FORT WORTH, TexasThe Iraq War veteran charged with killing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend on a Texas shooting range had been taken to a mental hospital twice in the past five months and told authorities that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, police records show. Eddie Ray Routh, 25, also told his sister and brother-in-law after the shootings that he "traded his soul...
Sarai Sierra's 2 Young Boys Don't Know Mom's Dead
Labels: Business The two young sons of slain New York mom Sarai Sierra are under the impression that their father has gone to Turkey to bring their mother home - alive.Sierra, whose battered body was found near a highway in Istanbul over the weekend, was the mother of two boys aged 9 and 11.Steven Sierra, who went to Istanbul in search of his wife after she disappeared nearly two weeks ago,...
Syrian opposition chief says offers Assad peaceful exit
Labels: WorldBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on Monday to start talks for its departure from power and save the country from greater ruin after almost two years of bloodshed. Seeking to step up pressure on Assad to respond to his offer of talks - which dismayed some in his own opposition coalition, Alkhatib said he would...
N. Korea video shows US city under attack
Labels: Technology SEOUL: North Korea, poised to conduct a nuclear test any day now, has posted a video on YouTube depicting a US city resembling New York engulfed in flames after an apparent missile attack.The footage was uploaded Saturday by the North's official website, Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from the state media.The video is shot as a dream sequence, with a young man seeing...
Microsoft and Huawei debut Windows Phone for Africa
Labels: LifestyleNew Huawei Windows Phone, called Huawei 4Afrika, to be introduced in Africa.(Credit:Microsoft)Microsoft and Huawei announced today that they're partnering to bring a new Windows Phone to Africa. The two companies are targeting the continent, which is one of the fastest growing technology markets in the world but has seen few smartphones to date and whose majority of users still rely on feature phones....
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8 dead in 3-vehicle tour bus crash in Calif.: Highway Patrol
Labels: Health YUCAIPA, Calif. The California Highway Patrol says eight people were killed in a collision involving a tour bus and two other vehicles. CHP Officer Mario Lopez says eight are confirmed dead and many more are injured in the mountain highway crash about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, near the town of Forest Falls. Lopez says the collision included the tour bus, a pickup truck pulling a trailer and...
Ravens Defeat 49ers in Historic, Unusual Super Bowl
Labels: Business The Baltimore Ravens emerged Super Bowl champions after one of the strangest and most incredible Super Bowl games in recent memory.It's the second championship for the Ravens, who pulled out a 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers at the Superdome in New Orleans.The Super Bowl is the biggest spectacle in American sports, and each year becomes the most watched television event...
Iran hedges on nuclear talks with six powers or U.S.
Labels: WorldMUNICH (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it was open to a U.S. offer of direct talks on its nuclear program and that six world powers had suggested a new round of nuclear negotiations this month, but without committing itself to either proposal. Diplomatic efforts to resolve a dispute over Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is peaceful but the West suspects is intended to give Iran...
Sentimentality scoops Super Bowl ads
Labels: Technology WASHINGTON: Unabashed sentimentality took the unofficial Super Bowl trophy for advertising brilliance on Sunday, with draft horses and pickup trucks both putting a lump in America's collective throat.Budweiser's touching pocket narrative of an equine farmer reunited on the streets of Chicago with the Clydesdale he nurtured from birth for the beer's signature draft horse team was a run-away...
How Oreo created the tweet that won the Super Bowl
Labels: LifestyleThis ad, included in a tweet from Oreo, won the Super Bowl Sunday night.(Credit:Oreo)Anyone watching the Super Bowl this evening saw a great game -- and one of the greatest embarrassments in pro sports history: a power outage that halted play for a full half hour.As the eventual champion Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers -- and tens of thousands inside New Orleans' Superdome and millions...
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