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UK awards deals to design new Trident submarines
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain awarded contracts to design its next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines on Tuesday, bringing renewal of the controversial and costly Trident weapons system a step closer. Debate has raged in cash-strapped Britain on whether to renew the Trident nuclear deterrent - which currently consists of four submarines carrying Trident warheads - at an estimated cost of some 20 billion pounds ($31.5 billion). ...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:58:18Z
Spain teachers, students strike over spending cuts

Two nuns walks past a discount store offering up to 70 per cent reductions on prices in Madrid Monday May 21, 2012. Spain's economy minister de Guindos said the Spanish economy, which has contracted by 0.3 percent in each of the past two quarters, will shrink by about the same amount in the second quarter of 2012. The forecast is for it to decline 1.7 percent for the year. Unemployment stands at a staggering 24.4 percent, and exceeds 50 percent for people under age 25.(AP Photo/Paul White)

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
10 Things to Know for Tuesday

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano, center, from Japan speaks to the media after returning from Iran at the Vienna International Airport near Schwechat, Austria, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Amano says he has reached a deal with Iran on probing suspected work on nuclear weapons and adds that the agreement will

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT):
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:54:11Z
Brandon Cronenberg is a chip off the bloody block

Director Brandon Cronenberg poses for a photograph prior to an interview with The Associated Press at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

You wait years for a new Cronenberg movie at Cannes, and then two come along at once.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T10:49:48Z
Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall

In a photo made May 15, 2012 Director Pete Larson of the Black Hills Institute of Geologic Research, right, discusses with artist Tomas Schneider how he will use a forklift to hoist a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil skeleton into place in the new Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The exhibit that opens June 2 includes the only Triceratops skin ever found, and a T-rex with three fingers. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato)

Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal, all fossilized in stone, modern-day evidence of how this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died: in childbirth.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:05:14Z
Joplin commemorates anniversary of deadly tornado

This three-photo combo shows a scene taken on May 23, 2011, top, July 21, 2011, center, and May 7, 2012, bottom, shows progress made in Joplin, Mo. in the year after an EF-5 tornado destroyed a large swath of the city and killed 161 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A day of solemn remembrances and forward-looking celebrations is planned Tuesday as Joplin commemorates the anniversary of a tornado that ripped the city in half.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:01:23Z
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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 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

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