2013年7月13日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Texas Repubs pass abortion bill, Dems vow fight

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 11:46 PM PDT

Opponents and supporters of abortion rights rally in the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas on Friday, July 12, 2013. The Texas Senate convened Friday afternoon to debate and ultimately vote on some of the nation's toughest abortion restrictions, its actions being watched by fervent demonstrators on either side of the issue. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)Republicans in the Texas Legislature passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the nation, but Democrats vowed Saturday to fight both in the courts and the ballot box as they used the measure to rally their supporters.


NTSB apologizes for gaffe over derogatory Asiana pilot names

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 09:26 PM PDT

U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigators attend to the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash site at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California(Note: Offensive language in the sixth paragraph) -- The National Transportation Safety Board apologized on Friday after an intern mistakenly confirmed to a local television station racially offensive fake names for the pilots of an Asiana flight that crashed in San Francisco.


Zimmerman jury to begin 2nd day of deliberations

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 11:30 PM PDT

George Zimmerman arrives in the courtroom for his trial at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center, in Sanford, Fla., Friday, July 12, 2013. Zimmerman is charged in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool)The jury in George Zimmerman's murder trial is set to begin a second day of deliberations on Saturday, weighing whether the neighborhood watch volunteer committed a crime almost a year and a half ago when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin.


Russia: no asylum application from Snowden

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 01:48 AM PDT

In this image provided by Human Rights Watch, NSA leaker Edward Snowden, center, attends a news conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, left, Friday, July 12, 2013. Snowden wants to seek asylum in Russia, according to a Parliament member who was among about a dozen activists and officials to meet with him Friday in the Moscow airport where he's been marooned for weeks. Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov told reporters of Snowden's intentions after the meeting behind closed doors in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch, Tanya Lokshina)MOSCOW (AP) — Russian immigration officials say they have not received an application from Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency leaker who wants to get asylum in Russia.


Minister: Human error not behind French crash

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 12:26 AM PDT

A view of the Bretigny sur Orge train station, south of Paris, after a train derailed Friday July, 12, 2013. A packed passenger train skidded off its rails after leaving Paris on Friday, leaving seven people believed dead and dozens injured as train cars slammed into each other and overturned, authorities said. (AP Photo)BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France (AP) — France's transport minister says human error did not cause a train derailment outside Paris that left six dead.


Hundreds of new charges filed in US kidnap case

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 01:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 3, 2013 file photo, Ariel Castro is led into Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland for a pretrial hearing. A 977-count indictment against Castro was filed Friday, July 12, 2013 including aggravated murder, kidnapping and rape charges, but does not yet carry death penalty specifications. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The litany of charges against a Cleveland man outline in numbing detail the crimes his victims allegedly suffered over 10 years of imprisonment: August 2002, kidnapping. September 2004, kidnapping. November 2006, aggravated murder.


Suspected gunman arrested in 2 SF shooting deaths

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 01:38 AM PDT

In this frame grab from video, emergency personnel tend to an injured man after a shooting outside a shopping center in San Francisco, Friday July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. Investigators were trying to determine if the shooting was connected to a botched robbery. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A bloodied gunman suspected of killing two women and seriously wounding a man at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood was arrested after opening fire on police officers, authorities said.


Spitzer tells Leno he cares about public service

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 12:39 AM PDT

This publicity image released by NBC shows former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, left, talking with host Jay Leno during a taping of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," Friday, July 12, 2013, in Burbank, Calif. Spitzer, who resigned as governor in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, is now running for New York City comptroller. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul DrinkwaterNEW YORK (AP) — Eliot Spitzer, whose 2008 resignation as New York's governor amid a prostitution scandal provided no shortage of fuel for gibes to late-night TV comics, ventured into the lion's den Friday, appearing on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."


AP Source: Alex Rodriguez meets with MLB

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 12:26 AM PDT

New York Yankees' Alex Rodriquez stretches before batting in the fourth inning for the Tampa Yankees against the Dunedin Blue Jays in a minor league rehab game in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday, July 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alex Rodriguez met with Major League Baseball officials probing the distribution of banned performance-enhancing drugs.


Third girl aboard Asiana jet dies from injuries

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 08:06 PM PDT

In this Saturday, July 6, 2013 aerial photo, firefighters, lower center, stand by a tarpaulin sheet covering the body of a Chinese teen struck by a fire truck during the emergency response to the crash of Asiana Flight 214 at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. The girl was hit by a fire truck while covered with firefighting foam, authorities said Friday, July 12, revealing a startling detail that suggested she could have survived the crash only to die in its chaotic aftermath. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A girl who was aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed died Friday, the same day that authorities confirmed one of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the disaster was hit by a fire truck.


Suspect's remains exhumed in Boston Strangler case

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 05:25 PM PDT

A Commonwealth of Massachusetts medical examiner's van leaves the Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody, Mass., after exhuming Albert DeSalvo's body from a grave to confirm a forensic link to the Boston Strangler case, Friday, July 12, 2013. DeSalvo was the man who first confessed to being the Boston Strangler, but later recanted before his stabbing death in prison as he served a life sentence for other crimes. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)PEABODY, Mass. (AP) — Investigators have unearthed the remains of a man who once confessed to being the Boston Strangler in a bid to use forensic evidence to connect him to the death of a woman believed to be the serial killer's last victim.


At least 6 dead in France train crash near Paris

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:37 PM PDT

A view of the Bretigny sur Orge train station, south of Paris, after a train derailed Friday July, 12, 2013. A packed passenger train skidded off its rails after leaving Paris on Friday, leaving seven people believed dead and dozens injured as train cars slammed into each other and overturned, authorities said. (AP Photo)BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France (AP) — A train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed and crashed into a station outside Paris on Friday on one of the busiest days of the year for vacation getaways. At least six people were killed and dozens were injured, officials said.


Puig & Pirates, Homer & Harper highlight 1st half

Posted: 12 Jul 2013 07:20 PM PDT

File-This April 23, 2013 file photo shows Colorado Rockies' Eric Young Jr., center, and others trying to keep warm in below-freezing weather before the first baseball game of a doubleheader against the Atlanta Braves in Denver. When the Atlanta Braves and Colorado Rockies started up at Coors Field in late April, it was 23 degrees. That made it the coldest game time temperature since STATS began recording them more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Just for fun, let's turn back the baseball clock a few months.


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