Kompany: England are my pick for Euro 2012 surprise - goal.com
28 May 2012, 2:46 am
Saturday's game will be Roy Hodgson’s side's final warm-up match before the tournament, with the new boss having talked up the benefits of taking on quality opposition ahead of their Group D opener against France on June 11. Kompany in turn ...

Bisla: surprise hero of final who powered KKR to maiden IPL title - Hindustan Times
28 May 2012, 1:34 am
Manvinder Bisla is not a household name. There's a chance you may have never even heard of him, an ordinary return of 78 runs in his first five matches this season is hardly anything to write home about. All that changed with an innings of brute ...

No surprise When Cory Booker Defends Capitalism - Town Hall
27 May 2012, 10:57 pm
Winston Churchill captured what this presidential election is about when he observed “the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” It’s why the ...

Bank stocks hurt after surprise $2B JPMorgan loss - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 10:43 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- JPMorgan Chase stock lost more than 8 percent of its value Friday after the bank, the largest in the United States, revealed a monster $2 billion loss in a trading group that manages the risks the bank takes with its own money.

WATCH: A surprise Dance Video Worth Seeing - Time
27 May 2012, 12:49 pm
Around the NewsFeed offices, we’re not afraid to tout the best of the best when it comes to viral videos. Adorable duets? Check. Chubby British babies? Check. Cheeky sports teams? Check, check. But when it comes to surprise dance videos ...

Global-warning skeptic to address 'tea party' in surprise, Mesa - AZCentral.com
26 May 2012, 11:24 am
The surprise Tea Party Patriots, which won national exposure this month by continuing to question President Obama's birth certificate, will host a speech by global-warming skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton on Monday. The talk will be at Sun City ...

France's Hollande makes surprise Afghan visit - Aljazeera.com
25 May 2012, 11:39 am
Francois Hollande, the French president, has made a surprise trip to Afghanistan to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year, and meet Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president. France would co-ordinate with NATO allies the ...

Your New 'American Idol' Is (surprise!) A Laid-Back Dude With An Acoustic Guitar - NPR News
24 May 2012, 11:48 am
Being named "Phillip Phillips" kind of makes Phillip Phillips sound like he was created like a Cabbage Patch Kid, and after his manufacture, someone said, "What should we call him?" And somebody else said, "Phillip!" And then the first person ...

Tennessee man digs up surprise in yard - YAHOO!
23 May 2012, 4:42 pm
Tombstones that came from the Memphis National Cemetery are removed from the backyard of Jason Blackburn in Memphis … A Tennessee man doing some backyard maintenance was surprised to stumble across tombstones buried in his walkway. Jason Blackburn, 35 ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan: How they pulled off their surprise wedding - Washington Post
21 May 2012, 3:59 am
Breaking news: Mark Zuckerberg wore a suit! Oh, and he got married. The Facebook billionaire, 28, topped off a remarkable week with a surprise wedding Saturday to college sweetheart Priscilla Chan, 27. A hoodie was good enough for his pre-IPO ...