| Haiti earthquake claims 1,40,000 lives Posted: 15 Jan 2010 06:31 PM PST  Around 1,40,000 people are estimated to have died in the massive earthquake that hit Haiti. The Haitian government has said that while 40,000 people have been buried, at least a hundred thousand are still under the rubble. Authorities have also said that the main concern now is that desperation is turning to violence. There are reports of gangs of robbers preying on survivors desperately awaiting aid. Police are being rushed to the areas from where reports of robberies are coming in. Some looting broke out in downtown Port-au-Prince, with a body burned and at least two shots fired. Three
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| Analysis: Obama tied to health bill's fate (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:58 AM PST  AP - For months, President Barack Obama has owned the health care legislation that's struggling to cross the finish line in Congress.
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| Saints rout Cards, reach NFC title game (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:50 PM PST  Maybe a little rest was all Drew Brees and Reggie Bush needed to shift the Saints' league-leading offense back into overdrive. That, and a visit from Arizona's porous defense. Brees threw three touchdown passes, Bush scored on an 83-yard punt return and a spectacular 46-yard run, and New Orleans overwhelmed the defending NFC champion Cardinals 45-14 in their divisional playoff game...
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| Spanish lawmaker used in updated bin Laden photo Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:35 AM PST ![]() A Spanish lawmaker was horrified to find out the FBI used his photograph as part of a digitally enhanced image showing what Osama ...
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| US vets return to see grim legacy of Vietnam War (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 08:07 AM PST  AP - A piece of shrapnel sliced Jerry Maroney's right leg. A bullet pierced Peter Holt's neck. Les Newell took a shot in the rump.
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| Israel threatens to expel Turkish ambassador (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:56 AM PST  AP - The Israeli official who touched off a diplomatic crisis with Turkey this week said Saturday that the country's ambassador could be expelled if Turkish TV dramas continue to depict Israeli security forces as brutal.
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| For $65, tourists get peek at Los Angeles gangland (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:26 AM PST  AP - Only miles from the scenic vistas and celebrity mansions that draw sightseers from around the globe — but a world away from the glitz and glamour — a bus tour is rolling through the dark side of the city's gang turf.
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| Security Breach at JFK Forces Terminal Evacuation Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:35 PM PST  A security breach at John F. Kennedy Airport has forced an evacuation of an American Airlines terminal and all passengers in the area have to exit and be re-screened, the Port Authority confirmed. A person went into a secure area without being properly screened at about 4 p.m., said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority. All travelers in Terminal 8 were forced to leave the area and be re-screened, according to Coleman. Coleman told The Daily News that the person had left the American Airlines Admirals Club lounge through a door leading into a restricted area. It wasn't immediat
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| AP Exclusive: Tobacco's plea — no big US payments (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:41 AM PST  AP - Tobacco industry lawyers met secretly with Solicitor General Elena Kagan in an effort to avoid the government's last-ditch attempt to extract billions from companies that illegally concealed the dangers of cigarette smoking, The Associated Press has learned.
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| Ratings rise for O'Brien as nasty NBC exit nears (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 05:24 PM PST  AP - Conan O'Brien's ratings are soaring as he nears a bitter exit from NBC's "Tonight" show, his ridicule of his network executives apparently resonating in a country filled with the unemployed.
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| Haiti's Earthquake: Are the Death Estimates Accurate? (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:07 AM PST ![]() Time.com - Rescue workers now face the grim task of estimating how many Haitians were killed in the country's deadly earthquake, an inexact science, at best
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| "Hurt Locker" a blast at Critics Choice Awards (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:35 PM PST  Reuters - "The Hurt Locker," a low-budget movie about an American bomb-disposal unit in Iraq, was named best picture on Friday at the Critics' Choice Awards, an event that has an uncanny knack of foreshadowing Oscar success.
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| Iran Threatens: the 'Era of Mercy' is Over Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:16 AM PST ![]() The Iranian regime announced yesterday that they're going to be severely cracking down on protesters who use cell phones and email, as technology continues undermining totalitarianism. The police chief, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, said at a news conference on Friday that those who used e-mail and cellphones to organize protests would be punished even more severely than the protesters themselves. "After all the evidence we saw on Ashura, our tolerance has come to an end, and both the police force and the judiciary will be confronting them with full force," Mr. Ahmadi Moghaddam said, according to
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| Google and China: Silicon Valley Is No Longer King Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:12 AM PST  Google is not the only web giant to find frustration in China. One by one, western internet companies are finding that American culture and values are receding along with America's economic power.
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| Iraq says it captures man who oversaw UN bombing (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 05:07 AM PST  AP - Iraqi authorities have captured a senior leader of a militant group linked to al-Qaida in Iraq who oversaw the 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and other attacks, the military said Saturday.
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