2012年12月13日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Why Rice took her name off the list

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:47 PM PST

UN Ambassador Susan Rice walks from the United Nation General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, after a vote was cast that overwhelmingly recognized a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)The U.N. ambassador stunned Washington by withdrawing her name for consideration as secretary of state.


Obama, Boehner have ‘frank’ talks as fiscal cliff looms

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:52 PM PST

Obama, Boehner meet to discuss 'fiscal cliff'With talks on avoiding the "fiscal cliff" locked in a pattern of public battling and private negotiating, President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner met behind closed doors for 50 minutes at the White House on Thursday. Both sides agreed the discussion in the Oval Office was "frank" and insisted that the "lines [...]


Year's best meteor shower happens tonight

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:14 AM PST

Year's Best Meteor Shower TonightEarth is passing through the orbit of an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon, and astronomers think we're seeing its debris -- shooting stars, more than 50 per hour, many of them no larger than grains of sand, burning up as they plow into the atmosphere.


NYC teachers’ fund pledges $1B to post-Sandy rebuilding

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:19 PM PST

In this Nov. 18, 2012 photo, Ray Marten, right, and his son Ray Marten Jr., collect family business records from a filing cabinet in the basement of their flood and fire-destroyed home in the Belle Harbor section of the Queens borough of New York. Several homes and businesses were destroyed by fire in the oceanside community during Superstorm Sandy. Behind them is the burned-out shell of a neighbor's van. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK—A pension fund for New York City teachers will contribute $1 billion to rebuild infrastructure damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The money will come from the $46 billion New York City Teachers' Retirement System, which handles the investments of roughly 190,000 current and retired educators. It's going to an infrastructure redevelopment project started last year [...]


Fiscal cliff drives wedge between GOP allies

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:53 PM PST

Small Business Saturday Competes With Black Friday, Cyber MondayCorporate leaders are helping strengthen Obama's bargaining position while small business advocates are bristling over the prospect of higher taxes.


Senate takes step toward banning stalking software

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:54 PM PST

FILE - In this May 10, 2011, file photo, Senate Privacy, Technology and the Law subcommittee Chairman Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. presides over the subcommittee's hearing on "Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy," on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee was expected Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, to approve legislation that would close a legal loophole that allows so-called cyberstalking apps to operate secretly on a cell phone and transmit the user's location information without a person's knowledge. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress.


Two-inch feather emerges from baby's neck

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:27 PM PST

Two-Inch Feather Emerges From Baby's NeckNo one knew what was bothering 7-month-old Mya Whittington. Her discomfort stumped her parents and doctors.


Mysteries swirl around North Korea's satellite launch

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:30 AM PST

In this image made from video, displays show the Unha-3 rocket launch at North Korea's space agency's General Launch Command Center on the outskirts of Pyongyang, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. The rocket launch will enhance the credentials of 20-something leader Kim Jong Un at home a year after he took power following the death of his father Kim Jong Il. It is also likely to bring fresh sanctions and other punishments from the U.S. and its allies, which were quick to condemn the launch as a test of technology for a missile that could attack the U.S. mainland. Pyongyang says it was merely a peaceful effort to put a satellite into orbit. (AP Photo via APTN)US and South Korean officials appear to disagree on one detail of the North Korean satellite that has nothing to do with any difference over what to do about it.


Whoa: Physicists testing to see if universe is a computer simulation

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:45 PM PST

Phew! Universe's Constant Has Stayed ConstantWill you take the red pill or the blue pill? Some physicists and university researchers say it's possible to test the theory that our entire universe exists inside a computer simulation, like in the 1999 film "The Matrix." In 2003, University of Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper, "The Simulation Argument," which argued [...]


GOP losing public-opinion war over stalled debt talks

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:12 AM PST

Obama, Boehner publicly hold ground in negotiationsPolling shows strong support for Obama and three-quarters of Americans say they would accept raising taxes on the wealthy.


A 'tiny Christmas’ for cash-strapped families this year

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:34 PM PST

Tiny ChristmasIn s still-down economy, several families share with Yahoo News how they plan on celebrating Christmas with creativity and togetherness.


Lawmaker: Syria ready to use chemical weapons

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:28 AM PST

In this Sunday, Nov. 04, 2012 photo, rebel fighters watch as smoke rises after Syrian government forces fired an artillery round at a rebel position during heavy clashes in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria. The uprising against President Bashar Assad started with peaceful demonstrations in March last year, but has since morphed into a bloody civil war. Activists say more than 36,000 people have been killed in 19 months of fighting. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers says the international community should not accept any assurances from Syrian officials that they will not use them.


Former Sen. Chuck Hagel 'likely' to be named Defense Secretary

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:13 AM PST

Meet Chuck Hagel, Your 'Likely' New Secretary of DefenseThe two-term Republican is known for criticizing his own party during the Iraq war. Hagel served as an infantryman in Vietnam, where among other awards, he got two Purple Hearts.


Nearly four in 10 Americans blame weather on 'end times'

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:06 PM PST

A U.S. flag flies over the foundation of a home destroyed by the storm surge of superstorm Sandy in the Staten Island borough neighborhood of OakwoodA poll also found that 15 percent believe that the end of the world, as predicted by the Book of Revelation, will occur in their lifetime.


Just Explain It: Retirement vs. college savings

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:43 PM PST

RetirementWith the cost of education rising, many parents have to decide how to pay for college. Earlier this year, a report found that the average tuition at four-year public universities increased by 15% between 2008 and 2010. Significant price increases were also found at private universities.


Photographer snaps stunning Northern Lights pics

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:04 AM PST

Photographer on Arctic Trek Snags Stunning Northern Lights PhotosNational Geographic's Mike Theiss always wanted to see the northern lights. So when an assignment took him to Canada's Yukon Territory, he rented a car and drove to the Arctic Circle.


Puzzling path from big dreamer to mall shooter

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:20 AM PST

KATU-TV aerial video image shows police officers at a shooting scene at Clackamas Town Center in PortlandSomething happened to Jacob Tyler Roberts, a big-dreaming 22-year-old, before he pulled a semiautomatic rifle out and opened fire inside a Portland mall – but what?


Former Fla. Republican Governor Crist joins Democratic Party

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:45 AM PST

Crist answers question during University of Southern California's Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy inaugural Symposium in Los AngelesST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist made his latest political party switch official on Thursday: He's now a registered Democrat. Crist filed his party paperwork in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida, where in 2010 he announced he was leaving the Republican Party after polls showed he likely would lose its nomination for U.S. Senate to Marco Rubio. Crist, who was governor from 2007 to 2011, ran as an independent, and Rubio won a three-way race handily. ...


‘Build a Death Star’ petition clears threshold for Obama response

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:53 AM PST

It is a period of civil war. Rebel pranksters, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the forces of Taking White House Petitions Too Seriously. Specifically: They have secured the 25,000 signatures necessary to get a formal response from the White House to their call for America to build a DEATH [...]

‘Best Funeral Ever’ TV show in the works

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:58 PM PST

"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" may be about to lose its crown as most-ridiculed show on television. That's because The Learning Channel (TLC), the same network behind Honey Boo Boo and other cultural landmarks such as "Cake Boss" and "Extreme Couponing," is launching a new show based on a funeral home. EW reports that "Best [...]

Kim Jong Un voted Time’s Person of the Year by readers

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 10:10 AM PST

Kim Jong Un is Time's 2012 Person of the Year. That is, according to the magazine's online readers, who chose the North Korean leader over the likes of President Barack Obama, Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart in an online vote. It doesn't mean Kim [...]

Photos: Ukraine parliament erupts in all-out brawl

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:30 AM PST

Photos: Ukraine parliament erupts in all-out brawlUkrainian lawmakers fight around the rostrum during the first session of Ukraine's newly elected parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Woman tasered after trying to buy too many iPhones

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:43 AM PST

The iPhone is a hot commodity this holiday season. But is it worth the risk of being stunned with a Taser? As surfaced by CNET, a 44-year-old Chinese woman from Newton, Mass., experienced just such an action after she tried to buy more iPhones than the Apple Store limit of two at the Pheasant Lane [...]

The year in review: Top tweets of 2012

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:00 AM PST

The year in review: Top tweets of 2012

Flickr photos: Epic 'postcards' from the edge

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 08:00 PM PST

Flickr photos: Epic 'postcards' from the edges

Google Maps finds its way back to iPhone

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

Our long international nightmare is over. Three months after Apple launched a new operating system that stripped the popular Google Maps app from the iPhone in favor of one of its own—a move it has since apologized for—Apple formally approved the search giant's app. Frustrated Apple Maps users can now download Google Maps from the [...]

Salmon fishing where? Golden Globes snubs, surprises

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:15 PM PST

This image released by CBS Films shows Ewan McGregor in a scene from the film, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen." The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for best comedy or musical, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. McGregor was nominated for best actor in the film. The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be held on Jan. 13. (AP Photo/CBS Films)The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is known for what you could call a certain quirkiness in its selection process.


Photos: A roundup of the day's best images

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:39 AM PST

Photos: A roundup of the day's best imagesA large cloud of gas that has spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars is seen in this NASA handout image from the Hubble Space Telescope released December 13, 2012. Many young stars are visible in this image, along with what is left of the initial gas cloud. Some stars were so massive they have already evolved and exploded in a supernova. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

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