UN chief holds talks with Suu Kyi in Myanmar

UN chief holds talks with Suu Kyi in Myanmar


UN chief holds talks with Suu Kyi in Myanmar

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:23 PM PDT

Ban Ki-moon praises pro-democracy leader's decision to join country's parliament after agreeing to swear oath of office.


Afghan leaders should raise their game: EU ambassador

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:10 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Just after news broke that U.S. special forces had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the top EU diplomat in neighboring Afghanistan received a flood of emails from jubilant Afghans.


VIDEO: Mali junta 'in control'

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:53 PM PDT

The leadership of Mali's military junta say they are in control of the country's TV station and the capital's airport after they say rival soldiers tried to stage a counter coup.


VIDEO: Far right party gains Greek support

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:50 PM PDT

The far right Golden Dawn Party has been delivering food to the needy and is gaining support fast.


VIDEO: 'Freedom Tower' is NYC's tallest

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:40 PM PDT

One World Trade Center - the building replacing the twin towers destroyed on September 11th - has claimed the title of New York's tallest skyscraper, overtaking the Empire State Building.


Mexico backs law supporting drug-war victims

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:45 PM PDT

Congress approves law allowing reparations of up to $73,000 for victims of drug-related violence.


China, Russia resist West's sanctions push for Sudan, South Sudan

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:12 PM PDT

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov attends a meeting with his Sudanese counterpart Ali Ahmed Karti in MoscowUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China and Russia are resisting a Western push for the U.N. Security Council to threaten Sudan and South Sudan with sanctions if the two countries fail to comply with demands to halt their escalating conflict, U.N. envoys said. The U.N. negotiations on Sudan and South Sudan, former civil war foes that split when the south seceded last year, follow weeks of border fighting that have raised fears Khartoum and Juba could launch an all-out war, after failing to resolve a string of disputes over oil revenues and border demarcation. ...



Nicaragua's Sandinista co-founder Tomas Borge dies

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:14 PM PDT

File photo of Borge, a founder of the FSLN, speaking to a Reuters reporter during an interview in Managua.MANAGUA (Reuters) - Tomas Borge, one of the founders of Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista movement who served as interior minister after the 1979 revolution that toppled U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza, died on Monday at the age of 81. The former guerilla fighter, considered one of the hardliners in Daniel Ortega's government in the 1980s, was hospitalized earlier this month for a lung infection and was moved to intensive care after complications from surgery. "It is with profound sorrow that we announce the end ... ...



New Developments for the Camera Category

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:02 PM PDT

If you wanted more proof that time and technology wait for no man, check out the newest kid on the digital block: the mirror-less camera. It's the innovation we never knew we needed, but the powers-that-be (camera branding heavyweights like Canon), are, happily, here to sharpen our focus. Camera technology evolves at the blink of ...


Nicaragua's Sandinista co-founder Tomas Borge dies

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:16 PM PDT

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Tomas Borge, one of the founders of Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista movement who served as interior minister after the 1979 revolution that toppled U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza, died on Monday at the age of 81.


China, Russia resist West's sanctions push for Sudan, South Sudan

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:20 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China and Russia are resisting a Western push for the U.N. Security Council to threaten Sudan and South Sudan with sanctions if the two countries fail to comply with demands to halt their escalating conflict, U.N. envoys said.


VIDEO: Pressure on Ukraine intensifies

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:28 PM PDT

Ukraine is under growing pressure from Europe over the treatment of its jailed former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko who is serving seven years in jail for abuse of office.


VIDEO: Tokyo 'to buy disputed islands'

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:24 PM PDT

Tokyo's governor says he plans to buy a group of islands at the centre of a dispute between Japan and China.


On Your 60th Birthday, You Can Give Yourself Presents

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:46 PM PDT

It was not until my 40?s that poetry came back into my life, to save it at one of those passages when our plans have gone awry, what we thought we wanted we didn?t, what we believed to be true was not, and what we gathered about ourselves as solace was just more pain. I ...


Salahi: Control Over Trust Assets Neuters Spendthrift Trust Provisions In Virginia Bankruptcy Case

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:32 PM PDT

In re Salahi, 2012 WL 1438213 (Bkrtcy.E.D.Va., April 25, 2012), as found at??http://goo.gl/yqUDD Wife was the sole settlor of a Trust she created on June 28, 2010 for the benefit of her Husband, and named herself the Trustee. The Trust provided that if Husband passed first, then Wife would become the beneficiary of the Trust. ...


Energy Services Analysis: A Better Way To Slash Emissions?

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:58 PM PDT

It's a paradox of modern life that even as more of us carry devices to read and share information there remains a need to cleave actionable knowledge from the raw slab of daily news and updates. Clear, understandable, and trusted information that helps consumers choose products and services, or policymakers policies, that save energy and ...


Two-horse race in final stretch for Egypt presidency

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:24 PM PDT

Women walk under campaign election posters for Mursi in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt enters the last stage of its first democratic presidential race on Monday with its field narrowing to a two-horse race between the urbane former head of the Arab League and a charismatic Islamist medic jailed for years under Hosni Mubarak. A poll published in state-run al-Ahram daily on Monday showed veteran diplomat Amr Moussa in the lead, followed by Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, who has emerged in recent days as the leading Islamist candidate after securing the support of the ultra-conservative Salafist movement. ...



Mali's military leaders 'repel counter coup'

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:24 PM PDT

Junta says it is in control of key sites in and around capital Bamako as fighting continues amid attempted counter coup.


Two-horse race in final stretch for Egypt presidency

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 09:24 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt enters the last stage of its first democratic presidential race on Monday with its field narrowing to a two-horse race between the urbane former head of the Arab League and a charismatic Islamist medic jailed for years under Hosni Mubarak.


How Dead Is Amazon's Kindle? Could Be Very Dead

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 08:59 PM PDT

Where I'd previously have given odds that Barnes & Noble was headed for the rocks, now I worry more about Amazon's Kindle.