Better economic signs

November 19, 2013 - Daily News Briefing

If a record stock market is worth cheering, a stronger economy is worth quietly encouraging.

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The leader of one of Syria’s most prominent rebel units died Monday of wounds sustained during a strike by government troops last week, his group said, dealing another blow to fighters reeling from a series of recent battlefield losses. The death of Abdul-Qadir Saleh, founder of the Tawhid Brigade, was announced by opposition groups and activists. It followed advances by President Bashar al-Assad’s troops against rebels on two key fronts.

NASA’s newest robotic explorer, Maven, rocketed toward Mars on Monday on a quest to unravel the ancient mystery of the red planet’s radical climate change. The Maven spacecraft is due at Mars next fall following a journey of more than 440 million miles. Scientists want to know why Mars went from being warm and wet during its first billion years to cold and dry today.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court says the government has formally started the process to try former President and Army chief Pervez Musharraf for treason. The court says the government sent a letter Monday asking Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to choose three high court judges to try Musharraf.

Workers started removing radioactive fuel rods Monday from a reactor building at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The risky task is a crucial first step toward a full cleanup of the earthquake and tsunami-damaged plant in northeastern Japan. The Unit 4 reactor was offline at the time of the March 2011 disaster, but explosions weakened the structure, leaving it vulnerable to earthquakes.

The UN’s chief climate diplomat on Monday urged the coal industry to diversify toward cleaner energy sources and leave most of the world’s remaining coal reserves in the ground. On the sidelines of a UN climate conference, Christiana Figueres told dozens of CEOs of coal companies meeting at Poland’s Economy Ministry that their industry needs to change radically to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases.

The man acquitted of criminal charges in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin was arrested Monday after deputies responded to a disturbance call at a house in Florida, authorities said. Former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was charged with assault after his girlfriend claimed he pointed a shotgun at her.

Toronto’s City Council voted Monday to strip scandal-plagued Mayor Rob Ford of many of his powers following a heated debate in which he knocked over a female councilor. Council members voted overwhelming to cut the Ford’s office budget by 60 percent.

A German court says it’s shelved a case against a German bishop removed from his diocese by the Vatican over a furor caused by the cost of his new residence. The Hamburg administrative court said Monday the case against Limburg Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst would be closed upon his payment of a $27,000 fine.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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