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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Jackie Mason companion arrested on assault charge

Jackie Mason companion arrested on assault charge

Jackie Mason companion arrested on assault charge

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FILE- In this Aug 28, 2002, comic Jackie Mason addresses the media at a comedy club in Chicago. On Friday, March 30, 2012, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said that the NYPD is investigating allegations that the comic roughed up a female companion. Kelly said the alleged altercation stemmed from a dispute. (AP Photo/Stephen J. Carrera, File)Police say a woman who accused comedian Jackie Mason of roughing her up during a domestic dispute has been arrested on an assault charge stemming from the incident.

Court could dent US federal power in health case

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Two policemen guard outside the US Supreme CourtA rejection of President Barack Obama's health reform would mark a rare rebuke by a conservative Supreme Court eager to limit the powers of the US federal government, analysts say.

Monterosso wins $10 million World Cup

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Monterosso from Great Britain ridden by Mickael Barzalona, crosses the finish line to win the Dubai World Cup race, Saturday, March 31, 2012, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Stephen Hindley)Monterosso won the $10 million Dubai World Cup, the world's richest horse race, in a victory for the ruler of Dubai after one of his horses was badly injured in another race.

Clinton: Time running out for diplomacy with Iran

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles during a joint press conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal following a U.S.-Gulf Cooperation Council forum at the GCC secretariat in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday, March 31, 2012. Clinton geared up for talks in Saudi Arabia about plans for a Gulf missile shield against Iran and ways to press Tehran's ally Syria to stop killing Syrians. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made clear Saturday that time is running out for diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program and said talks aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon would resume in mid-April.

Egypt's Brotherhood fields presidential candidate

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, already in control of almost half the seats in parliament, announced on Saturday it was fielding its own presidential candidate, reversing an earlier decision not to do so and setting the stage for confrontation with the nation's ruling generals and the group's secular and liberal critics.

Search intensifies for runner Micah True in NM

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Search teams intensified efforts Saturday to find renowned long-distance runner Micah True, who mysteriously vanished four days ago after heading out from a lodge for a morning run in the rugged wilderness near New Mexico's Gila National Forest.

Radwanska downs Sharapova to win Miami title

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Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland servesPoland's Agnieszka Radwanska captured her second title of 2012 by defeating world number two Maria Sharapova 7-5, 6-4 in the final of the WTA/ATP Miami tournament on Saturday.

Kan., Ill., Md. tickets win $640M lottery jackpot

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Alfredo Mora, 91, shows off his lottery ticket for a chance at the historic Mega Millions jackpot, that reached more than $600 million on Friday, March 30, 2012, in New York. After nobody won the March 27 drawing, the jackpot rolled over creating the largest pool of lottery money ever recorded in the world, according to the Mega Millions website. The previous record was $390 million. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)Three lottery tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland hit the world record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot, lottery officials said Saturday, dashing the get-rich-quick dreams of millions of players across the country.

Man denied entry to US from Mexico to bury son, 10

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A Mexican national said he has been barred from entering the United States to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen who died Tuesday in a house fire in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed three other people.

Romney pivots to fall, doubts linger in GOP right

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, greets people in the audience during a campaign stop in Muskego, Wis., Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)The Republican presidential candidates are focusing on Wisconsin, and front-runner Mitt Romney is appearing more and more confident that he's closing in on the nomination.

Protesters march in US town where teen was shot

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Thousands joined a march Saturday through the Florida town where 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer, vowing to continue protesting until an arrest is made.

Who are the lucky 3 to share record $656 million U.S. lottery?

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Store owner Jean Shin places a sign with the updated jackpot in Los AngelesATLANTA (Reuters) - Three lucky ticket-holders in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland will share the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history of $656 million, after about 1.5 billion $1 tickets were sold, lottery officials said on Saturday. At least two of the winners' tickets were "quick picks" - meaning all six numbers of the Mega Millions lottery computer picked the winning numbers announced at the drawing Friday night in Atlanta: 2-4-23-38-46 and Mega Ball 23. ...

Trio share record $640 million US lottery jackpot

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A woman fills out a Mega Millions lottery ticket formA record $640 million US lottery jackpot will be shared by three ticket-holders who clinched the prize after frenzied sales sent the massive windfall soaring ever higher, organizers said Saturday.

Euro zone agrees to boost rescue capacity

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Austrian Finance Minister Fekter delivers a speech next to Infrastructure Minister Bures during a session of the parliament in ViennaCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Friday to increase their financial firewall to 700 billion euros to ward off a new flare-up of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, drawing a positive initial reaction from G20 partners and markets. The 17-nation currency area agreed to combine two rescue funds to make 500 billion euros of new funds available in case of emergency until mid-2013, on top of 200 billion euros already committed to bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal. ...

Dutch minister says to follow IMF on aid to Greece

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ATHENS (Reuters) - The Netherlands will not give its share of bailout funds to Greece if the International Monetary Fund deems Athens has failed to keep its pledges and withholds its next tranche of aid, the Dutch finance minister said in a newspaper interview. The minister, who took a hard line during negotiations on Greece's second, 130 billion euro ($173 billion) bailout earlier this year, has in the past warned the programme remains fraught with risk and that its success depends on Athens' ability to push through reform. ...

Mega Millions winning numbers

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The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:

Ex-NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf arrested in Montana

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FILE - In this July 27, 2010, file photo, former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf is shown in Holter Lake, Mont. Authorities say Leaf was arrested in his Montana hometown on burglary and drug possession charges on Friday, March 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Albans, File)Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was arrested Friday in his Montana hometown of Great Falls on burglary and drug possession charges, police said.

Sharapova loses in Key Biscayne final to Radwanska

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Maria Sharapova of Russia, returns the ball to Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, during the women's singles final of the Sony Ericsson tennis tournament, Saturday, March 31, 2012, in Key Biscayne, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)Maria Sharapova lost her serve in the final game of each set Saturday and again fell short in a bid for her first Sony Ericsson Open title, losing to Agnieszka Radwanska 7-5, 6-4.

Syria says it won't be first to lay down arms

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This image made from amateur video and released by the Syria media center Friday, March 23, 2012, purports to show Syrians pulling out the body of a man under the rubble of a building that was bombed in Homs, Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad says he will spare no effort to make the mission of U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan a success but he demands that armed opponents commit to halting violence. (AP Photo/Syria Media Center via APTN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL. TV OUTSyria rejected international envoy Kofi Annan's call for the regime to halt violence first just days after the government agreed to a cease-fire plan. A senior official declared victory over the opposition.

Ireland faces popular revolt over new property tax

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Phyllis O'Toole joins an estimated 5,000 demonstrators in the streets of Dublin, Ireland, Saturday March 31, 2012, during protests against Ireland's new property tax. Ireland faces a public revolt as more than 1 million of Ireland's 1.6 million households have failed to pay the new property tax. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)Debt-mired Ireland is facing a revolt over its new property tax.

Jordan arrests 12 activists for insulting king

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Jordanian security forces arrested 12 activists for insulting the country's King Abdullah II in a rally in the capital on Saturday, a police official said.

San Diego woman gives birth while on the freeway

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A San Diego woman who was four days past her due date gave birth to a boy while her husband sped 85 mph to the hospital.

French diplomat doubts Afghan attack claim

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Jean de Ponton d?Amecourt, a former French ambassadorA former French ambassador Saturday confirmed a plot to assassinate him and two other top Western diplomats in Afghanistan, but doubted whether the governor whose province they were in was involved.

Bombs in southern Thailand kill 14, wound 341

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Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists.

Menu from Titanic's last lunch sells at UK auction

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This Wednesday March 28, 2012 shows a menu given to first class passengers on the day of the sinking of the Titanic and a set of keys used by Titanic crewman Samuel Hemming to unlock the door where the lifeboat lanterns were held after he was ordered by the ship's Captain to ensure all 15 lifeboats had lit oil lamps, as part of an auction of Titanic memorabilia at Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, England to commemorate the centenary of the ships completion. The menu, kept by a prominent San Francisco banker, bears the date April 14, the day in 1912 that the reputedly unsinkable cruiser hit an iceberg and fell to the bottom of the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUTA British auctioneer says that a first class menu from the Titanic's last lunch has sold for 76,000 pounds (about $120,000.)

Stricken cruise ship repaired, heading to Malaysia

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FILE - The Maltese registered cruise ship , Azamara Quest, sails through the Suez canal, Egypt, in this April 30, 2010 file photo from the Red sea towards the Mediterranean sea on its way to Athens. The fire on the Azamara Quest started late Friday, March 30, 2012 a day after the ship left Manila for Sandakan, Malaysia, and was immediately put out, said coast guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Algier Ricafrente. Five crew members were injured. (AP Photo/File)A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that had drifted for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire was headed toward Malaysia following repairs, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday.

Search continues for ultrarunner Micah True in NM

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More search teams fanned out in the rugged wilderness of New Mexico's Gila National Forest Saturday as the search expanded for renowned long-distance runner Micah True, who has not been seen since heading out for a run four days earlier.

Libya: 147 killed in 6 days of clashes in south

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Six days of tribal clashes in a remote desert town in southern Libya have killed 147 people, the country's health minister said Saturday.

Humor can help candidates; ouch when it doesn't

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FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, right, spar during a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas. Perry, still nursing wounds from his failed presidential campaign, did himself a world of good with his self-deprecating jokes at a dinner in Washington in March. First, he joked that his time as the GOP front-runner had been Mitt Romney hit an off note when he told a "humorous" story about his dad shutting down a factory.

Cuba makes Good Friday a holiday after papal trip

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Cuba has honored an appeal by Pope Benedict XVI and declared next week's Good Friday a holiday for the first time since the early days following the island's 1959 Revolution, though a decision on whether the move will be permanent will have to wait.

Dubai Gold Cup race halted after horse goes down

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a women in western dress, left, sits next to Arab men during the Dubai World Cup horse race, Saturday, March 31, 2012, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)The $1 million Dubai Gold Cup was halted and called off Saturday after a horse owned by the stables of Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed tumbled to the track.

Pa. trial shows church abuse allegations strategy

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FILE - March 7, 2011Philip Gaughan, left, accompanied by, from the left, attorney Dan Monahan, his father Philip J. Gaughan, and wife Michelle Gaughan, speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia. Gaughan has a civil suit pending over abuse he said he suffered throughout his high school years by the pastor of his northeast Philadephia parish. Gaughan, 32, of Delaware, has been following coverage of a Philadelphia church official's landmark child endangerment trial, and hopes to watch some of the testimony. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke,File)The long, typed letter fantasizes about a seventh-grader's body, and asks if the boy wants to try various sex acts.

Poles talk about CIA prison, breaking silence

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FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2005 file photo a watch tower overlooks the area near the Polish intelligence school just outside of Stare Kiejkuty, Poland. The installation has become the focal point of allegations of secret CIA prisons in Poland. For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public. But a heated political debate this week reveals how dramatically the narrative has changed. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday, March 29, 2012, that Poland has become the For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public.

Sydney Opera House in the dark over Earth Hour

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The Great Wall of China is lit up shortly before the lights go off to mark 'Earth Hour' as part of a global effort to shine a spotlight on climate change in north of Beijing, China, Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/ Vincent Thian)Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge and Opera House went dark on Saturday as Australians switched off lights around the country for an hour as part of a global effort to shine a spotlight on climate change.

Iraqi-American woman slain in US is buried in Iraq

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Mourners carry a coffin draped with Iraqi flags during the funeral procession for Shaima Alawadi in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 31, 2012. Alawadi was an Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week, with a threatening note left beside her body, was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week with a threatening note left beside her body was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Family members wept uncontrollably by her graveside and her father asked God to exact revenge on those responsible for her death.

Mega Millions winners are rich, but not THAT rich

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The $1.46 billion that Americans are expected to spend on Mega Millions lottery tickets could buy: 26 trips to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft; more than 2.9 million new iPads at the starting price of $499; 12,000 Maserati GranTurismo sports cars; gasoline for 685,000 American households for a year; or a 73 percent share of the Los Angeles Dodgers, based on the $2 billion Magic Johnson and other investors agreed to pay this week for the baseball franchise. (AP Photo, File)Congratulations, Mega Millions winners! You've just won the biggest lottery in history! Move over Bill Gates and Warren Buffett!

80 arrested after anti-Islam protest in Denmark

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More than 80 people were arrested Saturday as protesters hurling rocks and bottles tried to interrupt an anti-Islamic demonstration by far-right groups from across northern Europe, Danish police said.

Patrick Chan wins 2nd world figure skating title

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Patrick Chan of Canada performs during his men's free skating program at the 2012 World Figure skating Championships in Nice, southern France, Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)Patrick Chan of Canada won the figure skating world title for the second straight year Saturday despite a flawed free skate that included a late tumble. He is the first man to win consecutive titles since the now retired Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland in 2006.
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