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KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Kissimmee police said a 17-year-old boy confessed to stabbing his 16-year-old neighbor to death early Thursday morning. Officers said Anas Muhammad had plans to kill someone when he stabbed Paola Pagan at the Kensington Apartments, near John Young Parkway and Carroll Street in Kissimmee. “He gave his actions forethought and carried through with those actions,” Deputy Chief Beth Holland said. “I think he just had it in his mind that he was going to do this to somebody.” Pagan’s best friend, Dylan Grecni, said Pagan was quiet and mostly kept to herself. Police said Pagan and Muhammad...

International design and innovation firm Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) is collaborating with ANAS, an Italian government-owned road construction and maintenance company, to design a smart highway system that will stretch across more than 1,500 miles of roads and highways in Italy. Dubbed ANAS Smart Road, the project aims to manage the traffic and enhance road safety, according to a firm release. The system will utilize drones and "flying poles"—a series of grounded smart poles that are equipped with sensors and in-motion Wi-Fi connectivity. The drones can take on various tasks, ranging from "monitoring tunnels, viaducts, or other remote pieces of...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A judge will decide whether a Virginia man accused of spying on U.S. citizens for Syria will remain jailed while he awaits trial.

The United States has started engaging the Taliban in negotiations through Saudi and Pakistani intelligence agencies, highly-placed sources told Dawn on Monday. He said that four “major neutral players” were engaged with the Afghan Taliban on behalf of the Saudi leadership and the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) of Saudi Arabia and the Pakistani leadership and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).The GID and ISI have been doing the job on behalf of the US government and CIA. The source said that one of the main objectives of the recent visit to Pakistan by CIA chief Leon Panetta was to assess progress in...

Obama’s popularity has really spread around the world. Everything from streets, hotels, and even people are being named after the newly elected President of the United States. For one photographer in Indonesia, it is not the name Obama that has thrown him into almost instant fame, but rather his face. Ilham Anas bares a striking resemblance to the president-elect Barack Obama in this recent commercial. CNN report on Sen. Obama's Indonesia school- VIDEO A LITTLE LATE CNN TO START VETTING DON'T YOU THINK?

It's Ilham Anas, an Indonesian magazine photographer who bears a striking resemblance to the president-elect. The 34-year-old is now collecting paychecks as an Obama look-alike. "At first my nose and eyes made me self-conscious, but now I think they are God's blessing," Ilham Anas told the Associated Press. Like Obama, Anas is of American and Kenyan descent. His new life as an Obama double started after the November 2008 election. "My colleagues played a practical joke on me -- they made me wear a suit, a tie, and took pictures of me posing as Obama," Anas told Reuters. ... Now,...

JAKARTA -- Indonesian photographer Ilham Anas won't be at U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday. Instead he'll be starring as an Obama look-alike on Indonesian TV. Anas, 34, who from some angles bears a resemblance to the new U.S. president, shot to fame in Jakarta after Obama, 47, won the election in November, and is now earning income as an Obama double. Many Indonesians have a keen interest in Obama, who lived in Jakarta for four years after his American mother, Ann Dunham, married Muslim Indonesian Lolo Soetoro following the end of her marriage to Obama's Kenyan father. “When...

<p>Just saw a fox news alert, hope it was a new one and not a replay.</p>