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 Yahoo! News - Top Stories Updated : Administration sets criteria for new school grants The Obama administration is inviting school districts to compete for $400 million in grants, taking its Race to the Top education initiative to the classroom level. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:05:49Z Greece's caretaker gov't meets ahead of EU summit Greece's caretaker prime minister will convene a meeting of Cabinet members ahead of this week's summit of European Union leaders that's expected to look into spurring economic growth across the continent. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:22:04Z Future royal heir baptized in Sweden  The future heir to the Swedish throne has been baptized amid pomp and pageantry in the chapel of the Royal Palace in Stockholm.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:15:23Z Bomb kills 5 in Syrian capital  A bomb that apparently targeted a restaurant in the Syrian capital killed at least five people, the state-run news agency said Tuesday, as activists reported intense clashes between army defectors and soldiers in the restive north.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:18:57Z Eurozone warned 'severe recession' looming  The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a "severe recession," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Tuesday, as it called on governments and Europe's central bank to act quickly to keep the slowdown from dragging down the global economy.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:24:36Z OECD warns eurozone crisis stunting global recovery  Europe came under mounting pressure Tuesday to take action to boost growth as the OECD warned the eurozone crisis has worsened and poses the most serious risk to a recovery for the global economy.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:09:46Z Security beefed up at German magazine after threat German officials say they've taken security measures at a popular German magazine and for members of a small far-right party after a known terrorist called for them to be attacked in a video online. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:08:34Z All trapped Zimbabwe miners accounted for: company  HARARE (Reuters) - All of around 60 miners trapped underground after an accident at Zimbabwe's Mimosa platinum mine have been accounted for and are being brought to the surface, the company in charge of the mine said on Tuesday. "A number of employees who were accommodated in refuge bays due to low visibility are now in the process of being moved to surface," Mimosa said in a statement. It said it was too early to assess the impact on platinum production.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:14:28Z Equatorial Guinea leader promotes son to deputy PM  DAKAR (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has promoted his farms and forestry minister son, who is wanted in France for alleged money laundering, to deputy prime minister, a government statement said on Tuesday. The promotion was part of a cabinet reshuffle and reform of the constitution which critics of the oil-rich Central African state believe is aimed at ensuring a future handover of power to Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, widely known as "Teodorin". The reform notably creates a vice-president position which Teodorin is tipped to fill in the future. ...Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:17:08Z 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 |