Germany hunts source of E-coli outbreak

Germany hunts source of E-coli outbreak


Germany hunts source of E-coli outbreak

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Search comes as laboratory in Rome says there is no evidence to prove vegetables were source of deadly infection.


Final push for votes in Portugal

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:24 PM PDT

Both the main rival parties in Portugal appeal for a strong mandate ahead of Sunday's election as the burden of the 78bn euro bail-out looms.


Pakistan Budget Seen Lackluster

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Pakistan failed to take drastic steps to raise taxes on the country's elite, a move that the U.S., the IMF and other donors say is needed to slash an unsustainable budget deficit.


UK reports four new E. coli cases

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:58 AM PDT

The Health Protection Agency has announced four more cases of E. Coli infection in the UK linked to the outbreak in Germany.


Britons told to 'leave Yemen now'

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:39 PM PDT

Britons should leave Yemen on commercial flights immediately and not bank on UK government help as violence there escalates, the foreign secretary says.


Taking root?

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:22 AM PDT

How Cuba's local officials are handling reforms


Qatar deports Libyan woman who said she was raped

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:08 PM PDT

DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar deported a Libyan woman who claimed that she had been gang raped by pro-government militiamen, after spending nearly a month in the Gulf Arab country, a United Nations refugee group said on Friday.


Rebel fighters make gains in western Libya

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:57 AM PDT

Opposition fighters make major advance towards capital, after claiming series of victories against Gaddafi forces.


'Dr Death' Kevorkian dies at 83

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:42 AM PDT

Controversial right-to-die activist who assisted more than 100 people in ending their lives passes away at US hospital.


House Rebukes Obama Over Libya

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:45 AM PDT

The resolution, which passed 268 to 145, has no practical effect, but it underscored the anger in Congress over being bypassed by the president.


US experts examine refinery blast

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:28 AM PDT

The owners of a Pembrokeshire oil refinery are flying in experts from the US to help investigate the cause of an explosion which killed four people.


Protests simmer as Bahrain wins back Formula One

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:21 PM PDT

MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain scored a public relations coup on Friday by winning back its Formula One Grand Prix, canceled earlier this year after pro-democracy protests erupted in the Gulf Arab island kingdom.


James Arness, Marshal on ‘Gunsmoke,’ Dies at 88

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Mr. Arness burnished the legend of America's epic West as the laconic peacemaker of Dodge City on one of the longest-running dramatic series in television history.


Walsh to Leave Knicks, Turnaround Unfinished

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:00 PM PDT

The Knicks announced that Donnie Walsh, the team president, would leave after his contract expires at the end of the month.


Albanian fugitives 'hiding in London'

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 11:36 AM PDT

More than 100 dangerous Albanian criminals could be in hiding in the UK and London, according to a secret dossier sent to Scotland Yard.


Meerkat theft teenager sentenced

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 06:14 AM PDT

A teenager who stole a meerkat from a Kent wildlife park to take home as a pet is given a suspended jail term.


Peru's Humala edges ahead in polls; markets nervous

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:46 PM PDT

(Note: Election law forbids publication of polls in Peru a week prior to June 5 voting)


At War: History Repeats for a Correspondent in Tripoli

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:10 PM PDT

For the second time in eight years, a reporter finds himself living under a nightly fusillade of bombs and missiles.


At War: History Repeats for a Correspondent in Tripoli

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 12:10 PM PDT

For the second time in eight years, a reporter finds himself living under a nightly fusillade of bombs and missiles.


Hostage held in cage reveals ordeal

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:51 AM PDT

It was the life they dreamed of and they were finally living it in the temperate mountains of Central Mexico. Eduardo Garcia Valseca, a Mexican businessman, and his American wife Jayne, had rehabilitated an old, abandoned ranch near a quaint, colonial town.


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