Sandy gone, Caribbean mourns 43 dead, cleans up

Sandy gone, Caribbean mourns 43 dead, cleans up


Sandy gone, Caribbean mourns 43 dead, cleans up

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:09 PM PDT

A woman cleans her home, drenched by the heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy in Gran Goave, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. The hurricane raged through the Bahamas early Friday after leaving 38 people dead across the Caribbean. The death toll was still rising in Haiti, reaching 25 on Friday as word of disasters reached officials and rains continued to fall. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)Hurricane Sandy is swirling off toward the U.S. East Coast, leaving the Caribbean to mourn the storm-related deaths of at least 43 people and clean up wrecked homes, felled power lines and fallen tree branches.



Jimmy Savile: How could allegations go unnoticed?

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:39 PM PDT

FILE - This is a March 25, 2008 file photo of Sir Jimmy Savile, who for decades was a fixture on British television. A year after he died, aged 84 and honored as Sir Jimmy, several women have come forward to claim he was also a sexual predator and serial abuser of underage girls. The child abuse scandal that has enveloped the BBC, one of Britain's most respected news organizations, is now hitting one of America's, as the incoming president of The New York Times is on the defensive about his final days as head of the BBC. Mark Thompson was in charge of the BBC in late 2011 when the broadcaster shelved what would have been a bombshell investigation alleging that the late Savile was a serial sex offender. (AP Photo/ Lewis Whyld/PA, File)Jimmy Savile was one of the best-known faces on British television. So how was he able to become what police now say was one of the country's worst child sex predators without ever being caught?



'Cloud Atlas' Review - A Gorgeous Mess

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 06:12 PM PDT

Cloud Atlas is an ambitious, intriguing film but its sprawling narrative feels at once too busy for three hours and overly long.


Should U.S. Citizens Abroad Pick Streamlined IRS Program Or OVDP?

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 03:25 PM PDT

If you are a U.S. citizen living abroad just waking up to your worldwide IRS tax reporting and FBAR obligations, the hangover can be severe. You may be tempted to go back to bed and just forget it. Yet most tax advisers will tell you the world is becoming pretty [...]


Cuban dissident Gutierrez Menoyo dies

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:40 PM PDT

Revolutionary fighter who later turned against Fidel Castro, then returned to Cuba in 2003, dies in Havana at age of 77.


More Women In Tech, More Women Mentors

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 05:22 PM PDT

Research shows that women gravitate toward women-led companies. Get Satisfaction Vice President of Marketing Azita Martin only realized she was the only woman in the room when she wasn't. "Now that I'm here at Get Satisfaction, I realize how refreshing it is . You don't realize how weird being the only [...]


Over a thousand protest over chemical plant in east China

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:18 PM PDT

NINGBO, China (Reuters) - More than a thousand people gathered in the eastern Chinese port city of Ningbo on Saturday to protest against plans to expand a petrochemical plant, highlighting a major challenge for the leadership as it readies for its once-in-a-decade power transition.


France slated to offer abortions for free

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:45 PM PDT

Bill passed by parliament reimburses cost for all unwanted pregnancies and provides minors full contraceptive access.


Sandy leaves Bahamas after killing 43 in Caribbean

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:30 PM PDT

Residents of Leogane, Haiti find higher ground as the water level continues to rise Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Residents of Leogane have had five consecutive days of rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which caused serious flooding and claimed at least 26 lives in the impoverished country. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste) MAGS OUTHurricane Sandy spun away from the Bahamas late Friday after causing 43 deaths across the Caribbean, churning northward toward the U.S. East Coast, where it threatens to join with winter weather fronts to create a super storm.



Obama's Second-Term Agenda: Making Obamacare's Taxes, Spending, and Regulations Permanent

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 04:30 PM PDT

On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney has been criticizing President Obama for not proposing an agenda for his second term. "Although President Obama won't lay out his plan for as second term," said Romney in Florida last week, "we already know what it will be: a repeat of the last four years." But in fact, Obama's second term would look quite different from his first, because it's in the next four years that Obamacare's web of new taxes, spending increases, and regulatory mandates will be weaved. Here's a timeline.


Transforming the White House Into A Green House

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 04:22 PM PDT

Dr. Jill Stein and the Greening of America On October 23rd, Harvard graduate, physician Dr. Jill Stein, head of the U.S. Green Party; Virginia Congressman, Virgil Goode, the leader of the Constitution Party; Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson (former Governor of New Mexico); and, 33rd Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, Rocky [...]


VIDEO: Syrian parents find son in Cyprus

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 07:06 PM PDT

A Syrian boy, feared to have been killed in the rubble of his shelled Damascus home in July, has been reunited with his parents, who had fled to seek asylum in Cyprus.


Bahrain policeman dies from protest injuries

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 07:31 PM PDT

After suffering burns in April "terrorist act", officer passes away in hospital abroad one week following another death.


VIDEO: Syrian parents find son in Cyprus

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 07:06 PM PDT

A Syrian boy, feared to have been killed in the rubble of his shelled Damascus home in July, has been reunited with his parents, who had fled to seek asylum in Cyprus.


How Can Women Who Smoke Add 10 Years To Their Lives?

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 02:21 PM PDT

A woman smokes a cigarette on March 12, 2012 in London, Ontario. A trial got underway in Montreal Monday against three leading tobacco companies, seeking $27 billion from them for allegedly failing to adequately warn smokers of the dangers of cigarettes. Plaintiffs filed two separate class actions that were combined [...]


Hurricane Sandy: Stress Testing the Power Industry's Assistance Network

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:41 PM PDT

Source: Edison Electric Institute The electric power industry is bracing for what several forecasts are predicting could be the worst storm "to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years." If Hurricane Sandy has anything close to the force anticipated by these gloomy forecasts, widespread power outages across the East Coast are virtually [...]


VIDEO: Entente cordiale for UK and France

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 04:17 PM PDT

The UK and France have been conducting a major military exercise in the Mediterranean, in what is being hailed as a milestone in closer defence co-operation between the two countries.


After Benghazi attacks, Islamist extremists akin to al-Qaeda stir fear in eastern Libya

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 06:05 PM PDT

DARNA, Libya — Operating from the shadows, armed Islamist extremists are terrorizing the eastern Libyan city of Darna, six weeks after the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi threw a spotlight on Libya's growing religious extremism.

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Berlusconi Sentenced For Tax Fraud, On Trial For Sex Crimes

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 02:06 PM PDT

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reacts after delivering an address to the Senate on December 13, 2010 in Rome. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces a knife-edge confidence vote in parliament the day after that could either trigger his downfall or see the resilient Italian leader bounce back once again. (Image [...]


Facebook Flies And Netflix Flops: The Short (Selling) Story

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:20 PM PDT

Traders are paring back bets against the social network, pressing plays on the streaming video service.


'Frankenstorm' barrels towards US

'Frankenstorm' barrels towards US


'Frankenstorm' barrels towards US

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT

Hurricane Sandy could merge with a winter storm to create what they have dubbed "Frankenstorm" as it bears down on the US, forecasters warn.


VIDEO: Malala will 'rise again' says father

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT

The father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban, has said his daughter is recovering well in the UK.


VIDEO: Bloodshed in Syria despite truce

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:27 PM PDT

The Syrian capital Damascus has been hit by a car-bomb attack, shattering a four-day ceasefire that had begun hours earlier to mark an Islamic holiday.


VIDEO: Malala will 'rise again' says father

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT

The father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban, has said his daughter is recovering well in the UK.


Love or nothing: The real Greek parallel with Weimar

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Paul Mason on the real Greek parallel with Weimar


Dozens Dead in Myanmar as Sectarian Violence Erupts Again

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

A week of violence between Muslims and Buddhists has left at least 60 dead in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar, a local official said.


Small fire breaks out near Khartoum arms factory

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:17 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A small fire broke out on Friday near Sudan's biggest arms factory in the capital Khartoum, a witness and state media said, two days after Sudan accused Israel of bombing the site.


F.D.A. Finds Unsanitary Conditions at New England Compounding Center

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:49 PM PDT

The agency said its inspectors found mold, bacteria and dirty equipment at the company where the drug implicated in the national meningitis outbreak was manufactured.


Dozens Dead in Myanmar as Sectarian Violence Erupts Again

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:25 PM PDT

A week of violence between Muslims and Buddhists has left at least 60 dead in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar, a local official said.


How bad is Hurricane Sandy? A distressing photo from Haiti

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:52 PM PDT

Hurricane Sandy, currently approaching the U.S. East Coast, tore through theCaribbean this week. It killed 11 in Cuba, making it the deadliest storm there since 2005. Above is a photo showing some of its impact in Haiti, where it killed 16. Officials there have evacuated more than 1,000 people from the internal displacement camps that have held thousands of Haitians since the 2010 earthquake.

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'Relief' at Olympic medal return

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT

TeamGB hockey player Hannah Macleod says it is a "huge relief" as her Olympic bronze medal - one of two stolen at a London nightclub - is returned.


DealBook: Man Claiming Facebook Ownership Arrested on Fraud Charges

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Federal prosecutors say that Paul Ceglia filed a sham federal lawsuit claiming to have been promised a 50 percent share of Facebook, and then doctored, fabricated and destroyed evidence to support his allegations.


Qatars foray into Gaza politics: Bad for Iran, good for Israel?

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 11:26 AM PDT

The monarch of oil-rich Arab gulf nation Qatar,Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, this week became the first foreign head of state to visit Gazas militant Islamist rulers since they won power over the Palestinian territory in 2007. The emir, who has long deployed Qatars astounding energy wealth toward outsized international influence, also handed over $400 million in Gazan reconstruction aid. Hamas, long seen as an ally of Iran, opposes Israel, sometimes violently.

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Merkel's conservatives reach three-year high in key opinion poll

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:05 PM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives climbed to their highest level in more than three years in a leading opinion poll published on Friday, but the results pointed to no outright winner emerging from next September's election.


Romney promises US 'real change'

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT

Mitt Romney promises "real change" against President Obama's "status quo", in a speech following better-than-expected US economic figures.


Iranian dissidents win Sakharov Prize

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and jailed lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh awarded EU prize for human rights and freedom of thought.


Tagg Romney Follows in His Father’s Footsteps, but Probably Not Into Politics

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:51 PM PDT

Tagg Romney says he has no interest in working in a Romney administration and no intention of carrying on the political tradition that began with his grandfather, George.


FiveThirtyEight: The State of the States

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:32 AM PDT

Thursday's polls served to clarify that Barack Obama maintains a narrow lead in states that would get him to 270 electoral votes.


‘Back to Blood,’ by Tom Wolfe

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:41 AM PDT

Tom Wolfe's new novel is built around the gaudy clash of Miami's different ethnic and financial populations.


I'm not retiring yet - Ecclestone

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 11:11 AM PDT

Bernie Ecclestone says he has no plans to step down as Formula 1 boss, suggesting he may continue for three more years.