| Learning to fly without leaving the ground Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:53 AM PDT  Graduates from one major flight school aim to take control of drones.
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| Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centers Posted: 30 Oct 2013 10:53 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washington Post reported, citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
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| Sebelius: No one indicated healthcare rollout could 'go this wrong' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:54 AM PDT  Health and Human Service secretary takes responsibility of Obamacare website troubles.
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| Scientists 'watch' dinosaur take its first steps in 94 million years Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:14 AM PDT  The Argentinosaurus is one of the largest known dinosaurs, but scientists were unsure how exactly the massive creature plodded across the Cretaceous Earth, until now. Using sophisticated computer models, researchers have digitally reconstructed the Argentinosaurus, enabling them to "watch" the dinosaur take its first steps in over 94 million years. A team of researchers led by Bill Sellers, a professor of computational and evolutionary biology at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, used lasers to scan a 131-foot-long (40 meters) skeleton of the Argentinosaurus huinculensis. The scientists then created advanced computer models to digitally recreate how the dinosaur walked and ran.
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| Saudi police hold writer who opposed ban on women driving Posted: 30 Oct 2013 08:50 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi authorities have detained a columnist who supported ending his country's ban on women driving, activists said Wednesday.
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| Murdoch editors Brooks and Coulson oversaw phone hacking: court Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:52 AM PDT  Rupert Murdoch's former editor Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-media chief, oversaw a system of phone-hacking and illegal payments to officials when they ran the now defunct News of the World, a London court heard on Wednesday. Prosecutor Andrew Edis told the Old Bailey that Brooks and Coulson were in charge at the Sunday tabloid or its daily sister paper the Sun when the illegal behavior was alleged to have taken place. Edis said both had sanctioned illegal payments to be made to public officials, including one by Brooks for nearly 40,000 pounds ($64,000) to a senior Ministry of Defence official.
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| U.N.: 7.3 million teen births in developing world Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:29 AM PDT  Teen pregnancies in the developing world are declining, but more than 7 million girls under the age of 18 are still giving birth each year, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday. The ...
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| With just hours to spare, Virginia woman cashes $100K lottery ticket Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:25 AM PDT  With just hours before a deadline on a $100,000 lottery ticket was about to expire, a Virginia woman made a very profitable discovery.
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| Obama to cite Mass. health care law's slow start Posted: 30 Oct 2013 08:09 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is citing the Massachusetts health care system's slow start to keep expectations low for early sign-ups for his own overhaul. And he's pointing to the bipartisan effort to get the program launched in Massachusetts to encourage his opponents to stop rooting for his law's failure.
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| Senior Muslim Brotherhood leader arrested in Egypt Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:49 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces arrested a key Muslim Brotherhood figure in a raid early Wednesday morning, a man on the run since the July coup that toppled the country's Islamist president, the Interior Ministry said.
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| Spying tests trust between Obama, Merkel Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:57 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama visited Berlin in June, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a point of showing him a balcony in her office overlooking train tracks that crossed the border of her once-divided country — a symbol of her upbringing on the east side of the divide, where eavesdropping by secret police was rampant during the Cold War.
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| AP PHOTOS: Military ever-present in Israeli life Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:53 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — In its 65 years, Israel's military has fought a half-dozen wars, carried out countless operations at home and abroad and faced waves of suicide bombings and rocket attacks in its major cities.
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| More study urged on concussions in young athletes Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:36 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just a risk in football.
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| Uighurs facing new police scrutiny in Beijing Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:57 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — In a dusty outdoor curio market in China's capital, traders from the minority Uighur community gathered Wednesday to swap stories about the omnipresent harassment they say they suffer at the hands of the police. That scrutiny has only intensified after this week's deadly vehicle attack at Tiananmen Square in which Uighurs are the prime suspects.
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| Search for dark matter comes up empty so far Posted: 30 Oct 2013 10:08 AM PDT  LEAD, S.D. (AP) — Nearly a mile underground in an abandoned gold mine, one of the most important quests in physics has come up empty-handed in the search for the elusive substance known as dark matter, scientists announced Wednesday.
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| Norway town sees winter sun for 1st time Posted: 30 Oct 2013 11:01 AM PDT  STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Residents of the small Norwegian town of Rjukan have finally seen the light.
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| Police say 5 arrested in Tiananmen Gate attack Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:15 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Police announced Wednesday the arrests of five people in connection with this week's suicide car crash in the heart of China's capital, calling it a planned terror attack — Beijing's first in recent history — and identifying the attackers as members of a Muslim minority.
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| Sebelius on website breakdown: 'I am responsible' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:14 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending President Barack Obama's much-maligned health care law in Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was confronted Wednesday with a government memo that raised security concerns about the website consumers are using to enroll. |
| 6 people dead in SC in apparent domestic dispute Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:23 AM PDT  GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (AP) — Police found the bodies of six people ranging in age from 9 to the early 50s when they responded to a call from a man who said he was thinking about hurting himself.
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| Social Security benefits to go up by 1.5 percent Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:51 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security benefits for nearly 58 million people will increase by 1.5 percent next year, the government announced Wednesday.
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| NYC Police Commissioner Kelly booed offstage over 'stop-and-frisk' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 05:22 AM PDT  Top cop's lecture was halted on Tuesday after audience members disrupted the talk in protest of his controversial "stop and frisk" policy.
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| Will U.S. stop spying on allies? Not likely Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:49 AM PDT  It all depends on if the spymasters really want change—and your definition of "friend."
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| Russia denies Italian reports it spied on G20 leaders Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:56 AM PDT  ROME/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has denied reports that its intelligence services spied on hundreds of foreign delegates at a Group of 20 summit in St Petersburg in September using gifts such as teddy bears, diaries and free USB keys. Quoting a report from the European Council's security office to Italian intelligence services, Italy's Corriere della Sera daily has reported this week that at least 300 such devices were issued at the September 5-6 summit and were revealed to be spy gear during security debriefing sessions last month. The report fuels controversy over international espionage after reports that U.S. intelligence services had conducted telephone surveillance of allied countries and leaders. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he did not know what the source of the latest allegations was.
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| China police hold five over Tiananmen 'terror attack' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 09:50 AM PDT  Chinese authorities capture suspects in a fatal car crash on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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| Sebelius apologizes for health law 'debacle' Posted: 30 Oct 2013 07:31 AM PDT The president's top health care official takes responsibility for web site problems. |
| Intel chief: Spying on allies is two-way street Posted: 30 Oct 2013 12:17 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nations spying on each other's leaders is a two-way street and a longtime practice in the intelligence world, according to the U.S. intelligence chief. But a surveillance sweep on phone records overseas that has prompted an anti-American backlash was carried out by European governments, not the U.S., another intelligence official said.
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| Live: Sebelius takes responsibility for Obamacare site trouble Posted: 30 Oct 2013 10:57 AM PDT  "Hold me accountable for the debacle," says the U.S. health secretary.
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| Live: Sebelius apologizes for health law rollout fiasco Posted: 30 Oct 2013 06:39 AM PDT  The Health and Human Services Secretary says she's sorry consumers have wasted time.
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