Obama-Saved Turkey Does Disneyland “Courage”, the turkey given a presidential pardon this week by U.S. President Barack Obama, is flown to its new home and given a celebratory reception at Disneyland, California. Reuters Video, REUTERS NEWS VIDEO - 9 minutes ago
Secret Service: Crashers Posed No Danger to Obama The Secret Service maintains that President Barack Obama was never in danger at a state dinner after an uninvited Virginia couple got through security, but it wouldn’t comment on whether anyone is screened for radiological or biological weapons. Larry Margasak, AP NEWS - 13 minutes ago
Climate Debate Heats Up Caribbean Summit An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at a typically low-key meeting of leaders from Britain’s former colonial empire. Ben Fox, AP NEWS - 17 minutes ago
Food Banks Go High-Tech to Feed the Hungry Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods. George Tibbits, AP NEWS - 22 minutes ago
Canadian Buyer Wants Multiple Sports at Silverdome The owner of the Canadian company that’s buying the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan says he wants to bring football, baseball and other sports to the 80,300-seat venue. Staff, AP NEWS - 23 minutes ago
In Greenland, Warming Fuels Dream of Hidden Wealth Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head. Karl Ritter, AP NEWS - 23 minutes ago
Barroso Unveils Lineup of New European Commission European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Friday named the 26 people he wants to help him drive the EU’s day-to-day agenda for the next five years, including nominees for new posts that reflect major shifts in policy priorities, notably climate issues. Robert Wielaard, AP NEWS - 26 minutes ago
Retired Admiral Says Russia Losing Its Navy Russia’s once-mighty navy faces further dramatic decline after 2015, when most Soviet-built ships will have to be mothballed, a retired admiral was quoted as saying Friday. Vladimir Isachenkov, AP NEWS - 27 minutes ago
In Tobacco-Loving Va., Bars to Quit Cold-Turkey The bluish haze that has hung over the Third Street Diner’s bar and booths for decades finally lifts next month as a new anti-smoking law takes hold in Virginia, a huge shift for a state whose tobacco habit dates to the Jamestown settlement some 400 years ago. Bob Lewis, AP NEWS - 29 minutes ago
4 Relatives Shot Dead at Fla. Thanksgiving Party Four people including a child in bed were shot to death during a family Thanksgiving gathering and a manhunt was under way across South Florida early Friday for a male relative suspected in the slayings. Staff, AP NEWS - 30 minutes ago
Australia Carbon Cuts Hit by Opposition Revolt Australia’s bid to pledge carbon cuts ahead of next month’s global climate talks was in serious doubt Friday as an opposition revolt over the legislation threatened to trigger snap polls. Afp, AFP GLOBAL EDITION - 31 minutes ago
Jobs, Economics Complicate Brazil’s Amazon Fight Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend. Bradley Brooks, AP NEWS - 31 minutes ago
Swiss: Polanski in Jail Until at Least Monday Roman Polanski will remain in a jail outside Zurich for at least three more days until he meets the security conditions of his bail, a Swiss official said Friday. Bradley S. Klapper, AP NEWS - 38 minutes ago
On Video: Ranger Beats Croc Attack In a “snap”shot of thinking on your feet, an Australian ranger at a Queensland sanctuary saves his colleague from being eaten for lunch by a 4-metre crocodile. Reuters Video, REUTERS NEWS VIDEO - 39 minutes ago
Sri Lanka’s Presidential Poll Set for Jan. 26 Sri Lankan elections officials said Friday that the nation would hold early presidential elections on Jan. 26 in what is expected to be a battle between two men revered for their efforts to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels. Bharatha Mallawarachi, AP NEWS - 40 minutes ago
Brazil: ‘Gringos’ Must Pay to Stop Amazon Razing Brazil’s president said that “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world’s largest tropical rain forest. Marco Sibaja, AP NEWS - 41 minutes ago