Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines:
|
|
Cabbie unlikely celebrity in Colombia sex scandal
Sat,21 Apr 2012 05:27 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The Secret Service sex scandal has spawned X-rated jokes, inspired a spicy song set to a local Caribbean beat, and made an unlikely celebrity of a 42-year-old taxi driver who lives with his mother and now seems to be in hiding.
Full Story | Top |
Watergate figure Charles Colson has died at 80
Sat,21 Apr 2012 06:15 PM PDT
Associated Press -  He was described as the "evil genius" of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related conviction. His proclamations following his release that he was a new man, redeemed by his religious faith, were met with more than skepticism by those angered at the abuses he had perpetrated as one of Nixon's hatchet men.
Full Story | Top |
U.N. monitors visit Syria opposition stronghold
Sat,21 Apr 2012 06:18 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Five unarmed U.N. truce monitors toured the battered city at the heart of the Syrian uprising on foot Saturday, encountering unusually calm streets after weeks of shelling as a throng of residents clamored for foreign military help to oust President Bashar Assad.
Full Story | Top |
White Sox pitcher throws perfect game
Sat,21 Apr 2012 03:52 PM PDT
Yahoo! Sports -  Phil Humber threw the first perfect game in the majors in almost two years, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 4-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.
Full Story | Top |
Utah senator Orrin Hatch forced into primary fight
Sat,21 Apr 2012 12:06 PM PDT
The Ticket -  By a hair, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch was narrowly pushed into a Republican primary race against former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist Saturday after failing to capture the 60 percent necessary to win the nomination outright. Hatch received 59.19 percent on a second-round ballot vote against Liljenquist, who received 40.81 percent. "There will be a [...]
Full Story | Top |
Police: Dutch train crash injures almost 125 people
Sat,21 Apr 2012 01:05 PM PDT
Reuters -  Almost 125 people were injured, many seriously, when two Dutch commuter trains crashed head-on in Amsterdam on Saturday, police said. There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but of those injured, 13 suffered major injuries while 43 or 44 were badly injured, a spokesman said. About 70 suffered minor injuries. A trauma helicopter was used to bring the injured to hospital, a spokesman for railways group NS said. The trains did not serve Schiphol international airport, the NS spokesman added, but the accident disrupted airport train service. ...
Full Story | Top |
Report: Bee Gee Robin Gibb wakes from coma
Sat,21 Apr 2012 03:10 PM PDT
Reuters -  Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has woken from a coma more than a week after he lost consciousness and has attempted to communicate with family members at his hospital bedside, the BBC reported on Saturday. Gibb, 62, has begun to show signs of recovery and has been able to nod and communicate with his family, spokesman Doug Wright was quoted as saying by the BBC. Wright could not immediately be reached to confirm the report. The singer contracted pneumonia and fell into a coma at a central London hospital earlier this month. ...
Full Story | Top |
Chinese firm suspected in missile-linked sale to North Korea
Sat,21 Apr 2012 01:06 PM PDT
Reuters -  The United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ban on such military sales, a U.S. official said on Saturday. The Obama administration suspects the Chinese manufacturer sold the chassis - not the entire vehicle - and may have believed it was for civilian purposes, which means it would not be an intentional violation of U.N. sanctions, the senior official said. ...
Full Story | Top |
French voters frustrated on eve of election day
Sat,21 Apr 2012 04:35 PM PDT
Reuters -  French voters voiced disillusionment on Saturday at a campaign that many said ignored the country's real problems, on the eve of a first-round vote expected to send President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist rival Francois Hollande to a runoff next month. A day ahead of voting in mainland France, the first ballots were cast in overseas territories, from French Guiana on the northern shores of South America to the Pacific islands of Polynesia. ...
Full Story | Top |
Fifteen killed in northern Mexican bar shootout
Sat,21 Apr 2012 05:50 PM PDT
Reuters -  Fifteen people were killed and at least one seriously wounded in a suspected drug-related shootout on Friday in a bar in northern Mexico, a region that has been brutalized by fighting between criminal gangs. On Friday night, armed men entered the bar in Chihuahua, capital of Chihuahua state, and opened fire on various people inside suspected of involvement in drug dealing, the local attorney general's office said in a statement on Saturday. ...
Full Story | Top |
Police search for missing 6-year-old Arizona girl
Sat,21 Apr 2012 07:28 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The overnight disappearance of a 6-year-old Arizona girl triggered a massive search Saturday by scores of police, FBI agents and a large contingent of deputy U.S. Marshals as officials investigated the possibility that she was kidnapped or just wandered off.
Full Story | Top |
Did U.S. fumble chance to probe China's secretive leadership?
Sat,21 Apr 2012 09:33 AM PDT
Reuters -  Information about a Chinese policeman who implicated the wife of a top Chinese official in a British businessman's murder was not circulated widely in Washington as he was considered of marginal intelligence value, current and former U.S. officials said. In the weeks since Wang Lijun's visit to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu and his subsequent detention, some critics of the Obama administration have accused it of fumbling what could have been one of the highest-level defectors ever from inside China's clannish leadership class. ...
Full Story | Top |
Search resumes in high-profile N.Y. missing child case
Sat,21 Apr 2012 08:10 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investigators in New York resumed the search for clues on Saturday into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, digging into a Manhattan basement for a third day in hopes of solving a case that has confounded police for three decades. The boy was formally declared dead in 2001. But his fate has remained a mystery and the case, which helped spark a national movement on the issue of missing children, has continued to resonate with New Yorkers. Police declined to say if there were new suspects in the case. ... Full Story | Top |
Uganda Kony-hunting soldiers face jungle threats
Sat,21 Apr 2012 10:19 AM PDT
Associated Press -  For Ugandan soldiers tasked with catching Joseph Kony, the real threat is not the elusive Central Africa warlord and his brutal gang. Encounters with the Lord's Resistance Army rebels are so rare that Kony hunters worry more about the threats of the jungle: Armed poachers, wild beasts, honey bees, and even a fly that torments their ears.
Full Story | Top |
'Dog Whisperer' host must pay ex-wife $23,000 a month
Sat,21 Apr 2012 12:32 PM PDT
The Upshot -  "Dog Whisperer" host Cesar Millan might need some consolation from man's best friend after his divorce was finalized. TMZ is reporting that the self-taught expert dog trainer must pay his ex-wife, Ilusión, a one-time amount of $400,000, a monthly spousal payment of $23,000, and another $10,000 for monthly child support. That may seem like a [...]
Full Story | Top |
| |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment