Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Cameron: Britain to review its airport capacity

Cameron: Britain to review its airport capacity

Cameron: Britain to review its airport capacity

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:57 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street for the Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Common in London, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. Seeking to win back support and boost his prospects before the 2015 national election, Cameron on Tuesday made the first major overhaul of his Cabinet and 100-strong ministerial team since taking office in 2010. While Cameron left most senior allies in place, he sought to sharpen his economic message by promoting a crop of young fiscal conservatives, and looked to exploit the success of the Olympic Games in appointing Paul Deighton, chief executive of the London organizing committee, as a new finance minister. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)The tug-of-war over expanding London's Heathrow Airport heated up Wednesday after Britain's leader announced the government will hold an inquiry into improving capacity at its stretched airports.

Jurors at Peterson murder trial review evidence

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio, who was found in an empty bathtub at home. Attorneys will deliver closing arguments at Drew Peterson's trial Tuesday, after which jurors will begin deliberations on whether the state proved the former Illinois police officer murdered his third wife. The sides make their final pitches after five weeks of testimony about the 2004 death of Kathleen Savio, whose body was found in a dry bathtub of her suburban home outside Chicago with a gash on the back of her head. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)Jurors at Drew Peterson's murder trial asked Wednesday to review several pieces of evidence as they deliberated whether the former suburban Chicago police sergeant murdered his third wife.

NASA Dawn spacecraft traveling to dwarf planet

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:56 PM PDT

An undated artist rendering released by NASA shows the NASA Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. After spending a year examining Vesta, Dawn is poised to depart and head to another asteroid, Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015.(AP Photo/NASA)Next and final stop: The biggest object in the asteroid belt.

US productivity grew at 2.2 pct. rate in spring

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, April 4, 2012, photo, an auto worker at the Ford Stamping Plant inspects the inner door panel in Chicago Heights, Ill. U.S. companies got more output from their workers this spring than initially thought. Productivity rose at a modest 2.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, largely because employers cut back sharply on hiring(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)U.S. companies got more output from their workers this spring than initially thought. Productivity rose at a modest 2.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, largely because employers cut back sharply on hiring.

How weak is US job market? Depends on your numbers

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT

Is the U.S. job market dismal as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says?

Study: Brain disease deaths high in NFL veterans

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT

A study of former NFL players finds they were unusually prone to dying from degenerative brain disease, the latest indication that repeated blows to the head may cause serious trouble later on.

Disabled Calif. boy not allowed to board airplane

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:52 PM PDT

A California family not allowed to board a cross-country flight said Tuesday that they believe they were discriminated against because their son has Down syndrome.

A dampened tradition: No balloon drop for Obama

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2004 file photo, balloons fall near the stage and the end of the Democratic National Convention in Boston. With a threat of rain, there will be no downpour of balloons. A Democratic convention official says the finale at the Democratic National Convention will miss the traditional massive balloon drop after President Barack Obama delivers his nomination acceptance speech. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)No balloons? What kind of a political convention is that?

Can 'FarmVille 2' save struggling Zynga?

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:49 PM PDT

Not long ago, online games company Zynga looked on pace to unseat much bigger, well-established rivals as it rode the popularity of "FarmVille," the clicking game of virtual cows and real money.

Dems seek Clinton luster; move Obama's big speech

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:48 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, right, greets supporters on the tarmac upon his arrival at North Carolina Air National Guard Base, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in Charlotte, N.C. Obama traveled to Charlotte, the city hosting the Democratic National Convention, to accept the nomination and make a case for re-election. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)President Barack Obama swept into his convention city Wednesday, eager to accept his party's nomination and make the case for re-election despite a sputtering economy. He hoped to claim a little luster from Bill Clinton's prime-time address to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.

GOP convention helps Univision win viewers 18-49

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Univision can thank the Republicans for a milestone week in the television ratings.

Romney says America worse off now than in 2009

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:46 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is pointing the country's $16 trillion debt and the millions of people who rely on food stamps as proof that Americans aren't better off than they were four years ago.

Rain aids battle against California forest fire

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:45 PM PDT

A Los Angeles County Firefighter helicopter drops water on a wildfire burning through 3,600 acres of the Angeles National Forest on Tuesday Sept. 4, 2012 near Glendora, Calif. It could be a week before firefighters can contain the blaze because of high temperatures and rugged terrain in thick brush that hasn't burned in a couple of decades. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)Rain arrived Wednesday to help in the assault on a 3,800-acre fire in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles.

Powerful quake hits Costa Rica, two dead

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:44 PM PDT

People gather in front of the Supreme Court, after being evacuated from their buildings following an earthquake in San JoseSAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, killing at least two people, sparking landslides, knocking down buildings, and briefly triggering a tsunami warning. Residents of the capital San Jose said phones went down, electricity poles rattled on the streets and water flowed out of swimming pools after the 7.6-magnitude quake. The Red Cross said two people died. One was a man working on a construction site who was killed when part of a wall fell on top of him. The other was a woman who suffered a heart attack. ...

Sharapova comes back to beat Bartoli at US Open

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:44 PM PDT

Russia's Maria Sharapova celebrates during her match with Marion Bartoli, of France, in the quarterfinals during the 2012 US Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)Maria Sharapova came from behind after a rain delay for the second straight match, advancing to the U.S. Open semifinals with a three-set victory over Marion Bartoli.

Mursi wants Egypt at centre of Arab affairs, urges end to Syrian govt

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:44 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's president on Wednesday promised to put Cairo back at the heart of Arab affairs and made an impassioned appeal to Arab states to work to end the bloodshed in Syria, saying the time had come to change the Syrian government. Mohamed Mursi, making his first presidential address to the Arab League in Cairo, told Arab foreign ministers that Egypt and its people would "return to occupy their natural place at the heart of the Arab nation". ...

7-year-old Colo. girl recovers from bubonic plague

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:41 PM PDT

Seven-year-old Sierra Jane Downing from Pagosa Springs, Colo., smiles during a news conference about her recovery from bubonic plague at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in Denver. It is believed Downing caught the bubonic plague from burying a dead squirrel. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)The parents of 7-year-old Sierra Jane Downing thought she had the flu when she felt sick days after camping in southwest Colorado.

NFL pledges $30 million for medical research

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

The NFL has pledged $30 million for medical research to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

Blaze at India fireworks factory kills at least 40

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:39 PM PDT

An injured person is rushed for treatment after a massive blaze swept through the Om Siva Shakti fireworks factory in Sivakasi, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Chennai, India, Wednesday, Sept.5, 2012. Large amounts of firecrackers and raw materials were stored in the factory with major Hindu festivals weeks away. Dozens of workers were killed and dozens were injured in the fire, the cause of which was not immediately known.(AP Photo)A massive blaze raged for hours at a fireworks factory in southern India, killing at least 40 workers and injuring 60 Wednesday, police said.

Powerful earthquake reported in Costa Rica

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:38 PM PDT

A man looks out at the sea which has a receded water line after an earthquake at Samara Beach near Cangrejal, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica on Wednesday. There were no immediate accounts of damage or injuries.

Not easy to divide Wis. temple-shooting donations

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:37 PM PDT

Officials at the Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee are treading carefully as they figure out how to distribute hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations that have poured in from around the world after a deadly shooting rampage last month.

Stars attend NYC funeral of hip-hop mogul Lighty

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:36 PM PDT

LL Cool J, foreground right, shares an embrace with another as he leaves the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel following the service for hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty, Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012 in New York. Mourners in the packed chapel Wednesday included Sean "Diddy" Combs, Missy Elliott, Q-Tip, LL Cool J, Russell Simmons, 50 Cent and Grandmaster Flash. Lighty, the 44-year-old hip-hop mogul was found dead in his Bronx apartment last week with a gunshot wound to the head. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)Hip-hop royalty including LL Cool J and Sean "Diddy" Combs packed a standing-room-only funeral chapel Wednesday to pay their respects to music-industry mogul Chris Lighty.

Column: History-maker Pistorius a hypocrite, too?

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competes during Men's 100m T44 round 1 at the 2012 Paralympics in London, Wednesday, Sep. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Imagine if an athlete checked into a clinic to get his legs artificially lengthened, then came back to beat Usain Bolt over 200 meters on surgically improved limbs. Is such a day far off?

Ryan praises Bill Clinton on day of his DNC speech

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT

Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks during a campaign event at the Dallas County Courthouse in Adel, Iowa, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan heaped praise on Bill Clinton Wednesday, holding him up as a model of reform and Barack Obama as his opposite just hours before the former president's speech to the Democratic National Convention.

Author Judy Blume diagnosed with breast cancer

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:33 PM PDT

FILE - This April 21, 2012 file photo shows author Judy Blume attending the LA Times Festival of Books at the USC Campus in Los Angeles. Blume says she was diagnosed with breast cancer over the summer but is "feeling stronger every day" after surgery. The 74-year-old Blume wrote on her blog Wednesday, Aug. 5, that she learned in June that she had cancer and underwent a mastectomy and reconstruction in late July. She writes that she now walks a couple of miles each morning and dines out at night. Blume hopes to begin writing again soon.(AP Photo/Katy Winn, file)Children's author Judy Blume says she was diagnosed with breast cancer over the summer but is "feeling stronger every day" after surgery.

Nevada's 'none' voting option not dead yet

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:33 PM PDT

Nevada's "none of the above" voting option will be on the November ballot after all following an emergency stay sought by the secretary of state's office and granted by a federal appeals court.

Consumer group sues FDA over Aricept safety

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT

A consumer group pressing the Food and Drug Administration to remove the highest dose of an Alzheimer's disease drug from the market is suing the agency for what it calls "foot-dragging."

Obama stadium speech moved to cramped arena on storm threat

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:27 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands after arriving at North Carolina Air National Guard base in CharlotteCHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Forecasts of thunderstorms put a crimp on U.S. President Barack Obama's nomination party on Wednesday, forcing Democrats to move his planned acceptance speech from a 74,000-seat outdoor football stadium to a much smaller indoor venue. The shift to the Time Warner Cable Arena was a setback for Obama, who hoped to create a visual spectacle in Charlotte's Bank of America stadium on Thursday to rival his 2008 acceptance speech in a football stadium in Denver. ...

Motorola broadens Razr brand with new smartphones

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Motorola is broadening the use of its Razr brand to a family of smartphones in its first major product launch under new owner Google.

Navy SEAL book contains classified information: Pentagon

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:25 PM PDT

A hand-written memo by former CIA Director Panetta is pictured in combination of handout photosWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden by a former Navy SEAL who participated in the mission contains classified information and the Pentagon is reviewing legal options, a Defense Department spokesman said on Tuesday. But the book's co-author denied the book contained any information that would jeopardize the safety or future missions of Navy special forces personnel. The book, "No Easy Day," chronicles last year's stealth operation in which members of U.S. ...

Bullfights back on Spanish public TV after ban

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

A TV camera films during a bullfight in Valladolid, Spain Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012. Bullfights returned live to Spanish state TV Wednesday evening, six years after the fights were banned from the widely watched public channel with the broadcast featuring one of Spain's most storied bullfighters and giving a boost to a tradition hit hard by declining popularity and a dire economic crisis. The RTVE broadcast from the northern city of Valladolid is a big victory for pro-bullfighting forces that saw bullfighting banned altogether this year in the northeastern region of Catalonia; it's a defeat for animal rights activists who denounce bullfighting as barbaric. The transmissions were halted in 2006 by Spain's previous Socialist administration, which said they were costly and coincided with key TV viewing hours for young children. (AP Photo/Israel L. Murillo)Bullfights returned live to Spanish state TV with a glittering and music-filled display on Wednesday evening, six years after the fights were banned from the widely watched public channel.

Suspect IDed in Quebec election rally shooting

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

A man is arrested by police outside the Parti Quebecois victory rally in Montreal on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. A masked gunman wearing a blue bathrobe opened fire during a midnight victory rally for Quebec's new premier, killing one person and wounding another. The new premier, Pauline Marois of the separatist Parti Quebecois, was whisked off the stage by guards while giving her speech and uninjured. It was not clear if the gunman was trying to shoot Marois, whose party favors separation for the French-speaking province from Canada. Police identified the gunman only as a 62-year-old man, and were still questioning him Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Montreal La Presse via The Canadian Press, Olivier Pontbriand)Police on Wednesday interrogated a man accused of opening fire at a midnight victory rally for Quebec's new separatist premier, but police said the suspect's rambling statements in French and English yielded no immediate motive for the shooting that killed one.

PM warns Lebanese of "drowning" in Syrian war

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT

Damaged buildings are seen in the old city of HomsBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's fractious communities will "all drown" together if they let Syria's civil strife spill over the border, the prime minister warned, as he called on factions to resist seeking partisan advantage from the violence. Speaking to Reuters, Najib Mikati acknowledged the Lebanese are deeply divided over the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which has taken an increasingly sectarian turn and drawn in rival regional and world powers on opposing sides. ...

U.N. chief says Security Council paralysis harming Syrian people

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:15 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slammed the Security Council on Wednesday for failing to take stronger action on Syria, saying that its paralysis over how to end the 18-month conflict was harming the Syrian people and damaging its own credibility. As Syria spirals deeper into civil war, the 15-member council has become deadlocked with Russia and China blocking three Western-backed resolutions that criticized Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and threatened sanctions. "The council's paralysis does the Syrian people harm. ...

Goodell looks long-term in officials labor dispute

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:14 PM PDT

Commissioner Roger Goodell say he wants the best officials on the field for the new NFL season, but he's got to think about what's important for the long-term future of the league.

Afghan soldiers fired during insider attacks probe

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Afghan Commandos stand in formation during an instructors' training course at their base in Afghanistan's Wardak Province. Hundreds of soldiers have been detained or removed from the Afghan National Army in 2012 after a surge in insider attacks against foreign forces who are their supposed partners in the fight against Taliban insurgents and other militants. The Afghan officials say they are re-vetting soldiers to stem the attacks that threaten to unravel the international community's alliance with the fragile government trying to stand on its own as foreign troops withdraw.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)Afghan authorities have detained or removed hundreds of soldiers in an investigation into rising insider attacks against international service personnel who are their supposed partners in the fight against Taliban insurgents and other militants, officials said Wednesday.

Quebec separatists win weak grip on power, will survive for now

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:10 PM PDT

Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae waves after delivering a speech during the party's caucus retreat in MontebelloMONTREAL/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Voters have given French-speaking Quebec its first separatist government in nine years, but denied the new government the ability to push through radical policy plans in a legislature where it will need support from other parties to stay in power. The left-leaning Parti Quebecois (PQ) won 54 of the 125 seats in the provincial legislature in Tuesday's election, only four more than the outgoing Liberal government, and far short of the majority it would need to hold a referendum on independence. ...

Close-plane mishap rattled air traffic controllers

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Air-traffic controllers were rattled after mistakenly flying three planes too close together in the skies near the nation's capital, a federal report released Wednesday says, describing a chaotic scene in an airport tower during those minutes.

NY court to decide if lap dance is tax-exempt art

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:04 PM PDT

They may never be confused with "Swan Lake," but an upstate New York strip club says its nude lap dances are every bit as much an art form and should be exempt from state taxes.

Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, sacked for insurgent links

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:03 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan army has detained or sacked hundreds of soldiers for having links to insurgents, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, as it tries to stem the rising number of so-called insider attacks. It made the announcement as NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express his concern over the attacks, in which Afghan servicemen have killed at least 45 NATO-led troops this year, including 15 in August, compared with 35 for all of last year. "Hundreds were sacked or detained after showing links with insurgents. ...
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