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4B Daily News – Wednesday, October 5, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Bernanke warns Congress recovery is 'close to faltering' WASHINGTON (AP) — Europe has a debt crisis. America has a jobs crisis. Corpo- rate profits could be in trouble. World finan- cial markets are in turmoil. And no one seems prepared to ride to the rescue. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke bluntly warned Congress on Tues- day of what most of America has sensed for some time: The economic recovery, such as it is, ''is close to faltering.'' The central bank chief spoke on a day when the stock market spent most of the trading hours in bear market territory — down 20 percent from its most recent highs in April. A late-day rally helped the market finish higher. Bernanke's exchange with lawmakers seemed to capture the growing belief that no one is prepared to help the global economy in any meaningful way anytime soon. Speaking in unusually frank terms, he also captured the nation's sour economic mood. The Fed chief was asked about protests around Wall Street, which went on for an 18th day as demonstrators railed against cor- porate greed and expressed frustration over the economy. Christie won't seek nomination TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie firmly declared Tuesday that ''now is not my time'' to run for presi- dent, dashing the hopes of Republicans still searching for someone other than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has failed to win over skeptical conservatives, or Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is falling in polls as quickly as he had risen. After months of insisting that no, no, he wouldn't run — and then a long weekend of well maybe — Christie made it final in a news conference at the New Jersey State- house. That means it's basically down to Romney and Perry battling to take on Presi- dent Barack Obama, three months before the first GOP nomination voting. Christie was the latest, perhaps last, hope of some establishment Republicans who had already been rejected by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and others who declined to run for president in 2012. He's been gover- nor of New Jersey for less than two years, but he's cut the budget, curtailed public sec- tor unions, and dealt with a Democratic leg- islature with disarming and combative con- fidence. Christie disputed the idea that his name was just the latest on that list. ''They weren't searching. They came right to one target, and it was me,'' he said Tuesday. ''And it has always been me.'' Helicopter crashes into NYC's East River NEW YORK (AP) — A helicopter with five people aboard crashed into the East River on Tuesday afternoon after taking off from a launch pad on the riverbank, killing one passenger and injuring the others. New York Police Department divers pulled the dead woman from about 50 feet of water about an hour after the Bell 206 helicopter went down around 3 p.m. All the passengers appeared to be British tourists, police said. Officers usually assigned to counterter- rorism duties heard of the crash and arrived at the scene to find the chopper inverted in the murky water with just its skids showing on the surface. Firefighters also responded to the scene. The pilot, Paul Dudley, and three passen- gers were bobbing in the chilly water, and it looked as though a man was diving down and coming back up, possibly in an attempt to rescue the remaining passenger, witnesses said. Officers jumped in and pulled out two women and a man, police spokesman Paul Browne said. The women were in critical condition, and the man was stable. All were hospitalized. The pilot made his own way to the riverbank and remained at the scene. Knox leaves Italy for US after acquittal LONDON (AP) — After Italian prison- ers gave her a boisterous send-off, Amanda Knox made her way home to America on Tuesday, holing up with family on the upper deck of a jetliner to Seattle as she enjoyed her first full day of freedom since her mur- der conviction was reversed. Reporters on board the British Airways flight hoping to talk to Knox, now a tabloid staple on two continents, were blocked on the stairs by a flight attendant who politely informed them that the family would speak publicly only after the plane touched down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It was unclear whether Knox herself would speak then. Knox's life, spent in prison for the last four years, turned around dramatically Mon- day when an Italian appeals court threw out her murder conviction in the death of her British roommate. The decision, fueled by doubts over DNA evidence, stunned the vic- tim's family and angered the prosecution, which insists that she was among three peo- ple who killed 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. Knox left Perugia's Capanne prison Monday night amid cheers that a companion compared to those at a soccer stadium. Hundreds of inmates — most of them in the men's wing — shouted ''Amanda, ciao!'' and ''Freedom!'' as she walked into the central courtyard, said Corrado Maria Daclon, head of the Italy-US Foundation, which championed Knox's cause. Airline attack suspect shows tendency to make outbursts DETROIT (AP) — A Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear made a defi- ant political outburst Tuesday, demonstrat- ing again why his courtroom behavior will be closely watched throughout the trial where he's representing himself. ''The mujahadeen will wipe out the U.S. — the cancer U.S.,'' said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, scowling as he referred to Muslim guerrilla fighters. When marshals removed his handcuffs, he also claimed that a radical Muslim cleric killed last week by the American military is still alive. In nearly two years of legal proceedings, Abdulmutallab has normally been polite and studious in front of the judge and prospec- tive jurors. But in the moments before court, he's shown a tendency to make comments reflecting loyalty to al-Qaida and contempt for the United States. The 24-year-old is charged in federal court with trying to destroy the Amsterdam- to-Detroit flight on Christmas 2009. He has pleaded not guilty, and his trial is expected to last three or four weeks. Islamic militants launch their deadliest bombing in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al- Qaida-linked militants launched their dead- liest single bombing in Somalia on Tuesday, killing 70 people and demonstrating how the group that blocked aid to famine victims can still mount devastating violence even after most of its fighters fled the capital in August. A truck loaded with drums of fuel exploded outside the Ministry of Education on one of central Mogadishu's busiest streets, where students and their parents were registering for scholarships offered by the Turkish government. Rebels of the al-Shabab militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it was striking government officials and foreigners — referring to African Union peacekeeping troops support- ing the U.N.-backed regime. Although the Islamic fighters made what they called a ''tactical withdrawal'' from their bases in Mogadishu amid an AU offen- sive in August, they had vowed to carry out devastating suicide attacks. The thunderous blast covered the city in dust more than a half-mile away and left blackened corpses sprawled amid burning vehicles. One woman used a blue plastic bucket to pour water on a charred and smol- dering body. 3 U.S.-born scientists win Nobel in physics NEW YORK (AP) — Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, a stun- ning revelation that suggests the cosmos could be headed for a colder, bleaker future, nearly devoid of light. In 1998, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess presented findings that overturned the conventional idea that the expansion was slowing 13.7 billion years after the big bang. Their discovery raised a question: What is pushing the universe apart? Scientists have labeled it ''dark energy,'' but nobody knows what it is. It's ''an enigma, perhaps the greatest in physics today,'' the Nobel committee said. Perlmutter, 52, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, will receive half the $1.5 million prize. The other half will go to Schmidt, 44, at the Australian National Uni- versity in Weston Creek, Australia, and Riess, 41, an astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Apple unveils faster, more powerful iPhone CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple Inc. unveiled a new iPhone on Tuesday that is faster and more powerful but stops short of a more radical upgrade. It said Sprint cus- tomers will now be able to use one. The new iPhone 4S has an improved camera with a higher-resolution sensor. The processor is faster, which helps run smoother, more realistic action games. It's also a ''world phone,'' which means that Verizon iPhones will be able to useable overseas, just as AT&T iPhones already are. There had been speculation that Apple would reveal a more radical revision of the phone, an ''iPhone 5.'' The no-show leaves room for speculation that Apple will reveal a new model in less than a year, perhaps one equipped to take advantage of Verizon's and AT&T's new high-speed data networks. Apple is including a ''personal assistant'' application called Siri in the iPhone 4S. It responds to spoken questions and com- mands such as ''Do I need an umbrella today?'' It's an advanced version of speech- recognition apps found on other phones. The new iPhone also comes with new mobile software that includes such features as the ability to sync content wirelessly, without having to plug the device to a Mac or Windows machine. Jackson doctor's girlfriend testifies LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors on Tuesday called the girlfriend of the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death to detail the physician's busy schedule on the day the singer died and her own interactions with the late King of Pop. Nicole Alvarez told jurors during the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray that the doctor had first told her that he was Jackson's personal physician for a year before the singer's June 2009 death. Alvarez beamed as she described meeting Jackson for the first time in Las Vegas, where Murray maintains a med- ical practice. ''I was speechless,'' Alvarez said. ''I couldn't believe I was meeting Michael Jackson.'' Alvarez said she and Murray met Jackson several other times, including after the birth of the couple's young son. 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