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Credit Suisse to cut 1,500 jobs after weak 3Q

PodcastNov 1, 2011

GENEVA (AP) _ Credit Suisse Group announced Tuesday that it will cut about 1,500 more staff globally and reorganize its securities unit after reporting weak third-quarter net profits of 683 million Swiss francs ($785 million). Switzerland's second-biggest bank said it will cut 3 percent from its 50,700 staff globally by the end of 2013 in a quarterly report that follows weak earnings across the ...
Swedish rally driver not fast enough for son's birth

PodcastNov 1, 2011

STOCKHOLM, Oct 31, 2011 (AFP) - Swedish rally driver Per-Gunner Andersson is known for his speed behind the wheel but he wasn't fast enough this weekend when his wife had to give birth in their car on the way to hospital. "It was a little strange," Andersson, 31, told the online edition of tabloid Expressen on Monday. His wife went into labour in the middle of the night on Friday and the couple...
Spying on spies: Chapman shops, contacts 'handler'

PodcastNov 1, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unaware the FBI has her under surveillance, Russian spy Anna Chapman buys leggings and tries on hats at a Macy's department store. A few months later, cameras watch her in a New York coffee shop where she meets with someone she thinks is her Russian handler. It is really an undercover FBI agent. In this photo taken on Sunday, April 3, 2011, Anna Chapman, left, who was deported...
Conflicting flood info frustrates Thailand’s private sector

PodcastOct 31, 2011

The private sector of Thailand has complained that it is confused by inconsistent information from the central government and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, saying the political conflict between the two and poor management are making the flood problem worse. BMA officials led by Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra on Oct. 27 met with a number of business representatives as well as t...
Fishermen net bag stashed with yen off Japan coast

PodcastOct 30, 2011

TOKYO (AP) -- A fishing boat netted a bag packed with cash worth 11 million yen ($145,000) off Japan's northeastern coast, a catch probably swept away in the tsunami seven months ago. A trawler pulled the bag with more than 1,000 notes worth 10,000-yen ($130) from the bottom of the sea on Oct. 8 near Ofunato city in Iwate state, city official Kou Ueno said. ``We think it is related to the disas...
Suspected killer tied to other deaths

PodcastOct 30, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police have linked the man charged with 10 murders in the ``Grim Sleeper'' serial killings to a number of other deaths, a law enforcement official said Friday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, did not specify how many deaths police had connected to Lonnie Franklin Jr. Photographs found in the possession of Lonnie David F...
Brazil's Silva has cancerous tumor in larynx

PodcastOct 30, 2011

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo chemotherapy to treat a cancerous tumor in his larynx, doctors said Saturday. The tumor was detected earlier in the day during an examination at Sao Paulo's Sirio Libanes Hospital, the hospital said in a statement, which added that Silva will begin outpatient treatment in the coming week. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (AP-Yon...
Study: Japan nuke radiation higher than estimated

PodcastOct 28, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — The Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much of a dangerous radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated, reaching 40 percent of the total from Chernobyl, a preliminary report says. The estimate of much higher levels of radioactive cesium-137 comes from a worldwide network of sensors. Study author Andreas Stohl of the Norwegian Institute fo...
Texas woman sentenced in NY in Russia smuggle case

PodcastOct 26, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York City say a Latvian-born woman who has drawn comparisons to a spy with the same first name will spend four months in jail for trying to smuggle high-tech rifle sights to Russia. Prosecutors said Monday that Anna Fermanova also was sentenced to four months of house arrest. The Plano, Texas, woman pleaded guilty in January. (AP) The 25-year-old Ferm...
In final weeks, Gadhafi between rage and despair

PodcastOct 26, 2011

MISRATA, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's all-powerful leader for four decades, spent his final weeks shuttling from hideout to hideout in his hometown of Sirte, alternating between rage and despair as his regime crumbled around him, said a regime insider now in custody. Gadhafi, his son Muatassim and an entourage of two dozen die-hard loyalists were largely cut off from the world while on ...
US's most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled

PodcastOct 26, 2011

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — The last of the nation's most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War. A weapons trainer talks to, from left, Daniel Poneman, Deputy Secretary of Energy, Steve Erhart, Pantex Site Office Manager, and John Woolery,...
Police seek ID of body found in U.S. storage unit

PodcastOct 25, 2011

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) -- A man who died this month at age 80 took a secret to his grave -- a secret that was discovered only after his family went through his belongings in a storage unit. Inside an unplugged freezer, they found a set of human remains that investigators believe may be those of his girlfriend, who disappeared in 1983, when she was 29. Now investigators are trying to confirm the id...
Thailand declares holidays to cope with flood crisis

PodcastOct 25, 2011

Thailand on Tuesday declared a three-day holiday in Bangkok and other flood-affected areas as high tides are forecast to flow up the city's main river and worsen floods creeping into the city. Schools, businesses and government offices will shut on Thursday and Friday, and the following Monday, creating a five-day break in the capital and 20 other provinces. "The cabinet today approved the decl...
Libyan official says Gadhafi burial likely Tuesday

PodcastOct 25, 2011

MISRATA, Libya (AP) — A spokesman for the fighters holding Moammar Gadhafi's body says the slain dictator will probably be buried on Tuesday in an unmarked grave in a secret location. Ibrahim Beit al-Mal, a spokesman for the Misrata military council, told The Associated Press Monday that he's "90 percent sure the bodies will be buried tomorrow." The report could not immediately be confirmed. Th...
Indiana identical twins give birth on same day

PodcastOct 25, 2011

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (AP) -- Two identical twins in Indiana now have another birthday in common: They delivered babies on the same day at the same hospital. The Herald-Times reports 21-year-old Jessica and Jennifer Patterson gave birth Wednesday at Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital. Jennifer Patterson gave birth first to a girl, Adalynn Rose Patterson, who was born with a collapsed...