IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 24/05/2013

Firefighters unprepared for Texas blast

File phooto shows housing complex after it was destroyed by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West

A report shows responders didn't adequately train for the situation.

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Heffernan: Latest tax dodge dulls Apple's luster

Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations as lawmakers examine the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the Internal Revenue Code. Lawmakers want to know the tax strategy of how Apple, the world's most valuable company, based in Cupertino, Calif., holds a billion dollars in an Irish subsidiary as a tax strategy, according to a report issued this week by the subcommittee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Even teens who once craved iPhones are turning on the company.

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What's next for the immigration bill?

What's next for immigration reform bill?

It seeks to legalize most of the country's 11 million unauthorized residents.

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Cruise industry adopts passenger bill of rights

Couple Missing From Carnival Cruise Ship

It promises full refunds for trips that are canceled due to mechanical failure.

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Teen who penned web-hit farewell song dies
Zach Sobiech's "Clouds" became a YouTube sensation with more than 4 million views.

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Woman praised for distracting attack suspects in London

Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears

The horrific attack that left a U.K. soldier dead on the streets of London could have been worse.

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Youth violence in Stockholm shock Sweden

Firefighters extinguish a burning car in the Stockholm suburb of Kista

Hundreds of youth have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers.

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Holder: U.S. killed four Americans overseas in drone strikes

FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Holder said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric, was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen. The administration released the information the day before President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a major speech on national security. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. had killed four Americans in drone strikes since 2009 – radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three others who were “not specifically targeted.”

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Officials: Man shot by FBI was about to sign murder confession

Florida Man Shot by FBI Was About to Sign Boston Murder Confession: Officials

Ibragim Todashev was linked to Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an unsolved triple murder in 2011.

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1 child dead, 1 missing in park landslide

Workers with shovels run to the staging area for a rescue operation underway on the West Side of St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. One child on a school field trip was killed and another remained unaccounted after a gravel slide Wednesday in a St. Paul park that’s popular with children looking for fossils, authorities said. (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Scott Takushi) MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE OUT

A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others.

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Pocket-dialing 911 leads to Fla. murder charge
Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed 911.

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Arias jury adjourns for day after impasse

Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)

Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial said Wednesday they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

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Chicago board approves largest school closing
The Chicago Board of Education voted on Wednesday to close 50 schools - including about 10 percent of all elementary schools - in the largest mass school closing in the nation. The closings in mainly Hispanic and African-American neighborhoods have drawn protests by parents and teachers union leaders who say the closures will expose children to greater gang violence in a city that recorded 506 murders in 2012. ...

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FBI make arrest in Wash. ricin letter scare

During the execution of a search warrant, members of the Joint Federal Haz-Mat Team, FBI, and local law enforcement gather in front of the Osmun Apartments near the intersection of First Avenue and Oak Street in Browne's Addition on Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Spokane, Wash. The search warrant is in connection with ricin-laced letters intercepted at a Post Office facility in Spokane earlier in the week. (AP Photo/TheSpokesman-Review, Colin Mulvany) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUT

A 37-year-old man arrested Wednesday has pleaded not guilty to mailing a threatening communication, after a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.

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Faith healers charged with murder after second son's death

FILE - This undated photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced in a Wednesday, May 22, 2013 news conference that Herbert and Catherine Schaible who believe in faith healing over medicine have been charged with murder after a second child died of pneumonia. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)

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IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 24/05/2013

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