| Captured American released from North Korea Posted: 21 Oct 2014 10:21 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — American detainee Jeffrey Fowle has been released from North Korea, nearly six months after he was taken into custody, the State Department said Tuesday. Two other Americans who have been tried and convicted of crimes in North Korea are still being held.
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| Unearthed Jerusalem stone may answer ancient mystery Posted: 21 Oct 2014 09:59 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists said Tuesday they have discovered a large stone with Latin engravings that lends credence to the theory that the reason Jews revolted against Roman rule nearly 2,000 ago was because of their harsh treatment.
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| Islamic Front propaganda video as good as martial arts movie Posted: 21 Oct 2014 01:28 AM PDT  The Islamic Front, an alliance of militant groups in Syria, released a video on October 20, described as showing "special operations" unit training camp. The unit, dubbed War Lions, are filmed undergoing vigorous exercises. A fighter being interviewed in 1'00" says that main reason they come to the training camp is to defeat militias from different countries that have recently entered Syria. The video states that a number of unit leaders were killed in battle in Aleppo. Credit: YouTube/Islamic Front
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| 6,000-year-old temple discovered with altars for sacrifices Posted: 21 Oct 2014 05:24 AM PDT  A 6,000-year-old temple holding humanlike figurines and sacrificed animal remains has been discovered within a massive prehistoric settlement in Ukraine. It was a "two-story building made of wood and clay surrounded by a galleried courtyard," the upper floor divided into five rooms, write archaeologists Nataliya Burdo and Mykhailo Videiko in a copy of a presentation they gave recently at the European Association of Archaeologists' annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. A platform on the upper floor contains "numerous burnt bones of lamb, associated with sacrifice," write Burdo and Videiko, of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The floors and walls of all five rooms on the upper floor were "decorated by red paint, which created [a] ceremonial atmosphere." [See Photos of the Prehistoric Temple & Animal Remains]
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| Hottest year on record? Posted: 20 Oct 2014 11:48 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say.
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| Americans more worried about economy than Ebola: Poll Posted: 21 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT  Virus made Gallup poll's top 10 concerns, but remained behind economy, dissatisfaction with government, jobs, healthcare, immigration.
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| Soldier run over in Quebec parking lot by suspected jihadi has died Posted: 21 Oct 2014 06:23 AM PDT  Montreal (AFP) - One of two Canadian soldiers run over by a driver suspected of having jihadist sympathies has died, police said Tuesday.
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| Purple Heart medal, lost 20 years, finds way home Posted: 21 Oct 2014 08:45 AM PDT  MANLIUS, N.Y. (AP) — A Purple Heart medal posthumously awarded to a New York soldier killed in Vietnam is being returned to his family about two decades after it was found on a school playground.
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| Snowplow driver drunk in plane collision that killed oil CEO Posted: 21 Oct 2014 06:38 AM PDT  Moscow (AFP) - Russian and French experts were investigating Tuesday a plane crash at a Moscow airport which killed the CEO of French oil giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, whose private jet struck a snowplough on takeoff.
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| 'Harlem Kevorkian' sentenced in death of motivational speaker Posted: 20 Oct 2014 12:04 PM PDT  By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man convicted of helping a debt-ridden motivational speaker commit suicide to make the death look like a robbery was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday, prosecutors said. Kenneth Minor, 42, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month in the stabbing death of Jeffrey Locker in 2009, a spokeswoman with the Manhattan District Attorney's office said. Locker, a 52-year-old motivational speaker, hired Minor to help him kill himself and make it look like a robbery so his family could collect life insurance payouts, prosecutors said. ...
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| Pope's historic trip to unstable region Posted: 21 Oct 2014 05:16 AM PDT  Pope Francis will make his first visit to the predominantly Muslim nation of Turkey.
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| Silicon Valley and politics meet Posted: 21 Oct 2014 01:24 AM PDT  A database of all political giving for the last 30 years, which ranks the intensity of donors' liberalism or conservatism, shows Democrats get the lion's share of donations from tech company employees.
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| Oscar Pistorius gets sentenced Posted: 21 Oct 2014 04:27 AM PDT  Olympic, Paralympic sprinter was convicted of culpable homicide in girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp's death.
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| Cop surprised when citizen turns tables on him Posted: 20 Oct 2014 12:38 PM PDT In an attempt to bring attention to the issue of unlawful traffic stops by police impersonators, Gavin Seim of Washington state flagged down a police officer on the side of the road. |
| Very bad news for McDonald's Posted: 21 Oct 2014 07:39 AM PDT  The fast food giant posted huge disappointments that should have stockholders reeling.
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| Fashion icon dies at 82 Posted: 20 Oct 2014 09:59 PM PDT  Oscar de la Renta, the worldly gentleman designer who shaped the wardrobe of socialites and Hollywood stars for more than four decades, has died. He was 82.
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| Police say they might have spotted ambush suspect Posted: 20 Oct 2014 08:16 PM PDT Police shifted their search and a northeastern Pennsylvania school district tightened security amid another reported sighting Monday of the suspect in a deadly state police ambush. |
| Pistorius gets sentenced Posted: 21 Oct 2014 09:01 AM PDT  A South African judge sentences the runner for the killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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| U.S. to funnel travelers from Ebola-hit region through five airports Posted: 21 Oct 2014 10:17 AM PDT  By Jeffrey Dastin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Travelers to the United States from Ebola-stricken Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea must fly into one of five airports that have enhanced screening in place for the virus, the U.S. government said on Tuesday. The restrictions on passengers whose trips originated in those three West African countries were announced by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and were set to go into effect on Wednesday. The measures stop well short of the travel ban sought by some U.S. lawmakers in a bid to prevent further Ebola cases in the United States. ...
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| Friend of accused Boston bomber lied repeatedly, prosecutor says Posted: 21 Oct 2014 08:09 AM PDT  By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - A friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect lied repeatedly to investigators before eventually confessing about his activities in the days after the attack, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday. Defense lawyers have argued that Robel Phillipos, 21, was too intoxicated on marijuana to remember what he did the night of April 18, 2013, when prosecutors say he and two other men removed a backpack containing empty fireworks shells from the dorm room of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. ...
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| Special Report: U.S. visa program for crime victims is hit-or-miss prospect Posted: 21 Oct 2014 06:18 AM PDT  It was the week of Chinese New Year, and Jian Zhen Huang was climbing her sister's doorstep in Brooklyn with cups and other supplies for the celebration inside. Oakland, California, has less than 5 percent of New York's population, yet law enforcement there verified 2,992 immigrants during the same period - more than twice as many.
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| CEO of oil giant Total killed in Moscow plane crash Posted: 20 Oct 2014 05:15 PM PDT  Moscow (AFP) - The CEO of French oil company Total, Christophe de Margerie has died after a private jet crashed at a Moscow airport, Russian media reported Tuesday citing aviation and law enforcement sources.
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