News 72

Mumbai attack survivor: 'It's like a dead man living'

Corpses piled on top of Apurva Parikh as bullets killed two of his friends, lined up by terrorists against a wall at a hotel in India's financial hub. Just minutes before the attackers had stormed The Oberoi, Parikh and his friends were having dinner. Moments later, they were standing with more than a dozen other guests, captives of a terror squad laying siege on several sites in Mumbai.

News 72

Mumbai attack survivor: 'It's like a dead man living'

Corpses piled on top of Apurva Parikh as bullets killed two of his friends, lined up by terrorists against a wall at a hotel in India's financial hub. Just minutes before the attackers had stormed The Oberoi, Parikh and his friends were having dinner. Moments later, they were standing with more than a dozen other guests, captives of a terror squad laying siege on several sites in Mumbai.

News 92

Fans flood Duggars with support

The arrival of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar's 19th baby hasn't been easy -- and the future is still not certain for preemie Josie Brooklyn, born three months early on December 10 and weighing only 1 lb., 6 oz. But one thing that is certain for the couple from Arkansas: the full-throated support of their fans.

News 91

Intriguing people for December 14, 2009

William D. Green
After a six-year relationship, Accenture ended its association with Tiger Woods. The global consulting company becomes the first major sponsor to cut ties with the golfer, who admitted to infidelity and announced he was taking an indefinite leave from the sport.

News 90

Theme of the '00s? Unpaid bills

t's sometimes said that the '00s opened with a Pearl Harbor and ended with a Great Crash. Yet this dramatic decade still lacks even a name. The Forties had big bands and a bigger war, the Sixties protests and hippies, the Seventies "malaise." But what do we call the decade just ending?  The Double-Zeros? The late Bill Safire suggested the Naughties, "nought" being an old-fashioned term for "zero" (as in dough-nought). Whatever you call them, the years from 2000 on have been united by one great theme: This is the decade when the bills came due for neglected problems.

News 89

Philippines lifts martial law, ordered after massacre

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted martial law in the country's south, which she declared after the massacre of 57 people last month, Philippine news outlets reported Saturday. The order lifting martial law was due to be effective at 9 p.m. (8 a.m. ET) Saturday, the Philippines News Agency (PNA) and CNN affiliate ABS-CBN said.

News 88

Black Caucus sends strong economic message to Obama

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus called on President Obama Friday to address the skyrocketing unemployment rate facing minorities -- especially African-Americans and Latinos -- and greater economic conditions plaguing low-income communities.

"Our job is to make sure the legislation that gets to the president's desk responds to the degradation and the crisis in our community," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, at a Friday news conference. "Our community is bleeding. And we are the worst hit."

News 87

In an instant, these people became everyday heroes

 A man sees a 75-year-old man stuck on railroad tracks and pulls him to safety. An off-duty emergency worker pulls a woman from a van after it crashes into an icy pond. An NBA star saves a woman from drowning.

A postal worker helps a mother whose baby is unconscious. A father goes into a house engulfed in flames to save two of his children, then returns to save the family's pet.

These are examples of everyday people who, when confronted with a life-or-death situation, jumped in to do what they could -- and became rescuers and heroes.

News 86

Refugee returns to Sudan to sign up voters

Daniel Deng, like thousands of other children, walked hundreds of miles to escape Sudan's war zone, moving for months farther and farther from his home country.

"We had to walk the whole night ... we maybe rest for an hour," he told CNN of the journey about two decades ago.

The trek, which robbed him of his ability to walk, took him to Ethiopia, then to Kenya, then eventually far from the Africa continent to the United States. he carved out a comfortable life in Colorado working in the IT industry, far from the war-torn, dusty land of his childhood.

Now using a wheelchair, Deng has returned to help register voters in Southern Sudan ahead of two very important votes. The first, in April, is to elect Sudan's presidential, state and legislative leaders.

Document Film

Document Film

News 85

'Harry Potter' stars look back on nine years of magic.

They might have been trained to ride flying broomsticks and mix potions but life after Hogwarts is still a riddle for the young magicians of the Harry Potter series.

With filming in the last part of the series --"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II" -- well underway, the cast of the multi-million selling franchise seem bound to look back and reflect on their nine-year-long magic ride.

News 84

Iran seeks release of arms dealer facing sentence in U.S.

Iran is calling for the release of an Iranian arms dealer who U.S. authorities say tried to illegally buy U.S. weapons for the Tehran government and was secretly charged, arrested and extradited, state-run media reported Monday.

Iran's Press-TV reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki wants the United States to secure the "unconditional release" of Amir Hossein Ardebili, who is scheduled to be sentenced December 14 by a federal judge in Wilmington, Delaware.

Ardebili, of Shiraz, Iran, was captured by Georgian agents in a sting operation in the Eastern European nation of Georgia in 2007. He was transported to Wilmington, where he was held, and he pleaded guilty in 2008, federal officials said last week.

The case was kept under wraps for two years while U.S. authorities tracked leads gleaned from Ardebili's computer that helped reveal Iran's secret campaign to buy sensitive U.S. military equipment, federal officials said last week.

Short Story Film

News 83

'Blind Side' No. 1 at box office

Proving that Sandra Bullock is having the best year of her career, the football drama "The Blind Side" rose to first place at the box office this weekend with $20.4 million, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.

News 82

2009 Figure Grand Prix Winner

Kim Yu-na won the 2009 Figure Grand Prix

News 81

Draw ignites FIFA World Cup fever

The 32 teams participating at next year's FIFA World Cup™ finals discovered their fate this evening when the Final Draw for South Africa 2010 took place in Cape Town.

While South Africans learned that the host nation's Opening Match on 11 June would be played against Mexico at Soccer City, it was the Group D line-up which caused arguably the biggest stir. Germany, Australia, Serbia and Ghana will battle it out for two qualifying places for the Round of 16, meaning two nations with passionate support will depart the tournament early. There could be a high-profile casualty from Group G too, after Brazil, Korea DPR, Côte d'Ivoire, Portugal were drawn together.

roup A: South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France
Group B: Argentina, Nigeria, Korea Republic, Greece
Group C: England, USA, Algeria, Slovenia
Group D: Germany, Australia, Serbia, Ghana, 
Group E: Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Cameroon
Group F: Italy, Paraguay, New Zealand, Slovakia
Group G: Brazil, Korea DPR, Côte d'Ivoire, Portugal
Group H: Spain, Switzerland, Honduras, Chile

News 80

Paris Hilton's little brother Conrad, 15, gets his first driving lesson with dad in a $200,00 Bentley

News 79

New World Cup Ball for 2010: Jabulani

News 78

Microsoft investigating 'screen of death'

Microsoft said on Monday that it is looking into reports that its latest security updates are causing some serious problems for certain users. The problem has been dubbed the "black screen of death" because those affected are left with a black desktop and little else on their screen. "Microsoft is investigating reports that its latest release of security updates is resulting in system issues for some customers," the software maker said in a statement. "Once we complete our investigation, we will provide detailed guidance on how to prevent or address these issues.  "The issue was noted by British security firm Prevx on its blog on Friday, with that company also offering a suggested fix for the problem.