Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Bed-ridden, caged, Egypt's Mubarak goes on trial (AP)

Bed-ridden, caged, Egypt's Mubarak goes on trial (AP)

Bed-ridden, caged, Egypt's Mubarak goes on trial (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:39 PM PDT

This video image taken from Egyptian State Television showing 83-year-old former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak laying on a hospital bed flanked by his two sons Gamal and Alaa, inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011, as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him from office. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign. (AP Photo/Egyptian State TV) EGYPT OUTAP - An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons standing protectively beside him in white prison uniforms, denied charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters at the start of his historic trial on Wednesday.

72 charged in probe of child sexual abuse network (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:31 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder listens at left as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks at the Justice in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, to discuss the results of the largest U.S. prosecution of an international criminal network organized to sexually exploit children. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Seventy-two people have been charged with participating in an international child pornography network that prosecutors say used an online bulletin board called Dreamboard to trade tens of thousands of images and videos of sexually abused children.

Report: Global cyberattack under way for 5 years (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:36 PM PDT

This screen shot shows the McAfee website. A computer security firm says cybercriminals have spent at least the past five years targeting more than 70 government entities, nonprofit groups and corporations to steal troves of data. McAfee Inc. said in a report Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, that the attacks have targeted a broad range of organizations, including the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee and companies in mostly in the United States. (AP Photo)AP - A computer security firm says cybercriminals have spent at least the past five years targeting more than 70 government entities, nonprofit groups and corporations around the world to steal troves of data.

Pickup taken from home of dead NH girl, 11 (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:34 PM PDT

This cell phone photo shows law enforcement officials standing near a silver pickup truck being removed from where it was parked near the home of Celina Cass, in Stewartstown, N.H., Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. Cass, 11, had been missing for a week before her body was found nearby in the Connecticut River, on Monday. (AP Photo/Lynne Tuohy)AP - Investigators probing the death of an 11-year-old northern New Hampshire girl hauled away a silver pickup truck from outside her home Wednesday.

Okla. woman claims famed hijacker is her uncle (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:38 PM PDT

FILE--A 1971 artist's sketch released by the FBI shows the skyjacker known as 'Dan Cooper' and 'D.B. Cooper', was made from the recollections of passengers and crew of a Northwest Orient Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle, Nov. 24, 1971, Thanksgiving eve. FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich tells The Seattle Times that a law enforcement member directed investigators to a person who might have helpful information on Cooper. (AP Photo/FBI/file)AP - An Oklahoma woman claims an uncle who planned something "very mischievous" over the holidays in 1971 was D.B. Cooper, the never-captured hijacker who jumped out of a plane with $200,000.

Man convicted in 1964 KKK slayings dies in prison (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:27 PM PDT

FILE -In this Aug. 24, 2007 file photo, reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale is seen in in Jackson, Miss., prior to sentencing in his role in the deadly abductions of two black teenagers in 1964. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Edmond Ross says Seale died Tuesday, Aug. 2 , 2011, in Terre Haute, Ind., where he had been serving three life sentences after being convicted in 2007 of two counts of kidnapping and one of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. He was 76 years old. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)AP - James Ford Seale, who was convicted and imprisoned decades after the segregation-era abduction and killing of two young black men by Ku Klux Klansmen in rural Mississippi, has died, a spokesman with the federal Bureau of Prisons said.

Tropical Storm Emily nears Dominican coast, Haiti (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:52 PM PDT

A man exercises on the Santo Domingo waterfront before the arrival of Tropical Storm Emily to the Dominican Republic, Wednesday Aug. 3, 2010. Forecasters say Emily will drop a huge amount of rain on the Dominican Republic and Haiti and is expected to reach the southwestern Dominican coast late Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Diaz)AP - Rain-packed Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and headed Wednesday toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still in tents and flimsy shanties after last year's earthquake.

Dow Jones average edges higher, erasing losses (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:52 PM PDT

Trader Michael J. Omara works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)AP - The Dow Jones industrial average edged slightly higher in late afternoon trading Wednesday.

Earth's two moons? It's not lunacy, but new theory (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:26 PM PDT

This diagram provided by Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug, University of California, Santa Cruz via Nature shows a simulation of four stages of a collision between the Moon and a companion moon, four percent of the lunar mass, about 4 billion years ago. Earth once had a second moon, until it made the fatal mistake of smacking its big sister, some astronomers now theorize. For awhile when the Earth was young, it had a big moon, the one you see now, and a smaller 'companion moon' orbiting above. Then one day that smaller moon collided into the bigger one in what astronomers are calling the 'big splat.' (AP Photo/Martin Jutzi and Erik Asphaug, University of California, Santa Cruz via Nature)AP - In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is being called the "big splat."

Buchanan: No slur intended with Obama 'boy' quip (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 26, 2011 file photo, the Rev. Al Sharpton arrives at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. Whether MSNBC will hire Sharpton despite questions about his booster role for the cable channel's parent company is undecided. MSNBC President Phil Griffin said Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, that Sharpton is doing a good job as a guest host for the 6 p.m. ET hour, the lead-in to MSNBC's primetime lineup that includes Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow. But a decision about hiring Sharpton has yet to be made, Griffin told a meeting of the Television Critics Association. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)AP - Pat Buchanan said that he didn't mean to slur President Barack Obama by referring to him as "your boy" during a discussion with Al Sharpton.

Service sector growth slowest since 2010 (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:52 AM PDT

Reuters - The pace of growth in the services sector ticked down unexpectedly in July to the lowest level since February 2010 and the number of jobs created by the private sector also slowed, reports showed on Wednesday.

EU says capacity to solve debt crisis in doubt (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:40 AM PDT

Reuters - The European Union acknowledged on Wednesday that investors now doubt whether the euro zone can overcome its debt crisis and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi called for more action to ward off market attacks.

World growth at risk as service sector slows (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:13 AM PDT

A woman walks in front of a shop window with a sign reading Reuters - Growth in much of the world's service sector was anemic in July as firms around the world worried about the debt crisis in Europe and the U.S. as a well as slowing consumer demand, business surveys showed on Wednesday.

Default avoided but fears on economy remain (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 05:52 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States stepped back from the brink of default on Tuesday but congressional approval of a last-ditch deficit-cutting plan failed to dispel fears of a credit downgrade and future tax and spending feuds.

Analysis: World poorly placed to meet new economic crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Reuters - With financial markets in turmoil and economic growth slowing, policymakers around the world may once again be forced to cooperate to try to head off a crisis, as they did successfully in 2008-2009. But this time, they have fewer good options.

U.S. seriously probing News Corp 9/11 hacking report (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:21 PM PDT

Reuters - Attorney General Eric Holder will reassure families of September 11 victims when he meets them later this month that the Justice Department is seriously investigating allegations that News Corp reporters tried to hack victims' phones.

Egypt puts Mubarak on trial, transfixing Arab world (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:59 AM PDT

A view of the Police Academy where the upcoming trial of former President Hosni Mubarak will take place in Cairo July 31, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, accused of corruption and involvement in killing protesters, went on trial Wednesday, delighting those who overthrew him and ringing an alarm bell for other autocrats around the Arab world.

U.S. gun industry sues to block rifle sales reporting (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 11:01 AM PDT

Reuters - The gun industry plans to file lawsuits on Wednesday challenging requirements that weapons dealers along the U.S. border with Mexico report multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles, escalating the fight with the Obama administration.

Egypt's Mubarak on trial for murder (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 12:30 PM PDT

In this image taken from Egyptian State television, Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak holds the microphone as he pleads not guilty on the first day proceeding at the court set up in the Cairo Police Academy on the outskirts of the capital.(AFP/Egyptian TV)AFP - Egypt's ailing Hosni Mubarak denied murder and graft charges after being wheeled into a cage on a stretcher Wednesday, the first time a former ruler faced his people in court since the Arab Spring erupted.

UN to adopt Syria statement as tanks besiege cities (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:41 AM PDT

Protesters call for the removal of Syrian president Bashar al Assad during a demonstration outside the Syrian embassy in Ankara on August 1. Syrian tanks stormed the protest hub of Hama, activists said Wednesday, as the UN Security Council geared up for a third day of meetings to seek a response to the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests.(AFP/File/Adem Altan)AFP - Syrian tanks stormed the city of Hama on Wednesday, activists said as UN Security Council envoys agreed a text to condemn the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests on the third day of arduous discussions.
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