<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports</title><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational</link><description><![CDATA[CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:22:45 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Oil Drifts Below $82 As Month-Long Rally Stalls]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Oil.drifts.below.2.1574046.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Oil.drifts.below.2.1574046.html</link><description><![CDATA[Oil prices drifted below $82 a barrel Friday as a stronger dollar helped pause a monthlong rally fueled by mostly positive news about the U.S. economy. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for April delivery was down 49 cents to $81.71 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 73 cents to settle at $82.20 on Thursday. Crude jumped to $83 a barrel earlier this week from $69 early last month on expectations sluggish consumer demand will eventually catch up with a steadily improving U.S. economy.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:10:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roadside Bomb, Gunmen Kill 4 In Baghdad]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Iraqi.officials.Roadside.2.1572624.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Iraqi.officials.Roadside.2.1572624.html</link><description><![CDATA[Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb and a gun attack have killed four people and wounded seven others in Baghdad. The officials say the roadside bomb went off Friday morning near a market in Baghdad's teeming Shiite district of Sadr City. The explosion killed three people and wounded seven. The officials say the bomb was hidden under a heap of trash and detonated as shoppers started arriving.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:06:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Charges For Son Over Conductor's Swiss Suicide]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/UK.prosecutors.will.2.1574681.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/UK.prosecutors.will.2.1574681.html</link><description><![CDATA[British prosecutors say they will not charge the son of conductor Edward Downes and his wife with assisting their suicides at a Swiss clinic last year. Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said Friday it was not in the public interest to prosecute Caractacus Downes. The deaths of Edward Downes, one of Britain's most eminent conductors, and his wife Joan reignited debate about assisted suicide.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:02:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Regrets How US Prioritized Rebuilding In Iraq]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Former.US.Secretary.2.1574666.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Former.US.Secretary.2.1574666.html</link><description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday she would "many times over liberate" Iraq again, but she regretted the Bush administration failed to work closer with Iraqis to rebuild the war-torn country. Rice, speaking at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said she believed history would eventually vindicate many of the decisions made during the presidency of George W. Bush. "I would many times over liberate Iraq again from Saddam Hussein," Rice said. "I think he was a danger to the Middle East."]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:51:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dog DNA Helps Convict Man Who Used Pet As Weapon]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Canine.DNA.used.2.1574616.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Canine.DNA.used.2.1574616.html</link><description><![CDATA[A man who used his dog to attack a teenager whom he then stabbed to death is facing sentencing in a London court. Chrisdian Johnson was convicted after police used analysis of DNA from his dog, Tyson, to prove the animal's blood was at the crime scene and on Johnson's clothes. Prosecutors say Johnson set the Staffordshire terrier-bull mastiff cross on 16-year-old Seyi Ogunyemi in a London park and then stabbed the boy six times.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:40:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geneva Atom Smasher Sets Record For Beam Energy]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/World.s.largest.2.1574620.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/World.s.largest.2.1574620.html</link><description><![CDATA[Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said beams of protons circulated at 3.5 trillion electron volts in both directions around the 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border at Geneva. The next major development is expected in a few days when CERN starts colliding the beams in a new round of research to examine the tiniest particles and forces within the atom in hopes of finding out more about how matter is made up.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:39:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rights Groups Warn Of Web Use By Racists]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Rights.groups.Social.2.1574629.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Rights.groups.Social.2.1574629.html</link><description><![CDATA[Three European human rights organizations are warning that social networking sites are being used to spread racist and xenophobic views — especially among young people. In a statement the groups express alarm over an "ever-increasing" use of the Internet by racist groups for recruitment, radicalization, command and control, intimidation and harassment. It says governments should establish or expand awareness-raising educational programs.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:20:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israelis View Obama Favorably, Mixed On Netanyahu]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Poll.Israelis.view.2.1574298.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Poll.Israelis.view.2.1574298.html</link><description><![CDATA[A poll released Friday shows that Israelis overwhelmingly have a favorable impression of President Barack Obama, despite a grave diplomatic feud with the U.S. over east Jerusalem construction. Between a total of three polls released Friday, Israelis sent mixed signals about their own leader. Thirty-six percent of those questioned for one poll thought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was best suited to lead Israel, versus 26 percent for his closest challenger, opposition leader Tzipi Livni. But another poll showed Livni's Kadima Party would overtake Netanyahu's Likud by a wider margin if elections were held today. All three polls showed a majority of Israelis supported continued construction in Jerusalem's disputed eastern sector, the issue at the heart of the U.S.-Israeli row. Support ranged from 48 percent in one poll to 70 percent in another.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:18:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upbeat Lloyds Bank Gives World Markets A Boost]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Upbeat.Lloyds.statement.2.1573988.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Upbeat.Lloyds.statement.2.1573988.html</link><description><![CDATA[British stocks led Friday's advance in global markets after the part-nationalized Lloyds Banking Group issued a buoyant trading update, but the euro continued to founder amid renewed fears about Greek debt crisis. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 41.26 points, or 0.7 percent, at 5,683.88 while Germany's DAX rose 24.89 points, or 0.4 percent, to 6,037.20. The CAC-40 in France was 17.16 points, or 0.4 percent, higher at 3,955.34. Wall Street was also poised to join in the advance, which started earlier in Asia — Dow futures were up 11 points, or 0.1 percent, at 10,728 while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 futures rose 1.2 point, or 0.1 percent, to 1,162.50.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:10:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coughing Horses At Spanish Riding School]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Coughing.horses.cause.2.1574516.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/wireapnational/Coughing.horses.cause.2.1574516.html</link><description><![CDATA[Austria's renowned Spanish Riding School has canceled performances because some of its elegant white Lipizzaner stallions have caught a cold. Chief Financial Officer Erwin Klissenbauer says 30 of the school's 73 horses developed a cough over the past few weeks. While 20 are still sick, 10 have recovered but need to rest up. He said Friday that the canceled performances are those set for this Sunday and the weekend of March 27.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:30:30 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>