Egypt police on alert after Israeli embassy attack (AP)

Egypt police on alert after Israeli embassy attack (AP)

Egypt police on alert after Israeli embassy attack (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:13 PM PDT

An elderly man runs past flaming vehicles outside the building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. A group of about 30 protesters broke into the embassy Friday and dumped hundreds of documents out of the windows after a day of demonstrations outside the building in which crowds swinging sledge hammers and using their bare hands tore apart the embassy's security wall. (AP Photo)AP - Egypt put its police force on a state of alert after a night of violence during which angry protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, tearing down a cement barrier around the building and dumping documents out of the windows.

Activists seek release of giant Philippine croc (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:14 PM PDT

AP - Animal rights activists are urging Philippine authorities to return a captured giant crocodile back to the wild. The mayor of the town where it was caught refuses, saying it poses a threat to his constituents.


VIDEO: Terror threat ahead of 9/11 anniversary

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:05 PM PDT

The US secretary of state has warned that al-Qaeda is behind a credible threat to Americans in the run-up to the anniversary of 9/11.


Nadal beats Roddick to reach US Open semis

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:21 PM PDT

Defending champion breaks Andy Roddick six times to move on to semi-finals, where he will play Britain's Andy Murray.


China August trade surplus dips as exports off peak (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:50 PM PDT

Reuters - China's trade surplus fell sharply in August as exports pulled back from a record high and imports jumped, indicating the world's second-largest economy is feeling the pinch from weaker global growth while domestic demand remains resilient.


Modern Central Banking and the BOJ

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:37 PM PDT

BOJ seems to have begun to gun the monetary engine. The reasons are obvious: to combat the super-high yen, to counteract 3.11 disaster-related contraction, to respond to global, particularly European, financial market instability. But caution is required.


Ping An Once Again Tops CEIBS List Of China's Private Firms; New Era Seen

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:29 PM PDT

Ping An Insurance, partly owned by HSBC, once again topped a list of China's top 100 private-sector companies released by the Shanghai-based China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). The report aims to give a glimpse into the performance of non-state-owned companies in China.?? Since the end of its Maoist??days more than three decades ago, China ...


VIDEO: Cairo's Israeli embassy attacked

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:57 PM PDT

Protesters have broken into the building housing Israel's embassy in Egypt's capital, Cairo, entering consular offices, officials said.


Emerging-Market Currencies Join Global Selloff

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 07:03 PM PDT

After rallying for much of this year, emerging-market currencies have joined the selloff in financial markets. Fears have grown that the euro-zone's debt crisis could reverberate through the global economy and hurt even the fastest growing countries.


VIDEO: Cairo's Israeli embassy attacked

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:57 PM PDT

Protesters have broken into the building housing Israel's embassy in Egypt's capital, Cairo, entering consular offices, officials said.


Lindsay Lohan, NBA Athlete Chris Bosh And The Kate Middleton Effect At Day 2 of New York Fashion Week

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:37 PM PDT

Peter Som started day two of the spring 2012 collections on a bright and blooming note. The designer showed dresses, pants and swimsuits with oversized roses???clothes that easily called to mind the collection of Raf Simons for Jil Sander just this past spring. Som's pieces, however, are more abstracted and in shapes that would suit ...


Will Deeper Payroll Tax Cuts Get America Hiring Again?

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:32 PM PDT

Will Obama's American Jobs Act work this time?


Analysis: With us or against us? A decade on, Pakistan wavering (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:46 PM PDT

The World Trade Center construction site is reflected in a shop window in New York September 9, 2011. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - While the ruins of New York's World Trade Center were still smouldering in late September 2001, President George W. Bush put nations around the globe on notice: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

Afghan official: talks on track for longterm pact (AP)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2007 file photo, Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Spanta says the U.S. and Afghanistan are narrowing their differences over how the two countries will cooperate after U.S. combat forces leave by 2015. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)AP - A senior Afghan official predicted Friday that the United States and Afghanistan will soon sign a broad deal for U.S. use of Afghan soil for counter-terrorism missions and U.S. obligations to the fledgling democracy it has sponsored since toppling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan weeks after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Gadhafi's Ouster Is Italian Town's Loss

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:28 PM PDT

A small Italian town which had planned the construction of a lavish spa thanks to the deep pockets of Moammar Gadhafi provides a window into the vast economic ties between Italy and its former colony.


Berlusconi Faces New Storm

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:48 PM PDT

Berlusconi came under fire on Friday after a magazine published a wiretapped conversation that it said showed the premier advised an associate facing a criminal investigation in Italy to remain outside the country.


Canada Suffers Surprise Job Losses

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:49 PM PDT

The Canadian economy shed jobs in August, pushing up the unemployment rate to 7.3% from 7.2%, Statistics Canada said Friday, in a sign Canada's job-creating machine has stalled.


G-7 Torn Between Stimulus, Cuts

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 06:44 PM PDT

Officials from the world's leading advanced economies papered over divisions among themselves as they sought to assure skeptical investors and voters that they had solutions to economic woes on both sides of the Atlantic.


Oil Found Near French Guiana

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:49 PM PDT

Tullow Oil and Shell said they have opened up a new hydrocarbon basin off the coast of French Guiana, with the discovery of a good-quality oil reservoir from their first wildcat well.


Stark Walked a Fine Line

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 07:12 PM PDT

In his five years on the European Central Bank's executive board, Jürgen Stark enjoyed playing the role as the enforcer of the German Bundesbank's culture of fiscal stability at the ECB.


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Murray edges Isner to make semis

Murray edges Isner to make semis

Murray edges Isner to make semis

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:07 PM PDT

Andy Murray produces resilient display to beat John Isner in four sets and reach the US Open semi-finals.


England scrape victory over India

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:06 PM PDT

England edge to a nervy three-wicket win over India in the third one-day international at The Oval.


McGuinness called 'great leader'

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:02 PM PDT

A Presbyterian minister tells the Sinn Fein annual conference that Martin McGuinness is "one of the great leaders of modern times".


VIDEO: German court upholds Samsung ban

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:06 PM PDT

A German court upholds a ban requested by Apple to bar the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab in the country.


Bin Laden "wanted to use French hostages against Sarkozy"

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:11 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden wanted al Qaeda hostage takers to use their French captives to discredit President Nicolas Sarkozy and his security policy ahead of a presidential election next year, possibly by killing them, France Info radio said on its website Friday.

Egypt Protesters Tear Down Israeli Embassy Security Wall

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:02 PM PDT

Hundreds of Egyptian protesters tore down parts of a graffiti-covered security wall that had recently been put up near the entrance of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.


Faces of Past Haunt Scrutiny of Libyan Fund

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:16 PM PDT

The new Libyan government will have much to do to disentangle itself from the past because many of its officials occupied similar posts during the 42-year Gadhafi era.


Gunfire erupts in Sierra Leone's Bo town

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:29 PM PDT

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Gunfire broke out in Sierra Leone's second biggest town, Bo, on Friday as supporters of rival political parties clashed in the streets, sources said.

Child abuse 'rife' in Sri Lanka

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:05 AM PDT

The head of Sri Lanka's child protection body says that all children's homes should be closed down because child abuse in them is "rampant".


Call for Somalia aid protection

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:55 AM PDT

Ethiopia's prime minister calls for aid corridors in famine-hit Somalia to be protected by African peacekeepers.


Cameron war on 'coasting' schools

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron accuses a number of state schools in England - particularly in more affluent areas - of "coasting".


Richardson: No meeting yet with jailed American in Cuba

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:02 AM PDT

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who arrived in Cuba this week to try to negotiate the release of jailed American contractor Alan Gross, said Friday he has not been allowed to meet with him.

VIDEO: Indonesia: Stopping spread of extremism

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:40 AM PDT

Indonesia has been trying a new soft approach to stop the spread of radical ideology.


White House Memo: After a Good Start, a Relationship Stalls, Stranding Mideast Peace Hopes

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:20 PM PDT

President Obama's relationship with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority has withered, creating more obstacles to Middle East peace.

Egyptians demolish Israel embassy wall at protest

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:34 AM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian activists demolished a wall around the Israeli embassy in Cairo Friday after thousands demonstrated at Tahrir Square to push for a timetable for transition to democracy and an end to military trials for civilians.

VIDEO: I told Bush 'America is under attack'

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:28 AM PDT

When President George W Bush was told of the attacks on the World Trade Center, he was famously sitting in a Florida classroom with a group of second grade children. Chief of staff Andy Card recalls having to tell him, "America is under attack".


In the Real World, Will the Jobs Plan Make a Difference?

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:06 PM PDT

Employers in a variety of industries react to President Obama's jobs proposal. For some, factors more important than payroll taxes will affect their future hiring plans.

House Freshman Emerges as G.O.P. Power Broker

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Presidential candidates have been courting Tim Scott, one of four freshmen in the House from South Carolina and one of two black Republicans.

Resignation at European Central Bank Hints at Split

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:52 AM PDT

The departure of Jürgen Stark, described as the European Central Bank's chief economist, brought discord over the response to Europe's sovereign debt crisis into full view.

City Kitchen: At the Italian Deli, Ingredients for Dinner — City Kitchen

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:48 AM PDT

No need to go to a high-end emporium to shop for a simple Italian meal: many ingredients can be found in a good deli.
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