Thursday, March 24, 2011

US pressures allies to command Libya mission (AP)

US pressures allies to command Libya mission (AP)

US pressures allies to command Libya mission (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:48 PM PDT

US navy personnel seen next to a US MV-22 Osprey vertical take off and lift aircraft, right, and a C-5 Galaxy aircraft in the Sigonella airbase, Sicily, Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Anxious to reduce its front-line air combat role in Libya, the Obama administration pressed Thursday for allies who first pushed for the campaign to come up with a workable alternative.

Strikes raise pressure on Gadhafi, rebels alike (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:55 PM PDT

A Libyan rebels carries rockets on a checkpoint on the frontline near Zwitina, the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Fighter jets hit aircraft and a crossroads military base deep inside Libya on Thursday and NATO sailors prepared to board suspect ships, blocking new weapons and foreign fighters from resupplying Moammar Gadhafi's depleted forces by land, sea and air. France set a timeframe on the international action at days or weeks — not months.

Gaza militants fire rockets deep into Israel (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Israeli police officers inspects the site of an explosion, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. A bomb exploded near a crowded bus, wounding passengers in what appeared to be the first militant attack in the city in several years. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a new wave of rockets that landed deep inside Israel Thursday, defying Israeli retaliatory attacks and threats.

Plato, Mo., sits at center of nation's population (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:31 PM PDT

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves briefs the media on the census, including the site of the new national mean center of population as Plato, Missouri, Thursday, March 24, 2011, during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - It's official: The new center of the U.S. population is in Missouri, about 2.7 miles northeast of the village of Plato. The Census Bureau said Thursday that steady migration to the Sun Belt had pushed the site roughly 30 miles southwest of the previous location near Edgar Springs, Mo.

Adviser: Bachmann likely to enter WH race (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:46 PM PDT

AP - Tea party favorite and Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is feeling pressure from the political calendar to rush a decision on a White House bid and may announce her intentions as early as May, one of her top advisers said Thursday.

FAA chief suspends dozing air traffic controller (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:32 PM PDT

The FAA control tower at Reagan National Airport is seen in Arlington, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Federal safety officials are investigating a report that two planes landed at the airport without control tower clearance because the air traffic controller was asleep. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Authorities have suspended a control tower supervisor working alone overnight who couldn't be roused to guide two airliners landing at Washington's Reagan airport, the nation's top aviation official said Thursday.

Worried Syrian regime offers promise of change (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 01:02 PM PDT

Syrian security forces men walk inside al-Omari mosque, where protesters had been holed up earlier and where most of Wednesday's fighting occurred, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, on Thursday March 24, 2011. Thousands called for liberty Thursday in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, defying a deadly government crackdown as they took to the streets in funeral marches for protesters killed by police gunfire, an activist said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - The Syrian government pledged Thursday to consider lifting some of the Mideast's most repressive laws in an attempt to stop a week-long uprising in a southern city from spreading and threatening its nearly 50-year rule.

18-wheeler ends up hanging off Fort Worth highway (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:24 PM PDT

In this frame grab image made from video provided by KTVT, emergency crews work at the scene where officials say a water tanker truck driver was rescued from his 18-wheeler dangling over an Interstate 20 ramp as well as two people were trapped in a car after the wreck in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/KTVT) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALESAP - An 18-wheeler truck pulling an empty water tank ended up hanging precariously off an interstate ramp in Fort Worth after a pre-dawn crash, and three people were rescued from the wreck.

Archaeologists discover saber-toothed vegetarian (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:22 PM PDT

This undated handout image provided by the journal Science shows the skull of Tiarajudens eccentricus. Surprised scientists have discovered the remains of a saber-toothed vegetarian. The leaf-crunching animal lived 260 million years ago in what is now Brazil. (AP Photo/Science) Surprised scientists have discovered the remains of a saber-toothed vegetarian. The leaf crunching animal lived 260 million years ago in what is now Brazil.AP - Surprised scientists have discovered the remains of a saber-toothed vegetarian. Researchers report that the leaf-crunching animal lived 260 million years ago in what is now Brazil. It was about the size of a large dog and had nearly 5-inch long canine teeth.

APNewsBreak: Ex-sprint champ Block in doping probe (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:51 PM PDT

FILE - This is a Monday, Aug. 6, 2001 file photo of Ukraine's Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, left, beats Marion Jones to the line to win the women's 100-meter final during the World Track & Field Championships at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta. Track and field officials are investigating former world champion sprinter Zhanna Block for doping and could seek to strip the Ukrainian of her medals in a BALCO steroid case that goes back a decade and centers on one of Marion Jones' biggest rivals, The Associated Press has learned. It's now up to the International Association of Athletics Federations or the Ukrainian federation to take any retroactive action against Zhanna Block, who was formerly known as Zhanna Pintusevich and won three world sprint titles in the late 1990s and early 2000s. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP - Track and field is investigating former world champion sprinter Zhanna Block for doping and could try to strip the Ukrainian of her medals in a BALCO steroid case that goes back a decade and centers on one of Marion Jones' biggest rivals.

West strikes deep in Libya, NATO to take command (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Revolutionary graffiti caricaturing Muammar Gaddafi adorns a wall in Benghazi March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Finbarr O'ReillyReuters - Western warplanes hit military targets deep inside Libya on Thursday but failed to prevent tanks reentering the western town of Misrata and besieging its main hospital.

Japan says must review nuclear policy; radiation spreads (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Handout photo from the Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers recording the status of instruments in a control room at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture northeastern Japan March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency via Kyodo/HandoutReuters - Japan will have to review its nuclear power policy, its top government spokesman said, as fear of radiation from an earthquake-damaged nuclear complex spread both at home and abroad.

Assad offers freedoms after forces kill 37 (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Protestors gather near the Omari Mosque in the southern old city of Deraa March 22, 2011.REUTERS/Khaled al-HaririReuters - President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public pledge to look into granting Syrians greater freedom on Thursday as anger mounted following attacks by security forces on protesters that left at least 37 dead.

Fed, in historic shift, to brief media on policy (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 01:01 PM PDT

Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will break nearly 100 years of tradition at the U.S. central bank next month when he begins talking to the media after policy meetings.

Special report: The revolution in central banking (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa (L), European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet (C) and U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talk outside the Jackson Lake Lodge during a break in the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in this August 21, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Price ChambersReuters - "I would say we did not discuss this option," Trichet told a news conference after a meeting of the ECB's Governing Council. Four days later, the ECB announced that it would start buying bonds.

Carter to visit North Korea, not carrying U.S. message (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Former President Jimmy Carter plans to visit North Korea, the State Department said Thursday, but it said he was going in a private capacity and not carrying a message from the U.S. government.

Gates assures Egypt on sustained U.S. aid (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks to reporters in Cairo March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Charles Dharapak/PoolReuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates assured Egypt's military ruler of sustained American aid Thursday, as Cairo warned that tourism revenue is nosediving in the wake of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

Best Buy shoppers shun pricey TVs; outlook dim (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 11:39 AM PDT

Reuters - Best Buy Co Inc gave a fiscal year profit outlook that could miss Wall Street estimates as budget-conscious U.S. shoppers show little interest in buying big-ticket items like televisions, and its shares fell nearly 6 percent.

Rebels close in on oil town as NATO set to take charge (AFP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 11:50 AM PDT

A Libyan rebel looks through binoculars on the road to Ajdabiya. Rebels battled on to the strategic eastern city of Ajdabiya on Thursday as plans firmed for NATO to take over coalition operations after Tripoli came under attack for the sixth day.(AFP/Aris Messinis)AFP - Rebels battled on to the eastern oil town of Ajdabiya Thursday as plans firmed for NATO to take over coalition operations after Tripoli came under attack for a sixth day and death tolls mounted.

Global food scare widens from Japan nuclear plant (AFP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:28 AM PDT

This handout picture, released from Ministry of Land, Infrstructure and Tourism on March 23, shows an aerial view of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant and a tsunami rushing to the plant on March 11. Countries across the world shunned Japanese food imports Thursday as radioactive steam leaked from a disaster-struck nuclear plant, straining nerves in Tokyo.(AFP/HO/JIJI PRESS)AFP - Countries across the world shunned Japanese food imports Thursday as radioactive steam leaked from a disaster-struck nuclear plant, straining nerves in Tokyo.
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