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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Berlusconi promises to resign amid Italy debt woes (AP)

Berlusconi promises to resign amid Italy debt woes (AP)

Berlusconi promises to resign amid Italy debt woes (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:17 PM PST

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi attends a voting session at the Lower Chamber, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Premier Silvio Berlusconi won a much-watched vote Tuesday, but the result laid bare his lack of support in Parliament as financial pressure from the eurozone debt crisis pummeled Italy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Italian Premier Minister Silvio Berlusconi said for the first time Tuesday that he would resign once parliament approves economic reforms, and Greek politicians said they were close to agreeing on a new government to lead their country through painful cutbacks.

Cain seeks to undercut accuser's credibility (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:16 PM PST

In this file photo taken Oct. 31, 2011, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain answers questions at the National Press Club in Washington about sexual harassment allegations. Sharon Bialek, a Chicago-area woman, accused Cain on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, of making an unwanted sexual advance against her in 1997. Cain's campaign instantly issued a denial. 'All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false,' it said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Increasingly under fire, Herman Cain on Tuesday sought to undercut the credibility of the latest woman whose accusations of unwanted sexual advances are threatening his Republican presidential campaign. His chief rival, Mitt Romney, weighed in for the first time, calling the allegations "particularly disturbing."

Official tells AP that support for Paterno eroding (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:23 PM PST

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno leaves the Louis and Mildred Lasch Football Building on the school campus in State College, Pa., Tuesday Nov. 8, 2011. Paterno's support among the Penn State board of trustees was described as 'eroding' Tuesday, threatening to end the 84-year-old coach's career amid a child sex-abuse scandal involving a former assistant and one-time heir apparent. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - Joe Paterno's support among the Penn State board of trustees was described as "eroding" Tuesday, threatening to end the 84-year-old coach's career amid a child sex-abuse scandal involving a former assistant and one-time heir apparent.

Mississippi and Kentucky elect governors (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:23 PM PST

Christi Chandler, left, and Stacy Hawsey, both of Madison and supporters of the Personhood Amendment promote their initiative as they waver signs at drivers in the midst of last minute campaigning Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 in Madison, Miss. The Mississippi measure that would define life as beginning at conception was given a decent chance of approval. Passage would be the first victory in the country for the so-called personhood movement, which aims to make abortion all but illegal. Similar attempts have failed in Colorado and are under way elsewhere. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Voters chose governors in Mississippi and Kentucky on Tuesday, casting ballots that could foreshadow the public's political mood just two months ahead of the first presidential primary and nearly four years into the worst economic slowdown since the Depression.

UN reports Iran work `specific' to nuke arms (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:14 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday Sep. 22, 2007 file photo, a member of Iranian Corps Guards of the Islamic Revolution looks at a Shahab 3 missile during military parade in Tehran to mark the 27th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Iran that sparked the 1980-88 war. The U.N. nuclear atomic energy agency said Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 for the first time that Iran is suspected of conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose is the development of nuclear arms. In its latest report on Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency outlines the sum of its knowledge on the Islamic Republic's alleged secret nuclear weapons work, including developing and mounting a nuclear payload onto its Shahab 3 intermediate range missile - a weapon that can reach Israel, Iran's arch foe. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)AP - The U.N. nuclear atomic energy agency said Tuesday for the first time that Iran is suspected of conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose is the development of nuclear arms.

Appeals court upholds Obama health care law (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:06 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2005, file photo Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, flanked by State Sen. Brian Lees, R-Springfield, left, speaks about his sweeping new health care initiative at the Statehouse in Boston. Republican presidential contenders courting an intensely partisan GOP primary electorate are promoting their experience in working with home-state Democrats to tackle big problems, particularly Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in an effort to broaden their appeal to independents, whose support will be critical in the general election next fall against President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)AP - A conservative-leaning appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care law, as the Supreme Court prepares to consider this week whether to resolve conflicting rulings over the law's requirement that all Americans buy health care insurance.

Cain accuser has checkered financial past (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:11 PM PST

Sharon Bialek, a Chicago-area woman, addresses a news conference at the Friars Club, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, in New York. Bialek accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of making an unwanted sexual advance against her in 1997. She says she wants to provide 'a face and a voice' to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Her motives and personal history under scrutiny, the woman who publicly has accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of groping her inside a parked car in July 1997 says she came forward out of duty.

Boxing great Joe Frazier dies at 67 of cancer (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:49 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 1975, file photo, heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier grimaces after Muhammad Ali, left, landed a blow to Frazier's head during their boxing bout in Manila, the Philippines. Ali won the fight after Frazier's manager stopped the fight in the 14th round. Frazier, the former heavyweight champion who handed Ali his first defeat yet had to live forever in his shadow, has died after a brief final fight with liver cancer. He was 67. The family issued a release confirming the boxer's death on Monday night, Nov. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/File)AP - Joe Frazier had to throw his greatest punch to knock down "The Greatest." A vicious left hook from Frazier put Muhammad Ali on the canvas in the 15th round in March 1971 when he became the first man to beat him in the Fight of the Century at Madison Square Garden.

Stranger's kindness is repaid by a fellow motorist (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:24 PM PST

This frame grab from dashboard video provided Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, by The Wisconsin State Patrol shows troopers assisting Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Canada. Giesbrecht was driving near Menomonie on Saturday when he stopped to assist with a tire change. The Wisconsin State Patrol says the 61-year-old then drove away and suffered cardiac arrest. Giesbrecht's wife stopped their pickup truck and waved her arms, and the motorist whom they had just helped, Sara Berg, stopped and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Patrol)AP - One good turn deserves another: A stranger stopped to help Sara Berg change a blown tire. Then, minutes later and a quarter-mile down the road, Berg and her cousin repaid the kindness, using CPR to help save the stranger's life when he went into cardiac arrest.

'20 Kids and Counting?': TV couple expecting 20th (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:00 PM PST

AP - TLC reality show "19 Kids and Counting" may soon need a new name. Arkansas couple Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar appeared with their burgeoning clan on NBC's "Today" show Tuesday and announced they are expecting their 20th child in April ( http://bit.ly/tVfmny).

Berlusconi loses majority, markets squeeze Italy (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 09:43 AM PST

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi talks to the media as he leaves a Euro zone leaders summit in Brussels in this October 27, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/FilesReuters - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lost his parliamentary majority on Tuesday after his reform-shy government's borrowing costs soared into the euro zone's danger zone with investors fearing a new, bigger Greece.

Latest accusations hurt Cain with Republicans: Reuters/Ipsos (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 01:10 PM PST

Sharon Bialek speaks during a news conference accusing Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of sexual harassment in New York, November 7, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - Forty percent of Republicans view presidential candidate Herman Cain less favorably after watching a video in which a woman accuses him of groping her in a car, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll results released on Tuesday.

Olympus admits hid losses for decades (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 11:04 AM PST

A man walks past a sign of Olympus Corp outside the company's showroom in Tokyo November 4, 2011 REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Japan's Olympus admitted on Tuesday it hid losses on securities investments dating back two decades, bowing to weeks of pressure to explain a series of baffling transactions that have put the future of the firm in doubt.

Berlusconi to resign after parliamentary setback (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:58 PM PST

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attends a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at Chigi palace in Rome in this March 14, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Alessandro BianchiReuters - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday he would resign after suffering a humiliating setback in parliament that showed a party revolt had stripped him of a majority.

Appeals court backs Obama healthcare law (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 11:46 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Human Rights Campaign's annual dinner in Washington, October 1, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law got a boost on Tuesday when an appeals court agreed with a lower court that dismissed a challenge and found the law's minimum coverage requirement was constitutional.

Pressure mounts on Paterno, Penn State coaching icon (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:11 PM PST

Reuters - Pressure mounted on Tuesday on Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno, one of the biggest names in American sports, in a scandal over allegations that a long-time assistant coach sexually abused boys and school officials covered it up.

USS Cole bomb suspect finally gets his day in court (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PST

Reuters - Nine years after his capture and a decade after the United States first authorized military tribunals for terrorist suspects, the alleged mastermind of the deadly bombing of the USS Cole will face a judge in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.

News Corp paper spied on UK's Prince William: report (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 12:57 PM PST

Prince William waves on arrival at the Guildhall in Windsor, southern England, for the civil wedding ceremony of his father [Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles] April 9, 2005.Reuters - The News of the World, the now-defunct tabloid at the center of the News Corp phone-hacking scandal, paid a private eye to spy on Prince William and a host of other high-profile people, the BBC said on Tuesday.

How wrangle over Jerusalem is at the core of a US Supreme Court showdown (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:57 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The status of Jerusalem, bitterly contested for ages by rivals in the Middle East, has for years also divided the legislative and executive branches of the US government.

Bank Transfer Day: How much impact did it have? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:59 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Bankers at the roughly 15,000 community banks and credit unions across the United States have been spending Monday running the numbers. And this is no routine tally.
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