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Hip Hop Hall of Fame finds NYC home
Organizers say the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum has found a home in midtown Manhattan.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:17:56Z
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 evidence that this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died in childbirth.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:10:01Z
Gingrich's private ventures are going bankrupt

Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaks during a campaign event at the Hilton Hotel in Arlington, Virginia

(Reuters) - ATLANTA - When he entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in May 2011, Newt Gingrich was the prosperous head of a small empire commonly known as Newt Inc, which included both for-profit consultancies and nonprofit foundations. Altogether, these entwined ventures pulled in more than $110 million over the past decade. Now the vestiges of this empire are mired in debt, as is Gingrich's campaign fund. ...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:08:48Z
Monti to help Italy's quake-hit farms, factories

Italian Premier Mario Monti visits a tent camp in the village of Finale Emilia, in the area hit by an earth quake, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Italian Premier Mario Monti has promised to help small-scale businesses, especially factories and farms, in the region of northern Italy struck by quake. Monti's visit to the Emilia Romagna region included a stop at a ceramics factory where two workers died after it collapsed. In all, the quake claimed seven lives. (AP Photo/Gianfilippo Oggioni, Lapresse)

Italian Premier Mario Monti has promised to help small businesses, especially factories and farms, in northern Italy that are hurting after an earthquake.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:23:07Z
US futures climb despite worrisome news from Asia

In a photo made May 7, 2012, trader John Vaccarine, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Wall Street was headed for a slightly lower open on Tuesday May 22, 2012, with Dow Jones industrial futures marginally down. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.S. stock futures are rising ahead of a report expected to signal further gains in housing, but a downgrade of Japan's credit rating sent an early shudder through the market.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:16:06Z
MPs scared of News International - Watson
LONDON (Reuters) - British MP Tom Watson, an outspoken critic of Rupert Murdoch who played a prominent role in exposing phone hacking at his British newspaper business, said on Tuesday politicians had been scared of being targeted by the media mogul's tabloids. Watson, a member of the opposition Labour Party, said ministers and members of Parliament (MPs) had been unwilling to take on Murdoch's News International because of its "mystique" and the threat of "ridicule and humiliation". ...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:20:33Z
Egypt: 5 police sentenced for killing protesters
An Egyptian court has sentenced five policemen to 10 years in prison in absentia for killing protesters during last year's uprising.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:18:01Z
W. African group probes attack on Mali president

Protesters take to the streets in Bamako, Mali, Monday May 21, 2012. They were protesting Dioncounda Traore's nomination to transitional president for the next 12 months. The junta led by Capt. Amadou Sanogo had been opposed to the extension of the interim president's term, which under the Malian constitution was due to run out on Tuesday. ECOWAS had threatened to reimpose sanctions on Mali if the junta did not stop interfering in the transition. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)

West Africa's regional bloc says it will investigate who is responsible for allowing Monday's attack on Mali's president to happen.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:16:43Z

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