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 Yahoo! News - Top Stories Updated : South Africa protesters deface Zuma penis portrait JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two men vandalised a portrait of South African President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed on Tuesday, intensifying a heated debate about the picture that has enraged the ruling African National Congress. Television footage showed a white middle-aged man in a suit walking up to the portrait at a Johannesburg gallery and painting a red cross on president's face and private parts. A younger black man then smeared black paint over the picture while the first man was being taken into custody by security guards. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:35:00Z UAE gives 10 life sentences in piracy case A federal court in the United Arab Emirates has convicted 10 people captured during a raid to retake a ship hijacked by Somali pirates and sentenced them to life behind bars. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:40:24Z Japan opposition hints at tax deal if spending plans cut TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's main opposition party appeared to offer a compromise after months of stalemate over a proposed sales tax hike, with a senior official saying it could cooperate with the government on the tax plan if it dropped its costly welfare spending pledges. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda needs the support of the opposition, which controls the upper house of parliament, to push through his plan to double the 5 percent sales tax by 2015, seen as a first step in efforts to curb Japan's snowballing public debt. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:33:40Z Six Somalis go on trial in Paris for yacht attack Six Somalis have gone on trial in a Paris court for their alleged roles in a 2008 attack on the luxury yacht "Le Ponant" that ended with the release of 30 hostages and payment of a $2.5 million ransom. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:24:30Z Egypt's struggle will go on after vote: activists CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt holds its first genuinely contested presidential election this week, but Amr Adel believes nothing will really change as long as the military keeps an overt or covert grip on power. Adel, 23, is one of the mostly middle-class, secular-minded young people who galvanised last year's demonstrations that in just 18 days snuffed out President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. Like many of them, he feels the struggle is unfinished. "Any president who comes with Egypt's military dictatorship still in place means nothing. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:32:12Z Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is declining to renew the endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, when he called Obama "a transformational figure." Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:33:39Z Mauritius: Murder trial of Irish woman to begin Court officials in Mauritius say the trial of two men charged with murdering a honeymooning Irish woman is set to begin Tuesday. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:35:27Z |