Safety experts say Okla. school was ready for tornado
Source: USA Today
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 03:39:26 -0700 | travel-news
EDT May 22, 2013 The teachers and students in Moore, Okla., were as prepared as anyone could have been to respond to the devastating tornado that struck Monday, several school safety experts say...In May 1999, tornadoes ripped through the community,...
Parents withdraw from inquiry into death of U.S. engineer Shane Todd
Source: Reuters
Singapore :: Singapore | updated 2013-05-21 23:45:39 -0700 | allnews
News Related Topics Rick and Mary Todd speak to Reuters during an interview at their temporary place of residence in Singapore May 22, 2013. The parents of a U.S. engineer found dead in Singapore last year said on Wednesday they...
Egyptian army says Sinai hostages freed
Source: Al Jazeera English
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-05-22 03:25:26 -0700 | travel-news
21 Seven Egyptian soldiers and policemen abducted on the Sinai peninsula last week have been released, the Egyptian army has said in a statement. The seven kidnapped soldiers are now on their way to Cairo after they were released thanks...
Iran bars Rafsanjani from standing for president
Source: DAWN
Tehrān :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 03:27:29 -0700 | political-news
Iran's moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been barred from standing in next month's presidential election, along with a controversial aide of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Rafsanjani, who served as president from 1989 to 1997,...
Japan Keeps Monetary Policy Steady
Source: International Herald Tribune
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-22 02:45:52 -0700 | business-news
In a unanimous vote, the bank's board stuck to its strategy of expanding the monetary base at an annual pace of 60 trillion yen to 70 trillion yen, or $585 billion to $682 billion, through purchases of government bonds, commercial...
Tomic will play French Open despite troubles: Woodbridge
Source: Reuters
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-22 00:36:18 -0700 | sports-news
Topics Bernard Tomic of Australia hits a return to Roger Federer of Switzerland during their men's singles match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne January 19, 2013. Bernard Tomic will play at next week's French Open despite his...
North Korea sends military leader as 'special envoy' to China
Source: World News
Seoul :: South Korea | updated 2013-05-22 02:35:33 -0700 | political-news
North Korea on Wednesday sent a top military official to China as a personal envoy of leader Kim Jong-Un , at a time of strained relations with Beijing and ahead of a key China-US summit. Choe Ryong-Hae, the director of...
Quintana dominates as White Sox beat Red Sox 3-1
Source: The Boston Globe
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 23:32:14 -0700 | sports-news
Jose Quintana took a no-hitter into the seventh before David Ortiz broke it up with a one-out broken-bat single, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1 on Tuesday night. Jeff Keppinger hit a two-run homer off...
Japan April trade deficit hit record $8.57B
Source: United Press International
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2013-05-21 23:40:31 -0700 | business-news
Japan posted a record trade deficit of 879.93 billion yen ($8.576 billion) for April as a lower yen pushed import costs higher, the government said Wednesday. It was the 10th straight month of deficit as the Japanese government fights to...
SSE reports increase in profits
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 02:43:45 -0700 | business-news
SSE profits up after cold weather SSE was fined £10.5m for misleading potential customers in April Energy supplier SSE has reported a rise in annual profits on the back of cold weather, despite recent disruption to services and a fine...
Road cave-in kills five people in China
Source: United Press International
Hong Kong :: China | updated 2013-05-21 23:36:46 -0700 | travel-news
A road in south China's Guangdong province caved in, killing at least five people, authorities said. The incident Tuesday occurred at the Huamao industrial park in Shenzen, a major city in the province in the southern tip of mainland China....
Young and dynamic: social entrepreneurship in Austria
Source: The Guardian
Vienna :: Austria | updated 2013-05-21 23:30:12 -0700 | political-news
Yadid Levy/Getty Images Social entrepreneurship in Austria is still a young sector 75% of all initiatives are not older than four years. But they are growing constantly as is the awareness about what social entrepreneurship is and how social innovation...
GOLDMAN: 3 Reasons The S&P 500 Is Going To Surge To 2100
Source: BusinessInsider
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 01:29:12 -0700 | business-news
With a modestly positive economic environment, high profit margins, improving private investment, high budget deficits and a belief that stocks are cheap.the bulls get increasingly optimistic. This is from Goldman's Chief Equity Strategist David Kostin and his team: We are...
Afghan students protest women's rights decree
Source: Fox News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-22 00:56:43 -0700 | political-news
Afghanistan Hard-line Islamist students are protesting in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. More than 200 male students protested in front of Kabul University on Wednesday against...
Motty's Premier League review: Good & the bad
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 00:27:02 -0700 | sports-news
Best thing to happen this season There is no doubt Wigan winning the FA Cup and Swansea securing the League Cup were both romantic stories that few people forecast back in August...Robin van Persie won it comfortably in the end,...
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