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Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets

AP Top International News  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 09:10 AM EST   [*New!*]

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials....

N. Italian 6.0 quake kills 7, injures 50

UPI  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 09:03 AM EST   [*New!*]

ROME, May 20 (UPI) -- A magnitude 6.0 earthquake and aftershocks struck northern Italy early Sunday, killing at least seven people and injuring 50 others, emergency officials said.

Bomb explodes near UN observers' chief in Syria

AP Top International News  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 09:03 AM EST   [*New!*]

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, blowing off the front of a parked vehicle but causing no casualties....

Mugabe Seeks Zimbabwe Edge by Pressing for Black Ownership

NYT International  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 09:03 AM EST   [*New!*]

President Robert G. Mugabe has begun pressuring companies operating in the country to comply with a law requiring that black Zimbabweans own more than half their shares.

Tribes Talk Significance of Solar Eclipse

ABC News: Top Stories  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 09:00 AM EST   [*New!*]

Navajo man recalls grandfather's warning of staring at sun during eclipse

IHT Rendezvous: A Deafening Silence About Chen in China

NYT International  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 09:00 AM EST   [*New!*]

With a few notable -- if hard to find -- exceptions, microblogs, Web sites and traditional media ignored the arrival of Chen Guangcheng in New York, or were censored. But the campaign against 'foreign trash' continued.

Chinese Dissident Arrives in US

ABC News: Top Stories  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:59 AM EST   [*New!*]

Blind dissident Chen Guangcheng and his immediate family arrived in the United States today, capping off three weeks of roller coaster diplomacy.

'This Week' Transcript: House Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

ABC News: Politics  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:58 AM EST   [*New!*]

House Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi are interviewed on 'This Week.'

Man Convicted in Lockerbie Bombing Dead

ABC News: Top Stories  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:58 AM EST   [*New!*]

Son says Libyan who was convicted in 1988 Lockerbie bombing but later released has died

Son: Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing is dead

AP Top International News  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:57 AM EST   [*New!*]

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60....

The Long Run: How the Mormon Church Shaped Mitt Romney

NYT Washington  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:57 AM EST   [*New!*]

While Mitt Romney has said little about his Mormon faith on the campaign trail, people who know him well call it a huge influence on his conduct and worldview.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi dies in Libya

MSNBC.com: World news  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:57 AM EST   [*New!*]

The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people has died, his son told NBC News on Sunday. He was 59.

World leaders set to tackle Afghanistan's future

AP Top U.S. News  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:54 AM EST

CHICAGO (AP) -- World leaders weary of war will tackle Afghanistan's post-conflict future - from funding for security forces to upcoming elections - when the NATO summit opens Sunday....

APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight

AP Top California Headlines  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:54 AM EST

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending....

Stahl e-mail says he's OK, promises rehab

UPI  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:53 AM EST

LOS ANGELES, May 20 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Nick Stahl told friends through e-mail he's alive and plans to enter rehab for a drug addiction, his wife, Rose Murphy said.