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28 March 2011

6.5-magnitude quake hits off Japan, local tsunami warning (AFP)

6.5-magnitude quake hits off Japan, local tsunami warning (AFP)

6.5-magnitude quake hits off Japan, local tsunami warning (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:53 PM PDT

Snow falls on a boat that was beached by the recent tsunami, in Miyako, Iwate prefecture. A shallow 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the northeast coast of Japan on Monday, the US Geological Survey said(AFP/Roslan Rahman)AFP - A shallow 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the northeast coast of Japan on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.

U.S. to cut Libya role soon, focus on Gaddafi exit (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:48 PM PDT

A rebel drinks coffee inside an oil terminal compound after it was retaken by rebels in Zueitina, 850 km (528 miles) east of Tripoli, March 27, 2011. REUTERS/Suhaib SalemReuters - The United States will cut its military role in Libya in the next week or so and start to focus with other nations on how to ease Libya's Muammar Gaddafi from power, top U.S. officials said on Sunday.

Harry Coover, creator of Super Glue, dies at 94 (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, Harry W. Coover, who invented cyanoacrylate glue, commonly known as Super Glue, for Eastman Chemical Co., is shown at a ceremony for recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors, at the White House in Washington. Coover died at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. on Saturday, March 26, 2011. He was 94. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died. He was 94.

Syria's Assad deploys army in port to keep order (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:34 PM PDT

This still image from video shows crowds of mourners carrying a coffin during funerals of protesters killed in earlier clashes in Deraa March 25, 2011. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was facing the deepest crisis of his 11 years in power after security forces fired on protesters on Friday, adding to a death toll that rights groups have said now numbers in the dozens. Footage taken March 25, 2011. REUTERS/Amateur Video via Reuters TVReuters - President Bashar al-Assad, facing the gravest crisis in his 11-year rule, deployed the army in Syria's main port of Latakia for the first time after nearly two weeks of protests spread across the country.

Syria Tries to Ease Deep Political Crisis

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:22 PM PDT

Syria tried to ease a grave political crisis by blaming gangs for killing 12 people and promising to soon lift a draconian emergency law.

Cuomo Strikes Tentative Deal on N.Y. Budget With Big Cuts

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:21 PM PDT

The $132.5 billion budget keeps state spending roughly flat, does not impose major new taxes and begins a long-term overhaul of the state's bloated Medicaid programs.

Clinton and Gates Defend Mission in Libya

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:20 PM PDT

The military intervention in Libya has saved perhaps tens of thousands of lives, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.

Air raids hit Gadhafi stronghold of Sirte in Libya (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:14 PM PDT

Libyan rebels clean up a checkpoint in the outskirts of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Libyan rebels took back a key oil town and pushed westward Sunday toward the capital, seizing momentum from the international airstrikes that tipped the balance away from Moammar Gadhafi's military. Brega, a main oil export terminal in eastern Libya, fell after a skirmish late Saturday and rebel forces moved swiftly west, seizing the tiny desert town of Al-Egila a collection of houses and a gas station on their way to the massive oil refining complex of Ras Lanouf. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - International air raids targeted Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte for the first time Sunday night as rebels quickly closed in on the regime stronghold, a formidable obstacle that must be overcome for government opponents to reach the capital Tripoli.

Medicare rise could mean no Social Security COLA (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 2005 file photo shows trays of printed social security checks waiting to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury. The government is projecting a slight cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits next year, the first increase since 2009. But for most beneficiaries, rising Medicare premiums threaten to wipe out any increase in payments, leaving them without a raise for a third straight year. (AP Photo/Bradly C. Bower)AP - Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments.

More obstacles impede crews in Japan nuke crisis (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:57 PM PDT

In this image released by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force via Kyodo News, smoke billows from Unit 3 at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Japan Ground Self-Defense Force via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - Mounting problems, including badly miscalculated radiation figures and inadequate storage tanks for huge amounts of contaminated water, stymied emergency workers Sunday as they struggled to nudge Japan's stricken nuclear complex back from the edge of disaster.
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