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| Cirque du Soleil acrobat in hospital after fall at Las Vegas show Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 08:26 PM PDT A Cirque du Soleil acrobat was hospitalized after suffering injuries in a fall during a performance in Las Vegas on Friday night, just days after the Montreal-based company was fined in connection with a fatal accident in June. The unidentified male acrobat was performing in the "Wheel of Death" act during the show "Zarkana" when he slipped and fell off the wheel, Cirque du Soleil said in a Facebook posting on Saturday. "The show was halted and the artist was transported to University Medical Center where he is in stable condition and is expected to be released from hospital in the next few days," the statement said. In June, Paris native Sarah Guillot-Guyard fell 94 feet to her death during a midair battle scene in the show "KA" in Las Vegas. Full Story | Top |
| Holocaust memorabilia found on eBay - Mail on Sunday report Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 08:05 PM PDT  EBay has removed from its listings around 30 items of memorabilia from the Nazi Holocaust, including clothes worn by concentration camp victims, after a newspaper investigation discovered they were on sale on the e-commerce website, Britain's Mail on Sunday said. The newspaper said its reporters found a range of items on the site over the past week, including what was presented by the vendor as a complete Auschwitz uniform worn by a Polish baker who perished in the Nazi death camp. The Mail on Sunday said it had alerted eBay and that the online auctioneer had removed 30 items from sale and offered to make a donation of 25,000 pounds to a suitable charity. In a statement, eBay said: "We are very sorry these items have been listed on eBay and we are removing them. Full Story | Top |
| Cuba shutters private theaters, threatens other businesses Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 08:03 PM PDT By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba closed dozens of home-based movie theaters on Saturday and reaffirmed its plans to end the private sale of imported goods as communist authorities pressed for "order, discipline and obedience" in the growing small business sector. A government statement issued through official media said home-based theaters and video games will "stop immediately in any type of self employment," a local euphemism for small business. The statement said "the showing of movies, including in 3D salons, and likewise the organization of computer games, has never been authorized." The government banned the private sale of imported goods last month, a measure that potentially affects some 20,000 small businesses and their employees who sell clothing, hardware and other goods brought in informally by travelers, some of whom visit the Caribbean island regularly carrying merchandise from the United States, Spain and Latin American countries. President Raul Castro, who replaced his brother Fidel in 2008, has instituted a series of market-oriented reforms to Cuba's Soviet style economy where the state still employs 79 percent of the 5 million-strong labor force. Full Story | Top |
| Holocaust memorabilia found on eBay: UK newspaper report Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 08:02 PM PDT  EBay has removed from its listings around 30 items of memorabilia from the Nazi Holocaust, including clothes worn by concentration camp victims, after a newspaper investigation discovered they were on sale on the e-commerce website, Britain's Mail on Sunday said. The newspaper said its reporters found a range of items on the site over the past week, including what was presented by the vendor as a complete Auschwitz uniform worn by a Polish baker who perished in the Nazi death camp. The Mail on Sunday said it had alerted eBay and that the online auctioneer had removed 30 items from sale and offered to make a donation of 25,000 pounds ($40,000) to a suitable charity. In a statement, eBay said: "We are very sorry these items have been listed on eBay and we are removing them. Full Story | Top |
| Union workers approve deal with San Francisco commuter rail agency Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 07:38 PM PDT (Reuters) - San Francisco-area unionized transit workers voted to ratify a labor agreement that ended a four-day strike last month at the fifth largest U.S. commuter rail system, officials with the agency said on Saturday. The labor action shut down the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency, or BART, jammed roadways and added hours to morning commutes in one of the most traffic-clogged U.S. cities. BART is expected to ratify the deal. "BART was able to gain reforms it has sought for years which will have a positive impact on our ability to manage the system and will improve service for our customers," BART General Manager Grace Crunican said in a statement. Full Story | Top |
| Georgia couple charged with murder after girl's body found in trash Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 07:07 PM PDT The father and stepmother of a 10-year-old girl were charged with murder after the burned body of the girl was found in a trash can outside an apartment complex near Atlanta, police said. Eman Moss and Tiffany Moss were charged with felony murder, cruelty to a child and concealing a body, according to a statement issued by the Gwinnett County Police Department. Police identified the victim as 10-year-old Emani Moss. Eman Moss called 911 early on Saturday morning to say he was suicidal and that there was a dead body with him, police said. Full Story | Top |
| Accused Los Angeles airport shooter could face death penalty Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 06:58 PM PDT  By Alex Dobuzinskis and Dana Feldman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 23-year-old man accused of opening fire at Los Angeles International Airport, killing an airport security officer and wounding three other people, could face the death penalty after being charged with murder on Saturday, a federal prosecutor said. Paul Anthony Ciancia was charged with murder of a federal officer and committing violence at an international airport, U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte told reporters a day after the shooting that touched off panic and chaos at the world's sixth busiest airport. Ciancia carried a signed note that called Transportation Security Administration officers "traitorous" and he targeted them during his rampage at the airport's Terminal 3, FBI special agent in charge David Bowdich said. Ciancia was dropped off at the airport, said Bowdich, who declined to say if the FBI knew who drove the suspected gunman there. Full Story | Top |
| Commerzbank CEO says independence no end in itself Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 06:03 PM PDT  BERLIN (Reuters) - The chief executive of Commerzbank said Germany's second largest lender should not remain independent at all costs, a German newspaper reported. "To me, autonomy is no end in itself," Martin Blessing was quoted as saying by weekly Welt am Sonntag in an interview published on Sunday. "I want our employees to have the feeling that they can do something meaningful for the economy." That marks a shift in emphasis by the CEO, who told daily Handelsblatt in August that he expected the Frankfurt-based bank to be still independent when it celebrates its 150-year anniversary in 2020. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt to look beyond U.S. for arms: foreign minister Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 05:46 PM PDT  By Samia Nakhoul and Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said on Saturday that Egypt would look beyond the United States to meet its security needs and warned Washington that it could no longer ignore popular demands in a changed Arab world. Speaking ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Fahmy said the United States must take a long-term view of its relations with Egypt and understand that in the wake of the Arab Spring, "it would have to deal now with the Arab peoples, not only with Arab governments". Emphasizing the "turbulent" state of Washington's ties with its longtime Arab ally after U.S. military aid curbs in response to the army's overthrow in July of President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Fahmy said Egypt would have to develop "multiple choices, multiple options" to chart its way forward - including military relationships. Full Story | Top |
| Britain's CBI ups 2014 GDP growth forecast to 2.4 percent Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 05:13 PM PDT  Britain's business association, the CBI, revised up its forecast for the country's economic growth next year to 2.4 percent on Sunday, predicting a rebound in business and housing investment. The previous quarterly forecast from the Confederation of British Industry, in August, expected 2014 gross domestic product growth to be 2.3 percent. A finance ministry spokesman said the CBI report showed the government's economic policies were effective. Full Story | Top |
| Accused Los Angeles airport shooter could face death penalty: prosecutor Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 04:38 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The man accused of opening fire at the Los Angeles International Airport faces charges of murder of a federal officer and committing violence at an international airport, U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte told reporters on Saturday. Under the charges, federal prosecutors could seek the death penalty against Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, Birotte said. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Mohammad Zargham) Full Story | Top |
| Embraer investigated for bribery in Argentine, Dominican deals Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 03:39 PM PDT By Brad Haynes and Aruna Viswanatha SAO PAULO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Brazilian authorities are investigating whether Embraer SA bribed officials in Argentina and the Dominican Republic to secure deals for commercial and defense aircraft, according to legal documents reviewed by Reuters. The investigations involve the sale of 20 passenger jets to an Argentine state airline, worth about $900 million at Embraer list prices, and a $92 million deal with the Dominican armed forces for eight Super Tucano light attack planes, according to documents prepared by prosecutors. The world's third-largest commercial plane maker disclosed two years ago that it had been under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission since 2010 regarding sales of aircraft abroad. Full Story | Top |
| Two French journalists abducted, killed in northern Mali Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 02:22 PM PDT  By Adama Diarra and John Irish BAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - Two French radio journalists were killed by gunmen in northern Mali on Saturday shortly after being abducted in the town of Kidal, French and Malian officials said. The French government confirmed that 58-year old Claude Verlon and Ghislaine Dupont, 51, both journalists at RFI radio, had been found dead. "The French president ... expresses his indignation over this heinous act," Francois Hollande's office said in a statement. Kidal is the birthplace of a Tuareg uprising last year that plunged Mali into chaos, leading to a coup in the capital Bamako and the occupation of the northern half of the country by militants linked to al Qaeda. Full Story | Top |
| Los Angeles airport terminal re-opens as shooting probed Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 02:07 PM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis and Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles International Airport terminal where a gunman opened fire on Friday morning, killing an unarmed federal airport security officer and wounding others, re-opened to travelers the day after the shooting as authorities probed the motive behind the attack. Authorities have identified the suspected shooter as Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, and they said he was shot and wounded by police in an exchange of gunfire at Terminal 3 at one of the world's busiest airports. Authorities said the gunman fatally shot one TSA officer, identified as Gerardo Hernandez, 39, who was the first from the agency to be killed in the line of duty. Hernandez was at a document verification checkpoint when he was shot, said a TSA official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Full Story | Top |
| Rousseff urges Cabinet to speed up Brazil works projects before election Saturday, Nov 02, 2013 01:56 PM PDT  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is expected to seek re-election in 2014, urged Cabinet ministers on Saturday to speed up major infrastructure and public services projects, amid concerns about delays with much-needed road, hospital and port improvements. Rousseff met in Brasilia with 15 Cabinet ministers, all of them presiding over ministries related to infrastructure and social policy matters. She asked the ministers to agree on a common timetable for completing the projects, the president's chief of staff, Gleisi Hoffmann, told a news conference. Brazil is scrambling to lift anemic investment levels that have kept its economy stagnant. Full Story | Top |
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