Friday, October 14^th

Oct. 14: Demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests sweep Zucotti park to preempt a scheduled cleanup by owners Friday morning that protestors say is a move to shut them down. Wall Street protesters scrubbed, mopped and picked up ...

This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 19.05 BST on Thursday 13 October 2011 . It was last modified at 10.11 BST on Friday 14 October 2011 . Barack Obama, at a news conference with South Korean president Lee Myung-bak, said the US would not ...

The clock is already ticking on Herman Cain's presidential moment. The former pizza executive and talk radio host is suddenly scrambling to take advantage of an opening in the presidential race that even his supporters say seems too good to be true. ...

SEAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The horror for most people in this quiet seaside town began to unfold with the staccato 'pop, pop, pop' of a handgun as a shooter opened fire in the beauty salon where his ex-wife worked. But for Michelle Fournier, ...

The United Nations has said the death toll in seven months of protests in Syria against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad has reached 3000. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said at least 187 children were among the dead and that ...

Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam leaves Manhattan federal court following his sentencing, with his attorney Terence Lynam, left, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in New York. Rajaratnam, who was convicted in May of insider trading, was sentenced Thursday ...

By AP, WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday returned to an abortion issue that nearly sank President Barack Obama's health care law last year with legislation that bars an insurance plan regulated under the new law from covering abortion if any of its ...

This photo provided by the Colorado State Patrol shows the scene of an accident near Kit Carson, Colo., on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, where five children and an adult were killed when a van carrying children collided with a tractor-trailer rig. ...

Google has revealed significant gains in its battle with Facebook, as it posted a 26pc jump in profits and said 40m users had signed up to its new social network, Google +. By Katherine Rushton, Media, Telecoms and Technology Editor Revenues at the web ...

By YAAKOV KATZ Hamas letter to Israel outlining prisoner-swap deal marked a turning point in negotiations; David Meidan, appointed chief Schalit negotiator three months earlier quickly noticed change in Hamas approach. The main breakthrough came in ...

By CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will stress the importance of putting economics at the center of the United States' foreign policy priorities. (CNN) -- The United States must position itself to ...

NTC fighters evacuate a wounded comrade during battles in Sirte, Libya. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images 10.08am: The Arab Spring has cost the region more than $50bn, with Syria bearing the brunt of the financial losses, according to a report ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The husband of a slain woman was arrested in North Carolina on Thursday and charged with first-degree murder, but police said they were still searching for her missing 11-year-old son. The boy lived with his mother but was not ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is promising to expand energy production on federal lands, curb regulation and create some 1.2 million jobs in the process. "The quickest way to give our economy a shot in the arm is to ...

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. is poised to sell as many as 4 million units of its new iPhone 4S this weekend as customers around the world clamor for one of the last products developed under Steve Jobs. The device, available today in the US, ...

By Fredreka Schouten and Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – President Obama overcame low poll numbers to collect $42.8 million in the July-to-September fundraising quarter, racing ahead of his Republican rivals who must marshal their resources for ...

中新社北京10月14日电(张晓宁)中国外交部发言人刘为民在14日的例行记者会上，就美指控伊朗策划暗杀沙特大使并宣布对伊实施制裁一事做出表态。他表示，希望有关国家通过对话妥善处理该问题，共同维护中东海湾地区的稳 ...

Президент США Барака Обама заявил, что официальные лица из числа иранского руководства будут отвечать за планирование убийства посла Саудовской Аравии в США. Как сообщают международные информагентства, при этом Обама воздержался от прямых обвинений ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut jury that convicted a paroled burglar Thursday of murdering a woman and her two daughters during a gruesome 2007 home invasion will now decide whether he should be put to death for a crime so unsettling it ...

By Heather Smith Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn's political career won't be revived after Paris prosecutors became the second law-enforcement agency to drop an attempted rape case against the former head of the International Monetary ...

Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert Hoff updates the media on the condition of the injured Chicago Firefighters. Friday, August 26, 2011 | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Even with 517 layoffs, $417 million in budget cuts and $220 million in higher taxes, ...

Italy's Parliament has begun debating before a confidence vote that will determine the political future of Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The vote will be held later Friday. If Berlusconi loses, he has to resign. With an electorate weary of the scandals ...

Kenyan police continued searching for two Spanish aid workers abducted from the world's largest refugee camp on Friday amid reports that they had already been taken to Somalia. By Mike Pflanz, in Nairobi Air and land operations launched at first light ...

PARIS (Reuters) - G20 officials are discussing the merits of a financial transactions tax on banks, sources at the Paris meeting said on Friday, but no progress was expected given the wide array of opponents to the plan. ...

CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown used language identical to earlier words by former Senator Elizabeth Dole on his website in what his office described on Thursday as an inadvertent staff oversight. ...

By HOLLY RAMER AP CONCORD — New Hampshire's secretary of state on Wednesday called Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 "realistic options" for the state's presidential primary unless Nevada backs up its caucus to Jan. 17. The Nevada caucuses are set for Jan. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - G20 officials are discussing the merits of a financial transactions tax on banks, sources at the Paris meeting said on Friday, but no progress was expected given the wide array of opponents to the plan. ...

五早間﹐隨著“佔領華爾街”活動的抗議者誓言抵制紐約市和公園所有方將其趕走、清理公園的努力﹐圍繞控制曼哈頓下城一個公園的爭奪戰即將打響。 週四﹐一名“佔領華爾街”運動的示威者在打掃祖科蒂公園。 抗議者在Twitter上呼籲支持者午夜開始到祖科蒂公園(Zuccotti Park)進行 ...

PUCHENG, Shaanxi, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- An aircraft plummeted to the ground Friday morning during an air show held for the 2011 China International General Aviation Convention in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the executive committee of the ...

A plane has crashed in stormy weather in northern Papua New Guinea, killing 28 people on board and leaving only four survivors, officials said. The survivors include the two pilots, from Australia and New Zealand, an Australian government statement ...

Italy's Parliament has begun debating before a confidence vote that will determine the political future of Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The vote will be held later Friday. If Berlusconi loses, he has to resign. With an electorate weary of the scandals ...

Kenyan police continued searching for two Spanish aid workers abducted from the world's largest refugee camp on Friday amid reports that they had already been taken to Somalia. By Mike Pflanz, in Nairobi Air and land operations launched at first light ...

CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown used language identical to earlier words by former Senator Elizabeth Dole on his website in what his office described on Thursday as an inadvertent staff oversight. ...

By HOLLY RAMER AP CONCORD — New Hampshire's secretary of state on Wednesday called Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 "realistic options" for the state's presidential primary unless Nevada backs up its caucus to Jan. 17. The Nevada caucuses are set for Jan. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - G20 officials are discussing the merits of a financial transactions tax on banks, sources at the Paris meeting said on Friday, but no progress was expected given the wide array of opponents to the plan. ...

五早間﹐隨著“佔領華爾街”活動的抗議者誓言抵制紐約市和公園所有方將其趕走、清理公園的努力﹐圍繞控制曼哈頓下城一個公園的爭奪戰即將打響。 週四﹐一名“佔領華爾街”運動的示威者在打掃祖科蒂公園。 抗議者在Twitter上呼籲支持者午夜開始到祖科蒂公園(Zuccotti Park)進行 ...

PUCHENG, Shaanxi, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- An aircraft plummeted to the ground Friday morning during an air show held for the 2011 China International General Aviation Convention in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the executive committee of the ...

A plane has crashed in stormy weather in northern Papua New Guinea, killing 28 people on board and leaving only four survivors, officials said. The survivors include the two pilots, from Australia and New Zealand, an Australian government statement ...

Italy's Parliament has begun debating before a confidence vote that will determine the political future of Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The vote will be held later Friday. If Berlusconi loses, he has to resign. With an electorate weary of the scandals ...

Kenyan police continued searching for two Spanish aid workers abducted from the world's largest refugee camp on Friday amid reports that they had already been taken to Somalia. By Mike Pflanz, in Nairobi Air and land operations launched at first light ...

CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown used language identical to earlier words by former Senator Elizabeth Dole on his website in what his office described on Thursday as an inadvertent staff oversight. ...

By HOLLY RAMER AP CONCORD — New Hampshire's secretary of state on Wednesday called Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 "realistic options" for the state's presidential primary unless Nevada backs up its caucus to Jan. 17. The Nevada caucuses are set for Jan. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - G20 officials are discussing the merits of a financial transactions tax on banks, sources at the Paris meeting said on Friday, but no progress was expected given the wide array of opponents to the plan. ...

五早間﹐隨著“佔領華爾街”活動的抗議者誓言抵制紐約市和公園所有方將其趕走、清理公園的努力﹐圍繞控制曼哈頓下城一個公園的爭奪戰即將打響。 週四﹐一名“佔領華爾街”運動的示威者在打掃祖科蒂公園。 抗議者在Twitter上呼籲支持者午夜開始到祖科蒂公園(Zuccotti Park)進行 ...

PUCHENG, Shaanxi, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- An aircraft plummeted to the ground Friday morning during an air show held for the 2011 China International General Aviation Convention in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the executive committee of the ...

A plane has crashed in stormy weather in northern Papua New Guinea, killing 28 people on board and leaving only four survivors, officials said. The survivors include the two pilots, from Australia and New Zealand, an Australian government statement ...

Italy's Parliament has begun debating before a confidence vote that will determine the political future of Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The vote will be held later Friday. If Berlusconi loses, he has to resign. With an electorate weary of the scandals ...

Kenyan police continued searching for two Spanish aid workers abducted from the world's largest refugee camp on Friday amid reports that they had already been taken to Somalia. By Mike Pflanz, in Nairobi Air and land operations launched at first light ...

CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown used language identical to earlier words by former Senator Elizabeth Dole on his website in what his office described on Thursday as an inadvertent staff oversight. ...

By HOLLY RAMER AP CONCORD — New Hampshire's secretary of state on Wednesday called Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 "realistic options" for the state's presidential primary unless Nevada backs up its caucus to Jan. 17. The Nevada caucuses are set for Jan. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - G20 officials are discussing the merits of a financial transactions tax on banks, sources at the Paris meeting said on Friday, but no progress was expected given the wide array of opponents to the plan. ...

五早間﹐隨著“佔領華爾街”活動的抗議者誓言抵制紐約市和公園所有方將其趕走、清理公園的努力﹐圍繞控制曼哈頓下城一個公園的爭奪戰即將打響。 週四﹐一名“佔領華爾街”運動的示威者在打掃祖科蒂公園。 抗議者在Twitter上呼籲支持者午夜開始到祖科蒂公園(Zuccotti Park)進行 ...

PUCHENG, Shaanxi, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- An aircraft plummeted to the ground Friday morning during an air show held for the 2011 China International General Aviation Convention in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the executive committee of the ...

A plane has crashed in stormy weather in northern Papua New Guinea, killing 28 people on board and leaving only four survivors, officials said. The survivors include the two pilots, from Australia and New Zealand, an Australian government statement ...

Italy's Parliament has begun debating before a confidence vote that will determine the political future of Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The vote will be held later Friday. If Berlusconi loses, he has to resign. With an electorate weary of the scandals ...

Kenyan police continued searching for two Spanish aid workers abducted from the world's largest refugee camp on Friday amid reports that they had already been taken to Somalia. By Mike Pflanz, in Nairobi Air and land operations launched at first light ...

CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown used language identical to earlier words by former Senator Elizabeth Dole on his website in what his office described on Thursday as an inadvertent staff oversight. ...

By HOLLY RAMER AP CONCORD — New Hampshire's secretary of state on Wednesday called Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 "realistic options" for the state's presidential primary unless Nevada backs up its caucus to Jan. 17. The Nevada caucuses are set for Jan. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - G20 officials are discussing the merits of a financial transactions tax on banks, sources at the Paris meeting said on Friday, but no progress was expected given the wide array of opponents to the plan. ...

五早間﹐隨著“佔領華爾街”活動的抗議者誓言抵制紐約市和公園所有方將其趕走、清理公園的努力﹐圍繞控制曼哈頓下城一個公園的爭奪戰即將打響。 週四﹐一名“佔領華爾街”運動的示威者在打掃祖科蒂公園。 抗議者在Twitter上呼籲支持者午夜開始到祖科蒂公園(Zuccotti Park)進行 ...

PUCHENG, Shaanxi, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- An aircraft plummeted to the ground Friday morning during an air show held for the 2011 China International General Aviation Convention in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the executive committee of the ...

A plane has crashed in stormy weather in northern Papua New Guinea, killing 28 people on board and leaving only four survivors, officials said. The survivors include the two pilots, from Australia and New Zealand, an Australian government statement ...