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Passenger train derails in NYC; 4 dead, 63 injured

Passenger train derails in NYC; 4 dead, 63 injured


Passenger train derails in NYC; 4 dead, 63 injured

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 09:04 AM PST

Emergency workers examine the site of a Metro North train derailment in the Bronx borough of New YorkA Metro-North train bound for New York City derailed along the Hudson River early Sunday, officials said.


China launches its first ever lunar probe

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 10:47 AM PST

The Long March-3B rocket carrying the Chang'e-3 lunar probe blasts off from the launch pad at Xichang Satellite Launch CenterChina launched its first ever extraterrestrial landing craft into orbit en route for the moon in the small hours of Monday, in a major milestone for its space program. The Chang'e-3 lunar probe, which includes the Yutu or Jade Rabbit buggy, blasted off on board an enhanced Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's southwestern Sichuan province at 1:30 a.m. (12.30 p.m. EDT). President Xi Jinping has said he wants China to establish itself as a space superpower, and the mission has inspired widespread pride in China's growing technological prowess. If all goes smoothly, the rover will conduct geological surveys and search for natural resources after the probe touches down on the moon in mid-December as China's first spacecraft to make a soft landing beyond Earth.


Officials: Worst tech bugs over for Healthcare.gov

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 10:54 AM PST

This photo of part of the HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington, on Nov. 29, 2013. The beleaguered health insurance website has had periods of down times as as the government tries to fix the problems. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)WASHINGTON (AP) — The worst of the online glitches, crashes and delays may be over for the problem-plagued government health care website, the Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday.


Anti-gov't mass rally in Ukraine turns violent

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 11:19 AM PST

Protesters clash with police guarding the presidential administration building in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. More than 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center of Ukraine's capital. Police allowed the rally to proceed peacefully, but when a few thousand protesters tried to storm the nearby presidential administration building with a front loader, riot police used tear gas, truncheons and flash grenades to drive them back. Dozens of people with what appeared to be head injuries were taken away by ambulance.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A protest by about 300,000 Ukrainians angered by their government's decision to freeze integration with the West turned violent Sunday, when a group of demonstrators besieged the president's office and police drove them back with truncheons, tear gas and flash grenades. Dozens of people were injured.


UN in Iraq worried about uptick in bodies found

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 11:03 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, mourners chant slogans against sectarianism while carrying the coffin of Sunni Sheik Adnan Majeed al-Ghanem during his funeral in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The monthly death toll in Iraq dropped by nearly a third to 659 last month, the U.N. said Sunday, but a recent spike in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found on the street has raised fears the country is facing a return to all-out warfare between Sunni and Shiite factions. The Arabic on the coffin reads, "Al-Shati. There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger." (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — An alarming number of Iraqis killed "execution-style" last month signaled an increase in targeted killings as the overall death toll in Iraq so far this year rose above 8,000, the U.N. said Sunday. The bodies, usually dumped on the street and mutilated, have heightened fears that the country is sliding back toward all-out warfare between Sunni and Shiite factions.


Paul Walker, 'Fast & Furious' star, dies in crash

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 12:20 AM PST

File-This March 21, 2013 file photo shows actor Paul Walker wearing a creation from the Colcci summer collection at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A publicist for actor Walker says the star of the "Fast & Furious" movie series has died in a car crash north of Los Angeles. He was 40. Ame Van Iden says Walker died Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013. No further details were released. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fiery car crash north of Los Angeles has killed 40-year-old Paul Walker, the star of the "Fast & Furious" movie series, and one other person in the vehicle.


NTSB officials trying to reach Alaska crash site

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 10:50 AM PST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says it's working Sunday to get investigators to the scene of a plane crash in remote southwest Alaska that killed four people and injured six Friday night.

Family: American detained in NKorea in good health

Posted: 30 Nov 2013 11:42 PM PST

In this Nov. 9, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed Nov. 30, 2013 by the Korea News Service, U.S. citizen Merrill Newman, 85, applies his thumb print to a document which North Korean authorities say was an apology which Newman wrote and read in North Korea. Newman, an avid traveler and retired finance executive, was taken off a plane Oct. 26 by North Korean authorities while preparing to leave the country after a 10-day tour. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSIONSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The family of an elderly U.S. tourist detained for more than a month in North Korea said Saturday the Swedish ambassador has seen the man and found him to be in good health.


Iraq monthly toll drops; uptick in bodies found

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 08:56 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Monday, Oct. 18, 2004, Sunni cleric Sheik Khalid al-Jumeili, right, is welcomed by a friend in Fallujah, Iraq, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Police said gunmen shot dead Sunni cleric Khalid al-Jumeili, an organizer of the western city's Sunni protest camp, in a drive-by shooting. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — The monthly death toll in Iraq dropped by nearly a third to 659 last month, the U.N. said Sunday, but a recent spike in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found on the street has raised fears the country is facing a return to all-out warfare between Sunni and Shiite factions.


Woman hurt in Alaska plane crash aids in rescue

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 01:45 AM PST

Map locates Saint Mary’s in Alaska, where a small plane crashed, killing four.; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm;ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After phoning for help in resuscitating her baby, a 25-year-old woman on a plane that crashed in remote southwest Alaska led searchers hampered by cold and fog to the crash site.


Davis' return lifts Auburn past Bama, 34-28

Posted: 30 Nov 2013 07:52 PM PST

Auburn cornerback Chris Davis (11) returns a missed field goal attempt 100-plus yards to score the game-winning touchdown as time expired in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game against No. 1 Alabama in Auburn, Ala., Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013. Auburn won 34-28. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — That crazy tipped pass for a long game-winning touchdown is now the second-most stunning and improbable play of Auburn's wild season.


Officials: Healthcare.gov making strides

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 06:05 AM PST

This photo of part of the HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington, on Nov. 29, 2013. The beleaguered health insurance website has had periods of down times as as the government tries to fix the problems. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)WASHINGTON (AP) — Visitors to the government's health care website encounter fewer errors and the system now works most of the time, administration officials said Sunday in a progress report.


Thai protest leader says he met PM, will fight on

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 07:28 AM PST

BANGKOK (AP) — The leader of Thailand's anti-government protests said late Sunday he has had a face-to-face talk with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, but that he refused to back down from his movement's demand that her administration step down in favor of an appointed council.

3 in intensive care after Glasgow helicopter crash

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 06:24 AM PST

Scottish Fire and Rescue services look on at a section of the helicopter being lifted from the scene Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, following the helicopter crash at the Clutha Bar in Glasgow, Scotland. Scottish emergency workers were sifting through wreckage Saturday for survivors of a police helicopter crash onto a crowded Glasgow pub that has killed at least eight people and injured more than two dozen. The Clutha pub, near the banks of the River Clyde, was packed Friday night and a ska band was in full swing when the chopper slammed through the roof. The number of fatalities is expected to rise, officials said. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)LONDON (AP) — Scottish officials say there may be more fatalities from the deadly helicopter crash in Glasgow. Eight deaths have been confirmed so far.


FDNY: 'Multiple injuries' in NYC train derailment

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 06:43 AM PST

Cars from a Metro-North passenger train are scattered after the train derailed in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. The Fire Department of New York says there are "multiple injuries" in the train derailment, and 130 firefighters are on the scene. Metropolitan Transportation Authority police say the train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station. (AP Photo/Edwin Valero)NEW YORK (AP) — A Metro-North passenger train derailed on a curved section of track in the Bronx on Sunday morning, throwing frightened passengers out of their seats and causing "multiple injuries," authorities said.


Police battle Bangkok protesters as crisis deepens

Posted: 01 Dec 2013 05:59 AM PST

An anti-government protester throws back a tear gas canister fired by riot police in Bangkok, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas at anti-government mobs trying to force their way into the prime minister's office complex and Bangkok's police headquarters on Sunday, deepening Thailand's political crisis and raising fears of prolonged instability in one of Southeast Asia's biggest economies.(AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand fought off mobs of rock-throwing protesters armed with petrol bombs who tried to battle their way into the government's heavily-fortified headquarters Sunday, as gunshots rang out in Bangkok and the prime minister fled a police complex during the sharpest escalation yet of the country's latest crisis.


Live blog: Metro North train derailment

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Commuter train derailed Sunday morning in Bronx area; injuries reported.


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