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Opening statements set in Fort Hood bomb plot case

FILE - This June 14, 2011, file photo shows Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo in Nashville, Tenn. Abdo, a Muslim soldier who was AWOL from Fort Campbell, Ky., is accused of planning to bomb a Killeen restaurant filled with Fort Hood soldiers and shoot any survivors last summer. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, the most serious of the six charges on which he's being tried at his federal trial in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo, File)

Opening statements are set to be delivered in the trial of a soldier accused of planning to bomb a restaurant frequented by Fort Hood troops in Texas.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:25:58Z
Ohio family hopes stolen swine statue is returned
A life-size swine statue has disappeared in the city once dubbed "Porkopolis," and its owners are hoping the thief will have a change of heart and return their beloved concrete pig.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:24:11Z
Everest will be crowded again days after 4 killed

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 6, 2003 file photo, Mount Everest, at 8,850-meter (29,035-foot), the world's tallest mountain situated in the Nepal-Tibet border as seen from an airplane. Days after four people died amid a

Days after four people died amid a traffic jam of climbers scrambling to conquer Mount Everest, Nepal officials said a similar rush up the world's tallest peak will begin soon, and there's little they can do to control it.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:31:32Z
Chicago police get high marks for NATO protests

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy address the news media during a protest march to Boeing corporate offices for a demonstration as a part of the NATO summit Monday, May 21, 2012 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

The sight of Chicago police raising billy clubs against demonstrators Sunday was the kind of image that has dogged the city's police force longer than most of those who clashed with protesters have been alive.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:21:39Z
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
MPs scared of News International - Watson
LONDON (Reuters) - 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 : 2012-05-22T12:33:56Z
Indian passenger train rams freight train; 25 dead

Rescuers evacuate an injured from the site of a train accident at a station near Penukonda, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) north of Bangalore, India, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and burst into flames before dawn Tuesday, killing more than a dozen people in southern India, officials said. (AP Photo)

A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T11:30:33Z
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
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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