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SEATTLE, Wash.– Some 300 Chinese Foxconn employees who manufacture X-box 360 machines said they would throw themselves from their Wuhan, China, plant if demands for lost wages were not met. China Jasmine Revolution, an activist revolutionary organization with a name borrowed from the Tunisian revolt that set off the Middle East unrest, reported that employees made their demands for a wage increase for 100 employees on Jan. 2. Management at Foxconn — the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and a crucial link in the supply chains of Apple, Dell, Nintendo and Song — responded with an ultimatum.

Far short of a "million man protest," hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on Friday demanding that the ambassador be expelled from the country. It is unknown if more will arrive after Friday afternoon Muslim prayers. The protests came amid tensions following the deaths of three Egyptian security officers apparently shot inadvertantly by IDF troops pursuing the terrorists who carried out last weeks lethal bus-atack near Eilat that left 8 Israelis dead. Egyptian security forces were deployed in the area around the embassy amid fears the potentially large demonstrations could turn violent. In Tehran, hundreds of...

It looks like Andrew Breitbart has some competition for page views today. The online gossip magazine Radar and its tabloid partner the Star claim to have more than 200 sexually explicit tweets from Anthony Weiner and another woman, predating the Memorial Day weekend scandal by months. Radar’s Dylan Howard says that Weiner was “sexting” with her in March, discussing his “ridiculous bulge” in a manner reminiscent of the picture that first came to light several days ago: Another woman has come forward to RadarOnline.com and Star magazine and provided a sexting exchange with embattled New York Representative Anthony Weiner. The...

Ministerial team approves new apartments in West Bank blocs; Danny Dayan: It's a pity that parents, children need to be murdered for building to take place; calls for new Itamar neighborhood in name of victims. The ministerial team for settlements approved hundreds of new apartments in the settlements of Ma'ale Adumim, Ariel, Kiryat Sefer and in Gush Etzion in a special meeting on Saturday. The move comes in the wake of a terrorist attack on Friday in which five members of one family were stabbed to death in the West Bank settlement of Itamar. Among the participants in the specially...

Hundreds have been injured in what is shaping up as a potential Egyptian civil war. Pro and anti-government demonstrators battled each other Wednesday afternoon and evening in Cairo's central Tahrir Square. Both sides were hurling rocks at each other, as tear gas grenades were fired at the crowd. Similar scenes were reported in Alexandria immediately following an address by President Hosni Mubarak, announcing that he would not leave the country, and that he intended to serve the remaining seven months of his term. Tens of thousands of Mubarak supporters in Cairo wielding sticks and whips charged on horses and camels...

Everyone knows Barack Obama is in a political fix. The coalition that elected him in 2008 has collapsed, and the independents whose support lifted him to the White House have now abandoned him. What to do? Time magazine's Mark Halperin says Obama has to try all the expected things: "show people what he stands for, fight for what he believes, compromise with Republicans when it's sensible, reshape his circle of advisers and focus on job growth and deficit reduction." But Halperin says succeeding in those efforts will be tough because "they run counter to Obama's instincts, the political realities of...

The discovery by the state's Board of Registered Nursing was prompted by a Times/ProPublica investigation last year that found instances in which California nurses had been sanctioned elsewhere. The state's Board of Registered Nursing has discovered that some 3,500 of its nurses have been punished for misconduct by other states — hundreds even had their licenses revoked — while maintaining clean licenses in California. As many as 2,000 of these nurses now will face discipline in California, officials estimate. That's more registered nurses than the state has sanctioned in the last four years combined.

Arabs in Shiloach (Silwan) near the Kotel in Jerusalem went on a rampage Sunday evening. At least two hundred Arabs hurled fire bombs, fireworks and rocks at security guards stationed at Beit HaDvash in the neighborhood, and at dozens of policemen and Border Police who came to restore order. Three homes were reportedly on fire. At least ten security men were lightly hurt. Six of these are apparently policemen and four others are Beit HaDvash guards. The guards reportedly fired in the air to ward off the attackers and police forces used stun grenades against the rioters.

Europe Could Face Hundreds Of Iranian Missiles - Gates By REUTERS June 17, 2010 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence showing Iran likely would have the capability to attack Europe with "scores or even hundreds" of missiles factored into the Obama administration's decision to overhaul missile defenses, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday. Citing the growing Iranian missile threat, the United States announced plans last September to integrate sea- and land-based missile defenses in and around its NATO allies in Europe, referred to as the "phased adaptive approach." "One of the elements of the intelligence that contributed to the decision...

KATHMANDU (AFP) – More than 200 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest at the weekend, taking advantage of good weather conditions in the final days of the climbing season, a Nepalese official said Monday. Dozens more are now in a race to conquer the world's highest peak before the brief season comes to an end later this week, Tilak Pandey told AFP by telephone from Everest Base Camp. "About 216 climbers have summited Everest over the weekend and at least 30 more are expected to climb tomorrow," said Pandey, an official with the Nepal mountaineering department. The figures do...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) -- City animal control officers have started removing hundreds of large, feral rats from inside a Las Cruces rental home. Animal shelter director Beth Vesco-Mock said the rats - some sickly and displaying evidence of fighting - are about the size of a four- to five-month-old kitten.

A giant American flag fluttered from a fire truck ladder at the Soldiers Field Veterans Memorial on Thursday night as hundreds of people honored a Marine from Rochester who died last week in Afghanistan. The father, mother, sister and wife of Lance Cpl. Curtis M. Swenson sat in the front row at the candlelight vigil, a somber ceremony attended by families, teenagers, gray-haired veterans and baby-faced Boy Scouts. "It's obvious that Curtis was a light to many," said the Rev. Norman Wahl of Bethel Lutheran Church, where Swenson's family are longtime members. Swenson's father held his arm around his mother,...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon approve the construction of hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before he declares a moratorium on building in those locales, according to a senior government source. The source from the prime minister's bureau said last night that Netanyahu informed U.S. officials of his decision to authorize the construction a few weeks ago.

Hundreds of tourists and employees were under quarantine in a downtown Hong Kong hotel Saturday after a Mexican guest tested positive for swine flu. With the outbreak on its doorstep, China suspended direct flights from the Latin American country. Hours after the first confirmed case in Asia was reported, the continent got its second: Tests showed a South Korean woman also had the disease. She has been under quarantine since returning earlier this week from Mexico, the epicenter of the disease.

Most of this as-yet-undiscovered problem, Gober says, lies in the area of reinsurance, whereby one insurance company insures the liabilities of another so that the latter doesn't have to carry all the risk on its books. Most major insurance companies use outside firms to reinsure, but the vast majority of AIG's reinsurance contracts are negotiated internally among its affiliates, Gober says, and these internal balance sheets don't add up. The annual report of one major AIG subsidiary, American Home Assurance, shows that it owes $25 billion to another AIG affiliate, National Union Fire, Gober maintains. But American has only $22...

CHICAGO (AFP) - Hundreds of rogue black holes may be roaming around the Milky Way waiting to engulf stars and planets that cross their path, US astronomers said Wednesday. The astronomers believe these "intermediate mass" black holes are invisible except in rare circumstances and have been spawned by mergers of black holes within globular clusters -- swarms of stars held together by their mutual gravity. These black holes are unlikely to pose a threat to Earth, but may engulf nebulae, stars and planets that stray into their paths, the researchers said. "These rogue black holes are extremely unlikely to do...

LOS OLIVOS, Calif. - A huge wildfire grew significantly in a national forest Friday night, raining ash on communities miles away and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their rural homes and campgrounds. The month-old fire in northern Santa Barbara County has burned an estimated 38,000 acres — or 60 square miles — and was 70 percent contained. However, fire officials said the blaze had grown during the day. "We got additional wind on it today and the fire started burning more actively midmorning," said Kathy Good, Los Padres National Forest spokeswoman. "Now it's headed south-southeast." Told to evacuate were...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2007 – After three days of screening, about 400 Iraqi citizens out of more than 600 applicants got their wish to become Iraqi police officers recently in Ramadi, Iraq. They were transported to Jordan Jan. 8 for a five-week training course. A year ago, a murderous intimidation campaign prevented local Iraqis from enlisting in Ramadi. This kept recruiting numbers for police at insignificant levels, according to Multinational Corps Iraq officials. That has changed, more than 1,000 enlisted in the police force last month, and more than 800 are expected to enlist in Anbar Province this month,...

Hundreds more troops are needed to beat Taliban, warns Nato chief By Richard Westmacott in Kabul (Filed: 08/09/2006) Nato's senior military commander yesterday called for hundreds of reinforcements to combat the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, where he said fighting was reaching a "decisive moment". 35 British troops have died since 4,500 began arriving earlier this year US Gen James Jones said that the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, British Lt Gen David Richards, needed more troops soon. "We have to give the commander additional insurance in terms of some forces that can be there, perhaps temporarily, to make sure...

Hundreds of Chechens forced to flee Russian town as restaurant brawl erupts into race riot · Xenophobic groups use fight to urge ethnic attacks· Minorities targeted in internet campaign Tom Parfitt in Moscow Tuesday September 5, 2006 The Guardian UK Several hundred Chechens and dark-skinned people from the Caucasus have been forced to flee a town in north-west Russia after a brawl in a restaurant prompted a race riot at the weekend. The exodus of minorities from Kondopoga in the Karelia region near the border with Finland follows events on Saturday when a mob rampaged through the town and burned...

Hundreds of bills, including measures to raise the minimum wage, curb greenhouse gas emissions and implement a universal health care system, face votes this week as lawmakers rush to meet Thursday's deadline to wrap up their 2006 regular session. Not subject to the deadline is the special session on prison overcrowding that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called in June. It could drag on until the end of November, when the 2005-06 Legislature goes out of business. The Republican governor and the Legislature's Democratic leaders have cut deals that should smooth the way for passage of a minimum wage hike and legislation...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 15, 2006) – The Army’s 231st birthday brought hundreds of spectators to the Pentagon Courtyard June 14 for entertainment and remarks from senior leaders. A cake-cutting kicked off the celebration, which was hosted by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, Secretary of the Army Dr. Francis J. Harvey and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. “As we celebrate this occasion, I want to thank every Soldier in the U.S. and across the world,” said Rumsfeld. “My thanks to you, and my thanks to your families for all you’ve sacrificed to defend our country...

FORT BLISS, Texas — Since 2003, a Department of Defense joint task force has provided more than 1,600 military members to help federal agencies along Arizona’s border with Mexico, a spokesman for the organization said Thursday. Joint Task Force North, which was established in 2004, from assets previously called Joint Task Force Six, has provided active duty, Reserve and National Guard forces, “Working under the task force, primarily supporting other lead federal agencies, such as the Border Patrol,” Armando Carrasco said. Those who have been detailed to Arizona border areas have worked in the Douglas, Naco, Nogales and Yuma areas,...

SACRAMENTO Six lawmakers are scheduled this week to begin the tedious task of ironing out differences between Assembly and Senate versions of the state budget, but this year their job could be easier than usual. Both chambers have produced spending plans for the fiscal year starting July 1 that are remarkably similar to the $131.1 billion budget Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed earlier this month. "Over the years I've worked here, this is about the smallest number of differences between us and the Senate and us and the administration that I've seen," said Craig Cornett, budget adviser to Assembly Speaker Fabian...

CONCORD, N.H. - Torrential rain forced hundreds of people from their homes in parts of New England on Sunday, as water flowed over dams and washed out roads. The governors of New Hampshire and Massachusetts declared states of emergency, activating the National Guard to help communities respond to the storm. Maine's governor also declared a state of emergency for one county. "It's a very serious situation," said New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, adding that forecasters were predicting 12 to 15 inches of rain by the end of the storm in parts of southern New Hampshire. "It continues to change and...

Demonstrations at Armory Park today are part of a national effort dubbed "A Day Without an Immigrant." Latinos across the country skipped work and boycotted businesses in an effort to demonstrate the importance of immigrants to the economy. At Tucson's Armory Park, hundreds sat in small groups listening to music, eating lunch and mingling around. The tone is low-key, unlike the demonstration last month ---

JORDANIAN BORDER, Iraq (April 29, 2006) -- Near the Iraqi-Jordanian border, key leaders from the Iraqi Government and the United Nations met to figure out the fate of a growing number of Iraqis of Palestinian heritage who are trying to leave Iraq due to recent violence in Baghdad. The meeting between the two organizations came after more than 200 Iraqi men, women and children took up residence along the border here weeks ago, after being denied passage into Jordan by Jordanian border officials. The Iraqis left Baghdad to escape “violence and persecution” by insurgents, who targeted hundreds of Iraqi families...

Stockton, CA: Former US congressman Pete McCloskey, who is again a candidate in the US Congressional Dist 11, April 7 reached out to hundreds of Muslim voters in Stockton with the primary purpose to register unregistered Muslim voters. He was speaking at a meeting organized by Mr. K. Saif at AMA’s behest. Others, including Maad Abu-Ghazalah, a two-time former candidate for US Congress, and local activist K. Saif, were also there to urge the Muslim community to register to vote, and exercise the power of their vote for those candidates who support civil liberty and human rights for everyone. Mr....

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2006 – The organization that helps veterans become entrepreneurs by hooking them up with national franchises and contracts with industry and the federal government celebrated its fifth anniversary yesterday with an open house at the Department of Veterans Affairs here. Scott F. Denniston (left), director of the Veterans Affairs Center - part of the Department of Veterans Affairs -- chats with Danny M. Cobb, who opened his new company, Meridian Solutions, in Frederick, Md., last month. The conversation took place March 15 during the center's fifth anniversary celebration at Veterans Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo...

Hundreds Flee Northwestern Pakistan Unrest Sunday March 5, 2006 6:31 PM By BASHIRULLAH KHAN Associated Press Writer MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan (AP) - Hundreds of Pakistanis lugging bags and bundles of clothes fled a northwestern town Sunday after pro-Taliban tribesmen and foreign militants battled security forces in clashes near the Afghan border that left at least 53 people dead. The fighting, which started Saturday and largely died down early Sunday, was the worst in two years in the lawless North Waziristan region, where well-armed, fiercely independent tribes have long resisted government control. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said sporadic gunfire...

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. (Feb. 23, 2006) -- Women hold onto fond memories from their youth throughout their lifetime – getting a driver’s license, the first day of school, their “Sweet 16” birthday party. But more often than not, their most cherished memories include their first dance – the dress, the shoes, the fancy hairdo, and of course their date. Many young girls created this treasured memory of their first dance Thursday at The Clubs At Quantico. It was not the prom, senior dinner dance, or even a school dance. It was the Father-Daughter Sweetheart Dance hosted by the...

Hundreds treated over Tehran smog Traffic restrictions are being enforced in an attempt to reduce pollution More than 1,600 people have been taken to hospitals in Tehran as pollution in the Iranian capital reaches critical levels, health officials have said. Hospitals have reported increased cases of heart attacks and breathing problems, while many residents are complaining of fatigue and headaches. Public offices and schools have been closed in an attempt to reduce traffic, and clear the city's blanket of smog. Authorities have warned of thousands of casualties if pollution levels persist. There is no wind or rain and the dirty...

FORT HUACHUCA — It was a perfect autumn afternoon Sunday as hundreds of people visited the dozen historic officers’ residences, constructed from 1884 to 1915, on this historic Army post. Organizers of the yearly event sponsored by the Fort Huachuca Community Spouses Club estimated about 1,000 people toured the Christmas-decorated homes Sunday. Proceeds for the events support the club’s scholarship program. For some people, it was the first time they had visited the houses. Gennette Hawley and Mary Courtnell traveled from Green Valley, and declared the afternoon satisfying. Both women are originally from the East — Hawley from upstate New...

Afghan children proudly wear some of the donated clothing, organized by U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Brian Curtis. Photo courtesy of New Zealand Provisional Reconstruction Team U.S. Air Force Sgt. Helps Clothe Hundreds Bamiyan Province will be a much warmer place this winter thanks to the massive undertaking supplying clothing for hundreds of people in the area. By New Zealand Provisional Reconstruction Team BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, Nov. 23, 2005 — One U.S. Air Force member and his wife launched “Operation Brian’s Compassion” to clothe needy Bamiyan villagers. Tech. Sgt. Brian Curtis, assigned to New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team Bamiyan security,...

Plastic surgeon Frederic Corbin was intrigued last year when he saw an ad for a product that offered the same protein used in the wildly popular wrinkle treatment Botox — only much, much, cheaper. "My initial reaction was, 'Hmm, Botox now has some competition,'" recalled Corbin, who practices in Beverly Hills, Calif. But when he received a vial of the botulinum toxin in the mail, he was puzzled by the warning: "For Research Purposes Only. Not for Human Use." He says he returned it and more or less forgot about it until he heard about four people last December whose...

Schoolgirls riot at tourist spot By NIGEL ADLAM 17sep05 HUNDREDS of people watched in horror as a mob of schoolgirls rioted at Darwin's biggest tourist attraction. Most of the youngsters were in their teens. But several witnesses said a few were as young as six. About 20 girls threw sticks and stones, and even pulled out a street bollard, as they fought with security guards. Fighting between rival gangs of boys and girls has been escalating at Mindil Beach markets (pictured). Market manager Tim Robinson said four guards were beaten. Security and market managers are to hold a crisis meeting...

FALLUJAH, Iraq (Sept. 8, 2005) -- Whether made of artillery shells or triple-stacked anti-tank mines, insurgent-made improvised explosive devices continue being a leading cause of casualties throughout the country – including innocent civilians. The members of 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, North Carolina-based Marines and Sailors who are conducting counterinsurgency operations in western Iraq’s turbulent Al Anbar province, have themselves suffered four losses at the hands of these terrorist devices. On the desert battlefield’s frontlines, young men like Lance Cpl. Robert A. Belaire work to ensure that no more of their fellow warriors perish at the hands of a roadside...

MANILA (AP) - About 500 Muslim rebels have withdrawn from two Mindanao strongholds to let government forces launch an offensive against another Muslim group -- the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, a rebel spokesman said Sunday. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas, nearly 300 of whom were armed, withdrew from Talayan and Guindolongan Thursday to allow the jungle offensive to go ahead and avoid accidental clashes with government troops, rebel spokesman Eid Kabalu said. The guerrillas plan to return to their camps Monday unless the military asks for an extension, Kabalu said.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the streets Saturday to protest a controversial civilian border patrol group, calling the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps racist and un-American. The League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the oldest Latino civil rights organizations in the country, organized the march and rally to show that Minuteman volunteers were not wanted in the area. "It's a racist organization, there is no question," said the league's national treasurer, Jaime Martinez. "They say they will monitor the border, but now they are coming into our cities. Something has to be done." Minuteman volunteers,...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Hundreds of bills, including measures to allow gay marriages, set up a universal health care system and authorize doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, face a make-it-or-break-it deadline this week in the California Legislature. Most bills must be approved by their first house by Friday to have a chance to be signed into law this year. That means both the Senate and Assembly plan long floor sessions in a week shortened by the Memorial Day holiday today. Measures needing to move to the other house by Friday include:| • A bill by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco,...

Hundreds of gays, lesbians to marry today By ALLAN TURNER Houston Chronicle Feb. 12, 2005, 1:06AM Wedding bells will ring this afternoon for Mike and Vince, Michelle and Kelly, Dennis and Bruce and hundreds of other Houston gays and lesbians who will tie the knot in what may be Texas' largest same-sex wedding — a wedding that, although the state rejects its validity, participants insist will strengthen their relationships and provide a beacon to future generations. Between 100 and 200 couples are expected for the mass wedding ceremony at Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church, 2025 W. 11th St., which ministers to...

Sri Lanka: Train Wreck Adds to Toll GALLE, Sri Lanka, Dec. 28 -- The tsunami on Sunday devastated a train that had come to a halt on the outskirts of the tiny Sri Lankan village of Hikkaduwa, as massive waves slammed into a dozen carriages, hurling them across the countryside into coconut groves, fields and flimsy huts, authorities said Tuesday. With 802 bodies already retrieved from the train's cars and the muck beneath them, the wreck appears to have been the single most destructive incident discovered so far in Sri Lanka. Two days after the disaster, authorities were still...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The proposed closure of a busy hospital trauma unit serving a poor, violence-plagued neighborhood drew politicians, celebrities and hundreds of protesters at a rally and public meeting Monday. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., actress Angela Bassett and Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters joined nearly 1,000 people gathered near the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, where protesters waved signs and chanted slogans against the closure. Afterward, the crowd jammed into a meeting where the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took public comment. "I know that I am on the...

Hundreds March to Protest Headscarf Ban Saturday February 7, 2004 4:46 PM By JONATHAN SHENFIELD Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) - About 900 people marched through central Paris on Saturday to protest a law that would ban Islamic headscarves and other religious apparel from school. French legislators made minor concessions Thursday night in pursuit of wider support for the bill, but that wasn't enough for opponents who say the law is discriminatory and likely to stigmatize France's 5 million-strong Muslim population - Western Europe's largest. Saturday's protesters played the French national anthem over loudspeakers and shouted ``school is my right...

Hundreds of slaves freed in Brazil By Jan Rocha BBC, Sao Paulo In Brazil, government inspectors from the Ministry of Labour have freed 849 workers being held in conditions of slavery on a coffee farm near Barreiras in the state of Bahia. Labourers are forced to clear forest So far this year inspectors have freed more than 2,000 workers from forced labour, mostly in the Amazon region. In March, the government announced a plan to eradicate slave labour in Brazil. Government inspectors who had been tipped off by a local politician raided a coffee farm in Bahia. They say it...

Cast of hundreds gathers for Hollywood's electoral farce Governor of California faces recall vote Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Wednesday August 6, 2003 The Guardian (UK) One candidate is famous for her pouting lips, cleavage and pink Corvette. Another is best known as a hustling pornographer who survived an assassination attempt. A third is a former punk rocker who had a hit 20 years ago with a song called Property is Theft. And a fourth is a bodybuilder whose catchphrase is "I'll be back". All would-be candidates for the governorship of California have to file their nomination papers by Saturday....

NEW YORK - About 215 protesters were arrested Thursday after they lay down on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, blocking traffic in the latest of a series of demonstrations against the war. The "die-in" temporarily closed the avenue between 49th and 50th streets, near St. Patrick's Cathedral and the Saks Fifth Avenue store and across the street from Rockefeller Center. Most of those arrested face charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental administration, police said. Anti-war groups had called for civil disobedience, hoping to draw more attention than the largely lawful protests held daily in the city since hostilities began in Iraq...

KIGALI, Rwanda - Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more were missing after Congolese rebels allied with the government seized a key town in northeastern Congo and launched a two-day campaign of murder, rape, looting and destruction, a rival rebel leader said Saturday. Thomas Lubanga, head of the Union of Congolese Patriots, or UPC, said at least 400 people were killed on Feb. 24-25 and 500 were missing after his troops were pushed from the strategic town of Bogoro during an attack by the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation Movement, or RCD-ML, and allied Lendu tribal militiamen. Both groups...

A broadly written Kentucky law is allowing government employees and elected leaders to retire, only to return a month later to their same jobs, often at the same pay, and collect retirement benefits on top of their salaries. ''It's happening, and it's happening quite often,'' said Bill Hanes, executive director of the Kentucky Retirement Systems. The state doesn't track how many people are ''double dipping,'' but the number likely is in the hundreds, Hanes said. The practice has had no impact thus far on the $11 billion in pension investments, Hanes said. But he warned that if many more workers...

Giant planets 'formed in hundreds of years' Giant planets like Jupiter were formed in just a few hundred years, not several million as was previously thought, according to scientists. The research completely contradicts the widely held assumption that it takes at least one million years for gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn to evolve. Two years of work by scientists using a greatly refined mathematical model produced results that they say explain just how quickly such planets form. Astrophysicist Thomas Quinn, from the University of Washington, said the disk of matter which spins round a young star begins to...