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Gas cylinder blast on Pakistan school bus kills 17
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A pair of suspected militant attacks killed nine people in two different areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.In the deadlier of the two attacks, suspected militants armed with heavy weapons attacked a police convoy in Mattani, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing six policemen and wounding seven others, said senior ...
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Charity warns of lost tax revenues
25 May 2013 IRISH charity Christian Aid says developing countries lose around $160bn (EUR123bn) in tax revenues every year due to multinationals shifting profits to low-tax ...
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Raiffeisen chief Stepic offers to quit as offshore probe widens on investments
Jonathan Tirone and Alexander Weber - 25 May 2013 RAIFFEISEN Bank International chief executive officer Herbert Stepic offered to resign from eastern Europe's second-biggest lender, a day after officials began a probe into his investments through offshore ...
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Google hit with fresh probe into online ads
Google 's dominance of the online advertising market.The company is by far the dominant player in internet ads, and derives most of its EUR40bn revenue from selling ads on the web around the world.Now, however, the FTC is set to look at whether Google is abusing its position as the market leader. The investigation - one of many Google has had to endure in recent years - is believed to be ...
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Retired Lafley returns to take helm at PG amid revamp
Jessica Wohl - 25 May 2013 PROCTER & Gamble brought back AG Lafley from retirement to run the world's largest household products maker, replacing Bob McDonald in the midst of a major ...
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Irish share prices hold steady as markets get nervous
Sarah McCabe - 25 May 2013 IT WAS a steady day for Irish share prices after stocks dipped on Thursday, following indications that the ...
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Judge expects Apple is guilty of ebook price-fixing conspiracy
Katherine Rushton - 25 May 2013 An American judge says there is strong evidence that Apple was involved in a conspiracy with publishers to fix the price of ...
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Dead Pa. babys dad believes in divine healing
FILE - This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of ...
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German economic growth `soft` as euro-area recession drags on
(menafn - ecpulse) Germanys economic growth was confirmed to be modest in the first quarter, as the ongoing recession in the euro area continues to drag on Europes largest economy. Gross Domestic Product rose to a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent in the three months through March, the final reading ...
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Report Fallen bridge had earlier gouges impact damage
View Photo Associated Press/Elaine Thompson - Workers walk past the collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge at the Skagit River Friday, May 24, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. A truck carrying an oversize load ...
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Ohio kidnap rescuer wont endorse free burgers
Knight were rescued in Cleveland. Ramsey, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown. Ramsey has been promised free burgers for life at more than a dozen Cleveland-area restaurants. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw, ...
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Stone Temple Pilots Sue Ex-Frontman Scott Weiland
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Stone Temple Pilots accuse former frontman Scott Weiland of misusing the band’s name to further his solo career and want a judge to strip the rocker of his ability to use the group’s name or songs. A lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles accuses Weiland of being chronically late to concerts while the group was together and having his lawyer try to interfere ...
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UK’s FTSE suffers biggest single drop
Britain's FTSE 100 share index suffered its biggest one-day drop in a year on Thursday, knocked off historic peaks by weak economic data and signs the United States Federal Reserve could soon taper its stimulus ...
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Judge Ariz. sheriffs office profiles Latinos
A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic known as stop, question and frisk, and whether changes are needed to department policy, training and ...
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Paula Broadwell regrets affair with ex-CIA director Patraeus
Paula Broadwell told WSOC-TV in Charlotte on Thursday (http://bit.ly/10RjHXE ) that she credited her husband and friends for standing by her as she rebuilds her life six months after her relationship with the married Petraeus was revealed by an FBI investigation and ignited a political firestorm. TV crews camped out front of her family home for days and Broadwell went into seclusion. The couple ...
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Search scaled back for abducted Iowa teenage girl
law enforcement will narrow their search around Dayton on Saturday for 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard. Authorities say they're focusing on terrain that's difficult to navigate and requires specialized skills and equipment, so citizen volunteers are not needed. Residents are encouraged to check their rural properties for anything suspicious. Police ...
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Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio loses racial profiling suit
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio addresses the media about a simulated school shooting in Fountain Hills, Arizona, February 9, 2013. REUTERS/Darryl ...
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Country moves against restaurants holding wild bears
Kosovo (Reuters) - Kosovo has launched a campaign to seize wild bears held in restaurants and private zoos, responding to concerns over dwindling numbers in the Balkan country's mountainous border areas. Authorities have so far traced at least 15 caged bears held in restaurants to help lure customers, to the outrage ...
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Ky. uranium plant closes 1000 jobs lost
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- The operator of a Cold War-era plant in western Kentucky that supplies enriched uranium to nuclear power plants said Friday it planned to cease production after federal energy officials decided to end its work, putting more than 1,000 workers out of high-paying jobs with benefits. ...
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Lawsuit alleging ex-QB Favre sent racy texts settled
New York Jets , they lost their part-time jobs with the team after complaining that he sent sexually suggestive texts to another therapist. During the 2008 preseason, the lawsuit alleged, the ...
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Obama to visit Oklahoma tour Jersey Shore
A battered sign stands outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed … President Barack Obama will travel to Oklahoma City on Sunday "to see first-hand the response to the devastating tornadoes and severe weather" that ravaged the area, meet with families affected by the devastation, and thank emergency responders, the White House ...
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Man held following €1.7m drugs haul
A man has been arrested in Dublin after a major drugs haul worth EUR1.7m.Garda searched a house on The Strand, Donabate yesterday and recovered almost EUR1m worth of ecstasy and EUR700,000 in cannabis herb.A 36-year-old man is being questioned at Mountjoy Garda ...
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Four girls killed in a civil rights-era church bombing honored
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama signs a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal commemorating the lives of the four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist ...
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies crack cocaine allegations
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations that he was seen on a cellphone video smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine. "I do not use crack cocaine," Ford told a jam-packed news conference at Toronto City Hall. "Nor am I an addict of crack cocaine." The beleaguered mayor said it was "business as usual at city hall" and gave no indication that he ...
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Eurozone more stable needs a more European UK Draghi
LONDON -- The eurozone is more stable than a year ago but economic conditions remain challenging and governments must push on with reforms and banking union plans, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on ...
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US nuclear missles in Europe remain poised for a war that will never come
The United States and Russia recently signed a new landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty called START in March and the US in early May followed up its non-proliferation goals by making the unprecedented step of publicly declaring how many nuclear weapons it had – just over 5,113 in total, though many of them are in storage and would take time to be deployed.
That is a vast reduction compared to the total arsenal the country possessed at the height of the Cold War in 1967, the number at that time was 31,225, according to reports by European news media. Read more
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