Feds fight producer's bid to overturn extradition (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to reject a reality TV producer's petition to overturn an extradition order on allegations that he killed his wife during a vacation in Mexico.

The filing Monday by prosecutors in Los Angeles argues that attorneys for ex-"Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman haven't presented credible conflicting evidence that would warrant overturning the order authorizing his return to Cancun to stand trial.

Beresford-Redman filed a brief in September arguing that the magistrate judge's extradition ruling didn't take into account evidence favorable to him. He was charged with aggravated homicide after his wife Monica was found dead at an upscale resort in April 2010.

The latest filing says the judge considered evidence presented by Beresford-Redman, but didn't find it compelling.

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Bombs in Iraq's Mosul kill five, injure 22: police (Reuters)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) ? At least five people were killed, including three Iraqi soldiers, and another 22 wounded when two car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, hospital and police sources said.

Explosives packed into a parked car went off near an army patrol, killing three soldiers and wounding four passersby in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, police sources said.

Another car bomb detonated nearby, killing two people and wounding 18 others, while a roadside bomb went off in the same area, injuring two street cleaners, the sources said.

Violence has subsided sharply in Iraq since the sectarian strife in 2006-07, but Sunni Islamist insurgents and Shi'ite Muslim mlitias still commit daily bombings and assassinations.

The United States has about 40,000 troops in Iraq. U.S. President Barack Obama said last week that they would be withdrawn by December 31 according to the terms of a 2008 bilateral security pact.

(Reporting by Jamal al-badrani in Mosul; Writing by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Sami Aboudi and Mark Heinrich)

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Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Climate Change

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Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Climate Change
A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something that's been difficult to do with empirical precision. The debut subject: The Russian heat wave of July 2010, which killed 700 people and was unprecedented since record keeping began in the 19th century. According to the analysis, there's an 80 percent chance that climate change was responsible.

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Caterpillar's record results, M&A lift Wall St. (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Stocks rose on Monday, adding to three weeks of gains by the S&P 500, after strong earnings from Caterpillar and some proposed acquisitions boosted investor sentiment.

Equities have risen on optimism over a possible resolution to Europe's sovereign debt crisis and a reduced likelihood of a U.S. recession after stronger-than-expected corporate results and economic data.

Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) jumped 5.6 percent to $92.30 and led the Dow higher after the world's largest heavy equipment maker reported a 44 percent jump in quarterly profit on record revenues.

"When a big-name company like this reports numbers like these, that will help turn around talk about another recession," said Andrew Bodner, president of Double Diamond Investment Group in Parsippany, New Jersey.

"News like this, along with the turnaround we've seen in some economic indicators, is why the markets have moved up like they have."

The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) was up 78.41 points, or 0.66 percent, at 11,887.20. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) was up 12.13 points, or 0.98 percent, at 1,250.38. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) was up 53.47 points, or 2.03 percent, at 2,690.93.

Equities were also boosted by proposed acquisitions. Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) agreed to buy RightNow Technologies Inc (RNOW.O), which provides cloud-based customer services software, for about $1.5 billion, or $43 per share.

Cigna Corp (CI.N) will acquire HealthSpring Inc (HS.N), a Medicare health provider, for $3.8 billion, or $55 a share.

RightNow gained 19 percent to $42.85 while HealthSpring jumped 33.6 percent to $53.66.

The S&P has climbed almost 14 percent since October 3, and recent gains have pushed the broad index to the top of its trading range between 1,230 and 1,250 where it has struggled to advance due to conflicting headlines from Europe.

Investors looked for progress in Europe before earnings reports were enough to push the market solidly higher. Light volume suggested they still weren't convinced as uncertainties about Europe continued.

European policymakers deferred a final decision on a strategy to end a sovereign debt crisis as they neared agreement on bank recapitalization and on how to leverage a rescue fund to try to stop bond market contagion. The leaders were due to meet again Wednesday.

Google Inc (GOOG.O) has spoken to at least two private equity firms about help in financing a deal to buy Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) core business, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a source. Yahoo shares rose 2.9 percent at $16.59.

(Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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AP Source: Big 12 approves WVU to replace Missouri

West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith throws against Syracuse during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game in Syracuse, N.Y., on Friday, Oct 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith throws against Syracuse during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game in Syracuse, N.Y., on Friday, Oct 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

The Big 12 has approved bringing in West Virginia to replace Missouri when the Tigers complete their move to the Southeastern Conference, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because neither the school nor the Big 12 had announced that its board of directors unanimously approved inviting West Virginia when Missouri's spot comes open.

The move would allow the Big 12 to maintain 10 members and is another blow to the embattled Big East, which already has lost two members and one member-to-be in the last six weeks.

The Big East is trying to reconfigure as a 12-team football league and has been courting Boise State, Navy and Air Force as football-only members and Central Florida, SMU and Houston for all sports. Commissioner John Marinatto met with officials from some of those schools Sunday in Washington.

Since there is no timetable for Missouri to complete its expected departure from the Big 12 ? and the league's board of directors announced that it expressed "a strong desire" for Missouri to stay during a Monday meeting ? there is no timetable for West Virginia to receive a formal invitation, the person said.

But the school will accept an invitation once it is offered, the person said.

Big 12 Commissioner Chuck Neinas has already said he expects Missouri to compete in the Big 12 in 2012, but all signs indicate Missouri is leaving and now the conference is prepared for that.

On Friday, the Missouri Board of Curators gave Chancellor Brady Deaton the authority to move the school out of the Big 12. The school has been considering a move to the SEC, where it would become that conference's 14th member and join Texas A&M, which made its move from the Big 12 official earlier this month.

The SEC has not publicly acknowledged interest in Missouri and Commissioner Mike Slive has said his conference was making plans to have 13 members next season, but there are scheduling problems ? especially in football ? that come with that number.

West Virginia has been the Big East's most successful football program since the league lost Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College to the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2004 and '05. The Mountaineers have been to a bowl game every season since and won two BCS games.

Without West Virginia, only one of the original eight schools that made up the Big East's football conference when it began in 1991 will remain: Rutgers.

Last month, Pittsburgh and Syracuse announced they were leaving the Big East for the ACC, and earlier this month TCU reneged on its plans to join the Big East in 2012 to instead go to the Big 12.

Marinatto has said he plans to make Pitt and Syracuse abide by the league's bylaws and stay in the Big East for the next two years. The Big East's 27-month notification will likely be a hurdle for West Virginia to clear on its way to the Big 12.

TCU only must pay the league's $5 million exit fee.

The Big East presidents voted last week to double that fee to $10 million if the league added either Navy or Air Force, but the conference has not formally invited any new members yet.

It's unclear how the loss of West Virginia will affect the Big East's expansion plans. The Big East made protecting its status as a BCS automatic qualifying conference its expansion priority, and adding Boise State's high successful football program to the conference with West Virginia had league officials optimistic.

Boise State President Bob Kustra has said that getting into conference with an automatic bid to the BCS was one of his top priorities, but the stability of the Big East was a concern. Boise State is in its first season in the Mountain West Conference. Air Force also plays in the MWC. Navy is an independent in football.

To replace West Virginia, the Big East could turn to Temple, which was also being considered before the conference decided to try to add the two Texas schools from Conference USA.

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Occupy Chicago: At least 100 arrests in city park (AP)

CHICAGO ? Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting at least 100 arrests early Sunday, authorities said.

Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua Kaunert vowed after the arrests that protests would continue in the Midwest city.

"We're not going anywhere. There are still plenty of us," Kaunert told The Associated Press after the arrests, which took police more than an hour to complete.

Elsewhere in the nation, police reported 11 arrests overnight in the Occupy Cincinnati protests. Police said those arrested had stayed in that city's Fountain Square after Sunday's 3 a.m. closing time and each was charged with criminal trespass.

In Chicago, police began taking people into custody just before 1 a.m. Sunday. Those arrested were led in groups to vans and two large white buses as others clamored to be arrested.

"Take me next! Take me next!" some shouted as police began the arrests. Others chanted as they were led away: "We'll be back!"

Officers had begun placing metal barricades around the area of Chicago's Grant Park known as Congress Plaza about 11:10 p.m. Saturday, minutes after the park had closed. Afterward, police then went through the crowd and warned people to leave or risk arrest for remaining in the closed park in violation of a city ordinance.

Several of the protesters who stayed inside the barricades in the park sat on the ground. Others locked arms as police circled and then began arresting people.

"One: We are the people! Two: We are united! Three: The occupation is not leaving!" demonstrators shouted. Others joined in from just outside the park.

Police said they made approximately 100 arrests early Sunday but did not have an exact count. Kaunert said he expected the final figure to be higher after some late arrests but police did not immediate return later calls for details.

Kaunert said none of those arrested had resisted.

"Everybody was very peaceful and smiling and there was no violence, though a lot of chanting," he said.

He urged authorities to let the people resume protesting peacefully against the perceived greed and other ills they see on Wall Street and elsewhere in corporate America. He noted it was the second straight weekend that arrests had been made in the park after 175 arrests the previous Sunday after protesters set up tents past public hours.

"The police came in and again took away our right to free speech and assembly," he said. "Several paddywagons left and they had two very large prison buses and those are gone now."

Paulina Jasczuk, a 24-year-old dental receptionist, watched as her boyfriend, Philip Devon, was led away in the night hours. She threw him a white sweater against the chill of a fall night in Chicago.

"I'm proud of everyone who got arrested tonight," she told AP, adding she hoped they would inspire more demonstrators to join in the movement in the weeks ahead.

Demonstrators were taken away one by one and handcuffed with white plastic ties and. Some on the scene shouted: "This is what democracy looks like!"

Drums banged and some people clanged on metal.

Jonathan Sumner, 25, of Chicago, watched the arrests from outside the park and began shouting at officers: "Why are you doing this?"

"It's a sad day for the CPD" he said, referring to the Chicago Police Department.

Some said earlier that arrests only signal the importance of the Occupy movement.

"This movement will not be a serious movement until we take a stand, and getting arrested is just one way of taking a stand," said Max Farrar, 20, a junior political science major at DePaul University, speaking Saturday to a reporter.

About 1,500 people gathered for the protest that began Saturday. Demonstrators descended on the city park with hopes of making it the movement's permanent home. The group had started in Chicago's financial district before marching to the park.

Along the way, marchers chanted "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!" and held signs that read "Greed Sucks" and "No War But The Class War" while police on horses blocked them from walking on the street on Michigan Avenue, leaving them with just the sidewalks to occupy.

Occupy Wall Street began a month ago in New York among a few young people, and has grown to tens of thousands around the country and the world.

In Cincinnati, Police Capt. Doug Wiesman said early Sunday that the 11 arrests carried out there were "straightforward" and without problems. A protester, Aaron Roco, told AP about 30 other protesters who remained on a sidewalk just outside the Cincinnati square during the police action weren't arrested.

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Pole who spirited Jewish woman from Auschwitz dies (AP)

WARSAW, Poland ? The young Catholic man spirited his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz in 1944, saving her life. Yet it took 39 years for them to see each other again.

Jerzy Bielecki, a German-speaking Polish inmate at the same Nazi death camp, lived to age 90 and died peacefully in his sleep Thursday at his home in Nowy Targ in southern Poland, his daughter, Alicja Januchowski said Saturday.

Januchowski, a New Yorker, spoke to The Associated Press from Nowy Targ, where she had been with her ailing father.

The Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem awarded Bielecki the Righteous Among the Nations title in 1985 for saving the girlfriend, Cyla Cybulska. It all happened in July 1944, when the 23-year-old Bielecki used his relatively privileged position in Auschwitz to orchestrate a daring escape for both of them.

Bielecki was 19 when the Germans seized him on the false suspicion he was a resistance fighter, and brought him to Auschwitz in April 1940 in the first transport of inmates, all Poles. He was given number 243.

Cybulska, her parents, two brothers and a younger sister were rounded up in January 1943 in the Lomza ghetto in northern Poland and taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents and sister were immediately killed in the gas chambers, but she and her brothers were sent to work.

By September, 22-year-old Cybulska was the only one left alive, with inmate number 29558 tattooed on her left forearm.

They met and their love blossomed, making Bielecki determined to find a way to escape.

From a fellow Polish inmate working at a uniform warehouse, Bielecki secretly got a complete SS uniform and a pass. Then dressed as SS officer, he pretended he was taking a Jewish inmate out of the camp for interrogation. He led Cybulska to a side gate, where a sleepy SS-man let them go through.

The fear of being gunned down himself reverberated through his first steps of freedom.

"I felt pain in my backbone, where I was expecting to be shot," Bielecki told the AP in an interview in 2010.

For more than a week they hid in the fields during the day and marched during the night, until they reached the house of Bielecki's uncle. There, they were separated, as the family wanted Bielecki back home in Krakow, and Cybulska was sent to hide with a farm family.

They failed to meet back up after the war.

Bielecki stayed in Poland and settled in Nowy Targ, where he raised a family and worked as the director of a school for bus and car mechanics. Cybulska married a Jewish man, David Zacharowitz, with whom she went to Sweden and then to New York.

Sheer chance allowed them to meet again. While talking with her Polish cleaning woman in 1982, Cybulska related her Auschwitz escape story.

The woman, stunned, said she had heard Bielecki tell the same story on Polish TV. She then helped Cybulska find Bielecki in Poland.

In the summer of 1983, they met at the Krakow airport. He brought 39 red roses, one for each year they had spent apart.

Cybulska died in New York in 2002.

Bielecki is survived by his wife, two daughters, four grandchildren and a great-grandson. A Catholic funeral Mass and burial are to be held in Nowy Targ on Monday.

"He did not think he was a hero, but he was. He will be missed," said Stanlee Stahl, a vice president at the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.

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Android 4.0: Ice Cream Sandwich Core Improvements (ContributorNetwork)

The newest Android OS release, Ice Cream Sandwich, finally fulfills something that Android users everywhere were craving, according to Android User Experience Director Matias Duarte. That something is an Android OS that users could "love using" instead of simply needing to use it. With this in mind, let us look at what Ice Cream Sandwich is in addition to the core differences between this and the earlier Android smartphone and tablet PC operating systems.

What is Ice Cream Sandwich?

Ice Cream Sandwich, also known as Android 4.0, is the newest iteration of the Android operating system and it is featured on the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Because Android OS is free to use, many smartphone manufacturers have used it as a base operating system, then develop their own user interfaces to run with it, or "over top" it as it is known. Two good examples of this type of UI and OS customization by manufacturers is the HTC Sense UI and the Motorola MOTOBLUR, as both run over top Android and offer users additional features or better UI control.

What other Android versions came before Ice Cream?

It is the fourth is a long line of Android operating systems made for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs. Earlier Android OS versions include Android 2.3 - 2.3.7 known as Gingerbread and its various incremental updates, Android 2.2 or Froyo, Android 2.1 or ?clair, Android 1.6 or Donut, and Android 1.5, or Cupcake. These versions are used on various smartphones, while Android 3.0 - 3.2 known as Honeycomb, is used exclusively on Tablet PCs.

What makes Ice Cream Sandwich Different from earlier versions?

Ice Cream Sandwich is different from previous versions in that it was developed so manufactures can use it for both tablet PCs and smartphones without problems, whereas earlier versions were made for one or the other. It also offers a redesigned user interface, new communication abilities, and an overall improved user experience.

What new UI features are offered by Ice Cream?

Some of the new abilities and features include a new typeface that works better with the high definition displays offered by many manufacturers in addition to a new System Bar and Action Bar, both appearing on every screen, but are dimmable for full screen use. Additionally, more intuitive multitasking and navigational abilities are available as are interactive notifications, improved folders and favorites on the home screen. Ice Cream also features better accessibility and network control, improved resizable widgets, call and text response, and spell check, in addition to new voice input abilities including streaming voice abilities. Android 4.0 also features improved security as it allows users to unlock the smartphone.

What New Sharing and Communications abilities are offered?

Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 offers users' a People app and a Me profile that links and stores groups, social profiles, contacts, status updates, allowing better social integration and faster connections. Additionally, the improved Calendar makes it easier to share files, and information and the Phone app offers a visual voicemail system that streamlines messaging.

What about features specific to the Galaxy Nexus Smartphone?

Android Ice Cream Sandwich is debuting on the Galaxy Nexus, Samsung's newest addition to the Galaxy line of phones, and Ice Cream Sandwich offers features specific to its advanced hardware. More specifically, the Android 4.0 Camera app features improvements such as better focusing, no lagging exposure time, and the ability to take photos with the HD video recording resolution. Also improved is face detection, easier focusing, panorama mode, and intuitive sharing abilities.

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'Paranormal Activity 3' scares up $54M debut

"Paranormal Activity 3" didn't just go bump in the night. It made a ton of noise at the box office with a record-setting, $54 million opening.

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The third film in Paramount Pictures' low-budget fright franchise, which was No. 1 at the box office, had the biggest debut ever for a horror movie, according to Sunday studio estimates. It broke the previous record part two set a year ago with $40.7 million. It's also the biggest opening ever for an October release, topping the $50.35 million Paramount's "Jackass 3D" made last year.

"Paranormal Activity 3" is actually a prequel, with the discovery of disturbing home-movie footage from 1988. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, who made the creepy documentary "Catfish," took over directing duties this time.

Don Harris, Paramount's president of distribution, said the studio hoped part three would simply perform better than part two. The first "Paranormal Activity," with its reported $15,000 budget, became a phenomenon in 2009 through midnight screenings and word of mouth.

Harris believes this installment did so well because it's actually the best movie of the three. He noted that it appealed to an older crowd, with 47 percent over the age of 25 compared to 40 percent for "Paranormal Activity 2." Strong reviews also helped, he said, including a rave from Time magazine. And fundamentally, horror movies simply play better in a packed theater.

Weekend box office

  1. Totals for Oct. 21-23

    1. "Paranormal Activity 3," $54 million.

    2. "Real Steel," $11.3 million.

    3. "Footloose," $10.85 million.

    4. "The Three Musketeers," $8.8 million.

    5. "The Ides of March," $4.9 million.

    6. "Dolphin Tale," $4.2 million.

    7. "Moneyball," $4.05 million.

    8. "Johnny English Reborn," $3.8 million. ($13.5 million international.)

    9. "The Thing," $3.1 million.

    10. "50/50," $2.8 million.

"Ultimately, it gets back to why there's still a theatrical business, why people still go to the movies," Harris said. "We want to laugh in a group, we want to be scared in a group, people like to cry in a group in the dark where nobody can see them crying. It's all the reason movie theaters exist and this genre has always been front and center."

Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com, said he was expecting "Paranormal Activity 3" to come in around $35 million for the weekend, simply because most newcomers have been underperforming this fall.

"This brand is as solid as the 'Twilight' brand or the 'Jackass' brand. There are certain brands that just transcend any kind of box-office rhyme or reason. They just resonate," Dergarabedian said. "These are shot in someone's house, they look like they're shot with a home video recorder, and people just relate to it."

Last week's No. 1 release, the futuristic boxing robot adventure "Real Steel," fell to second place. It made $11.3 million for a domestic total of $67.2 million. Worldwide, the Disney movie has grossed $153.3 million.

Story: 'Paranormal Activity 3' is pretty scary

Among the other new releases this week, Summit Entertainment's 3-D version of "The Three Musketeers" came in fourth place with $8.8 million. And Universal's "Johnny English Reborn," a sequel to the 2003 spy parody starring Rowan Atkinson, opened at No. 8 with $3.8 million. But it's already a huge hit internationally, having made $104.5 million so far.

In limited release, the critically acclaimed psychological thriller "Martha Marcy May Marlene" made $137,541 on four screens in New York and Los Angeles. That's a hefty $34,385 per screen average, according to Fox Searchlight.

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