Everest weekend death toll reaches 4
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, Yesterday, 12:52am
World's tallest tower, the Tokyo Skytree, opens
The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday. Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, Yesterday, 12:45am
Trains collide in south India, killing 15
A passenger train rammed into a freight train before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 15 people in a fiery wreck, officials said. Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, Yesterday, 12:30am
Fake malaria drugs litter Southeast Asia, Africa
A study says more than a third of malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality. Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 11:42pm
Malaysian opposition's Anwar charged over protest
Prosecutors charged Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and two of his allies Tuesday with breaking various laws during a massive... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 11:17pm
Mafia-style end for Australia's flawed Obama mugs
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 10:57pm
Images show more N. Korea work on nuke test site
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 10:52pm
Bulgarian capital shaken by 5.6 magnitude quake
SOFIA (Reuters) - A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Bulgaria's capital Sofia early on Tuesday, causing residents to rush into the streets, the civil defense office said. The quake, which occurred at 3 a.m. local time, shook apartment buildings and rattled windows but caused no casualties or damage, Nikolay Nikolov, an official from the office was quoted as saying by the national radio, citing initial reports. The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor was centered about 14 miles west of Sofia and occurred at a relatively shallow depth of 5.8 miles. USGS initially reported the magnitude as 5.8. ... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 10:33pm
Former Guatemala dictator to face massacre charges
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will face a second trial on genocide charges after a judge ruled on Monday he could be prosecuted for ordering a 1982 massacre that left 201 people dead. Rios Montt, 85, who ruled during a particularly bloody period in 1982 and 1983, is already facing trial on separate charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 10:06pm
Exclusive: U.S. lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury orders
NEW YORK (Reuters) - China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters. The relationship means the People's Bank of China buys U.S. debt using a different... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 9:01pm
Obama on Afghan: Leave on time, no 'perfect' end
President Barack Obama and leaders around the globe locked in place an Afghanistan exit path Monday that will still keep their troops fighting and dying there for two more years, acknowledging there never will be point at which they can say, "This is all done. This is perfect." Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 8:27pm
Obama sketches four-pronged strategy for Europe, sees EU consensus
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged Europe on Monday to strengthen its defenses against financial market turmoil and recapitalize its banks as part of a four-pronged strategy for tackling the euro zone crisis. European... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 8:06pm
Ruling party candidate claims win in Dominican vote
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Ruling party candidate Danilo Medina claimed victory on Monday in the Dominican Republic's hotly disputed presidential election, avenging his defeat 12 years ago by opposition candidate Hipolito Mejia. With the official count in Sunday's voting 99 percent complete, Medina and the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) held a 4... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 6:49pm
Bruised Merkel returns home to more policy fights
BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel returns from one of her most difficult foreign trips in recent memory on Tuesday to face more, severe tests of her long-standing command over the policy agenda in Germany and Europe. The chancellor looked unusually isolated at a weekend G8 meeting in Camp David, where new French President Francois Hollande teamed up with host Barack Obama to push back against... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 6:29pm
Taliban's efforts to take control of schools
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports on the Taliban's efforts to take control of rural schools in Afghanistan. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 5:49pm
Iran: Nuclear meetings paving way for negotiations
Iran's talks Monday with the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency helped lay the groundwork for progress in upcoming negotiations, the Iranian regime said. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 5:03pm
96 Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide bombing
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 5:02pm
Mexico detains 'El Loco' in slayings of 49
Mexican troops have detained a man who authorities say is one of the principal suspects in the killings of 49 people whose bodies were abandoned near a highway last week. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 5:01pm
Gang rape allegations for Strauss-Kahn
French prosecutors have widened an investigation into former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged participation in a prostitution ring. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 5:00pm
12 students die in Albania bus crash
A bus carrying Albanian university students plunged hundreds of feet into a ravine Monday, killing at least 12 people according to police. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 3:54pm
UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?
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CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 3:34pm
NATO OKs Obama's Afghan timetable
NATO countries signed off Monday on U.S. President Barack Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 3:28pm
Four die on Mt. Everest
Three people died while coming down the southern slope of the mountain during the weekend after reaching Mt. Everest's 8848-meter (29,028 foot) summit, officials said. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 3:20pm
Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 2:31pm
Greece's new prime minister meets party leaders
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:53pm
Interim president of Mali injured, witness
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:50pm
Two dead in Beirut clashes after killing of anti-Assad cleric
ALBIREH, Lebanon (Reuters) - Hundreds of Islamist gunmen fired in the air on Monday as they laid to rest a Sunni Muslim cleric whose killing ignited street battles that brought the bloodshed of Syria's uprising across the border into Lebanon. Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahid, an opponent of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was shot dead... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:47pm
Soldiers shoot anti-Assad clerics in Lebanon
In the latest instance of the unrest in Syria spilling across the border into Lebanon, deadly clashes broke out in Beirut on Monday following the shooting death of two anti-Assad clerics at the hands of soldiers.
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CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 12:37pm
Convicted Lockerbie bomber buried in Libya
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:33pm
Gaddafi ex-spy charged in Mauritania: source
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi will stand trial in Mauritania for illegally entering the country, judicial sources said on Monday. The move would delay efforts to have him face international justice. Senussi's arrest in the West African state in March started a three-way tug-of-war among Libya, France and the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the extradition of one of the most feared members of Gaddafi's fallen regime. "Abdullah al-Senussi has been interviewed for the first time by the state prosecutor. ... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:27pm
UN nuclear chief in Iran on key mission
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:27pm
NATO sets 'irreversible transition' in Afghanistan
President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders solidified plans Monday for an "irreversible transition" in Afghanistan, affirming their commitment to ending the deeply unpopular war in 2014 and voicing confidence in the ability of Afghan forces to take the lead for securing... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:25pm
No sign of breakthrough in U.N. atom chief's Tehran talks
VIENNA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief held extensive and useful talks in Iran on Monday and expects them to have a positive impact on a six-power meeting with Tehran later this week, Iranian media said, but there was no sign of a breakthrough deal. International... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:16pm
Yemen violence worsens as suicide bomber kills 90
SANAA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber with explosives strapped under his uniform killed more than 90 people at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, an attack which will alarm Washington as its involvement in the front-line state deepens. Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, facing a growing campaign by an al... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 12:13pm
Maids fall to their deaths
CNN's Liz Neisloss reports on efforts to improve worker safety after nine Singapore maids fell to their deaths this year. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 11:39am
3 dead, 2 missing after crowded weekend on Everest
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 11:14am
Underwater wedding with mermaids
Two couples in China held their wedding ceremonies underwater in an aquarium. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 11:00am
Ex-Yemeni president hospitalized
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was admitted Sunday to a military hospital in Sanaa, the second time that he's been to a hospital this month, a government official said. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 10:54am
Arab League to Iran: stop anti-Bahrain campaign
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League called on Tehran on Monday to halt what it described as a media campaign against Bahrain over a proposal for political and military union between Gulf Arab states. Saudi Arabia has been pushing the idea of closer Gulf integration to... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 10:52am
Canada: Man straps bombs to body
A British Columbia man who held authorities at bay for more than six hours after allegedly strapping explosives to his body is presumed dead after the house he was holed up in exploded, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Friday. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 10:51am
Pakistan restores Twitter
Pakistan has restored access to Twitter after blocking the popular social networking site over the posting of content it deemed an affront to Muslims, Pakistan's telecom authority said Monday. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 10:49am
U.S. warns N. Korea against nuclear test
The top U.S. envoy for North Korea warned Pyongyang Monday against a possible third nuclear test. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 10:49am
Suicide bombing kills nearly 100 soldiers in Yemen
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal Monday in... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 10:47am
Putin tightens grip with new government
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a government dominated by loyalists on Monday, tightening his grip on the economy and national security after protests, and limiting Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's ability to pursue market reforms. Putin, 59, opted for continuity by retaining his ally Igor Shuvalov as first deputy prime minister in charge of economic policy, while Igor Sechin will remain his... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 10:43am
Solar eclipse's 'ring of fire'
The shadow of the moon swept across the globe from Hong Kong to the Texas Panhandle as a rare annular solar eclipse began Monday morning in Asia and traversed the Pacific. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 10:43am
Italy quake victims wake in cars, tents, schools
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 10:39am
Greece: Why wheels are coming off
The wheels are coming off the wagon. The fat lady is about to sing. The proverbial is about to hit the fan. It doesn't matter which saying you use, the facts are inescapable. Greece's membership of the eurozone is untenable under the current conditions and everyone knows it. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 10:32am
New quake rattles Italy after earlier tremor kills 7
Northern Italy was shaken by an aftershock Monday morning, a day after a magnitude-6.0 quake killed at least seven people and left thousands of survivors huddling in tents or cars overnight. Read more...
CNN.com - World, 21 May 2012, 10:07am
Former Sri Lanka army chief freed from prison
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 9:59am
U.N. nuclear chief holds talks in Tehran, hopes for deal
VIENNA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief held rare talks in Tehran on Monday after voicing hope for a deal to investigate suspected atomic bomb research - a gesture Iran might make to try to get international sanctions relaxed and deflect threats of war.... Read more...
World News Headlines - Yahoo! News, 21 May 2012, 9:49am