Libya: Benghazi Rebels Win Tripoli Residents' Confidence (Time.com)

Libya: Benghazi Rebels Win Tripoli Residents' Confidence (Time.com)


Libya: Benghazi Rebels Win Tripoli Residents' Confidence (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Newly arriving from the eastern half of the country, the militia wants to prove it is not an army of occupation


Japan's finance minister to be next PM

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:06 PM PDT

Japan's ruling party picked Yoshihiko Noda, the finance minister, as its leader.


Plane skids off wet runway in India

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:15 PM PDT

A Gulf Air plane skidded off a wet runway Monday in southern India, an airport spokesman said. One passenger suffered minor injuries and was hospitalized.


VIDEO: Libya: New evidence of atrocities

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:37 AM PDT

Orla Guerin's report contains graphic and distressing images


VIDEO: Lockerbie bomber found 'in coma'

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:41 PM PDT

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is in a coma at his Tripoli home in Libya, it is being reported.


VIDEO: Euro bank boss to face MEPs

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:46 PM PDT

The president of the European Central Bank is to face questions from MEPs in Brussels about the on-going problems in the eurozone.


VIDEO: One year until Paralympic Games

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 08:24 AM PDT

Venues are being adapted to ensure they are accessible to all, with exactly a year to go until the Paralympic Games in London.


The Manufactured Wants and Unmet Needs of Young America

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:21 PM PDT

You've spent yet another vexing week at the bottom of the pyramid, hoisting the skinnier cheerleaders on your shoulders, working for somebody far busier and more important than you think you will ever be. And it's not as if you're that kid hanging out in your hometown smoking pot in the gas station parking lot! You're motivated. You want to succeed. You're just stuck. And everyone, from your mom to your boyfriend to your next-door neighbor, insists on reiterating the one phrase you can't stand: It'll pass! As if it's some kind of gallstone.


Vietnam to free more than 10,000 prisoners (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:44 PM PDT

AP - Vietnam's president has ordered more than 10,000 prisoners freed as part of the country's annual National Day amnesty.


Gulf Air says plane skids off runway in India (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:28 PM PDT

AP - A Gulf Air passenger plane skidded off the runway while landing in heavy rain on Monday in the southern Indian city of Kochi, injuring one person, the airline said.


Syrian forces storm northern town, fight defectors: residents

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:10 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces stormed a town on the main road leading to Turkey Sunday after troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fought a night-time battle in Damascus with army defectors who had refused to shoot at a pro-democracy protest.


The Hay Festival Goes To Kenya

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:39 PM PDT

Kenya's leading publishing company, Storymoja Publishers, is set to stage its 4th annual literary festival this September.


Quixey Raises $3.8M Round; Searching The Functional Web

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:28 PM PDT

At last count, there were 425,000 apps in the Apple App Store, and that many choices or more in Google?s Android Market. There are BlackBerry apps, Windows Mobile apps, Symbian apps and Palm WebOS apps (not a lot of demand for those right now). And mobile devices aren?t the only place you can go to ...


Japan's finmin Noda wins vote to become next PM (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:03 PM PDT

Japan's Trade Minister Banri Kaieda attends a news conference in Tokyo August 4, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, a fiscal hawk, will become Japan's sixth prime minister in five years after winning a ruling party vote on Monday, an outcome likely to please investors worried about a bulging public debt.



Japan's finmin Noda wins vote to become next PM

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:23 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, a fiscal hawk, will become Japan's sixth prime minister in five years after winning a ruling party vote on Monday, an outcome likely to please investors worried about a bulging public debt.


Japan's Noda Wins Top Party Post

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:59 PM PDT

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda is the victor in a hard-fought race to become the nation's next prime minister in an election that turned more on factional battles within the ruling party than over policies.


Last throes of Libya war focus on Sirte (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:34 PM PDT

A Libyan rebel holding a Kingdom of Libya flag mans a heavy machine gun mounted on an armoured personnel carrier at a checkpoint outside the town of Brega, 240 km southwest of the eastern city of Benghazi, August 28, 2011. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit LupiReuters - Libyan rebel forces were converging on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte on Monday, hoping to deliver the coup de grace of their revolution but uncertain if the fallen strongman was holed up there.



New Zealand's penguin visitor moved to ship (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:32 PM PDT

In this Aug. 28, 2011 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, emperor penguin 'Happy Feet' is seen in his room at Wellington Zoo's hospital, New Zealand.  The emperor penguin has been booked onto a research vessel scheduled to leave the country Aug. 29. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Jieqiu)  NO SALESAP - The wayward emperor penguin known to the world as Happy Feet is safely aboard a ship in New Zealand and ready to be taken to cooler southern waters.



Japan finance minister to be new PM

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:49 PM PDT

Yoshihiko Noda elected leader of ruling Democratic party and will succeed Naoto Kan as prime minister.


China moves Tibet hardliner to heavily Catholic province

Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:22 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - The hardline Chinese official removed last week as Communist Party chief of restive Tibet has been made head of the province in the center of contention over China's Catholics, giving him an influential role in another sensitive religious issue.