NEW ORLEANS – Some athletes and celebrities headed to New Orleans for Super Bowl weekend are picking up hammers and packaging food for the homeless in the big game’s host city.
U.S. tablet shipments soar during holidays, threaten to surpass PCs
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's prediction that tablets would one day outsell personal computers appears to be coming true. Holiday seaso n shipments of tablet computers touched a record 52.5 million, up 75 percent from a year ago, as consumers snapped up a wide range of the touch-enabled mobile devices and lower priced offerings, according to International Data Corp (IDC), which tracks both markets. Growth of the tablet market handily outpaced that of personal computers, with PC shipments sliding 6.4 percent to 89.8 million in the October-December period. … Google releases thousands of images that map most popular trails at Grand Canyon National Park
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. – Google is giving people a way to virtually hike the Grand Canyon.
NWT premier wraps up Ottawa meetings showing progress on expanded powers
OTTAWA – The premier of the Northwest Territories says Stephen Harper supports the idea of expanding territorial powers to near-provincial standards by April 2014.
Atlanta police spokesman: Officers headed to report of a school shooting, details scarce
ATLANTA – Atlanta police are responding to a report of a shooting at a school but had no other immediate details.
Ottawa doctor admits to act of professional misconduct in inseminations case
TORONTO – A renowned Ottawa doctor accused of artificially inseminating three women with the wrong sperm has admitted to committing an act of professional misconduct.
Pakistan's Balochistan: Minerals, militants, and meddling
Balochistan is a key province in Pakistan that is filled with natural resources as well as a volatile mix of Afghan Taliban leaders, anti-Shiite militants, and ethnic separatists.
Gunmen kill five north Nigeria police, ceasefire in doubt
KADUNA/KANO (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least five police in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Thursday, casting doubt on the ceasefire declared days earlier by a purported Islamist commander and highlighting how difficult it will be to end insecurity in the region. Around 60 gunmen in the Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna state attacked the divisional police station and branches of Ecobank and First Bank with grenade launchers and assault rifles, killing three policemen, police said. …
Colombia judge rejects mother's plea to block film about baby born to rebel hostage
BOGOTA – A judge has spurned a prominent Colombian’s attempt to prevent the release of a feature film about the odyssey of the child born to her while she was a rebel hostage.
Strong winds hamper search for two people missing in Quebec landslide
L’EPIPHANIE, Que. – Strong winds have prevented rescue crews from resuming their search today for two people who have been missing in a Quebec quarry since Tuesday.
Sears lays off 700 workers, majority from department stores
TORONTO – Sears Canada announced today it is laying off 700 workers -- the majority from their department stores.
A flood of memories: 60 years on, Britain recalls a deadly storm
Britain’s Princess Royal led a remembrance service today to mark the 60th anniversary of a massive flood that killed more than 300 people in East Anglia in 1953, one of the country's worst ever natural disasters.
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