Monday, August 23, 2010

9 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus (AP)

9 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus (AP)

9 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Policemen prepare to assault the tourist bus seized by dismissed police officer Rolando Mendoza Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines. Police stormed the bus after shots were heard from the hostage-taker of 15 Chinese tourists and at least four of the hostages crawled out of the back door. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - A 12-hour hostage drama aboard a hijacked Philippine bus ended in bloodshed Monday when an angry ex-policeman demanding his job back gunned down eight Hong Kong tourists before police stormed the vehicle and a sniper killed him.

Afghanistan security force more than a year away (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:47 PM PDT

British soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard during a patrol in the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province, 2007. US General David Petraeus said that the international troops he commands in Afghanistan have turned the tide on the Taliban's AP - A senior U.S. commander on Monday wouldn't predict when Afghanistan might take control of its own security and warned that NATO needs at least another year to recruit and train enough soldiers and police officers.

Rescuers expand lifeline to trapped Chile miners (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Relatives of miners trapped in a collapsed mine react after knowing that they were found alive in Copiapo, northern Chile. The miners have been trapped below the surface of the mine since the main access collapsed. In background, a Chilean flag. (AP Photo/Hector Retamal)AP - Engineers reinforced a lifeline Monday to 33 miners entombed deep inside a Chilean gold and copper mine, preparing to keep them supplied with food, water, medicine and communications during the four months it may take to carve a tunnel wide enough to pull them out.

Obama stem cell regulations temporarily blocked (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:47 PM PDT

AP - A federal judge has temporarily blocked Obama administration regulations expanding stem cell research.

'Grim Sleeper' suspect pleads not guilty in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 8, 2010 filer photo, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. appears for arraignment on multiple charges as the alleged 'Grim Sleeper' killer, in Los Angeles Superior Court. Franklin is expected to plead not guilty to the ten charges of murder on Monday Aug. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Al Seib, Pool)AP - The backyard mechanic accused of being the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer pleaded not guilty Monday to murdering 10 women and trying to kill one more person over the course of two decades.

Oil spill investigators focus on communication (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:40 PM PDT

Co-chair U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Hung Nguyen, right, asks a question as U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Mark Higgins, left, and Wayne Andersen, center, retired U.S. District Judge, listen during the Deepwater Horizon joint investigation hearings by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Management, Regulation and Enforcement Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 in Houston. (AP Photo/Melissa Phillip, Pool)AP - Federal investigators seeking the cause of the rig explosion that led to BP's massive Gulf oil spill focused Monday on communication and chain of command, wondering at times whether the key players knew enough to handle an emergency.

Israel faces difficult choice on settlement freeze (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:36 PM PDT

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat gives a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. President Mahmoud Abbas sent a letter to Obama stressing that any renewed Israeli settlement construction would end the talks, said Erekat. (AP Photo)AP - Even before peace talks with the Palestinians begin, Israel's government is fiercely debating a key concession: whether to extend a slowdown of West Bank settlement construction.

AZ escapees, companion charged with murder in NM (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:34 PM PDT

Former escaped fugitive John McCluskey arrives for his initial appearance at Apache County Superior Court Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 in St. Johns, Ariz. McCluskey escaped from a Kingman, Ariz. prison and has been on the lam since July 30th with his fiancee Casslyn Welch. Both were apprehended at an eastern Arizona campground on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest on Thursday, Aug. 19th. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Two escaped convicts from Arizona and a woman who accompanied them were charged with murder and carjacking Monday in the deaths of an Oklahoma couple who authorities said were targeted because of their camping trailer.

Group wants to end setting dogs on chained bears (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:32 PM PDT

In an on April 24, 2010 image from video provided by The Humane Society of the United States, a dog is shown barking at a captive bear during a bear baying event in Spartanburg, S.C. Bear baying is a training method for hunting dogs and in the U.S. it is only legal in South Carolina. (AP Photo/The Humane Society of the United States)AP - A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina.

Tiger Woods, wife officially divorced (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2006, file photo, Tiger Woods celebrates with wife Elin Nordegren after winning the 88th PGA Championship golf tournament at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. Woods and his wife are officially divorced. The lawyers for Woods and Nordegren said in a statement that the divorce became official Monday Aug. 23, 2010, in Bay County Circuit Court, in Panama City,Fla. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)AP - Tiger Woods and his Swedish-born wife officially divorced Monday, nine months after his middle-of-the night car crash outside his home set off shocking revelations that the world's most famous athlete had been cheating on his wife.

Gunman, eight hostages killed in Manila bus siege (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:31 AM PDT

A former police officer, whom according to local media is former Senior Inspector Rolando del Rosario Mendoza, talks to hostage negotiators while a list of demands is displayed on the windshield of a bus parked near Quirino Grandstand in Manila August 23, 2010. The armed former policeman is demanding his reinstatement to the force. Several tourists, including three children, have been released from the bus, according to officials and media reports. REUTERS/Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)Reuters - Philippine police shot dead a sacked former policeman as they stormed a bus on which he was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists hostage in central Manila on Monday, and the government said eight hostages were killed.

HP sparks bidding war with Dell over 3PAR (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:30 AM PDT

A HP Invent logo is pictured in front of Hewlett-Packard international offices in Meyrin near Geneva August 4, 2009. REUTERS/Denis BalibouseReuters - Hewlett-Packard Co sparked a bidding war for 3PAR Inc on Monday with a $1.6 billion offer, topping rival Dell Inc's deal to buy the niche data storage company.

Pakistan to seek IMF help for flood-battered economy (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 07:45 AM PDT

Children grab for blocks of ice being handed out at a road-side camp for flood victims near Shabar Jangi on the outskirts of Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province August 22, 2010. REUTERS/Tim WimborneReuters - Pakistan braced for more flooding in the south as officials were due to hold talks in Washington on Monday with the International Monetary Fund on how to shore up the battered economy to maintain stability.

FDA head says more egg recalls possible (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 08:43 AM PDT

Janet Weaver, of Des Moines, Iowa, shops for eggs at a Dahl's grocery store, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa. A sign on the cooler said the eggs were not effected by the recall. Two Iowa farms have recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner on Monday said there may be more recalls of eggs in the salmonella outbreak and the agency did not yet know how the eggs and chickens were contaminated.

Compensation czar takes charge of $20 billion BP fund (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:23 AM PDT

Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund, testifies before the House Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing on Reuters - A $20 billion compensation fund for economic victims of the BP Gulf oil spill opens for business on Monday amid accusations that the rules established by its administrator are unfair.

Scandal-hit Tiger Woods and wife divorce: lawyers (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:52 PM PDT

Reuters - The world's No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods and his Swedish wife Elin Nordegren said on Monday they had divorced following the torrid sex scandal that engulfed Woods late last year.

Fed loses bid to review bailout disclosure ruling (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:10 PM PDT

Reuters - The Federal Reserve will have to appeal to the Supreme Court if it wants to avoid having to disclose details of its emergency lending programs to banks bailed out with taxpayer money during the financial crisis.

U.S. drone strike kills 20 people in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:11 AM PDT

Reuters - Missiles fired from a U.S. pilotless drone aircraft killed 13 militants and 7 civilians in Pakistan's North Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Eight Hong Kong tourists killed in Philippine bus hijacking (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:51 AM PDT

Philippine policemen take position as they start their attack on the tourist bus hijacked in Manila. Philippine security forces stormed a bus packed with Hong Kong tourists on Monday to end a dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded live on global television, leaving eight people and the gunman dead.(AFP/Noel Celis)AFP - Philippine security forces stormed a bus packed with Hong Kong tourists on Monday to end a dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded live on global television, leaving eight people and the gunman dead.

Tough road ahead for trapped Chile miners (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:44 AM PDT

Picture of a banner with the pictures of the 33 miners trapped in the San Esteban gold and copper mine in Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago. Euphoria at finding 33 Chilean miners alive after an amazing 17 days trapped underground mixed Monday with the inevitable anguish that it could take till Christmas to rescue them.(AFP/Martin Bernetti)AFP - Euphoria at finding 33 Chilean miners alive after an amazing 17 days trapped underground mixed Monday with the inevitable anguish that it could take till Christmas to rescue them.
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