| New Year's Eve stampede kills 35 on Shanghai's Bund tourist strip Posted: 31 Dec 2014 02:42 PM PST  The stampede occurred in a waterfront area in central Shanghai, official Chinese government television CCTV America reported on its website. It quoted online media company Sina News as saying that masses of crowds in Chen Yi Square on the Bund led to the stampede. It said authorities were working to rescue and aid the wounded. (Editing by Howard Goller)
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| Times Square braces for a million people at New Year’s Eve celebration Posted: 31 Dec 2014 11:33 AM PST  One million people are expected to watch the ball drop in New York City's Times Square on Wednesday night. But elsewhere, other cities are preparing to ring in 2015 in their own unique ways.
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| Bad weather stalls AirAsia recovery mission Posted:  Stormy weather forces crews to suspend efforts to recover more bodies and debris.
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| New laws OK wine shipments, ban tiger selfies Posted: 31 Dec 2014 10:11 AM PST  New state laws taking effect Thursday give livestock in California more living room, approve direct-to-consumer wine shipments in Massachusetts and levy the ultimate punishment on wannabe teen drivers in Nevada by denying them licenses if they skip too much school.
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| U.S. releases 5 Guantanamo prisoners, sends them to Kazakhstan Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:03 PM PST  MIAMI (AP) — Five men who were held for a dozen years without charge at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan for resettlement, the U.S. government announced.
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| NYC to ring in new year with heightened security in Times Square Posted: 31 Dec 2014 04:24 PM PST  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - As tens of thousands of revelers gathered in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, authorities were bracing for renewed protests over the use of excessive force by police, capping a year of tension over racial relations across the United States. While security is always tight in Times Square on New Year's Eve, especially since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, extra precautions were put in place on Wednesday to prevent violence at the famed midtown Manhattan crossroads. ...
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| Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber lose delay bid Posted: 31 Dec 2014 11:21 AM PST  By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday denied defense requests to move and delay the start of the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose lawyers say they are overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. Jury selection in the Tsarnaev's case is set to begin on Monday after U.S. District Judge George O'Toole rejected his lawyers' request to push it back until September. The trial will begin 18 months after Tsarnaev was indicted. ...
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| U.S. sends five Guantanamo prisoners to Kazakhstan for resettlement Posted: 30 Dec 2014 10:15 PM PST  By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility. The transfer of the five men followed a recent pledge by President Barack Obama for a stepped-up push to shut the internationally condemned detention center at the U.S. naval base in Cuba where most prisoners have been held without being charged or tried. The U.S. ...
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| AirAsia crash: Leading theories Posted: |
