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Friday, August 24, 2012

Wozniacki retires with knee injury at New Haven

Wozniacki retires with knee injury at New Haven

Wozniacki retires with knee injury at New Haven

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:59 PM PDT

Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, speaks with reporters after retiring from her semifinal match, after losing the first set 7-5, against Maria Kirilenko, of Russia, at the New Haven Open tennis tournament in New Haven, Conn., on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. A right knee injury suffered in the quarterfinals forced the retirement. (AP Photo/Fred Beckham)Caroline Wozniacki's 20-match winning streak in New Haven ended Friday when the four-time defending champion retired from her semifinal match with Maria Kirilenko with a knee injury.

US court rejects graphic cigarette warnings

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:57 PM PDT

A US court on Friday shot down orders to slap graphic anti-tobacco messages on cigarette packs, saying the government overstepped its authority by trying to "browbeat" smokers into quitting.

Lawyer in Bieber case fights anti-paparazzi law

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 11, 2012 file photo, pop star Justin Bieber poses for photos prior to a press conference at a hotel in Mexico City. The attorney for a paparazzo charged under a new California law aimed at curtailing the dangerous pursuit of celebrities for photos said Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, that he is challenging the law's constitutionality. Paul Raef was charged with four counts stemming from a July 6, 2012 freeway pursuit of Bieber by photographers. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)A paparazzo charged with recklessly pursuing Justin Bieber for photos will challenge the constitutionality of the law targeting aggressive celebrity-hounding tactics, his attorney said Friday.

Prosecutors: Aurora suspect made threat in March

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT

Newly filed court records allege that the man accused of opening fire on an Aurora movie theater told a classmate he wanted to kill people four months before the shooting.

2 killed, 9 wounded outside Empire State Building

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:52 PM PDT

New York City police approach the lifeless body of Jeffrey Johnson lying on a sidewalk near the Empire State Building in New York following a shooting Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Police say 58-year-old Johnson, who was laid off from a nearby shop in 2011, shot a former colleague to death near the iconic skyscraper, then randomly opened fire on people nearby before firing on police. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said some of the victims may have been hit by police bullets as police and the gunman exchanged fire. (AP Photo/Guillermo Ratzlaff)A women's accessories designer fatally shot a vice president from his former company outside the Empire State Building on Friday, causing a chaotic showdown with police Friday in front of one of the world's best-known landmarks. Police killed the suspect and at least nine others were wounded, some by stray police gunfire, authorities said.

PR consultant: More Harry material may emerge soon

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:51 PM PDT

FILE- Britain's Prince Harry watches track cycling during the 2012 Summer Olympics, in this file photo dated Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in London. Nude photographs of Prince Harry in a Las Vegas, USA, hotel room are published on the Internet Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012, and now security experts are wondering whether the Scotland Yard officers who are assigned to keep the 27-year-old royal safe from harm, might have done a better job of keeping him out of trouble. The photos available on the Internet and not taken by Photographers' long lenses but are up close and personal. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Brace yourself, Harry.

Texas man freed after DNA clears him of 1989 rape

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:50 PM PDT

A man who spent more than two decades behind bars was freed Friday after DNA evidence cleared him in the rape of a 14-year-old Fort Worth girl.

Photographed doc lays out Assange police tactics

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:50 PM PDT

A document is held by an unidentified British police officer, which outlines that A confidential document photographed by Britain's Press Association news agency lays out Scotland Yard's simple strategy for dealing with Julian Assange should he ever try to leave Ecuador's Embassy in London.

Solly the hippo dies in South Africa rescue effort

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:49 PM PDT

A hippo is lifted from a swimming pool Friday Aug. 24, 2012, at the Monate Conservation Lodge, near Modimolle, South Africa, after being trapped there for three days. The young hippo had plunged into the deep pool on Tuesday after being chased off from his herd by male members seeking dominance, wandered into the lodge's camp and fell into the pool. The animal died just before the rescue operation got under way. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)What started out as a day of hope for Solly the hippo turned to tragedy when rescuers were unable to save the 3-ton beast from the swimming pool he plunged into after being chased from his herd.

Armstrong gets support from fellow riders

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 24, 2004, file photo, overall leader Lance Armstrong, right, of Austin, Texas, follows compatriot and teammate Floyd Landis, left, in the ascent of the La Croix Fry pass during the 17th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Bourg-d'Oisans and Le Grand Bornand, French Alps. Armstrong, whose stirring victories after his comeback from cancer helped him transcend sports, chose not to pursue arbitration in the drug case brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. That was his last option in his bitter fight with USADA and his decision set the stage for the titles to be stripped and his name to be all but wiped from the record books of the sport he once ruled. (AP Photo/Bernard Papon, Pool, File)Lance Armstrong received plenty of support from fellow riders Friday.

11 hit in Empire State Building shoot-out

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:47 PM PDT

A laid-off designer of women's accessories gunned down a former co-worker outside New York's Empire State Building before being killed by police in a rush hour shoot-out Friday that wounded nine others.

'Drugstore cowboy' author dies in Wash. Prison

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:45 PM PDT

James Fogle, who wrote "Drugstore Cowboy," an autobiographical crime novel that led to an acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon, has died. He was 75.

Jimmie Johnson stayed silent out of frustration

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:45 PM PDT

Jimmie Johnson said Friday he was too frustrated to speak to reporters following his engine failure at Michigan.

1999 Tour podium finisher says Armstrong remains champion

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:43 PM PDT

ALCANIZ, Spain (Reuters) - Spain's Fernando Escartin, who will rise from third to second in the 1999 Tour de France if Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven victories in the race, said the American would always be the champion. "For me Lance Armstrong remains the 1999 Tour winner, second Zulle and third me," the now-retired Escartin told Reuters at the Vuelta a Espana race on Friday. "It's 13 years now since this all happened, it seems completely illogical and unreal. I don't want to even think about it. ...

Missouri woes are latest for GOP in Senate quest

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., talks with a supporter at the Governor's Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair. McCaskill has been clearly uncomfortable discussing Akin's plight publicly, but she has been steadfast in her insistence that he should not be forced out. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)It's not just Todd Akin. The fallout from the Missouri Senate candidate's "legitimate rape" comment was the latest signal that the Republican path to the majority in the Senate may have just gotten tougher.

Teen arraigned, jailed in Pa. newborn abduction

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:40 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, shows Breona Moore, of of McKeesport, Pa., who was arraigned Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, on charges she kidnapped a 3-day-old infant from Magee-Women's Hospital of UPMC. The newborn was found with Moore on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 and was reunited with his parents unharmed. Moore remains jailed unable to post $250,000 bond and was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation by a city court judge. (AP Photo/ Pittsburgh Bureau of Police)A 19-year-old woman who falsely claimed to be pregnant was arraigned Friday on charges she kidnapped a 3-day-old infant from a hospital after pretending to be a nurse and sneaking the baby boy out inside a zippered handbag, police said.

Nicaragua seizes $7 million from fake journalists

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Nicaragua National Police present 18 foreigners believed to be Mexican nationals who posed as Televisa journalists, in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Police Commissioner Aminta Granera said the men posed as Televisa journalists to cover the trial of Nicaraguan businessman Henry Fariñas, survivor of an attack that killed the singer Facundo Cabral last year. The Mexican ambassador to Nicaragua confirmed that the Mexican news channel has no correspondents in Nicaragua. It is unclear why the men were posing as journalists. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) —

Caged tigers stuck on Paraguay border for 2 months

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:37 PM PDT

Imagine being stuck in a cage for two months while going through customs. That's the border limbo that 16 tigers have faced in Paraguay because Argentine officials refuse to approve their paperwork for entry.

Diplomats: Iran shrouds suspected nuclear site

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:36 PM PDT

Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, centre left, and Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh speak to journalists after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)Iran has shrouded a building that the U.N. nuclear agency suspects was used for secret work on atomic weapons, meaning spy satellites can no longer monitor Tehran's alleged efforts to clean up the site, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.

U.S. Anti-Doping Agency strips Armstrong of titles for cheating

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:31 PM PDT

File photo of seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong awaiting the start of the 2010 Cape Argus Cycle Tour in Cape Town(Reuters) - Lance Armstrong was stripped of his record seven Tour de France wins and handed a lifetime ban by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on Friday but remained defiant as ever, as supporters rallied around the American cyclist. Saying, "enough is enough", Armstrong sent out a statement late on Thursday indicating that he would not challenge USADA's charges he had doped throughout his career while continuing to deny he ever used performance-enhancing drugs. ...

A word from Bernanke turns stocks around

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT

FILE- In a Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, Robert Vella, center, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. On Thursday Aug. 23, 2012 with prospects of the Fed helping the economy seeming less certain than the day before, stocks fell (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)The stock market keeps getting tossed around by the Fed.

AP Exclusive: Romney uses secretive data-mining

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets into his car to attend a fundraising event on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012 in Nantucket, Mass. The unprecedented success of Romney to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in the costliest presidential race ever can be traced in part to a secretive data-mining project that sifts through Americans' personal information _ including their purchasing history and church attendance _ to identify new and likely, wealthy donors, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Building upon its fundraising prowess, Mitt Romney's campaign began a secretive data-mining project this summer to trove through Americans' personal information — including their purchasing history and church attendance — to identify new and likely wealthy donors, The Associated Press has learned.

Analysts cut 2012 PC, chip shipment forecasts

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:27 PM PDT

What once looked like a good year for computers and chips has now fizzled, say researchers.

Tennis referee appears in LA to face murder charge

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:22 PM PDT

A professional tennis referee accused of killing her 80-year-old husband has made her first court appearance in Los Angeles after being extradited from New York.

Pakistan imam accuses Christian girl of 'conspiracy'

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:19 PM PDT

Police arrested the girl, Rimsha, who reportedly has Down's Syndrome, in a low-income area of the capitalA Pakistani cleric who handed over a young Christian girl to police on blasphemy charges after she burned papers containing Koranic verses said Friday what she did was a "conspiracy" to insult Muslims.

Most laid-off US workers take pay cuts in new jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:19 PM PDT

The U.S. economic recovery hasn't felt much like one even for people who managed to find new jobs after being laid off. Most of them have had to settle for less pay.

Gulf of Mexico oil companies start evacuations

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:19 PM PDT

Oil companies are evacuating some Gulf of Mexico oil rigs in advance of Tropical Storm Isaac.

Residents relax as fire threat abates in N. Calif.

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:17 PM PDT

Fire crews drop water unto the Ponderosa Fire from a helicopter near Mineral, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. The Ponderosa Fire was 57 percent contained, with full containment expected early next week. The blaze threatened 900 other homes Thursday as it burned a new front to the south. More than 2,500 firefighters are battling the wildfire, which grew to 44 square miles in the hills about 25 miles southeast of Redding. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Residents of a tiny mountain town breathed easier Friday after air tankers and helicopters blunted the run of a massive wildfire in Northern California just outside Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Two US embassy employees shot in Mexico: official

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT

Two US embassy employees were shot and wounded when their car came under fire south of Mexico City on Friday, an official from the attorney general's office told AFP.

SKorean court rules Samsung didn't copy iPhone

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT

A woman walks by a sign advertising Samsung's mobile phone Galaxy III at the showroom of its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. The Seoul Central District Court ruled Friday that technology rivals Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. both infringed on each other's patents, and ordered a partial ban of their products in South Korea. Each side was also ordered to pay limited damages. The court ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPad 2 from store shelves in South Korea, ruling that the products infringed on two of Samsung's telecommunications patents. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)South Korean phone maker Samsung won a home court ruling Friday in its global patent battle against Apple and its popular iPhone and iPad devices.

Pakistan rupee sinks to record low against dollar

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:13 PM PDT

The Pakistani rupee sank to an all-time low against the dollar Friday on high oil prices and forex reserve fearsThe Pakistani rupee sank to an all-time low against the dollar Friday on high oil prices and forex reserve fears as the country repaid nearly $400 million to the International Monetary Fund.

Former Oklahoma St. player's sentencing delayed

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 23, 2012 file photo, Darrell Williams weeps as he is escorted from court in Stillwater, Okla. Friends and other supporters have started an online push in hope of convincing the judge to give Williams a lighter sentence. On Thursday night, Aug. 23, 2012, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the local NAACP chapter are holding a forum to show their support for Williams in Stillwater.. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)A judge on Friday delayed sentencing for a former Oklahoma State basketball player convicted of sexual assaulting two women at an off-campus party so he can consider a motion for a new trial.

Syria arrests film-maker who helped victims of government crackdown

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:12 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Security forces in Syria have arrested a documentary film-maker who helped people made homeless or jobless by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, his friends said on Friday, part of an apparent crackdown on the country's secular intelligentsia. Arwa Nairabiya - who founded the "Damascus Dox Box" documentary film festival - was arrested at Damascus airport on Thursday evening before boarding a plane to Cairo, fellow film-makers and relatives said. ...

Lance Armstrong banned for life, career vacated

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:11 PM PDT

FILE - This July 23, 2000 file photo shows Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong riding down the Champs Elysees with an American flag after the 21st and final stage of the cycling race in Paris. The superstar cyclist, whose stirring victories after his comeback from cancer helped him transcend sports, chose not to pursue arbitration in the drug case brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. That was his last option in his bitter fight with USADA and his decision set the stage for the titles to be stripped and his name to be all but wiped from the record books of the sport he once ruled. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)including his record seven Tour de France titles — and banned him for life from the sport that made him a hero to millions of cancer survivors after concluding he used banned substances.

Exclusive: Santander to list unit in New York, Mexico Sept 25 - source

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:11 PM PDT

A pedestrian walks past a branch of a Santander bank in LondonMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Banco Santander is looking to list its Mexican unit in Mexico and New York on September 25, a source close to the deal told Reuters late on Thursday. The move is part of Santander's bid to shake off its association with its struggling home market, allowing it to remind investors of its international reach and paving the way for a listing of its British subsidiary next year. The bank is considering listings in other parts of the world following its pattern of offerings for units in Brazil and Chile in recent years, the Mexico-based source said. ...

Court upholds block on graphic cigarette warnings

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT

FILE - This file combination photo made from file images provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows two of nine cigarette warning labels from the FDA. A federal appeals court on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, upheld a decision barring the federal government from requiring tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages to show that smoking can disfigure and even kill people. (AP Photo/U.S. Food and Drug Administration, File)The federal government can't require tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages to show that smoking can disfigure and even kill people, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled Friday.

Landis agrees to repay defense fund donors

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Cyclist Floyd Landis pleaded not guilty to wire fraud on Friday but made a deal with prosecutors who agreed to defer prosecution on condition he makes restitution to people from whom he raised money to fund his fight against doping charges.

Philly gets ready to host Jay-Z's music megashow

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:09 PM PDT

The city where America was made is gearing up for rapper Jay-Z's "Made In America" music festival, which officials estimate will attract 100,000 fans to Philadelphia over Labor Day weekend.

Syrian regime airstrikes kill 21 in eastern city

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:08 PM PDT

Relatives and mourners carry the coffin of Free Syrian Army fighter Emad Nimeh, 18, who was killed today in an airstrike, during his funeral procession in Al-Bab, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)A government warplane bombed an apartment building in eastern Syria on Friday, killing at least 21 people as the regime fought to claw back ground lost to rebel fighters in the area who made significant advances in the city and seized a major checkpoint, activists said.

Singh among early leaders at Bethpage

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:07 PM PDT

Vijay Singh, of Fiji, hits his tee shot on the 14th hole during the second round of The Barclays golf tournament at Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photos/Henny Ray Abrams)Vijay Singh feels he is playing as well as he ever has. Now if he can just get a win to prove it.
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