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AP Top News at 3:53 p.m. EDT(Associated Press Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Bed-ridden, caged, Egypt's Mubarak goes on trialCAIRO (AP) _ An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons standing protectively beside him in white prison uniforms, denied charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters at the start of his historic trial on Wednesday. The spectacle, aired live on state television, was a stunning moment for Egyptians. Many savored the humiliation of the man who ruled with unquestionable power for 29 years, during which opponents were tortured, corruption was rife, poverty spread and political life was stifled. 72 charged in probe of child sexual abuse networkWASHINGTON (AP) _ Seventy-two people have been charged with participating in an international child pornography network that prosecutors say used an online bulletin board called Dreamboard to trade tens of thousands of images and videos of sexually abused children. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday a 20-month law enforcement effort called Operation Delego targeted more than 600 Dreamboard members around the world for allegedly participating in the private, members-only Internet club created to promote pedophilia. Report: Global cyberattack under way for 5 yearsNEW YORK (AP) _ A computer security firm says cybercriminals have spent at least the past five years targeting more than 70 government entities, nonprofit groups and corporations around the world to steal troves of data. McAfee Inc. said in a report Wednesday that the attacks have targeted a broad range of organizations, including the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee and companies mostly in the United States. Pickup taken from home of dead NH girl, 11STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. (AP) _ Investigators probing the death of an 11-year-old northern New Hampshire girl hauled away a silver pickup truck from outside her home Wednesday. Neighbors said the vehicle is typically driven by the girl's stepfather. While the pickup was on a flatbed outside the house, technicians could be seen examining its undercarriage. Okla. woman claims famed hijacker is her uncleOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ An Oklahoma woman claims an uncle who planned something "very mischievous" over the holidays in 1971 was D.B. Cooper, the never-captured hijacker who jumped out of a plane with $200,000. Marla Cooper of Oklahoma City _ who was 8 years old at the time of the hijacking _ told ABC News in an interview broadcast Wednesday that she is certain her uncle Lynn Doyle Cooper leaped from a Northwest Orient plane not far from her grandmother's home in Sisters, Ore. She said she made the connection after piecing together remarks made by her father in 1995 and her mother in 2009. She did not say why she chose to speak out now. Man convicted in 1964 KKK slayings dies in prisonJACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ James Ford Seale, who was convicted and imprisoned decades after the segregation-era abduction and killing of two young black men by Ku Klux Klansmen in rural Mississippi, has died, a spokesman with the federal Bureau of Prisons said. Seale died Tuesday in Terre Haute, Ind., where he had been serving three life sentences after being convicted in 2007, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Edmond Ross told The Associated Press. He was 76. Tropical Storm Emily nears Dominican coast, HaitiPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ Rain-packed Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and headed Wednesday toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still in tents and flimsy shanties after last year's earthquake. Forecasters said the center of the storm was expected to pass over the southwestern corner of the Dominican Republic late Wednesday and is likely to weaken somewhat in the high mountains that divide the country from Haiti. But intense rain poses a threat, said Diana Goeller, a meteorologist with the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Dow Jones average edges higher, erasing lossesNEW YORK (AP) _ The Dow Jones industrial average edged slightly higher in late afternoon trading Wednesday. Markets have become increasingly volatile this week as worries about the economy deepen. The Dow has fallen for the previous eight days. The last time it fell nine days straight was in February 1978. Earth's two moons? It's not lunacy, but new theoryWASHINGTON (AP) _ In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is being called the "big splat." The result: Our planet was left with a single bulked-up and ever-so-slightly lopsided moon. Buchanan: No slur intended with Obama 'boy' quipNEW YORK (AP) _ Pat Buchanan said that he didn't mean to slur President Barack Obama by referring to him as "your boy" during a discussion with Al Sharpton. The former GOP presidential candidate and current MSNBC analyst appeared on "Morning Joe" Wednesday to explain remarks he made on that network's Sharpton show 12 hours earlier. They were discussing Obama's political strength when Buchanan said that "your boy" had caved in past negotiations and was likely to do so in the future. (c) 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |