Monday, April 23^rd

By RICHARD FAUSSET ATLANTA -- George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager, was released from a Florida jail on a $150000 bond about midnight Sunday. A spokeswoman for the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, ...

Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has become one of Mitt Romney's most ardent backers of late. (CNN) -- With Mitt Romney now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, the chatter has increasingly turned to the man or woman the former ...

Paris (CNN) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy was narrowly beaten into second place in presidential elections Sunday, as the National Front candidate Marine Le Pen posted the best result ever for a far-right candidate, the interior ministry announced ...

GREENSBORO, NC — John Edwards' trial is the latest chapter in a “sex, lies and videotape” saga involving a politician's reckless affair, a brazen cover-up and a spurned wife who later lost her battle with cancer. But to those in the world of campaign ...

April 23, 2012 Burmese Democracy Party Skips Parliament Opening VOA News Burma's parliament reopened Monday with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 42 other members of her National League for Democracy party refusing to take their seats in a dispute ...

The Colombia prostitute scandal engulfing the Secret Service widened Friday as the agency announced that three more employees would resign in connection to the alleged misconduct, bringing the overall number of employees to lose their jobs to six.

By the CNN Wire Staff South Sudanese Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said rival Sudan began a series of attacks Sunday morning. (CNN) -- Sudanese war planes crossed a disputed border region to conduct airstrikes in South Sudan on Monday, ...

By Donald Kirk SEOUL - China is mending fences with North Korea after signing off on "condemnation" of North Korea's failed missile launch while the North ratchets up the decibel level of invective against South Korea and the United States.

LUXEMBOURG — The European Union has suspended its sanctions against Myanmar, but will retain an embargo on arms sales. Spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said the measure was adopted Monday by the bloc's foreign ministers. Foreign policy chief Catherine ...

By MICHAEL TARM, AP – 1 minute ago CHICAGO (AP) — A gift of balloons. That, prosecutors contend, is what sent singer Jennifer Hudson's then brother-in-law into such a jealous rage that he shot dead her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in a ...

President Obama will issue an executive order Monday that will allow US officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies, from cellphone tracking to Internet monitoring, to help carry out ...

By MIKE BAKER AP OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The father-in-law of Susan Powell is seeking to suppress evidence used to charge him with voyeurism and possession of child pornography. Steve Powell will appear in court Monday morning for a hearing on his ...

Anders Behring Breivik has compared the pain he caused the families of his victims to his own situation, saying he lost contact with his friends and family after the 22 July attacks. The 33-year-old rightwing extremist, who has admitted killing 77 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. – Investigators early Monday sent FBI dogs trained for urban searches into the Tucson home where a 6-year-old girl disappeared as teams of law officers worked to determine if she was abducted. Two days of searching by scores of police and ...

LOS ANGELES — A loud boom similar to the sound of an explosion has been heard over much of northern California apparently as a result of an ongoing meteor shower, The Los Angeles Times reported. The newspaper, citing Stefanie Henry, a National Weather ...

PHILADELPHIA – A spring nor'easter packing soaking rain and high winds churned up the East Coast, unleashing a burst of winter and up to a foot of snow in higher elevations inland and sparking concerns of potential power outages and a wild commute to ...

Anders Behring Breivik has compared the pain he caused the families of his victims to his own situation, saying he lost contact with his friends and family after the 22 July attacks. The 33-year-old rightwing extremist, who has admitted killing 77 ...

BARNSTABLE, Mass.—The US Coast Guard says it has rescued two fishermen from a sinking boat near Barnstable, Massachusetts. Officials say they received a distress call at about 2 pm Sunday that a 17-foot fishing vessel was taking on water.

DENVER – A pastor's mother was shot and killed when a gunman opened fire in a Colorado church Sunday, FOX 31 reports. Yolanda Marant, a representative for The Destiny Center, confirmed to FOX 31 that 65-year-old Josephine Eccles, the mother of the ...

Egypt's move to terminate deal is another reflection of the country's chaotic situation on eve of presidential elections, and may also constitute economic suicide. Egyptian engineer Hani Dahi, executive director of the Egyptian General Petroleum ...

NORTH BEND, Wash. — Firefighters had to force their way into a house in Washington state where two women were found dead because the door had been blocked with a couch and other furniture, and now detectives are conducting a double homicide ...

National Crime Victims Rights week is April 22-28 and Nashville has planned events that you are invited to attend. Most of us never imagine that we would be a victim of crime, that happens to “other people” The fact is, we are all vulnerable to the ...

WASHINGTON — An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs. Those problems are getting new attention Monday as the ...

美国特工处已扩大哥伦比亚召妓事件的调查范围，以确定特工处行为不当人员是否仅限于眼下所知的11人。意外的是，24岁的应召女郎丹妮娅却因丑闻走红，还准备出书还原事件经过。 美国《纽约时报》20日援引一名不愿公开姓名 ...

Редкое для дневного времени суток явление - падение метеорита - видели и слышали местные жители на запада США, передает Reuters. "Большой бум", как его быстро окрестили в соцсетях, произошел около 8:00 по местному времени в области Рено-Спаркс, ...

By Jethro Mullen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) -- A soccer ball recently found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a teenager from a city devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan more than a year ago.

(RTTNews) - The United States and Afghanistan have reached a draft agreement on a strategic partnership deal that sets the guidelines for US role in the war-torn South Asian country after the withdrawal of American combat forces in 2014, officials said ...

Taipei, April 23 (CNA) Taiwan and China will eventually include the issue of environmental protection in their institutionalized talks, the head of the Taipei-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said Monday. "Following their agreements on ...

File photo of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon who was abducted by Naxals in Chattisgarh. PTI The Chhattisgarh government has virtually called a halt to its anti-Maoist offensive till Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon is released from ...

The Federal Opposition says the civil and criminal allegations made against the Speaker Peter Slipper reflect poorly on the Prime Minister's integrity and judgment. Julia Gillard has defended her decision to appoint the former Coalition MP as Speaker, ...

美国特工处已扩大哥伦比亚召妓事件的调查范围，以确定特工处行为不当人员是否仅限于眼下所知的11人。意外的是，24岁的应召女郎丹妮娅却因丑闻走红，还准备出书还原事件经过。 美国《纽约时报》20日援引一名不愿公开姓名 ...

By HOPE YEN, AP – 5 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't ...

Редкое для дневного времени суток явление - падение метеорита - видели и слышали местные жители на запада США, передает Reuters. "Большой бум", как его быстро окрестили в соцсетях, произошел около 8:00 по местному времени в области Рено-Спаркс, ...

By Jethro Mullen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) -- A soccer ball recently found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a teenager from a city devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan more than a year ago.

(RTTNews) - The United States and Afghanistan have reached a draft agreement on a strategic partnership deal that sets the guidelines for US role in the war-torn South Asian country after the withdrawal of American combat forces in 2014, officials said ...

File photo of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon who was abducted by Naxals in Chattisgarh. PTI The Chhattisgarh government has virtually called a halt to its anti-Maoist offensive till Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon is released from ...

By Matt Steinglass in Amsterdam The government crisis has plunged the Netherlands into political uncertainty just as the eurozone sovereign debt crisis is heating up again. The conservative government of Mark Rutte, the prime minister and leader of the ...

The Federal Opposition says the civil and criminal allegations made against the Speaker Peter Slipper reflect poorly on the Prime Minister's integrity and judgment. Julia Gillard has defended her decision to appoint the former Coalition MP as Speaker, ...

美国特工处已扩大哥伦比亚召妓事件的调查范围，以确定特工处行为不当人员是否仅限于眼下所知的11人。意外的是，24岁的应召女郎丹妮娅却因丑闻走红，还准备出书还原事件经过。 美国《纽约时报》20日援引一名不愿公开姓名 ...

By HOPE YEN, AP – 5 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't ...

Редкое для дневного времени суток явление - падение метеорита - видели и слышали местные жители на запада США, передает Reuters. "Большой бум", как его быстро окрестили в соцсетях, произошел около 8:00 по местному времени в области Рено-Спаркс, ...

By Jethro Mullen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) -- A soccer ball recently found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a teenager from a city devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan more than a year ago.

(RTTNews) - The United States and Afghanistan have reached a draft agreement on a strategic partnership deal that sets the guidelines for US role in the war-torn South Asian country after the withdrawal of American combat forces in 2014, officials said ...

Taipei, April 23 (CNA) Taiwan and China will eventually include the issue of environmental protection in their institutionalized talks, the head of the Taipei-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said Monday. "Following their agreements on ...

File photo of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon who was abducted by Naxals in Chattisgarh. PTI The Chhattisgarh government has virtually called a halt to its anti-Maoist offensive till Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon is released from ...

The Federal Opposition says the civil and criminal allegations made against the Speaker Peter Slipper reflect poorly on the Prime Minister's integrity and judgment. Julia Gillard has defended her decision to appoint the former Coalition MP as Speaker, ...

美国特工处已扩大哥伦比亚召妓事件的调查范围，以确定特工处行为不当人员是否仅限于眼下所知的11人。意外的是，24岁的应召女郎丹妮娅却因丑闻走红，还准备出书还原事件经过。 美国《纽约时报》20日援引一名不愿公开姓名 ...

By HOPE YEN, AP – 5 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't ...

Редкое для дневного времени суток явление - падение метеорита - видели и слышали местные жители на запада США, передает Reuters. "Большой бум", как его быстро окрестили в соцсетях, произошел около 8:00 по местному времени в области Рено-Спаркс, ...

By Jethro Mullen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) -- A soccer ball recently found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a teenager from a city devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan more than a year ago.

(RTTNews) - The United States and Afghanistan have reached a draft agreement on a strategic partnership deal that sets the guidelines for US role in the war-torn South Asian country after the withdrawal of American combat forces in 2014, officials said ...

File photo of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon who was abducted by Naxals in Chattisgarh. PTI The Chhattisgarh government has virtually called a halt to its anti-Maoist offensive till Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon is released from ...

By Matt Steinglass in Amsterdam The government crisis has plunged the Netherlands into political uncertainty just as the eurozone sovereign debt crisis is heating up again. The conservative government of Mark Rutte, the prime minister and leader of the ...

The Federal Opposition says the civil and criminal allegations made against the Speaker Peter Slipper reflect poorly on the Prime Minister's integrity and judgment. Julia Gillard has defended her decision to appoint the former Coalition MP as Speaker, ...

WASHINGTON — An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs. Those problems are getting new attention Monday as the ...

美国特工处已扩大哥伦比亚召妓事件的调查范围，以确定特工处行为不当人员是否仅限于眼下所知的11人。意外的是，24岁的应召女郎丹妮娅却因丑闻走红，还准备出书还原事件经过。 美国《纽约时报》20日援引一名不愿公开姓名 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The US college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. By Eric Risberg, AP Corey Fry, a graduate from the University of California at San Francisco nursing school, tries on his cap and gown at his apartment on ...

Редкое для дневного времени суток явление - падение метеорита - видели и слышали местные жители на запада США, передает Reuters. "Большой бум", как его быстро окрестили в соцсетях, произошел около 8:00 по местному времени в области Рено-Спаркс, ...

By Jethro Mullen, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) -- A soccer ball recently found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a teenager from a city devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan more than a year ago.

(RTTNews) - The United States and Afghanistan have reached a draft agreement on a strategic partnership deal that sets the guidelines for US role in the war-torn South Asian country after the withdrawal of American combat forces in 2014, officials said ...

File photo of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon who was abducted by Naxals in Chattisgarh. PTI The Chhattisgarh government has virtually called a halt to its anti-Maoist offensive till Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon is released from ...

The Federal Opposition says the civil and criminal allegations made against the Speaker Peter Slipper reflect poorly on the Prime Minister's integrity and judgment. Julia Gillard has defended her decision to appoint the former Coalition MP as Speaker, ...