Monday, April 11, 2011

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Serial killer probe finds what could 9th set of human remains

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:01 PM PDT

Police are examining what appears to be a human skull found on the outskirts of a bird sanctuary in Long Island, New York, potentially the ninth set of remains discovered in the probe of a suspected serial killer.

No verdict yet in Barry Bonds perjury trial

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:47 PM PDT

Jurors in Barry Bonds' perjury and obstruction of justice trial will return for a third day of deliberations Tuesday.

U.N. chief: Violence in Ivory Coast should stop after Gbagbo's arrest

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:40 PM PDT

As Ivory Coast residents adjust to life with a clear leader and relative stability after months of bloodshed, the chief of the United Nations called for President Alassane Ouattara to ensure there is no retaliation against supporters of a former leader whose refusal to step aside spurred a civil war.

Japan nuclear disaster tops scale

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:14 PM PDT

Japan declared the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant a top-scale event on the international system for rating nuclear accidents Tuesday, putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Death toll now 12 in Belarus bombing

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:12 PM PDT

The death toll now stands at 12 in the rush-hour blast that rocked a subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, an act described by officials as an act of terror, Russian state news said on Tuesday, citing the Belarus security service.

Egyptian blogger's sentenced slammed

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:58 PM PDT

An Egyptian military court has sentenced an activist blogger critical of the army to three years in prison, and it did so without his lawyers present, a development that drew stiff condemnation by human rights groups.

Grannies help business spin a good yarn

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:30 PM PDT

Telling everyone you employ a team of grandmothers to do all your manual labor might, on the face of it, sound like commercial suicide. But for Katie Mowat it proved to be a stroke of genius.

FBI: Man held in Ohio over California synagogue bombing

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:19 PM PDT

A man believed to be connected with last week's synagogue bombing in Southern California was in custody in Ohio overnight, the FBI said.

Renault's Pélata to go over spy scandal

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 09:13 PM PDT

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CNN arrests expose crackdown in Bahrain

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:21 PM PDT

We were standing outside a home in the village of Bani Jamrah when 20 heavily-armed men jumped from military vehicles and surrounded us. Their faces covered with black ski masks, they pointed machine guns at us and demanded we get on the ground.

At least 6 killed in new Japan earthquake

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:01 PM PDT

At least six people were killed when a magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck Japan Tuesday morning, a local fire department said.

Military: Two U.S. troops believed killed by drone in Afghanistan

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:54 PM PDT

The deaths of two U.S. service members in southern Afghanistan last week is being investigated as a possible friendly-fire incident, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force told CNN.

Jumbo Air France jet clips smaller plane at New York's JFK airport

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:19 PM PDT

An Air Frane Airbus 380 clipped a smaller plane while taxiing to the runway for takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to CNN's Jim Bittermann, who was on the Air France flight headed to Paris.

Former university coach, players indicted in alleged bribery ring

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:52 PM PDT

A former University of San Diego basketball coach, the school's all-time leading scorer and one other former player have been indicted on charges of running a bribery ring to fix college basketball games, then betting on those games in Las Vegas casinos, federal officials announced Monday.

Solar panels power profit in Bangladesh

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:51 PM PDT

Bangladesh has a serious power problem. Nearly half of its 162-million population does not have access to electricity.

U.S. appeals court OKs decision blocking Arizona immigration law

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:03 PM PDT

A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed a previous injunction of Arizona's controversial immigration law, another setback for legislation that has drawn sharp opposition from President Barack Obama's administration.

Gadhafi military hurt, but prospect of stalemate looms, official says

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:51 PM PDT

After weeks of U.S. and NATO bombardment, about one-third of Moammar Gadhafi's ground armor has been destroyed, as well as most of the fixed air defense sites and aircraft, but a stalemate between government and rebel forces is emerging and could last for some time, according to a senior U.S. official with direct knowledge of the latest military assessments.

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