Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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Police investigate rape allegations in case of NC girl found dead

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:19 PM PST

Police are investigating reports that Zahra Baker, the 10-year-old disabled girl who was killed in North Carolina, may have been raped prior to her death, according to police search warrants that were unsealed Tuesday.

Oil spill, World Cup among Yahoo's most searched terms

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:12 PM PST

The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was the most searched term on Yahoo in 2010, the search engine said Wednesday.

Ivory Coast to announce partial election results

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:06 PM PST

Some results from Ivory Coast's elections are now expected Wednesday, after it was pushed back twice.

Australia's growth rate stalls in third quarter

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:05 PM PST

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Wisconsin school to reopen 2 days after hostage standoff

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:59 PM PST

A northeast Wisconsin high school where a 15-year-old sophomore held his classmates and a teacher hostage for about five hours is expected to reopen Wednesday.

Rosa Parks' legacy endures decades later

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:53 PM PST

An act of civil disobedience 55 years ago -- Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of a city bus -- made the seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, a pivotal symbol in America's civil rights movement.

Can Japan deliver a holographic World Cup?

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:44 PM PST

Soccer and technology don't normally mix; FIFA, the international football body, has long dragged its studded heels over efforts to introduce microchip sensors into match refereeing.

Manufacturing data shows Asian divide

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:32 PM PST

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A flight deck view of war games in the Yellow Sea

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:31 PM PST

Only one percent of people in the world have done what we are about to do: be "tailhooked" on a plane landing at top speed aboard an aircraft carrier in open sea.

World AIDS Day comes amid progress, concern

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:29 PM PST

As the global community commemorates World AIDS Day on Wednesday, international health organizations report both promising and sobering trends.

URGENT

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:35 PM PST

Heavy snow prompted the closure of the runway at London's Gatwick airport, the airport said on its website Wednesday.

American Airlines flight goes off end of runway in Montreal

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:05 PM PST

An American Airlines jet with 111 passengers on board ran off the runway at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport Tuesday evening, an airport official said.

Russia will build up forces without New START, Putin says

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:26 PM PST

Russia will have to build up its nuclear forces if the United States fails to ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty the two countries signed this year, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warns in an upcoming CNN interview.

San Diego officials to meet with residents about "bomb factory" house

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:42 PM PST

The San Diego County, California, sheriff and other officials are to hold a town hall meeting Tuesday night about what will become of the house that's the site of the nation's largest cache of homemade explosives ever found in one spot.

Huge Picasso cache not stolen, lawyer says

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:32 PM PST

A retired French electrician who revealed that he has 271 previously unknown works by artist Pablo Picasso did not steal them, his lawyer told CNN Tuesday.

Bank of America rejects conjecture that it is WikiLeaks' next target

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:25 PM PST

Bank of America tersely dismissed speculation Tuesday that it is the "big U.S. bank" that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Forbes magazine will be the website's next target.

Pentagon: No 'don't ask, don't tell' discharges in several weeks

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:24 PM PST

The controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning gay men and lesbians from openly serving in the military remains the law of the land, except perhaps at the Department of Defense.

Egg company allowed to resume shipping from two barns

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:22 PM PST

Wright County Egg, one of two Iowa farms at the center of this past summer's salmonella outbreak and massive egg recall, won federal approval Tuesday to sell to consumers eggs produced at two henhouses.

Interpol puts Assange on most-wanted list

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:22 PM PST

Interpol, at the request of a Swedish court looking into alleged sex crimes from earlier this year, has put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on its most-wanted listed.

US officials insist Clinton not ordering diplomats to spy

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:11 PM PST

U.S. officials came to the defense of the secretary of state Tuesday, insisting that Hillary Clinton did not order State Department staff to spy on United Nations diplomats, as suggested by a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks.