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Ferry sinks in collision in Philippines; 17 dead

Ferry sinks in collision in Philippines; 17 dead


Ferry sinks in collision in Philippines; 17 dead

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:16 AM PDT

MV Thomas AquinasHundreds of passengers jumped into the ocean after it collided with a cargo ship and sank.


RNC votes to block CNN, NBC from hosting debates

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 08:38 AM PDT

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus gavels the opening of the second session of the 2012 Republican National Convention in TampaBOSTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee has approved a resolution to block two television networks from hosting GOP presidential primary debates.


GM recalls nearly 293,000 Cruzes for brake problem

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Ed's Driveway: 2014 Chevy Cruze Turbo DieselGeneral Motors is recalling nearly 293,000 Chevrolet Cruze compact cars in the U.S. because the power-assisted brakes can fail. The company says the recall affects Cruzes made in Lordstown, Ohio, from ...


Hezbollah chief: Sunni extremists behind attacks

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 09:44 AM PDT

Hezbollah supporters raise their hands to great Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who delivers a speech through a giant TV screen from a secret location, during a rally marking the seventh anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, at the southern Lebanese-Israel border village of Aita, Lebanon, Friday Aug. 16, 2013. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says all preliminary investigations show Takfiri groups, a term for Sunni radicals, were likely behind Thursday's bombing in a predominantly Shiite southern suburb of Beirut that killed tens of people and wounded hundreds. The Arabic words on the left and right read:"Our decision is resistance." (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah on Friday blamed Sunni extremists for a string of attacks targeting the group's strongholds over the past few months, including a car bombing that killed 22 people and wounded more than 300 a day earlier.


Students return to school in Okla. after tornado

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:53 AM PDT

Cam'ron Richardson, right, hugs his little brother Anthony Richardson, left, as he heads in for the first day of school at Plaza Towers Elementary school in their temporary location at Central Jr. High school in Moore, Okla., Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. The Briarwood and Plaza Towers elementary schools were destroyed when an EF5 twister hit Moore on May 20. Cam'ron was trapped under the rubble of the tornado that killed two dozen people. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Students from two elementary schools destroyed by a tornado last spring returned to classes Friday, eager to reunite with their classmates but worried about what would happen the next time bad weather sweeps in.


Somalia polio outbreak spreads; 105 recorded cases

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 09:55 AM PDT

FILE-- In this Wednesday April 24, 2013 file photo a Somali baby receives a polio vaccine, at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. The U.N.'s humanitarian affairs office says a polio outbreak in Somalia is spreading. The U.N. said Friday Aug. 16, 2013, that Somalia has 105 confirmed cases of polio, with another 10 cases confirmed in neighbouring Kenya. Health officials are responding with vaccination campaigns that have reached 4 million people since the outbreak began in May, but those health officials cannot access about 600,000 children who live in areas of Somalia controlled by the al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)-FileNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia is suffering an "explosive" outbreak of polio and now has more cases than the rest of the world combined, an official said Friday.


California teen welcomed home after kidnapping

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 2011 file photo provided by Andrea Saincome, Hannah Anderson, center, reclining across the laps of others, and James Lee DiMaggio, right, pose for a picture with other members of the extended Anderson and Saincome families. Via a social media site, Hannah Anderson says longtime family friend DiMaggio LAKESIDE, Calif. (AP) — A 16-year-old girl got a warm welcome home reception five days after FBI agents killed a longtime family friend suspected of torturing and killing her mother and brother and escaping with her to the Idaho wilderness.


Pistorius to be indicted, trial in early 2014

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 file photo Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa. South Africa's police commissioner office said Tuesday Aug. 13, 2013 that Oscar Pistorius will be served with an indictment next week after police completed an investigation into the shooting death of his girlfriend. On Monday August 19, the accused,Oscar Pistorius, will appear on court in Pretroia. It is expected that he will be served with an indictment and that the matter will be postponed. The prosecution, in collaboration with the defence team, will agree on a trial date. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe-file)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius will be indicted for premeditated murder on Monday and the double-amputee Olympian will go on trial in early 2014, about a year after shooting dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.


Legal tussle erupts over bones of Richard III

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 08:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo dated April 2, 2013 shows a of a view of the skeleton of England's King Richard III . A British High Court judge on Friday Aug. 16, 2013 granted a group of Richard's relatives the right to challenge plans to rebury the 15th-century monarch in the city of Leicester, where his remains were found last year. Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said the Plantagenet Alliance could take action against the government and the University of Leicester. A hearing is due later this year. The government has given Leicester Cathedral a license to rebury the king, but the relatives' group wants him buried in the northern England city of York, claiming it was the king's wish. Richard was killed in battle in 1485. His skeleton was found last year under a Leicester parking lot.(AP Photo/Rui Vieira/PA, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUTLONDON (AP) — He's been deposed, reviled, buried and dug up, and now a new battle looms over England's King Richard III.


At least 37 killed across country in Egypt clashes

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 10:17 AM PDT

Egyptians lay on the ground after being injured during clashes between security forces and supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Ramses Square, near the Al-Fath mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Gunfire rang out over a main Cairo overpass and police fired tear gas as clashes broke out after tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday across Egypt in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency following the country's bloodshed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Heavy gunfire rang out Friday throughout Cairo as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with armed vigilantes in the fiercest street battles to engulf the capital since the country's Arab Spring uprising. At least 37 people were killed in the fighting nationwide, including police officers.


Report: A-Rod camp leaked docs implicating Braun

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 07:51 AM PDT

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez reacts after flying out to center field with Alfonso Soriano on second during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)NEW YORK (AP) — Members of Alex Rodriguez's inner circle obtained and leaked documents that implicated Ryan Braun and other players in using performance-enhancing drugs, "60 Minutes" reported Friday.


Ferry sinks after collision in Philippines; 5 dead

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 09:10 AM PDT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A ferry with nearly 700 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Friday night after colliding with a cargo vessel, killing at least five people. Hundreds of others were rescued.

Isinbayeva says she may have been 'misunderstood'

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 07:55 AM PDT

Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva, the gold medalist in the women's pole vault, gestures during a press conference at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — A day after her condemnation of homosexuality, Russian pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva said her comments in English may have been "misunderstood."


At least 17 killed across country in Egypt clashes

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 07:32 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi carry a coffin, covered with national flag, of their colleague who was killed during Wednesday' clashes, in Amr Ibn Al-As mosque before funeral prayers in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Gunfire rang out over a main Cairo overpass and police fired tear gas as clashes broke out after tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday across Egypt in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency following the country's bloodshed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Heavy gunfire rang out in the heart of Cairo as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters took to the streets Friday across Egypt in defiance of a military-imposed state of emergency following the country's bloodshed earlier this week. At least 17 people were killed in the fighting, including police officers.


Ferry sinks after collision in Philippine port

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 08:37 AM PDT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A ferry with nearly 700 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Friday night after colliding with a cargo vessel, and a survivor said he saw bodies in the sea.

Strong quake shakes central New Zealand

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:49 PM PDT

A car drives past a crack in a road after an earthquake on the outskirts of the town of Seddon in the Marlborough regionA magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck south of New Zealand's capital on Friday.


Staff Sgt. Reckless, history's real war horse

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 04:16 AM PDT

The Real War Horse: The Life and Legend of the Marine Corps' 4-Legged Staff SergeantOn the Radar In many ways, Staff Sgt. Reckless was no different from the Marines she served beside during the Korean War. She braved enemy fire on many occasions, enjoyed scrambled eggs and coffee for breakfast, and her favorite pastime was drinking beer with comrades. Except Reckless was a horse. Reckless has long been considered [...]


Grizzly bear injures 2 hikers in Yellowstone

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 07:45 AM PDT

Wolves in Yellowstone Help Grizzly Bears Fatten UpYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The National Park Service says a grizzly bear charged a group of hikers in Yellowstone National Park, leaving two people injured, including one person who suffered bite and claw wounds.


'Blade Runner' Pistorius will face murder trial next year

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 06:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 file photo Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa. South Africa's police commissioner office said Tuesday Aug. 13, 2013 that Oscar Pistorius will be served with an indictment next week after police completed an investigation into the shooting death of his girlfriend. On Monday August 19, the accused,Oscar Pistorius, will appear on court in Pretroia. It is expected that he will be served with an indictment and that the matter will be postponed. The prosecution, in collaboration with the defence team, will agree on a trial date. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe-file)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius will be indicted for premeditated murder on Monday and the double-amputee Olympian will go on trial in early 2014, about a year after shooting dead his girlfriend, prosecutors said.


Three die in Uganda from Ebola-like fever: Health Ministry

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:29 AM PDT

An isolation unit to care for impeding victims, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at Nyimbwa Sub County Health Centre IV, 60 kilometers (40 miles) from the Uganda capital of Kampala. Scores of Ugandans were isolated on Thursday to prevent the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola which has already killed three people. Uganda has experienced increasingly regular outbreaks of deadly hemorrhagic fevers that have left health officials grappling for answers. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie)KAMPALA (Reuters) - Three people have died in northern Uganda from a suspected outbreak of a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, the Health Ministry said on Friday. A male farmer is still being treated for a confirmed case of Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and the three other deaths are being investigated, junior health minister Elioda Tumwesigye told a news conference. ...


Report: NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:01 PM PDT

General view of large former monitoring base of US intelligence organization NSA is pictured during sunrise in Bad AiblingWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since 2008, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing an internal audit and other top-secret documents. Most of the infractions involved unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order, the paper said. They ranged from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. ...


Egypt: 'Day of Rage'

Posted: 16 Aug 2013 11:21 AM PDT

A general view of the Rabaa Adawiya mosque complex after the clearing of a protest camp around the mosque, in CairoThousands of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi took to the streets.


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