Mugabe signs Zimbabwe?s...
Source: Arab News
Harare :: Zimbabwe | updated 2013-05-22 18:17:48 -0700 | political-news
President Robert Mugabe signed Zimbabwe's new constitution into law yesterday, clearing the path to crucial elections later this year. The 89-year-old, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, signed the document two months after it was overwhelmingly...
Iran's Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I.A.E.A. Report
Source: The New York Times
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 19:19:33 -0700 | political-news
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. In its last report before Iranian elections next month, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran had made progress across the board in its nuclear program, enriching more uranium and installing hundreds...
House approves Keystone pipeline bill
Source: Fox
Port Arthur :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 21:07:22 -0700 | green-news
House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental...
HSBC China Flash PMI Falls To A 7-Month Low Of 49.6
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 20:27:43 -0700 | business-news
A sequential slowdown is likely in the middle of 2Q, casting downside risk to China's fragile growth recovery. Moreover, the further signs of labour market slackness call for more policy support...A breakdown of the report showed that nearly all the...
Lee Pitches 3-Hitter, Phillies Blank Marlins 3-0
Source: International Herald Tribune
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-22 20:40:40 -0700 | sports-news
Cliff Lee pitched a three-hitter for his 12th career shutout and Delmon Young homered for the second straight game, sending the Philadelphia Phillies past the Miami Marlins 3-0 on Wednesday night. Lee (5-2) struck out five, walked two and hit...
North Korea sends...
Source: Arab News
Seoul :: South Korea | updated 2013-05-22 20:14:16 -0700 | political-news
A top North Korean general and confidant of leader Kim Jong-Un met a senior Chinese official in Beijing yesterday, with relations between the allies strained ahead of a China-US summit. Choe Ryong-Hae, director of the Korean People's Army politburo, is...
U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes
Source: The New York Times
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-22 20:51:59 -0700 | political-news
In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that the administration had deliberately killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was killed in a drone strike in September...
Switch to low-carbon future would save households £1,600
Source: The Independent
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 19:50:09 -0700 | green-news
British households will save £45bn, or £1,600 apiece, if the government hitches its electricity supply to low-carbon sources such as wind and nuclear rather than gas, a parliamentary advisory committee has estimated. Overturning the general consensus that green electricity is...
Some business owners resist providing employees with contraceptive coverage
Source: Washington Post
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:49:19 -0700 | political-news
The legal battle took an important step forward Wednesday when an appeals court here heard arguments in two cases brought by business owners who are Catholic. Another challenge is scheduled to be heard Thursday by an appeals court in Denver,...
Washington Memo: Torches and Pitchforks for I.R.S. but Cheers for Apple
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:57:21 -0700 | business-news
Armed with a blistering report that said Apple had avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes, senators this week had choice words for the company's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, when he appeared before the Senate's Permanent Committee on Investigations...
Warning on poor school swimming
Source: BBC
Åsa :: Sweden | updated 2013-05-22 19:50:13 -0700 | political-news
More may drown without better swimming lessons' BBC News education reporter The report calls for school sport spending to be focused on swimming More children may drown without better school swimming provision, the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has warned.
The growth of start-up competitions
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 17:32:44 -0700 | business-news
Trying to become a successful entrepreneur has never been more fashionable and thousands of new business competition schemes like this have sprung up around the world. For while business start-ups of the past went to work to try to make...
Previous Wembley European Cup/Champions League Finals
Source: International Herald Tribune
Brussels :: Belgium | updated 2013-05-22 19:53:42 -0700 | sports-news
Saturday's Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will see the European Cup presented at Wembley for a record-extending seventh time. The old Wembley hosted five finals, in 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978 and 1992...After Wembley, the Heysel Stadium...
Good Defending Is Simple Answer to Robben Riddle
Source: International Herald Tribune
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 19:53:45 -0700 | sports-news
Yet, when the Bayern Munich winger bears down the right in Saturday's Champions League final, Borussia Dortmund's defenders, if they follow in the misdirected footsteps of so many before them, will still, inexplicably, allow the Dutchman to switch the ball...
Legal Experts Debate U.S. Retailers' Risks of Signing Bangladesh Accord
Source: International Herald Tribune
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | updated 2013-05-22 18:15:32 -0700 | business-news
May 22, 2013 American retailers remain sharply opposed to joining an international plan to improve safety conditions at garment factories in Bangladesh as their European counterparts and consumer and labor groups dismiss the companies' concerns about legal liability.
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