ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Three headless bodies showing signs of torture were found just outside Acapulco and the bodies of five other men with multiple gunshot wounds were discovered in a car north of the Pacific resort, police said Saturday. Police in the southwestern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said the three beheaded [...]
Fox News: A California high school principal has apologized for telling five students they couldn’t wear U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo, the local superintendent said Friday. Tensions at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill had risen in the wake of the decision to forbid the shirts, as the students who wore the [...]
Sky News: Eurozone leaders have agreed to put emergency measures in place before the financial markets open again to prevent the debt crisis in Greece spreading to other countries. During a late-night summit in Brussels, the 16 heads of the single currency countries said they were ready to take whatever steps were required to protect [...]
The Guardian: Cuba suffers exodus of the best and the brightest as economy remains in the doldrums Havana is being emptied of young people who are choosing emigration after Raúl Castro’s promises of more freedoms come to nothing Parque Trillo used to be a lively pocket of Havana. A small open space bounded by four [...]
Times Online: OFFICIAL election monitors from the developing world have warned that the British voting system is less secure than their own and possibly the most vulnerable to corruption in the world. Observers from Kenya and war-torn Sierra Leone, who spent the past week in Britain, said the integrity of the general election was at [...]
Jerusalem Post: In an effort to stave off mounting pressure on its nuclear program, Iran announced Saturday it was positively considering proposals made by Brazil and Turkey on an uranium exchange scheme for civilian nuclear use, Army Radio reported. In such a compromise, Iran’s low-level enriched uranium would be traded for nuclear fuel rods enriched [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran will not stop enriching uranium and has a right to pursue atomic technology, the country’s foreign minister told UN Security Council diplomats at a private dinner. A US official familiar with Thursday night’s meeting in New York told The Associated Press that Manouchehr Mottaki was defiant in the face of demands [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela’s annual inflation rate has surpassed 30 percent after consumer prices surged in April. The Central Bank and National Statistics Institute on Friday reported a 5.2 percent increase in consumer prices during April, driving up the annual rate to 30.4 percent. President Hugo Chavez’s government has been struggling against the highest [...]
Financial Times: The day after $1,000bn was briefly wiped off the market value of US equities, traders were still trying to work out what caused share prices to plunge and then rebound so dramatically in a matter of minutes. The conventional wisdom held that an incorrectly typed sell order – one that confused “billions†for [...]
