| Chile assesses damage from mammoth earthquake (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 12:06 AM PST  AP - A weeping man strokes the hand of a dead woman in a collapsed cafe. Survivors huddle around bonfires in the rubble of their homes. Smashed cars lie beneath bridges torn asunder by one of history's strongest earthquakes.
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| Chile tsunami reaches Japan; Pacific damage small (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:05 AM PST  AP - The tsunami from the deadly earthquake in Chile hit Japan's main islands and even reached the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves didn't cause significant damage. Hawaii and other Pacific islands in their path were also spared.
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| US sets medals record, Canada ties gold record (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:07 AM PST  AP - While the Vancouver Olympics aren't finished, the medal races are — and in spectacular fashion for North Americans.
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| Toyota's president to visit China on Monday (AP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:41 PM PST  AP - Fresh from a grilling by U.S. lawmakers, Toyota President Akio Toyoda will speak Monday in China about his company's quality problems, seeking to boost confidence and ease consumer worries in the world's biggest auto market.
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| Troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:06 AM PST  AP - Marines and Afghan troops cleared the last major pocket of resistance in the former Taliban-ruled town of Marjah on Saturday — part of an offensive that is the run-up to a larger showdown this year in the most strategic part of Afghanistan's dangerous south.
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| Thousands still lack power after Northeast storm (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:06 AM PST  AP - Frustration turned to resignation Saturday for hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast struggling to survive another day waiting for utility crews to restore electricity after powerful storms socked the region with heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.
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| Emotional orca show marks 1st since trainer killed (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:06 AM PST  AP - Employees wept and audience members grew silent Saturday at SeaWorld as the theme park's popular killer whale show resumed with a photo montage memorial for a trainer who was killed by one of the orcas in front of horrified spectators three days ago.
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| AP source: RFK's grandson weighing US House run (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:06 AM PST AP - A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Official: Ice, glass fall into NYC building atrium (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 12:20 AM PST  AP - Fire officials say ice has broken through a glass atrium at the Sony Building in New York City and 10 people have sustained minor injuries.
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| Marie Osmond's son dies in Los Angeles (AP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:08 AM PST  AP - Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son Michael Blosil has died, the entertainer said Saturday.
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| Wary Chileans sleep outside; quake affects millions (Reuters) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:37 PM PST  Reuters - Chileans fearful of aftershocks camped outside on Sunday in towns shattered by a massive earthquake, as officials struggled to grasp the scale of the damage to the country's transport, energy and housing infrastructure.
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| Financial reform compromise rebuffed in Senate (Reuters) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:13 PM PST  Reuters - Marathon negotiations in the U.S. Senate on financial regulatory reform were set to continue on Sunday with a renewed focus on financial consumer protections after key Republicans rejected a compromise offer from the banking committee chairman.
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| Clinton faces Latin America test on Iran (Reuters) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:06 PM PST  Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flies to Latin America on Sunday, working to buff a lackluster U.S. image in a region where Brazil is emerging as a regional power with global aspirations.
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| Yemen arrests 21 separatists in south as tensions rise (Reuters) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 01:11 AM PST Reuters - Security forces arrested 21 separatists trying to provoke rioting during demonstrations in a southern provincial capital as Yemen increased security to guard against attacks, the government said on Sunday. |
| Enron's Jeff Skilling takes fight to Supreme Court (Reuters) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 02:32 PM PST  Reuters - Former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling lost the first half of the fight of his life when a jury convicted him nearly four years ago for committing fraud while at the helm of the once high-flying energy trader.
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| Cuba says dead hunger striker was common criminal (Reuters) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 05:08 PM PST Reuters - Cuba fired back against international criticism on Saturday, saying in state-run press a prisoner who died of a hunger strike this week was a common criminal used by Cuba's enemies for political purposes. |
| Tsunami waves hit Pacific regions after Chile quake (Reuters) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 12:20 AM PST  Reuters - Tsunami waves of up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) hit far-flung Pacific regions from the Russian far east and Japan to New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands on Sunday after a massive earthquake struck Chile, killing more than 300 people.
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| Berkshire net rises, Buffett sees housing rebound (Reuters) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 11:48 AM PST Reuters - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc said fourth-quarter profit surged, helped by derivatives bets tied to global stock markets, though operating profit fell 40 percent as the weakened economy weighed on several businesses. |
| Search for survivors after quake kills over 300 in Chile (AFP) Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:57 PM PST  AFP - Rescue teams hunted for survivors Sunday after one of the largest earthquakes on record killed at least 300 people in Chile and sent giant waves roaring across the Pacific Ocean.
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| Japan evacuates 320,000 on tsunami alert (AFP) Posted: 28 Feb 2010 12:16 AM PST  AFP - Japan evacuated 320,000 people Sunday as a tsunami triggered by Chile's earthquake hit its Pacific coast, but fears of destructive waves ebbed across the rest of the Pacific's vast "Ring of Fire".
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