Police brutality sparks anger in Egypt

Police brutality sparks anger in Egypt

Police brutality sparks anger in Egypt

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:37 PM PST

Man stripped naked and beaten by police while cameras were rolling now says the media got the story wrong.

Photos raise doubts over Iran space monkey

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:31 PM PST

One of two official photos of Iran's famed simian space traveller released to media depicts the wrong monkey.

Syria opposition leader meets Russia and Iran

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:07 PM PST

Mouaz al-Khatib's first talks with Syria's key allies raise hope of a possible breakthrough in stalemate over conflict.

VIDEO: Last orders for snake soup?

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 08:18 PM PST

One of Hong Kong's most traditional winter dishes could be under threat, according to those who collect its key ingredient.

Turkey says tests confirm leftist bombed U.S. embassy

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 07:07 PM PST

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A member of a Turkish leftist group that accuses Washington of using Turkey as its "slave" carried out a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy, the Ankara governor's office cited DNA tests as showing on Saturday.

Turkey says tests confirm leftist bombed U.S. embassy

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 07:07 PM PST

A security officer runs after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in AnkaraISTANBUL (Reuters) - A member of a Turkish leftist group that accuses Washington of using Turkey as its "slave" carried out a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy, the Ankara governor's office cited DNA tests as showing on Saturday. Ecevit Sanli, a member of the leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), blew himself up in a perimeter gatehouse on Friday as he tried to enter the embassy, also killing a Turkish security guard. ...

VIDEO: Fifth day for Alabama hostage case

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 09:27 PM PST

Police in Midland City in the US state of Alabama are spending a fifth day negotiating with a man accused of holding a young boy hostage in a bunker.

VIDEO: Iran unveils 'stealth fighter' plane

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:46 PM PST

Iran has unveiled a new home-made combat aircraft, which officials say can evade radar.

VIDEO: Indian fisherman held in Pakistan

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:47 PM PST

More than 50 Indian fisherman have been detained by Pakistani coastguards, over allegations that they trespassed into the country's territorial waters.

White House rebuffed Clinton-Petraeus plan to arm Syrian rebels: report

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:59 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A plan developed last summer by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David Petraeus to arm and train Syrian rebels was rebuffed by the White House, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

White House rebuffed Clinton-Petraeus plan to arm Syrian rebels: report

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:39 PM PST

Clinton delivers a speech at Dublin City University in IrelandWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A plan developed last summer by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David Petraeus to arm and train Syrian rebels was rebuffed by the White House, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The United States has sent humanitarian aid to Syria but has declined requests for weapons by rebels fighting to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ...

In Russia, volunteers step up

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:14 PM PST

ITOMLYA, Russia – A country doctor, a tiny, dilapidated village hospital, an indifferent health bureaucracy — and now, coming to the rescue, volunteers from distant Moscow, bringing furniture, equipment, money and, maybe most important, good cheer.

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Apple's iPad Market Share Slips Farther Below 50%

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:37 PM PST

Apple's iPad continues to experience the combination of strong year over year growth but declining market share in tablets according to IDC.  Apple sold 22.86 million iPads in the December quarter, an increase of 48% year over year, but its market share slid to 43.6%, the second quarter in a row that it has been under 50%.

What Makes Collaboration Actually Work in a Company?

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:20 PM PST

 "I've yet to meet a CEO who didn't want his or her company to move faster," wrote Ron Ricci, a Cisco executive. In this disruptive era, the companies that will survive are those that can adapt most swiftly. Rapidly exiting the Home Networking business, as Cisco did recently, couldn't have happened if the firm had not developed a clear, transparent and collaborative decision making process according to Ricci and his Cisco colleague and co-author of The Collaboration Imperative, Carl Wiese.

San Francisco 49ers Receiver AJ Jenkins Likes To Pick Up The Sticks In Madden NFL 13

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:12 PM PST

The San Francisco 49ers picked University of Illinois wide receiver A.J. Jenkins in the first round (30th pick) of the 2012 NFL Draft. The college star caught 90 passes for 1,276 yards and eight touchdowns during his senior season.  Although the 49ers are battling the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII, Jenkins is still waiting to have a breakout game. The rookie is ready for some football. Jenkins talks about his video game background and explains why he always scores in Madden NFL 13 in this exclusive interview.

Dallas Cowboys' Jason Witten Wins the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award for his Work to End Domestic Violence

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 05:31 PM PST

This evening, Jason Witten of the Dallas Cowboys was named the 2012 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year.  The award was presented at the second annual NFL Honors, airing nationally on CBS.

Mali hails "savior" Hollande, he says fight not over

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:47 PM PST

France's President Hollande stands with Mali's interim president Traore before placing flowers in homage to deceased Malian soldiers at the Independence Plaza in Bamako, MaliTIMBUKTU, Mali/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Cheering, grateful Malians mobbed French President Francois Hollande on Saturday as he visited French troops fighting Islamist jihadist rebels, and he pledged France would finish the job of restoring government control in the Sahel state. In a one-day trip to Mali accompanied by his ministers for defense, foreign affairs and development, Hollande was hailed as a liberator in the ancient northern city of Timbuktu, which French and Malian forces retook from the rebels six days ago. ...

Video of protester stripped and beaten fires Egypt fury

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:19 PM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - After eight days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage. Hamada Saber, 48, lay in a police hospital on Saturday, the morning after he was shown on television naked, covered in soot and thrashed by half a dozen policemen who had pulled him to an armoured vehicle near the presidential palace. ...

NFL Honors Highlights the NFL's Award-Winning Players and Partnerships

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:47 PM PST

On Saturday, February 2, the NFL hosted the 2nd annual NFL Honors award show at the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans.  The two-hour event, broadcast during primetime on CBS, serves as the stage for the announcement of seven AP NFL awards, along with nine other awards.

Typing Eight Characters Will Crash Almost Every OS X 'Mountain Lion' App

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:38 PM PST

Apple prides itself on quality, and 10.8 'Mountain Lion' is the company's flagship operating system, described as 'the world's most advanced operating system.' So it comes as a bit of a surprise that apps can be crashed by typing eight characters into an app.
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Yemen says intercepted ship carrying weapons was Iranian

Yemen says intercepted ship carrying weapons was Iranian

Yemen says intercepted ship carrying weapons was Iranian

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:37 PM PST

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen confirmed on Saturday that a ship intercepted last month off its coast was an Iranian vessel trying to smuggle explosives and surface-to-air missiles to the country, the state news agency Saba reported.

Hope and Fear Mix as a Hostage Situation Drags On

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:47 PM PST

The police say Jimmy Lee Dykes has held a 5-year-old boy hostage in Alabama for more than four days now, after he kidnapped the boy from a school bus and killed the driver.

Obama shooting picture released

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:34 PM PST

The White House tweets a picture of Barack Obama skeet-shooting - seemingly to settle a row about whether the president had fired a gun before.

Fulham 0-1 Man Utd

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:27 PM PST

Wayne Rooney scores a late winner at Fulham to increase Manchester United's Premier League lead to 10 points.

Colorado Communities Take On Fight Against Energy Land Leases

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:10 AM PST

Amid organic farms and ranches, the government is opening up thousands of acres of public land for oil and gas drilling, part of its largest lease sale in Colorado since President Obama took office.

City Room: Bronx Youth Is Accused of Throwing Boy, 9, From Roof

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:05 PM PST

Casmine Aska, 17, was arrested and charged on Saturday with attempted murder after being identified by the victim, police officials said.

VIDEO: Burma's historic literary festival

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

Burma is holding its first literary festival of recent times, with guest authors who previously served prison sentences for their writing.

Although splintered, al-Qaeda finds new life in unstable areas

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:13 AM PST

Pushed to the brink of collapse in its traditional strongholds, al-Qaeda has staged an unlikely but limited recovery over the past year through affiliates that have taken root in chaotic environments awash in weapons and beyond the reach of the U.S. military and CIA drones.

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VIDEO: Mali students return to school

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 03:58 PM PST

School pupils in Timbuktu have returned to their studies, 10 months after the occupation by Islamist militants began.

Egypt's league starts amid protests

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 08:14 AM PST

The Egyptian football league resumes after a year's absence despite a week of deadly violence in Cairo and Port Said.

Serbia coalition rocked by leaks against prime minister

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:17 AM PST

BELGRADE (Reuters) - A close aide to Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic accused Dacic's SNS coalition partners on Saturday of staging a smear campaign after media reports linked Dacic to an alleged drug trafficker.

Colombia's FARC to free 3 kidnapped members of security forces

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:05 AM PST

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebels on Saturday admitted to holding two police patrolmen and a soldier it seized last week and pledged to free them in an apparent goodwill gesture at the end of a tense week of peace negotiations with the government.

France vows to help rebuild Mali

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:24 AM PST

French President Francois Hollande promises to help rebuild Mali, after launching an offensive against Islamists who seized the north of the country.

Google boss labels China 'IT menace'

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:35 AM PST

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt uses a new book to call China an Internet menace that backs cyber-crime for economic and political gain, reports say.

Hollande says Mali war is not over

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:55 AM PST

French president says his troops will stay in Mali until rebels are conquered and democracy and human rights prevail.

Peres asks Netanyahu to form new Israeli government

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:12 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday formally asked incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new governing coalition following the January 22 general election.

Eritrean refugees protest in support of renegade soldiers

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:37 AM PST

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia demonstrated on Saturday in support of soldiers who forced state media in the Eritrean capital Asmara to call for all political prisoners to be freed.

Google boss labels China 'IT menace'

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:35 AM PST

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt uses a new book to call China an Internet menace that backs cyber-crime for economic and political gain, reports say.

In Behind-Scene Blows and Triumphs, Sense of Clinton Future

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 09:40 AM PST

A sometimes frustrated figure who prized her role as team player, the instincts Hillary Rodham Clinton, former secretary of state, were often more activist than those of a White House that has kept a tight grip on foreign policy.

Spanish Leader Pledges Transparency Amid Corruption Inquiry

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 09:08 AM PST

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pledged to provide "complete transparency" about his own financial assets to refute documents showing that he and others had received regular payouts.
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Japan coast guard says detains Chinese fishing boat near Okinawa

Japan coast guard says detains Chinese fishing boat near Okinawa

Japan coast guard says detains Chinese fishing boat near Okinawa

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:52 AM PST

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Japan's coast guard detained a Chinese fishing boat near the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on Saturday and arrested the captain for collecting coral illegally, a coast guard official said.

French president visits Mali to support French troops

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 12:45 AM PST

TIMBUKTU, Mali (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande arrived in Mali on Saturday on a one-day visit to support French troops fighting a campaign against Islamist rebels in the Sahel nation.

Water, wine to lubricate Russian talks with war foe Georgia

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 11:46 PM PST

BORJOMI, Georgia (Reuters) - If there's a way to dilute the bitterness in relations between Russia and Georgia after a 2008 war, it may lie in a lush valley south of the Caucasus Mountain border between the feuding former Soviet republics.

Japan coast guard detains Chinese fishing boat near Okinawa - Xinhua

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 11:32 PM PST

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Japan's coast guard has detained a Chinese fishing boat for "alleged unauthorized coral fishing" near Okinawa, China's official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, quoting the Chinese Consulate General in the city of Fukuoka.

Thirty-one killed as militants attack Pakistan checkpoint

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 10:20 PM PST

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants attacked an isolated army checkpoint in Pakistan's restive northwest on Saturday, with at least 31 people killed in the initial assault, subsequent crossfire and a rocket attack on a house, officials said.

More than two-thirds of Facebook users consult the network by mobile

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 10:12 PM PST

Facebook counted 1.06 billion active users in December 2012, which represents a 25 percent year-on-year rise, with 680 million users consulting the site from a mobile device, according to the Q4 2012 results released Thursday.

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Teary Australia PM's election campaign off to rocky start

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 09:25 PM PST

PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's government was rocked by the surprise resignation of two of her most senior cabinet ministers on Saturday, just four days after she stunned voters by calling a national election in eight months' time.

Mexico probes if blast was attack or accident, 33 dead

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 06:30 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government vowed on Friday to find out whether an explosion that killed 33 people at the headquarters of its state-run oil monopoly Pemex was a deliberate attack or yet another stain on the company's poor safety record.

Iran escalating efforts to destabilize region - Panetta

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 06:23 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta accused Iran of an intensified campaign to destabilize the Middle East by smuggling anti-aircraft weapons to militant allies, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Boeing 787 investigation making progress - U.S. NTSB

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 04:09 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Friday said they are making progress in their investigation of a battery fire on a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner in Boston this month, as the grounding of Boeing's entire fleet Of 787s stretched into a third week.

Envoy makes "last appeal" for Syria as officials meet

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 03:32 PM PST

AMMAN/MUNICH (Reuters) - Senior U.S., Russian and U.N. officials, along with the leader of the Syrian opposition, were all expected at a security conference in Munich on Saturday, providing a rare opportunity for talks to revive efforts to end the civil war in Syria.

Sudan riot police clash with students at Khartoum university

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 03:23 PM PST

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese riot police fired teargas at students on Friday as government supporters stormed the main university in the capital Khartoum, activists and witnesses said, in a second day of unrest on the campus.

One dead, dozens hurt as police clash with Egypt protesters

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 02:50 PM PST

CAIRO/PORT SAID, Egypt (Reuters) - At least one protester was shot dead and dozens wounded on Friday when riot police clashed with demonstrators demanding the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi.

Mexico blast kills at least 33, flagging Pemex safety woes

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 01:19 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Rescue workers pulled out more bodies from debris at the headquarters of Mexican state oil giant Pemex on Friday after a powerful explosion killed at least 33 people and threw a spotlight onto the state-run company's poor safety record.

Collapsible bike helmet can fit inside your bag

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 08:10 PM PST

If you opt out of wearing a bike helmet because you don't like toting the thing around all day, a new French-designed collapsible helmet -- small enough to fit into a bag -- could save both your head and your sense of style.

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Panetta: Iran escalating efforts to destabilise region

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 08:16 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 — Outgoing US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta accused Iran of an intensified campaign to destabilize the Middle East by smuggling anti-aircraft weapons to militant allies, The Wall Street Journal reported today.  "There is no question when you start passing MANPADS around, that becomes a threat, not just to military aircraft but ...

Mexico probes if blast was attack or accident, 33 dead

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 08:06 PM PST

MEXICO CITY, Feb 2 — Mexico's government vowed last night to find out whether an explosion that killed 33 people at the headquarters of its state-run oil monopoly Pemex was a deliberate attack or yet another stain on the company's poor safety record.  Rescue workers continued to pull bodies from the debris last night and officials said the search ...

Obama tapped Kerry for Secretary of State before Rice quit

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 06:30 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 — US President Barack Obama offered Senator John Kerry the job of secretary of state a week before Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, withdrew her name from contention, the Boston Globe reported today.  "He called me, actually a week before Susan got out of the thing," Kerry told the newspaper, offering a ...

US military veteran suicides rise, one dies every 65 minutes

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 05:16 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 — The most extensive study yet by the US government on suicide among military veterans shows more veterans are killing themselves than previously thought, with 22 deaths a day — or one every 65 minutes, on average.  The study released today by the Department of Veterans Affairs covered suicides from 1999 to 2010 and compared with ...

Obama offers compromise on birth control health coverage

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 05:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 — The Obama administration today sought to settle a dispute with religious leaders over whether employees at faith-affiliated universities, hospitals and other institutions should have access to health insurance coverage for contraceptives.  The new set of proposals would instead guarantee that employees at religious non-profits ...
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