Friday’s Games
UPDATE 1-Cycling-Road-Tour Down Under classification after stage 5
Jan 26 (Infostrada Sports) – Classification from Tour Down Under after Stage 5 on Saturday 1. Tom-Jelte Slagter (Netherlands / Blanco) 16:35:33″ 2. Javier Moreno (Spain / Movistar) +13″ 3. Ben Hermans (Belgium / RadioShack) +25″ 4. Jon Izagirre (Spain / Euskaltel) +28″ 5. Geraint Thomas (Britain / Team Sky) +29″ 6. Tiago Machado (Portugal / RadioShack) 7. Gorka Izagirre (Spain / Euskaltel) +32″ 8. Daniele Pietropolli (Italy / Lampre) 9. Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands / Blanco) 10. Jussi Veikkanen (Finland / FDJ) +37″ 11. Jack Bauer (New Zealand / Garmin) +41″ 12. …
Ratcliff scores 3 as Washington gets revenge against Edmonton with 12-10 win
EDMONTON – The Washington Stealth weren’t about to give up another game to the Edmonton Rush.
SF district attorney won't file charges against 49ers' Crabtree for alleged sexual assault
SAN FRANCISCO – Criminal charges won’t be filed against 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree after an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team’s playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers, San Francisco’s district attorney said Friday.
Canadian police allege ex-SNC executive paid bribes to Gaddafi son
(Reuters) – A son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi allegedly received 120 million euros ($162 million) in bribes for giving major contracts in Libya to SNC-Lavalin Inc, Canada's biggest engineering and co nstruction company, a police document said on Friday. According to an affidavit the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used to obtain a search warrant at SNC's head office last April, the bribes were paid, in a roundabout way, to Saadi Gaddafi by Riadh Ben Aissa, a vice-president at Montreal-based SNC at the time. … Syrian troops and militia push to take Sunni Homs areas
AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army has stepped up an offensive on opposition Sunni Muslim strongholds in the central city of Homs, bringing in ground forces and loyalist militia to try to secure a major road junction, opposition sources said on Friday. Around 15,000 Sunni civilians are trapped on the southern and western edge of the city near the intersection of Syria's main north-south and east-west arteries, crucial to let the army travel between Damascus and the Mediterranean coast, opposition campaigners in Homs said. … Leblanc's goal leads Toronto rally as Rock defeat Minnesota Swarm 13-12
TORONTO – Stephan Leblanc's goal with 6:02 remaining capped a torrid Toronto rally as the Rock scored the last five goals and defeated the Minnesota Swarm 13-12 Friday night in the National Lacrosse League.
Brazil: bar codes on sidewalks give tourist info
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are a symbol of the city. Doubts raised about fairness of Delhi rape trial
NEW DELHI (AP) -- In the court of public opinion, the men being tried in the gang rape of an Indian university student should be hanged in a public square. Angry protests leave 7 dead on Egypt anniversary
CAIRO (AP) -- Violence erupted across Egypt on Friday as tens of thousands took to the streets to deliver an angry backlash against President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, demanding regime change on the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak. At least seven people were killed. Round 2 for Sloppy Joe's bar, a Havana original
HAVANA (AP) -- A half-century later, Jose Rafa Malem remembers the balmy breezes blowing through the bar's arching porticos, the grain of the tall wood stools, the whiff of Pedro Domecq brandy on his father's breath. Analysis: Lengthy 787 probe, fixing problem, may cost Boeing dear
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The slow progress of investigations into battery problems on Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jets suggest the new plane could be grounded for months, raising fears that the financial hit to Boeing will be greater than had been initially predicted. Wall Street had been working on the assumption that safety inspectors would find the root cause of two battery incidents in the United States and Japan within weeks and Boeing would implement a speedy fix costing no more than a few hundred million dollars. But on Thursday, the head of the U.S. … Ex-banker accused of helping in Olympus fraud granted bail
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Singapore banker charged with helping Japan’s Olympus Corp engineer a $1.7 billion accounting fraud was granted bail by a U.S. judge on Friday. Chan Ming Fon, a Taiwan citizen who lives in Singapore, may be released on $5 million bail, secured by $1 million of cash and $4.5 million of properties, according to an order by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan. The former Commerzbank AG and Societe Generale banker had been arrested on December 20 in Los Angeles. …
US park officials seek to rid Grand Canyon of elk after too many run-ins with humans
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The Grand Canyon is an international destination where spectacular views are not the only thing that grab tourists’ attention.
Syrian forces escalate offensive in Homs
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's army unleashed a barrage of rocket and artillery fire on rebel-held areas in a central province Friday as part of a widening offensive against fighters seeking to oust President Bashar Assad. At least 140 people were killed in fighting nationwide, according to activist groups. 
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