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This edition was generated on Fri Feb 14 08:45:02 EST 2014
The misery continues a day after a fierce winter storm slammed the region.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — In a federal court ruling echoing decisions reached elsewhere in the U.S., Virginia on Thursday became the first state in the South to overturn a voter-approved prohibition of same-sex marriage.
SUGIHWARAS, Indonesia (AP) — An explosive volcanic eruption on Indonesia's most populous island blasted ash and debris 18 kilometers (12 miles) into the air Friday, killing two people while forcing authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 and close six airports.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed in a rare high-level meeting Friday to stop insulting each other and to go ahead with planned reunions of Korean War-divided families next week despite a dispute over upcoming U.S.-South Korean military drills.
ROME (AP) — Italy's president has accepted the resignation of Premier Enrico Letta after he was sacked by his own party in a back-room mutiny.
MANIWALA, India (AP) — She lies in wait while her victims are collecting firewood, or taking cattle to graze, or working in the fields. She has grabbed people in broad daylight, carrying them away silently into the forests or the sugarcane fields. By the time the victims are found, little is left but a pair of shoes, unspeakable gore and a ring of drying blood.
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — For Sandro Viletta, it was a stunning Olympic gold.
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Fast Five, Friday edition: Five things you'll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius, the celebrated athlete who became a murder suspect, said Friday that he is consumed by grief on the first anniversary of the day that he fatally shot his girlfriend in his home.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Rakuten Inc. is buying Cyprus-based Viber Media, which operates a popular Internet phone application, for $900 million, fortifying the online retailer's social networking footprint.
ROME (AP) — Premier Enrico Letta drove himself to the Italian president's palace to resign Friday after he was sacked by his own party in a back-room mutiny meant to catapult the dynamic young mayor of Florence to the helm of the Italian government.
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Unfinished hotels, packs of stray dogs with a price on their heads, warnings not to drink the strange-colored water. Westerners coming to Sochi for the Winter Olympics seemed surprised by all this. Their widely reported comments have been somewhere between sardonic and suffering, as if they'd ended up in a real-life Fawlty Towers.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comcast and Time Warner Cable regularly rank at the bottom of the pay TV industry when it comes to customer satisfaction. So it didn't take long for customers to vent frustrations online over high prices, spotty service and fears of a monopoly after Comcast announced its $45 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable.
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The U.S. speedskating team is desperately trying to make sense of its miserable performance during the first week of the Winter Olympics — and much of the speculation has turned to a new high-tech skinsuit.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Economic growth across the eurozone was stronger than expected at the end of 2013, according to official figures released Friday, raising hopes the recovery is gaining a foothold.
BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday appealed for China's help in bringing a belligerent North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks but faced an uncertain response as the request was accompanied by demands for Beijing to roll back a series of increasingly aggressive steps it has taken to assert itself in territorial disputes with its smaller neighbors.
People from all over the world have descended on Detroit to explore and photograph its empty buildings, but locals worry the obsession over "ruin porn" could hurt the city's image as it navigates its way out of bankruptcy.
Caitlin Cahow and other gay athletes sent to Olympics in apparent protest over Russian laws.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has been on the job for only six weeks, but has already thoroughly alienated one constituency.