2016年4月23日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


N.Korea claims successful test of submarine-launched missile

Posted: 23 Apr 2016 04:49 PM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station No. 3 in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News AgencyThe missile apparently was fired from a submarine off the North's northeast coast.


The play's the thing: Obama visits Globe on Shakespeare's 400th

Posted: 23 Apr 2016 10:08 AM PDT

The play's the thing: Obama visits Globe on Shakespeare's 400thBarack Obama on Saturday strutted the stage of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, joining in festivities to mark 400 years since The Bard's death. The US president was treated to scenes from Hamlet on his early morning visit to the venue, a reconstruction on the banks of the River Thames of a theatre dating back to the 16th century. Actors from a company that embarked on a two-year Hamlet world tour in 2014, playing to more than 100,000 people in 197 countries, put on a special performance for the president.


Prince film career tale of success and failure

Posted: 23 Apr 2016 10:04 AM PDT

US singer Prince's music for the animated film "Happy Feet" earned him a Golden Globe in 2007Prince's film career blazed brightly but briefly compared to his 40-year reign in music, even if he left his mark on Hollywood with countless movie and television soundtracks. Like many other music stars from Madonna to David Bowie and Michael Jackson, Prince's time in front of and behind the camera left a very faint trace compared to his huge impact in the music studio and on stage. From the success of "Purple Rain" in 1984 to the failures of "Under the Cherry Moon" (1986) and "Graffiti Bridge" (1990), Prince's film career lasted a mere six years.


Thousands of trade deal foes rally in Germany on Obama visit eve

Posted: 23 Apr 2016 08:00 AM PDT

Protesters against the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) wear masks of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama during a rally on the eve of Obama's vist to Hannover, on April 23, 2016A loose coalition of trade unions, environmentalists and consumer protection groups in the northern city of Hanover said they drew a crowd of 90,000 to a march and rally outside the city's opera house. Obama's trip -- to open an industrial technology fair and hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders -- was intended to lend momentum to flagging efforts to see the world's biggest trade pact finalised this year.


Pope Francis hears teenagers' sins

Posted: 23 Apr 2016 07:47 AM PDT

Pope Francis hears confessions at St Peter's Square in the Vatican, on April 23, 2016Pope Francis on Saturday heard confessions from 16 teenagers after a surprise appearance in St Peter's square to greet thousands of young people attending his holy year youth day. The 16 boys and girls were among tens of thousands of 13 to 16-year-olds visiting the Vatican this weekend as part of Francis's Jubilee year dedicated to the theme of mercy. Thousands of them confessed to a total of 150 priests on duty at St Peter's before passing through a door of the basilica that is only open for the duration of the Jubilee, which started in December and runs to November.


911 caller who found 2 of 8 bodies: 'There's blood all over'

Posted: 23 Apr 2016 04:34 PM PDT

Authorities allow crime scene investigation vehicles to pass a perimeter checkpoint near a crime scene, Friday, April 22, 2016, in Pike County, Ohio. Shootings with multiple fatalities were reported along a road in rural Ohio on Friday morning, but details on the number of deaths and the whereabouts of the suspect or suspects weren't immediately clear. The attorney general's office said a dozen Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents had been called to Pike County, an economically struggling area in the Appalachian region some 80 miles east of Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Authorities in this rural part of southern Ohio urged residents to be cautious.


Overseas, Obama begins the long goodbye

Posted: 23 Apr 2016 10:28 AM PDT

In this hand out photo released by Kensington Palace, Britain's Prince George meets with US President Barack Obama, centre and first lady Michelle Obama , at Kensington Palace, London, Friday April 22, 2016. Prince William is at left. (Pete Souza/Kensington Palace via AP)He turns a lighthearted question about priorities for his successor into a treatise on his preference for diplomacy over military conflict.


Fitness trainer Missy Bevers’ killing continues to perplex Texas police

Posted: 22 Apr 2016 05:37 PM PDT

Investigators on Friday said they have a better timeline of when a popular fitness trainer was slain inside a North Texas church, but still aren't close to an arrest in the bizarre case.
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