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It's official: U.S. President Barack Obama wants lawmakers to weigh in on whether to use military force in Syria. Obama sent a letter to the heads of the House and Senate on Saturday night, hours after announcing that he believes military action against Syrian targets is the right step to take over the alleged use of c... | Syrian official: Obama climbed to the top of the tree, "doesn't know how to get down"
Obama sends a letter to the heads of the House and Senate .
Obama to seek congressional approval on military action against Syria .
Aim is to determine whether CW were used, not by whom, says U.N. spokesman . | 0001d1afc246a7964130f43ae940af6bc6c57f01 | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150319214424id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/31/world/meast/syria-civil-war/ |
Usain Bolt rounded off the world championships Sunday by claiming his third gold in Moscow as he anchored Jamaica to victory in the men's 4x100m relay. The fastest man in the world charged clear of United States rival Justin Gatlin as the Jamaican quartet of Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Nickel Ashmeade and Bolt won... | Usain Bolt wins third gold of world championship .
Anchors Jamaica to 4x100m relay victory .
Eighth gold at the championships for Bolt .
Jamaica double up in women's 4x100m relay . | 0002095e55fcbd3a2f366d9bf92a95433dc305ef | sport | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130904060359id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/18/sport/athletics-bolt-jamaica-gold |
The General Services Administration, already under investigation for lavish spending, allowed an employee to telecommute from Hawaii even though he is based at the GSA's Kansas City, Missouri, office, a CNN investigation has found. It cost more than $24,000 for the business development specialist to travel to and from ... | The employee in agency's Kansas City office is among hundreds of "virtual" workers .
The employee's travel to and from the mainland U.S. last year cost more than $24,000 .
The telecommuting program, like all GSA practices, is under review . | 00027e965c8264c35cc1bc55556db388da82b07f | politics | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120827033356id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2012/08/23/politics/gsa-hawaii-teleworking |
A medical doctor in Vancouver, British Columbia, said Thursday that California arson suspect Harry Burkhart suffered from severe mental illness in 2010, when she examined him as part of a team of doctors. Dr. Blaga Stancheva, a family physician and specialist in obstetrics, said both Burkhart and his mother, Dorothee, ... | NEW: A Canadian doctor says she was part of a team examining Harry Burkhart in 2010 .
NEW: Diagnosis: "autism, severe anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression"
Burkhart is also suspected in a German arson probe, officials say .
Prosecutors believe the German national set a string of fires in Los Angeles . | 0002c17436637c4fe1837c935c04de47adb18e9a | justice | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120427093814id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2012/01/05/justice/california-arson/index.html? |
Police arrested another teen Thursday, the sixth suspect jailed in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on a northern California high school campus. Jose Carlos Montano, 18, was arrested on charges of felony rape, rape in concert with force, and penetration with a foreign object, said Richmond Police Lt.... | Another arrest made in gang rape outside California school .
Investigators say up to 20 people took part or stood and watched the assault .
Four suspects appeared in court Thursday; three wore bulletproof vests . | 0003ad6ef0c37534f80b55b4235108024b407f0b | crime | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140305182215id_/http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/30/california.gang.rape/index.html |
Thousands on Saturday fled the area in southwestern Ivory Coast where attacks left seven U.N. peacekeepers and eight civilians dead, according to a U.N. official. One attack occurred late Thursday and into Friday near Para Village, not far from the west-central African nation's border with Liberia, according to the Uni... | Humanitarian groups expect 4,000 refugees in one camp, a U.N. official says .
Others have fled across the border to U.N. camps in Liberia, he says .
This follows attacks that killed 7 U.N. peacekeepers and 8 civilians . | 0004306354494f090ee2d7bc5ddbf80b63e80de6 | world | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120617103455id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2012/06/09/world/africa/ivory-coast-violence/ |
Four groups that advocate for immigrant rights said Thursday they will challenge Arizona's new immigration law, which allows police to ask anyone for proof of legal U.S. residency. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Arizona and the National Immigrati... | NEW: 4 groups announce legal challenge in Phoenix .
American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Arizona, National Immigration Law Center slam law .
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund also objects to it .
They say law encourages racial profiling, but supporters say it doesn't involve any illegal acts . | 0005d61497d21ff37a17751829bd7e3b6e4a7c5c | politics | 2010 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20100504064850id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2010/POLITICS/04/29/arizona.immigration.law/? |
While Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer, it's also the unofficial start to the campaign season. That means politicking will be on the rise, especially as control of the Senate is at stake as well as control of 36 state houses. So, if you turn on your TV, expect to see more -- and nastier -- political advertisem... | Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer and the unofficial start to campaign season .
As much as $3.4 billion could be spent on advertising for this midterm election .
Here are five must-follow races for these midterms . | 0006021f772fad0aa78a977ce4a31b3faa6e6fe5 | politics | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150604162525id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/01/politics/5-races-midterms/index.html |
An Italian humanitarian activist and journalist who was kidnapped in Gaza has been found dead and one person is in custody, the Hamas Interior Ministry said Friday in a statement. Police investigating the case learned where 36-year-old Vittorio Arrigoni was being held and went to the location, where they found the body... | NEW: Autopsy indicates he had been dead for hours before police arrived .
YouTube video appears to show the activist bound and blindfolded .
The activist and freelance journalist was from the Lombardy region in northern Italy . | 00083697263e215e5e7eda753070f08aa374dd45 | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150401201533id_/http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/04/14/gaza.italian.kidnapped/ |
Renowned radio personality Casey Kasem is in critical condition at a hospital in western Washington, a spokesman for St. Anthony Hospital told CNN in a written statement Thursday. "Mr. Kasem is alert and appears comfortable at this time," Scott Thompson, a spokesman for the facility in Gig Harbor added. The 82-year-old... | The radio personality was taken to a hospital Sunday .
Spokesman for hospital says Casey Kasem being treated for wounds, blood pressure issues .
He had been at a friend's home in Washington state after his wife took him there .
She has been feuding with three stepchildren over the radio icon's care . | 000940f2bb357ac04a236a232156d8b9b18d1667 | showbiz | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140918102538id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/06/05/showbiz/casey-kasem-hospitalized |
If you travel by plane and arriving on time makes a difference, try to book on Hawaiian Airlines. In 2012, passengers got where they needed to go without delay on the carrier more than nine times out of 10, according to a study released on Monday. In fact, Hawaiian got even better from 2011, when it had a 92.8% on-time... | Hawaiian Airlines again lands at No. 1 in on-time performance .
The Airline Quality Rankings Report looks at the 14 largest U.S. airlines .
ExpressJet and American Airlines had the worst on-time performance .
Virgin America had the best baggage handling; Southwest had lowest complaint rate . | 0009ebb1967511741629926ef9f5faea2bb6be24 | travel | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130915021916id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/travel/airline-quality-report |
For the second time during his papacy, Pope Francis has announced a new group of bishops and archbishops set to become cardinals -- and they come from all over the world. Pope Francis said Sunday that he would hold a meeting of cardinals on February 14 "during which I will name 15 new Cardinals who, coming from 13 coun... | The 15 new cardinals will be installed on February 14 .
They come from countries such as Myanmar and Tonga .
No Americans made the list this time or the previous time in Francis' papacy . | 000c835555db62e319854d9f8912061cdca1893e | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150425022605id_/http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/04/world/vatican-pope-new-cardinals/ |
Four Chinese nationals of Uyghur ethnicity who had been held at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility have been resettled in Bermuda, officials said Thursday. Attorney General Eric Holder says the U.S. is "extremely grateful to the government of Bermuda." "Above all, this was a humanitarian act,"... | NEW: Bermudan premier: "Above all, this was a humanitarian act"
Uyghurs are native Chinese Muslims; the detainees were apprehended in Pakistan .
China urges U.S. to hand over all 17 Uyghurs held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba .
Official says U.S. still negotiating with Palau to take remaining 13 Uyghurs . | 000ca3fc9d877f8d4bb2ebd1d6858c69be571fd8 | politics | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150327025046id_/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/11/uighurs.gitmo/index.html?iref=nextin |
A ferocious leopard may have killed 15 people in Nepal in a 15-month span, its latest victim a 4-year-old boy that the creature dragged away into the jungle to eat. The head of boy was found in the forest a kilometer from his home Saturday morning, said Kamal Prasad Kharel, the police chief of the Baitadi district, an ... | A 4-year-old boy is the latest victim of a man-eating leopard, a local police chief says .
He suspects one leopard is behind the deaths of 15 people in the past 15 months .
A reward has been offered to anyone who captures or kills the man-eating creature .
Leopards are common in low mountain areas of Nepal but usually ... | 000cd1ee0098c4d510a03ddc97d11764448ebac2 | world | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130408081613id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2012/11/03/world/asia/nepal-leopard-deaths |
Kyle White now has two pieces of metal to wear -- one, a bracelet inscribed with the names of his six comrades killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, the other, a Medal of Honor given to him for his valor that ensured that death toll wasn't higher. Speaking minutes after President Barack Obama gave him the highest militar... | NEW: Kyle White: "Without this team, there would be no Medal of Honor"
NEW: He vows to "live up to the responsibility" of having the top military award .
NEW: Obama calls White "a soldier who embodies the courage of his generation"
The Army vet, then 20, braved enemy fire to save his wounded comrades in Afghanistan . | 000e009f6b1d954d827c9a550f3f24a5474ee82b | us | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140723211102id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/05/13/us/medal-of-honor |
Like a stereotypical beauty pageant, it looks like thin will be in at the world's largest annual gadget convention next week in Las Vegas. At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, computer makers will be pushing a new breed of ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops amid a sea of razor-thin smartphones and tablets.... | The Consumer Electronics Show brings a slew of new gadgets .
Tablets running Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows 8 will debut .
Ultrabooks, a new type of thinner laptop, are expected to make a splash .
But some of the largest players in the consumer electronics industry are shunning CES . | 001097a19e2c96de11276b3cce11566ccfed0030 | tech | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140109054234id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2012/01/06/tech/gaming-gadgets/ces-2012-trends/ |
Bayern Munich might be licking their wounds after defeat in the European Champions League final, but the German club can find comfort in victory of a different kind: by beating Chelsea in football's financial league table. Despite Saturday's crushing penalty shootout loss to the English side in their own backyard at th... | Manchester United again named football's most valuable brand .
The 19-time English champions are worth a reported $853 million .
Germany's Bayern Munich second on the list, worth an estimated $786 million .
Spanish rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona both see small decreases in brand value . | 0010c870d3fc53ea7f2a4a50f6496dc2df17e02f | sport | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150213012330id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/21/sport/football/football-brands-bayern-united/index.html |
Rebels in Tripoli furiously hunting for signs of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi are exploring a network of tunnels and bunkers built beneath his massive compound. CNN's Sara Sidner got a peek at the passageways Friday. She dubbed it "Gadhafi's inner sanctum." The correspondent, who's been covering the battle of... | CNN's Sara Sidner sees another world in a tunnel below Tripoli .
Gadhafi may have recorded his taped messages in a studio there .
Rebels are methodically searching through the winding passages . | 00120f91cfcab17bac165f7a4719019a628a9db3 | world | 2011 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20110827080926id_/http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/26/libya.tunnels/index.html |
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday defended the Bush administration's economic record, the invasion of Iraq and the treatment of suspected terrorists, warning that reversing its anti-terrorism policies endangers Americans. "We've accomplished nearly everything we set out to do," ex-Vice President Dick Cheney s... | NEW: Cheney: Harsh interrogations, warrantless eavesdropping "essential"
NEW: Former vice president says Bush rebuffed his advice on two big issues .
"An administration has to be able to respond to [crises] and we did," Cheney said .
Cheney cites costs of dealing with 9/11 attacks, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq . | 00128f1ba30d5e9e0f17df83285a1bc2072e2f01 | politics | 2009 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20090327024824id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2009/POLITICS/03/15/cheney.interview/index.html?eref=aol_hl |
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a full mental competency screening for Omar Gonzalez, who is accused of jumping the White House fence, after a disputed initial examination found him not competent for trial. U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer expressed concern that the initial mental exam, ordered by a magist... | Omar Gonzalez is accused of jumping the White House fence in September .
An initial evaluation finds him not competent to stand trial .
His attorney argues Gonzalez is fine, but agrees to more thorough exam . | 00142065a6c92f788eacd40c9023184808a7e2d1 | justice | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20141024225012id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/10/21/justice/white-house-trespass-case |
A German tourist was in critical condition after a shark severed her right arm while she snorkeled in Hawaii on Wednesday, authorities said. The approximately 20-year-old woman, who was unconscious when first responders arrived, was taken to Maui Medical Center for treatment, according Lee Mainaga with the Maui Fire De... | This is the fourth shark attack in Maui this year .
It took place about 50 yards offshore .
Officials will decide Thursday if the beach can reopen . | 0015194573f9b4430319683cde41e4aa17092a9d | us | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20131112050011id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2013/08/15/us/hawaii-shark-attack |
Fifteen people have now died after consuming cantaloupe contaminated with the listeria monocytogenes bacteria, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. At least 84 people in 19 states have become ill with the bacteria, the agency said. And the number of illnesses could still grow, added the CDC, citi... | Contaminated cantaloupes have caused illnesses in 19 states, the CDC says .
In addition to the deaths, a total of 84 people have fallen ill, the agency says .
The fruits are thought to be tainted by listeria monocytogenes bacteria .
Colorado-based Jensen Farms has recalled its cantaloupes . | 00156d9892fb27f1d2e100cbdd8a3997f8273781 | health | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120121102609id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2011/09/30/health/cantaloupe-deaths |
Criminals who file fraudulent tax returns by stealing people's identities could rake in an estimated $26 billion over the next five years because the IRS cannot keep up with the amount of the fraud, Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George said Tuesday. "Our analysis found that, although the IRS detects and prevent... | The Treasury's estimate is the first detailed analysis of the ongoing problem .
With budget cuts, the IRS cannot deal with the fraud, according to inspector general .
IRS says it stopped the issuance of $1.3 billion in potentially fraudulent tax returns . | 001732b374f362d3961a510da315601e4b5e7e84 | us | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130308123724id_/http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/08/us/tax-refund-fraud |
A short video that has gone viral in Mexico asks a tough question of the country's presidential candidates: "Are you striving only for the (presidential) chair, or will you change the future of our country?" A young girl with brown eyes and long brown hair, wearing a simple white shirt, poses the question. Behind her i... | A video featuring child actors has gone viral in Mexico .
It shows children facing the challenges the country faces .
The video asks Mexican presidential candidates for real change .
Some of the candidates have seen the video . | 001789cf9b865dcac3d9fc032a6b1533e3318eda | world | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120713000134id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2012/04/12/world/americas/mexico-viral-video/index.html |
ISIS, as the Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria are known, has become the new face of international terrorism in the eyes of the United States and its Western allies. Now the focus in America and abroad has become what will President Barack Obama and other leaders do about it? Here are key questions on the matte... | White House: President Obama has not decided on air strikes in Syria .
Possible options include air strikes on ISIS targets in Syria .
Some consider the group a direct threat to U.S. security .
Obama spent three years avoiding a U.S. military role in Syria . | 00189f37b1c8bdc2b132b40270bb28ffcc622af1 | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150504194438id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/world/meast/isis-5-questions/ |
(Health.com) -- An essential nutrient found in fish oil does not appear to slow the mental decline associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study is merely the latest to cast doubt on the mental benefits of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaeno... | Studies show that an essential nutrient in fish oil does not appear to slow mental decline .
Fish oil seems to be healthy in general, but does not benefit Alzheimer's patients cognitively .
Treatments such as DHA could prevent or slow dementia if started earlier in life . | 001a6162391594e2a8607fba135bdfa154e57904 | health | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140921051017id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2010/HEALTH/11/02/health.fish.oil.alzheimers/ |
(EW.com) -- Chris Meloni has booked his first post-"SVU" gig -- and it's a bloody good one. The former star of the Dick Wolf drama will join HBO's "True Blood" in season 5 as "ancient, powerful vampire who holds the fate of Bill and Eric in his hands." He will be a series regular. Meloni's role on Alan Ball's drama mar... | Christopher Meloni will join HBO's "True Blood" in season 5 .
He will play an "ancient, powerful vampire who holds the fate of Bill and Eric in his hands"
The actor previously played Chris Keller on the pay cabler's gritty drama "Oz" | 001adf6209be103cb198b8599f236b4d5760a5fe | showbiz | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120307154308id_/http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/14/showbiz/tv/true-blood-casts-christopher-meloni-ew/ |
Ballet dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, often cast as the villain in Bolshoi Ballet productions, is now the lead defendant in a plot worthy of a Tchaikovsky score. The 29-year-old allegedly choreographed an attack intended to blind Bolshoi artistic director Sergei Filin, the man who put him in the roles of Ivan the Terrible ... | Judge orders all three men to be held in police custody .
"I organized this attack, but not to the extent that it happened," dancer says .
Police say the motive was a "hostile relationship"
State media: Filin had suffered intimidation, including threatening phone calls . | 001b4673dbb3437282cd2ea58d9eca471e25780f | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150205163206id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/06/world/europe/russia-acid-attack |
This week the Supreme Court heard two historic cases on marriage. Even though I was a lawyer in the litigation and in the courthouse both days, I can't predict which way the court will come down. But the outcomes range from nothing at all to fundamentally restructuring the foundational unit of western civilization. Hol... | Ken Klukowski: Cases heard by Supreme Court could result in momentous change .
He says there are questions of whether cases could be tossed because of special circumstances .
If court issues sweeping ruling, it could deprive voters of chance to weigh in .
Klukowski: Gay marriage is such a new phenomenon that court shou... | 001be24b2db1c04f62386f98997fee725c5fd2fb | opinion | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150628084546id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/28/opinion/klukowski-supreme-court/index.html |
At the gravesite in a northern Liberia village, there are no religious or traditional burial rites. No ceremony, no mourning, no family members, and no final goodbyes. Nothing but a group of men dressed in space-suit-like outfits, cautiously throwing the dead body into the grave, they pause only to toss in anything els... | Liberia is one of the countries worst-hit by the West African Ebola outbreak .
Entire towns and villages have been placed into quarantine or abandoned by residents .
Health workers must ensure those who die of virus are buried safely, to avoid contamination .
"Running away from Ebola is not a solution -- we have to fac... | 001c839e1d76c400129f6c2799957c74e9895815 | world | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20141012194416id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/09/01/world/africa/ebola-ghost-town/? |
The big winners of this Formula One season could be road drivers rather than F1 racers, according to one former world champion. Jody Scheckter, who took the drivers' title in 1979, hopes a raft of technological changes -- notably smaller, hybrid engines that promise greater fuel efficiency -- will help improve road car... | The first race of the 2014 Formula One season takes place in Australia on Sunday .
Turbo engines are back in the sport, with each car boasting a 1.6-liter V6 hybrid .
Former F1 winner Jody Scheckter expects F1 technology to trickle down to road cars .
For the first time in the sport's history, double points will be awa... | 001cdbaf0607878f332e0202fadf5b82d2997c02 | sport | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140325060740id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2014/03/14/sport/motorsport/jody-scheckter-formula-one-2014/ |
European football's governing body, UEFA has revealed that 32 of its 54 member states have declared an interest in hosting matches at the 2020 European Championships. Traditionally, the tournament is hosted by one or two nations, but matches in 2020 will be shared between 13 cities across Europe. UEFA, who announced a ... | European football's governing body reveals list of countries bidding to host 2020 finals .
The 60th anniversary edition of the finals will be hosted by 13 countries .
Thirty-two countries are considering bids to host 2020 matches .
UEFA will announce host cities on September 25 . | 001d9259673bd2ffb613217d19b98ca3563874ac | sport | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20131106032112id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2013/09/20/sport/football/football-euro-2020-bid-countries/index.html? |
Northeast Florida State Attorney Angela Corey has made it clear that she alone will decide whether George Zimmerman will be charged in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman's attorneys termed as "courageous" her decision not to present evidence to the grand jury that the original prosecutor, Norman Wolfinger,... | Sunny Hostin: The state attorney has made it clear that she alone will decide on charges .
She says the public withdrawal by lawyers representing George Zimmerman was strange .
Hostin: Zimmerman's actions may not have been covered by the "stand your ground" law .
She says she believes in the jury system; it makes sense... | 001e8bda2f7ab73bf81314c1639a97dae2751703 | opinion | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120620124224id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2012/04/11/opinion/hostin-trayvon-martin-jury |
If that car parked in Harvard Yard is a rockin', school officials may soon come a knockin', because hanky-panky between students and faculty at the elite university has officially been banned. Specifically, the school adopted a new policy this week that prohibits romantic relationships between undergraduates and profes... | Harvard bans all romantic relationships between professors and students .
Policy comes on heels of investigation into Title IX violations . | 001ee59c375363263821474d40e4386ab91d5145 | us | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150706063428id_/http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/06/us/harvard-bans-professor-student-sex/ |
Each summer, more than 50,000 people pour into a cobblestone square in Tuscany for a gut-wrenching 90-seconds. That's all it takes for the flamboyantly dressed jockeys of Italy's legendary horse race -- Palio di Siena -- to race bareback around the medieval square. It's been called the "most dangerous horse race in the... | As the dust settles on Italy's Palio de Siena, CNN looks at wild horse festivals .
Includes fire leaping in Spain and samurai battles in Japan .
A world away from traditional races such as Royal Ascot or Kentucky Derby .
Some ancient horse shows date back to 10th Century . | 001f2856c2bca7de7918eb155b2e1bc8aa0d8695 | sport | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140915011655id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/sport/worlds-craziest-horse-festivals/index.html |
Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi flew to Greece Sunday to deliver a personal message from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a Greek foreign ministry official told CNN. Libya asked Greece to allow a special envoy to travel there to communicate a message, Greek foreign ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras ... | NEW: Libya's deputy foreign minister for European affairs meets with the Greek prime minister .
NEW: The envoy is expected to continue talks in Turkey and Malta, Greek officials say .
"It is clear that the (Libyan) administration is looking for a solution" | 001f9c554f1a29169413d0d2f138212a14c6dcf1 | world | 2011 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20110415080014id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/03/libya.deputy.fm/index.html |
Sergio Garcia, a 36-year-old undocumented immigrant in California, has held two lifelong dreams: to become a U.S. citizen and to practice law. He's been waiting 19 years for a visa still stuck in a backlog, but the California Supreme Court ensured this week that his second dream will become a reality. Garcia can be adm... | A California court rules that Sergio Garcia can practice law .
Garcia is an undocumented immigrant .
He says the ruling is a dream come true .
But he won't practice immigration law, he says . | 001fb4ca3bd3a0c1cd91fdc813f0ebeeac678e76 | us | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140508141719id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/01/03/us/california-immigrant-lawyer/index.html |
Rip it up and start again. As a 20-year-old, Ana Ivanovic claimed the French Open on Roland Garros' clay courts. All the portents suggested great things were ahead of the Serbian. Here was a tennis player with an impressive forehand and serve, with the added bonus of being incredibly marketable. But six years on, much ... | Ana Ivanovic has a new all-Serbian team behind her for the first time .
The 26-year-old has parted company with a number of coaches in the past .
The Serbian's last grand slam success came at the French Open in 2008 .
She is feeling confident about new season after finishing 2013 ranked 16th . | 0020ede07ee7ad1f6cf654c7dc678e7341d0c0e5 | sport | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140123141301id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/09/sport/tennis/ana-ivanovic-australian-open-tennis/ |
A federal judge has ordered that an official monitor be put in place to prevent discrimination in the hiring of New York City firefighters. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said the city needs "to comprehensively reassess its policies and practices, to analyze the evidence showing the effect of those policies and ... | Official monitor will oversee FDNY hiring practices, federal judge rules .
Monitoring will be in place for at least 10 years, Judge Nicholas Garaufis says .
Mayor Michael Bloomberg defends his record for improving minority recruiting .
However, Garaufis says testing and hiring procedures are discriminatory . | 00211175819295755ed12e89791b4d543442981a | us | 2011 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20111008025950id_/http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/us/new-york-fdny-lawsuit/index.html |
American journalist James Foley was murdered, beheaded by an English-speaking member of ISIS, the extremist group that calls itself the Islamic State and has already conquered large swaths of two Middle Eastern countries. The sickening execution, recorded and released online for the world to see, came with a warning to... | Frida Ghitis: U.S. cannot give in to ISIS threats, must focus on helping Kurds of Iraq .
Ghitis: U.N. resolution should declare that Muslims, rest of the world find ISIS horrific .
Ghitis: U.S. should make sure this is not framed as a war against Islam and the West .
She says ISIS is a threat to the whole world; Europe... | 002124147bd10996f410d1a117ddf298018dbced | opinion | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20141026195321id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/08/20/opinion/ghitis-isis-foley-beheading/ |
In a deserted playground a few hundred miles south of Cairo, 13-year-old Asmaa Ashraf fiddles with a broken rusted slide. She is waiting listlessly for a lesson with her math tutor. The bright-eyed teenager lives in a sepia-toned village in the province of Qena, a place of rural poverty and neglect. But she has big dre... | While Egypt struggles to wade through political problems, its education system suffers .
Literacy rates are low and unemployment is high, especially among females .
Many middle-class families are spending a large part of their income on private tutoring .
A few start-up companies have emerged, however, to address the e... | 002175ac42ef0c91b9fb7e07259413a8ee3979a3 | world | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140125184842id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/24/world/africa/egypt-broken-schools |
The Cold War aerial games of chicken portrayed in the movie "Top Gun" are happening in real life again nearly 30 years later. A U.S. Air Force spy plane evaded an encounter with the Russian military on July 18, just a day after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed by a suspected surface-to-air missile that Ukraine an... | U.S. military official tells CNN the incident occurred on July 18 .
RC-135 Rivet Joint was on electronic eavesdropping mission in international airspace .
Russians began tracking with ground radar, and sent at least one fighter to intercept .
U.S. plane evaded encounter by flying into Swedish airspace without permissio... | 0021eb1696f522ae0605ba630568bed5f655b740 | us | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150223071434id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/02/us/us-spy-plane/ |
Activists speaking at a Syrian government-sponsored "national dialogue" meeting Sunday criticized recent crackdowns by the country's security forces, calling for an end to violence against protesters. Syria's vice president hailed the Damascus University meeting between officials and members of the opposition as a step... | NEW: France summons Syria's ambassador to protest an attack on its embassy .
U.S. State Department official: The Syrian government incites anti-American sentiment .
Also Sunday, a state-backed "national dialogue" meeting continued in Damascus .
"The bloodshed needs to stop. ... Excessive force is unjustified," one acti... | 0022944fc603b8c03c02f2e67a874b067db28196 | world | 2011 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20110919062537id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2011/WORLD/meast/07/10/syria.unrest/index.html |
Half a century ago, with the space race in full swing, the heated quest for interplanetary exploration between the Earth's superpowers gained a new, self-proclaimed, contender. "We're going to Mars!" audaciously declared Zambian schoolteacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso in a 1964 newspaper op-ed, revealing to the world his f... | In the mid-1960s, a Zambian school teacher wanted to send the first African to space .
'The Afronauts' photo book is a fictional documentation of his endeavors .
The work, by Cristina De Middel, has been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse prize . | 00237a1d4477c976ee17d82d438e2650e0bff9a9 | world | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20131003051001id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/02/world/africa/afronauts-zambia-space-program-midell |
By now, we're on the same page that Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as his running mate contradicts a golden oldie of presidential election strategy -- run to the conservative (or liberal) base to win the nomination and then reposition toward the center to lure the more moderate independent swing voters who are necessa... | Lawrence Jacobs: Mitt Romney was shrewd in picking Paul Ryan as his running mate .
Jacobs: Ryan can supercharge conservatives, who outnumber liberals 2 to 1 .
He says there are signs that Obama supporters won't actually cast a ballot .
Jacobs: Using Ryan to ignite the GOP base is probably Romney's best chance of prevai... | 0024a4404120db4544060c11050acaaae185f315 | opinion | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120818175639id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2012/08/16/opinion/jacobs-romney-ryan |
An argument before the Supreme Court on October 1 in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum will have enormous significance. The case concerns the torture of Ogoni leaders in Nigeria, but at stake is the future of the law under which this case was brought, the Alien Tort Statute. The United States stands at a crossroads. At i... | Vince Warren: At its best, U.S. has been key in championing universal human rights .
Warren: A longstanding law lets foreign victims of human rights abuse find justice in U.S. courts .
Supreme Court to rule in international human rights case whether law will stand, he says .
Warren: If court upholds the law, the world ... | 002509a01890dd51476aa84c634b6c1db306f995 | opinion | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20121112082551id_/http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/27/opinion/warren-supreme-court-alien-tort-law/index.html |
Thousands of people filled Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Saturday to mark the 22nd anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. The candlelight vigil comes after recent efforts by the Chinese government to quash would-be demonstrators from holding anti-government protests. About 2... | Protesters converge on Hong Kong's Victoria Park for a candlelight vigil .
It is the 22nd anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters .
The vigil is held after recent efforts to quash anti-government demonstrations . | 00258c300ca824ab90db12db58480b00040a96d1 | world | 2011 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20110810022230id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/04/china.tiananmen.vigil/ |
As Barack Obama makes his case to the nation for taking the fight to ISIS, his top diplomat is also trying to make sure America doesn't have to go it alone. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is sweeping through the Middle East to try to convince regional leaders to back America's plan to beat back the terror group, wh... | Barack Obama making case to nation for increasing military action against ISIS .
John Kerry in Middle East trying to get more of the region's leaders on board .
Germany, UK, France to offer assistance; Russia wary of potential U.S. strikes in Syria . | 002756fbd876d0da1c7d6e6d464c25d5316de3e8 | world | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20141016015825id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/09/10/world/barack-obama-isis-plan-storify |
South Korea launched an investigation Tuesday into reports of toxic chemicals being dumped at a former U.S. military base, the Defense Ministry said. The tests follow allegations of American soldiers burying chemicals on Korean soil. The first tests are being carried out by a joint military, government and civilian tas... | U.S. and South Korea teams are searching for chemicals at former military bases .
Toxic chemicals were buried at a U.S. in the 1970s, a American veteran alleges .
Agent Orange has been linked to some cancers . | 0028aa521d2b3363a2a2d7d74b2961c2c5a8f514 | world | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140821065222id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/31/south.korea.agent.orange/index.html |
The "Dream 9," five women and four men, say that they are "undocumented and unafraid." Don't believe it. I bet they were afraid. Who wouldn't have been? The nine -- Claudia Amaro, Adriana Gil Diaz, Luis Leon Lopez, Maria Peniche-Vargas, Ceferino Santiago, LuLu Martinez Valdez, Mario Felix-Garcia, Marco Saavedra and Liz... | Ruben Navarrette: Nine Dreamer activists were in federal immigration detention in Arizona .
They'd tried to re-enter the U.S. asking for humanitarian parole or asylum and were jailed .
He says they have been freed, granted immigration hearing, drew support from Congress .
Navarrette: DREAMers sometimes have look-at-me ... | 0028e335e8d06f2bab786a15965621db28e2ba55 | opinion | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20131013042622id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/opinion/navarrette-dream |
When photographer Fabio Bucciarelli first visited South Sudan, he found a nation filled with hope. He found citizens worn out by decades of war -- but looking forward to an independent, peaceful future. That was two years ago, after the world's youngest country split from its northern nemesis, Sudan. "I remember the lo... | Two years ago, the world's youngest country split from its northern nemesis, Sudan .
But during a recent visit, photographer Fabio Bucciarelli found ethnic violence raging . | 0029837648b848c9cbde4c26744609e85f528a6c | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150326103720id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/10/world/cnnphotos-south-sudan-abyss/ |
Space shuttle Discovery launched just before midnight Friday on a mission to the international space station. Space shuttle Discovery lifts off late Friday from Kennedy Space Center in a photo from iReporter Alan Walters. The crew of seven astronauts includes one from Mexico and another from Sweden. One of those seven,... | Space shuttle Discovery launches just before midnight Friday .
Discovery is scheduled to fly to international space station with a crew of seven .
Logistics module, science experiments, Stephen Colbert treadmill also aboard . | 002a083c3893b1fde734280b9eec28d428a02d2b | tech | 2009 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20090830104910id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2009/TECH/space/08/29/space.shuttle.discovery/index.html?eref=onion |
This past week saw severe weather in many parts of the world that took dozens of lives and left behind serious damage. Here's a look at some of the extreme weather stories covered by CNN's global affiliates, including a typhoon in the Philippines and a tornado in New Zealand. Unlikely typhoon in the Philippines . Typho... | From CNN's global affiliates, check out some of this week's extreme weather conditions .
A typhoon in the Philippines has killed 148 people and destroyed thousands of homes .
Near Auckland, New Zealand, a tornado injured more than 200 people . | 002a48549068d7db596738c4f3fa2f5562372ab3 | world | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20121216080823id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2012/12/07/world/world-affiliates-severe-weather |
The retrial of Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, on charges of killing protesters during the country's 2011 revolution and profiteering resumed Saturday before being adjourned until next month. Mubarak was forced from office in February 2011 following two weeks of mass street protests. Following a lengthy trial,... | NEW: The retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak is adjourned until mid-August .
The retrial is being held for Mubarak and his sons, as well as a former minister and security aides .
Mubarak was forced from office in February 2011 following two weeks of mass street protests .
Mubarak was convicted last year but was g... | 002a6553123aa9c80a49b1e6e54c5a684975e452 | world | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130912000008id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2013/07/06/world/meast/egypt-mubarak-retrial/index.html |
(InStyle.com) -- Singer Carrie Underwood dishes on dieting, beauty and fashion. Carrie Underwood in a Michael Kors wool crêpe dress and Kenneth Jay Lane link bracelet. 1. Always look the part . Most of the time I slap on some makeup in the morning so I don't look bad if somebody snaps a picture. Somebody, somewhere, wi... | Singer Carrie Underwood uses lotion more than perfume .
She counts calories, fat and fiber; cheese is her downfall .
Singer loves to play with makeup . | 002ab555011a771d8390288495066e30028292ee | living | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140530212655id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2008/LIVING/homestyle/04/29/is.underwood/ |
The gunman who held hostages for more than 16 hours in a Sydney cafe was no stranger to police -- and was on bail for violent criminal offenses at the time of the siege. Man Haron Monis, an Iranian-born refugee who was granted political asylum in Australia in 2001, had "a long history of violent crime, infatuation with... | Man Haron Monis had history of "infatuation with extremism and mental instability," Abbott says .
Hostage-taker was granted political asylum in Australia in 2001; was on bail for violent offending .
His former lawyer says he campaigned against "the victimization of Muslims and Islamists"
On Monis' apparent website, the... | 002b864bf68d00d74d0cad76be4cbc049f7321ca | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150712180311id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/15/world/asia/australia-hostage-taker/ |
With the sweltering summer bidding adieu and pleasant autumn temperatures setting in, now's the time to explore New Delhi. Travelers to the Indian capital may hesitate to try the city's famed street foods, fearing the notorious "Delhi belly." But skip the street food scene and you miss an essential part of the Delhi ex... | If you haven't tried these street foods, you haven't been to Delhi .
The most iconic chaat are aloo tikki, dahi bhalla and papri chaat .
The best kulfi ice cream is topped with rose milk faluda . | 002c115c31577d0e9443794d27c2df51312858b4 | travel | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20141029054823id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/09/travel/delhi-street-eats/index.html |
One of the most highly anticipated apps for Apple devices was made available on Wednesday. At least, until it wasn't. Google announced a Gmail app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that was designed to make it easier for the service's more than 190 million users to navigate their mail. "We check email pretty much eve... | Gmail mobile app is released, then pulled, from Apple's online store .
The app was made available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch .
Google said bugs broke the app's notification system and caused error messages .
No word on when fixed Gmail app will be released . | 002c715ea1428373cc432c9508d4a48d2e6069f4 | tech | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140914152002id_/http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/tech/mobile/gmail-app/ |
A hearing continues Thursday to determine the future of John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in March 1981. After an expected week and half of testimony, a federal judge will consider whether Hinckley should eventually be released from a mental hospital, where he has been a patient since... | Defense attorneys want John Hinckley to be transitioned out of a mental hospital .
"The hospital doesn't know what Mr. Hinckley is thinking," the prosecutor says .
The hearing may determine whether to eventually free him from a mental hospital .
After John Hinckley shot Reagan, he was found not guilty by reason of insa... | 002c962834b7886c600a31a35053543e324883bd | justice | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120104124608id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2011/12/01/justice/hinckley-hearing |
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain told supporters Saturday that he is suspending his presidential campaign, which has become hobbled in recent weeks by allegations of sexual harassment and an Atlanta woman's claim that they carried on a 13-year affair. While he will still be able to raise and spend campaign f... | NEW: Woman who alleges an affair with Cain wants an apology .
Cain will endorse another candidate soon .
Cain's Iowa support fell to single digits, the Des Moines Register reports .
Candidate was dogged by allegations of sexual harassment and an affair . | 002cceec34994ff6ff91f6232054e5f71b9eb4b5 | election | 2012 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20120106073234id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2011/12/03/election/2012/cain-campaign |
Four years ago, Brandon Stanton became New York City's unofficial photo-chronicler. With his blog, Humans of New York -- which has over eight million followers on social media -- he has captured the heart and soul of the city's multi-national inhabitants. His trademark -- the micro narratives that accompany each image ... | Brandon Stanton launched Humans of New York blog .
Partnering with U.N., he's on a world tour that started in Iraq and Jordan .
His mini narratives reveal the struggles and dreams of ordinary people . | 0031f262451b4b335dfda3aca9b533d244244e1e | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150408093055id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/16/world/meast/bringing-humanity-to-the-middle-east/index.html |
A new CNN poll confirms that we're witnessing a quiet reversal in the character of our two major parties. Traditionally, Republicans have always coalesced around the conventional wisdom front-runner for president. Conservatives respect structure, order and party brand names. Not for nothing was the name Nixon, Bush or ... | John Avlon: A new CNN poll shows a reversal in the character of two major parties .
Avlon: Traditionally, GOP coalesce around a front-runner; Democrats root for newcomers .
Now, GOP has an eclectic pool of presidential candidates; Democrats have Hillary Clinton .
Avlon: If Clinton does not run, Democrats will have almo... | 0032962a65bf404388581ef85d501c048eb67987 | opinion | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20131115115724id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2013/09/16/opinion/avlon-cnn-poll/? |
(Tribune Media Services) -- When Eileen Mather lands in Mexico City on her way to Tapachula, Mexico, she learns her airline ticket isn't valid. Her airline forces her to buy a new one. Mather asks her online agency, Cheapoair.com, for a refund, but more than six months later, she's still out $879. Is she also out of op... | Customer booked an international flight through Cheapoair.com .
Ticket for one leg of her flight was not accepted, and she had to buy a new one .
The online agency did not know why her ticket was rejected .
Troubleshooter contacted Cheapoair, and it refunded the customer's money . | 0032d07e91b8ce3d5f8ac313d799341df7556234 | travel | 2009 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20091231055601id_/http://us.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/07/24/airline.ticket.invalid/index.html |
Even during the harshest periods of the communist era, being Shanghainese had a special cachet in China. The city and its residents were a synonym for Western fashion and open-minded attitudes, as different as could be from their Mao-pin wearing comrades. Its personality remains just as strong today. Shanghai is an unu... | Shanghai has long been a unique city in China .
Hybrid of Eastern, Western traditions is found nowhere else in mainland China .
Shanghai ranks sixth among world cities with the most skyscrapers, with 241 .
Shanghainese dialect is filled with localized English words . | 00330ad079a460a329fa0977f2db3810044f23af | travel | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20141104233201id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/09/22/travel/unique-shanghai-bourdain |
Zimbabwean lawmakers on Monday narrowly voted for Lovemore Moyo as speaker of the parliament -- making him the first opposition lawmaker to hold the position in the country's history. Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC faction has a slim majority following parliamentary elections. "This is historic as it ceases to be a rubber-sta... | Moyo received 110 votes, opponent Paul Themba-Nyathi received 98 votes .
Themba-Nyathi represented the splinter MDC faction led by Arthur Mutambara .
MDC's Shuwa Mudiwa and Elia Jembere arrested outside parliament building .
Ruling ZANU-PF party lost majority in 210-seat parliament in March elections . | 0033829349643e2964a8c3ce5fd997116ce43f7c | world | 2008 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20080828072441id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2008/WORLD/africa/08/25/zimbabwe.arrests/ |
During 15 years of talking to high school students about sex and bullying, Laurie Halse Anderson has continued to get the same questions from boys: Why was the main character in her book, "Speak," so upset about what happened to her? Didn't she want the attention of one of the popular boys? And why was the impact so tr... | Real talk about sex among families is more important than ever, "Speak" author says .
Laurie Halse Anderson's acclaimed young adult novel "Speak" turns 15 this year .
The novel's central themes -- teen rape and stigma -- are still relevant, Anderson says . | 003477088ee670dee05e53d0b24ebfcf9a692cec | living | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150126065709id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/12/living/laurie-halse-anderson-speak/ |
Former detainees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement accuse the agency in a lawsuit of forcibly injecting them with psychotropic drugs while trying to shuttle them out of the country during their deportation. Raymond Soeoth, pictured here with his wife, says he was injected with drugs by ICE agents against his will.... | Detainees file suit against ICE, allege they were injected with drugs .
One detainee tells CNN: "What they did to me was very, very bad"
ICE says 1,073 detainees have had "medical escorts" since 2003 .
Sen. Lieberman vows to investigate further; spokesman calls charges "troubling" | 00359f516cdf8b1800c7102711bd9aa400d1c749 | us | 2008 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20080120060737id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2007/US/10/12/doping.immigrants/ |
A memorial cruise is scheduled to set sail 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, following the same trans-Atlantic route as the ill-fated ship, according to organizers. A list of first class passengers for the R.M.S. Titanic is one of the artifacts that remains after the sinking. The Titanic Memorial Cruise is to... | The Titanic Memorial Cruise is to set sail in April 2012, 100 years after the sinking .
It will depart from Southampton, England, on April 8, just as the Titanic did .
The trip will end in New York, where the Titanic was headed . | 0036c48d80c270465bffced3e233fe39e5950431 | world | 2010 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20100317132948id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2009/WORLD/europe/10/06/titanic.trip/index.html |
"Big Bang Theory" fans can breathe a sigh of relief. According to Deadline, the stars of the hit CBS series have agreed to hefty pay increases for the new season. Quoting unnamed sources, the publication reports that Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco have secured three-year deals for "$1 million per episode f... | Production had been stalled during negotiations .
Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco reportedly will own more of the show .
Two other cast members are said to still be in negotiations . | 0036d1138155e2644813f9c218c743e982e27a27 | showbiz | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150702211145id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/showbiz/tv/big-bang-theory-contracts/ |
The number of confirmed swine flu cases across the globe kept rising Friday, but some signs of hope emerged in the battle against the worldwide outbreak. Tourists sunbathe wearing surgical masks in the popular Mexican resort of Acapulco. The World Health Organization said Friday that the number of confirmed cases stood... | NEW: Mexican government says 16 people have died from virus .
Virus has spread to 13 countries, with hardest-hit areas in the West .
U.S. Education Department says outbreak has closed 433 schools in 17 states .
Vaccine could be made "in a relatively short period of time," official says . | 00377ab9d3caafb18464c47d0535ae2781aeef15 | health | 2009 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20090709055827id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2009/HEALTH/05/01/swine.flu.outbreak/ |
Wise men say to look before you leap. In Alaska, it's advisable to look before you land. That's because, in Alaska, where seaplanes are common, you just might land on a whale. Last week in tiny, remote Angoon, Thomas Hamm was shooting video of a seaplane coming in for a landing. It was a mundane scene in the island com... | The whale was swimming just under the surface .
It happened in tiny, remote Angoon . | 00385e5382f413e0c4234ddf71d692ed1e89622f | us | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140923133821id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2014/07/16/us/alaska-plane-on-whale? |
Some may disagree whether George W. Bush was a "uniter, not a divider," as he liked to say, but he did get all five living presidents together for the dedication of his presidential library. At Thursday's event in Dallas, Democratic former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton praised Bush for his initiatives in Afr... | NEW: Former Presidents Carter and Clinton praise Bush for his initiatives in Africa .
NEW: Bush says the country's greatest days lie ahead .
NEW: The George W. Bush Presidential Center is dedicated .
Bush tells CNN he is aware it will rekindle debates about his legacy . | 003a70daf9f99e871ba06482726176d7776d0c07 | us | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20141010174915id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2013/04/25/us/bush-center-dedication |
An 11-year-old boy's rendition of the national anthem at Game 3 of the NBA finals brought the usual appreciative applause Tuesday, but outside AT&T Center in San Antonio, his performance brought a darker reaction from some posters on social media -- and eventually an online backlash against their racist comments. See t... | Sebastien de la Cruz, 11, sang the national anthem at NBA finals on Tuesday .
Racists comments spread via Twitter after the Mexican-American boy's performance .
Sebastien stands resilient: "I'm a proud American and live in a free country. It's not hurting me."
Father says he isn't "taken the comments personally, can't ... | 003ae6f81b90eae41831361deae8a5da3705dc4f | us | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150523152118id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/12/us/mexican-american-boy-sings-anthem/ |
Timothy Bradley says he needs to beat Manny Pacquiao for a second time in Las Vegas on Saturday to move on from the controversial conclusion of their first fight two years ago. The WBO welterweight champion won a contentious points decision when the pair met in June 2012, inflicting a first defeat on Pacquiao in seven ... | Timothy Bradley faces Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title in Las Vegas Saturday .
The fight is a rematch of the bitterly contested first bout between the two in 2012 .
Bradley scored a points victory but received death threats after the fight . | 003b856704634429282caa28ef8b0c052e04bf18 | sport | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140604044841id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2014/04/11/sport/bradley-beating-pacquiao-death-threats/? |
China is launching its first lunar probe in early December, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday, just over a decade after the country first sent an astronaut into space. The Chang'e-3 probe -- which will blast off from a Long March 3B rocket in Sichuan province located in southwest China -- is expected to lan... | China will launch an unmanned lunar probe in December .
Chang'e-3 will release a solar-powered rover on the moon's surface .
The probe may interfere with a NASA lunar dust study, U.S. scientist says . | 003be5a8108fcd3f133ddef14a5fc593701566f3 | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150113112822id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/26/world/asia/china-lunar-probe/ |
Brad Blauser lives in war-torn Baghdad, where he doesn't earn a paycheck and is thousands of miles from his family. But he has no intention of leaving anytime soon. Since 2005, Brad Blauser's Wheelchairs for Iraqi Kids program has distributed nearly 650 free wheelchairs. For the past four years, the Dallas, Texas, nati... | Brad Blauser's Wheelchairs for Iraqi Kids has distributed nearly 650 free wheelchairs .
Dallas native Blauser lives in Baghdad and works for free .
"Disabled children -- they're really the forgotten ones in this war," he said .
Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year at CNN.com/Heroes . | 003c99210ffb08a21ff004000cac7e2efcfd48de | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150628161837id_/http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/30/cnnheroes.blad.blauser/ |
The images of Haitian children crying or injured or wandering the streets alone are heartbreaking. It's no surprise there has been a flood of well-intentioned people who want to adopt those children. But that's not always the best immediate move, aid groups caution. Save the Children Chief Executive Jasmine Whitbread s... | Experts: Hurried adoptions can lead to trafficking and cause more trauma to children .
Aid groups say focus should be on reuniting kids with relatives .
Reports on plight of children in Haiti has led many to ask about adoptions . | 003cefcdcf96dbca76aa17d72ee612fa3b40651d | living | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130629154246id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2010/LIVING/01/21/haiti.adoptions/index.html? |
Airport hotels have always been necessary but unloved stopover spots for the depleted traveler, places to shower, rehydrate and let the body recuperate from the merciless rigors of flying. Yet checking into the Hilton Frankfurt Airport, which opened in December turned out to be much more. It's an example of the emergin... | Hilton Frankfurt Airport is part of a mixed-use complex atop a high-speed rail station .
ALT Hotel Pearson in Toronto features original art and Egyptian cotton linens .
Guests at the Element Miami help make electricity by using the hotel's stationary bikes . | 003d23a256ce34d73e05968a04727c0ed4a2a456 | travel | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20131223051558id_/http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/10/travel/new-generation-of-airport-hotels |
For more than 20 years, the bulletproof museum case housed a small piece of yesteryear: a gold bar recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon. Today, its case is broken, littered with black fingerprint dust. The treasure is gone. Stolen. Two thieves were caught in the act by the museum's security cameras. "This is a speci... | Gold bar stolen from Key West, Florida, museum is worth more than $550,000 .
Video shows crime taking place, but leads are sparse .
Thieves often can't sell stolen treasures because legitimate collectors won't bite .
But stolen treasures are often hard to find . | 003d773c00279077fc83986a725be77c3ef0740f | us | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150127173735id_/http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/24/stealing.history/ |
The crane operator facing charges over a deadly building collapse was denied bail Sunday. A Philadelphia judge refused to allow Sean Benschop, 42, to leave jail. He is charged with six counts of involuntary manslaughter, 13 counts of recklessly endangering another person, and one count of "risking a catastrophe," Distr... | NEW: Attorney for crane operator says his client is "being made the scapegoat"
Sean Benschop was denied bail Sunday .
A law enforcement source says marijuana was found in the crane operator's blood .
6 died, 13 were injured when a building being torn down collapsed onto a thrift store . | 003eaac389a2450171f99f216b95f8741b58cbf0 | us | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140106201536id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/09/us/philadelphia-building-collapse/ |
A former middle-school student who was strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain medication won a partial victory of her Supreme Court appeal Thursday in a case testing the discretion of officials to ensure classroom safety. Savana Redding leaves the U.S Supreme Court in April. She was 13 when she w... | Savana Redding was 13 when administrators suspected she was carrying drugs .
No medication was found, and she later sued .
Justices: Search was unreasonable, but individual school officials can't be sued .
Redding, now 19, has said she has never gotten over her experience . | 003f8c8953025e086fa773c9b40d9b8cd6d9754c | crime | 2009 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20090629190615id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2009/CRIME/06/25/scotus.strip.search/ |
When American pop artist Andy Warhol visited Beijing in 1982 and was told there wasn't a McDonald's, he replied: "Oh, but they will." Twenty-six years after his death, Warhol, whose much-lauded prescience extended across visual and consumer culture, has popped up in China once again -- and he was right about the fast-f... | First major retrospective of pop artist Andy Warhol's work exhibiting in China .
Warhol made first and only trip to China in 1982, which provided artistic inspiration .
While iconic works are well-recognized in China, few people connect them with Warhol .
Warhol influenced Chinese contemporary artists, most notably Ai ... | 0040eb79bd5424f52e1ec43050539e4e12189cbf | world | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20131220094108id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/world/asia/china-andy-warhol-exhibition |
Four current and former employees of Britain's Sun newspaper were arrested by authorities investigating claims of inappropriate payments to police, News Corp. and police said Saturday. Police searched the men's homes as well as the East London offices of News International, the News Corp. subsidiary that publishes the ... | NEW: Those arrested have been bailed and the searches are over, police say .
Four current and former Sun employees had been arrested, News Corp. says .
A 29-year-old police officer has also been arrested, London police say .
The arrests were made as part of an investigation into corruption allegations . | 004135e34c22bc5c1954f0cfa3c627943486d0b9 | world | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130317042257id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/28/world/europe/uk-police-media/index.html |
Il Rottomatore -- or "the demolition man" -- is how Italy's incoming prime minister has come to be known, thanks in part to his pugnacious approach to politics. Matteo Renzi's nickname hardly bodes well for drumming up support in one of the most fractious governing systems on the planet, one which has speared all but o... | Matteo Renzi is incoming PM of Italy, a country with a fractious governing system .
It's not clear how the 39-year-old will garner more support than his predecessors .
The country has problems including its two trillion euro debt pile and high unemployment .
But Renzi has shown he is a long-distance player -- and has y... | 0043419182bdb005875dd3da575ebe38570907e8 | business | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140815050457id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/17/business/italy-politics/ |
Military forces have managed to take the remaining strongholds of al Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab in the far northeast of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the military said. "In effect, operations will now focus on the environs of the city and policing within the liberated areas," the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMIS... | Military forces say they have taken strongholds in northeastern Mogadishu .
The military cites "a big achievement"
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for an attack last week that killed dozens . | 0043612320aaede50bf515eacc66c7daeee9a21b | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150613102834id_/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/10/world/africa/somalia-al-shabaab/index.html |
A Florida judge sentenced Rachel Wade, the 20-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight last year, to 27 years in prison Friday. While acknowledging mitigating factors -- primarily Wade's youth and lack of a criminal past -- the judge said her actions were not "... | NEW: Defendant Rachel Wade's lawyer says sentence is "very fair"
Wade sentenced in April 2009 stabbing death of Sarah Ludemann .
Wade was convicted of second-degree murder .
The two women were involved with the same man . | 00459587adf060c93966ce7f1e2e33fae1d87f7c | crime | 2010 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20100907061439id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2010/CRIME/09/03/florida.wade.sentenced/ |
(WIRED) -- Apple's loose-lipped overseas partners are exchanging whispers about the next-generation iPad, claiming it will come in three different versions, one of which would work with Verizon's network. The iPad 2 will support three different wireless configurations: UMTS, CDMA and Wi-Fi only, according to "industry... | Next generation iPad could come in three different versions .
Currently 3G iPad ships with a MicroSIM card slot, which is only used on AT&T .
If Verizon gets iPhone and iPad, it would greatly expand Apple's potential market . | 004636d2b06ffc786148189e4d8e5e950bd46e8f | tech | 2011 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20110416102824id_/http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/12/29/verizon.ipad.wired/index.html |
More than 70 members of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram have been killed during a Nigerian military operation in the northeastern state of Borno, an Army spokesman told CNN on Friday. The military "remains on the offensive," according to Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who said the operation started Thursday and c... | The military kills more than 70 Boko Haram members in an operation in Borno state .
They also fend off an attack on a military checkpoint in Yobe state's capital .
21 suspected Boko Haram members die in fighting there .
Boko Haram seeks to impose a strict version of Sharia law across northeastern Nigeria . | 00464528a306e3c679fdaf61f60c42ba6f7db6ba | world | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140829123101id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/25/world/africa/nigeria-boko-haram/ |
A woman carried out a suicide bombing at a police station in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district Tuesday evening, killing one police officer and injuring another, officials said. The attack happened in the section of Turkey's largest city that is home to landmarks such as the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, and ... | Woman detonates bomb after saying she'd lost her wallet, Istanbul governor says .
Attacker's identity, motive not immediately known, governor says .
Attack happened at police station in popular tourism district . | 0046a356cc90e393be41135da101f83da40ee6a3 | world | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150622112221id_/http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/06/world/turkey-violence/ |
Why in the world would Scott Brown, a former half-term Senator from Mitt Romney's Massachusetts, put himself in the mix for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination? The real question is: Why not? When Brown told the Des Moines Register over the weekend that he was heading to the Iowa State Fair "to determine whethe... | There's a difference between running for president and "running" for president .
Scott Brown served part of one term in the Senate before losing his re-election bid .
There's almost no downside in a politician saying he's considering a presidential run .
Even some of his former advisers say they don't know what Brown i... | 004971d00a8b29b67597b2baad67e813dbbf4b66 | politics | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150701093259id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/politics/scott-brown-2016/ |
The former Rutgers University student convicted of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate was released from jail Tuesday after serving his sentence, a jail official said. Dharun Ravi, 20, was found guilty in May of invasion of privacy, witness tampering, hindering apprehension and bias intimidation. He left the Mi... | He was released early after time off for good behavior and work credit, jail official says .
Dharun Ravi is released after serving a jail sentence .
He was convicted in May on charges related to recording his gay roommate .
The roommate, Tyler Clementi, killed himself after learning of the recording . | 004b513bb2f93dca70386dad16c9fb5770ebdc49 | justice | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150601005204id_/http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/19/justice/new-jersey-dharun-ravi/index.html |
New York may be a paradise of Zagat-rated, Michelin-starred restaurants, but some of its best food can be found on the streets. Hundreds of mobile eateries hawking gourmet global cuisine occupy corners across the city, alongside traditional hotdog vendors and halal carts. King of Falafel & Shawarma . Halal carts slingi... | You don't have to sit down to get great food in New York .
Opened in 2006 in SoHo, a lone taco cart called Calexico has expanded into a mini-empire .
New Yorkers don't need to go to New England for a good lobster roll, thanks to Red Hook Lobster Pound .
Lines form early for Lumpia Shack's Philippines-inspired food . | 004b7045c61fab2a7189f8c09cae11ef1d4c5cfc | travel | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150702221451id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/03/travel/new-york-street-food/ |
What would we lose if we lost 220,000 postal jobs (120,000 proposed through layoffs, 100,000 through attrition), 3,700 post offices, 300 mail processing plants, or even the post office itself? With millions of jobs and businesses lost to the recent recession, these may seem like just more numbers, or more seemingly ine... | Philip Rubio says the U.S. Postal Service threatened by major cuts or even closure .
He says post office represents people, places we rely on; cuts will have huge effect in U.S.
He says it's a major employer, innovator and fulcrum of national communications system .
Rubio: Congress must assume responsibilty for finding... | 004cc1a4ecd2ce6327d67b801756847063e48c28 | opinion | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20141208132431id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2011/09/09/opinion/rubio-postal-service-matters |
The U.S. relationship with President Hosni Mubarak's Egypt is full of contradictions and tensions, according to recently published U.S. diplomatic cables, but is also underpinned by similar basic interests in a rough and unpredictable part of the world. A CNN analysis of secret and confidential cables published by Wiki... | A CNN analysis of secret cables published by WikiLeaks reveals U.S. frustration .
U.S. has concerns over economic reform, Mubarak's lack of succession planning .
Cables also reveal Washington sees Egypt as an important and -- until now -- stable ally . | 004d2253b243331ec330b4bc188f9289fc5730f6 | world | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130828185147id_/http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/28/egypt.wikileaks.cables/ |
No play can begin in a baseball game until the pitcher throws the ball. And no play can conclude until the umpire makes the call. "We're not just robots they send out there," umpire Tim McClelland (2nd from L) told author Bruce Weber. Yet these figures -- the man on the mound and the men who stand in judgment -- are va... | "As They See 'Em" is in-depth look at baseball umpires .
"The Complete Game," by Mets broadcaster Ron Darling, gets inside pitcher's head .
Two positions have similarities: necessary command, some disrespect . | 004e6e14b9498ae85e92cbb81adf76ac8b21f472 | showbiz | 2010 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20100419045312id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/05/04/weber.darling.baseball/index.html? |
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Monday banning federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Despite calls from religious leaders, faith-based groups will not be exempt. "Thanks to your passion and advocacy and the irrefutable rightness... | Executive order bars contractors covers LGBT employees; Religious groups not exempt .
It did not touch a previous order allowing religious groups to weigh faith in hiring decisions .
Opponents disappointed on decision involving religious groups . | 004e6e935ea530b0992a89fd1307f7f41f4a234d | politics | 2015 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20150213074643id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/21/politics/obama-lgbt-discrimination-executive-order/ |
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from the February issue of National Geographic magazine. You can read the full story here. (National Geographic) -- Miles from the main roads, in rural Africa, soccer balls bounce unevenly. Playing fields are arid, lush, weedy, sandy—any flattish space will do. Goalposts might be made ... | In rural Africa, there is love for soccer but sometimes a lack of resources .
Children often make their own soccer balls from rubbish and rope .
DIY soccer can bring joy to an entire village, said photographer Jessica Hilltout . | 004f0f8c694c4b546b29565a8993a555537ff561 | living | 2013 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20130625052904id_/http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/living/nat-geo-soccer-joy |
The International Olympic Committee has reinstated India, allowing its athletes to once again compete under their country's flag after a ban of more than a year. The reinstatement raises to 89 the number of countries and territories participating in the Sochi Games. "It is the first time in Olympic history that a suspe... | It's the first time a ban of a national committee has been lifted during an Olympics .
The IOC suspended India in 2012 over the election of a tainted official to a top post .
The Indian Olympic Association has now held new elections that the IOC has approved .
Indian athletes will now be able to walk behind the nationa... | 004fc12e7cd2505a013d96e816afae3f3ce5015d | world | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140903103206id_/http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/world/asia/sochi-olympics-india-reinstated/ |
(Mother Nature Network) -- Mother's Day poems come in all shapes and sizes. Many address the poet's memories of his mother. Others describe the poet's gratitude for his mother. Some are very short. Some are very long. Sometimes the mother-child relationship is complicated and the poet discusses the good times along wit... | Poets have long written about their mothers or to their mothers .
Robert Louis Stevenson: Poem tells mother to hear "The little feet along the floor"
Julia Kasdorf's poem tells how her mother taught her to comfort those in mourning .
Rudyard Kipling's poem said his mother would love him even if he were hanged . | 00504275ede73591d94a6c1f994fd4856610421c | living | 2010 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20100515022014id_/http://www.cnn.com:80/2010/LIVING/personal/05/07/mnn.mothers.day.poetry/ |
When Danish auteur Lars von Trier presented his gothic thriller, "Antichrist" at Cannes Film Festival last month, it was greeted with cat-calls, jeers and, at times, disbelieving laughter. Danish auteur Lars von Trier has been making films that shock, provoke and impress for over 40 years. Filmmakers are expected to gi... | Pornographic sex and visceral violence in "Antichrist" shocked early audiences .
Von Trier was accused of misogyny but claims to identify with the female character .
"Antichrist" stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as a bereaved couple .
Von Trier's "The Idiots" (1998) was first mainstream film to show non-simu... | 00512126d65bf2a36801e4ef37f28c86c29deb28 | showbiz | 2014 | cnn | http://web.archive.org/web/20140521031152id_/http://edition.cnn.com:80/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/04/antichrist.lars.von.trier/ |
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