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Today is Monday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2012. There are 224 days left in the year. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T04:01:00Z
A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to date. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T05:50:06Z
Alibaba, China's top e-commerce player, will re-purchase a 20-percent state in itself from US portal Yahoo! for at least $7.1 billion, the companies announced. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:15:16Z
Babe Ruth equals big bucks. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T02:42:48Z
The Phoenix Coyotes weren't about to go quietly into the night as long as captain Shane Doan had a say in the matter. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:29:21Z
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng soaked up the sun in New York City on Sunday as his children played in a garden, a break in a day of meetings to arrange his studies at New York University. "(Chen) said he hadn't sat in the sun for many, many years," said Jerome Cohen, a China law expert and professor at New York University's law school, where Chen will study. "He wanted to go out in the garden ... his kids went out first and then he went out," Cohen, who has become a confidante of Chen's, told Reuters. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:13:30Z
KAIROUAN, Tunisia (Reuters) - Waving black flags embossed with Islamic verses, thousands of radical Islamists rallied in the central Tunisian town of Kairouan on Sunday to demand a wider role for religion in a country long considered one of the Arab world's most secular. Draping their banner from the town's ancient mosque, supporters of Ansar al-Sharia, or the Partisans of Islamic Law, one of the most radical Islamist movements in Tunisia, turned out in a show of force likely to cause alarm among secularists. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T05:31:08Z
A guard at a southwest Mississippi prison died Sunday and several other employees were injured during a disturbance involving hundreds of inmates that continued into the evening, authorities and the prison's operator said. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:09:55Z
US President Barack Obama and NATO allies will focus Monday on logistical aspects of ending the protracted Afghan war after President Hamid Karzai vowed his country will no longer be a "burden" for the international community. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T05:40:39Z
A long-time governing party official took the lead late Sunday in vote counting from the Dominican Republic's presidential election, leading a brash ex-president whose last term ended with the deepest economic crisis in the country's modern history. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:56:56Z
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