Seismic Readings Appear to Point to a Small Nuclear TestNew York Times - 25 minutes ago
An official of the Japan Meteorological Agency at a news conference on Monday with a graph of data about ground motion. By THOM SHANKER and WILLIAM J. BROAD WASHINGTON - Initial seismic readings from the underground blast in North Korea were consistent ...
Analysis: NKorea's bomb test adds to atomic threat Washington Post
Violence in India over guru's deathCNN International - 46 minutes ago
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Tensions eased in the northern Indian state of Punjab on Tuesday, following widespread violence across the region after a Sikh guru was shot to death and another was wounded at an Indian temple in Vienna, Austria.
Curfew imposed in Punjab after riots Reuters India
California Supreme Court to issue Prop. 8 decision todayLos Angeles Times - 3 hours ago
Rulings are expected on the legality of the measure barring same-sex marriage and the status of those who married before it was approved by voters.
Weariness and confidence as foes and backers of Proposition 8 await... San Jose Mercury News
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Trial May Further Isolate Burma
Washington Post - 5 hours ago
By Tim Johnston BANGKOK, May 25 -- The decision by Burma's government to put Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate, on trial has chilled relations with some of the ruling military junta's traditional allies and made it less ...
European Union Urges Immediate Release of Aung San Suu Kyi Voice of America
Burma rejects EU, Asian pressure BBC News
Roh's death still tops 'most read' lists in South Korea
CNN International - 46 minutes ago
By Nicolai Hartvig SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea's largest-ever nuclear test had little impact on a South Korean people fraught with sorrow and recrimination following the suicide of their former president, according to media and bloggers ...
North's Test Rattles South Koreans Mourning Roh Wall Street Journal
Sri Lanka accused of 'ethnic cleansing' of Tamil areas
Telegraph.co.uk - 2 hours ago
The Sri Lankan government has been accused of launching a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" following its victory over the Tamil Tigers in the country's 26 year civil war.
Sri Lanka rejects Tigers' offer BBC News
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Police: Tyson's 4-year-old daughter on life support
San Francisco Chronicle - 1 hour ago
AP Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter is on life support after she was found with her neck on a treadmill cable Monday, police said.
Mike Tyson's daughter Exodus on life support after accidentally ... New York Daily News
Small Bomb Goes Off On Upper East Side
Washington Post - 2 hours ago
An explosion about 3:30 am Monday on Manhattan's Upper East Side, possibly caused by a small bomb made from fireworks, destroyed a sidewalk bench and shattered windows in a Starbucks outlet.
Video: Explosive Blows Out Windows at NYC Starbucks
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Explosion Rocks a Starbucks on the Upper East Side New York Times
Gerhartsreiter trial will test insanity defense
Boston Globe - 3 hours ago
By Jonathan Saltzman The case is called Commonwealth v. Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, but like many things about the high-profile trial that starts this week in Boston, even that is in dispute.
Jury in trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, aka Clark ... New York Daily News
Euro Declines on Concern Banking Weakness in Europe Will Spread
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
By Yasuhiko Seki and Ron Harui May 26 (Bloomberg) -- The euro fell for the first time in seven days against the dollar after Britain's Telegraph newspaper cited a German banking regulator saying debt at the nation's biggest lenders may increase.
WORLD FOREX:Euro Down Vs Yen,Dlr On Worries Over Europe Econ Wall Street Journal
Report: GM bankruptcy expected as early as this week
Bizjournals.com - 3 hours ago
General Motors Corp. is expected to file bankruptcy as early as this week and could get up to $30 billion in additional federal bailout funds, according to a report in the Washington Post.
GM's tough road to avoid bankruptcy CNNMoney.com
German Export Plunge Sparked Record Economic Slump
Bloomberg - 54 minutes ago
By Simone Meier May 26 (Bloomberg) -- German exports and company spending plunged in the first quarter, dragging Europe's largest economy into its deepest slump on record.
Germany Confirms 3.8% GDP Drop Wall Street Journal
Record German GDP contraction led by export collapse guardian.co.uk
Nokia opens Ovi online software and content store
Reuters - 1 hour ago
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia said it opened its online software and content store, Ovi Store, globally to some 50 million phone users on Tuesday.
Nokia Ovi store open for business VNUNet.com
New home needed for shuttle replica
Florida Today - 3 hours ago
BY SUSANNE CERVENKA • FLORIDA TODAY • May 26, 2009 Chuck Ryan felt honored when he was asked to revamp a massive student-built space shuttle replica for Kennedy Space Center firefighters to use for training.
Shuttle Lands in California After Storms Force Detour Washington Post
Lenovo IdeaPad S12 has Nvidia Ion Inside
Techtree.com - 3 hours ago
Lenovo has introduced the first Nvidia Ion platform based IdeaPad S12 netbook. Lenovo IdeaPad S12 features Intel Atom processor and promises a battery life of up to six hours on a six cell battery.
Hands On with Lenovo's IdeaPad S12 PC Magazine
Mel Gibson's gal pal Oksana Grigorieva is pregnant and he's the dad
New York Daily News - 12 minutes ago
BY Erica Pearson Just six weeks after the "Passion of the Christ" actor's wife of 28 years filed for divorce, Gibson told Jay Leno that his Russian gal pal, Oksana Grigorieva, 39, is indeed expecting their child.
Weakness of 'Terminator' opening is a blow to weekend box-office ...
Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago
Ticket sales for the long Memorial Day weekend rise just 1.7% from a year earlier despite a strong start for the 'Night at the Museum' sequel.
Twitter eyes foray into TV
Reuters - 5 hours ago
By Nellie Andreeva LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - How's this for a tweet? Twitter is coming to a television near you. The social-networking and micro-blogging service is developing the first TV series that incorporates Twitter into the action of ...
Next up for twitter: A television show Philadelphia Inquirer
Web service Twitter proposes TV competition series The Associated Press
Role players help Nuggets look like championship team
SI.com - 2 hours ago
DENVER -- Coaches are fond of reminding us that basketball is a team sport, that no one player can carry a team to a championship.
Nuggets' JR Smith can drive George Karl crazy Los Angeles Times
Jackson starts psychological warfare FOXSports.com
Indians reverse fortunes, rally past Rays
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - 40 minutes ago
AP CLEVELAND-It was the sort of disaster that usually has happened to the Indians this season. Build a big lead. Blow it with a barrage of bad pitches that miss the plate by half a foot or are thrown dead solid down the middle and blasted over the ...
Indians rally to beat Rays Los Angeles Times
COCA-COLA 600 Reutimann triumphs thanks to rain
San Francisco Chronicle - 1 hour ago
Halted four times by rain and finally abandoned more than 24 hours after it was scheduled to start, NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 - already the longest race of the year - turned into a two-day calamity.
Rain helps Reutimann get first Sprint Cup win Detroit Free Press
Rain helps David Reutimann win NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 Los Angeles Times
Dealmaker sought to bring Hausers home
Minneapolis Star Tribune - 5 hours ago
By CURT BROWN, Star Tribune When Daniel Hauser and his mother walked into the plush office of criminal defense attorney Jennifer Keller in Irvine, Calif.
Boy refusing cancer treatment back home United Press International
REFILE-Australia H1N1 flu tally rises to 32
Reuters - 2 hours ago
CANBERRA, May 26 (Reuters) - Australia's government on Tuesday ordered more than 2000 passengers of a visiting cruise ship to isolate themselves after two child passengers were confirmed with H1N1, raising the country's total to 32.
Refusing whooping cough vaccine shown to raise risk
Reuters - 3 hours ago
By Andrew Stern CHICAGO, May 26 (Reuters) - One in 20 children whose parents do not get them vaccinated against whooping cough catch the highly contagious virus, researchers said on Tuesday.
SF Memorial Day events honor the fallen
San Francisco Chronicle - 1 hour ago
(05-25) 19:42 PDT -- Proud words were spoken and cannon shots fired during a ceremony at San Francisco's historic Presidio grounds Monday as hundreds of people listened to tributes paid to the nation's fallen warriors.
Area honors its fallen heroes Vallejo Times-Herald
Veterans honored Paradise Post
60 dead in Bangladesh, India cyclone
AFP - 1 hour ago
DHAKA (AFP) - The death toll from a cyclone that slammed into Bangladesh and east India rose to at least 60 as emergency relief supplies were rushed to affected villages, officials said.
40 killed as Cyclone Aila hits India, Bangladesh The Associated Press
Afghanistan suicide attack kills 3 foreign soldiers
Reuters - 45 minutes ago
KABUL (Reuters) - Three soldiers fighting with NATO-led forces and a civilian were killed by a suicide car bomb attack on a military convoy in east Afghanistan on Tuesday, Afghan officials and a spokesman for the alliance said.
3 NATO troops killed in blast in Afghanistan The Associated Press