Florida Widow Guilty + $21M Penalty for Inherited Swiss + Liechtenstein Accounts

Florida Widow Guilty + $21M Penalty for Inherited Swiss + Liechtenstein Accounts

Florida Widow Guilty + $21M Penalty for Inherited Swiss + Liechtenstein Accounts

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 02:59 PM PST

Mugshot: Al Capone sent to prison. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It's no secret the IRS is taking a hard line on undisclosed foreign bank accounts. An IRS voluntary disclosure can bring accounts into compliance with finite penalties and no criminal prosecution for those who come forward before being discovered. See FBAR Penalties [...]

VIDEO: Cubans await news on Chavez

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:46 PM PST

The news about Hugo Chavez's health is being followed particularly closely in Cuba, where many worry about the future should President Chavez not be able to return to office.

UN seeks to deploy drones over DR Congo

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:52 PM PST

Congo government supports move, but neighbouring Rwanda against plan for surveillance aircraft to monitor vast nation.

Pakistani women turn to once-taboo divorce to escape abuse

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:08 PM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani women are slowly turning to divorce to escape abusive and loveless marriages, once taboo and still a dangerous option in this strict Muslim nation even as more women become empowered by rising employment and awareness of their rights.

Pakistani women turn to once-taboo divorce to escape abuse

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:08 PM PST

Maryam Suheyl, a marriage and family therapist, meets her client to discuss marital issues at her office in LahoreISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani women are slowly turning to divorce to escape abusive and loveless marriages, once taboo and still a dangerous option in this strict Muslim nation even as more women become empowered by rising employment and awareness of their rights. But the number of women with the courage to seek divorce remains small in the face of Pakistan's powerful religious right and growing Islamic conservatism, and in a male-dominated nation where few champion women's rights. ...

India lashes out at Pakistan after deadly Kashmir encounter

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:13 PM PST

JAMMU, India (Reuters) - India slammed arch-rival Pakistan on Wednesday over a firefight in the disputed territory of Kashmir in which two of its soldiers were killed, and said the mutiliation of one of the bodies was "inhuman". Officials said Pakistan's envoy to New Delhi was likely to be summoned during the day to register a protest over Tuesday's incident, in which Pakistani troops crossed the territory's heavily militarized Line of Control (LoC) and fired at an Indian army patrol. ...

India lashes out at Pakistan after deadly Kashmir encounter

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:41 PM PST

JAMMU, India (Reuters) - India slammed arch-rival Pakistan on Wednesday over a firefight in the disputed territory of Kashmir in which two of its soldiers were killed, and said the mutiliation of one of the bodies was "inhuman".

Several killed in Kenya coastal violence

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:28 PM PST

At least eight dead and nine wounded after latest tribal violence in southeastern Tana Delta region.

Armstrong to address doping scandal on Oprah

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 09:56 PM PST

Cyclist to appear on US network to break his silence on lifetime ban from sport for use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Microsoft Confirms Messenger Will Shut Down On March 15

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 04:27 PM PST

As announced last November, Microsoft has been planning to discontinue Windows Live Messenger in 2013, moving all users over to Skype sometime in Q1 of this year. Today, Microsoft emailed all 100 million+ Messenger users to announce that the company will retire Messenger on March 15, after which users must [...]

Five Lessons in Transparency from Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 04:25 PM PST

Delos "Toby"Cosgrove: Developed Outcomes Books when he was Chief of Cardiac Surgery. Cleveland Clinic is the health care industry trailblazer when it comes to publishing its clinical outcomes. As discussed in this earlier story ("How To Report Quality To The Public"), the Ohio hospital system annually publishes Outcomes Books that detail the [...]

Abbas and Meshaal in Cairo for talks

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 09:27 PM PST

Leaders of Fatah and Hamas to hold three-way meeting with Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to discuss reconciliation.

George R.R. Martin Releases a New Chapter in the 'Game of Thrones' Series

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 04:17 PM PST

Good, no, great news, fans of George R.R. Martin's series "A Song of Ice and Fire" (which I refer to in the title as "Game of Thrones" for the purpose of aggregation only): For those of us who have been dying in anticipation since the release of A Dance with Dragons, Martin is reviving us with another advanced chapter of The Winds of Winter. But there's a catch….

Fat Lady Still Not Singing In the Sprint Acquisition of Clearwire

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 03:44 PM PST

Sprint may have thought they could steal the shares of Clearwire they don't already own for a song but no matter what they try, they cannot suppress the true value of the spectrum Clearwire controls. DISH's Charlie Ergen offered to buy the entire company on 12/8/13 or to do a deal to use its wireless services in exchange for badly needed financing, or to buy up to 24% of its excess spectrum. Sprint is trying its best to block and parry. Stay tuned as the price rises for Clearwire's assets and large shareholder Crest Financial goes to Delaware Chancery Court to plead for expedited review of its case against Sprint.

Iraqis awarded $5m over Abu Ghraib abuse

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 07:54 PM PST

Settlement marks first successful effort by lawyers for former prisoners who were abused between 2003 and 2007.

Weather cools Australia bush blaze

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 07:52 PM PST

Firefighters welcome cooler weather as bushfires continue to wreak havoc in New South Wales state.

Why the AP Selling its Own Sponsored Tweets is Good for Twitter

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 02:24 PM PST

For some time now, publishers and other large accounts on Twitter have sold their own sponsored tweets outside of Twitter's ad offering. The practice gained some notoriety this week as the Associated Press announced, and began posting, a series of tweets Samsung paid it to publish. The tweets, clearly labeled and [...]

Apple CEO visits China for second time in less than a year

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 06:41 PM PST

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc's Chief Executive Tim Cook is meeting with partners and government officials in China on his second visit to the firm's second-largest market in less than a year.

In rural India, rapes are common, but justice for victims is not

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 06:44 PM PST

The teenage girl was overpowered by four men at a railway crossing near this village and bundled into a car. For five days she was kept, imprisoned and naked, in a windowless outhouse on nearby farmland and raped repeatedly.

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Hit The Slopes! Coast-to-Coast Snow Kicks Off Skier's Dream Season For 2013

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 01:48 PM PST

The best way to do ski travel is on the fly, going when and where conditions warrants. The when is right now and the where is easy: most of North America has great snow.
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Australia bushfires rage out of control

Australia bushfires rage out of control

Australia bushfires rage out of control

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 01:09 PM PST

More than 100 fires burn in the country's most populous state as intense heat and winds make conditions "catastrophic".

Opinion: Karzai's U.S. visit a time for tough talk on security

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 01:02 PM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is meeting this week with President Obama in Washington amid increasing ambivalence in the United States about what to do about the war in Afghanistan.

Tunisia frees man held in Benghazi attack

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 01:03 PM PST

A man held by Tunisian authorities in connection with the deadly September attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya has been released by a judge, Tunisia's state news agency reported Tuesday.

U.S. does not rule out leaving no troops in Afghanistan after 2014

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 12:32 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration does not rule out the possibility that no U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014, the White House said on Monday, just days before President Barack Obama is due to meet Afghan president Hamid Karzai.

Mali says army repelled Islamist attack

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 12:49 PM PST

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's army repelled an attack on its advance positions on Monday by heavily armed Islamist groups who control the country's north, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

African Union head seeks global coalition to intervene on Mali

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:58 AM PST

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The head of the African Union, Benin President Boni Yayi, called on Tuesday for a global coalition to intervene against Islamist rebels in northern Mali, but Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he had no plans to join the U.N.-sanctioned force.

New arrest over organist murder

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

Police arrest a 21-year-old man over the murder of a church organist on Christmas Eve in Sheffield.

On Football: Alabama Taps a Talent Pool as Deep as the South

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 12:04 PM PST

Alabama's championship football team is a study in homegrown success, with roughly half of its roster from in-state and the rest overwhelmingly from the Deep South.

Australia is so hot they had to add new colors to the weather map

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:52 AM PST

As scorching temperatures persist across Australia, the country's Bureau of Meteorology added a new color to its weather forecasting map, extending the range to 54 C, or 129 F, from the previous cap of 50 C, or 122 F.

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Fresh safety scare for Dreamliner

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:51 AM PST

A fuel leak cancels takeoff for a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Boston's Logan airport, the second incident in as many days involving the new jet.

Aid Groups Report New Level of Misery Among Displaced Syrians

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:47 AM PST

Up to two and a half million Syrians are not getting enough to eat, the United Nations said, and violence broke out in a refugee camp in Jordan after a winter storm.

Find of Roman statues 'important'

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:20 AM PST

Archaeologists in Italy say they have discovered what they've called a "very important" series of statues dating back to the Roman era, linked to the celebrated poet Ovid.

India says Pakistani troops entered its territory in Kashmir, killed 2 soldiers

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:12 AM PST

NEW DELHI — Indian military officials on Tuesday accused Pakistani troops of killing two of their soldiers and mutilating the body of at least one of them after crossing into Indian territory in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a development that could impede a tenuous peace process between the nuclear-armed rivals.

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French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac faces tax evasion allegations

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:03 AM PST

PARIS—French prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation Tuesday into accusations that Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac earlier in his career had a secret Swiss bank account to avoid France's high taxes.

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James Holmes Set Trap to Divert Police, Agent Says

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:45 AM PST

James E. Holms booby trapped his apartment, hoping law enforcement officers would be distracted from the theater, according to an F.B.I. agent.

MPs back 1% cap on benefit rises

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 01:06 PM PST

The government wins a crucial vote in Parliament on plans for a 1% limit on annual increases in working-age benefits for the next three years.

Pro-Assad Palestinians call for Yarmouk truce

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:02 AM PST

Pro-regime factions in Damascus refugee camp seek local ceasefire, as UN says one million Syrians lack food.

In Clashes in Kashmir, Indians Claim 2 Soldiers Were Killed

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:07 AM PST

The sudden surge in violence between Indians and Pakistanis is a troubling development in Kashmir, where a cease-fire has been in place for almost 10 years.

In Clashes in Kashmir, Indians Claim 2 Soldiers Were Killed

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:07 AM PST

The sudden surge in violence between Indians and Pakistanis is a troubling development in Kashmir, where a cease-fire has been in place for almost 10 years.

Boeing 787 at Boston Airport Returns to Gate After Fuel Leak

Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:31 AM PST

A fuel leak forced a Boeing Dreamliner operated by Japan Airlines to cancel its takeoff and return to the gate, the second incident in two days involving a Dreamliner.
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