friday, Pope speaks of shame for Church and humanity]( "On Good Friday, Pope speaks of shame for Church and humanity") By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis, presiding at a Good Friday service, asked God for forgiveness for scandals in the Catholic Church and for the "shame" of humanity becoming inured to daily scenes of bombed cities and drowning migrants. Francis presided at a traditional candlelight Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) service at Rome's Colosseum attended by some 20,000 people and protected by heavy security following recent attacks in European cities. Francis sat while a large wooden cross was carried in procession, stopping 14 times to mark events in the last hours of Jesus' life from being sentenced to death to his burial.
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| Uber Is Generating Revenue But Losing Money, Company's Numbers Show Posted: 16 Apr 2017 11:03 AM PDT  Uber made $20 billion off of rides in 2016 -- but also lost a lot of money.
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| In Afghanistan, Trump aide promises coordinated response to enemies Posted: 16 Apr 2017 10:45 AM PDT  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser met Afghan officials in Kabul on Sunday and said the new administration was weighing diplomatic, military and economic responses to its Taliban and Islamic State enemies in Afghanistan. The adviser, H.R. McMaster, was making the first high-level visit by a Trump official.
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| Serial executions take toll on executioners too, critics say Posted: 16 Apr 2017 10:29 AM PDT  Putting a prisoner to death "stays with you for a long time," says Ron McAndrew. The former warden of Florida State Prison says his own mental health had begun to deteriorate by the time he left his position in 1998 after taking part in eight executions. Now, McAndrew is fighting against the death penalty.
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| Iraqi Christians celebrate Easter, dream of returning home Posted: 16 Apr 2017 10:12 AM PDT  "God willing, the celebration of the resurrection of Christ will also mark the return and rising-up of the Christians in Iraq," said Kyriacos Isho, 75, who was accompanied by his 12 children and grandchildren at Mar Gewargis (St George) Chaldean Catholic church in Tel Esqof. Tel Esqof, or Bishop's Hill in Arabic, did not sustain the same amount of damage as other Christian towns overrun by the militants three years ago in the plain of Nineveh.
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| Family Friends Identify Boy, 5, Killed After Getting Stuck Between Wall And Table At Rotating Restaurant Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:52 AM PDT  He wandered off from his parents, according to reports.
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| NASA photos capture a strange new crack in a massive Greenland glacier and we're all probably doomed Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:33 AM PDT  A mysterious crack has been spreading across a giant Greenland glacier, and it's raising concerns that part of the floating ice shelf could splinter off into the ocean. That's bad. Scientists with the NASA field campaign Operation IceBridge recently captured the first photographs of the growing rift while flying over Petermann Glacier, a structure that connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean. SEE ALSO: NASA photo reveals a startling 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic Ice Shelf The new chasm appears in the center of the glacier's floating ice shelf — the tongue of ice that extends into the water from the grounded glacier on land. In the photos, the crack appears relatively close to a larger rift spreading toward the shelf's center. Should the two intersect, part of the ice shelf in northwest Greenland could potentially break off. A portion of the new rift on Petermann Glacier's floating ice shelf is shown near the bottom center. The older rift appears near top center. The shaded feature, near the bottom center, is the "medial flowline."Image: NASA/Kelly BruntThere may be a savior for the shelf. A "medial flowline" in the ice could have a "stagnating effect" on the newer rift, helping to slow or halt its advance toward the older chasm, scientists with Operation IceBridge said on Facebook. Stef Lhermitte, a professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, first alerted the NASA team to the crack's coordinates after spotting it in satellite images, Washington Post reported. Polar-orbiting satellites showed the chasm for the first time in July 2016, and "it has been growing since then," Lhermitte said on Twitter. .@Petermann_Ice @AndreasMuenchow @glacier_doc @CopernicusEU @ESA_EO The internal crack growth is clearly visible in this Sentinel-1 time series, also during polar night. 3/5 pic.twitter.com/AKY2czWFtR — Stef Lhermitte (@StefLhermitte) April 12, 2017 While scientists still aren't sure what caused the crack to form, Lhermitte said a possible culprit might be "ocean forcing," a phenomenon that happens when warm ocean waters melt the ice from underneath. Ocean forcing might have been a culprit in creating cracks in another part of the world. Researchers believe it caused deep subsurface cracks to form in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, a recent study found. There a 20-mile-long rift eventually split the ice from the inside out and cleaved off a 225-square-mile iceberg in July 2015. Many of the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica that end in floating ice shelves have been shrinking due to warming ocean and air temperatures. Petermann Glacier's east wall near the terminus of the floating ice shelf.Image: NASA/John SonntagWhen ice shelves break off into icebergs it doesn't directly increase sea levels, because the ice is already floating in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass. However, because the ice shelves act like doorstops to the land-based ice behind them, if the shelves disappear, the glaciers can start moving into the sea. This would add new water to the ocean and therefore raise sea levels. In the case of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, researchers said that warming waters causing cracks to form beneath "provides another mechanism for rapid retreat of these glaciers, adding to the probability that we may see significant collapse of West Antarctica in our lifetimes." Greenland, Antarctica, the message is we're all probably doomed. WATCH: Watch how global warming heats up the world from 1880-2016
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| Death toll from Aleppo bus convoy bomb attack at least 126: Observatory Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:15 AM PDT ![Death toll from Aleppo bus convoy bomb attack at least 126: Observatory]( "Death toll from Aleppo bus convoy bomb attack at least 126: Observatory") The death toll from a bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy outside Aleppo has reached at least 126 in the deadliest such incident in Syria in almost a year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Sunday. Syrian rescue workers of the Civil Defense said that they had taken away at least 100 bodies from the site of Saturday's blast, which hit buses carrying Shi'ite residents as they waited to cross from rebel into government territory in an evacuation deal between the warring sides. The British-based Observatory said the number was expected to rise.
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| Nigeria marks third anniversary of schoolgirl kidnap Posted: 16 Apr 2017 08:57 AM PDT  Nigerians rallied Friday to mark the third anniversary of the mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, as their parents cling to the hope that they can be safely returned. Spearheading the rallies, broadcast on national television, was the Bring Back Our Girls movement, which urged the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to ramp up efforts to free the 195 girls still believed to be being held by the radical Islamic group. Rebecca Samuel, mother of Sarah, said the past three years had been unbearable and urged the government to do more to help.
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| Wait is over for April the giraffe, YouTube star and new mom Posted: 16 Apr 2017 08:42 AM PDT  HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The wait is over for April the giraffe and the legions of fans who watched a New York zoo's livestream for signs that the long-legged internet star was in labor.
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| Fugitive Mexican ex-Gov. Javier Duarte detained in Guatemala Posted: 16 Apr 2017 08:27 AM PDT  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The former governor of Mexico's Veracruz state who is accused of running a corruption ring that allegedly pilfered millions of dollars from state coffers was detained in Guatemala after six months as a fugitive and high-profile symbol of government graft in his country.
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| Nepal, China begin first-ever joint military exercises Posted: 16 Apr 2017 08:12 AM PDT  China and Nepal began their first-ever joint military exercises on Sunday, a move likely to rattle India as Beijing boosts its influence in the region. Impoverished Nepal is sandwiched between China and India and has in recent years ping-ponged between the sphere of influence of Delhi and Beijing as the Asian giants jostle for regional supremacy. The 10-day drill in Kathmandu, dubbed "Sagarmatha Friendship 2017" referring to the Nepali name for Mount Everest, will focus on counter-terrorism, according to Nepal's army.
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| North Korean soldiers march during a parade for the 'Day of the Sun' festival and more: April 15 in photos Posted: 16 Apr 2017 07:56 AM PDT ![North Korean soldiers march during a parade for the 'Day of the Sun' festival and more: April 15 in photos]( "North Korean soldiers march during a parade for the 'Day of the Sun' festival and more: April 15 in photos") North Korean soldiers march during a parade for the 'Day of the Sun' festival on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea; a police officer inspects a damaged house for victims during a rescue mission after a garbage dump collapsed and buried dozens of houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka; worshippers hold candles as they take part in the Christian Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
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| Philippines, US to hold annual 'Balikatan' military drills Posted: 16 Apr 2017 07:39 AM PDT  The Philippine military said Sunday it would hold annual exercises with US troops next month, reaffirming its commitment to the alliance despite cooling relations under President Rodrigo Duterte. The 10-day exercises will be the first held under Duterte, who has suggested cancelling the drills and called for the withdrawal of American troops, putting into question Manila's 70-year-old alliance with Washington as he looks instead to court China. The annual military exercises, known as Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder), will now go ahead in May, focusing on counter-terrorism and disaster response as the Philippines battles Islamic militants in their lawless southern strongholds.
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| The Latest: Trump mum about failed N. Korea missile launch Posted: 16 Apr 2017 07:20 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the failed launch of a North Korean missile Sunday from the country's east coast (all times local):
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| North Korean medium-range missile test fails, US says Posted: 16 Apr 2017 07:02 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean medium-range missile exploded seconds after it was launched on Sunday, U.S. officials said, a high-profile failure that came hours before the U.S. vice president arrived in South Korea, and as an American aircraft supercarrier approaches the Korean Peninsula in a show of force.
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| PM says Britain uniting around Brexit Posted: 16 Apr 2017 06:42 AM PDT  Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday that Britain was beginning to unite behind Brexit, 10 months after the divisive referendum that saw the country narrowly vote to leave the European Union. "This year, after a period of intense debate over the right future for our country, there is a sense that people are coming together and uniting behind the opportunities that lie ahead," May said in her Easter message. May backed remaining in the EU but is spearheading Britain's drive to the departure gates.
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