Ecuador referendum likely to boost Correa's power

Ecuador referendum likely to boost Correa's power

Ecuador referendum likely to boost Correa's power

Posted: 06 May 2011 11:04 PM PDT

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadoreans were to vote on Saturday over a reform package President Rafael Correa's rivals say would give the leftist leader too much power over courts and media critics in the South American OPEC member nation.

Who's Doing It Right? Jim Bankoff And SB Nation

Posted: 06 May 2011 03:48 PM PDT

Forbes' Lewis D'Vorkin and Jim Bankoff on tech, talent and storytelling.


Syria's Assad Bashes Heads, Hoping His Regime's Strategic Importance Buys It a Pass (Time.com)

Posted: 06 May 2011 09:55 PM PDT

Time.com - The limited Western response to the Syrian regime's bloody suppression of protests is based on fear of the consequences of regime-change. But activists don't buy that logic


The Revolution Will Be YouTubed: Syria's Video Rebels (Time.com)

Posted: 06 May 2011 09:55 PM PDT

Time.com - An up-close look at the video rebels documenting the country's uprising in the face of immense repression by the regime


Spanish golf legend Ballesteros dies: TV (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2011 10:42 PM PDT

Spanish golf legend Severiano Ballesteros (pictured in 2007), who underwent surgery for a brain tumour three years ago, has died at his home in northern Spain, according to Spanish public television.(AFP/Getty Images/File/John Sommers Ii)AFP - Spanish golf legend Severiano Ballesteros, who underwent surgery for a brain tumour three years ago, has died at his home in northern Spain, according to Spanish public television.

Japan's Iwate wins World Heritage endorsement (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2011 10:22 PM PDT

A freighter grounded by the recent tsunami in Kamaishi. Japan's Iwate prefecture, whose coastline was hard hit by the March 11 tsunami, on Saturday won endorsement for its historic Hiraizumi area to be listed as a World Heritage site, the government said.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Japan's Iwate prefecture, whose coastline was hard hit by the March 11 tsunami, on Saturday won endorsement for its historic Hiraizumi area to be listed as a World Heritage site, the government said.

UK voters reject electoral reform

Posted: 06 May 2011 10:19 PM PDT

'No' votes overwhelmingly surpass the yeses in an embarrassing blow to the ruling coalition's Liberal Democrats.


Obama meets bin Laden compound raiders

Posted: 06 May 2011 07:02 PM PDT

President Obama met Friday afternoon with members of the military team responsible for conducting the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, and promised a war-weary nation victory over al Qaeda.

Al Qaeda confirms bin Laden is dead, vows revenge (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2011 09:30 PM PDT

Osama bin Laden sits during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf/Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)Reuters - Al Qaeda has acknowledged that Osama bin Laden is dead, dispelling the doubts of some Muslims over whether the militant group's leader had really been killed by U.S. forces, and vowed to mount more attacks on the West.

Japan, U.S. give up on 2014 airbase relocation target: report (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2011 09:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Japan and the United States have given up on a plan to relocate by 2014 an American airbase on the southern island of Okinawa which has angered local residents and soured bilateral ties, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Saturday.


Trump University's Unhappy Students

Posted: 06 May 2011 09:38 PM PDT

A class-action suit against Trump University claims the outfit doesn't deliver what it promises.


Al Qaeda confirms bin Laden is dead, vows revenge

Posted: 06 May 2011 09:30 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda has acknowledged that Osama bin Laden is dead, dispelling the doubts of some Muslims over whether the militant group's leader had really been killed by U.S. forces, and vowed to mount more attacks on the West.

Single adoptive mom counts herself lucky (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2011 09:32 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 12, 2009, children in an orphanage for HIV-positive play on swings prior to a visit to their orphanage by British pop singer Elton John in the town of Makeyevka outside Donetsk, Ukraine. A Ukrainian official said Monday Sept. 14, 2009 that Elton John cannot adopt a 14-month-old Ukrainian child because the pop star is too old and isn't married. John said Saturday that he and his male partner wanted to adopt an HIV-infected boy named Lev whom the singer met during a visit to an orphanage. In the last few years, nations have increasingly been shutting the doors of orphanages to unmarried foreigners. Among them is Ukraine, one of the world's top countries for foreign adoptions. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - Ten Mother's Days have passed since I adopted a girl as a single woman. And during those years I've occasionally been asked, if I could go back in time, would I do it all over again?

Ohio House Of Representatives Passes Estate Tax Repeal

Posted: 06 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT

On May 5, 2011, the Ohio House of Representatives passed a $55.6 billion two-year budget plan that w


Mexico sending troops to north amid attacks (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2011 08:45 PM PDT

Women, carrying signs that reads in Spanish 'Topilejo united for the peace,' wait for the arrival of a march protesting against violence in Topilejo, outskirts of Mexico City, Friday, May 6, 2011. The continuing tide of drug-related killings in Mexico has drawn thousands of protesters into the streets of Cuernavaca, capital of Mexico's Morelos state, in a march against violence that is scheduled to arrive to Mexico City's Zocalo square on May 8. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Mexico sent hundreds of soldiers and federal police to a drug-violence plagued northern region Friday, the same day cartel gunmen fired on a military convoy with a grenade launcher and hit a bus carrying employees of a U.S.-owned assembly plant.

Kadhafi regime hits out over rebel war chest (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2011 08:30 PM PDT

Libyan rebels chat before heading to the front line on the outskirts of the eastern city of Ajdabiya. Moamer Kadhafi's regime reacted angrily Friday to a decision by world powers to provide funding to Libya's rebels, asserting that plans to tap assets frozen abroad were AFP - Moamer Kadhafi's regime reacted angrily to a decision by world powers to provide funding to Libya's rebels, asserting that plans to tap assets frozen abroad were "piracy."

China, Central Asian states hold anti-terror drill (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2011 10:55 PM PDT

AP - Security forces from China and two Central Asian neighbors practiced hunting down violent separatists in a counterterrorism drill along a border area where ethnic Muslim rebels have staged attacks against Beijing's rule, the government said Saturday.


Asylum seekers to Australia dump passports: report (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2011 08:36 PM PDT

A passerby walks by placards, part of a pro-refugee rally held in Melbourne. More than 80 percent of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat dump their passports before landing, a report said Saturday, presenting a security nightmare for immigration authorities.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - More than 80 percent of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat dump their passports before landing, a report said Saturday, presenting a security nightmare for immigration authorities.

The Giving Pledge's First Annual Retreat

Posted: 06 May 2011 08:13 PM PDT

Nearly half of those who took the Giving Pledge gathered in Arizona for its first ever gathering.


Metrics Won't Protect Your Company From Muddy Thinking

Posted: 06 May 2011 07:49 PM PDT

Metrics won't protect your company from muddy thinking and personal bias.


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