Border reforms top agenda at France-Italy summit (AFP)

Border reforms top agenda at France-Italy summit (AFP)


Border reforms top agenda at France-Italy summit (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:49 PM PDT

Tunisian immigrants are seen at Rome's Termini station en route to Ventimiglia, the town which sits on the Italy-France border. French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on Tuesday with potential revisions to the Schengen open-borders treaty topping the agenda amid a festering row over immigration.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on Tuesday with potential revisions to the Schengen open-borders treaty topping the agenda amid a festering row over immigration.



Pakistan bus attacks kill four in Karachi (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:03 PM PDT

Pakistani rangers patrol as they ride past a security check point in Karachi. Bomb attacks hit buses carrying Pakistani navy personnel in Karachi, killing four people and highlighting rampant insecurity in the key US ally in the fight against the Taliban.(AFP/File/Asif Hassan)AFP - Bomb attacks hit buses carrying Pakistani navy personnel in Karachi, killing four people and highlighting rampant insecurity in the key US ally in the fight against the Taliban.



New EA Exec Dave Madden Sees"Buckets of Money" in Cross-Platform Game Advertising

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:42 PM PDT

When it comes to reaching the coveted male demographic of 18 to 34 year olds, there's no better plac


Israel's Electric Car Network: Can It Change the World? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:45 PM PDT

Time.com - TIME goes for a test ride on Better Place's vaunted electric car and its potentially revolutionary network, which could debut in Israel as early as November


China says aid to Africa not aimed at resources (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:55 PM PDT

AP - China slammed suggestions that its burgeoning foreign aid to Africa is driven by its interest in the impoverished continent's rich natural resources, saying Tuesday that it helps poorer countries out of solidarity.


Tsunami-hit Japanese whalers set sail for hunt (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:26 PM PDT

An aerial picture shows the Nisshin Maru, one of Japan's ships of their research whaling fleet, leaving the port of Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, on April 1. Japanese whalers have launched their annual coastal hunt with five crew from the tsunami-devastated whaling town of Ayukawa joining their first voyage since the March 11 disaster.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Japanese whalers launched their annual coastal hunt with five crew from the tsunami-devastated whaling town of Ayukawa joining their first voyage since the March 11 disaster.



VIDEO: Sir Elton John on becoming a father

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:44 PM PDT

In their first US television interview since the Christmas birth of their son, Elton John and his partner David Furnish have spoken about what it is like to be parents.


Indian Guru Sathya Sai Baba: The Who Was God Is Dead (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:45 PM PDT

Time.com - The influential and controversial guru who ran a multibillion-dollar charitable trust had countless adoring adherents, some of whom believe he may come back to life


Australian infant attacked by dingoes (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:54 PM PDT

A dingo is pictured in this file photo. A three-year-old girl on Monday was savaged by dingoes after wandering into bushes on a popular Australian tourist island, according to witnesses.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - A three-year-old girl was savaged by dingoes after wandering into bushes on a popular Australian tourist island, according to witnesses.



China's Sinopec Axes Exec After $230k Booze Binge

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:53 PM PDT

Sinopec's booze hound a convenient scapegoat for high gasoline prices.


Rethinking Gary Johnson

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:31 PM PDT

I?ve gotten lots of really excellent, smart pushback on the Gary Johnson-for-president idea. I


Carter leads North Korea peace mission

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:39 PM PDT

Former US president visits Pyongyang with other ex-world leaders in bid to defuse tensions on the divided peninsula.


Jimmy Carter Arrives in North Korea

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:41 PM PDT

Former President Jimmy Carter and other past world leaders were in Pyongyang hoping to meet with North Korea's leader to discuss food shortages and stalled nuclear disarmament talks.


Royal wedding sidelines Australia republic drive (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:26 PM PDT

A collection of fine bone china plates and mugs commemorating the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton are seen here in a store window display in Sydney. Street parties are hardly likely to erupt, but with wall-to-wall television coverage on every network and a giant screen on Sydney harbour, the young royal's wedding to Kate Middleton will be hard to escape.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Their views could not be further at odds, but the upcoming royal wedding has Australia's royalists and republicans in rare and unlikely agreement -- the monarchy is digging in Down under.



Police rescues 51 migrants in Mexican border city (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:10 PM PDT

In this April 4, 2011 photo, Carmen Villareal Espinosa talks about her sons during an interview at her home in Culiacan, Mexico. Villareal and her husband raised their nine sons to become brick makers but now three of them are in Malaysia facing the death penalty on drug charges. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - Mexico's federal police rescued 51 people, including six Chinese and 18 Central American migrants, who were captive in the same border city where more than five dozen people were freed last week, authorities said Monday night.



Oil falls to near $111 as US dollar strengthens (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:21 PM PDT

In this Thursday, April 21, 2011 photo, a member of Indonesian police bomb squad walks near the spot where police found several explosive materials, near a church in Serpong, West Java, Indonesia. Christians in Indonesia attended Good Friday celebrations under tight security after several bombs were found under a gas pipeline near the church outside the capital. (AP Photo)AP - Oil prices fell to near $111 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a stronger dollar made crude more expensive for investors with other currencies.



Governor Scott Walker Caught In Political Plagiarism

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 08:52 PM PDT

Plagiarism is defined as the ?wrongful appropriation,? ?close imitation,? or


Widow Arrested in Televisa Case

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 08:51 PM PDT

Mexican police arrested a former wife of the late chairman of Mexican broadcast giant Televisa as she was about to testify in a lawsuit in which she alleges she was denied her inheritance.


Little Surprise In Ameriprise Sale Of Troubled Omaha Brokerage

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 08:45 PM PDT

Ameriprise has had a bumpy ride with its subsidiary Securities America, and it's now ready to cut ti


Money talks: April 25th, 2011

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:00 PM PDT

In this week's programme - America's low GDP figures (weather is partly to blame), unemployment and Ben Bernanke's press conference


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