KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he would issue a decree barring Afghan security forces from asking international troops to carry out airstrikes under “any circumstances.” The announcement came amid anger over a joint Afghan-NATO operation last week that Afghan officials said killed 10 civilians, including women and children, in northeast Kunar Province....
Blue Ivy Looks Just Like Dad Jay-Z in New Photo
Label: Lifestyle 02/16/2013 at 11:30 AM EST Daddy's little girl, indeed!A new photo of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's 1-year-old daughter Blue Ivy – apparently leaked from the songstress's upcoming HBO documentary – shows the proud mama holding up her little girl, who bears a striking resemblance to her famous papa.
"When I wake up in...
UN warns risk of hepatitis E in S. Sudan grows
Label: HealthGENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says an outbreak of hepatitis E has killed 111 refugees in camps in South Sudan since July, and has become endemic in the region.U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards says the influx of people to the camps from neighboring Sudan is believed to be one of the factors in the rapid spread of the contagious, life-threatening inflammatory viral disease of the liver.Edwards...
San Bernardino County sheriff details final shootout with Dorner
Label: Business Fugitive Christopher Dorner spent his final hours barricaded inside a mountain cabin armed with a high-powered sniper rifle,...
Feb
15
The Lede: Spectacular Video of Meteor Over Siberia
Label: WorldVideo posted on YouTube Friday appeared to catch an explosion caused by a meteor streaking over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.Last Updated, 12:07 p.m. As our colleagues Ellen Barry and Andrew Kramer report, Russians recorded video of bright objects, apparently debris from a meteor, “streaking through the sky in western Siberia early on Friday, accompanied by a boom that damaged buildings across...
John Mayer & Katy Perry's 'Very Cute' Night Out
Label: Lifestyle Caught in the Act 02/15/2013 at 11:15 AM EST John Mayer and Katy Perry AKM-GSI Date night! John Mayer and Katy Perry joined friends for dinner at Katsuya Brentwood on Tuesday.Sitting in a booth with pals, "the mood was great," an onlooker tells PEOPLE. "John and...
Study: Fish in drug-tainted water suffer reaction
Label: HealthBOSTON (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.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 in...
San Diego ex-mayor used charity funds to cover gambling debts
Label: Business SAN DIEGO — She married a fabulously wealthy man decades her elder, and became the first female mayor of San Diego. But when...
Feb
14
Way of the World: Technology, Trade and Fewer Jobs
Label: WorldNEW YORK — President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech this week confirmed it: The pre-eminent political and economic challenge in the industrialized democracies is how to make capitalism work for the middle class. There is nothing mysterious about that. The most important fact about the United States in this century is that middle-class incomes are stagnating. The financial crisis...
Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis Put Their PDA on Display in Hollywood!
Label: Lifestyle Caught in the Act 02/14/2013 at 11:45 AM EST Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher AKM-GSI Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis couldn't hide their affection for each other at the afterparty for the Oz the Great and Powerful premiere on Wednesday.Kunis and Kutcher showed up...
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