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Toyota woes mount as Prius recall considered (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:08 AM PST

2010 Toyoto Prius cars are lined-up in a dealership lot in Seattle, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Damage to Toyota's image is growing by the day with the automaker now considering a U.S. and Japanese recall of Prius hybrids — the vehicle that's a symbol of its technological prowess and green car ambitions.

Job losses from Great Recession about to get worse (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:33 AM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 21, 2009, a worker assembles a wooden folding ladder at the Century Industries Folding Attic Stairways plant in Little Rock, Ark. Worker productivity rose more than expected in the October-December quarter as companies squeezed more output from their employees.(AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Job losses during the Great Recession have been huge and they're about to get bigger.

Lawyer: Missionary leader to blame for kidnap case (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:18 AM PST

Laura Silsby, 40, center, and Charisa Coulter, 24, left, both of Boise, Idaho, are escorted out of the court building in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The ten Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the earthquake, were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association, after a judge found sufficient evidence to file the charges, according to their Haitian lawyer Edwin Coq. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Ten Baptist missionaries are facing kidnapping charges in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country, and the lawyer for all the defendants is putting the blame on the group's leader.

Financial turmoil strikes as G-7 officials gather (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:33 AM PST

Canadian Inuit dogs pull a sled using traditional harnesses Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 in Iqaluit, Canada. Iqaluit, population 7,000, may seem an unlikely venue for a G-7 bull session about the global economy, but the host nation chose it in part to underscore a message about sovereignty over its part of the Arctic. (AP Photo/Rob Gillies)AP - A bout of turmoil in global markets has provided sobering reminder to global financial leaders that the aftershocks from the worst recession in seven decades are far from over.

Mid-Atlantic region preps for heavy snow storm (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:18 AM PST

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 at 12:45 a.m. EST shows dense cloud cover across the eastern half of the country as a strong storm system develops in the Southeast. This storm will bring a significant winter weather event to the Mid-Atlantic over the weekend. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - The threat of up to 2 feet of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic caused airline cancellations Friday, school closures and emptied Virginia's Statehouse.

World stocks tumble amid global recovery doubts (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:37 AM PST

A currency trader works in front of screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) and foreign currency rate, right, at the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. The KOSPI fell 49.30 points, or 3.05 percent, to close at 1,567.12 Friday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - World stocks tumbled Friday as ballooning European debt and a rise in U.S. unemployment claims added to fears the global economy could slip back into recession.

Brown sworn in as US senator; takes Kennedy's seat (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:35 AM PST

Vice President Joe Biden, right, prepares to reenacts the swearing in of Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., left, as Brown's wife Gail Huff, center, holds the family bibles, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Republican Scott Brown took over the seat of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Thursday, vowing to be an independent voice in a bitterly divided Senate.

Rep: Jackson doctor to surrender Friday regardless (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:35 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2009 file picture, Dr. Conrad Murray arrives at his clinic in Houston. Michael Jackson's physician has arrived in Los Angeles in anticipation of a decision from the district attorney's office on whether to charge him for the singer's death, a spokeswoman said Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)AP - Michael Jackson's doctor plans to surrender to authorities Friday, regardless of whether prosecutors had filed a case against him, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

Miranda Kerr: Banker shouldn't lose job over photo (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:35 AM PST

FILE -- In a Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 file photo Miranda Kerr walks the runway during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Armory in New York.Miranda Kerr says an Australian banker left red-faced when a live TV broadcast showed him looking at her scantily clad photos at work shouldn't be fired. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow/file)AP - Miranda Kerr says an Australian banker left red-faced when a live TV broadcast showed him looking at her scantily clad photos at work shouldn't be fired.

Thrashers trade Kovalchuk to Devils (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 01:02 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, photo, Atlanta Thrashers left wing Ilya Kovalchuk, right, of Russia, skates against Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Martin St. Louis (26) during an NHL hockey game in Atlanta. Kovalchuk could be traded before the March 3 deadline, although the prolific scorer is not ruling out signing a new contract with Atlanta. Kovalchuk acknowledged meeting with general manager Don Waddell this week and was told the team can't meet his demands for a maximum NHL contract. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith)AP - The last time Lou Lamoriello pulled off a major trade for a marquee scorer, the New Jersey Devils won a Stanley Cup.

Toyota mulls Prius recall (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:25 PM PST

Toyota cars are lined up for sale at a Toyota dealership in Santa Monica, California on February 3.Toyota has come under heavy fire in the United States for its handling of recalls affecting about eight million vehicles worldwide -- more than its entire 2009 global sales of 7.8 million vehicles.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp is preparing to recall its iconic Prius hybrid car to address more than 100 complaints about delayed braking, spreading the top automaker's quality woes to one of its most important models.

UK troops pave way for major NATO Afghan assault (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:01 AM PST

Reuters - British troops have launched helicopter advances in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province to prepare the battlefield for a major NATO operation, the British military said on Friday.

Senate will vote on job proposals next week: Reid (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:19 PM PST

A man listens as others fill out applications during an orientation for a company seeking home health and personal care aides at the New York State Department of Labor in the Bronx borough of New York, February 3, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - Senate Democratic leaders unveiled a long-awaited "jobs agenda" on Thursday but said they would solicit Republican support before determining which elements to bring up for a vote next week.

U.S. commander offers more upbeat Afghanistan view (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:55 AM PST

U.S. Army Lieutenant Hans Mogelgaard from Pensacola FL (L) and Specialist Joshua Blair from St. Paris OH of Echo Company, 4th Brigade combat team, 1-508 parachute infantry regiment, stand near a helicopter as it takes off at FOB Shamulzai in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan February 4, 2010. REUTERS/Baz RatnerReuters - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Thursday the security situation there remained serious but was not deteriorating, giving a more upbeat view than from other U.S. military and intelligence officials.

China envoy to visit North Korea; U.S. activist released (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 07:49 PM PST

In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, American missionary Robert Park speaks about his crossing the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China last December. North Korea said on Friday it has decided to free the detained American missionary who crossed its border to raise human rights issues. Robert Park slipped across the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China carrying letters calling on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to shut the country's camps for political prisoners and step down from power.(AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)Reuters - A senior Chinese Communist Party official will visit Pyongyang next week in what appears to be a move to press North Korea to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks, a South Korean news agency said on Friday.

Two senators urge bonus tax at bailed-out firms (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 09:54 AM PST

Reuters - Two Democratic senators on Thursday proposed legislation that would impose a one-time tax on bonuses paid to executives of companies bailed out with taxpayer money.

Bomb kills, wounds up to 20 at Afghan dog fight (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:31 AM PST

Afghan spectators watch a dog fight in Kabul in 2009. Outlawed under Taliban rule and now legal and very popular in Afghanistan, each Friday from November to March thousands of Afghans gather on the western outskirts of Kabul to watch the spectacle of dog fighting. A remote-control bomb exploded at a dog fight in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing and wounding up to 20 people, police said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - A remote-control bomb exploded at a dog fight in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing and wounding up to 20 people, police said.

American 10 face jail in Haiti after kidnapping charge (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:29 PM PST

Laura Silsby, the head of a group of Christian missionaries from the US climbs into a police van. Ten US missionaries were charged with child abduction and conspiracy and may face a long wait behind bars for trial after seeking to smuggle 33 children out of quake-hit Haiti.(AFP/Thony Belizaire)AFP - Ten American Christians charged with child abduction and criminal conspiracy faced lengthy jail times in a Haitian prison Friday after trying to take 33 children out of the country.
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