2012年12月21日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Meet the man spearheading the effort to get armed guards in schools

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 03:00 PM PST

Former member of congress Hutchinson speaks during a news conference held by the NRA in Washington"School safety is a complex issue with no simple, single solution," says former congressman Asa Hutchinson.

One week after shooting, new details emerge

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 03:12 PM PST

Rain soaks parts of a memorial to the Newtown shooting victims in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. The shooter, Adam Lanza, walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)As the nation paused for the one-week anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, new details emerged Friday about the gunman, Adam Lanza, who acquaintances said was able to take apart and reassemble a computer in a matter of minutes but rarely spoke to anyone.

Adoption groups dismayed by proposed Russian ban

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 02:13 PM PST

In this June 2008 photo courtesy of the D'Jamoos family, Alexander D'Jamoos, center, poses with his adoptive parents, Michael and Helene D'Jamoos, and his younger brother, Marc, while on a family vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Alexander, who was born with no legs, grew up in a Russian orphanage and was adopted after he came to a Texas hospital to have a prosthesis attached that enabled him to walk. He is angry over legislation pending in Moscow that would ban adoptions of Russian children by Americans. (AP Photo/Family photo, Sasha D'jamoos)U.S.-based advocates of international adoption, who have grown accustomed to discouraging news in recent years, have a new cause for dismay.

Obama urges smaller ‘fiscal cliff’ deal

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 03:24 PM PST

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Facing a stalemate in 'fiscal cliff' talks, Obama pressed the GOP to have some egg nog, sing some Christmas carols, and come back to work next week.

Report: Four dead, three police hurt in Pa. shooting

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 11:46 AM PST

A Blair County Sheriffs deputy talks with an arriving Pennsylvania State Patrol trooper along Route 22 near the entrance to Canoe Creek State Park, in Blair CountyInvestigators suspect the shooter might have been driving when he opened fire, shooting people for unknown reasons, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reported..

Heffernan: I’m dreaming of a Spotify Christmas

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 10:37 AM PST

Spotify now has more than 15 million active users, 4 million paying subscribersThis Christmas, I'm not going to wreck the holiday like a petulant teenager. I'm not going to build up weird expectations and then explode in disappointment.

Margaret Thatcher in U.K. hospital after operation

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 01:46 PM PST

FILE- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, gestures to members of the media following her return home from hospital suffering from a broken arm, in central London, in this file photos dated Monday June 29, 2009. 87-year old Thatcher is recuperating at an unnamed hospital, Friday Dec. 21, 2012, after an operation to remove a bladder growth, which was "completely satisfactory", according to adviser Tim Bell, who did not give further details. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is recuperating at a hospital after an operation to remove a bladder growth, a friend said Friday.

Obama picks John Kerry as secretary of state

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 07:45 AM PST

U.S. President Obama and Senator Kerry shake hands after announcing Kerry's nomination as Secretary of State at the White House in WashingtonObama formally nominated John Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.

Bureaucratic rivalry may have hampered Benghazi security

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 01:15 PM PST

File of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Infighting and bureaucratic jealousies between the State Department and the Pentagon may have played a role in lax security arrangements prior to the deadly attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, congressional sources said. Evidence of the bureaucratic rivalries, not previously reported, is contained in unpublished documents being studied by congressional investigators and is referred to in a classified version of a report on the attacks in Libya, which was turned over to Congress earlier this week, the sources said. ...

Fiscal cliff: Armageddon or just 'eh'?

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 01:41 PM PST

The U.S. Capitol is pictured in WashingtonDoomsday predictions are overblown, some professional investors say. Even if Congress and the White House can't reach a deal, the higher taxes and lower gov't spending would kick in gradually.

Syria rebels fire 'warning shots' at airliner

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 12:31 PM PST

In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo, Syrian rebels prepare themselves before attending a training session in Maaret Ikhwan, near Idlib, Syria. The training is part of an attempt to transform the rag-tag rebel groups into a disciplined fighting force. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)"We wanted to send a message to the regime that all their planes - military and civilian - are within our reach," said a rebel leader.

Hugh Grant wins 'substantial' payout for phone-hacking

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 12:15 PM PST

Actor Hugh Grant, a high profile campaigner on press intrusion, arrives to attend the release of Lord Justice Brian Leveson report on media practices in central LondonThe actor, a strident critic of Britain's tabloid newspaper culture, will donate the money to 'Hacked Off', a pressure group that helped bring about a public inquiry into press practices.

Peacekeeper shoots dead three comrades, self in Sudan

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 02:06 PM PST

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - An international peacekeeper killed three other peacekeepers before killing himself in the Darfur region of Sudan, the U.N.-led international peacekeeping force (UNAMID) said on Friday. The shooting happened at a UNAMID site in Mukjar in West Darfur on Thursday, UNAMID spokeswoman Aicha Elbasri said, adding that the gunman had shot himself and another comrade had been wounded. The African Union-United Nations force initially had said the peacekeeper killed four comrades. ...

Ala. woman sleeps through tornado ripping off roof

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 02:27 PM PST

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman said Friday she fell asleep on the couch and didn't realize a tornado had ripped off part of her roof and damaged most of the home until firefighters and neighbors came to check on her.

Maya 'end of days' dawns in Mexico, world lives on

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 02:34 PM PST

Performers in costumes take part in a Mayan Culture Festival in downtown CopanCHICHEN ITZA, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of mystics, hippies and tourists celebrated in the shadow of ancient Maya pyramids in southeastern Mexico on Friday as the Earth survived a day billed by doomsday theorists as the end of the world. New Age dreamers, alternative lifestyle gurus and curious onlookers from around the world descended on the ruins of Maya cities to mark the close of the 13th bak'tun - a period of around 400 years - in the Maya Long Calendar. ...

Study: Doctors screw up surprisingly often

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 11:54 AM PST

Oops! US Doctors Screw Up Surprisingly Often: StudyDoctors make careless and dangerous errors, like leaving a scalpel in someone's body after surgery, surprisingly often, a new study finds.

'IKEA monkey' to spend Christmas at sanctuary

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 11:30 AM PST

Nakhuda leaves court after being denied custody of her famed pet monkey Darwin in OshawaOSHAWA (Reuters) - Canada's most famous monkey will not be donning his tiny Santa suit with his adoptive family this year, after a judge ruled on Friday that the primate should stay at an animal sanctuary until at least mid-January. The animal's owner, Yasmin Nakhuda, tearfully navigated through a throng of reporters and cameras after being told she would not be allowed to take the 7-month-old monkey home for the holidays. Another hearing is set for January. ...

Student’s plan to come to school as Santa goes awry

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 09:47 AM PST

A student's apparent innocent promise of a surprise at his high school left him surprised–when he was suspended. The Georgia Crawford County High School sophomore John George III had planned to come to school dressed as Santa. He posted on his Facebook page "Students of cchs ur in for a big surprise tomorrow ." But [...]

N. Korea charges detained American tourist

Posted: 21 Dec 2012 11:39 AM PST

North Koreans leave after laying flowers to show respect to the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill as it snows in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Kenneth Bae, a Korean American tourist who travelled to visit North Korea last month, has been detained by police in the reclusive state, associates of his family and activists in Seoul said last week.

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