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Discouraged Americans leaving labor force

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - This Friday, March 29, 2013 file photo shows a help wanted sign at a barber shop in Richmond, Va. U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months and a sharp retreat after a period of strong hiring. Many discouraged Americans are giving up the job hunt for school, retirement and disability. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)An improving economy is supposed to bring people back into the job market.


Church: Rick Warren's son commits suicide

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 04:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2010, file photo, Pastor Rick Warren acknowledges audience members during the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Service in Lake Forest, Calif. Saddleback Valley Community Church said in a statement Saturday, April 6, 2013, that Warren's 27-year-old son, Matthew Warren, has committed suicide after struggling with mental illness and deep depression. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)The Southern California church headed by popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren announced Saturday that Warren's 27-year-old son has committed suicide.


World powers and Iran fail to end nuclear deadlock

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:54 PM PDT

Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili attends a news conference after the talks on Iran's nuclear programme in AlmatyNo new talks were scheduled, but big power negotiators were at pains to say the diplomatic process would continue.


Deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. remembered

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 03:12 PM PDT

FILE- In this July 9, 1960 handout file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher is launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Fifty years ago 129 men lost their lives when the sub sank during deep-dive testing off Cape Cod. The deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history delivered a blow to national pride during the Cold War and became the impetus for safety improvements. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, file)Family and friends who lost loved ones when the USS Thresher sank 50 years ago were part of an emotional service.


6 Americans, doctor killed in Afghan attacks

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:31 PM PDT

This image made from AP video shows Afghan National Army soldiers rushing to the scene moments after a car bomb exploded in front the PRT, Provincial Reconstruction Team, in Qalat, Zabul province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said. (AP Photo via AP video)Saturday was the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.


Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 03:06 PM PDT

Several burned cars belonging to Egyptian Christians remain in the street after clashes between Muslims and Christians in Qalubiya, just outside Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Several Egyptians including 4 Christians and a Muslim were killed in sectarian clashes before dawn on Saturday, security officials said. A picture of the late Coptic Pope Shenouda is seen at end of street. (AP Photo/Mohammed Nouhan, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUTChristian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.


Suicide bomber kills 20 at political rally in Iraq

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:47 PM PDT

This image from AP video shows the aftermath of a suicide attack in Baqouba, some 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013. A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday at a lunch hosted by a Sunni candidate in Iraq's upcoming regional elections, killing scores of people, officials said. The blast ripped through a hospitality tent pitched next to the house of Muthana al-Jourani, who is running for the provincial council and held the lunch rally for supporters, councilman Sadiq al-Huseini said. (AP Photo via AP video)A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday at a lunch hosted by a Sunni candidate in Iraq's upcoming regional elections.


Three people shot and killed at Idaho pit bull business

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 04:32 PM PDT

Three people were shot to death in a rural Idaho house where a man and his son were breeding pit bulls, police said on Saturday, adding that they found two small children and up to 70 dogs on the property. Deputies arriving at the residence in Holbrook, Idaho, near the Utah state line, on Friday found Brent Christensen, 61, his son Trent Christensen, 32 and Yavette Carter, 27, dead of gunshot wounds, Oneida County Sheriff Jeff Semrad said. Semrad said Carter, who was Trent Christensen's girlfriend, was still holding her unharmed 2-month-old baby. ...

First magic mushroom depression trial hits stumbling block

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 04:18 PM PDT

The world's first clinical trial designed to explore using a hallucinogen from magic mushrooms to treat people with depression has stalled because of British and European rules on the use of illegal drugs in research. David Nutt, president of the British Neuroscience Association and professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, said he had been granted an ethical green light and funding for the trial, but regulations were blocking it. ...

Embassies staying put in North Korea despite tension

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 11:06 AM PDT

A North Korean soldier films military vehicles carrying missiles during a parade to commemorate the 65th anniversary of founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in PyongyangStaff at embassies in North Korea appeared to be remaining in place on Saturday despite an appeal by authorities in Pyongyang for diplomats to consider leaving.


Mood tense on 20th anniversary of Ohio prison riot

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:21 PM PDT

FILE - This April 28, 1993 file photo shows law officers and National Guard troops assembling outside the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility as a riot by inmates enters its 10th day in Lucasville, Ohio. In the 20 years since the nation's longest deadly prison riot broke out in Lucasville, no interviews have been granted with the five men sentenced to death in the killing of a guard. Yet time has brought new evidence and insights that will dominate events marking the 20th anniversary of the 11-day siege of April 1993. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)It's been two decades this month since the longest deadly prison riot in U.S. history broke out in southern Ohio and there's trepidation in the air.


Pa. field holds secrets of 1780s British POW camp

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 10:53 AM PDT

In this photo made on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, Carol Tanzola, president of Friends of Camp Security, points out the property on a 47-acre parcel, located about four miles east of York, Pa. It includes the spot where a 1979 archaeological study found numerous artifacts that confirmed local lore that the area had once served as Camp Security, a prison for the English, Scottish and Canadian soldiers who were captured after defeats in the battles of Saratoga and Yorktown. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)The mud of a south-central Pennsylvania cornfield may soon produce answers about the fate of British prisoners of war — and the newly independent Americans who guarded them — during the waning years of the American Revolution.


Online translation on the rise, changing lives

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:15 PM PDT

In this April 4, 2013 photograph, the Smith women, from left, mother Niki Smith, GiGi, 3, Macy Jade, 7 and Guan Ya, 14, use Google Translate on the family laptop to "speak" with their new daughter, Guan Ya, in their Rienzi, Miss., home. The Smiths and their children are using the Google Translate program to communicate almost exclusively with Guan Ya, who is deaf. The family uses iPhones, iPods and a laptop, all loaded with the program to write in either English that translates to Chinese or vice-a-versa. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)You might use Google Translate to read a hard-to-find Manga comic book or to decipher an obscure recipe for authentic Polish blintzes. Or, like Phillip and Niki Smith in rural Mississippi, you could use it to rescue a Chinese orphan and fall in love at the same time.


Woman leads closing prayer at Mormon conference

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 11:54 AM PDT

Jean A. Stevens conducts the morning session's closing prayer during the 183rd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Salt Lake City. For the first time in 183 years, a woman has led a prayer at the semi-annual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)For the first time in the event's 183-year history, a woman has led a prayer at the semiannual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


Suspected cabin burglar on how he evaded capture

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 01:04 PM PDT

A Photo Courtesy of Iron County Sheriff's Office shows Troy James Knapp, in a 2001 parole photo from a California burglary conviction. Authorities say they have arrested Knapp a survivalist suspected of burglarizing Utah cabins and evading law enforcement for years. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune,The Sanpete County Sheriff's Office) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUTTroy James Knapp was dodging authorities, again. Knapp survived by holing up inside the cabins, sleeping in the owners' beds, eating their food and listening to their AM radio for updates on the manhunt.


South Africa: Mandela discharged from the hospital

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 08:23 AM PDT

Former South African president Nelson Mandela looks on as he celebrates his birthday at his house in QunuThe South African presidency says former President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from a hospital after an improvement in his condition.


Two new bird flu cases in China amid poultry crackdown

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 10:08 AM PDT

Technicians wearing protection suits begin to cull poultry at a poultry wholesale market in ShanghaiChinese officials have found traces of the new bird flu virus in more areas in Shanghai and in the nearby city of Hangzhou, news reports said on Saturday ...


Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 12:16 PM PDT

This undated image released by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter on Friday April 5, 2013, shows part of the painting "Blue Dress in an Yellow Arm Chair", circa 1936 by Henry Matisse. The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding a Norwegian museum return a Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the direction of Hermann Goering in World War II, in the latest dispute over art stolen from Jews during WWII. The Henie Onstad Art Centre says it does not dispute that Paul Rosenberg once owned the painting but argues it is uncertain whether the family still have rights to the painting, but Art Loss Register, which tracks lost and stolen artworks, Director Chris Marinello slammed the Henie Onstad art museum for The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the direction of Hermann Goering ...


Pork found in Ikea's moose lasagna

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 06:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 27, 2006 file photo, an exterior view of the Ikea furniture store in Duisburg, western Germany. Ikea says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)Ikea says it has withdrawn 17,000 portions of moose lasagna from its home furnishings stores in Europe after traces of pork were found in a batch tested in Belgium.


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