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Car rams into Virginia hikers

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:21:55 -0400

A parade in the US state of Virginia has been ended by an horrendous car crash. Over 50 people were injured in an incident where a car ploughed into the crowd whose members had been hiking through the area. More than a dozen people were seriously injured in the crash, which took place during the Trail Days festival in the town of Damascus in northern Virginia. Ambulances ferried the ...

Israel worried that Russian weapons will reach Hezbollah

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:24:01 -0400

Israel has warned Russia about sending arms to Syria. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has spoken on Channel Two television's Meet the Press to condemn shipments of arms from Russia that she said may be used against Israel. She said: "These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that's why there is a responsibility with all world powers, certainly Russia, not to supply such ...

Syrians on alert as bombs explode in Damascus

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:19:24 -0400

At least eight people have been killed and ten others injured in a bomb attack in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The incident took place in the north of the city, where cars and buildings were set alight by a bomb. The bomb had been concealed in another car which was parked near a school in the Rukn Eddin neighbourhood. Another explosive device was defused by military experts who had ...

Spies hang after Tehran court ruling

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:27:54 -0400

Two spies have been hanged in Iran following a Revolutionary Court judgement. Press TV has reported the spies, who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, were hanged at dawn on Sunday. Sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, the men have been named as Mohammad Heidari, a Mossad agent and Kourosh Ahmadi, who was convicted of working for ...

Oil spill causes Texas to launch law suit

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:26:06 -0400

BP and Halliburton are being sued by the state of Texas over one of the worst oil spills in US history. Texas has become the latest complainant in allegations that both companies engaged in "misconduct" for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill. Alabama and Louisiana filed complaints in 2010 ...

France still unsure about gay marriage

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:13:38 -0400

France has legalised same-sex marriage, becoming the 14th country to do so. President Francois Hollande signed the bill into law following months of bitter political debate, including a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. On Friday the Constitutional Council threw out the challenge, allowing the president to sign the documents. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. ...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in IndiaUpdate

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:02 -0400

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here today on a three-day state visit. The visit is expected to expand cooperation between the two countries substantially. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said New Delhi is highly hopeful that the visit will enhance mutual trust and understanding between the people and leadership on sensitivities of two countries. Briefing media here ...

Biebers monkey Abandoned animal is German state property after singer fails to claim it back

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:11:33 -0400

Justin Bieber’s abandoned monkey Mally is now officially the property of the German state and has been moved to a secret location to protect it from paparazzi photographers and fans wanting to adopt ...

Imran Khan condemns killing of senior member of his reforming party after she was gunned down outside her home

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:11:32 -0400

Former cricketer Imran Khan has condemned the killing of a senior member of his political party and laid the blame with the leader of rival party the Muttahida Quami ...

Pope Francis admits he falls asleep during nighttime prayer but thinks God understands

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:11:32 -0400

The Pontiff told a crowd of 200,000 people about his moment of shuteye, but said he thought God understands that it's hard to stay awake after a tiring ...

Swingeing socialist tax policies in France mean thousands of millionaires have paid more than 100 of their annual income

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:11:31 -0400

Taxes on the rich imposed by Socialist president Francois Hollande meant more than 8,000 French households had tax bills that exceeded their income last ...

Could South America end its participation in the war on drugs Fears horrific human cost of tackling cartels will lead to change in policy

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:11:30 -0400

Latin American countries could stop deploying law enforcement agencies to fight cartels after concluding that the human costs of the 'war on drugs' is just too ...

No peace deal in Syria and I wont be stepping down says president Assad in rare interview punctured by shell fire

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:11:29 -0400

In a rare interview conducted in the library of the presidential palace in Damascus, he warned America and Russia that peace talks were no nearer the negotiating ...

Benghazi-disciplined diplomat a prolific poet

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:56:53 -0400

Raymond Maxwell -- one of the four State Department officials disciplined over security lapses that led to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year -- is also a prolific poet. And he's been publishing provocative verses since he was put on administrative leave December ...

Thunderstorm supercells threaten Midwest

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:56:50 -0400

Not sure if these homes have basements, but it's insane to live in Oklahoma tornado country and not have one. We live in the Midwest, and we have a basement to go too when the tornado warnings sound. Every home in practically every subdivision has basements. I wouldn't live in a home without ...

5 hospitalized in train collision

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:49:36 -0400

>Were you there? Share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Five people remained in the hospital -- one in critical condition -- two days after a commuter train derailed and struck another train on one of the busiest tracks in the country, officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators looking at the accident, along the corridor from New York to New Haven, Connecticut, ...

HM Led Labor Breakthrough by European Retailers

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:14 -0400

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Jlem to vie for 2019 UNSC seat despite Berlin bid

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:26:07 -0400

Israel will go ahead with its candidacy for an unprecedented seat on the UN Security Council in 2019 despite Germany's determination to run against it, diplomatic officials ...

A-G told IDF to remove remaining Migron homes

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:26:07 -0400

The state should remove the structures that were left intact at the site of the former Migron outpost, Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein told the Civil Administration last week according to his office.The IDF had forcibly evacuated 50 families from the outpost in September, after the High Court of Justice ruled that their homes were built without permits on land classified by the state as ...

Beduin pelt Retamim residents with stones

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:26:06 -0400

Masked Beduin men blocked the road to Kibbutz Retamim in the Negev, throwing stones at residents' cars on Sunday afternoon.Following a complaint from a Retamim woman, who managed to drive around the makeshift roadblocks while the masked men on all-terrain vehicles threw stones at her car, which also contained her three children, without getting hurt, Negev Police sent a special force to ...

WJC to probe Claims Conference fraud cover-up

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:26:06 -0400

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder has asked Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany chairman Julius Berman and executive vice president Gregory Schneider to respond to allegations of covering up ...

Could cop have avoided accidentally killing NY student

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:08:57 -0400

NEW YORK The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a life, says an expert in the field. "The big question is, how do you know, when someone's pointing a gun at you, whether you ...

Small Fla. town wonders who won Powerball

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:08:55 -0400

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million -; the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his car after shopping at the Publix. He shook his head when asked about the jackpot. "It's crazy, ...

Hofstra University student killed by cops in hostage standoff

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:27:45 -0400

Andrea Rebello. (Instagram) A 21-year-old university student who was taken hostage in her apartment and then shot to death during a police standoff with an armed robber on New York’s Long Island was killed by a bullet fired from an officer’s gun, investigators said on Sunday. Andrea Rebello was shot in the head on Friday by one of eight rounds fired at Dalton Smith, who had the woman ...

Insight Despite curbs Chinas vast hot money triangle flourishes

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:52 -0400

ZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG (Reuters) - In an underground mall just a stone's throw from China's teeming border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical golden plaques does a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland Chinese visitors, many of them bound for the gambling ...

Exclusive Bangladesh factory banned by Wal-Mart still makes Wrangler shirts

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:52 -0400

GAZIPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world's largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF ...

Reports Yahoo to acquire Tumblr for $1.1B

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:19:32 -0400

YHOO ) may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the 10-month reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and advertisers to the Internet company's website and mobile applications. The Sunnyvale, California, company's board of directors met Sunday and approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing site Tumblr in a deal Mayer ...

Republicans continue beating Benghazi drum

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:19:32 -0400

After the White House released some 100 pages of emails documenting the development of talking points used to brief the public on the attack in Benghazi, Democrats brandished the disclosure as evidence that there was no attempt by the White House to airbrush or spin the administration's response for political advantage. The emails revealed only a bureaucratic tug-of-war between the State ...

UNESCO delegation arrives on rare inspection trip to Jlem

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:47:28 -0400

Israel lets delegation inspect preservation work in Old City in exchange for Palestinians postponing anti-Israel resolutions pending before the body; agreement viewed as diplomatic achievement, brokered by US and ...

Father confesses to gruesome murder of children

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:47:14 -0400

A 48-year-old divorced Briton locked in a bitter custody battle has confessed that he had killed his two young children by slitting their throats in the French city of Lille. The bodies of the five-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy were discovered on Saturday afternoon (local time) in the man's apartment in Saint-Priest, a southeastern suburb of the eastern city of Lyon. The ...

Methanol in alcohol bottle kills British backpacker

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:33:57 -0400

A British backpacker has died after drinking poisoned alcohol while trekking in the Indonesian jungle. Cheznye Emmons died after drinking from a bottle that later turned out to be filled with deadly methanol. Reports said it was either labelled gin or whisky. The 23-year-old had been travelling across south Asia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, and a male friend they had met on ...

Syrian Army Moves Into Rebel-Held Qusayr

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:33:39 -0400

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syrian government forces backed by Lebanese fighters from the militant group Hezbollah pushed Sunday into parts of a strategic city long held by rebels, according to both an antigovernment activist and pro-government news channels. If the advance holds, it would be a serious setback for opponents of President Bashar al-Assad and further inflame regional ...

Web censorship thought to be rife in Iran

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:29:08 -0400

Iran is tightening control of the internet ahead of next month's presidential election according to users and internet experts in the country. Social network users previously sparked violent street protests over claims of election fraud after voting in 2009. The authorities deny such claims, but have not explained exactly why service has become slower. Businesses, banks and state ...

Yahoo board approves $1.1-billion purchase of Tumblr report

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:04:00 -0400

The Yahoo Inc. board has approved the $1.1-billion (U.S.) acquisition of Tumblr, a New York-based blogging service, according to The Wall Street Journal.The purchase was a foregone conclusion, said the website AllThingsD.com, citing sources close to the tech giant's board.The deal is just the latest effort by Yahoo to cultivate a hipper image since the arrival of CEO Marissa Mayer last ...

Report Palestinian lost speech ability after PA torture

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:58:04 -0400

A Palestinian man who was detained by the Palestinian Authority security forces in Hebron has lost the ability to speak as a result of severe torture, according to a report released by the Independent Commission for Human Rights.Mohamed Abdel Karim Dar of Hebron was hospitalized after being tortured while in detention, the report, which documented 28 cases of torture in PA prisons in the ...

Damascus Gate clashes inflame tensions in east Jlem

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:57:38 -0400

Palestinians expressed their anger outside Damascus Gate on Sunday afternoon, claiming it was "impossible" for any man under the age of 50 to go through it to enter the mosque.Violent clashes broke out Saturday afternoon in east Jerusalem between over 100 Palestinians and police following what authorities described as an "illegal march" from Damascus Gate to al-Aksa ...

Caribbean Scientist Warns of Climate Change Disaster

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:54:01 -0400

The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent ...

Egypts Morsi rules out talks as hostage video appears

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:53:33 -0400

CAIRO: Egypt's President MohamedMorsion Sunday ruled out negotiating with the kidnappers of three policemen and four soldiers who appeared to plead for their release in an online video.The abductions on Thursday in the Sinai Peninsula prompted angry police to shut down border crossings with Gaza and Israel, piling the pressure onMorsito secure the hostages' release."There are no ...

Obama touts second term agenda in graduation speech

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:53:32 -0400

US President BarackObama, in a rousing speech to graduating college students on Sunday, touted his second term agenda, steering clear of scandals that have engulfed the White House in recent ...

Match made in cyberspace Yahoo poised to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:48:52 -0400

Not quite a year after arriving at Yahoo! from Google, chief executive Marissa Mayer has apparently persuaded her board to approve the purchase of Tumblr - the go-to website for legions of young bloggers and internet sharers - for $1.1bn in cash, despite it making just $13m in sales last ...

Obama tries to bounce back after tough week

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:43:38 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama adjusts his tie before receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the graduation ceremony of the class of 2013 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia May 19, ...

Man dead two critical in family plane crash

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:42:28 -0400

A MAN has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway in ...

Morsi rules out talks over Sinai hostages

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:37:43 -0400

Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi has ruled out negotiating with the kidnappers of three policemen and four soldiers who appeared to plead for their release in an online video. The abductions on Thursday in the Sinai peninsula prompted angry police to shut down border crossings with Gaza and Israel, piling the pressure on Morsi to secure the hostages' release. "There are no ...

Poverty in Israel – and the PM’s expenses

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:03 -0400

Think About It: OECD figures published last week indicate that among the 34 members of the organization, the rate of poverty in Israel is the ...

Meuhedet’s 4000 staffers to go on warning strike

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:03 -0400

Some 4,000 staff members of the third-largest health fund - Meuhedet - will hold a one-day warning strike on Monday.The dispute involves what the workers claim is foot-dragging in negotiations over the last 18 months on reaching a new collective ...

Peres Teach the very young respect for the elderly

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:03 -0400

The Jerusalem Post to ask President Shimon Peres - a very active almost 90, about how to solve the problem.Peres said that it was a matter of education from the earliest possible age. Children have to be educated to respect human dignity, he ...

The Region Where does Israel’s greatest threat lie

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:02 -0400

There is a passionate, but somewhat academic debate over the following issue: Which is the greater threat, the Sunni Islamists (Egypt, Tunisia, Gaza Strip and perhaps soon to be Syria) or the Shia Islamists (Iran, Lebanon, Syria at the moment)? My answer would be the Iran-led Shia bloc. But with two reservations: the margin isn't that big, and it also depends on the specific place and ...

Gay rights are human rights

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:02 -0400

The invitation was so unexpected, and email scams are becoming so sophisticated, that I was sure this was one of the latter: "The Ambassador of the United States of America... a reception in honor of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community in Israel."Well really! How stupid did the sender think I was? Except that it wasn't a scam, and the US ambassador to ...

Yahoo to buy popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion Report

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:58:17 -0400

If the acquisition takes place, it would be the biggest for Yahoo under Mayer and come in the wake of other pricey deals for startups, such as Facebook's acquisition of the photo app Instagram for stock worth $1 billion at the ...

Soccer Arsenal Edges Out Spurs for Final Champions League Berth

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:57:42 -0400

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Lets go Bulworth... If Barack Obama wants to act like a cinema president which films should he copy

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:58 -0400

Thankfully only the later part of that plot seems to have inspired Obama. The New York Times' Peter Baker reported last week that Obama had spoken "longingly of 'going Bulworth'" and telling it like it is.As Baker's story and other Obama moments have proven, it's not the only Hollywood plot available to those in the West ...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen injures back falling into pool

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:57 -0400

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has broken a bone in her lower spine by falling into an empty swimming pool at her mansion near ...

Hezbollah takes fight to rebels as Syria’s war spills into Lebanon

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:57 -0400

Hezbollah launched a major offensive in support of the Assad regime today, with fighters from the Lebanese militant group playing their most significant role yet in Syria's two-year-old civil ...

Keep the change say Germans alarmed by European plan to scrap copper coins

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:56 -0400

Desperate to save pennies as the economic crisis continues to bite, the European Union is mulling over phasing out one and two cent coins after it emerged that they cost more than their face value to ...

Analysis West learns to jaw not war on Syria as the countrys civil war destabilises the region

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:56 -0400

Sunday's reports that the Syrian conflict was spilling over into Lebanon can be taken as further evidence that the sectarian civil war is destabilising the region. There are also signs that the unending strife is pushing the two players who really matter, America and Russia, towards trying for negotiations and a ceasefire based on the Geneva Accord signed last ...

Imran Khan blames rival for murder of politician

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:51 -0400

Imran Khan today blamed a political rival based in Britain for the murder of a politician from his own party who was shot dead outside her house in Karachi on Saturday ...

Tunisian Islamist protester killed in clash with police

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:48:05 -0400

TUNIS (Reuters) - One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police on ...

WH adviser Partisan fishing expeditions wont distract Obama

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:47:00 -0400

(CBS News) "Partisan fishing expeditions" - like the amplifying clamor around news that the Internal Revenue Service targeted for excessive review conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on "Face the Nation," won't "distract" President Obama from doing his job. Pfieffer did admit, however, the the ...

AP CEO blasts unconstitutional DOJ probe

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:46:57 -0400

(CBS News) The Associated Press doesn't question the Justice Department's right to have seized two months' worth of its phone records, the organization's president and CEO Gary Pruitt said Sunday on "Face the Nation." It was the methodology - "so sweeping, so secretively, so abusively and harassingly overbroad," he said - that breached the Constitution. As ...

Obama Racism is no excuse for not excelling

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:46:56 -0400

As a young man, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down," said President Obama during a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, "but one of the things you've learned over the last four years is that there's no longer any room for ...

Twin dies during NY home invasion

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:46:04 -0400

In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. The two were killed early Friday by a Nassau County police officer who fired ...

2 dead in small plane crash near Auburn

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:17:07 -0400

The FAA says the plane went down under "unknown circumstances" and could not say if the plane had just taken off or was on approach to the airport at the time of the ...

Comptroller set to probe PMs financial issues

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:12:26 -0400

financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from "Bibi-tours" to the general jump in expenses to "bed-gate," said his spokesman on Sunday.Reportedly, Shapira is asking Netanyahu's office for various clarifications regarding the allegations, though Shapira's spokesman downplayed the possibility of any immediate major ...

Israel must protect its Beduin citizens

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:12:25 -0400

One day each summer, my childhood camp was magically transformed into a mini-Israel for "Yom Yisrael," Israel Day. My favorite part of Yom Yisrael was the Beduin tent. There was something mysterious and astonishing about the characters who served us sweet, strong coffee and welcomed us to sit with them on the tent's floor. I was taught that the Beduin were part of the very ...

Reality Check Israel’s modern-day royal family

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:12:25 -0400

It's a shame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spent the flight to London for Margaret Thatcher's funeral asleep on the double bed that cost the taxpayer an extra half-a-million shekels. He could have used the flight time more profitably by reading up on a how a truly great conservative leader regarded the use of taxpayers' money for prime ministerial personal comforts.Soon ...

Health minister attacks dental health protection

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:12:25 -0400

Fluoridation of community water supplies is under attack by the new health minister, despite its success in Israel in reducing dental caries in ...

Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms says PM Netanyahu

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:08:35 -0400

Israel is "acting" to prevent weapons from Syria from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...

Struggling with urban decay Detroit now has a mountain of unwanted coke

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:01:10 -0400

The vistas in struggling Detroit are not always beautiful. Once-grand commercial buildings stand open to the winds while wild grasses strangle those swathes of the city where abandoned homes have been razed. And now residents must deal with an enormous and fast-growing mountain of pitch-black ...

Senior member of Imran Khans Tehreek-e-Insaf party assassinated as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:01:06 -0400

Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. She was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh.No one has claimed responsibility for the killing.Mr Khan's party has claimed it was the victim of vote rigging in several areas of Pakistan, ...

Hezbollah steps up Syria battle Israel threatens more strikes

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:55:48 -0400

AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks ...

Obama to discuss legality of drone program

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:54:31 -0400

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration's secret drone program and other counterterrorism practices during a speech Thursday, a White House official said. Obama's speech will be an attempt to fulfill his State of the Union pledge to be more "transparent" with the public about the controversial drone program that has become the ...

Have recent controversies paralyzed Washington

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:54:28 -0400

CBS News political director John Dickerson, Politico's Lois Romano, the New York Times' David Sanger, and the Washington Post's Dan Balz discuss whether recent controversies will prevent Washington from doing any actual ...

Nadal and Serena triumph in Rome

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:52:42 -0400

After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 on Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. It was the most lop-sided win in the series since Nadal also lost just four games, but over three sets, in the 2008 French Open final against Federer. Nadal ...

Kansas Oklahoma Iowa Missouri are in bulls-eye

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:38:41 -0400

>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. (CNN) -- Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes are threatening to pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest on Sunday and Monday. A mix of ingredients could combine to spawn a severe weather outbreak sweeping through parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and ...

Al-Qaeda exploits oilfields