2014年3月24日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Wash. mudslide: Racing to find loved ones

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:24 PM PDT

ALTERNATE CROP - Houses and other structures are shown flooded by the backed-up Stillaguamish River up-river from the massive mudslide that killed at least eight people Saturday and left dozens missing, as shown in this aerial photo, Monday, March 24, 2014, near Arlington, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)Updated list of more than 100 missing adds to anxieties after deadly disaster.


Plane's final destination determined through 19th century physics

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:10 PM PDT

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane's journey ended over Indian OceanBy Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the 19th century to analyze the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to determine its final destination. The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to conclude on Monday that the Boeing 777, which disappeared more than two weeks ago, crashed thousands of miles away in the southern Indian Ocean, killing all 239 people on board. The pings, automatically transmitted every hour from the aircraft after the rest of its communications systems had stopped, indicated it continued flying for hours after it disappeared from its flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. From the time the signals took to reach the satellite and the angle of elevation, Inmarsat was able to provide two arcs, one north and one south that the aircraft could have taken.


Latinos appear sidelined in health care overhaul

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:44 PM PDT

Jane Delgado, president of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, works in her office in Washington, Monday, March 24, 2014. The nation's largest minority group risks being left behind by President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Hispanics account for nearly one-third of the nation's uninsured, but all signs indicate that they remain largely on the sidelines as the White House races to meet a goal of 6 million sign-ups with less than a week to enroll. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's largest minority group risks being left behind by President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.


Race is on to find lost airliner's black boxes

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:48 PM PDT

This Sunday, March 23, 2014 photo released by the Indian Navy, shows the navy personnel on board a P-8I aircraft during a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean. Ships rushed to the location of floating objects spotted Monday by Australian and Chinese planes in the southern Indian Ocean close to where multiple satellites have detected possible remains of the lost Malaysian airliner. (AP Photo/Indian Navy)Time is running out to find crucial keys to mystery of how and why Flight 370 went down.


Oklahoma Girl Scout breaks cookie sales record held since 1980s

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:31 PM PDT

girl scout cookiesOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City girl who says she asks everyone she meets to buy Girl Scout cookies has broken the organization's decades-old sales record by a margin about the size of a Thin Mint.


1990s laptop comes loaded with first-ever presidential email

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:40 PM PDT

Former US President Bill Clinton preparing an e-mail on November 6, 1998 in ArkansasA more than 15-year old laptop doesn't go for much on eBay -- unless it's the one Bill Clinton used to send the first ever US presidential email. The still-functional laptop -- with Clinton's cheerful exchange with Space Shuttle astronaut John Glenn in November 1998 still on the hard drive -- is the featured item in an online sale by Massachusetts-based RR Auction. Just the content of it is awesome," Bobby Livingston, a spokesman for the auction house that specializes in rare and unusual collectibles, told AFP on Monday. Glenn, a US senator who in 1962 had been the first US astronaut to orbit Earth, was on a nine-day mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery when he told NASA he wanted to email Clinton, who was in Arkansas visiting friends.


U.S. 'shocked' by death sentences for 529 Egyptians after 2-day trial

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:39 PM PDT

A relative of a supporter of Mohamed Morsi cries outside the courthouse on March 24, 2014 in the central Egyptian city of Minya, after the court ordered the execution of 529 Morsi supportersThe United States expressed shock Monday after an Egyptian court handed down death sentences against 529 supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi after a two-day trial. "We are deeply concerned -- and, I would say, actually pretty shocked -- by the sentencing to death of 529 Egyptians related to the death of one policeman," said Marie Harf, deputy US State Department spokeswoman. Harf questioned whether the defendants could have received a trial in accordance with international norms. "Obviously the defendants can appeal, but it simply does not seem possible that a fair review of evidence and testimony consistent with international standards could be accomplished with over 529 defendants in a two-day trial," Harf said.


Toddler wakes up after losing family in Kabul hotel rampage

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 11:54 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, Abuzar Ahmad, left, the only surviving child of Agence France-Presse journalist Sardar Ahmad, who was killed with the rest of his family in an attack on a Kabul hotel, and his sister Nilofar pose for a picture during a birthday party in Kabul, Afghanistan. Family members say the nearly 2-year-old son of the much loved Afghan journalist has emerged from a coma and his condition is improving. The news comes as hundreds of dignitaries, colleagues and loved ones gathered in a memorial service for Ahmad, his wife and two children who were killed in the attack. Relatives say the toddler Abuzar was shot five times when gunmen began shooting diners in a restaurant at the Serena hotel. His father, mother, brother and sister were all killed and relatives called it a miracle that he survived. (AP Photo/Turaj Rais)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan toddler shot five times by Taliban militants in an attack at a Kabul hotel that killed his journalist father and the rest of his family has regained consciousness and asked for his mother, relatives said Monday, calling the survival of the nearly 2-year-old boy a miracle.


Former Bernie Madoff workers convicted for roles in Ponzi scheme

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff arrives at Federal Court in New York. The longtime secretary of the imprisoned financier and four other back-office subordinates of the Ponzi king go to trial Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, as the government for the first time shows a jury what it has collected in its five-year probe of one of history's biggest frauds. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Five former employees of imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff were convicted Monday at the end of a six-month trial that cast them as the long arms of their boss, telling an elaborate web of lies to hide a fraud that enriched them and cheated investors out of billions of dollars.


News of plane met with grief, disbelief in Beijing

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 11:02 AM PDT

Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the Malaysia Airlines MH370, react after being told the latest update in Beijing, China, Monday, March 24, 2014. A new analysis of satellite data indicates the missing Malaysia Airlines plane crashed into a remote corner of the Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday. The news is a major breakthrough in the unprecedented two-week struggle to find out what happened to Flight 370, which disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard on March 8. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Relatives of Flight 370 passengers struggle to accept Malaysia's final determination.


108 names on list of missing in Wash. state mudslide

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 09:57 AM PDT

Steve Skaglund walks across the rubble on the east side of Saturday's fatal mudslide near Oso, Wash., Sunday, March 23, 2014. (AP Photo /The Herald, Genna Martin)ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — There are 108 names on the list of people who've been reported missing or unaccounted for in the weekend mudslide in Washington state, authorities said Monday.


Man who lost both legs in Boston bombing shares baby news

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 06:55 AM PDT

Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon bombings, then helped authorities identify the suspects, poses with his expectant fiancé, Erin Hurley, their home in Carlisle, Mass., Friday, March 14, 2014. According to Bauman, the baby is due July 14. They don't know if it's a boy or a girl, and they want it to be a surprise. The two were engaged in February. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Jeff Bauman, the 28-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor who lost both legs in the attack last April, is expecting a child with fiancee Erin Hurley, 27.


Ukraine pulls troops from Crimea, acknowledges defeat

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 08:15 AM PDT

Ukrainian marines say farewell outside a Ukrainian military base in the Crimean port city of FeodosiaBy Aleksandar Vasovic and Gabriela Baczynska FEODOSIA/SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian troops and their families began evacuating from Crimea on Monday, as Kiev effectively acknowledged defeat by Russian forces who stormed one of the last of their remaining bases on the peninsula. Thousands of Ukrainian troops have been besieged on bases in Crimea, offering no armed resistance but refusing to surrender, since President Vladimir Putin declared Moscow's right to intervene at the start of the month. On Monday, bowing to the reality on the ground, Kiev's leadership announced Ukrainian forces were being pulled out to spare them and their families further Russian threats.


Internal review clears New Jersey Gov. Christie in bridge scandal

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 10:06 AM PDT

New Jersey Gov Chris Christie attends Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon HillBy Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - A review commissioned by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie into a traffic scandal apparently orchestrated by top staffers in his administration has found the possible Republican presidential contender had nothing to do with the scheme, the New York Times reported Monday. After two months, 70 interviews and more than $1 million in legal fees paid by New Jersey taxpayers, the internal review is complete and has found no evidence Christie was involved with planning or directing the lane closures which snarled traffic in the borough of Fort Lee, New Jersey, according to a report published in The New York Times. Christie found himself engulfed in controversy earlier this year after emails revealed that two of his senior aides had called for lane closures leading to the busy George Washington Bridge last September, apparently as political retribution against a Democratic mayor who didn't endorse the governor's re-election. New Jersey lawmakers and the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey announced parallel investigations into the closures, and Christie, who has maintained that he was "blindsided" by his staff's involvement, hired a private law firm to conduct his own review of what had occurred.


Police: Commuter train derails at Chicago airport, at least 30 hurt

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 05:29 AM PDT

Blue Line derailment injures 32, train hits escalator at O'HareCHICAGO (AP) — An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at an underground station at one of the nation's busiest airports early Monday, injuring 32 people on board, officials said.


Malaysia: Missing flight crashed in Indian Ocean

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:21 PM PDT

A family member of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 cries after watching a television broadcast of a news conference, at the Lido hotel in BeijingNew satellite data indicates Flight 370 went down in a remote corner of the ocean.


Malaysia PM: Missing plane plunged into ocean

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 07:08 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a Chinese IL-76 plane searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 returns to Perth airport, Australia after a hunting sortie, Monday, March 24, 2014. A Chinese plane on Monday spotted two white, square-shaped objects in an area identified by satellite imagery as containing possible debris from the missing Malaysian airliner, while the United States separately prepared to send a specialized device that can locate black boxes. The crew aboard an IL-76 plane sighted the object in the southern Indian Ocean and reported the coordinates to the Australian command center, which is coordinating the multinational search, as well as the Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon, which is en route to the area, China's Xinhua News Agency reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lui Siu Wai) NO SALESAn analysis of satellite data shows provides a breakthrough in the mystery of Flight 370.


No 'signs of life' after huge Washington landslide

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:53 AM PDT

ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Hopes of finding any more survivors from a massive mudslide that killed at least eight people waned as searchers pulled more bodies from the tangled debris field in rural Washington state and crews worked through the night into Monday.

Search ships rush toward spotted debris

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a Chinese IL-76 plane searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 returns to Perth airport, Australia after a hunting sortie, Monday, March 24, 2014. A Chinese plane on Monday spotted two white, square-shaped objects in an area identified by satellite imagery as containing possible debris from the missing Malaysian airliner, while the United States separately prepared to send a specialized device that can locate black boxes. The crew aboard an IL-76 plane sighted the object in the southern Indian Ocean and reported the coordinates to the Australian command center, which is coordinating the multinational search, as well as the Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon, which is en route to the area, China's Xinhua News Agency reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lui Siu Wai) NO SALESAirplanes and satellites spot possible remains of the lost Malaysian airliner.


Obama: US, Europe united behind Ukraine government

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:03 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, center, and two secret service agents are silhouetted as he walks towards Marine One helicopter upon arrival at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014. Obama will attend the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, POOL)AMSTERDAM (AP) — President Barack Obama says Europe and America are united in support of the Ukrainian government and its people.


West seeks to isolate Russia over Ukraine dispute

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 03:06 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, smile during a meeting with other G7 world leaders in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014, in the sidelines of the Nuclear security Summit. In a day of delicate diplomacy he sought to rally the international community Monday around efforts to isolate Russia following its incursion into Ukraine. Nuclear terrorism was the official topic as Obama and other world leaders streamed in to a convention center in The Hague for a two-day Nuclear Security Summit. But the real focus was on a hurriedly scheduled meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized economies to address the crisis in Ukraine on the sidelines of the nuclear summit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, POOL)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Seeking to isolate Russia, the U.S. and Western allies declared Monday they are indefinitely cutting Moscow out of a major international coalition and warned they stand ready to order tougher economic penalties if Vladimir Putin presses further into Ukraine.


Sheriff: Death toll from Washington slide now 14

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:54 PM PDT

A Civil Air Patrol plane flies over the massive mudslide that killed at least eight people and left dozens missing as shown in this aerial photo, Monday, March 24, 2014, near Arlington, Wash. The search for survivors grew Monday raising fears that the death toll could climb far beyond the eight confirmed fatalities. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)OSO, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the death toll from a massive landslide in Washington state has risen to 14.


Egyptian court sentences nearly 530 to death

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:43 PM PDT

This image made from video shows relatives reacting after an Egyptian court on Monday sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in connection to an attack on a police station that killed a senior police officer in Minya, Egypt, Monday, March 24, 2014. The convictions came after after two sessions in a mass trial that raised an outcry from rights activists and threatened to spark a violent backlash.(AP Photo via AP video)CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court Monday sentenced to death nearly 530 suspected backers of ousted President Mohammed Morsi over a deadly attack on a police station, capping a swift, two-day mass trial in which defense attorneys were not allowed to present their case.


Union: Train operator in Chicago crash 'tired'

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:13 PM PDT

A Chicago Transit Authority train car rests on an escalator at the O'Hare Airport station after it derailed early Monday, March 24, 2014, in Chicago. More than 30 people were injured after the train "climbed over the last stop, jumped up on the sidewalk and then went up the stairs and escalator," according to Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago. (AP Photo/NBC Chicago, Kenneth Webster) MANDATORY CREDITCHICAGO (AP) — An operator of a Chicago public-transit train that jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation's busiest airports Monday may have dozed off, the president of a Chicago transit union said.


Whispers, secrets and lies? Anonymity apps rise

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:49 PM PDT

David Byttow, left, and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, are photographed Sunday, March 9, 2014 at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas. Byttow and Bader-Wechseler co-founded Secret, a new app that lets people share anonymous posts with their friends and friends of friends. (AP Photo/Barbara Ortutay)NEW YORK (AP) — At a time when Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are pushing people to put forward their most polished, put-together selves, a new class of mobile applications aims for a bit more honesty.


Union: Chicago train operator 'extremely tired'

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 02:47 PM PDT

A Chicago Transit Authority train car rests on an escalator at the O'Hare Airport station after it derailed early Monday, March 24, 2014, in Chicago. More than 30 people were injured after the train "climbed over the last stop, jumped up on the sidewalk and then went up the stairs and escalator," according to Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago. (AP Photo/NBC Chicago, Kenneth Webster) MANDATORY CREDITCHICAGO (AP) — The president of a Chicago transit union said Monday there are indications that the operator dozed off before the train jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation's busiest airports, injuring 32 people.


Train kills teen who pushed girlfriend from tracks

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 01:19 PM PDT

MARYSVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Witnesses and family members say a Northern California teen pushed his girlfriend away from the path of an oncoming train before he was struck and killed.

UN: 2013 extreme events due to warming Earth

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 12:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 19, 2013, file photo, a trickle of water left in the Rio Grande is pushed downstream by the wind near the chile growing community of Hatch, N.M. In southern New Mexico, the mighty Rio Grande has gone dry, and farmers are worried about dwindling water supplies as the state enters its third straight year of drought. Top climate scientists are gathering in Japan this week to finish up a report on the impact of global warming. And they say if you think climate change is only faced by some far-off polar bear decades from now, well, you're mistaken. They say the dangers of a warming Earth are immediate and human. While it doesn't say these events were caused by climate change, the report mentions droughts in northern Mexico and south-central United States, as showing how vulnerable people are to these weather extremes.(AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. weather agency said Monday that recent extreme weather patterns are "consistent" with human-induced climate change, citing key events that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe, the U.S. and Pacific region last year.


Coast Guard working to reopen shipping channel

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 04:22 PM PDT

An oil spill clean up crew drags a boom along East Beach in Galveston, Texas, Monday, March 24, 2014. Thousands of gallons of tar-like oil spilled into the major U.S. shipping channel after a barge ran into a ship Saturday. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — As workers in bright yellow suits picked quarter-sized "tar balls" out of the sand along Galveston Bay on Monday, strong incoming tides kept washing more ashore.


Kimmel-Clinton selfie takes on Ellen's Oscar shot

Posted: 23 Mar 2014 10:46 AM PDT

Former President Bill Clinton, center, and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, speak with talk show host Jimmy Kimmel during a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University, Saturday, March 22, 2014, at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. More than 1,000 college students are gathered at Arizona State University this weekend as part of the Clinton Global Initiative University's efforts to advance solutions to pressing world challenges. (AP Photo/Matt York)Jimmy Kimmel is taking a stab at matching Degeneres' record-breaking Oscars selfie — sort of.


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