Politico: “The U.S. Embassy in San’a is closed today, January 3, 2010, in response to ongoing threats by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula … to attack American interests in Yemen,” the embassy said in a brief message on its Web
DailyMail: The second half of the building has since been demolished by a crane.
KSAZ: Eleven-year-old Mackenzie Saunders was partially paralyzed when a player from the opposing team crashed into her. Mackenzie got up right after the collision, but minutes later she told coaches that her legs were burning.
ABC News: The informant was a Pakistani and a member of the Wazir tribe from the Pakistani tribal area North Waziristan, according to the same source. The base security director, an Afghan named Arghawan, would pick up the informant at
AP: Tribal elders in a Pakistani village where a suicide car bomber killed nearly 100 people insisted Saturday that residents will keep defying the Taliban, even as the bloodshed laid bare the risks facing the citizens’ militias that make up
WATE: The chase began after deputies saw Nicholas Nunley, 29, speed by on Highway 39 with the machine sliding on the pavement behind his pickup truck. Officers say he had used a log chain to pull the machine from a
KMTR: Police say a man wanted for three bank robberies in Eugene, Ore., has been arrested in Illinois – and it turns out he is a bit of a TV star. Police in East Peoria, Ill., say they arrested 23-year-old
Politico: Three different viewing parties were held across the city, at which six of the eight cast members were spotted. The evening’s “official” viewing party was the Metromix-sponsored event at BlackFinn, a bar and restaurant near the White House. Cast
KOB: The Valencia County Sheriff’s Department says a group was trying to play a prank on a woman by throwing the dead ducks at her. People living nearby are disgusted.
AP: President Barack Obama took his daughters and a posse of about 20 people for a Hawaiian treat — shaved ice. He ordered the combo named for himself — the “snowbama.” It’s flavored with lemon-lime, cherry and passion-guava syrups.
Telegraph: The man, 28, who was armed with an axe and a knife, went to the home of Kurt Westergaard at 10pm local time on Friday, police said. Police shot him in the leg and arm and he was arrested.
AP: In his most direct public language to date, the president described the path through Yemen of 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to destroy Northwest Flight 253. The president also emphasized that the United States would
WTTG: Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas is not commenting on a published report he pulled a gun on a teammate over a gambling dispute. The New York Post reports Arenas and guard Javaris Crittenton both pulled guns while arguing
AP: Israeli magician Hezi Din spent 64 hours inside a sub-zero ice cube until he was cut out Thursday. He’s OK, and he broke a record set by American magician David Blaine.
Fox News: Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh said Friday that tests show nothing wrong with his heart after chest pains hospitalized him earlier this week. Limbaugh said at a Honolulu news conference that he was being released from
NBC DFW: The Transportation Security Administration has launched an internal investigation after a security checkpoint at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was left unattended and unsecured for 90 minutes earlier this month. Three agents have been suspended pending the outcome of
Reuters: “It’s just a disaster. I can see flesh, bodies and wounded all around. It’s dark. Vehicles’ headlights are being used to search for victims.”
WTTG: Thousands of people in balmy Key West, Florida welcomed the New Year with the “drop” of a renowned female impersonator perched in a super-sized red high heel. The annual “drag queen drop” is an offbeat warm-weather take-off on the
Politiken: He comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions. And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated – – but rather the
AP: Two former U.S. Officials tell the Associated Press that the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched.
AFP: The Eiffel Tower in Paris rang in the New Year with a spectacular light and music show to mark its 120th birthday. The 12-minute shower of light, using state-of-the-art LED spotlights, evoked the extroardinary construction in just two years
