2 Dozens dead as clashes overshadow Kenya peace plans
by Bogonko Bosire, AFP
2 hours, 23 minutes ago
| NAIROBI (AFP) - The latest clashes in western Kenya have left dozens dead, police said Saturday, a day after the feuding political sides agreed to a framework to try to end weeks of violence.
Despite the deal inked Friday, accusations continued to fly between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, who claims he was robbed of the presidency in the disputed December 27 elections.
Thirty-four people have died in fresh clashes, police said Saturday, including in western Nyanza province after fighting with machetes and poisoned arrows, and in clashes in Ainamoi, the home village of a slain opposition MP. |
3 Bus bombing kills 20 as Sri Lanka readies for independence day
by Sanka Vidanagama, AFP
10 minutes ago
| DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka (AFP) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels blew up a crowded bus in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, killing at least 20 people, two days ahead of independence day celebrations, officials said.
The parcel bomb ripped through the vehicle at a bus station in Dambulla, 150 kilometres (93 miles) north of Colombo. The bus had stopped en route to the Buddhist pilgrimage town of Anuradhapura, police said.
"There was a huge blast and the next thing I knew was I was being pulled out of the wreckage," said W.G. Premawathi from her hospital bed, her white sari soaked in blood from injuries caused by shrapnel. |
4 French president Sarkozy marries Carla Bruni
by Michel Sailhan
10 minutes ago
| PARIS (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy put an end to the rumours Saturday and did the deed, marrying Italian supermodel-turned- singer Carla Bruni in an intimate, private ceremony at the Elysee Palace.
News that the 53-year-old president had tied the knot with Bruni, 40, was announced on radio by the mayor of the eighth district of Paris, Francois Lebel, who officiated at the wedding.
The marriage was later confirmed by the president's office in a brief statement saying Sarkozy and Bruni "announce that they were married this morning in the presence of their families in the strictest privacy." |
5 Sitting on wet sand too long may cause stomach bug: study
AFP
2 hours, 58 minutes ago
| MIAMI (AFP) - Beachgoers should take notice: sitting on the wet sand or swimming in the sea for too long may increase the risk of catching an unpleasant stomach bug, a new study found.
The University of Florida study found that the more time spent on the wet sand or in the water, the greater the chance of suffering from gastroenteritis.
While water pollution monitoring is a standard part of "quality control" in many tourism-dependent cities, the same cannot be said of the sand. |
6 Iraqis bury dozens of bombings victims
By HAMID AHMED, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago
| BAGHDAD - Weeping relatives loaded simple wood coffins atop minivans Saturday in Baghdad as the city buried dozens of victims of the deadliest bombings since the U.S. flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
Iraqi officials raised the death toll of Friday's attacks to at least 99 - including 62 people killed at the central al-Ghazl market and 37 others killed about 20 minutes later across town, at the New Baghdad area pigeon market. The Iraqi police, hospital and Interior Ministry officials all spoke on customary condition of anonymity.
At least 88 people were wounded in al-Ghazl, and 56 others in the second blast, they said. |
7 Romney mourns Mormon leader in campaign detour
By Claudia Parsons, Reuters
17 minutes ago
| SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Three days before "Super Tuesday" voting that could decide the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney detoured from the campaign trail on Saturday to attend the funeral of Mormon church leader Gordon Hinckley.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who would be the first Mormon president, is battling to stay in the race against front-runner Arizona Sen. John McCain. Tuesday's Republican voting in 21 states -- the biggest single day in the contests to choose Republican and Democratic candidates for the November election -- could be the crucial showdown.
While McCain was traversing southern states to try to build on his momentum heading into the coast-to-coast nominating contests, Romney was in Utah to attend the Mormon leader's funeral, renewing focus on his faith that has been seen as a deterrent among some evangelical voters. |
8 Kashmiri mothers hunt for lost sons
By Judith Matloff, The Christian Science Monitor
Fri Feb 1, 4:00 AM ET
| Srinagar, Indian Kashmir - A woman with sad eyes and the bearing of a Roman general leads her bereaved followers up the stone steps of the sacred Makhdoom Sahib shrine to seek blessings for Kashmir's missing men.
Near the relics of the saint, they weep and wail for the return of husbands and sons who have vanished during the 18-year insurgency against Indian rule.
A male worshiper objects as a photographer takes pictures - after all, this is a place of devotion. But Parveena Ahangar barks at the worshiper with the moral authority that only a large middle-aged mother can command. |
9 Fed's main task: Save the banks
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
Fri Feb 1, 4:00 AM ET
| In moving with unusual speed to cut interest rates, officials at the Federal Reserve are aiming to prevent a nationwide recession, but they're also doing something more targeted: throwing a lifeline directly to the beleaguered banking industry.
The Fed says that it isn't trying to bail out anyone. Rather, its move is grounded partly in concern that banking troubles could deepen, choking off credit to the whole economy at a precarious time.
The pace of consumer spending stalled in December, according to government data released Thursday. America's businesses are also on edge, with slow job creation causing a rise in unemployment. In response, the central bank is moving to stimulate growth. But it is also trying to forestall a possible bank meltdown that would worsen the situation. |
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10 Secular Turks rally against Muslim headscarf reform
By Paul de Bendern, Reuters
Sat Feb 2, 10:56 AM ET
| ANKARA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of secular Turks rallied on Saturday against a plan by the government to allow women students to wear the Muslim headscarf at university, a move they say will usher in a stricter form of Islam in Turkey.
Parliament is expected to approve a constitutional amendment next week sponsored by the ruling AK Party, which has Islamist roots, and a nationalist opposition party that is aimed at easing a 1989 headscarf ban for students in higher education.
Secularists fear lifting the ban would, over time, lead to heavy pressure on uncovered women to wear the Muslim garment. |
11 FDA warns about Pfizer anti-smoking drug
By Kim Dixon, Reuters
Fri Feb 1, 7:03 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's anti-smoking drug Chantix appears increasingly likely to be linked to serious psychiatric behavior, including suicide, U.S. regulators said on Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that after an analysis of cases of depression, suicidal thoughts and other unusual behavior in patients on the medication, the evidence appears stronger of an association with Chantix.
"We've become increasingly concerned as we've seen there are a number of compelling cases that truly look as if they are the result of exposure to the drug," Bob Rappaport, a director in FDA's unit that oversees Chantix, told reporters on a conference call. |
12 Rain forests fall at 'alarming' rate
By EDWARD HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 55 minutes ago
| ABO EBAM, Nigeria - In the gloomy shade deep in Africa's rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.
From Brazil to central Africa to once-lush islands in Asia's archipelagos, human encroachment is shrinking the world's rain forests.
The alarm was sounded decades ago by environmentalists - and was little heeded. The picture, meanwhile, has changed: Africa is now a leader in destructiveness. The numbers have changed: U.N. specialists estimate 60 acres of tropical forest are felled worldwide every minute, up from 50 a generation back. And the fears have changed. |
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13 Scientists create 'no tears' onions
by Margot Staunton, AFP
Fri Feb 1, 3:01 PM ET
| WELLINGTON (AFP) - Scientists in New Zealand and Japan have created a "tear-free" onion using biotechnology to switch off the gene behind the enzyme that makes us cry, one of the leading researchers said Friday.
The discovery could signal an end to one of cooking's eternal puzzles: why does cutting up a simple onion sting the eyes and trigger teardrops?
The research institute in New Zealand, Crop and Food, used gene-silencing technology to make the breakthrough which it hopes could lead to a prototype onion hitting the market in a decade's time. |
14 Wind farms need techs to keep running
By DAVID TWIDDY, AP Business Writer
Sat Feb 2, 1:18 AM ET
| LINCOLN, Kan. - The line of towering wind turbines stand motionless on the ridgeline above Interstate 70 in central Kansas, Y-shaped silhouettes amid the swirling snow.
Despite the weather, dozens of technicians are working to get the 10-mile-long Smoky Hills Wind Farm ready to begin producing electricity.
Jason Martinson, who is supervising the 56-turbine operation on behalf of Enel North America Inc., said after almost a decade in the industry he's still amazed by how fast wind farms like Smoky Hills are going up across the country. But he also said workers like those braving the blizzard-like conditions outside his office are becoming increasingly rare. |
15 Campaigning starts in Russian presidential election
By Denis Dyomkin, Reuters
Sat Feb 2, 11:28 AM ET
| VOLGOGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - Campaigning officially started on Saturday in the Russian presidential election, but Vladimir Putin's chosen successor has said he is too busy working to canvass for votes.
Last year the popular Putin said he wanted First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to follow him as president. Since then the state media has given Medvedev blanket coverage and pollsters say he will win at least 70 percent of the vote.
Medvedev has declined to take part in televised debates against three other election contenders because he said he is too busy and has instead presented himself as a hard-working public servant. |
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16 N.Y. court declares out-of-state gay marriages valid
Reuters
Fri Feb 1, 7:53 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York appeals court ruled on Friday that valid same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries must be recognized in New York, the first known ruling of its kind in the country, a rights group said.
"This is a victory for families, it's a victory for fairness and it's a victory for human rights," said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "Now we need to work toward a New York where you don't have to cross state or country lines to get married."
Gay marriage is a hot political issue in the United States. Massachusetts is the only U.S. state that allows same-sex marriage, while several states allow civil unions for gay couples. More than 25 states have constitutional amendments barring same-sex marriage. |
17 A Green Day for Bush
By MICHAEL GRUNWALD, Time Magazine
Sat Feb 2, 12:40 AM ET
| On the unexpected-meter, it probably falls somewhere between Man Bites Dog and Trump Declines Comment. But on Friday, the Bush administration did something excellent for the environment.
In a letter obtained by TIME, Bush's Environmental Protection Agency moved to block a $220 million Army Corps of Engineers flood-control project in the Mississippi Delta, laying the groundwork for the first EPA veto of an Army Corps project since 1990. And the project is arguably the most ecologically destructive Army Corps boondoggle on the books today, which is saying something. It would build the world's largest hydraulic pump to protect a sparsely populated area dominated by soybean fields from Yazoo River flooding, and it would drain or degrade enough wetlands to cover all five boroughs of New York City. Authorized by Congress 67 years ago, the so-called Yazoo Pump is a relic of an era when wetlands were considered wastelands. |
18 Is the U.S. Failing in Afghanistan?
By MARK THOMPSON/WASHINGTON, Time Magazine
Sat Feb 2, 1:45 AM ET
| It was malice in wonderland at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday as Bush Administration envoys insisted things are getting better in Afghanistan, while angry lawmakers from both parties cited facts and figures showing just the opposite. Even the senior Republican on the panel, Senator Richard Lugar, found the Administration's claims wanting. "I'm not sure that we have a plan for Afghanistan," he said.
Long seen as the "forgotten war" eclipsed by Iraq in U.S. priorities, Afghanistan is in the Washington spotlight this week with the release of three independent reports concluding that without a change in U.S. policy there, the erstwhile sanctuary of Osama bin Laden would remain a failed state. After spending $25 billion over six years to try to defeat the Taliban, the radical Islamist militia that had been dispersed into the mountains by the initial U.S. invasion is now a growing presence in large parts of the country. The Taliban is now setting off more bombs - including one in Kabul's fanciest hotel on January 14 that killed eight people - and fueling its insurgency with profits from the opium trade. (Last year, the country produced 93% of the world's supply.) The declining security situation saw foreign investment in Afghanistan fall by 50% last year. |
19 Maine Republicans pack caucuses
By GLENN ADAMS, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 4 minutes ago
| AUGUSTA, Maine - Mitt Romney took an early lead in presidential preference voting by Maine Republicans as the first returns were counted Saturday from the party's municipal caucuses, which GOP officials said were heavily attended across the state.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, had 59 percent of the vote with 3 percent of the towns holding caucuses reporting. Ron Paul trailed with 19 percent, John McCain had 18 percent, and Mike Huckabee and undecided votes each had about 2 percent.
The nonbinding votes, the first step toward electing 18 Maine delegates to the Republican National Convention, were taking place in public schools, Grange halls, fire stations and town halls across the state. |
20 McCain tries to assuage conservatives
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 14 minutes ago
| NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Republican John McCain is trying to ease long-standing distrust among the party's powerful conservatives, not only for the presidential primary against Mitt Romney but for the likely general election race against a Democrat.
"I believe that the majority of Republican Party conservatives are convinced that I'm best equipped to lead this country, unify our party and take on the challenge of radical Islamic extremism," McCain told reporters Saturday.
As Super Tuesday looms - and the possibility that McCain could all but wrap up the nomination - the chattering conservative class is in an uproar. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh has warned that McCain as standard-bearer would destroy the Republican Party. Author and pundit Ann Coulter, in jaw-dropping heresy, said she would campaign for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton if McCain wins the party nod. |
21 Bush to seek Bush to seek $140.7 billion for Army in budget40.7 billion for Army in budget
Reuters
Sat Feb 2, 12:04 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will seek $140.7 billion on Monday for the U.S. Army in fiscal 2009, including increased funds to buy helicopters and other equipment, according to budget documents obtained by Reuters.
That request would be 8 percent higher than the Army budget requested for fiscal 2008.
The request for weapons and equipment procurement dollars will total $24.6 billion compared with $23.8 billion sought for fiscal 2008. The 2009 figure falls short of the $26.2 billion the Army previously said it would seek for procurement. |
22 US Qaeda strategy fatally flawed: analysts
by Michel Moutot, AFP
1 hour, 17 minutes ago
| PARIS (AFP) - In its ideological struggle against Al-Qaeda, American anti-terrorist strategy too often overlooks the basic tenets of the infamous Chinese warlord Sun Tzu, namely: know your enemy.
That is the fixed view of leading analysts, who conclude that through ignorance of the enemy it faces, ignorance of its nature, its goals, its strengths and its weaknesses, the United States is condemned to failure.
"The attention of the US military and intelligence community is directed almost uniformly towards hunting down militant leaders or protecting US forces, (and) not towards understanding the enemy we now face," said Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC. |
23 Exxon, Chevron post record profits
By JOHN PORRETTO, AP Business Writer
Sat Feb 2, 1:43 AM ET
| HOUSTON - Suppose Exxon Mobil decided to return the favor and buy you a tank of gas. Then again, why stop there? The oil giant turned a profit last year fat enough to buy a fill-up for every car, truck and SUV in America - four times.
Beating its own record to rack up the largest annual corporate profit in American history, Exxon Mobil Corp. said Friday it earned $40.6 billion for the year, reaping the benefits of crude-oil prices around $100 a barrel.
Exxon Mobil also topped its own record for profit in a single quarter, posting net income of $11.7 billion for the final three months of the year - about $1 billion more than the same period in 2005, the previous quarterly record. |
24 Financials cause slide in S&P 500 profit
By JOE BEL BRUNO, AP Business Writer
Sat Feb 2, 1:28 AM ET
| NEW YORK - It doesn't take highly paid Wall Street analysts to figure out why corporate earnings are trending toward their worst performance in six years.
With roughly half the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 having reported fourth-quarter results, banks and brokerage have proven to be the biggest drag on the overall earnings picture. Profit declined 22 percent from the year-ago period for all the S&P components - but, stripping out banks and brokerages, earnings for the index's component companies would be up almost 12 percent.
"There are really two different markets out there," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P. "It won't be hard for some fund managers to beat the index so long as they stayed out of the financials." |
25 Microsoft eyes Yahoo to topple Google
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer
Sat Feb 2, 8:05 AM ET
| SAN FRANCISCO - Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.
Microsoft's audacious attempt to buy Yahoo, spelled out in an unsolicited offer announced Friday, shows just how much Google threatens the world's largest software maker's grip on how people interact with computers.
For Yahoo, the bid represents another painful reminder of how missed opportunities and mismanagement combined to open the door for Google to supplant it as the Internet's main gateway, decimating its stock price in the process. |
26 UBS facing subprime banking investigations: report UBS facing subprime banking investigations: report
Reuters
54 minutes ago
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. government prosecutors are investigating whether Swiss banking giant UBS misled investors by reporting inflated prices of mortgage-backed securities it held despite knowing those valuations had eroded, the Wall Street Journal said on Saturday.
The Journal, quoting unnamed sources familiar with the probe, said the investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York had not yet issued subpoenas.
But the sources noted that the New York prosecutors work closely with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC recently expanded its own probes of both UBS and Merrill Lynch and Co Inc pricing of mortgage securities, a move which empowers the SEC to issue subpoenas, they said. |
27 Job losses in January raise recession fears
By Glenn Somerville, Reuters
Fri Feb 1, 1:31 PM ET
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut payrolls for the first time in 4-1/2 years in January, the Labor Department said on Friday in a report that showed the slowing economy was at growing risk of sliding into recession.
A separate report showing a modest revival in manufacturing at the beginning of 2008 took some sting out of the jobs loss but financial market participants were betting the Federal Reserve will have to keep cutting interest rates.
A series of contrasting reports whipsawed financial markets, leaving stock prices basically unchanged in early afternoon trading and bond prices mixed. The dollar recovered earlier losses to show modest gains against the euro. |
28 OPEC to sit tight amid US recession fears
by Ben Perry, AFP
30 minutes ago
| VIENNA (AFP) - Oil cartel OPEC, which this week maintained its production target amid uncertainty over the US economy, could well sit tight again when it meets in the Austrian capital in early March, analysts said.
On Friday at an extraordinary meeting in Vienna, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries left its official daily output ceiling at 29.67 million barrels of oil, insisting the market was adequately supplied.
The cartel, which produces 40 percent of world oil, snubbed US demands for an increase and focused instead on supporting prices that have fallen 10 percent since the start of the year. |
29 'Green collar' jobs seen as prosperous
By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer
Sat Feb 2, 1:03 AM ET
| When 1,800 workers lost their jobs after a Maytag appliance factory and headquarters closed last year in the small town of Newton, Iowa, a wind turbine blade company saw opportunity - an available, skilled workforce in the middle of one of America's hardiest wind energy production regions.
TPI Composites Inc. is building a new plant there as the energy industry aims for a cleaner, more sustainable future. With proper incentives, thousands of "green-collar jobs" could be created, from ethanol production to wind turbines and solar panels, and all the maintenance and construction to support them, industry officials said.
TPI used to build boats, but switched to turbines in 2001 for the "major growth opportunity," said Steve Lockard, CEO of the Phoenix, Ariz.-based company. The idea, he said, is to "transform the workforce away from the Maytag-type jobs of the past into jobs that can withstand the test of time going forward." |
30 Boats to try to prevent hooking seabirds
By MARY PEMBERTON, Associated Press Writer
Sat Feb 2, 5:54 AM ET
| ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Albatross looking for a free meal on the high seas often pay the price of being killed or injured going after baited hooks.
Now, fishing fleets around the world have agreed to use measures to prevent hooking albatross and other seabirds whose numbers are declining.
The measures - using streamer lines to drive birds away from boats' sterns as miles of baited hooks are being set as well as dying bait blue to conceal it in dark water - will go into effect this year in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
31 NASA honors Columbia's dead in memorial
By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
Sat Feb 2, 2:15 AM ET
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In an emotional ceremony just a few miles from where Columbia should have landed five years ago Friday, NASA officials, astronauts, schoolchildren and family members of the lost shuttle crew gathered to remember the seven who died while returning from space.
Evelyn Husband-Thompson noted that Friday's sunrise was just as beautiful as it was the morning of Feb. 1, 2003, when she awaited the homecoming of Columbia and her husband, Rick, its commander.
Columbia never made it back from its science mission. Its wing gashed by a chunk of fuel tank foam insulation at liftoff 16 days earlier, the spaceship shattered high above Texas just minutes from home. |
32 Funding shortfalls threaten science research
By Andrew Stern
Fri Feb 1, 10:48 AM ET
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists are chafing at the U.S. government's unfulfilled pledge to boost funding for basic scientific research, the source of innovations ranging from the World Wide Web to high-tech cancer treatments.
The estimated $500 million sliced out of the fiscal 2008 federal budget for research projects seeking answers to fundamental questions such as the nature of the universe could trigger a brain drain, scientists and others warn.
"Scientists are not going to wait around to be brought back. There will definitely be a brain drain," said Republican U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert of Illinois, a key player in securing funding for Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago. |
33 Anti-whalers vow bigger Antarctic presence next year
AFP
Sat Feb 2, 3:16 AM ET
| SYDNEY (AFP) - Militant environmental activists on Saturday vowed to increase their presence in the Southern Ocean next year in their bid to prevent Japanese whalers from killing the giant mammals.
Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel the Steve Irwin, said his ship had stopped the Japanese fleet from killing whales for three to four weeks but was now forced to return to port to refuel.
Next year he wants to bring two ships into the Antarctic waters. |
34 Mood positive as Hawaii emissions talks wrap up
AFP
Fri Feb 1, 12:06 PM ET
| LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Two days of international talks to discuss strategies for cutting greenhouse gas emissions ended in Hawaii late Thursday with delegates optimistic on an action plan drawn up at stormy UN-sponsored climate negotiations in Indonesia.
Representatives from 16 countries, together with the European Union and UN officials, moved forward in an effort towards reaching a new agreement in 2009 that will help combat global warming.
Participants at the conference came from nations which account for 80 percent of the emissions that are blamed for global warming. |
35 Australia experiences hottest ever January: weather bureau
AFP
Fri Feb 1, 12:18 AM ET
| SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia experienced its hottest January on record this year, with the dry continent heating up as part of the global warming process, the bureau of meteorology said Friday.
Temperatures rose by between 1.0 and 2.0 degrees in most parts of the country, with the national average hitting 29.2 degrees Celsius (84 Fahrenheit) for the summer month, said the bureau's head of climate analysis, David Jones.
"It's a remarkable number certainly. Averaging, as we did across the whole country 1.3 degrees above average is the highest temperature we've seen in our history of records for Australia in January," he told AFP. |
36 NASA Takes The Beatles 'Across the Universe' Literally
Space.com Staff
Fri Feb 1, 3:31 PM ET
| NASA will beam The Beatles' song, "Across the Universe," into deep space Monday in an unprecedented long distance dedication by the U.S. agency.
NASA's Deep Space Network will transmit the song at 7:00 p.m. EST (0000 Feb. 5 GMT) on Feb. 4 in honor of several cosmic-themed anniversaries.
Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the day the song was recorded. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding and the inception of The Beatles. Two other milestones also are being honored including, the 50th anniversary of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, and the 45th birthday of the Deep Space Network, an international network of antennas that supports missions to explore the universe. |
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