2012年5月5日星期六

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

Upset at the Kentucky Derby

Posted:

Jockey Mario Gutierrez rides I'll Have Another to victory in the 138th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 5, 2012, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)I'll Have Another ran down Bodemeister in the final furlong Saturday to win the Kentucky Derby, entering the winner's circle despite a rookie jockey, a more famous stable pony, and a price tag of just $11,000 as a yearling.

Buffett plays down health concern, mulled megadeal

Posted:

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway sings with University of Nebraska cheerleaders prior to the annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, May 5, 2012. Berkshire Hathaway is holding it's annual shareholders meeting this weekend. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett tried to allay fears of Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders about the company's future after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and revealed that he recently tried to make one of the biggest acquisitions of his storied career. The question of who will succeed Buffett, 81, as chief executive became more of an imperative after Buffett disclosed the diagnosis on April 17. ...

Obama: ‘I’m asking you to keep believing in me’

Posted:

U.S. President Barack Obama receives a hug as he and first lady Michelle Obama greet supporters during a campaign rally at the Ohio State University in ColumbusFighting to recapture the magic of his history-making 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama on Saturday laid out his fullest-yet case for reelection, pleading with struggling Americans to "keep believing in me" and hitting out at presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. "If people ask you what this campaign is about, you tell them 'it's still about [...]

For 9/11 victims' families, hearing another ordeal

Posted:

After watching Guantanamo court proceedings, Jim Riches, Fire Department of New York Deputy Chief and father of Jimmy Riches, an FDNY firefighter who was killed in the attacks at the World Trade Center, talks to the media outside Fort Hamilton in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, May 5, 2012, as he and families who lost loved ones in the Sept 11, 2001 attacks were able to enter the base and watch the arraignment of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four co-defendants via a closed-circuit broadcast. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)Moans, sighs and exclamations erupted Saturday as relatives of Sept. 11 victims watched four closed-circuit TV feeds from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that showed the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks and co-defendants trying to slow their arraignment, a move that drew outbursts from viewers of "c'mon, are you kidding me?"

Former GOP candidate Gary Johnson wins Libertarian nod

Posted:

Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool)Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is campaigning to win the White House as a Libertarian after receiving scant attention in the Republican presidential race.

France on verge of first Socialist leader in 20 years

Posted:

Francois Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, attends a meeting at his campaign headquarters in ParisCampaigning ended on Saturday in France for a decisive second-round presidential vote expected to crown Francois Hollande the country's first Socialist leader in two decades despite polls showing President Nicolas Sarkozy clawing back some ground. Sunday's election, which coincides with parliamentary polls in Greece, may prove decisive for the direction of Europe as Hollande has promised he will try to temper a German-led austerity drive across Europe and reorientate the recession-struck euro zone towards growth. ...

Five killed in Syria's increasingly restive Aleppo

Posted:

In this picture taken with a mobile phone, anti-Syrian regime mourners shout slogans against their president Bashar Assad as they carry the body of Malek Shouraba, who was killed by Syrian security forces along with four protesters on Friday, while they were attending the funeral of activist, Odai Junblat, during his funeral procession, in Kfar Suseh area in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday May 5, 2012. (AP Photo)A bomb struck a car wash Saturday in Aleppo, killing at least five people, a day after government troops opened fire to break up large protests against a violent university raid in Syria's largest city.

Murdoch scandal follows classic media baron script

Posted:

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch delivers a keynote address at the National Summit on Education Reform in San Francisco. If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before. Scrappy outsider turns modest newspaper business into international media conglomerate. Ambition turns to hubris. Mogul dramatically falls from grace. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before. Scrappy outsider turns modest newspaper business into international media conglomerate. Ambition turns to hubris. Mogul dramatically falls from grace.

Egypt military detains hundreds following violence

Posted:

An Egyptian Army soldier sits atop an armored vehicle as workers clear away plywood and debris used by protesters during clashes outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 5, 2012. Lawyers say authorities have detained over 300 Egyptian protesters including 18 women following clashes outside the country's Defense Ministry, accused of attacking troops and disrupting public order.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Abd Al-Aziz)Egypt's military officials moved swiftly Saturday to prosecute protesters they blamed for an attack on the Defense Ministry, in an attempt to put down increasingly violent protests against their authority just weeks before the country's presidential election.

Slideshow: The wildest hats at the Kentucky Derby

Posted:

Slideshow: The wildest hats at the Kentucky DerbyA woman wears a fancy hat at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky before the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby, May 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT HORSE RACING)

Romney embarking on new political balancing act

Posted:

FILE - In this Friday, May 4, 2012, file photo Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in Pittsburgh, Pa. Romney has launched an aggressive campaign against President Barack Obama that straddles two sometimes conflicting ideologies. Friday he spoke out against China's Mitt Romney will need independent voters in November, but he isn't abandoning his "severely conservative" record.

Santorum backs Mourdock in Indiana senate race

Posted:

Rick Santorum Backs Richard Mourdock in Indiana Senate RaceRick Santorum has weighed in on the fierce primary battle in the Indiana senate race. The former presidential candidate tweeted his support of State Treasurer Richard Mourdock over longtime Sen. Dick Lugar. @RickSantorum: I encourage Hoosiers to help GOTV for @RichardMourdock. If I lived in...

News agency: Putin ready to 'go far' in U.S. relations

Posted:

Russia's Prime Minister and President-elect Putin talks to the media at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside MoscowRussia's President-elect Vladimir Putin is ready to go far in developing ties between Russia and the United States provided the relationship is equal, Interfax news agency quoted Putin's foreign policy aide as saying on Saturday. Putin discussed bilateral relations at a closed-door meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama's top security aide Tom Donilon at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Friday, three days before his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin. ...

Afghan child bride's in-laws sentenced for torture

Posted:

FILE- In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 file photo, Afghan doctors, unseen, dress the tortured ear of Sahar Gul, 15-year-old at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge said Saturday, May 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge said Saturday.

Facebook 'Like' not protected by First Amendment

Posted:

It should go without saying that you should be careful of what you "like" on Facebook. You should try not to "like" anything embarrassing or incriminating, lest it come back to bite you. A judge has ruled that "liking" something on Facebook doesn't protect you under the First Amendment, which is bad news for at least one man in Virginia. 

American hikers imprisoned in Iran set to marry

Posted:

Shane Bauer (R) addresses a press conference while his fiancee and former fellow detainee Sarah Shourd looksTwo of the US hikers imprisoned in Iran on spying charges after straying across the border in July 2009 are set to marry over the weekend, a lawyer and friend of the couple said Friday.

Thousands march as Japan shuts off nuclear power

Posted:

Participants raise banners with a slogan, Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors Saturday, waving banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol.

Concordia cruise company unveils new vessel

Posted:

The 114,500 tonne Costa Fascinosa was unveiled in VeniceA tragedy like the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner "will not happen again," the shipping line's boss said Saturday as he unveiled a new luxury vessel to the public.

Civil War shipwreck in the way of Ga. port project

Posted:

This undated photo provided on Friday, May 4, 2012 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows a rendering of the CSS Georgia, a Confederate warship that sank in the Savannah River nearly 148 years ago in Savannah, Ga. The Army Corps of Engineers plans to spend $14 million to raise and preserve the sunken Confederate ironclad to make room for deepening Savannah's harbor. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)Before government engineers can deepen one of the nation's busiest seaports to accommodate future trade, they first need to remove a $14 million obstacle from the past — a Confederate warship rotting on the Savannah River bottom for nearly 150 years.

Clinton says Bangladesh's parties must end discord

Posted:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni upon her arrival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 5, 2012. Clinton is in Bangladesh to press tolerance, democracy and development in one of the world's most impoverished nations that is now in the throes political turmoil. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urged Bangladesh's feuding political leaders to work together and end their most recent bout of discord for the good of their impoverished country.

Mysterious moving boulders lifted by storms

Posted:

Mysterious Moving Boulders Are Lifted By StormsFor years, geologists have puzzled over mysterious boulders that litter the desolate coastline of Ireland's Aran Islands. When nobody is looking, the massive rocks somehow move on their own.

Study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk

Posted:

Chart shows the number of fertility treatments and the number of birthsTest-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role.

Connecticut Senate passes medical marijuana bill

Posted:

HARTFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - The Connecticut Senate passed a bill on Saturday legalizing marijuana use for medical purposes with tight restrictions aimed at avoiding problems that have plagued some of the 16 other states where pot is now legal. After nearly 10 hours of debate, the Senate voted 21-13 in favor of the measure, which already cleared the House. Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy was expected to sign the bill. Once he does, Connecticut will join 16 other states and the District of Columbia in allowing use of marijuana to treat sick patients. ...

发贴者：iwvck19 时间 17:30 0 条评论

bnzv