Five Must-Do Steps Before Filing Your Taxes

Five Must-Do Steps Before Filing Your Taxes

Five Must-Do Steps Before Filing Your Taxes

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:46 PM PDT

Before you mail or file your tax return electronically, take a breath. These 5 steps may sound silly but could save you a notice or even an audit.

Group: At least 4,300 Syrians killed in airstrikes

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:36 PM PDT

This image taken from video obtained from Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an injured Syrian woman rescued by rebels from a firefight in a street in the Jobar neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops battled rebels in the outskirts of Damascus on Wednesday and pressed on with a counteroffensive against opposition fighters in the south to prevent their advance on the capital.(AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — An international rights group says the Syrian regime has been carrying out indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate airstrikes against civilians that have killed at least 4,300 people since last summer.

VIDEO: Gunman dead as firefighters kidnapped

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 08:26 PM PDT

A hostage drama involving four firefighters in the US state of Georgia ends with police storming a house and killing the gunman.

VIDEO: Syria attacks 'amount to war crimes'

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 06:41 PM PDT

Human Rights Watch has accused the government of repeatedly carrying out indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate attacks on civilians, amounting to war crimes.

VIDEO: Gun control deal brokered by senators

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:34 PM PDT

A breakthrough agreement has been brokered in the US by two influential senators proposing the expansion of background checks for gun buyers.

VIDEO: Story of underground survival

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 05:09 PM PDT

A new documentary has arrived in American cinemas, which chronicles the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.

VIDEO: Retro products a hit in Portugal

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:50 AM PDT

A new trend in Portugal is seeing shopkeepers stock their shelves with products and packaging which deliberately hark back to the designs of previous decades.

VIDEO: Photographer Salgado on latest show

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 03:22 AM PDT

Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado talks to BBC Newsnight about his latest exhibition, Genesis, which has its world premiere at the Natural History Museum in London this week.

VIDEO: Michelle Obama in emotional gun plea

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:13 PM PDT

US First Lady Michelle Obama has made an emotional appeal for action on gun control, in a speech to community leaders in Chicago.

VIDEO: N Korea 'comical but deadly serious'

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 10:57 PM PDT

North Korea is variously portrayed as threatening or slightly comical - but how much do we really know about its young leader Kim Jong-un? John Sudworth reports.

VIDEO: Saudis build 1,000-mile border fence

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 03:07 PM PDT

Saudi Arabia is building a fence, over 1,000 miles long, in order to seal off its troubled frontier with Yemen.

VIDEO: Retro products a hit in Portugal

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:50 AM PDT

A new trend in Portugal is seeing shopkeepers stock their shelves with products and packaging which deliberately hark back to the designs of previous decades.

VIDEO: Danish teachers in 35km-long protest

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 02:20 AM PDT

Thousands of Danish teachers have formed a 35km line between two cities to protest at a week-long lockout by local authorities

VIDEO: Wind tunnel tests on 'ice javelins'

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 04:46 PM PDT

The British Antarctic Survey has developed an air-dropped projectile to place scientific instruments in inaccessible places.

VIDEO: Photographer Salgado on latest show

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 03:22 AM PDT

Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado talks to BBC Newsnight about his latest exhibition, Genesis, which has its world premiere at the Natural History Museum in London this week.

VIDEO: Roman London being unearthed

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:35 PM PDT

Archaeologists have found coins, pottery, shoes, lucky charms and an amber gladiator amulet in the heart of the financial district.

Play it Like Steve Jobs-Three Questions for Business Leaders to Ask When Surprise Hits

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:15 PM PDT

Despite tremendous developments in business strategy over the last fifty years, businesses and governments keep being disrupted by events that they might have seen coming, but didn't. In other words, they get surprised… and not in a happy, surprise party kind of way. Think 9/11, the Arab spring, Fukushima or the launch of the iPhone for Nokia. Such events often have consequences far beyond their immediate environment that make many firms suffer, and require a response that isn't in anyone's existing playbook.  The late Steve Jobs – no slouch when dealing with disruption in the marketplace – once replied that his strategy was to "wait for the next big thing."

US, Canada, Jordan, boycott UN meeting on justice

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:07 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Barred from speaking at a U.N. meeting on international criminal justice, Bosnian activist Munira Subasic, who lost 22 close family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, said she felt powerless as she listened to Serbia's ultranationalist president attack the U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia as politically biased.

US 'prepared' to deal with North Korea action

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:14 PM PDT

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says US ready for any contingency as South reassures it can intercept North's missiles.

An Illustrated History Of Bitcoin Crashes

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 09:45 PM PDT

Wednesday saw one of the largest declines in Bitcoin prices in the cryptocurrency's lifetime. Many commentators declared the fall the beginning of the end for Bitcoin. I'm not sure if that's correct or not, but in any event a sense of perspective is always helpful. So here are the biggest Bitcoin crashes since I started paying attention to the currency in early 2011.
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VIDEO: UK dancer graduates from Bolshoi

VIDEO: UK dancer graduates from Bolshoi

VIDEO: UK dancer graduates from Bolshoi

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:51 PM PDT

A 20-year-old boy from Widnes has graduated from the world famous Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow

Leaks Rouse Fears at Japanese Nuclear Plant

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:15 AM PDT

The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant on Wednesday said it has to move tens of thousands of tons of radioactive water out of leaky underground reservoirs.

EU Targets China Subsidies

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:53 AM PDT

The European Union proposed to expand the bloc's powers to protect its companies against unfair competition from abroad, a sign of Europe's increasingly combative stance aimed mainly at China.

Magnitude 5.5 quake shakes Honduras, no damage reported

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:58 PM PDT

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - An earthquake shook the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Wednesday, causing alarm, though there were no initial reports of damage in the Central American country.

The Caucus: Highlights From Obama’s Budget Proposal

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:54 PM PDT

Times reporters analyze how the White House's budget request would affect federal agencies and programs.
    

U.S. offers to help Iran after deadly quake

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:31 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House, at odds with Iran over its nuclear program, offered on Wednesday to help Tehran grapple with a deadly earthquake in southern Iran.

Egypt's Mursi drops complaints against journalists

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:28 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has ordered the withdrawal of legal complaints filed by the presidency against journalists, in a move that appeared aimed at fending off accusations of a crackdown on dissent by the Islamist-led authorities.

Skeletons discovered in home of deposed Central African Republic president

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:13 PM PDT

Francois Boziz spent 10 years as president of the Central African Republic before, last month, one of the country's rebel groups ousted him from power. Boziz 's rule was notoriously corrupt, so the world was not too sad to see him flee to neighboring Cameroon.

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Bin Laden raid member can be witness in Manning court-martial

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:04 PM PDT

A military judge Wednesday ruled that a member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden's compound would be allowed to testify at the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as part of the prosecution's attempt to link the dead al-Qaeda leader to material leaked by the soldier.

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Yemen president removes key officer in army shakeup: TV

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:04 PM PDT

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president removed the commander of the elite Republican Guard, a key political foe, from the military on Wednesday, state television reported, in an apparent move to unify the divided armed forces under his own control.

Kuwaitis rally against arrests, call for reform

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:50 PM PDT

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kuwaitis held an opposition rally outside the country's main court complex late on Wednesday, calling for the release of activists charged with insulting the Gulf Arab state's ruler and for steps towards political reform.

European Countries Move to Toughen Stance on Tax Evasion

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:56 AM PDT

President François Hollande of France announced the creation of a special prosecutor of corruption and tax fraud and vowed to eradicate tax havens.
    

Postal Service Halts Push to Limit Saturday Service

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:47 AM PDT

The service's Board of Governors said it had come to the decision after Congress passed a measure in March requiring it to continue delivering mail six days a week.
    

Security situation in CAR 'highly volatile'

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:18 PM PDT

Children most at risk as war, hunger and disease push central African nation towards humanitarian crisis, UN envoy says.

Britain's Cameron leads Thatcher tributes

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:54 PM PDT

Oscar-winning actress among dissenting voices in parliament session to remember prime minister who transformed country.

Neo-Nazi network uncovered in German prisons

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:37 AM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities said on Wednesday they had uncovered a network of far-right activists in prisons communicating by secret code.

Thatcher’s life and death divide Britain

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:20 AM PDT

LONDON — When Ronald Reagan departed this life, Americans joined in an outpouring of bipartisan mourning that ranged from genuine grief to grudging respect for the memory of the Gipper. On this side of the Atlantic, the reaction to the death of his political soul mate, Margaret Thatcher, could not be more different.

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Spain politicians to be fenced off from evictions protesters

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:32 AM PDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police will erect barriers around politicians' residences to shield them from protests over the growing number of home evictions and to call for changes to mortgage laws.

Rockefeller Impostor Convicted of 1985 Murder

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:07 PM PDT

A notorious Rockefeller impostor was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of a man whose bones were found buried beneath the backyard of a suburban home.
    

Broad Outlines of Senate Immigration Agreement Emerge

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:21 AM PDT

The legislation would require tough border measures to be in place before illegal immigrants could take the first steps to become American citizens.
    
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