Thursday, January 19, 2012

Survivors recount frantic escape from sinking cruise ship

Survivors recount frantic escape from sinking cruise ship

Survivors recount frantic escape from sinking cruise ship

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:01 PM PST

Days after the Costa Concordia ran aground off Italy's coast, details of the harrowing escape from the ship are still fresh in survivors' minds. Here are some of the accounts they shared with CNN:

Yemeni opposition: Saleh family let al Qaeda take over town

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:58 PM PST

Yemen's largest opposition coalition blamed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling family for causing chaos in the town of Radda, Baitha province, and said the family intentionally eased the way for al Qaeda militants to take over the town.

Santorum tries to shoulder past Romney, Gingrich in debate

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:57 PM PST

Arguing that momentum was on his side after a delayed announcement of victory in Iowa, former Sen. Rick Santorum sought to weaken rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich with a series of direct attacks on the two front-runners in the last South Carolina debate ahead of the state's primary on Saturday.

Decision looms on ending Concordia rescue operations

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:41 PM PST

Italian authorities are considering when to call off the search for survivors aboard the wreck of the cruise liner Costa Concordia, the coast guard said Thursday, as rescuers used explosives to blow new holes in the ship in search of victims.

Halle Berry stalker pleads no contest

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:29 PM PST

A 28-year-old California man pleaded no contest Thursday to stalking actress Halle Berry, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.

Newt Gingrich wanted 'open marriage,' ex-wife says

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:28 PM PST

Newt Gingrich offered his second wife a choice of an open marriage or a divorce when he revealed to her he was having an affair with the woman he later made his third wife, Marianne Gingrich said in interviews with ABC News and The Washington Post.

Anonymous strikes back after feds shut piracy hub Megaupload

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:16 PM PST

"Hacktivist" collective Anonymous on Thursday took credit for taking down U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and music company websites following arrests in one of the federal government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns.

CNN Student News Transcript - January 20, 2012

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:01 PM PST

January 20, 2012

Perry should have stuck to Texas playbook

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:58 PM PST

Today, Rick Perry finally announced he was suspending his presidential campaign and, in doing so, ending the excruciating parade of mistakes and miscalculations that left many in the national audience wondering how this guy ever got elected governor of Texas. But as we review all the political errors and bone-headed gaffes the campaign committed over the last six months, the biggest mistake is easy to miss: Perry and his team didn't stick with the strategies that made them such a strong political force in his home state.

Santorum hails delayed Iowa victory as 'huge upset'

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:54 PM PST

Rick Santorum finished the Iowa Republican caucuses 34 votes ahead of Mitt Romney, but results from several precincts are missing and the full actual results may never be known, according to a final certified tally released Thursday by the Iowa GOP.

Cruise ship's cook says captain ordered dinner after crash

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:34 PM PST

The captain of the Costa Concordia ordered dinner for himself and a woman after the ship struck rocks off Italy's coast, a cook from the ship told a Filipino television station.

Police interview Brad Pitt's bodyguard, search Hollywood hills for more body parts

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:29 PM PST

The recent discovery of a severed head, two hands and two feet in the Hollywood hills is near the home of actor Brad Pitt, and authorities have interviewed his bodyguard for possible leads, police said Thursday.

Winter storm leaves snow, icy roads in Pacific Northwest

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:21 PM PST

A day after heavy snowfall made Seattle streets look more like ski runs, freezing rain and accumulating ice continued to make travel treacherous Thursday in the Washington city and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest.

Arab League monitors to report on Syria, negotiate mission extension

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:07 PM PST

The Arab League was negotiating an extension of its fact-finding mission in Syria Thursday, with its members due to report over the weekend on what they have witnessed of a months-long government crackdown on protests.

Georgia man who admitted murdering girl found dead in apparent suicide

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:41 PM PST

Ryan Brunn, the man who this week was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering a Georgia girl, apparently killed himself in his prison cell Thursday, a corrections spokeswoman said.

U.S. strike kills al Qaeda operative, official says

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:40 PM PST

A senior al Qaeda operations planner was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan last week, according to a U.S. official.

Afghanistan helicopter crash kills 6 NATO peacekeepers

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:28 PM PST

A helicopter from NATO's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan crashed late Thursday in the southern provice of Helmand, killing six members of the force, allied military spokesmen reported.

Review: 'Haywire' is a rush

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:24 PM PST

There's a term applied to the sort of earnest films with an international cast from the U.S. (Gina Carano, Michael Douglas) Scotland (Ewan McGregor), Spain (Antonio Banderas), France (Mathieu Kassovitz) as well as the Irish/German Michael Fassbender that traipses around Europe like some sort of multi-million dollar travel brochure: Euro-pudding.

Google says social network has 90M users

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:51 PM PST

Google's infant social network experienced a recent growth spurt.

Test of new immigration rules says 14% of immigrants could stay in U.S.

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:37 PM PST

U.S. immigration officials, testing controversial new protocols that give them discretion to "administratively close" immigration cases instead of taking them to court, have recommended that about 14% of the nearly 12,000 cases reviewed thus far be closed, allowing those people to remain in the United States.
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