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Ship carrying 150 sinks in Indian Ocean
A ship carrying about 150 people has sunk in the waters between Australia and Indonesia, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said Wednesday. Two merchant vessels are trying to rescue people where the ship went down, about 107 nautical miles north of Australia's Christmas Island, the authority said.
Family releases photo of a recovering Aimee Copeland
Aimee Copeland, the young Georgia woman who has been battling a flesh-destroying bacterial infection, got to go outside Sunday for the first time in seven weeks, her family reported. The family released a photo showing Copeland and her parents on the hospital grounds.
"Aimee has a beauty in this photograph that I think goes beyond words," Andy Copeland, her father, told ABC's "Good Morning America." "It's a beauty of survival, of resilience."
Copeland has lost her hands, one leg and both feet to necrotizing fasciitis, which followed her fall into a creek in a zip-line accident May 1. Nevertheless, Andy Copeland says she feels optimistic and "blessed to be different."
Her father wrote on his blog that being outside Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Georgia, was "the best therapy she has had in weeks."
Prolific writer Nora Ephron dead at 71
(CNN)Â - Novelist, filmmaker and screenwriter Nora Ephron has died after a battle with leukemia, her publisher said Tuesday. She was 71.
"She brought an awful lot of people a tremendous amount of joy. She will be sorely missed," said the statement from Alfred A. Knopf.
Ephron's romantic comedies included the box office hits "When Harry Met Sally," and "Sleepless in Seattle," both of which earned her screenwriting Oscar nominations.
She was also nominated for an Oscar for writing "Silkwood," the story of anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood.
Mash-up: Florida flooding, blind insight
The CNN Daily Mash-up is a roundup of some of the most interesting, surprising, curious, poignant or significant items to appear on CNN.com in the past 24 hours. We top it with a collection of the day's most striking photographs from around the world.
Insight from a blind man
Samuel Davis III has found a home as a server at Dans Le Noir?, a restaurant in Paris where guests dine in complete darkness and are served by blind staff. Davis, 51, from the Bronx, was blinded when he was shot in the head in 1984, but he can still wait on tables and he has a deep philosophy:
God took away my sight to give me sight. I have a brand new outlook on life. I was supposed to be dead.
Police hire homeless man
The police department in Marysville, California, can't afford to post an officer to watch over the historic Marysville Cemetery and keep it safe from vandals, so it did the next best thing. CNN affiliate KTXL reports the department recruited a homeless man to take care of the cemetery in exchange for a roof over his head. Donald "Shortstack" Oliver will live in a city-leased trailer overlooking the cemetery, which has sustained $28,000 in damage over the past year. "I never thought in my lifetime I'd be overseeing a graveyard, but hey, the good Lord has his ways," Oliver said.
The end of a species - or is it?
That kid better not run for president someday
We've all heard stories about children being accidentally left behind at gas stations or rest stops during family road trips. One family passing through Memphis, Tennessee, turned that on its head Monday when the dad got out of the car to pay for gas and one of his children woke up, took the wheel and drove off. CNN affiliate WMC takes it from there.
Gale on the beach!
Vacations are being ruined in a different way along Florida's Gulf Coast. CNN iReporter Tracy Bond, an Alabama resident, was staying at a resort in Destin, Florida, last weekend when she snapped some evocative images of Tropical Storm Debby skirting the coast. "We were in awe at the power of nature, watching these huge clouds rolling in toward the shore from the horizon," she told CNN. "It took my breath away."
Are you a Mac or a PC?
The Wall Street Journal has discovered that the online travel search engine Orbitz has been steering users of pricey Macintosh devices (yes, they can tell what you're using) toward more expensive accommodations. It didn't really need the boost, but the revelation stirred the old Mac-vs.-PC pot again, including among our readers. One particularly tart comment:
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What Orbitz doesn't tell you is that they also put a pretentious neckbeard hipster in every room Apple users book so they'll feel more at home.
Ouch!
On the horizon: Congressional Gold Medal, Loughner hearing
Ted Britton was one of the original Montford Point Marines.
In a ceremony at the Capitol, U.S. House and Senate leaders will award Congressional Gold Medals to recognize the nation's first African-American Marines. Those Marines received basic training at Montford Point Camp in North Carolina from 1942 to 1949.
A competency hearing will be held for Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of shooting six people to death and wounding 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at a Tucson, Arizona, political event in January 2011. Loughner has been under mental health treatment at a facility in Missouri for almost a year.
June 27 anniversaries
1844 - A mob kills Mormon leader Joseph Smith in Carthage, Illinois.
1985 - The legendary Route 66, running from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, is officially decertified as a U.S. route.
2007- Gordon Brown becomes the new British prime minister, replacing Tony Blair.
Vera Wang
June 27 birthdays
- Businessman and presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, 82
- Fashion designer Norma Kamali, 67
- Fashion designer Vera Wang, 63
- Actress Isabelle Adjani, 57
- Filmmaker J.J. Abrams, 46
- Actor Tobey Maguire, 37
Anthony Davis files trademarks for unibrow phrases ahead of NBA draft
If you don't know Anthony Davis from his crushing performances while playing basketball for the University of Kentucky, you likely recognize his face.
Okay, let's be honest, you likely recognize his unibrow.
At nearly any Kentucky game it was never hard to spot fans supporting and pulling for Davis while wearing unibrow T-shirts or even glasses with a unibrow attached - even his mom wore one.
SportsPickle.com: Ten best Davis unibrow tributes
Which is perhaps why Davis, who is a hot commodity and is expected to be picked first in the NBA draft on Thursday, is recognizing a moneymaking opportunity and seizing upon it.
Davis officially filed trademark requests with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the two best-known catchphrases associated with him: "Fear the Brow" and "Raise the Brow."
The trademark applications show he's filed trademarks for both phrases for practically everything from T-shirts to banners. Although it's normal for people to trademark slogans for everything under the sun, we had to chuckle when we saw that aftershaves, shaving preparation and skin cleansers were included on the list.
While Davis couldn't make any money off of the merchandise sold with his name or nicknames while playing in the NCAA, it's clear this likely top-choice player is making sure to get down to business ahead of the NBA draft and his likely stint on the U.S. Olympic team.
And it isn't a bad idea to get the ball rolling. Davis, if he plays anything like he did at Kentucky, is going to be a big draw wherever he lands. There's been plenty of speculation that he could get some top endorsement deals and be a Kevin Durant of sorts as he enters a stacked NBA field.
Many people over the course of his time at Kentucky have begged and pleaded with Davis to pluck away the unibrow. But in a way, it's come to define him and rally his fans behind him. So we're willing to bet that if he does get a big endorsement deal once he's in the NBA, it probably won't be with an eyebrow waxing company.
Facebook pulls location-tracking feature
Following a period of freak-out on the Internet on Monday, Facebook appears to have pulled a controversial feature that let the social network's users get a digital list of other Facebookers nearby.
The "Find Friends Nearby" feature was not accessible in a CNN test on Tuesday morning, and other media outlets, including CNET, reported that Facebook had pulled the service.
In a statement e-mailed to CNN, a Facebook spokeswoman declined to elaborate.
"This wasn't a formal release - this was something that a few engineers were testing," the spokeswoman wrote. "With all tests, some get released as full products, others don't. Nothing more to say on this for now - we'll communicate to everyone when there is something to say."
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Germany fined after soccer fans display neo-Nazi symbols
European football's governing body fined Germany's national soccer body €25,000 ($31,000) Tuesday over what witnesses say was the display of neo-Nazi symbols by German fans at a Euro 2012 match.
The "improper conduct of supporters" occurred when Germany played Denmark in the Ukrainian city of Lviv on June 17, UEFA said.
The anti-discrimination organization FARE stated on its official Twitter page: "FARE can confirm that one of our observers reported a neo-Nazi banner in the German section at the match v. Denmark in Lviv on Sunday."
German newspaper Taz also highlighted the wearing of neo-Nazi symbols by fans.
After the game, UEFA said it was investigating "the setting-off of fireworks and the improper conduct of supporters (display of inappropriate banners and symbols, and inappropriate chanting)."
FULL STORYDebby's flooding isn't over for Florida
He used sand bags and a water pump, but Chad Mercer couldn't stop floodwaters from rising to his knees inside his Starke, Florida, home.
"I'm laughing about it now, because I've been doing this since six this morning," he told CNN affiliate WJXT Monday night. "Gotta laugh now."
But Tropical Storm Debby proved to be no laughing matter as it wreaked widespread havoc in Florida. The slow-moving storm has killed one person, dumped nearly a foot of rain in some areas and triggered flooding resulting in evacuations, rescues and road and interstate closures.
And Debby isn't finished - forecasters warned the storm could bring another 8 inches of rain to the northern part of the state as it slogs through, headed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. Isolated areas could see a total of 25 inches of rain from Debby.
FULL STORYElection loser travels out of Egypt
The man who lost Egypt's presidential election left the country Tuesday for the United Arab Emirates, a Cairo airport official said.
Ahmed Shafik left on an Emirates Airline flight, Mohamed Sultan said.
He is not fleeing the country, Shafik's attorney, Showee Elsayed, told CNN.
While some legal petitions accusing Shafik of corruption were submitted in April, prosecutors have not taken legal action against him, so "there are absolutely no legal cases pending against" him, Elsayed said.
FULL STORYTuesday's live events
The Supreme Court is expected to rule Thursday on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law. Once a ruling is issued, watch CNN.com Live for reaction and fallout to the decision.
Today's programming highlights...
Continuing coverage - Tropical Storm Debby
10:30 am ET - Senate GOP briefing on security leaks - Five Republican Senators speak with reporters on their concerns over recent national security leaks.
18 killed, scores missing after landslides in Uganda
The death toll from a landslide that buried three villages in eastern Uganda stood at 18 on Tuesday, with rescue officials fearing the figure would rise.
Another 92 were injured and countless more were unaccounted for, the Red Cross said.
Heavy rains sent rocks and mud crashing down on the villages in the mountainous district of Bududa on Monday, about 275 kilometers (170 miles) northeast of the capital Kampala.
"Last night district authorities requested all people in high risk places to move to a school that we are using as a primary camp," Catherine Ntabadde of the Uganda Red Cross Society said Tuesday.
FULL STORYPolice: Girlfriends shot in Texas park; has 'earmarks of a targeted attack'
Two women, who were apparently dating, were shot in a small south Texas town over the weekend.
Authorities have not said whether the victims' sexual orientation played a part in the shooting, but the police chief of the town said the incident did not appear to be a random attack.
"This particular case, it does have some of the earmarks of a targeted attack," Chief Randy Wright of Portland told CNN affiliate KZTV.
One of the victims died, while the other is clinging to life.
"Well, at best we know they were really good friends. Some of their friends have stated that they were in a relationship," Wright told CNN on Monday night. "They were found by two visitors to the park Saturday morning."
FULL STORYNATO, Turkey to huddle over downing of jet by Syria
Western military leaders will meet Tuesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to huddle with Turkey over the downing of one of its military jets by Syria.
The "consultations" are being held at Turkey's request under Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's founding charter.
"Under Article 4, any ally can request consultations whenever, in the opinion of any of them, their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened," NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said in an email to CNN.
During the consultations, there is a chance Turkey will demand a collective military response.
The notion comes from Article 5 of NATO's founding Washington Treaty, which states that should a member nation - such as Turkey - be attacked, each member will assist the party under attack by taking "such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area."
Article 5 has been invoked just once since NATO's founding: the military response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
FULL STORYTropical Storm Debby could dump another foot of rain over Florida
Already deluged by a stubborn cyclone that wouldn't move, northern Florida could get another 6 to 12 inches of rain over the next two days as Tropical Storm Debby hovers in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
The storm could also produce more tornadoes across Florida on Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said.
As of late Monday night, Debby was centered about 35 miles south of Apalachicola, Florida, the weather agency said. The sprawling storm was creeping northeast at 2 mph, packing maximum sustained winds of 45 mph along the way.
A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Gulf coast of Florida from Mexico Beach to Englewood.
Debby has stalled multiple times in the Gulf of Mexico, dumping up to 5 inches of rain per hour on parts of the Florida Panhandle.
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