 In character
| If Shia LaBeouf has his way, this year's Cannes Film Festival is just a beginning. | After previous trips to the festival with blockbusters Transformers and Wall Street... (photo: Creative Commons / Fourthords) Gulf News
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 Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president
| CAIRO - Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. | The voting that begins Wed... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Herald Tribune
Egypt Election Islamist Photos Wikipedia: Egyptian presidential election, 2012 |
 Serbs Vote in Presidential Runoff Election
| Correction Appended | PARIS -- Serbs voted Sunday in a presidential runoff election pitting Boris Tadic, a pro-Western reformer, against Tomislav Nikolic, a nationalist... (photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovic) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Business Election Photos Politics Wikipedia: Boris Tadi |
 Netanyahu: African migrants could overrun Israel
| JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that Israel could be swamped by illegal migrants from Africa. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu g... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit) Atlanta Journal
Africa Immigration Israel Photos Wikipedia: Benjamin Netanyahu |
 Sri Lanka set to release jailed ex-army chief
| COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president has ordered authorities to free the country's jailed former army chief turned presidential candidate. | A presidential... (photo: AP / Chamila Karunarathne) The Guardian
Military Photos Politics Sri Lanka Wikipedia: Sri Lanka |
 Sri Lanka military parade marks war anniversary
Sri Lanka is marking the three-year anniversary of the end of its long civil war with a large military parade in the capital, Colombo. | President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave ... (photo: PIB of India) BBC News
Anniversary Photos Sri Lanka War Wikipedia: Sri Lankan Civil War |
 Sri Lanka to probe civil war abuses on its own
| Sri Lanka says it will conduct its own investigation into rights abuses during the final months of the island nation's civil war when thousands of civilians reportedly ... (photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena) Jakarta Post
Human Rights Photos Sri Lanka War Wikipedia: Sri Lankan Civil War |
 Panama: a hot holiday destination?
| It tops lists of hot destinations for 2012 and is sold as the ideal introduction to Latin America, but does it live up to the hype? Tranquilo Bay ecolodge private jetty... (photo: Creative Commons / Hollic) The Guardian
Culture Holiday Panama Photos Tourism Wikipedia: Panama |
 Court to Texas: Pay $2 million to man imprisoned for 26 years
| HOUSTON -- The Texas Supreme Court the Lone Star State to pay more than $2 million to a former inmate who spent 26 years in prison for murder, a ruling that could set a... (photo: Public Domain / WhisperToMe) The Los Angeles Times
Court Photos Supreme Court Texas Wikipedia: Supreme Court of Texas |
 China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term
| BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached int... (photo: AP / Greg Baker) Denver Post
China Corruption Crime Photos Wikipedia: Lai Changxing |
 Error sees 'Butcher of Bosnia' trial suspended
| The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities'' in the hig... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine) NZ Herald
Bosnia Crimes Kosovo Photos Trial Wikipedia: Bosnia and Herzegovina |
 Prosecutors lay out Srebrenica genocide case against Ratko Mladic
| On the second day of the 70-year-old's genocide trial, Yugoslav war crimes tribunal prosecutors will focus on the bloody climax of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, when Serb fo... (photo: AP / Amel Emric) The Independent
Bosnia Crimes Genocide Photos Wikipedia: Bosnian War |
 Obama Can't Knock the Hustle
| How did we end up with such smart scoundrels? Even after it was known that Jamie Dimon's bank blew more than $2 billion on the same suspect derivatives trading that has... (photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza) Huffington Post
Government Obama Photos Politics Wikipedia: Barack Obama |
 Summer camps for LA special needs kids
| Los Angeles has great summer camp opportunities for children and adolescents with special needs such as autism, learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder. ... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) The Examiner
Children Kids Photos Summer Wikipedia: Summer camp |
 Richmond soda tax to fight obesity makes ballot
| Richmond voters will decide this fall whether to impose what could be the nation's first municipal tax on soda and other sugary beverages - a penny-per-ounce surcharge ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc) San Francisco Chronicle
Health Obesity People Photos Wikipedia: Obesity |
 Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, UN court told
| AFP - Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since Worl... (photo: UN / UN) France24
Bosnia Court Crime Photos UN Wikipedia: Bosnia and Herzegovina |
 Schools will have to ensure RTE from June
| All schools in the state, excluding minority-run institutions, will have to implement the norms of the Right to Education (RTE) from June next. For that, these schools ... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) DNA India
Education Parents Photos Students Wikipedia: Right to education |
 Mladic trial: Prosecution to focus on Srebrenica massacre
A war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic is to resume, with the prosecution focusing on the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. | Gen Mladic is accu... (photo: AP / Toussaint Kluiters, Pool) BBC News
Crime Massacre Photos Serbia Wikipedia: Ratko Mladi |
 Chinese in bold call for official's removal
| A group of Communist Party veterans has written a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, in the latest sign of disunity ahead of B... (photo: AP / Alexander F. Yuan) Al Jazeera
China Communism Photos Politics Wikipedia: Zhou Yongkang |
 Dramatic start to Mladic genocide trial
| HE is no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo "in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial be... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras) The Australian
Dramatic Genocide Photos Serbia Trial Wikipedia: Serbia |
