Sound of blast reported in Iran's Isfahan city (Reuters)

Sound of blast reported in Iran's Isfahan city (Reuters)

Sound of blast reported in Iran's Isfahan city (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 01:39 PM PST

Reuters - The sound of an apparent explosion was heard from Iran's Isfahan city on Monday afternoon, the head of the judiciary in the province said, but the province's deputy governor denied that there had been a big blast.


Analysis: After 10 years, China's WTO ride could get bumpier (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:55 PM PST

Reuters - Rising trade protectionism and frustration over its domestic subsidies spell trouble for China and could lead to more friction within the World Trade Organization than Beijing has grown accustomed to over the past decade.


Eurozone ministers meet amid fears of euro breakup (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:09 PM PST

A man checks stock indexes on a screen of a bank in Milan, Italy, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. For the second time in as many market days, Italy paid sharply higher borrowing rates in an auction Monday, as investors continued to pressure the eurozone's third largest economy to come up with reforms urgently. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP - Eurozone finance ministers are streaming into Brussels on Tuesday in a desperate bid to save the 17-nation euro currency — and to protect Europe, the United States, Asia and the rest of the global economy from a debt-induced financial tsunami.

Military: 3 rockets from Lebanon strike Israel (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:34 PM PST

AP - The military says three rockets have been fired at northern Israel from Lebanon, and at least two of them struck Israeli soil.


Malaysia lawyers protest street rally ban plan (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:44 PM PST

AP - Hundreds of Malaysian lawyers staged a rare protest march Tuesday demanding that the government abandon plans for a law that will forbid street rallies.


Megabets And Megarisks: Remaking The Auto Industry

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:14 PM PST

Guest post written by Prakash Krishnaswamy Prakash "Krish" Krishnaswamy, is President of EASi, a a division of Allegis/Aerotek Group, and a supplier of specialty engineering and design services to global car makers in the U.S., Europe, China and India. The auto business has reached an exciting but perilous inflection point. As it emerged from the ...


UN: Syrian officials ordered mass atrocities

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:55 PM PST

New report holds senior government officials responsible for crimes against humanity during eight-month uprising.


NYC Officials Take Notice of Astronomical Subway Construction Costs

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:30 PM PST

New York City's subway lines - the engines that keep the city's real estate market moving - are notoriously expensive to build. Tunneling projects in New York routinely clock in at??five to ten times the cost of their Asian and European counterparts, putting the city's measly 20-30% aboveground union construction premiums to shame. New York ...


Analysis: After 10 years, China's WTO ride could get bumpier

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:56 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Rising trade protectionism and frustration over its domestic subsidies spell trouble for China and could lead to more friction within the World Trade Organization than Beijing has grown accustomed to over the past decade.

Millions vote in landmark Egypt elections

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:59 PM PST

Country's first free vote in decades about to enter a second day, with turnout so far described as "very high".


Mexico police shoot it out with 4 teen car thieves (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 08:36 PM PST

FILE - This file photo released Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows a cross-border tunnel that authorities say was used as a major underground drug passage. The tunnel was 2,200 feet long, more than seven football fields, and ran from the kitchen of a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to two warehouses in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial district. Mexican trucker Daniel Navarro was sentenced Monday, Nov. 28, 2011, to nearly 16 years in prison for his role in two major drug tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border federal Authorities who raided the tunnels seized about 50 tons of marijuana. (AP Photo/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, File)AP - A band of heavily armed teenage car thieves shot it out with officers during a high-speed chase Monday, before crashing their stolen car in the northern industrial city of Monterrey, police said.

World's top aid forum held amid financial jitters (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:06 PM PST

AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon are headlining the world's premier development aid conference this week in the South Korean city of Busan.


Australian charged following $30 million drug bust (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 07:04 PM PST

AP - Australian police have arrested a Sydney man after finding 30 million Australian dollars ($30 million) worth of drugs in a shipment of raisins from Afghanistan.


Cloud Computing is Misunderstood, But Maybe it Doesn't Matter

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 08:27 PM PST

I predict that 2012 will be the year that cloud computing loses a lot of its luster for enterprises. Not because it is going away or anything like that. Rather, the opposite is happening ? it is becoming so ubiquitous and commonplace that business and IT end-users alike will almost forget that they?re even using ...


Bahrain replaces national security chief

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:06 PM PST

Member of ruling family sacked following king's promise to hold to account officials cited in crackdown report.


VIDEO: New Farc leader top target in Colombia

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 08:06 PM PST

The Colombian leader will now be counting on Venezuela to help capture the leader of the Farc guerrillas, Rodrigo Londoño, alias "Timochenko".


Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks (Nov. 29)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 08:00 PM PST

Investors in China's main financial district are talking about the following before the start of trade today:?? Gains in overseas markets may give a boost to shares today.?? Among notable Chinese stocks in overnight trading, online game operator The9 rose by 13% ??after the company said it??reached an??agreement to license its Fireball game for distribution ...


E-House To Buy Stake In Century 21???s China Partner; IFM Shares Soar

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 07:50 PM PST

Shares in New York-listed IFM Investments shot up 102% yesterday after big Chinese primary real estate brokerage E-House said it reached a preliminary agreement to buy a 37% stake in the company. IFM holds the executive franchise for the Century 21 brand in China. E-House, whose shares also trade in New York, will pay about ...


VIDEO: New Farc leader top target in Colombia

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 08:06 PM PST

The Colombian leader will now be counting on Venezuela to help capture the leader of the Farc guerrillas, Rodrigo Londoño, alias "Timochenko".


How to Make Cold Fusion Work: Use Unobtainium

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 07:32 PM PST

In my last post I said I?d steer clear of the whole cold fusion thing until something interesting happens. Well, in the last week something interesting has happened ? Once again, let me do a quick recap: An Italian inventor, Andrea Rossi, claims to have created a Low Nuclear Reaction, or LENR, device (otherwise called ...


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