| Bale hits hat-trick in Madrid romp Posted: 30 Nov 2013 01:05 PM PST  Gareth Bale took his tally to eight goals in his last seven games with a hat-trick as Real Madrid shrugged off the loss of Cristiano Ronaldo to beat Valladolid 4-0. With the Portuguese sidelined by a slight muscle strain, Bale proved to be decisive as he headed home the opener after Diego Marino could only parry Angel di Maria's cross. Three minutes later the Welshman teed up Karim Benzema to double Madrid's lead with a wonderful in-swinging cross that the Frenchman bulleted home. Bale grabbed his second of the game when Carlos Pena could only turn Marcelo's cross into the path of the grateful former Tottenham man to slot home.
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| US urging North Korea to release detained American Posted: 30 Nov 2013 01:04 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is urging North Korea to release an 85-year-old American who's been detained for more than a month.
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| Villagers rush to aid rural Alaska crash survivors Posted: 30 Nov 2013 01:04 PM PST  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Residents of a rural Alaska village reached survivors of a commuter plane crash two hours after the aircraft went down in freezing rain, authorities said Saturday.
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| Egypt panel begins voting on draft constitution Posted: 30 Nov 2013 01:03 PM PST  CAIRO (AP) — The panel amending Egypt's suspended constitution began voting Saturday on some 250 changes, the first step toward democratic rule following the July military coup that ousted the country's president.
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| Bulger belongings could land on auction block Posted: 30 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger could soon see some of his jewelry, clothes and other belongings on the auction block.
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| NJ canine crowned world's ugliest dog in 2007 dies Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:58 PM PST  SEWELL, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey canine that was crowned the world's ugliest dog in 2007 and later became the topic of a children's book preaching acceptance has died. Elwood was 8.
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| Gut wins women's World Cup super-G Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:58 PM PST  Beaver Creek (United States) (AFP) - Lara Gut won the women's alpine World Cup super-G here Saturday, her second triumph in two days continuing the Swiss racer's red-hot start to the Olympic season. The 22-year-old again demonstrated her mastery of the new Raptor course built for the 2015 World Championships, clocking 1min 18.42sec for a dominant triumph a day after she won the first downhill of the season. Austrian Elisabeth Goergl notched the second-quickest time of the day with 1:19.32, but the 2011 super-G world champion was disqualified from second place because of improper ski width. That meant another Austrian, Anna Fenninger, was promoted to second place with a time of 1:19.34 and Austria's Nicole Hosp was third with a time of 1:19.53.
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| Ukraine opposition seeks early polls after protest crackdown Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:55 PM PST  Ukraine's opposition on Saturday called for early elections after riot police brutally broke up a pro-Europe rally, leaving dozens injured in a crackdown on protests against President Viktor Yanukovych's refusal to salvage a key EU deal. The agreement would have brought Ukraine closer to the EU and away from historical master Moscow, which put pressure on the ex-Soviet country -- still reliant on Russia for energy and as an export market -- to turn its back on the deal with Brussels. The government announced it was halting work to sign the accord a week before the summit, sparking the biggest protests in Ukraine since the 2004 pro-West Orange Revolution. "I am deeply outraged by events that took place on Independence Square overnight," the president said in a statement Saturday.
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| Eight killed as Scottish helicopter crashes into pub Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:53 PM PST Eight people were killed when a police helicopter plunged through the roof of a packed Glasgow pub, police said on Saturday, sending Scotland into mourning on its national day. Fourteen people lay seriously injured in hospitals across Scotland's biggest city after the chopper smashed into The Clutha pub, where over 100 pubgoers had been watching a band play on Friday night. Queen Elizabeth II said her prayers were with the victims while Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond called it a "black day" as emergency service workers toiled inside the one-storey building to get round the rubble. While Scotland should have been celebrating St Andrew's Day, which commemorates its patron saint, instead worried friends and relatives spent the day praying their loved ones were not among the fatalities, who have not yet been named. |
| Scottish holiday marred by police helicopter crash Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:47 PM PST GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scotland's official holiday was transformed into a grim day of mourning Saturday as emergency crews searched the wreckage of a riverside pub smashed by a falling police helicopter. At least eight people died and more than a dozen remained hospitalized with serious injuries. |
| Ukrainian demonstrators converge outside monastery Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:45 PM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — About 10,000 anti-government demonstrators angry about Ukraine's refusal to sign a pro-European Union agreement converged Saturday on a square outside a monastery where protesters driven away in a pre-dawn clash with police were taking shelter.
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| North Korea showcases detained U.S. pensioner as war criminal Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:44 PM PST By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea accused a detained U.S. veteran on Saturday of killing civilians during the Korean War 60 years ago and showed a video of the 85-year-old making a full confession and apology as if the battles are still raging. The North's KCNA news agency said Merrill E. Newman, a former special forces officer, was a mastermind of clandestine operations and had confessed to being "guilty of a long list of indelible crimes against DPRK government and Korean people." In the patchy video, Newman appears composed and is shown reading aloud from a handwritten statement dated Nov 9, 2013 in a wood-paneled meeting room. "I realize that I cannot be forgiven for my offensives (offenses) but I beg for pardon on my knees by apologizing for my offensives (offenses) sincerely toward the DPRK government and the Korean people and I want not punish me (I wish not to be punished)," Newman, who has a heart rhythm disorder, was quoted as saying by KCNA. DPRK is short for the North's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. |
| India's Ratan Tata sees brighter future for upmarket Nano Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:43 PM PST  India's struggling Tata Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car, could still have a strong future with a more upmarket image, says Tata group tycoon Ratan Tata, as the company looks to give the hatchback a new start. Tata told US business channel CNBC late Friday he still had high hopes for the tiny Nano in its home market and abroad. "A re-launched Nano with some of the differences that we're trying to incorporate, yes I do" believe it has good prospects, Tata said. "We are going to relaunch the car not as the cheapest car" but with a different "image", Tata said, without giving a timeframe.
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| No. 24 Duke beats North Carolina 27-25 Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:42 PM PST  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Ross Martin kicked a 27-yard field goal with 2:22 left and No. 24 Duke beat North Carolina 27-25 on Saturday, completing the Blue Devils' improbable run to reach the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.
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| ArcelorMittal, Nippon Steel buy ThyssenKrupp US factory Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:42 PM PST  New York (AFP) - Steel manufacturing giant ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel & Sumimoto Metal said in a statement they agreed to buy a US steel plant owned by German firm ThyssenKrupp for $1.55 billion.
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| Unclear yet if crucial overhaul of Obamacare website a success Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:40 PM PST  Americans got their first look on Saturday at an overhaul of the troubled enrollment website at the heart of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, but it was unclear yet if the White House had made good on its pledge to fix the glitches. The Obama administration promised five weeks ago that by this weekend it would fix HealthCare.gov, the site designed to help people sign up for medical coverage but which has been plagued by errors, outages, and slow speeds since a disastrous October 1 launch. HealthCare.gov is a key portal for Obama's signature domestic achievement, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which aims to extend coverage to millions of people and reduce healthcare costs. Making Obamacare work has enormous political stakes for the administration and its Democratic allies who are heading into congressional elections next year.
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| A look at key articles in Egyptian draft charter Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:40 PM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's draft constitution is made up of a four-page preamble and 247 articles. On Saturday, the country's 50-member constituent assembly voted on 138 articles, limiting the scope of Islamic law, or Shariah, in legislation and introducing new articles seen as victory to rights advocates.
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| US to destroy Syrian chemical weapons Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's government will try to move the most lethal components of its chemical weapons program to a port city by the end of the year, and the U.S. has offered to pick up and destroy the hazardous material at an offshore facility, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and Syrian officials said Saturday.
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| No. 2 Florida State stays unbeaten, 37-7 at Swamp Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:24 PM PST  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jameis Winston threw three touchdown passes to Kelvin Benjamin, and No. 2 Florida State moved a step closer to playing for the national championship with a 37-7 victory against rival Florida on Saturday.
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| Ukraine police smash pro-Europe protest, opposition to call strike Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:23 PM PST  By Richard Balmforth and Thomas Grove KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's political opposition said on Saturday it would call a general strike to force the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovich's government after police used batons and stun grenades to break up pro-Europe protests. Some 10,000 protesters regrouped in Kiev, flooding a square outside a church. Further rallies were planned for Sunday in the capital Kiev and other cities. Helmeted police stormed an encampment in Kiev's Independence Square where protesters were singing and warming themselves by campfires early in the morning, the opposition said.
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| No. 11 Michigan State shuts down Minnesota 14-3 Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:11 PM PST  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Jeremy Langford ran for 134 yards and a touchdown, and No. 11 Michigan State wrapped up an unbeaten regular season in Big Ten play with a 14-3 victory over Minnesota on Saturday.
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| Neb's athletic director: Pelini will remain coach Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:05 PM PST  Nebraska coach Bo Pelini is safe for now.
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| Sumlin, Texas A&M agree in principle to new deal Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:03 PM PST COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M and coach Kevin Sumlin have agreed in principle to a new six-year contract that could keep him with the Aggies through 2019. |
| White House: On track for health care website goal Posted: 30 Nov 2013 11:58 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will meet its self-imposed deadline of fixing the troubled health care website so that 50,000 people can log in at the same time starting Saturday. Yet questions remain about the stability of the site, the volume of traffic it can handle and the quality of the data it is delivering to insurers.
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| Dominican Republic launches migrant children plan Posted: 30 Nov 2013 11:53 AM PST SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic on Saturday launched a plan putting into motion a recent court ruling that could strip the citizenship of children born to migrants living there illegally. |
| U.S. airlines give China flight plans for new defense zone Posted: 30 Nov 2013 11:50 AM PST  By Marina Lopes and Lesley Wroughton NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the biggest U.S. airlines, American and Delta, have notified Chinese authorities of flight plans when travelling through an air defense zone Beijing has declared over the East China Sea, in line with U.S. government advice. The United States said on Friday it expected U.S. carriers to operate in line with so-called notices to airmen issued by foreign countries, although it added that the decision did "not indicate U.S. government acceptance of China's requirements. Airline industry officials said the U.S. government generally expects that U.S. carriers operating internationally to comply with notices issued by foreign countries. In contrast, two major airlines in Japan, America's close ally, have agreed with the Japanese government that they would fly through the zone without notifying China.
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| Ukraine leader blasts violence against protesters Posted: 30 Nov 2013 11:33 AM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president has condemned the violent dispersal of pro-EU protesters by riot police.
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| Troopers: 4 dead in southwest Alaska plane crash Posted: 30 Nov 2013 11:31 AM PST ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board in Alaska says searchers from a village reached the site of a fatal commuter airplane crash two hours after the plane went down Friday night. |
| Arsenal seven clear, Deulofeu fires Everton Posted: 30 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST  Man of the moment Aaron Ramsey scored twice against his former club as Arsenal beat Cardiff City 3-0 on Saturday to move seven points clear in the Premier League. Ramsey broke the deadlock with a fine first-half header and after substitute Mathieu Flamini added a late second, the Welshman completed victory in stoppage time to take his tally of league goals this season to eight. The win elevated Arsene Wenger's side seven points above nearest rivals Liverpool and Chelsea, both of whom play on Sunday, as well as Everton, who climbed to fourth place by beating Stoke City.
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| Economist challenges idea of aging farmer crisis Posted: 30 Nov 2013 11:19 AM PST  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Agriculture economists have long warned that farmers are getting old and staying on their land longer, delaying the turnover to a younger generation. But an Ohio State University professor argues that those fears are overstated and the United States likely will have little problem replacing aging farmers as long as business is good, as it has been for the past decade.
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| Ex-New York Observer editor Kaplan dies at 59 Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:53 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Kaplan, the former editor of The New York Observer who hired a then-unknown Candace Bushnell to write a column called "Sex and the City," has died. He was 59. |
| Large protests over Bedouin resettlement in Israel Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:51 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — Protests over a plan to resettle nomadic Bedouin Arabs in Israel's southern Negev desert caused injuries Saturday and led to some arrests, police said.
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| Despite rising demand, Brazil ethanol sector struggles Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:49 AM PST  Hobbled by rising production costs and low prices, Brazil's ethanol sector is in crisis, with many sugar mills closing despite rising demand. The South American country is the world's leading sugar producer with an ever-growing share going toward biofuel production. But despite an expected bumper crop for 2013-14 and growing domestic consumption, its mills are drowning in debt. In the country's central southern region -- the main sugar production area -- 40 mills have shut down over the past three years and 60 others are expected to follow suit in the next 24 months due to unsustainable debts, Deutsche Bank analysts said in late October.
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| Obama shops at well-known Washington bookstore Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:45 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is doing his part to support small businesses.
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| Cameron 'turns page' on Dalai Lama row with China visit Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:43 AM PST  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has put a diplomatic rift with China over the Dalai Lama behind it and Prime Minister David Cameron has no plans to meet Tibet's spiritual leader again, a senior source in his office said ahead of a visit by the British leader to Beijing. Instead, Cameron will use a three-day visit to China next week, his first since the Dalai Lama rift, to focus on deepening trade ties with the world's second largest economy, taking with him a delegation of around 100 business people. We have turned a page on that issue," said the source when asked whether Cameron would raise the issue of Tibet during his trip. Cameron, who is likely to visit Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, had been expected to travel to China last autumn.
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| Israel police say volunteer killed Palestinian Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:36 AM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say one of their volunteers shot and killed a Palestinian staying inside Israel illegally during an arrest raid. |
| Thai political protesters clash violently, 1 dead Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:32 AM PST  BANGKOK (AP) — Aggressive political protests in the Thai capital turned violent late Saturday with at least one man killed and five wounded by gunshots in street fighting between supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
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| US: American fighters in Syria a security risk Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:32 AM PST  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal officials say Americans are joining the bloody civil war in Syria, raising the chances they could become radicalized by al-Qaida-linked militant groups and return to the U.S. as battle-hardened security risks.
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| Chemical watchdog says US to destroy Syria stockpile at sea Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:31 AM PST  The United States will destroy the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapon stockpile on a ship at sea, the world's chemical watchdog said on Saturday. "The neutralisation operations will be conducted on a US vessel at sea using hydrolysis," the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement. "Currently a suitable naval vessel is undergoing modifications to support the operations and to accommodate verification activities by the OPCW," The Hague-based watchdog added. The ship operation will destroy what is known as "priority chemical weapons", the most dangerous of Syria's total arsenal and ones that have to be out of the country by December 31 under an international deal agreed to avert military strikes on Damascus.
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| S. Korean wins Red Bull world breakdancing title Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:25 AM PST  Hong10, trumped reigning champion Mounir from France to take the Red Bull world breakdancing crown before a rapturous home crowd in Seoul on Saturday.
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