Egypt police on alert after Israeli embassy attack (AP)

Egypt police on alert after Israeli embassy attack (AP)

Egypt police on alert after Israeli embassy attack (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:13 PM PDT

An elderly man runs past flaming vehicles outside the building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. A group of about 30 protesters broke into the embassy Friday and dumped hundreds of documents out of the windows after a day of demonstrations outside the building in which crowds swinging sledge hammers and using their bare hands tore apart the embassy's security wall. (AP Photo)AP - Egypt put its police force on a state of alert after a night of violence during which angry protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, tearing down a cement barrier around the building and dumping documents out of the windows.

Activists seek release of giant Philippine croc (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:14 PM PDT

AP - Animal rights activists are urging Philippine authorities to return a captured giant crocodile back to the wild. The mayor of the town where it was caught refuses, saying it poses a threat to his constituents.


VIDEO: Terror threat ahead of 9/11 anniversary

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:05 PM PDT

The US secretary of state has warned that al-Qaeda is behind a credible threat to Americans in the run-up to the anniversary of 9/11.


Nadal beats Roddick to reach US Open semis

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:21 PM PDT

Defending champion breaks Andy Roddick six times to move on to semi-finals, where he will play Britain's Andy Murray.


China August trade surplus dips as exports off peak (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:50 PM PDT

Reuters - China's trade surplus fell sharply in August as exports pulled back from a record high and imports jumped, indicating the world's second-largest economy is feeling the pinch from weaker global growth while domestic demand remains resilient.


Modern Central Banking and the BOJ

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:37 PM PDT

BOJ seems to have begun to gun the monetary engine. The reasons are obvious: to combat the super-high yen, to counteract 3.11 disaster-related contraction, to respond to global, particularly European, financial market instability. But caution is required.


Ping An Once Again Tops CEIBS List Of China's Private Firms; New Era Seen

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:29 PM PDT

Ping An Insurance, partly owned by HSBC, once again topped a list of China's top 100 private-sector companies released by the Shanghai-based China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). The report aims to give a glimpse into the performance of non-state-owned companies in China.?? Since the end of its Maoist??days more than three decades ago, China ...


VIDEO: Cairo's Israeli embassy attacked

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:57 PM PDT

Protesters have broken into the building housing Israel's embassy in Egypt's capital, Cairo, entering consular offices, officials said.


Emerging-Market Currencies Join Global Selloff

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 07:03 PM PDT

After rallying for much of this year, emerging-market currencies have joined the selloff in financial markets. Fears have grown that the euro-zone's debt crisis could reverberate through the global economy and hurt even the fastest growing countries.


VIDEO: Cairo's Israeli embassy attacked

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:57 PM PDT

Protesters have broken into the building housing Israel's embassy in Egypt's capital, Cairo, entering consular offices, officials said.


Lindsay Lohan, NBA Athlete Chris Bosh And The Kate Middleton Effect At Day 2 of New York Fashion Week

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:37 PM PDT

Peter Som started day two of the spring 2012 collections on a bright and blooming note. The designer showed dresses, pants and swimsuits with oversized roses???clothes that easily called to mind the collection of Raf Simons for Jil Sander just this past spring. Som's pieces, however, are more abstracted and in shapes that would suit ...


Will Deeper Payroll Tax Cuts Get America Hiring Again?

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:32 PM PDT

Will Obama's American Jobs Act work this time?


Analysis: With us or against us? A decade on, Pakistan wavering (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:46 PM PDT

The World Trade Center construction site is reflected in a shop window in New York September 9, 2011. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - While the ruins of New York's World Trade Center were still smouldering in late September 2001, President George W. Bush put nations around the globe on notice: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

Afghan official: talks on track for longterm pact (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2007 file photo, Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Spanta says the U.S. and Afghanistan are narrowing their differences over how the two countries will cooperate after U.S. combat forces leave by 2015. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP - A senior Afghan official predicted Friday that the United States and Afghanistan will soon sign a broad deal for U.S. use of Afghan soil for counter-terrorism missions and U.S. obligations to the fledgling democracy it has sponsored since toppling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan weeks after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Gadhafi's Ouster Is Italian Town's Loss

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:28 PM PDT

A small Italian town which had planned the construction of a lavish spa thanks to the deep pockets of Moammar Gadhafi provides a window into the vast economic ties between Italy and its former colony.


Berlusconi Faces New Storm

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:48 PM PDT

Berlusconi came under fire on Friday after a magazine published a wiretapped conversation that it said showed the premier advised an associate facing a criminal investigation in Italy to remain outside the country.


Canada Suffers Surprise Job Losses

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:49 PM PDT

The Canadian economy shed jobs in August, pushing up the unemployment rate to 7.3% from 7.2%, Statistics Canada said Friday, in a sign Canada's job-creating machine has stalled.


G-7 Torn Between Stimulus, Cuts

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:44 PM PDT

Officials from the world's leading advanced economies papered over divisions among themselves as they sought to assure skeptical investors and voters that they had solutions to economic woes on both sides of the Atlantic.


Oil Found Near French Guiana

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:49 PM PDT

Tullow Oil and Shell said they have opened up a new hydrocarbon basin off the coast of French Guiana, with the discovery of a good-quality oil reservoir from their first wildcat well.


Stark Walked a Fine Line

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 07:12 PM PDT

In his five years on the European Central Bank's executive board, Jürgen Stark enjoyed playing the role as the enforcer of the German Bundesbank's culture of fiscal stability at the ECB.


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