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FAA: Airliner crashes on landing in San Francisco Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:48 PM PDT Federal aviation officials say an Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, has crashed while landing at San Francisco airport. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries. Full Story | Top |
Egypt: opposition leader named interim PM Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:08 PM PDT An opposition spokesman says pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named interim prime minister. Full Story | Top |
Top fugitive Italian cocaine boss nabbed in Bogota Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:03 PM PDT ROME (AP) — A fugitive Italian mobster, who allegedly arranged major shipments of South American cocaine to Europe each month and was one of the world's most powerful drug brokers, has been captured in a Colombian shopping mall, authorities said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
30 killed in school attack in northeast Nigeria Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:13 PM PDT POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria's embattled northeast. Full Story | Top |
Snowden's fate unclear despite asylum offers Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 10:32 AM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — Edward Snowden has found supporters in Latin America, including three countries who have offered him asylum. But many obstacles stand in the way of the fugitive NSA leaker from leaving a Russian airport — chief among them the power and influence of the United States. Full Story | Top |
Ex-prisoner chosen to lead Syria opposition group Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:31 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — A former Syrian political prisoner with close links to Saudi Arabia was picked Saturday to lead Syria's main Western-backed opposition group, filling a post long vacant due to divisions among President Bashar Assad's opponents. Full Story | Top |
On tour, Giffords' actions speak on gun control Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:47 PM PDT DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Thirty months after she was shot through the head, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords sits in a New Hampshire restaurant facing parents of children killed in the nation's latest school shooting. Full Story | Top |
Fearful Lebanese Sunnis drawn to hard-line leaders Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 08:28 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese pop idol Fadel Shaker shot to stardom crooning ballads that earned him the nickname "The King of Romance." He disappeared as a bearded, gun-toting Sunni hard-liner in a shootout with the army in the coastal city of Sidon. Full Story | Top |
Doing it her way, France's Bartoli wins Wimbledon Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 12:15 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — Ever since she was a kid, practicing until midnight with her father, Marion Bartoli went about playing tennis her own way. Full Story | Top |
Solar powered plane on final leg of flight to NYC Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 02:56 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A solar-powered aircraft lifted off from a suburban Washington airport before dawn Saturday, embarking on the final leg of a history-making cross-country flight. Full Story | Top |
5 key moments from 2nd week of Zimmerman trial Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 10:35 AM PDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Friday at the end of the second week of testimony in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial. Defense attorneys now have their chance next week to call witnesses and introduce testimony. They called their first two witnesses late Friday. Full Story | Top |
2 Koreas talk at border on stalled industrial park Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 05:58 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Delegates from North and South Korea held talks Saturday on restarting a stalled joint factory park that had been a symbol of cooperation between the bitter rivals, but there was no word on whether any significant progress had been made as discussions went into the night. Full Story | Top |
Bartoli beats Lisicki to don Wimbledon crown Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 08:52 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — One of the strangest Wimbledons produced one of its quirkiest champions in Marion Bartoli, the winner of a mistake-filled final that left the overwhelmed runner-up in near tears during the match. Full Story | Top |
South Africa: Mandela nears a month in hospital Saturday, Jul 06, 2013 01:11 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has been in a hospital for nearly a month. Full Story | Top |
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