Saturday, January 29, 2011

Egypt's president names deputy for 1st time (AP)

Egypt's president names deputy for 1st time (AP)

Egypt's president names deputy for 1st time (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:51 PM PST

An anti-government protester cries out after seeing the body of another who was shot by police moments before, in Tahrir square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Thousands of anti-government protesters returned to Cairo's central Tahrir Square, chanting slogans against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and demanding his departure. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - With protests raging, President Hosni Mubarak named his intelligence chief as his first-ever vice president on Saturday_ setting the stage for a successor as demands for the longtime leader's ouster showed no sign of abating. The death toll rose from five days of anti-government protests rose sharply to 74.

Obama calls for restraint, reform in Egypt (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 01:15 PM PST

Demonstrators hold signs and chant in front of the White House in Washington Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, to demand that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak step down. In Egypt thousands of protesters have thrown the country's 30-year-old regime into tumult. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Barack Obama issued a plea for restraint in Egypt after meeting with national security aides Saturday to assess the Cairo government's response to widespread protests threatening the stability of the country.

Looters rip heads off 2 mummies at Egyptian Museum (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 01:12 PM PST

An Egyptian Army soldier guards the Egyptian Museum, with the Cairo Tower seen behind, at night in Tahrir square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Thousands of anti-government protesters returned to Cairo's central Tahrir Square, chanting slogans against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and demanding his departure. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and detained by soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief said Saturday.

In turnabout, Dems say GOP has dropped job focus (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:23 PM PST

AP - Republicans won dozens of elections last fall after claiming Democrats had focused too little on creating jobs. Now GOP lawmakers stand accused of the same charge, using their new House majority to push to repeal the president's health care law, restrict abortions and highlight other social issues important to their most conservative supporters.

Russia identifies airport bomber as Caucasus man (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:25 PM PST

A man wounded in a blast is carried away at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. An explosion ripped through the international arrivals hall at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing dozens of people and wounding scores, officials said. The Russian president called it a terror attack. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - The suicide bomber who killed 35 people at Moscow's busiest airport was deliberately targeting foreigners, investigators said Saturday, which would mark an ominous new tactic by separatist militants in southern Russia if he was recruited by an Islamist terror cell.

Comcast takes control of NBC Universal (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 file photo, the Comcast logo is displayed on a TV set in North Andover, Mass. Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV company, says it will complete its takeover of NBC Universal at just before midnight Eastern time, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. The deal will give Comcast Corp. 51 percent of the fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC, a bevy of cable channels and the Universal Pictures movie studio. It caps a yearlong regulatory review that resulted in conditions meant to keep it from stifling the growth of online video services such as Netflix and Hulu. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)AP - The nation's largest cable TV company, Comcast Corp., took control of NBC Universal after the government shackled its behavior in the coming years to protect online video services such as Netflix and Hulu.

Miss. gov. juggles White House hopes, state's past (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:46 PM PST

In this Dec. 14, 2010 photo taken at his Jackson, Miss., office, Gov. Haley Barbour discusses his hopes for his final legislative session as governor which began Jan. 4, 2011. Barbour's folksy style, savvy leadership in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and success as a GOP strategist have made him an outside contender for the Republican nomination for president. But the 63-year-old has shown a penchant for airbrushing his state's segregationist past. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Haley Barbour's folksy style, savvy leadership in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and success as a GOP strategist have made the two-term Mississippi governor a serious contender early in the wide-open contest for the Republican presidential nomination.

Mom charged in kids' slayings treated at hospital (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:32 PM PST

AP - The woman who authorities say killed her teenage daughter and son because she was fed up with them talking back and being mouthy will not appear in court Saturday because she's being treated at a hospital for an unknown condition.

Chris Brown completes domestic violence program (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 01:04 PM PST

R&B singer Chris Brown appears for a progress report hearing in Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting his pop star girlfriend Rihanna in Hancock Park after a pre-Grammy Awards party in 2009. He was sentenced to five years probation, ordered to complete 180 days of community labor and a year of domestic violence counseling. (AP Photo/David McNew, Pool)AP - Chris Brown has completed a domestic violence counseling program required as part of the singer's guilty plea to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna nearly two years ago.

Clijsters defeats Li for 1st Australian Open crown (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:23 PM PST

Belgium's Kim Clijsters, left, holds the trophy along with runner-up China's Li Na after Clijsters won their women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - Kim Clijsters believes she's now earned the nickname she had for years in Australia.

Egypt appoints former air force commander as PM (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 08:22 AM PST

Reuters - Egypt's president picked on Saturday a former air force commander and aviation minister, Ahmed Shafiq, as the next prime minister, ensuring men with military links are in the top three political jobs.

Hedge funds appeal dismissed $2 billion suit vs Porsche (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 08:23 AM PST

Reuters - A group of hedge funds led by Elliott Associates and Black Diamond Offshore Ltd appealed the dismissal of their $2 billion lawsuit against German automaker Porsche SE.

Euro zone crisis seen turning corner (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 05:11 AM PST

Reuters - European policymakers and international bankers at the Davos forum said on Saturday the euro zone's debt crisis had turned a corner and any doubt about the survival of the single currency area had passed.

Five protesters wounded at Egyptian ministry: source (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 07:42 AM PST

Reuters - At least five protesters were wounded by police Saturday when they tried to storm Egypt's Interior Ministry, security sources told Reuters.

WikiLeaks founder says enjoys making banks squirm (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:11 PM PST

Mads Bjerg (L), founder of the Greenleaks organisation, poses with employees of DanWatch, investigative journalist Morten Hansen (C) and company director Anne Skjerning, in this handout taken in Copenhagen January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Greenleaks/Pelle Rink/HandoutReuters - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he enjoys making banks squirm thinking they might be the next targets of his website which has published U.S. diplomatic and military secrets.

Mubarak names VP, new PM as deadly protests continue (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 12:14 PM PST

Egyptian demonstrators demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak gather on the statue of Alexdander the Great in Alexandria. Mubarak tapped Egypt's military intelligence chief as his first-ever vice president and named a new prime minister on Saturday, as a mass revolt against his autocratic rule raged into a fifth day.(AFP)AFP - Embattled Hosni Mubarak tapped Egypt's military intelligence chief as his first-ever vice president and named a new prime minister on Saturday, as a mass revolt against his autocratic rule raged into a fifth day.

Afghan suicide bomber kills Kandahar deputy governor (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 11:01 AM PST

Afghani policemen inspect the wreckage of the car after a suicide attack in Kandahar city, south of Kabul. The deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, the spiritual home of the Taliban, was killed by a suicide bomber on Saturday, the provincial chief said.(AFP/Shoaib Safi)AFP - The deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, the spiritual home of the Taliban, was killed by a suicide bomber on Saturday, the provincial chief said.
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