| Photos: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before fatal shooting Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT Photos and records show that six months before he shot and killed an unarmed teenager, Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson earned a commendation for his "extraordinary effort in the line of duty." |
| Landslides, floods kill 109, displace thousands in Nepal, India Posted: 16 Aug 2014 08:57 AM PDT  The death toll from landslides and flooding triggered by torrential monsoon rains in Nepal and northern India climbed to at least 109 Saturday as tides of water, mud and rocks swept away houses, officials said. The rains in Nepal over the past three days have killed 85 people and left more than 100 others unaccounted for, said national disaster management chief Yadav Prasad Koirala. The rains have damaged roads across the country's western plains bordering India, with poor visibility hindering helicopter rescue efforts to evacuate some 1,500 people stranded in waterlogged homes, said home ministry spokesman Laxmi Prasad Dhakal. "We have had no power all day and we are struggling to reach affected people," said Bardiya district official Tej Prasad Paudel.
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| Liberia expands Ebola treatment in capital Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:15 AM PDT MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian authorities expanded Ebola treatment centers in the capital Saturday to cope with increasing numbers of patients, while two more airlines announced they were halting flights to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone amid the deepening crisis. |
| Golf - Storm force Warren joins Dredge in Denmark Open lead Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:22 AM PDT  - Scotland's Marc Warren braved gusting winds to card a five under par and claim a share of the Denmark Open lead with Bradley Dredge of Wales after three rounds on Saturday. The Scot hit eight birdies for a 66 while overnight leader Dredge recovered from a bogey at the par four 15th with a birdie three at the 17th for a two over par 73, putting him alongside Warren on six under for the tournament.
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| Manziel, Hoyer ready to face Redskins on Monday Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:20 AM PDT  BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel says he's not feeling any extra pressure as he prepares for Monday night's exhibition game at Washington.
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| Fan takes free kick in West Ham-Spurs game Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:18 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — A fan ran onto the field during Saturday's Premier League game between West Ham and Tottenham and took a free kick before being chased away by a steward.
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| South Africa labour to narrow rugby win over Argentina Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:18 AM PDT  South Africa laboured to a 13-6 victory over Argentina on Saturday in a Rugby Championship Test in rain-soaked Pretoria. The Springboks failed to build on a try from Ruan Pienaar after just 82 seconds and finished the game defending desperately against the underdogs. Torrential rain throughout the first half proved a great leveller and South Africa never threatened to achieve the widely expected four-try bonus point. South Africa led 10-3 at half-time after a nightmare first half for both teams with the rain turning the ball into a proverbial bar of soap.
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| Ebola: Kenya bars travellers from worst-hit countries Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:14 AM PDT  Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three countries worst hit by the Ebola epidemic, officials said Saturday.
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| Symphony sets stage at southern Utah's red rocks Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:14 AM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Symphony is using classical music to complement the beauty of Utah's soaring red rocks and canyons with free desert performances.
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| Possible plot details leak from 'Star Wars: Episode VII' set Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:12 AM PDT  The Star Wars: Episode VII set seems to be a leaky ship. Minor details from the upcoming film have been finding their way online since filming began, and now a couple of reports claim to have an idea of how the film's plot is going to play out. According to separate reports from Indie Revolver and Latino Review, the film will feature a lengthy flashback to explain the history behind the film's main villains, the Sith Inquisitors. The flashback (or flashbacks) will reportedly take place when Leia is little more than a young girl, which explains why Carrie Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourde, was cast in the film.
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| 'Atlanta Exes' members create own lane to fame Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:11 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Torrei Hart's career took a backseat for years to raise two children, allowing her then-husband Kevin Hart to pursue his comedy career.
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| Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang on target again for Dortmund Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:06 AM PDT  Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who scored the goals which downed Bayern Munich in the SuperCup in midweek, were on target again on Saturday as Borussia Dortmund beat Stuttgarter Kickers 4-1 in the German Cup. Mkhitaryan opened the scoring in the 30th minute of the first-round tie aga inst their third-tier hosts, with Aubameyang grabbing a brace through goals in the 55th and 78th minutes before new signing Adrian Ramos added the fourth, one minute from time.
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| Second Youth Games open in wet Nanjing Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:05 AM PDT  The second Youth Olympics opened in a wet Nanjing on Saturday with International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach encouraging the teenage athletes to have fun and embrace social media. "You are here to experience and promote the Olympic values of excellence, respect and friendship. You are here to celebrate the Olympic spirit." Chinese President Xi Jinping declared the 13-day Games, for 3,800 athletes from 204 countries competing in 28 sports, open in front of 60,000 fans in Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Stadium. The prelude to the Youth Games, the brainchild of former IOC president Jacques Rogge and first held in Singapore four years ago, had been disrupted by some West African athletes banned from competing in a few combat sports and pool events because of the deadly Ebola virus in the region.
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| Delays for SC nuclear plant pressure industry Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:03 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Expensive delays are piling up for the companies building new nuclear power plants, raising fresh questions about whether they can control the construction costs that crippled the industry years ago.
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| Tanaka has 1st bullpen session since elbow injury Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:03 AM PDT  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka has thrown 25 pitches in his first bullpen session in a month since going on the disabled list with a partial tear in his right elbow.
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| Here's Tetris, with cushions and pillows Posted: 16 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Here's an amusing take on a familiar game. It's Tetris; except played with pillows. Softbody-Tetris was created by Niko Schatz using Cinema4D. It's worth watching to the end.
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| Police, protesters clash again in Ferguson Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:57 AM PDT FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Anger spurred by the death of a black teenager at the hands of a white police officer in a St. Louis suburb boiled over again when protesters stormed into a Missouri convenience store — the same one the teen was accused of robbing. |
| US experts investigate Brazil politician's doomed flight Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:56 AM PDT  A team of US experts is headed to Brazil to help investigate the plane crash that killed seven people including socialist presidential candidate Eduardo Campos. Brazil's air force, which is in charge of the investigation, has said that the black box recovered from the wreckage failed to record the final flight, which came down in bad weather on Wednesday in the city of Santos killing everyone on board. The US experts hail from the National Transportation Safety Board, the US agency that investigates crashes, and the Cessna Aircraft Company, which made the plane, Brazil news site G1 reported Saturday.
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| Swansea ruin Van Gaal's Premier League bow Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:55 AM PDT  Louis van Gaal's Manchester United reign got off to a false start on Saturday as Swansea City won 2-1 in the season's opening Premier League game at Old Trafford. Van Gaal was taking charge of his first competitive game as United manager, but his new side exhibited many of the same failings from last season -- when they finished seventh -- as they slumped to a surprise defeat. South Korea midfielder Ki Sung-yueng exploited inattentive marking to give Swansea a 28th-minute lead with a left-foot shot from the edge of the box. United's new captain Wayne Rooney equalised early in the second period, but Gylfi Sigurdsson condemned the hosts to a first opening-day home defeat since 1972 with a close-range finish in the 72nd minute.
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| Miserable start for Van Gaal at Man United in EPL Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:53 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — New season, new manager — same misery at Manchester United.
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| Supporter takes free kick in West Ham-Spurs game Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:48 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — A supporter ran onto the field during Saturday's Premier League game between West Ham and Tottenham and managed to take a free kick before being chased away by a steward. |
| Kurds fight to retake Iraq's largest dam Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:46 AM PDT  Kurdish forces backed by US warplanes battled Saturday to retake Iraq's largest dam from Islamic State jihadist fighters, whose latest atrocity was a massacre in a Yazidi village. Two months of violence have brought Iraq to the brink of breakup, and world powers relieved by the exit of long-time premier Nuri al-Maliki were flying aid to the displaced and arms to the Kurds. "Kurdish peshmerga, with US air support, have seized control of the eastern side of the dam" complex, Major General Abdelrahman Korini told AFP, saying several jihadists had been killed. Buoyed by the air strikes US President Barack Obama ordered last week, the peshmerga have tried to claw back the ground they lost since the start of August.
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| West Brom, Sunderland open PL season with 2-2 draw Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:43 AM PDT  WEST BROMWICH, England (AP) — Sebastian Larsson scored a late equalizer as Sunderland snatched a 2-2 draw at West Bromwich Albion in their Premier League opener on Saturday.
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| Chips are down for Atlantic City's hard-luck Revel Casino Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:40 AM PDT  When the $2.4 billion Revel Casino opened its doors in 2012, the curvy blue-glass tower was hailed as the wave of the future for Atlantic City, New Jersey. "You don't expect to see a two-year-old property close," said Alan Woinski, president of Gaming USA, an industry consultancy and newsletter publisher. Its sleek, dramatic design was supposed to be its prime attraction, but critics say the structure was too grandiose, and its cavernous gaming floor often feels dead. By most accounts, the Las Vegas buzz that the Revel's backers hoped to recreate is conspicuously missing.
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| Funeral held for SW Phila. fire victims; cause 'undetermined' Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:39 AM PDT  Four young children killed in a fire on Gesner Street in Southwest Philadelphia last month were laid to rest Saturday.
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| Stars clinch playoff spot, extend Hammon's career Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:36 AM PDT  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Becky Hammon's historic new career will have to wait. Her teammates with the San Antonio Stars are not ready to let their beloved teammate exit the WNBA just yet.
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| Iraqi Kurdish leader appeals to Germany for weapons Posted: 16 Aug 2014 09:36 AM PDT  The leader of Iraq's Kurds appealed to Germany for weapons to help Kurdish fighters battling militants of the Islamic State, and said foreign powers must find a way to cut off the group's funding. The European Union on Friday gave a green light to EU governments to supply arms and ammunition to the Kurds if it has the consent of the government in Baghdad. Germany has shied away from direct involvement in military conflicts for much of the post-war era and a survey conducted for Bild am Sonntag newspaper indicated that almost three quarters of Germans were against shipping weapons to the Kurds. Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, said the Kurds needed more than the humanitarian aid that Germany began sending on Friday to support people forced to flee their homes by the Sunni militant group's advance.
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| Robin Williams' death highlights Parkinson's-depression link Posted: 15 Aug 2014 01:36 PM PDT  Yahoo's Katie Couric interviews mental health leader for context in wake of actor's death.
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| Texas' Perry indicted on two felonies for veto threat Posted: 15 Aug 2014 06:43 PM PDT  Jury: Gov. Rick Perry threatened corruption prosecutors in major abuse of power.
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| Tens of thousands march into Pakistani capital in twin protests Posted: 15 Aug 2014 09:43 PM PDT  Anti-PM rallies follow arrival of convoys led by cricket star-turned-politician, fiery anti-Taliban cleric.
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| Ex-cop who burned body again gets 17 years Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:00 PM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For a second time, a former New Orleans police officer has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for burning the body of a man shot to death by another New Orleans police officer in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina.
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| Boko Haram kidnaps 100 Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:38 PM PDT  Most captives were freed by forces from Chad, officials said.
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| 11 dead in Quetta airbase attacks Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:26 AM PDT  Eleven Taliban-linked militants were killed and 13 members of the Pakistani security forces wounded in attacks on two air force bases in the west Pakistan city of Quetta on Thursday, officials said. Pakistan's military has been fighting an offensive against the Taliban insurgency in the remote, largely lawless region of North Waziristan on the Afghanistan border since June. A wing of the Pakistani Taliban said they had carried out Thursday night's raids in response to that offensive. "It is a revenge for the army's killing of innocent people in North and South Waziristan," said Ghalib Mehsud, who said he was a commander and spokesman for the Fidayeen Islam, a Taliban wing responsible for training suicide bombers.
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| SeaWorld to build bigger enclosures for killer whales in U.S. Posted: 15 Aug 2014 11:18 AM PDT  Theme park operator SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. said on Friday it would nearly double the size of its San Diego killer whale tank and expand similar enclosures in Florida and Texas amid criticism over its treatment of the animals. "The new projects will build on SeaWorld's legacy of providing state-of-the-art, innovative homes for its animals," the company said in a statement. Expansions will follow for the company's tanks in Orlando and San Antonio, Texas, SeaWorld said. The group said SeaWorld should instead put the captive orcas in seaside sanctuaries with the goal of releasing them into the ocean.
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| Jet Airways flight plunges 5,000 ft. as pilot dozes off, co-pilot busy on iPad Posted:  A potential incident was averted when a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Brussels dropped 5,000 feet in airspace while the pilot was "on rest."
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| Chief: Cop didn't know Brown was suspect Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:36 PM PDT  Ferguson Chief: Cop didn't know Michael Brown was suspect
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| Notre Dame players investigated for possible academic fraud Posted:  Notre Dame administrative officials are investigating instances of potential academic fraud on campus that could include several members of the Fighting Irish football team, sources have told Yahoo Sports.
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