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(cnn) days after a nationally renowned criminal law professor was found with a gunshot wound to his head, his death is being investigated as a homicide florida state university professor dan markel was found in his tallahassee, florida, home on friday police say there were no signs of robbery or burglary and have ye... | dan markel markel yale law review the new york times slate | dan markel was found fatally wounded after neighbor reports 'loud bang' to 911 . there were no signs of robbery or burglary, but markel was 'target,' police say . professor was published in yale law review, the new york times, slate, others . his ex wife is 'distraught' after crime and unsure why he'd be targeted, lawy... |
(cnn) a venezuelan prosecutor on friday formally charged opposition leader leopoldo lopez with public incitement, property damage, arson and conspiracy general prosecutor luisa ortega diaz announced the charges at a press conference in caracas, a day before the legal deadline to keep lopez in custody expires lopez, ... | leopoldo lopez lopez | opposition leader leopoldo lopez is charged with public incitement and conspiracy . lopez has been held in military jail for over a month . 39 people have died and over 600 have been injured in anti government protests . if found guilty, lopez could face nearly 14 years in prison |
la junta, colorado (cnn) that morning in march 1968 played out like a hollywood movie: a secret cia radar station on the top of a mountain in laos, manned by a small group of air force airmen, is overrun by vietnamese soldiers one by one, americans are killed until only four remain as the sun peeks above the jungle,... | tetrachordal unsuccinctly bioenvironmental | no related information |
new york (cnn) she was a promising college student, a young woman with talent whose brutal killing shocked a campus community her name is samantha michelle nance unlike the recent high profile homicide of yale university graduate student annie le, the death of the 20 year old dallas woman, known as shelley to her f... | samantha michelle nance 20 texas third year art institute dallas nance | samantha michelle nance, 20, stabbed to death in texas . she was a third year student at art institute of dallas . nance's case has received little attention outside dallas |
(cnn) the royal dutch shell oil drilling barge that ran aground off southern alaska this week is sound and ready to be towed to safe harbor, a company official said saturday, adding there is no evidence of any sheen in the vicinity the 266 foot diameter kulluk remains upright and there is no apparent threat to its s... | shell alaska | shell says there is no evidence of any sheen in the vicinity . the rig is upright and there is no threat to its stability, shell says . the fuel tanks appear intact, the company says . the drilling rig ran aground during a storm monday off alaska's southern coast |
(cnn) harry redknapp is hoping to perform another premier league rescue act after being confirmed as the new manager of bottom club queens park rangers on saturday the 65 year old, who kept both portsmouth and tottenham in the english top flight, has replaced mark hughes the welshman was fired on friday after 11 mon... | harry redknapp mark hughes queens park rangers hughes the premier league redknapp qpr london tottenham old trafford manchester | harry redknapp replaces mark hughes as queens park rangers manager . hughes was sacked on friday with the club bottom of the premier league . redknapp was fired by qpr's london rivals tottenham at the end of last season . he traveled to old trafford on saturday to watch qpr at manchester united |
(cnn) a one way ticket to mars presuming you get there, who wouldn't want to come back? as it turns out, plenty of people this spring, the netherlands based mars one project began accepting applications for that one way ticket between april and early september, more than 165,000 people from around the world tossed t... | prototheca hoom holloos | no related information |
(cnn) in a special report for cnn's eye on russia week, moscow correspondent matthew chance travels across the vast country from the northern port of murmansk in the arctic to the southern city of sochi on the black sea here chance recalls some highlights from his epic journey matthew chance undergoes cosmonaut trai... | cyberneticists helly hemerobian | no related information |
(cnn) on leyte island, one of the hardest hit areas by typhoon haiyan, a man is asked by a television crew if he has a message for relatives living abroad 'i'm just letting you know, josie is gone please forgive me, i couldn't save her, because we all got separated from each other when the strong waves hit,' said th... | josie filipinos philippines us saudi arabia canada | survivor to family abroad: 'josie is gone please forgive me, i couldn't save her'. more than 10 million filipinos live and work in 217 countries around the world . poor communications has left many wondering the fate of their loved ones . most philippines expatriates work in the us, followed by saudi arabia and canada |
kabul, afghanistan (cnn) a huge explosion rocked the area near the us consulate in afghanistan's herat province early friday during a heavy gunfight between militants and security forces, officials said the attack occurred just before 6 am local time when attackers sped towards the front gate of the consulate, said ... | us herat taliban | there were no us casualties in the attack in herat province . militants drove a truck towards the us consulate gate . the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack |
waxahatchie, texas (cnn) julie quiroz clutches her teddy bear crying 'mommy,' she says softly, as her mother wraps her arms around her and rubs her back one of her brothers tries to console her 'you're going to come back,' he says julie quiroz, a 13 year old us citizen, went back to mexico when her mom was deported ... | encratite countercourant estranging | no related information |
(cnn) in the first ruling of its kind in japan, a court has ordered a kindergarten to pay almost $2 million to the parents of four of five children who were killed after staff put them on a bus that drove straight into the path of an oncoming tsunami sendai district court ordered hiyori kindergarten to pay 177 milli... | $18 million sendai district court japan | kindergarten ordered to pay $18 million to parents from four families . sendai district court told that staff sent children home on a bus straight into tsunami . five children and one staff member on the bus were killed in the disaster in march 2011 . the verdict is the first of its kind in japan and is expected to aff... |
(cnn) wild horses, raging winds and energy sapping heat in the land of genghis khan; welcome to the mongolian steppe this vast expanse of savannah and grassland is the setting for the world's longest horse race the mongol derby equestrian's toughest test is perhaps the last place you'd expect to find a teenager f... | briton lara prior palmer 19 mongol derby the guinness book of records the mongol empire's | briton lara prior palmer, 19, is youngest winner of mongol derby . race recognized by the guinness book of records as the world's lengthiest . race takes inspiration from the mongol empire's pioneering postal service . 'this is no guided tour, or pony trek,' says race website |
(cnn) doctors at the technical university of munich have conducted the world's first double arm transplant on a 54 year old farmer who had lost both his arms in an accident, officials said after transplant surgery, this farmer has new arms his condition 'is very good under the circumstances' the operation was conduc... | technical university of munich 54 year old farmer six years ago several years | technical university of munich doctors transplant arms on 54 year old farmer . farmer had lost both his arms in an accident six years ago . 40 people conduct operation; several years spent preparing for the surgery . donor matched the patient in sex, age, skin color, size and blood group |
editor's note: join roland s martin for his weekly sound off segment on cnncom live at 11:10 am wednesday if you're passionate about politics, he wants to hear from you a nationally syndicated columnist and chicago based radio host, he is the author of 'listening to the spirit within: 50 perspectives on faith' and 'spe... | roland martin martin obama mccain palin americans | roland martin says people talk about issues but conceal their biases . martin: race, age, gender issues affect support for obama, mccain, palin . americans need to be open about how 'tribal' concerns influence them, he says . martin: let's stop dancing around the topics of race, age and gender |
los angeles (cnn) a california city filed for bankruptcy wednesday, the third in the golden state to do so in recent weeks, stoking experts' concerns that other cities could follow suit the city of san bernardino, with more than 200,000 residents on the eastern tip of greater los angeles, 'filed an emergency petitio... | fibreless appointable tzetze | no related information |
(cnn) negotiating teams from sudan and south sudan have agreed to end a dispute on oil payments to allow the resumption of southern oil exports through sudan's territories, sudan's state run ashorooq tv reported early saturday, citing official sources the negotiating teams met in addis ababa, ethiopia, with the head... | zestful estoque hub | no related information |
editor's note: in our behind the scenes series, cnn correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind events john blake, who helped write the cnncom special report 'black in america,' is author of the 2004 book 'children of the movement,' which profiles the children of the civil rig... | martin luther king iii families | martin luther king iii: it was painful to hear mom say dad would be proud . families were never the same, according to some children of movement . civil rights leaders were traumatized by struggle . some children of segregationist leaders remain proud of their parents |
atlanta, georgia (cnn) in making 'into the wild,' emile hirsch forded rivers in alaska, coped with blazing desert heat and rode raging rapids in the american southwest emile hirsch has starred in 'the girl next door,' 'lords of dogtown' and now 'into the wild' but ask him about a dangerous location he dealt with dur... | konseal analemmata commencer | no related information |
sao paulo, brazil (cnn) marta umbelina pulled up in front of her house with her 11 year old daughter when she stepped out of the car, she was shot 10 times in the back umbelina was an office worker at sao paulo's military police northern command and she is one of nearly 100 cops murdered in sao paulo this year, r... | sao paulo brazil operation saturation pcc | police strike back after about 100 cops killed by gang in sao paulo, brazil . operation saturation stages raids in shantytowns; dozens arrested . in one raid on the pcc gang a possible hit list of police officers was found . locals concerned that when the police leave, the gangs will not |
pittsburgh, pennsylvania (cnn) lined up next to pittsburgh police officers protecting a downtown office building thursday morning were officers who traveled a little farther to get to work police officers from tucson, arizona, left, talk with a pittsburgh officer thursday outside the g 20 summit about 2,000 miles fa... | g 20 pittsburgh miami florida baltimore maryland tucson arizona | police officers from around country join g 20 security effort in pittsburgh . departments involved include miami, florida, and baltimore, maryland . cops from tucson, arizona, find chilly temps a change, but say 'it's a lot of fun' |
(cnn) uganda isn't known for being a big player on the baseball field, but one man is hoping for a home run with his documentary about the sport an american filmmaker has made what he describes as 'a love letter to the game sent from a place you'd least expect' jay shapiro hopes that his snap shot of youth baseball ... | american little league baseball uganda african first the little league world series america | an american filmmaker has made a documentary about little league baseball in uganda . around 15,000 children are signed up to the league in the country . an african team became the first ever to qualify for the little league world series . the team didn't make it to america because of visa issues |
harare, zimbabwe (cnn) a magistrate in zimbabwe ruled friday that tendai biti, the secretary general of the opposition party, must face trial on charges that include treason tendai biti, a leading opposition figure, is facing treason charges after returning to zimbabwe magistrate mishrod guvamombe said the state had... | tendai biti biti us state condoleezza rice zimbabwe | magistrate rules tendai biti must face trial on charges that include treason . biti's defense team requests he be granted bail while waiting for trial . us secretary of state condoleezza rice condemns violence in zimbabwe |
london, england (cnn) the term 'eco community' might conjure up an image of bearded hippies tending an allotment before sharing a mung bean stew but as today's urbanites become more concerned about reducing their carbon footprints, some are finding that modern eco communities offer them a way to live sustainably wit... | hefters bekick fellinic | no related information |
(cnn) a former libyan military officer who fought against ex leader moammar gadhafi's troops last year was picked to head the country's armed forces, a move that comes as tensions flare among rival militias the interim national transitional council chose youssef mangoush to be chief of staff of the country's armed f... | youssef mangoush moammar gadhafi | youssef mangoush had been in the military under moammar gadhafi . there have been deadly clashes among militias . one analyst says the government wants to win over loyalties of militia members |
(cnn) books? who needs books? not dr seuss oh, my! could it be a ruse? no, my dear, don't be obtuse don't be abstruse the news this day is no ruse the news this day may not amuse but the news this day is full of juice: words by seuss have found a brand new use should my language abuse cause you to confuse, i hope th... | the cat in the hat green eggs and ham | 'the cat in the hat' comes back in digital form . make sure your 'green eggs and ham' does not become spam . more than 600 million print versions of the books have been published |
bangalore, india (cnn) two year old lakshmi tatma, an indian toddler born with four arms and four legs, made her first public appearance tuesday, a week after surgeons in india successfully removed her additional limbs doctors said lakshmi was recovering well as she appeared tuesday at a news conference lakshmi, wea... | becasse unreminded kvint | no related information |
(cnn) when chelsie shellhas saw a tall young man slip into a storage locker and shut the door behind him one evening this week, it just looked wrong she dialed 911 her instincts were right: behind the door were bomb making materials, police in waseca, minnesota, said thursday her call thwarted a cunningly planned gu... | carnationist adendritic xiv | no related information |
(cnn) it was both painful and strange for robert soulas and his wife, corinne, as they stared across the atlantic the ocean still held the bodies of their daughter and son in law, three months after the crash of air france flight 447 that day in 2009, standing along the shoreline of brazil's festive ipanema beach w... | air france flight 447 $40 million | experts question why black box data isn't uploaded to satellites . critics: it's expensive and needs too much bandwidth . advocates: it would have eased grief for air france crash victims . search for flight 447 black boxes cost $40 million |
new york (cnn) in the midst of wall street's agonizing slide last week, there was at least one place in manhattan where the liquor was flowing, the cigar smoke was billowing and the theme of the evening was simple: work hard play hard 'i was a crook,' says jordan belfort, once a wall street fat cat who made $1 milli... | indistinctive oversuspicious ors | no related information |
(financial times) china is poised to produce more cars than europe in 2013 for the first time, hitting a landmark in the country's rise in the automobile industry and underlining the difficulties for the european vehicle sector as it faces a challenging 12 months china is in 2013 set to make 196m cars and other ligh... | china europe 2013 first underlines european this year | china is poised to produce more cars than europe in 2013 for the first time . will be a landmark in the country's rise in the automobile industry . underlines difficulties for the european vehicle sector faces this year |
(cnn) us president barack obama met with chinese premier wen jiabao on tuesday, the first top level meeting between the two countries since the presidential election and a power transition in china they met at the east asia summit in cambodia, the third leg in obama's asian tour, which hopes to foster deeper politic... | obama cambodia asia chinese wen jiabao | obama in cambodia for regional summit on last leg of asia trip . meets with chinese premier wen jiabao and other leaders . bitter maritime dispute overshadows discussions |
new york (cnn) flo rida wants you to call him flo rida's latest single, 'right round,' was no 1 on billboard's pop chart for 10 weeks in an attempt to reach his fan base on a more intimate level, the floridian rapper has made his personal cell phone number public 'if they can go out and buy my albums, i can at least... | bevaring pisteology tewit | no related information |
charleston, south carolina (cnn) tropical storm cristobal was forecast to move 'parallel and very close' to the north carolina coast sunday morning, but the storm is not expected to make landfall along the eastern us shores satellite image taken at 1:15 pm saturday shows tropical storm cristobal off the coast of th... | dtente heders dietal | no related information |
washington (cnn) michelle rhee says she runs at 100 miles per hour as the chancellor of one of the nation's lowest performing school districts, she says she has no choice too much bureaucracy to cut through, too many problems to fix after decades of neglect michelle rhee says a sense of urgency has been missing f... | dc michelle rhee first year rhee | dc schools chief michelle rhee closed 23 schools, fired 36 principals in first year . 'we are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights of adults'. critic says rhee has created 'more chaos and more dysfunction'. mayor backs his appointee, says when schools fail, 'you need to shake things up' |
(ewcom ) back in 1977, ron howard made his directorial debut with a low budget, high octane car crash comedy called 'grand theft auto' as first impressions go, it did not signal the second coming of orson welles but the freckle faced former 'happy days' star radiated an infectious delight in smashing as many roaring... | shauwe craney curemaster | no related information |
(cnn) argentine president cristina fernandez de kirchner will undergo surgery on tuesday morning, days after doctors discovered she had a blood clot on the surface of her brain over the weekend, doctors diagnosed fernandez with a subdural hematoma and said she needed to take a month off of work but the president's m... | cristina fernandez de kirchner august | cristina fernandez de kirchner has a blood clot on the surface of her brain . doctors say they decided to operate after she felt tingling in her left arm . spokesman: the president suffered cranial trauma in august |
(cnn) warner bros' $100 million alfonso cuarón directed thriller gravity blasted off on its opening weekend at the box office, scoring a stunning $556 million from 3,575 theaters the sci fi title, which stars sandra bullock and george clooney, set a new october opening weekend record, surpassing paranormal activity ... | bullock first affleck timberlake third runner runner | the bullock/clooney thriller blasted into first place . the film played to a much broader audience than most sci fi films . affleck and timberlake faltered in third place with runner runner |
(hong kong) (cnn) hong kong authorities confiscated $34 million ($267 million in hong kong currency) worth of ivory found in two shipping containers this week the illegal goods weighed more than 8,000 pounds, making it one of the biggest seizures of ivory in hong kong the containers arrived from tanzania and kenya, ... | hong kong about four tons africa guangdong china | hong kong customs authorities seize about four tons ivory . ivory ornaments and tusks came in two shipping containers from africa . investigators also worked with guangdong authorities in china |
(cnn) the 6 year old boy swallowed whole in an indiana sand dune over the weekend could make a full recovery, a medical official said monday rescuers dug furiously for three and a half hours to extract little nathan woessner, who was recovered unconscious and rushed to the university of chicago medicine's comer chil... | nathan woessner 6 indiana lake michigan nathan | nathan woessner, 6, was visiting the northern indiana sand dunes with family . the sand dunes, which line lake michigan, can sometimes give way . nathan is in critical condition but does not appear to have any brain damage |
los angeles (cnn) the man arrested at sandra bullock's home last week allegedly owns 'an arsenal of weapons' that included a half dozen illegal machine guns joshua corbett, who was charged with stalking bullock, burglarizing her home and possessing one illegal gun, now faces much more serious charges, according to t... | notum unlodge subcontinual | no related information |
(cnn) stop stripping stop letting yourself be 'pimped' and for heaven's sake, stop licking sledgehammers, miley that's the advice from irish singer sinead o'connor, who's penned a motherly, if expletive laden open letter to former disney star miley cyrus in the wake of a controversial video music awards show perform... | cyrus o'connor disney | new: cyrus responds, references o'connor's past struggles with mental illness . you're sending a bad message and hurting yourself, o'connor warns cyrus . 'i am extremely concerned for you,' o'connor writes in letter to the former disney star . the music industry just wants to make money off cyrus' youth and beauty, she... |
(cnn) look out lannisters windsor is coming queen elizabeth came face to face with royalty of a very different kind when she met the cunning cersei otherwise known as actress lena headey on a visit to the 'game of thrones' set in northern ireland on tuesday the monarch and her husband, the duke of edinburgh, ... | elizabeth ii game of thrones belfast titanic quarter british lena headey maisie williams northern ireland | queen elizabeth ii visited 'game of thrones' set in belfast's titanic quarter . british monarch met stars of the show including lena headey and maisie williams . royal visitors explored the red keep and throne room sets, viewed costumes . 'game of thrones' has been filmed in northern ireland since 2009 |
(cnn) maria sharapova beat li na in three sets to defend her italian open title in rome on sunday in a bizarre match played in sometimes heavy rain and amid the distraction of football fans gathering nearby sharapova was 6 4 4 0 down but fought back to take the match into a deciding tiebreak after saving a match ... | maria sharapova li na 4 6 italian open 2 hours rome nadal djokovic monday sharapova french this year | maria sharapova beats li na 4 6, 6 4, 7 6 (5) to win italian open . deciding tiebreak delayed by 2 hours because of rain in rome . men's final between nadal and djokovic postponed until monday . sharapova heads to french open with two clay court titles this year |
(cnn) eight soldiers were killed in an ambush near the algerian border, tunisia's president said monday the attack took place on mount chaambi, some 300 kilometers south of tunis, the capital, president moncef marzouki said in a statement posted to his facebook page later, a security patrol was struck by a landmine ... | algerian tunisia islamic three days | attack takes place near the algerian border . tunisia's president blames islamic militants . he announces three days of mourning |
(cnn) petra kvitova made a convincing start to her bid for back to back grand slams with the loss of just one game in seeing off kristina mladenovic of france tuesday at flushing meadows the wimbledon champion has come into the us open after a morale boosting victory in the preceding new haven tournament and again l... | wimbledon petra kvitova second aussie open dominika cibulkova 15 year old eugenie bouchard ana ivanovic roger federer serena williams night us open | wimbledon champion petra kvitova powers into second round . aussie open finalist dominika cibulkova stunned by 15 year old . eugenie bouchard and ana ivanovic breeze through . roger federer and serena williams in night time action at us open |
(cnn) for titanic enthusiasts, it's a last chance to glimpse the famous cruise liner in its final resting place, a full 100 years after the vessel's tragic demise a series of expeditions by marine dive specialists deep ocean expeditions (doe) will take paying tourists to the wreck site 12,000 feet below the surface ... | titanic 59,000 | a series of dive expeditions will take tourists to the wreck of the titanic this summer . enthusiasts can pay $59,000 to reserve a place on one of the dive trips . the company running the tours says it is unlikely to do so again |
(cnn) i signed up to volunteer for a one way trip to mars yep, one way mars one, a dutch nonprofit organization, aims to establish the first human settlement on mars in the coming decades i am one of 1,058 people chosen from around the world to be in round two of mars one's astronaut application pool the next few ro... | mars one first the red planet heidi beemer mars beemer | mars one, a nonprofit, aims to establish the first human settlement on the red planet . heidi beemer: i signed up to volunteer for a one way trip to mars . she says despite risks and challenges, the trip is worthwhile in what we can learn . beemer: for one thing, the human race can fulfill its dream of living on anothe... |
new york (cnn) a 13th century painting that was up for auction by sotheby's is now in the hands of the us government after it was determined to have allegedly been stolen from a safe deposit box in switzerland in 1986, according to court documents sotheby's listed 'madonna and child,' an oil on panel painting, for s... | madonna january sotheby's nearly 30 years ago interpol 1991 this year | 'madonna and child' was listed for auction in january by sotheby's . sotheby's, after investigating the artwork, pulled the listing . it was reported missing nearly 30 years ago, after a co owner moved it . an interpol investigation began in 1991, but painting remained missing until this year |
(cnn) acting on a conservative battle cry and potentially triggering a court battle with the obama administration, the republican led house voted wednesday to hold former irs official lois lerner in contempt of congress for refusing to answer questions about her agency's targeting of conservative and other groups th... | republican house irs lois lerner fifth amendment congress obama | contempt vote fell almost entirely along party lines in republican controlled house . former irs official lois lerner has exercised her fifth amendment rights in testimony . the vote sets up a possible legal fight between congress and the obama administration . the house has aggressively investigated irs targeting of c... |
jerusalem (cnn) israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from gaza after a three week military campaign against hamas militants, the israel defense forces said wednesday palestinians look at an damaged rocket launcher left behind by israeli forces 'the forces are now redeployed outside the gaza strip, and are ... | israel gaza three week hamas un ban ki moon | israel says it has removed its troops from gaza after three week offensive . both israel, hamas have declared victory in conflict . un secretary general ban ki moon criticized both sides for fighting . more than 1,300 people have died in gaza operation |
(cnn) dave chappelle wants to clear up a misconception: he never quit 'chappelle's show,' his hit comedy central series 'technically, i never quit,' he said in an appearance on 'the late show with david letterman' 'i'm seven years late for work' chappelle's television appearance was a rarity since the last episodes ... | dave chappelle late show with david letterman chappelle's show | dave chappelle appears on 'late show with david letterman'. he talks about leaving 'chappelle's show'. 'it was like living in the corner of perception and reality,' he says of experience |
(cnn) doctors say secretary of state hillary clinton is on her way to a full recovery after a blood clot was found in her head on sunday night she was discharged from new york presbyterian hospital on wednesday after spending three days being treated, the state department announced clinton's blood clot was located i... | papermouth aftercourse househusband | no related information |
(cnn) if you think this is the year george clooney will finally settle down, don't hold your breath in an interview airing on friday's 'piers morgan tonight,' he told both morgan and his own father that his one marriage, to actress talia balsam that ended in 1993, was enough morgan pointed out that george's father,... | bestness misframes alkalify | no related information |
(cnn) don shows was a computer geek until he lost his job and took a road trip jetblue promises to refund some tickets purchased before a traveler is laid off from a job while the 56 year old from dayton, ohio, was away on his eight day post layoff adventure, he decided he really wanted to be a photojournalist 'i ra... | jetblue intrepid 15 percent | travel companies and an airline are catering to the layoff crowd . jetblue will refund some tickets if you get laid off after you purchase them . intrepid travel offers a 15 percent discount for people recently laid off . consultant: trip costs 'could be lunch money' for the unemployed |
london, england (cnn) it's fair to say david beckham may be seeing more green off the football pitch than he does on it reason to smile: david beckham is the highest earning footballer in the world, according to forbes despite a difficult and expensive period negotiating an extended release from his la galaxy club ... | david beckham forbes world player of the year for 2008 cristiano ronaldo | david beckham is the highest paid footballer according to forbes . forbes magazine has released a list of the top 20 highest paid players . world player of the year for 2008, cristiano ronaldo, is fifth on the list . are there any players missing who you think deserve to be paid more? |
jerusalem (cnn) israeli police divers found a suitcase thursday containing human remains that are believed to be the body of a missing 4 year old girl, an israeli police spokesman said french israeli girl rose poses for a photograph with her mother, marie pizem the suitcase was pulled out of the yarkon river in tel ... | beisa ophidia cruellest | no related information |
lagos, nigeria (cnn) a nigerian militant group tangling with government forces in the country's southern oil producing region declared 'an all out war' friday after what it said was a deadly bombing raid on civilians militants from the movement for the emancipation of the niger delta have declared war on nigerian tr... | nigerian the niger delta | new: military takes control of hijacked tanker, captures militant stronghold . nigerian militants declared 'an all out war' on government troops . movement for the emancipation of the niger delta claims success against army . it says the military has attacked innocent civilians |
lagos, nigeria (cnn) nigeria's military has rescued 18 hostages held by militants in its oil rich niger delta region, a military spokesman said monday file image shows movement for the emancipation of the niger delta fighters the first group nine filipinos and five nigerians were released on saturday, while fo... | filipinos nigerians saturday ukrainians sunday nigeria niger delta last week the niger delta | 9 filipinos and 5 nigerians released saturday, 4 ukrainians released sunday . nigeria's military began clearing the western niger delta region last week . operation against militants demanding better distribution of country's oil wealth . movement for the emancipation of the niger delta has declared 'all out war' |
(cnn) freed iranian american journalist roxana saberi thanked friends and family tuesday for their support during her ordeal in an iranian prison, and said she plans to spend the next few days relaxing roxana saberi smiles ouside her home in tehran, iran, on tuesday 'i am, of course, very happy to be free and to be ... | roxana saberi iran saberi | father of roxana saberi says they plan to leave iran soon . saberi, 32, was convicted last month on espionage charges . her sentence was changed to a two year jail term, suspended for five years . she has lived in iran since 2003, reporting for international news organizations |
new york (cnn) a 19th century artwork by french artist edgar degas will be handed back to the french government friday nearly four decades after it was stolen the painting, 'blanchisseuses souffrant des dent' ('laundry women with toothache,') was taken in 1973 from the malraux museum in le havre, in normandy, fra... | 19th century france almost four decades blanchisseuses 1973 the malraux museum october sotheby's | 19th century painting will be returned to france almost four decades after it was stolen . 'blanchisseuses souffrant des dent' was taken in 1973 from the malraux museum . the painting did not resurface until october when it surfaced on sotheby's catalog |
baghdad (cnn) former president george hw bush is getting his old foreign policy team back together on the 20th anniversary of the gulf war the reunion is being held on the texas a&m university campus in college station, where the bush presidential library is located a roundtable discussion by the bush team is expect... | george hw bush texas a&m iraq kuwait 1990 us january 1991 baghdad | george hw bush gathers war cabinet at texas a&m . iraq invaded kuwait in 1990, and the us led a counteroffensive in january 1991 . baghdad continues to pay reparations to its neighbor . about 1,000 people who disappeared have never been found |
washington (cnn) when elizabeth fry's likeness was bumped from the british £5 note in favor of winston churchill, it led to a public outcry and the announcement on wednesday that jane austen's likeness would be added to the £10 note true, the queen, as the country's monarch, appears on british bills but historical f... | rehabilitant unthankful teledus | no related information |
(cnn) the federal government has shut down for the first time since 1996 and all eyes are focused on house speaker john boehner will he continue to insist upon tying a repeal or delay of obamacare to a funding bill? or will he bring the senate passed funding bill to the house floor and hope that he can convince 17 r... | marian currinder josh huder house john boehner boehner | the federal government has shut down for the first time since 1996 . marian currinder, josh huder: what will house speaker john boehner do?. they say as boehner faces tough choices, his speakership hangs in the balance . currinder, huder: will he rely on a minority of the majority of his party to pass bill? |
london, england (cnn) while many films spend a brief period in the spotlight before fading into obscurity, there are some which seem to grow increasingly powerful over time nora aunor stars in 'himala' as elsa, a young girl who changes everyone's lives when she reveals her connection to the virgin mary lost filipino... | more than two decades scriptwriter ricky lee ishmael bernal himala today | triumph for film at international awards ceremony after more than two decades . scriptwriter ricky lee talks about working with late director ishmael bernal . 'himala's' message continues to strike a chord with audiences today |
(cnn) when the average person contemplates the issues surrounding landfills, it's doubtful they give much consideration to the tons of food that fill them food biodegrades so where is the problem? the problem, environmentalists say, is just that when food rots, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas which the us envi... | 5 percent american us $1 billion | 5 percent of american's leftovers could feed 4 million people for 1 day . disposing of food waste costs the us $1 billion a year . rotting food releases methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than co2 . methane can be harnessed to create clean energy for heat, light and fuel |
louisville, kentucky (cnn) the kentucky state fair has its share of eye popping choices: *deep fried kool aid *the donut burger, a heart stopping marriage of krispy kreme and quarter pounder *and this year, at the 50th annual farm bureau country ham breakfast, a have to see it to believe it pairing: former foes mi... | senate mitch mcconnell 2014 challenger matt bevin mcconnell rand paul kentucky may 20 gop | senate minority leader mitch mcconnell faces a tea party backed primary opponent in his 2014 reelection bid . challenger matt bevin is leveling a litany of familiar tea party attacks against mcconnell . once a thorn in mcconnell's side, freshman sen rand paul is now part of an awkward alliance with him . the kentucky p... |
(cnn) a man celebrating his friend's impending marriage fell to his death from a black hawk, colorado, hotel window early saturday, police said dirk anderson, 29, was sitting on the ledge of an open window in the 11th floor room at the lady luck hotel and casino when the screen on which he was leaning gave way, acco... | dirk anderson 29 anderson | dirk anderson, 29, landed on the roof of a parking garage five levels below . investigators don't know if anderson had been drinking before his fall . no evidence of horseplay and it appears to be an accident, police say |
(cnn) the st louis rams announced saturday that michael sam, who made history as the first openly gay player to be drafted into the nfl, has been waived and did not make the team's final 53 man roster sam, an all american defensive end who played for the university of missouri, made history when he was picked by the... | hemimeridae fifteenths laminous | no related information |
washington (cnn) it took a us former president with global celebrity status to free two american journalists from a north korea prison former president bill clinton and former vice president al gore greets freed us journalist laura ling laura ling and euna lee arrived back in the united states wednesday morning with... | ort oftwhiles extraregular | no related information |
(cnn) the spacex dragon has splashed down in the pacific ocean after a three week flight to the international space station, completing the first commercial cargo mission to earth's orbit, nasa announced sunday the unmanned capsule came down about 250 miles west of baja california at 3:22 pm, the space agency report... | us nasa baja california sunday first nearly 900 pounds | us companies are 'ready to step up to the plate,' nasa chief says . the dragon splashed down off baja california on sunday . its return completes the first commercial space cargo mission . the capsule carried up nearly 900 pounds of cargo and returned with about 1,700 |
bogota, colombia (cnn) colombian president alvaro uribe admitted wednesday that the symbol of the neutral red cross organization was used in a hostage rescue mission that freed 15 people from leftist rebels two weeks ago what seems to be part of a red cross is seen on a bib worn by a man involved in the rescue in th... | undefendableness nougatine nondistractive | no related information |
(travel + leisure) it's no surprise: americans are super opinionated, especially about the cities they live in and the places they visit in fact, their feelings are so strong that in the 2008 america's favorite cities survey conducted by travelandleisurecom and cnn headline news americans voted more than 600,0... | new orleans new york portland oregon minneapolis | new orleans elbowed new york aside as the best city for fine dining . portland, oregon, swept minneapolis out of first place for cleanliness . new york held its no 1 ranking as the country's best spot for people watching |
(cnn) it could be argued when tony blair left the office of prime minister in june, his parting from the public stage was mourned by few but chief among those mourners were britain's satirists the characteristics of the blair government with its emphasis on spin and sound bites created a wealth of material for top b... | haquebut demihearse gerontocratic | no related information |
(cnn) the world's top ranked women's tennis players, caroline wozniacki and vera zvonareva, have crashed out of the australian open warm up event in sydney in their opening matches after receiving a bye in the first round, danish top seed wozniacki won just six games as her slovakian opponent dominika cibulkova crui... | caroline wozniacki vera zvonareva sydney international dominika cibulkova flavia kim clijsters zvonareva argentina david nalbandian juan martin del potro | caroline wozniacki and vera zvonareva lose in second round at sydney international . top two seeds beaten by dominika cibulkova and flavia pennetta respectively . kim clijsters is highest ranked player left in draw; could overtake zvonareva as no 2 . winning starts for argentina's david nalbandian and juan martin del p... |
antioch, california (cnn) phillip garrido and his wife, nancy, will face 29 felony counts after being accused of kidnapping jaycee lee dugard when she was 11 and keeping her in their backyard since 1991, the district attorney of el dorado county, california, said friday phillip garrido, a registered sex offender, wa... | garrido 1990 phillip garrido 11 | new: sex offender, wife plead not guilty at arraignment . authorities have search warrant for garrido home relating to 1990 killings . victim reportedly kept in isolation in backyard with children fathered by captor . police: phillip garrido admitted abducting victim when she was 11 |
kabul, afghanistan (cnn) a meeting between the leaders of pakistan and afghanistan was canceled friday when bad weather prevented pakistani president asif ali zardari from traveling to the afghan capital, kabul pakistani president asif ali zardari (pictured) has met afghan counterpart hamid karzai before an official... | pakistani asif ali zardari afghan hamid karzai taliban afghanistan pakistan north west province | pakistani president asif ali zardari due to meet afghan president hamid karzai . visit to have taken place amid ongoing tension along afghan pakistan border . taliban militants attacking afghanistan from pakistan's north west province . both countries have previously blamed each other for the security problems |
(cnn) when a 324 pound chelsea settles moved to los angeles, she brought a bikini clad mannequin along to inspire her to lose weight now, as the first season of 'chelsea settles' unfolds on mtv, the mannequin in the 23 year old reality star's bedroom is nothing more than a functional statement piece doubling as a co... | uranostaphylorrhaphy vernal roadhead | no related information |
(cnn) you don't need to be a teenage boy to realize how scary girls can be girls know it too megan fox plays a demonic cheerleader in 'jennifer's body,' written by diablo 'juno' cody certainly diablo cody does the academy award winning 'juno' scribe proves as much in her second screenplay, a horror comedy about bffs... | jennifer's body tom charity megan fox amanda seyfried fox juno diablo cody | 'jennifer's body' is a horror winner with doses of comedy, says tom charity . film stars megan fox as a cheerleader who turns demonic . amanda seyfried, playing fox's friend, provides movie's standout performance . 'jennifer's body' was written by 'juno's' diablo cody |
tokyo, japan (cnn) a japanese coast guard crew member has confessed to leaking a video of a boat collision that sparked a recent diplomatic battle between china and japan, officials said wednesday it was unclear whether the crew member would be arrested for putting the video online, police said the video, posted on ... | misotheism inaccordancy prologue | no related information |
(cnn) a former rutgers university student accused of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate by use of a hidden webcam was found guilty friday of all counts including invasion of privacy and the more severe charges of bias intimidation in a case that thrust cyberbullying into the national spotlight dharun ... | dharun ravi 20 tyler clementi 2010 clementi | new: dharun ravi's attorney says he will appeal the decision . dharun ravi, 20, is found guilty of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy . his roommate, tyler clementi, killed himself in 2010 after learning of webcam spying . ravi was not charged directly with clementi's death |
ankara, turkey (cnn) turkey excluded israel from a planned nato military exercise, partly because of ankara's criticism of israel's gaza offensive nearly a year ago, turkey's foreign minister told cnn sunday in an exclusive interview foreign minister ahmet davutoglu says, 'we hope that the situation in gaza will be ... | israel anatolian united states italy us turkey gaza nato | israel excluded from anatolian eagle military exercise . united states and italy withdraw from exercise us says it is postponed . turkey has criticized israel over gaza actions that began in december '08 . nato exercise held every few years to boost international aerial cooperation |
(mental floss) 1 applebee's the world's largest casual dining chain celebrated 30 years of eatin' good in the neighborhood in 2010 the original applebee's, which was named tj applebee's rx for edibles & elixirs, opened in atlanta in 1980 the founders of the original restaurant, including bill and tj palmer, wanted ... | california pizza kitchen wolfgang puck's denny grand slam atlanta waffle house | the creators of california pizza kitchen were inspired by wolfgang puck's spago . denny's introduced its signature grand slam breakfast in atlanta in 1977 . tgi friday's began as a popular singles bar . the original waffle house opened on labor day 1955 |
(cnn) residents living in single family homes in some parts of coastal texas face 'certain death' if they do not heed orders to evacuate ahead of hurricane ike's arrival, the national weather service said thursday night texans sit in bumper to bumper traffic thursday on a highway from galveston county into houston t... | formican riling omnimodous | no related information |
(cnn) in a case that drew heavy media attention overseas, a sarasota, florida, jury wednesday convicted a teen in last year's killings of two british tourists shawn tyson, 17, received two mandatory and consecutive life sentences after being convicted of two counts of first degree murder, said dennis menendez, chief... | haughtier sunbonnet intercardinal | no related information |
washington (cnn) an ohio death row inmate who says he is too overweight to be executed took his plea to the supreme court on friday richard cooey, 41, and an accomplice were convicted of the 1986 murders of two college students richard cooey is scheduled to die by lethal injection tuesday and has exhausted most of h... | richard cooey tuesday cooey | richard cooey, set to die tuesday, has exhausted most state, federal appeals . justices are expected to decide whether he should receive stay of execution . they could also address constitutional claims about medical fitness for execution . cooey: drug interaction, weakened veins would make punishment cruel, unusual |
(cnn) anthony pilkington was rejected by manchester united as a youth player, and alex ferguson claims he doesn't even remember the player's time at old trafford but the 24 year old made a point to the veteran manager on saturday, scoring the only goal as his norwich team knocked united off the top of the english pr... | manchester city english premier league aston villa manchester united second norwich city third chelsea west brom arsenal london tottenham | manchester city move to top of english premier league with 5 0 win over aston villa . rivals manchester united drop to second after losing 1 0 to norwich city . third placed chelsea suffer 2 1 defeat away to surprise team west brom . arsenal win 5 2 in london derby with tottenham, who have a player sent off |
(cnn) maoist insurgents killed a dozen soldiers and two civilians during an ambush in southeastern peru, the military said friday the military blamed 'narco terrorists' of the shining path for the attack thursday night in tayacaja province as the soldiers were returning by truck to their counterterrorism base in co... | peru the shining path rebels | ambush kills 12 soldiers and two civilians in southeastern peru . peru's military blames 'narco terrorists' of the shining path for attack . rebels have been targets of a fierce government crackdown |
(cnn) they just don't get it two months after playing partisan chicken with the debt ceiling limit and leading directly to a us downgrade, our dysfunctional divided congress was at it again carelessly bringing the country to the brink of a government shutdown this time the debate was over disaster relief spending... | john avlon avlon congress | john avlon: once rare, tthreats of shutdown, filibusters are now routine . avlon: parties are willing to politicize disaster relief, bring nation to the brink of default . all or nothing mindset of congress defeats coalition building, he says . parties need to remember that they are not the purpose of our politics |
new delhi, india (cnn) police in india summarily execute prisoners, torture and threaten suspects and arrest people without reason, a leading rights group said tuesday human rights watch says individial officers are not to blame for abuses india's police have largely failed to evolve from the repressive forces they ... | indian group | human rights watch accuses indian police of abuses . group blames colonial era police system rather than individuals . no immediate comment from indian authorities |
new york (cnn) vaclav havel died sunday in the czech republic he helped build a few months ago, i wrote an appreciation as a way of marking his 75th birthday the sentiments, of course, still stand and i'm glad i didn't wait until his death to write it we have lost a hero of our times, a friend of freedom, who lived ... | john avlon vaclav havel avlon havel czech | john avlon celebrates the life of vaclav havel, who died sunday . avlon: havel's life story takes on renewed relevance in year of arab spring . he says the former czech president spoke for democracy and against utopian revolution . avlon: the writer statesman's life provides enduring inspiration |
cairo, egypt (cnn) two egyptians allegedly tried to set themselves on fire but security guards stopped them from carrying out the acts, an egyptian interior ministry official confirmed to cnn wednesday the incidents occurred in cairo tuesday, and both men were arrested on suspicion of trying to burn themselves sayed... | metricizes ceratosaurus leporine | no related information |
london, england (cnn) as the lights went down in the theater the low murmur built to a thunderous ovation as the odd looking man in the crumpled suit and bowler hat took to the stage tom waits in paris on the european leg of his tour the excitement that greeted the eccentric american singer songwriter tom waits' app... | tom waits america scarlett johansson us jack kerouac charles bukowski | singer songwriter tom waits has won critical acclaim for his music . his strange tales of the seedy side of america have attracted a cult following . the actress scarlett johansson is a fan and recorded a recent tribute album . waits counts us writers jack kerouac and charles bukowski as influences |
havana, cuba (cnn) a man named ernesto pressed an old fashioned radio to his ear, listening to a baseball game roughly 5,000 miles away ernesto listens to the baseball world cup gold medal game by radio in havana the us beat cuba 10 5 'oh, it's already over,' he groaned, listening to the staccato play by play of sun... | havana baseball world cup us cuba | havana residents flock to radios, tv to watch baseball world cup title game . us beats cuba 10 5; game garnered more concentrated attention in cuba . cuba consistently a baseball powerhouse despite stars' defections |
(cnn) issam al chalabi worked as iraqi oil minister from march of 1987 to october 1990 he left iraq shortly after the invasion by saddam hussein of kuwait in august 1990 and retired from government service in 1991 since then he has been working as a consultant in amman, jordan john defterios caught up with mr chalab... | issam chalabi iraqi between 1987 and 1990 india china turkey kurds us iran | issam chalabi was iraqi oil minister between 1987 and 1990 . future demand for oil, he says, will be spurred by growth in india and china . tension between turkey and kurds will not have impact on oil prices, he adds . but if us takes military action against iran, oil prices could surge |
(cnn) the jonas brothers have canceled a planned concert in monterrey, mexico, they announced thursday, following an outbreak of drug related violence there the pop trio said they were saddened not to be going through with the show, scheduled for october 21 'while they wish to apologize to everyone who planned to at... | monterrey mexico this month | monterrey, mexico, has seen at least three grenade attacks this month . rival drug gangs are battling each other and the police . the boy band said the 'difficult decision was made out of their great affection and concern for fans' |
washington (cnn) the beard that delayed the fort hood court martial trial for months is gone maj nidal hasan, the former army psychiatrist convicted of 13 murders and dozens of attempted murders, is clean shaven again according to an army statement about hasan's incarceration at the us disciplinary barracks at fort ... | frusta pathema bloop | no related information |
(cnn) 'one of these mothers from connecticut should do an emmett till moment; show the picture of their child dead in the classroom' that's a text i received earlier this week from my tv one show producer when i got it, a chill immediately went through my body just thinking about the possibility of seeing the carnag... | roland martin americans emmett till martin | roland martin: the cost of gun violence is often hidden away . he says americans should see the carnage firsthand so they are stirred to act . after murder of emmett till, his battered face was shown on magazine covers . martin says ourtrage over the till murder helped fuel civil rights movement |
(cnn) a florida cardiologist could have his medical license revoked by state authorities who have accused him of performing illegal stem cell therapy on a patient who died during the procedure florida's department of health ordered the emergency suspension of zannos grekos' medical license wednesday, accusing the bo... | unestablishable gullying cystoadenoma | no related information |
(cnn) the family of zachary reyna, the 12 year old florida boy stricken with a brain eating parasite, has donated zachary's organs, according to a facebook page that's been providing detailed updates from the reyna family 'zac donated all his organs to others that were waiting on a miracle,' the late monday night po... | zachary reyna's facebook florida arkansas | new: zachary reyna's organs have been donated, facebook page says . the boy fell ill after playing in a water filled ditch near his florida home . doctors later determined he had a rare brain eating amoeba . they tried an experimental drug also used for an arkansas girl, who survived |
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