CIA Chief: Bin Laden Alive, Worried About ?Own Security?

Osama bin Laden is alive and “putting a lot of energy into his own security,” the director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, said today. He also claimed, without providing details, that the US intelligence community had disrupted an attack “that would have rivaled the destruction of 9/11.” A senior intelligence official said Hayden was referring [...] "eliotcobb.com"

Firefighters gained ground Friday night and early Saturday morning against an out-of-control wildfire that might have destroyed 200 homes in a wealthy, celebrity-studded enclave. The blaze flared up so fast Thursday night that it caught some terrified residents behind the automatic gates of their mansions. The fire forced thousands to evacuate their homes in the longtime [...] "eliotcobb.com"

Space shuttle Endeavour’s seven astronauts climbed aboard their spaceship on Friday for the start of a 15-day mission to remodel the International Space Station for an expanded crew. Liftoff was scheduled for 7:55 p.m. EST/0055 GMT on Saturday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA plans to double the size of the space station crew from [...] "eliotcobb.com"

France’s U.S.-friendly president sent a clear message Friday to the next American administration: Plans for a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe are misguided, and won’t make the continent a safer place. Nicolas Sarkozy also warned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev against upping tensions by deploying missiles on the borders of the European Union in response to [...] "eliotcobb.com"

Dozing peacefully in her mother’s arms, this is four-day-old Maja Butscher, the first baby to be born as the result of a whole ovary transplant. Susanne and Stephan Butscher with their new baby Maja Charlotte Shasa Maja, appropriately named after the Roman goddess of fertility, is a symbol of hope to millions of infertile women around the [...] "eliotcobb.com"

Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C - News) plans to shed about 10 percent of its global workforce, a person familiar with the matter said Friday, as the bank tries to return to profitability and faces mounting criticism of Chief Executive Vikram Pandit. The cuts could result in a loss of roughly 35,000 jobs, based on the bank’s reported [...] "eliotcobb.com"