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Top Stories: WASHINGTON/BEIJING - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng spoke to US lawmakers for the second time in a week and alleged persecution of his family by Chinese authorities. Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 15:06:45 -0400ISLAMABAD - NATO has invited Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, in what could be seen as a sign of Islamabad preparing to reopen its western border to t... Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 15:03:19 -0400BERLIN - New French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to work around their differences on how to boost growth in the crisis-ridden Eurozone, and also pledged to pu... Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:17 -0400THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who is accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide in the early 1990s, went on trial at a special Yugoslav war cri... Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 14:57:25 -0400ATHENS - Debt-hit Greece Wednesday announced new elections on June 17 with a senior judge being appointed to head a caretaker government to oversee the ballot. Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 14:54:23 -0400NEW YORK - Two lawsuits filed by shareholders of JPMorgan Chase Co. accusing it and the executive team of taking excessive risk leading to a colossal trading loss of $2 billion, is the latest of trou... Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 14:50:32 -0400NEW YORK - Diversified US conglomerate General Electric (GE) is in the process of acquiring two underground mining equipment manufacturers Australia-based Industrea Limited and US-based Fairchild Int... Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 14:39:35 -0400LONDON - Global energy major Total has been successful in plugging a gas leak on a North Sea oil platform, according to the operators. Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 16:02:44 -0400LONDON - The Bank of England Wednesday admitted the headline inflation rate would run above target for another 'year or so', reversing the optimistic forecast in February that it would come down to de... Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 14:47:10 -0400LONDON - British energy major BG Group and its partner Ophir Energy have made their fifth consecutive gas discovery at the Mzia-1 exploration well located in Block 1, offshore southern Tanzania, the c... Big News Network.com Wed, 16 May 2012 14:42:38 -0400WASHINGTON -- The United States special adviser on Camp Ashraf, Daniel Fried, says nearly 2000 residents of the camp that's served for years as a base for a group Iran calls terrorissts -- half ... RadioFreeEurope Thu, 17 May 2012 01:17:55 -0400Outgoing commander of IAF comes out strongly against public discussion regarding strike on Iran; says Israel's air superiority in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Sinai threatened by proliferation of ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 17 May 2012 01:11:09 -0400The Iranian judiciary this week upheld the death penalty for four men convicted of sodomy, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).The agency distributes reports in Persian ... Jerusalem Post Thu, 17 May 2012 01:11:08 -04001 of 5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield (R) presents MIT President-elect L. Rafael Reif with an MIT jersey with the number 17 on it during an MIT Community Meeting ... Reuters Thu, 17 May 2012 00:44:15 -0400(AP) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed Wednesday that some of its agents were aboard a U.S.-owned helicopter with Honduran police who opened fire on a small ... CBS News Thu, 17 May 2012 00:41:41 -0400WASHINGTON - After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States. International Herald Tribune Thu, 17 May 2012 00:35:37 -0400LONDON - The phone hacking scandal that shook Rupert Murdoch's global media empire and hit the heart of the British government began quietly on a Monday in 2005, when aides to the British royal ... International Herald Tribune Thu, 17 May 2012 00:19:51 -0400A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian-American crew aboard is due at any time to dock with the International Space Station (ISS). Russia's space command center said the Soyuz spacecraft ... RadioFreeEurope Thu, 17 May 2012 00:08:15 -0400WHEN "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" was postponed and then pulled from the New York Theater Workshop in March 2006, the ensuing furor raged chiefly between critics of the play's unequivocal sympathy for ... International Herald Tribune Thu, 17 May 2012 00:07:29 -0400RIO DE JANEIRO - President Dilma Rousseff is facing one of the defining moments of her presidency as pressure builds on her to veto a bill that would open vast protected areas of forests to ranching ... International Herald Tribune Thu, 17 May 2012 00:04:10 -0400A Malaysian court convicted three Mexican brothers and two other people and sentenced them to be hanged for drug trafficking. The Mexicans are from Sinaloa state, the cradle of their country's drug ... New Zealand Herald Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:01 -0400Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other minorities in 2011 accounted for 50.4% of births, 49.7% of all children under 5 and slightly more than half of the 4 million kids under 1, the Census Bureau ... USA Today Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:00 -0400Gone: Karla Walker was evicted from her rented home in Prestwich, near Manchester, after her out-of-control sons brought misery to neighbours for three ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 23:56:08 -0400An autopsy for the 52-year-old was scheduled for Thursday, and no cause of death had been released. In a statement issued by Robert Kennedy Jr.'s chief of staff, the family said Mary Kennedy, an ... USA Today Wed, 16 May 2012 23:47:19 -0400Health officials said Armando Rodriguez, 34, of Stockton has active pulmonary tuberculosis, which can include coughing up blood or phlegm and can spread through the air. Rodriguez has been ... USA Today Wed, 16 May 2012 23:45:33 -0400CAIRO - The leader of Egypt's ruling military council promised on Wednesday to secure a fair vote in the presidential election beginning next week but also said the military would retain a "duty" to ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 23:37:05 -0400VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is installing more centrifuges in an underground plant but does not yet appear to be using them to expand higher-grade uranium enrichment that could take it closer to ... Reuters Wed, 16 May 2012 23:35:40 -0400(AP) DALLAS - The FBI says it suspects the mailings of hundreds of envelopes containing white powder over the last four years are the work of someone in Texas. The FBI released a statement Wednesday ... CBS News Wed, 16 May 2012 23:33:07 -0400BEIJING - In a rare sign of open opposition against two of China's most powerful leaders, a group of retired Communist Party members have called for the resignation of the country's security boss, ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 23:31:54 -0400Even though thousands of consumer electronics products blanket the earth, from remote-controlled helicopters to MP3 toothbrushes, you probably have the same Must Have list as most people: computer, ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 23:31:02 -0400KABUL, Afghanistan - There are few certainties for Afghanistan as the NATO troop withdrawal moves into high gear, but one of them is this: the Continental Europeans have a grimmer prognosis for what ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 23:30:12 -0400Hotline for Migrant Workers files a police report about the calls and also filed a complaint against Interior Minister Eli Yishai for ... Haaretz Wed, 16 May 2012 22:59:42 -0400AN influential panel is calling for an 80% reduction of US nuclear weapons and an elimination of all nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic ... The Herald Wed, 16 May 2012 22:54:02 -0400Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors yesterday at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat in an aggressive gesture of ... The Herald Wed, 16 May 2012 22:54:02 -0400PAKISTAN and the United States appeared on the verge of clinching an agreement to reopen ground supply lines into Afghanistan, a US official said, as Islamabad confirmed its president will attend a ... The Herald Wed, 16 May 2012 22:54:01 -0400DAKAR General Bosco Ntaganda defected from Congo's army in April after President Joseph Kabila announced plans to arrest him. Fighters loyal to him have recruited at least 48 children from ... The Herald Wed, 16 May 2012 22:54:00 -0400South Sudan will soon acquire anti-aircraft missiles to defend its territory against air attacks it says are frequently carried out by warplanes from neighbouring Sudan, the South Sudanese military ... The Herald Wed, 16 May 2012 22:54:00 -0400Officials with Child Protective Services told state District Judge Mike Schneider that a therapist who has been working with 8-year-old Miguel Morin believes the boy is not yet ready to be told who ... USA Today Wed, 16 May 2012 22:37:41 -0400Greek creditors are bracing themselves the possibility of heavy losses but it is the Greek people who fear they may be the biggest losers if they default on their ... Sky News Wed, 16 May 2012 22:36:09 -0400Henryville Junior-Senior High School students won an online contest to bring in the top-selling act, which also is playing a full benefit concert later Wednesday at the KFC Yum Center in nearby ... USA Today Wed, 16 May 2012 22:35:32 -0400Abu Zubaydah, in an undated photo (CBS News) NEW YORK - The al Qaeda operative known as Abu Zubaydah, the longest-held "high value" detainee currently incarcerated at the U.S. military ... CBS News Wed, 16 May 2012 22:24:45 -0400Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 16, 2012, to push for the unrestricted reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. From left are, ... CBS News Wed, 16 May 2012 22:24:42 -0400In this Jan. 18, 2010, file photo, master of ceremonies Chuck Brown speaks during a program to celebrate the legacy of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Washington National Cathedral in ... CBS News Wed, 16 May 2012 22:24:40 -0400Demonstrators and police have clashed in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka after 33 senior opposition leaders were charged with involvement in an arson attack during an anti-government strike last ... Al Jazeera Wed, 16 May 2012 22:22:55 -0400WASHINGTON - A commando-style squad of Drug Enforcement Administration agents accompanied the Honduran counternarcotics police during two firefights with cocaine smugglers in the jungles of the ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 22:21:16 -0400About 100 homes in a neighborhood near Fort Hood were evacuated Tuesday night after a witness reported seeing something fall from the sky around 8 p.m., Killeen police spokeswoman Carroll Smith ... USA Today Wed, 16 May 2012 22:04:38 -0400BEIRUT, Lebanon - President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that he faced no real domestic opposition in the 15-month-old uprising against him, the violence in his ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 21:51:09 -0400One day, you'll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card or ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 21:50:39 -0400David Cameron’s harshest critics were kicked off the party’s backbench 1922 Committee last night after a ‘coup’ by more supportive MPs from the new ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:42:08 -0400Hugging a hoodie has always been a risky business, but never before have the stakes been so high. Tomorrow, Wall Street will invite the world to buy shares in Facebook and take what is expected to ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:42:03 -0400The BBC marked the end of an era yesterday by revealing all children’s programmes, including Blue Peter and Newsround, are to be ditched from BBC1 and ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:58 -0400Figures released for the first quarter of this year showed he attracted 9.23million weekly listeners – his second-highest result since he replaced Sir Terry Wogan in ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:55 -0400The study, published in the online Public Library of Science, suggests that we unconsciously make decisions about whether someone is gay or straight every time we meet a new ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:50 -0400The suggestion follows tests in the laboratory comparing high-fructose corn syrup, which is six times sweeter than cane sugar and a common ingredient in processed foods, with omega-3 fatty acids, ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:47 -0400But a survey reveals that for 68 per cent of Britons, this is no longer the case, for they would happily take a mobile phone call during a dinner date – even if they know it is not ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:43 -0400However, on average 36.5 per cent of children in 2,577 English primary schools did not achieve the required level by the end of last year, according to the report by Kellogg’s and ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:39 -0400An 83-year-old man has achieved a double by becoming the oldest living kidney donor in the UK and the oldest person in the country to give a kidney to a ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:29 -0400Speaking to the Policy Exchange think tank in London, he said he did not want to be operated on by a ‘high’ surgeon or ride on a bus driven by a cocaine ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:25 -0400Now this spectacular, near-complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton has been painstakingly pieced back together by a British collector – and is set to sell ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:21 -0400Communication breakdown: Culture minister Ed Vaizey has warned households which use signal amplifiers their television reception could be damaged by new mobile ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:18 -0400They are managing to graduate from some universities by putting in ‘much less effort’ than that demanded on degree courses at other more prestigious ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:16 -0400Borislava Mihaylova, of the University of Oxford, lead author of the study, said: ‘In the UK, current practice is generally to give people a statin only if they have had or are considered to ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:14 -0400During this period, the affected patients succumbed to more than double the number of severe hypoglycaemic, or ';hypo';, episodes that patients without errors suffered, according to the ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:12 -0400With a failing economy and the prospect of a second election in less than two months, Greece could probably have done without the bumbling arrival of Boris Johnson ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:10 -0400Part-time jobs have increased to an all-time high of 7.99million, up 118,000 during the three months between January and March, according to figures from the Office for National ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:07 -0400Prosecutors said the girl headbutted her and trashed her office at the Devon school after arming herself with a piece of wood - although this was not used in the ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:04 -0400The Pirate Bay, which enables people to download files, music and films without paying, was suddenly bombarded with internet traffic which overwhelmed its ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:00 -0400Clintons's announcement follows a turbulent period for Britain's high street.Last month Mothercare axed 100 job when it closed 100 stores. Another of the U.K's iconic stores ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:56 -0400Beverley Clark, 40, from Hebburn, South Tyneside, has accused the restaurant of poor customer service, but the the manager has stood by the ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:51 -0400The TV ad, screened in February, showed a series of brief shots of people at Ladies' Day at the Cheltenham Festival while the voiceover attempted to guess their ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:48 -0400The Old Bailey had heard the boys had been throwing conkers at two female friends before Steven was nearly struck by a flying chestnut hurled by one of the men, triggering the ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:44 -0400A 13-year-old boy wanted in connection with a string of burglaries - including two during last summer’s London riots - is at the centre of a nationwide police hunt. Detectives want to speak to ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:40 -0400Barbara Garvey, from Darlington, stole the items from pensioners in the south of England before selling them to dealer, Peter Clarke. The 60-year-old ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:36 -0400No. 925 Cheltenham, retired in 1962, was famous for being the most powerful steam train of its type to run in the UK and carried around 700 people a journey as a passenger ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:32 -0400Behind bars: Nek Alam (pictured), 72, and three of his sons have been jailed for subjecting a vulnerable member of their family, Ghalib Hussein, to a three-year campaign of ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:27 -0400Going against conventional wisdom that their intellect should be fed and stimulated early on, education expert Dr Richard House says that over-emphasis on the three Rs - reading, writing and ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 21:40:23 -0400The founder of Facebook stands to increase his net worth by an astronomical sum beyond mortal imagination with the company's flotation on the stock market. He is not the only ... Sky News Wed, 16 May 2012 21:28:29 -0400No one was injured in the incident in which residents in Killeen told police they saw an object falling from an AH-64 attack helicopter into a field on Tuesday. "Killeen Police Department ... Sky News Wed, 16 May 2012 21:28:28 -0400The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny May 16, 2012. Facebook Inc increased the size of its initial public offering by ... Reuters Wed, 16 May 2012 21:20:43 -0400Members of the United Nations observers mission in Syria wait at a hotel lobby in Damascus, before heading to areas where protests against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been ... Reuters Wed, 16 May 2012 21:20:40 -0400A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since ... New Zealand Herald Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:09 -0400A group of Communist Party veterans has written a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, in the latest sign of disunity ahead of Beijing's leadership ... Al Jazeera Wed, 16 May 2012 21:15:53 -0400Stung by a UN official's criticism of the country for allowing some of its people to go hungry, Canada has dismissed him as a "patronizing academic" and said there are more pressing ... Al Jazeera Wed, 16 May 2012 21:15:50 -0400Campbell, 75, has spent the past year trying to raise awareness about the disease, an incurable, brain-wasting illness that affects 5.4 million people in the USA. That number is expected to triple ... USA Today Wed, 16 May 2012 21:15:22 -0400SANFORD, Fla. - The killing of Trayvon Martin here two and a half months ago has been cast as the latest test of race relations and equal justice in America. But it was also a test of a small city ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 21:07:47 -0400The back-to-back meetings of the Group of Eight and NATO alliance get started with G-8 leaders ... USA Today Wed, 16 May 2012 20:53:29 -0400The Weekly Standard reserves the right to use your email for internal use only. Occasionally, we may send you special offers or communications from carefully selected advertisers we believe may be ... Weekly Standard Wed, 16 May 2012 20:51:43 -0400The House bill adds new requirements to illegal immigrants who claim to be victims of domestic violence. In an election season that has seen Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ... USA Today Wed, 16 May 2012 20:48:01 -0400The fierce rhetorical salvos out of Germany in the past week gave way to conciliatory gestures by Ms. Merkel, who throughout the crisis has shown a propensity for managing through brinkmanship. ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 16 May 2012 20:43:38 -0400In publicity stunt meant to generate buzz ahead of Gay Pride Parade, city hall paints a crosswalk in rainbow colors, then paints it white ... Haaretz Wed, 16 May 2012 20:43:15 -0400WASHINGTON _ U.S. presidents have long sought relief from battles inside the Beltway and have entertained visiting heads of state at Camp David, the presidential retreat nestled in a mountain range ... McClatchy Wed, 16 May 2012 20:41:18 -0400In interview with 'Post,' Labor chairwoman slams Iran policies of Barak, says that every nonmilitary option must be exhausted before a strike comes into play; US Ambassador Shapiro: US has ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 16 May 2012 20:39:22 -0400Israel retained its position as one of the world's most negatively-viewed countries, according to BBC's annual poll published Wednesday night. With 50 percent of respondents ranking Israel ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 16 May 2012 20:39:20 -0400Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will lead seven ministers to Prague on Thursday for a cabinet-to-cabinet meeting with the Czech government, one of the friendliest governments toward Israel in ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 16 May 2012 20:39:18 -0400Prime Minister and former health minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman decided on Wednesday to launch a pilot project in Ashkelon to restore the magnesium to ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 16 May 2012 20:39:16 -0400TEGUCIGALPA, May 16, 2012 (IPS) - A few short hours after Honduran President Porfirio Lobo said he had seen evidence that Alfredo Villatoro, a radio reporter kidnapped May 9, was alive, the ... IPS Wed, 16 May 2012 20:38:58 -0400A row has broken out between the head of the civil service and ministers over plans to reform Whitehall by slashing the number of public sector ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 20:33:50 -0400Calls are being received at the rate of one every six minutes – the equivalent of 100,000 allegations every year – raising huge concerns about the true scale of illegal working in the ... Daily Mail Wed, 16 May 2012 20:33:45 -0400 |
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