Polls mean unhappy first birthday for UK coalition

Polls mean unhappy first birthday for UK coalition


Polls mean unhappy first birthday for UK coalition

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:24 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Britons voted on Thursday in a referendum on electoral reform that has split the year-old coalition government and raised doubts about whether the partnership will last.


Workers enter Japanese nuclear building

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:18 PM PDT

Workers entered a reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Thursday for the first time since a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami damaged the facility, its operator Toyko Electric Power Co. said.


Many dead in Iraq suicide bombing

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:09 PM PDT

Attacker targets police headquarters in Hilla, 100km south of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and wounding 25 more.


VIDEO: Libya summit set to start in Rome

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:48 PM PDT

The International Contact Group on Libya will meet in Rome later to discuss the conflict.


VIDEO: President Obama to visit Ground Zero

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:52 PM PDT

US President Obama is set to visit Ground Zero in New York as the city absorbs the death of the al-Qaeda leader, who plotted the 9/11 attacks.


Suicide bomber kills 10, wounds 30 in central Iraq (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:05 PM PDT

File picture shows members of an Iraqi anti-terror unit at a checkpoint in Baghdad. A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives near a police station in the city of Hilla south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 10 policemen, a police commander said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber driving a car has crashed into a barrier outside a police building in central Iraq, killing at least 10 people.



Bangladesh's Yunus loses final legal battle (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:04 PM PDT

Bangladesh's Supreme Court has dismissed a final attempt by Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus, pictured centre, to overturn an order sacking him from the bank he founded.(AFP/File/Munir Uz Zaman)AFP - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a final attempt by Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus to overturn an order sacking him from the bank he founded.



Bin Laden again unites, then divides, U.S. and Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:51 PM PDT

Reuters - When Osama bin Laden's men flew airliners into New York's World Trade Center 10 years ago, they sparked an outpouring of solidarity from Europe, captured by a French newspaper under the headline "We are all Americans now."


(AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:44 PM PDT

AP - Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber driving a car kills 10, wounds 30 people in central Iraq.


Bharti Airtel quarterly profit slumps 31.5 pct (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:01 PM PDT

AP - India's top mobile operator Bharti Airtel reported a 31.5 percent drop in quarterly profit Thursday, missing expectations on weak performance in Africa and soaring costs.


Doubling Sales In China Gets GM Above $40 For Sure

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:45 PM PDT

We estimate GM market share in China will decrease during the years ahead, with GM sales in China hi


Revolutionary Flexible Computer Unveiled

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:29 PM PDT

Researchers at Queens University have developed a mobile computer prototype that's flexible like pap


Dems Need A Fracking Clue About Drilling And $4 Gas

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:27 PM PDT

As we enter into the summer driving season shortly, the Obama administration must awaken to the fact


Suicide car bomber in Iraq kills at least 15

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:19 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb explosion killed at least 15 people and wounded 25 on Thursday in Iraq's predominantly Shi'ite southern city of Hilla, medical and police sources said.


Syria 'arrests scores' in Damascus suburb

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:22 PM PDT

Soldiers reportedly storm Saqba, making several arrests overnight, while tanks and armoured vehicles deploy near Homs.


VIDEO: Last WWI veteran dies at 110

Posted: 04 May 2011 09:03 PM PDT

The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude "Chuckles" Stanley Choules, dies in an Australian nursing home at the age of 110.


Kosovo hunters shoot dogs at city's request (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:19 PM PDT

AP - The video was shocking: Wounded dogs yelping in pain as they tried to escape the hunters gunning them down.


Listen For Latin America Clues On DirecTV Earnings Call

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:13 PM PDT

DirecTV is scheduled to report its Q1 2011 earnings Thursday. Here we take a look at key trends affe


Scammers Roil The Internet In Wake Of Bin Laden's Death

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:09 PM PDT

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Honda Reels From Quake, Stock May Sink

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:05 PM PDT

We currently have a Trefis price estimate of $34.04 for Honda stock, about 5% below the current mark