Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Explosions used to search Italian liner, 29 people missing (Reuters)

Explosions used to search Italian liner, 29 people missing (Reuters)

Explosions used to search Italian liner, 29 people missing (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:47 AM PST

Reuters - Rescue squads used controlled explosions on Tuesday to enter a stricken Italian cruise liner in the increasingly despairing hunt for survivors as authorities almost doubled their estimate of the number missing to 29 people.

Greeks strike against austerity as EU, IMF visit (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:41 AM PST

Reuters - Striking Greek workers brought the Athens metro to a standstill on Tuesday and kept ferries docked to protest against austerity as the country's lenders visited Athens to try to avert a disorderly debt default.

Nigeria unions suspend strike after fuel price cut (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:23 AM PST

Reuters - Nigerian trade unions called off strikes and protests on Monday, ending a major confrontation over fuel prices after President Goodluck Jonathan said he would cut them by one third.

Twelve more killed in Syria despite Arab monitors (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:50 AM PST

Reuters - Twelve people were killed on Monday in Syria, where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes.

Explosions damage Italy tax agency: Naples police (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:40 PM PST

Reuters - Three explosive devices blew up outside the Naples offices of Equitalia, a state agency that collects overdue taxes and fines, breaking windows but injuring no one on Monday night, a police official told Reuters.

The Cruise-Ship Disaster Highlights Italy's Safety Rules (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:40 AM PST

Time.com - The captain of the cruise ship has been arrested and his "judgment" has been questioned. But Italy's own record on safety procedures is dubious

UK scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:06 AM PST

This image made available by the Royal Holloway, University of London on Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012 shows a polished section of fossil wood from the cabinet of Reverend John Henslow, Charles Darwin's mentor at Cambridge, comprising a 150 million years old tree. It comes from Dorset, England and you can even make out the annual tree-rings. British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a 'gloomy corner' of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey. (AP Photo/Royal Holloway, University of London, Kevin D'Souza Ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.

Iraq: 5 policemen killed in western Iraq (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:33 AM PST

Iraqi security forces inspect bombs at the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. A car bomb killed several people outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, Iraq officials said, in the latest in a series of attacks to target the country's Shiites since the U.S. withdrawal. (AP Photo)AP - Officials say five Iraqi policemen have been killed in an insurgent attack on their checkpoint in the western half of the country.

Gov't choppers under fire in Mexico drug war (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:21 PM PST

Suspect Raymundo Mateo Cruz (C) alias AP - The Mexican armed forces and prosecutors have suffered at least 28 gunfire attacks on helicopters in the five years since the government launched an offensive against drug cartels, according to official documents made public Monday.

Witness: jets kill 'at least' 9 in Somalia (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:32 AM PST

AP - A witness says at least nine people were killed after jets bombed a militant camp in southern Somalia.

Indonesia cracks down on train 'surfers' — again (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:01 AM PST

AP - Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains — hosing them down with red paint, appealing for help from religious leaders, and threatening them with dogs.

Provinces bristle at federal health "deal" (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:19 PM PST

Reuters - The provinces unanimously believe the federal government's unilateral decision to impose a new formula for how it will help fund the public healthcare system "was both unprecedented and unacceptable," British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said Monday.

Aussie police downgrade charges for mooning queen (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:19 PM PST

AP - Australian police have downgraded charges against a man who mooned Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip as they drove past tens of thousands of well-wishers during a visit to the Australian east coast city of Brisbane.

Liberia's Sirleaf takes oath for second term, promises reconciliation (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:54 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pledged to work harder toward achieving national reconciliation at her second inauguration ceremony today in Liberia, a nation that emerged from civil war nearly a decade ago.

Pakistani Prime Minister Faces Off with the Military (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:40 AM PST

Time.com - The civilian Prime Minister is feuding with the all-powerful generals and with the Supreme Court, and opposition politicians itching to join the melee

Pakistan PM Gilani wins key backing in Parliament (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:17 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Pakistan’s Parliament passed a key resolution Monday night calling for the country’s other state institutions â€" the Army and Supreme Court â€" to remain within their constitutional limits.
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