2012年7月3日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China


U.K. preps for Olympics — with missiles

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:05 AM PDT

UK Places Anti-Aircraft Missiles Atop Homes As Summer Olympics NearThe British government confirmed Tuesday that it had placed missile batteries at six sites around London in advance of the upcoming Summer Olympics, including atop two apartment buildings where residents had previously expressed reservations about hosting the anti-aircraft weapons.


Pakistan reopens vital supply routes after Clinton says 'sorry'

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:35 AM PDT

NATO oil tankers stand parked near oil terminals in Pakistan's port city of KarachiSecretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that Pakistan was reopening ground supply lines into neighboring Afghanistan after she apologized for the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO strike in November. "We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military," Clinton told Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar by telephone. America's [...]


Beloved TV icon Andy Griffith dies at 86

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:53 AM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 23, 1979 file photo shows actor Andy Griffith on the set of TV's "Salvage-1" near Los Angeles. Griffith, whose homespun mix of humor and wisdom made "The Andy Griffith Show" an enduring TV favorite, died Tuesday, July 3, 2012 in Manteo, N.C. He was 86. (AP Photo, file)Beloved TV icon Andy Griffith died at his Manteo, North Carolina, home on Tuesday morning. He was 86


East coast heat wave bears down on millions without power

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 12:25 AM PDT

East Coast Heat Wave Bears Down on Millions of Powerless ResidentsPower Outages Could Last Through the Week


What the frack? N.C. lawmaker accidentally votes to legalize fracking

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Obama's New Federal Fracking Rules Cover Just a Sliver of LandA North Carolina lawmaker says she feels "rotten" after accidentally voting to override the veto of a bill to legalize fracking—the controversial technique of extracting natural gas—in the state. Rep. Becky Carney, a Democrat from Mecklenburg, said she accidentally voted late Monday to override the governor's veto after asking fellow Democrats to uphold it. The [...]


Suspended police officer who’s been fired 6 times wants to return to work

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:35 AM PDT

Opa-locka Sgt. With Lengthy Personnel File Under InvestigationA suspended Florida police officer—who's been fired six times over the years for alleged misconduct, only to be reinstated—says he's the victim of a "witch hunt" and wants to go back to work, even though he's being paid $60,000 a year to stay home. Since becoming an officer in 1990, Sgt. German Bosque of the [...]


Americans still support Declaration of Independence: poll

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:25 AM PDT

Wayne Matthew holds a rope as he helps a crew raising a hot air balloon shaped like the U.S. flag at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. In an era when everything from health care policy to immigration divides us more than it unites us, when the Internet allows us to tear apart our fellow Americans' virtual throats from the comfort of our keyboards, what does a holiday like Independence Day mean? (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)USA! USA! USA! The timing could hardly be better. On the eve of July Fourth, a strong majority of Americans—70 percent—still firmly support the Declaration of Independence, according to a public opinion survey by Rasmussen Reports. Here's how Rasmussen puts it: The Declaration of Independence, ratified by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, asserts that "governments [...]


Obama defiantly attacks Romney on ‘outsourcing’

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 07:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. In the presidential battleground offering the biggest prize, Democrat Barack Obama is focused on ratcheting up voter turnout in Florida's university towns, Hispanic enclaves like the Puerto Rican-dominated Orlando region and South Florida's Jewish communities. Republican challenger Mitt Romney, in turn, is working to squeeze as many votes as possible out of north Florida's conservative military bastions, the senior-heavy Gulf Coast and Miami's Cuban community. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)President Barack Obama's re-election campaign on Tuesday redoubled its attack on Mitt Romney as someone who shipped jobs overseas, defying findings from independent fact-checking outlets that have branded the accusation largely baseless. In a new television ad, dubbed "Believe," Team Obama says that companies taken over by Romney's Bain Capital "were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. [...]


Anchorage mayor takes oath of office in Honolulu

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:37 AM PDT

Dan Sullivan was 4,664 miles from home. But thanks to video conferencing technology, the re-elected mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, was able to take his oath of office from Honolulu, Hawaii. It was 80 degrees in Honolulu, the Associated Press reported, compared with the seasonal highs of the mid-50s in Anchorage. Sullivan wore a Hawaiian shirt [...]

Chinese company claims Snow Leopard trademark, sues Apple

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:29 AM PDT

Earlier this year, iPads were pulled from shelves in numerous electronic stores in China due to a case filed by Proview, a Chinese company that used to own the iPad trademark in the country from the year 2000 up until … Continue reading →

Video: SUV goes airborne after hitting road buckle

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 07:07 AM PDT

A Wisconsin woman who had stopped on a bridge to take a picture with her cell phone of a buckled highway near Eau Claire accidentally caught video of an SUV going airborne instead. Theresa Reich told Milwaukee's WISN she didn't know her phone was taking video when the SUV hit the clearly-marked lip. "You don't [...]

Student’s eBay listing to save school taken down by school district

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:36 AM PDT

Like us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending. A father and son's creative way to help save a school from being shut down has been quashed by school district officials. Casey Young, a former student at the Learning Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, suggested listing the school on eBay as a way to offset [...]

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