2013年2月14日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Burned remains ID'd as ex-cop Dorner

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 04:09 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows fugitive former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner. Officials say the burned remains found in a California mountain cabin have been positively identified as Dorner's. San Bernardino County Sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller said Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 that the identification was made through Dorner's dental records. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department, File)Police used dental records to identify the remains found in the cabin.


Crippled cruise ship limps toward dry land

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 04:24 PM PST

The cruise ship Carnival Triumph into Mobile Bay near Dauphin island, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. The ship with more than 4,200 passengers and crew members has been idled for nearly a week in the Gulf of Mexico following an engine room fire. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — This is not at all how it looked in the brochure: Pulled by a tugboat at a maddeningly slow pace, the cruise ship Carnival Triumph finally drew within sight of land Thursday as miserable passengers told stories of overflowing toilets, food shortages, foul odors and dangerously dark passageways.


Obama: Americans need to know more about drone program

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 03:22 PM PST

'Rise of the Drones'President Barack Obama defended his administration's use of drones to target and assassinate Americans overseas believed to be working with terrorists, insisting the government is following the law on what it can and cannot do. But he admitted the public needs to know more about how the drone program works and what rules the administration [...]


Obama: It might be time to get rid of the penny

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 03:46 PM PST

Genome of Mysterious Extinct Human Reveals Brown-Eyed GirlThe copper 1-cent coin has long been criticized for being costlier to mint than it is worth.


More than half diplomatic posts may not meet security rules

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 04:26 PM PST

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestThe U.S. has adiplomatic presence at 283 locations globally but only 97 are safe.


Senate GOP blocks Hagel vote—for now

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 02:28 PM PST

Former U.S. Senator Hagel testifies during Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to be Defense Secretary, on Capitol Hill in WashingtonSenators fell two votes short of the 60 needed to get to a final up-or-down vote.


Photos: Valentine's Day around the world

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 01:30 AM PST

Photos: Valentine's Day around the worldIraqis shop for gifts for Valentine's Day in Baghdad February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: SOCIETY)

Record storm brings holiday ski boost for Northeast

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 03:10 PM PST

School buses are covered in snow after a winter storm in Hartford, Conn., Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. A howling storm across the Northeast left much of the New York-to-Boston corridor covered with more than three feet of snow on Friday into Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)The loads of snow could help erase memories of last year's dismal season.


Tyrannosaurus at center of custody case is going home

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 04:23 PM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nearly complete 70-million-year-old tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton will be returned to Mongolia following the high-profile prosecution of a Florida paleontologist by federal authorities in New York, U.S. authorities said on Thursday. A New York federal judge ordered the skeleton and other fossils forfeited to the U.S. government this week after the paleontologist pled guilty in December to fraud and conspiracy. Ellen Davis, a spokeswoman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said his office would return the 8-foot-tall (2.4 meter), 24-foot-long (7. ...

Illinois a step closer to legalizing gay marriage

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 01:09 PM PST

Santos hugs her partner of 21 years, Volpe, after a vote in a Committee hearing at the Illinois State Capital in Springfield, IllinoisIf the bill passes the state House, it could become the 10th state to allow same-sex nuptials.


Photos: Amateur snapper takes amazing shots of the sun

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

Photos: Amateur snapper takes amazing shots of the sun

'Heart-wrenching': Cabin owner describes watching it burn

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 01:53 PM PST

In this aerial photo, law enforcement authorities investigate the charred remains of a cabin Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, where quadruple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner is believed to have died after barricading himself inside during a Tuesday stand-off with police in the Angeles Oaks area of Big Bear, Calif. San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputy Jeremiah MacKay was killed and another wounded during the shootout with Dorner. (AP Photo/The Sun, John Valenzuela)The home was 85 years old, dating back to the late 1920s.


Five surprising facts about Friday's asteroid flyby

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

Asteroid 2012 DA14: 5 Surprising Facts About Friday's Earth FlybyResidents of Sumatra, Indonesia will get the closest look when it passes by.


Britain arrests three men in horsemeat scandal

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:35 AM PST

A sign with the Spanghero logo is seen at their head office in CastelnaudaryPARIS (Reuters) - An investigation has identified a French meat-processing firm as a likely culprit in the horsemeat scandal that has enraged consumers across Europe and implicated traders and abattoirs from Cyprus to Romania. Separately, British police investigating alleged mislabeling of beef products arrested three people on Thursday at facilities in Wales and Yorkshire which had handled horsemeat and were raided by police earlier, British media reported. No further details on the British arrests were immediately available. ...


Emmett Till's family reacts to obscene Lil Wayne lyric

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 12:45 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2012 file photo, recording artist Lil Wayne speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New Orleans. Epic Records is going to "great efforts" to take down a new Future remix leaked over the weekend with a vulgar lyric by Lil Wayne that has offended the family of Emmett Till. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A cousin of the late Emmett Till wonders if Lil Wayne understands just how damaging it was when he rapped a vulgar reference to the black U.S. teen whose death in 1955 became a significant moment in the civil rights movement.


Video: See what it's like to fly an F-18 fighter jet

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 12:07 PM PST

How awesome would it be to sit at the gears of a fighter jet and see the world from tens of thousands of feet above ground at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour? Most of us will never get the opportunity to fly a fighter jet, of course, but worry not, you can now [...]

Pistorius lives life on the edge, on and off the track

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:03 AM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 file photo, South Africa's Oscar Pistorius wins gold in the men's 400-meter T44 final at the 2012 Paralympics, in London. Pistorius has been arrested after a 30-year-old woman was shot dead at his home in South Africa, early Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)LONDON (AP) — The figure of Oscar Pistorius racing around the Olympic track with his carbon-fiber blades whipping through the air was one of the enduring images of the London Games.


Why slacking off at work may be a good thing

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 12:25 PM PST

Bosses who notice an employee's performance drop in one aspect of the job shouldn't immediately think the employee is slacking off, new research shows.

In drug-tainted waters, even fish get the munchies

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:20 AM PST

This circa 2009 photo provided by Bent Christensen show perch fish swimming together in Sweden. What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social and aggressive, a study found. They even get the munchies. It may sound funny, but it could threaten the fish population and upset the delicate dynamics of the marine environment, scientists say. The findings, published online Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 in the journal Science, add to the mounting evidence that minuscule amounts of medicines in rivers and streams can alter the biology and behavior of fish and other marine animals. (AP Photo/Bent Christensen)BOSTON (AP) — What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social and aggressive, a study found. They even get the munchies.


Photos: Thai couple breaks record for longest kiss

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 09:07 AM PST

Photos: Thai couple breaks record for longest kissParticipants Akekachai Tiranarat, 44, and his wife Raksana Taranarat, 33, pose with their certificate of recognition for winning the World's Longest Continuous Kiss event in Pattaya, 150 km (90 miles) east of Bangkok, February 14, 2013. The World's Longest Continuous Kiss event, which was organized to celebrate Valentine's Day in Thailand, started out with 9 couples on February 12. Tiranarat and Taranarat set a new Guinness World Record for the longest kiss at 58 hours 35 minutes and 58 seconds. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND - Tags: SOCIETY)
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