Over 20,000 take to streets in Yemen "Day of Rage" (Reuters)

Over 20,000 take to streets in Yemen "Day of Rage" (Reuters)

Over 20,000 take to streets in Yemen "Day of Rage" (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:04 PM PST

Reuters - More than 20,000 Yemenis filled the streets of Sanaa on Thursday for a "Day of Rage" rally, demanding a change in government and saying President Ali Abdullah Saleh's offer to step down in 2013 was not enough.


Egypt's Revolution: How Democracy Can Work in the Middle East (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:05 PM PST

Time.com - Even with counterrevolutionary forces challenging change in Egypt, democracy can still work. Here's how


Deutsche Bank posts 2010 profit of 2.3 billion euros (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:04 PM PST

Germany's Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. The biggest German bank, Deutsche Bank, reported on Thursday a 2010 fourth-quarter net profit of 605 million euros ($ 835 million) and a full-year figure of 2.3 billion euros.(AFP/Daniel Roland)AFP - Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, posted Thursday a sharply lower 2010 net profit, calling it the year one of transition as it added a major retail banking network to core investment bank activities.

Pakistani judge orders American held 8 more days (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:06 PM PST

Relatives of three Pakistanis, who died after a US consulate worker opened fire, hold up a portrait of a victim (L) and a flyer (R) in Lahore on February 2. A Pakistani court on Thursday extended the detention of a US government employee for another eight days over the shooting deaths of two men.(AFP/Arif Ali)AP - A judge ruled Thursday that police can keep holding a U.S. Embassy employee accused of killing two Pakistanis for at least eight more days, officials said — the latest development in a case that has heightened tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan.

Steven Cohen To Investors: Don't Sweat The Feds

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:56 PM PST

SAC Capital's investors won't feel any financial implication from the Fed's insider trading case, Co


Over 20,000 take to streets in Yemen "Day of Rage"

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:04 PM PST

SANAA (Reuters) - More than 20,000 Yemenis filled the streets of Sanaa on Thursday for a "Day of Rage" rally, demanding a change in government and saying President Ali Abdullah Saleh's offer to step down in 2013 was not enough.

Pakistan court extends detention of U.S. diplomat (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:32 PM PST

Reuters - An American who killed two Pakistani men in Lahore last week will be held for eight more days to allow for further investigation, a prosecutor said on Thursday, despite U.S. statements that he enjoys diplomatic immunity.


German, Spanish leaders to unite over troubled euro (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:25 PM PST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The leaders of Germany and Spain, Europe's strongest economy and one of its weakest, will attempt to send a united message in support of the troubled eurozone in talks here Thursday.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - The leaders of Germany and Spain, Europe's strongest economy and one of its weakest, will attempt to send a united message in support of the troubled eurozone in talks here Thursday.

Iraq: Bomb explodes in Baghdad, killing 2 people (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:47 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 file photo, people inspect a destroyed car and a wheelchair at the scene of a car bomb attack Baghdad, Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office released a statement Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 announcing the arrests of an unspecified number of suspected al-Qaida-linked extremists in last week's bombing of a Shiite funeral in Baghdad that killed 51 people. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Police and health officials say a bomb has exploded in a mainly Shiite area in Baghdad, killing two Iraqi civilians.

New gunfire erupts in central Cairo

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:30 PM PST

Heavy gunfire reverberates in central Cairo as supporters and foes of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak continue to face off at Tahrir Square. JOURNALISTS ATTACKED | FULL STORY

Anti-government protests start in Yemen

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:08 PM PST

What seemed like hundreds of anti-government protesters gathered near Sanaa University in Yemen's capital early Thursday morning, a clear indication that many in the country were not satisfied with President Ali Abdullah Saleh's recent announcement that he would not seek re-election.

Pakistan court extends detention of U.S. diplomat

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:32 PM PST

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - An American who killed two Pakistani men in Lahore last week will be held for eight more days to allow for further investigation, a prosecutor said on Thursday, despite U.S. statements that he enjoys diplomatic immunity.

Three protesters killed in clashes in Cairo (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:19 PM PST

Egyptian anti-government demonstrators (top) face pro-regime opponents (bottom) in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Three people were killed in gunfire aimed at anti-regime protesters in Tahrir Square in central Cairo early Thursday, taking the death toll over the last 24 hours to six, a medic said.(AFP)AFP - Three people were killed in gunfire aimed at anti-regime protesters in Tahrir Square in central Cairo early Thursday, taking the death toll over the last 24 hours to six, a medic said.

Insurgents kill 5 in Thailand's restive south (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:22 PM PST

AP - Suspected Muslim insurgents opened fire Thursday on a grocery store in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, killing five Buddhist bystanders, police said.


The Revolutionaries (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:05 PM PST

Time.com - How a loose coalition of veteran activists and rookie protesters combined to create the Middle East's most unusual uprising


'Burn marks' on Singapore Airlines A380 wiring (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 10:09 PM PST

Partial view of the engine of a Singapore Airlines A380. The firm has said it has found burn marks on electrical wiring in an Airbus A380 superjumbo after smoke entered a lavatory during a flight earlier this week.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)AFP - Singapore Airlines (SIA) said Thursday it found burn marks on electrical wiring in an Airbus A380 superjumbo after smoke entered a lavatory during a flight earlier this week.

Egypt fallout ??? follow Exxon and T Boone Pickens; go long natural gas and frack-baby-frack

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 09:33 PM PST

The abundance of natural gas points to an obvious place to find more domestic energy, following the


Volcano made famous by 007 menaces Japan island (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 09:36 PM PST

Volcanic smoke rises from the crater on Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishimna range on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. The revived volcano in southern Japan erupted Tuesday with its biggest explosion yet, shooting out a huge plume of gas, boulders and ash and breaking windows 5 miles (8 kilometers) away. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICAAP - In the James Bond version, circa 1967, Japan's Mount Shinmoe was a serene, extinct peak with a scenic, lake-filled crater that provided the perfect perch for 007 and his bikini-clad partner to surveil the lair of supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Australian troop killed in Afghanistan: officials (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 09:16 PM PST

Australian soldiers practice firing at their forward operating base in southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan in January, 2010. An Australian soldier has been killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the Defence Department said Thursday, upping the number of Australian troops killed in the conflict to 22.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)AFP - An Australian soldier has been killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the Defence Department said Thursday, upping the number of Australian troops killed in the conflict to 22.

Sri Lanka put Windies in to bat (AFP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 08:48 PM PST

West Indies batsman Adrian Barath (R) plays a shot as Sri Lanka captain and wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara (L) looks on during the first one-day international at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) Cricket Ground in Colombo on January 31. Sangakkara elected to field after winning the toss against the West Indies in the second one-day international on Thursday.(AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)AFP - Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara elected to field after winning the toss against the West Indies in the second one-day international on Thursday.
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