| A last refuge for species under siege Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:38 AM PDT  Chinese ivory demand decimates elephants, but Botswana hosts tens of thousands.
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| McDonnell trial: No affair, star witness says Posted: 04 Aug 2014 10:26 AM PDT  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The prosecution's star witness in the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has testified that he never had any intimate physical contact with McDonnell's wife.
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| Man who lost both hands plays piano again Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:28 AM PDT A Massachusetts man who was the recipient of a double hand transplant is making incredible progress in his recovery from his 2011 surgery. How incredible? He's playing grand piano again. |
| Say Grace at this restaurant and get 15 percent discount Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:38 AM PDT  Mary's Gourmet Diner has an official policy of giving diners a special savings if they "pray publicly" before chowing down. In the South, a number of steakhouses deduct from the bill if a customer finishes the entree, according to the restaurant trivia site, Restoran.
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| Saudi Arabia beheads Nepalese maid for toddler's murder Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:07 AM PDT  Saudi authorities on Monday beheaded a Nepalese housemaid convicted of murdering a two-year-old boy by slitting his throat, the interior ministry said. The maid was found guilty of "slaughtering with a knife" the Saudi toddler Osama bin Maeed al-Enzi, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. The ministry said the maid was executed in the northern city of Arar without providing further details of the crime. In a second execution on Monday, Saudi national Hamad al-Ahmadi was decapitated in the holy western city of Medina for stabbing his wife to death while she was asleep, another ministry statement said.
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| Climbing airfares outpace U.S. inflation Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:09 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Travelers, prepare to pay more for your flight.
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| UK fears one of its own dead in Gaza Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:48 AM PDT  "We are aware of the reports of the death of a British national in Rafah," UK Foreign Office said.
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| 6-year-old's disappearance confounds Wa. state parents, police Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:15 AM PDT  BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Kitsap County sheriff's deputies are searching for a missing 6-year-old girl who was last seen Saturday night when she went to bed at the family home in east Bremerton.
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| Va. family of 5 victims of murder-suicide, detective says Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:15 AM PDT  CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — A family of five, including three children, was found shot to death inside their home in a quiet area of north-central Virginia, and authorities said Monday that they're investigating the case as a murder-suicide.
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| Federal judge rules Ala. abortion law too restrictive, unconstitutional Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama law restricting doctors at abortion clinics is unconstitutional because it would unduly hamper women's ability to obtain the medical procedure, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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| Girl facing murder charges as forced-marriage suitor, 3 others poisoned Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:11 AM PDT  A Nigerian court on Monday postponed the murder trial of a 14-year-old girl accused of poisoning the 35-year-old man she was forced to marry, a case that has thrown the spotlight on the influence of Islamic law in region. Wasila Tasi'u has also been charged with the murder of three others who allegedly ate the food laced with rat poison that she prepared and served in April this year, a week after her marriage to Umaru Sani. "Wasila was to appear today," but the case has been postponed indefinitely because of a backlog caused by a judicial staff strike, said Salisu Yakubu, registrar at the High Court in town of Gezawa. Police say Tasi'u confessed to poisoning Sani and his guests at the wedding party in the village of Unguwar Yansoro village, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) outside Nigeria's second city of Kano.
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| Tunnels through 'Triangle of Death' Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:41 AM PDT  Built by Saddam Hussein, Iraq insurgents get dangerously close to Baghdad.
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| Scores injured, 160 feared dead in Nepal landslide Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:31 AM PDT  Rescuers on Monday discovered 25 more bodies buried under tonnes of mud and trees following a massive landslide in northeast Nepal feared to have killed at least 160 people. Thirty-four corpses, including seven children, have been pulled from the landslide that crushed hamlets along a river in Sindhupalchok district before dawn on Saturday following monsoon rains, an official said. The head of Nepal's disaster management division, Yadav Prasad Koirala, told AFP, "we think the final death toll could be around 165 or higher". Traumatised villagers kept an anxious vigil at the landslide site, some 120 kilometres (74 miles) northeast of Kathmandu, in the hope missing loved ones would be found by rescuers.
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| Remembering 'War to end all wars' Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:59 AM PDT  Lights will go out in British homes Monday commemorating 100 years since outbreak of WW I.
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| Gaza war slows, but Israel reports terror attacks Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:09 AM PDT  Construction vehicle killed pedestrian, overturned bus in Jerusalem. Police suspect Palestinian attack.
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| PHOTOS: How conjoined twins living separate lives, 10 years later Posted: 04 Aug 2014 03:39 AM PDT  Formerly conjoined twins Clarence, left, and Carl Aguirre, 12, embrace while relaxing with their mother Arlene at the family's home in Scarsdale, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2014. On Monday, Aug. 4, the family will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the surgery that separated the twins at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, where the surgery was performed. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) |
| Dimming the lights, 100 years after 'war to end all wars' Posted: 04 Aug 2014 06:58 AM PDT  By Tess Little LONDON (Reuters) - Lights across Britain will be switched off for an hour on Monday in a tribute to the dead of World War One inspired by the prophetic observation of then-Foreign Minister Lord Grey on the eve of war 100 years ago. "We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." British landmarks like Trafalgar Square will be dark from 10 p.m. (5:00 p.m. EDT) and Prime Minister David Cameron has asked all Britons to switch off all but a single light in their homes for an hour. The "war to end all wars" spread carnage across Europe, especially northern France and Belgium, killing 17 million soldiers and civilians in 1914-18. One million of the dead were soldiers from Britain and its then empire.
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| Why did high-tech US spyplane dodge Russians? Posted: 03 Aug 2014 06:49 PM PDT  (Reuters) - A U.S. reconnaissance plane crossed into Swedish airspace last month as it sought to avoid being intercepted by Russian fighters, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing U.S. military officials. The episode occurred on July 18 when Russian aircraft approached an Air Force RC-135 electronic surveillance plane as it was flying in what U.S. officials said was international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Times said. "The aircraft commander, acting in a professional and safe manner, maneuvered the aircraft to avoid a possible encounter by Russian aircraft," the United States European Command said in a statement, according to the Times. Ties between the United States and Russia have plunged to their lowest level since the end of the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine, which Washington accuses Moscow of fanning with weapons and support for rebels fighting the Kiev government.
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| Thousands on run as Lebanon latest to get drawn into sectarian war Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:10 AM PDT  LABWEH, Lebanon (AP) — Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees crammed into cars and pickup trucks fled a town in eastern Lebanon Monday as troops battled al-Qaida-linked militants from neighboring Syria who overran the border region in the most serious spillover into Lebanon of the three-year conflict next door.
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| Another heroic doctor, this time in Nigeria, contracts Ebola virus Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:43 AM PDT  Nigerian authorities said Monday that a doctor in Lagos has contracted Ebola, the second case in the sprawling megacity as the deadliest ever outbreak of the disease continues to spread fear and panic across west Africa. The confirmation that a fourth doctor had been infected comes as fear and anger about the dead being left unburied in Liberia's capital Monrovia brought protestors into the streets, while Sierra Leone's president said Monday that the epidemic threatened the "very essence" of the nation. "This new case is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died," Nigeria's Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told journalists. He said that 70 other people believed to have come into contact with the Liberian government official were being monitored.
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| A chill marijuana debate in Colorado Posted: 04 Aug 2014 02:00 AM PDT  One town might embrace pot stores; another posts keep-out sign. Stoner humor stays at home.
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| Israel resumes Gaza strikes after cease-fire lull Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:32 AM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A brief cease-fire declared by Israel and troop withdrawals slowed violence in the Gaza war Monday, but an attack an Israeli bus that killed one person in Jerusalem underscored the tensions still simmering in the region as Israeli airstrikes resumed late in the day. |
| Ukrainian soldiers cross border into Russia Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:43 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian border security official said Monday that more than 400 Ukrainian soldiers have crossed into Russia, although both sides gave conflicting accounts as to why they did it. |
| Toledo mayor lifts water ban in northwest Ohio Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:42 AM PDT  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A water ban that had hundreds of thousands of people in Ohio and Michigan scrambling for drinking water was lifted Monday, yet some residents still weren't ready to take a sip.
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| Homes badly damaged in Southern California storm Posted: 04 Aug 2014 10:47 AM PDT  MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (AP) — Crews cleared roads in an area where some 2,500 had been stranded after thunderstorms caused mountain mudslides in Southern California, while authorities estimated that between 6 and 8 homes were badly damaged and likely uninhabitable.
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| Syracuse University ranks as No. 1 party school Posted: 04 Aug 2014 10:06 AM PDT  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse University has claimed the title of nation's top party school.
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| Survivors dug out from China quake that killed 398 Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:16 AM PDT  KUNMING, China (AP) — Rescuers found scores of survivors on Monday as they dug through homes shattered by an earthquake in southern China that killed at least 398 people and injured more than 1,800. Rainstorms were expected to continue to hinder rescue efforts over the coming days.
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| Few roles for Hispanics in top Hollywood movies Posted: 04 Aug 2014 01:50 AM PDT  A new study shows that less than 5 percent of actors in top Hollywood films are Hispanic, and that Latinas are more likely than women of any other ethnicity to appear partially or totally naked on screen.
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| Crews clear mudslides caused by California storms Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:22 AM PDT MOUNT BALDY, Calif. (AP) — About 2,500 people were stranded early Monday after thunderstorms caused mountain mudslides in Southern California, while one person was found dead in a flooded creek, authorities said. |
| Ferry carrying hundreds capsizes in Bangladesh Posted: 04 Aug 2014 06:48 AM PDT  LOUHAJONG, Bangladesh (AP) — A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized Monday in central Bangladesh, killing at least two people and probably many more as horrified villagers watched from the shore, authorities said.
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| Gay marriage arguments ring a bell in Cincinnati Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:13 AM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — For Chris Seelbach, the legal challenges to state bans on gay marriage being argued this week in Cincinnati mark another milestone — not just for gay rights, but for the city he calls home.
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