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Nigeria: Lawmakers empower vice president (AP) AP - Parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday to take over for the ill president of oil-rich Nigeria, whose absence has stoked unrest in Africa's most populous country.




Toyota recalls 437,000 Priuses, hybrids globally (AP)

In this June 5, 2009 photo, workers give the final check on newly assembled new 2010 Prius hybrid vehicles at Toyota Tsutsumi Plant in Toyota, central Japan. Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling nearly 200,000 of its signature Prius green cars in Japan for braking problems, the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker. Toyota president Akio Toyoda will hold a news conference at the automaker's Tokyo office later Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 to outline details of the braking problem, including plans for a possible recall in the U.S., a company official told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems — the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.





UN slams Haitian hospitals for charging patients (AP)

Two women pray outside the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced after Haiti's Jan. 12 powerful earthquake. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients.





Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program (AP)

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 8, 2008 file photo released by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. The head of Iran's atomic agency Ali Akbar Salehi said Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 that Iran, which is set to start enriching uranium to 20 percent on Tuesday, would not enrich uranium to a higher level if the West provides the fuel it needs for the Tehran research reactor. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office, File)AP - Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.





NATO warns Afghans to 'keep your heads down' (AP)

An Afghan policeman searches a passenger of a mini bus, who arrived from Marjah at a check post in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. Telegraphing the Marjah offensive has raised concerns that the Taliban might plant more bombs — known as improvised explosive devices or IEDs — to inflict casualties on the attackers. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)AP - Taliban militants Tuesday prevented townspeople from fleeing a rural community targeted in an upcoming NATO-Afghan offensive, as families huddled inside their homes to avoid being caught in the crossfire, witnesses said.





Venezuela's Opposition Protests Slur Chavez at Ball Game (Time.com) Time.com - The fiery President's popularity has been plummeting and his opponents took advantage of the situation by heckling him at a popular baseball series


Futures buoyed by Greece rescue talk (Reuters)

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in this October 30, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters - Stock index futures rose on Tuesday as speculation that European Union nations could bail out debt-burdened Greece bolstered sentiment.





(AP) AP - Iran says the country has started higher uranium enrichment under UN supervision.


Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of Tijuana gang (AP)

Seized packages of marijuana and arrested truck driver Domingo Morales, 40, second from right, are shown to the press as soldiers stand guard  in Tijuana, Mexico,  Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.  According to the army, Morales was arrested Saturday driving a truck with more than 12 tons of marijuana at a check point on the San Felipe-Tijuana road.  (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Mexican federal police arrested two suspected gang leaders Monday, delivering another big blow to a brutal drug cartel that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years.





Nigerian senate votes to suspend ailing president (AFP)

Nigeria's parliament on Tuesday voted to suspend ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua (seen here on 2009) and hand power to his deputy until he is well enough to resume.(AFP/File/Joedson Alves)AFP - Nigeria's parliament on Tuesday voted to suspend ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua and hand power to his deputy until he is well enough to resume.





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