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Al Vertucci aka Tooch, packs overnights with enough excitement to keep anyone up all night! He's also the format's APD/MD. Al began his music career on the streets of Brooklyn, singing do-wop. Also a production guru, Al spent many years at WCBS FM in New York, as well as New York's WBAB FM and WAPP FM.

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Crisis in paradise in Maldives' new democracy

By C. Bryson Hull MALE (Reuters) - It was an ordinary blue felt pen, and not a bullet, that killed Mohamed Nasheed's term as the first democratically elected president of the Maldives. ...

Thousands back Putin's presidential bid in Moscow

By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched in Moscow under Russian flags, balloons and banners on Thursday to back Vladimir Putin's bid to return to the presidency and counter opposition protests...

Bomb kills 13 at Pakistani bus station

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at a bus station in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, police and emergency service officials said. ...

Australian PM Gillard calls for leadership vote

By James Grubel CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dared her political rival, former foreign minister Kevin Rudd, to challenge her in a leadership vote next week, hoping to end infighting...

Death toll in Iraq attacks rises to 50: sources

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll in a wave of bombings and other attacks across Iraq on Thursday has risen to 50, police and hospital sources said. The early-morning attacks were conducted against mainly...

Baghdad bombings kill at least 20

By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs struck across Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens, in the latest wave of attacks on the Iraqi capital since a political crisis...

Philippines' Arroyo pleads not guilty in poll fraud trial

By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pleaded not guilty on Thursday to electoral fraud on the first day of a trial seen as a landmark test of the...

Putin praises Cold War moles for stealing U.S. nuclear secrets

By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin praised Cold War-era scientists on Thursday for stealing U.S. nuclear secrets so that United States would not be the world's sole atomic power, in comments reflecting...

Judge to rule on Mubarak case on June 2

By Dina Zayed CAIRO (Reuters) - The verdict in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, charged with ordering the killing of protesters in the uprising that swept him from power, will be...

As Syrians flee Homs, sectarian faultlines deepen

BEIRUT (Reuters) - It started a few months ago with neighbors' suspicious looks, then came the threats. Their car was smashed and their front door was painted over with sectarian slurs. That was when...

Argentine commuter train crashes, killing 49 people

By Hilary Burke BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during Wednesday's morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in...

Argentine train crash kills 49 people, hurts 600

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during morning rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and injuring more than 600 others, officials said. ...

Merkel blunder a harbinger of change in Germany?

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's humbling defeat in accepting an opposition candidate for president may herald a shift in coalition alliances that could yet see her conservatives unceremoniously bundled from...

Rome expands cruise ship probe as bodies found

By Silvia Ognibene FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors placed four ship's officers and three company executives under investigation Wednesday in connection with the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster as divers found eight more...

Libya court orders civil trial for Gaddafi "loyalists"

BENGHAZI (Reuters) - A Libyan military court ruled on Wednesday that 50 people accused of fighting for Muammar Gaddafi and helping a mass jail break by alleged supporters of the deposed leader should be freed and tried instead in a civilian court. ...

Street artists join the war on Manila smog

By Peter Blaza MANILA (Reuters) - Their canvas is a stretch of dingy concrete wall along Manila's main highway, where millions of vehicles stream past every day, belching exhaust that helps to create a...

Mubarak's trial leaves Egypt with open wounds

By Dina Zayed CAIRO (Reuters) - Mohamed Moustafa Morsy had to sneak out of his home to join the protests against Hosni Mubarak last year, afraid his parents would stop him if they knew...

Chavez surgery rocks Venezuela ahead of election

By Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist...

Chavez surgery unsettles Venezuela ahead of election

By Andrew Cawthorne and Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's election rival wished him a fast recovery on Wednesday while allies closed ranks behind the "comandante" whose announcement of new surgery...

For Syrian children, a picture tells a thousand words

By Jonathon Burch BOYNUYOGUN, Turkey (Reuters) - A man lies on the street, bleeding from a gunshot wound to his chest, clutching a single red rose. In the foreground, a soldier fires a shot...

U.S., French journalists killed in Syria

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - American correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when rockets fired by...

North Korea calls Seoul nuclear summit a "childish farce"

SEOUL (Reuters) - Isolationist North Korea lashed out at its neighbor on Wednesday for hosting an international nuclear security summit in Seoul next month, calling it a "childish farce" and an "intolerable grave provocation." ...

Tibetans mark new year under shadow of immolations

By Michael Martina LANGMU, China (Reuters) - Tibetans in northwest China marked a tense traditional new year with prayer, the sounding of a gong and subdued defiance on Wednesday, in the wake of a...

Australia foreign minister quits sparking leadership crisis

By James Grubel CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned on Wednesday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, stoking speculation he will challenge her for the leadership...

Australian foreign minister quits in leadership crisis

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned his ministry on Wednesday amid speculation he was going to mount a bid to topple Prime Minister Julia Gillard, plunging the nation's minority government into a new crisis. ...

Israel top court scraps pious Jews' draft exemption

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's top court struck down on Tuesday a law designed to encourage ultra-Orthodox Jews to join the military and the workforce, saying it had backfired by "entrenching" their...

Indonesia police battle to regain control of Bali prison

By Zul Eduardo DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian police stormed a prison on the resort island of Bali on Wednesday to regain control after inmates took over and set part of it on fire...

Insight: India's Wild East unprepared for new Myanmar

By Satarupa Bhattacharjya and Frank Jack Daniel MOREH, India (Reuters) - As dusk falls on a lonely police station in the eastern tip of India, a young policeman nervously keeps an eye on the...

Analysis: Greek pro-bailout parties to survive voter anger

By Deepa Babington ATHENS (Reuters) - Support for Greece's two pro-bailout parties has sunk to an all-time low, but pollsters predict the squabbling rivals will still scrape through upcoming elections with enough seats in...

Investigators say prison fire likely caused by cigarette

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A devastating prison fire that killed 360 inmates in a Honduran penitentiary was likely caused by a candle or cigarette that set a mattress alight, investigators said on...

Iran talks failure sparks confrontation fears

By Fredrik Dahl and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA/TEHRAN (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's latest mission to Iran failed to budge a defiant Tehran over its disputed nuclear program, sending oil prices to a nine-month...

Iran defiant as UN nuclear talks fail

By Fredrik Dahl and Parisa Hafezi VIENNA/TEHRAN (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase...

UN watchdog says nuclear talks with Iran failed

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday it had failed to secure an agreement with Iran during two days of talks over disputed atomic activities and that the...

Putin woos police with wage promises ahead of poll

By Gleb Bryanski BARNAUL, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to bolster his authority ahead of a March presidential election on Tuesday by promising hefty pay rises for police in Moscow where opposition...

Venezuela's Chavez needs another operation

By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will undergo another operation in the coming days after doctors in Cuba found a lesion in his pelvis where surgeons removed a large cancerous...

Venezuela's Chavez to have another operation

By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday he would have to undergo another operation after doctors in Cuba found a lesion in his pelvis where surgeons removed a...

Venezuela's Chavez back on TV, squashes new rumor

By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez appeared on state TV on Tuesday, squashing a report he had secretly flown to Cuba for urgent cancer treatment ahead of a presidential election in...

Venezuela denies new rumors about Chavez's health

By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's government scoffed on Tuesday at a report that Hugo Chavez is in Cuba for more urgent cancer treatment, denouncing it as part of a "dirty war" by...

Exclusive: Algeria to allow foreign NGOs to monitor vote

By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) - Election observers from U.S. non-governmental organizations the Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute will for the first time be able to monitor a parliamentary election in Algeria...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe turns 88, vowing to cling to power

By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe turned 88 on Tuesday, vowing to stay in power despite grumbling inside his party that he should hand over to a younger leader, and...

Myanmar says will consider ASEAN poll observers

By Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar will "seriously consider" allowing Southeast Asian observers to attend April parliamentary by-elections, President Thein Sein said, the latest sign of openness by a civilian government keen to...

Iran says would act against enemies if endangered

By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic's armed forces was quoted by...

Afghan protesters attack Norwegian base over Koran burning

KABUL (Reuters) - Around 400 protesters hurled rocks and set fire to cars at a Norwegian-led military base in northern Afghanistan Thursday, as part of nationwide demonstrations against the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO air base. ...

Taliban urge Afghans to kill "invaders" amid new Koran protests

By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases and kill Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of the Koran at NATO's main base in...

Taliban urge Afghans to kill "invaders" after Koran burnings

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases and "beat and kill" Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of Islam's holy book, the Koran, at NATO's main base in the country as a third day of protests began. ...

Taliban urge Afghans to attacks Westerners

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases, and beat and kill Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country. ...

Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests

By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of...

Karzai urges calm as seven die in Afghan Koran

By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm on Wednesday after officials said at least six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over...

Six killed, many wounded in Afghan Koran protests

By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the...

Four killed, dozens wounded in Afghan Koran burning

By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the...

Gunfire wounds 26 in Afghan protests over Koran burning

By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Gunfire wounded at least 26 people during fresh protests in several cities across Afghanistan over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main...

Afghan demonstrators torch foreign compound in Kabul

KABUL (Reuters) - Demonstrators in the Afghan capital Kabul set fire on Wednesday to part of a housing compound used by foreign contract workers during a second day of violent clashes after copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, were burned at a NATO base. ...

U.S. Embassy in Kabul on lockdown amid protests

KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said on Wednesday its staff were on lockdown and all travel was suspended amid violent protests across the capital over the burning of Korans at NATO's main base in Afghanistan. ...

Several wounded in Afghan protests over Koran burning

By Mirwais Harooni HUDKHIL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Several people were wounded on Wednesday, witnesses said, when shots were fired as hundreds of angry Afghans gathered in a second day of violent clashes after copies...

Shots fired into Kabul protests against Koran burning

KABUL (Reuters) - Shots were fired into protesters in Kabul on Wednesday, and several people were wounded, during a second day of violent clashes after copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, were burned at a major NATO air base, Reuters witnesses said. ...

Afghans begin second day protest at Koran burning

HUDKHIL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghan protesters threw stones at police on Wednesday and security forces fired shots in the air in a second day of demonstrations after copies of the Koran, Islam's most holy book, were burned at a major NATO airbase. ...

Afghans vent fury over Koran burning, U.S. apologizes

By Samar Zwak BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. helicopters fired flares to disperse hundreds of angry Afghans who massed outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday after hearing staff there had...

Afghans protest over reported Koran desecration

By Samar Zwak BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - About 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign soldiers improperly disposed of copies of the Koran. ...

Afghans protest over reported Koran desecrations

By Samar Zwak BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign troops had improperly disposed of copies of...

Iranian navy ships return from Syria through Suez

CAIRO (Reuters) - Two Iranian naval ships returned from Syria through the Suez Canal Tuesday, a Suez Canal source said. The ships entered the canal from the Mediterranean Sea early in the morning, heading...

Photos make slow way home in tsunami-hit Japan

By Chris Meyers OFUNATO, Japan (Reuters) - In a large, bright room not far from the ocean that raged through this coastal Japanese city nearly a year ago, a handful of people with magnifying...

Japan, U.S. near deal on Iran oil import cut

By Osamu Tsukimori and Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is close to agreement with Washington on the size of cuts refiners must make in imports of Iranian crude oil to win waivers from...

Japan says no decision yet on Iran oil import cuts

By Osamu Tsukimori and Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's trade and foreign ministers said on Tuesday they have not yet reached an agreement with Washington on how much Tokyo will cut Iranian crude...

Libyans queue for first vote in battle-hit Misrata

By Hamuda Hassan MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - People from Libya's battle-scarred city of Misrata queued up to vote in their first free election Monday, hoping to set a standard for the rest of the...

Zetas plotted with Mexican prison guards in escape

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Members of the Zetas drug cartel plotted with prison guards to orchestrate an elaborate escape and kill 44 of their rivals in one of the worst episodes of prison violence in Mexico, the local state governor said on Monday. ...

Lawyer sees "conspiracy of silence" in Mubarak trial