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Pumps to go to work on cruise ship in Italy

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST


ROME -- Nudged gently by the tides off Tuscany, the capsized Costa Concordia has been deemed stable enough on its rocky perch for salvagers to begin pumping fuel oil from its giant tanks as early as Tuesday.
The cruise liner, its hull gashed by a ...

Mexico authorities unravel child trafficking ring

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:09 PM PST


ZAPOPAN, Mexico -- Life seemed to give Karla Zepeda a break when a woman came to her dusty neighborhood of cinderblock homes and dirt roads looking for babies to photograph in an anti-abortion ad campaign.
The woman asked to use the 15-year-old's ...

RIM CEO says no big changes in store for BlackBerry

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:06 PM PST


TORONTO -- The new chief executive of Research in Motion said Monday that drastic change is not needed, even as the once iconic maker of the BlackBerry smartphone confronts the most difficult period in its history.
The Canadian company turned the ...

Woman makes history with icy trek across Antarctica

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST


BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- British adventurer Felicity Aston became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica on Monday, hauling two sledges around crevasses and over mountains into endless headwinds, past the South Pole and onward to the coas ...

EU sanctions prompt renewed threats in Iran

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST


TEHRAN, Iran -- Senior Iranian lawmakers stepped up threats Monday that Islamic Republic warships could block the Persian Gulf's oil tanker traffic after the latest blow by Western leaders seeking to rein in Tehran's nuclear program: A punishing oi ...

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