IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 13/05/2014

Estranged wife of Donald Sterling to fight NBA

ABC News Exclusive: Shelly Sterling: I Think Donald Sterling Has 'Onset of Dementia'

Shelly Sterling says the Clippers owner may have "onset of dementia."

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A happy Mother's Day: Woman gives birth to rare 'mono mono' twins

An Ohio middle school math teacher was given an early Mother's Day present, giving birth to rare monoamniatic twin girls after spending nearly two months in the hospital.

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Details of day Snowden revealed himself as NSA whistleblower

FILE - A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. A report that revealed the massive U.S. government surveillance effort is among the top finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. The stories were based on thousands of documents handed over by Snowden. The reports were published by Barton Gellman of The Washington Post and Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewan MacAskill of The Guardian. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)

Nearly a year after Edward Snowden revealed himself as the National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower, former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald is sharing more behind-the-scenes details of the events that led to the unveiling of Snowden as the source of the leaks.

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High cost, corruption claims mar Brazil World Cup
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The cost of building Brasilia's World Cup stadium has nearly tripled to $900 million in public funds, largely due to allegedly fraudulent billing, government auditors say. The spike in costs has made it the world's second-most expensive soccer arena, even though the city has no major professional team.

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Insurgents say Ukraine region opts for sovereignty

Members of election committee empty a ballot box after voting closed at a polling station in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, May 11, 2014. Voters in two insurgent Ukrainian regions cast ballots Sunday on whether to declare their areas sovereign republics, a move denounced by the central government and likely to deepen the turmoil in the largely Russian-speaking east. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The organizers of controversial referendums in two industrial regions in eastern Ukraine say about 90 percent of voters have backed their calls for sovereignty.

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Ongoing fighting in Iraq's Anbar hits businesses

In this photo taken Friday, May 9, 2014, shoppers buy fresh vegetables in Jamila market in Baghdad, Iraq. Fighting in Iraq’s western Anbar province, now in its fifth month, appears to have bogged down, with government forces unable to drive out Islamic militants who took over one of the area’s main cities. But the impact is being felt much further, with the repercussions rippling through the country’s economy to hit consumers and businesses. Fighting has also disrupted shipping, inflating prices of goods in Baghdad and elsewhere. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

BAGHDAD (AP) — Fighting in Iraq's western Anbar province, now in its fifth month, appears to have bogged down, with government forces unable to drive out Islamic militants who took over one of the area's main cities. But the impact is being felt much further, with the repercussions rippling through the country's economy to hit consumers and businesses.

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Arkansas plans to appeal same-sex marriage ruling

Jennifer Rambo, right, of Fort Smith, Ark., kisses her partner Kristin Seaton, left, of Jacksonville, Ark., following their marriage ceremony in front of the Carroll County Courthouse as Sheryl Maples, far left, the lead attorney who filed the Wright v. the State of Arkansas lawsuit, looks on Saturday, May 10, 2014, in Eureka Springs, Ark. Rambo and Seaton were the first same-sex couple to be granted a marriage license in Eureka Springs after a judge overturned Amendment 83, which banned same-sex marriage in the state of Arkansas. (AP Photo/Sarah Bentham)

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — The state's top lawyer will ask the Arkansas Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision to overturn a 2004 constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

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Coaches, pilot remembered after balloon crash

Laura Jordan wears a red ribbon with her hat decorated with initials of Natalie Lewis and Ginny Doyle before the University of Richmond's Commencement Ceremony in Richmond, Va. on Sunday, May 11, 2014. Lewis, the director of basketball operations of the University of Richmond women’s basketball team, and Doyle, the team's associate head coach, died in Friday night’s hot air balloon crash in Caroline County. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Daniel Sangjib Min)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One was the constant in Richmond women's basketball, the beloved assistant coach who had been on staff for 15 seasons, remaining through two coaching changes. The other was hardly out of college, always cheerful and willing to help.

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Jones fined after sending tweet about Michael Sam
MIAMI (AP) — Miami Dolphins safety Don Jones was fined an undisclosed amount Sunday and will undergo educational training after sending a negative tweet about Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be selected in the NFL draft.

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NBA: Wife can't keep team if Sterling ousted

FILE - In this May 19, 2012, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, left, and his wife Rochelle watch during the second half in Game 3 of an NBA basketball playoffs Western Conference semifinal against the San Antonio Spurs in Los Angeles. An attorney representing the estranged wife of Clippers owner Donald Sterling said Thursday, May 8, 2014, that she will fight to retain her 50 percent ownership stake in the team. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA said if Donald Sterling's ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers is terminated, so is Shelly Sterling's.

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Clippers' Sterling apologizes, says 'not a racist'

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling, right, sits with his wife Rochelle during the Clippers NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons in Los Angeles. An attorney representing the estranged wife of Clippers owner Donald Sterling said Thursday, May 8, 2014, that she will fight to retain her 50 percent ownership stake in the team. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling apologized Sunday for racist comments captured on tape, saying they were a "terrible mistake."

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Armed men in eastern Ukraine open fire on crowd

A man tries to help a dead pro-Russia man in Krasnoarmeisk, Ukraine, Sunday, May 11, 2014. Although the voting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions appeared mostly peaceful, Ukrainian national guardsmen opened fire on a crowd outside a town hall in Krasnoarmeisk, and an official with the region’s insurgents said there were fatalities. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

KRASNOARMEISK, Ukraine (AP) — Armed men identified as Ukrainian national guard opened fire Sunday on a crowd outside a town hall in eastern Ukraine, and an official for the region's insurgents said there were fatalities.

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Americans in Yemen shooting were getting haircuts

In this photo provided by Yemen's Defense Ministry, Yemen's army soldiers hold up their weapons at an area seized from al-Qaida in the southeastern province of Shabwa, Yemen, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Yemeni armed forces on Thursday swept al-Qaida fighters out of a district in the country's south, one of the main goals of the major offensive waged by the military the past two weeks, the Defense Ministry said, amid fears of retaliatory attacks which officials say prompted the closure of the US embassy in the capital as a precaution. (AP Photo/Yemen's Defense Ministry)

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — One of the two officers at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen who shot and killed a pair of suspected al-Qaida gunmen was getting a haircut at a barbershop when the attempted abduction took place, Yemeni security officials said Sunday.

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Ukraine regions hold sovereignty vote

A masked pro Russia man is seen atop an APC flying a Russian flag, top, and a Donetsk People's Republic flag, as it stands in front of the occupied administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Saturday, May 10, 2014. Two restive regions in eastern Ukraine are preparing to vote on declaring sovereignty and ceding from Ukraine, in a referendum on Sunday in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where pro-Russia insurgents have seized government buildings and clashed with police and Ukrainian troops.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Voters in two insurgent Ukrainian regions cast ballots Sunday on whether to declare their areas sovereign republics, a move denounced by the central government and likely to deepen the turmoil in the largely Russian-speaking east.

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Body of third victim found after Virginia hot air balloon crash
(Reuters) - Search teams in Virginia on Sunday discovered the body of the third person who died when a hot air balloon struck a power line and plummeted to the ground in flames, police said. About 100 people combing a heavily wooded area of Caroline County, about 30 miles north of Richmond, discovered the third body during a foot search, according to the Virginia State Police. \"Now that the male pilot and two female passengers have all been located, this concludes the large-scale search efforts of the operation,\" Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in a statement. Crews were still looking for the wreckage of the balloon and basket, which became engulfed in flames, killing all three on board when it hit a power line during a hot air balloon festival Friday evening.

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