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Employers use federal law to deny benefits
(AP)
AP - Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.
Japanese sailor first to cross Pacific in wave-powered boat
(AFP)
AFP - Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie has completed a 110-day solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a boat propelled by wave power to claim another world first.
Lawmaker killed in southern Afghanistan
(AP)
AP - An Afghan official says gunmen in southern Afghanistan have assassinated a lawmaker.
Public tipsters help foil fugitive murder suspect
(AP)
AP - The television image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind as she ventured out to get dinner for the family, warning her relatives to lock the door behind her.
IEA sees oil easing, then tightening to 2013: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - The situation on the oil market is
likely to ease in 2009/2010 as more production comes on-stream,
then tighten again through 2013 as output falls and demand
rises, the head of the International Energy Agency said.
Film shows Zimbabwe vote rigged: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe
prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent
of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential
run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.
Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
(AP)
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
Colombia shows rescue video
(Reuters)
Reuters - Colombia showed a video on Friday
of the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages where
their anger turned to ecstasy as theater-trained military
agents duped and overpowered leftist rebels.
Nebraska Beef Ltd. recall now 5.3 million pounds
(AP)
AP - Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef between May 16 and June 26.
Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages
(AP)
AP - Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
Colombia foils bomb plot after rescue
(Reuters)
Reuters - Colombia found explosives set to be used
in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue
of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid
Betancourt, military officials said on Saturday.
2 supervisors at raided meatpacking plant arrested
(AP)
AP - Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant that was raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the United States illegally.
Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply
(AP)
AP - Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study says.
FBI probe latest setback for beleaguered Detroit
(AP)
AP - Auto industry cutbacks, double-digit unemployment and one of the nation's highest home foreclosure rates have left Detroit with a dreary economic future.
7th victim of helicopter crash dies in hospital
(AP)
AP - Authorities say the lone survivor of a mid-air crash of two medical helicopters has died at a hospital.
Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse U
(AP)
AP - A vast collection of 78 rpm records — valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music history — is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.
Betancourt leaves hospital after medical check-up
(AFP)
AFP - Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt on Saturday left a Paris hospital after medical tests which her sister said were "satisfactory" following her six years as a hostage of rebels in the jungle.
Spacecraft Woken for Asteroid Encounter
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - A comet-chasing spacecraft has been awoken during its years-long journey so it can study an asteroid it will fly past this September.
Arrest made in London murders
(AP)
AP - British police arrested a suspect Saturday in the brutal murders of two French students who were tied up and stabbed scores of times before their bodies were set alight.
