2013年7月27日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


3 dead in Indiana bus crash

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:39 PM PDT

Firefighters work to extricate people from a bus crash Saturday, July 27, 2013 in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Fire Department says three people were killed when a bus carrying teens from a church camp crashed on a busy thoroughfare near Interstate 465. The bus was carrying 40 passengers who are members of Colonial Hill Baptist Church and were returning from camp when the crash happened Saturday afternoon. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Michelle Pemberton) NO SALESA bus carrying teens coming home from a church camp crashed.


Manslaughter charge in Hudson River crash

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 03:05 PM PDT

In this still frame made from WABC-TV video, Carol Stewart, center, mother of missing woman Lindsey Stewart, speaks to an official about the ongoing search for her daughter following a boating accident on the Hudson River near Piermont, N.Y. on Saturday, July 27, 2013. The Coast Guard says the recreational boat struck a barge near the Tappan Zee Bridge on Friday night, sending two people into the water who haven't been found and injuring four others. (AP Photo/WABC-TV)The driver of a speedboat has been charged with vehicular manslaughter.


Police: Gunman in Fla. standoff lived in building

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 03:13 PM PDT

Miami-Dade morgue workers carry out a body out at the scene of a fatal shooting in Hialeah, Fla., Saturday, July 27, 2013. A gunman holding hostages inside the apartment complex killed six people before being shot to death by a SWAT team that stormed the building early Saturday following an hours-long standoff, police said. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — A man living with his mother in a South Florida apartment complex set their unit on fire and went on a shooting rampage throughout the building, killing six people before being shot to death by police. As the eight-hour standoff unfolded, horrified residents hunkered down in their homes, at times so close to the action they could feel the gunfire or hear negotiations between the gunman and police, authorities and witnesses said Saturday.


Pope shames Brazilian church for Catholic exodus

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 02:31 PM PDT

A pilgrim rests under an umbrella decorated with images of the Christ the Redeemer statue as she waits on Copacabana beach for an evening vigil with Pope Francis during World Youth Day events in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Francis will preside over an evening vigil service on Copacabana beach that is expected to draw more than 1 million young people. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Pope Francis issued blunt, soul-searching criticism Saturday of the Brazilian church's failure to stem the "exodus" of Catholics to evangelical congregations, challenging the region's bishops to be closer to the people to understand their problems and persuade them that Catholicism isn't "barren, fruitless soil."


Officials: Train driver suspected of negligent homicide

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 06:27 AM PDT

A passenger train passes the wreckage of a train in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Saturday July 27, 2013. Spain's interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz says the driver whose speeding train crashed, killing 78 people, is now being held on suspicion of negligent homicide. The Spanish train derailed at high speed Wednesday killing 78 and injuring dozens more. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)Spain's interior minister announced Saturday that the driver whose speeding train crashed, killing 78 people, is now being held on suspicion of negligent homicide.


Pitchman in contempt for not paying $37M fine

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 02:43 PM PDT

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has found author and infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau in contempt of court for failing to pay a more than $37 million fine imposed over misleading ads for one of his wildly popular weight-loss books.

Teresa Heinz Kerry leaves Boston rehab hospital

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:39 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was discharged from a Boston hospital Saturday, just under three weeks after she suffered a seizure at their Nantucket home, a State Department spokesman said.

Musician JJ Cale dies; wrote Clapton, Skynyrd hits

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 01:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 5, 2004 file photo, singer-songwriter J.J. Cale plays during the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas, Texas. Cale, whose best-known songs became hits for Eric Clapton with "After Midnight" and Lynyrd Skynyrd with "Call Me the Breeze," has died. He was 74. Caleís manager Mike Kappus said the architect of the Tulsa Sound died Friday, July 26, 2013 of a heart attack at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll.


More than 1,000 inmates escape Libyan prison

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 01:35 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — More than a thousand inmates escaped a prison Saturday in Libya as protesters stormed political party offices across the country, signs of the simmering unrest gripping a nation overrun by militias and awash in weaponry.

Wife goes into labor, Mahan withdraws from tourney

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 01:26 PM PDT

Hunter Mahan of the United States waves after sinking a birdie putt on the 18th hole during the second round at the Canadian Open golf tournament at Glen Abbey in Oakville, Ontario, on Friday, July 26, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)OAKVILLE, Ontario (AP) — Tournament leader Hunter Mahan withdrew from the RBC Canadian Open on Saturday after his wife went into labor.


Organizers estimate 2 million in Rio for pope

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:05 PM PDT

Cardinals meet with Pope Francis at St Joaquim Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Pope Francis took his message to shake up the Catholic Church to bishops from around the world on Saturday, challenging them to get out of their churches and go to the farthest margins of society to find the faithful and preach. (AP Photo/Luca Zennaro, Pool)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Organizers estimate that some 2 million people have come out to Copacabana beach for the final evening of World Youth day with Pope Francis.


John Kerry's wife leaves Boston rehab hospital

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 03:44 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was discharged from a Boston hospital Saturday, just under three weeks after she suffered a seizure at their Nantucket home, a State Department spokesman said.

Spain train driver released from hospital

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 08:51 AM PDT

A passenger train passes the wreckage of a train in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Saturday July 27, 2013. Spain's interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz says the driver whose speeding train crashed, killing 78 people, is now being held on suspicion of negligent homicide. The Spanish train derailed at high speed Wednesday killing 78 and injuring dozens more. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) — The injured driver of the Spanish train that derailed at high speed, killing 78 and injuring dozens more, was released from the hospital Saturday, but he was still being held in a police station as authorities increasingly focused on his culpability.


North Korea military parades through Pyongyang

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 08:42 AM PDT

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, right, is accompanied by Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao, center, and Ugandan Vice-President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekand as they greet spectators Saturday, July 27, 2013 during the mass military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang's main square on Saturday in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant intended to strike fear into North Korea's adversaries and rally its people behind young ruler Kim Jong Un on the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.


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