A 22-month-old Mexican child flown to Texas for treatment has become the first fatality from swine flu in the United States. The child is the first person to die of swine flu outside Mexico where it is blamed for more than 159 deaths and roughly 2,500 illnesses. full story
Apple issued a statement Thursday apologizing for allowing the Baby Shaker application onto the App Store.
Baby Shaker was "deeply offensive and should not have been approved for distribution," Apple statement says.
Just hours before the App Store offers up its 1 billionth download, Apple was forced to acknowledge that perhaps the most notorious iPhone application ever constructed was "deeply offensive" and a "mistake."
Baby Shaker appeared on the App Store Monday, and was pulled Wednesday after a media frenzy grew following the discovery of the application by the founder of a shaken baby syndrome foundation.
Apple's statement follows in its entirety:
"This application was deeply offensive and should not have been approved for distribution on the App Store. When we learned of this mistake, the app was removed immediately. We sincerely apologize for this mistake and thank our customers for bringing this to our attention."
The company refused to comment on the process that led to the approval of Baby Shaker as an iPhone application. The day it revealed the software development kit for the iPhone last year, Apple said it planned to review every single iPhone application submitted for inclusion on the App Store, and reject applications that violated certain guidelines for porn, spam, or other offensive content.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Suicide bombers killed 60 people near a holy Shiite shrine in Baghdad on Friday and a car bomber left seven people dead in Diyala, according to security and medical officials.
Along with the 60 dead, many of whom were Iranian pilgrims, at least 125 others were wounded when two female suicide bombers struck on roads leading to the Imam Musa al-Kadhim shrine, one of the holiest in Shiite Islam, the Interior Ministry said.
The Iranians who were killed and wounded were on a pilgrimage to holy sites in Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said.
The bombers hit the Kadhimiya neighborhood of Baghdad, where the shrine is located, on the Muslim day of prayer. Iraqi State TV reported that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered an investigation.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Raymond Odierno, told CNN's "American Morning" on Friday he believes Iraqis won't be "intimidated by the attack" and "they will not let this stand in their way of moving forward." 
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BAGHDAD — Iraqi security officials said they captured one of the most wanted leaders of the Al Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgency Thursday, an arrest that could deliver a significant blow to an intensified campaign of attacks. Two separate homicide bombings killed at least 54 people. The officials identified the arrested man as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi who leads the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of Sunni militant factions that is believed dominated by Al Qaeda in Iraq. However in the past, Iraqi officials have reported al-Baghdadi's arrest or killing, only to later say they were wrong. The U.S. military has even said al-Baghdadi could be a fictitious character used to give an Iraqi face to an organization dominated by foreign Al Qaeda fighters. U.S. officials could not immediately confirm the arrest.
Somalia's prime minister tells CNN the international naval patrols in the Gulf of Aden are not solving the problem of piracy in the region. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke called for the U.N. arms embargo on his country to be lifted so the government can fight back against pirates and local militant Islamist groups. full story
The global economy will contract sharply this year and recover only sluggishly in 2010, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday as it called on governments to sustain or even increase fiscal stimulus next year.
The IMF said that world output would contract by 1.3 per cent this year and grow by just 1.9 per cent the year after in what it described as a “substantial downward revision” of its January forecasts, when it said the global economy would grow by 0.5 per cent this year and spring back to 3 per cent growth in 2010.
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The news was an embarrassment for British authorities, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who claimed at the time of their arrests that police had disrupted "a very big terrorist plot" that had been monitored "for some time." The arrests were rushed in part because a police commissioner inadvertently exposed details of the operation to photographers outside the prime minister's office. Police had to scramble to catch the suspects before they learned of the raid, forgoing their usual dawn raids for a dramatic series of daytime operations across northern England on April 8. Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick, one of the country's top counterterrorism officers, resigned after he inadvertently exposed details of the operation. One suspect was forced to the ground by gun-toting officers in front of students at the library of Liverpool John Moores University. Most of the men taken into custody were Pakistanis in Britain on student visas.
LONDON — British police released the last of 12 suspects rounded up in a series of dramatic anti-terror raids earlier this month, failing to charge any of the men, authorities said Wednesday.
If you recall that two unpopular teenage boys from the Trench Coat Mafia sought revenge against the jocks by shooting up Columbine High School, you're wrong.
But you're not alone.
Ten years after the massacre in Littleton, Colorado, there's still a collective memory of two Goth-obsessed loners, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who went on a shooting rampage and killed 12 of their classmates and a teacher, injured 23 others and then turned their guns on themselves.
Journalist and author Dave Cullen was one of the first to take on what he calls the myths of Columbine. He kept at it for a decade, challenging what the media and law enforcement officials reported.
"Kids had never been attacked in this kind of way until Columbine," he recently told . "I just had to find out what happened to those kids." For More details
A gunman described as "mentally challenged" was arrested following an eight-hour standoff with police after he hijacked a Canadian charter plane on the tarmac near the resort city of Montego Bay, Jamaica.
The man reportedly robbed several travelers before setting them free, but continued to hold the crew. At least one shot was fired, but there were no fatalities, officials said.
Officials tell FOX News six crew members aboard CanJet Flight 918, destined for Halifax, Canada, were released shortly before 8 a.m. when police stormed the plane and arrested the man at Sangster International Airport.
He was not harmed.
The gunman, described by Jamaican Information Minister Daryl Vaz as a "mentally challenged youngster," is about 20 years old and Jamaican. He did not detail the man's mental condition but said he was apparently upset over a failed relationship.
"It's a most unfortunate situation, but I can say the passengers are happy to be alive," Vaz said. "This whole experience has been very traumatic for them."
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Bangalore: The tolerance level of the IT major Infosys seems to be less towards the Bangalore Center than non-Bangalore centers. The 60,000 people who were put through the annual performance appraisal exercise of which 2100 staff were laid off or outplaced, consisted of only 0.4 percent from non-Bangalore centers.
Employees who have been consistently demonstrating poor performance were counselled out. Less than one percent of our 11,250 employees in Chennai and 11,496 employees in Hyderabad have been impacted. As for the Thiruvananthapuram centre, less than one percent of the 1,800 employees were impacted," Mohandas Pai, member of the board, director, human resources, Infosys Technologies told Business Standard. People who have the potential or the attitude to improve performance are put on a personal development plan. Otherwise, they are 'outplaced' - provided with resources to find a job with another company.
CIA interrogators used waterboarding at least 266 times on two top al Qaeda suspects, according to a Bush-era memo released by the Obama administration. The controversial technique that simulates drowning -- and which President Obama calls torture -- was used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, pictured above, 183 times in March 2003. full story
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — President Obama said he's "gravely concerned" about the safety and well-being of jailed U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi and is calling for her release from an Iranian prison. At the Summit of the Americas, Obama said Sunday that he's working to ensure the safety of Saberi, a 31-year-old dual American-Iranian citizen. She was sentenced to eight years in an Iranian prison on charges of spying for the United States. "She is an American citizen and I have complete confidence that she was not engaging in any sort of espionage," Obama said. "She is an Iranian American who was interested in the country which her family came from. And it is appropriate for her to be treated as such and to be released." More details...
The world is “very far from reaching” the United Nations’ goal of halving the proportion of people facing chronic hunger by 2015, the Group of Eight leading nations will admit on Monday after it reviewed what it called “alarming data” on malnourishment. More..
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela makes a surprise appearance at the ruling ANC party's final pre-election rally. More..
Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a gruesome scene at a Maryland home where the bodies of five people were found Saturday morning.
Authorities were called to the Middletown home after a family member made the discovery at about 9 a.m. Saturday.
Criminal investigators and evidence technicians were at the scene, as well as the medical examiner, according to the Frederick County Sheriff's office. Further details were not immediately available. The sheriff’s office planned to release more information later on Saturday
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Mooooooommmmmmmm! Why are you wearing a bikini? You're embarrassing me!
That would be the plaintive wail of most kids in America, but not the children of Denise Richards and Brooke Burke.
The two hot celebrity moms have been out and about in their bikinis in 2009, flaunting their post-baby bodies (Richards has two wee ones, Burke has four) for all to see.
PHOTOS: 15 hottest celebrity bikini moms.
Burke attributes her unstoppable body to nutrition.
“I’ve always been someone who’s had a healthy lifestyle," said the Season 7 champ of 'Dancing With the Stars.' "I think 90 percent of it is what you eat.”
PHOTOS: More hot bikini pics of Brooke Burke.
Meanwhile, Richards has regained the body that made her famous in "Wild Things" thanks to good old fashioned hard work.
The recent "Dancing With the Stars" cast-off says she lost 30 pounds in four months after having her second child by getting up at 5 am every morning and going to the gym.
PHOTOS: More fun pics of Denise Richards.
Nothing fancy about that.
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Phillips, who was freed Easter Sunday by Navy snipers, landed Friday afternoon in Burlington, Vt., aboard a small blue jet chartered by his employer, the shipping company Maersk. Embraced by his wife and daughter, Phillips gave a wave as he exited the plane at Burlington International Airport with other family members. A few minutes later, after spending some time alone with his family, Phillips re-appeared to address reporters covering his arrival. "I'm not a hero, the military is. Thank them." he said. "They are doing an impossible job. I would not be here without them." Phillips also thanked his family, his crew, his company and all Americans for their prayers and support during the difficult time. "We're just seamen, we do the best we can with what we've got," he said.
Richard Phillips, the American cargo ship captain who risked his life to save his crew in a standoff with Somali pirates, returned home to Vermont on Friday and said the true heroes were the members of the military who freed him.
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The bodies of the nine suspected Pakistani terrorists -- all believed to have been involved in the attacks on Mumbai -- are still lying in a hospital morgue almost five months after the attacks occurred.
Security is tight for the trial of the only surviving alleged Mumbai terrorist.
The public prosecutor trying the lone surviving suspected gunman in the Mumbai attacks told CNN the dead suspects have not been buried because no one has come to claim them and local Muslim officials are refusing to bury the men in Mumbai's Muslim graveyards.
Public prosecutor Ujwal Nikam said he will soon be in discussions with officials to decide what should happen with the bodies.
The burial issue has stoked controversy. Groups such as the Indian Muslim Council don't want the people buried in Muslim cemeteries because they have defamed the religion. Other Muslims have disagreed, saying burial should be available for any Muslim.
John O. Voll -- professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington -- said the Abrahamic religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have very often set restrictions on grounds they have sanctified for burials. One stricture, for example, has been prohibiting burial of a person from another faith.
"The non-burial" of the suspected terrorists "is making the statement that they are acting so contrary to Islam they are not acting as Muslims and therefore they are judged as being unbelievers and not worthy of being buried in a Muslim cemetery," Voll said.
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A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages.
Record companies welcomed the verdict but the men are to appeal and Sunde said they would refuse to pay the fine.
Speaking at an online press conference, he described the verdict as "bizarre". Video
Citigroup has reported its first quarterly net profit in nearly two years, the latest US bank to see an improvement in its performance.
It made a profit of $1.6bn (£1.1bn) compared with a loss of $5.1bn a year earlier. Revenues rose 99% to $24.8bn.
However, once dividend payments to preferred shareholders were taken into account, it suffered a near-$1bn loss.
Read more...New Delhi: The confession of B Ramalinga Raju, the disgraced founder of Satyam, which unfolded as the biggest corporate scandal, was not prompted by his conscience rather a whistle blower's action. An email of a person, who claimed to be a former Satyam executive, to one of the firm's board members ignited a chain of events that led to the confession.
Researchers in Dubai made news this week by announcing the arrival of the world's first cloned camel, a singular achievement in a region where top racing camels are prized. Iran followed two days later with the birth of the country's first cloned goat, though many other cloned goats have been born elsewhere. Most cloned mammals now lead regular lives, but as recently as 10 years ago they often died young of lung malformations, a problem that appears to have been largely overcome. Healthy cloned dogs and cats are the most recent significant achievements. • Click here for FOXNews.com's Patents and Innovation Center.
Thailand's prime minister told CNN Friday he will not lift a state of emergency until he is convinced anti-government protests that flared into deadly clashes this week would not return to the capital.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who imposed the state of emergency on Bangkok and nearby areas last weekend, made his comment shortly after a key political ally was shot in the head.
Sondhi Limthongkul, a political leader who helped topple former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra -- who supports the protesters -- underwent surgery and was expected to recover, according to medics.
The shooting was the latest chapter in weeks of widespread political unrest in Thailand, pitting Thaksin loyalists against Abhisit's supporters.
Asked how long the decree will remain in place, Abhisit told CNN's Dan Rivers, "Days, days I would say," adding that it would not be lifted until there was no threat of a "return to chaos and violence."
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Overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle says she's overwhelmed by the attention coming her way through millions of views on YouTube.
Susan Boyle breaks into song Friday on CNN's "American Morning."
"I'm gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked," she told CNN Friday morning.
The 47-year-old shocked and inspired the audience, judges and Web watchers after she powered through "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables" on the TV show "Britain's Got Talent."
A clip of Boyle's performance had more than 15 million views on YouTube by Friday, and the world's media have beaten a path to her door in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland.
"I'm enjoying every second of it," she said of her sudden fame, but said it won't change her.
"I wouldn't want to change myself too much, because that would make things a bit false," she old CNN's "American Morning." "I want people to see the real me, the real person."
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Model Donna Feldman Says Brazilian Babes Have Stiff Competition From Israel
Sure, everyone knows that Brazilian supermodels dominate the swimsuit model industry, but Israeli model Donna Feldman thinks her native country is ready to give the South American hotspot a run for its money.
"Every time I visit my family in Israel I am blown away by how beautiful the women are. The beach in Tel Aviv is filled with tan, curvy, all-natural exotic women," Feldman quipped. "Instead of a single man vacationing on the beach in Brazil, Israel is definitely another option to consider."
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One of Thailand’s most prominent political figures was shot and injured in an apparent assassination attempt on Friday morning, raising new fears that the tensions in the country could again flare into violence.
Sondhi Limthongkul, the most prominent leader of the yellow-shirted protesters who closed down the airport last year, was shot in his car as he was going to work. A spokesman for the People’s Alliance for Democracy said that his life was not in danger although he was being treated in hospital.
His driver was critically injured in the attack, and a guard who was also travelling in the car was also shot.
Although Thailand is no stranger to political violence, assassination attempts are rare.
Read more...Citigroup reported a first-quarter loss that was narrower than analysts expected Friday and said its Tier 1 capital ratio improved dramatically compared with the same period of last year.
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Citigroup's [C 4.01 
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] loss per share was 18 cents in the first three months of the year, compared with a loss of $1.03 a share in the year-ago period.
On average analysts predicted a loss of 34 cents a share.
The bank's Tier 1 capital ratio was around 11.8 percent versus 7.7 percent in the first quarter 2008, Citigroup said in a statement.
Revenue rose 99 percent from the first quarter of 2008 to $24.8 billion, driven by strong results in the Institutional Clients Group, the bank said.
The company said income available to shareholders was lowered by 24 cents a share from the conversion price of the $12.5 billion convertible preferred stock issued in a private offering in January last year.
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CIA agents who used harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects during the Bush era will not be prosecuted, US President Barack Obama has said.
The assurance came as memos were released detailing the range of techniques the CIA was allowed to use during the Bush administration.
Mr Obama banned the use of methods such as sleep deprivation and simulated drowning in his first week in office.
But rights groups have criticised the decision not to seek prosecutions.
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The YouTube and Carnegie Hall generations collided Wednesday night in New York City. A symphony orchestra -- assembled from musicians who auditioned in YouTube videos -- played its debut concert as a nearly sold-out audience looked on in amazement. full story
Four men behind a Swedish file-sharing Web site used by millions to exchange movies and music have been jailed for a year for collaborating to violate copyright law in a landmark court verdict in Stockholm.
The four defendants -- Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstrom, three founders and one patron of The Pirate Bay -- were also ordered to pay 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) in damages to several major media companies including Warner Brothers, Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony BMG and EMI.
The Pirate Bay allows users to exchange files including movies, music, games and software, but does not host the files itself. It claims more than 3.5 million registered users.
The court case, which involved both a criminal case and a civil claim brought by the media companies, marks a key victory for anti-piracy campaigners, who had long targeted the Web site.
The year-long prison terms are for violating Swedish law, while the damages are compensation to the media giants in the civil case -- though the court ordered the men to pay just one-third of the 110 million kronor ($13 million) which the companies had asked for.
Read more...Volkswagen, with its nine car and truck brands, increased sales in China, Germany and Brazil, which accounted for 44 percent of its total last year, the report said, without providing sales figures. The automaker is said to be benefiting from economic stimulus plans that have boosted sales in several countries "making it more likely that it beat Toyota or at least came close," the report found.
Volkswagen may have passed Toyota to be the world's largest automaker in sales last quarter, because of higher demand in its main markets, Reuters reported Friday, citing partial company data.
A nonprofit group has sued Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for alleged acts of terrorism and human rights violations, including conspiring with Colombian guerrillas, al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Freedom Watch, which advocates for ethics in government, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Miami federal court on behalf of Venezuelan journalist Ricardo Guanipa. According to the filing, Guanipa worked for Radio Marti in Venezuela and received death threats after investigating government corruption. Radio Marti is the U.S. government's broadcast to Cuba, with the stated goal of providing an alternative to the communist island's government-run media.
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Acting department spokesman Robert Wood confirmed Iranian reports that Roxana Saberi went on trial in Iran earlier this week on charges of spying. According to the reports, Iranian authorities said she has confessed.
"We've been very concerned about the transparency of this judicial process," Wood said. "And we call on the Iranians to provide as much information as they can to us about Roxana Saberi."
Saberi's trial began Monday and her lawyer has completed his defense, a spokesman for the judiciary, Ali Reza Jamshidi, told reporters. According to the semiofficial Mehr News Agency, Jamshidi said the verdict should be delivered within a few weeks. Full News
Reviving a ban on assault weapons and more strictly enforcing existing gun laws could help tamp down drug violence that has run rampant on the U.S.-Mexican border, President Obama said Thursday.
Speaking alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Obama said he has "not backed off at all" on a campaign pledge to try to restore the ban. It was instituted under President Clinton and allowed to lapse by President George W. Bush.
"I continue to believe that we can respect and honor the Second Amendment right in our Constitution -- the rights of sportsmen and hunters and homeowners that want to keep their families safe -- to lawfully bear arms, while dealing with assault weapons that, as we know here in Mexico, are used to fuel violence," Obama said.
Obama and Calderón spoke after completing a wide-ranging meeting that included talk of the deadly border situation.
Calderón said that the link between Mexican drug violence and the U.S. ban on 19 types of military-style semi-automatic rifles -- which lapsed in 2004 -- is clear. Full Story
A baseball cap dangles from a cement cross. The slogan on the hat reads "power, money, respect." On the brim there's the logo of the classic gangster movie "Scarface."
Etched on the gravestone, the words: "Jesus Guadalupe Parra. 12 December 1986 to 25 August 2008."
"Lupito," as friends and family knew him, went down in a hail of bullets before he reached 22. Authorities said he died alongside three others in a gunfight with a rival drug gang high in the Sierra Madre mountain range that is the backbone of Mexico's Pacific coast state of Sinaloa.
A printed banner draped over his tomb offers a deeper insight. It shows a photo of him alongside a marijuana plantation and an AK-47 assault rifle fitted with a 100-round ammunition drum. Full story
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