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Haiti quake: Survivors struggle while awaiting aid (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:45 AM PST

Gunsly Milsoit, left, comforts his brother-in-law Leo Pierre after Leo's wife and Gunsly's sister, Milsoit Kelly, who was three months pregnant, died in a four story building collapse from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers, Haitians are frantically struggling to save those injured in this week's earthquake while hoping foreign governments will quickly send in aid.

Haitian-Americans awaiting word from loved ones (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:31 AM PST

Saintanise Ducas sheds tears as she talks about her relatives in Haiti in the 'Little Haiti' section of Miami, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. On Tuesday, an earthquake shook Haiti, the largest ever recorded in the area. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - Alourrde Pierre stood inside a Little Haiti community center, wringing her hands as she waited for news of her parents and 15 siblings in Port-au-Prince. Her children ask what happened to their grandmother, but she has no answer.

Obama to woo House Dems on health care deal (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:09 AM PST

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama disembark from Marine One upon returning to the White House in Washington,DC. Obama was to pay a rare visit to the US Congress Thursday to give his Democrats an election-year pep talk as lawmakers worked their way towards an elusive health-care overhaul.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AP - Striving to close the deal on health care, President Barack Obama planned a trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday to urge rank-and-file House Democrats to yield on key issues still standing in the way of a historic legislative achievement.

China tells Web companies to obey controls (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:39 AM PST

Chinese Google users presents flowers to the Google's Shanghai office in Shanghai, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship is a rare display of defiance in a system where foreign companies have long accepted intrusive controls to gain access to a huge and growing market. (AP Photo)AP - In China's first official response to Google's threat to leave the country, the government Thursday said foreign Internet companies are welcome but must obey the law and gave no hint of a possible compromise over Web censorship.

Officials: Alleged US missiles kill 12 in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:20 AM PST

A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile sets off from its hangar at Bagram air base in Afghanistan in November 2009. A missile strike by a US drone aircraft hit Pakistan's northwest tribal belt near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, security officials said.(AFP/File/Bonny Schoonakker)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles killed at least 12 alleged militants Thursday in a compound formerly used as a religious school in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, officials said, the eighth such attack in two weeks.

Panel to hear about effort against financial crime (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:49 PM PST

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Chairman Phil Angelides is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, during a recess of the commission's hearing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday will tell a panel investigating the financial crisis that the Justice Department is using "every tool at its disposal" to fight the financial crimes that contributed to the meltdown and could cause another.

UN: Taliban cause Afghan civilian deaths to soar (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 06:03 PM PST

A US Marine talks Wednesday Jan 13 2010 to an Afghan sitting on a car destroyed the previous day in a clash in the city of Laki, in Helmand province's Garmsir district, south of Kabul Afhanistan. A spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said insurgents organized the Tuesday protest that left six civilians dead and seven others wounded. A NATO official, who spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said they are still are conflicting reports about the protest. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)AP - Taliban suicide bombings and other attacks caused Afghan civilian deaths to soar last year to the highest annual level of the war, a U.N. report found Wednesday, while deaths attributed to allied troops dropped nearly 30 percent. Many Afghans now blame the violence on the Taliban rather than foreign forces.

Belgian doctors give injured woman a new windpipe (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 06:04 PM PST

This an undated photo provided by Linda De Crooke via Dr. Pierre Delaere shows Linda De Croock. For more than a quarter of a decade, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe. Today, she has a new one thanks to an operation in which a dead man's windpipe was implanted in her arm, allowed to grow her own tissue, and later transplanted into her throat. The novel way in which doctors trained her body to accept male tissue without the need for anti-rejection drugs may yield new ways to grow or nurture organs within patients, experts say. (AP Photo/Courtesy Linda De Crooke via Doctor Pierre Delaere) NO SALESAP - For more than 2 1/2 years, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe. Today, she has a new one after surgeons implanted the windpipe from a dead man into her arm, where it grew new tissue before being transplanted into her throat. The way doctors trained her body to accept donor tissue could yield new methods of growing or nurturing organs within patients, experts say.

Soul singer Teddy Pendergrass dies in Pa. at 59 (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 10:21 PM PST

In an Aug. 1, 2000, file photo Teddy Pendergrass, right, performs at the Good Neighbor Community Outreach Celebration Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000 in Philadelphia. Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 at age 59. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett/file)AP - Teddy Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads and later became an inspirational figure after suffering a devastating car accident that left him paralyzed, died Wednesday at age 59.

No. 1 pick Griffin to have season-ending surgery (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 photo, Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin (32) makes his way up court in the first half of a NBA preseason basketball game against New Orleans Hornets, in Los Angeles. Griffin's first season with the Clippers is over before it even began. Griffin will have surgery on his broken left kneecap, keeping the No. 1 draft pick out for at least more four months, the eternally star-crossed Clippers announced in a statement Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas, File)AP - Blake Griffin's first season with the Los Angeles Clippers is over before it even began.

Tens of thousands feared dead in Haiti quake (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 10:16 PM PST

A woman carries a child after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince in this January 12, 2010 video grab. REUTERS/Reuters TVReuters - Traumatized Haitians slept out in parks and streets on Thursday, fearing aftershocks to the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.

China defends censorship after Google threat (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:07 AM PST

A woman reads the signs on flowers delivered by Chinese Google users outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing January 13, 2010. Google's announcement that it may quit China over censorship and hacking drew applause, warnings and bouquets from dissidents and Internet activists on Wednesday, with few seeing much chance of the wary government giving ground. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - China showed no sign of giving ground on censorship after U.S. Internet giant Google threatened to quit the country, telling companies on Thursday to cooperate with state control of the Internet.

Top regulators to face U.S. financial crisis panel (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:04 AM PST

JPMorgan and Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon (2nd L) testifies before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) in Washington January 13, 2010. Surrounding Dimon are Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein (L), Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack and Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan (R). REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - Senior U.S. regulators, including outspoken Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Chairman Sheila Bair, will tell their side of the story on Thursday to a commission examining the origins of the 2008 financial crisis.

U.S. 2009 foreclosures shatter record despite aid (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:27 PM PST

This March 13, 2009 photo shows Maurice McJimsey looking through business cards left behind by real estate agents inside a home he was considering buying in Stockton, Calif. Stockton hardly looks like the most miserable city in the country. But the statistics and stories over the last two years say it is: Since the housing crisis began, this inland port city 80 miles east of San Francisco has had one of the worst foreclosure rates in the country, for most of the time, the worst. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Reuters - U.S. foreclosure actions shattered all records in 2009 and will do so again this year, with unemployment and wage cuts overcoming programs to remedy failing home loans, RealtyTrac said on Thursday.

Al Qaeda linked to rogue aviation network (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:53 AM PST

A map of cocaine trafficking routes in Europe is seen in this graphic. REUTERS/GraphicReuters - In early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called "the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11."

Yemen says tribesmen kill 10 Shi'ite rebels (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:48 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 file photo, Saudi soldiers are seen in the southern province of Jizan, near the border with Yemen, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's latest announcement of the death toll in its two-month old battle with Yemeni rebels along the border is a stark reminder of the ferocity of the fighting in this remote part of the Arabian peninsula, even as the kingdom tries to use air strikes and artillery to minimize casualties. (AP Photo, File)Reuters - Pro-government Yemen tribesmen have killed 10 Shi'ite rebels after they tried to take up positions in homes in a northern town, the interior ministry said Thursday.

Pakistan Taliban chief said targeted by U.S. drone (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:49 AM PST

Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud, pictured in November 2008, has escaped a US drone attack which targeted an area of northwest Pakistan and killed 10 people, a militant spokesman has said.(AFP/File/A Majeed)Reuters - A U.S. drone fired two missiles on Thursday at a compound in northwest Pakistan where Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was believed to have been, but it was not clear if he was killed, Pakistani officials said.

Ex-Qaeda man links motive to alleged U.S. abuse: report (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:19 PM PST

Reuters - A former Guantanamo inmate who fled to Yemen to help lead an al Qaeda branch after his release says he was motivated by the memory of abuse he says he suffered in U.S. custody, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

Haitians await rescuers as quake toll may top 100,000 (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:47 PM PST

A young girl lies on a cushion in the streets of Port-au-Prince. Frantic Haitians awaiting a global rescue effort clawed through the ruins of their capital seeking survivors from an earthquake that left streets strewn with corpses and a death toll that may top 100,000.(AFP/Erika Santelices)AFP - Frantic Haitians awaiting a global rescue effort clawed through the ruins of their capital seeking survivors from an earthquake that left streets strewn with corpses and a death toll that may top 100,000.

World scrambles to help quake-hit Haiti (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:42 PM PST

People remain on the rubble of their home in Port-au-Prince. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake.(AFP/Juan Barreto)AFP - Rescuers, sniffer dogs, equipment and supplies headed to Haiti by air and sea Thursday in a global response to a horror earthquake feared to have killed more than 100,000 people.
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