CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine – Maine’s ski season is under way with the opening of the state’s two biggest ski mountains.
Oglebay Park's annual light show set to open in Wheeling
WHEELING, W.Va. – Organizers of the annual Winter Festival of Lights at Wheeling’s Oglebay Park have completed the conversion of light displays to energy-efficient LED bulbs a year ahead of schedule.
NATO: 2 international troops die in Afghanistan
NATO says two service members with the U.S.-led military coalition have died in Afghanistan.
Canada dollar at 3-month low on fear over Europe, U.S. economies
TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian dollar slumped to a more than three-month low against its U.S. counterpart on Friday, tracking a slide in equity and commodity markets, as the euro zone crisis was seen extending its reach to France and Germany, and investors worried about a looming U.S. “fiscal cliff.” Growth in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is likely to weaken in the next two quarters as firms postpone investments while France’s central bank said it expected the euro zone’s second-largest economy to slip into recession as 2012 ends. …
NTSB investigating engine problem that forced Delta jet to return to Atlanta's airport
ATLANTA – Federal transportation officials are investigating what caused an engine problem on a Delta Air Lines jet shortly after it took off from Atlanta this week.
Marijuana votes in 2 states raise spectre of marijuana tourism
and then a bong?
UN: Thousands flee Syria as humanitarian crisis soars
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U.S. stations first permanent military unit in Poland
LASK, Poland (Reuters) – The United States launched its first permanent military presence on Polish soil on Friday, an air force detachment to service warplanes, in a move long sought by its NATO ally Warsaw. President Barack Obama announced plans to station air force personnel at Lask air base near Lodz, central Poland, during a visit last year after Warsaw pressed for what it sees as a security guarantee in the face of a more assertive Russia. From next year, the 10 resident U.S. …
Iran says ready for 'any threat' after reportedly attacking US drone
Iranian commanders said they are ready for “any threat” to Iran’s borders, just days after Iranian military jets shot at an unmanned American drone conducting clandestine surveillance off Iran’s southwest coast.
Ruben Garcia sought his mission in life. He found it helping the 'poorest of the poor'
It all started in 1976 when a Roman Catholic youth group of idealistic young adults began to meet in El Paso, Texas, looking for a “greater sense of purpose and mission and substance,” says Ruben Garcia, who conducted the meetings. Sometimes 14 people came, sometimes just one.
Think your office has long meetings? Try China's Party confabs
Endless and pointless meetings are by no means unique to China, as almost anybody who works in a large organization can attest.
Man killed at Swedish prime minister's residence; prime minister was not in the building
STOCKHOLM – Swedish media say a man was shot and killed at the prime minister’s residence in downtown Stockholm. The prime minister was not in the building.
Man killed at Swedish PM's residence
Swedish media say a man was shot and killed at the prime minister’s residence in downtown Stockholm. The prime minister was not in the building.
Gunmen kill three policemen, steal weapons in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist gunmen attacked a police station in Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe state on Friday, killing three officers and stealing guns and ammunition, the police said. Radical Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed hundreds in bomb and gun attacks in the northeast since it launched an uprising there in 2009, mostly targeting people who work for the government. “In the early hours of today, gunmen attacked the police station at Bonny Yadi in Gujba local government area. …
Man dies at Sweden PM house, no crime and PM safe: police
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A man has died inside Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s residence in Stockholm after either committing suicide or an accident and the prime minister and his family were safe, police said on Friday. “There are no signs of a crime. We investigate this as a suicide or a work-related accident,” Towe Hagg, a police spokeswoman, told Reuters. Media said the man died of shot wounds. The dead man was not part of the prime minister’s personal bodyguards but had full clearance to be in the building. Another official said he was a security guard that worked at the …
Somalia's al Shabaab, squeezed in south, move to Puntland
GAROWE, Puntland (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked militants are moving north into the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, long regarded as a relatively peaceful area, after having been squeezed out of their strongholds further south, the president of Puntland said. Until now, Puntland has largely escaped the worst of the upheaval in Somalia, which has been deprived of an effective central government for the past two decades. The region is rich in energy resources and oil exploration companies are sizing it up. …
Chavez to Obama: forget global wars, fix domestic woes
CARACAS (Reuters) – The U.S. government's chief antagonist in Latin America, Hugo Chavez of Vene zuela, has advised newly re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid further entanglement in international conflicts and concentrate on fixing internal problems. "He should reflect first on his own nation, which has a lot of economic and social problems. It's a divided, socially fractured country with a super-elite exploiting the people," the socialist president said late on Thursday in his first reaction to Obama's victory this week. … Gold fever sweeps South Sudan ahead of new mining law
NANAKANAK, South Sudan (Reuters) – Taking a break from the toil of digging, Leer Likuam sat on the edge of a shallow trench, puffed his pipe and boasted he once found a 200-gram gold nugget bigger than his thu mb. In Nanakanak, a village of stick huts in an area that has attracted hundreds of diggers since Sudan's civil war ended in 2005, Likuam's find would have been lucrative but unexceptional. "Everything is luck," he said through a translator. On an average day he might dig up six grams, worth around 1,200 South Sudanese pounds ($270), he said. "Some days you're lucky. … 
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