World pays tribute as "improving" Mandela turns 95

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• World pays tribute as "improving" Mandela turns 95
• Demolition company mistakenly razes wrong home
• Jerry Sandusky son files request to change name
• Mandela Day celebrations around the world
• Yahoo! readers offer reflections, appreciations of 'Madiba'
• Exclusive: Mandela's 95th in photos
• Perry signs sweeping Texas abortion restrictions
• Italy: convicted ex-CIA chief detained in Panama
• South Africa celebrates Mandela's 95th birthday
• Pakistan to try to mend fences with Afghanistan
• UK investigators: Disable locator beacon on 787s
• Dell delays vote on buyout, sign it lacks support
• Russian opposition leader sentenced to 5 years
• Artists celebrate Mandela with paintings
• Online series 'House of Cards' makes Emmy history
• Mandela 'steadily improving' on 95th birthday
• Cooks recount horror of Indian school lunch deaths
• Gov. Perry signs sweeping abortion restrictions
• Prosecutors ask to free Russian opposition leader

World pays tribute as "improving" Mandela turns 95 Posted: 18 Jul 2013 05:01 AM PDT Thousands of South Africans sing "Happy Birthday" to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Demolition company mistakenly razes wrong home Posted: 18 Jul 2013 09:28 AM PDT FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A demolition company has mistakenly torn down a three-bedroom home in North Texas rather than the condemned building next door.

Jerry Sandusky son files request to change name Posted: 18 Jul 2013 08:57 AM PDT An adopted son of disgraced former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has filed papers to have his name and the names of his family changed. Matt Sandusky, one of Jerry Sandusky's six adopted children, filed a formal name change request in Centre County Court in Bellefonte, Pa., on Tuesday, a little over a [...]

Mandela Day celebrations around the world Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:33 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The world is celebrating Nelson Mandela Day with acts of community service and messages of goodwill to the former South African president who remains hospitalized on his 95th birthday. Here are some of the international events:

Yahoo! readers offer reflections, appreciations of 'Madiba' Posted: 18 Jul 2013 04:39 AM PDT Nelson Mandela turns 95 on Thursday. Yahoo asked readers and Mandela admirers to offer reflections, appreciations and birthday wishes — each in 95 words or fewer. Here are several we received this week.

Exclusive: Mandela's 95th in photos Posted: 18 Jul 2013 06:40 AM PDT A birthday cake waits to be cut and served at the ANC tree planted ceremony at Thokoza Park in Soweto Township. The ANC hosted a tree planting ceremony at Thokoza Park in Soweto Township for Mandela Day on July 18, 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The South African presidency has said that Mandela's health is 'steadily improving', as the anti-apartheid icon spends his 95th birthday in hospital.  Photo: Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images for Yahoo! News

Perry signs sweeping Texas abortion restrictions Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:41 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed sweeping new abortion restrictions on Thursday that could shutter most of the state's clinics that provide the procedure, a final step for the Republican-backed measure after weeks of sometimes raucous protests at the state Capitol.

Italy: convicted ex-CIA chief detained in Panama Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:25 AM PDT ROME (AP) — The Italian justice ministry says a former CIA station chief who was convicted in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a street of Milan has been detained in Panama.

South Africa celebrates Mandela's 95th birthday Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:56 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hospital visitors say Nelson Mandela smiled and nodded Thursday — his 95th birthday — and South Africans celebrated upbeat reports about the former president's health after weeks of worrying that he was on the verge of death.

Pakistan to try to mend fences with Afghanistan Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:39 AM PDT ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan is sending a top official to the Afghan capital this weekend to try to mend fences with its uneasy neighbor, and hanging in the balance are U.S. efforts to arrange peace talks with the Taliban.

UK investigators: Disable locator beacon on 787s Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:25 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — U.K. air accident investigators recommended Thursday that aviation authorities temporarily disable a Honeywell emergency transmitter on all Boeing 787 Dreamliners following a fire last week at London's Heathrow Airport.

Dell delays vote on buyout, sign it lacks support Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:40 AM PDT ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Dell has delayed Thursday's vote on founder Michael Dell's plan to take the slumping computer maker private in a sign the board needs more time to rally support.

Russian opposition leader sentenced to 5 years Posted: 18 Jul 2013 09:54 AM PDT KIROV, Russia (AP) — Russian opposition leader and Moscow mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny was convicted of embezzlement Thursday and sentenced to five years in prison, a harsh ruling his supporters called an obvious attempt to shut down a foe of President Vladimir Putin and intimidate other opposition activists.

Artists celebrate Mandela with paintings Posted: 18 Jul 2013 09:35 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — With giant portraits of Nelson Mandela and colorful posters, South African artists are celebrating the 95th birthday Thursday of the anti-apartheid leader, who remains hospitalized although his condition has improved.

Online series 'House of Cards' makes Emmy history Posted: 18 Jul 2013 09:49 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix's "House of Cards" made Emmy history Thursday with a top drama series nomination, the first time that television's leading awards have recognized a program delivered online as equal in quality to the best that TV has to offer.

Mandela 'steadily improving' on 95th birthday Posted: 18 Jul 2013 05:11 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa celebrated Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday with acts of charity on Thursday, a milestone capped by news that the former president's health was improving after fears that he was close to death during ongoing hospital treatment.

Cooks recount horror of Indian school lunch deaths Posted: 18 Jul 2013 09:45 AM PDT PATNA, India (AP) — Soon after they served the daily free lunch they had prepared for dozens of children at a rural Indian school, the two cooks realized something was very wrong. The students started fainting. Within hours, they began dying.

Gov. Perry signs sweeping abortion restrictions Posted: 18 Jul 2013 08:11 AM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed sweeping new abortion restrictions on Thursday that could shutter most of the clinics in the state.

Prosecutors ask to free Russian opposition leader Posted: 18 Jul 2013 09:29 AM PDT KIROV, Russia (AP) — Russian prosecutors says they have asked that opposition leader Alexei Navalny be freed pending appeal after he was sentenced to five years in prison on embezzlement charges, a decision the West criticized as politically driven.

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