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Last known WWI veteran Florence Green dies at 110 (AP)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

In this Feb. 19, 2010 photo released by the British Ministry of Defense, MOD, shows Florence Green, left, on her 109th birthday being presented with a birthday cake by LAC Hannah Shaw on behalf of the RAF at her home in King's Lynn, east England. Florence Green, the world's last known veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 110, the care home where she lived said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sac Chris Hill/MoD, HO) NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.AP - Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets.


Appeals court throws out same-sex marriage ban (AP)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

Robin Tyler, right, who with her partner Diane Olson, not shown, became the first same-sex couple to wed in Los Angeles County in 2008, embraces her attorney Gloria Allred after hearing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on the validity of gay marriage, in Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The federal appeals court declared California's same-sex marriage ban, passed as Proposition 8 in 2008, to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Same-sex marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled California's ban unconstitutional, saying it serves no purpose other than to "lessen the status and human dignity" of gays.


Giants lauded as Super Bowl champs in NYC parade (AP)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy during a ceremony for the NFL football Super Bowl XLVI champions at City Hall in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Eli Manning hoisted the Lombardi Trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg joked that New York City should now be nicknamed the "Big Blue Apple," as thousands of fans crowded lower Manhattan on Tuesday to celebrate the New York Giants' Super Bowl victory amid tons of confetti.


Dow approaches 13,000, and maybe a record to come (AP)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012 file photo, trader Kevin Lodewick, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A strong one-day rally — caused by a deal to lock down badly needed bailout money for Greece, perhaps, or another unexpectedly positive economic report, like Friday's unemployment numbers — could put it over the 13000 mark. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)AP - It was just last summer that the Dow Jones industrial average shed 2,000 points in three terrifying weeks. Investors had a host of things to worry about, including the possibility of another recession.


Zsa Zsa kept behind closed doors at birthday party (AP)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 1986 file photo, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is shown Los Angeles. Gabor's huband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, is celebrating the ailing diva's 95th birthday Monday by hosting a party at their Bel Air home. (AP Photo/File)AP - After what felt like an eternity but was actually just a few minutes, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt emerged from a white door into the foyer of the old-fashioned Bel-Air mansion that he shares with his wife of 25 years, former glamour queen Zsa Zsa Gabor.


RIM tells European developers it's "ready to compete" (Reuters)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

A sign of Research in Motion (RIM) is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, January 22, 2012. REUTERS/Geoff RobinsReuters - Next-generation software for BlackBerry's smartphones is "ready to compete", Research In Motion's new chief executive, Thorsten Heins, told more than 2,000 technical developers on Tuesday, expressing confidence in RIM's long-term future.


Why Obama’s flip-flop on super PACs won’t matter (The Christian Science Monitor)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama’s flip-flop toward embrace of the "super PAC" formed to support his reelection campaign should come as no surprise.

Why momentous Prop. 8 ruling might not satisfy gay-rights groups (The Christian Science Monitor)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

The Christian Science Monitor - A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Tuesday struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, ruling that the ballot initiative violated the equal-protection rights of gay and lesbian couples by withholding a marriage right they had already once enjoyed.

Abortion, birth control grab political spotlight (AP)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

Karen Handel speaks during an interview in Atlanta Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Handel announced earlier her resignation as vice president for public policy for Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Political turmoil over abortion and birth control spread suddenly on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.


Obama risks Catholic vote with birth-control mandate (Reuters)
Tuesday 7th of February, 2012

Reuters - Dr. Joe Casillas, an obstetrician in Southern California, routinely prescribes birth control for his patients. Though he's a practicing Catholic, he doesn't follow his church's stern warning that contraception is a sin. He believes women should have access.

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