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NTSB looking at broken rail
>Were you there? Share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Nine people remained in the hospital -- one in critical condition -- two days after a commuter train derailed and struck another train on one of the busiest tracks in the country, officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators looking at the accident, along the busy corridor from New York to New Haven, ...
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Obama Aide Irrelevant Fact Where President Was During Benghazi Attacks
Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said it's an "irrelevant fact" where the president physically was during the Benghazi terror attack on September 11, ...
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Twenty Years On The Unfinished Lives Of Bosnia’s Romeo And Juliet
SARAJEVO -- The story of Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic ended with two short bursts from a sniper's rifle on a Sarajevo bridge the afternoon of May 19, 1993. Bosko, a 24-year-old ethnic Serb, was killed instantly. Admira, his 25-year-old Bosniak girlfriend, was fatally wounded. She crawled to Bosko and, after about 10 minutes, died with him. One eyewitness described the scene in an ...
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Russian Film Director Balabanov Dead At 54
Russian film director Aleksei Balabanov has died at the age of 54. Balabanov, whose films include the 1997 crime film "Brother" (Brat) and its sequel, "Brother-2," died after collapsing from an an apparent heart attack in the village of Solnechnoye outside St. Petersburg. Balabanov, a native of Sverdlovsk, had lived in St. Petersburg since 1990. Many of his films, ...
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Weed grow room found in haredi girls school
For some time before Sunday, a strong herbal aroma wafted through the halls of a Kiryat Gat school for haredi girls, puzzling the school's faculty and staff. On Sunday, the principal decided to investigate, and made her way to a basement bomb shelter, where she stumbled upon a marijuana grow room, Negev subdistrict police reported on Sunday.The principal called police and when investigators ...
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When May 19 became day of darkness
>Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose 25 books include "Late Edition: A Love Story"; "Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War"; and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen. "(CNN) -- The date, in that long-gone American spring, was the same as today's: May 19. The year was 1780. The event is mostly forgotten, lost to the mists ...
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British man arrested after childrens throats slit in France
The Foreign Office said today it is 'urgently' investigating reports that a British Man is being questioned on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two ...
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Report North Korea launches fourth short-range missile
North Korea fired its fourth short-range missile in two days, South Korea tells news agency Missiles were fired into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, Yonhap reports Tensions in the region have eased since a peak last ...
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The newest thing in architecture Something old
(CBS News) Anyone who has seen a great old building being torn down knows that they don't make 'em like they used to. But one New York design team is trying. Tracy Smith reports our Cover Story: It was built to stand for centuries, but by 1969, New York's Grand Central Terminal was in trouble. Kent Barwick led an effort to save the old building from developers. "At ...
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Nigerian army blockades Boko Haram base
Nigerian soldiers have blocked roads out of a key northeastern city to deprive Boko Haram fighters of supplies in remote towns they control, the army has said. The military said on Sunday that its offensive against the group, which followed a declaration of a state of emergency in three northeastern states, was aimed at re-establishing Nigeria's "territorial integrity". The ...
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Egyptian police block border crossings
Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by armed fighters in the Sinai Peninsula, have blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel, security sources have said.Police have been blocking another border post, the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, since Friday to press the government of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to help free the seven. Dozens of police ...
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Netanyahu Says Israel Acts To Deny Hizballah Syrian Arms
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is "acting" to prevent Syrian weapons reaching Lebanon's Hizballah and will continue to do so. Netanyahu, speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on May 19, said the Middle East was going through its most sensitive period for decades, with the conflict in Syria at the center of the turmoil. Netanyahu said Israel ...
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Bennett reveals reform of religious services
Minister for Religious Services Naftali Bennett, alongside deputy minister Eli Ben-Dahan, unveiled a series of reforms on Sunday for the provision of religious services in Israel, calling the measures proposed "revolutionary."Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Bennett said that the objective was to improve the professionalism of religious services and make them more ...
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For Obama no more Mr. Nice Media
>Editor's note: Howard Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources. "(CNN) -- The press has turned on President Obama with a vengeance. Suddenly, the White House briefing room is filled with confrontational questions. Suddenly, the news pages are ablaze with scandal, and the commentators -- even some of the president's usual defenders -- are bemoaning his ...
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Will scandals stall Obama agenda
>Editor's note: John Avlon, a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, is the author of "Independent Nation" and "Wingnuts. " He won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' award for best online column in 2012.(CNN) -- This week on "The Big Three," we take a look at what might have been Obama's worst week ever -- as a negative trifecta of scandals ...
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Russia retrieves mice newts after space journey
Russian Federation A Russian capsule containing mice, newts and other small animals has returned from a month's mission in orbit.Russian mission control said the Bion-M craft landed softly with the help of a special parachute system in the Orenburg Region about 1,200 kilometres south-east of Moscow.The capsule was also carrying snails and gerbils as well as some plants and ...
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Tunisian police clash with Islamists over banned rally
KAIROUAN, Tunisia (Reuters) - Supporters of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia clashed with Tunisian police on Sunday after the government banned its annual rally, saying it posed a threat to ...
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After crushing Mali Islamists France pushes deal with Tuaregs
BAMAKO (Reuters) - After winning adulation across Mali for a five month military offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg ...
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Job market gains could lead Fed to taper QE3 early
(Reuters) - The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than many investors think if recent gains in the U.S. labor market do not prove ...
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Two imprisoned over killing Malcolm Xs grandson
MEXICO CITY A judge on Saturday issued an order for the imprisonment of two waiters accused in the beating death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, the Mexico City attorney general's office ...
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Afghanistan to ask India for military aid
KABUL, Afghanistan An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai ...
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Salafist group clashes with police in Tunisia
Clashes have broken out between police and supporters of the Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia in two places in Tunisia. One clash occurred on Sunday in a Tunis suburb where the group had told supporters to meet for their annual congress in defiance of a government ban, according to an AFP journalist. Hundreds of Salafists erected barricades in the streets of Ettadhamen, a poor neighbourhood ...
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North Korea fires short-range missiles second day in a row
South Korean officials condemned the launching of another short-range missile Sunday by North Korea, saying the action was provocative. North Korea fired the missile Sunday afternoon into the ocean off the country's east coast, one day after the country fired three short-range missiles into the same body of water, Yonhap News Agency reported. Kim Hyung-suk, a spokesman for the South ...
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Two North Caucasus Republics Set Election Precedent
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) chairs a meeting of the Government Commission on Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasian Federal District in Grozny in June 2012, flanked by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Ingushetia head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and Daghestan's Magomedsalam Magomedov (left to ...
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Jordan scuttles attempt to expel Israeli envoy
expel Israel's ambassador ended when several members of parliament backed-down according to official sources. Despite the failure of the move to send Israeli Ambassador Daniel Nevo packing, the incident underscores the viability of opposition to normalization with the Jewish state.A strong majority of 86 out of 150 lawmakers had signed a memorandum calling for a parliamentary session to ...
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