Panetta defends Afghan strategy following Romney jabs - CNN
28 May 2012, 3:15 am
(CNN) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday labeled Mitt Romney’s attacks on the withdrawal strategy in Afghanistan “campaign rhetoric” and defended the 2014 drawdown date. “I think you know without getting into the campaign ...

Challenges following arrest in Etan Patz case - CBS News
26 May 2012, 10:51 pm
(CBS News) Pedro Hernandez is in a New York City hospital this morning on a suicide watch. He was arrested Thursday after confessing to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz back in 1979. Now police are looking for evidence to corroborate his confession.

Syria: international pressure mounts for urgent action following massacre - montrealgazette.com
25 May 2012, 6:56 pm
LONDON - Calls mounted Saturday for the international community to take urgent action on Syria after reports of a horrific massacre by regime forces that killed dozens of people, including many children. Britain said it was in urgent talks with allied ...

The Pope's butler arrested following Vatileaks investigation - Daily Telegraph
25 May 2012, 11:25 am
The butler, identified as Paolo Gabriele, 40, was held by gendarmes after a special commission of three top senior cardinals had been appointed by the Pope to identify the source of the leaks which have caused severe embarrassment. Mr Gabriele, who has ...

Mark Zuckerberg following In Steve Jobs' Footsteps By Ignoring The Facebook IPO Flop - Forbes
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
Everyone remembers the late Steve Jobs as a media sensation. Everything he touched at in his second stint at Apple turned to gold and the aura that grew around him was nigh impregnable. Favorable coverage about his leadership style and Apple’s ...

following Goldman Sachs on Twitter - New York Times
24 May 2012, 7:44 am
We are now live on Twitter (finally) at the GS Annual Meeting. Follow us here for updates on our work, our research, and our people. — Goldman Sachs (@GoldmanSachs) 24 May 12 Goldman Sachs is dipping a toe into social media. The Wall Street ...

Nick Diaz Suspended for One Year following Positive Test for Marijuana - YAHOO!
22 May 2012, 5:55 pm
After months of legal wrangling and precedents being filed, the Nevada State Athletic Commission finally ruled on Nick Diaz's positive marijuana test and they dropped the hammer on the Stockton, Calif., fighter. following a three-hour-plus hearing in which ...

Bono, Facebook and the Challenge of following the Jesus of the Poor - Huffington Post
22 May 2012, 5:05 pm
This post was co-authored with Joshua Case. When reports surfaced that Bono's investment group, Elevation Partners, would make upwards of a billion dollars after the Facebook IPO last Friday, dozens of websites got snarky with the Irish rocker: "Bono will ...

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. to Present at the following May and June Investor Conferences - Yahoo Finance
15 May 2012, 8:09 am
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., May 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI - News) will be presenting at the following investor conferences during the months of May and June: Each presentation will be broadcast live over the ...

Jessica Sanchez: Will huge YouTube following make her the next American Idol? (+video) - The Christian Science Monitor
10 May 2012, 2:13 pm
On “American Idol,” contestants have always relied on numbers of votes from the public to stay on the show. And in the past decade of its existence as the No. 1 TV show in America, various methods and websites – with varying degrees of ...