SAN FRANCISCO – An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons – and large portions of the island’s bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch in response.
After two decades in U.S. and French Prisons, Manuel Noriega is back in his home country for the first time since 1989. He was extradited from that country after spending a year n their prison there for money laundering. He laundered several million dollars through real estate in the city of Paris. Noriega requested extradition.
NEW YORK—Friday, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., returned an indictment charging Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa, 38, aka “Faruk Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa,†“Sayfildin Tahir Sharif†and “Tahir Sharif Sayfildin,†with aiding in the murder of five American soldiers in a suicide-bomb attack in Iraq in April 2009.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Heavy winter weather descended on south-central and the Kenai Peninsula yesterday, causing power outages and hazardous driving conditions. High winds and blowing snow created white-out conditions all along the Seward and Sterling highways south of the city and on the Glenn Highway to the east.