Berlusconi May Serve Tax Fraud Sentence Caring for the Elderly
(Reuters) - An Italian government agency has asked a court whether former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi can serve a one-year sentence for tax fraud by working in a center for the elderly, judicial...
View ArticleExclusive: USAID Scuttled American’s Release From Cuban Prison
Aggressive “regime change” projects in Cuba by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) scuttled a chance to free one of its contractors jailed on the island, a former top Senate aide to...
View ArticlePope Mourns Priest Who Wouldn't Leave Fellow Christians in Besieged Syrian Town
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis spoke on Wednesday of his deep grief over the assassination of a 75-year-old Dutch Jesuit priest in Syria and made a renewed appeal for an end to the...
View ArticleMore Cases of Deadly New Virus in Saudi Arabia
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it had recorded 11 cases infected with the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus in Jeddah, including hospital staff.Two...
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More Allegations of Fraud in Afghan Election
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's presidential election last Saturday may have suffered a significant degree of fraud, the country's election complaints commission said, warning that all votes cast...
View ArticlePistorius Forced to View Graphic Photos of His Girlfriend's Bullet-Ridden Body
PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African prosecutor forced Oscar Pistorius on Wednesday to look at a forensic photograph that showed the head of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after it was blown open by a...
View ArticleStudent Stabs 21, Injuring Nearly a Dozen Seriously, at Pa. High School
(Reuters) - A 16-year-old student wielding two knives went on a stabbing rampage in the hallways of a Pittsburgh-area high school early on Wednesday, injuring 21 people, about half of them seriously,...
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Starting Five for Wednesday
1. UConn Wins--AgainGeno Auriemma is now nine for nine in national championship games and passes Pat Summitt to stand alone at the, um, summit?, of women's college basketball.2. Ultimate Warrior, 54,...
View ArticleNew Ping Signals Spark Confidence in Malaysia Airlines Search
(Reuters) - Australian officials said on Wednesday two new "ping" signals had been detected in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, boosting confidence after more than a month of fruitless...
View ArticleMakers of Assassin's Creed Excavate a Real Pirate
Hunting for one of Spain’s most colorful forgotten adventurers, a team of archaeologists in white sterile jumpsuits removed a 4,400-pound marble tombstone in the floor of the Santo Domingo church in La...
View ArticleHezbollah Confident in Assad, West Resigned to Syria Stalemate
(Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad's Lebanese ally Hezbollah said his Western foes must now accept he will go on ruling Syria after fighting rebels to a standstill - a "reality" to which his foreign enemies...
View ArticleThird Time's a Charm? Scott Brown Takes on Another Woman in Senate Bid
Scott Brown is a man among women. And it's not just his wife of nearly three decades, a relationship the Massachusetts Republican often touts on the campaign trail, and their two daughters.If you've...
View ArticleMoms File Suit Claiming Disney Parks Unfriendly to Autistic Kids
Six months after Disney unveiled a new program for its guests with disabilities, 14 mothers of children with developmental disorders have filed a suit against Disney for violating the Americans With...
View ArticleAbdullah Abdullah, the Front-Runner in the Afghan Election, Rules Out a...
KABUL (Reuters) - A frontrunner to succeed Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan's president voiced the possibility of teaming up with a rival on Wednesday but ruled out forming a coalition government in order...
View ArticleWhat Users Can Do About the Massive Internet 'Heartbleed' Threat: Not Much
(Reuters) - Security experts warn there is little Internet users can do to protect themselves from the recently uncovered "Heartbleed" Internet threat that exposes data to hackers, at least not until...
View ArticleIsrael Threatens Economic Steps Against the Palestinians
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel announced on Wednesday a partial freeze in high-level contacts with the Palestinians and also threatened economic steps after they signed international conventions,...
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Today in Tabs: Nothing is Secret
A cold wind blows, despite the sunny spring weather. Your shutters creak and slap against your office windows, despite you being in a high-rise in midtown. The lights in the bathroom shut off and a...
View ArticleSeth Rogen, Big Laughs and a Grim Disease
“Are you ready for hilarious sh**?”Seth Rogen, wearing a pale yellow button-down and black pants, was addressing a packed crowd from the stage of the lavish ballroom at the Jane Hotel in New York City....
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Newsweek Rewind: The Genocide in Rwanda
On Monday, Rwanda marked the 20th anniversary of the genocide that eventually claimed the lives of over 800,000 people, mostly members of the country’s Tutsi minority. They were slaughtered in some of...
View ArticleWhen Taking Pictures Gets You Arrested
On a chilly, rainy afternoon last month, Tyrel Linkhorn, a reporter for the Toledo Blade, and Jetta Fraser, a staff photographer, were sent on a boring assignment to take file photos of a factory. It...
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