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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Jackson's wife calls his depression 'debilitating'

Jackson's wife calls his depression 'debilitating'

Jackson's wife calls his depression 'debilitating'

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 01:14 PM PDT

The wife of Jesse Jackson Jr. says the longtime Illinois congressman is suffering from depression that has been "debilitating" and even caused him to collapse at their home in Washington.

NASA spacecraft barreling toward a Mars landing

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 12:58 PM PDT

After an 8 1/2-month voyage through space, NASA's souped-up Mars spacecraft zoomed toward the red planet for what the agency hopes will be an epic touchdown.

Olympics 2012: Live Report

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 12:24 PM PDT

1922 GMT: "The Americans clocked 3m52.05secs to shatter the world record held by China of 3:52.19," reports Rob Smith.

Residents find little left in burned Oklahoma town

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 12:22 PM PDT

A home burns during a large wildfire Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 in Luther, Okla. A wildfire whipped by gusty, southerly winds swept through rural woodlands north and south of Oklahoma City on Friday, burning several homes as firefighters struggled to contain it in 113-degree heat. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Bryan Terry)Residents who sifted through their charred belongings Saturday found little that was salvageable after a roaring wildfire that may have been deliberately set swept across the dry Oklahoma landscape.

Southwest says computer glitch caused ticket woes

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2012 file photo, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 waits to take off at Chicago's Midway Airport as another lands. Southwest Airlines' attempt to thank its online friends with a half-price ticket sale has backfired with customers inadvertently being billed multiple times, not feeling the "luv." Airline spokeswoman Ashley Dillon on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 blamed a "technology glitch" for the duplicate billings to debit and credit cards. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)Southwest Airlines' attempt to thank its online friends with a half-price ticket sale has backfired with customers inadvertently being billed multiple times, not feeling the "luv."

Feds back NYC man's bid to reverse murder rap

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 12:07 PM PDT

This Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 photo provided by attorney Peter Cross shows Cross, left, posing while on a visit with his client Eric Glisson at New York's Sing Sing prison. Glisson was convicted in the 1995 killing of a livery cab driver in New York City but a review of new evidence points to a wrongful murder conviction. (AP Photo/Peter Cross)Earlier this year, a man locked up more than 15 years for murder wrote federal prosecutors in Manhattan telling them what he'd said all along and what authorities hear from inmates all the time: that he was wrongly convicted.

VP Biden praises veterans for their sacrifices

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:58 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden is praising America's veterans for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of their country.

Vertical skydiving world record broken in Illinois

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT

In this image provided by Brian Buckland, 138 skydivers form a massive snowflake formation Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 over Ottawa, Ill. Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, a group of nearly 140 skydivers shattered the vertical skydiving world record as they flew heads-down in a massive snowflake formation in northern Illinois (AP Photo/Brian Buckland)Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, a group of nearly 140 skydivers shattered the vertical skydiving world record as they flew heads-down in a massive snowflake formation in northern Illinois.

Tropical Storm Ernesto heads toward Jamaica

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 at 01:45 AM EDT shows Tropical Storm Ernesto over the southeastern Caribbean Sea. In addition, showers and thunderstorms are noted from central Cuba northward over the central and northwestern Bahamas. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)Tropical Storm Ernesto blew across open waters Saturday on a projected path that would skirt Jamaica and hit Mexico after dumping heavy rain on islands in the eastern Caribbean.

Pistorius makes it to semifinals of Olympic 400

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:29 AM PDT

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competes in a men's 400-meter heat during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza)It began with a smile at the starting line.

US men survive Olympic test, beat Lithuania 99-94

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:23 AM PDT

When the moment arrived, the Americans responded.

Olympic sprinter sent home for missing practice

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:20 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, May 6, 2012 file photo, Kim Collins of St. Kitts and Nevis cross the finish line during the men's 100-meter race at the Golden Grand Prix in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. Collins has been disciplined by the St. Kitts and Nevis team and dropped from the men's 100-meter event Saturday Aug. 4, 2012 at the London Olympics. St. Kitts and Nevis team spokesman Lester Hanley told The Associated Press that Collins won't run in his heat after breaking team discipline rules by leaving the athletes' village. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)Former 100-meter world champion Kim Collins was expelled by his team from the London Olympics on Saturday for missing training sessions. He said he was being punished for spending time with his wife.

US Bank ATMs back online after 2-hour power outage

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:17 AM PDT

U.S. Bancorp says service has been restored at its 8,000 automatic teller machines across the nation following a two-hour outage.

Pakistan arrests Taliban planning attacks: police

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:11 AM PDT

Pakistani policemen escort arrested Taliban militants at a police headquarter in MultanPakistani police said on Saturday they had arrested five Taliban militants who were planning "terror attacks" in the central city of Multan and other towns in the region.

Pathan bowls India to win in final Sri Lanka ODI

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 11:02 AM PDT

Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan (C) celebrates after dismissing Sri Lankan cricketer Jeevan Mendis (R)Irfan Pathan grabbed five wickets as India posted a 20-run victory over Sri Lanka in the fifth and final one-day international in Pallekele on Saturday to win the series 4-1.

Paes and Mirza bow out of Games

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:58 AM PDT

Sania Mirza (L) and Leander Paes (R) of India touch hands during a gameLeander Paes hinted he would like to continue his controversial mixed doubles partnership with Sania Mirza after the Indian pair bowed out of the Olympics with a 7-5, 7-6 (7/5) quarter-final loss to Belarus top seeds Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka.

Gunmen kidnap Iranians just outside Syrian capital

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:52 AM PDT

This citizen journalism image taken on Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 purports to show Syrian rebels celebrating after taking over the Ansari police station in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria on August 3, 2012. (AP Photo) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALIST IMAGEGunmen snatched 47 Iranian pilgrims just outside Damascus on Saturday in a brazen attack that revealed the growing instability at the center of President Bashar Assad's power.

MSF urges Bangladesh to reconsider Rohingya aid ban

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:49 AM PDT

A Rohingya refugee child stands in the doorway of a shelter in an unregistered camp in BangladeshDoctors Without Border (MSF) Saturday urged Dhaka to reconsider its ban on providing aid to Myanmar's Rohingya refugees, saying the humanitarian consequences of the decision will be "devastating".

Berlin cautions EU against over-reliance on Germany

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:49 AM PDT

Germany's Foreign Minister Guido WesterwelleEurope should not rely too heavily on Germany to fix the eurozone crisis, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned Saturday in an interview with the weekly news magazine Focus.

Israeli troops wound man near Syrian Golan fence

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:44 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot across the ceasefire line with Syria on the occupied Golan Heights to wound a man suspected of planning to tamper with the boundary fence on Saturday, the military said. The Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in a 1967 war and later annexed, has been largely untouched by the 17-month-old uprising rocking Damascus. But Israel has been on guard for hostilities or refugee influxes on the strategic plateau. ...

US passes Lithuanian test thanks to LeBron

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:39 AM PDT

LeBron JamesLeBron James answered the challenge of the toughest Olympic opponent yet for the US NBA Dream Team, sparking a late rally to give the Americans a 99-94 victory over Lithuania and a quarter-final berth.

LEBRON: THERE WHEN YOU NEED HIM

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:32 AM PDT

LeBron James always disappears in crunch time: That was the criticism of James' career for years, and he has dismantled that theory over the last two months.

Covering Olympics from New York

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:30 AM PDT

Between Olympic soccer matches, NBC analyst Marcelo Balboa fields texts and emails from friends who ask him, "How's London?"

General says all Damascus retaken, Aleppo pounded

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:29 AM PDT

Syrian army troops are deployed in the Damascus suburb of TadamunThe Syrian army said Saturday it had seized the last rebel-held district of the capital Damascus as insurgents in the strategic northern city of Aleppo came under heavy bombardment by regime forces.

India clears mission to Mars

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:27 AM PDT

INDIA-SPACE-ISROIndia's government has cleared plans to put an orbital probe around Mars next year to study the red planet's climate and geology, a report said Saturday.

48 Iran pilgrims abducted in Damascus: Iran state TV

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:22 AM PDT

View of the deserted neighbourhood of Sit Zeinab on the outskirts of Damascus in July 2012Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped from a bus in the Syrian capital on Saturday, their embassy's consular chief in Damascus told Iran's state television.

Could tougher voting laws squelch the youth vote?

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:14 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, July 31, 2012, photo, Aubrey Marks, left, helps a University of Central Florida student to register to vote in Orlando, Fla. While most college campuses are relatively quiet, students at the University of Central Florida have taken it upon themselves to register their peers during the summer. Gone are the days when young voters weren't taken seriously. In 2008, they helped propel Barack Obama into the Oval Office, supporting him by a 2-1 margin. But that higher profile also has landed them in the middle of the debate over some state laws that regulate voter registration and how people identify themselves at the polls. (AP Photo/John Raoux)Gone are the days when young voters weren't taken seriously. In 2008, they helped propel Barack Obama into the Oval Office, supporting him by a 2-1 margin.

Goodell tells kids: Play the game right

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:13 AM PDT

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is interviewed during a visit to the Akron Parents Pee Wee Football League practice field in Akron, Ohio, on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. These youth football players from low income families, are among thousands nationwide who benefit from a youth safety and helmet replacement program, partially sponsored by the NFL, to improve player safety. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)More than 100 youth football players knelt in the grass in front of the white goal post, waiting to strap up their new helmets. First, they got a warning from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Montoya takes pole at Pocono Raceway

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:11 AM PDT

Juan Pablo Montoya has turned a lap of 176.043 mph to win the pole at Pocono Raceway.

India's economic growth seen lower as rains play truant

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:09 AM PDT

An Indian farmer ploughs his field with the help of family membersIndia's economic growth could slip to near six percent this year with the country facing the spectre of its third drought in a decade, a top government policymaker says.

Oklahoma governor tours town burned by wildfire

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 10:01 AM PDT

A home burns during a large wildfire Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 in Luther, Okla. A wildfire whipped by gusty, southerly winds swept through rural woodlands north and south of Oklahoma City on Friday, burning several homes as firefighters struggled to contain it in 113-degree heat. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Bryan Terry)Firefighters in Oklahoma have under control a wildfire that's suspected to be the work of arsonists.

Minnows easy prey for big beasts

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:55 AM PDT

Laotian runner Kilakone Siphonexay (R)Bolt v Blake. More than any other race at the Olympics, the 100m is billed as a showdown between the preening big beasts of the sprinting world.

Pakistan: Main NATO supply route reopens

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:54 AM PDT

A Pakistani border official says a key crossing to Afghanistan in the country's northwest has been reopened for NATO supplies after being closed for nearly two weeks due to a militant attack.

Egypt's Christian leader lashes out at government

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, July 22, 2012 file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, left, meets with the minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hesham Kandil, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo. Egypt's Islamist president is to swear in a new Cabinet as tensions rise over the country's tenuous security, recent sectarian violence and popular discontent over issues such as widespread water and power outages. The U.S.-educated Kandil will announce the Cabinet lineup on Thursday before he and his ministers are sworn in by Morsi. (AP Photo/Ahmed Mourad, Egyptian Presidency, File)The acting leader of Egypt's Coptic Church on Saturday criticized the new government sworn in by Islamist President Mohammed Morsi for what he said was an "unfair" representation of Christians that ignores their rights as citizens.

Sprint kings cruise, Pistorius, Serena make history

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:46 AM PDT

Jamaica's Usain Bolt competes in the men's 100m heatsWorld record holder Usain Bolt and world champion Yohan Blake stormed onto centre-stage at the Olympics on Saturday as amputee runner Oscar Pistorius and tennis star Serena Williams made history.

Afghan parliament votes to oust key ministers

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2010, file photo, Afghan Interior Minister Bismullah Mohammadi speaks during a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan parliament has passed a vote of no confidence against the country's defense and interior ministers on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. Lawmakers have demanded that President Hamid Karzai appoint replacements for Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and Mohammadi (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)The Afghan parliament voted Saturday to dismiss the country's defense and interior ministers, a move that threatens to throw the country's security apparatus into confusion as foreign forces withdraw.

Sudan and South Sudan strike oil exportation deal

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:43 AM PDT

South Sudan and Sudan announced Saturday that they have struck a deal over the south's exportation of oil through Sudan's pipelines and the distribution of oil revenues.

Nehwal makes history for India

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:43 AM PDT

India's Saina Nehwal poses with her bronze medalSaina Nehwal became the first Indian badminton player to earn an Olympic medal on Saturday when China's world number one Wang Xin retired in tears from their bronze medal play-off.

Sudan, South Sudan reach oil deal, will hold border talks

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:34 AM PDT

Sudan's President al-Bashir welcomes his South Sudanese counterpart Kiir during his arrival at Khartoum AirportADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan said on Saturday it had reached a deal with South Sudan on oil transit fees, a first step towards ending a dispute which had brought the hostile neighbours close to war, but also said it wanted a border security agreement before oil flows resumed. The shareout of oil revenues was one of the biggest issues left unresolved when South Sudan became independent in July last year, under a 2005 agreement that ended decades of civil war, and fighting along the ill-defined border pushed them close to war in April. U.S. ...

Truman grandson visits Hiroshima A-bomb memorial

Posted: 04 Aug 2012 09:34 AM PDT

Clifton Truman Daniel, left, a grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, is greeted by Japanese peace activist Masahiro Sasaki who arranged Daniels' first visit to Japan, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. Daniel laid a wreath at the park Saturday for the 140,000 people killed by the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing authorized by his grandfather. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEA grandson of ex-U.S. President Harry Truman, who ordered the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, is in Hiroshima to attend a memorial service for the victims.
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