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UN says Congo's army committed rapes in east

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

By By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Preliminary investigations by the U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo indicate that Congolese army soldiers committed rapes, looting and other human rights violations after they retreated from the key city of Goma following its capture

Colo. shooting suspect: Brief romance, few friends

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By NICHOLAS RICCARDIAssociated Press DENVER (AP) - Shock, disgust and fear spread across the campus of the Colorado university - the man who shot up a midnight movie was identified as James Holmes, and faculty members suspected they knew him. As professors and others questioned what to do

Class of 2012: Young Europeans trapped by language

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 5th

By By FRANK JORDANS and ALAN CLENDENNINGAssociated Press MADRID (AP) - Maria Menendez, a 25-year-old caught in Spain's job-destroying economic crisis, would love to work in Germany as a veterinarian. Germany, facing an acute shortage of skilled workers, would love to have her. A perfect

Navy fires president, provost of grad school

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 28th

By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has fired the top two administrators of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., for mismanagement and fostering an atmosphere of defying Navy rules and regulations. The firings of the school's

UN report: Rwanda commanding Congo rebel force

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and PETER JAMES SPIELMANNAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Rwandan military is commanding and supporting the rebel force that overtook a major city in eastern Congo this week, a United Nations report released Wednesday said. Uganda is also providing more subtle but

UN Security Council puts sanctions on Congo rebels

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 20th

By PETER JAMES SPIELMANNAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to sanction the leaders of Congo's M23 rebel force, which hours earlier occupied the eastern Congolese city of Goma as U.N. peacekeepers stood by without resisting. But it did

Congolese rebels seize Goma, take airport

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 20th

By MELANIE GOUBY and RUKMINI CALLIMACHIAssociated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) - A rebel group believed to be backed by Rwanda seized the strategic, provincial capital of Goma in eastern Congo on Tuesday, home to more than 1 million people as well as an international airport in a development that

Doctors debate value of 'fringe' heart treatment

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 5th

By MARILYNN MARCHIONEAP Chief Medical Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - A heart disease treatment that many doctors consider to be fringe medicine unexpectedly showed some promise in a federal study clouded by ethical and scientific controversy, causing debate about the results. The study took 10 years

Civil War cannonball found in Philly historic area

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 26th

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A contractor grinding a tree stump in downtown Philadelphia's historic district has made a rare discovery. Independence National Historical Park officials said Thursday that among the roots of the dead tree, the contractor found what appears to be a cannonball most likely

In emails to UK police, Anonymous seeks solidarity

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 25th

LONDON (AP) - The online movement known as Anonymous has made an unusual appeal to British police: "Stand with us." Authorities said Thursday that the cyber rebels apparently broke into a forum called UKPoliceOnline to steal officers' email addresses, which they used to distribute a manifesto