- '10 days to rescue euro zone' Reuters - 49 mins ago
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - Europe faces a crucial 10 days to save the euro zone after agreeing to ramp up the firepower of its bailout fund but acknowledging it may have to turn to the International Monetary Fund for more … More »'10 days to rescue euro zone'
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - Europe faces a crucial 10 days to save the euro zone after agreeing to ramp up the firepower of its bailout fund but acknowledging it may have to turn to the International Monetary Fund for more help to avert financial disaster. "We are now entering the critical period of 10 days to complete …
- Striking UK state workers confront government Reuters - 2 hrs 4 mins ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Teachers, nurses and border guards walked out on Wednesday as up to two million state workers staged Britain's first mass strike for more than 30 years in a growing confrontation with a deficit-cutting … More »Striking UK state workers confront government
LONDON (Reuters) - Teachers, nurses and border guards walked out on Wednesday as up to two million state workers staged Britain's first mass strike for more than 30 years in a growing confrontation with a deficit-cutting coalition government. Public sector employees are protesting over reforms that unions say will force …
- Egypt: Partial results show Islamist lead in vote AP - 48 mins ago
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was leading in initial, partial results from Egypt's parliamentary elections but it was facing stiff competition in many places both from more hard-line Islamic groups and from a liberal-secular … More »Egypt: Partial results show Islamist lead in vote
- Can the ‘new Newt’ shed past baggage? ABC News - 2 hrs 43 mins ago
Newt Gingrich is giving his opponents a run for their money, but some are questioning whether social conservatives — a group Gingrich desperately needs to win the candidacy — can overlook his oft-controversial political and … More »Can the ‘new Newt’ shed past baggage?
- What was Herman thinking? The Daily Beast - 3 hrs ago
Cain weighs quitting the GOP race after taking testosterone-fueled risks, says Michelle Cottle. More »What was Herman thinking?
- Obama road trip: from payroll tax to campaign cash AP - 35 mins ago
- Israel releases frozen Palestinian tax funds Reuters - 2 hrs 40 mins ago
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel decided on Wednesday to release tax money it had been withholding from the Palestinians since they won membership to the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO a month ago, a government official said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inner cabinet, facing international pressure, voted to unfreeze the …
- Norway closes embassy in Iran after Brits attacked AP - 4 hrs ago
Norway has closed its embassy in Tehran due to security concerns after Britain's mission was stormed by Iranian protesters, an official said Wednesday.
- Rising child poverty rates could be a 'taste' of what's ahead Christian Science Monitor - 18 mins ago
In a troubling snapshot of the declining finances of Americans, considerably more school-age children are living in poverty than in the pre-recession year of 2007, the US Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
- Funding crunch puts progress on AIDS at risk Reuters - 2 hrs 46 mins ago
LONDON (Reuters) - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk, the United Nations health agencies said on Wednesday. A World Health Organisation-led report said the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes …
- Biden: US troop exit marks new beginning with Iraq AP - 1 hr 59 mins ago
- Iranian riots reheat the revolution The Daily Beast - 3 hrs ago
- Syracuse's Boeheim not worried about job status AP - 1 hr 56 mins ago
- New Calif. border drug tunnel found AP - 4 hrs ago
- Lebanon: How Hizballah's technology undoes the CIA Time.com - 4 hrs ago
The CIA found itself in some rough waters in the Middle East last week. On Thursday, an influential member of Iran's parliament announced that the Islamic republic had arrested 12 "CIA agents" who had allegedly been targeting Iran's military and its nuclear program. The lawmaker didn't give the nationality of the agents, …
- UN scientist: fighting climate change saves costs AP - 47 mins ago
- Dutch killer whale Morgan finds new home in Spain AP - 1 hr 4 mins ago
- Arlington Cemetery breaking ground on columbarium AP - 1 hr 56 mins ago
Officials at Arlington National Cemetery are breaking ground on a new columbarium that's expected to hold the cremated remains of more than 20,000 people.
- Arsenic in juice: New study prompts action @ Good Morning America - 17 mins ago
- Way cleared for horse slaughter to resume in US after 5-year ban Christian Science Monitor - 19 mins ago
What to do about growing numbers of neglected and abandoned horses in the US is an ethical conundrum that Congress and President Obama quietly addressed this month via a spending bill: bring back the slaughterhouses.
- Philippine police rescue 1,600 geckos in warehouse AP - 2 hrs 59 mins ago
An official says police have rescued more than 1,600 geckos in a southern Philippine warehouse they suspect would have been smuggled to Asian countries.
- Rare Stradivarius violin recreated with X-ray technology LiveScience.com - 1 hr 38 mins ago
A precise replica of a Stradivarius violin from 1704, made using X-ray images, may help scientists uncover the secrets of the instrument's unique and highly prized sound quality and also make it available to the average musician.
- In search for alien life, scientists suggest a new scheme Time.com - 4 hrs ago
Thanks largely to the Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered more than 2,000 planets orbiting distant stars — not half bad considering that until recently we knew of only eight planets in the entire universe, all of them in the immediate neighborhood. The point of Kepler isn't simply to rack up numbers, though: …
BERLIN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Werder Bremen goalkeeperTim Wiese will miss Saturday's league game at Bayern Munich dueto the death of his father, coach Thomas Schaaf said onWednesday. More »Bremen keeper Wiese to miss Bayern match
BERLIN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Werder Bremen goalkeeperTim Wiese will miss Saturday's league game at Bayern Munich dueto the death of his father, coach Thomas Schaaf said onWednesday.