2012年7月20日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World - China


'I do not feel safe': Shooting suspect’s neighbors speak out

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:51 PM PDT

Leilannah White woke Friday morning thankful her last-minute plans fell through. Hours earlier, the 22-year-old Aurora resident and her husband planned to catch the midnight premiere of newest Batman movie at the Century 16 theater at the Aurora Town Center. But they couldn't find someone to watch their children on short notice. "We were [...]

Family escapes Colorado shooter

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:32 PM PDT

A young couple who'd recently moved from New Mexico and were attending the Aurora, Colo., midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" with their children said they had planned to sit in the front row by the exit in which a gunman entered and allegedly killed at least 12 people.

How to talk to children about the Colo. theater shooting

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 11:27 AM PDT

Hours after the horrific shooting during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at a Colorado movie theater, Melissa Lawrence's young children were on their way to camp, happily oblivious to the tragedy.

Giffords’ husband on Colo. shooting: ‘Gabby and I were horrified’

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:07 PM PDT

Mark Kelly, the husband of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded by a gunman while meeting with constituents in Tucson in 2011, said he and Giffords were "horrified" to hear about the shooting in Aurora, Colo., Friday:

Obama phones Aurora police chief, vows ‘full support’ of FBI

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:28 PM PDT

President Barack Obama telephoned Aurora, Colorado Police Chief Dan Oates in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting there and pledged the "full support" of the FBI and other federal agencies in dealing with the suspected gunman's booby-trapped apartment. Obama told Oates that he and First Lady Michelle Obama sent their "thoughts and prayers" to [...]

Wall Street falls as Spain bailout feared

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:54 PM PDT

U.S. stocks fell on Friday as Europe's debt crisis flared up again on fears Spain may eventually need a bailout, prompting traders to cash in three days of gains. The news that the heavily indebted region of Valencia asked Madrid for financial aid interrupted a period of relative calm for Wall Street and raised the specter that the euro zone's fourth-largest economy may itself need to be rescued. Bank shares, sensitive to signs of trouble in Europe, were among the biggest losers. The KBW bank index fell 1.9 percent, taking its weekly decline to 2.3 percent. ...

Kim plans economic change in North Korea

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:12 PM PDT

Impoverished North Korea is gearing up to experiment with agricultural and economic reforms after young leader Kim Jong-un and his powerful uncle purged the country's top general for opposing change, a source with ties to both Pyongyang and Beijing said. The source added that the cabinet had created a special bureau to take control of the decaying economy from the military, one of the world's largest, which under Kim's father was given pride of place in running the country. ...

Anti-Putin feminist punks on trial in Moscow

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 12:40 PM PDT

A Moscow court on Friday launched the trial of three feminist rockers who face a possible seven years in prison for performing a "punk prayer" against Vladimir Putin from the pulpit of Russia's largest cathedral.

George W. Bush skipping Republican convention

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Add former president George W. Bush to the list of no-shows at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. (The Democrats have their own issues on the convention-skipping front). Bush, who has mostly kept out of sight since leaving office in January 2009, was "grateful" for an invitation to the gathering that will formally nominate Mitt [...]

House to vote on Fed audit bill on Tuesday

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:59 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Tuesday on a bill that would allow for a congressional audit of Federal Reserve monetary policy decisions, a senior House aide said on Friday. The legislation proposed by Republican Representative Ron Paul, a long-time critic of the U.S. central bank and author of the book "End the Fed," has already gathered 274 co-sponsors, virtually guaranteeing passage. ...

Despite June spending, Obama has $97.5M in bank

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:44 PM PDT

President Barack Obama's presidential campaign spent more than it raised in June, illustrating both the fierce pace of campaigning during the month and his slightly weaker fundraising position, finance reports filed Friday show.

Possible source of half of all web spam meets its end

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 03:13 PM PDT

Spam affects all of our daily web activities, whether we choose to ignore it or not. Junk mail, fake chat messages, and malicious websites are just a few of the potholes that dot the information superhighway. Insidious internet software is … Continue reading →

Mom's nut consumption tied to less allergy in kids

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:01 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study based on 62,000 Danish mothers, the children of those who ate peanuts and tree nuts while pregnant were less likely to develop asthma or allergies than the kids whose mothers shunned nuts. The results support the recent withdrawal of recommendations that pregnant women should avoid nuts because they might raise a child's risk for allergies to the nuts themselves and for other hypersensitivities like asthma, according to the U.S. and Danish researchers. ...

Beetle released into Texas ecosystem to combat invasive weeds

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 10:46 AM PDT

A foreign insect is being introduced into Texas, and it just may save the local ecosystem. The Army Corps of Engineers is breeding and deploying the alligator weed flea beetle into the Dallas Floodway Extension in order to combat an invasive plant species that has all but taken over the local plant population. And when [...]

London Eye will have light show based on Twitter enthusiasm

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 09:52 AM PDT

The 2012 London Olympic Games will officially begin in one week, and the queen's city has been sprucing itself up in anticipation of being at the center of the world stage. Along with new stadiums and enhanced security measures comes news that [...]
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