Gadhafi pushes ahead as Arab League calls for help (AP)

Gadhafi pushes ahead as Arab League calls for help (AP)

Gadhafi pushes ahead as Arab League calls for help (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:37 PM PST

An anti-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi rebel, fires an RPG against pro-Gadhafi warplanes at a desert road between Agela and Ras Lanouf town, eastern Libya, Saturday March 12, 2011. An emergency European Union summit on Libya brought a no-fly zone no closer, but leaders embraced a new Libyan opposition group as a viable partner after cutting all contact with strongman Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - The world moved a step closer to a decision on imposing a no-fly zone over Libya but Moammar Gadhafi was swiftly advancing Saturday on the poorly equipped and loosely organized rebels who have seized much of the country.

Batsmen 'not playing for country,' rages skipper Dhoni (AFP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:35 PM PST

Indian batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni plays a shot during the Cricket World Cup match between India and South Africa at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) Cricket Stadium in Nagpur, on March 12. Dhoni later lashed out at his batsmen for playing to the gallery and not for their country in their three-wicket defeat.(AFP/Prakash Singh)AFP - India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni lashed out at his batsmen for playing to the gallery and not for their country in the three-wicket World Cup defeat to South Africa.

The Shifty Billionaire in Lebanon's Latest Storm (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:15 PM PST

Time.com - As his former ally takes to the streets against his current allies, Najib Mikati tries to steer the unsure ship of Lebanese state


2 Chinese dissidents freed after 10 years in jail (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:29 PM PST

AP - Two Chinese dissidents who were sentenced to 10 years in prison for getting together to talk about political reform and posting their views online have been released after completing their jail terms, their fathers said Sunday.


Venezuela's Exclusion of anti-Chavez Candidates Faces a Challenge (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:15 PM PST

Time.com - Even if the courts reversed spurious disqualifications, however, theopposition is too fractured to offer a serious challenge for power


Despite major steel deal, investors doubt Zimbabwe (AFP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:57 PM PST

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe delivers a speech at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai in August, 2010. Zimbabwe last week won its biggest foreign investment in a decade with a $750-million steel deal, but that left other firms even more confused about the rules of business in the troubled nation.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)AFP - Zimbabwe last week won its biggest foreign investment in a decade with a $750-million steel deal, but that left other firms even more confused about the rules of business in the troubled nation.

Relief Effort Continues as Nuclear Worries Loom

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:59 PM PST

A huge relief effort continued Sunday in earthquake-ravaged northern Japan as tens of thousands of Self-Defense Forces searched desperately for survivors while more bodies were recovered and concerns rose about a radiation leak at a nuclear power facility in the country.


Bill Nye Should Check Out China; Another "World's Fastest" Train Near Complete

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 08:42 PM PST

As Bill Nye the Science Guy bemoans the US's lackluster development of high speed rail, China plows


Excuse Me for Having to Be Rescued: Negotiating Order in Japan

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 05:54 PM PST

Today, the newspaper of record for Los Angeles, its own readership jumpy and restless, tells us that


VIDEO: Millions without power in Japan

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:02 PM PST

Millions of people are still without power and water in northern Japan.


US training quietly nurtured young Arab democrats (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:01 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011 file photo, a leader of Egypt's anti-government protesters, Egyptian Wael Ghonim, center, 30, a Google Inc. marketing manager who was a key organizer of the online campaign that sparked the first protest on Jan. 25, celebrates after being released from detention in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt. The revolutionary roar from the Arab street, shaking the palaces of the privileged, toppling presidents, has echoed around the globe and dominated the headlines and airwaves for weeks. But behind this story of political upheaval lies a quieter story of outside organizations that, with U.S. government money, tutored a young Arab generation in the ways of winning in a political world. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)AP - Hosni Mubarak's woes could be traced back to Egypt's 2005 election, when an army of tech-savvy poll watchers, with a little help from foreign friends, exposed the president's customary "landslide" vote as an autocrat's fraud.

Clinton wades into Arab revolutions on overseas tour (AFP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:12 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves Sunday for an overseas tour to find ways to help the Libyan opposition oust a third Arab leader and maintain the momentum of democracy revolutions.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves Sunday for an overseas tour to find ways to help the Libyan opposition oust a third Arab leader and maintain the momentum of democracy revolutions.

India under fire as Kiwis, Aussies eye last eight at W.Cup (AFP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:13 PM PST

South Africa 's Francois du Plessis (L) and Robin Peterson celebrate their victory over India, on Saturday. India are still top of Group B with seven points from their five games but their three-wicket defeat to South Africa has forced their demanding fans and media to ponder the possibility of the hosts missing out on the last eight.(AFP/Prakash Singh)AFP - India endured a steady stream of biting cynicism after their World Cup Nagpur nightmare while New Zealand and defending champions Australia eyed wrapping up quarter-final places.

China Sends Rescue Workers to Quake Ravaged Japan-Xinhua

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 07:03 PM PST

China sends 15 search and rescue workers to Japan. And as flight schedules return to normal, nearly


Is PIMCO's Bill Gross Right About Bonds?

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 07:30 PM PST

PIMCO's Total Return Fund dumped its U.S. government debt. Charting suggests it's the right move.


Saudi Arabia's 'Day of Rage' Passes Quietly (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 07:40 PM PST

Time.com - There was little sign of protest in Riyadh, but the Kingdom's aging monarchy is facing a growing wave of calls for reform


Israel approves settlement construction (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 10:33 PM PST

An Israeli border police officer patrols the West Bank village of Awarta, after five people were killed in the nearby Jewish settlement of Itamar Saturday, March 12, 2011. A Palestinian infiltrated Itamar early Saturday and killed five people, the Israeli military said. Israeli media is reporting that the dead are all members of the same family with parents and three children aged 11, 3 and an infant, all reported to have been stabbed while they slept. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - The prime minister's office says Cabinet ministers have approved the construction of hundreds of apartments in major Israeli settlement blocs.

Nuclear Crisis May Cause U.S. Rethink

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 09:17 PM PST

Nuclear industry experts and analysts are pondering the political fallout in the United States from an explosion at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant in northern Japan on Saturday.


Plant Safety Systems Questioned

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 08:02 PM PST

The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant casts doubt on the fundamental premise that has undergirded the global nuclear industry for five decades: that engineers can build enough redundancy into plant safety systems to overcome dangers.


Partial Meltdown Likely at Reactor

Posted: 12 Mar 2011 08:27 PM PST

Japan's top government spokesman says a partial meltdown is likely under way at second reactor affected by Friday's earthquake.


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