Syrian activists call for 'Day of Defiance'

Syrian activists call for 'Day of Defiance'

Syrian activists call for 'Day of Defiance'

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:53 PM PST

Call comes after security forces open fire on mourners in Damascus district, killing at least one person, activists say.


We kissed at Carnival: Brazil blog aids lost loves (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:19 PM PST

Carnival dancers perform on a float during a parade by the Perola Negra samba school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early Sunday Feb. 19, 2012. Carnival runs Feb. 17-21. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - It's the typical tale of doomed Carnival romance: Boy spots girl in the sweaty crush of a street party. Moments later, they're locked in a passionate embrace. Then the crowd surges, and the human tide wrenches them apart, forever.

AP Exclusive: al-Qaida links with SE Asia fraying (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:39 PM PST

AP - A top Indonesian terrorist suspect captured in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed insists he was unaware of the al-Qaida leader's presence there, according to the video of his interrogation obtained by The Associated Press.


Honduran inmates tell of horror as hundreds die (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:14 PM PST

Relatives of inmate Nery Ricardo Gomez hold onto a framed portrait of him as they grieve on his coffin during his burial service at the cemetery in Comayagua, Honduras, Saturday Feb. 18, 2012. Gomez perished in the fire that swept through the Comayagua prison north of Tegucigalpa late Tuesday. A Honduran doctor said Saturday morning that another man has died from injuries sustained in the deadly prison fire, bringing the death toll to 358. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Jose Enrique Guevara woke up to screams and a flash of heat from the fire about to engulf his prison bunk bed.

Report: Tibetan writer detained in China crackdown (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:16 PM PST

AP - Chinese police have detained a Tibetan writer in a western county recently hit by anti-government protests, an overseas Tibetan news service reported, as China's crackdown against persisting unrest spreads.


NUTS: Apple's CEO Reveals Future Strategy, Google to Expand Into Hardware

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 09:45 PM PST

CEO apologized for the Foxconn controversy and outlined the tech giant?s strategy for the future, while ramped up preparations for its expansion into hardware following the approval of its Motorola deal. News Under the Sun is a weekly column rounding up all the events in the mobile industry. Want the news but don?t want it ...


As pope visit nears, spotlight on Cuba's cardinal (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 09:00 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 file photo, Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega celebrates a Mass honoring the 'La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre,' in Havana. When a young parish priest named Jaime Ortega was freed from detention at the height of the communist onslaught against religion in Cuba, his father handed him a one-way ticket to Spain and urged him not to look back. But Ortega refused to go. Today, he is Cuba's cardinal, about to receive a visit from Pope Benedict XVI while playing an important role in coaxing President Raul Castro's government along the path of reform. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - When a young parish priest named Jaime Ortega stepped out of a Cuban detention camp in the spring of 1967, at the height of the Communist revolution's attempt to stamp out religion, his father handed him a one-way ticket to Spain and urged his son not to look back.

Australia asks — again: Did a dingo kill the baby? (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 09:01 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 1982, file photo, Michael and Lindy Chamberlain leave a courthouse in Alice Springs, Australia. 'The dingo's got my baby!' With those panicked words, the mystery of Azaria Chamberlain's disappearance in the Australian Outback in 1980 became the most notorious, divisive and baffling legal drama in the country's history. Had a wild dog really taken the baby? Or had Azaria's mother, Lindy, slit her daughter's throat and buried her in the desert? Thirty-two years later, Australian officials hope to finally, definitively, determine how Azaria died when the Northern Territory coroner opens a fourth inquest on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. (AP Photo)AP - The growl came first, low and throaty, piercing the darkness that had fallen across the remote Australian desert. A baby's cry followed, then abruptly went silent. Inside the tent, the infant girl had vanished. Outside, her mother was screaming: "The dingo's got my baby!"

IRS Veteran Carries Fight Against Clergy Tax Abuse into Retirement

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 08:35 PM PST

Testing The Constitutional Mettle of IRC 107! ?? ??I have written a bit about Code Section 107, the income tax exemption for housing allowances paid to ?ministers of the gospel?.?? The most recent development was the disallowance of Phil Driscoll?s exemption for his second home.?? Robert Baty during his career with the IRS thought the ...


Facebook Stares Down The Menlo Park Council Shakedown

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 08:13 PM PST

Facebook is getting a shakedown from the city of Menlo Park, California, the Silicon Valley town the company now calls home. And Facebook is pushing back. The social network, freshly moved in to the former Sun Microsystems campus near the Dumbarton Bridge on the edge of San Francisco Bay, has begun making plans to add ...


Too Big Not To Fail

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 07:57 PM PST

The Dodd-Frank Act, which is supposed to protect the nation from another systemic financial crisis, is a "confused, bloated law" with unlimited flaws-- which ensure our giant finance empires, Goldman Sachs, JP Moran , Bank America etc. are just plain "too Big Not To Fail."


All The Looks, Clothes, Accessories And Campaigns From The Marni For H&M Collection

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 07:43 PM PST

View our massive slideshow of the Marni for collaboration so you can already scope out what to buy before the collection goes on sale on March 8. From women?s clothes and those to-die-for accessories to menswear and shoes, everything?s here. Follow me on Twitter: @bluecarreon Read more from me at Style Intel


Drew Barrymore, Winona Ryder, Bryan Ferry And More Attend Marni For H&M Launch Party

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 07:31 PM PST

Though the Marni for collection will not be available in stores worldwide until March 8, already held a launch party for the collaboration in last February 17. As this is Hollywood land, celebrities came in full force for the event. The likes of , Winona Ryder, Milla Jovovich and current It girl and Oscar nominee ...


Paul Allen Writes David Stern A Love Note

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 07:26 PM PST

On Thursday,??billionaire , who owns the NBA?s????and the????Seahawks of the NFL, wrote basketball commissioner David Stern a love note when he released a??statement essentially saying he would support an NBA team in provided the economics of a new building for the team made sense. Stern needs to sell the??who were purchased by the league in ...


VIDEO: Whitney's coffin leaves church

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 01:50 PM PST

The coffin of Whitney Houston has left the New Hope Baptist Church where her funeral was held.


A year on, Morocco’s democracy movement founders

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 07:28 PM PST

RABAT, Morocco — Morocco's pro-democracy February 20 movement spearheaded the country's version of the Arab Spring and sent the centuries-old monarchy scrambling to reform. Now, a year after its birth, the youth-led group appears to have lost its way.

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Stella's surreal dinner theater wows London fashionistas (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 06:54 PM PST

Reuters - Fashion celebrities were enthralled with British designer Stella McCartney's mixture of magic and illusion, as she eschewed a formal catwalk show for a Matrix-style acrobatic display of models jumping from table to table and dancing on chairs.


Australian PM Gillard defiant under pressure over leadership (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 06:34 PM PST

Reuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard insisted on Sunday she was the right person to lead the country, dismissing as "gossip" talk of a possible leadership challenge from within her party after months of poor polls.


Yahoo's Signal Predicts Presidential Election: Obama Over Romney

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 06:38 PM PST

The 2012 presidential election race is in full swing, but Yahoo has predicted a winner already. Yahoo, using statistical analysis from a product called The Signal, is calling the race for Barack Obama, projecting the president to top Mitt Romney by a vote of 303 to 235 in the electoral college.


Australian PM Gillard defiant under pressure over leadership

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 06:34 PM PST

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard insisted on Sunday she was the right person to lead the country, dismissing as "gossip" talk of a possible leadership challenge from within her party after months of poor polls.
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