VIDEO: Mexico arrests son of top drug lord

VIDEO: Mexico arrests son of top drug lord

VIDEO: Mexico arrests son of top drug lord

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:46 PM PDT

Mexican troops have arrested the son of the country's most-wanted drug suspect, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.


Consider Yourself an Expert? Think again.

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 11:04 PM PDT

Earlier this month, the New Yorker published a brilliant piece detailing the glamorous yet gullible world of expert wine-tasters. The article profiled one blind tasting after another, highlighting perhaps what advertisers knew all along: for so-called experts and amateurs alike,??our expectations of wine are often more important than what's actually in the glass. ?This was ...


Microsoft, Amazon Amongst Top Tech Employers

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:33 PM PDT

Looking for a job in tech? If money matters most to you, consider as your top choice. According to new research from PayScale, the Redmond-based software (and potential future hardware) giant offers the highest starting the highest starting salaries, with a median of $91,500 per year for workers with 0-5 years of experience. also offers ...


VIDEO: Mexico arrests son of top drug lord

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:46 PM PDT

Mexican troops have arrested the son of the country's most-wanted drug suspect, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.


VIDEO: Mother guilty of child murders in Spain

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:52 PM PDT

A British woman has been found guilty of murdering her two children in a hotel room in Spain.


100 still missing after Indian Ocean sinking

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:54 PM PDT

Search resumes for scores missing after boat carrying about 200 suspected asylum seekers bound for Australia capsizes.


Suu Kyi makes history with UK parliament address

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:12 PM PDT

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers an address to both Houses of Parliament, in Westminster Hall, in the Houses of Parliament, central LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi became the first non-head of state to address both houses of Britain's parliament on Thursday in a rare honor she used to ask for help in bringing democracy to the former British colony. Cutting a tiny figure in parliament's cavernous and historic Westminster Hall, the 67-year-old Nobel Peace laureate and opposition leader received a standing ovation on arrival, introduced as "the conscience of a country and a heroine for humanity". "We have an opportunity to reestablish true democracy in Burma. ...

Afghan forces need reading lessons before security transfer

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 09:39 PM PDT

Afghan National Army soldiers march during the graduation ceremony which marks the completion of nine weeks of training at the Kabul Military Training Center in KabulKABUL (Reuters) - A third of Afghan national security forces are taking basic lessons in reading and counting as NATO commanders accelerate their training ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign troops in 2014, the coalition has said. More than 95 percent of recruits in the Afghan national army and police are functionally illiterate, having never been to school, so are sent on a beginner's course to teach them how to write their name and count to 1,000 in their mother tongue. ...

Pakistan ruling party to name PM nominee

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:39 PM PDT

Raja Pervez Ashraf has emerged as a strong candidate after a judge ordered the arrest of the first candidate.


Suu Kyi makes history with UK parliament address

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:30 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi became the first non-head of state to address both houses of Britain's parliament on Thursday in a rare honor she used to ask for help in bringing democracy to the former British colony.

Tahrir Square fills up as Egypt awaits result

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 09:36 PM PDT

Thousands of protesters camp overnight as rival presidential candidates accused each of trying to steal election.


Pentagon chief all but rules out apology for Pakistan

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 09:10 PM PDT

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaks during a news conference in KabulWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta all but ruled out an apology over an air strike last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and badly set back efforts to improve U.S.-Pakistani ties, saying it was "time to move on." Pakistan banned trucks from carrying NATO supplies into neighboring Afghanistan after the air strike, a move that costs U.S. taxpayers $100 million a month given the need to use more expensive, longer routes to the north. ...

Strikes on al Qaeda leave only "handful" of top targets

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 09:32 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly one year ago, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicted the strategic defeat of al Qaeda was within reach if the United States could kill or capture up to 20 leaders of the core group and its affiliates. In an interview on Thursday with Reuters, Panetta disclosed that only a "small handful" of the individuals on that original list remained on the battlefield and that Saudi Arabia - the birthplace of late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden - was reporting a drop-off in recruitment. ...


US, SKorea say huge war games meant to warn NKorea

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:41 PM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 19, 2012, a South Korean Air Forces' KF-16 fighter drops bombs during a South Korea-U.S. joint military live-fire drills at Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, South Korea, near the border with the North Korea. The drills were held in a show of combat readiness ahead of the 62nd anniversary of the start of the Korean War on June 25. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)The United States and South Korea are holding massive live-fire drills meant as a warning against North Korean aggression.

Afghan forces need reading lessons before security transfer

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 10:19 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - A third of Afghan national security forces are taking basic lessons in reading and counting as NATO commanders accelerate their training ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign troops in 2014, the coalition has said.

VIDEO: Bus abuse video prompts cash rush

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 07:02 PM PDT

A viral video of a New York bus monitor being verbally abused by school children prompts an internet fundraising effort to send her on holiday.


VIDEO: Christmas Island sinking 'tragedy'

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:45 PM PDT

Rescuers are continuing to search for dozens of people believed to be missing after a boat sank north of Christmas Island.


Pentagon chief all but rules out apology for Pakistan

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 09:10 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta all but ruled out an apology over an air strike last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and badly set back efforts to improve U.S.-Pakistani ties, saying it was "time to move on."

VIDEO: Christmas Island sinking 'tragedy'

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:45 PM PDT

Rescuers are continuing to search for dozens of people believed to be missing after a boat sank north of Christmas Island.


Syrian fighter pilot defects to Jordan, gets asylum

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 09:04 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - A Syrian air force pilot flew his MiG-21 fighter plane over the border to Jordan and was granted political asylum on Thursday, the first defection with a military aircraft since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
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