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Wheldon remembered as a ‘champion of our sport’

Oct 23, 2011

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) ― Of all the indelible moments from Dan Wheldon’s public memorial service ― fellow IndyCar drivers Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan serving as pallbearers, his father carrying his racing helmet and country music star Wynonna Judd singing two gripping songs ―
Biography sheds light on Jobs’ life

Oct 23, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Steve Jobs had a disdain for people who put profits first. In an upcoming authorized biography of the late Apple CEO, he calls the crop of executives brought in to run Apple after his ouster in 1985 “corrupt people” with “corrupt values” who cared only about making money.Jobs wa
Tunisia gears up for historic vote

Oct 23, 2011

TUNIS (AFP) ― Tunisian voters weighed their choices Saturday on the eve of the Arab Spring’s historic first election nine months after the toppling of strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. “I am so happy to be voting tomorrow, to be able for the first time to exercise my choice,” Neda Kouki, 37, told A
Turkey: 49 Kurdish rebels killed in fighting

Oct 23, 2011

ANKARA (AP) ― Turkish troops have killed at least 49 Kurdish rebels in a valley near the Iraqi border, the military said Saturday, as hundreds of troops also pursued Kurdish fighters within northern Iraq.The rebels were killed in offensives in the past two days in the Kazan Valley region, near the t
Death of Saudi crown prince brings conservative to fore

Oct 23, 2011

RIYADH (AP) ― Saudi Arabia’s ruling monarchy moved into a critical period of realignment Saturday after the death of the heir to the throne opened the way for a new crown prince: most likely a tough-talking interior minister who has led crackdowns on Islamic militants but also has shown favor to ult
285 Indian girls shed ‘unwanted’ names

Oct 23, 2011

MUMBAI (AP) ― More than 200 Indian girls whose names mean “unwanted” in Hindi have chosen new names for a fresh start in life.A central Indian district held a renaming ceremony Saturday that it hopes will give the girls new dignity and help fight widespread gender discrimination that gives India a s
Clinton seeks role for Afghanistan’s neighbors

Oct 23, 2011

TASHKENT (AP) ― The U.S. secretary of state on Saturday urged Afghanistan’s Central Asian neighbors to play a role in securing and rebuilding the country as American forces withdraw over the next three years.Hillary Rodham Clinton also pressed authorities in the region about improving their record o
German doctor convicted in 1982 teen death

Oct 23, 2011

Andre Bamberski, father of Kalinka Bamberski, who died mysteriously in 1982, talks to journalists outside court in Paris. (AFP)PARIS (AP) — A Paris criminal court on Saturday convicted a retired German doctor in the 1982 death of his 15-year-old stepdaughter in a decades-long cross-border batt
Pole who spirited Jewish woman from Auschwitz dies

Oct 23, 2011

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- The young Catholic man spirited his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, saving her life. Yet it took 39 years for them to see each other again.Jerzy Bielecki, a German-speaking Polish inmate at the same Nazi death camp, lived to age 90 and died peacefully in his sleep
Thailand leader says floods may last 6 more weeks

Oct 23, 2011

BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand’s catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, the prime minister said Saturday, as residents living in Bangkok’s outskirts sloshed through waist-high waters in some areas and the human toll from the crisis nationwide rose to 356 dead and more than 110,000 displac
Gadhafi's death energizes Syrian, Yemeni protests

Oct 22, 2011

Yemen`s government supporters shout slogans during a funeral for 11 government soldiers and supporters who died in the clashes with rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 21, 2011. (Xinhua-Yonhap News)BEIRUT (AP) _ Energized by the killing of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, thousands of protesters in Syria and Yemen
Libya faces challenges ahead

Oct 21, 2011

Gadhafi gone, but revolutionaries struggle among themselvesWASHINGTON (AP) ― Libya’s victorious revolutionaries now face a new threat: Themselves.The secular and religious, the politicians and the militants basked Thursday in the demise of a dictator, as fighters killed Moammar Gadhafi and eradicate
World leaders look warily to Libya’s future

Oct 21, 2011

LONDON (AP) ― European leaders hailed it as a victory, Libyan exiles celebrated in the streets and the mother of one of Moammar Gadhafi’s many victims said she was treating herself to an expensive bottle of champagne.But jubilation over the demise of Libya’s long-serving ruler is being tempered by c
Libyans won revolution, opportunity ahead: Obama

Oct 21, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama on Thursday cast the demise of Moammar Gadhafi as a momentous opportunity for Libya and its long-suffering people. “You have won your revolution,” he told them.“One of the world’s longest-serving dictators is no more,” Obama said as news of Gadhafi’s death an
Pulled from drainage pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy

Oct 21, 2011

Libyan people celebrate the death of fallen Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli on Thursday. (Xinhua-Yonhap News)SIRTE, Libya (AP) ― Dragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, a wounded Moammar Gadhafi raised his hands and begged revolutionary fighters: “Don’t kill me, my sons.” Within an hour, he