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• Obama: A Breakthrough Year For America
• Taliban’s Kabul Attack Kills 21, Heightens Security Concerns
• India Stampede Kills 18
• Russia Kills Suspected Militants in Dagestan
• Violence Kills 14 in Iraq
• CAR Moving to Elect Interim President, Violence Continues
• Syrian National Council Agrees to Attend Peace Talks with Government
• Russia Strikes at Militants in North Caucasus
• Egyptians Back New Constitution
• Iranian Diplomat Slain in Yemen
• CAR Moves to Elect Interim President Amid Violence
• South Sudan’s Government Regains Control of Strategic Town
• Nine Indicted in Haitian Journalist Murder
• Obama Curtails NSA Spying
• Syrian National Council Agrees to Attend Peace Talks with Government
• 21 Dead In Attack on Kabul Restaurant
• Male black widow spiders shake for sex to avoid being eaten
• Chimps use gestures to communicate during food hunting
• Mutation in key gene helps Tibetans thrive at high altitude
• Smoking linked to larger list of diseases

Obama: A Breakthrough Year For America Posted: 18 Jan 2014 03:01 PM PST U.S. President Barack Obama says he wants 2014 to be “a breakthrough year for America” with the creation of “good jobs that pay good wages” and offer Americans “a fair shot to get ahead.” Obama said in his weekly address Saturday he wants to work with Congress this year to bring back more of the […]

Taliban’s Kabul Attack Kills 21, Heightens Security Concerns Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:56 PM PST ISLAMABAD — The death toll from a Taliban attack on a restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital has risen to 21. A suicide bomber who blew himself up and Taliban gunmen who rushed in behind him to shoot the survivors killed 13 foreigners, including U.N. employees, Americans and other Westerners. The attack is seen as a critical […]

India Stampede Kills 18 Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:54 PM PST Indian officials say a stampede in a has killed 18 people. Authorities in Mumbai say at least 40 people were also injured in the incident early Saturday outside the home of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the head of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community. Burhanuddin died Friday. He was 102 years old. It was not immediately clear […]

Russia Kills Suspected Militants in Dagestan Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:49 PM PST Russian security forces say they killed seven terrorist suspects Saturday in a sweep through southern Russia, three weeks before the Winter Olympics begin in Sochi. Authorities in Moscow said the seven people died when police stormed a house where they had been hiding in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s Dagestan republic. All seven were suspects […]

Violence Kills 14 in Iraq Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:44 PM PST Violence in Iraq has left at least 14 people dead and 50 others wounded. Authorities say four car bombings and mortar fire shook the capital, Baghdad, Saturday. There was no word on who was responsible for the attacks. Violence has escalated in Iraq over the past year. Tensions have soared since al-Qaida-linked militants and others […]

CAR Moving to Elect Interim President, Violence Continues Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:42 PM PST The Central African Republic’s interim government is forging ahead with plans to fill a leadership void, as fighting continues in some parts of the country. The transitional national council says 24 people had applied to be candidates for interim president by Saturday, the last day for submissions. Reporter Nick Long is in the capital, Bangui. […]

Syrian National Council Agrees to Attend Peace Talks with Government Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:40 PM PST The main Syrian political opposition group has voted to attend internationally sponsored peace talks next week in Switzerland. The Syrian National Coalition’s media office says 58 of 73 coalition voters have supported attending the so-called Geneva 2 talks with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Another 44 who had initially attended the session had withdrawn […]

Russia Strikes at Militants in North Caucasus Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:40 PM PST Russian security forces say they killed seven terrorist suspects Saturday in a sweep through southern Russia, three weeks before the Winter Olympics begin in Sochi. Authorities in Moscow said the seven people died when police stormed a house where they had been hiding in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s Dagestan republic. All seven were suspects […]

Egyptians Back New Constitution Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:36 PM PST Egypt’s election committee says more than 98 percent of voters have approved replacing the constitution made under former president Mohamed Morsi with a new, military-backed constitution, in the first vote since a military coup toppled the country’s first democratically-elected civilian president last July. Nabil Salib of Egypt’s High Election Commission said Saturday nearly 39 percent […]

Iranian Diplomat Slain in Yemen Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:31 PM PST Gunmen in Yemen have killed an Iranian diplomat in a drive-by shooting. Medical and security officials in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, said Ali Asghar Assadi, Iran’s economic attache, died Saturday from gunshot wounds to the shoulder and chest. One security official said an initial investigation suggested the gunmen first attempted to kidnap the diplomat but […]

CAR Moves to Elect Interim President Amid Violence Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:30 PM PST The Central African Republic’s interim government is forging ahead with plans to fill a leadership void, as fighting continued in parts of the country in Saturday. Reporter Nick Long, who is in the capital, Bangui, says that ex-Seleka rebels and Christian militias known as anti-balaka clashed in regions including Sibut, a town about 160 kilometers […]

South Sudan’s Government Regains Control of Strategic Town Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:26 PM PST South Sudan’s government says its forces have recaptured Bor, a strategic town that has changed hands several times since fighting between government and anti-government forces erupted in mid-December. Army spokesman Philip Aguer says SPLA forces entered Bor on Saturday and “defeated” more than 15,000 opposition fighters. He said the military has “frustrated” what he said […]

Nine Indicted in Haitian Journalist Murder Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:24 PM PST A judge in Haiti has indicted nine people, including some close associates of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in the killing of radio journalist Jean Dominique more than a decade ago. The former president was not indicted, but a former senator in Aristide’s political party is among the nine. An unknown gunman shot and killed the […]

Obama Curtails NSA Spying Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:23 PM PST U.S. President Barack Obama says his proposed intelligence gathering reforms should give Americans more confidence that their privacy rights are being protected, even as the government maintains the tools it needs to protect the country. The president commented as he outlined a series of changes to U.S. surveillance operations in the wake of privacy concerns. […]

Syrian National Council Agrees to Attend Peace Talks with Government Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:21 PM PST The main Syrian political opposition group has voted to attend internationally sponsored peace talks next week in Switzerland. The Syrian National Coalition’s media office says 58 of 73 coalition voters have supported attending the so-called Geneva 2 talks with representatives of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Another 44 who had initially attended the session had withdrawn […]

21 Dead In Attack on Kabul Restaurant Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:12 PM PST Afghan authorities say the death toll from a Taliban attack on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, frequented by foreigners and affluent Afghans, rose to 21 on Saturday. An International Monetary Fund official as well as four United Nations personnel are among the dead. The U.S. Embassy said Saturday two private U.S. citizens were among those […]

Male black widow spiders shake for sex to avoid being eaten Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:13 PM PST Washington : A team of researchers have found that male black widow spiders shake their abdomens to produce carefully pitched vibrations, which let females know they have "come a-courting" and are not potential prey. Simon Fraser University graduate students Samantha Vibert and Catherine Scott, working with SFU biology professor Gerhard Gries, recorded the vibrations made […]

Chimps use gestures to communicate during food hunting Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:12 PM PST Washington : Researchers have claimed that chimpanzees are capable of using gestures to communicate as they pursue specific goals, like finding a hidden piece of food. Researchers at Georgia State University”s Language Research Center examined how two language-trained chimpanzees communicated with a human experimenter to find food. The team devised a task that demanded coordination […]

Mutation in key gene helps Tibetans thrive at high altitude Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:12 PM PST London : A team of researchers have suggested that a red blood cell production controlling gene evolved quickly to enable Tibetans to tolerate high altitudes. The team compared the DNA of 50 Tibetans with that of 40 Han Chinese and found that there were 34 mutations in Tibetans in the 2,750 years since the populations […]

Smoking linked to larger list of diseases Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:11 PM PST Washington : A new report by the US surgeon general has increased the list of diseases associated with cigarettes. The 980-page, research-based report says smoking could cause liver and colorectal cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, impaired immune function, ectopic pregnancy and erectile dysfunction, Politico reported. In the report, acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak described a "robust […]

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