mercredi 29 mai 2013

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Cleveland hero wants no part of hamburger promotion

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:40 PM PDT

FILE - This May 6, 2013 file photo shows neighbor Charles Ramsey speaking to media near the home where missing women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Ramsey has been promised free burgers for life at more than a dozen Cleveland-area restaurants. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw, File)Charles Ramsey says to help the kidnap victims he rescued.

Lawyer: London murder suspect was freed in Kenya on British advice

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:08 PM PDT

By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan lawyer who in 2010 represented a man suspected of hacking a British soldier to death in London last week said on Wednesday the suspect was freed from arrest in Kenya three years ago on the recommendation of the British High Commission. Britain's authorities face questions about what they knew about the activities of two Britons of Nigerian descent suspected of butchering Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old veteran of the Afghan war, in broad daylight in a London street. ...

Bachmann’s rise and fall—and what it says about the GOP

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 16, 2013 file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R- Minn., speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. Bachmann said Wednesday, May 29, 2013, that she will not run for re-election in 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The tea party favorite has become a polarizing political figure.

Teacher fired while pregnant testifies in Ohio

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:38 AM PDT

CINCINNATI (AP) — A teacher fired from Catholic schools after becoming pregnant through artificial insemination has told jurors in Ohio she didn't know the procedure violated church doctrine or that she could be fired for it.

Abortion doctor's wife: I'm sorry for trusting him

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:22 AM PDT

Pearl Gosnell, wife of Kermit Gosnell, walks to the center for criminal justice, Wednesday, May 29, 2013, in Philadelphia. Pearl Gosnell is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for performing illegal, third-term abortions. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Pearl Gosnell says her husband is a coward for not apologizing at his trial.

Facebook wants to improve its hate speech response

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:07 AM PDT

File of a smartphone user showing the Facebook application on his phone in ZenicaThe social network responds to reports that advertisers were pulling their brands off the site.

Celebrating graduation from addiction

Posted: 29 May 2013 10:06 AM PDT

Members of the graduating TROSA class celebrate after the ceremonyFor Elisha Gahagan, it was the day she lost custody of her kids. She'd been using since she was 12 years old — first wine coolers and pot, then cocaine, eventually heroin — but she had always promised herself that she would not turn out like this, just like her own mother, an opiate addict who spent her days chasing pain pills. Gahagan was supposed to be the June Cleaver mom she'd always wanted in her own life, but when the time came she found that she could not pull her head above water. The physical addiction had her in its grasp, and every move she tried to make toward a normal life was thwarted by a need she could not control.

Drone strike may have killed Taliban deputy

Posted: 29 May 2013 09:36 AM PDT

Pakistani Taliban's Number 2 Possibly Killed in U.S. Drone StrikeThe militant led several attacks against U.S., NATO, and Pakistani forces.

Afghan security rescues Red Cross staff

Posted: 29 May 2013 09:20 AM PDT

An Afghan Policeman stands alert at the scene where after insurgents attacked the government compound in the eastern Panjshir province in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Seven insurgents wearing police uniforms and bomb-laden vests attacked a government compound in a usually secure province in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing one police officer, officials said. (AP Photo)A security guard was killed after one of the militants detonated a suicide vest.

Are student loans ruining the economy?

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:48 AM PDT

Washington, D.C., Has Highest Average Student Loan DebtThe total amount of money in student loans has exceeded credit card balances.

Afghan officials say insurgents attack Red Cross

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:32 AM PDT

An Afghan Policeman stands alert at the scene where after insurgents attacked the government compound in the eastern Panjshir province in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Seven insurgents wearing police uniforms and bomb-laden vests attacked a government compound in a usually secure province in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing one police officer, officials said. (AP Photo)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say insurgents have attacked a guest house used by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s calls mom: ‘Be patient. Everything will be fine’

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:16 AM PDT

Judge Rejects Defense Bid To Photograph Bombing SuspectZubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, says she has spoken with her son for the first time since his arrest. "I couldn't stop myself from crying," Tsarnaeva said in an phone interview with Bloomberg News late Monday from her home in Dagestan, Russia. "He said: 'I am absolutely fine, my [...]

Drone scientists hope to change public image

Posted: 29 May 2013 06:45 AM PDT

DronesThe military tool can help humanity, researchers say.

Buddhist mobs attack Muslim homes for second day in Myanmar

Posted: 29 May 2013 05:58 AM PDT

Motorcycles and houses destroyed in a fire after a riot between Muslims and Buddhist are seen in Lashio townshipBy Jared Ferrie LASHIO, Myanmar (Reuters) - Buddhist mobs armed with sticks and machetes burned Muslim homes on Wednesday for a second day in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio, contradicting government assurances that soldiers and police had restored calm. A Reuters reporter saw scores of young men and boys on motorbikes and on foot marauding through the city of 130,000 people in a mountainous region about 700 km (430 miles) from the commercial capital Yangon. ...

Feds investigate Md. train derailment, explosion

Posted: 29 May 2013 05:58 AM PDT

Feds investigate Md. train derailment, explosionA chemical-carrying CSX train to collided with a garbage truck.

Officer who killed girl while being followed by reality TV crew goes on trial

Posted: 29 May 2013 05:13 AM PDT

The exterior of the Detroit home where Aiyana Stanley-Jones was fatally shot during a police raid in May 2010 is shown May 25, 2013. Detroit Officer Joseph Weekley goes to trial Wednesday on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. (AP Photo/Ed White)DETROIT (AP) — Police accompanied by a reality TV crew fired a stun grenade through a window as they raided a Detroit home in search of a murder suspect. A gunshot then went off inside, fatally striking a 7-year-old girl in the head while she slept on a couch.

Home of opium, crystal meth takes off in Afghanistan

Posted: 29 May 2013 04:42 AM PDT

An Afghan pharmacist analyses samples of drugs, at a laboratory under the Interior Ministry's Counter Narcotics, in KabulThe number of meth samples taken from seizures tripled in 2012.

Moscow's top court rejects Pussy Riot appeal

Posted: 29 May 2013 04:26 AM PDT

File - File photo dated Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 of jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina in a defendant's cage in a court room in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia. A jailed member of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot was hospitalized Tuesday May 28, 2013, on the seventh day of a hunger strike to protest what she calls a persecution campaign against her. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia's main cathedral. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov, File)The punk group is in jail for protesting against Putin in a church.

Russia promises Winter Olympics in Sochi will be secure

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:56 AM PDT

The Fisht Olympic stadium and a mosque are under construction in Sochi, the host city for the Sochi 2014 Winter OlympicsCritics say the city is perilously close to the volatile Caucasus region.

Sheheen takes on Nikki Haley without sounding like a Democrat

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:56 AM PDT

Sheheen: Take money for Medicaid expansionCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina Democratic State Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who is planning to challenge Republican Gov. Nikki Haley in 2014, says he wants nothing to do with Washington -- but not in quite the same way Haley does. "I don't keep up with what's going on nationally," Sheheen told Yahoo News in an interview [...]

Calif teen misses trip, 5 friends die in crash

Posted: 29 May 2013 02:54 AM PDT

Cars drive past the scene of a Monday fiery car crash that killed five, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 in Newport Beach, Calif. Coroner officials were still working to positively identify all five victims who were killed in the Monday crash, when an Infiniti sedan carrying the five people veered off a road around 5:20 p.m. and hit a tree, said Kathy Lowe, Newport Beach police spokeswoman. The impact split the car and it caught fire, she said. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Bruce Chambers) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUTTamer Mosallam was supposed to join his friends for a Memorial Day trip to the beach.

Michelle Bachmann won’t seek re-election

Posted: 29 May 2013 02:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 16, 2013 file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R- Minn., speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. Bachmann said Wednesday, May 29, 2013, that she will not run for re-election in 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann said early Wednesday that she will not run for re-election in 2014.

Firefighters gain ground on Calif. blazes

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:52 AM PDT

Firefighters work on extinguishing a fire in the Los Padres National Forrest near Santa Barbara, Calif. on Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Firefighters took advantage of a lull in winds on Tuesday to try to gain ground against a forest fire in mountains north of Santa Barbara, as crews elsewhere in Southern California chased a new fire north of Los Angeles and sought to increase containment of a rural San Diego County blaze. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)Firefighters made big strides toward getting ahead of a wildfire northwest of Santa Barbara.

Mothers now top earners in 4 in 10 US households

Posted: 28 May 2013 11:06 PM PDT

Chart shows earning trends for married families sinceWASHINGTON (AP) — A record number of American women are now the sole or primary breadwinners in their families, a sign of the rising influence of working mothers, a new study finds. Mothers now keep finances afloat in 40 percent of households with children, up from just 11 percent in 1960.

U.S. launches first drone strike in Pakistan since election

Posted: 28 May 2013 10:21 PM PDT

By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike killed seven people in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on Wednesday, security officials said, the first such attack since a May 11 general elections in which the use of the unmanned aircraft was a major issue. U.S. President Barack Obama recently indicated he was scaling back the drone strike programme, winning cautious approval from Pakistan. ...
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Train derails in Maryland, explosion reported

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:52 PM PDT

Train derailment near Baltimore

$6 billion global money laundering operation busted

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:22 PM PDT

Preet Bharara describes charges against Costa Rica-based Liberty Reserve, one of the worlds largest digital currency companies at a news conference in New YorkDigital currency exchange Liberty Reserve helped criminals distribute, store and launder the proceeds of their illegal activity, prosecutors say.

Suspected Oregon teen bomb plotter due in court

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:06 PM PDT

Albany Police and the Oregon State Police Explosives Unit remove explosives from home of a West Albany High School student in AlbanyThe 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of planning a Columbine-style attack on his school.

First passengers back in U.S. after cruise ship fire

Posted: 28 May 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Passengers from the Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship, which caught fire during its voyage from Baltimore to the Bahamas, leave a security checkpoint after arriving on a charter flight at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in Linthicum, Md. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday and was extinguished after about two hours with no injuries reported. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Many praise the crew and say they'd be eager to take another Royal Caribbean cruise.

Obama, Christie rekindle their bromance

Posted: 28 May 2013 11:36 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walk along the boardwalk during their visit to Point Pleasant, NJ., Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Obama traveled to New Jersey to join Christie to inspect and tour the Jersey Shore's recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)The president and N.J. governor share a moment on the Jersey shore.

More than a dozen die in Iraq bombings

Posted: 28 May 2013 10:18 AM PDT

An Iraqi walks by the site of a car bomb attack at al-Keefah street in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. A coordinated wave of car bombings tore through mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of people, as insurgents step up the bloodshed roiling Iraq. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings and gunfire in central and northern Iraq killed at least 15 people and wounded 35 others on Tuesday, officials said, in the latest bloody chapter of a wave of violence that has edged the country closer to all-out internal warfare.

Nike cuts ties to Livestrong

Posted: 28 May 2013 10:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2012 file photo, Lance Armstrong talks to reporters after his second-place finish in the Power of Four mountain bicycle race at the base of Aspen Mountain in Aspen, Colo. Nike Inc. is cutting ties with the Livestrong cancer charity founded by Armstrong. The move by the sports company is the latest fallout in the doping scandal surrounding the former cyclist, who now admits he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France seven times. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, FIle)It's latest fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.

NY indictment filed in $6B money-laundering case

Posted: 28 May 2013 09:17 AM PDT

Liberty Reserve is a Costa Rica-based website long favored by cybercrime scammers.

Judge limits texts, photos in Trayvon Martin case

Posted: 28 May 2013 08:46 AM PDT

Supporters gather to join candlelight vigil at exact moment when Martin was shot one year ago in SanfordAttorneys won't be able to mention Trayvon Martin's drug use, suspension from school and past fighting.

White House says it was aware of McCain's Syria trip

Posted: 28 May 2013 08:30 AM PDT

U.S. Senator John McCain is pictured with U.S. troops at a Patriot missile site in southern TurkeyON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House was aware in advance of Republican Senator John McCain's trip to Syria and looks forward to speaking to him upon his return, President Barack Obama's spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday. (Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Jeff Mason; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

Judge: Jurors can't see crime scene in Martin case

Posted: 28 May 2013 08:14 AM PDT

Supporters gather to join candlelight vigil at exact moment when Martin was shot one year ago in SanfordJurors will not be able to travel to the crime scene during his trial.

Ferry capsizes in Malaysian river, 21 missing

Posted: 28 May 2013 07:44 AM PDT

Ferry capsizes in Malaysian river, 21 missingAn overloaded ferry capsized after hitting rocks in a remote river in Malaysia's part of tropical Borneo island on Tuesday, leaving 21 people missing and feared trapped inside the vessel, police said. ...

Obama and Christie, together again

Posted: 28 May 2013 07:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon arrival at Atlantic City International Airport in Atlantic City, N.J., to visit areas damaged by Superstorm Sandy. Obama with Christie at his side, will visit the recovering coast on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in an effort to reinforce a message of effective government, bipartisanship and economic opportunity. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)President Barack Obama is looking to get his groove back — at the beach. A post-Hurricane Sandy tour of the New Jersey coast line on Tuesday, gives the president a chance for a three-point play that can ...

Chinese hackers breach key weapon designs

Posted: 28 May 2013 07:12 AM PDT

Handout photo of three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters flying over Edwards Air Force BaseThe report comes days before Obama meets with China's president.

French man dies of SARS-related respiratory virus

Posted: 28 May 2013 06:58 AM PDT

Un hombre infectado con el coronavirus muere en FranciaThe coronavirus is related to an epidemic which killed some 800 people in 2003.

Fears grow of an arms race in Syria

Posted: 28 May 2013 06:11 AM PDT

In this photo released on Sunday, May 26, 2013, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad take their position during a clashes against Syrian rebels, in Aleppo, Syria. Syria's Information Ministry says rebels have killed a TV correspondent who was covering clashes near the border with Lebanon. (AP Photo/SANA)The E.U. lifted its embargo and Russia will provide missiles to the regime.

Pussy Riot member on hunger strike hospitalized

Posted: 28 May 2013 04:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Alekhina went on hunger strike Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in protest at not being allowed to attend her own parole hearing in Perm province. In letters dated Monday and posted online by the group's supporters, McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow's main cathedral. The judge in Mordovia province to whom the Beatles frontman Paul McCartney addressed two letters in Pussy Riot support, denied Tolokonnikova parole last month. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, file)MOSCOW (AP) — A jailed member of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot was hospitalized Tuesday on the seventh day of a hunger strike to protest what she calls a persecution campaign against her.

Report: Plans for Australia spy HQ hacked by China

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:36 AM PDT

A warning sign hangs on a fence enclosing the Australian Security Intelligence Organization's new headquarters under construction in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Australian officials have refused to confirm or deny whether Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints of the new spy agency building as a news report claims. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)Australian officials on Tuesday refused to confirm or deny whether Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints of a new spy agency headquarters, as a news report claims.

Much of Red Cross fund for Sandy aid still unspent

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:04 AM PDT

In this May 7, 2013 photo, Yvonne Rankine, left, and her husband, Rev. Trevor Rankine, tour the basement of their home in New York. The home is faced with a growing mold problem, a development they say resulted in the aftermath of Sandy storm damage. Seven months after Superstorm Sandy, the Red Cross still hasn't spent more than a third of the $303 million it raised to assist victims of the storm, a strategy the organization says will help address needs that weren't immediately apparent in the disaster's wake. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)Seven months after Superstorm Sandy, the Red Cross still hasn't spent more than a third of the $303 million it raised to assist victims of the storm, a strategy the organization says will help address needs that weren't immediately apparent in the disaster's wake.

WHO suspends polio drive in Pakistani city after shooting

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:48 AM PDT

The World Health Organisation suspended its polio eradication campaign in a Pakistani city on Tuesday after two young workers were shot.

Passengers returning to U.S. after cruise ship fire

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:18 AM PDT

The fire-damaged exterior of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship is seen while docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama island, Monday, May 27, 2013. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday while on route from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the mooring area of deck 3 and was quickly extinguished. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. (AP Photo/The Freeport News, Jenneva Russell)For the second time this year, a fire at sea has aborted a cruise ship. This time, aboard Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas and the ship's 2,200 passengers were expected back in Baltimore on Tuesday after being flown on charter flights from the Bahamas.

SKorea idles 2 nuke plants after cable tests faked

Posted: 28 May 2013 01:48 AM PDT

South Korea has idled two nuclear power plants after finding test results for crucial control cables were falsified.

Report: Gunmen kill 3 Lebanese troops near Syria

Posted: 28 May 2013 01:33 AM PDT

Gunmen fired on a Lebanese government checkpoint near the Syrian border on Tuesday, killing three soldiers, the state-run National News Agency said. The attack comes amid escalating tensions in Lebanon linked to Syria's conflict, in which rival Lebanese groups have taken sides.

Several thousand campers flee Calif. wildfire

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:32 AM PDT

Thousands of Memorial Day campers were sent scampering out of the mountains by a wildfire that was fanned by the wind into an ominous spectacle hanging over nearby Santa Barbara.

Ferry capsizes in Malaysian river, some missing

Posted: 27 May 2013 11:46 PM PDT

An overloaded ferry capsized Tuesday when it hit rocks in a remote river in Malaysia's Borneo, leaving an unknown number of people missing, Malaysian police said. Some survivors swam ashore.
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