World
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Beatles' lyrics headed for British Library
2013-05-22 17:53:37 UTC
LONDON (AP) — Shakespeare, the Magna Carta — and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics.
The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles' classics "Strawberry F...
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UK official: London attack could be terror-related
2013-05-22 17:51:37 UTC
LONDON (AP) — Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks Wednesday, in what British authorities were investigating as a possible terror act. One man is dead and two others were injured.
While details were scant, Prime Mi...
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'BOOM TOWN BABY': African stock markets see gains
2013-05-22 17:00:40 UTC
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu — East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer — cheers on what Satchu says is a growing sentiment among investors: If you're not investing in Afri...
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EU steps up fight against tax evasion by end 2013
2013-05-22 16:59:36 UTC
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's leaders have agreed to push through a major policy to tackle tax evasion by the end of the year.
The EU said the 27 heads of state and governments agreed at summit in Brussels Wednesday to an automat...
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Kerry: US, allies, ready to step up aid rebels
2013-05-22 16:58:21 UTC
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria's opposition to help them "fight for the freedom of their country" if President Bashar Assad's regime doesn't engage in peace talks ...
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Police: 1 dead, 2 injured in attack in London
2013-05-22 16:55:40 UTC
LONDON (AP) — One person has died and at least two people were wounded in a violent attack near a military training barracks in London, British officials said Wednesday, as Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency meeting in response.
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North Korea sends leader's special envoy to China
2013-05-22 10:50:48 UTC
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to China on Wednesday as Beijing faces pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor.
Choe Ryong Hae, a top Workers' Party offic...
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Iran closer to make nuclear weapons than thought
2013-05-22 10:26:47 UTC
VIENNA (AP) — Diplomats say Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, in a blow to years of high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing so.
Three diplomats say Tehran now has install...
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Peace Corps to accept same-sex couples
2013-05-22 05:08:03 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Peace Corps says it will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas.
Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet says the change will diver...
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FBI ID's Benghazi suspects _ but no arrests yet
2013-05-22 04:56:22 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, of...
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Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison
2013-05-22 04:49:30 UTC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.
New details on the administration's budget request emerged on...
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Asia stocks rise as Fed official backs easy policy
2013-05-22 04:43:12 UTC
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday after investor confidence was boosted by a Federal Reserve official's comments that the U.S. central bank should stick with its super-easy monetary policy.
Regional Fed chief J...
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Does France have right plan to revive its economy?
2013-05-22 04:41:02 UTC
PARIS (AP) — The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite.
As the country's first-ever minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebour...
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Japan's trade deficit hits $8.6B due to weaker yen
2013-05-22 04:39:31 UTC
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's trade deficit widened to a larger-than-expected 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion) in April as its weakening currency accentuated surging import costs.
Exports rose 3.8 percent from the same month a year earlier to 5.78...
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Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases
2013-05-22 04:36:06 UTC
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.
A...
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New Egypt tax law: cuts for poor, business hikes
2013-05-21 17:33:38 UTC
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president has signed a new tax law that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians while increasing taxes on small and medium-sized businesses.
The interim parliament approved the law last week. President Mohammed Morsi sig...
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How the French economy compares to Germany's, UK's
2013-05-21 17:26:01 UTC
PARIS (AP) — Here's how the struggling French economy stacks up compared to Germany's and Britain's:
How Europe's Top Economies Compare
France Germany Britain
Gross Domestic Product (2012) 2 trillion euros ($2.7 trillion) 2.6 trillion euros...
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Does France have right plan to revive its economy?
2013-05-21 17:10:32 UTC
PARIS (AP) — The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite.
As the country's first-ever minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebour...
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France: Drugmaker on trial, suspected in deaths
2013-05-21 16:56:25 UTC
NANTERRE, France (AP) — A French drug company and its founder are on trial on charges of misleading the public about a diabetes drug marketed as a weight loss method and suspected in hundreds of deaths.
But after years of delays in one of Fra...
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German central bank: Economy to improve 'markedly'
2013-05-21 16:53:29 UTC
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany's central bank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter — a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession.
The Bundesbank said ...
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British inflation eases by more than expected
2013-05-21 16:40:45 UTC
LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that consumer price inflation in Britain eased in April, largely on the back of lower fuel prices and airfares.
The Office for National Statistics said Tuesday that the annual rate fell to 2.4 percent in Ap...
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Burberry's profit hit by perfume deal's demise
2013-05-21 16:39:35 UTC
LONDON (AP) — British luxury brand Burberry says that the end of a perfume licensing deal depressed its bottom line, dragging net profit down 3 percent for the year ending on March 31.
But shares in the Burberry Group PLC rose just over 1 pe...
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Vodafone annual profits up 1.9 percent
2013-05-21 16:37:45 UTC
LONDON (AP) — U.K.-based mobile telecoms company Vodafone has reported a 1.9 increase in annual profits despite a slowdown in much of its European operations.
It reported Tuesday net profits of 7.70 billion pounds ($11.665 billion) for the ye...
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Lease to Broadway's biggest theater sold
2013-05-21 04:40:01 UTC
NEW YORK (AP) — Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought the lease to Broadway's largest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million.
Ambassador Theatre Group said Monday it has a...
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Guatemala top court overturns genocide conviction
2013-05-21 04:34:25 UTC
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's top court overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and ordered on Monday that his trial restart, throwing into disarray proceedings that had been hailed as historic for deliv...
