Floods hit two Australian states, thousands evacuated

Floods hit two Australian states, thousands evacuated

Floods hit two Australian states, thousands evacuated

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:37 PM PST

Handout picture of floodwaters from the Burnett River inundating parts of BundabergCANBERRA (Reuters) - Massive summer floods have killed four people and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes across two Australian states on Tuesday, disrupting air and rail travel and coal production. A deluge fed by the ex-tropical cyclone Oswald dumped more than 200 millimeters (8 inches) of rain in some areas of the Queensland and New South Wales states over the past three days, swelling rivers and swamping towns. The worst-hit areas were around Bundaberg, Rockhampton and Ipswich in the Queensland state, and around the northern New South Wales towns of Grafton and Lismore. ...

VIDEO: US senators to tackle immigration

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:57 PM PST

A group of Republican and Democratic senators have proposed to work together on a solution to America's immigration problem.

US Senate passes long-delayed Sandy aid bill

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:57 PM PST

$50bn package for victims of last year's devastating storm now goes to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.

Bodies found as Mexico hunts music band

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:48 PM PST

Sole known survivor of Colombian-style Kombo Kolombia leads authorities to well holding 12 bodies in Nuevo Leon state.

VIDEO: US senators to tackle immigration

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:57 PM PST

A group of Republican and Democratic senators have proposed to work together on a solution to America's immigration problem.

VIDEO: Egypt protesters defy curfew

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:27 PM PST

Thousands of demonstrators have been on the streets of the Egyptian cities of Suez, Port Said, and Ismailiya in defiance of a curfew imposed by President Mohamed Morsi.

VIDEO: S Korea hopes for space race success

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:53 PM PST

South Korea is preparing its third and final attempt to launch a space satellite this week, after two previous attempts failed.

Floods hit two Australian states, thousands evacuated

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:37 PM PST

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Massive summer floods have killed four people and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes across two Australian states on Tuesday, disrupting air and rail travel and coal production.

Sales Tax? Amazon Fights IRS Too

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:24 PM PST

Bodies of missing Mexican band members found in well

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 06:59 PM PST

MONTERREY (Reuters) - Police found a dozen bodies inside a well in northern Mexico, some of them members of a band abducted last week by an armed group, a spokesman for the state of Nuevo Leon, Jorge Domene, said on Monday. Authorities have identified four of the bodies, including that of a Colombian national. All were wearing jeans and T-shirts with the logo of the music group - "Poderoso Kombo Kolombia." One band member who managed to escape told police that after he and the others were kidnapped, their armed men captors asked them if they belonged to an organized crime gang. ...

UN: Syrian refugees overwhelm Jordan camp

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:20 PM PST

Newly arrived Syrian refugees wait their turn to receive mattresses, blankets and other supplies, and to be assigned to tents, at the Zaatari Syrian refugees camp in Mafraq, near the Syrian border with Jordan, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. UN officials say a spike in Syrian refugees fleeing to Jordan in the past week has seen about 21,000 new arrivals with Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp now hosting about 83,000 registered refugees. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)ZAATARI, Jordan (AP) — A wave of 21,000 Syrian refugees in the past week, moving into northern Jordan at about five times the usual daily rate, has overwhelmed this crowded camp that's already struggling with flooding, short supplies and tent fires.

10 dead Borneo pygmy elephants feared poisoned

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:35 PM PST

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Ten endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in a Malaysian forest under mysterious circumstances, and wildlife officials said Tuesday that they probably were poisoned.

Cash Poor Clearwire Is Rich In Technological Excellence

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 09:32 PM PST

Those who have watched the Clearwire/Sprint saga unfold over the last two years know that Sprint has done everything it could to put Clearwire into bankruptcy. It starved it of cash. It became abusive of its management. All Sprint's machinations were designed to drive Clearwire into the ditch so Sprint could buy it back at a very cheap price. In the middle of its efforts, it not only sank Clearwire's stock, Sprint's management did a truly excellent job of putting its own stock down to a low of $2.10.  Softbank's Masayoshi Son made a bid for majority control of Sprint in the fall of 2012. Sprint and Son are vulnerable because the FCC must approve the proposed acquisition of a 70% interest in Sprint by a foreign entity.  At the time the deal was announced, Sprint's  CEO Dan Hesse insisted that Son had no interest in Clearwire. Then just weeks later, Sprint made a ridiculously low bid for the rest of Clearwire it didn't already own at $2.97. It is my belief that Sprint has little to bring to Softbank's table other than its interest in Clearwire. In fact, without Softbank's money it can't even buy the part of Clearwire it doesn't already own. It is a debt laden, ill run company that has been failing for years. I's management didn't even know in 2011 that if it forced Clearwire into bankruptcy it was the bondholders and not Sprint who would stand the best chance of acquiring that frequency.  The waters are muddy because much of the 2.5 Ghz spectrum is "rented" from charitable, educational, and religious institutions who were given it by the U.S Government and not controlled outright by Clearwire.

Marciano - Bankruptcy Debtor Gets Bench Warrant For Contempt After Impossibility Defense Flops

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 09:20 PM PST

In this latest installment of our rags-to-riches-to-rags series, our Debtor, Georges Marciano, as the co-founder of Guess, at one point had a net worth of $170 million, and his Trust in 2008 had a "book value" of $360 million.

Translating President Obama's Inaugural Speech: Methodically Trashing Individual Liberty

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 09:14 PM PST

President Barack Obama's inaugural address was notable for the rhetorical devices he used to at first embrace the founding principles of our God given, unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, and then trash them with his claim that "individual freedoms ultimately require collective action."

VIDEO: Fashion facelift for Trevi fountain

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:40 PM PST

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is to be given a multi-million-dollar facelift and the luxury fashion house Fendi is footing the bill.

VIDEO: What if you had a vision of the future?

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:23 PM PST

Want to enter the BBC What If? competition but stuck for inspiration? Six artists share their ideas.

VIDEO: The designs that shaped our world

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:31 PM PST

The Design Museum in London is celebrating the 'ordinary' items it believes have shaped the world we live in today

VIDEO: Digital artists inspired by the GIF's resurgence

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:52 PM PST

A digitally ancient file format is finding new uses among artists who value the GIF's limitations.

America’s Hardest Working Cities

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:57 PM PST
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Bomb explodes in southern district of Lebanese capital

Bomb explodes in southern district of Lebanese capital

Bomb explodes in southern district of Lebanese capital

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:36 PM PST

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb planted under a car exploded in a southern suburb of Beirut late on Monday, a Lebanese security source said, rocking a Shi'ite Muslim area that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah.

Algeria pipeline attack kills two

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:28 AM PST

Two security guards are killed in an attack on a gas pipeline in northern Algeria by suspected militants.

Iran arrests 14 reporters over 'foreign ties'

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:41 PM PST

Tehran accuses 14 reporters of co-operating with foreign media, a charge tantamount to "serving the enemy's purpose".

Boy Scouts may end gay-member ban

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:25 PM PST

The Boy Scouts of America signals that it may overturn its long-standing ban - reaffirmed only last year - on gay members and leaders.

Boy Scouts Consider Lifting Ban on Gay Leaders

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:38 PM PST

Under a new policy, the national organization would allow local scouting groups to choose whether to allow gay members.

Obama, in new interview, seems to lean away from Syria intervention

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:19 PM PST

President Obama gave an exclusive interview to The New Republic's editor, Franklin Foer, and its new owner, Chris Hughes, which the magazine published today as part of its re-launch. They mostly discussed domestic policy his comments on gun control have already made news but the last question, from Hughes, was about Syria.

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State Dept. Closes Office Working on Shutting Guantánamo Prison

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:15 PM PST

The announcement appeared to signal that the administration does not currently see the closing of the Guantánamo Bay prison as a realistic priority.

Fighting in South Sudan town kills four, thousands flee

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:07 PM PST

JUBA (Reuters) - A gunfight between South Sudanese soldiers and a former rebel commander's guards killed four people in a small eastern town, destroyed buildings there and forced thousands to flee, witnesses and officials said on Monday.

U.S. to criticize Sri Lanka at U.N. rights council

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:06 PM PST

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The United States will deliver a sharp public rebuke to Sri Lanka at the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in March for failing to pursue those responsible for abuses as government forces were crushing Tamil rebels in 2009, officials said on Monday.

Eight bodies found in Mexico well

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:13 PM PST

Police in northern Mexico find eight bodies in a well which they say are probably those of a band reported missing after a concert on Friday.

Manila church protester sentenced

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 09:10 AM PST

A pro-contraception activist who interrupted a church service in the Philippines in 2010 has been sentenced to up to 13 months in prison.

Roof torn from double-decker bus

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 05:44 AM PST

The roof of an out-of-service double-decker bus is ripped off when it gets stuck under a railway bridge.

Syria's Bashar al-Assad says his wife is pregnant

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:49 AM PST

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime is embroiled in a now two-year civil war that has killed tens of thousands, gave a cheery interview to unnamed "visitors," as reported by a sympathetic newspaper, in which he offhandedly revealed that his wife is pregnant. Asma al-Assad, the 37-year-old, British-born young mother of three (now four?), was warmly profiled in Vogue's February 2011 issue for her style and flair; shortly after, she was placed under severe economic sanctions by the European Union for her role in state abuses.

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The Appraisal: Marketing Weather-Battered Rockaways Properties ‘As Is’

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:20 AM PST

With a few homes and plots of land on the market, some homes badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy are being sold just as the storm left them.

Baseball defector returns to Cuba

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:30 PM PST

The baseball field looks like any other where people flock to play pickup games in Cuba on the weekends.

Pay Still High at Bailed-Out Firms, Report Says

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:51 AM PST

Top executives at firms that received taxpayer bailouts during the financial crisis received generous government-approved compensation packages, a Treasury watchdog said.

Connecticut Legislature Hearing on Gun Violence

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:09 AM PST

A Connecticut task force on gun violence is hearing from various sides on Monday.

Taste for Shark Fin Fades Slightly in China

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:05 AM PST

The high-profile campaign against shark fin soup has persuaded only a small number of Beijing hotels and restaurants to drop it from their menus.

French-led troops regain Timbuktu from rebels

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:48 PM PST

Malian and French troops enter the ancient city of Timbuktu, but one northern town remains in rebel hands.

Azerbaijan, Armenia hold talks over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:05 AM PST

PARIS (Reuters) - Officials from Azerbaijan and Armenia met in Paris on Monday for talks over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was the cause of a war that killed about 30,000 people in the early 1990s.
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