Saturday, January 1, 2011

Spending showdowns will test new Congress leaders (AP)

Spending showdowns will test new Congress leaders (AP)

Spending showdowns will test new Congress leaders (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:10 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2010, file photo House Speaker-designate John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks with media on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two early showdowns on spending and debt will signal whether the 112th Congress can find common ground despite its partisan divisions, or whether it's destined for gridlock and brinkmanship that could threaten the nation's economic health. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - Two early showdowns on spending and debt will signal whether the new Congress can find common ground despite its partisan divisions or whether it's destined for gridlock and brinkmanship that could threaten the nation's economic health.

7th dies of injuries from New Year's Eve tornadoes (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:24 PM PST

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SISEMORE ** Margie Sisemore, left, and Tammy Borden, right, clean up in the aftermath of a tornado that tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., in western Washington County early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of northwestern Arkansas early on Friday. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)AP - Shaken residents spent New Year's Day sifting through the wreckage wrought by tornadoes that touched down in several states in the final hours of 2010, killing seven people in two states and injuring dozens of others.

Christians, police clash after Egypt church bomb (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:43 AM PST

An Egyptian Copt observes the scene, wrapped in a sheet on which a Christian cross has been painted in blood, outside the Coptic Christian Saints Church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. A car exploded in front of the church early Saturday as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass, killing at least 21 people according to officials, and sparking clashes between Christians and Muslims, a sign of the sectarian anger that has been arising with greater frequency in Egypt. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Christians clashed with Egyptian police in the northern city of Alexandria on Saturday, furious over an apparent suicide bombing against worshippers leaving a New Year's Mass at a church that killed at least 21 people. It was the worst violence against the country's Christian minority in a decade.

US Capitol briefly evacuated by airspace violation (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:51 PM PST

AP - An airliner lost radio contact Saturday as it approached the nation's capital, prompting the dispatch of fighter jets and the evacuation of the U.S. Capitol and all House and Senate office buildings.

Russian passenger jet explodes; 3 dead, 43 injured (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:05 AM PST

In this image taken from Russia 24 television channel TV, showing a tail part of the Russian passenger Tu-154 aircraft seen after an explosion in Surgut, about 2200 kilometers (1,350 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. The Russian passenger jet carrying 128 people caught fire and later exploded at a Siberian airport on Saturday, killing one person and injuring several others, officials said. The rest of the passengers and crew were safely evacuated before the explosion in the Western Siberian oil town of Surgut. (AP Photo/Rossia 24 Television Channel) TV OUTAP - A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded Saturday, killing three people and injuring 43, including six who were badly burned, officials said.

Ivory Coast: Ouattara ally calls for force (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:02 PM PST

A UN soldier stands guard inside the UN Headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Cost, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. The United Nations is warning supporters of incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo that an attack on the hotel where the internationally recognized winner of last month's election is based could re-ignite civil war. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - A top ally of the man widely recognized as Ivory Coast's president said incumbent Laurent Gbagbo is using stalling tactics to stay in power and urged the international community on Saturday to intervene with "legitimate force" to remove him.

Rousseff sworn in as Brazil's new president (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:55 AM PST

Brazil´s outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, raises the arm of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff after placing the presidential sash on her at the Planalto palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. Rousseff, a former rebel who was imprisoned and tortured during the nation's 21-year military dictatorship, was sworn in as Brazil's first female president Saturday.(AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - Dilma Rousseff was sworn in as Brazil's first female president Saturday, capping a rapid political trajectory for the career technocrat and former Marxist rebel who was imprisoned and tortured during the nation's long military dictatorship.

Fans relieved to be able to watch Outback Bowl (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:49 AM PST

AP - College football fans breathed a sigh of relief Saturday that they're able to watch the Florida Gators play the Penn State Nittany Lions in today's Outback Bowl from the comfort of their own homes, after Sinclair Broadcasting Group and two cable TV companies agreed to extend contract talks for two more weeks.

Oprah Winfrey launches her OWN cable network (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:18 PM PST

AP - Oprah Winfrey's network has begun not with a bang but with redeclared purpose by the Queen of Daytime for her new round-the-clock cable channel venture.

After storms, sun shines brightly on Rose Parade (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:54 PM PST

Rose Parade spectator Riley DeGeorge, 9, from Martinez, Calif. carries his sleeping bag, as he moves to his parade spot where he and his family will spend the night, ahead of the New Year's 122nd Rose Parade Friday, Dec.31, 2010, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - After a holiday season of relentless rain in Southern California, the 122nd Rose Parade was bathed Saturday in abundant sunshine.

Obama's New Year's resolution? Fix the economy (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:17 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks during his news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington December 22, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters - President Barack Obama has set his New Year's resolution high for 2011: repair the struggling economy.

Suspected suicide bomber kills 21 at Egypt church (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:27 PM PST

People gather after a bomb exploded in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria January 1, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A bomb killed at least 21 people outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early on New Year's Day and the Interior Ministry said a foreign-backed suicide bomber may have been responsible.

Ivory Coast Gbagbo's last chance to avoid force: rival (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:49 AM PST

Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo casts his vote at Cocody, Abidjan November 28, 2010. REUTERS/Thierry GouegnonReuters - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has only days in which to leave power peacefully with immunity, the prime minister of Ivory Coast's presidential rival Alassane Ouattara said on Saturday.

Son of Iranian woman sentenced to death urges clemency (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:51 PM PST

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, attends a meeting with her son Sajjad Ghaderzadeh at a provincial welfare organisation in Tabriz, 633 km (396 miles) northwest of Tehran, January 1, 2011. REUTERS/Morteza NikoubazlReuters - An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery was allowed out on prison leave to have dinner with her daughter and son on Saturday, hours after he had appealed to the judiciary to spare her life.

Russia in milestone oil pipeline supply to China (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 02:50 AM PST

Reuters - Russia, the world's top crude exporter, said it had begun scheduled oil shipments to China via an East Siberian link on Saturday as the Kremlin cements ties with its energy-hungry neighbor.

Palestinian woman dies after protest (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:34 PM PST

Palestinians carry the body of Jawaher Abu Rahmah during her funeral in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah January 1, 2011. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanReuters - A senior Palestinian medical official said a woman died on Saturday after being treated for inhaling gas fired by Israeli forces quelling a protest a day earlier in the occupied West Bank.

Estonia joins crisis-hit euro club (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 05:50 AM PST

A new designed Estonian Two-Euro coin is seen in this handout photo obtained by Reuters December 31, 2010. REUTERS/Estonian Central Bank (Eesti Pank)/HandoutReuters - Estonia switched smoothly to the euro on Saturday, brushing off worries about a crisis in the currency club which is likely to put off bigger eastern European nations from joining for up to a decade.

North Korea calls for end to hostility with South (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Dec 2010 06:46 PM PST

Armed North Korean soldiers stand guard on the banks of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, December 21, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - North Korea on Saturday called for an end to confrontation with the South, urging dialogue after one of the most violent years on the divided peninsula since the 1950-53 Korean War.

Suicide bomber kills 21 at Egypt church (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:58 AM PST

Egyptians transport the body of a Christian worshipper from the Al-Qiddissin (The Saints) church following an overnight car bomb attack in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. Egypt said a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 79 outside a Coptic church on Saturday, in an attack President Hosni Mubarak said was the work of AFP - Egypt said a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 79 outside a Coptic church on Saturday, in an attack President Hosni Mubarak said was the work of "foreign hands."

Brazil's first female president sworn in (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:39 AM PST

Newly sworn-in Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (L) receives the presidential sash from outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia. Rousseff, who beat opposition candidate Jose Serra in a run-off election last October with 56 percent of the votes, has become the South American nation's first female president.(AFP/Evaristo Sa)AFP - Dilma Rousseff was sworn in as Brazil's first female president Saturday pledging to build on the policies of her hugely popular predecessor and mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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