Monday, September 24, 2012

Libya appoints military officers to head militias

Libya appoints military officers to head militias

Libya appoints military officers to head militias

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:58 PM PDT

Soldiers from the Libyan National Army get ready to enter Rafallah al-sahati Islamic Militia Brigades compound, the compound buildings can be seen behind the wall, in Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. On Friday evening hundreds of protesters angry over last week's killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya stormed the compound of the Islamic extremist Ansar al-Shariah Brigade militia suspected in the attack, evicting militiamen and setting fire to their building. After taking over the Ansar compound, protesters then drove to attack the Benghazi headquarters of Rafallah Sahati where militiamen opened fire on the protesters, who were largely unarmed leaving at least 20 wounded, and several killed according to hospital sources. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)Libya's military command appointed Monday a pair of army officers to head two powerful Islamist militias in the country's east, part of the government's efforts to rein in armed factions amid popular demands that the groups disband.

New SARS-like virus detected in Middle East

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:58 PM PDT

Global health officials are closely following a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left another person in critical condition in Britain.

Argentine leader challenges critics in US

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2012 file photo, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez speaks at an event marking the anniversary of the stock exchange and the final payment on a bond given to people whose savings were confiscated a decade ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As Fernandez addresses the United Nations Tuesday, Sept. 25 and then seminars at Georgetown and Harvard later in the week, she's sure to insist, as she has often in the past, that her forceful management of the economy has made factories rebound, jobs more secure, society more egalitarian and the future brighter than it has been in years. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)President Cristina Fernandez is on a US tour this week with a message for critics on Wall Street and in Washington who say Argentina is headed for economic disaster by refusing to play by the rules of the global financial system: good riddance to the rules.

Libyan leader delivers personal apology for Benghazi attack

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:55 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Libyan leader Mohammed Magarief personally apologized to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday for this month's attack on the consulate in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, and pledged his government would bring the perpetrators to justice. "What happened on 11th of September towards these U.S. citizens does not express in any way the conscience of the Libyan people, their aspirations, their hopes or their sentiments towards the American people," Magarief, the head of Libya's national congress, told Clinton at a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. ...

Libyan government puts army in charge of Benghazi militias

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:55 PM PDT

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's government, seeking to assert its authority over private militias following the killing of U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, placed two powerful freelance units in the city under the command of full-time army officers on Monday. Commanders of two units which have, with official sanction, been providing security since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi were ordered removed and the men of the February 17 Brigade and Rafallah al-Sahati militia put under army orders. A third unit, Libya's Shield, would also change leadership, an official said. ...

UN envoy: Syria war is threatening the region

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT

Lakhdar Brahimi, right, joint special representative for Syria, arrives at closed door consultations regarding the situation in Syria at the Security Council at United Nations headquarters Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/David Karp)Syria's civil war is worsening and there is no prospect of a quick end to the violence, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday in a gloomy assessment to the U.N. Security Council.

Yemen: Intelligence officer killed in shooting

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT

Yemeni security officials say gunmen have killed a senior intelligence officer in a drive-by shooting as he emerged from his office in the capital.

Snooki law would let NJ towns regulate reality TV

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT

In this July 15, 2011 photo, MTV cameras film Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi during the taping of a "Jersey Shore" episode on the Seaside Heights, N.J., boardwalk. A New Jersey assemblyman introduced a law on Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, that would let towns regulate the filming of reality TV shows within their borders, including charging for the cost of extra police protection. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)A New Jersey lawmaker wants towns to have a say in the filming of reality TV shows within their boundaries before a Situation develops.

Neb's Martinez leads Big Ten in passing efficiency

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:52 PM PDT

Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez (3) throws in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Idaho State, in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)Wisconsin figures to see a much different Taylor Martinez on Saturday than the guy they saw a year ago.

Investigator: Woman died from buttocks implant

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:50 PM PDT

An investigator says a Georgia woman had little chance of surviving an illegal cosmetic procedure in Mississippi because so much of a silicone-like substance was injected in her buttocks that it caused blood clots.

Peanut butter recall expands beyond Trader Joe's

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:48 PM PDT

A California company is recalling 76 types of peanut butter and almond butter after one of its products was linked to a salmonella outbreak at Trader Joe's groceries.

Newsmagazine on gay, lesbian issues shutting down

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:46 PM PDT

A monthly public television newsmagazine focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues is shutting down after its December episode.

Washington state's first 'zombie bees' reported

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:44 PM PDT

The infection is as grim as it sounds: "Zombie bees" have a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die.

Bieber mom Pattie Mallette writes of painful past

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:44 PM PDT

This Sept. 20, 2012 photo shows Pattie Mallette, mother of Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, entrepreneur and actor Justin Bieber, in New York. Mallette is the author of an autobiography called "Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom," which was released on Sept. 18. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)Pattie Mallette was 18, living in a home for pregnant girls after years of unrelenting sex abuse and depression when she gave birth to a boy she thought she'd name Jesse, a boy whose first cry sounded like a song.

Clifford the Big Red Dog feted on 50th birthday

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:41 PM PDT

This image released by Scholastic shows first graders celebrating Clifford the Big Red Dog's 50th anniversary, along with his creator Norman Bridwell, center rear, his daughter Elizabeth, left, and Scholastic CEO Dick Robinson at Scholastic's headquarters in New York, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Scholastic, Stuart Ramson)School kids sang "Happy Birthday" and Scholastic unfurled a huge banner worthy of a big red dog from the roof of its headquarters Monday to fete Clifford, the beloved book and TV character, for his 50 years of nudging kids to read.

Ex-prof in court on Ala. university shooting

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:41 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 13, 2010, file booking photo provided by the Huntsville, Ala., Police Department shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the Feb. 12, 2010 shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Bishop pleaded guilty to capital murder charges in an agreement that will send to her prison for the rest of her life and make her ineligible for the death penalty. A judge scheduled jury selection for Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, as a trial is still required under Alabama law because Bishop admitted to a capital charge of murder. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Department, File)A police investigator testified Monday during the murder trial of a former university professor that the woman denied having anything to do with the rampage that left three of her colleagues dead and three others wounded.

Nepal avalanche hit climbers as they were sleeping

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:40 PM PDT

In this picture taken Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 and released by Alpine Ascents International, an unidentified rescuer speaks to an unidentified survivor in the debris field of an avalanche on Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal. Rescue helicopters flew over the high slopes of the northern Nepal peak again Monday to search for climbers lost in an avalanche that killed at least nine mountaineers and injured others. Many of the climbers were French, German and Italian. (AP Photo/Garrett Madison, Alpine Ascents International)Mountaineers who survived a pre-dawn avalanche high on the world's eighth-tallest peak say they waited an hour for sunlight, and then saw pieces of tents and bodies of victims strewn around them on the snow.

Dutch Van Gogh Museum closes, masterpieces moved

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT

Curators are putting Vincent van Gogh's famous "Sunflowers" painting onto a felt-lined carrier trolley at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. While the museum closes for seven months for renovations, 75 works by the Dutch painter will be displayed instead across town at The Hermitage, an Amsterdam satellite of the Russian state museum. The tricky process of transporting the artworks under police escort began immediately after the last visitors left the museum Sunday evening and carried on through the night into Monday morning. The Van Gogh Museum reopens April 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Cris Toala Olivares)The operation began moments after the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed Sunday evening. Men removed alarm tags from behind some of Vincent Van Gogh's greatest masterpieces, including "Sunflowers," ''Irises" and the famously crooked "Bedroom," and quickly pulled the paintings down from the museum's walls.

Clinton urges tolerance amid anti-US protests

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:36 PM PDT

United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed Monday to Muslims to show "dignity" and not resort to violence as they protest an anti-Islam film produced in the United States.

In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be "eliminated"

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:35 PM PDT

Iran's President Ahmadinejad addresses diplomats during the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday disregarded a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric and declared ahead of the annual General Assembly session that Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated." Ahmadinejad also said he did not take seriously the threat that Israel could launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, denied sending arms to Syria, and alluded to Iran's threats to the life of British author Salman Rushdie. ...

Iran says new drone can cover much of region

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:33 PM PDT

A senior Iranian commander says the country's newly-produced missile-carrying drone has a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), which puts much of the Middle East within operating distance of Iranian territory.

More motherly McMahon aims for GOP upset in Conn.

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:29 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 photo, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon, left, talks with deputy communications director Kate Duffy during a visit to the Naugatuck Senior Center in Naugatuck, Conn. Wealthy former pro wrestling executive McMahon is shifting her image from groin-kicking CEO to grandmother in her second bid for a Senate seat from Connecticut. Polls show the strategy seems to be working against three-term Democratic congressman Chris Murphy. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)Wealthy former professional wrestling executive Linda McMahon is shifting her image from groin-kicking CEO to grandmother in her second bid for Senate in Connecticut. The makeover seems to be working against three-term Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy, putting McMahon suddenly in reach of an upset in the Democratic-leaning state.

US helps investigation of Honduran lawyer's death

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:28 PM PDT

An official says the U.S. embassy is helping Hondurans investigate the murder of a prominent human rights lawyer who had represented lands rights groups in disputes between agrarian organizations and landowners.

Shakespeare's Globe offers 3 plays at cinemas

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:26 PM PDT

This undated image released by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre shows Paul Hilton during a performance of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, which proudly has a foot in the past, is taking a bold step into the future.

Apple says more than 5 million iPhone 5s sold

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:25 PM PDT

FILE-In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012, file photo, a staff member of Apple Inc. shows the iPhone 5 to customers at the Apple store in Hong Kong. Apple Inc. said Monday Sept. 24 2012, that it has sold more than 5 million units of the new iPhone 5 in the three days since its launch, less than analysts had expected. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)Apple Inc. said Monday that it sold more than 5 million units of the iPhone 5 in the three days since its launch, fewer than analysts had expected.

Barron's slams Facebook, stock falls

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT

This combination of Associated Press file photos, show advertising for the financial magazine Barron's on display in New York on July 23, 2007, and the Facebook logo on an iPad in Philadelphia on May 16, 2012. Facebook Inc.'s stock took a hit Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, after an article in Barron's said it is "still too pricey" despite a sharp decline since its initial public offering. (AP Photo/File)Facebook Inc.'s stock took a hit Monday after an article in the financial magazine Barron's said it is "still too pricey" despite a sharp decline since its initial public offering.

Pursuit of alleged Nazi camp guard timeless

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, the home of Johann "Hans" Breyer, center, is seen in Philadelphia. Breyer is the target of a new German investigation on allegations he served as an SS guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp, The Associated Press has learned, in a case that comes after years of unsuccessful U.S. Department of Justice attempts to have him stripped of his American citizenship and deported. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)The chief Nazi hunter with the Simon Wiesenthal Center says age and the passage of time are no barriers to investigating alleged Nazi activity during World War II.

Katie Couric opens up about battling bulimia

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:23 PM PDT

This undated photo released by ABC shows host Katie Couric, left, with actress-singer and judge on the singing competition series "The X Factor," Demi Lovato during the taping of an appearance on "Katie," in New York. The interview will air on Monday, Sept. 24. (AP Photo/Disney-ABC Domestic Television, Ida Mae Astute)Viewers of Katie Couric's talk show were doubtless surprised on Monday when, during the discussion of eating disorders, Couric disclosed that she had had her own struggles with that cruel, sometimes deadly condition.

G20 aides say central banks' fix not enough - Mexico

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:22 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Group of 20 nations want governments to do more to augment central bank actions to reverse a global economic downturn, officials said on Monday. Deputy finance ministers and central bankers of the G20, which comprises wealthy nations and leading emerging economies, held two days of meetings in Mexico City on Sunday and Monday ahead of a summit in November. Mexican Deputy Finance Minister Gerardo Rodriguez said new measures to boost fragile economies from the Bank of Japan, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have helped to calm markets but were not enough. ...

US stocks drift as European gloom returns

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:21 PM PDT

FILE- In this Sept. 20, 2012, file photo, Trulia co-founder and CEO Pete Flint, right, talks with trader Thomas Kay, center, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Asian stocks mostly drifted lower Monday, Sept. 24, as investors' growing concerns about the shaky global economy overpowered any remaining optimism over central bank stimulus efforts. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)U.S. stocks meandered sideways Monday as fears about Europe overshadowed recent excitement about central banks' efforts to boost the market.

Oil drops below $92 on gloomy economic outlook

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:20 PM PDT

Worries about weaker economic growth dragged down oil prices Monday.

Boston.com launches 1st online radio with DJs

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:19 PM PDT

In this Aug. 24, 2012 photo, disc jockey Julie Kramer broadcasts during her program "Lunch at Your Desk" at Radio BDC at the Boston Globe in Boston. The station, previously known as WFNX, has a new life streaming online at boston.com. Experts say it could be a model for other stations that can no longer be found on a radio dial. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)A beloved Boston-area independent alternative radio station is getting new life online several times over in partnership with traditional print media, and experts say it could be a model for other stations that can no longer be found on a radio dial.

Dems give $299,756 for Murphy TV ads in Conn.

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:18 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 photo, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon, left, talks with deputy communications director Kate Duffy during a visit to the Naugatuck Senior Center in Naugatuck, Conn. Wealthy former pro wrestling executive McMahon is shifting her image from groin-kicking CEO to grandmother in her second bid for a Senate seat from Connecticut. Polls show the strategy seems to be working against three-term Democratic congressman Chris Murphy. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)Senate Democrats are pouring $299,756 into congressman Chris Murphy's campaign in Connecticut against former pro wrestling executive Linda McMahon.

Village Voice being sold; Backpage.com left behind

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:15 PM PDT

The Village Voice is being sold, along with all of its affiliated free arts weekly newspapers, but the deal excludes the online classified site Backpage.com, whose listings have drawn fire for promoting the illegal sex trade.

FBI to investigate officer shooting double-amputee

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT

John Garcia stands in front of his home Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012, in Houston, where police say an officer shot and killed a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair inside the group home. Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the man cornered the officer in his wheelchair and was making threats while trying to stab the officer with the pen. At the time, the officer did not know what the metal object was that the man was waving, Silva said. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)The FBI will help investigate what led a Houston police officer to shoot and kill a wheelchair-bound double amputee who was agitated and threatening police with what turned out to be a ballpoint pen, the city's police chief said Monday.

Belarus elects entirely pro-government parliament

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:07 PM PDT

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Belarus is holding parliamentary elections Sunday without the main opposition parties, which boycotted the vote to protest the detention of political prisoners and opportunities for election fraud. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)International observers on Monday condemned a weekend vote in Belarus in which not a single opposition politician won a parliament seat. The election looks set to deepen the former Soviet nation's diplomatic isolation.

Conservative fund considers backing Mo. Rep. Akin

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Missouri Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., smiles at left as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during news conference, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, in Kirkwood, Mo. Akin is seeking to unseat incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. in the November election. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)A conservative fundraising group that had shied away from Missouri Rep. Todd Akin is now seriously considering whether to come to the embattled Republican's aid in his challenge to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, an official with the group said Monday.

UK to extradite radical Muslim cleric to US

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:04 PM PDT

FILE - This is a Friday, April 30, 2004. file photo of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, as he arrives with a masked bodyguard, right, to conduct Friday prayers in the street outside the closed Finsbury Park Mosque in London, Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has lost a court appeal to be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges, including allegedly trying to set up an al-Qaida training camp in rural Oregon, officials said Monday Sept. 24, 2012 . The European Court of Human Rights gave its final approval for the cleric's extradition Monday, ending a long-running legal battle. The decision means that al-Masri, considered one of Britain's most notorious extremists, could be deported within weeks. (AP Photo/Max Nash, File )A European court ruled Monday that radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges, including allegedly trying to set up an al-Qaida training camp in rural Oregon.

Despite disapproval, someone will win Obama-Romney

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets ready to board his campaign plane in Los Angeles. Never have American voters re-elected a president whose work they disapprove of as much as Barack Obama. Not that Mitt Romney can take much comfort _ they've never elected a challenger with such high disapproval ratings, either. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)Never have American voters re-elected a president whose work they disapprove of as much as Barack Obama's. Not that Mitt Romney can take much comfort — they've never elected a challenger they view so negatively, either.

IMF chief says action needed on global economy

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 12:58 PM PDT

The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday called on government leaders in Europe and the United States to take urgent action in dealing with a faltering global economy.
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