Thousands shake a leg with Michelle Obama for 'Let's Move'

Associated Press, Friday February 10, 2012, Des Moines, Iowa

She did some wild arm swings, sharp robotic turns and pulsing fist pumps. Michelle Obama busted out a few new moves on Thursday to mark the second anniversary of her campaign against childhood obesity with a few new friends - 14,000 or so, it turns out.

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Buy wife flowers, then take her to dinner: Judge

Associated Press, Friday February 10, 2012, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

A spat over forgetting to wish his wife a happy birthday landed a South Florida man in jail on domestic violence charges. Judge "Jay" Hurley ordered Bray to buy a birthday card and flowers for his wife before taking her to dinner at Red Lobster and bowling afterward. Hurley ruled the couple should begin seeing a marriage counselor immediately.

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NASA releases stunning timelapse pictures of solar storm hitting earth

Associated Press, Friday February 10, 2012, Houston

Spectacular new images of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, have been released by the US space agency NASA after their capture by a new time-lapse photographic technique. NASA has taken numerous images of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, over the years, but these are the first "moving" images combining hundreds of still images taken from the International Space Station.

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Maldives crisis: India keeps Air Force on standby to evacuate its citizens

NDTV Correspondent, Thursday February 9, 2012, New Delhi\Male

As the political crisis in Maldives deepens, India is readying to evacuate its citizens from the trouble-hit archipelago.

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US recognises new government of Maldives

Agence France-Presse, Friday February 10, 2012, Washington

The United States on Thursday recognised the new government of Maldives President Mohamed Waheed as legitimate and urged him to fulfill a pledge to form a national unity government. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland also said Robert Blake, the top US diplomat for south Asia, telephoned former president Mohamed Nasheed to tell him Washington backed a "peaceful resolution" of the crisis on the archipelago.

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Maldives crisis: Will Nasheed be arrested? Legality of arrest warrant being examined

Associated Press, Thursday February 9, 2012, Male

A Maldives court issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for former President Mohamed Nasheed, one day after his supporters rampaged in the capital and his claim of being ousted by a coup left unclear the stability of the fledging Indian Ocean democracy. Police spokesman Abdul Mannan Yusuf refused to disclose the grounds for the criminal court's warrant, or say when Nasheed - who is living at his Male home, surrounded by supporters - would be arrested.

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Rs 60 million looted from Qatari royal family on Pak hunting trip

Press Trust of India, Thursday February 9, 2012, Islamabad

Unidentified armed men looted around Rs 60 million from a member of the Qatari royal family while he was on a hunting expedition in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Thursday, TV news channels reported. The armed men stopped the Qatari leader's car in Turbat area and took away the cash.

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Rescued dog bites TV anchor during broadcast

Associated Press, Thursday February 9, 2012, Denver

An 85-pound Argentine mastiff dog dramatically rescued a day earlier from an icy lake was impounded Wednesday after viciously biting a Denver television news anchor on her face during a live in-studio segment.

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LA school in sex abuse scandal reopens

Associated Press, Thursday February 9, 2012, Los Angeles

Children are returning to a Los Angeles-area elementary school where the entire staff has been replaced following the arrests of two former teachers on charges of committing lewd acts with students in class. Police are keeping an eye on Miramonte Elementary School on Thursday morning as youngsters head to classes after a two-day closure.

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Pak man fights police over fees to view 40-foot shark

Associated Press, Thursday February 9, 2012, Karachi

Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors 20 rupees (22 cents) each to see a roughly 40-foot whale shark he bought from a fisherman. Khan is in the business of buying fish, albeit usually much smaller ones, and jumped at the chance on Tuesday to pay about $2,200 for the 20-ton behemoth, which was discovered dead in the Arabian Sea off the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

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