2013年12月26日星期四

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Shoppers or shippers – who’s to blame for ruining Christmas?

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 01:10 PM PST

Shoppers or shippers – who's to blame for ruining Christmas?Online shopping can be both a blessing and a curse during the holiday season.

Captive's plea to Obama: 'You're a family man'

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American sends message in a new video released by Al Qaeda's media wing.

McDonald's drops controversial website

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Priest's conviction overturned by Pa. judge

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 03:22 PM PST

File photo of Monsignor William Lynn walking from the courthouse as the jury deliberates in his sexual abuse trial in PhiladelphiaWilliam Lynn had been convicted of endangerment by reassigning a priest with a history of sexual abuse.

Best of 2013: Incredible photos from space

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST

Best of 2013: Incredible photos from spaceAustralia - the dryness creates colours and textures that make the Outback immediately recognizable from space. (Chris Hadfield/Twitter)

Snow slows work in areas already in the dark

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 01:07 PM PST

A man steps over downed power line near Dufferin Grove Park in Toronto on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013 following an ice storm. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ian Willms)Places still hustling to get power back are hit, from Michigan, to Maine and into Canada.

Photos of the day

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 12:00 AM PST

Photos of the dayEllammal, 54, who lost her husband and two sons in the 2004 tsunami, cries during a prayer ceremony for the victims of the tsunami on the ninth anniversary of the disaster, at Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai December 26, 2013. Hundreds of memorial events were held across Asia in memory of the towering waves that crashed ashore with little warning on December 26, 2004, killing at least 226,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries. More than half the victims were Indonesians; with Sri Lanka and India next worst hit. (REUTERS/Babu)

Video: Pa. town honors dying girl's caroling wish

Posted: 25 Dec 2013 08:28 AM PST

Family: Delaney "Laney" Brown passes awayWEST READING, Pa. (AP) — A terminally ill girl who received support from thousands of Christmas carolers outside her home over the weekend died early on Christmas morning, her family said.

Sixty hurt in Argentina piranha attack

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 07:34 AM PST

Piranhas eat fish in a tank at an amusement park in Jakarta on May 31, 2007Piranhas on a Christmas Day feeding frenzy injured some 60 people in the Argentine city of Rosario, officials said Thursday. Those injured in the attack Wednesday by the ferocious fish included a girl who lost part of a finger, Health Undersecretary Gabriela Quintanilla told reporters. Quintanilla said the attack occurred Wednesday off the coast of Rosario, some 310 kilometers (200 miles) north of Buenos Aires. A medical official, Gustavo Centurion, said the attack which began at mid-morning on Christmas Day was "very aggressive."

Report: U.S. sending missiles, drones to Iraq

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 02:11 PM PST

A blaze engulfs a car at the scene of an explosion in the Shiite Muslim Al-Amin district of Baghdad on December 8, 2013The shipment is sent as Baghdad confronts the worst wave of violence in five years.

Weekly U.S. jobless claims drop 42K to 338K

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 02:41 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, Jona Caldwell joins a long line of job seekers outside the Ferguson Community Center in Cordova, Tenn. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in the last week on Dec. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 42,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 338,000, the biggest drop since November 2012. But economists say the figures from late November and December are warped by seasonal volatility around the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays.

Suspect in LA airport shooting scheduled for court

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 07:31 AM PST

FBI provided image of Paul Anthony CianciaRANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — The man authorities say killed a TSA screener and wounded three other people during a rampage through the Los Angeles airport last month is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on murder and other felony charges in a case that could bring the death penalty.

Poll: Americans hopeful for a better year in 2014

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 03:26 PM PST

Graphic shows selected results of 2014 New Years Eve poll; 2c x 11 inches; 96.3 mm x 279 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — Large number of Americans see 2013 as anything but a banner year and aren't reluctant to wave goodbye on New Year's Eve, a new AP-Times Square poll says, reflecting anxiety stretching from the corridors of power in Washington to corporate boardrooms, statehouses, and city and town halls.

UNOS to oversee hand, face transplants like organs

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 12:53 PM PST

This photo taken Dec. 20, 2013 shows double hand transplant recipient, Lindsay Aronson Ess, working on her dexterity during a physical therapy session in Richmond, Va. Sure your liver or kidney could save someone's life. But would you donate your hands, or your face? Signing up to become an organ donor may get more complicated than just checking off a box on your driver's license. The government is preparing to regulate the new field of hand and face transplants like it does standard organ transplants, giving more Americans who are disabled or disfigured by injury, illness or combat a chance at qualifying for this radical kind of reconstruction. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)WASHINGTON (AP) — Sure your liver or kidney could save someone's life. But would you donate your hands, or your face? Signing up to become an organ donor may get more complicated than just checking a box on your driver's license.

African leaders seek peace talks in South Sudan

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 04:52 PM PST

In this photo released by the Kenyan Presidential Press Service, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, middle, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, right, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta before their meeting at State House in Juba, South Sudan, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. The leaders of Kenya and Ethiopia arrived in South Sudan on Thursday to try and mediate between the country's president and the political rivals he accuses of attempting a coup that the government insists sparked violence threatening to destroy the world's newest country. (AP Photo/Kenyan Presidential Press Service)JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — African leaders tried Thursday to advance peace talks between South Sudan's president and political rivals he accuses of attempting a coup to topple the government of the world's newest country.

Attack on presidential palace thwarted in Bangui

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 05:11 PM PST

A French soldier wipes his brow during an operation to secure a section of the Miskine neighborhood, in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. The spokesman for an African Union peacekeeping force says six Chadian peacekeepers were killed and 15 were wounded, after being attacked Wednesday.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Assailants armed with heavy weapons attempted late Thursday to attack the presidential palace as well as the residence of the Central African Republic's embattled leader, but were pushed back, officials said.

Bye bye, bile? Websites try to nix nasty comments

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 12:12 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 photo illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. Companies including Google and the Huffington Post are trying everything from deploying moderators to forcing people to use their real names in order to restore civil discourse on online comment threads. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Mix blatant bigotry with poor spelling. Add a dash of ALL CAPS. Top it off with a violent threat. And there you have it: A recipe for the worst of online comments, scourge of the Internet.

Slow recovery from weekend ice storm stretches on

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 02:53 PM PST

Vehicles are piled up at mile marker 286 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a mile outside Reading, Pa., on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Portions of both the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Interstate 78 were shut down in snowy eastern Pennsylvania Thursday after chain-reaction pileups involved dozens of vehicles on slippery roads. (AP Photo/David C. Ronk)GARDINER, Maine (AP) — By Thursday, Bob and Katrina Johnson had grown weary of lugging around a portable generator to prevent a freezer-load of moose meat from spoiling and to keep Katrina's mother's home warm.

Turkish PM struggles to contain corruption probe

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 11:12 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2013 file photo, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference. After a decade of dominance over Turkey's political scene, a rapidly developing corruption and bribery scandal has for the first time left Erdogan looking off balance and not in control of the political reins.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — After a decade of dominance over Turkey's political scene, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have been thrown off balance by a rapidly expanding corruption scandal that has brought down members of his cabinet and strained ties to the U.S.

Russia: Arafat's death not caused by radiation

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 10:32 AM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004 file photo, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat pauses during an emergency cabinet session at his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah. A Russian probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has found no trace of radioactive poisoning, the chief of the government agency that conducted the study said Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has found that his death wasn't caused by radiation — a finding that comes after a French probe found traces of the radioactive isotope polonium and a Swiss investigation said the timeframe of his illness and death was consistent with that of polonium poisoning.

Utah holdouts now issuing gay marriage licenses

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 01:41 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, Chris Serrano, left, and Clifton Webb kiss after being married, as people wait in line to get licenses outside of the marriage division of the Salt Lake County Clerk's Office in Salt Lake City. The last six months of 2013 have provided a frenzy of court decisions and laws in favor of gay marriage, punctuated by a ruling in heavily Mormon Utah that has allowed hundreds of same-sex couples to wed in the last week. The U.S. Supreme Court opened the floodgates with its June ruling that overturned a 1996 ban on gay marriage, and the change has been swift. Judges in Utah, New Mexico and Ohio have all ruled in favor of gay marriage in the past week. (AP Photo/Kim Raff, File)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The last of the Utah counties that were holding out on issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples reversed course Thursday and decided to hand out licenses to all eligible applicants.

6 peacekeepers killed in C. African Republic

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST

A French soldier wipes his brow during an operation to secure a section of the Miskine neighborhood, in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. The spokesman for an African Union peacekeeping force says six Chadian peacekeepers were killed and 15 were wounded, after being attacked Wednesday.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Elodiane Baalbe hid underneath her bed as gunfire echoed around her on Christmas Day in the capital of Central African Republic. When it finally died down on Thursday, she made a dash for safety, hiding behind houses as she fled her neighborhood.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 09:22 AM PST

AP10ThingsToSee - A couple poses under an illuminated tunnel to celebrate the upcoming Christmas and New Year at Garden of Morning Calm in Gapyeong, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 20, 2013. Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

Holdouts in Utah now letting gay couples wed

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 11:09 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, Chris Serrano, left, and Clifton Webb kiss after being married, as people wait in line to get licenses outside of the marriage division of the Salt Lake County Clerk's Office in Salt Lake City. The last six months of 2013 have provided a frenzy of court decisions and laws in favor of gay marriage, punctuated by a ruling in heavily Mormon Utah that has allowed hundreds of same-sex couples to wed in the last week. The U.S. Supreme Court opened the floodgates with its June ruling that overturned a 1996 ban on gay marriage, and the change has been swift. Judges in Utah, New Mexico and Ohio have all ruled in favor of gay marriage in the past week. (AP Photo/Kim Raff, File)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The last of the Utah counties that were holding out on issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples reversed course Thursday and decided to hand out licenses to all eligible applicants.

Greenpeace activists allowed to leave Russia

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 10:14 AM PST

Greenpeace International activist Anthony Perrett of the United Kingdom shows to journalists his passport with permission to leave Russia, near the Federal Migration Service in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Russian investigators have dropped charges against all but one of the 30 crew of a Greenpeace ship, who were accused of hooliganism following a protest outside a Russian oil rig in the Arctic. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian authorities issued exit visas to 14 of the 30 Greenpeace members on Thursday, a move that will allow them to leave the country and comes after charges were dropped against them over a protest outside an Arctic oil rig.

Thousands without power—and it may be another day or two

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 06:55 AM PST

Carla Coulter, 46, of Clio, holds her 1-year-old grandson Connor Hergert closely as she gives him a kiss on the forehead while listening to the FirstMerit Bank Mixed Chorus sing "Silent Night" along with about 100 spectators during the 76th Annual Holiday Sing on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013 at FirstMerit Bank in downtown Flint, Mich. "We don't have power. We're warming up, and I just feel so very blessed to have my family," Coulter said. "I don't need anything else." (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May) LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUTLITCHFIELD, Maine (AP) — Snow was falling Thursday morning in places still hustling to get power back on after a weekend ice storm that turned out the lights from Michigan to Maine and into Canada.

Thai election body urges delay in polls amid clash

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 07:19 AM PST

An anti-government protester throws a rock at riot police near a sport gymnasium in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Protesters trying to halt preparations for elections fought running battles with police in the Thai capital on Thursday, escalating their campaign to topple the country's beleaguered government. (AP photo/Sakchai Lalit)Violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters add to political uncertainty.

American hostage: 'Abandoned and forgotten'

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 04:06 AM PST

Video Claims to Show American al-Qaeda Captive's PleaA 72-year-old man held by al Qaida militants pleads for President Obama's help.

Health care tactics split Republican Senate rivals

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 10:57 AM PST

FILE – In this Feb. 6, 2013, file photo Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Saxby Chambliss in 2014, in Atlanta. Republicans see the 2014 midterm elections as a chance to capitalize on voter frustration with the problem-plagued health care overhaul, but the GOP first must settle a slate of Senate primaries where conservatives are arguing over the best way to oppose President Barack Obama's signature law. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)Republicans hoping to exploit frustration with Obamacare disagree on how to oppose it.

China marks Mao's birthday with controlled tribute

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST

A second-hand book vendor arranges books near posters showing the late Communist leader Mao Zedong at a flea market in Beijing, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. China's leaders bowed three times before a statue of Mao on the 120th anniversary of his birth Thursday in carefully controlled celebrations that also sought to uphold the market-style reforms that came after his death. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)China's leaders carefully controlled celebrations that also sought to uphold market-style reforms.

S.Africa's right still fears post-Mandela apocalypse

Posted: 25 Dec 2013 10:17 PM PST

In this file photo, supporters of the white supremacist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) are seen in Ventersdorp, on May 22, 2012Right-wing prophesies of a racial apocalypse refuse to be quashed by events.

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