Theme Park Review: Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle

Theme Park Review: Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle


Theme Park Review: Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:41 PM PDT

The Conner Prairie Interactive History Park in Indiana tries to tell history in a different way: not as fact but as experience.


J.P. Morgan Settles Mortgage Securities Case

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:40 PM PDT

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced a $153.6 million accord over charges that the firm misled investors.


Greek Banks Feel Hostage to Debt Crisis

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Unlike their government, Greek banks were seen as well-managed and prudent before the crisis. Now they are struggling to find funding.


Israel's Netanyahu reaches out to Turkey: official

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:51 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu has written to Tayyip Erdogan in a bid to repair Israel's relations with Turkey, an Israeli official said on Tuesday, a year after a deadly Israeli raid on the high seas caused a crisis in ties.


Ban Ki-moon wins second UN term

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:32 PM PDT

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is unanimously re-elected to serve a second five-year term, in a vote at the UN General Assembly.


Murder Rate and Fear Rise in Puerto Rico

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:22 PM PDT

The police in Puerto Rico are trying new strategies to control crime, while residents try to protect themselves.


Ban Ki-moon wins second UN term

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:32 PM PDT

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is unanimously re-elected to serve a second five-year term, in a vote at the UN General Assembly.


Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood expels presidential hopeful

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:38 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has expelled a senior member for saying he would run for president in defiance of the group's decision not to seek the post vacant since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February.


Ban Ki-moon re-elected UN chief

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:25 PM PDT

Former South Korean foreign minister re-elected to the world body's top job by acclamation.


U.N. assembly approves 2nd term for U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:30 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The 192-nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved a second five-year term for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon beginning January 1, 2012.


IMF warns of Spanish economy risk

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:18 PM PDT

The Spanish economy is still facing "considerable" risks and needs to keep up the momentum on reform, the International Monetary Fund warns.


Simmering Sanaa

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 02:23 AM PDT

Can President Saleh return to power in Yemen?


For many in Egypt, the revolution is incomplete

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT

It's been more than four months since longtime Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was forced out by his people in largely peaceful mass protests that lasted 18 days. The opposition activists who celebrated in the streets after Mubarak stepped down had hoped that tangible changes would follow soon after their Tahrir Square victory. It had not even taken three weeks to rid the country of an autocratic president who had ruled with an iron fist for three decades. Why, then, is it taking so long to achieve further progress?


MPs to re-examine NHS proposals

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 11:20 AM PDT

Proposed changes to the government's NHS reforms will be subject to fresh scrutiny in the Commons after MPs voted to send them back to committee stage.


Italian prime minister wins confidence vote

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 07:38 AM PDT

Victory could boost a beleagured Berlusconi, still smarting under two recent electoral defeats.


Shots fired in Northern Ireland riots

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 11:30 AM PDT

Local politicians describe Belfast violence as the worst of its kind in the area for a decade.


In Australia, Reality TV Tackles Immigration

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 10:18 AM PDT

A series debuting this week addresses one of the country's most heated political debates by sending six native-born Australians on punishing journeys that retrace the voyages of asylum seekers.


JPMorgan to Pay $153.6M to Settle Fraud Charges

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 11:36 AM PDT

Investors who were misled into purchasing complex mortgage securities just before the housing market collapsed will receive all their money back.


Ethiopians evacuated from Yemen

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 11:05 AM PDT

Nearly 2,000 Ethiopian migrants trapped in violence-hit Yemen are being evacuated, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.


Israel to let $100 million of building goods into Gaza

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 10:59 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has approved the building of $100 million worth of new houses and schools in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and U.N. officials said on Tuesday.


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