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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Armed men cross Egyptian border, kill 7 Israelis (AP)

Armed men cross Egyptian border, kill 7 Israelis (AP)

Armed men cross Egyptian border, kill 7 Israelis (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:27 PM PDT

Israeli medics evacuate a person wounded in one of several attacks in the Arava desert, to the Soroka hospitan in Beersheba, southern Israel, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. Assailants armed with heavy weapons, guns and explosives crossed into southern Israel from the neighboring Egyptian Sinai peninsula on Thursday, killing six Israelis and wounding at least a dozen more in an audacious string of attacks that stoked concerns about Palestinian militants exploiting the recent instability in Egypt. (AP Photo/Ilan Assayag) ISRAEL OUTAP - Gunmen who crossed from the Egyptian desert launched a series of attacks Thursday in southern Israel, killing seven people and threatening to destabilize a volatile border region that includes the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula.

Here we go again: Stocks plunge on economic fear (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Trader Christopher Forbes foreground right, watches prices as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Stocks have plunged after more signs of economic weakness triggered a global sell-off.

US, allies demand Assad exit in Syria (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:03 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton makes a statement about Syria, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - In a choreographed diplomatic squeeze play, President Barack Obama, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany and the European Union joined Thursday to demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad resign, saying his brutal suppression of his people had made him unfit to lead.

Police: Norway killer called police twice, hung up (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:49 AM PDT

CORRECTS THE DATE THE IMAGE WAS TAKEN In this Saturday Aug. 13, 2011 photo made available Tuesday Aug 16, 2011 Anders Behring Breivik , centre left with red jumper, is led by police to the quayside to be taken by boat back to nearby Utoya island in central Norway. He was there given the opportunity to explain details around the shooting massacre and killing on July 22 of 69 people for which he has been charged. (AP Photo /Trond Solberg / VG / Scanpix)AP - The man behind the Norway attacks that killed 77 people last month hung up twice on authorities after calling to surrender during the shooting at a youth camp on Utoya island, police said Thursday.

Rebels claim control of key Libyan oil refinery (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:59 AM PDT

RETRANSMISSION TO ADD BYLINE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 photo, a Libyan rebel fighter carries a rocket-propelled grenade in Sabratha, 50 miles (75 kilometers) west of Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Giulio Petrocco)AP - Opposition fighters in Libya's western mountains claimed control Thursday of the country's last functioning oil refinery, a blow to Moammar Gadhafi's regime in a week of stunning rebel advances that could turn the tide of the 6-month-old civil war.

Afghan official: 21 people killed by roadside bomb (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:26 AM PDT

A female victim of a roadside bomb lies on a bed at a hospital in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. The roadside bomb killed at least 20 passengers traveling on a minibus Thursday in western Afghanistan, another example of civilians being caught in the crossfire of the fighting between Taliban insurgents and the U.S.-led coalition. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)AP - A roadside bomb killed at least 21 passengers traveling on a minibus Thursday in western Afghanistan, another example of civilians being caught in the crossfire of fighting between Taliban insurgents and the U.S.-led coalition.

Archaeologists comb newly-found Civil War POW camp (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:54 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by Georgia Southern University, a pocket knife made of brass and Iron is shown at Camp Lawton a Civil War-era POW facility, near Millen, Ga. Camp Lawton was built by the Confederacy to house about 10,000 prisoners of war. But it abandoned after being used for only about six weeks in 1864 before Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s army arrived and burned the camp. Archaeologists say they’re still discovering unusual, and sometimes stunningly personal, artifacts abandoned by prisoners of war at the massive but short-lived Civil War camp a year after state officials revealed a Georgia Southern University graduate student had pinpointed its location in southeast Georgia. (AP Photo/Georgia Southern University, Amanda L. Morrow)AP - When word reached Camp Lawton that the enemy army of Gen. William T. Sherman was approaching, the prison camp's Confederate officers rounded up their thousands of Union army POWs for a swift evacuation — leaving behind rings, buckles, coins and other keepsakes that would remain undisturbed for nearly 150 years.

Storm kills 3, injures 71 at Belgian festival (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:05 PM PDT

AP - A storm swept through an open air music festival in eastern Belgium on Thursday killing at least three people and injuring more than 70 others, an official said.

Critters moving away from global warming faster (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:29 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the Butterfly Conservation shows a Comma butterfly. A new study in Science shows that species across the world are moving further away from the equator and higher in elevation and doing so faster than before because of global warming. This is a photograph of a comma butterfly, which has moved north 135 miles in just 21 years in Great Britain. (AP Photo/Butterfly Conservation, Jim Asher)AP - Animals across the world are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago, a new study says.

Georgetown, Chinese basketball teams brawl (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:23 PM PDT

AP - A wild brawl broke out between Georgetown and a Chinese men's basketball team Thursday night, putting an immediate end to a supposed goodwill game that coincided with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the country.

Wall Street ends sharply lower on recession fears (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:06 PM PDT

The Governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin (C) rings the opening bell at New York Stock Exchange with Jeffrey Eubank, (L) NYSE Vice President for Global Affairs, and Lawrence Leibowitz, (R) NYSE COO, August 18, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)Reuters - Rising fears of another recession hammered U.S. stocks on Thursday, sending major averages more than 3 percent lower in a rerun of the extreme fluctuations investors had hoped were over.

News Corp executives mull chance James Murdoch may leave (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:36 AM PDT

Reuters - News Corp's senior management is starting to think about what the company might do if James Murdoch stepped aside, sources inside and close to the global media empire said.

Fed says it is treating U.S., European banks the same (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:39 AM PDT

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William C. Dudley pauses as he talks with a small business owner at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce in New York June 10, 2011. REUTERS/Jessica RinaldiReuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank is treating foreign banks the same as their U.S. peers, a policymaker said, putting himself at odds with a report that it was keeping a closer eye on European banks struggling with the continent's debt crisis.

HP plans PC spinoff, eyes Autonomy, halts WebOS (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co is in talks to buy British software company Autonomy and is pondering options for its personal computing division including a spinoff, as the tech giant steps up an overhaul aimed at rekindling growth.

Obama calls on Assad to step down (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:17 AM PDT

Syrians living in Lebanon, chant slogans in support of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and carry pictures of him, as an anti-government protest takes place at the same time a few metres away near the government palace in Beirut August 15, 2011. REUTERS/ Sharif KarimReuters - The United States for the first time explicitly called on Thursday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and imposed new economic sanctions likely to be followed up by the European Union.

U.S. regional factory plunges to 2-1/2 year low (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Factory activity in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region plunged to a nearly 2-1/2 year low in August and home resales unexpectedly dropped last month, stoking concerns that risks of recession are growing.

Analysis: Big economic talk, few plans from '12 Republicans (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:09 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry speaks at a business roundtable at Resonetics Laser Micromachining in Nashua, New Hampshire August 17, 2011. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - For presidential hopefuls in a campaign that is all about the U.S. economy, the Republican contenders have offered few clear plans for what they would do to get the country's finances back on track.

James Murdoch did not cover up Goodman details: law firm (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:28 AM PDT

Reuters - News Corp executive James Murdoch did not try to cover up the truth by blacking out sections of an incriminating letter written by disgraced News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman, lawyers acting for the company said Thursday.
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