Update on Texas nurse who contracted Ebola

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• Update on Texas nurse who contracted Ebola
• U.S. says 21 air raids slow IS advance near Turkey border
• Major casualty in Baghdad car bomb blast
• Chris Christie says he would 'rather die than be in the United States Senate'
• For sublet, urgently: House where Adolf Hitler was born
• Ebola epidemic still spreading in W. Africa
• Gunman kills American in Saudi capital Riyadh
• Protesters, Hong Kong police in standoff near government HQ
• Prosecutor: Pistorius offered 'blood money'
• Inside Syrian dictator's torture chambers (Warning: 'Horrific' images)
• U.S.-led coalition airstrikes hit IS positions near Turkey
• Newly-found ancient cult complex may have been for storm god worship
• Pistorius defense says disability would make him vulnerable in jail
• Trial of accused Boston bomber's friend turns to text messages
• Family that lived with Texas Ebola victim showing no symptoms: mayor
• Former Charlotte, N.C., mayor gets 44 months in prison for public corruption
• Powerful earthquake strikes off El Salvador, one dead
• Ebola death rate increases to 70 percent
• Despite recent headlines, 'official' Palestine still a long way off
• Kim Jong Un's accessory raises eyebrows
• Another Ebola death rocks Europe
• Dallas nurse with Ebola gets blood from survivor
• About 70 hospital staffers cared for Ebola patient
• State media: N. Korea leader Kim appears in public with walking stick
• Ebola survivor donates plasma to sick Dallas nurse
• Police: More than 50 arrested in Ferguson protests
• Iran's president says nuclear deal with West 'certain'
• Push for legal pot reaches new terrain

Update on Texas nurse who contracted Ebola Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:02 AM PDT "I am blessed by the support of family and friends," says statement from Nina Pham, 26.

U.S. says 21 air raids slow IS advance near Turkey border Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:40 AM PDT Washington (AFP) - US-led aircraft hammered Islamic State jihadists with 21 bombing raids near Kobane on Monday and Tuesday amid signs the strikes had "slowed" the group's advance on the Syrian border town, the American military said.

Major casualty in Baghdad car bomb blast Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:58 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Shi'ite Muslim member of Iraq's parliament was killed in a car bomb attack at a checkpoint entrance to the Shi'ite neighborhood of Kadhimiya in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to a parliamentary media official and police. Police and medics said Ahmed Al-Khafaji, also a member of the Shi'ite Badr political party, was among 25 people killed in the blast on the edge of Kadhimiya, home to the Shi'ite shrine of Imam Kahdim. Khafaji is also a former deputy interior minister, his party said. The death toll was earlier reported to be 18. ...

Chris Christie says he would 'rather die than be in the United States Senate' Posted: 14 Oct 2014 05:42 AM PDT The New Jersey governor says he may run for office again once his time as governor is up — just not in the state of New Jersey.

For sublet, urgently: House where Adolf Hitler was born Posted: 14 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT Vienna (AFP) - Austria's interior ministry is appealing to other government departments to take over the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, amid a long-running debate over what should become of the building.

Ebola epidemic still spreading in W. Africa Posted: 14 Oct 2014 08:17 AM PDT WHO says virus still active in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia; total death toll 4,447 from a total of 8,914 cases.

Gunman kills American in Saudi capital Riyadh Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:14 AM PDT Riyadh (AFP) - A gunman shot dead one American and wounded another at a petrol station in the Saudi capital on Tuesday, in a rare attack on Westerners in the kingdom, police said.

Protesters, Hong Kong police in standoff near government HQ Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:15 AM PDT HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-democracy activists clashed with police and barricaded a tunnel near Hong Kong's government headquarters late Tuesday, expanding their protest zone again after being cleared out of some other streets in the latest escalation of tensions in a weekslong political crisis.

Prosecutor: Pistorius offered 'blood money' Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:19 AM PDT PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius offered $34,000 to the family of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after he killed her, but they rejected it because they did not want "blood money," a prosecutor said Tuesday at the sentencing hearing for the double-amputee athlete.

Inside Syrian dictator's torture chambers (Warning: 'Horrific' images) Posted: 13 Oct 2014 05:00 PM PDT The State Department has obtained 27,000 photographs showing the bodies of Syrian torture victims.

U.S.-led coalition airstrikes hit IS positions near Turkey Posted: 14 Oct 2014 07:15 AM PDT MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition has launched several airstrikes on Islamic State group positions in Syria, mainly in and around the town of Kobani near Turkey, where Kurdish fighters captured a strategic hill and brought down the jihadists' black flag, activists and a Kurdish official said Tuesday.

Newly-found ancient cult complex may have been for storm god worship Posted: 14 Oct 2014 05:01 AM PDT A massive cult complex, dating back about 3,300 years, has been discovered at the site of Tel Burna in Israel. Inside the complex, researchers discovered three connected cups, fragments of facemasks, massive jars that are almost as big as a person and burnt animal bones that may indicate sacrificial rituals. The archaeologists said they aren't sure who was worshipped at the complex, though Baal, the Canaanite storm god, is a possibility. "The letters of Ugarit [an ancient site in modern-day Syria] suggest that of the Canaanite pantheon, Baal, the Canaanite storm god, would have been the most likely candidate," Itzhaq Shai, a professor at Ariel University who is directing a research project at Tel Burna, told Live Science in an email.

Pistorius defense says disability would make him vulnerable in jail Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:49 AM PDT Pretoria (AFP) - Double amputee Oscar Pistorius would be vulnerable to gang rape if sent to one of South Africa's brutal prisons, a defence witness claimed during a day of heated courtroom argument Tuesday.

Trial of accused Boston bomber's friend turns to text messages Posted: 14 Oct 2014 07:48 AM PDT By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A friend of a man accused of lying to investigators probing the Boston Marathon bombing urged him to tell the police "everything" he knew about the suspected bomber, a federal agent testified on Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors contend that Robel Phillipos, 21, lied to authorities about a visit that he and two other friends made to accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the April 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. ...

Family that lived with Texas Ebola victim showing no symptoms: mayor Posted: 14 Oct 2014 08:15 AM PDT By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family who shared an apartment with a Liberian man who died of Ebola in Texas is showing no signs of illness, while the dog of a nurse who contracted the deadly virus is healthy and being cared for, Dallas's mayor said on Tuesday. Thomas Eric Duncan's girlfriend, her 13-year-old son and two nephews in their 20s had been living with Duncan before he was admitted to a Dallas hospital on Sept. 28. "So far no signs of the virus in any of them," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said on CNN. "We check them twice a day, and everybody's healthy. ...

Former Charlotte, N.C., mayor gets 44 months in prison for public corruption Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:02 AM PDT CHARLOTTE N.C. (Reuters) - Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon was sentenced on Tuesday to 44 months in U.S. prison after admitting to using his public positions in North Carolina's largest city for personal financial gain, including taking at least $50,000 in bribes. Cannon, a Democrat who served on the Charlotte City Council before being elected mayor last November, pleaded guilty in June to a public corruption charge. A nearly four-year investigation resulted in his arrest and resignation in March. (Reporting by Emily Harris; Writing by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Dona Chiacu)

Powerful earthquake strikes off El Salvador, one dead Posted: 13 Oct 2014 10:45 PM PDT By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck late on Monday off the coast of El Salvador and Nicaragua and was felt across Central America, killing at least one person, but there were no immediate reports of major damage. El Salvador's emergency services said a dozen homes in the department of Usulutan had been slightly damaged but that coastal areas appeared calm and the country's international airport was unaffected. ...

Ebola death rate increases to 70 percent Posted: 14 Oct 2014 08:55 AM PDT World Health Organization also warned of potential for 10,000 new cases per week in 2 months.

Despite recent headlines, 'official' Palestine still a long way off Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:25 AM PDT Paris (AFP) - Despite a highly-symbolic British vote to recognise Palestine as a state, the road to official recognition is still fraught with obstacles, experts say, with the hoped-for two-state solution a long way off.

Kim Jong Un's accessory raises eyebrows Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:55 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After vanishing from the public eye for nearly six weeks, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is back, ending rumors that he was gravely ill, deposed or worse.

Another Ebola death rocks Europe Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:02 AM PDT The United Nations medical official was infected with Ebola while working in Liberia.

Dallas nurse with Ebola gets blood from survivor Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:56 AM PDT DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas nurse infected with Ebola while treating the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. has received a plasma transfusion from a doctor who beat the virus.

About 70 hospital staffers cared for Ebola patient Posted: 13 Oct 2014 06:24 PM PDT DALLAS (AP) — They drew his blood, put tubes down his throat and wiped up his diarrhea. They analyzed his urine and wiped saliva from his lips, even after he had lost consciousness.

State media: N. Korea leader Kim appears in public with walking stick Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:38 PM PDT By Tony Munroe and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, shown using a cane for support, re-appeared in state media on Tuesday after a lengthy public absence that had fueled speculation over his health and grip on power in the secretive, nuclear-capable country. Several pictures on the front page of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed Kim smiling and gesturing on a visit to a housing development, although there was no indication which day the event took place. ...

Ebola survivor donates plasma to sick Dallas nurse Posted: 13 Oct 2014 05:47 PM PDT DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas nurse who has Ebola has been given plasma to fight the virus taken from the blood of a doctor who beat the disease.

Police: More than 50 arrested in Ferguson protests Posted: 13 Oct 2014 08:58 PM PDT FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Pounding rain and tornado watches didn't deter hundreds of protesters Monday outside Ferguson police headquarters, where they stayed for almost four hours to mark how long 18-year-old Michael Brown's body was left in a street after he was fatally shot by police.

Iran's president says nuclear deal with West 'certain' Posted: 13 Oct 2014 03:12 PM PDT Hassan Rouhani says he believes it could be achieved by a November 24 deadline.

Push for legal pot reaches new terrain Posted: 13 Oct 2014 12:33 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A debate over legalizing marijuana in the nation's capital is focusing on the outsized number of arrests of African Americans on minor drug charges.

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