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Large rally places job demands on Italian government

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:41:41 -0400

Protesters marching in the tens of thousands rallied in Italy on Sunday to rail against the policies of the new coalition government. Around 100,000 protesters, led by trade unionists, converged on Rome to wave red flags and placards, urging changes to austerity measures. The union-led crowd called for the new government of centre-left Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to focus on job creation ...

Spanish surplus figures improve

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:34:58 -0400

Spain has reported a trade surplus, the first since 1971. With imports slumping due to austerity measures, the first monthly trade surplus for more than 40 years is being seen as a positive development. However, the country is still suffering from an economic downturn with unemployment in Spain now running at 26.7%. The surplus of 634.9 million euros in March reflects a 15% plunge in ...

Bayern thrilled Dortmund worried before Euro final

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:01:05 -0400

/enpproperty--> Borussia Dortmund must wait on Mats Hummels' ankle injury for next Saturday's Champions League final, while Wembley opponent Bayern Munich finished the Bundesliga season with a seven-goal thriller. Centerback Hummels is an injury doubt for the London final after damaging ankle ligaments in Dortmund's shock 2-1 Bundesliga defeat at home to Hoffenheim on ...

Commuters warned of traffic mess for up to 1 week

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:56:44 -0400

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is warning commuters that a traffic mess awaits them in southwest Connecticut for as long as a week until service is restored to Metro-North following a derailment that injured scores of ...

Banned Bangladesh Factory Still Operates

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:22:42 -0400

VF Corp. VF confirmed on Saturday it was still using Liz Apparels to make its clothing following an inspection ordered by the factory owner, Nassa Group, on May 12. VF, whose other clothing brands include North Face, Timberland and Nautica, said its philosophy was to "stay and improve" working conditions."We are in daily contact with the facility and VF's leadership is closely ...

Report Yahoos board approves $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:29:06 -0400

Marissa Mayer 's largest deal since taking the helm of the once-iconic Internet company in July 2012. Yahoo is keen on fast-growing Tumblr because its younger user base would bolster the older website's "cool factor," the technology blog AllThingsD cited the sources as saying. Mayer, who spent 13 years ...

Associated Press CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:18:11 -0400

In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional", ...

Suspect in NY bias shooting is charged with murder

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:48:51 -0400

Armando Morales can be a dangerous man, whichever side he’s on. Once Morales handled illicit business for the Fresno, Calif., Bulldogs street gang. Then his compelling testimony against a former cellmate secured the conviction of the man accused of killing Chandra Levy. Now the former gang-enforcer-turned-prison-snitch is back in the hot seat. What happens next might turn the Levy murder ...

McConnell ‘There is a culture of intimidation throughout the administration’

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:39:56 -0400

Obama address the IRS scandal at a news conference. (Alex Wong/Getty) Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal that's engulfed the White House. On CNN's "State of the Union," Paul told Candy Crowley he heard about a "written policy" that encouraged IRS ...

Charlotte remembers historic1963 desegregation eat-in

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:39:54 -0400

View Photo Associated Press - In this May 16, 2013, photo, Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who was a prominent Charlotte civil rights leader, in Silver Spring, Md. In the ...

Horrible commutes ahead Conn. train outage expected for days

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:56:31 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham - Emergency personnel work at the scene where two Metro North commuter trains collided, Friday, May 17, 2013 near Fairfield, Conn. Bill Kaempffer, ...

Letters The benefit of European Union membership outweighs the cost

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:55 -0400

The economic case to stay in the EU is overwhelming. The creation of the Single Market was instigated by Britain, and is now the world's largest trading bloc, containing half a billion people with a GDP of 10 trillion. To Britain, membership is estimated to be worth between 31bn and 92bn per year in income gains, or between 1,200 to 3,500 for every ...

Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:52:11 -0400

NEW YORK (AP) -- The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a life, says an expert in the ...

Tunisian Islamist protester killed in clash with police

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:48:05 -0400

TUNIS (Reuters) - One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police on ...

Small Fla. city wonders who won $590.5 million Powerball jackpot

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:31 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Ben Margot - A woman prepares to choose her numbers on a lottery ticket Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Chinatown district in Oakland, Calif. A record Powerball jackpot has climbed to $600 ...

Obama delivers historic Morehouse commencement

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:28 -0400

Obama speaks in Baltimore, May 17, 2013. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies--IRS, Benghazi, Deptartment of Justice--swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution in Atlanta. "What I ask of you today is the same thing I ask of every ...

Euro Tax To Decimate Pensions Report Says

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:02:28 -0400

The trading of government bonds would be rendered uneconomic and pensioners would find their savings hit under proposals for a Europe-wide financial transactions tax, according to one of the financial sector's most influential trade bodies. In a report to be published on Monday by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), the European Commission will be warned that its ...

Official Va. driver who injured dozens of parade hikers likely had medical condition

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:28:58 -0400

View results DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) - Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday.Officials did not have a formal confirmation or any specifics on the condition, but based on the accounts of authorities and witnesses on the ...

Teun de Nooijer bows out of top level hockey with Euro League gold

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:18:34 -0400

Hockey international Teun de Nooijer, 37, bowed out of the top level game on Sunday after helping his club, Bloemendaal, win the Euro Hockey ...

Pope church should open up a bit but still follow teaching

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:13:26 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Andrew Medichini - Pope Francis greets the faithful in St. Peter Square at the Vatican, after celebrating a Pentecost mass, Sunday, May 19, 2013.(AP Photo/Andrew ...

Hofstra graduates honor student killed by police

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:35:29 -0400

In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ...

The good news – and the bad news – for Obama in scandal-tinged polls

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:23:38 -0400

President Obama took this past week on a trio of political scandals, any public opinion survey results that aren't dreadful probably are viewed with some relief at ...

Swift Bieber more ready for Billboard Awards

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:23:29 -0400

Taylor Swift to fun. to Maroon 5 -- are the key finalists at Sunday's awards show, airing live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on ABC. Those acts are up for 11 awards ...

Damaged trains being removed from wreck site

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:39:53 -0400

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Commuter trains damaged in a crash in Connecticut were being removed Sunday in the first step to making repairs and restoring service, the agency that runs Metro-North ...

France must lead breakuup of euro

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:23:30 -0400

LONDON - France played a decisive role in shaping not only the euro system but the entire European project. This history has predisposed French leaders to the goal of preserving the euro at all costs. Those costs, as we explained in Part 1 of this article, have become quite insupportable. A new strategy is needed, and France’s role in shaping it will once again be pivotal. France sits on ...

Tea party looks to take advantage of moment

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:47:16 -0400

Des Moines, Iowa - Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra scrutiny - a claim that tea party activists had made for years - is helping pump new energy into the coalition. And they are trying to use that development, ...

Eurovision debacle Germans blame Eurozone crisis

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:43:32 -0400

Eurovision Song Contest, blaming chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the Euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event, watched by around 125 million people across Europe, with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st out of 26 countries, getting just 18 points from Austria, Israel, Spain, ...

Obama urged to make economy a bigger bolder topic

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:00:05 -0400

FILED In this Aug. 11, 2009, file photo Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod, right, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, left, leave the White House in Washington with President Barack Obama, not shown, en route to New Hampshire for a town hall meeting. Obama allies and former top aides are worried he has lost his voice on his central theme of economic opportunity, silenced by a trio ...

Syrian army Hezbollah attack rebels in border town opposition

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:43:35 -0400

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops supported by Hezbollah militants launched an offensive to retake a major town near Lebanon from rebels on Sunday, the heaviest fighting yet involving Lebanese armed group, opposition activists ...

Republicans Informed of IRS Investigation Last Year

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:40:15 -0400

J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June 2012 — months before last year’s the Presidential election. Republicans who requested the investigation were also told about it at approximately the same time. In a letter dated July 11, 2012, the man ...

Aide Obama learned about IRS from news accounts

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:16:29 -0400

President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. The ...

Britains Cameron losing control as rift with party core widens

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:00:28 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a news conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York May 15, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan ...

Kenya police kill terror couple

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:00:27 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, ...

North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters - NBC40.net

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:58:15 -0400

By HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing recent tension, including near-daily ...

Tunisian police clash with Islamists over banned rally

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:55:26 -0400

KAIROUAN, Tunisia (Reuters) - Supporters of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia clashed with Tunisian police on Sunday after the government banned its annual rally, saying it posed a threat to ...

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:24:56 -0400

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly ...

Chinese premier visits India to boost ties

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:24:55 -0400

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ...

BoE governor King warns of euro risk to British recovery

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:23:26 -0400

Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King speaks to employees during the opening of the Prudential Regulation Authority, in central London April 2, ...

Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:20:39 -0400

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant ...

Pro-drachma party launches urging Greece to leave the euro

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:37:13 -0400

A political party in Greece is calling for the country to leave the euro and go back to using the drachma as its national currency. Plan B held its first general meeting in Athens on Saturday and is headed up by the former leader of the left-wing opposition Syriza party. So far, Plan B is a small party with only around 400 members. Describing the party’s stance on leaving the euro, Plan ...

Medical emergency eyed in Va. parade crash

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:56:07 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk - Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in ...

Report Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying for Mossad CIA

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:46:38 -0400

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency. Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with classified information in return of money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, who allegedly gave the CIA intelligence on Iran, were hanged. The report didn't say when ...

Probe into Conn. train crash giving way to cleanup

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:14:13 -0400

Officials in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office say the governor will meet with representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board and Connecticut's two U.S. senators at the site of a Metro-North Railroad crash that injured 70 ...

Graying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:24:42 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - An elderly couple feed their great-grandson with a piece of cake as they sit under the sun in winter in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, January 9, 2013. REUTERS/William ...

Powerball drawing follows late ticket-buying rush

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:48:45 -0400

(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki). Cathy Raymond, of Oklahoma City, displays the Powerball Lottery tickets she purchased in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, ...

Facebook IPO investors yet to signal whether they are fans

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:40:38 -0400

Facebook the fifth-worst performer of the 124 stocks that debuted during the same period. Among companies that raised $200m or more in an IPO, it ranks last.It could be worse: the stock has climbed more than 50 per cent from its September low and has a market value of almost $65bn - behind EBay at about $72bn and ahead ...

Grayken feels heat to appoint successor

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:40:38 -0400

Nick Webb - 19 May 2013 John Grayken, the fourth richest man in Ireland, is under pressure to appoint an heir to his EUR25bn Texas-based private equity giant, Lone ...

Austerity is dead markets bet on red

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:40:37 -0400

Dow Jones up 17 per cent so far this year. Most of the major country-specific benchmarks around the world have been climbing to multi-year highs with the star of the class being the Nikkei in Japan returning year to date a whopping 43 per cent. The world is awash with money, free money!It is not just stocks. Government bond yields across the globe are plummeting as investors rush to buy any asset ...

These Cloud Stocks Can Fly Pros

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:37:39 -0400

cloud computing , which allows consumers and businesses to access data and applications anywhere, anytime. "You have to focus on cloud as a tech investor at this point," Ken Allen, technology portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price, told CNBC this week. "It cuts across the industry, across subsectors." Given cloud computing's potential, Wall Street analysts remain bullish on ...

Beatles guitar auctioned to the tune of $408000

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:27:38 -0400

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A custom-made electric guitar played by the late John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles sold at a New York auction on Saturday for $408,000, said officials with the company behind the ...

Winning numbers drawn in Powerball jackpot

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:42:20 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Gregory Bull - Joe Fajardo poses holding his Powerball lottery ticket after buying it at a store Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. With the majority ...

Investigators eye fractured rail in Conn. train crash

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:50:16 -0400

commuter train , injuring more than 70 people, investigators said on Saturday. Authorities have ruled out foul play in Friday's collision, which occurred during the evening rush hour between the towns of Bridgeport and Fairfield, about 50 miles northeast ...

France must take deficit cuts seriously Bundesbank chief

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:58:02 -0400

France has a special responsibility as a euro zone heavyweight to take deficit reduction rules seriously, even though its budget deficit is above ...

Denmark wins Eurovision on ABBAs turf with folksy ballad

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:53:52 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Denmark's Emmelie De Forest smiles at a news conference after winning the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Only Teardrops" during the finals of the contest held at the Malmo ...

Powerball jackpot lures last-minute players

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:02:42 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Jeffrey Collins - Armous Peterson figures out what numbers he is going to play in the Powerball lottery at Jimmy's Mart on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Columbia, S.C. Peterson keeps track ...

Police commissioner calls fatal shooting in New York City an anti-gay hate crime

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:52:56 -0400

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A gunman used anti-gay slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called a hate crime. Before opening fire early Saturday, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich Village and asked if they "want to die here," Police ...

Wilkinson mettle steers Toulon to Euro title

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:15:40 -0400

France Jonny Wilkinson showed trademark nerves of steel to kick Toulon to glory over Clermont in a tense European Cup final.Ten years after kicking England to World Cup glory, the 33-year-old fly half's left foot did the trick once again, converting Delon Armitage's 65th minute try to put Toulon ahead for the first time in the match.Clermont had looked favourites to be crowned ...

Car hits parade injuring up to 60

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:13:07 -0400

FBI searches Spokane apartment in ricin letter case

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:32:33 -0400

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities in hazardous materials suits are searching an apartment in downtown Spokane as they investigate the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.FBI agents, Spokane police officers and U.S. Postal Inspection Service officials descended on the apartment Saturday morning.No arrests have been made. An FBI spokeswoman has not said whether ...

Paul McCartney kicks off Out There tour in U.S.

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:23:58 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Andre Penner, File - FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 file photo, British musician Paul McCartney performs during his "Up And Coming Tour" at the Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo. ...

Texas joins flood of states suing BP over 2010 Gulf spill

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:23:55 -0400

BP America in its suit - of violating Texas' environmental regulations. Texas is seeking money from "lost" tourism revenues due to the spill, as well as monies that would have been generated from state park entrance and concession fees by visitors to the coastal communities. In addition, the state is seeking civil penalties for each day the oil spilled into the Gulf, and each ...

First lady to high school grads live your dreams

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:30:52 -0400

(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey). First lady Michelle Obama, right, applauds as students enter the arena for the commencement ceremony of Martin Luther King, ...

Powerball jackpot could go higher than $600M

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:28:20 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - People wait in line to purchase Powerball lottery tickets at the Port Authority bus station in New York May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan ...

Cops investigate after NY college student killed

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:28:19 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/ Louis Lanzano - Hofstra University students gather near the house where another student and an armed intruder were killed during an overnight house break-in next to the campus, Friday, ...

Rome protest turns up heat on new leader Enrico Letta

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:35:13 -0400

ROME--Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of ...

North Korea Fires Three Short-Range Missiles Says The South

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:27:44 -0400

After a relatively calm few weeks, North Korea fired three short-range missiles Saturday, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said. NPR's Louisa Lim reports that North Korea fired the missiles in defiance of international sanctions. She filed this report for our Newscast ...

Chicago commuter headache as L train line shut for five months

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:21:15 -0400

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago will shut down part of its "L" elevated rail system's busiest line for five months starting on Sunday, forcing thousands of commuters to seek other routes and creating the biggest such U.S. transit disruption in two ...

Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:42:59 -0400

PHILADELPHIA -- A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and ...

Fruitvale Station Storms Cannes

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:37:52 -0400

CANNES, FRANCE--Shot on a low budget of less than a million dollars, Sundance Film Festival winner "Fruitvale Station" is taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm. It's competing in the "Un Certain Regard" category in the festival, and the notoriously critical Cannes audience gave the film rapt applause when the screening concluded. The film, directed by 26-year old Ryan ...