(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates said he was not satisfied with the company's pace of innovation over the last few years, and that it had mishandled its ea rly mobile strategy. "We didn't miss cellphones, but the way that we went about it didn't allow us to get the leadership. It's clearly a mistake," Gates, Microsoft's former CEO, said in a rare interview with CBS. Gates hedged questions on whether he was happy with Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's performance. He said Ballmer had achieved a lot but that both he and Ballmer were not satisfied. … New report says federal regulators haven't kept safety promises made after 2009 air crash
WASHINGTON – Since a deadly airline crash in 2009, the government hasn’t kept its promise to ensure that major airlines are holding their smaller partners to the same safety standards, a federal watchdog says.
Syrian official says mortars explode near a presidential palace in Damascus
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian official says mortars explode near a presidential palace in Damascus.
Man charged with slapping toddler on Minneapolis-Atlanta flight is now out of a job
MINNEAPOLIS – A man charged with slapping a toddler on a Minneapolis-to-Atlanta flight is out of a job, his former employer said Sunday.
Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids prepares for 18th annual 'Butterflies Are Blooming' exhibit
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids is getting ready to open its 18th annual “Butterflies Are Blooming” exhibit.
NJ pausing competition on Top 10 beaches; focuses on co-operation in aftermath of Sandy
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. – As Jersey shore towns announce plans to work together this summer to welcome tourists back in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, a new poll finds that more than three-quarters of regular visitors to the shore say they’ll be back again this year.
Florida tourism agency reports that nearly 90 million tourists visit Sunshine State in 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida’s tourism marketing corporation is reporting a record 89.3 million visitors came to the state in 2012.
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Southwest, subsidiary AirTran booking networks more combined, easier to buy single itinerary
DALLAS – Southwest Airlines Co. and its subsidiary AirTran Airways have combined more booking systems to make it easier to purchase flights on both.
London's designers frame fashion with fur and feathers
LONDON (Reuters) – Fur and feathers ruled the runway at London Fashion Week for autumn/winter 2013, liberally applied to cuffs and collars, hemlines and hood s to jazz up otherwise simple styles. American designer Tom Ford pieced together heavy coats from snippets of dyed fur and long, mane-like bristles traced the spine and neckline of a sequined zebra print evening dress. Eagle plumes topped the wide-brimmed hats of Issa London, while fur and feathers also adorned the block colour coats and dresses of PPQ. … Pakistan targets militants, Shiites end protest
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Shiite Muslim leaders in southwestern Pakistan say they are ending three days of protests after the government launched an operation against militants responsible for a bombing targeting the minority sect that killed 89 people. Activists say Syrian missile strike kills 19
BEIRUT (AP) -- A Syrian missile strike leveled a stretch of buildings and killed at least 19 people in the city of Aleppo, leaving residents combing through the rubble to find those trapped beneath it, anti-regime activists said Tuesday. Seven French nationals kidnapped in Cameroon: radio
DAKAR (Reuters) – Seven French nationals have been kidnapped in northern Cameroon near the border with Nigeria, Radio France International reported on Tuesday. The station said the French embassy in Yaounde had confirmed that seven people were abducted by armed men on motorbikes and were being taken towards Nigeria. Cameroon Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said he could not confirm the report for now. The French foreign ministry said it was checking the information. The tourists were kidnapped at around 7 a.m. …
Alec Baldwin, NY photographer file harassment claims after altercation; police investigate
NEW YORK, N.Y. – New York City police are investigating harassment complaints made by actor Alec Baldwin and a New York Post newspaper photographer after an altercation.
Polish prosecutors to drop charges in CIA jail inquiry-report
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish prosecutors have decided to drop charges against the country’s former intelligence chief made during an investigation into allegations the CIA was allowed to run a secret prison in Poland for al Qaeda suspects, a newspaper said on Tuesday. The daily Gazeta Wyborcza first reported early last year Zbigniew Siemiatkowski faced charges of exceeding his authority at the height of the U.S.-led “war on terror”. Government and legal officials have declined to comment on whether Siemiatkowski has ever been questioned or charged. …
Foreigners dump Canadian securities in December
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Foreign investors reduced their holdings of Canadian securities in December by C$1.9 billion ($1.9 billion), led by the biggest divestment of shares since November 2007 due to cross-border mergers and acquisitions, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday. In November, foreigners had added C$5.5 billion in Canadian securities to their portfolios, revised from C$5.6 billion previously. Nonresidents unloaded C$6.7 billion worth of equities in December as portfolio investors “rendered their Canadian shares to foreign direct investors,” Statscan said. …
Pressure mounts on Israel over Palestinian prisoner fast
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared a one-day fast on Tuesday in solidarity with four inmates whose hunger s trike has fuelled anti-Israel protests in the occupied West Bank. Samer al-Issawi, one of the four Palestinians who have been on hunger strike, has been refusing food, intermittently, for more than 200 days. His family says his health has deteriorated sharply. … 8 arrested in slaying of Russian councilman
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian investigators have now arrested eight people in the case of a city councilman found dead in a cement barrel, allegedly after he owed $80 million in a business deal gone awry.
Canada wholesale trade falls in December
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian wholesale trade shrank in December by a sharper-than-expected 0.9 percent on a reversal of the previous month’s gains in the computer and communications equipment industry, according to Statistics Canada data on Tuesday. Market players surveyed by Reuters had forecast, on average, a 0.4 percent drop in wholesale activity in the month. In volume terms, wholesale trade was also down 0.9 percent and inventories fell 0.6 percent. Sales in the machinery, equipment and supplies sector explained most of the weakness, sliding 4.1 percent. …
Venezuela's Maduro would win if Chavez goes: poll
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro would comfortably win a presidential election should his boss Hugo Chavez's cancer force him out of power, according to an opinion poll. The first survey on such a scenario, by local pollster Hinterlaces, gave Maduro a potential 50 percent of votes, compared to 36 percent for opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Chavez returned to Venezuela on Monday after a long stay in Cuba to continue treatment at home for the disease that is jeopardizing his 14-year socialist rule of the South American OPEC nation. … 
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