Monday, April 15, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 16/04/2013


Chavez ally barely wins Venezuela vote Venezuela's interim President Nicolas Maduro gestures to supporters as he leaves a polling station after voting in the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Maduro, who served as late President Hugo Chavez's foreign minister and vice president, is running against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, wins a razor-thin victory in Sunday's special presidential election. Read More ...
1 dead, 1 missing after Washington state avalanches Snowshoer Lost in Cascade Mountain AvalancheA female hiker died hours after she was dug out of five feet of snow by rescuers in the Cascade Mountains. Read More ...
As U.S. talks up diplomacy, N. Korea takes hard line U.S. Secretary of Sate John Kerry, left, is greeted by Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida prior to their meeting at Foreign Ministry's Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo Sunday, April 14, 2013. After meeting with top Chinese leaders in Beijing, Kerry traveled to Tokyo to discuss the continuing North Korea crisis with Japanese officials. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)The United States and Japan opened the door to new nuclear talks with North Korea. Read More ...
Family of alleged rape victim to file suit This undated photo provided by her family via attorney Robert Allard shows Audrie Pott. A Northern California sheriff's office has arrested three 16-year-old boys on accusations that they sexually battered the 15-year-old girl who hanged herself eight days after the attack last fall. Santa Clara County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Jose Cardoza says the teens were arrested Thursday, April 11, 2013, two at Saratoga High School and a third at Christopher High School in Gilroy. (AP Photo/Family photo provided by attorney Robert Allard) NO SALES MAGS OUT FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLYAudrie Pott's family was distressed by comments made by the defendants' lawyers. Read More ...
U.S. defense cuts lead to first drop in global arms spending in 15 years Looming defense cuts raise national security concernsWith battles raging in Congress over the proposed budget cuts, a new report says the gap in military spending between the U.S. and the rest of the world is narrowing. Read More ...
Gun debate revives questions about self-defense In this Saturday, April 6, 2013 photo, Eric Martin poses for a photo with his fiancee, Rachel Cieslewicz, at their home in St. George, Utah. In late March 2013, Martin chased down an intruder to their home and held him at gunpoint with the 9-mm Smith & Wesson handgun that he keeps in his bedside night stand, until the police arrived. In two decades of debate over guns in the U.S., intense disagreement has long clouded seemingly straight-forward questions of how, exactly, Americans use firearms to defend themselves and how often. But listening to Martin's account of the incident shows how the uncertainty of the abstract plays out with very real consequences. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)Since the Sandy Hook massacre, some of the most intense debate has swirled around how to keep guns from criminals without infringing on the ability of lawful gun owners. Read More ...
Boy feared dead after falling in glacier crevasse FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A 9-year-old boy on a snowmobile is feared dead after falling an estimated 200 feet into a crevasse on an Alaska glacier. Read More ...
Six strangled, one decapitated in Mexican resort of Cancun Soldiers and police officers stand guard at a crime scene where six people were strangled to death and one decapitated in a shack in the outskirts of CancunCANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Six people were found strangled to death and one decapitated in the southern Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, the state's deputy attorney general said, in the latest mass killing to strike the city in the last few weeks. Police found the bodies of the five men and two women in a shack in the outskirts of Cancun, a major tourist destination on Mexico's Caribbean coast, that has largely escaped the drug-related violence that has racked Acapulco, a faded tourist destination on the Pacific coast. ... Read More ...
Investigators probe jet's crash into sea in Bali En una foto proporcionada por la Policía de Indonesia, los restos de un avión de la línea aérea Lion Air se encuentra en el agua tras salirse de la pista del aeropuerto de Bali, Indonesia el sábado 13 de abril de 2013. (AP Foto/Indonesian Police)Investigators were working to determine what caused a new Lion Air passenger jet to miss the runway and crash into the sea off the Indonesian resort island of Bali, in the expanding budget airline's sixth accident in 11 years. Read More ...
Former Ohio congressman Charlie Wilson dies at 70 The Ohio Democratic Party says former Congressman Charlie Wilson, who represented southeastern Ohio in Washington for two terms after winning a write-in campaign, has died. He was 70. Read More ...
Comedian Kevin Hart arrested on suspicion of DUI FILE - This April 8, 2013 file photo shows U.S. actor Kevin Hart posing for photographers during the MIPTV, world's audiovisual and digital content market in Cannes, southern France. Hart was arrested early Sunday April 14, 2013 on suspicion of drunken driving, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Philippe Farjon, file)Authorities say comedian Kevin Hart was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after his black Mercedes nearly collided with a tanker trunk on a Southern California freeway. Read More ...
2 kids die after pulled from pool on Long Island CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Two young siblings reported missing on New York's Long Island died Sunday after their fully clothed bodies were pulled from the black waters of a neighbor's pool in 50-degree temperatures, police said. Read More ...
Founder of Wienerschnitzel chain John Galardi dies IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — John Galardi, who opened a Wienerschnitzel hot dog stand in Los Angeles in 1961 and expanded it into a chain with more than 300 outlets in 10 U.S. states, has died, his company said Sunday. Read More ...
CHP: Bus at 'unsafe' speed before Yosemite wreck FILE - In this 2005 file photo, visitors view Half Dome from Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park, Calif. Visitors to America's national parks will encounter fewer rangers, find locked restrooms and visitors centers, and see trashcans emptied less often if 5 percent across-the-board cuts are enacted by sequestration. A National Park Service internal memo obtained by The Associated Press compiles a list of cuts in services in parks from Cape Cod to Yosemite. It's the result of an order by Park Service Director John Jarvis in January that asked superintendents to show how they will absorb the funding cuts. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas, File)A tour bus carrying visitors from Yosemite National Park was traveling at an unsafe speed when the driver lost control and crashed on a mountain road, leaving 16 people injured, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday. Read More ...
Bieber criticized for Anne Frank comment Justin Bieber wrote an entry into a guestbook at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam. Read More ...
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