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French navy trails yacht seized by pirates

Reuters - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

PARIS (Reuters) - The French navy continued to trail a luxury yacht off the Somali coast on Sunday, two days after pirates stormed the boat and took its 30 crew hostage, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said.

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  1. Actor Charlton Heston is shown in this August 1993 photo. Heston, 
who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing 'Ben-Hur' and 
portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie 
epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. (AP Photo/Wyatt Counts,
 FILE)
    Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84 AP - 5 minutes ago Sent 1,985 times

    LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, the Oscar winner who portrayed Moses and other heroic figures on film in the '50s and '60s and later championed conservative values as head of the National Rifle Association, has died. He was 84.

  2. Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry LiveScience.com - Sun Apr 6, 10:05 AM ET Sent 1,321 times

    This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

  3. Kwame, an eight-year-old western lowland gorilla, rests in the 
indoor exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington on 
Tuesday, April 1, 2008. Kwame is taking part in a program studying heart
 disease in great apes. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    Deadly ape heart disease puzzles zoos AP - Sat Apr 5, 2:23 PM ET Sent 242 times

    Mopie looked the picture of ape fitness: His shoulders were broad and imposing, his silver-haired back sculpted and muscular, his biceps bulging as wide as a wrestler's thighs when he scratched his head.

  4. Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Daniel Akaka, 
D-Hawaii takes part in a hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill in 
Washington in this Oct. 17, 2007 file photo. Veterans Affairs employees 
last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government 
credit-card bills at casino and luxury hotels, movie theaters and 
high-end retailers such as The Sharper Image and Franklin Covey - and 
government auditors are investigating, citing past spending abuses. (AP 
Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
    Investigators review VA credit charges AP - 52 minutes ago Sent 202 times

    WASHINGTON - Veterans Affairs employees last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino and luxury hotels, movie theaters and high-end retailers such as Sharper Image and Franklin Covey — and government auditors are investigating, citing past spending abuses.

  5. Volkswagen recalls 410,000 Passats AP - Sat Apr 5, 3:40 PM ET Sent 161 times

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Volkswagen Group of America Inc. says it's voluntarily recalling about 410,000 gasoline powered Passats because of potential problems including damage to a heat shield.

  6. Men Create More Housework for Women LiveScience.com - Fri Apr 4, 11:05 AM ET Sent 133 times

    Having a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, tying the knot saves an hour of weekly chores.

  7. French navy trails yacht seized by pirates Reuters - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago Sent 109 times

    PARIS (Reuters) - The French navy continued to trail a luxury yacht off the Somali coast on Sunday, two days after pirates stormed the boat and took its 30 crew hostage, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said.

  8. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President George
 Bush  meeting  at Bocharov Ruchei, the presidential vacation residence 
in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Russia, Sunday, April 6, 2008. 
With time running out on an often testy seven-year relationship, U.S. 
President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are taking
 on a lot of unfinished business in their final leader-to-leader 
meetings Sunday. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Presidential Press Service, 
Vladimir Rodionov)
    US, Russia disagree on missile defense AP - 1 hour, 40 minutes ago Sent 79 times

    SOCHI, Russia - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing their seven-year relationship Sunday still far apart on an issue that has separated them from the beginning.

  9. This image released by Northwestern University shows Northwestern 
University finance professor Camelia M. Kuhnen, co-author of a study 
that looks at what's going on inside a man's mind when he is about to 
take a financial risk. (AP Photo/Evanston Photographic Studios)
    Sex and financial risk linked in brain AP - Sat Apr 5, 4:22 AM ET Sent 77 times

    WASHINGTON - A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles — sex. When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported.

  10. 2 arrested with infrared cameras at LAX AP - Sat Apr 5, 3:16 PM ET Sent 60 times

    LOS ANGELES - Two men attempting to board a plane to China with nearly a dozen sensitive infrared cameras in their luggage were arrested on Saturday, a federal official said.

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  1. National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston waves a 
Winchester 1866 lever-action rifle during the NRA's Annual convention in
 Orlando, Florida in this April 26, 2003 file photo. Heston passed away 
at the age of 84, his family said on April 5, 2008. (Shannon 
Stapleton/Files/Reuters)
    Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84 AP - 5 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, the Oscar winner who portrayed Moses and other heroic figures on film in the '50s and '60s and later championed conservative values as head of the National Rifle Association, has died. He was 84.

  2. French navy trails yacht seized by pirates Reuters - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

    PARIS (Reuters) - The French navy continued to trail a luxury yacht off the Somali coast on Sunday, two days after pirates stormed the boat and took its 30 crew hostage, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said.

  3. University of Scranton student Alyssa Beasley, 20, poses at the 
campus, Tuesday, March 18, 2008, in Scranton, Pa.  Along with 
out-of-state students registering in Pennsylvania, many in-state 
students registered to vote for the first time. Democratic presidential 
hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is the reason, say many of the 
students like Beasley, who changed her driver's license from New Jersey 
to Pennsylvania before the March 24 voter registration deadline so she 
could do so when she obtained her new license.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce 
Ceneta)
    Pitched contest for Pa. youth vote AP - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

    PHILADELPHIA - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are hustling for the youth vote in Pennsylvania as if they've never heard this is a state where the old hold sway.

  4. Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on, as U.S. President 
George Bush speaks, during their joint press conference, in Sochi, 
Russia, Sunday, April 6, 2008. With time running out on an often testy 
seven-year relationship, U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian 
President Vladimir Putin are taking on a lot of unfinished business in 
their final leader-to-leader meetings Sunday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
    US, Russia disagree on missile defense AP - 1 hour, 40 minutes ago

    SOCHI, Russia - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing their seven-year relationship Sunday still far apart on an issue that has separated them from the beginning.

  5. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow arrives for a party at Jay-Z's apartment 
building, Friday, April 4, 2008 in New York. There was speculation that 
Jay-Z married his longtime girlfriend Beyonce Knowles on Friday in 
Manhattan. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
    Looks like Jay-Z and Beyonce are married AP - Sat Apr 5, 8:12 PM ET

    NEW YORK - It appears that Jay-Z and Beyonce have finally tied the knot.

  6. 2 arrested with infrared cameras at LAX AP - Sat Apr 5, 3:16 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES - Two men attempting to board a plane to China with nearly a dozen sensitive infrared cameras in their luggage were arrested on Saturday, a federal official said.

  7. Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry LiveScience.com - Sun Apr 6, 10:05 AM ET

    This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

  8. Officials escort two buses Friday April 4, 2008 from the retreat 
built by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
 located near El Dorado, Texas. Child welfare officials and state 
troopers removed at least one busload of children from the secretive 
West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs 
following a complaint to state authorities.  (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
    Cops peacefully enter polygamist temple AP - 20 minutes ago

    ELDORADO, Texas - Law enforcement agents entered an enormous temple on the grounds of a polygamist compound, but by Sunday morning they still had not found a 16-year-old girl whose initial report of abuse led to the raid.

  9. Badriya Hameed,  a 45-year-old Shiite Kurdish cleaning woman sits 
with two of her 10 children, eleven years old  Ramlah Fadhil and two 
year old  Roa'a Fadhil, at her home in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, 
February 27, 2008. Badriya was forced to flee her predominantly Sunni 
neighborhood after her husband was killed on May 23, 2007. (AP 
Photo/Karim Kadim)
    Iraqi widows, orphans left stranded AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - The car exploded near a popular ice cream parlor, sending flames and shrapnel through the busy square and killing 17 people.

  10. Investigators review VA credit charges AP - 52 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Veterans Affairs employees last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino and luxury hotels, movie theaters and high-end retailers such as Sharper Image and Franklin Covey — and government auditors are investigating, citing past spending abuses.

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  1. Iraqi squaters living beside the ruins of the former Iraqi Air 
Force command building in Baghdad. Fierce clashes between Shiite gunmen 
and US forces in the Iraqi capital's Sadr City district have killed at 
least 20 people amid calls from Iraqi leaders for all militias to be 
disbanded.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
    Clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City leave 20 dead AFP - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.9

    BAGHDAD (AFP) - Fierce clashes between Shiite gunmen and US forces in the Iraqi capital's Sadr City district killed at least 20 people on Sunday, amid calls from Iraqi leaders for all militias to be disbanded.

  2. Boston rest 'Big Three', wrap up NBA's best record Reuters - 25 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.9

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Boston Celtics played without their "Big Three" on Saturday but still clinched the NBA's best regular season record with an easy 101-78 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats.

  3. Typo or trick? Myanmar's missing words reveal all Reuters - Sat Apr 5, 10:43 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.8

    YANGON (Reuters) - In Myanmar, the devil really is in the detail.

  4. Robert Green Sr. cycles past vacant lots near the site where the 
levee was breached during Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward of 
New Orleans, Louisiana, August 26, 2007. (Lee Celano/Reuters)
    Hurricane price tags soaring on crowded U.S. coast Reuters - Sun Apr 6, 8:17 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.8

    MIAMI (Reuters) - The damage caused to U.S. coastal cities by hurricanes promises to rise into the stratosphere, raising concerns about a possible $500 billion storm and prompting calls for tougher building codes.

  5. Iraqi soldiers from the 6th Iraqi Army Division stand guard on a 
road in Baghdad April 5, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)
    Officials confirm Iran's role in truce AP - Sat Apr 5, 3:23 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    TEHRAN, Iran - Officials in Iran confirmed for the first time Saturday that the country played an important role in brokering a recent truce between the Iraqi government and anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

  6. US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, seen here on April 4, 2008, 
on Saturday held talks with Oman's Sultan Qaboos, the ruler of the key 
Gulf Arab state which faces Iran across the strategic Strait of 
Hormuz.(AFP/POOL/File/Ludovic Marin)
    Iran rejects nuclear incentives AP - Sat Apr 5, 6:17 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran rejected recent European overtures to halt its uranium enrichment program in return for incentives and vowed Saturday to continue to expand its nuclear program.

  7. ADVANCE FOR APRIL 7; map locates Vientiane, Laos, where there are 
plans to build a city nearby
    Laos fears China's footprint AP - 58 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.6

    VIENTIANE, Laos - A high-rise Chinatown that is to go up by Laos' laid-back capital has ignited fears that this nation's giant northern neighbor is moving to engulf this nation.

  8. A man grieves near the body of a relative who was killed in a bomb
 attack, in a hospital morgue in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of 
Baghdad April 6, 2008. One person was killed while others were wounded 
in a roadside bomb attack in Baquba on Sunday, police said. 
(Stringer/Reuters)
    Fighting erupts in Baghdad after week of calm Reuters - 10 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.5

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops backed by U.S. forces battled gunmen in Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday in the heaviest fighting in the capital since Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled his militiamen off the streets a week ago.

  9. Iraqi widows, orphans left stranded AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.5

    BAGHDAD - The car exploded near a popular ice cream parlor, sending flames and shrapnel through the busy square and killing 17 people.

  10. Police set up a road block near a bushfire south of Sydney. 
Climate change is likely to lead to higher rates of some infectious and 
respiratory diseases as well as more injuries from storms and bushfires,
 a report by Australian doctors have warned.(AFP/File/David Hancock)
    Aussie medics warn on health impact of climate change AFP - Sun Apr 6, 7:24 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Climate change is likely to lead to higher rates of some infectious and respiratory diseases as well as more injuries from storms and bushfires, a report by Australian doctors warned Sunday.


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