<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational</link><description><![CDATA[New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:29:24 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Woman To Fight Insurance Co. Over Facebook]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Canadian.woman.to.2.1329208.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Canadian.woman.to.2.1329208.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party. Nathalie Blanchard said Monday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits until payments dried up this fall. When Blanchard called her insurance provider, Manulife, to find out why, she says she was told the Facebook photos showed she was able to work.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:24:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Hostage's Remains Identified In Lebanon]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Remains.of.British.2.1329366.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Remains.of.British.2.1329366.html</link><description><![CDATA[The remains of British hostage Alec Collett, who disappeared in 1985 during Lebanon's civil war while working for the United Nations, have been positively identified, the U.N. announced Monday. Experts began searching for Collett's remains last week in the eastern Bekaa Valley, which during the 1975-90 civil war was a lawless region of banditry and kidnapping. Lebanese security officials said two bodies were discovered near the village of Aita al-Foukhar and samples were sent for DNA testing in Beirut. U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had been informed of the positive identification of Collett's remains.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:18:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil: World Must Engage, Not Isolate Iran]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Brazil.says.world.2.1328828.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Brazil.says.world.2.1328828.html</link><description><![CDATA[The world must engage, not isolate Iran in the push for Middle East peace and Iranian leaders should negotiate with Western nations for a "just and balanced" solution to concerns over its nuclear program, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday. Silva's comments followed a three-hour private meeting with his increasingly alienated Iranian counterpart, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — the first Iranian leader to visit Brazil since pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi toured Brazil in 1965. But Ahmadinejad made no promises and defiantly said Iran would try to improve its uranium-enrichment technology if it can't buy enriched uranium abroad.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:08:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV: Israel Proposing 10-month Settlement Freeze]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Israel.TV.Israel.2.1329677.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Israel.TV.Israel.2.1329677.html</link><description><![CDATA[Israel TV reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proposing a 10-month freeze in construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The TV report said the freeze would not apply to Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Palestinians claim that part of the city as their capital. Israeli and Palestinian officials were not available for comment late Monday. The report quoted unnamed Israeli officials.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:06:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Bang Atom Smasher Records First Proton Hits]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/CERN.Big.Bang.2.1328620.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/CERN.Big.Bang.2.1328620.html</link><description><![CDATA[The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time and causing the first particle collisions in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said. The true test of the Large Hadron Collider will come in the first two months of 2010, when scientists plan to start deliberately crashing protons into each other to see what they can discover about the makeup of the universe and its tiniest particles. The collisions — seen by massive detectors — were a side effect of the quick advances being made by the LHC during its startup phase, which began Friday night, said Rolf Heuer, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:03:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oil Edges Higher On Weak Dollar]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Oil.prices.inch.2.1328212.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Oil.prices.inch.2.1328212.html</link><description><![CDATA[Oil prices jumped Monday and nearly touched $80 before falling, on a weakening dollar and surprising housing numbers which lifted hopes of an economic rebound. Benchmark crude for December delivery rose 9 cents to settle at $77.56 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It traded as high as $79.92 earlier in the day. The National Association of Realtors said U.S. home sales rose 10.1 percent in October. That is the highest level in more than two years and helped push crude prices higher on expectations of increased demand.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:59:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japanese Engineer Released By Yemeni Tribesmen]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Japanese.engineer.held.2.1329233.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Japanese.engineer.held.2.1329233.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Japanese engineer seized by Yemeni tribesmen seeking to swap him for a prisoner with al-Qaida links was released Monday after a week in captivity. Takeo Mashimo returned to the capital, San'a, after a day of negotiations between the tribesmen and Yemeni authorities, said Natahiro Yamaguchi, the Japanese Embassy's deputy chief of mission. Mashimo was in good health and was received by the Japanese ambassador and the governor of San'a, Yamaguchi said. In brief remarks Mashimo thanked the government's negotiating team and the tribesmen for letting him go.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:57:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bombings, Shooting Kill 12 Around Afghanistan]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Attacks.kill.12.2.1328272.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Attacks.kill.12.2.1328272.html</link><description><![CDATA[Bombings and shootings killed 12 people across Afghanistan, including four American troops and three children, as President Barack Obama convened his war council again Monday to fine-tune a strategy to respond to the intransigent violence. Obama is considering sending tens of thousands more troops to fight an increasingly virulent insurgency, and pressure has been mounting for a decision. NATO is also calling on allied nations to add to their military presence. The violence has continued unabated despite the tens of thousands of foreign troops already in the country since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:54:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[BC-WEA--Global Weather-Fahrenheit, WEA]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/East.Asia.Southeast.2.1328654.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/East.Asia.Southeast.2.1328654.html</link><description><![CDATA[Minimum and maximum temperatures in Fahrenheit, precipitation in inches and weather conditions as recorded for the previous day and forecast for the current and following day in each city as of 2000 GMT: ;MIN;MAX;COND;PRECIP;MIN;MAX;COND;MIN;MAX;COND Amsterdam;46;54;rn;0.08;46;53;rn;50;55;rn]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:53:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[McKellen, Weisz Win At London Theater Awards]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Ian.McKellen.Rachel.2.1329595.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnational/Ian.McKellen.Rachel.2.1329595.html</link><description><![CDATA[Rachel Weisz took top acting honors and Ian McKellen was recognized for a half-century in the theater Monday at London's Evening Standard Theater Awards. Weisz won the acting prize for playing faded southern belle Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire." The prize was renamed the Natasha Richardson Best Actress Award this year in honor of the actress who died in March after a skiing accident in Quebec. The award was presented by Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:31:19 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>