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(cnn) the united states and japan started joint military exercises friday, the japanese defense ministry said, as tensions simmered on the korean peninsula about 10,500 us service members are taking part in the drills, officials said the 'keen sword' exercise will continue until december 10 on military sites in okin... | keen sword december 10 us | the 'keen sword' exercise will continue until december 10 . about 10,500 us service members are taking part in the drills |
(cnn) in juanga, india, a village of less than 3,000 inhabitants, the adults typically work as farmers on small plots of land earning less than $2 a day they live in extended families in two or three roomed bamboo thatched mud huts, surviving on rice and dahl unable to see the value of education, the parents typical... | oversteps girasole patriciate | no related information |
sydney, australia (cnn) qantas is considering legal action against engine maker rolls royce after one of the manufacturer's engines sparked a fire on a flight last month, the airline said thursday the federal court of australia granted the australian carrier an injunction thursday allowing it to pursue legal action ... | australian qantas rolls royce the rolls royce last month's | new: australian court grants qantas permission to pursue legal action . new: qantas says it has already started discussions with rolls royce . officials issue a safety recommendation about the rolls royce engine . the problem could have been a factor in last month's qantas fire |
washington (cnn) sen john mccain, the republican presidential candidate in 2008, took aim sunday at the field of contenders for the 2012 gop nomination, accusing them of 'isolationism' 'we cannot repeat the lessons of the 1930s, when the united states of america stood by while bad things happened in the world,' mcca... | mccain gadhafi the united states afghanistan gop 1930s reagan republican party | new: mccain: if gadhafi remains in power, he will try to harm the united states . new: the afghanistan campaign is succeeding, mccain tells gop contenders . mccain: 'we cannot repeat the lessons of the 1930s'. reagan would say this is not his republican party, mccain contends |
washington (cnn) rep mike rogers, a former fbi agent and vocal critic of the obama administration's dealing with terrorists, will head the house intelligence committee when republicans take control of the house next year incoming house speaker john boehner announced wednesday his choice of the michigan republica... | mike rogers fbi the house intelligence committee next year michigan republican obama rogers guantanamo cuba | rep mike rogers, former fbi agent, will head the house intelligence committee next year . michigan republican has been a vocal opponent of obama administration's terror policies . rogers doesn't think guantanamo bay detention facility in cuba should be closed |
(cnn) christopher lloyd picked through the charred remnants of his montecito, california, home monday morning, resigning himself to the fact it cannot be rebuilt the 'back to the future' and 'taxi' star showed abc's 'good morning america' what remained of his $11 million home in the exclusive celebrity neighborhood ... | christopher lloyd's california | christopher lloyd's home one of dozens destroyed by california wildfires . lloyd: 'rebuilding would be it's too much you can't rebuild that'. lloyd: having home destroyed brings 'different awareness' than watching on tv |
(cnn) there is one thing people seem to like about flying: southwest in a new survey from zagat, southwest airlines swept several satisfaction categories, including best value among domestic airlines for the third year in a row the airline also got nods for best luggage policy, best check in experience, best consume... | southwest zagat singapore airlines laguardia | southwest swept several customer satisfaction categories in a zagat survey . southwest is one of the few airlines that allows customers to check their bags for free . singapore airlines was the top rated international airline for both premium and economy seating . for the forth year in a row, laguardia was voted the wo... |
ciudad juarez, mexico (cnn) in one of mexico's most violent cities, it was a startling scene: clinics closed, with no doctors to treat patients doctors in ciudad juarez, mexico, said monday that they would stop working for 24 hours to demand that the government do more to deal with the violence ravaging their city '... | ciudad juarez el paso texas | doctors say they are increasingly the victims of violence . one says they want to deny treatment to criminals . a group demands that more federal agents investigate unsolved crimes . the protest occurs in ciudad juarez, across the border from el paso, texas |
(cnn) the south korean navy began live fire exercises on the seas surrounding the korean peninsula monday in the midst of bristling tensions with the north, south korean state media reported the military exercises are taking place in the waters off all three coasts of the korean peninsula, officials at the south's j... | friday korean south korean south korea's north korea | the exercises are scheduled to last until friday . tensions on the korean peninsula are high after an attack on a south korean island . south korea's president says north korea will pay 'a dear price' for future provocations |
london, england (cnn) britain's second largest airport was closed for a second day thursday because of unseasonal wintry weather that was also affecting the european continent all flights into and out of london's gatwick airport were canceled until 6 am (1 am et) friday, the airport said it asked passengers to check... | edinburgh airport eurostar gatwick airport | new: forecasters issue severe weather warnings . new: edinburgh airport is closed and eurostar experiences delays . all flights are canceled at gatwick airport . snow also snarls roadway, rail traffic |
(cnn) after a rough night spent wrapped in tablecloths and dozing on floors, stranded showboat passengers walked to safety sunday from their disabled vessel via a 30 foot plank, a spokeswoman for the company that owns the boat said by noon sunday, all 567 passengers and 76 crew members had been escorted off the show... | 30 foot table rock lake gusty | new: all 576 passengers are now off the boat, having left via a 30 foot plank . new: investigators are probing the paddle wheel as a possible cause . the boat ran aground in a remote area of table rock lake on saturday afternoon . gusty winds and freezing temperatures made the disembarking process difficult |
(cnn) the us army corps of engineers offered support monday to state and local officials in western washington battling fast moving floodwaters and rising rivers six teams, including 39 flood fighters, were sent to the olympic peninsula and the chehalis, nooksack, skagit, snohomish and puyallup river basins to monit... | us army corps of engineers washington monday | new: us army corps of engineers sends six flood flight teams to washington state . damage assessments begin monday on flooded homes, an official says . flooding reported on several rivers, with some still rising . nine counties report flooding, washington state says |
(cnn) police said thursday that evidence and a surviving victim tie a man killed while trying to rob an illinois tanning salon to a two state shooting spree earlier this year gary amaya, 48, was killed saturday after he walked into la tan salon in orland park, illinois, brandishing a 38 colt revolver a customer, jas... | gary amaya saturday illinois amaya | gary amaya was shot and killed saturday while trying to rob an illinois tanning salon . police say the gun amaya used matches that in two shootings . in those, a gunman killed one and wounded three near the illinois indiana line . that gunman reportedly asked his victims about bees; police say amaya tended bees |
(cnn) notes left behind by film director tony scott did not provide a motive for why he may have taken a suicidal plunge sunday, a los angeles county coroner's spokesman said friday the notes also did not mention any illnesses, diseases or other health issues, deputy chief coroner ed winter said he would not provide... | incl isaria nidify | no related information |
(cnn) police have ratcheted up charges against the girlfriend of an alabama father, days after searchers found fragmented remains they say are of the second of the man's young children, tossed along the side of a remote highway mobile, alabama, police spokesman christopher levy said monday that heather keaton would ... | john deblase heather keaton alabama | new: john deblase maintains his innocence in his children's deaths, his lawyer says . heather keaton is being charged monday with two counts of abuse of a corpse . alabama police say they believe the remains of both children have been found . the case opened in november, though the children hadn't been seen for months |
austin, texas (cnn) historically, the tech industry has not been especially hospitable to women in 2009, the us department of labor released a list of the 20 leading occupations of employed women none of them was in the technical field that same year, only 3% of the ceos of fortune 500 companies were women, accordin... | sxsw less than 12% us | conversations at sxsw focus on issues women face as minorities in workplace . less than 12% of (science and tech) jobs in us filled by women, nonprofit director says . women at sxsw hope these discussions could close the gender gap in the industry |
(cnn) a $5 million prize for excellence in african leadership was awarded to former cape verde president pedro verona pires in london on monday pires was recognized for helping transform the government and economy of cape verde, according to the mo ibrahim prize committee 'the prize committee has been greatly impres... | sovietdom babite mycetogenic | no related information |
haryana, india (cnn) in a nation of more than a billion people and millions of unresolved court cases, how do you take care of the backlog? long distances over questionable roads stop many indians from making it into courtrooms solution: you take the courts to the people a bell rings a bailiff yells out the name of ... | pelelith geryon declensionally | no related information |
washington (cnn) president bush's top adviser on homeland security is stepping down after 4½ years on the job, the white house said monday fran townsend served more than four years as homeland security adviser homeland security adviser fran townsend turned in her letter of resignation to president bush on november 6... | fran townsend townsend | fran townsend says she'll look for opportunities in the private sector . townsend has worked in government and law enforcement for 25 years . townsend will be on a panel searching for a replacement |
new york (cnn) chiquita brands international faces a $786 billion lawsuit filed wednesday on behalf of nearly 400 colombian families who say the company should be held responsible for the 'torture and murder' of their loved ones with a map of alleged victims, jonathan reiter makes his case wednesday at a new york ne... | $786 billion $20 million us | attorney: clients allege terrorism, war crimes, wrongful death, seek $786 billion . plaintiffs want $20 million in damages for each of 393 victims named in suit . chiquita admits paying a group that the us labeled a terrorist organization . company 'categorically denies' attorneys' allegations, says it will fight them |
(cnn) before dying, 2 year old riley ann sawyers was beaten with belts, picked up by her hair, thrown across the room and held under water, according to an affidavit from the galveston county sheriff's office police believe 2 year old riley ann sawyers is 'baby grace' the affidavit says the girl's mother, kimberly d... | riley ann sawyers riley ann's | police affidavit quotes mother's statement about beating that killed girl . mother's husband threw riley ann sawyers across room, affidavit says . husband later attempted suicide, mother told police . riley ann's mother and her husband arrested after a tip led to search |
(cnn) although the bombs went off miles from her house, the young woman in damascus still felt them in her gut boom! her windows rattled as she ran to her computer 'what happened?!?!?!?' she typed furiously into skype, sending the message to her friends what alexia jade heard was the thunderous clap of two car bombs... | intermalar jugging contection | no related information |
washington (cnn) new york mayor michael bloomberg, an independent, joins several leading democrats, republicans and other independent political leaders in the launch of a new group that hopes to find non partisan solutions to some of the nation's problems and to impact the next congressional session the organization... | perisplanchnitis proxically linje | no related information |
(cnn) a group of chilean miners who spent 69 days trapped underground have traveled to britain as the guests of football team manchester united a collapse at the san esteban mine in chile on august 5 left 33 men stranded, but they were rescued amid jubilant scenes as the world's media watched in october twenty three... | manchester united chilean 69 days san esteban chile britain october | manchester united have welcomed 23 of the rescued chilean miners to the club . the men spent 69 days trapped underground at the san esteban mine in chile . they were invited by the club to britain in october after emerging from their ordeal |
eminem got sober, arcade fire got spooked, katy perry flashed her hits and kanye sang one for jerk offs everywhere (rollingstonecom) 5 arcade fire, 'we used to wait' 'now our lives are changing fast,' sings win butler, spooked and sleepless but his empathetic croon and his band's orchestral rock wallop make h... | arcade fire's we used to wait sade 'soldier of love kayne west's runaway rolling stone | arcade fire's 'we used to wait' makes high anxiety sound almost sublime . sade sings about emotional devastation in 'soldier of love'. kayne west's 'runaway' was named the number one single of the year by rolling stone |
(cnn) a california county sheriff said on friday that a couple executed what he called a 'cold, calculating plan' to lure a mother to their home, strangle her, then run off with her baby merced county sheriff's deputies wednesday arrested teresa ceja robles, 33, and her husband, jose augustine velarde, 37, and charg... | california merced county's 2 month old | new: a california sheriff says a couple schemed to kill a mother and steal her baby . merced county's sheriff said the victim was strangled to death, dumped, burned . police say they're working to determine whether the couple tried to sell a baby . the victim's 2 month old son was found alive and reunited with his fami... |
(cnn) the man who says he was behind the manti te'o girlfriend hoax claims he was in love with the notre dame linebacker, but the athlete knew nothing about the ruse 'he had no idea,' said 22 year old ronaiah tuiasosopo in the first segment of a two part interview that aired thursday on 'dr phil' the second part is ... | hechsherim wakener massier | no related information |
port au prince, haiti (cnn) former alaska gov sarah palin was in haiti on sunday, urging the us government and other americans to do more to help the earthquake ravaged country 'not to get political, but if some of the politicians would come here and see the conditions perhaps they would see the need for, say, a mil... | palin port au prince samaritan haiti | palin holds a brief press conference outside port au prince . she declines to take questions from reporters . palin is traveling with samaritan's purse evangelical aid organization . the visit comes as haiti is fighting a massive cholera outbreak |
(cnn) still concerned about some faceless government bureaucrat peeking at your e mails and other online communications? well, you've got a new champion: microsoft the computing giant has announced a set of new privacy features, in a post that specifically calls out 'government snooping' as the reason responding to ... | microsoft yahoo google nsa | microsoft rolls out new encryption protections for customers' data . blog post cited the possibility of 'government snooping'. yahoo and google have made similar moves to block nsa from accessing info . encryption makes intercepted messages harder to understand |
(cnn) if recent trends are any indication, cartoon self caricatures are becoming more popular than the clichéd photo in the mirror headshot cartoon avatars, both classic and new, are hot right now the cartoon spawning series 'mad men' is back the critically and commercially successful amc show about 1960s ad execs h... | amc 'mad men mad men yourself the wall street journal don draper facebook | the amc show 'mad men' has revived its popular 'mad men yourself' campaign . the wall street journal created an iconic 'hedcut' of character don draper . many facebook profiles have been taken over by caricatures . one artist is enabling the portrait trend by using iphone 4 video chats to create user avatars |
london, england (cnn) news of britain's next royal wedding was on the front page of every british paper wednesday, but so were mentions of the late princess diana the day after prince william announced he had proposed to his longtime girlfriend, kate middleton, tabloids carried full page pictures of the couple and b... | british prince william diana | the engagement news is on the front page of every british newspaper . many also mention that prince william proposed with diana's ring . royal author says the comparisons 'will never go away' |
washington (cnn) leaders around the world tuesday mourned the death of the diplomat who spearheaded the end of the bosnian war on the 15th anniversary of the peace deal he helped design richard c holbrooke, 69, died monday after doctors performed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta he most recently served as the o... | obama holbrooke us albright balkans vietnam afghanistan | president obama calls holbrooke a true giant of us foreign policy . albright praises his 'imagination, dedication and forcefulness'. holbrooke was known as the 'chief architect' of the accords that ended the war in the balkans . the diplomat ruffled feathers in a career that ranged from vietnam to afghanistan |
london (cnn) it's confirmed: monty python isn't quite dead yet unlike the norwegian blue parrot featured in a famous sketch the british comedy troupe will perform live at london's o2 arena on july 1 the five surviving stars' first show on stage together since appearing at the hollywood bowl in september 1980, ... | london john cleese monty python | surviving monty python stars to reunite for a show in london next july . tickets will go on sale on monday, priced from â£27 . john cleese says show will have some new material, but many old bits . monty python troups produced 45 tv episodes and five feature films |
(cnn) president obama said that police in cambridge, massachusetts, 'acted stupidly' in arresting a prominent black harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man's home harvard university professor henry louis gates jr talks wednesday about his ordeal with cambridge police 'i don't know, not having be... | obama cambridge harvard henry louis gates jr | new: obama: incident shows 'how race remains a factor in this society'. new: mayor says: 'this can't happen again in cambridge'. harvard's henry louis gates jr says he intends to keep the issue alive . arresting officer: 'it is for certain that [i] will not be apologizing' |
(cnn) stargazers crossed their fingers thursday as nasa attempted to revive the planet hunting kepler probe, idled since a piece of critical equipment gave out in orbit two months ago kepler has been sidelined since mid may, when a reaction wheel that helps aim the spacecraft's telescope failed controllers launched ... | nasa kepler | new: first round of tests yields mixed but 'interesting' results, nasa says . kepler has identified 134 planets beyond our solar system . space telescope has been idled since a key control failed in may . nasa hopes to get the probe back into operation in the coming weeks |
(cnn) when it comes to rebooting marvel's tale of an adolescent web crawler, sony seems more than happy to sing the same old song with today's release of 'the amazing spider man' only 10 years have passed since tobey maguire started swinging through the urban jungle in 'spider man,' and now andrew garfield is steppi... | jejunitis latosol bub | no related information |
(cnn) a us border patrol agent believed killed in a friendly fire shooting near the arizona mexico border died of a gunshot wound to the head, an autopsy report revealed the report released wednesday by the pima county medical examiner's office determined nicholas j ivie, 30, of provo, utah, died from what was descr... | revoiced colloquially autohypnotic | no related information |
(cnn) the bodies of a man and a girl were found inside a vehicle belonging to a suspect in an amber alert case, authorities said authorities believe 2 year old madeline samaan fay was abducted by her father, mourad 'moni' samaan an amber alert was issued friday for madeline, who was last seen a week ago in sacrament... | mourad moni' samaan samaan | new: a sheriff's spokesman says 'when you end up with cases like this, it's tough'. authorities are not yet identifying the bodies in the vehicle . the vehicle belongs to mourad 'moni' samaan . samaan has been suspected of abducting his 2 year old daughter |
london, england (cnn) a chronology of bombings and attempted bomb attacks in the mainland uk since the 1970s: police close off streets around haymarket, in london's busy theater district june 29, 2007: police defuse a bomb consisting of 200 liters of fuel, gas cylinders and nails found in an abandoned car in haymar... | rhodic lymphad dusks | no related information |
(ewcom) the following is a round up of some of the latest casting news: • jennifer lawrence is attached to play one half of a most unusual union in 'ends of the earth,' a biopic about lydie marland and her uncle/adoptive father/husband, oil magnate and eventual governor of oklahoma ernest marland yes, you read that... | jennifer lawrence ends of the earth patrick st esprit the hunger games: catching fire' mickey rourke gerard butler motor city | jennifer lawrence is attached to play one half of an unusual union in 'ends of the earth'. patrick st esprit will join 'the hunger games: catching fire' as romulus thread . mickey rourke is negotiating to star opposite gerard butler in 'motor city' |
(cnn) england's lee westwood showed no signs of buckling under the pressure of his new status as golf's world number one, hitting a round of 70 to sit one shot behind leader francesco molinari after day two of the hsbc champions challenge in shanghai, china the italian led the field on friday, after a two round scor... | unexcreted auditorship anecdotically | no related information |
(cnn) on my last day on a visit to beirut, lebanon, i participated in a long conversation with a hamas political leader i agreed that the conversation would be off the record, but without direct quotation, i can summarize what was said the peace process between israel and the palestinian authority is dead, in the vi... | david frum hamas frum israel mideast palestinians | david frum: hamas political leader expects peace process to fail . frum says hamas expects next conflict with israel will attract broader support . hamas' policy is self defeating, won't change mideast reality, says frum . he says palestinians should recognize israel, make best deal they can |
(cnn) chinese president hu jintao has topped the list of forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful people, besting us president barack obama who slipped to the second spot the magazine said it used four criteria to define power whether the person has influence over a lot of people; whether they have sig... | hu osama bin laden | the magazine uses four criteria to define power . hu presides over one fifth of the world's population . osama bin laden also makes the list |
(cnn) the liberian president dismissed all but one of her cabinet ministers this week in a move she says will help give her administration a fresh start president ellen johnson sirleaf announced thursday that she has asked her cabinet to 'take administrative leave effective immediately' she made the announcement dur... | ellen johnson sirleaf johnson sirleaf africa | president ellen johnson sirleaf appoints deputies in their places . it provides an opportunity to start with a fresh slate, she says . she makes the announcement at an emergency meeting . johnson sirleaf is currently the only elected female head of state in africa |
(cnn) courthouses and other government buildings in 30 tennessee counties received bomb threats tuesday, a state official said, making it the fifth state this month to see a similar round of false alarms no explosive devices had been found in any of the counties where threats were called in, said dalya qualls, a spo... | sled othelcosis screeches | no related information |
(cnn) ecuadorian president rafael correa on saturday defended his country's decision to grant wikileaks' founder julian assange asylum, slamming great britain's behavior toward ecuador as 'intolerable' and 'unacceptable' assange is currently holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london ecuador offered him asylum... | ecuadorian rafael correa great britain's latin america julian assange the ecuadorian embassy london ecuador assange uk | ecuadorian president rafael correa says great britain's behavior is 'unacceptable'. 'they don't realize latin america is free and sovereign,' he says . julian assange has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london since june . ecuador granted asylum to assange, but the uk does not recognize it |
(cnn) david frum's recent op ed on cnncom exemplifies why americans are becoming deaf to the critics of pot legalization their hyperbolic claims about the dangers of pot along with the realistic ones are being dismissed by a justifiably cynical public anti marijuana propaganda isn't stopping the march toward n... | newscasting mousees knurling | no related information |
baghdad, iraq (cnn) iraq has signed its first major oil deal with a foreign company since the fall of saddam hussein's regime, a spokesman for the iraqi oil ministry said saturday iraq's oil fields currently produce about 25 million barrels a day it was the first time in more than 35 years that iraq has allowed fore... | iraq $3 billion chinese saddam hussein china national petroleum corporation wasit province 125,000 barrels | iraq signs $3 billion oil deal with chinese national oil company . deal is first major contract with foreign company since fall of saddam hussein . china national petroleum corporation to develop oil field in southern wasit province . oil field expected to produce 125,000 barrels a day within three years |
(cnn) with her doe eyes, razor sharp cheek bones, flowing jet black locks and the most talked about rump in the business, it's no wonder she's on the cover of arguably the world's most prestigious fashion magazine but in an unusual twist, the beguiling female bearing all on the front of this month's vogue isn't a mo... | vogue australia first black caviar almost $7m | vogue australia features horse on front cover for first time . champion thoroughbred black caviar arguably greatest race horse . winning streak and beautiful physique capture nation's imagination . photoshoot in secret location to protect horse worth almost $7m |
(timecom) with tuesday's unveiling of the ipad mini and a fourth generation full sized ipad, this has been a major week for the ipad on friday, windows 8 went on sale — making it an even bigger week for windows pcs but this newsiest of tech news weeks also turns out to be a reasonably significant one for the mac muc... | apple phil schiller mac schiller | apple's phil schiller talks about new enhancements to the mac computer line . rather than adding new features, apple has whittled the mac down to its essence . schiller: 'old technologies are holding us back they're anchors on where we want to go' |
(cnn) a beijing court has sentenced a wheelchair bound man, who set off a homemade explosive inside beijing capital international airport in july, to six years in prison ji zhongxing, 34, from shandong province, was found guilty of setting off an explosive device in a public place, according to a statement released ... | beijing six years court | beijing court has sentenced a wheelchair bound man to six years in prison . he was found guilty of setting off an explosive device in a public place . man claimed he had been paralyzed after being beaten by security guards . court said he was unsatisfied with how he had been treated by authorities |
new york (cnn) topps meat co on saturday expanded a recall of ground beef from about 300,000 pounds to 217 million pounds, one of the largest meat recalls in us history the recalled products are all ground beef patties with various brand names in a statement, the elizabeth, new jersey, company said the hamburger pa... | nonsubstantival pedunculated adlerian | no related information |
(cnn) it's all tied up in texas sens hillary clinton and barack obama are running a tight race in texas a new cnn/opinion research corp poll suggests the battle for the democratic presidential nomination between sens hillary clinton of new york and barack obama of illinois is a statistical dead heat in texas, which ... | texas john mccain republican barack obama hillary clinton | texas voters go to the polls march 4 . sen john mccain is the clear front runner on the republican side . sen barack obama is on an eight state winning streak . some strategists see texas as a must win state for sen hillary clinton |
(cnn) the message sent by the military council that rules egypt was simple: 'don't mess with egypt's armed forces' the message received by the activists who flooded tahrir square 18 months ago: 'egypt's revolution, which began with a bang, is ending with a whimper' with several decrees, the supreme council of the ar... | messmen chagga sones | no related information |
tokyo (cnn) prime minister yoshihiko noda of japan dissolved the lower house of the country's parliament on friday, setting the stage for a general election next month that is expected to bring losses to his party the decision, made under pressure from the main opposition liberal democrat party (ldp), is likely to p... | japan noda | the dissolution of parliament follows a deal between japan's two main political parties . the move will result in general elections next month . the governing party of prime minister noda is expected to lose seats in the election . but the main opposition party may also struggle to form an outright majority |
(cnn) mangled metal, puffs of smoke, chunks of concrete, blood and a crowd of people walking around dazed, shocked and crying that was the scene on a damascus street friday after a car bomb exploded and killed several people some of the dead were reported to be children the blast seemed to mock the truce that the sy... | damascus syrian | a car bomb explodes in damascus, killing children, rebels say . syrian army forces say they were attacked by rebels . the army is responding by firing back, state tv reports . the cease fire is supposed to span the four day eid al adha holiday |
(cnn) 'rethinking grid dependence in new climate reality' that was my sole tweet in the aftermath of sandy, sent after four long nights with my wife and daughter in our cold, dark living room, cut off from the infrastructure and the people that normally keep us going indeed, in a reality where charging a cell ... | douglas rushkoff sandy rushkoff | douglas rushkoff: sandy's aftermath points up something about election issues . 'do i depend on others, or go it alone?' is false dichotomy, he says . he says those needing help weren't lazy; those providing it did it from collective resources . rushkoff: personal success needs concern for collective welfare |
toulouse, france (cnn) the suspect in a deadly shooting spree at a jewish school in france knows he is being hunted and might carry out another attack, paris chief prosecutor francois molins warned tuesday he said the killer is 'very determined' and has committed premeditated murders, targeting victims based on thei... | 5 foot 9 francois molins interior claude gueant neo nazi jewish | witnesses describe the gunman as slim, 5 foot 9, prosecutor francois molins says . all the victims were shot in the head from point blank range, the prosecutor says . interior minister claude gueant says authorities looking at possible neo nazi involvement . the gunman who killed 4 at a jewish school was wearing a came... |
sydney, australia (cnn) a design issue rather than poor maintenance is likely to blame for the mid flight failure of a qantas airliner's engine, the ceo of the australian carrier said friday one of the four engines on the qantas airbus a380 shut down six minutes after takeoff thursday from singapore's changi airport... | lawned orthopaedist misguggle | no related information |
washington (cnn) president barack obama and his opponent former massachusetts gov mitt romney have touted their records of hiring women while in office—but both candidates have a mixed record on equal hiring and closing the gender pay gap under the obama administration, the median salary for female federal employees... | epistome storaxes douzainier | no related information |
(cnn) 'we all dream of a team of carraghers' is a tribute to liverpool fc's former player and cult hero, jamie carragher, which dares to imagine a first 11 made up entirely of the club's legendary defender it seems italy's mario balotelli's mind is set on something else the striker posted a photo on his facebook pag... | mario balotelli panini striker facebook italy | mario balotelli has a little fun with his panini sticker album . striker's self regarding facebook picture shows a full italy squad made up of his photos |
(cnn) the steep, picturesque canyons that wind through colorado's northern front range have been a draw for tourists, day trippers and homebuyers for more than a century but when record setting rainfall began to hit last week, those picturesque canyons became funnels that poured hundreds of tons of water per second ... | boulder county boulder nebraska south platte | boulder county says only 4 still unaccounted for . boulder saw nearly half its annual rainfall in a single day . 'it all happened fairly quickly,' a scientist says . nebraska warily watches the rising south platte |
(cnn) the first time an assassin's bullet tried to find her, maria santos gorrostieta escaped, but her husband was killed that was in 2009, when she was mayor of tiquicheo, a small town in the mexican state of michoacan, which has seen some of the most brutal drug related violence president elect: more than drugs de... | maria santos gorrostieta last week tiquicheo | maria santos gorrostieta was fearless in the face of assassination attempts . she was hailed for her bravery, but was found dead last week . a report says the local drug trade called the shots in her town of tiquicheo . investigators aren't ruling out any possible motives political, personal or criminal |
joliet, illinois (cnn) the trial of former chicago area police sgt drew peterson, accused of killing his ex wife, focused wednesday on an incident in which he allegedly had threatened to kill her with a knife defense attorneys sought to discredit kathleen savio's account of the july 2002 incident, in which she had s... | editorializer introductions clarkeites | no related information |
(cnn) throughout history, the greatest artists have relied on their muses to inspire, enchant and satisfy them pablo picasso immortalized mistress dora maar in his 1937 painting weeping woman, andy warhol catapulted model edie sedgwick to 'it girl' status in his 1960s avant garde films, while leonardo da vinci made ... | picasso dora maar andy warhol's edie sedgwick frankel 14th ascot's champions stakes | from picasso's dora maar to andy warhol's edie sedgwick, muses inspire great artists . but muses aren't always beautiful women sometimes they're a horse . champion thoroughbred frankel inspires poem and painting ahead of last race . arguably world's greatest race horse secured 14th win at ascot's champions stakes |
(cnn) with construction cranes and steel skyscrapers dominating the skyline of luanda, the capital of angola, it is hard to overlook how far the southwestern african country has come since the end of its brutal civil war in 2002 over the last decade, the oil rich nation has emerged from the wreckage of a 27 year vic... | angola jose eduardo dos santos | angola is heading to the polls friday for its second peacetime elections . a new generation of post war youth will vote for the first time . incumbent president jose eduardo dos santos is expected to win . the oil rich country's economy is booming but inequality remains |
(cnn) at least 200 people were evacuated from their homes, including 84 residents of an apartment building for the elderly, after a tanker truck carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline erupted early wednesday in a northern boston suburb firefighters battle a blaze wednesday north of boston after a tanker overturned carry... | unossifying diplomat concelebrated | no related information |
(cnn) despite the obvious claims of younger rivals cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi, few can really argue with the 96 football journalists who voted ricardo izecson dos santos leite as the 2007 world footballer of the year brazilian genius kaka fully deserves winning the 2007 world footballer of the year award the... | kaka world player of the year first brazilian cristiano ronaldo lionel messi 25 year old ac milan brazil | kaka deservedly named world player of the year for the first time in his career . the brazilian beats cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi in the journalists' vote . the 25 year old averages one goal in three games for both ac milan and brazil |
paris, france (cnn) interpol on monday took the unprecendented step of making a global appeal for help to identify a man from digitally reconstructed photos taken from the internet that it said showed him sexually abusing underage boys this moving image shows how police used software to unscramble the image (source:... | vietnam cambodia | man posted photos on the internet of himself sexually abusing underage boys . computer experts managed to undo digital masking to reveal the man . man abused 12 boys in vietnam and cambodia |
(cnn) dozens of defense department personnel are actively engaged in fighting the wildfires raging in southern california, pentagon officials said tuesday, and thousands more national guard and active duty military personnel are available to help the rice fire, east of camp pendleton, caused the evacuation of the fa... | camp pendleton navy marine corps san diego | new: fires at camp pendleton cause evacuation of 3,000 marines . military lending direct and indirect assistance to firefighting efforts . as firefighting efforts go on, base officials poised to evacuate . navy and marine corps have more than 20 facilities in san diego area |
(cnn) tom cruise expounds on his beliefs in scientology in a 2004 video that made its way onto the internet this week tom cruise appears with his wife, katie holmes, at a movie premiere earlier this month 'i think it's a privilege to call yourself a scientologist, and it's something you have to earn,' cruise says at... | cruise | scientology membership a privilege that's earned, cruise says . 2004 video part of ceremony honoring cruise for humanitarian work . scientology defined as 'study of the truth' |
(cnn) the swedish security police have launched an investigation into 'unlawful intelligence activities' conducted by the us embassy in stockholm, according to a statement released saturday the investigation was opened one day after the us embassy there told authorities its employees had been conducting surveillance... | integrand mountie schemed | no related information |
new york (cnn) rapper ja rule will face two years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon on monday, according to a manhattan district attorney statement the 34 year old hip hop star, whose real name is jeff atkins, faced a single second degree weapons charge after police found a... | two years 34 year old second grammy | ja rule will face two years in prison after pleading guilty to gun charges . 34 year old faced one second degree weapons charge . former grammy nominee will be registered as a gun offender |
(cnn) it's been more than a year since nba legend shaquille o'neal retired from the court, and he says he doesn't miss it the basketball champ has his eye on a new target: diabetes 'it's alarming,' says o'neal 'we need to come together to try to help prevent the disease and stay healthy' nearly 26 million americans ... | herpetic pseudomoral stylography | no related information |
ashkelon, israel (cnn) the rockets come mostly in the morning, the men say, but many of the people of the town of ashkelon are always afraid 'we can't go on like this,' mayor benny vaknin said 'we have 131,000 people here and 26,000 children they are constantly under threat' rafel moshe, who was playing backgammon a... | israeli 9 miles gaza gazans the morning | israeli town 9 miles from gaza has had 20 rockets aimed at it . resident: gazans don't want peace . rocket attacks occur more often in the morning, men at pizza shop say |
(cnn) mother earth, it's shower time the planet won't be awash in water early saturday, but rather meteors it's part of an annual astronomical event known as the leonid meteor shower, falling in mid november as the earth passes through debris from comet tempel tuttle 'we're predicting a normal year of 15 to 20 meteo... | leonid every year mid november earth nasa 20 meteors per hour this year | the leonid meteor shower occurs every year in mid november . it happens as the earth passes a comet's debris that's now in its orbital path . a nasa expert predicts 15 to 20 meteors per hour this year |
(cnn) us health officials expressed concern friday that a swine flu virus that has infected eight people in the united states matches samples of a virus that has killed at least 68 people in mexico swine flu is usually diagnosed only in pigs or people in regular contact with them us health experts also are concerned... | joyridden logs schlock | no related information |
(cnn) 'jamaica, we have a bobsled team,' cried the hollywood film that immortalized an unlikely quartet of winter olympians who became the story of the 1988 games the novelty of four jamaicans swapping their tropical caribbean homeland for the freezing slopes of canada to become the first team from their country to ... | unmaneuvered pallanesthesia undemocratise | no related information |
(cnn) a leading anti racism group has applauded uefa's decision to appeal against sanctions handed out to the serbian football association for 'improper conduct' following allegations of racist chanting the european governing body has confirmed it will appeal against all punishments following the under 21 qualifying... | uefa serbia 105,000 piara powar fare | uefa has appealed against decision of its own disciplinary body . serbia was ordered to pay $105,000 after being found guilty of 'improper conduct'. 'uefa's decision to appeal is very welcome,' says piara powar, executive director of fare |
kabul, afghanistan (cnn) australia's new prime minister assured afghan president hamid karzai on saturday that his country's troops intend to be in afghanistan 'for the long haul' french president nicolas sarkozy, left, shakes hands with afghan president hamid karzai in kabul kevin rudd and french president nicolas ... | nonpedagogical liknon poloists | no related information |
(cnn) michael vick turned himself in to authorities on monday to get a head start on serving his sentence for running a dogfighting ring, the us marshals service said michael vick leaves court in richmond, virginia, in august after pleading guilty to dogfighting charges the atlanta falcons quarterback is scheduled t... | vick michael vick atlanta falcons | new: vick's attorney says early surrender shows vick accepts responsibility . sentencing set for december 10 on dogfighting charges against michael vick . atlanta falcons quarterback pleaded guilty in august . monday, he surrendered to begin whatever sentence he gets on december 10 |
(cnn student news) april 16, 2010 download pdf maps related to today's show: • blacksburg, virginia • iceland • kyrgyzstan transcript this is a rush transcript this copy may not be in its final form and may be updated carl azuz, cnn student news anchor: some fast facts to get us going today: i'm carl azuz this ... | kiers trigraphic palminervate | no related information |
(cnn) football should be used to teach young people moral lessons, pope benedict xvi said during an audience with representatives from the italian football league and lower division clubs pope benedict xvi is presented with a football by ancona club officials italian football has been tarnished in recent seasons by ... | pope solidarity vatican ancona german bayern munich | pope says football can teach values of 'honesty, solidarity and fraternity'. sport should be used as a vehicle of education for young people, he says . vatican has endorsed lower league club ancona's adoption of ethical code . german born pope is reputed to be a bayern munich fan |
(cnn) pakistan has released nine members of the taliban from prison in hopes they will help negotiate peace in afghanistan, a senior afghan peace negotiator said they are to receive safe passage back to afghanistan, salahuddin rabbani, chairman of afghanistan high peace council, told reporters in kabul saturday a se... | annelidous iridomotor imperfects | no related information |
washington (cnn) the senate approved a controversial $858 billion tax cut package wednesday, overwhelmingly voting to extend the bush era tax reductions despite a series of objections from both the left and the right the measure passed 81 19 to advance to the house of representatives, which will take it up on thursd... | the house rules committee house senate $858 billion bush | new: the house rules committee will allow a vote on changing the measure . the house will consider the tax cut package thursday . the senate passes the $858 billion tax cut package . lower bush era tax rates are set to expire at the end of the year |
(cnn) two top croatian commanders previously convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the balkan wars were acquitted friday the international criminal court for the former yugoslavia ordered the release of ante gotovina and mladen markac and reversed all of their convictions read more: genocide cou... | croatia krajina ante gotovina mladen markac serbia | the case stems from the fighting in croatia's krajina region . ante gotovina commanded a military district; mladen markac headed a police unit . serbia's president calls the action 'a political decision and not a legal ruling' |
washington (cnn) a north carolina man was arrested wednesday and accused of threatening to kill president barack obama in a series of twitter messages, including one saying, 'the secret service is gonna be defenseless once i aim the assault rifle at barack's forehead' donte jamar sims, 21, had an initial court appea... | donte jamar sims charlotte democratic sims | donte jamar sims lives in charlotte, site of democratic convention . officials say sims sent five tweets threatening to kill the president . 'sims asserted that he was high on marijuana when he made the threats,' affidavit says |
washington (cnn) at one time, susan rice seemed to be on a trajectory that would take her to the secretary of state's office in president barack obama's second term but that trajectory changed thursday when the us ambassador to the united nations withdrew her name from consideration to succeed current secretary of s... | isoln autoaspiration ondule | no related information |
islamabad, pakistan (cnn) the pakistan taliban said wednesday it will not extend a cease fire with the pakistani government, six days after a weeks long pause in hostilities officially ended in a statement released to the news media, the tehrik e taliban pakistan, or ttp, alleged the pakistani government hadn't resp... | pakistani taliban | the cease fire was agreed upon march 1 and officially was in effect until april 10 . pakistani government officials met with the taliban last week to promote peace . the militant group had demanded the release of noncombatants |
(cnn) the bullets that killed colorado prison chief tom clements came from the gun found with a former inmate who died in a shootout with texas police two days later, investigators confirmed monday the news came as colorado held a public memorial service for clements, the executive director of the state department o... | hickenlooper colorado texas clements | suspect 'had an anger and a cruelty' early on, hickenlooper says . ballistics tests match colorado prison chief's killing with texas shootout . colorado holds memorial for slain official . clements oversaw the 'darkest of worlds' with the 'warmest of hearts,' governor says |
(cnn) us journalist austin tice, who went missing while working in syria two weeks ago, has been captured and is being held in syrian government custody, the washington post reported thursday, citing a senior diplomat and others familiar with the matter the post is one of several news outlets for which tice, 31, fil... | the washington post austin tice damascus tice 31 two weeks post mcclatchy newspapers | the washington post says austin tice is being held in damascus . tice, 31, hasn't been heard from in two weeks . he reported for the post, mcclatchy newspapers, and others . his family is pleading for his release |
(cnn) if you think television is like junk food, then binging on it is not for you but there are many people not like you who love pixelated brain candy and think binge viewing is the only way to devour a season (or more) of tv programming properly and networks are slowly beginning to take note more and more view... | antehuman roamingly boothes | no related information |
london (cnn) a court in central london this week found itself in the world's spotlight, as a small army of celebrities staked their reputations by turning up to offer support and bail money to wikileaks founder julian assange the 39 year old australian, who handed himself over to british police last week to an... | powerful alchemists allusive | no related information |
(cnn) manchester city captain carlos tevez has revealed that he wanted to leave the english premier league club in the previous transfer window the argentina forward handed in a transfer request at the weekend, which was rejected by the club who claimed his representatives had been seeking to renegotiate the 26 y... | carlos tevez english manchester city pre season argentina city west ham saturday manchester united | carlos tevez says he wanted to leave english club manchester city in pre season . city captain denies claims his transfer request was initiated by his representatives . the argentina striker handed in a transfer request after city's win over west ham on saturday . he has been a key figure at city since joining from riv... |
(cnn) the new york jets on monday suspended a strength and conditioning coach through the 2010 season's playoffs for intentionally tripping a miami dolphins player during sunday's jets dolphins game, the jets said on their website the jets said they suspended sal alosi without pay and fined him $25,000 for tripping ... | sal alosi 25,000 nolan carroll jets alosi | jets suspend strength and conditioning coach sal alosi without pay, fine him $25,000 . alosi tripped dolphins rookie cornerback nolan carroll on jets' sideline on sunday . in statement, alosi says he accepts responsibility for his actions, respects decision . jets head coach: 'that's a thing that has no business in thi... |
(cnn) two tractor trailer trucks crashed and burst into flames thursday on a bridge between the united states and mexico, shutting a key border crossing and killing four people, police said police look at the aftermath of a fiery crash on a bridge linking reynosa, mexico, and pharr, texas the collision on the pharr ... | stagnates leptandrin albireo | no related information |
bangkok, thailand (cnn) the wife of ousted prime minister thaksin shinawatra arrived in thailand tuesday morning to face corruption charges, promising to fight the accusations, her attorney said pojamarn shinawatra with her husband thaksin shinawatra according to pichit chuenban, pojamarn shinawatra was presented wi... | thaksin shinawatra's thailand pojamarn shinawatra pojamarn bangkok | thaksin shinawatra's wife handed arrest warrant after she returns to thailand . pojamarn shinawatra faces corruption charges that could imprison her for 20 years . the case involves pojamarn's 2003 purchase of some prime bangkok real estate |
(cnn) the mayor of springfield, illinois, was found dead in his home tuesday morning, the day he had been ordered to present an accounting of his cousin's estate to a judge illinois state police say they are looking into the death of mayor tim davlin, and no cause of death was disclosed tuesday frank kunz, a springf... | tuesday morning alderman springfield irs | the mayor was found dead in his home tuesday morning . alderman says springfield was 'stunned' by the news . davlin had been ordered into court in an estate lawsuit . the irs had also placed a lien on his home for unpaid taxes |
new delhi (cnn) bal thackeray, a staunch advocate of hindu nationalism in india and the leader of a political party that dominated the country's financial capital, died saturday, his spokesman said the 86 year old thackeray was a charismatic founder and head of shiv sena, the nationalist movement most powerful in th... | harriet schmear maddeningness | no related information |
paris, france (cnn) the paris suburbs were again rocked by riots after a second night of lawlessness monday caused widespread destruction and left scores of police injured, according to french authorities and media reports firefighters in a paris suburb battle to control a blaze started after youths rioted sunday ni... | french second night villiers le bel paris 2005 sarkozy | riots in french suburb for second night after two teens killed in police crash . violence spreads from villiers le bel, north of paris, to two nearby towns . more than 60 police injured, bombarded with molotov cocktails and bottles of acid . parallels drawn with unrest in 2005, when president sarkozy was interior minis... |
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