Friday, May 27, 2011

War crimes suspect Mladic nabbed in routine raid (AP)

War crimes suspect Mladic nabbed in routine raid (AP)

War crimes suspect Mladic nabbed in routine raid (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:06 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Politika Newspaper, Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested Thursday, May 26, 2011, in Serbia after years in hiding. Genocide suspect Ratko Mladic in due in a Belgrade court for a hearing which is a legal step toward his extradition to a U.N. war crimes tribunal. Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive was arrested Thursday in a northern Serbian village after 16 years on the run. The hearing is set for noon (1000 GMT) Friday, May 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Politika Newspaper) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was captured in a routine raid as he headed out to his garden for a pre-dawn walk, three Serbian police officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

Air France crash co-pilots fought with controls (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:25 AM PDT

FILE- This Thursday, May 12, 2011 file photo shows a police officer pushing one of the two flight recorders of the Air France flight 447, who crashed in 2009, after they were displayed to reporters during a press conference at the French investigators' headquarters in Le Bourget, near Paris. Officials say flight recorders from an Air France plane that crashed nearly two years ago show that the captain only arrived in the cockpit after the plane had begun its fateful 3 1/2-minute descent. The initial findings of the French air accident investigation agency, the BEA, based on a reading of the so-called black boxes recovered from the ocean depths, found that the captain had been resting when the emergency began.All 228 aboard the Rio de Janeiro to Paris flight were killed on June 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)AP - Two co-pilots facing faulty instrument readings and a stall fought to regain control of an Air France flight before the plane slammed into the Atlantic in a 3 1/2 minute fall, killing all 228 people aboard, accident investigators said Friday.

AP Exclusive: Fukushima tsunami plan a single page (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 15, 2011 file photo, Japanese police officers carry a body during a search and recovery operation for missing victims in the area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Namie near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago. The towering waves unleashed by the magnitude-9.0 earthquake on March 11 destroyed backup generators for several reactors' cooling systems, and the nuclear cores in three reactors melted, sparking the worst atomic crisis the world since Chernobyl. Workers have yet to bring the plant under control more than two months later. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)AP - Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago.

Russia offers to mediate ex-ally Gadhafi's exit (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:47 PM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, speaks with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan during a bilateral meeting at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, Friday, May 27, 2011. G8 leaders, in a two-day meeting, will discuss the Internet, aid for North African states and ways in which to end the conflict in Libya. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Russia abandoned one-time ally Moammar Gadhafi and offered Friday to mediate a deal for the Libyan leader to leave the country he has ruled for more than 40 years.

Judge: Corporate donations ban unconstitutional (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 09:13 AM PDT

AP - A judge has ruled that the campaign-finance law banning corporations from making contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional, citing the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision last year in his analysis.

Obama in Poland to honor history, boost ties (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:18 PM PDT

President Barack Obama meets with Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors after laying a wreath at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, May 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama on Friday honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis, telling one elderly man that the memorial was a "reminder of the nightmare" of the Holocaust in which 6 millions Jews were killed.

GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 25, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential hopeful, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty waits to speak in Washington. For Republicans who once supported combating global warming, the race for the presidency is already getting hot. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)AP - One thing that Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have in common: These GOP presidential contenders all are running away from their past positions on global warming, driven by their party's loud doubters who question the science and disdain government solutions.

Canadian mother defends keeping gender secret (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:49 PM PDT

AP - A Canadian couple says it's none of the world's business to know their baby's gender despite a firestorm of criticism over their controversial decision to keep the infant's sex a secret.

'Taxi,' 'Grease' star Jeff Conaway dies at 60 (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:46 PM PDT

In this Oct. 13, 2009 file photo, Jeff Conaway arrives at the 2009 Fox Reality Channel Really Awards in Los Angeles. Conaway, who starred in 'Taxi' and played Danny Zuko's buddy Kenickie in 1978's 'Grease,' has died at a Los Angeles area hospital. He was 60. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)AP - Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom "Taxi," played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical "Grease" and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on "Celebrity Rehab," died Friday. He was 60.

No. 1 Wozniacki loses in French Open's 3rd round (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:01 PM PDT

Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark wipes her face in her match against Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia in her third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Friday May 27, 2011. Hantuchova won in two sets 6-1, 6-3. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - If Caroline Wozniacki truly was torn up inside about her latest loss at a Grand Slam tournament, she certainly hid it well.

Gasoline prices erode spending, incomes (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 11:24 AM PDT

Reuters - The economy remained sluggish early in the second quarter with high gasoline prices crimping consumer spending and bad weather helping to push pending home sales to a seven-month low in April.

G8 pledges $20 billion to foster Arab Spring (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:07 AM PDT

General view of the room where G8 summit leaders meet for a working session at the G8 summit in Deauville May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Jewel Samad/PoolReuters - The Group of Eight promised $20 billion in aid to Tunisia and Egypt on Friday and held out the prospect of billions more to foster the Arab Spring and the new democracies emerging from popular uprisings.

Greeks fail to agree on debt measures amid aid threat (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:15 PM PDT

A woman walks past electronic boards displaying stock prices and economic index at the Athens stock exchange in Athens May 16, 2011. REUTERS/John KolesidisReuters - Greece's prime minister failed to convince opposition leaders on Friday to support tougher austerity measures to free up EU/IMF aid needed to avert a debt default.

Serb court says Mladic fit for genocide trial (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:14 PM PDT

General Ratko Mladic (C) arrives at special court in Belgrade, May 26, 2011. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Ratko Mladic is fit enough to face genocide charges in The Hague, a Belgrade court ruled on Friday, after the Bosnian Serb wartime general's son said he appeared too frail after more than 15 years on the run.

IMF race talk kept in the wings at G8 summit (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:33 AM PDT

France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announces her candidacy to head the IMF during a press conference in Paris, May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Jacky NaegelenReuters - G8 leaders meeting in France for their annual summit this week kept their discussions on the IMF succession strictly in the corridors and avoided any joint endorsement of France's Christine Lagarde as a candidate.

Yemen on brink of civil war as clashes spread (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:09 PM PDT

A girl sits in a car waiting to be evacuated to a safe refuge amid clashes in Sanaa May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Yemeni tribesmen said they wrested a military compound from elite troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside the capital Sanaa on Friday as fighting spread, threatening to tip the country into civil war.

Ex-Nvidia analyst admits insider trading charge (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 11:43 AM PDT

Reuters - A former Nvidia Corp financial analyst pleaded guilty on Friday to a criminal charge in the U.S. probe of insider trading at expert networking firms and hedge funds.

EBay and PayPal sue Google over trade secrets (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2011 07:50 PM PDT

Reuters - EBay and its online payment unit, PayPal Inc, on Thursday sued Google Inc and two executives for stealing trade secrets related to mobile payment systems.

Judge rules Mladic fit to face international justice (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:58 AM PDT

Serbian police escort former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic into the Special court for warcrimes in Belgrade on May 26. A judge ruled that Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, was fit to face international justice at a war crimes court.(AFP)AFP - A judge ruled Friday that Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, is fit to face international justice at a war crimes court.

G8 leaders throw weight behind Arab Spring (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:17 PM PDT

(Front from L) Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jose Manuel Barroso, Head of the European Commission and the President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy walk from Deauville's International Centre to the Villa Le Cercle during the G8 summit in Deauville.(AFP/Pool/Lionel Bonaventure)AFP - The G8 world powers threw their weight behind the Arab Spring on Friday, intensifying the pressure on Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi and pledging billions for fledgling democracies.
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