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2012-02-02 07:40	Reuters UK	FTSE falls as M&A boosts miners but knocks oils
2012-02-02 07:40	Reuters UK	Germany's Merkel urges China to use influence on Iran
2012-02-02 07:32	AP Top News	Pa. groundhog 'predicts' 6 more weeks of winter Pa. groundhog 'predicts' 6 more weeks of winterPUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's famous groundhog Punxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW'-nee) Phil has emerged from his lair and saw his shadow, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter. But, at this rate, that might not be so bad....
2012-02-02 07:30	Reuters UK	Analysis: Facebook's daunting Asian challenge
2012-02-02 07:22	AP Top News	Serbia: 11,000 trapped in remote villages by snow BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia's mountains, authorities announced Thursday, as the death toll from Eastern Europe's weeklong deep freeze rose to 114. Those stranded live in some 6,500 homes in remote areas that cannot be reach due to icy, snow-clogged roads, emergency police official Predrag Maric said. Emergency crews were pressing hard to try to clear the snow and deliver badly needed supplies....
2012-02-02 07:00	Reuters UK	China's Wen - May become more involved in EU rescue
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	Facebook surrenders its privacy in IPO documents SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook is baring its business soul. The unveiling came late Wednesday when the company that depends on people to share their lives online filed its plans to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock. It's a revelatory moment that prospective investors, curious competitors and nosy reporters have been awaiting for two years. During that time, Facebook established itself as a communications hub and emerged as a threat to the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	AP Exclusive: US No-Fly list doubles in 1 year AP Exclusive: US No-Fly list doubles in 1 yearWASHINGTON (AP) - Even as the Obama administration says it's close to defeating al-Qaida, the size of the government's secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States has more than doubled in the past year, The Associated Press has learned. The no-fly list jumped from about 10,000 known or suspected terrorists one year ago to about 21,000, according to government figures provided to the AP. Most people on the list are from other countries; about 500 are Americans....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	Egypt's army, police blamed for deadly soccer riot CAIRO (AP) - Scores of Egyptian soccer fans were crushed to death while others were fatally stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones, in the country's worst ever soccer violence that killed at least 74 people, witnesses and health officials said Thursday. The tragedy Wednesday evening - which followed an Egyptian league match between Al-Masry, the home team in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, and Al-Ahly, based in Cairo and one of Egypt's most popular teams - was a bloody reminder of deteriorating security in the Arab world's most populous country, as instability continues nearly a year after former President Hosni Mubarak was swept out of power in a popular uprising....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	Romney stock trades clash with divestment pledge WASHINGTON (AP) - During his presidential campaign in 2007, Republican candidate Mitt Romney promised that a trust overseeing his financial portfolio would shed any investments that conflicted with GOP positions toward Iran, China, stem cell research and other issues. But Romney's family trusts kept some of those stocks and repeatedly bought new investments in similar holdings as recently as 2010, when they were sold in advance of his latest White House campaign, a detailed review of Romney's financial records by The Associated Press shows. Recently disclosed 2010 tax returns for three family trust funds for Romney, his wife, Ann, and their adult children show scores of trades in such investments, worth more than $3 million when the holdings were all sold in 2010....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	'They use you up': Hall of Famer Dorsett suing NFL The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career. "It was like a freight train hitting a Volkswagen," Dorsett says now....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	Turkey and Hamas grow close Turkey and Hamas grow closeISTANBUL (AP) - Ties between Turkey, NATO's biggest Muslim member, and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that says Israel should not exist, are blossoming. Last month, the Hamas premier visited the Turkish prime minister at his Istanbul home. Today, Turkish and Palestinian flags fly side by side at a building site in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	Justice, House GOP tangle over access to documents Justice, House GOP tangle over access to documentsWASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department and Republicans on a House committee looking into a flawed gun smuggling probe called Operation Fast and Furious appear to be headed for an impasse over congressional demands for internal Justice documents. The dispute is expected to be a prime topic at a congressional hearing Thursday, when Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before a panel whose chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has alleged that the Justice Department is engaging in a cover-up....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	New debate: When is medical marijuana "usable?" ROGUE RIVER, Ore. (AP) - When police knocked on Josh Brewer's door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation's most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test. Officers were fine with the two pounds 10 ounces he and a cousin had grown, harvested, and processed. That was under the pound and a half each allowed by law. And they didn't care about the 12 plants - six each - growing in the backyard. Also legal....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	'Soul Train' host Don Cornelius dead of suicide LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Soul Train" host Don Cornelius was the arbiter of cool, a brilliant TV showman who used his purring, baritone voice to seduce mainstream America into embracing black music and artists. But the "love, peace, and SOUL!" he wished viewers as he closed each show for decades escaped him as his life descended into marital trouble, illness and, finally, a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday....
2012-02-02 06:52	AP Top News	Ali's legendary trainer Angelo Dundee dies at 90 There was no way Angelo Dundee was going to miss Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday party. The genial trainer got to see his old friend, and reminisce about good times. It was almost as if they were together in their prime again, and what a time that was....
2012-02-02 05:57	AP Top News	Facebook surrenders its privacy in IPO documents SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook is baring its business soul. The unveiling came late Wednesday when the company that depends on people to share their lives online filed its plans to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock. It's a revelatory moment that prospective investors, curious competitors and nosy reporters have been awaiting for two years. During that time, Facebook established itself as a communications hub and emerged as a threat to the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc....
2012-02-02 05:57	AP Top News	Egypt's army, police blamed for deadly soccer riot CAIRO (AP) - Witnesses say scores of Egyptian soccer fans were stabbed to death while many others suffocated, trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones in the country's worst ever soccer violence that killed at least 74 people. The tragedy Wednesday evening - which followed an Egyptian league match between Al-Masry, the home team in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, and Al-Ahly, based in Cairo and one of Egypt's most popular teams - was a bloody reminder of the deteriorating security in the Arab world's most populous country, as instability continues nearly a year after former President Hosni Mubarak was swept out of power in a popular uprising....
2012-02-02 05:57	AP Top News	New debate: When is medical marijuana "usable?" New debate: When is medical marijuana "usable?"ROGUE RIVER, Ore. (AP) - When police knocked on Josh Brewer's door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation's most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test. Officers were fine with the two pounds 10 ounces he and a cousin had grown, harvested, and processed. That was under the pound and a half each allowed by law. And they didn't care about the 12 plants - six each - growing in the backyard. Also legal....
2012-02-02 05:55	Reuters UK	Glencore CEO dodges question on Xstrata merger
2012-02-02 05:55	Reuters UK	Over 40 interested in Petroplus Coryton - PwC
2012-02-02 05:30	Reuters UK	European shares flat as outlooks offset merger
2012-02-02 05:15	Reuters UK	U.S. stock index futures point to flat start
2012-02-02 05:15	Reuters UK	Exclusive: Indonesia to set up $5.6 billion plantation firm
2012-02-02 05:00	Reuters UK	Wall Street cash flows to Romney over Obama
2012-02-02 05:00	Reuters UK	Texas magnate spreads the love among Republicans
2012-02-02 04:45	Reuters UK	Insight - Inside Rupert Murdoch's newspaper clean-up operation
2012-02-02 04:45	Reuters UK	Construction firms more upbeat despite slower growth - PMI
2012-02-02 04:42	AP Top News	Report: Complaints about teacher made years ago LOS ANGELES (AP) - School officials questioned how an elementary school teacher suspected of taking bizarre bondage-style photographs of children in his class went undetected for years as new allegations of past and potentially inappropriate behavior by Mark Berndt surfaced. Berndt remained jailed on $23 million bail after his first court appearance Wednesday on felony charges that he committed lewd acts on 23 boys and girls, ages 6 to 10, between 2005 and 2010. The alleged acts occurred at Miramonte Elementary School where he taught for more than 30 years. He could face multiple life sentences if convicted....
2012-02-02 04:40	Reuters UK	Analyst views
2012-02-02 04:32	AP Top News	Facebook surrenders its privacy in IPO documents Facebook surrenders its privacy in IPO documentsSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook is baring its business soul. The unveiling came late Wednesday when the company that depends on people to share their lives online filed its plans to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock. It's a revelatory moment that prospective investors, curious competitors and nosy reporters have been awaiting for two years. During that time, Facebook established itself as a communications hub and emerged as a threat to the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc....
2012-02-02 04:32	AP Top News	Egypt's army, police blamed for deadly soccer riot CAIRO (AP) - Witnesses say scores of Egyptian soccer fans were stabbed to death while many others suffocated, trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones in the country's worst ever soccer violence that killed at least 74 people. The tragedy Wednesday evening - which followed an Egyptian league match between Al-Masry, the home team in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, and Al-Ahly, based in Cairo and one of Egypt's most popular teams - was a bloody reminder of the deteriorating security in the Arab world's most populous country, as instability continues nearly a year after former President Hosni Mubarak was swept out of power in a popular uprising....
2012-02-02 04:32	AP Top News	Romney stock trades clash with divestment pledge WASHINGTON (AP) - During his presidential campaign in 2007, Republican candidate Mitt Romney promised that a trust overseeing his financial portfolio would shed any investments that conflicted with GOP positions toward Iran, China, stem cell research and other issues. But Romney's family trusts kept some of those stocks and repeatedly bought new investments in similar holdings as recently as 2010, when they were sold in advance of his latest White House campaign, a detailed review of Romney's financial records by The Associated Press shows. Recently disclosed 2010 tax returns for three family trust funds for Romney, his wife, Ann, and their adult children show scores of trades in such investments, worth more than $3 million when the holdings were all sold in 2010....
2012-02-02 04:32	AP Top News	'They use you up': Hall of Famer Dorsett suing NFL The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career. "It was like a freight train hitting a Volkswagen," Dorsett says now....
2012-02-02 04:32	AP Top News	Turkey and Hamas grow close Turkey and Hamas grow closeISTANBUL (AP) - Ties between Turkey, NATO's biggest Muslim member, and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that says Israel should not exist, are blossoming. Last month, the Hamas premier visited the Turkish prime minister at his Istanbul home. Today, Turkish and Palestinian flags fly side by side at a building site in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip....
2012-02-02 04:32	AP Top News	Justice, House GOP tangle over access to documents Justice, House GOP tangle over access to documentsWASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department and Republicans on a House committee looking into a flawed gun smuggling probe called Operation Fast and Furious appear to be headed for an impasse over congressional demands for internal Justice documents. The dispute is expected to be a prime topic at a congressional hearing Thursday, when Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before a panel whose chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has alleged that the Justice Department is engaging in a cover-up....
2012-02-02 04:32	AP Top News	New debate: When is medical marijuana "usable?" New debate: When is medical marijuana "usable?"ROGUE RIVER, Ore. (AP) - When police knocked on Josh Brewer's door to check for marijuana, even one of the nation's most liberal medical marijuana laws was put to the test. Officers were fine with the two pounds 10 ounces he and a cousin had grown, harvested, and processed. That was under the pound and a half each allowed by law. And they didn't care about the 12 plants - six each - growing in the backyard. Also legal....
2012-02-02 04:32	AP Top News	'Soul Train' host Don Cornelius dead of suicide LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Soul Train" host Don Cornelius was the arbiter of cool, a brilliant TV showman who used his purring, baritone voice to seduce mainstream America into embracing black music and artists. But the "love, peace, and SOUL!" he wished viewers as he closed each show for decades escaped him as his life descended into marital trouble, illness and, finally, a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday....
2012-02-02 04:30	Reuters UK	Results dent FTSE as miners rise on M&A boost
2012-02-02 04:30	Reuters UK	North Korea challenges Seoul to Q+A over dialogue
2012-02-02 04:25	Reuters UK	Deutsche Bank Q4 pretax wiped out by debt crisis
2012-02-02 04:25	Reuters UK	Taliban "poised to retake Afghanistan" after NATO pullout
2012-02-02 04:20	Reuters UK	European shares turn negative; Unilever falls
2012-02-02 04:15	Reuters UK	CORRECTED-RBS makes cuts in DCM/sales/trading teams
2012-02-02 04:15	Reuters UK	Hong Kong, Shanghai shares jump 2 percent; banks lead rally
2012-02-02 03:55	Reuters UK	Xstrata 2011 coal production up but copper dips
2012-02-02 03:55	Reuters UK	Glencore offers 17 pcercent pay hike to Zambia miners
2012-02-02 03:55	Reuters UK	Exclusive: JP Morgan adds muscle to metal warehousing money
2012-02-02 03:55	Reuters UK	GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares firm, debt auctions eyed
2012-02-02 03:42	AP Top News	Ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea with 350 aboard Ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea with 350 aboardPORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) - Rescuers have plucked more than 200 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and eight ships were scouring the search area after the MV Rabaul Queen went down around dawn while traveling from Kimbe on the island of New Britain to the coastal city of Lae on the main island, Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement....


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