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Saturday, August 13, 2011

GOP candidates assail Obama, woo activists (AP)

GOP candidates assail Obama, woo activists (AP)

GOP candidates assail Obama, woo activists (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:43 PM PDT

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and his wife Mary wave to supporters before he spoke at the Iowa Republican Party's Straw Poll, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - A test vote under way, Republicans running for the White House wooed Iowans Saturday by assailing President Barack Obama and offering themselves as the answer to an America plagued by high unemployment, rising debt and stock market swings.

Texas Gov. Perry jumps into 2012 Republican race (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Red State Gathering, where he announced his run for president in 2012 Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)AP - Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined the Republican presidential field Saturday and told supporters he would make the federal government "as inconsequential in your lives as I can" by reducing taxes and easing regulations.

Gunmen abduct US man in brazen raid in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT

Pakistani media follow a senior police officer at outside the house of a abducted American citizen in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. Gunmen abducted an American man after raiding his home in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday, Pakistani officials said, an unusually brazen attack on a foreigner in a country where kidnappings are believed to help fund Islamist militant movements. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - Gunmen kidnapped an American development expert after tricking his guards and breaking into his house in Pakistan on Saturday, a brazen raid that alarmed aid workers, diplomats and other foreigners who already tread carefully in this country rife with Islamic militancy and anti-U.S. sentiment.

Obama sets sights on rural America to talk jobs (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT

President Barack Obama leaves the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, on his way to play golf at Andrews Air Force Base. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Trading Washington's hot house for states critical to his re-election prospects, President Barack Obama is headed to the Midwest after a summer of discontent over a protracted debt showdown with Republicans and the downgrade in the nation's credit rating.

Heavy clashes as Libyan rebels enter Zawiya (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT

A Libyan rebel rests near the frontline outside Zawiya in western Libya, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. Libyan rebels fought their way into the strategic city of Zawiya west of Tripoli on Saturday in their most significant advance in months, battling snipers on rooftops and heavy shelling from Moammar Gadhafi's forces holding the city. (AP Photo/Giulio Petrocco)AP - Libyan rebels fought their way into the strategic city of Zawiya west of Tripoli on Saturday in their most significant advance in months, battling snipers on rooftops and heavy shelling from Moammar Gadhafi's forces holding the city.

Internet war of words breaks out in Miss. killing (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT

In this July 18, 2011 photograph, Hinds County Sheriff's deputy Lawyer Smith, left, escorts murder suspect John Aaron Rice, of Brandon, to a preliminary hearing at the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson, Miss. The murder charge against Rice was reduced to simple assault stemming from his involvement in a June hit-and-run death of James Craig Anderson, 49, of Jackson. Deryl Dedmon, also of Brandon, was charged in the death of Anderson. (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Greg Jenson) NO SALESAP - Authorities call it a hate crime by two white teens against a middle-aged black man, "murder by physically assaulting and purposefully using a 1998 Ford F-250 to run over James Craig Anderson."

Md. man held in Aruba had troubled past with women (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT

A police officer speaks on his two-way radio after a pink shirt and sandals were found while searching for Robyn Gardner, 35, of Frederick, Maryland, in a shaft of an old phosphate mine near Baby Beach, in the southern tip of Aruba, Friday Aug. 12, 2011. Authorities in Aruba believe Gardner, a missing American tourist, is no longer alive and are seeking to extend a detention order for her travel companion, Gary V. Giordano, as they seek witnesses who will help them build a case against him, a prosecutor on the Dutch Caribbean island said Friday. (AP Photo/Dilma Arends Geerman)AP - The man Aruban authorities suspect was involved in the death of his travel companion while visiting the Dutch Caribbean island courted other women with his blue-green eyes, tall physique and offers of cruises and vacations, and his $1.3 million stone mansion in this upper-class Washington suburb.

SF transit blocks cellphones to disrupt protest (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT

FILE - Commuters enter and exit a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco's financial district in this Sept. 15, 1997 file photo. Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as BART, said Friday Aug. 12, 2011 that they blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting. (AP Photo/Robin Weiner, File)AP - A decision by San Francisco Bay Area transit officials to cut off cell phone service at some of its stations to thwart a planned protest drew angry response Saturday from one transit board member who said she was shocked that officials acted as "this type of censor."

Greyhound bus overturns; 14 taken to Pa. hospitals (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:50 PM PDT

Emergency personnel work the scene where a Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis from New York City flipped on its side on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, briefly trapping a woman and injuring about two dozen people, according to authorities, about one mile east of the Lancaster-Lebanon interchange, early Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, near Manheim, Pa. (AP Photo/Lancaster Newspapers, Dan Marschka)AP - The driver of a Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis lost control on the Pennsylvania Turnpike early Saturday, sending the bus careering across the highway and up an embankment before it landed on its side on the interstate, briefly trapping a woman and sending 14 people to hospitals, authorities said.

Huge diamond forfeited in Ohio to be auctioned (AP)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 11:46 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows a large yellow diamond. The large yellow diamond, known as the “Golden Eye,” was seized in a federal drug and money laundering investigation in northeast Ohio and is going on the auction block with the minimum bid to start at $900,000. The 43.51 carat diamond belonged to an Ohio businessman convicted of money laundering and conspiracy. A refundable deposit of $180,000 is required to be able to view the diamond in Cleveland the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2 and bid on it during the auction that begins at 8 a.m. on Sept. 6 and continues until 3 p.m. Sept. 8. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)AP - A large yellow diamond — known as the "Golden Eye" — seized in a federal drug and money-laundering investigation in northeast Ohio is going on the auction block with the minimum starting bid set at $900,000.

Texas Governor Perry launches 2012 presidential bid (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:38 PM PDT

Reuters - Republican Rick Perry, the conservative governor of Texas, on Saturday declared himself a candidate for U.S. president with a blistering attack on Democratic President Barack Obama.

Republicans compete in Iowa as Perry jumps in (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Texas Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) prays during Reuters - Six Republican presidential hopefuls competed on Saturday in the Iowa straw poll, an unofficial test of campaign strength, as Texas Governor Rick Perry formally launched a White House run that could reshape the 2012 race.

Italy calls for euro bonds, UK backs fiscal union (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 11:19 AM PDT

Reuters - Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti stepped up calls for a more coordinated response to the euro zone debt crisis, including the creation of euro bonds, ahead of a crucial Franco-German summit next week.

American man kidnapped by assailants in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 08:57 AM PDT

Police and security officials gather outside the residence of an American citizen, whom the U.S. embassy declined to identify, after he was kidnapped in Lahore August 13, 2011. REUTERS/Mohsin RazaReuters - Several assailants broke into a house in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore in the pre-dawn hours Saturday, overcame security guards and kidnapped a U.S. man identified as an international development expert, police said.

Syrian forces kill 3 as tanks enter coastal city (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 11:15 AM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON A GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR. A military vehicle is parked on a main street of Hama August 11, 2011. REUTERS/Mehmet Emin CaliskanReuters - Syrian troops killed three people as tanks swept into a coastal city on Saturday, activists said, in a crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad which drew criticism from an international Muslim group.

Gaddafi forces, rebels fight over Zawiyah (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:30 PM PDT

An injured rebel fighter lies on a bed at Al-Galah hospital in Benghazi August 12, 2011 after he was wounded when rebel fighters clashed with forces loyal to Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi in Actbekat in the industrial area in Brega. REUTERS/Esam Al-FetoriReuters - Libyan government forces and rebels clashed around the western town of Zawiyah on Saturday as the insurgents tried to push closer to the capital Tripoli.

Analysis: Glimmers of hope for deficit-cutting panel (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 10:09 PM PDT

Tourists walk past the Capitol dome in Washington, August 2, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - Having said no to taxes for months, Republicans now are saying maybe, in the face of public disgust over a deadlock in the Congress, a near government default and a worsening global economic crisis.

UK government says must tackle social problems after riots (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Aug 2011 08:07 AM PDT

Men look at a Greater Manchester Police advertising board displaying images of people suspected of committing crimes during the recent riots in Manchester, August 12, 2011. REUTERS/Phil NobleReuters - Britain needs to tackle deep-seated social problems following riots and looting in English cities this week, the center-right government said on Saturday, and a U.S. street crime expert it has brought in said arrests alone would not solve the problem.
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