Google sees strong revenue growth

Google sees strong revenue growth


Google sees strong revenue growth

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:22 PM PDT

Google reports a a sharp rise in first-quarter earnings, the first financial figures with co-founder Larry Page back at the helm as boss.


G-20 Effort to Boost Growth Flounders

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:14 PM PDT

The Group of 20 leading economies' flagship effort to bolster global growth is floundering and is unlikely to get much of a lift from Friday's conference of G-20 finance ministers in Washington.


Brazil Shooter Recorded Grim Video

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:49 PM PDT

The man who shot and killed 12 children at his former elementary school in Rio de Janeiro last week before committing suicide left behind chilling video monologues that add to a portrait of a disturbed loner whose grudge over perceived teasing at school was a motivation for mass murder.


Italian Activist Kidnapped in Gaza

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:16 PM PDT

A pro-Palestinian group said Thursday that one of its activists, an Italian, has been kidnapped by Islamic militants in Gaza, in the first kidnapping of a foreigner since Hamas overran Gaza in 2007.


The Lede: Images of Japan's Evacuation Zone

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:09 PM PDT

A photographer talks about a trip inside the evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.


Two suspected French militants arrested in Pakistan

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:35 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Authorities in Pakistan have arrested two French nationals of Pakistani origin for suspected links to al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants, local intelligence officials said Thursday.


Media Decoder: ABC Cancels 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live'

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:52 PM PDT

ABC announced it will pull the plug on two of its long-running daily serial dramas, "All My Children" and "One Life to Live."


Pancreas cancer vaccine trialled

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:07 PM PDT

Doctors say that more than 1,000 UK patients with advanced pancreatic cancer have joined a trial using a vaccine to treat the disease.


Study Points to Mother of All Mother Tongues

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:41 AM PDT

The world's 6,000 or so modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue spoken by early African humans between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests.


Europe Grows Critical Over Lethal Injections

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:05 PM PDT

Denmark said it would ask U.S. states not to use a sedative made in Denmark for the killings, while Britain said it was banning companies from exporting three additional drugs to the U.S. for use in capital punishment.


Spain Moves to Clamp Down on Banks

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:19 PM PDT

Spain's ailing savings banks are rushing out a slew of aggressively priced offers for savers ahead of an initiative by the government and Bank of Spain to limit money-losing deposits.


Turkey Names New Central Bank Chief

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:57 AM PDT

Erdem Basci, a key player in the creation of Turkey's unorthodox monetary policies, is to be named the central bank's next governor.


UN: Dozens dead in Iranian exile camp raid

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:17 PM PDT

United Nations says up to 32 Iranian exiles died in an attack by Iraqi soldiers on refugee camp last week.


One dead, six hurt in road crash

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:08 PM PDT

One person dies and six are injured in a road crash involving five vehicles in Rhondda Cynon Taf.


Italian activist abducted in Gaza

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:03 PM PDT

A radical Islamic group in the Gaza Strip kidnaps an Italian activist, the first foreigner abducted there since BBC reporter Alan Johnston.


At War: Iraqi Youths Long for Their Own Moment in the 'Arab Spring'

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:10 PM PDT

The wave of political change in the Arab world has laid bare a generation gap in Iraq that is split by old resentments nurtured by dictatorship and war and a youth that is now grasping for a stake in the new Iraq.


Iraq exile camp raid 'killed 34'

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:22 AM PDT

The United Nations says 34 people were killed during a raid last Friday by Iraqi forces on an Iranian exile group at Camp Ashraf.


Shrien Dewani 'made punch threat'

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:30 AM PDT

A Bristol man accused of ordering his wife's murder on their honeymoon was ordered out of the hospital he was being treated at, a court hears.


Harsh winter hits Indian mangoes

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 10:53 AM PDT

A cold winter and unseasonable rains lead to a shortage of much-loved Alphonso mangoes in the Indian city of Mumbai.


VIDEO: First search inside Japan exclusion zone

Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:19 AM PDT

Japanese rescue crews have begun searching for victims of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami within a 10km zone around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.


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