School Shooting: Officials Seek Details on Gunman

The FBI is in at least three states interviewing relatives and friends of the elementary school gunman who killed 20 children, seven adults and himself, trying to put together a better picture of the shooter and uncover any possible explanation for the massacre, ABC News has learned.The authorities have fanned out to New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts to interview relatives...

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U.S., rebels urge gloomy Moscow to help oust Assad

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's rebel leadership and the United States seized on Russian pessimism over President Bashar al-Assad's future to urge Moscow to help push its ally into ceding power and end the battles closing in around his capital. "We want to commend the Russian government for finally waking up to the reality and acknowledging that the regime's days are numbered," the U.S. State...

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MICE organisers reeling from rising rentals and wages

SINGAPORE : It is a mixed bag for Singapore's Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) sector. Exhibition venues are raking in the cash, but event organisers have said they are reeling from rising rentals and wages.Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) said attractions such as its Marine Life Park are luring in customers. RWS will pull in 600,000 delegates for 3,000 events this year...

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iPhone, iPad 2013 sales estimates cut by analyst

Apple faces a few challenges that could take a bite out of iPhone andiPad sales next year, at least in the opinion of one analyst.In an investors note out today, UBS analyst Steven Milunovich slashed his iPhone sales estimates for the March, June, and September 2013 quarters by 5 million. Sales estimates for the iPad were cut by 2 million for the same period.The analyst now expects Apple to sell 41...

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Elementary school shooting wounds 1 in Conn.

State and Newtown police, ambulance, and emergency response personnel responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School, following reports of a shooting, Dec. 14, 2012. / The Newtown Bee Updated at 11 a.m. ET A person was shot at a Connecticut elementary school Friday morning, CBS Hartford affiliate WFSB-TV reports. The school superintendent's office says the district has locked down schools...

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'Active Shooter' Reported at CT Elementary School

A shooting at a Connecticut elementary school this morning prompted the town of Newton to lock down all of its schools and drew SWAT teams to the school, authorities said today.A gunman has been killed, authorities told ABC News.The shooting occurred at the Sandy Creek Elementary School in Newtown, about 12 miles east of Danbury.A photo from the scene shows a line of distressed...

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Russia says Syrian rebels might win

MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels are gaining ground and might win, Russia's Middle East envoy said on Thursday, in the starkest such admission from a major ally of President Bashar al-Assad in 20 months of conflict. "One must look the facts in the face," Russia's state-run RIA quoted Mikhail Bogdanov as saying. "Unfortunately, the victory of the Syrian opposition cannot be ruled...

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Ukrainian MPs brawl in parliament as PM re-appointed

KIEV: The Ukrainian parliament Thursday voted to reinstate its prime minister after dozens of opposition and pro-government lawmakers brawled for a second day in the chamber notorious for its fisticuffs.Newly-elected world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko sought to stand above the fray by staying well out of the fighting that came just before parliament voted to re-appoint Prime Minister...

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For the Pope on Twitter, many slings and arrows

Now there's speaking truth to power.(Credit:Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)When you come down from on high and mix with us, les miserables, it can be a touch depressing.For though you try to take us seriously, we may not feel the same way. And, well, social media allows us to express our feelings without fear of permanent damnation.Pope Benedict XVI, famously a recent convert to Twitter, is discovering...

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Etan Patz suspect: He was alive when I left him

NEW YORK Pedro Hernandez told New York City Detectives that, when he left Etan Patz's body in a doorway, he believed the little boy was still alive. The 1979 disappearance of the six year old became the most symbolic kidnapping case since the murder of the Lindberg baby, stirring the movement that put missing children on milk cartons and billboards. The stunning revelation and other new details...

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