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Deepening divisions with Putin over Syria to overshadow G8 meet

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:40:40 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - The escalating civil war in Syria and the deepening divisions between the western powers and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war-torn country are to be the focus of the G8 summit that opened here Monday. Putin is likely to attack US President Barack Obama over his move to arm the rebels fighting the Assad regime. "The EU is convinced that we are at ...

US wants 'credible negotiations' with North Korea

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:53:57 -0400

WASHINGTON - The United States has said it wants "credible negotiations" with North Korea as Pyongyang in its latest offer has expressed desire to start "senior-level" talks with America on regional peace and easing tensions. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, are said to have discussed the issue by telephone Sunday evening. They agreed to close ...

Czech premier quits after aide accused of power abuse

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:37:55 -0400

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, once known as 'Mr Clean Hands' in a country troubled by corruption, was forced to resign after his chief of staff was accused of abusing the state security apparatus to spy on three people including the First Lady. The announcement threw the Czech Republic into political chaos. Necas will stay on as caretaker leader until a new ...

Britain snooped on foreign leaders at G20 summits

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:48:37 -0400

LONDON - Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed secrets of the US intelligence, has disclosed that Britain's electronic intelligence agency spied on foreign politicians and officials who attended the London G20 summit in 2009, a news report said. The disclosures by The Guardian may cause diplomatic tension as they coincide with the latest G8 summit being hosted by London in Northern ...

Russian president denies charge of stealing Super Bowl ring

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:57:31 -0400

MOSCOW - Robert K. Kraft, an American business magnate and New England Patriots football team owner, has alleged that Vladimir Putin took away his Super Bowl ring in 2005, an accusation that has sparked a minor international controversy The Russian president however denied the allegation about the diamond-encrusted sporting prize that he says was gifted to him by the football team owner. ...

UN chief urges global efforts for drought desertification

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:00:01 -0400

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has called for a collective global action to build resilience and prepare for droughts, as well as to combat desertification (a type of land degradation). "Droughts are hard to avert, but their effects can be mitigated. Because they rarely observe national borders, they demand a collective response," reported Xinhua citing the UN chief in a message marking this ...

Palestinian refugee camps in Syria now theatres of war - UN agency chief

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:16:44 -0400

17 June 2013 150 Warning that the centrifugal force of the Syria crisis continues to imperil the region, a senior United Nations agency official today said that more than half of the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria have become "theatres of war," where killings and kidnappings have become the norm. According to the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine ...

UN chief renews call for entry into force of treaty banning nuclear tests

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:16:05 -0400

17 June 2013 150 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today renewed his call for the earliest entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which prohibits all nuclear tests across the world. "Now it is time for the international community to exercise political will and act," Mr. Ban said in his message to the CTBT: Science and Technology 2013 Conference in Vienna, Austria. ...

UN General Assembly set to explore impacts of ocean acidification

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:15:13 -0400

17 June 2013 150 The United Nations General Assembly will begin today its consideration of the impacts that the increasing acidification of the world's oceans will have on the marine environment and on people. This year's informal Consultative Process on oceans, which opens today and runs through 20 June, will provide a forum for countries to discuss the challenges posed by rising ocean ...

Irans Rowhani Promises New Era

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:15:26 -0400

Iran's newly elected president is giving a glimpse into what he says may lie ahead for relations between Tehran and the rest of the world. Cleric Hassan Rowhani spoke at a news conference Monday, during which he promised to follow a path of moderation. President-elect Hassan Rowhani took to the podium to make clear his victory represents a new era, hinting at a new start with world ...

Assad Warns Europe Will Pay the Price for Arming Rebels

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:15:06 -0400

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is warning Europe it will "pay the price" if it arms the rebels fighting to drive him from power. Assad told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that giving the rebels weapons would "export" terrorists to Europe. He said fighters in Syria would gain combat experience and return to Europe with extremist ideologies. The Syrian president ...

Syria Conflict Exposes Old Rivalries at G8 Summit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:15:04 -0400

LONDON World leaders gathering at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland have been discussing how to end the Syrian conflict - and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been defending his support for Syrian leader Bashar al Assad, despite criticism from the his G8 counterparts. Intense gun battles rage in the heart of Damascus and Aleppo on the same day that G8 leaders gather in Northern ...

Paes celebrates birthday with win

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:10:02 -0400

Veteran Indian tennis player Leander Paes celebrated his 40th birthday with a win in the men's doubles first round at the Aegon International here Monday. Third seeds Paes and Radek Stepanek proceeded to the quarterfinals winning 5-7, 7-6(5), 10-6 in one hour and 35 minutes against Croat-Brazilian pairing of Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo on the grass courts of Devonshire Park. After losing the ...

Mahindras Locatelli takes double win at Misano

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:10:02 -0400

Both Mahindra Racing riders Andrea Locatelli and Michael Rinaldi performed well in Rounds 5 and 6 of the CIV Moto3 which concluded at the Misano World Circuit here. Locatelli won the first race while Rinaldi finished second, providing the team with a dream double podium finish during the weekend. Locatelli repeated his performance in the second encounter, cornering glory in great style. Though ...

New mobile game allows players to become pilot

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:50:03 -0400

A new mobile app has been launched that puts players in the cockpits of World War I airplanes and lets users fly solo. Sid Meier's 'Ace Patrol' also allows the user to play in real-time with pals or pop in for shorter multiplayer turns, the Washington Post reported. The game offers players to customize their mobile title, giving them reign over how planes look, what moves their pilots learn and ...

Reliance Games launches 3D 2D mobile games for ICC Champions Trophy 2013

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:30:02 -0400

Reliance Games, a leading developer and publisher of mobile games globally and the official gaming partner of the International Cricket Council for the fourth consecutive year, has announced the launch of a 3D and a 2D mobile game for the ICC Champions Trophy 2013. Both the 3D and 2D mobile games allow fans to be a part of their favourite cricket team and step into the field to fight for the ...

Murray wins third Queens Club title

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:10:01 -0400

World No. 2 Andy Murray claimed his third title of the Queen's Club grass court event as he completed his preparation for Wimbledon with victory over Marin Cilic of Croatia here. The reigning US Open champion, who missed the French Open due to a back injury, won the rain-delayed final 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 Sunday, reports Xinhua. The Briton, the beaten finalist last year at Wimbledon, will focus on ...

Israeli PM says sanctions on Iran should increase despite newly elected moderate president

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:50:02 -0400

Israel has warned the international community not to ease sanctions on Iran following the election of a moderate president. Israel said Iran's nuclear efforts remain firmly in the hands of the country's extremist ruling clerics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued the warning a day after Hasan Rowhani won the presidential election in Iran. According to news24, although Rowhani is ...

Peruvian inmates set Guinness record for aerobics routine

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:20:02 -0400

As many as 1,180 inmates at Lurigancho prison, Peru's largest, danced and exercised non-stop for three hours to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest group of people taking part in a "full body" aerobics workout routine. The prisoners trained two hours a day for the past four months as part of a rehabilitation program, Lurigancho's warden, National Police Col. Tomas Garay, told ...

11 militants killed in Afghanistan ISAF

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:50:01 -0400

Eleven militants have been killed in three separate operations in Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Sunday. "An Afghan and coalition security force killed five extremists and wounded another during an operation in search of a senior Taliban leader in Muhammad Aghah district, Logar province (60 km from Kabul), yesterday," reported Xinhua citing ISAF in ...

RNW wins top honours at the New York International Radio and TV Festival

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:20:03 -0400

Radio Netherlands Worldwide won four major prizes at the 2013 New York International Radio and TV Festival, it was announced yesterday (Monday June 17). It won a gold medal and a Grand Prize Award for an interview entitled ...

International - G8 nations have patchy record on free expression

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:14:18 -0400

While the G8 nations generally perform well in indicators of media freedom, digital freedom and civil liberties more widely, there are some key weaknesses including constraints on the media, and digital surveillance. Russia is an outlier with a deteriorating record on free expression with the Russian government having increasingly pursued a course of restrictions on speech and free assembly.While ...

US programme marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:10:22 -0400

This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid ...

Qatar chief ponders winter 2022 World Cup

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:06:34 -0400

Qatar's World Cup bid has come under scrutiny Since Qatar was awarded the right to host the 2022 World Cup, debate has raged over temperatures which many consider will be a hinderance to players, officials and spectators, despite air-conditioned stadia.However, Al Thawadi insists the tournament will be held at the most appropriate time, and in accordance with the wishes of the game's ...

FBI searches for Hoffa remains

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:04:49 -0400

Federal agents are digging in a field in the Detroit area where reputed Mafia captain Tony Zerilli says Hoffa's remains are buried.Zerilli told Detroit TV station WDIV in February that he knew where Hoffa was buried. The search site is in Oakland Township, about 25 miles north of Detroit.Hoffa was president of the once ...

Supercomputer is worlds fastest

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:04:48 -0400

China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology ...

Supercomputer is worlds fastest

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:04:48 -0400

China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology ...

Showdown over dinner Putin urged by world leaders to back Syria peace moves

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:03:17 -0400

Enbridge Inc. shot back at critics of its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline Monday, arguing the project is making enormous and costly commitments to avoid ...

World Briefing | Middle East 15 Die in Iraq Bomb Attacks

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:57:08 -0400

Three bombings in Iraq killed 15 people on Monday, officials said. A bomb left inside a restaurant in Taji, which serves travelers on the highway linking Baghdad to several northern Sunni-majority cities, killed eight people, including two women and a 12-year-old child, the police said. Twenty-four others were wounded. Also in Taji, a bomb placed inside a minibus killed two commuters and wounded ...

Caution of Assault Given in Nigella Lawson Incident

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:51:33 -0400

Nigella Lawson (L) and Charles Saatchi attend a dinner hosted by Joseph Group CEO Sara Ferrero and Vogue UK editor-at-large Fiona Golfar at Joe's Restaurant on January 19, 2012 in ...

The Wolf on Wall Street Trailer Shows Leonardo DiCaprio Rolling in Mega-Wealth Debauchery

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:40:10 -0400

(Paramount Pictures/YouTube) The newly-released trailer for ';The Wolf of Wall Street,'; starring Leonardo DiCaprio, gives a first glimpse at Martin Scorsese’s new crime thriller about the wealth of Wall Street moguls in the ...

G8 Leaders World Economic Prospects Still Weak

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:20:54 -0400

After the first day of their annual summit in Northern Ireland Monday, the G8 said significant policy actions taken by the eurozone, U.S. and Japan have reduced the risk of an economic downturn. The leaders said promoting growth and jobs remains their priority. They called the fight against long-term and youth unemployment critical. Earlier Monday, the United States and European Union said ...

G8 challenges Russia to sign up to Syria peace plan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:18:49 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom (AFP) - World leaders were to fight for a consensus on Syria on the final day of the G8 summit Tuesday, after challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin to get on board or be left out in the cold.The meeting of world leaders in Northern Ireland was also due to seek a deal on tax evasion but it was the divisions over the civil war in Syria that threatened to ...

World Briefing | Asia Floods in India Kill at Least 23

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:12:40 -0400

Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said Monday. More than a dozen people died in the ...

Jobs program gives Milwaukee teens real-world experience

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:10:54 -0400

With youth unemployment hitting 24.5% nationally in May, several Milwaukee teenagers are getting real-world work experience this summer, thanks to the St. Charles Youth and Family Services Youth Employment Services program, ...

U.S. Russia still dont agree on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:10:39 -0400

>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says he still doesn't see eye to eye with the United States on Syria. But "all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria ... and to solve this situation peacefully," Putin said Monday after a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight Summit in Northern Ireland. Putin said he and ...

Supercomputer is worlds fastest

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:09:56 -0400

China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology ...

Obama defends spying programmes

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:09:56 -0400

"It is transparent," the US President said in an interview. "That's why we set up the FISA court," he added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorises two recently leaked programmes - one that gathers US phone records and another designed to track the use of US-based internet servers by foreigners with possible links ...

US names dangerous Cuba prisoners

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:09:55 -0400

Pentagon , Army Lieutanant Colonel Todd Breasseale.The names of all Guantanamo prisoners have been public for years, but the administration of ...

Europe to pay the price for arming Syria rebels al-Assad

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:08:52 -0400

Europe will "pay the price" if it sends arms to Syrian rebel forces, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned on Monday in an interview with a German newspaper."If the Europeans deliver weapons, then Europe's backyard will become terrorist and Europe will pay the price for that," the Syrian president said in the interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...

Aussies non-stop flights to Europe yes please

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:07:21 -0400

More than half of Australian travellers say they would rather stay couped up on a plane for over 18 hours than make a stopover, according to a new study. Research conducted by Skyscanner found that 57 percent of Australians would choose to travel non-stop to Europe and avoid stopovers. Although the non-stop option won over the majority of Aussies, 23 percent said they would choose whatever ...

Obama defends Internet snooping program

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:05:19 -0400

President Barack Obama on Mondaysought toallay fears about secret US intelligence programs, rejecting comparisons withthe policies of his predecessors George W. Bush and Dick ...

Brazil cities hit by more protests

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:59:49 -0400

Protesters have massed in at least seven Brazilian cities for another round of demonstrations voicing disgruntlement about life in the country, raising questions about security during big events such as the ...

U.S. names prisoners slated for indefinite detention

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:58:46 -0400

The Obama administration had previously declined to disclose which Guantanamo detainees had been designated for indefinite detention in 2010 by an inter-agency review panel. (Bill Gorman/Associated ...

Standing man inspires protests

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:58:32 -0400

>Are you there? Share your story on CNN iReport, but please remember to stay safe. Istanbul (CNN) -- A single man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who broke up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds of others to his vigil. For more than five hours, he appeared to stare at a portrait of Kemal Ataturk, ...

Biggest protests in 20 years sweep Brazil

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:56:46 -0400

* Sparked by cost of public transport, complaints grow * Demonstrations unfold as Brazil hosts Confederations Cup * Protests mostly peaceful, though clashes in some cities (Updates size of protests, adds fresh quotes, details) By Todd Benson and Asher Levine SAO PAULO, June 17 (Reuters) - As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on ...

Data agency to declassify foiled plots

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:49:35 -0400

Open the Google Chrome browser Click Tools icon>Options>Under the Hood>Content Settings Check Allow local data to be set Uncheck Block third-party cookies from being set Uncheck Clear cookies Close ...

Protesters back in streets of Brazilian cities

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:35:02 -0400

SAO PAULO (AP) -- More than 100,000 people took to the streets in overwhelmingly peaceful protests in at least eight cities Monday, demonstrations that voiced the deep frustrations Brazilians feel about carrying heavy tax burdens but receiving woeful returns in public education, health, security and ...

Salvadorans to help with gang truce in Honduras

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:35:01 -0400

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) -- Two Salvadorans who mediated in a gang truce in their country that cut the homicide rate by at least 50 percent met Monday with gang leaders in Honduras, where they will help do the ...

15 killed 90 wounded in fresh attacks in Iraq

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:34:31 -0400

BAGHDAD, May 21 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and 90 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, said the police. A car bomb went off near the Abu Ghraib Grand Mosque, a Sunni mosque in Abu Ghraib area, 25 km west of the capital Baghdad, on Tuesday evening, killing eight people and injuring 15 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The ...

A More Secular Europe Divided by the Cross

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:32:24 -0400

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G8 summit

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G8 summit

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Tempers flare ahead of Asian World Cup qualifying

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:14:30 -0400

SINGAPORE (AFP) - An extraordinary row between South Korea and Iran highlights tensions in Asia's final World Cup qualifying group matches, with Australia also urging caution before trying to book their ticket to Brazil.South Korea's promise to "make life painful" for Iran and to force their captain to cry "tears of blood" have sharply raised the stakes before ...

Why international flavour gives the Spurs more kick

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:13:45 -0400

San Antonio Spurs' Gary Neal (14) and Boris Diaw (33), of France, talk between plays against the Miami Heat during the first half at Game 5 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Sunday, June 16, 2013, in San Antonio. (Eric ...

Obama Putin estranged on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:01:55 -0400

Barack Obama andVladimir Putin on Monday aired clashing views on Syria, but pledged to at leasttry to keep alive a frail and much-delayed effort to hold a Geneva ...

Jackson promoter created conflict

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:56:27 -0400

The promoter of Michael Jackson's ill-fated series of comeback shows created a conflict of interest with the singer's physician when it negotiated terms of his deal, an expert testifying for the superstar's mother has told a ...

Manning list could prompt attacks

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:56:26 -0400

A huge database of troop names and email addresses a US army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyber attacks on service members, a government witness said as the trial of Bradley Manning entered its third ...

Cameron hopes for unity on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:56:26 -0400

Vladimir Putin at a summit dinner over his support for the regime of dictator Bashar Assad.Downing Street welcomed a "very positive" response from the Russian leader, reviving hopes for a peace conference to pave the way for a political transition in the war-torn Middle Eastern state.While nobody at the summit was in any doubt about the continuing differences between Moscow and the ...

U.S.-European Union free trade talks unveiled at G8 summit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:55:22 -0400

Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives at the G8 summit at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, on Monday. He announced new humanitarian aid money for Syria. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...

Putin faces isolation over Syria as G8 ratchets up pressure

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:45:45 -0400

1 of 15. U.S. President Barack Obama (L) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, ...

U.S. says it will buy Russian helicopters for Afghan military

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:45:43 -0400

One of the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters purchased by Alabama-based Defense Technology Inc (DTI) is seen in Ulan Ude, Russia in this picture taken January 3, ...

Video What does the new Iranian president mean for the rest of the world

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:44:09 -0400

The U.S. and Russia still disagree about the Syrian civil war and how to end it. The tensions translated to awkward body language at a meeting between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Major Garrett ...

World looks to Bernanke to clarify move

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:41:32 -0400

Is the era of ultra-low interest rates nearing an end? When he takes questions this week after a Federal Reserve meeting, Chairman Ben Bernanke will confront investors' fears that rates are headed higher. Financial markets have been gyrating in the three-and-a-half weeks since Bernanke told Congress the Fed might scale back its effort to keep long-term rates at record lows within "the ...

Iran nuclear programme advances despite sanctions IAEA chief

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:33:43 -0400

VIENNA: Iran is making "steady progress" in expanding its nuclear programme and international sanctions do not seem to be slowing it down, the UN nuclear agency chief said on Monday. Yukiya Amano's comments underlined the difficult challenges facing world powers in seeking to persuade the Islamic state to scale back nuclear activities they suspect could be used to make atomic ...

Unions give lift to Turkish protest movement

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:32:12 -0400

ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish labor groups fanned a wave of defiance against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's authority, leading rallies and a one-day strike to support activists whose two-week standoff with the government has shaken the country's secular ...

Another round of protests in Brazilian cities

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:08:57 -0400

Protestors march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. Protests in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities, were set off by a 10-cent hike in public transport fares, have clearly moved beyond that issue to tap into widespread frustration in Brazil about a heavy tax burden, politicians widely viewed as corrupt and woeful public education, health and transport systems and ...

America has Declared War upon the World Spying on Whoever It Wants

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:04:14 -0400

has declared war upon the whole world: spying wherever it pleases, spying on whoever it pleases, no border is secure; no alliance sacred; no law binding and no right absolute. At home or abroad, no person is safe and no man is ...

Brad Pitts World War Z Marks Evil-lution of the Undead

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:03:03 -0400

There are slow zombies, and there are fast zombies. But moviegoers may never have seen the likes of the latest breed of the undead, coming at you in "World War Z" on Friday: the swarming zombie. In the Brad Pitt-produced adaptation of Max Brooks' best selling novel, Pitt plays Gerry, an ex-United Nations investigator and family man who finds his world upended when an epidemic ...

Blue Ds from Olympics installed on Investec Hockey World League pitch in London

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:02:57 -0400

Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...

Lifan sees Africa as gateway to world

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:59:25 -0400

/enpproperty--> After being on the road for more than 20 years, car and motorcycle maker is heading for the top, reports Hu Haiyan. For Yin Minshan, president of Chongqing Lifan Group, Africa offers one of the most fertile land for Chinese private companies' global development. "I want Lifan to be the best automobile and motorcycle company in the world," Yin said about ...

Tensions rise as Bulgarian protesters pressure PM to resign

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:59:12 -0400

SOFIA - Thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets on Monday in a fourth day of protests demanding the resignation of new Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski after a political blunder sparked public outrage.Seven protesters and a lawmaker from the ultra-nationalist Ataka party were hurt as stones and bottles flew between demonstrators and nationalists shortly before midnight, public BNR radio ...

US UK spied on world leaders in 2009

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:56:34 -0400

world leaders at conferences in London in 2009. The disclosures, appearing again in The Guardian, came the night before a meeting of the Group of 8 industrialized nations was to open in Northern Ireland, where some of the leaders who were intelligence targets four years ago will be in attendance. The newspaper reported that Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, the British ...

UK report Saatchi cautioned over assault on wife

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:54:10 -0400

Programme Market for Tv, Video,Cable and Satellite) in Cannes, southeastern France. British police say they are investigating after a newspaper published photos of Nigella Lawson's husband Charles Saatchi with his hands around the celebrity chef's throat. The Sunday People newspaper ran pictures of what it said was the couple's violent argument at a London restaurant on June 9, ...

LTE Advanced Is Going to Rock Your Mobile World — But Not Yet

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:47:40 -0400

In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

Irans new president-elect seen as bridge-builder

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:41:13 -0400

(CBS News) LONDON -- Say goodbye to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president who has taunted America for eight years. Over the weekend, Iranians elected a new kind of president. By the time he cast his own ballot, Hassan Rowhani knew he was on a roll. During the final days of his campaign, his rallies were drawing vast crowds of young people, convinced he could bring ...

Kitten Survives 1000-Mile Trip in Engine

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:40:20 -0400

3-week-old kitten survived a 1,000-mile trip across two states inside the engine of a Honda Fit and is expected to make a full recovery. ';I was concerned about this kitten because it had been in the car engine for two to three days,'; Julia Di Sieno, executive director and co-founder ...

Britney Spears My Kids Wont Kiss Me in Public

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:40:18 -0400

(Photo credit: Jason LaVeris/Getty Images) Britney Spears may be one of the biggest superstars on the planet, but to her kids, she’s just ';mom.'; ';My sons are 6 and 7, so they’re just now getting to the stage where you can’t kiss mommy in front of friends,'; she told Ryan Seacrest on Monday of her two children with ex-husband Kevin Federline. ...

Dominican merchants close border market over ban

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:06:02 -0400

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -; Merchants in the Dominican Republic have shuttered a large border market in protest over neighboring Haiti's ban on poultry and egg ...

Outgoing US diplomat says pipeline decision looms

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:05:56 -0400

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 file photo, U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson delivers a speech on the impact of the U.S. election on Canada-U.S. relations, in Montreal. Jacobson says his country is not spying on Canadian citizens. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz, ...

Outgoing US ambassador calls Keystone important

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:05:49 -0400

TORONTO -; Outgoing U.S. ambassador to Canada David Jacobson said Monday the Obama administration knows how important the contentious Keystone XL pipeline is to Canada but he won't speculate about how much it would damage the relationship should it not be ...

Chevron Completes Deal to Acquire Iraqs Kurdistan Oil Block

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:04:52 -0400

Chevron Corp. has completed a transaction to acquire another oil exploration deal in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan region, the U.S. company said in a statement Monday. Kurdistan has angered the central government in Baghdad by signing contracts directly with the likes of Chevron, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Total SA, providing lucrative production-sharing deals and better operating conditions ...

Snowden to The Guardian NSA and British Secretly Intercepted World Leaders Communications at 2009 Conference

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:03:35 -0400

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The Joy of Six Crucial Socceroo World Cup qualifiers

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:59:00 -0400

Australia's multifaceted World Cup story kicked off in suitably peculiar fashion. Having finally been dragged out of an all-amateur era, Australia's first tilt at qualification was, somewhat appropriately given the game's historical ties, for the 1966 World Cup in England. The route was set to be arduous with Africa, Asia and Oceania all vying for a lone ticket. However, African ...

Australia v Iraq factors that will decide the World Cup qualifier

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:58:59 -0400

Australia , announcing their international retirement with immediate effect. Iraq also are without Salam Shaker, Ali Rehema and Alaa Abdul-Zahra, meaning they are severely lacking both goals and experience (with those five players combining for a total of 446 caps and 81 goals). The two biggest losses for Iraq are Akram and ...

Defiant Snowden promises more leaks

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:55:54 -0400

Rogue US intelligence tech Edward Snowdenissued a defiant rebuke to his critics in Washington on Monday and warned more leaks were on the way, declaring: "Truth is coming and it cannot be ...

Opinion Rich and famous not immune to domestic abuse

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:55:47 -0400

Stay in touch!Don't miss out on the conversation we're having at CNN Living. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest stories and tell us what's influencing your life. So why should the recent public altercation between TV chef Nigella Lawson and her handsome, successful husband, Charles Saatchi, surprise anyone? In light of tabloid photographs that show Saatchi holding a tearful Lawson ...

Protests build in Brazil as discontent spreads

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:52:54 -0400

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Monday in a growing protest that is tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption. The marches, organized mostly through snowballing social media campaigns, blocked streets and halted traffic in more than a half-dozen cities, ...

Obama NSA secret data gathering transparent

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:50:34 -0400

in Hong Kong. The Guardian newspaper says that the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails when the U.K. hosted international conferences, even going so far as to set up a bugged Internet caf in an effort to get an edge in high-stakes negotiations. The Guardian cites more than half a dozen internal government documents provided by former ...

G8 Summit Vladimir Putin tackled by the West over his support of Syrias Assad regime

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:50:15 -0400

Western nations were on Monday evening facing down Russian president Vladimir Putin at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland over his support for the regime of Bashar Assad in ...

Coalition avoids collapse in TV row

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:50:14 -0400

Greece's deeply divided governing coalition has avoided collapsing in a dispute over prime minister Antonis Samaras's closure of state ...

Syria set to dominate G8 summit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:50:07 -0400

Vladimir Putin , Assad's most powerful international backer.The dramatic gulf between Russia and the west over Syria was laid bare in talks between Mr Cameron and ...

It’s a dog’s world even at work

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:48:50 -0400

Man’s Best Friend is excluded from few places — the workplace typically being one of them. But moves are afoot (or should we say apaw?) to change that. Launched in the United Kingdom in 1996, followed by the U.S. in 1999, Take Your Dog to Work Day is designed to raise awareness about pet adoption, rescue groups and the role dogs play in our ...

Italys 5-Star seeks expulsion of rebel who criticized founder

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:47:48 -0400

ROME (Reuters) - Lawmakers from Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement agreed on Monday to hold an online vote on the expulsion of a senator who publicly attacked its ...

Fox International Announces Creation of New Italy All-Sports Network

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:40:20 -0400

TAORMINA, Sicily – News Corp’s international pay television unit announced Monday it would launch Fox Sports Italy starting in ...

Peru protesters push to stop $5 billion Newmont mine project

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:39:54 -0400

Andean people march during a protest against Newmont's proposed $4.8 billion Conga gold mine, near the Cortada lagoon, in the Andean region of Cajamarca November 24, ...

Video 1 year after seeking asylum Julian Assanges future remains uncertain

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:38:18 -0400

It has been one year since Julian Assange sought political asylum inside Ecuador's embassy in London. The WikiLeaks founder remains holed up there as politicians from Ecuador and Britain meet to discuss his fate. Lucy McDonald ...

Analysis Netflix Dreamworks and the Brave New Content Licensing World

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:37:30 -0400

a more and more significant part of rights negotiations , with movie heavyweights like Steven Spielberg (another DreamWorks principal) and George Lucas going so far as to predict ...

Watch World Leaders Gather For G8 Summit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:37:26 -0400

-- this special report from ABC. Look what I'm Dan -- -- -- with a CBC news digital special reports. President Obama is in NORTHERN IRELAND today to meet the world leaders -- G-8 summit. President ...

Foyers thatll make you smile

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:32:23 -0400

>Editor's note: Welcome to CNN's Open House, an online tour of iReporters' houses that showcases incredible decor. Space by space, we'll move through beautiful design moments that make a house a home. Want to show off your decorating skills? Submit your photos to our iReport assignment! Next week we'll feature stairwells.(CNN) -- When you open the front door, there it is: The place you leave ...

In Cambodias jungles a lost world is found

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:29:46 -0400

Southeast Asia is solacing - there are, it seems, still lost worlds to be discovered, combed out from beneath a millennium of accumulated jungle in ...

Al-Jazeera crew detained in Niger is released

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:06:51 -0400

DAKAR, Senegal -; A team of Al-Jazeera journalists was released late Monday after being detained for three days in eastern Niger, where they were held in a prison cell, according to a statement from the Qatar-owned ...

UN expert urges Montenegro to resolve pending cases of violence against journalists

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:04:58 -0400

Print 17 June 2013 &#150 Calling for effective accountability in all cases of violence against journalists, the United Nations independent expert on the right to freedom of expression today urged Montenegro to set up an inclusive mechanism to resolve and prevent cases of attacks against reporters and media outlets. ';Insecurity will prevail as long as cases of attack against ...

PRI’s The World 06142013

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:04:36 -0400

Monday on The World: Iran’s new president calls for engagement with other countries. We’ll compare and contrast new leader Hassan Rouhani with outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Also, we hear about a project in Qatar seeking new ways to grow crops in the hot and arid desert. Plus, a scandal in Japan over ';juiced'; ...

Luminato highlights World-music fans entranced at the Hub performance-art lovers abuzz at St. Lawrence Centre

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:04:20 -0400

Sunday afternoon: The fickle weather deities are taking mercy on Luminato. After a morning deluge, the dark clouds relocate, allowing the sun to beam down upon the Hub, a.k.a. David Pecaut Square. Its warm rays shimmer off the giant disco ball hovering 25 metres above - Michel de Broin's piece of installation art, ...

Cafe serves up worlds best refugee help

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:02:05 -0400

What began as a small initiative to try and involve refugee families in their children's schooling in Sydney's southwest has grown to include a small catering service and hub for information ...

Cubans Win First Awards in International Jazz Festival in Russia

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:00:46 -0400

Havana, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuban musicians Alexis Bosch (piano), Yissy Garca (drums) and Roberto Garca (trumpet) obtained, each one in his (her) instrument, the first award at the Master Jam of Odessa, Russia, as confirmed by local sources here Monday. This is the first edition of the event, which uses the tools of the new technologies of communication to attract young jazz performers with ...

EVIL-UTION OF THE ZOMBIES Brad PittsWorld War Zmarks the apex of undead advances from early shambling to todays organized swarms

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:56:12 -0400

By SARA STEWART There are slow zombies, and there are fast zombies. But moviegoers may never have seen the likes of the latest breed of the undead, coming at you in "World War Z" on Friday: the swarming zombie. In the Brad Pitt-produced adaptation of Max Brooks' best selling novel, Pitt plays Gerry, an ex-United Nations investigator and family man who finds his world upended when ...

Putin tackled over stance on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:56:07 -0400

President Barack Obama suggested the US may send weapons to the Syrian opposition.In response Mr Putin warned that the opposition includes extremists opposed to European values, who "eat the organs" of their ...

Seattle International Dance Festival 2013 kicks off

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:52:46 -0400

A look at opening weekend of the 2013 Seattle International Dance Festival, which continues with both local and out-of-town performers through June 23, ...

Anti-G8 protesters march to security cordon at Lough Erne as world leaders dine inside

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:51:15 -0400

Snatch star Jason Statham and his model girlfriend Rosie Huntington-Whiteley put on a rare show of public affection at the world premiere of his new film ...

Egypt Sudan to buy oil shipments from Iraq on credit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:50:49 -0400

Iraq has agreed in principle to provide both Egypt and Sudan with crude oil, to be purchased on credit, Mena has reported. Iraq will start sending the shipments once the two countries obtain letters of credit from international banks and Iraq's cabinet issues its final approval of the ...

U.S. Europe agree to start talks on free-trade accord

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:50:20 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland -- The European Union and the United States will open negotiations next month on a long-sought deal to create free trade between the world's two mightiest economic regions -- an effort that could create millions of jobs but that could also take years to transform from dream to reality. U.S. and EU leaders announced the plans Monday while in Northern Ireland ...

G8 No agreement between Russia and America over Syrian civil war

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:47:09 -0400

Greece's deeply divided governing coalition has avoided collapsing in a dispute over prime minister Antonis Samaras's closure of state ...

Canadians in Dominican post-wedding fight face jail $100K in damages

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:45:52 -0400

Stacey Vernon and her new husband, Nick Miele, just hours before he was arrested after a fight at the Bahia Principe Esmeralda resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. (Courtesy Vernon ...

Egypt investment minister aims for 7 percent growth in two years

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:40:54 -0400

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Investment Minister Yehya Hamed said on Monday he aimed to boost Egypt's anemic economic growth to as high as 7 percent in two years by improving the environment for private ...

Bergen NSA claims dont add up

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:40:18 -0400

>Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a director at the New America Foundation. David Sterman is a graduate student at Georgetown University's National Security Studies Program.(CNN) -- Testifying before Congress on Wednesday, Gen Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, asserted that his agency's massive acquisition of US phone data and the ...

FULL STOPIndia to Send the Worlds Last Telegram on July 14

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:37:16 -0400

June 14, 2013: A telegram mentioning the end of telegraph era lies at a desk of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-run telecom company, employee at a telegraph center in Bangalore, ...

Le Bourget world number one

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:35:51 -0400

I have been attending the Bourget Air Show since 1987, without exception. Over the years it has been interesting to watch the battle that takes place between Le Bourget and Farnborough Air Show, which is held near London every even-numbered year. For a long time Farnborough was the biggest event in terms of attendance and number of exhibitors. Recently, however, Le Bourget seems to have taken ...

Dispatcher Spends 8 Hours on Phone to Locate Patient

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:34:01 -0400

Jun 17, 2013 4:19pm A New York City Fire Department dispatcher stayed on the phone with a patient in need of help for eight hours as authorities rushed to locate her. A 911 call came into the system at 12:53 p.m. on June 10 and it appeared to be a person who was experiencing a ';medical crisis,'; according to FDNY spokesman James Long. ';The person who was experiencing this ...

Woman Sentenced to Death as Teen Leaving Prison a Reformed Woman

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:34:01 -0400

An Indiana woman who was sentenced to death by the electric chair at age 16 was released today after serving more than a quarter of a century in prison. Now 43 years old, Paula Cooper left the Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana today a free woman after serving 27 years in prison for her role in the murder of Ruth Pelke, a 78-year-old Bible school ...

International markets roundup

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:33:21 -0400

A roundup of trading on major world markets:NEW YORK - US stocks have surged a day before the Federal Reserve begins meeting to review monetary policy, and expectations mounted that it will make no sharp changes to its economic stimulus.At the close of trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 109.90 points (0.73 per cent) at 15,180.08.The broad-based S&P 500 advanced 12.34 (0.76 per ...

G8 exposes rift among leaders on Syria

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:22:53 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Deep differences over Syria's fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's ...

Transcript Obama and Putin at G-8 summit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:22:50 -0400

Remarks by President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, at the summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations, as transcribed by the White ...

U.S. education slipping in world rankings report

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:02:07 -0400

Council on Foreign Relations revealed on Monday.';The real scourge of the U.S. education system - and its greatest competitive weakness - is the deep and growing achievement gap between socioeconomic groups that begins early and lasts through a student’s academic career,'; ...

Power crisis fears unnerve industry in booming Philippines

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:00:40 -0400

By Erik dela Cruz MANILA, June 18 | Mon Jun 17, 2013 5:00pm EDT MANILA, June 18 (Reuters) - An electricity outage that blacked out large swathes of the Philippines' main island of Luzon for up to eight hours last month has highlighted worries about a potential power crisis that could undermine Asia's fastest-growing economy. Predictions that electricity demand will outstrip ...

Business World Bank ups Kenyas growth forecast but urges reforms

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:59:03 -0400

But the Bretton Woods institution warns that East Africa's biggest economy is still operating below its potential and remains highly vulnerable to external shocks that undermine its growth prospects and poverty reduction ...

Blake International Receives Extension for Pemex Gig

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:57:27 -0400

Blake International USA Rigs has received a contract extension on the Blake 2001. Pemex has extended the contract for an additional 160 days ending its current contract in mid November. The Blake 2001 will then begin its new 1,261-day contract awarded to Blake International earlier this year. "Pemex continues to ramp up its drilling activity and we have positioned ourselves on the front ...

China Reclaims Worlds Fastest Supercomputer Title With Tianhe-2

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:57:22 -0400

Chinese researchers have developed the world’s fastest computer system capable of operating as fast as 33.86 petaflops per second. Tianhe-2, developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, overtook the former ...

Raw Prince Philip Leaves Hospital After Surgery

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:56:52 -0400

Britain's Prince Philip was discharged from a London hospital on Monday, ten days after undergoing exploratory surgery on his abdomen. The husband of Queen Elizabeth II turned 92 on June 10. (June ...

India to send worlds last telegram. Stop. Company was losing $23M a year. Stop.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:55:49 -0400

An Indian staff member sits in his office at a central telegraph centre in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 14, 2013. 144 years after Samuel Morse sent the first telegram in Washington, the world’s final telegram will be sent in India on July 14, 2013.Telegraph services ended in the United States seven years ago, but in India, the century-and-a-half old communication medium is still widely used ...

Snowden defends spy programme leaks

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:52:16 -0400

"The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me," he said.He added the government "immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home", by labelling him a traitor, and indicated he would not return to the US voluntarily.Congressional leaders have called Mr Snowden a traitor for revealing once-secret surveillance ...

Europe will pay if it arms rebels

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:52:15 -0400

Syria 's president warned that Europe "will pay a price" if it delivers weapons to rebels fighting to topple him, saying in an interview that arming them would backfire as the "terrorists" return to their countries with extremist ...

EU US agree to start free trade talks at G-8

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:43:16 -0400

Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. The visit takes place before leaders from the G-8 nations are to gather to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria, and free-trade issues. (AP Photo/Evan ...

Putin US-Russia positions on Syria dont coincide

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:43:15 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Evan Vucci - President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. Obama and Putin discussed the ongoing conflict in ...

Public opposes arms for rebels

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:42:53 -0400

Syria's president warned that Europe "will pay a price" if it delivers weapons to rebels fighting to topple him, saying in an interview that arming them would backfire as the "terrorists" return to their countries with extremist ...

Harper announces new humanitarian aid for Syria at G8

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:42:05 -0400

Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives at the G8 summit at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, on Monday. He announced new humanitarian aid money for Syria. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...

Defense cuts hollowing out European armies U.S. envoy

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:40:32 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (L) speaks with U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Ivo Daalder (C) and European Union Secretary-General of the European ...

US Cuba seek to restore mail services

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:40:12 -0400

View Photo AFP/Joe Raedle - Officials from the United States and Cuba will meet this week to restore direct mail services frozen since 1963, the State Department ...

Mandelas wife thanks world for love generosity

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:39:06 -0400

In tweets, songs, telephone calls, cards and more, messages of love have come from across South Africa and the world for 94-year-old Nelson Mandela, giving the family comfort and hope as he remains hospitalised in serious condition with a lung infection, his wife said Monday. One of Mandela's daughters, Zenani Dlamini, gave what appeared to be the most positive update yet on his situation as she ...

Monks flight is one with everything

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:35:40 -0400

A YouTube video emerging recently showed one of the Thai Buddist monks was wearing stylish aviator sunglasses, carrying a luxury brand travel bag and sporting a pair of modern-looking wireless headphones. It attracted criticism from Buddhists ...

The first world war was far from futile | Gary Sheffield

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:34:12 -0400

Passchendaele, 1917. 'This was not a cabinet war but an existential struggle, just as much a war of national survival for the British as the second world war.' Photograph: IWM/Getty Images/IWM via Getty ...

Greek court orders state TV reopened PM offers compromise

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:33:08 -0400

ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court ruled that shuttered state broadcaster ERT must reopen immediately, a court official said on Monday, offering the squabbling ruling coalition a way out of a political crisis over the station's abrupt ...

Brazils Poor Pay World Cup Penalty

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:32:59 -0400

Editor's Note: This is an expanded edition to the piece that appears in the July issue of The Progressive. On June 15, the opening day of the Confederations Cup in Brazl -- a warmup to the World Cup -- thousands protested across the country against the amount of money being spent to host these mega-events. With signs that said "We don't need the World Cup" and "We need ...

Official trial of Libyas Gadhafis son spy chief ex-premier set for August

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:51 -0400

TRIPOLI, Libya - A Libyan official says the trial of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son, his spy chief and his last prime minister will take place in August. Al-Seddik al-Sur of the state prosecutor's office told reporters Monday that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, Abdullah al-Senoussi and ex-premier al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, along with ex-spokesman Milad Daman, will be tried for crimes ...

20-Year-Old Survives 15-Story Fall

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:34 -0400

survived a fall from a 15-story apartment building in New Zealand, after attempting to get into his locked apartment from a balcony above. An American emergency room doctor said the chances of living through a fall from that height are about 100 to 1. The man, identified by ...

First Look Reggie Bushs Daughter

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:33 -0400

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were welcoming their daughter into the world, Kardashian’s ex, NFL star Reggie Bush, was celebrating his own bundle of joy. The 28-year-old Detroit Lions running ...

Missing Chicago Students Family Conducting Own Search

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:31 -0400

The family of a University of Chicago student who vanished during a powerful storm last week intends today to review surveillance videos from restaurants, bars and shops near Lake Michigan hoping for a glimpse of the missing man. Austin Hudson-LaPore, 20, a third-year biochemistry major from New Mexico, was last seen by his roommate a little after 8 p.m. on Wednesday night. He had not ...

Christie Brinkley Brooke Shields Strike a Pose

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:31 -0400

(Photo credit: Getty Images; ChristieBrinkley/Facebook) Christie Brinkley and Brooke Shields have known each other for decades and, from the looks of it, they’re still having just as much fun now as they did when they were younger! The supermodel, 59, and the actress, 48, first snapped this funny photo in 1987 — and recreated it at an event in New York City last week. ...

Geologists say tectonic activity could bring Europe America closer

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:25:35 -0400

A subduction zone forming off the coast of Portugal is the beginning of a cycle that will eventually see Europe move closer to America, geologists say. Researchers at Australia's Monash University report they've detected the first evidence a passive margin in the Atlantic Ocean is becoming active as a subduction zone. Subduction zones are areas where one of the tectonic plates that ...

Franklin may swim 200 IM in World Championship Trials

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:23:32 -0400

Missy Franklin is knocking around the idea of adding the 200 individual medley to her swimming repertoire at the National Championships and World Championship Trials on June 25-29 in Indianapolis. (Hyoung Chang, Denver Post ...

Rohani vows to reset Irans relations with the world

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:23:10 -0400

Iran's President-elect Hassan Rohani said his win was a 'victory for moderation' and vowed to soothe tensions with the US and factions inside ...

UN Cuts Aid in Lebanon Profiteering on Rise

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:22 -0400

BEIRUT -- A lack of funding is forcing United Nation agencies helping in Lebanon to cutback on assisting Syrian refugees. Medical subsidies are to be reduced and so too is food assistance. Meanwhile, there are reports that Lebanese hospitals and shops contracted by the U.N. are profiteering. Half-a-million Syrians have registered so far in Lebanon as refugees and relief agencies are fast ...

China Boasts Worlds Fastest Computer

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:21 -0400

China can now boast the world’s fastest supercomputer, according to the semiannual TOP500 official listing of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday. Tianhe-2, or Milky Way-2, clocked in at number one with a performance of 33.86 petaflops per second, according ...

Corruption Scandal Ousts Czech PM

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:21 -0400

LONDON -- Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said he is resigning over a corruption and spying scandal that has rocked the small European Union nation. Czech President Milos Zeman has said the charges, brought after armed police raids on government and private offices last week, were "serious." Police raided government and private offices, seizing up to $8 million in cash, large ...

Coaxing Climate-Friendly Food from the World’s Driest Places

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:58:35 -0400

In Qatar, a team of scientists and engineers has set out to prove that people in the world's most inhospitable places can transform sunlight, salt water and CO2 into energy, fresh water and food. Jon Miller reports as part of our series ...

Bill Clinton Israel must make peace to survive

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:55:48 -0400

JERUSALEM -; Former President Bill Clinton is urging Israel to make peace with the Palestinians in order to survive as a Jewish and democratic ...

Crude Oil Ends Lower Amid Middle East Concerns

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:54:57 -0400

U.S. crude oil snapped a three-day gain to ended lower Monday, after having trended higher for most of the day amid concerns over supply disruptions following geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, as violence escalated in Syria. The downtrend in oil prices seem to have stemmed from unconfirmed news reports on the Federal Reserve cutting back on its quantitative easing program.The G-8 meeting ...

Future robots will work in teams rove world

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:52:10 -0400

In the next few decades, teams of roving robots will take to the seas, the air and other hard-to-reach spots, communicating with one another and working to solve scientific problems, according to a Canadian scientist.Such flotillas ...

Kurds fight for place in Syrian civil war

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:51:51 -0400

BEIRUT -- Taking advantage of the chaos of the civil war, Syria's Kurdish minority has carved out a once unthinkable degree of independence in their areas, creating their own police forces, even their own license plates, and exuberantly going public with their language and culture.But by pursuing their own path distinct from both the opposition and the regime, they are also colliding with ...

CMA CGM to Raise India-North Europe Rates

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:50:15 -0400

French carrier CMA CGM will increase rates on westbound cargo moving on its Epic service from India to North Europe and the Mediterranean, startingJuly 1.The planned increase on dry shipments will be $300 per 20-foot container and $600 per 40-foot/high cube container."In a continued effort to provide reliable and efficient ...