South Africa mourns Mandela, will bury him on December 15

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• South Africa mourns Mandela, will bury him on December 15
• U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether software can be patented
• 'Worst ice storm' in years wallops Texas, much of the Midwest
• Scientists to Congress: We can find alien life
• U.S. draw 'group of death' in World Cup: Germany, Ghana, Portugal
• Solid US job growth cuts unemployment to 7 pct.
• Obama's fixer-upper website races to catch up
• 'Ice Friday' bears down on Texas, much of Midwest
• Many flee in fear to C. African Republic airport
• Yemen: 6 dead in raids to catch ministry attackers
• Dylan's Newport guitar sells in NY for $965,000
• Defending champion Spain gets repeat of 2010 final
• Officials: Encouraging sign for 24 stranded whales
• 'Sound of Music' alive for 18.5 million viewers
• Dutch paper sorry for 'tasteless' Mandela article
• At halfway mark, Kerry's Mideast effort stumbles
• World Cup draw underway in Brazil
• World mourns Mandela, struggles to find the words
• Mandela, anti-apartheid icon, mourned world over
• In the name of wind energy, U.S. allows killing eagles
• Photographs: Shanghai pollution stops flights, forces health warning
• Unemployment rate hits five-year low, eyes on the Fed
• Aide of Kim's uncle seeks asylum in S. Korea: report
• Mandela, the man once branded a 'terrorist' by the US
• South Africa mourns Mandela, will bury him on December 15
• World reacts to death of Nelson Mandela
• Hillary or Biden? They’d both be great, Obama says

South Africa mourns Mandela, will bury him on December 15 Posted: 06 Dec 2013 09:48 AM PST Some worry that the nation was vulnerable again to racial and social tensions.

U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether software can be patented Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:13 AM PST The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide on a key software industry issue of which kinds of computer-related software are eligible for patent protection. The court said in a one-line order that it would hear a case brought by Alice Corporation Pty Ltd, which holds a patent for a computer system that facilitates financial transactions. The patent is challenged by CLS Bank International. The court took no action on another case raising the same issue involving a patent dispute between WildTangent Inc and Ultramercial Inc.

'Worst ice storm' in years wallops Texas, much of the Midwest Posted: 06 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST The National Weather Service has issued ice and winter storm warnings for 10 states. Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee have already declared states of emergency.

Scientists to Congress: We can find alien life Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:09 AM PST To find extraterrestrial life, be it microbes or intelligent life, scientists need telescopes capable of detecting Earth-like planets in Earth's neighborhood and ways to detect biological signatures of life or signs of alien technology. "This is the first time in human history we have the technological reach to find life on other planets," Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT, said at a House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing today. "Astrobiology has become a crosscutting theme of all NASA space science endeavors," and continued funding is important, said Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D., Texas). The Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets outside Earth's solar system, including 10 that are Earth-size and lie within their star's habitable zone.

U.S. draw 'group of death' in World Cup: Germany, Ghana, Portugal Posted:

Solid US job growth cuts unemployment to 7 pct. Posted: 06 Dec 2013 11:03 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market is proving surprisingly resilient.

Obama's fixer-upper website races to catch up Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:38 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — It looks like President Barack Obama's fickle health insurance website is finally starting to put up some respectable sign-up numbers, but its job only seems to have gotten harder.

'Ice Friday' bears down on Texas, much of Midwest Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:57 AM PST DALLAS (AP) — As snow and freezing rain blanketed normally sun-swept North Texas, residents accustomed to warmer temperatures appeared to heed warnings on what one hardware store manager called "Ice Friday," staying off nearly impassable roadways and out of the skin-stinging cold.

Many flee in fear to C. African Republic airport Posted: 06 Dec 2013 09:09 AM PST BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — At first, it was just a few people running from the men with machetes and guns. Then the trickle of fear that led straight to the airport swelled into a flood.

Yemen: 6 dead in raids to catch ministry attackers Posted: 06 Dec 2013 09:43 AM PST ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security forces launched a sweep in the capital to find the perpetrators of a deadly attack on the country's Defense Ministry, sparking clashes that left five suspected militants and one member of the special forces dead, officials said Friday.

Dylan's Newport guitar sells in NY for $965,000 Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:54 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — The guitar that Bob Dylan plugged in when he famously went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold at auction Friday for a record $965,000.

Defending champion Spain gets repeat of 2010 final Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:53 AM PST COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP) — Defending champion Spain will play its opening World Cup game against the Netherlands, a repeat of the ill-tempered 2010 final, while host Brazil faces a relatively easy path to the knockout stage after Friday's draw.

Officials: Encouraging sign for 24 stranded whales Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:23 AM PST EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. (AP) — Twenty-four whales believed to be part of a pod found stranded in the Everglades earlier this week could not been located by air Friday, a potentially encouraging sign they have moved farther offshore, wildlife officials said.

'Sound of Music' alive for 18.5 million viewers Posted: 06 Dec 2013 09:26 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — "The Sound of Music" has the sound of a hit for NBC.

Dutch paper sorry for 'tasteless' Mandela article Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:39 AM PST THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top-selling Dutch newspaper has apologized for a story on its website that linked the death of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela with a controversial black-face character in the traditional Dutch celebration of Sinterklaas.

At halfway mark, Kerry's Mideast effort stumbles Posted: 06 Dec 2013 07:50 AM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Halfway through an ambitious nine-month process aimed at forging Mideast peace, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, after another round of shuttle diplomacy, has little to show for his efforts.

World Cup draw underway in Brazil Posted: 06 Dec 2013 08:45 AM PST COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP) — The draw ceremony for the World Cup is underway in Brazil, opening with a tribute to Nelson Mandela.

World mourns Mandela, struggles to find the words Posted: 06 Dec 2013 08:29 AM PST For most of the world, his name is synonymous with courage and perseverance. Leaders and citizens, athletes and artists remembered Nelson Mandela on Friday — though many struggled to find words big enough to describe the man who changed the face of South Africa and inspired a continent and a world: a colossus, a father figure, a giant baobab tree providing shade for an entire nation.

Mandela, anti-apartheid icon, mourned world over Posted: 06 Dec 2013 04:07 AM PST Nelson Mandela inspired and challenged the world to stand up for others.

In the name of wind energy, U.S. allows killing eagles Posted: 06 Dec 2013 08:21 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Friday it will allow some companies to kill or injure bald and golden eagles for up to 30 years without penalty, an effort to spur development and investment in green energy while balancing its environmental consequences.

Photographs: Shanghai pollution stops flights, forces health warning Posted: 04 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST An electronic screen and buildings are seen amid heavy smog at the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai December 6, 2013. China's stability-obsessed leadership has become increasingly concerned by the abysmal air quality in cities, as it plays into popular resentment over political privilege and rising inequality in the world's second-largest economy. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT CITYSCAPE SOCIETY)

Unemployment rate hits five-year low, eyes on the Fed Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:49 AM PST The report, which showed broad gains in employment and a rise in hourly earnings, suggested strength in the economy heading into year-end. "It will add further confidence to the Fed of a reduced need for monetary stimulus in the U.S. economy. The unemployment rate dropped three tenths of a percentage point to its lowest level since November 2008 as some federal employees who were counted as jobless in October returned to work after a 16-day partial shutdown of the government. U.S. benchmark Treasury yields hit a three-month high as traders raised bets the Fed could reduce its bond purchases as early as its next meeting on December 17-18, though they later eased back.

Aide of Kim's uncle seeks asylum in S. Korea: report Posted: 06 Dec 2013 03:32 AM PST An aide of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's uncle is seeking asylum in South Korea after fleeing his country ahead of a leadership purge, a report said Friday. South Korean officials believe the escapee might have managed funds for Jang Song-Thaek, who until this week was regarded as Kim's political regent, said the South's cable news network YTN, citing intelligence sources. The report also said he may have information on secret funds controlled by the Kim family. The South's National Intelligence Service (NIS) told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that it believed Kim's uncle Jang had been removed and two associates executed.

Mandela, the man once branded a 'terrorist' by the US Posted: 06 Dec 2013 02:41 AM PST In 2008 just before his 90th birthday, the United States gave Nelson Mandela a special present, striking him from a decades-old terror watch list and ending what US officials called "a rather embarrassing matter." By then the anti-apartheid icon had long left behind the jail cells where he was incarcerated for 27 years, and was already enjoying retirement and his status as one of the most revered statesmen of the 20th century after becoming South Africa's first black president. On Thursday, when Mandela died at age 95, President Barack Obama hailed him as belonging "to the ages" and ordered that flags on US government buildings be flown at half-mast -- a rare tribute to a foreign leader. Yet decades ago many in America did not share in the adulation of Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC), which had been billed a terrorist organization by both South Africa and the United States.

South Africa mourns Mandela, will bury him on December 15 Posted: 06 Dec 2013 08:42 AM PST By Tosin Sulaiman and Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans united in mourning for Nelson Mandela on Friday, but while some celebrated his remarkable life with dance and song, others fretted that the anti-apartheid hero's death would make the nation vulnerable again to racial and social tensions. President Jacob Zuma said Mandela would be buried on December 15 at his ancestral home in the Eastern Cape. South Africans heard from Zuma late on Thursday that their first black president, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, had died peacefully at his Johannesburg home in the company of his family after a long illness. Zuma also announced Mandela would be honored at a December 10 memorial service at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium, the site of the 2010 World Cup final.

World reacts to death of Nelson Mandela Posted: 05 Dec 2013 10:00 PM PST A woman offers flowers outside the house of former President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg December 6, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died peacefully at home in Johannesburg at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection, leaving his nation and the world in mourning for a man revered as a moral giant. REUTERS/Mujahid Safodien (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: OBITUARY POLITICS SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Hillary or Biden? They’d both be great, Obama says Posted: 05 Dec 2013 05:51 PM PST There may come a day when President Barack Obama has to say whether he'd rather hand the keys to the White House to Vice President Joe Biden or former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. That day is not today.

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