2010年2月12日星期五

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Ivory Coast president dissolves 'unity' government (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:08 PM PST

Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, pictured in January 2010, on state television Friday dissolved parliament and dismissed the electoral commission because of a crisis sparked by alleged fraud by the commission's head.(AFP/File/Sia Kambou)AP - Ivory Coast's president has dissolved the government and disbanded the election commission, throwing into doubt the political reconciliation process in a divided country that was about to hold elections.


US Marines, Afghan troops attack Taliban-held town (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:43 PM PST

U.S. 1st Lt. Daniel Hickok, from Puyallup, WA, 24, smokes his pipe, next to Pfc. Colin Wells from Los  Angeles, both of the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in an outpost west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. This unit is operating in support of a planned U.S. Marine offensive against the Taliban in Marjah area. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines and Afghan troops swooped down on the Taliban-held town of Marjah before dawn on Saturday, launching a long-expected attack to re-establish government control and undermine support for the militants in their southern heartland.


Polanski film debuts, Swiss vow no extradition yet (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:36 PM PST

FILE -- This is a Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, of film director Roman Polanski in Montrouge, France.  Polanski won't be extradited to the United States until Los Angeles courts rule definitively that he must face further sentencing in person in a 32-year-old sex case, a senior Swiss official said Friday Feb. 12, 2010.  In a new twist to the long-running saga, the Swiss Justice Ministry's deputy director said that it would make 'no sense' to remove the director from house arrest at his Alpine chalet while he seeks to resolve his U.S. case in absentia for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.  (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)AP - Roman Polanski's new film has premiered in Berlin and Swiss authorities have pledged not to extradite him to the U.S. as long as his appeal on a sex case was still being considered in Los Angeles.


Carnival blasts off in Rio amid heat wave (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:48 PM PST

Dancers from the Union da Ilha samba school perform at the Sambadrome stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. Carnival runs Feb. 12 - 16. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - Carnival erupted Friday in Rio with raucous street parties that brought together cheering, drum-beating locals with sweaty foreigners escaping snowbound cities.


Tension among Haiti's religions grows after quake (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:21 PM PST

Women pray on a national day of mourning at Notre Dame University in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. Thousands gathered one month after the deadly magnitude-7 quake that left the Caribbean country struggling for survival.  (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Christian and Voodoo leaders put aside their differences for a moment Friday, joining hands under a canopy of tropical trees as some earthquake survivors on crutches and in wheelchairs mourned the more than 200,000 Haitians killed by an earthquake one month ago.


Why can't women ski jump in the Olympics? (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 10:45 AM PST

United States' gold medal winner Lindsey Van celebrates with the American flag after the Women's Normal Hill Individual final at the Ski Jumping competitions of the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic, Friday, Feb. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)Time.com - Why Can't Women Ski Jump in the Olympics?


McQueen's death hurts London fashion scene (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 01:57 PM PST

Flowers are seen under a logo of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen and a note informing customers of his death at his shop in central London, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. Brilliant and controversial British fashion designer Alexander McQueen was found dead in his London home Thursday, his company said, after anguished Internet postings that revealed his deep sorrow at the death of his mother. He was 40 years old. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - Yes, there are other big names: Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney and Paul Smith come to mind. But the sudden death of Alexander McQueen leaves a gaping hole at the center of London's fashion universe.


Abbas aide in sex tape scandal urged to quit (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 12:21 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007, then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, right, waves as he walks with Abbas aide Rafiq Husseini, second right, upon his arrival for meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,  at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian officials are rallying around Husseini, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after a video showing him in the nude in a compromising situation was broadcast on Israeli TV. However, a prominent Palestinian journalist urged Husseini to resign and Abbas' Fatah movement promised to look into possible impropriety. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)AP - As sex tapes go, it's fairly tame — a man gets undressed in a bedroom, slides under the covers, plumps the pillows and calls to a woman to join him.


US lawmakers pledge more funding for Haiti (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 04:12 PM PST

Haiti's President Rene Preval, second from left, embraces the leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010.  Pelosi is leading a 12-member congressional delegation to Haiti to assess ways to aid the recovery from a the Jan. 12 earthquake that struck Haiti. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A delegation of U.S. lawmakers led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Haiti's president Friday that they will seek increased funding for the country's recovery from the catastrophic earthquake.


(AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 12:23 PM PST

AP - Ivory Coast's president says he is dissolving the government.

China says "most" melamine-tainted milk destroyed (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 05:28 PM PST

Reuters - Most of the melamine-tainted dairy products which have resurfaced in China over the past few months have been destroyed, and none has hit shop shelves or been exported, state media said on Saturday.

Shaw to buy control of Canwest TV operations (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 03:03 PM PST

Reuters - Cable operator Shaw Communications Inc has agreed to buy a controlling stake in the television business of debt-swamped Canwest Global Communications Corp, Canada's biggest media company, the two firms said on Friday.

'Great white' attack was docile carpet shark (AFP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 08:03 PM PST

A wobbegong shark glides over the ocean floor in Sydney. A suspected attack by a feared great white shark in the city has been exposed as a bite from a docile wobbegong, a species that usually shuns humans, experts have said.(AFP/HO/Sydney Aquarium/Eco Divers/File)AFP - A suspected attack by a feared great white shark in Sydney has been exposed as a bite from a docile wobbegong, a species that usually shuns humans, experts said Friday.


U.S., Afghan forces begin assault in Helmand Province (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 03:42 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. forces opened a major offensive in southern Afghanistan early Saturday, sending thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan and British soldiers against a Taliban stronghold in Helmand province.

Luge death of Nodar Kumaritashvili shows danger of Whistler track (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 03:08 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The luge death of Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili in a crash during training Friday opens the Vancouver Organizing Committee to criticism that it has built a sliding track that is recklessly unsafe.

25 Winter Olympic Athletes to Watch (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 10:45 AM PST

Time.com - On Feb. 12, the world's best skiers, boarders and skaters will descend on Vancouver for the Winter Games. A TIME guide to all the fire on ice (and snow)

People of the Year: Shai Reshef (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 05:19 PM PST

OneWorld.net - for adapting social networking principles in an effort to make higher education accessible to everyone, regardless of where they were born or how much money they have

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