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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Florida Statesman.com http://www.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c08dd24cec417021/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:16:12 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:16:12 -0500 30 Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241418/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:39:52 -0500 Florida Statesman.com http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241418/cs/1/ Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241416/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:15:39 -0500 Florida Statesman.com http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241416/cs/1/ A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241417/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:26:48 -0500 Florida Statesman.com http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241417/cs/1/ Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241420/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:59:10 -0500 Florida Statesman.com http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241420/cs/1/ Leaders of the Roman Catholic church in Rome are gathering to attend a conference on sexual abuse of minors within the Church. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241419/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:46:50 -0500 Florida Statesman.com http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241419/cs/1/ Voting is underway in the western U.S. state of Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, with members of the party choosing the candidate they want to see take on President Barack Obama in November. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238472/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:15:16 -0500 VoA - News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238472/cs/1/ A private in the U.S. Army is to face a court martial after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227892/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:42:46 -0500 Florida Statesman.com http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203227892/cs/1/ In the worst violence of the near year-long crackdown by government forces, Syrian security forces have launched a massive attack on the people of Homs. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203229367/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:09:53 -0500 Florida Statesman.com http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203229367/cs/1/ CAIRO - An Egyptian government building was set on fire on Sunday as protests disrupted the heart of Cairo for a fourth day and public figures demanded a faster transition to civilian rule.It was ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241438/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:04:55 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241438/ twin babies on suspicion of abuse on Saturday night.The woman, who denies any wrong doing, failed a lie detector test last week, while she was under house ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241437/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:04:52 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241437/ Most of the wolf scenes in The Grey were shot using special effects, but Peta claims the film’s director Joe Carnahan ordered wolf carcasses from a trapper and that the animals would have ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241439/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:57:02 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241439/ He was judged a security risk after his arrest by Scotland Yard counter-terrorism detectives in 2007, and the airline decided it was in the national interest to ensure he never flew ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241441/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:56:41 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241441/ But Professor Mark Tester and a group of Australian scientists have created a special formula which can be used on plants and flowers, making them glow in the ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241442/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:56:32 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241442/ The rift in the Liberal Democrats over the prosecution of former Energy Secretary Chris Huhne was laid bare last night as his ex-wife Vicky Pryce welcomed ‘Camp Vicky’ guests to a party ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241443/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:56:24 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241443/ The wife of bestselling author Nicholas Evans to is to receive a kidney from an anonymous donor, more than three years after a poisonous wild mushroom almost killed ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241445/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:56:09 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241445/ CAIRO, Egypt: Saboteurs on Sunday blew up a pipeline that supplies gas to Israel, the 12th such attack in a year, security officials said.Masked gunmen planted explosives under the pipeline in the ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241434/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:54:43 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241434/ Foreign Secretary William Hague joined international condemnation of their stance amid protests at Syrian embassies around the world that led to six arrests in London. Anger was fuelled by a ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241426/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:45:41 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241426/ 1 of 2. Micron Technology Inc. COO Mark Durcan listens to a question during the Reuters Technology Summit in San Francisco, California May 17, ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241427/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:32:04 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241427/ Greece on Saturday warned it had just one day left to clinch the bailout plan with political leaders and impatient lenders who accuse it of dragging its feet on promised ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241429/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:31:54 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241429/ (Reuters) - Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241446/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:30:52 -0500 IBTimes http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241446/ (CBS News) The one sector that lost jobs last month was the public sector. Federal, state and local governments shed 14,000 last month, and 280,000 jobs in 2011 as they tried to make up for massive ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241431/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:27:53 -0500 CBS News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241431/ Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers runs from New York Giants linebacker Jacquian Williams, right, during the first the first half of an NFL divisional playoffs, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241432/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:27:46 -0500 CBS News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241432/ (CBS News) The Grammy Awards are due to be handed out next Sunday, February 12. Among the nominees for best large jazz ensemble album is Arturo O'Farrill. As CBS News correspondent Michelle ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241433/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:27:41 -0500 CBS News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241433/ A small plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff Saturday in an eastern Arizona mountain community, killing a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and seriously ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241430/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:05:35 -0500 Boston Globe http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241430/ LAS VEGAS - Mitt Romney handily won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, solidifying his front-runner's status and giving him the all-important political fuel of momentum as he seeks to use the month of ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241435/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:42:51 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203241435/ The Jerusalem Post has learned.The Defense Ministry initiated talks with Germany last year about buying a sixth submarine but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government initially balked when Israel ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239938/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:12:35 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239938/ The BBC's new documentary series, Putin, Russia & The West, was more than two years in the making – much of it spent trying to persuade senior Russian politicians to take ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239936/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:12:31 -0500 The Herald http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239936/ Russia and China's veto at the UN Security Council blocking a resolution condemning Syrian President Bashar Assad reaffirms Israel's belief that the UN cannot be relied on to prevent war ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239941/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:12:27 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239941/ Drivers beware. Dozens of traffic enforcement cameras situated at accident-prone roads and junctions are due to be switched on Sunday.Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch approved the final ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239940/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:12:23 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239940/ PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday France was consulting with Arab and European countries to create a contact group on Syria to find a solution to its crisis ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239939/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:12:21 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239939/ Two other Polish men left the house next door recently after squatting there for a fortnight. They were also thought to have been doing cash-in-hand building work in the ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239946/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:07:07 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239946/ Princess Michael of Kent has been told to drop plans for a three-day celebration to mark her husband’s 70th birthday after they were deemed too ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239947/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:07:00 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239947/ And some are simply impossible - such as the quarter of Britons who have claimed to have visited ancient Wonders of the World which have not existed for hundreds of ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239948/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:06:51 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239948/ Millions of workers at Britain’s recession-hit companies are being urged to stay at home during the Olympics after organisers warned of hour-long queues at Tube ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239949/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:06:44 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239949/ The pilot prince has been branded a 'pirate prince' by protestors - but William would have been concentrating on closer-to-hand issues as he prepared for his first ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239951/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:06:18 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239951/ Protesters gathered following reports that more than 200 people had been massacred in Syria when government forces shelled civilians in a rebel ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239952/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:06:10 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239952/ With her tousled blonde hair, bronzed limbs and radiant smile, Made In Chelsea star Francesca ‘Cheska’ Hull must have been exactly the sort of girl the producers had in mind when they ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239953/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:06:02 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239953/ Thousands of NHS patients could be secretly monitored by the Government for symptoms of the human form of mad cow disease amid concerns that there could be another wave of ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239954/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:53 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239954/ But Uggie, the irresistible Jack Russell star of the hit silent film The Artist, is suffering from a debilitating illness that has cut short his ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239955/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:45 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239955/ The Foreign Office experts raise fears that a fully-fledged international border would be necessary because Scotland could be required to join the ‘Schengen’ open-borders system used by ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239956/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:37 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239956/ Calls to scrap curbs on smacking have overwhelming public support – and parents believe such a move would help prevent a repeat of last summer’s ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239957/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:28 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239957/ The Post Office wrongly suspected some of its own staff of being involved in the Great Train Robbery – because they shared the same surname as ‘the bandit’ Ronnie Biggs or they had ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239958/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:20 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239958/ He also had to live in the wild with no tent as part of the tough SERE course – meaning Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract – ahead of his return to the front ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239959/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:13 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239959/ He may have triumphed over the world’s greatest criminal masterminds, but in his early days James Bond suffered countless defeats at the hands of Britain’s film ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239960/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:05 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239960/ Couples have a greater risk of having a child with autism if either the father or the mother is over the age of 35, according to a major international ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239961/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:57 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239961/ The Queens Park Rangers captain gave a robust view of the incident that led to Terry being accused of using racist language against Barton’s team-mate Anton Ferdinand last ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239962/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:50 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239962/ He was among more than 4,500 passengers on board Allure of the Seas as it sailed from Florida to an island south of Cancun on a gay and lesbian-themed seven-day ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239963/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:43 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239963/ The raft of fees means a windfall for everyone involved in the complex chain of charges - except ordinary policyholders who are left to pick up the ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239964/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:35 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239964/ The crackdown comes as an investigation by this newspaper revealed there are an astonishing 5,399 claims-management companies (CMCs), which refer car-crash victims to no-win, no-fee law firms in ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239966/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:22 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239966/ After the tragedy has come the quiet heroism of the Italian rescue teams. Live was given exclusive access to the divers and sappers who are searching for bodies in a half-submerged hulk they know ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239968/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:17 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239968/ The bronze plaques are mounted on the cloister wall of School Yard, right at the heart of Eton College. On them are engraved the names of all the school’s old boys, many hundreds of them, who ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239967/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:11 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239967/ This is the home in which Britain’s first serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton, claimed her final victim. It is the house in which she was arrested and then taken away to be incarcerated, before ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239969/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:04:05 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239969/ Teenagers Amber Henry and Kirsten Kamradt were discovered by U.S. marshals and FBI agents after they were forced across state lines by the 19-year-old ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239970/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:03:58 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239970/ Iran has vowed to cut oil exports to some European countries in retaliation over the bloc's recent decision to ban oil imports from the Islamic Republic. It has not named the countries which ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239971/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:03:02 -0500 Daily Mail http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239971/ WASHINGTON: Police moved in Saturday to clear the Washington offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, arresting at least seven protesters in a sometimes chaotic day-long raid on the tent colony near the ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239932/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:01:58 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239932/ SEATTLE - This is the University of Washington's new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239935/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:58 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239935/ Tens of thousands of Muscovites endured icy temperatures of around minus 20 degrees to attend a protest march against Vladimir Putin ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239906/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:40 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239906/ Mitt Romney, who won a signal victory in the Florida primary on Tuesday, was poised to double up with a thumping victory in yesterday's Nevada caucus. The win can, in the argot of local ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239907/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:35 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239907/ Known for his commentary on international relations and US politics, Rupert Cornwell also contributes obituaries and occasionally even a column for the sports pages. With The Independent since its ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239908/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:30 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239908/ Drivers were warned to take extra care and planes were grounded, including at London Heathrow where one-in-three flights scheduled for today are expected to be cancelled. A host of sporting fixtures ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239909/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:23 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239909/ The United States' announcement that it plans to end the combat role of its troops in Afghanistan earlier than expected, and before the end of next year, is a crucial milestone in the ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239910/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:18 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239910/ Tens of thousands of Russians yesterday braved freezing conditions in Moscow to protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. With temperatures as low as -20C, 120,000 people marched near the ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239911/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:07 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239911/ For the past 25 years, children in central Africa have fled their homes in the twilight hours to avoid capture (and worse) by the marauding Lord's Resistance ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239912/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:54:03 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239912/ On Thursday, in the grounds of Granada's Parque de las Ciencias, delighted tourists and students watched a demonstration of olive trees being harvested. Flails whirred in the branches, clouds ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239913/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:53:55 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239913/ South Africa's firebrand youth leader Julius Malema yesterday lost his appeal against expulsion from the ruling ANC party. An appeal panel upheld the party's decision in November to eject ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239914/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:53:49 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239914/ The president of the Egyptian Football Association and his entire board of directors resigned yesterday, having already been fired by the Prime Minister after last week's riot at a game between ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239915/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:53:42 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239915/ There will be much hand-wringing in the West at China and Russia's refusal yesterday to endorse a robust censure of the Syrian regime. But even if Moscow's position had been different, ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239916/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:53:36 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239916/ Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles correspondent. He lives in Malibu, and divides his time between the local beach and the Hollywood Hills. He headed out west in May 2008, and has being ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239917/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:53:29 -0500 The Independent http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239917/ PUEBLO, Colo. - On a summer night not long ago, Maureen White sat alone in her living room staring at a DVD she had avoided watching for years. http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239933/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:52:21 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239933/ Belinda and Daniel Conne, both 47, and their 25-year-old son, Michael, were spotted by a helicopter pilot and later flown to a hospital. Curry County Sheriff John Bishop said Daniel Conne suffered a ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239923/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:44:27 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239923/ Officials with Princess Cruise Lines say two of its ships were struck with a norovirus that can cause vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain. The Crown Princess returned from a seven-day cruise ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239922/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:44:05 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239922/ 1 of 8. U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado February 4, ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239924/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:39:06 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239924/ 1 of 12. Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari passes a piece of paper during the U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239925/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:39:01 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239925/ Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos makes statements outside his office in Athens February 4, 2012. Greece has agreed with euro zone partners on how to recapitalise Greek banks after ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239926/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:38:56 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239926/ CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military faced pressure on Saturday to speed up its transfer of power to civilians, as top public figures demanded a faster transition and street protests against army ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239927/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:38:51 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239927/ BERLIN (Reuters) - The possibility of a sovereign default by Greece cannot be ruled out, Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the single currency zone, said in a ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239928/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:38:46 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239928/ (Credit: AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) Nevada Republican caucus-goers are primarily concerned with defeating President Obama in November, according to early CBS News entrance polling. As many as 44 ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239929/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:34:20 -0500 CBS News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239929/ (AP) SHOW LOW, Ariz. - A plane crash in eastern Arizona has killed a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and severely injured the man's son and his wife. The single-engine plane ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239930/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:34:11 -0500 CBS News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239930/ American tourists Norma Supe, left, and Patti Gamal, right, are seen after their release by gunmen in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, late Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Bedouin tribesmen abducted two female ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239931/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:34:07 -0500 CBS News http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239931/ Siquijor is one of more than 7,000 islands in the Philippines - it has tropical sun, white sand and an azure sea, but it is also famous for witchcraft. How do you go about looking for a witch? It ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239905/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:33:23 -0500 BBC http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239905/ With a huge lead in polls, US Republican front-runner Mitt Romney appeared poised for an easy win in the Nevada caucus that would put him in firm command of the party's presidential nominating ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239944/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:31:55 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239944/ Even a millimeter misdirection of a microphone or a minor adjustment in bass can mean the difference between a good recording and an inferior one to his ears. By the time a recording makes its way ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239918/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:29:22 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239918/ About 100 dancers descended on Times Square in a "flash mob" organized through the Internet. As startled tourists looked on, they recreated one of the show's "Soul Train lines" in which people would ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239919/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:24:35 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239919/ Edward Dillard claims his foot was fractured by the security team after voting Tuesday in the Orlando suburb of Windermere. Dillard was wearing a Ron Paul T-shirt and holding a sign when Gingrich ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239921/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:16:26 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239921/ KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban and other insurgent groups were responsible for nearly 80 percent of the civilian deaths in the war in Afghanistan last year, said a U.N. report released ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238497/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:24:35 -0500 McClatchy http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238497/ Demonstrators placed a mock coffin in front of the Prime Minister's Residence on Saturday night to protest the death of Yohanes Barko, a 40-year-old homeless man who froze to death in Levinsky ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238488/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:22:45 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238488/ WASHINGTON - The United States' plan to wind down its combat role in Afghanistan a year earlier than expected relies on shifting responsibility to Special Operations forces that hunt insurgent ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238482/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:10:05 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238482/ In an often contentious meeting -- with parents shouting out both their support and disapproval of school decisions -- school officials presented the results of their initial testing before taking ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238475/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:58:25 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238475/ MUNICH (Reuters) - The U.S. military, which is cutting its presence in Europe, plans to expand its training of European partners to cope with new threats posed by interlinked criminal and militant ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238476/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:51:29 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238476/ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives at a military parade to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his failed coup attempt in Caracas February 4, ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238477/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:51:24 -0500 Reuters http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238477/ Great Britain reached their first Champions Trophy final after goals from Sarah Thomas and Ashleigh Ball sealed a 2-0 semi-final win over Germany. Danny Kerry's side dominated throughout ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238473/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:46:15 -0500 BBC http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238473/ The Brazilian government has sent federal troops to the state of Bahia to restore order after a labour strike by police opened the door to a crime wave, authorities said. By Saturday, the homicide ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238495/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:44:45 -0500 Al Jazeera http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203238495/ CyberForce used Twitter to claim responsibility, saying, "We have succeeded in the attack against the government. "It also indicated it may launch more attacks at around midnight (2300 GMT) ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239920/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:29:26 -0500 USA Today http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203239920/ In a potential Election 2012 matchup, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is at 45% while President Obama earns 44%. This is the first time in any poll that Santorum has led the president. ... http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203236895/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:39:17 -0500 Weekly Standard http://story.floridastatesman.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/203236895/