An Arizona couple is crediting one of the victims in Saturday’s deadly shooting in Arizona for helping them turn their lives around. Dorwin Stoddard was one of the six people killed. (Jan. 10)
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Karachi, January 10: Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched in Pakistan’s largest city in opposition to any change to blasphemy laws and to praise the man charged with murdering the provincial governor who opposed the legislation. The rally of up to 50,000 people in downtown Karachi on Sunday was one of the largest demonstrations of support for the laws that make insulting Islam a capital offense. The march was organized before Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer was shot dead last week by a…
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Dozens gathered at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Tucson office Sunday night to remember the victims of Saturday’s shooting. Many lit candles and brought flowers to remember the 20 people shot. (Jan. 10)
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Daniel Hernandez, a young intern who recently began working for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), recounts Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, and his effort to aid her when she was gravely wounded. (Jan. 9)
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Winter weather moved across the South on Sunday, coating bridges and roads with snow, sleet and freezing rain and causing thousands of flight cancelations. (Jan. 9)
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We weren’t able to check out the customization features of XpanD’s latest active shutter LCD 3D glasses , but we did get to try them on at their booth for a moment. They’re markedly lighter than the company’s other 3D specs and the side pods for the battery and settings storage seem to do a decent job of blocking light from the sides. We’ll need to sit down for a few rounds of NBA 2K11 3D or Resident Evil: Afterlife to know how they hold up in real life but in the meantime check out the pics in the gallery. Gallery: Xpand Youniversal glasses XpanD Youniversal 3D glasses hand & face on originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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By Mike Thomson BBC News, Port-au-Prince About 180,000 homes in Haiti were completely destroyed by the earthquake Continue reading the main story Rebuilding Haiti Tense time Candidate profiles Charity worker’s diary Clinic on cholera front line One year on from the earthquake that devastated Haiti, the massive aid effort has yet to bring stability to the country as cholera, rape and despair take hold. Some $11bn (£7bn) worth of aid has been pledged to the country over the next 10 years, but much of that money has yet to arrive following concerns about government corruption and ongoing riots after November’s disputed election. In the centre of Port-au-Prince, the presidential palace still…
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Photo: US Forest Service While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest , and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic habitat for fish have become more popular in many lake areas across the United States…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The US government on Sunday charged a 22-year-old man with attempted assassination in the Arizona shooting rampage and doctors expressed optimism that wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords would recover. The shooting of Giffords and 19 other people – six of whom were killed – in Tucson on Saturday fueled debate about extreme political rhetoric in the United States after an acrimonious campaign for congressional elections in November. The US government charged Jared Lee Loughner with two counts of first degree murder, one count of attempted assassination of a member of Congress and two other counts of attempted murder. He was due to appear in court in Phoenix on Monday afternoon, the…
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TEHRAN, Iran-An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country’s northwest and broke into several pieces, killing 71 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. The pilots of the Boeing-727, operated by Iran’s national airline, attempted the emergency landing in the city of Orumiyeh after reporting a technical failure to the…
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