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 Egypt court convicts police over protest deaths CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced five policemen to 10 years each in prison on Tuesday for their role in killing protesters in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the first such conviction against the force that was blamed for hundreds of deaths. Two more policemen were sentenced to a one-year suspended sentence, while 10 others were acquitted, one of the judges involved in the case before the court in the Cairo district of Giza, Mohamed Darwish, said. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:41:02Z SpaceX blasts off to space station in historic first  Opening a new era in private space flight, the US company SpaceX on Tuesday became the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft toward the International Space Station.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:36:43Z Spain teachers, students strike over spending cuts  Teachers and students at all levels of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, chanting and erecting makeshift tombs at university campuses to symbolize what they claim will be the death of the country's schooling system.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:53:37Z Obama's preference for talks with Iran faces test  President Barack Obama's preferred path to end the Iranian nuclear standoff faces a stern test this week when world powers sit down with Iran in another bid to press it to meet international demands to prove it is not trying to develop nuclear weapons. Failure will strengthen calls for military action.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:44:10Z Private supply ship rockets toward space station  A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:50:45Z OLRTXT EMRG SY MEAST NEWS VIO DIP PIL HRGT POL INSURG U.N. observers see Syrian forces kill two: rebels AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian police killed two people on Tuesday when they opened fire on a crowd who came out to welcome United Nations observers in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, a rebel official said. "As soon as the U.N. convoy entered al-Busaira, a jubilant crowd of hundreds came out to welcome them. It was not minutes before they came under fire," Abu Laila, a Free Syrian Army official, said by phone from the town. "The observers immediately left al-Busaira. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:47:38Z OECD sees euro crisis threatening world recovery PARIS (Reuters) - The United States and Japan are leading a fragile economic recovery among developed countries that could yet be blown off course if the euro zone fails to contain the damage from its problem debtor states, the OECD said on Tuesday. In its twice-yearly economic outlook, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development forecast that global growth would ease to 3.4 percent this year from 3.6 percent in 2011, before accelerating to 4.2 percent in 2013, in line with its last estimates from late November. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:40:21Z U.N. observers see Syrian forces kill two: rebels  AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian police killed two people on Tuesday when they opened fire on a crowd who came out to welcome United Nations observers in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, a rebel official said. "As soon as the U.N. convoy entered al-Busaira, a jubilant crowd of hundreds came out to welcome them. It was not minutes before they came under fire," Abu Laila, a Free Syrian Army official, said by phone from the town. "The observers immediately left al-Busaira. ...Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:53:55Z HomeServe to reduce UK arm as FSA launches probe LONDON (Reuters) - HomeServe's woes grew further on Tuesday after the British repair and insurance group said mis-sold policy issues which have dogged it since October would now be investigated by UK regulator the Financial Services Authority. HomeServe's shares tumbled 23 percent to 174.4 pence on Tuesday at 0827 GMT, having already fallen 53 percent since it suspended British telesales last year to address concerns internally over how its policies were being marketed and sold. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:47:12Z |