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Car rams into Virginia hikers

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:21:55 -0400

A parade in the US state of Virginia has been ended by an horrendous car crash. Over 50 people were injured in an incident where a car ploughed into the crowd whose members had been hiking through the area. More than a dozen people were seriously injured in the crash, which took place during the Trail Days festival in the town of Damascus in northern Virginia. Ambulances ferried the ...

Israel worried that Russian weapons will reach Hezbollah

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:24:01 -0400

Israel has warned Russia about sending arms to Syria. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has spoken on Channel Two television's Meet the Press to condemn shipments of arms from Russia that she said may be used against Israel. She said: "These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that's why there is a responsibility with all world powers, certainly Russia, not to supply such ...

Syrians on alert as bombs explode in Damascus

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:19:24 -0400

At least eight people have been killed and ten others injured in a bomb attack in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The incident took place in the north of the city, where cars and buildings were set alight by a bomb. The bomb had been concealed in another car which was parked near a school in the Rukn Eddin neighbourhood. Another explosive device was defused by military experts who had ...

Spies hang after Tehran court ruling

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:27:54 -0400

Two spies have been hanged in Iran following a Revolutionary Court judgement. Press TV has reported the spies, who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, were hanged at dawn on Sunday. Sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, the men have been named as Mohammad Heidari, a Mossad agent and Kourosh Ahmadi, who was convicted of working for ...

Oil spill causes Texas to launch law suit

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:26:06 -0400

BP and Halliburton are being sued by the state of Texas over one of the worst oil spills in US history. Texas has become the latest complainant in allegations that both companies engaged in "misconduct" for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill. Alabama and Louisiana filed complaints in 2010 ...

North Korea launches threatened missile

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:23:08 -0400

North Korea has fired three short-range missiles from its east coast. South Korean officials have been carefully monitoring the missile firings as tensions rise again in the Korean Peninsula. The missiles were fired on Saturday morning and afternoon in a north-east direction. Analysts have said the missiles were not as dangerous as the intermediate-range missiles which Pyongyang had ...

Violence flares throughout Iraq

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:20:47 -0400

Violence has erupted in many areas of Iraq. On Saturday morning eight people, including a police officer, his wife and children, were killed by gunmen who also kidnapped ten security force personnel in the Rashid area, south of Baghdad. The gunmen first broke into the home of the local administrator, killing one of his guards. They then moved on to the nearby house of Captain Adnan ...

Cell phone surveillance powers loosened in US

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:18:32 -0400

A federal judge in the US has given law agents permission to track people's mobile phones without a warrant. New York judge Gary Brown has ruled that law enforcement agents can conduct cell phone surveillance against people who forget to turn their phones off. In a written ruling, he said: "Given the ubiquity and celebrity of geo-location technologies, an individual has no legitimate ...

US general takes action against sexual assault

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:16:25 -0400

A top general has warned that Washington is facing a crisis due to the scandal of sexual assaults in the country's military. The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey has called for the Obama administration to heed his warning, saying the country is in danger of losing women soldiers. During the week, US President Barack Obama met with General Dempsey, Defense ...

France still unsure about gay marriage

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:13:38 -0400

France has legalised same-sex marriage, becoming the 14th country to do so. President Francois Hollande signed the bill into law following months of bitter political debate, including a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. On Friday the Constitutional Council threw out the challenge, allowing the president to sign the documents. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. ...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in IndiaUpdate

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:02 -0400

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here today on a three-day state visit. The visit is expected to expand cooperation between the two countries substantially. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said New Delhi is highly hopeful that the visit will enhance mutual trust and understanding between the people and leadership on sensitivities of two countries. Briefing media here ...

Syrian army Hezbollah kill more than 30 in border fighting

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:50:03 -0400

Assad's troops and Hezbollah operatives launch joint operation to retake Syrian town of Qusair near Lebanese border; opposition activists say fighting is heaviest yet involving Shi'ite terrorist ...

Hamas confiscates rockets from Fatahs armed wing

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:50:03 -0400

Hamas has confiscated rockets and other types of weaponry belonging to Fatah's armed wing, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Palestinian sources revealed Sunday.The sources told the Fatah-affiliated Palestine Press News Agency that Hamas confiscated 100 rockets and 500 "combat units" when Fatah tried to move them from one location to another in the Gaza ...

Chosen Bites Impossibly crispy chicken

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:50:02 -0400

There is just something about warmer temperatures that make me crave fried chicken. Maybe eating with my hands is something I regard as a casual summer activity? Whatever the reason is, this easy fried chicken rocks. I made it the other day and want it again.This spiced chicken dry mix is fragrant and mouth-watering. The addition of potato starch helps keep the chicken super crispy and not ...

Bagrut exam-writer indicted for leaking questions

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:50:02 -0400

The Haifa District Attorney's Office on Sunday filed an indictment for leaking Psychometric Exam questions against three people, including a member of the board for writing exam questions, in the Haifa Magistrate's Court.Specifically, the leaked questions were from the Math section of the 2010 ...

Report Egyptian army pushes to attack kidnappers

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:50:02 -0400

The Egyptian army is pushing president Mohamed Morsi for a green light to attack the kidnappers of seven security officers, which have been held since last Thursday, according to a report in ...

Jennifer Lopez A design for living

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:32:36 -0400

(CBS News) The singer-actress is also a fashionable business tycoon who tells our Lee Cowan "workaholic" is not a dirty word: It left very little to the imagination; that green Versace dress that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Grammys back in 2000 was a daring design, to say the least. But fashion has always been JLo's passion -- stylishly showing off those famous curves, both on ...

Allegedly random murder hate crime stuns NYC

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:32:36 -0400

Elliot Morales began his downfall early Saturday by urinating on the wall outside an upscale restaurant just a few blocks away from the Stonewall Inn, the site of 1969 riots that helped give rise to the modern gay-rights movement when patrons at a gay bar reacted to police harassment. Fifteen minutes later, Morales stands accused of shooting and killing Harlem resident Marc Carson, who did not ...

Syria army attacks rebel stronghold Qusayr

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:30:30 -0400

The Syrian army has pounded the rebel-held central town of Qusayr, killing at least 40 people in an apparent preparation for a ground assault, watchdog and activists said. The attack on Sunday came a day after a rare interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was released, in which he said that his government was not using "fighters from outside of Syria, of other nationalities, and ...

NTSB looking at broken rail

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:10:42 -0400

>Were you there? Share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Nine people remained in the hospital -- one in critical condition -- two days after a commuter train derailed and struck another train on one of the busiest tracks in the country, officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators looking at the accident, along the busy corridor from New York to New Haven, ...

Obama Aide Irrelevant Fact Where President Was During Benghazi Attacks

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:06:47 -0400

Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said it's an "irrelevant fact" where the president physically was during the Benghazi terror attack on September 11, ...

Twenty Years On The Unfinished Lives Of Bosnia’s Romeo And Juliet

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:03:03 -0400

SARAJEVO -- The story of Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic ended with two short bursts from a sniper's rifle on a Sarajevo bridge the afternoon of May 19, 1993. Bosko, a 24-year-old ethnic Serb, was killed instantly. Admira, his 25-year-old Bosniak girlfriend, was fatally wounded. She crawled to Bosko and, after about 10 minutes, died with him. One eyewitness described the scene in an ...

Russian Film Director Balabanov Dead At 54

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:03:00 -0400

Russian film director Aleksei Balabanov has died at the age of 54. Balabanov, whose films include the 1997 crime film "Brother" (Brat) and its sequel, "Brother-2," died after collapsing from an an apparent heart attack in the village of Solnechnoye outside St. Petersburg. Balabanov, a native of Sverdlovsk, had lived in St. Petersburg since 1990. Many of his films, ...

Weed grow room found in haredi girls school

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:59:45 -0400

For some time before Sunday, a strong herbal aroma wafted through the halls of a Kiryat Gat school for haredi girls, puzzling the school's faculty and staff. On Sunday, the principal decided to investigate, and made her way to a basement bomb shelter, where she stumbled upon a marijuana grow room, Negev subdistrict police reported on Sunday.The principal called police and when investigators ...

When May 19 became day of darkness

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:53:54 -0400

>Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose 25 books include "Late Edition: A Love Story"; "Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War"; and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen. "(CNN) -- The date, in that long-gone American spring, was the same as today's: May 19. The year was 1780. The event is mostly forgotten, lost to the mists ...

British man arrested after childrens throats slit in France

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:51:31 -0400

The Foreign Office said today it is 'urgently' investigating reports that a British Man is being questioned on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two ...

Report North Korea launches fourth short-range missile

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:49:55 -0400

North Korea fired its fourth short-range missile in two days, South Korea tells news agency Missiles were fired into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, Yonhap reports Tensions in the region have eased since a peak last ...

The newest thing in architecture Something old

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:42:15 -0400

(CBS News) Anyone who has seen a great old building being torn down knows that they don't make 'em like they used to. But one New York design team is trying. Tracy Smith reports our Cover Story: It was built to stand for centuries, but by 1969, New York's Grand Central Terminal was in trouble. Kent Barwick led an effort to save the old building from developers. "At one ...

Nigerian army blockades Boko Haram base

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:40:05 -0400

Nigerian soldiers have blocked roads out of a key northeastern city to deprive Boko Haram fighters of supplies in remote towns they control, the army has said. The military said on Sunday that its offensive against the group, which followed a declaration of a state of emergency in three northeastern states, was aimed at re-establishing Nigeria's "territorial integrity". The ...

Egyptian police block border crossings

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:40:04 -0400

Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by armed fighters in the Sinai Peninsula, have blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel, security sources have said.Police have been blocking another border post, the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, since Friday to press the government of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to help free the seven. Dozens of police ...

Netanyahu Says Israel Acts To Deny Hizballah Syrian Arms

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:12:17 -0400

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is "acting" to prevent Syrian weapons reaching Lebanon's Hizballah and will continue to do so. Netanyahu, speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on May 19, said the Middle East was going through its most sensitive period for decades, with the conflict in Syria at the center of the turmoil. Netanyahu said Israel is ...

Bennett reveals reform of religious services

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:08:55 -0400

Minister for Religious Services Naftali Bennett, alongside deputy minister Eli Ben-Dahan, unveiled a series of reforms on Sunday for the provision of religious services in Israel, calling the measures proposed "revolutionary."Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Bennett said that the objective was to improve the professionalism of religious services and make them more accessible ...

For Obama no more Mr. Nice Media

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:08:47 -0400

>Editor's note: Howard Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources. "(CNN) -- The press has turned on President Obama with a vengeance. Suddenly, the White House briefing room is filled with confrontational questions. Suddenly, the news pages are ablaze with scandal, and the commentators -- even some of the president's usual defenders -- are bemoaning his ...

Will scandals stall Obama agenda

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:05:29 -0400

>Editor's note: John Avlon, a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, is the author of "Independent Nation" and "Wingnuts. " He won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' award for best online column in 2012.(CNN) -- This week on "The Big Three," we take a look at what might have been Obama's worst week ever -- as a negative trifecta of scandals ...

Russia retrieves mice newts after space journey

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:03:00 -0400

Russian Federation A Russian capsule containing mice, newts and other small animals has returned from a month's mission in orbit.Russian mission control said the Bion-M craft landed softly with the help of a special parachute system in the Orenburg Region about 1,200 kilometres south-east of Moscow.The capsule was also carrying snails and gerbils as well as some plants and ...

After crushing Mali Islamists France pushes deal with Tuaregs

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:55:17 -0400

BAMAKO (Reuters) - After winning adulation across Mali for a five month military offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg ...

Job market gains could lead Fed to taper QE3 early

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:52:07 -0400

(Reuters) - The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than many investors think if recent gains in the U.S. labor market do not prove ...

Two imprisoned over killing Malcolm Xs grandson

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:50:57 -0400

MEXICO CITY A judge on Saturday issued an order for the imprisonment of two waiters accused in the beating death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, the Mexico City attorney general's office ...

Afghanistan to ask India for military aid

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:50:55 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai ...

Salafist group clashes with police in Tunisia

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:48:46 -0400

Clashes have broken out between police and supporters of the Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia in two places in Tunisia. One clash occurred on Sunday in a Tunis suburb where the group had told supporters to meet for their annual congress in defiance of a government ban, according to an AFP journalist. Hundreds of Salafists erected barricades in the streets of Ettadhamen, a poor neighbourhood of ...

North Korea fires short-range missiles second day in a row

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:45:09 -0400

South Korean officials condemned the launching of another short-range missile Sunday by North Korea, saying the action was provocative. North Korea fired the missile Sunday afternoon into the ocean off the country's east coast, one day after the country fired three short-range missiles into the same body of water, Yonhap News Agency reported. Kim Hyung-suk, a spokesman for the South Korean ...

Two North Caucasus Republics Set Election Precedent

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:22:02 -0400

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) chairs a meeting of the Government Commission on Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasian Federal District in Grozny in June 2012, flanked by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Ingushetia head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and Daghestan's Magomedsalam Magomedov (left to ...

Jordan scuttles attempt to expel Israeli envoy

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:18:30 -0400

expel Israel's ambassador ended when several members of parliament backed-down according to official sources. Despite the failure of the move to send Israeli Ambassador Daniel Nevo packing, the incident underscores the viability of opposition to normalization with the Jewish state.A strong majority of 86 out of 150 lawmakers had signed a memorandum calling for a parliamentary session to ...

Bollywood bad boy in ‘terrorist’ jail cell

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:18:04 -0400

New Delhi - Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said on ...

Ellie Jones dead Three teenage boys arrested after girl 16 dies hours after taking an illegal drug

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:15:03 -0400

A spokeswoman for Cheshire Constabulary said: 'Police investigating the death of a Warrington teenager have arrested three local males on suspicion of supplying drugs and perverting the course of ...

NHS 111 Family slams hotline after terminally ill Anne Anthony waited NINE hours for help

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:15:02 -0400

'My dying wife waited NINE hours for district nurse to turn up': Family slams NHS 111 hotline as whistleblowers reveal a 'computer says no' mentality worthy of Little Britain ...

Arab League to hold emergency Syria meeting

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:14:13 -0400

An Arab League committee on Syria will hold anemergencymeeting on Thursday ahead of an international peace conference on ending the country's civil war, the bloc's deputy leader said on ...

Cameron losing control as rift with party core widens

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:05:06 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is "losing control of his party", Conservative Party grandee Geoffrey Howe said on Sunday, as a row raged over whether a close aide to Cameron had labeled grassroots activists "mad, swivel-eyed ...

Long Island police defend Hofstra student killing

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:27 -0400

MINEOLA, N.Y. In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. The two were killed early Friday by a Nassau County police ...

Home tweet home Birdhouses

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:26 -0400

--> Fifteen years ago Thomas Burke gave up building houses for people -- and his career took flight, so to speak. With a business card that now reads "Builder of Fine Bird Homes," Burke has created ornate, whimsical birdhouses that replicate historic buildings or his clients' own homes. Left: Burke's rendition of Essex Farm in Royal Oak, Md. By CBSNews.com senior ...

Officials confirm theres only 1 Powerball winner

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:24 -0400

DES MOINES, Iowa It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said Sunday. The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told The Associated ...

Chinese premier arrives in India for talks

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:33:52 -0400

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday afternoon on the first stop of his maiden foreign trip, for talks on issues ranging from an unresolved border dispute to a festering trade-imbalance.Li, who brought with him a large Chinese delegation, will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday and meet other Indian leaders including from the main opposition BJP ...

France in talks with US Israel to buy drones

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:27:25 -0400

PARIS - France is in talks with the United States and Israel to buy intelligence-gathering drones to build up a modern fleet, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday.France's existing hardware is outdated and its military intervention in Mali this year has exposed its shortage of surveillance drones suitable for modern warfare. The United States provided French commanders with ...

WJC calls for investigation into Claims Conference

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:27:21 -0400

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has written to senior executives of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany to inform them that he has tasked WJC CEO Robert Singer with "appoint[ing] a task force chaired by Michael Schneider and including himself and WJC General Counsel Menachem Rosensaft" to investigate what senior executives knew of massive fraud within ...

Guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison sells for $400k

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:19:19 -0400

The Beatles Vox guitar, a custom prototype made in 1966 and later given to "Magic Alex" Mardas, a friend of the band, was sold by Julien's Auctions at the Hard Rock Cafe on Times Square.The instrument raised a hundred thousand dollars more than its pre-auction estimate, which was between 200,000 and 300,000 US dollars (130,000-200,000).Harrison can be seen rehearsing with the ...

Iran hangs alleged U.S. Israeli spies

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:10:29 -0400

TEHRAN, Iran Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency. Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with classified information in return of money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, who allegedly gave the CIA intelligence on Iran, were hanged. The report didn't say when the ...

The gene 7 questions

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:01:15 -0400

>Editor's note: Dr Susan Domchek is a board-certified medical oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center. She is director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Women's Cancer Risk Evaluation Center and executive director of the Basser Research Center for BRCA, a newly founded center focused exclusively on issues related to BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.(CNN) -- News ...

Police Officer accidentally killed student

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:58:32 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...

Iran Hangs Two For Allegedly Spying For Israel U.S.

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:42 -0400

Iranian authorities have hanged two men who were convicted of spying for Israel and the United States. ISNA news agency quoted a statement by the Tehran prosecutor's office saying that the two, Mohammad Heydari and Kourosh Ahmadi, had gathered classified information and sold it to Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies. The statement gave no details where the two were hanged. It ...

Mitzna Inexperienced cabinet cant handle Syria

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:37:32 -0400

The Diplomatic-Security Cabinet is inexperienced and will have difficulty dealing with security issues arising from the situation in Syria, Knesset Education Committee chairman Amram Mitzna (Hatnua) said Sunday, in a thinly veiled reference to Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett.Mitzna, a Major-General in reserves, said he is "disturbed and concerned, ...

S.Korea deploys Israeli missile on border with North

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:37:32 -0400

South Korea deployed Israeli precision-guided missiles on Yellow Sea islands bordering North Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday."Dozens of Spike missiles and their launchers have recently been deployed on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands," a South Korean army official ...

Kate Middleton Boarding school attended by Duchess cancels annual leavers ball after pupils run riot

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:33:28 -0400

The headmistress at Kate Middleton’s old school has cancelled its annual leavers’ ball after pupils ran riot through the school grounds during an alcohol-fuelled party, dressed in bright orange Guantanamo-style prison ...

David Beckham final game Sons join star on pitch to say tearful goodbye to beautiful game as Posh and Harper watch

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:33:27 -0400

The 38-year-old was given the honour of captaining Paris St Germain during their final home game of the season against Brest and paid an emotional farewell as he brought the curtain down on a career spanning more than 20 ...

Rolf Harris 83-year-old goes back on stage in Bristol after sex claims

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:33:26 -0400

Entertaining: Rolf Harris made his first public appearance tonight (pictured) since his arrest over sex abuse claims became known. He played to a near sell-out audience at the Bristol ...

Chinese premier visits India to boost ties

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:24:55 -0400

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ...

Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:20:39 -0400

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant ...

Deaths reported in South Sudan cattle raids

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:17:03 -0400

At least 29 people have been killed after cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state, according to a local official. The attackers crept into Tolleri village in Ulang county in the early hours of Saturday morning and sprayed it with bullets, killing 23 people instantly, Dak Tap Chuol, commissioner for the nearby ...

Former Tajik Industry Minister Arrested

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:48:59 -0400

DUSHANBE -- A Tajik businessman and former industry minister who recently announced he would create a new opposition party has been detained at the Dushanbe airport upon return from a trip abroad. RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports that Zaid Saidov was arrested by agents of Tajikistan's anticorruption agency. The agency said that Saidov is accused of "grave crimes, including ...

FBI searches Spokane Wash. apartment in ricin letters case

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:46:32 -0400

SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ...

Kuwait deports hundreds for traffic offences

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:42:28 -0400

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has deported hundreds of expats for traffic offences in the past month, a report said on Sunday, drawing condemnation from a human rights group.The Al-Anbaa newspaper cited a senior interior ministry official as saying that as many as 1,258 foreigners have been deported for traffic violations since a crackdown began about a month ago.Foreign residents caught driving without a ...

British father 53 becomes first man in the world to have his prostate removed in bid to beat Angelina Jolie cancer flaw

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:42:14 -0400

A British father has made medical history by having his healthy prostate removed after discovering that he carries a defective gene that boosts his risk of cancer, it was reported last ...

Google tax avoidance row Internet giant accused of scandalous tax avoidance scheme by whistleblower

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:42:14 -0400

'Google is cheating British taxpayers out of millions... what they are doing is just immoral': Web giant accused of running 'scandalous' tax avoidance scheme by ...

North Korea launches missiles off its east coast according to the South

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:36:39 -0400

North Korea has launched three missiles into the sea off its east coast, reheating simmering tensions and prompting mild rebukes from the US and ...

Winning ticket for $590M Powerball lottery sold in Florida

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:35 -0400

The winning Powerball numbers are shown after being drawn at the Florida Lottery studio in Tallahassee May 18, 2013. The winning numbers are 22, 10, 13, 14, 52, and the Powerball number is 11. The Powerball jackpot is a record-setting $590.5 million. (REUTERS/Philip ...

Iran executes two suspected spies

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:25:07 -0400

Iranian authorities have executed two men convicted of working for Israeli and US spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency says. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the US Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at dawn on Sunday, the report said. ...

PM We will continue stopping weapons transfer to Hezbollah

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:54:02 -0400

Netanyahu responds to 'Sunday Times' report that Syria has missiles aimed at Tel Aviv following alleged IAF strikes in Damascus, saying Israel will continue stop leaks of advanced weaponry to terror ...

UN chief Ban worried over N.Korea missile launch

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:54:00 -0400

MOSCOW - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers.Ban, who spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti during a visit to Moscow, called North Korea's launch of three short-range missiles from its east coast on ...

Slippery eel slides towards disaster

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:49:53 -0400

However, there are fewer and fewer eels making that journey and the imbalance between eel stocks around the world and demand in Asia, where "unagi" has a prized place on Japan's sushi menu, is driving prices to caviar levels.In Maine, the last big US fishery for glass eels, as the young see-through ones are known, the creatures are aquatic gold.Prices reached a record $2,600 a ...

Saudi Arabian woman makes history having successfully scaled Mount Everest

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:45:25 -0400

Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the ...

Up to 60 people injured after elderly driver ploughs into Virginia parade

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:45:25 -0400

Up to 60 people were injured when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain ...

Gunman kills senior member of Imran Khans political party as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:45:24 -0400

Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. She was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. Mr Khan's party has claimed it was the victim of vote rigging in several areas of ...

US college student being held hostage was shot and killed by police officer

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:42:40 -0400

Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head on Friday morning by an officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said yesterday.The masked intruder pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old Hofstra University student in a headlock, Nassau County homicide squad Lt John Azzata said.In a tense confrontation with the officer, gunman Dalton Smith ...

Single ticket scoops $590m jackpot in Florida lottery

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:42:39 -0400

A single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball lottery jackpot in history at an estimated 590.5 million dollars (389.2m), officials said ...

S Africa stunned by fatal circumcisions

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:44:17 -0400

More than 20 boys in South Africa have died during coming-of-age rituals in the past week. Police say botched circumcisions are the probable cause. Every year in South Africa, boys from several of the country's tribal groups undergo these traditional "initiation rituals". Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Mpumalanga ...

Drones playing crucial role in East Asia

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:44:16 -0400

Drones have become the most controversial aspect of the US military's strategy in places such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen. But now, governments in East Asia have also started using unmanned aircraft. The drones play a crucial role in monitoring territorial claims in the region. Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports from Singapore. Unmanned aerial vehicles serving different ...

Iran hangs two spies for spying for Israel US

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:12:48 -0400

Iran hanged two spies it found guilty of spying for Israel and for the United States, AFP reported on Sunday.According to Tehran's prosecutor's office, one of them, Mohammad Heydari, was convicted of "receiving payment to provide intelligence on various security issues and national secrets in repeated meetings with the ...

Upmarket Pakistan district votes again as Imran Khan decries killing

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:56:29 -0400

The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage, May 18, 2013. Hussain was shot and killed by unidentified assailants on Saturday, according to ...

Iraq death toll stirs fears of civil war

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:53:06 -0400

The death toll in Iraq from four consecutive days of violence has reached at least 140 people, stirring fears that rising sectarian conflicts could lead the country into civil war. Many Iraqis were in mourning on Sunday amid simmering tensions between the Sunni minority and Shia majority despite increased security patrols. In Baghdad, the presence of SWAT teams, army, police officers and mobile ...

Report Syria has missile batteries aimed at Tel Aviv

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:22:37 -0400

Syria has surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles aimed at Tel Aviv and is ready to use them should Israel decide to conduct a strike on Damascus, British ...

Saudi woman scales Everest summit as country warms to women in sports

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:18:47 -0400

Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted, tourism officials said on ...

Danger and separation from families changing job of U.S. diplomats

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:06:53 -0400

Family members of deceased State Department diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, (front row L-R) sister Regina, father Tom, and mother Mary Beth listen to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speak at dedication ceremonies for new names inscribed on the American Foreign Service Association Memorial plaque in Washington May 3, ...

1 Winning Ticket Sold in Fla. on Powerball

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:03:41 -0400

A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million. Terry Rich, a lottery official in Iowa, confirmed the ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Florida. Rich told The Associated Press by telephone that details were expected to be announced later by Florida lottery officials about the actual ticket ...

Fatal NY shooting gay hate crime police

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:20:19 -0400

A GUNMAN issued homophobic slurs before fatally shooting a man point-blank in the face on a crowded Manhattan street, authorities say. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is calling the killing a hate crime. Before opening fire early on Saturday, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich Village and asked if they "want to die here", Kelly said. The violence ...

Indias weakened Congress wondering if early elections will help

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:17:00 -0400

Rahul Gandhi, a lawmaker, speaks to Sonia Gandhi (R), who is his mother and India's ruling Congress party chief, during the Indian National Congress meeting in Jaipur, capital of India's desert state of Rajasthan January 20, ...

One winner in massive US Powerball jackpot

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:58:05 -0400

A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than US$590 million. Terry Rich, a lottery official in Iowa, confirmed the ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Florida. Rich told The Associated Press by telephone that details were expected to be announced later by Florida lottery officials about the actual ticket sold. Powerball.com ...

Remembering victims of 1950s Grand Canyon plane crash including 2 from Camarillo

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:48:32 -0400

contributed photo/Grand Canyon National Park Recovery efforts at the 1956 crash site at Grand Canyon National Park. Two United Airlines helicopters wait at a TWA heliport. The site of a 1956 midair collision that killed 128 passengers, including a Camarillo woman and her infant son, is being nominated for national historic landmark ...

Pacers knock out Knicks with 106-99 win in Game 6

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:54:18 -0400

New York Knicks guard Raymond Felton, right, shoots under Indiana Pacers forward Paul George during the third quarter of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series in Indianapolis, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael ...

Internet in coma as Iran election looms

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:46:19 -0400

Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts ...

Winning numbers drawn in $590.5 million Powerball jackpot

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:44:43 -0400

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Lottery officials have announced winning numbers in a near-historic Powerball jackpot. The numbers drawn Saturday are: 22, 10, 13, 14, 52 and a Powerball of 11. Officials ...

The War in Chicago

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:32:42 -0400

Produced by Josh Yager, Doug Longhini, Josh Gaynor and Kathleen O'Connell When Hadiya Pendleton was shot in a Chicago park, she quickly became a symbol of the deadly street violence in the city. But nearly every day, someone is gunned down in Chicago, often the result of gangs fighting over territory to sell drugs. This past fall, "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher and CBS News ...

Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:20:52 -0400

Only 10 floors have been completed in what is intended to be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere ...

The Arrival of Human Cloning

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:06:07 -0400

The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other cell (in Dolly's case, a mammary gland cell, hence her naming after Dolly Parton). That nucleus is then inserted into an egg whose nucleus has been removed. The engineered egg is stimulated, and if ...

Astronauts cover of Space Oddity recorded 220 miles above Earth praised by David Bowie as so beautiful

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:55:20 -0400

The astronaut who became an internet sensation after covering one of David Bowie’s most popular songs has received the ultimate accolade – after the singer himself praised it as ‘so ...

Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans under renewed pressure as THIRD alleged victim claims he was sexually assaulted by Tory MP

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:55:17 -0400

Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, who was arrested earlier this month after claims that he raped one man and sexually assaulted another between 2009 and 2013, faces further allegations from a third ...

Can Al-Jazeera win hearts and minds in America

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:54:25 -0400

The pan-Arab news giant is laying the groundwork for the launch ofAl-Jazeera America after its purchase of Current TV, a struggling US ...

Fractured track to be analyzed