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Obama: U.S., China sailing 'uncharted' cyberwaters

Obama: U.S., China sailing 'uncharted' cyberwaters


Obama: U.S., China sailing 'uncharted' cyberwaters

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:36 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, right, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands Friday, June 7, 2013, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Seeking a fresh start to a complex relationship, the leaders are retreating to a sprawling desert estate for two days of talks on high-stakes issues, including cybersecurity and North Korea's nuclear threats. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)The United States and China are in "uncharted waters" as they tackle the contentious issue of cybersecurity, President Barack Obama said following the opening round of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit in the California desert.


Floods in central Europe continue to create havoc

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:15 AM PDT

Inhabitants carry belongings through the floods of river Elbe in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, Saturday June 8, 2013. German news agency dpa said people in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt were anxiously awaiting the crest of the Elbe river on Saturday, while residents further upstream were starting to clean up the debris that was left along the river. In Magdeburg, authorities evacuated a nursing home and turned off electricity in several parts of the city. High water levels were also reported from Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, while thousands of people in Austria were busy shoveling away the mud left by the receding floodwaters of the Danube. (AP Photo/dpa,Jens Buettner)More than 80,000 emergency personnel including firefighters and soldiers were on duty Saturday, working aggressively to contain the most dramatic floods in Germany in a decade.


South Africa: Mandela taken to hospital

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 04:49 AM PDT

FILE - In this file image taken from video, the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, more than three weeks after being released from hospital. The office of South Africa's president said Saturday, June 8, 2013 that Mandela has been taken to a hospital because of a lung infection. (AP Photo/SABC TV) SOUTH AFRICA OUTFormer South African President Nelson Mandela was taken to a hospital Saturday to be treated for a recurrence of a lung infection and is in "serious but stable" condition, the president's office said.


Insider attack kills 3 U.S. troops in Afghanistan

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 05:30 AM PDT

A waiting game in AfghanistanA man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on the American troops working with him in the country's east on Saturday, killing three of them, while an attacker with a grenade killed an Italian soldier in the west, officials said.


NSA revelations force question: What do we want?

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:48 AM PDT

File- In this Tuesday, March 30, 2010, file photo, two ceiling-mounted video surveillance cameras are seen as a man awaits the arrival of a No. 1 subway train at the 34th Street station, in New York. In a 2011 poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 54 percent of those surveyed felt protecting citizens' rights and freedoms should be a higher priority for the government than keeping people safe from terrorists. At the same time, 64 percent said it was sometimes necessary to sacrifice some rights and freedoms to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone — government, business or both — might be watching.


South Africa: Mandela has lung infection

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this file image taken from video, the ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Madela is filmed Monday April 29, 2013, more than three weeks after being released from hospital. The office of South Africa's president said Saturday, June 8, 2013 that Mandela has been taken to a hospital because of a lung infection. (AP Photo/SABC TV) SOUTH AFRICA OUTJOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans on Saturday said their thoughts were with former President Nelson Mandela, who was in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a recurring lung infection.


5 dead, 5 injured after Calif. shooting rampage

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:22 AM PDT

A firefighter walks past a car with bullet holes across a home that caught fire in Santa Monica, Calif. Friday, June 7, 2013. Two people were found dead Friday in a burned home near the school, where someone sprayed a street corner with gunfire, wounding at least three people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — The gunman, dressed all in black and carrying a semi-automatic rifle, walked calmly through the Santa Monica College campus after killing his father, brother at their home and another man near the school, authorities said. He would kill a woman outside the library moments later, before dying from police gunfire.


FBI: Wife tried to frame husband for ricin letters

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 12:23 AM PDT

In this undated photo, actress Shannon Richardson poses for a photo, in Texarkana, Texas. Richardson made an initial appearance in a Texarkana, Texas, courtroom Friday, June 7, 2013, after being charged with mailing a threatening communication to the president. She could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, U.S. attorney's office spokeswoman Davilyn Walston said. (AP Photo/Texarkana Gazette)TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Shannon Richardson had been married to her husband less than two years when she went to authorities and told them her suspicions: He was the one who had mailed ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg threatening violence against gun-control advocates.


Newark Mayor Booker formally joins NJ Senate race

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:54 AM PDT

FILE - This May 19, 2013. file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker delivers the main address during Class Day for Yale seniors at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. A member of Newark Mayor Cory Booker's campaign staff says Booker is planning to enter the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Frank Lautenberg. The staff member says Booker plans to announce his entry into the race Saturday, June 8, 2013. . He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the plans ahead of the official announcement. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Saturday formally announced he's in the race to finish the U.S. Senate term of the late Frank Lautenberg.


AP PHOTOS: Swedish princess weds NY banker

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:14 AM PDT

Sweden's Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill kiss outside the Royal Chapel after their wedding ceremony in Stockholm, Saturday June 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Bjorn Larsson Rosvall) SWEDEN OUTThe youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia's has married her American-British banker fiance in a lavish ceremony in Stockholm.


AEG exec, lawyer spar in Jackson trial's 6th week

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 2, 2009 file photo, AEG CEO Randy Phillips speaks to members of the media in Los Angeles. Phillips told jurors hearing a negligent hiring lawsuit filed against him and his company by Jackson's mother that he did not believe the company was responsible for the King of Pop's death and that he believed the case was a shakedown by the Jackson family during testimony on Tuesday June 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:


Triple or not, 5 things to watch for in Belmont

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 06:24 AM PDT

Exercise rider Jennifer Patterson takes Orb for a gallop on the track at Belmont Park, Friday, June 7, 2013 in Elmont, N.Y. Orb is entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes horse race. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK (AP) — A large field of 3-year-olds is set to run in the $1 million Belmont Stakes on Saturday. Among the competitors are Kentucky Derby winner Orb, Preakness winner Oxbow and a record five horses trained by Todd Pletcher, including Unlimited Budget with Rosie Napravnik attempting to become the second female jockey to win a Triple Crown race.


2 Koreas to talk in border village after tensions

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:27 AM PDT

An elementary school student looks at North Korea through binoculars at the Imjingak Pavilion near near the border village of the Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Friday, June 7, 2013. North Korea on Friday proposed working-level talks with South Korea to be held in a border city, Kaesong, on Sunday as the rivals look to mend ties that have plunged during recent years amid hardline stances by both countries. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea will meet in a village straddling their heavily armed border Sunday for the first government-level talks on the peninsula in more than two years as they try to lower tension and restore stalled projects that once symbolized their rapprochement.


McQuaid's goal sends Bruins to Stanley Cup finals

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 12:17 AM PDT

William and Patricia Campbell, parents of Krystle Campbell, who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombings, wave a "Boston Strong" banner before Game 4 in the Eastern Conference finals of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins, in Boston on Friday, June 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)BOSTON (AP) — Tuukka Rask knew how potent the Penguins offense was. He also knew he could shut them out.


Ohio man in missing women case faces 329 charges

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 12:23 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Cuyahoga County Jail shows Ariel Castro. Castro, accused of holding three women captive in his home for a decade, has been indicted Friday, June 7, 2013, on 329 charges including kidnapping and rape, prosecutors said. The grand jury charged the former school bus driver with one count of aggravated murder, saying he purposely caused the unlawful termination of a pregnancy. (AP Photo/Cuyahoga County Jail, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of holding three women captive for about a decade in his Cleveland home — sometimes restraining them in chains — has been indicted by a grand jury on 329 charges, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping, prosecutors said.


Sweden's royal wedding at a glance

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:50 AM PDT

Sweden's Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill kiss outside the Royal Chapel after their wedding ceremony in Stockholm, Saturday June 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Bjorn Larsson Rosvall) SWEDEN OUTSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's Princess Madeleine married New York banker Christopher O'Neill in a grand ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. Here's a look at key facts about the couple and the wedding.


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