Monday, April 11, 2011

Forces capture Ivory Coast strongman in bunker (AP)

Forces capture Ivory Coast strongman in bunker (AP)

Forces capture Ivory Coast strongman in bunker (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:19 AM PDT

In this image made from television, Laurent Gbagbo, center, is seen after his arrest, at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, April 11, 2011. After a week of heavy fighting, forces backing Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader Alassane Ouattara on Monday arrested strongman Laurent Gbagbo who had refused to leave the presidency despite losing elections more than four months earlier. (AP Photo/TCI via APTN)AP - Ivory Coast's elected president used his troops and French tanks and air power to oust strongman Laurent Gbagbo, ending their four-month standoff on Monday by pulling him from his burning residence.

Libyan rebels reject African cease-fire proposal (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:57 AM PDT

Republic of Congo's President and African Union delegate Denis Sassou-Nguesso, center, walks past protesters as he arrives at the Tibesty Hotel where the African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya Monday, April 11, 2011. The African Union delegation took its cease-fire proposal to the rebels' eastern stronghold and was met with protests by crowds opposed to any peace until the country's longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi gives up power. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Libyan rebels, backed forcefully by European leaders, rejected a cease-fire proposal by African mediators on Monday because it did not insist Moammar Gadhafi relinquish power. Despite an earlier announcement that the Libyan leader had accepted the truce, his forces shelled a key rebel-held city and killed six people, a doctor said.

Drivers start to cut back on gas as prices rise (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:42 PM PDT

In this March 31, 2011 photo, an employee at a Sunoco gas station adjusts the prices for gas on a store sign in Batavia, N.Y. With the price of gas above $3.50 a gallon in all but one state, there are signs that Americans are cutting back on driving, reversing a steady increase in demand for fuel as the economy improves.(AP Photo/David Duprey)AP - Soaring gas prices are starting to take a toll on American drivers.

WH: Obama regrets vote against raising debt limit (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:41 AM PDT

AP - The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama regrets his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt limit — a vote he's now pressuring Congress to take.

Belarus president: Subway blasts kills 11 (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 01:06 PM PDT

People carry a victim of a blast on a stretcher in central Minsk, April 11, 2011. REUTERS/Anton MotolkoAP - An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour Monday killing 11 people and wounding 126. An official said the blast was a terrorist act.

Chernobyl tours offered 25 years after blast (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:14 AM PDT

FILE- This June 20, 2000 file photo shows a Ferris wheel in the town of Pripyat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power station, Ukraine. Pripyat's most affecting point may be its rusting amusement park, where a Ferris looms as an inadvertent monument. No giddy couples ever rode the wheel; it was to have opened the week after the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FILE)AP - For the visitor, Chernobyl makes heavy demands on the imagination — much of what's important can be seen only in the mind's eye.

AP IMPACT: BP buys Gulf Coast millions in gear (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:57 PM PDT

In an Oct. 21, 2010 photo, a biologist from the Audubon Institute, releases a sea turtle that had previously been impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, back into the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles off the coast of Louisiana, Thursday. The boat was purchased with money from BP. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear — much of which had little to do with the cleanup, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Bones found at NY's Jones Beach; unclear if human (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:21 PM PDT

Police search through the brush near Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y., Monday, April 11, 2011. Investigators searching for evidence of a serial killer are hitting the ground around New York's Jones Beach State Park. About 125 personnel, some with dogs, searched the area on Monday. Officers in neighboring Suffolk County uncovered eight sets of human remains in recent months. A New Jersey woman who was the initial focus of the search is still missing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Investigators looking for evidence of a serial killer found bones Monday, and they will be evaluated by a medical examiner to determine if they're human remains, authorities said.

Vegas woman dies after backroom cosmetic surgery (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:28 AM PDT

In this undated booking photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Carmen Olfidia Torres-Sanchez, 47, from Medellin, Colombia who was arrested at McCarran International Airport on Saturday April 9,2011 is shown. Sanchez and Ruben Darion Matallana-Galvas are facing murder charges in the death of a woman who was in their care for a cosmetic surgery procedure. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)AP - A woman died after botched buttocks enhancement surgery in the back room of a tile business by two Colombian nationals who were later arrested trying to board a plane back to that country, authorities said Monday.

Bonds' jury hears personal shopper's testimony (AP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:17 AM PDT

Barry Bonds arrives at the federal courthouse as the jury continues to deliberate in his perjury trial in San Francisco, Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - A transcript of the testimony from Barry Bonds' personal shopper was being read back to the jury at the slugger's perjury trial on Monday morning.

Nasdaq unbowed, D.Boerse unmoved in NYSE battle (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:15 AM PDT

Nasdaq OMX signs are seen inside their studios at Times Square in New York April 1, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - Nasdaq OMX Group was unbowed on Monday after NYSE Euronext's board rejected its takeover offer in favor of a lower bid from Deutsche Boerse, while the German company looked set to stand pat as the battle for the Big Board intensified.

Belarus leader says blast aimed at undermining stability (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:37 PM PDT

People help a victim of a blast in central Minsk, April 11, 2011. REUTERS/Anton MotolkoReuters - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday that a blast at a metro station in the capital Minsk which he said had killed 11 people was aimed at undermining peace and stability in the country.

Broker admits role in insider trading scheme (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Reuters - A mortgage broker who secretly recorded two friends who prosecutors say tried to cover up one of the biggest U.S. insider trading cases on record pleaded guilty to involvement in the 17-year scheme.

Winklevoss twins must accept Facebook deal: court (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:58 AM PDT

Reuters - Mark Zuckerberg won the latest legal battle against former Harvard classmates who accuse him of stealing their idea for Facebook, a multimillion-dollar feud made famous on the silver screen.

Obama wants deficit legislation this year (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:02 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama's upcoming proposals to cut the U.S. deficit could produce "real" legislation and tangible results before the 2012 presidential election, the White House said Monday.

Ivory Coast's Gbagbo held after French troops move in (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Soldiers loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara ride a vehicle toward the frontline from the northern outskirts of the main city Abidjan April 10, 2011. REUTERS/Emmanuel BraunReuters - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo was captured and placed under the control of his presidential rival on Monday after French troops closed in on the besieged compound where he had been holed up for the past week.

Rajaratnam's Galleon was a tight ship: witness (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Raj Rajaratnam demanded discipline at his Galleon hedge fund, challenged his analysts at standing-room only morning meetings, and never asked any company for inside information, one of his former top lieutenants testified.

Adventurer Murray says tapped for Glencore (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Simon Murray is seen at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, in this May 23, 2007 file photo. Murray, the South Pole adventurer and former Vodafone Group Plc board member, told Reuters on Monday that he's in the running for the chairman role at Glencore International AG the commodities trading giant planning a roughly $10 billion dual listing in London and Hong Kong. REUTERS/Mike StoneReuters - Simon Murray, the South Pole adventurer and former Vodafone board member, is in the running for the role of chairman at Glencore, the commodities giant set to detail plans for a $10 billion-plus listing later this week.

Captured Gbagbo calls for end to I.Coast fighting (AFP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 11:55 AM PDT

Laurent Gbagbo appearing on a TV footage on Ivorian television channel TCI shortly after his capture in Abidjan. Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara's forces, backed by French and UN troops, captured his besieged rival Gbagbo in Abidjan on Monday at the climax of a deadly months-long crisis.(AFP/TCI)AFP - Laurent Gbagbo called Monday for an end to fighting in Ivory Coast hours after the strongman was captured by forces loyal to his rival for the presidency at the climax of a deadly months-long crisis.

Libya rebels reject truce plan, say Kadhafi must go (AFP)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:27 AM PDT

Libyan protestors wave Libya's former flags as they demonstrate outside a hotel during a meeting between African head of states and Libyan rebel leaders, in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Libyan rebels on Monday rejected an African Union initiative for a ceasefire accepted by Moamer Kadhafi, and said the only acceptable solution was the ouster of the veteran strongman.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)AFP - Libyan rebels on Monday rejected an African Union initiative for a ceasefire accepted by Moamer Kadhafi, and said the only acceptable solution was the ouster of the veteran strongman.
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