VIDEO: Spain anger at export ban over E. coli

VIDEO: Spain anger at export ban over E. coli

VIDEO: Spain anger at export ban over E. coli

Posted: 30 May 2011 11:07 PM PDT

Several countries have taken steps to curtail the E. coli outbreak, such as banning cucumber imports and removing the vegetables from sale


VIDEO: Fifa allegations concern sponsors

Posted: 30 May 2011 11:17 PM PDT

Fifa President Sepp Blatter is denying there is a crisis at the organisation despite concerns from its sponsors.


Mladic could be sent to war crimes court in 24 hours

Posted: 30 May 2011 11:07 PM PDT

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia may send former Bosnia Serb military leader Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges in The Hague within the next 24 hours, a justice official said on Tuesday.

Zuma says Gaddafi ready for truce

Posted: 30 May 2011 11:02 PM PDT

Rebels reject offer after visiting South African president says Libyan leader is ready to stop fighting.


The $26,000 Diamond Blackberry

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:17 PM PDT

Nigerian-born high-end luxury jeweler and fashion designer Alexander Amosu has unveiled a $26,000 bl


VIDEO: 'I'm willing to enter Japan's nuclear plant'

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:52 PM PDT

A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.


Double Dementia: How One Family Got The Keys Away From Both Parents

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:18 PM PDT

When parents have dementia, the day will come when they must give up driving. Here is one family's


Tiananmen mothers say government hints at payment, no apology

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:21 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Mothers of civilians killed during pro-democracy protests near Tiananmen Square more than two decades ago said on Tuesday authorities had raised the issue of compensation but offered no apologies or public account of the military crackdown.

Pakistani jets attack Taliban hideouts, kill 11 (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:01 PM PDT

A municipal worker sweeps a pavement in front of the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the sites of the 2008 militant attacks, in Mumbai May 31, 2011. A military standoff on the world's highest battlefield is the focus of a fresh round of talks between India and Pakistan, and any progress on one of the least thorny issues may give a boost to a tortuous peace process between the nuclear-armed rivals. Defence secretaries from both countries began two days of closed-door talks in New Delhi on Monday on withdrawing forces from the mountainous no-man's land above the Siachen glacier in disputed Himalayan territory, where they have faced off since 1984. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CITYSCAPE)Reuters - Pakistani warplanes attacked Taliban positions in the northwestern Orakzai region on Tuesday, killing 11 militants, a senior regional government official said.

EU works on Greek bailout; Germany may ease resistance (Reuters)

Posted: 30 May 2011 09:24 PM PDT

Reuters - The European Union is racing to draft a second bailout package for indebted Greece to release vital loans next month and avert the risk of the euro zone country defaulting.


Japan economy begins weak recovery from quake (AFP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:00 PM PDT

The sun sets in the disaster-hit city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture. Japan's factory output rose in April, data showed Tuesday, in the first sign of a tentative recovery for the world's number three economy, hobbled by a huge quake-tsunami and nuclear crisis.(AFP/File/Yasuyoshi Chiba)AFP - Japan's factory output rose in April, data showed Tuesday, in the first sign of a tentative recovery for the world's number three economy, hobbled by a huge quake-tsunami and nuclear crisis.

Australia acts on Indonesia abattoir scandal (AFP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:23 PM PDT

Cattle are lead by their handlers during an agricultural event in Sydney. Australia on Tuesday suspended live animal exports to several abattoirs in Indonesia after state television broadcast disturbing images of cattle being mistreated in slaughterhouses.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Australia on Tuesday suspended live animal exports to 11 abattoirs in Indonesia after state television broadcast "shocking" images of cattle being mistreated in the slaughterhouses.

Pakistani jets attack Taliban hideouts, kill 11

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:01 PM PDT

KALAYA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani warplanes attacked Taliban positions in the northwestern Orakzai region on Tuesday, killing 11 militants, a senior regional government official said.

Italian PM suffers setback in local elections

Posted: 30 May 2011 10:06 PM PDT

Silvio Berlusconi loses vote in Milan, his political stronghold, and in the southern city of Naples.


Vale CEO Says Big Second Half for China

Posted: 30 May 2011 09:44 PM PDT

Brazilian mining company Vale expects China iron ore demand to pick up in the second half of 2011, b


Israeli Billionaire Family Slapped With U.S. Sanctions For Trade With Iran

Posted: 30 May 2011 09:34 PM PDT

??The State Department has imposed sanctions??on the Ofer Brothers Group and its subsidiary, Singapo


China's Drought a Drag on Inflation

Posted: 30 May 2011 09:25 PM PDT

Just when China thought it was winning the fight against inflation, a record breaking drought threat


Sturgeon's death highlights threat to ancient fish (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 09:01 PM PDT

AP - Alas, poor Harald. Wired up to a satellite transmitter, he had much to teach science about the life of the great sturgeons of the Danube River and Black Sea.


Egyptian exec accused in attack on NY hotel maid (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 09:30 PM PDT

AP - A former chairman of one of Egypt's major banks was arrested Monday on charges of sexually abusing a maid at a Manhattan hotel, just weeks after the arrest of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on similar allegations, police said.


Afghan soldier kills Australian comrade (AFP)

Posted: 30 May 2011 08:56 PM PDT

ISAF-issued photo shows Australian defense engineers carrying the coffin of a killed comrade at the Multinational Base Tarin Kot in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. Two Australian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan with one of them shot dead by a local trooper who then fled the scene, the government has said.(AFP/HO/ISAF Regional Command (South)/File/Christopher Dickson)AFP - Two Australian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan with one of them shot dead by a local trooper who then fled the scene, the government said Tuesday.
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