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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
3 climbers die on Mount Everest, 2 still missing
A Nepalese mountaineering official says three climbers returning from the summit of Mount Everest have died and two more are missing.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:25:23Z
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
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 HangzhouSHANGHAI/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
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
Survivor: Honduran police fired on passenger boat
Lucio Adan Nelson Quin, 22, rests while recovering in a public hospital from the wounds caused during an attack involving U.S. helicopters in a DEA-supported anti-drug crackdown by Honduras police in Las Mosquitia region, in La Ceiba, Honduras, Sunday, May 20, 2012. On Friday May 11, Lucio and more than a dozen others dove from a riverboat into the water for cover from Honduran police, who with DEA agents aboard, say they were hitting drug traffickers who fired first. Four died.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Lucio Adan Nelson dozed on a riverboat ferrying him home from a visit with his mother when helicopters appeared overhead and started shooting. He and about a dozen other passengers traveling in the middle of the night jumped into the water for cover.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T06:25:52Z
Free bicycles help keep Indian girls in school
In this March 15, 2012 photo, Indian schoolgirls ride bicycles, received under a Bihar state government program of giving free bicycles to teenage girls to keep them in school, on the outskirts of Patna, India. Before starting the program in 2007, officials in Bihar, one of India's poorest and most backward states, despaired over how to educate the state's females, whose literacy rate of 53 percent is more than 20 points below that of its men. The program was an instant success, with the number of girls registered in the ninth grade in Bihar's state schools more than tripling in four years, from 175,000 to 600,000. (AP Photo/Prashant Ravi)The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:28:44Z
Prosecutors seek life term for accused Bali bombmaker
Indonesian terror suspect Umar Patek (2nd R) arrives at West Jakarta courtIndonesian prosecutors on Monday asked for a life sentence rather than the death penalty for Umar Patek, the bombmaker accused of being behind the Bali attacks that killed 202 people.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T06:35:45Z
Asia stocks mixed after G8 vague on Europe fix
A woman looks at an electronic stock indicator in Tokyo Monday, May 21, 2012. Bargain-hunting helped Asian stock markets edge upward Monday, but gains were limited as investors remained unconvinced that the world's major economies nailed a solution to the European debt crisis following a summit in Washington. Japan's Nikkei 225 index came off four-month lows to rise 0.3 percent at 8,636.89. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)Bargain-hunting helped Asian stock markets edge upward Monday, but gains were limited as investors remained unconvinced that the world's major economies nailed a solution to the European debt crisis following a summit in Washington.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:32:14Z
Chicago braces for more 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 is bracing for more demonstrations and more traffic headaches on the last day of the NATO summit.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:20:44Z