Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Times Sq. bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks (AP)

Times Sq. bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks (AP)

Times Sq. bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:02 PM PDT

This June 29, 2010 photo taken from video and provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows an FBI-staged explosion in Osceola Mills, Pa., that prosecutors say replicates the power of the car bomb Faisal Shahzad tried to detonate in New York's Times Square on May 1, 2010. Shahzad, who pleaded guilty in June to 10 terrorism and weapons counts, was sentenced Tuesday, Oct. 5 2010 to life in prison. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims.

Bank bailout supporters struggling for re-election (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 21, 2008 file photo, Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it. Support for the program is turning into a kiss of death for many in Congress. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)AP - The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it. Support for the program is turning into a kiss of death for many in Congress.

Conn. jury convicts man in deadly home invasion (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:04 PM PDT

This July 2007 police photo released Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 by the Connecticut Judicial Branch as evidence presented Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 in the Steven Hayes trial in New Haven, Conn., Superior Court, shows the charred dining room of the Petit's Cheshire, Conn., home, where three family members were killed during a home invasion July 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Connecticut Judicial Branch)AP - A paroled burglar was convicted Tuesday of murdering a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror inside the family's home in a well-to-do Connecticut town.

Nevada Tea Party chairman quits after tape flap (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2010 file photo, Nevada Republican Senate candidate Senate Sharron Angle acknowledges supporters as she walks on stage for a candidate forum, at Faith Lutheran High School in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)AP - The chairman of the Tea Party of Nevada resigned Tuesday after a recording was made public capturing Republican Sharron Angle badmouthing GOP leaders during a meeting with the shadowy group's U.S. Senate candidate.

Taliban steps up attacks in Kandahar with blasts (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:20 PM PDT

A man killed in a blast is surrounded by his relatives in a hospital in Kandahar city, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Two explosions rocked Kandahar on Tuesday where U.S. and Afghan forces are ramping up operations in areas long held by the Taliban. At least eight people were killed and another 22 were wounded in the blasts, according to the province's officials. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Two explosions rocked Kandahar on Tuesday, the second day of deadly blasts in the southern Afghan city where Taliban insurgents are fighting back against U.S. and Afghan forces pushing into areas long held by the insurgents.

Ex-French trader must pay $6.7 billion for fraud (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:16 PM PDT

Jerome Kerviel, center, followed by his lawyer Olivier Metzner, second right, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010. The Paris court will hand down a verdict in the case of the former French trader accused of masterminding one of history's biggest trading frauds and costing one of France's largest banks billions in losses. Kerviel, the 33-year-old former index futures trader at Societe Generale SA, risks five years in prison and a euro 375,000 ($513,000) fine on charges related to the claim that he covered up bets worth nearly euro 50 billion, or more than the bank was worth, between late 2007 and early 2008. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Ex-trader Jerome Kerviel was convicted on all counts Tuesday in history's biggest rogue trading scandal, sentenced to at least three years in prison and ordered to pay his former employer damages of euro4.9 billion ($6.7 billion) — a sum so staggering it drew gasps in the courtroom.

Driver cuts off truck, abducted Calif. girl flees (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:13 PM PDT

This photo provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shows Elisa Cardenas, 8, of Fresno, Calif. Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for Cardenas, who was apparently abducted from her front yard while playing with a friend around 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) NO SALESAP - An 8-year-old girl who was abducted while playing outside a Fresno home escaped from her captor Tuesday morning after a driver recognized the suspect's vehicle and cut it off, police said.

Women testify about sex with HIV-positive airman (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:10 PM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, prosecuting attorneys Capt. Brian Craig Mason and Maj. Lisa Richard present their case against Tech Sgt. David Gutierrez during a hearing at McConnell Air Force Base on Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010 in Wichita, Kan. Gutierrez has been charged with violating military law by having unprotected sex with at least 11 people without telling them he was HIV infected. (AP Photo/Garrick Enright)AP - Two women testified at a military hearing Tuesday that they would not have had sex with an airman had they known he was HIV positive, and one said she believed him when he said he wasn't because he was in the Air Force.

Undocumented language found hidden in India (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:12 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by National Geographic shows Kachim, a speaker of the hidden language Koro, talking to National Geographic Fellow Gregory Anderson. Anderson and a team made the first known recordings of Koro, an endangered language that is new to science. The expedition is featured in a new National Geographic book, 'The Last Speakers,' by K. David Harrison. A previously unreported language spoken by fewer than 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India. The region is known as hotspot of language diversity and researchers were documenting some of the unwritten tongues when they came across the new one, called Koro. (AP Photo/Chris Rainier, National Geographic)AP - A "hidden" language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka culture, a tribal community that subsists on farming and hunting.

Half of baseball's playoff team watch wallets (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:29 PM PDT

Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher David Price, center, laughs with fellow pitcher James Shields, left, and Matt Garza, right, during baseball practice, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Rays host the Texas Rangers in Game 1 of the American League Division Series on Wednesday. Price is scheduled to start Game 1. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - It's not just the usual suspects in the playoffs this year. Texas, ranked 23rd according to Major League Baseball's latest payroll figures, won the AL West. Tampa Bay, just 20th, beat out the high-spending New York Yankees and Boston to win the AL East.

Democrats hold narrow leads in key California races (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:17 PM PDT

Senator Barbara Boxer waits as her microphone is adjusted for a radio debate with opponent Carly Fiorina, inside NPR Studios in Washington, September 29, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - The Democrats hold a narrow advantage in California where big-spending Republican Meg Whitman is struggling, as Democrats show increased enthusiasm about voting on November 2, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Tuesday.

Defiant Times Square bomber gets life in prison (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:02 PM PDT

Reuters - A smirking Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York's busy Times Square was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison after he defiantly said more attacks on America were imminent.

Ex-trader Kerviel sentenced to 3 years in jail (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 07:28 AM PDT

French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel is escorted by a policeman as he arrives at the courthouse in Paris. A court sentenced Kerviel to three years in jail plus two years suspended for a massive fraud scandal that cost Societe Generale bank almost five billion euros.(AFP/Joel Saget)Reuters - Former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel was sentenced to three years in jail by a Paris court on Tuesday for his role in a trading scandal and ordered to pay the French bank 4.9 billion euros ($6.8 billion).

Saudi prince killed servant, London court told (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:35 PM PDT

Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud (L) is seen with his servant Bandar Abdulaziz in an elevator in London's Landmark hotel on January 22, 2010, in closed circuit television footage which was shown during a murder trial in London on October 5, 2010. REUTERS/Metropolitan Police/handoutReuters - A Saudi prince killed his servant in their room at a luxury London hotel in a ferocious beating which had a sexual element, a British court was told Tuesday.

Ford outlines plans to cut Lincoln dealers (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:34 PM PDT

Ford Motor Company's Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr speaks before unveiling the new 2011 Lincoln MKX at the 2010 North American International Auto Show during press days in Detroit, Michigan, January 12, 2010. REUTERS/Mark BlinchReuters - Ford Motor Co has told its U.S. dealers it expects to drop about 175 Lincoln dealerships in and around urban markets as part of a plan to overhaul the brand with a new look and high-end stores.

Special report: The Pentagon's new cyber warriors (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 08:44 AM PDT

2Lt William Liggett (L) talks with a colleague as a map is displayed on one of the screens at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado July 20, 2010. U.S. officials have shown increasing concern about alleged Chinese and Russian penetrations of the electricity grid, which depends on the Internet to function. The Pentagon in recent weeks has begun pushing to put civilian infrastructure under its wing in a proposed cyber realm walled off from the rest of the Internet. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - Guarding water wells and granaries from enemy raids is as old as war itself. In the Middle Ages, vital resources were hoarded behind castle walls, protected by moats, drawbridges and knights with double-edged swords.

Duo wins 2010 physics Nobel for super-thin carbon (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 09:09 AM PDT

Russian-born scientist Andre Geim is seen in this undated handout photograph received in London on October 5, 2010. Geim and his Russian-born colleague, Konstantin Novoselov, shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for experiments with super-thin carbon matter, the prize committee said on Tuesday.This image has been supplied by a third party. It is distributed, exactly as received by Reuters as a service to clients. REUTERS/University of Manchester/HandoutReuters - Two Russian-born scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for showing how carbon just one atom thick behaved, a discovery with profound implications from quantum physics to consumer electronics.

Fed, ECB throwing world into chaos: Stiglitz (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Reuters - Ultra-loose monetary policies by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are throwing the world into "chaos" rather than helping the global economic recovery, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday.

French rogue trader Kerviel jailed, fined billions (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:23 PM PDT

French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel is escorted by a policeman as he arrives at the courthouse in Paris. A court sentenced Kerviel to three years in jail plus two years suspended for a massive fraud scandal that cost Societe Generale bank almost five billion euros.(AFP/Joel Saget)AFP - A Paris court on Tuesday sentenced rogue trader Jerome Kerviel to three years in jail and ordered the 33-year-old to pay back the five billion euros that his market gambles cost Societe Generale bank.

US drone strike kills Germans in Pakistan terror zone (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 12:59 PM PDT

Pakistani soldiers patrol the mountaineous region of North Waziristan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. A US drone strike has killed eight militants, including five Germans, in Pakistan's anarchic tribal belt where Western intelligence has traced an alleged plot to attack high-profile targets in Europe.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - A US drone strike has killed eight militants, including five Germans, in Pakistan's anarchic tribal belt where Western intelligence has traced an alleged plot to attack high-profile targets in Europe.
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