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Friday, April 26, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
BBC plans 'Tweet of the Day,' radio for birds
LONDON (AP) ? Remember when tweeting was for the birds?
The BBC is hoping to revive that simpler time with "Tweet of the Day" ? an early-morning radio program dedicated to British birdsong.
Veteran naturalist David Attenborough will host the 90-second show, which will feature the song of a different bird each weekday, along with background on the species' behavior and habits.
The show on the BBC's main speech station, Radio 4, may be best appreciated by those who rise with the birds. "Tweet of the Day" will be broadcast at 5:58 a.m.
The BBC said Wednesday that 265 different birds will be featured during the year-long series, which begins next month with a recording of the cuckoo. Attenborough will host for the first month, and be followed by other BBC presenters.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bbc-plans-tweet-day-radio-birds-112446764.html
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Pakistan police say explosives found near Musharraf house
By Mehreen Zahra-Malik
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police said on Tuesday they had defused 50 kg (110 lb) of explosives hidden in a car wired with remote-controlled detonators near the fortified farmhouse where former president Pervez Musharraf is under house arrest.
The discovery added a new sub-plot to the saga of Musharraf's deepening legal woes, which have transfixed Pakistanis unaccustomed to the sight of a once all-powerful military ruler submitting to the will of judges.
"When we checked the car we found explosives," police bomb squad constable Rehmat Ali told Reuters television. "When we unlocked one of the doors we saw a detonator cord."
Ali added that police had discovered several remote-controlled detonators rigged to the explosives, which they disarmed.
There was no immediate word from police on who they suspected might have planted the device.
Pakistan's Taliban movement, which threatened to kill Musharraf shortly before he returned to Pakistan last month after almost four years of self-imposed exile, denied any involvement in the incident.
"We would have sent suicide bombers," Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said.
MADE ENEMIES
Musharraf made many enemies during his stint in power, notably among militant groups who felt betrayed by his decision to align Pakistan with the United States following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Musharraf had hoped to relaunch his political career by running for a seat in the National Assembly at general elections on May 11, Pakistan's first transition between elected civilian-led governments.
Instead, election officials disqualified him from running and a court ordered he be placed under house arrest last week over allegations he unlawfully ordered the detention of judges during a showdown with the judiciary in 2007.
Police found the explosives several hours after Musharraf made his latest court appearance over separate allegations that he failed to provide adequate security to prevent the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistani television broadcast video showing scores of lawyers, who have not forgiven Musharraf for the crackdown he launched on the judiciary, scuffling with supporters of the ex-president after the hearing.
Police arrested Musharraf on Friday, treating Pakistanis to the rare spectacle of a former army commander being humbled by judges in a country where the military has ruled for more than half the years since Pakistan's creation in 1947.
Musharraf's office has dismissed the allegations against him as baseless and politically motivated.
Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999, resigned in 2008 and left Pakistan for residences in London and Dubai.
His legal troubles have provided a stark symbol of the changing balance of power in Pakistan, where the military still retains enormous behind-the-scenes influence but has retreated from the overt meddling and coups of the past.
(Reporting By Mehreen Zahra-Malik, additional reporting by Jibrin Ahmad; Editing by Michael Roddy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-police-explosives-found-near-musharraf-house-151900508.html
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Sprint delays Galaxy S 4 in-store launch due to inventory issues, online and phone sales aren't affected
After T-Mobile said yesterday that it won't be able to offer Samsung's Galaxy S 4 through its online store quite as soon as it expected, Sprint has today announced a similar delay. The carrier originally planned to have Sammy's latest flagship available through all retail channels this Saturday (April 27th), but "unexpected inventory challenges from Samsung" have meant that although online and phone-based sales will open on that date as planned, you won't be able to wander into a Sprint store and pick one up until those supply issues are solved. When that'll be is anyone's guess, but we imagine Sprint will get them into consumers' hands as soon as possible in the hope of improving its balance sheet. See Sprint's full statement after the break.
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Via: AllThingsD
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McGraw-Hill seeking dismissal of lawsuit over S&P
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The parent company of Standard & Poor's wants a federal judge to dismiss a U.S. government lawsuit that claims the ratings agency gave falsely high ratings to mortgage investments that helped trigger the financial crisis.
Attorneys for McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc. delivered their arguments in documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in California.
The motion asserts that the government's complaint against S&P is "a stretch," noting that other agencies issued ratings identical to S&P.
It also argues that the ratings firm's inability to predict the extent of the financial meltdown was a lack of prescience ? not fraud. It notes the crisis was something that the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury and Wall Street also failed to see coming.
The government filed the civil lawsuit against New York-based McGraw-Hill in February and aims to seek billions in damages.
The Justice Department claims S&P knowingly inflated its ratings because it wanted to earn more business from its lender clients whose investments it was hired to rate.
According to the lawsuit, S&P recognized in 2006 that home prices were sinking and that borrowers were having trouble repaying loans. Yet these facts weren't reflected in the safe ratings S&P gave to complex real-estate investments known as mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, the lawsuit alleges.
High ratings from S&P and the two other main credit rating agencies ? Fitch and Moody's ? made it possible for banks to sell trillions in risky investments. Some investors, including pension funds, can buy only securities that carry high credit ratings.
But in its filing Monday, McGraw-Hill argues that U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter should dismiss the case because the government failed to show S&P intended to defraud investors in CDOs.
In one example, the company contends that two of S&P's "supposed victims," Citibank and Bank of America, were creating and selling the CDOs that the S&P was rating.
"In other words, the complaint charges S&P with intending to defraud these financial institutions about the likely performance of their own products," the filing said.
McGraw-Hill also makes the point that it could not have been fraudulent for S&P to continue to rely on its ratings for residential mortgage-backed securities if the firm continued to update its ratings "in good faith."
The claim against S&P is the Obama administration's most aggressive action to date against those deemed responsible for contributing to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Its follows years of criticism that the government had failed to do enough.
Shares of McGraw-Hill ended regular trading up 15 cents at $52. The stock is down about 5 percent this year.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mcgraw-hill-seeking-dismissal-lawsuit-003531529.html
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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Afghanistan says negotiating release of helicopter hostages
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban may free a group of mainly Turkish hostages captured when their helicopter made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of eastern Afghanistan as early as Tuesday night, a provincial official said.
Negotiations between village leaders and the Taliban were underway, and that was leading to hopes they could be freed within hours, a spokesman for the governor of Logar province told Reuters.
"Tribal elders are playing an important role in this incident - they have already talked with the Taliban and we hope the hostages could be freed this evening," Din Mohammad Darwish said.
The eight Turkish engineers, an Afghan and two pilots from Russia and Kyrgyzstan were onboard a Russian Mi-8 helicopter when it made a "hard landing" in a remote part of Logar province due to bad weather on Sunday afternoon.
They were taken captive by the insurgency, which controls the area, according to officials and a Taliban spokesman.
A group of police were sent to Azra district to investigate on Monday but were fired upon by unknown men and had to leave, Rais Khan Sadiq, the deputy head of Logar police, said, adding that there is no NATO or Afghan army presence in the district.
Since being captured the eleven had been moved from Logar's conflict-riven Azra district to Hesarak district in neighboring Nangarhar province, Sadiq said.
No operation to rescue the hostages was being planned while the village elders negotiated with the Taliban, Sadiq said.
"We want to solve this problem with mediation of local elders. If we don't reach any conclusion then we will plan a military operation," he said.
He also denied a Taliban statement that the helicopter had been set fire by the insurgents, saying it had been seen by police and it was still intact.
The engineers from a Turkish construction company were returning to Kabul from the eastern border province of Khost, when the helicopter, owned by air charter company Khorasan Cargo Airlines, was forced to land.
Both the Russian and Turkish foreign ministries have confirmed they had citizens aboard the helicopter.
Helicopter crashes and "hard landings" happen relatively frequently in mountainous Afghanistan.
In August 2011, 30 U.S. special forces soldiers, seven Afghans and an interpreter were killed when a Chinook transport helicopter was shot down, the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in more than a decade of war.
Khorasan flies Russian Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters as well as fixed-wing aircraft in Afghanistan. They offer troops and cargo transportation as well as medivac and civilian transportation services.
(Reporting by Mirwais Harooni; Writing by Dylan Welch; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghanistan-says-negotiating-release-helicopter-hostages-084819236.html
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