IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 15/04/2013

U.S., China agree on N. Korea nuke issue

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry and Chinese State Councilor Yang deliver remarks at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing

John Kerry met with top leaders in a bid to persuade them to push the regime. Read More ...

New bird flu cases in central China

In this April 3, 2013 photo, workers disinfect at Sanguantang live poultry wholesale market in Shanghai, China. After a new and lethal strain of bird flu emerged in Shanghai two weeks ago, the government of China's bustling financial capital responded with live updates on a Twitter-like microblog. It's a starkly different approach than a decade ago, when Chinese officials silenced reporting as a deadly pneumonia later known as SARS killed dozens in the south. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The two new infections bring the total number nationwide to 51. Read More ...

Once a serf, Pakistani woman enters election

Kolhi talks to her supporter during an election campaign at a camp for freed bonded labourers on the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad

Veero Kolhi is the first candidate to have escaped the thrall of a feudal-style land owner. Read More ...

Ex-official arrested in probe of prosecutor slayings

Handout photo of Former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams

A former justice of the peace has been arrested on suspicion of threatening violence, officials say. Read More ...

Prisoners, guards clash over Guantanamo Bay raid

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2007 file photo, Guantanamo guards keep watch over a cell block with detainees in Camp 6 maximum-security facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Guards clashed Saturday, April 13, 2013 with prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison as the military sought to move hunger strikers out of a communal section of the detention center, officials said. The confrontation occurred after the commander decided to move prisoners into single, solid-walled cells so that prison authorities could monitor them more closely during the hunger strike, the military said.. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Tension at the prison boiled over Saturday as the military closed a section of the facility. Read More ...

Joshua Tree park sites closed because of graffiti

Leonid Meteor Shower May Flare Up Early Tuesday

Acts of graffiti have become pervasive, and officials blame the bump on social media. Read More ...

Quake strikes off Papua New Guinea, no damage reported An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude struck 46 miles west of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of tsunami warnings or damage. Read More ...

Polio vaccine developer Koprowski dies Dr. Hilary Koprowski, a pioneering virologist who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, died this week at his suburban Philadelphia home. He was 96. Read More ...

Man missing in Washington state avalanches A hiker was missing after two avalanches struck the mountains in Washington state on Saturday in an area popular for winter sports, while a second missing man was found hurt but alive, a police spokeswoman said. King County Sheriff's Sergeant Katie Larson said a 60-year-old man who had been snowshoeing with two companions disappeared about noon local time after an avalanche struck near Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains, about an hour east of Seattle. Extremely heavy snowfall and waning daylight forced rescuers to call off the search in the evening. ... Read More ...

Officer accused of having Trayvon Martin target A police officer accused of bringing targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a gun range has been fired. Read More ...

In White House, Newtown mom pleads for gun control

Families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., meet with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., after he announced a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. From left are David and Francine Wheeler, who lost their 6-year-old son Ben in the shooting, Katy Sherlach and her father Bill Sherlach, whose wife Mary Sherlach was killed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The mother of a boy killed in the school shooting makes a tearful plea. Read More ...

Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad resigns

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011 file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian officials say Fayyad has officially submitted his resignation, and is waiting for a reply from President Mahmoud Abbas.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

The move comes just as the U.S. is launching a push for Mideast peace. Read More ...

Obama's budget plan limits his bargaining power

FILE - This April 8, 2013 file photo shows copies of President Barack Obama's budget plan for fiscal year 2014 prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington. President Barack Obama’s budget overtures to Republicans, aimed at getting the GOP back to the negotiating table on a grand deficit reduction deal, may leave him with little bargaining power if such talks ever occur. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

By putting entitlement cuts on the table, Obama has no other gambit to win tax increases. Read More ...

5 killed in Idaho home fire after electrical short An extension cord hooked to an electric grill on a porch shorted out and started a house fire that killed five people Saturday morning, a northern Idaho fire official says. Read More ...

Anti-Thatcher party in London's Trafalgar Square

People sing and dance during a party to mark her death in central London's Trafalgar square, Saturday, April 13, 2013. Thatcher's most strident critics had long vowed to hold a gathering in central London on the Saturday following her passing, and the festivities were an indication of the depth of the hatred which some Britons still feel for their former leader. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher partied in London's Trafalgar Square to celebrate her death, sipping Champagne and chanting "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead." Read More ...

Activists say Syrian airstrike kills 20 people

This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings damaged in a government airstrike and shelling at Bostan Pasha district in Aleppo, northern Syria, Friday, April 12, 2013. The airstrikes come a day after a U.S.-based human right group accused the Syrian air force of carrying out indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas around the country — attacks the group claims amount to war crimes. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian government airstrike on a town in the country's northwest killed at least 20 people Saturday, shattering store fronts, setting cars ablaze and sending a giant plume of black and gray smoke into the sky. Read More ...

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IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 15/04/2013

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