Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Four things we learned from Thursday's GOP debate

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:59 PM PDT

Here are four things we learned from Thursday night's Republican Party of Florida/Fox News/Google debate in Orlando, the third GOP presidential debate in as many weeks:

Yemeni president returns home

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:44 PM PDT

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned home after undergoing treatment in Saudi Arabia, a government spokesman said Friday.

Perry is focus of attention, attacks at Florida debate

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:35 PM PDT

The perils of being the Republican frontrunner came into sharp focus for Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday at a debate in Florida, with his rivals aggressively seeking to poke holes in his record and dislodge him from the top of the polls.

State media: 11 more bodies discovered in Mexico

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:34 PM PDT

Mexican authorities discovered 11 more bodies in the coastal state of Veracruz on Thursday, days after 35 bodies were found on a busy road in the same area, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.

Social media to curb 'rumors' in China

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:04 PM PDT

Don't post rumors -- or else.

Walkouts and fury: A look at Ahmadinejad's U.N. speeches

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:20 PM PDT

Whether he is predicting the demise of the U.S. "empire," questioning U.S. accounts of the 9/11 attacks or accusing Europe of using the Holocaust as an excuse for supporting Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows how to push the West's buttons at the U.N. General Assembly.

Polish paintings, stolen by Nazis, repatriated in New York

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:42 PM PDT

Seven decades after Nazi forces looted the National Museum in Warsaw during World War II, two paintings by treasured Polish artist Julian Falat were repatriated in a ceremony Thursday night, according to a statement from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Chelsea Clinton quizzes mom on technology, global issues

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:16 PM PDT

Chelsea Clinton, days after joining Facebook, upped her public profile Thursday by interviewing her mother, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, about technology, democracy, global health and other issues.

House GOP leaders propose more spending cuts to offset disaster aid

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:12 PM PDT

Republican leaders will propose cutting more spending to balance the amount of additional disaster relief money in a short-term government spending measure defeated earlier by the House, two Republican sources told CNN on Thursday.

Shots fired at California border checkpoint

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:09 PM PDT

A Customs and Border Protection officer was involved in a shooting at the San Ysidro port of entry, in the area used to process pedestrians crossing the Mexican border into the United States, an official with the agency said Thursday.

Man found in hot tub with Arkansas weatherman asphyxiated

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:38 PM PDT

A man whose naked body was found next to a sleeping TV weatherman in an unfilled tub earlier this month died from asphyxiation, authorities said Thursday, but there was "no indication" he was strangled.

Libya military site yields possible radioactive material

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:32 PM PDT

Anti-Gadhafi forces have come across a military site in southern Libya that contains what appears to be radioactive material.

World shocked by U.S. execution of Troy Davis

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:27 PM PDT

Troy Davis may be dead, but his execution Thursday in the American state of Georgia has made him the poster boy for the global movement to end the death penalty.

Berkeley students take over campus building to protest proposed tuition hike

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT

More than 150 students at the University of California at Berkeley took over a campus building Thursday to protest a proposed 81% increase in tuition fees, university officials said.

Facebook revamps site with 'Timeline' and real-time apps

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:56 PM PDT

Facebook wants to hear your life story.

American's hell at Evin Prison and her advice to hikers

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:51 PM PDT

A trip to Iran to learn more about her family's ancestry became a nightmare for American journalist Roxana Saberi. In January 2009, while she was working in the country, several men showed up at the Iranian-American's door and carted her off to Evin Prison, the notoriously brutal lockup outside Tehran where three American hikers were recently imprisoned. Like Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, Saberi was accused of being a spy for the U.S.

Bangladesh strike over fuel price hike paralyzes daily life

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:41 PM PDT

Thousands of anti-riot police were in the streets of Bangladesh's capital city Thursday as the opposition alliance launched a day-long general strike in protest of a fuel price hike.

Severely beaten baseball fan now able to speak

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:32 PM PDT

A San Francisco Giants baseball fan severely beaten in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium has taken a monumental step in his recovery -- speaking for the first time in nearly six months.

Texas drops special last meal for death row inmates

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:28 PM PDT

The hefty last meal ordered but not eaten by an executed Texas inmate brought a complaint from a state senator and the end Thursday to the practice of special menus.
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