Border reforms top agenda at France-Italy summit (AFP)

Border reforms top agenda at France-Italy summit (AFP)


Border reforms top agenda at France-Italy summit (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:49 PM PDT

Tunisian immigrants are seen at Rome's Termini station en route to Ventimiglia, the town which sits on the Italy-France border. French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on Tuesday with potential revisions to the Schengen open-borders treaty topping the agenda amid a festering row over immigration.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on Tuesday with potential revisions to the Schengen open-borders treaty topping the agenda amid a festering row over immigration.



Pakistan bus attacks kill four in Karachi (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:03 PM PDT

Pakistani rangers patrol as they ride past a security check point in Karachi. Bomb attacks hit buses carrying Pakistani navy personnel in Karachi, killing four people and highlighting rampant insecurity in the key US ally in the fight against the Taliban.(AFP/File/Asif Hassan)AFP - Bomb attacks hit buses carrying Pakistani navy personnel in Karachi, killing four people and highlighting rampant insecurity in the key US ally in the fight against the Taliban.



New EA Exec Dave Madden Sees"Buckets of Money" in Cross-Platform Game Advertising

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:42 PM PDT

When it comes to reaching the coveted male demographic of 18 to 34 year olds, there's no better plac


Israel's Electric Car Network: Can It Change the World? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:45 PM PDT

Time.com - TIME goes for a test ride on Better Place's vaunted electric car and its potentially revolutionary network, which could debut in Israel as early as November


China says aid to Africa not aimed at resources (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:55 PM PDT

AP - China slammed suggestions that its burgeoning foreign aid to Africa is driven by its interest in the impoverished continent's rich natural resources, saying Tuesday that it helps poorer countries out of solidarity.


Tsunami-hit Japanese whalers set sail for hunt (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:26 PM PDT

An aerial picture shows the Nisshin Maru, one of Japan's ships of their research whaling fleet, leaving the port of Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, on April 1. Japanese whalers have launched their annual coastal hunt with five crew from the tsunami-devastated whaling town of Ayukawa joining their first voyage since the March 11 disaster.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Japanese whalers launched their annual coastal hunt with five crew from the tsunami-devastated whaling town of Ayukawa joining their first voyage since the March 11 disaster.



VIDEO: Sir Elton John on becoming a father

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:44 PM PDT

In their first US television interview since the Christmas birth of their son, Elton John and his partner David Furnish have spoken about what it is like to be parents.


Indian Guru Sathya Sai Baba: The Who Was God Is Dead (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:45 PM PDT

Time.com - The influential and controversial guru who ran a multibillion-dollar charitable trust had countless adoring adherents, some of whom believe he may come back to life


Australian infant attacked by dingoes (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:54 PM PDT

A dingo is pictured in this file photo. A three-year-old girl on Monday was savaged by dingoes after wandering into bushes on a popular Australian tourist island, according to witnesses.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - A three-year-old girl was savaged by dingoes after wandering into bushes on a popular Australian tourist island, according to witnesses.



China's Sinopec Axes Exec After $230k Booze Binge

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:53 PM PDT

Sinopec's booze hound a convenient scapegoat for high gasoline prices.


Rethinking Gary Johnson

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:31 PM PDT

I?ve gotten lots of really excellent, smart pushback on the Gary Johnson-for-president idea. I


Carter leads North Korea peace mission

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:39 PM PDT

Former US president visits Pyongyang with other ex-world leaders in bid to defuse tensions on the divided peninsula.


Jimmy Carter Arrives in North Korea

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:41 PM PDT

Former President Jimmy Carter and other past world leaders were in Pyongyang hoping to meet with North Korea's leader to discuss food shortages and stalled nuclear disarmament talks.


Royal wedding sidelines Australia republic drive (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:26 PM PDT

A collection of fine bone china plates and mugs commemorating the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton are seen here in a store window display in Sydney. Street parties are hardly likely to erupt, but with wall-to-wall television coverage on every network and a giant screen on Sydney harbour, the young royal's wedding to Kate Middleton will be hard to escape.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Their views could not be further at odds, but the upcoming royal wedding has Australia's royalists and republicans in rare and unlikely agreement -- the monarchy is digging in Down under.



Police rescues 51 migrants in Mexican border city (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:10 PM PDT

In this April 4, 2011 photo, Carmen Villareal Espinosa talks about her sons during an interview at her home in Culiacan, Mexico. Villareal and her husband raised their nine sons to become brick makers but now three of them are in Malaysia facing the death penalty on drug charges. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - Mexico's federal police rescued 51 people, including six Chinese and 18 Central American migrants, who were captive in the same border city where more than five dozen people were freed last week, authorities said Monday night.



Oil falls to near $111 as US dollar strengthens (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 09:21 PM PDT

In this Thursday, April 21, 2011 photo, a member of Indonesian police bomb squad walks near the spot where police found several explosive materials, near a church in Serpong, West Java, Indonesia. Christians in Indonesia attended Good Friday celebrations under tight security after several bombs were found under a gas pipeline near the church outside the capital. (AP Photo)AP - Oil prices fell to near $111 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a stronger dollar made crude more expensive for investors with other currencies.



Governor Scott Walker Caught In Political Plagiarism

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 08:52 PM PDT

Plagiarism is defined as the ?wrongful appropriation,? ?close imitation,? or


Widow Arrested in Televisa Case

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 08:51 PM PDT

Mexican police arrested a former wife of the late chairman of Mexican broadcast giant Televisa as she was about to testify in a lawsuit in which she alleges she was denied her inheritance.


Little Surprise In Ameriprise Sale Of Troubled Omaha Brokerage

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 08:45 PM PDT

Ameriprise has had a bumpy ride with its subsidiary Securities America, and it's now ready to cut ti


Money talks: April 25th, 2011

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:00 PM PDT

In this week's programme - America's low GDP figures (weather is partly to blame), unemployment and Ben Bernanke's press conference


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U.N. Panel Finds Sri Lanka War Crimes Allegations Are 'Credible'

U.N. Panel Finds Sri Lanka War Crimes Allegations Are 'Credible'


U.N. Panel Finds Sri Lanka War Crimes Allegations Are 'Credible'

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:06 PM PDT

A U.N.-appointed panel has found that allegations of war crimes by the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers during the concluding battles of their 27-year war are credible and could lead to formal charges if investigated.


Sales of New Homes Rise, but Pace Remains Slow

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:40 PM PDT

The rate was up from February but a glut of distressed properties remains a drag on the market.


The Caucus: Barbour Decides Against Presidential Run

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:52 PM PDT

Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi said Monday that he had decided against seeking the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.


Aircraft ash fear 'well founded'

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:10 PM PDT

Ash that erupted from a volcano in Iceland last year was sharp and abrasive, suggesting the move to shut European airspace was justified, a study says.


Chinese State Media Publishes Photos of J-15 Fighter Jet

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:17 PM PDT

The photographs suggest that the People's Liberation Army, long notoriously secretive, is lifting some veils.


Inside Quake's Supply Disruption

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Iwaki Diecast spent six weeks getting its plant in northeastern Japan back to near full capacity after the quake. Now it faces a new problem: waiting for customers to get back on their feet.


Blasts claim lives in northeast Nigeria

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:07 PM PDT

Bokor Haram role suspected after attacks at a hotel tavern and a transport hub in Maidugri, capital of Borno state.


5 voices: What's next for 'Arab Spring'?

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:42 PM PDT

After the tumultuous last months in the Arab world, is more change on the way, or have we seen the peak of what some call the "Arab Spring"? Explore five views of how the "Arab Spring" will play out as summer nears.


'Hidden CO2 emissions' revealed

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:04 PM PDT

The extent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions "hidden" in imported goods is growing, according to two studies.


In Benghazi, rebels turn waste into weapons

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 07:42 AM PDT

Two months ago, Massoud Ojeli was in college, studying English -- but now, he works at a secret makeshift weapons factory in Libya, welding together spare parts to make arms for the country's opposition forces.


Residents tell grim story of assault on Syrian city

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:25 AM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Residents of the city of Deraa, cradle of the pro-democracy protests that have swept Syria, painted a chilling picture on Monday of an assault by security forces using tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns.


Mauritanian police use teargas to break up protest

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:28 AM PDT

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Security forces using teargas and batons dispersed several hundred anti-government protesters in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Monday, the most serious clash in the West African state for nearly two months.


Italy 'to join attacks in Libya'

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:25 PM PDT

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi approves the use of his country's air force in Nato military strikes enforcing a UN resolution to protect civilians in Libya.


Mauritania protesters tear-gassed

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:39 AM PDT

Police in Mauritania fire tear gas and arrest some protesters in the capital on "day of rage" against President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz's government.


Residents tell grim story of assault on Syrian city

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:25 AM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Residents of the city of Deraa, cradle of the pro-democracy protests that have swept Syria, painted a chilling picture on Monday of an assault by security forces using tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns.


Residents tell grim story of assault on Syrian city

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:25 AM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Residents of the city of Deraa, cradle of the pro-democracy protests that have swept Syria, painted a chilling picture on Monday of an assault by security forces using tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns.


Residents tell grim story of assault on Syrian city

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:25 AM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Residents of the city of Deraa, cradle of the pro-democracy protests that have swept Syria, painted a chilling picture on Monday of an assault by security forces using tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns.


Fighting in besieged Libyan city rages on

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:18 AM PDT

Civilians reportedly killed in shelling as Tripoli accuses NATO of killing 45 people with raid on Gaddafi's compound.


Schalke have 'less to lose'

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:14 AM PDT

Ferguson's Man Utd are expected to beat Schalke in their Champions League semi. But could this make doing so difficult?


Commonwealth Games' Organizer Arrested in India

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:54 AM PDT

Indian federal investigators arrested Suresh Kalmadi, former chief organizer of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, over alleged corruption and financial malpractice in connection with the event in October.