The eight candidates approved Tuesday for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hard-line Iranian lawmakers have petitioned authorities to bar two contenders - a moderate former president and a protege of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - from running in next month's presidential election. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
The following are potential front-runners in Iran's June 14 presidential election to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The list of candidates will be announced next week after vetting by Iran's ruling clerics: (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters) - A panel of UK lawmakers will next week grill representatives from Google Inc and its auditor, Ernst & Young, following a Reuters report that highlighted inconsistencies in Google's statements about its UK act... [Full Article]
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying a candidate from a hard-line Islamist party in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in the second attack on the party in as many... [Full Article]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Police say a bomb targeting a candidate from an Islamist party in northwest Pakistan has killed five people and wounded over 30. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's, initially known as the Standard Statistics Company, created its first stock market index in 1923. It consisted of the stocks of 233 companies and was computed weekly. Three yea... [Full Article]
By Jonny Hogg RUMANGABO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - In forested hills in eastern Congo, rebels are honing their ambush skills to prepare to face a new United Nations force which has a mandate to go on the offensive. "Destroy the en... [Full Article]
By Manuel Mogato MASINLOC, Philippines (Reuters) - For decades, fishermen along the northwestern Philippine coast treated the teeming fishing grounds of the Scarborough Shoal as their backyard, less than a day's boat ride away. Now, they see it ... [Full Article]
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Flavor Flav has a scheduling conflict between a court date in Las Vegas and his induction with the rap group Public Enemy into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]