4 January - My Yahoo!

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• Murder victim Joanna's sock missing
• More Royal Wedding details revealed
• Australian floods may have peaked
• Katie Price admits marriage 'crisis'
• Lib Dems 'here to win', Clegg tells Oldham voters
• Jobless given chance to start businesses
• Anger rises over unemptied bins
• Giant Tuna Sells For A Record £254,000
• 'Sienna Phone Hack': Journalist Suspended
• Rapper Waka Flocka Flame to spend extra night in jail

 BBC - England

• Drug-smuggling 7/7 hero is jailed - 4 hours agoA firefighter commended for his work in the 7 July London bombings is one of 33 people convicted for drugs and money-laundering crimes.
• Jo Yeates' body was missing sock - 5 hours agoMurdered Jo Yeates was missing a sock when she was found dead near Bristol, Avon and Somerset police say.
• Nanny faces Ann Summers poison charge - 8 hours agoA Sussex nanny appears in court charged with trying to poison Ann Summers boss Jacqueline Gold by lacing her food with screen wash.
• Power station protesters sentenced - 1 hour agoA group of climate change campaigners who planned to shut down the UK's second largest power station are given community orders.
• Cadbury plant to shut within days - 4 hours ago

BBC - Home

• Republicans taking over US House - 29 minutes agoThe 112th US Congress is called to order, starting a new legislative session in which resurgent Republicans aim to cut the size of government and spending.
• Pakistan tense as governor buried - 3 hours agoThousands of Pakistanis attend the state funeral of assassinated Punjab governor Salman Taseer amid heightened tensions in Lahore.
• Ivory Coast rival keeps blockade - 4 hours agoA blockade around the HQ of UN-recognised Ivorian president elect remains, despite an assurance from the incumbent leader that it would be lifted.
• Anti-US cleric Sadr back in Iraq - 1 hour agoAnti-US Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has returned to Iraq after years of self-imposed exile in Iran, Iraqi officials say.
• World food prices 'at fresh high' - 48 minutes ago

 

Reuters

• U.S. seeks China's help in reining in North Korea  - 25 minutes agoSEOUL (Reuters) - The United States sought China's help in persuading its long-time ally North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons, sending its envoy to Beijing Wednesday as part of a campaign to press t...
• Boehner elected U.S. House Speaker, replaces Pelosi  - 12 minutes agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John Boehner was elected on Wednesday as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, replacing Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
• Cameron says sales tax hike may be seen as regressive - 1 hour agoLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday his government's decision to hike VAT sales tax to help tackle the budget deficit could be described as "regressive."
• Israel says Palestinian alternatives a "mirage" - 1 hour agoLONDON (Reuters) - Israel urged the Palestinian leadership on Wednesday to set aside a diplomatic campaign to widen the stalled Middle East peace process and get back instead to direct talks.
• Retailers say snow hit Christmas sales  - 1 hour ago

San Jose Mercury News

• San Jose: Youth minister accused of molesting teens - 3 hours agoA youth minister who volunteered at a San Jose church has been charged with lewd and lascivious conduct with two teens.
• At Riley's Place in Woodside, homeless and chronically ill children connect with animals - 14 hours agoRiley's Place in Woodside, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting chronically ill children or those without a home, with animals.
• What should San Bruno do with $380,000 in fire donations? - 15 hours agoMeeting tonight will determine ideas for City Council to consider
• Roadshow: Going too slow? You may flunk a driving test - 15 hours agoDMV says 10 mph over or under speed limit can result in an automatic failure.
• Fisher: How many calories in that burger? Now the whole country will know - 17 hours ago

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghan security forces launch offensive against Taliban - 6 hours agoThe Afghan defence ministry said Wednesday its forces have begun a military offensive alongside international troops against the Taliban insurgency.
• Afghan Taliban attacks elderly truce talks negotiator - 7 hours agoAn Afghan village elder, who had been negotiating on behalf of his village with the Government, has reportedly been attacked by the Taliban.
• US Military Suspends Two US Contractors in Afghanistan - 1 hour agoMilitants Attack Across Afghanistan The U.S. military says two military contractors in Afghanistan have been suspended for failing to pay Afghan firms that they had hired as subcontractors.The militar
• $20 billion over 2 years for Afghan training - 1 hour ago

U.S.Legal News - Jurist

• Ninth Circuit seeks guidance on same-sex marriage appeal from California high court - 2 hours ago[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday asked [order, PDF] the Supreme Court of California [official website] to weigh in on whether supporters of Proposit...
• California high court rules no warrant needed to search cell phone text messages - 2 hours ago[JURIST] The Supreme Court of California [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday that law enforcement officers can legally search text messages on a suspect's cell phone without a warrant incid...
• Obama administration seeks to delay 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' appeal - 2 hours ago[JURIST] The Obama administration has filed a motion [text; PDF] with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] to delay the briefing schedule in US v. Log Cabin Republicans, a ...
• Washington Supreme Court upholds indefinite solitary confinement for death row prisoners - 2 hours ago[JURIST] The Washington Supreme Court ruled [opinion, PDF] 7-2 on Thursday that holding death row inmates in solitary confinement indefinitely is not an impermissible increase in the severity of punis...
• Texas challenges EPA emissions rule - 2 hours ago

 

RAW Story

• Israeli lawmakers approve ‘McCarthy-esque’ panel to probe ‘left-wing’ groups - 11 minutes agoIsraeli left-wing organizations warned that the legislatures approval of a commission to investigate certain non-governmental organizations (NGOs) would "destroy democracy" in the nation. The Knesset ...
• Authors: CIA waited years to stop nuclear proliferation - 1 hour agoThe US government is guilty of allowing nuclear materials and intelligence to proliferate among some of the most dangerous regimes in the world for more than 30 years, a new book alleges. In Fallout, ...
• US probe after Goldman investment in Facebook - 2 hours agoA Goldman Sachs investment of nearly half a billion dollars into Facebook has spawned a probe by US regulators eager to safeguard the dividing line between public and private companies, The Wall Stree...
• Coalition of state lawmakers target birthright citizenship - 2 hours agoA coalition of state lawmakers is collaborating on legislation to "correct" the 14th Amendment and deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants born in the United States. The coalition, known as...
• Australian floods spread, threaten Barrier Reef - 3 hours ago

 EV Worldwire

• Bright Automotive Now Hiring for IDEA Electric Van Program - 2 hours agoCompany looking to fill 200 engineering and business development positions over the next 12 months to bring IDEA concept vehicle to market.
• 2011 Will Be the Year 'Electric Avenue' Becomes A Reality - 2 hours agoFrank Sherosky surveys the changes over the last year since the first 'Electric Avenue' debuted at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show.
• GM, Nissan End-of-Year Electric Car Sales Reported - 2 hours agoBoth companies report their first-year production already is sold out.
• Japanesse Prefecture Seeking to Become Fuel Cell 'Silicon Valley' - 2 hours agoYamanashi prefecture would allow fuel-cell vehicles to be charged on public highways and expressway services, which is currently banned in Japan.
• U.S. Held Hostage By Rare Earth and Lithium Controlling Nations - 2 hours ago

No Quarter

• Hello. Goodbye. Okay. - 16 hours agoEditor’s Note: Lisa Brackmann is the author of the novel, Rock Paper Tiger , advertised below in the center column. Rock Paper Tiger is a thriller set in China. The “heroine...
• Daley Rumor + Open Thread - 19 hours agoEditor’s Note: Our nightly open thread, with a timely post from John Batchelor’s blog , is up early. We hope to post one more story soon, from Lisa Brackmann’s blog . Lisa is the author of
• Bad Luck Cadet #13 – Gun Fights and Car Chases - 23 hours agoGun Fights and Car Chases is the thirteenth in a series of posts on my misadventures in becoming a police officer . The first in this series is Accidents Happen .
• Death Talk - 1 day agoThis is a story of power and conflict-of-interest, and the way I tell it here may not be quite what you are expecting. Health care costs are out of control. We spend more than any other country, and ...
• How To Ensure A TSA Sexual Assault * Open Thread - 1 day ago

Global Post

• Tuna sets a record price at Japanese fish market - 1 hour agoA record $396,000 paid for a tuna in Tokyo on Wednesday has environmentalists concerned. read more
• Moqtada al-Sadr returns to Iraq after exile - 2 hours agoFeared anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has returned to Iraq from exile in Iran, after helping the prime minister form a government. read more
• China's military head games - 3 hours agoRumors or no, news of China's military advances throws wrench in the works for US strategists. read more
• African envoy urges patience in Ivory Coast crisis - 5 hours agoAn African leader urged patience in negotiations with Laurent Gbagbo, as the U.N. stepped up food drops to 22,000 Ivorian refugees. read more
• Australians brace for flood peak, more rain - 6 hours ago

Green Life

• Green Your Fitness: Get Greener Gear - 4 hours agoNew Year’s resolutions aside, this is a great time of year to focus on physique. This week’s tips, then, will give you ideas about how to get fit in the greenest of ways. Tip #2: Get Greener Gear ...
• Daily Roundup: January 4, 2011 - 17 hours agoGive and Learn: Google donated $4 million to NatureBridge, an environmental education provider affiliated with the National Park Service. Ecorazzi Power of Water: Flooding in Queensland, Australia, ...
• Falling Birds a Freaky End to 2010 in Arkansas - 22 hours agoAs most people welcomed the new year, the people of Beebe, Arkansas , wondered whether the world was going to end. Just before midnight on New Year's Eve, the small city northeast of Little Rock exp...
• Green Your Fitness: A Human-Powered Commute - 1 day ago

Gawker

• Meet the Boehners [Family Photos] - 16 minutes ago[ It's a big Boehner day on Capitol Hill! Here's incoming Speaker John Boehner posing with ten of his eleven (less orange-skinned) siblings out...
• Christine O'Donnell Wants A Mulligan On Campaign Finance Reports [Investigations] - 38 minutes agoChristine O'Donnell will file amendments to all the campaign finance reports her campaign filed during the 2009-2010 election cycle, a lawyer fo...
• Mila Kunis: 'I'm a Gay Man in a Straight Woman's Body' [Quoted] - 52 minutes ago"I've always gravitated toward gay people," Mila Kunis tells gay magazine The Advocate . Then she drops the most annoying line in the fag h...
• Cops Say Heidi Jones Already Admitted to False Rape Charge [Crime] - 1 hour agoWABC weatherperson Heidi Jones entered a not guilty plea today to misdemeanor charges that she falsely told police a "Hispanic man" tried to rape...
• Courtney Love Sued For Defamation Over Rage-Filled Tweets [Feuds] - 1 hour ago

MercoPress

 Argentina: Installation of onboard video cameras begin - 18 hours ago
The Fisheries Secretariat of the Nation has reported that an Integrated Control System has come into force, which involves the installation of video cameras on board the Argenti...

• Antarctica Cruise Canceled After 'Signs of Wear' Are Discovered - 1 day agoThere's more trouble in Antarctica, but this time, the notoriously rough Drake Passage isn't to blame. Citing mechanical problems, small-ship adventure operator Abercrombie & Ke...
• Argentine Government questions present relevance of 1999 Falklands Agreement with Britain - 1 day agoThe Argentine Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that the “provisional understandings” signed by London and Buenos Aires were in complete disuse and that the “unilateral actions ...
• Desire Petroleun plc: Dawn Well Operational Update - 1 day agoDesire Petroleum plc (AIM:DES) the company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, advises that the 25/5-1 well on the Dawn/Jacinta prospect has reached a total depth of 1,...
• Ecuador: Decline in tuna landings due to 'La Niña' - 1 day ago

Florida Oil Spill Law

• TV: Is beach cleanup “all for nothing”? — Oil is still in the water (VIDEO) - 1 hour agoCleaning It Up – Surf and Sand , WKRG, January 4, 2011: Clean up of Alabama beaches is back in full force after a ten day layoff for the holidays. But, is it all for nothing as oil buried in the sur...
• Sharks with solid “hairballs” of migratory bird feathers found off Alabama coast - 2 hours agoTiger shark bellies found full of migrating birds; are Gulf oil and gas rigs to blame? , Press Register, December 31, 2010: Feathers of woodland birds found in tiger shark bellies this fall bolster ...
• Governor says national media “not interested” in Gulf oil disaster - 3 hours agoBob Riley does flurry of New York media interviews on Coastal Recovery Commission report , Press Register, January 04, 2011 “It’s important to make sure these national outlets understand what’s happ...
• AND AGAIN: Several hundred birds drop from sky in Kentucky — “Experts are at a loss” (VIDEO) - 7 hours agoDead birds mysteriously appear in Kentucky , Fox WDBR Channel 41, January 4, 2011: A Paducah television news station is reporting that a Gilbertsville, Ky. woman has found dozens of dead birds in he...
• AGAIN: Birds “rain” from sky 100 miles from New Orleans — Grackles, starlings, cowbirds, and blackbirds - 19 hours ago

Media Monitors

• Afghans consign another superpower to the dustbin of history - 0 minutes ago"...like the Soviet Union before it, the US economy is also in terminal decline. The Americans waged earlier wars for profit. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost trillions of dollars. American ...
• Washington uses Arms Sales to achieve Global Supremacy - 0 minutes ago"Weapons sales necessarily entail training and instruction, joint military exercises, parts replacement, maintenance and repairs, and upgrading and other modifications. In short, an integral and long-...
• Without Borders, If Only - 0 minutes ago"No, what happened to us at the border is not personal. It is however, part and parcel of being Palestinian and this is what makes it all the worse. There are thousands of stories similar to my own if...
• A New Year's Reflection on Immigration - 0 minutes ago"I am equally frustrated by those, on both the right and the left, who have callously reduced the matter of immigration to a "wedge issue" to be exploited for political gain. Immigration is far more t...
• 2010 Mixed year for Palestinians - 0 minutes ago

Voltaire

• The Real Crime of M. Khodorkovsky - 1 hour agoThe final decision in the Russian trial against former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has drawn dramatic statements of protest from the US Obama Administration and governments around the world labe...
• Former AIPAC official confirms Lobby access to US secrets - 5 hours agoIn 2005, the FBI filed criminal charges against a Pentagon official, Colonel Lawrence Franklin, and a former National Security Council analyst now working for the Brookings Institution, Kenneth Pollac...
• Iraq: Fallujah children with birth defects - 22 hours agoThe International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has published a study on the upsurge of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. A 15% increase has been recorded during the war period. T...
• Cuba Ratifies Solidarity with Venezuela - 1 day agoCuba's First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura ratified on Monday the island's willingness to support Venezuela in its efforts to recover from the damages caused by recent heavy rains.
• Washington's “humanitarian” war and the KLA's crimes - 1 day ago

Kerkuk.net

• Turkey seeks to continue political, economic role in Iraq - 1 day agoAs Ankara readies to work with the Iraqi administration it tried to have unseated in the last election, officials have expressed confidence that Turkey will continue to play a role in Iraq, politicall...
• Six mortars hit US base in central Iraq - 1 day agoMortar shells have targeted a US military base in central Iraq, further indicating that the foreign troops have worn out their welcome in the country they invaded in 2003.
• ORSAM held an interview with ITF Turkey Representative Dr. Hicran Kazancı - 1 day agoAn interview with ITF Turkey Representative Dr. Hicran Kazancı
• The Turkmen want peace - 1 day ago

BPS Research Digest
Why are we less willing to help the victims of man-made disaster? - 9 hours ago
Women at an Ethiopian refugee camp People are more willing to donate money to help victims of natural, as opposed to man-made, disasters. Hanna Zagefka and her team found this is because people ...
A psychological problem with snacking in front of the telly - 1 day ago

 Red Tape Chronicles

• Court: No warrant needed to search cell phone - 20 hours agoThe next time you're in California, you might not want to bring your cell phone with you. The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can search the cell phone of a person who's been arreste...
• Ten things Web users should fear in 2011 - 1 week agoAs in the real world, cyberspace has bad neighborhoods.  But unlike the real world, risks in cyberspace are not easy to spot -- and the location of those digital bad neighborhoods can change all the t...
• The Women of Twitter: Behind those sexy tweets - 2 weeks ago“The CADJPY is testing the rising trend line dating back to Nov. 2,” announced the blonde bombshell in a low-cut bikini top, discussing with seeming gravitas and authority technical levels for the val...
• Mobile broadband the next big hacking risk? - 2 weeks agoAdmit it, you've done it.  Despite all the vague warnings you've heard about public Wi-Fi hotspots, you've paid an online bill while surfing at a coffee shop. Or you've purchased something and entered...
• WikiLeaks vigilante war spills onto Web

Top Documentary Films

• Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby - 57 minutes agoA major BBC documentary, Russia sees Jonathan Dimbleby attempt to put across the largest nation on Earth over the course of a 10,000 mile journey. The end result fills up five 60 minute episodes. A...
• The End of God?: A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion - 12 hours agoAs the Pope ends his visit to Britain, historian Dr Thomas Dixon delves into the BBC's archive to explore the troubled relationship between religion and science. From the creationists of America to...
• My Small Breasts and I - 1 day agoMy Small Breasts and I uncovers the complex, poignant, and sometimes amusing relationship women have with their tiny breasts. Talking candidly, three women reveal how they really feel abou...
• Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension - 2 days agoMysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature. You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. T...
• Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave - 2 days ago

Yahoo! Politics News

• 112th Congress convenes; Parties will share power (AP) - 1 hour agoAP - The 112th Congress convened with prayers and pomp Wednesday, as Republicans vowed to use their new House majority to battle President Barack Obama on health care, spending, taxes and other issues...
• Gibbs stepping down as White House press secretary (The Ticket) - 3 hours agoThe Ticket - It's official: Robert Gibbs is leaving his post as White House press secretary. Gibbs, one of President Obama's most seasoned and trusted advisers, tells the New York Times' Jeff Zeleny t...
• Alexander, Republican senators rally behind traditional filibuster rules (Daily Caller)

Yahoo! Business News
Wall Street gains as jobs data buoys optimism (Reuters) - 1 hour agoReuters - U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday as much stronger-than-expected jobs data boosted optimism about the labor market and the economic recovery.

Hiring surge buoys economy outlook (Reuters) - 1 hour agoReuters - Private sector jobs surged in December at a rate three times stronger than forecast, a hiring report showed, the most bullish signal in months that a recovery in the world's biggest economy ...

Credit Suisse upgrades Barnes & Noble on Borders woes (Reuters) - 4 hours ago

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