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Friday, September 16, 2011

Spokeswoman: No shooting at Tucson Air Force base (AP)

Spokeswoman: No shooting at Tucson Air Force base (AP)

Spokeswoman: No shooting at Tucson Air Force base (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:54 PM PDT

AP - An Air Force base near Tucson was locked down Friday afternoon amid reports of someone with a weapon, but base officials said no shots were fired.

Libyan forces pull back after Bani Walid battles (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 10:45 AM PDT

A Libyan fighter celebrates in Bani Walid, Libya, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. Libyan fighters are streaming into Bani Walid, one of the remaining bastions of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi, in a new fierce push. The revolutionary forces, in dozens of pickup trucks mounted with heavy weapons, are making their way from the north into the town center. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Moammar Gadhafi supporters put up fierce resistance against offensives trying to storm two strongholds Friday, forcing revolutionary fighters into retreat in the mountains and turning Gadhafi's seaside hometown into an urban battlefield of snipers firing from mosques and heavy weapons rattling main boulevards.

UBS trader ordered held over fraud allegation (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 10:34 AM PDT

Alleged renegade UBS trader Kweku Adoboli, center, walks to a security van flanked by police officers after appearing at the City of London Magistrates Court in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. The alleged renegade trader accused of losing Swiss bank UBS about $2 billion in unauthorized trading was ordered held in prison custody Friday charged with fraud and false accounting. Adoboli, 31, will be held until another court appearance on Sept. 22, presiding magistrate Carolyn Wagstaff said. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - An alleged renegade trader accused of losing Swiss bank UBS about $2 billion in unauthorized trading was ordered held in prison custody Friday charged with fraud and false accounting.

Alleged renegade UBS trader had luxury lifestyle (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:41 AM PDT

Alleged renegade UBS trader Kweku Adoboli, center, walks to be taken away in a security van flanked by police officers after appearing at the City of London Magistrates Court in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. The alleged renegade trader accused of losing Swiss bank UBS about $2 billion in unauthorized trading was ordered held in prison custody Friday charged with fraud and false accounting. Adoboli, 31, will be held until another court appearance on Sept. 22, presiding magistrate Carolyn Wagstaff said. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Educated at an exclusive school in a picturesque patch of English countryside, Ghana-born trader Kweku Adoboli was known to neighbors as a polite and well dressed young man who mixed grueling hours in London's financial district with a lavish social life in the capital's nightspots.

Obama signs 1st major patent law change since 1952 (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:13 AM PDT

President Barack Obama signs the American Invents Act, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a major overhaul of the nation's patent system, a measure designed to ease the way for inventors to bring their products to market. "We can't afford to drag our feet any longer," the president said.

Palestinian leader will ask for full UN membership (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:07 AM PDT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures and the end of his speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. Abbas said Friday he would ask the Security Council next week to accept the Palestinians as full members at the United Nations. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - The Palestinian president said Friday he would ask the U.N. Security Council next week to endorse his people's decades-long quest for statehood but emphasized that he did not seek to isolate or delegitimize Israel.

Household wealth dipped in the spring (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:23 AM PDT

AP - Americans' wealth fell this spring for the first time in a year. Falling stocks and investments made many slightly poorer, a trend that worsened this summer.

Captured drug kingpin pets strain Mexico's zoos (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:37 PM PDT

AP - The three tiny squirrel monkeys led a life of luxury on a 16-acre ranch, surrounded by extravagant gardens and barns built for purebred horses.

Paul McCartney, Nancy Shevell to wed in London (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:58 AM PDT

FILE - This is a Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 file photo of British musician Paul McCartney and his girlfriend Nancy Shevell as they watch Stella McCartney's spring-summer 2011 ready to wear fashion collection show in Paris. Paul McCartney is set to tie the knot at the venue where he first married more than 40 years ago. Officials said Friday Sept. 16, 2011 that the former Beatle and fiancee Nancy Shevell have posted a notice of intention to marry at London's Marylebone Register Office. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - Paul McCartney is set to tie the knot at the venue where he first married more than 40 years ago.

EU toughens budget rules but stalls on Greece (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:48 PM PDT

Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker, left, and European Central Bank governor Jean-Claude Trichet speak at a press conference during an informal meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) in in Wroclaw , Poland on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. Rescue partners will decide in October on a crucial payout of bailout loan money to bankruptcy-threatened Greece. Juncker and other eurozone finance ministers were discussing Europe's financial crisis at an informal meeting in Wroclaw.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)AP - The European Union's 27 countries overcame a year of infighting to agree Friday to tougher budget rules that make it easier to punish overspending governments, but failed to produce any new measures that might contain the debt market turmoil threatening it.

UBS trader charged with $2 billion fraud (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Reuters - UBS trader Kweku Adoboli wept in a London court on Friday as he was charged with fraud and false accounting dating back to 2008, a day after the Swiss bank was plunged into crisis by revealing a $2 billion trading loss.

Geithner presses EU to act; meets resistance (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:15 AM PDT

Reuters - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner drew a cool response from EU policymakers when he urged them to leverage their bailout fund to better tackle the debt crisis and to start speaking with one voice.

Suspicious trades probed on Wall Street: regulator (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:16 AM PDT

Reuters - A Wall Street regulator said industry complaints about market manipulation and trade reporting have spiked this year, raising questions about the adequacy of banks' internal controls over their traders.

Consumer mood up but future outlook at 31-year low (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 10:49 AM PDT

Reuters - Consumer sentiment inched up in early September but Americans remained gloomy about the future with their expectations falling to the lowest level since 1980, a survey released on Friday showed.

Arizona air base on lockdown, no injuries reported (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:49 PM PDT

Reuters - Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona is on lockdown because of a "potential security situation," although no shots were fired and no one has been hurt, authorities said on Friday.

Oman plane in Iran, awaiting U.S. citizens' release (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:56 AM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. REUTERS/PRESS TVReuters - The Gulf state of Oman has sent a plane to Iran for the expected release of two U.S. citizens convicted of spying, and they could be freed within 24 hours, an Omani Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.

Gaddafi loyalists put Libyan forces to flight (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:20 PM PDT

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, National Transitional Council (NTC) head Mustafa Abdul Jalil (C) and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron join hands in Benghazi, September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Philippe WojazerReuters - Diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi fired barrages of rockets and mortars to repel an assault by Libyan interim government forces on one of their last bastions on Friday and also held off an advance on another.

BlackBerry bashed as questions swirl about future (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Reuters - Investors drove Research In Motion's stock down 20 percent on Friday as dismal quarterly results raised prospects that the BlackBerry maker will be sold, broken up, or at least placed under new leadership.

UN vote on Palestine: Can Tony Blair prevent a diplomatic train wreck? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:45 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Israeli and Palestinian leaders are headed for a showdown at the United Nations next week รข€" unless former British Prime Minister Tony Blair succeeds in an apparent 11th-hour bid to table a controversial UN vote on Palestinian statehood.

Texas's record as death penalty capital: a help for Rick Perry? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:34 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has presided over more executions than any governor in US history, at 235 ... and counting. With convicted murderer Duane Buck scheduled to die in Texas by lethal injection Thursday night, pending last-minute appeals to the governor and the US Supreme Court, a legitimate question is whether that record on capital punishment will help or hurt Mr. Perry in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination.
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