In Israel, the Shadow of a New Gaza War (Time.com)

In Israel, the Shadow of a New Gaza War (Time.com)

In Israel, the Shadow of a New Gaza War (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:30 PM PDT

Time.com - An attack on a school bus precipitates even more escalation in the tit-for-tat between Israel and Hamas


Philippine volcano alert level raised (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:27 PM PDT

A farmer is pictured harvesting seaweed along the Taal lake with the Taal Volcano seen in the background. Magma rising to the surface of the volcano on a popular island close to the Philippine capital has prompted the government to push up its alert level and urge visitors to stay away.(AFP/File/Jason Gutierrez)AFP - Magma rising to the surface of a volcano on a popular island close to the Philippine capital prompted the government to push up its alert level and urge visitors to stay away.

Don't Even Ask If We're There Yet: Family Takes an 11-Year Road Trip (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:30 PM PDT

Time.com - The Zapp family has spent more than a decade traveling the world in a vehicle that doesn't go over 40 miles per hour. Along the way they've eaten exotic foods, made many friends -- and, oh yes, had four little kids


Ten Steps to Build Real Startup Team Engagement

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:01 PM PDT

Success in a startup is not possible as a "one-man show." An entrepreneur has to engage with team me


Japan minister to visit stricken nuclear plant (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:55 PM PDT

A house is pictured amid a field of debris from the March 11 quake and tsunami in Shichigahama town, Miyagi prefecture. A powerful aftershock rocked Japan's tsunami zone, killing at least two and triggering new concerns over nuclear power plants in a region still grappling with an atomic emergency.(AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba)AFP - Japan's industry minister will Saturday meet workers battling to cool overheating reactor cores and plug radioactive leaks in the first government visit to the country's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.

Amateur rider seeks Grand National racing history (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:38 PM PDT

Jockey Sam Waley-Cohen celebrates after riding 'Long Run' to victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup Steeple Chase, in Gloucestershire, on March 18. Amateur rider Waley-Cohen is out to spike the guns of his professional weighing room colleagues again and create history in Saturday's Grand National.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Amateur rider Sam Waley-Cohen, winner of the Gold Cup on Long Run, is out to spike the guns of his professional weighing room colleagues again and create history in Saturday's Grand National.

Ivory Coast strongman defiant from within bunker (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:33 PM PDT

A local resident walks past republican forces soldiers loyal to Alassane Ouattara as they share a morning meal at a republican forces operating base in the Youpougon neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Friday, April 8, 2011. Ivory Coast's democratically elected leader said his forces won't capture the entrenched strongman who remained holed up Friday in an underground bunker at the presidential residence, and instead will focus on normalizing life in the besieged city.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - Artillery hit the residence of France's ambassador to Ivory Coast for the second time in two days, the French embassy said, a possible show of defiance from the country's strongman who has resisted international pressure to emerge from a bunker and cede power.

North Korea threatens South over mountain tours (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:42 PM PDT

This photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency in August 2009 shows N.Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) with Hyun Jung-Eun, chairwoman of South Korea's Hyundai Group (L). North Korea has stripped Hyundai of its right to run cross-border tours in an apparent bid by the communist state to press Seoul to soften its stance towards Pyongyang.(AFP/KCNA via KNS/File)AP - North Korea is threatening to strip a South Korean conglomerate of its exclusive right to conduct tours to the impoverished country over what it calls the South's strategy of isolating it through international sanctions.

Red Sox-Yankees series highlights globalization of baseball (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 02:36 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - When the Red Sox and Yankees met for the first time this season today at Fenway Park, the greatest rivalry in America’s pastime had a decidedly foreign flavor.


Walid Makled's extradition case highlights warming Venezuela-Colombia ties (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 02:04 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Alleged drug kingpin Walid Makled says he has knowledge that Venezuela’s highest authorities are facilitating narco-trafficking and that the terrorist organization Hezbollah is active within the South American nation.


Why Tech Support People Appear To Be Crazy

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:46 PM PDT

You want to know what makes your in-house tech support people seem to be more than slightly odd? Let


Nigerian poll retry hit by deadly bomb blast (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:03 PM PDT

People hold a poster of presidential candidate retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari at a rally in Lagos. A deadly bomb blast at an electoral office and an attack on a police post storing vote materials have marred Saturday's twice-postponed start of a crucial election period in Nigeria.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - A deadly bomb blast at an electoral office and an attack on a police post storing vote materials have marred Saturday's twice-postponed start of a crucial election period in Nigeria.

Man stranded in empty Japanese town since tsunami (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:07 PM PDT

Kunio Shiga poses for a photo at his home in Minami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, inside the deserted evacuation zone established for the 20 kilometer radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011. The 75-year-old man was stranded alone in his farmhouse ever since Japan's monstrous tsunami struck nearly a month ago. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)AP - The farmhouse sits at the end of a mud-caked, one-lane road strewn with toppled trees, the decaying carcasses of dead pigs and large debris deposited by the March 11 tsunami.

She Negotiates Life without Planned Parenthood

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 07:23 PM PDT

My memory of the Spring day in 1970 when I first walked through the doors of San Diego?s Plann


Man United face Fulham without banned Rooney (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:57 PM PDT

Manchester United's South Korean midfielder Park Ji-Sung watches the ball during their English Premier League match vs West Ham United at the Boleyn Ground, Upton Park in east London, on April 2. Sir Alex Ferguson faces a striking dilemma as Man United seek to turn the screw in the league title race against Fulham on Saturday without the banned Wayne Rooney.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson faces a striking dilemma as Manchester United seek to turn the screw in the Premier League title race against Fulham on Saturday without the banned Wayne Rooney.

NATO role under fire as Libya hits stalemate (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:53 PM PDT

PICTURE TAKEN ON A GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR The wreckage of a rebel tank sits at a roundabout in the eastern town of Misrata. Forces loyal to Libya's under-siege dictator Moamer Kadhafi shelled rebels in Misrata with civilian deaths reported as NATO's role in the conflict faced scrutiny with no endgame in sight.(AFP/Joseph Eid)AFP - Forces loyal to Libya's under-siege dictator Moamer Kadhafi shelled rebels in Misrata with civilian deaths reported as NATO's role in the conflict faced scrutiny with no endgame in sight.

Libya gov't tour of besieged town reveals struggle (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:29 PM PDT

A tearful mourner standing next to a coffin draped in the opposition flag is comforted by others, as a funeral for some of those killed by Thursday's airstrike on rebel forces takes place during Friday prayers in the square next to the courthouse in Benghazi, Libya Friday, April 8, 2011. NATO acknowledged Friday that its airstrikes had hit rebels using tanks to fight government forces in eastern Libya, while thousands of people gathered in central Benghazi to pray and mourn for some of those killed in the attack and chanted for revenge against Moammar Gadhafi's regime. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Moammar Gadhafi's government brought foreign journalists to Misrata on Friday to show that its forces hold significant control over the only major city in western Libya still in rebel hands, but the trip suggested that their situation had if anything grown more dire after weeks of laying siege to the enemy's stronghold.

Budget deal averts US federal shutdown

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:08 PM PDT

Republicans and Democrats reach an agreement to keep government institutions running.


VIDEO: Monkeys steal tourists' sunglasses

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 06:50 PM PDT

London Zoo's population of Bolivian squirrel monkeys have taken a liking to the glasses worn by visitors in the recent warm weather - and have begun to snatch the accessories off people's heads.


Army beats protesters as it breaks up Egypt rally (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:30 PM PDT

Egyptian soldiers stand guard outside the Israeli embassy as protesters wave Palestinian flags and chant slogans in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 8, 2011. At a large demonstration in Tahrir Square, protesters burned an Israeli flag and about 2,000 marched to the Israeli Embassy to express their anger over recent Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)AP - Soldiers beat hundreds of protesters with clubs and fired heavy volleys of gunfire into the air as part of a pre-dawn attack to clear away an overnight demonstration in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, in the latest sign of tensions between Egypt's ruling military and the country's protest movement.
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