mercredi 2 janvier 2013

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Photos: Science lab operates inside Norway glacier

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:41 PM PST

Photos: Science lab operates inside Norway glacier

Egypt panel implicates Mubarak, military in deaths

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:30 PM PST

FILE - In this June 2, 2012 file photo, Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak lays on a gurney inside a barred cage in the police academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. Ousted President Hosni Mubarak watched the uprising against him unfold through a live TV feed, despite his earlier denial that he knew the extent of the protests and violence, according to a fact-finding mission member said Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, which could lead to the retrial of the 84-old ousted leader already serving a life sentence.(AP Photo/File)A fact-finding mission says the deposed leader watched the uprising against him unfold on a live TV feed at his palace, despite his later denial that he knew the extent of the protests and crackdown.


Hillary Clinton leaves hospital after blood clot treatment

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:09 PM PST

Hillary Clinton Has Left the HospitalEarlier, a State Dept. spokeswoman said that Clinton had been up and taking emails and phone calls and day-to-day office work from bed.


Navy launches disturbing 'bath salts' PSA

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:03 PM PST

Navy Launches Disturbing Anti-Bath Salts PSAA new, disturbing dramatization of a sailor ingesting "bath salts" and then having violent hallucinations is the latest salvo in the Navy's ongoing fight against synthetic drugs. The public service announcement, published online in December, puts the viewer in the shoes of a young sailor...


Science on ice: Lab operates inside Norway glacier

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:35 PM PST

Science in Ice: Lab Operates Inside a GlacierNearly 700 feet (more than 200 meters) under the Svartisen glacier in northern Norway, researchers are huddled together underground. In the world's only lab located inside one of these giant hunks of ice, they are carrying out some of the best experiments on the movement and composition of glaciers ever done.


New pacemaker could be powered by the heart

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:35 PM PST

Researchers step closer to heart-powered pacemakerNext generation of devices could keep heart in rhythm without the need for batteries


Clinton speaking to staff on phone, receiving memos

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:35 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a news conference at Stormont Castle in BelfastThe secretary of state, who has not been seen in public since December 7, was revealed on Sunday to be in a New York hospital for a blood clot that stemmed from a concussion she suffered in mid-December.


Familiar face to welcome Sandy Hook students back to school

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:53 AM PST

Sandy Hook's 'New Old Principal' Out of Retirement After Shooting (ABC News)When the students at Sandy Hook Elementary School arrive at their new building Thursday, a familiar face will be there to greet them — their "new old principal."


Families call Colo. movie theater invite 'disgusting'

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:31 AM PST

The Century 16 movie theater where 12 were killed and dozens injured on July 20, 2012 is pictured in AuroraThe families of people killed in the Aurora shooting were asked to attend an "evening of remembrance" followed by a movie at the theater's Jan. 17 reopening.


Governor: NCAA sanctioned Penn St. to weaken it

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:06 AM PST

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett speaks at a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 in State College, Pa. The NCAA overstepped its authority by imposing hefty sanctions on Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, Corbett said in announcing a federal lawsuit against the college athletics governing body. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)The NCAA overstepped its authority by imposing sanctions on Penn State in the wake of the Sandusky scandal, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday as he filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the college athletics governing body.


NCAA calls Pa. suit an affront to Sandusky's victims

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:40 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2012 file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse by Centre County Sheriff Denny Nau, left, and a deputy, after being sentenced in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison, effectively a life sentence, in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall. The Sandusky saga was a top story in the sports world in 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said he would sue the NCAA in federal court to challenge the sanctions it levied against Penn State over the Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal.


Cliff battle's winners and losers

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:24 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama acknowledges House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio while speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. A dreaded package of tax increases and deep spending cuts to domestic and defense programs loomed over the economy in 2012 as Congress and the White House negotiated the budgetary steps needed to avoid it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)The bill to avoid the "fiscal cliff" is finally passed and signed by President Barack Obama, and the culmination of intense negotiations between Republicans and Democrats seems to have left nearly everyone unhappy—or ,at least, begrudgingly grateful that some kind of deal was reached. Unlike elections, the legislative process doesn't always offer a clean winner [...]


FBI reports record gun sales in December

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:08 AM PST

Gun Sales Dramatically Increase After Newtown School ShootingFor 2012, more background checks were conducted than any year since 1998.


Good gourd! Blood of Louis XVI found in souvenir squash

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:51 AM PST

It's been more than 200 years since King Louis XVI was beheaded by French revolutionaries, but a team of scientists believes a recently discovered gourd contains traces of his blood. According to the BBC, the scientists say a dried, hollowed-out squash that had been kept by an Italian family as a souvenir contains a handkerchief [...]

Backlash follows House delay on Sandy relief vote

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:19 AM PST

Christmas ornaments amongst the remains of homes destroyed by fire during Hurricane Sandy in the Breezy Point area of New York's borough of QueensIf a vote isn't held Wednesday, the bill will have to be redrafted when a new Congress convenes, punting the weeks-old relief bill even further down the road.


Ivory Coast stampede survivors blame barricades

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:50 AM PST

Mariame Kanfando, 10, with her father, wait outside the morgue in in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013, in an attempt to get the bodies of her mother and two sisters killed in a stampede on new year's eve. Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a New Year's Eve fireworks display at a stadium said Wednesday that barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ordered three days of national mourning and launched an investigation into to the causes of the tragedy but two survivors, in interviews with The Associated Press, indicated why so many died in what would normally be an open area, the Boulevard de la Republic. An estimated 50,000 people had gathered in Abidjan's Plateau district to watch the fireworks.(AP Photo/Emanuel Ekra)Police said unknown people put tree trunks across the Boulevard de la Republic where the deadly trampling took place.


Despite deal, taxes to rise for most Americans

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:11 AM PST

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden make a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013.


The Earth is at its closest to the sun today

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:55 AM PST

Earth Is Closest to the Sun for 2013 TodayIf the sun looks a little larger than usual today, you're not seeing things. Today (Jan. 2) marks the time when the Earth is at perihelion, the point in its orbit at which it is closest to the sun.


Ariz. woman faces death over boyfriend's gruesome murder

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:39 AM PST

Investigators say Jodi Arias stabbed her ex-boyfriend 27 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head at his Mesa, Ariz., home in June of 2008.

U.N. makes shocking estimate of deaths in Syria

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:10 AM PST

This citizen journalism image taken from video provided by Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a wounded man being pulled from the site of a Syrian government airstrike on a gas station in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Activists say dozens of people have been killed or wounded in an air raid on a gas station near the capital Damascus. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)New United Nations figures suggest at least 60,000 people have died in Syria's 22-month conflict.


Poll: Obama begins second term facing pessimistic public

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:15 AM PST

President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives with Vice President Joe Biden to make a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)As President Barack Obama heads into his second term, he faces a pessimistic and weary public, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll released late Tuesday. The percentage of Americans satisfied with the direction of the country stands at a paltry 23 percent in a poll of Americans surveyed Dec. 14-17. By a margin of 50 [...]


Tempers flare: Boehner swears at Reid outside the Oval Office

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:58 AM PST

John Boehner Told Harry Reid 'Go F--- Yourself' Outside the Oval OfficeThe fiscal austerity crisis has been temporarily averted, but given the apparent animosity between the current leaders of Congress its a miracle that any deal was made at all.


Avis buying Zipcar in deal worth nearly $500M

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:47 AM PST

FILE - In this April 14, 2011 file photo provided by Zipcar.com, Zipcar Chairman and CEO Scott Griffith stands with a Zipcar Mini-Cooper before the opening bell at the NASDAQ Market Site in New York. Avis is buying Zipcar for $491.2 million, expanding its offerings from traditional car rentals to car sharing services. The boards of both companies unanimously approved the buyout. (AP Photo/Zipcar.com, Craig Ruttle, File)PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — Avis is buying Zipcar for $491.2 million, expanding its offerings from traditional car rentals to car sharing services.


World markets celebrate certainty after deal

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:08 AM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 file photo, specialist Peter Elkins, foreground, is reflected in a trading post monitor as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. If Washington lawmakers can get past the The President won, the Republicans lost and the rich got hammered, albeit with plenty of loopholes, writes Jeff Macke.


What to watch Wednesday: Quiet after ‘fiscal cliff’ and New Year’s

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:19 AM PST

It's quiet in Washington after a rip-roaring New Year's holiday. In case you had your own celebration going and missed it, here's how Capitol Hill welcomed 2013: Just after midnight Tuesday, the Senate voted 89-8 to pass a "fiscal cliff" deal struck by Vice President Joe Biden and GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell. Late Tuesday night, [...]

mardi 1 janvier 2013

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House faces test on ‘fiscal cliff’ deal

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 09:51 AM PST

Reporters pursue Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, as he walks to a closed-door meeting with GOP members of the House as Congress in Washington, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, as Senate and House leaders rush to assemble a last-ditch agreement to head off the automatic tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect Jan. 1, 2013. The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the The deal may face opposition from conservatives who want more spending cuts and liberals who want to raise more taxes.


India rape victim's ashes scattered, more attacks stoke debate

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 09:29 AM PST

A demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest in New DelhiPolice on Tuesday confirmed they would push for the death penalty for her attackers - the force can recommend prosecutors pursue particular punishments in Indian trials.


The 124th Rose Parade kicks off on a cold morning

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 08:57 AM PST

Volunteer David Burney from Milwaukee helps put the finishing touches on the RDF TV rose float in Pasadena Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The 124th Rose Parade in Pasadena has kicked off on a chilly New Year's morning with the theme "Oh the Places You'll Go!" named in honor of the Dr. Seuss book.


How gratitude can improve your life

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 08:24 AM PST

How Gratitude Can Improve Your LifeAs the new year begins, good things, however small, are happening.


Artifacts help pinpoint key Hatfield-McCoy battle

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 08:13 AM PST

FILE - In a Saturday, June 9, 2012 file photo, regional artist J.D. Hall sells his artwork which includes prints of Randolph McCoy, left, and Devil Anse Hatfield during the Hatfield-McCoy Reunion in Williamson, W.V. Artifacts unearthed last year during filming of a new National Geographic Channel show appear to pinpoint the location of an 1888 ambush on Randolph McCoy's cabin by the Hatfield clan in the woods of eastern Kentucky. Excavators found bullets believed to have been fired by the McCoys in self-defense, along with fragments of windows and ceramic from the family's cabin. Property owner Bob Scott, a Hatfield descendant, plans to capitalize on the historic 70-acre site in eastern Pike County near the West Virginia line. The options include a housing development featuring horseback and ATV trails, he said. (AP Photo/ James Crisp, File)LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Hatfield clan New Year's attack on Randolph McCoy's cabin marked a turning point in America's most famous feud — the homestead was set ablaze, and two McCoys were gunned down. Hatfield family members and supporters were soon thrown in jail.


ESPN's Hannah Storm returns to air after grill accident

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 07:51 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, April 23, 2010 file photo, Hannah Storm attends the premiere of NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN anchor Hannah Storm returns to the air New Year's Day, exactly three weeks after she was seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home.


Survivor: Ore. bus crash like dream of 'world ending'

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 07:18 AM PST

Workmen move the bus which plummeted 200 feet down an embankment in rural Eastern Oregon Sunday, killing nine and sending multiple to hospitals, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Survivors of the bus crash said Monday some passengers were thrown from the tour bus through broken windows after the vehicle skidded out of control, smashed through a guardrail and went down. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Randy L. Rasmussen)Investigators in Oregon are trying to piece together the final moments before a tour bus carrying 48 people careened down the side of a steep hillside, ejecting some of the passengers and killing nine.


At least 60 killed in NYE stampede in Ivory Coast

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 07:02 AM PST

Dozens were crushed to death in a stampede outside a stadium in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan after a New Year's Eve fireworks display, the government said on Tuesday.

Photos: New Year's celebrations around the world

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST

Photos: New Year's celebrations around the worldFireworks explode over the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis Hill during the New Year's celebrations in Athens, on Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Syria starts 2013 with aerial strikes and clashes

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 06:29 AM PST

Residents run along a street after an air strike by a fighter jet loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Marja districtBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrians woke on New Year's Day to countrywide aerial bombardment, while President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels fighting to topple him clashed on the outskirts of the capital. Residents of Damascus entered the new year to the sound of artillery hitting southern and eastern districts that form a rebel-held crescent on the outskirts of the capital, the center of which is still firmly under government control. In the center, soldiers manning checkpoints fired celebratory gunfire at midnight, causing alarm in a city where streets were largely deserted. ...


61 killed in New Year's stampede in Ivory Coast

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 06:13 AM PST

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Authorities say that at least 61 people were killed in a stampede when New Year's revels turned into a panicked stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's commercial centre.

About 60 crushed to death in Ivory Coast stadium stampede

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 04:03 AM PST

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - About 60 people were crushed to death in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan overnight after a New Year's Eve fireworks display, an emergency official and state radio said on Tuesday. "There are around 60 dead, and about 200 injured, this is a provisional estimate," a rescue official told Reuters, asking not to be named. He said the incident happened near Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium where a crowd had gathered to watch fireworks. ...

1 Indian gang-rape suspect may be juvenile

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 02:10 AM PST

Indian schoolgirls form numbers representing the year 2013 during a prayer ceremony in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. The gang-rape and killing of a New Delhi student has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. The country remained in mourning Monday, two days after the 23-year-old physiotherapy student died from her internal wounds in a Singapore hospital. Floral writing at the center reads NEW DELHI (AP) — A bone test is being conducted to confirm the age of a juvenile suspect in custody for the fatal assault and gang-rape of a young woman, while prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the other five men arrested with him, police said Tuesday.


Senate passes 'fiscal cliff' deal, House up next

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 12:49 AM PST

Vice President Joe Biden gives two thumbs up following a Senate Democratic caucus meeting about the fiscal cliff on Capitol Hill on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)With 2013 just over two hours old, the Senate voted 89-8 on Tuesday to approve a last-minute deal to avert income tax hikes on all but the richest Americans and stall painful spending cuts as part of a hard-fought compromise to avoid the economically toxic "fiscal cliff."


Analysis: Economy would dodge bullet for now under fiscal deal

Posted: 01 Jan 2013 12:16 AM PST

McConnell departs the senate floor with an aide after a senate vote in the early morning hours at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal worked out by U.S. Senate leaders to avoid the "fiscal cliff," was far from any "grand bargain" of deficit reduction measures. But if approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, it could help the country steer clear of recession, although enough austerity would remain in place to likely keep the economy growing at a lackluster pace. The Senate approved a last-minute deal early Tuesday morning to scale back $600 billion in scheduled tax hikes and government spending cuts that economists widely agree would tip the economy into recession. ...


Senate clears fiscal cliff measure

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 11:43 PM PST

Vice President Joe Biden gives two thumbs up following a Senate Democratic caucus meeting about the fiscal cliff on Capitol Hill on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff.


Same-sex marriage ceremonies begin in Maryland

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:49 PM PST

Darcia Anthony, left, and her partner, Danielle Williams, chat before participating in a marriage ceremony at City Hall in Baltimore, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Same-sex couples in Maryland are now legally permitted to marry under a new law that went into effect after midnight on Tuesday. Maryland is the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to approve same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)BALTIMORE (AP) — Same-sex couples in Maryland were greeted with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year's Eve parties, as gay marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line on New Year's Day.


Boehner: No decision on accepting 'cliff' pact

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 09:36 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) and his leadership team say they need to review a Senate pact that would increase taxes on incomes exceeding $400,000 before deciding to schedule a vote on the measure or try to change it.

'Rings' trilogy sound editor Hopkins dies in NZ

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:59 PM PST

FILE - In this March 5, 2006 file photo, Mike Hopkins, right, and Ethan Van der Ryn accept the Oscar for achievement in sound editing for their work on WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Oscar-winning sound editor Mike Hopkins, who worked on the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and other blockbusters, has died in a rafting accident in New Zealand. He was 53.


'Fiscal cliff' deal to block pay hike for Congress

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:42 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to prevent the government from going over the so-called fiscal cliff will also block a $900 automatic pay hike for members of Congress.

FDA approves 1st new tuberculosis drug in 40 years

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:31 PM PST

FILE - This July 19, 2002 file photo shows the Johnson & Johnson corporate headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 approved a Johnson & Johnson tuberculosis drug that is the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a Johnson & Johnson tuberculosis drug that is the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades.


U.S., Europe hope the new year brings better times

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:15 PM PST

Alexandra Esquivel, left, and her aunt Anna Ramos, right, both from Arizona, attend the New Year's Eve festivities in New York's Times Square on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)NEW YORK (AP) — From teeming Times Square to a once-isolated Asian country celebrating its first public New Year's Eve countdown in decades, the world looked to the start of 2013 with hope for renewal after a year of economic turmoil, searing violence and natural disasters.


Tentative ‘fiscal cliff’ deal reached in Senate

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 07:04 PM PST

Democratic officials: Fiscal 'cliff' deal reachedRacing to beat a midnight deadline, Vice President Joe Biden arrived on Capitol Hill Monday night to sell wary Democratic senators on an 11th-hour deal to avert income tax hikes on all but a sliver of the richest Americans. Grinning broadly, Biden ignored reporters questions on whether he and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [...]


Fiscal cliff tumble looms despite Senate efforts

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 04:36 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about negotiations with Capitol Hill while in WashingtonThe United States was on track to tumble over the "fiscal cliff" at midnight on Monday, at least for a day, as lawmakers held back from supporting an eleventh-hour plan from Senate leaders to avert severe tax increases and spending cuts.


Congress to miss midnight cliff deadline

Posted: 31 Dec 2012 02:27 PM PST

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to a closed-door GOP caucus as Congress meets to negotiate a legislative path to avoid the so-called America is going over the 'fiscal cliff.' But no need to move into the Doomsday bunker in the backyard. Yet.