Over 100 people injured on 2nd anniversary of Egypt revolution

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PressTV - 1/25/13

Egyptian protesters clash with security forces near Liberation Square in Cairo on January 25, 2013.

Egyptian protesters clash with security forces near Liberation Square in Cairo on January 25, 2013.
 
At least 100 people have been injured in mass rallies marking the second anniversary of Egypt's revolution after clashes erupted between protesters and police in major cities.
 

Protesters set fire to the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in the northeastern city of Ismailia on Friday as Egyptians staged nationwide rallies against President Mohamed Morsi on the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

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S. Korea president's brother gets two-year jail term

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S. Korea president's brother gets two-year jail term

Lee Sang-Deuk, former six-term lawmaker with ruling Saenuri Party. ©REUTERS
 

A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the elder brother of President Lee Myung-Bak to two years in jail after convicting him on corruption charges, AFP reports.

The Seoul Central District Court also ordered Lee Sang-Deuk, 77, to pay fines totalling 750 million won ($701,600) -- the same sum he was found guilty of taking in kickbacks from bankers and a businessman.

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Vietnam: banker’s arrest puts Agribank in the spotlight

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beyondbrics Jan 24, 2013 7:30am by Jake Maxwell Watts

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By Jake Maxwell Watts and Nguyen Phuong Linh

Just when Vietnam’s weary investors were breathing a little easier amid improved economic data and an unexpected upturn in its stock markets, a long-simmering bank scandal burst back into the open with the arrest of another high-profile banker. Vietnam’s minister of public security announced on Wednesday that Pham Thanh Tan (pictured left), ex-chief of the state-owned Agribank, had been arrested for “irresponsibly causing serious consequences.”

Libor Suit List Shows Barclays Probe Spanned NY to Tokyo

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Bloomberg By Kit Chellel & Howard Mustoe - Jan 24, 2013 9:03 AM MT

Barclays Libor Suit List Shows Probe Spanned Diamond to Dearlove

Among those identified in connection with the case were former Chief Executive Officers Robert Diamond, seen above, and John Varley, and Jerry Del Missier, the bank’s former chief operating officer. Photographer: Paul Thomas/Bloomberg

 

Barclays Plc (BARC) senior executives, dozens of traders and the bank’s chief economist were all identified by regulators in a probe into interest-rate rigging that spanned continents, according to documents released in the U.K.’s first Libor-manipulation lawsuit.

Weather goes from bad to worse in Qld

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The Australian - 1/26/13, Kym Agius

Several mini-tornadoes have hit the Queensland coast. (AAP)

Several mini-tornadoes have hit the Queensland coast. (AAP)

EX-CYCLONE Oswald refused to budge from central Queensland and whipped up three mini-tornadoes that injured at least 17 people, damaged scores of homes and forced the evacuation of towns around Bundaberg on Australia Day.

To the north, floods in Gladstone led to the city being declared a disaster zone and was the biggest concern for authorities on Saturday evening.

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Mark And Cindy Hill, Powerball Winners, Use Jackpot To Help Town Of Camden Point (Video)

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Huffington Post Posted:   |  Updated: 01/24/2013 3:41 pm EST

Mark Cindy Hill

Last year, Mark and Cindy Hill made a pledge as they received their portion of the largest Powerball jackpot in history.

"For some reason, (God) put it in our hands, I think, to make sure that it goes to the right things," Hill said at a November press conference, standing near a $293,750,000 check.

Instead of living large, the Dearborn, Mo., couple will improve Mark's hometown of Camden Point. Tentatively, they'll help move the downtown firehouse to the site of the town's baseball field. To protect kids playing, the field will go further from the highway.

North American cold wave winds down; Atlantic storm stronger than Sandy winding up

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Wunderground.com - 1/25/13, Dr. Jeff Masters


Figure 1. A powerful extratropical storm with a central pressure of 984 mb begins to wind up about 500 miles east of Newfoundland, Canada, at 10 am EST January 25, 2013.

The January 2013 North American cold wave is winding down, after bringing five days of bitter cold to Canada and the Midwest and Northeast U.S. In the U.S., below-zero temperatures were recorded Friday morning in just six states east of the Rockies--half as many as on Thursday morning. The coldest spot was Saranac Lake in New York's Adirondack Mountains, which bottomed out at -18°F (-28°). In nearby Malone, NY, flooding is occurring, thanks to an ice jam on the Salmon River caused by this week's cold weather.

 

Court Rules Against Obama Recess Appointments

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Obama's appointments were ruled unconstitutional Friday. | AP Photo

 

President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said that Obama did not have the power to make three recess appointments last year to the National Labor Relations Board.

Snowstorm strands drivers as UK prepares for heavy rain

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The Guardian - 1/26/13, Staff and Agencies

Motorways in north of England come to standstill after heavy snowfall, but country told to expect flooding as rain moves in

A woman clears the snow in Tanfield, County Durham

A woman clears the snow in Tanfield, County Durham. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
 

Heavy snowstorms which left drivers stranded for hours on motorways in the north of England are expected to turn to rain on Saturday, raising fears of flooding.

The M6 motorway came to a standstill overnight in both directions between junctions 25 and 27 in Lancashire after a sudden fall of more than a foot of snow around 8.30pm, the Highways Agency said.

Sperm Whales Adopt Disabled Dolphin

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The Weather Channel Kevin Hayes Published: Jan 25, 2013, 9:00 AM EST

In an upcoming paper for the journal Aquatic Mammals, a pair of scientists detail a series of interactions between an adult bottlenose dolphin with scoliosis - "highly pronounced curvature of the spine " - and a group of sperm whales in the Azores. The scientists describe their research as the first time sperm whales have been observed interacting in a non-aggressive way with a member of a different species.

In other words: They repeatedly spotted a dolphin with a messed up back hanging out with a group of sperm whales.

The paper's authors, Alexander Wilson and Jens Krause, write that the whales treated the dolphin as a "conspecific" - a member of the same species -  "at times both permitting and initiating physical contact." They also say that the interactions went beyond "simple tolerance."

Winter Storm Khan Recap

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Weather.com - 1/26/13

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Knoxville, Tenn. An overturned fire engine rests alongside Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Slagle's cruiser after the vehicles slid off an icy road, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Slagle died at the scene of the wreck from what appears to be natural causes. (Associated Press)


Winter Storm Khan brought a swath of light snow from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic on January 25. In the South, freezing rain and sleet led to hundreds of accidents from southeastern Kentucky to eastern Tennessee, far northern Georgia, North Carolina and northern South Carolina.

Dangerous travel conditions will persist into Saturday morning for areas that have seen accumulations of ice, sleet and snow.
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Low Snowfall Raises Concerns about Drought Recovery

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Weather.com - 1/25/13, Daniel Yawitz

Current Snow Cover

Current Snow Cover

The total extent of the persistent national drought receded slightly during the past week, but in many places, conditions look no better now than they did when winter began. In particular, thin snow cover in some Western states is raising concerns that the drought’s impacts in some of the hardest-hit regions will only worsen when temperatures increase and evaporation rates rise in the spring.

Between January 15-22, the amount of land in the lower 48 states experiencing drought  conditions shrank slightly, from 58.87 percent to 57.64 percent, thanks largely to precipitation that brought relief to parts of the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeast. Some of that fell in the form of snow, particularly in parts of Virginia. This marked the 31st straight week in which more than half of the continental U.S. was considered under “moderate” drought conditions or worse by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

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