KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he would issue a decree forbidding his military forces from turning to NATO or American forces to conduct airstrikes, and he condemned the use of torture on detainees by his security forces. He made his comments in a speech at the Afghan National Military Academy in Kabul. It was the first time he had dwelt at such length and...
Make Sheila G. Main's Truffles
Label: Lifestyle 02/16/2013 at 06:30 PM EST Andrew Purcell; Inset: Courtesy Sheila G. Main Oscar night is just around the corner so start prepping your viewing party menu now! Take inspiration from any of the films nominated or replicate what Sheila G. Main, the creator of the Original Brownie Brittle snack,...
UN warns risk of hepatitis E in S. Sudan grows
Label: HealthGENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says an outbreak of hepatitis E has killed 111 refugees in camps in South Sudan since July, and has become endemic in the region.U.N. refugee agency spokesman Adrian Edwards says the influx of people to the camps from neighboring Sudan is believed to be one of the factors in the rapid spread of the contagious, life-threatening inflammatory viral disease of the liver.Edwards...
Going inside for some 'truckside' taco service
Label: Business Most restaurant owners shudder when a food truck pulls up outside.Not Mike Israyelyan. He invited one inside the Hollywood restaurant...
Feb
15
Meteor Fragments Rain Down on Siberia; Hundreds of Injuries Reported
Label: WorldMOSCOW — Gym class came to a halt inside the Chelyabinsk Railway Institute, and students gathered around the window, gazing at the fat white contrail that arced its way across the morning sky. A missile? A comet? A few quiet moments passed. And then, with incredible force, the windows blew in. The scenes from Chelyabinsk, rocked by an intense shock wave when a meteor hit the Earth’s atmosphere...
Alec Baldwin Is Ready to Tackle Full Time Daddy Duty
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 02/15/2013 at 09:00 AM ET Mark Davis/WireImageDad-to-be Alec Baldwin certainly sympathizes with his expectant wife Hilaria — he’s experiencing all the aches and pregnancy pains too!“My boobs hurt. My boobs are killing me, so sore,” the actor, 54, jokes with Extra....
States' choices set up national health experiment
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is unfolding as a national experiment with American consumers as the guinea pigs: Who will do a better job getting uninsured people covered, the states or the feds?The nation is about evenly split between states that decided by Friday's deadline they want a say in running new insurance markets and states that are defaulting to federal...
Mayor who gambled away $1 billion had brain tumor
Label: Business The lawyer for former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor suggested that a brain tumor may have caused her to lose massive sums gambling on video poker games.Over a nine-year period O'Connor wagered an estimated $1 billion, including millions from a charity set up by her late husband, who founded the Jack in the Box fast-food chain.That was the portrait that emerged in court Thursday as the...
Feb
14
Benedict Says He Will Be ‘Hidden to the World’ in Retirement
Label: WorldVATICAN CITY — Saying he would soon be “hidden to the world,” Pope Benedict XVI took his leave of parish priests and clergy of the Diocese of Rome on Thursday as he offered personal, and incisive, recollections of the Second Vatican Council, the gathering of bishops 50 years ago that set the Roman Catholic Church’s course for the future. Benedict, who announced his resignation on Monday in...
It's a Girl for Bryan Adams
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 02/14/2013 at 06:00 PM ET Courtesy Bryan AdamsBryan Adams is in heaven — again!“Bryan Adams and Alicia Grimaldi welcomed their second baby girl in London earlier this week,” Adam’s rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.The rocker and Grimaldi, who cofounded his charitable...
Coach posed as girl to get nude images of boys, police allege
Label: Business An Irvine baseball coach and high school history teacher posed as a young blonde woman on Facebook to persuade boys to send him pornographic images of themselves, prosecutors alleged this week.
Zachary Reeder, 30, of Orange has been charged with 110 felonies, including 34 counts each of distributing pornography to a minor, contacting a child with the intent to commit a lewd act and using...
Feb
13
IHT Special: Tunisia Sinks Back Into Turmoil
Label: WorldTUNIS — Following the murder of a leading opposition politician, Tunisians are asking whether the Arab Spring, which began in their country, has accomplished much of anything. They are disenchanted with the fits and starts of the transition from dictatorship to something else. “Nobody likes the situation and this government has to change,” said Rabbeh Souly, 28, who sped up her steps on the...
Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals Her 'Craziest' Diet Ever
Label: Lifestyle By Janine Rayford 02/13/2013 at 07:00 PM EST Jada Pinkett Smith Ouzounova/Splash News Online Jada Pinkett Smith knows a thing or two about diet and exercise.The 41-year-old mom to Jaden, 14, and Willow, 12, who recently showed off an extremely toned beach body,...
Clues to why most survived China melamine scandal
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists wondering why some children and not others survived one of China's worst food safety scandals have uncovered a suspect: germs that live in the gut.In 2008, at least six babies died and 300,000 became sick after being fed infant formula that had been deliberately and illegally tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. There were some lingering puzzles: How did it cause...
Dorner manhunt leads to deadly standoff
Label: BusinessHuman remains have been discovered in the debris of a burned cabin in Big Bear. While authorities can't confirm the remains are those of Christopher Dorner, it appears likely they are. ...
Feb
12
The Lede: Latest Updates on the Pope’s Resignation
Label: WorldThe Lede is providing updates on Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement on Monday that he intends to resign on Feb. 28, less than eight years after he took office, the first pope to do so in six centuries. (Turn off auto-refresh to watch videos.)4:17 P.M. |Subtitled Video of Pope’s Resignation StatementThe Telegraph has added English subtitles to video of the pope’s resignation statement, made in Latin...
Lady Gaga: I Can't Walk Due to Injury
Label: Lifestyle 02/12/2013 at 06:45 PM EST Lady Gaga is feeling like a little monster for postponing concerts because of an injury."I barely know what to say," she writes on her Facebook page, Tuesday. "I've been hiding a show injury and chronic pain for some time now, [and] over the past month it has worsened. I've been praying...
Study questions kidney cancer treatment in elderly
Label: HealthIn a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney tumors were much less likely to die over the next five years if doctors monitored them instead of operating right away.Even though nearly all of these tumors turned out to be cancer, they rarely proved fatal. And surgery roughly doubled patients' risk...
Ex-Bell officials defend themselves as honorable public servants
Label: Business Less than three years ago, they were handcuffed and taken away in a case alleged to be so extensive that the district attorney...
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