Monday, September 26, 2011

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Opening statements to begin in trial of Michael Jackson's doctor

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:54 PM PDT

Jurors will hear opening statements and the first witnesses Tuesday in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop icon's death.

Egyptian pipeline bombed again

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:08 PM PDT

A blast early Tuesday morning destroyed a section of a gas pipeline in northern Sinai that carries gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan. It was the latest in a series of attacks on the pipeline in recent months.

Engineers to rappel down Washington Monument

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:07 PM PDT

It may look like an action movie being shot on the National Mall Tuesday, but in fact it will be engineers at work, rappelling down the sides of the Washington Monument, looking for damage caused by the August earthquake.

Typhoon Nesat slams northern Philippines

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 09:13 PM PDT

Typhoon Nesat struck the northern Philippine island of Luzon with top winds of 140 kph (87 mph) early Tuesday, the Philippine national weather agency reported.

Massive silver haul found on shipwreck

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:20 PM PDT

A shipwreck laden with 200 tonnes of silver -- the largest haul of precious metal ever found at sea -- has been discovered in the North Atlantic.

Ahmadinejad says Iran, Sudan are allies against 'powers of arrogance'

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:52 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out Monday at "the powers of arrogance," saying that both Sudan and Iran were subject to "pressures" from the West because of their political positions.

Charlie Sheen makes peace with "Two and a Half Men"

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:51 PM PDT

The $100 million lawsuit spurred by Charlie Sheen's dramatic firing from his hit CBS TV sitcom earlier this year has been settled "to the parties' mutual satisfaction," Warner Bros. Television and Sheen's attorney said Monday.

Obama continues fund-raising push in L.A.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama spent part of Monday hobnobbing with celebrities and other power-brokers in Southern California, continuing a West Coast trip that includes town-hall events, a meeting with Marines and fund-raisers for his re-election campaign.

Anger rises in India over redrawn poverty line

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:27 PM PDT

Prime minister Manmohan Singh faces a growing political storm over how to measure poverty in India amid fears that new benchmarks proposed by a powerful policymaking body could see many of the country's poor lose their welfare benefits.

Europe thinks the unthinkable to solve crisis

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:26 PM PDT

The window for resolving the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis is closing more quickly than policymakers anticipated.

K-9s, volunteers, police search in West Virginia for 3-year-old girl

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:07 PM PDT

K-9 dogs and hundreds of volunteers have joined authorities in West Virginia to look for a missing 3-year-old girl, but a sheriff's department lieutenant said in the two days since she was last seen that "we haven't come up with anything."

Engineers to rappel down Washington Monument

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:00 PM PDT

It may look like an action movie being shot on the National Mall Tuesday, but in fact it will be architect/engineers at work, rappelling down the sides of the Washington Monument, looking for damage caused by the August earthquake.

CNN Student News Transcript - September 27, 2011

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 06:38 PM PDT

September 27, 2011

Ex-IMF chief wants sex suit tossed out

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 06:37 PM PDT

Lawyers for ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by his accuser in a now-dismissed sexual assault case Monday, arguing his job gave him immunity from civil cases.

NBA team renamed Brooklyn Nets

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 06:31 PM PDT

Brooklyn Nets. This is what the NBA world will now be calling the New Jersey Nets.

EF-1 tornado rips Mississippi town

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 06:24 PM PDT

An EF-1 tornado with winds of 100 mph tore through the town of Cleveland, Mississippi, on Sunday evening, the National Weather Service in Jackson confirmed.

Zimbabwe to enforce equity deadline on foreign firms

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 06:09 PM PDT

Zimbabwe will decide Tuesday what action to take against foreign-owned companies that have missed a deadline to tell the government how they will transfer their majority equity to indigenous Zimbabweans, a senior government official has said.

Source: Chinese official tells Clinton U.S. should reconsider Taiwan arms deal

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 05:59 PM PDT

China is continuing to speak out against a multibillion-dollar U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, with the Chinese foreign minister telling U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday that the Obama administration should reconsider the deal.

Alleged U.K. cell charged with terror training in Pakistan

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 05:36 PM PDT

Six men appeared in a London court Monday charged in connection with an alleged planned terrorist bombing campaign in the United Kingdom. The six were arrested last week in Birmingham as part of what authorities called a "major operation."
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