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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
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
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
US warns NKorea against another nuke test

U.S. envoy on North Korea, Glyn Davies answers reporter's questions after meeting with South Korea's chief nuclear envoy Lim Sung-nam and Lim's Japanese counterpart Shinsuke Sugiyama at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 21, 2012. The top U.S. envoy for North Korea is warning Pyongyang that any nuclear test will be met with

The top U.S. envoy for North Korea is warning Pyongyang that any nuclear test will be met with "swift and sure" international punishment.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:43:55Z
Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has baby boy

Bollywood personalities Shilpa Shetty (R) and husband Raj Kundra

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, who shot to global fame when she was subjected to allegedly racist taunts on Britain's "Celebrity Big Brother" television series, gave birth to a baby boy on Monday.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:51:28Z
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
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
Beirut clashes kill 1 amid fear of Syria spillover

A Lebanese man steps out from a destroyed building that was damaged during clashes erupted between pro- and anti-Syrian Sunni groups, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday May 21, 2012. Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns early Monday in intense street battles in the Lebanese capital, wounding and killed several people as fears mounted that the conflict in neighboring Syria was bleeding across the border. The clashes erupted hours after an anti-Syrian cleric and his bodyguard were shot dead in northern Lebanon.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Overnight clashes in Beirut between Sunni Muslim groups that support and oppose the regime in Damascus left one person dead and 10 wounded as fears rose further of a spillover from the Syrian conflict, Lebanese security officials said Monday.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:41:41Z
Romney faced leadership test in Big Dig tragedy

FILE - In this July 18, 2006, file photo, Gov. Mitt Romney, right, looks over bolts in the ceiling of a Big Dig tunnel while speaking with Alexander Bardow, center, Massachusetts Director of Bridges and Structures, and Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation John Cogliano in Boston. Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston’s Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed. The debris crushed a car and killed a female passenger. Romney, then in his final year as Massachusetts governor, dashed back to Boston and immersed himself in the crisis. His response offers insights into what kind of leader the expected Republican nominee would be if elected president. Romney has made his management skills a major selling point in his campaign. (AP Photo/David L Ryan, Pool)

Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:37:35Z
Golden Gate celebrates 75th with help of engineers
The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937. It was the world's longest suspension span and had been built across a strait that critics said was too treacherous to be bridged.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:44:44Z

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