Bill Clinton emerges on Chelsea's NY wedding eve (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:21:44 GMT

Former President Bill Clinton talks to people as he leaves a restaurant in Rhinebeck, N.Y., on Friday, July 30, 2010. Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married tomorrow, drawing crowds of onlookers as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married, drawing crowds of onlookers Friday afternoon as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion.




Haynesworth fails again, still can't practice (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:31:20 GMT

Washington Redskins defensive linesman Albert Haynesworth looks down after the Redskins NFL football training camp workout at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va., Friday, July 30, 2010. Haynesworth will not practice with the team until he passes a conditioning test. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Early Friday morning, the cones were lined up 25 yards apart on the field for Albert Haynesworth's conditioning test. He needed to complete the first part in 70 seconds or less to have a chance to pass.




Store manager tells robber Jesus wouldn't approve (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:22:32 GMT
AP - A cell phone store manager in South Florida dissuaded an armed man from robbing the store by telling him Jesus wouldn't approve. Instead of panicking when the suspect pulled a weapon, Nayara Goncalves started talking with him. He was jobless, and the 20-year-old Christian offered to connect him with friends who could help him find work.

Chelsea Clinton's wedding: An instant guide (The Week)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:00 GMT
The Week - Neither Chelsea Clinton nor her fiancé, Marc Mezvinsky, are speaking publicly about their plans to wed this weekend, and Chelsea's tabloid-savvy parents have offered few clues. Yet, America being America, the internet has been abuzz with questions and rumors about Chelsea's upcoming nuptials — and the first glimpse of her "sizable" engagement ring on April 25 (not to mention reports that Bill's dieting) have only fueled the speculation. Here's what's been reported to date:

Taiwanese wary about China amid warming ties (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:07:31 GMT

In this photo taken Friday, July 23, 2010, local Taiwanese watch a mainland Chinese Kung-fu troupe perform in Taipei, Taiwan. Despite closer ties between Taiwan and China, the common language, and the attempts by Beijing to play up both sides' common cultural history many Taiwanese insist the island's 23 million people don't identify culturally with the mainland because 50 years of Japanese colonial rule and another six decades of political separation has created a distinct Taiwanese identity. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - In the crowded Taipei theater, Eddy Fang laughs politely at the Chinese ensemble's comic references to jealous husbands and overweight wives but can't help thinking it's all a bit lowbrow in relatively sophisticated Taiwan.




Mars Rover Opportunity Finally Sees Martian Dust Devil (SPACE.com)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:45:34 GMT
SPACE.com - After more than six years roaming the surface of Mars, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has spotted its first dust devil on the red planet.

Chile general convicted in 1974 murders blames CIA (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:41:53 GMT
AP - The former chief of Chile's feared secret police who was convicted in the 1974 assassination of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's biggest enemy in exile says the CIA committed the crime.

Dutch anti-Islam party to have strong voice in next govt (AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:12:12 GMT

Dutch politician Geert Wilders addresses a press conference in Westminster, central London, in 2009. Dutch anti-Islam Wilders will have to be consulted on every decision the next government makes if a provisional agreement on forming a new cabinet reached Friday is finalised, an expert said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders will have to be consulted on every decision the next government makes if a provisional agreement on forming a new cabinet reached Friday is finalised, an expert said.




White House urges halt to spilling of war secrets (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:45:34 GMT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen hold a press briefing, Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - The Obama administration on Friday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents, as the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the massive security breach by bringing a soldier under scrutiny back to the U.S. for trial.




Pakistan monsoon floods kill more than 400 (AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:49:51 GMT

Pakistani residents stand by flood water that entered a residential area of Muzaffarabad. Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 400 people in Pakistan in three days and affected at least 600,000.(AFP/Sajjad Qayyum)AFP - Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 400 people in Pakistan in three days and affected at least 600,000, a minister said Friday.




Calcium supplements linked to heart attacks: study (AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:19:19 GMT

Vitamins and supplements at a health store. Ordinary calcium supplements taken by the elderly to strengthen bones may boost the risk of heart attacks, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal.(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Ordinary calcium supplements taken by the elderly to strengthen bones may boost the risk of heart attacks, according to a study released Friday.




Grizzly bear euthanized after Mont. triple mauling (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:33:07 GMT

This image provided by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department on Friday July 30, 2010, shows a captured grizzly sow believed to be responsible for the mauling death of one camper and injuring two others near Yellowstone National Park in Montana. The fate of the bear will be determined after DNA tests confirm whether it was responsible for the attacks. (AP Photo/Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department)AP - Wildlife officials euthanized a grizzly bear Friday after DNA tests confirmed that the sow and her cubs were responsible for a triple mauling that killed a Michigan man and injured two other campers.




Great white shark sightings close Cape Cod beach (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:45:47 GMT
AP - Officials have closed five miles of a Cape Cod beach after a spotter pilot saw three more great white sharks, including one swimming about 100 yards from a party on the sand.

AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond (AP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:27:25 GMT

FILE - This March 17, 1946 file photo shows Dr. Marcel Petiot in Paris. The doctor, a serial killer who was convicted of 26 murders and guillotined as punishment for his crimes, regularly treated refugees, businessmen and Gestapo agents, but also had a predilection for killing wealthy Jews and burning their bodies in a basement furnace. He was one of the most unusual informers used by one of America's most secretive espionage agencies, known simply as the Pond. (AP Photo, File)AP - It was a night in early November during the infancy of the Cold War when the anti-communist dissidents were hustled through a garden and across a gully to a vehicle on a dark, deserted road in Budapest. They hid in four large crates for their perilous journey.




Wildlife rescue escalates at Mich. river oil spill (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:48:21 GMT

Oil sheen is shown in the Kalamazoo River in Battle Creek, Mich., from a ruptured pipeline, owned by Enbridge Inc., Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Volunteers and government officials scrambled on Friday to save geese and other wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the ruptured pipeline said the crude had been contained.




Bike riding in London is risky business (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:48:01 GMT

Boris Johnson Mayor of London poses for the media as a new cycle hire scheme starts in London, Friday, July 30, 2010, with the London Eye in background. The cycle hire scheme aims to enable travelers to use a network of cycle stations throughout central London to commute or just tour the area, as the cycle hire system goes live Friday morning.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - Feel like living dangerously?




Japan's Mitsui maintains oil tanker was likely attacked (AFP)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:52:21 GMT

A Japanese shipping company maintained that its oil tanker, M.Star, was likely attacked in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, dismissing reports it may have been hit by a freak wave.(AFP/Mitsui OSK Line)AFP - A Japanese shipping company maintained Thursday that one of its oil tankers was likely attacked in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, dismissing reports it might have been hit by a freak wave.




'Nightmare' start for iPhone 4's latest launch (AFP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:09:13 GMT

Customers inspect the new Apple iPhone 4 at the main Apple city store in Sydney. Hundreds of New Zealand customers were turned away empty-handed Friday as the second phase of the Apple iPhone 4's global launch in Asian and European nations got off to a AFP - Hundreds of New Zealand customers were turned away empty-handed Friday as the second phase of the Apple iPhone 4's global launch in Asian and European nations got off to a "nightmare" start.




China criticizes Clinton comments on island chains (AP)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:50:58 GMT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, a Chinese soldier jumps through a fire obstacle during psychological training at an army training field before the upcoming 83rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, which will be celebrated on Aug. 1, in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang) ** NO SALES **AP - China's military on Friday criticized remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washington had a strong interest in seeing territorial disputes in the South China Sea resolved peacefully.




Book says many U.S. universities are waste of money (Reuters)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:04:01 GMT

Political science major Paul Fabsik wears a price tag hanging from his mortarboard estimating the cost of his education, May 24 during commencement ceremonies at Boston College in Newton, Masachusetts. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - Spending as much as $250,000 on a bachelors degree from world-renowned U.S. universities such as Harvard University and Yale is a waste of money, a new book asserts.