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Jiang appears in public after speculation

Oct 9, 2011

BEIJING (AP) ― Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin made a rare public appearance at a Beijing ceremony on Sunday, months after speculation that he had died or was close to death.The 85-year-old Jiang took his seat onstage with other former and current top Chinese leaders at the Great Hall of the Pe
Moody's cuts credit ratings of 12 British banks

Oct 7, 2011

Moody's on Friday downgraded its credit ratings for a dozen British lenders, including state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB, due to the removal and curtailment of government financial support.Moody's said it chose to downgrade five large banks and seven small ones as government action
Gadhafi urges resistance to Libya’s new leaders

Oct 7, 2011

TRIPOLI (AP) ― Moammar Gadhafi called on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country’s new leaders Thursday ― the first word from the fugitive leader in just over two weeks.Gadhafi said the National Transitional Council, which has assumed leadership o
Wall Street protesters fed up with both parties

Oct 7, 2011

Obama acknowledges economic insecurities fueling three-week demonstrationsNEW YORK (AP) ― Their chief target is Wall Street, but many of the demonstrators in New York and across the U.S. also are thoroughly disgusted with Washington, blaming politicians of both major parties for policies they say pr
Obama challenges GOP senators: Vote for jobs bill

Oct 7, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defiantly challenged lawmakers Thursday to vote for his jobs plan or explain why not. "This is not a game," he declared.In keeping with the sharp new tone the president has adopted against Republicans, he challenged them to support him or spell out what
Afghans rally in Kabul, demand NATO troops leave

Oct 6, 2011

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hundreds of people marched through the streets of the Afghan capital on Thursday, demanding the immediate withdrawal of international military forces ahead of the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion.The peaceful demonstration in downtown Kabul was meant to mark the Oct.
Apple's Steve Jobs, father of Mac, iPhone, dies

Oct 6, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Steve Jobs saw the future and led the world to it. He moved technology from garages to pockets, took entertainment from discs to bytes and turned gadgets into extensions of the people who use them.Jobs, who founded and ran Apple, told us what we needed before we wanted it. Appl
Palin decides not run for U.S. president

Oct 6, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she will not run for president, leaving little doubt that the eventual Republican nominee will come from the current field of contenders.After months of leaving her fans guessing, Palin said in a statement that she and her husband Todd
Karzai assassination plot foiled: official

Oct 6, 2011

KABUL (AP) ― Afghan intelligence officials said Wednesday that they had broken up a cell that plotted to kill President Hamid Karzai, arresting six people in Kabul whom they claimed were affiliated with al-Qaida and the Haqqani militant group.Intelligence service spokesman Latifullah Mashal said tha
Attacks kill six in south Yemen

Oct 6, 2011

ADEN (AFP) ― Rival attacks by suspected al-Qaida militants and pro-government militiamen east of the Yemen’s main southern city Aden on Wednesday killed six people, tribal sources said.“Militiamen supporting the army attacked a public building in (the Abyan provincial capital) Zinjibar killing four
Civil rights leader Shuttlesworth dies

Oct 6, 2011

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) ― A civil rights leader, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89.Princeton Baptist Medical Center spokeswoman Jennifer Dodd confirms he died at the Birmingham hospital Wednesday morning
Apple's Jobs 'died peacefully': family

Oct 6, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died "peacefully", his family said Wednesday, thanking those who had supported them through the past year of his battle with cancer."Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family," his relatives said in a statement."In his public life, Steve
New Apple CEO Cook mourns loss of 'visionary' Jobs

Oct 6, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Apple's new CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday mourned the loss of company co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday from cancer at age 56."Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," said Cook, who took the company helm in August. "S
Shechtman of Israel wins Nobel chemistry prize for quasicrystals

Oct 6, 2011

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible.(AP-Yonhap News)The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Shechtman‘s discovery in 1982
Hitler Jewish annihilation letter on display

Oct 5, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic 1919 Gemlich letter, described as the most significant document ever acquired by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is now on display at the Los Angeles center’s Museum of Tolerance.Hitler’s letter was typewritten decades before the Holocaust when he was a G