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Chicago braces for final day of NATO protests

A protester stands before Chicago Police at the Art Institute where First Lady Michelle Obama is hosting a dinner for the spouses of NATO dignitaries during this weekend's summit in Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago braced for more demonstrations Monday, with protesters vowing to march to the Boeing Corp. headquarters a day after police clashed with a group of demonstrators at the end of a march protesting the NATO summit.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:27:06Z
Ex-student in webcam spy case to be sentenced

FILE -- In a Feb. 24, 2012 file photo former Rutgers University student, Dharun Ravi, arrives at his trial in New Brunswick, N.J. Sentencing for 20-year-old Dharun Ravi is scheduled for Monday May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans/file)

One couple lost their teenage son to suicide in the days after his college roommate used a webcam to see him kiss another man in September 2010; the other fears their son will be sent to prison this week for doing the spying.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:14:14Z
Alibaba buys back 20 percent stake held by Yahoo for $7.1 billion

Employees play table tennis inside the headquarters office of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd on the outskirts of Hangzhou

SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma is buying back up to half of a 40 percent stake in his Alibaba Group from Yahoo Inc for $7.1 billion, in a deal that moves the Chinese e-commerce leader closer to a public listing. Under the agreement, Yahoo will sell half its stake in Alibaba for at least $6.3 billion in cash and up to $800 million in new Alibaba preferred stock. ...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T06:53:43Z
Chicago braces for more NATO protests

Chicago is bracing for more demonstrations and more traffic headaches on the last day of the NATO summit.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:20:44Z
Families of Lockerbie victims still seek answers

FILE This Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 file photo shows Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, center, being helped down the airplane steps on his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday May 20, 2012 nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60. (AP Photo)

The death of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has left some victims' relatives relieved and others raising questions about his guilt and whether others went unpunished.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:23:28Z
Trial of ex-P&G, Goldman board member starts in NY

FILE- In this Jan. 5, 2012 file photo, former Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta, left, exits Manhattan federal court with his attorney Gary Naftalis, in New York. The insider trading trial of the former board member for Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble begins in New York on Monday, May 21, 2012, with jury selection. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

The July 29, 2008, phone call between two titans of Wall Street began with the old friends exchanging mild pleasantries, but then quickly turned serious and — by the government's account — criminal.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:13:21Z
Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC

Gerry Lopez, CEO of AMC Entertainment Holdings, center left, exchanges documents with Zhang Lin, vice president of Wanda during a signing ceremony for Dalian Wanda Group Co. to acquire AMC Entertainment Holdings in Beijing, China, Monday, May 21, 2012. The Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion to create the world's biggest movie theater operator. Looking on at right is Eliot Merrill, representative of AMC shareholders. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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 : 2012-05-21T07:29:46Z
Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2005, file photo, a man walks past a screen displaying the Yahoo and Ali Baba.com logos before a joint news conference by the companies at the China World hotel in Beijing. Yahoo announced that it has agreed to sell half of its 40 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba for about $7.1 billion. The deal will see Alibaba Group buying back the stake from Yahoo Inc. for $6.3 billion cash and up to $800 million of Alibaba preference shares. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)

Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T06:40:51Z