Top Stories: CHICAGO - NATO alliance leaders meeting here for talks aimed at paving the way for ending the nearly 11-year-long war in Afghanistan, affirmed plans for an "irreversible transition" in which Afghan se... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 16:16:35 -0400PARIS - A preliminary investigation has been started by French prosecutors into accusations former International Monetary Fund(IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in a gang rape in a Washingto... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 16:26:41 -0400TEHRAN - The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog Monday said talks with Iran's top nuclear negotiator were "positive", Iranian state TV reported, as he was slated to hold discussions with Foreign Ministe... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 16:11:23 -0400SANAA - Nearly 100 people, mostly soldiers, were killed when a man apparently wearing an explosive laden vest under his army uniform blew himself up in the midst of a military parade rehearsal Monday,... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 16:04:34 -0400BEIJING - The 29 Chinese fishermen and three fishing vessels seized in the Yellow Sea by unidentified North Koreans have been freed, marking an end to a 13-day standoff but the mystery persists about... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 16:04:24 -0400BAGHDAD - Iraq is acquiring unmanned surveillance drones from the United States as part of efforts to boost bilateral relations and also to beef up security of its oil installations and energy fuel ex... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 15:49:26 -0400NEW YORK - BlackRock, a major US asset management company, has agreed to repurchase the entire $6.1 billion worth of its stock held by British bank Barclays on completion of a secondary offering of it... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 15:37:08 -0400NEW YORK - China's largest e-commerce provider Alibaba Group Holding has agreed to repurchase a 20 per cent stake held in the company by Yahoo! for about $7.1 billion. Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 15:37:07 -0400BEIJING - Dalian Wanda Group of China Monday said it has agreed to acquire AMC Entertainment, the second largest theater chain in the US with 346 multiplexes in America and Canada, for a staggering $2... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 15:29:01 -0400ISLAMABAD - Twitter users in Pakistan faced internet censorship with Pakistan's telecommunications regulators blocking access to the social networking site for about eight hours Sunday before the prim... Big News Network.com Mon, 21 May 2012 15:45:28 -0400Police have quelled demonstrations outside a meeting of NATO leaders in Chicago. Big News Network.com Sun, 20 May 2012 19:14:03 -0400Family members of Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb have announced his death. Big News Network.com Sun, 20 May 2012 19:33:55 -0400The man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has died of cancer. Big News Network.com Sun, 20 May 2012 18:51:49 -0400The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has married his longtime friend. Big News Network.com Sun, 20 May 2012 18:37:45 -0400At least six people have died in an earthquake in the Abruzzo region of Italy. Big News Network.com Sun, 20 May 2012 18:58:43 -0400Way back in May of 2009, when President Obama was still selling himself to the nation as a post-partisan healer-in-chief, he was awarded an honorary degree and delivered the commencement address at ... Weekly Standard Mon, 21 May 2012 16:34:59 -0400Visitors to one of the Georgian Orthodox Church's most sacred sites were able on May 21 to visit the entire complex after the border agencies of Georgia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on ... RadioFreeEurope Mon, 21 May 2012 16:28:58 -0400A member of the Hazara ethnic group, which suffered badly under the Taliban regime, Mahdi, 21, who like many Afghans goes by just one name, was adamant that U.S. and NATO troops needed to remain in ... McClatchy Mon, 21 May 2012 16:24:27 -0400In a speech to the Civil Services Commission, Netanyahu declares that Tehran must close its underground facility at Qom: "This is Israel's position. It has not changed and will not ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 16:23:18 -0400Whoever proposes that giving up the heart of Jerusalem - the Temple Mount - will bring peace, is fatally mistaken, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Monday evening.Addressing the Knesset ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 16:23:15 -0400The Center for Educational Technology (CET) is on the cusp of establishing an incubator in the Negev to host startups and innovators involved in developing educational technologies, for the ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 16:23:03 -0400My wife and I chose to bring our daughter to the Kotel, the Western Wall, on the night she turned 12. We figured what better way to begin her life as a bat mitzva than praying at the site where ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 16:23:02 -0400In addition to the achievement of establishing an independent home for the Jewish people, the second most remarkable achievement of modern Zionism has been the rebirth of Hebrew as a spoken ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 16:22:59 -0400The ruling by the High Court of Justice ordering the government to destroy homes in Bet El highlights once again the abusive and outsized power seized by the Supreme Court at the expense of the ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 16:22:57 -0400I challenge the leaders, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas - how long would it take to make real peace if making real peace was your primary governmental directive? If you said to yourselves: I ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 16:22:55 -0400There is a true revolution in same-sex parenthood underway in Israel. A series of ground-breaking legal achievements, led by New Family and other actors over a decade, have practically equated the ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 16:22:51 -0400BELGRADE, May 21, 2012 (IPS) - Serbs awoke on Monday morning to a regime change. A close ballot in the presidential run-off Sunday spelled the end for incumbent Boris Tadic, who served two terms ... IPS Mon, 21 May 2012 16:22:29 -0400SANAA: Yemen's president vowed Monday to press on with his government's "war on terror" regardless of the sacrifices, as Al-Qaeda claimed it was responsible for a suicide bombing ... Channel News Asia Mon, 21 May 2012 16:15:37 -0400CHICAGO: Anti-NATO protesters squared up for another day of demonstrations Monday, only hours after hundreds clashed with baton-wielding riot police leading to 45 arrests.As the leaders of more than ... Channel News Asia Mon, 21 May 2012 16:15:35 -0400WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday voiced concern about security in Lebanon after two clerics were shot and killed amid violence between pro- and anti-Syrian groups.US State Department deputy ... Channel News Asia Mon, 21 May 2012 16:15:35 -0400BEIRUT, Lebanon - Gun battles between Lebanese factions supporting and opposing the government of President Bashar al-Assad spread to Beirut on Monday in the most serious outbreak of violence in ... International Herald Tribune Mon, 21 May 2012 16:00:38 -04001 of 2. Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Procter & Gamble board member, arrives at Manhattan Federal Court in New York May 21, 2012. Jury selection is set to begin in the trial ... Reuters Mon, 21 May 2012 15:52:33 -0400A bank clerk counts U.S. dollar banknotes on bundles of 100 Chinese yuan banknotes at a branch of a bank in Huaibei, Anhui province April 26, ... Reuters Mon, 21 May 2012 15:52:31 -0400Last Updated 3:25 p.m. ET (CBS News) CHICAGO - As NATO officials were wrapping up their summit in Chicago, anti-NATO protesters marched to Boeing's corporate headquarters Monday morning before ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 15:50:16 -0400Protesters carry a coffin marked with the name of interim president Dioncounda Traore in Bamako, Mali, Monday May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Harouna ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 15:50:14 -0400(AP) DETROIT - Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires. The recall affects only Wranglers from the 2010 model year that have ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 15:50:11 -0400Face the Nation " when a top Republican and a top Democrat sought to frame the upcoming debate over raising the nation's $16.4 trillion borrowing limit. Senate Republican leader Mitch ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 15:50:09 -0400The Syrian National Council, the country's main political opposition group, says it will appoint a new leader in the upcoming days. The statement came after Burhan Ghalioun, the SNC's ... Al Jazeera Mon, 21 May 2012 15:47:09 -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 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:16:21 -0400U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said that NATO should enlarge at the alliance's next summit. Clinton spoke during a NATO summit in Chicago on May 21, at the start of a ... RadioFreeEurope Mon, 21 May 2012 15:10:31 -0400Opposition activists say at least 20 people have been killed in clashes between troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels in southern and central Syria. The London-based Syrian ... RadioFreeEurope Mon, 21 May 2012 15:10:28 -0400At least 11 people were killed and 22 injured when a bus drove off a mountainside about 220 kilometers south of the Albanian capital, Tirana on May 21. A police source said about 40 people -- ... RadioFreeEurope Mon, 21 May 2012 15:10:26 -0400CAIRO - Abdel Aziz Saed, a 42-year-old shoe salesman who works in Cairo’s Giza district, holds a seemingly popular sentiment here about the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest social and ... McClatchy Mon, 21 May 2012 15:06:53 -0400The Knesset on Monday evening approved a law that offers a 35-percent tax break on donations to NGOs that encourage settlement anywhere in the country, including in Judea and Samaria.The legislation ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 15:05:28 -0400Threats to deport thousands of African refugees, asylum seekers or infiltrators are only populist talk and are essentially baseless as long as Israel is still party to an international convention ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 15:05:27 -0400Archeologists working in northern Israel have discovered a three-millennia-old jewelry trove Tel Aviv University announced Monday, stressing that it may be one of the most valuable ever discovered ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 15:05:24 -0400Fifteen years ago, Jasmin Vardimon was a little-known name in the international dance community.A former member of the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Vardimon won the British Council's ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 15:05:18 -0400BERLIN - Former German central banker Thilo Sarrazin, whose musings on Muslim immigrants sparked outrage in 2010, has triggered fresh controversy with a book that paints Germany as the euro ... IOL Mon, 21 May 2012 15:04:42 -0400CAIRO: The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Monday urged Egyptians to accept the results of a looming presidential election, the first in the country since a 2011 uprising ousted dictator ... Channel News Asia Mon, 21 May 2012 14:55:57 -0400DAMASCUS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Monday that the search for peace in Syria was at a "pivotal moment" and expressed strong concerns of an all-out civil war, as a five-week-old truce ... Channel News Asia Mon, 21 May 2012 14:55:55 -0400PORT RICHEY, Fla. - While doing stunts in his small airplane, a pilot was killed when he crashed into a canal off of Old Post Road in Port Richey, according to officials with the Florida Wildlife ... ABC Action News Mon, 21 May 2012 14:53:26 -0400The Foreign Office has been ordered to release parts of the note detailing the conversation on 12 March 2003, a week before the invasion of Iraq began. A panel chaired by tribunal judge Professor ... The Independent Mon, 21 May 2012 14:46:53 -0400Thilo Sarrazin, the former Bundesbank member who caused outrage with his racist theories about Muslim immigration, has stoked fresh controversy with a new book claiming that Chancellor Angela ... The Independent Mon, 21 May 2012 14:46:50 -0400US President Barack Obama has promised Afghanistan that the international community will not abandon its transition to managing its own security and ... Sky News Mon, 21 May 2012 14:44:13 -0400Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers University student charged with bias intimidation, listens as the jury lists their verdict in his trial at the Superior Court of New Jersey in Middlesex County, New ... Reuters Mon, 21 May 2012 14:35:45 -0400ATHENS - Less than a month before new general elections that could determine Greece's future in the eurozone, the conservative New Democracy Party secured cooperation with a small liberal grouping ... International Herald Tribune Mon, 21 May 2012 14:34:34 -0400(CBS/AP) CAMPBELLSPORT, Wis. - Fond du Lac County sheriff's officials say they don't yet know who fired an arrow that struck a 7-year-old girl in the back. The girl was walking down the ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 14:33:05 -0400Updated: 2:17 p.m. ET(CBS/AP) NEW YORK -- Dozens of Roman Catholic dioceses, schools and other institutions sued the Obama administration Monday over a government mandate requiring most employers to ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 14:33:05 -0400Ten years ago, a retired Navy ship was turned into an artificial reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Local officials say the reef has generated $25 million in tourism ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 14:33:04 -0400Dominican President-elect Danilo Medina thanked his supporters for a first-round win in an election that left many in the main opposition party bitterly claiming fraud and his main opponent refusing ... New Zealand Herald Mon, 21 May 2012 14:22:01 -0400A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal in Yemen's capital, killing 96 soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks in the city in years. The bombing appeared to be a failed ... New Zealand Herald Mon, 21 May 2012 14:01:00 -0400A sensational and rowdy session of Parliament yesterday failed to ease the Government's agonies over allegations of financial misdeeds by Wellington-born MP Craig Thomson. Using parliamentary ... New Zealand Herald Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:00 -0400Demonstrators forced their way into the office of Mali's interim president and attacked the elderly leader, who was later brought to a local hospital unconscious, a witness and one of the ... New Zealand Herald Mon, 21 May 2012 13:59:00 -0400Hardly anyone would dispute the assertion that the issue driving the elections this year will be "the economy." But what, exactly, do voters mean when they talk about "the ... Weekly Standard Mon, 21 May 2012 13:58:01 -0400Nato allies declared the end of a long and unpopular Afghanistan war is in sight even as they struggled to hold their fighting force together as France's new President announced plans to pull troops ... New Zealand Herald Mon, 21 May 2012 13:57:00 -0400A bus carrying university students fell off a cliff in southern Albania killing 11 people and injuring another 22.Local prefect Edmond Velcani said the bus driver was among the people ... New Zealand Herald Mon, 21 May 2012 13:56:00 -0400Sri Lanka's former army chief, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison to thousands of cheering supporters.As firecrackers ... New Zealand Herald Mon, 21 May 2012 13:53:00 -0400Ukrainian Education Ministry officials try (and fail) to mollify female protesters who were angry about comments by the education minister Dmytro Tabachnyk, who said said female university students ... RadioFreeEurope Mon, 21 May 2012 13:50:39 -0400A man from central Israel allegedly sexually harassed hundreds of children aged 10 to 13 on the internet, police said Monday, following his arrest.The alleged offenses occurred over the past four ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 13:44:56 -0400Deputy Health Minister MK Ya'acov Litzman has ordered an investigation of the performance of Prof. Yehuda Hiss, the longtime pathologist who heads the National Institute for Forensic Medicine ... Jerusalem Post Mon, 21 May 2012 13:44:53 -0400A man waves as he walks past a banner with an image of Britain's Queen Elizabeth announcing the Diamond Jubilee 2012 on the facade of the Parliament of the Colony of Gibraltar in downtown ... IOL Mon, 21 May 2012 13:44:08 -0400The device came with a set of paper maps. These were wound from one roll to another across a display and a cable connected to the speedometer controlled the scroll rate. The speed with which the ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:51 -0400Students at the University of Buckingham may not have noticed Bertie Gladwin all that much while he was studying for a masters degree in military ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:48 -0400'I walked from court thinking he's out of my life forever but he's still controlling me': Mother whose boyfriend gouged out her eyes still haunted by ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:44 -0400Was Columbus secretly Jewish? Historians argue explorer's epic voyage was to establish new homeland for his people as they escaped the Spanish ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:42 -0400With the exceptions of Reece Witherspoon and Cindy Crawford's daughters, most of these girls look like their FATHERS actually. Rummer is a mix of both mother and father, she got the worst of ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:39 -0400Chillax Dave insists he works as hard as Thatcher did as he takes time out to celebrate Chelsea's victory over the Germans (and look who's in the ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:38 -0400Melissa Dalton, 33, from Oro Valley, Arizona, was arrested on April 30 after disturbing details emerged of alleged relationships she had while teaching at Ironwood Ridge High ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:35 -0400Relight my fire: Para-badminton star David Follett has his torch re-lit after the flames went out during his leg of the relay tour through Great Torrington, ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:33 -0400An ambulance arrived in minutes, and Mr Dube was then airlifted to a nearby hospital, but all resuscitation attempts failed, and an autopsy is taking place ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:30 -0400The Boudicca, owned by Fred Olsen, underwent an intensive fumigation yesterday before leaving for a cruise to the Adriatic 90 minutes later than ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:27 -0400The Australian couple dazzle their guests with an acrobatic routine that must have taken countless hours to perfect, their matching wingtip shoes a blur ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:24 -0400Statins have been hailed as a wonder drug since studies showed that they could lower the risk of heart attack and also improve the health of heart transplant ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:16 -0400A prison guard was killed and five of his colleagues were injured last night during a nine-hour riot as up to 300 inmates held dozens of hostages at a jail containing thousands of illegal ... Daily Mail Mon, 21 May 2012 13:38:13 -0400The alliance leaders, meeting in Obama's hometown, solidified plans for an "irreversible transition" in which Afghan security forces take control next summer with Nato sliding into ... The Independent Mon, 21 May 2012 13:27:56 -0400(Credit: AP) (CBS/AP) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A judge sentenced former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi today to 30 days in jail for using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 13:13:36 -0400Last Updated 12:09 p.m. ET (CBS/AP) CHICAGO - Chicago braced for more demonstrations Monday, with protesters marching to Boeing Corp. headquarters, a day after police clashed with a group of ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 13:13:34 -0400(Credit: Evan Vucci) (AP) WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court won't reduce the $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and shared them on the ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 13:13:31 -0400(AP) SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The University of Notre Dame is suing Obama administration officials over the mandate requiring most employers to cover birth control. The school said Monday that the ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 13:13:27 -0400WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a man's children who were conceived through artificial insemination after his death cannot get Social Security survivor benefits. Justices ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 13:13:24 -0400(Credit: CBS/WFOR) (CBS/AP) PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. - New reports reveal that Tonya Thomas, a Florida mother, shot her four children 18 times before killing herself. She was also a victim of domestic ... CBS News Mon, 21 May 2012 13:13:22 -0400HONG KONG – Premier Wen Jiabao is calling for Chinese economic policies to tilt a little more toward fostering growth, official media reported on Monday, in the latest sign of concern in ... International Herald Tribune Mon, 21 May 2012 13:11:07 -0400JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Forensic experts say they have identified the remains of all 45 people on board the Russian plane that slammed into a jungle-clad cliff atop an Indonesian volcano. ... WHP CBS 21 Mon, 21 May 2012 12:37:37 -0400Much of the liberal establishment class in Washington does not understand what is happening to our country . It was an utterly tone-deaf and just plain incorrect idea to blame the GOP for all the ... Weekly Standard Mon, 21 May 2012 12:37:26 -0400On her 22nd birthday, Kimbra sashayed onto the stage at Webster Hall, in her first bona fide concert in New York, while her band vamped on a campy movie theme. She wore a short pink party dress with ... International Herald Tribune Mon, 21 May 2012 12:37:24 -0400 | 
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