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Russia's ruling party is expected to elect the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as its new leader at a congress to be held in Moscow.

WASHINGTON -- A top House Republican says his chamber will vote this summer on continuing the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush.In a memo Friday to fellow GOP lawmakers, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia said the House will vote on extending those tax cuts before its August recess. Unless Congress acts, tax rates on wages, dividends, capital gains and other items will rise J...

ISLAMABAD - The US Deputy Ambassador, Richard Hoagland held a detailed meeting with former Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister and central leader of Pakistan People's Party AJK chapter Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhary at his residence.According to a statement, during the detailed meeting, the resolution of Kashmir issue was discussed in the backdrop of current security situation in the Sout...

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams today said he intends to lead the party into the next general election.

Canadian trails overall leader Joaquim Rodriguez by just 17 seconds with two stages left

L’Allemand Andre Greipel a remporté, toujours au sprint, sa troisième victoire. Andre Greipel conserve son maillot rouge de leader. ...lire la suite

'Now Egyptians will have to choose between the revolution and the counter-revolution. The next vote will be equivalent to holding a referendum on the revolution,' said Mohamed Beltagy, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood's party

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani today rubbished the interlocutors report on Kashmir as a political gimmick to “ease out the 2010 uprising" in the valley.

Culture secretary was 'not the impartial arbiter he was required to be' over Murdoch BSkyB bid, says Harriet HarmanThe Labour party has made fresh calls for Jeremy Hunt to resign after the Leveson inquiry heard the culture secretary had written an outspoken memo to David Cameron staunchly supporting the £8bn Murdoch family bid for BSkyB, a month before he was handed the task of adjudicating on ...

The demonstrators have no clear leader. Many say Twitter posts and Facebook groups brought them to the streets of Mexico's capital and cities around the country.

Canadian rider finishes 67th in Giro d’Italia’s 18th stage to remain 30 seconds behind leader Rodriguez of Spain

Socialist leader says Popular Party rejected his request

President Jacob Zuma is not the only world leader who has turned to the law in an effort to stifle criticism about himself, writes Fatima Asmal-Motala

House Dem leader parts from White House as she urges tax cut extension for those making less than $1MWeekly Jobless Claims Fall Slightly

The Democratic Alliance will oppose the draft traditional courts Bill in its entirety, says party leader Helen Zille.

François Fillon a parlé d'"hypocrisie" jeudi après la réaction de Jean-François Copé à ses propos sur une UMP privée de leader naturel par le départ de Nicolas Sarkozy.Articles en rapportFillon lance la guerre des chefs en défiant Copé pour le contrôle de l´UMPAprès huit mois de détention, l´ex-numéro 2 de la PJ de Lyon sort de prisonVague massive d´interpellations au Québec dans le conflit étu...

Opposition leader to visit Thailand for economic forum this week on first journey outside Myanmar since 1988.

REFERENDUMS WERE for decisions by the people and not for securing profiles for individual politicians, the Taoiseach said. Enda Kenny was responding to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, who said a party leaders’ debate on the fiscal treaty should be facilitated.

A 101-year-old man who died after being struck as he crossed a Burbank street was a well-known photographer who worked with Hollywood studios.

Egyptians vote in first free presidential elections; no candidate expected to win majority, making run-off election likely.

SV Angel founding partner David Lee joined us backstage today for an informal discussion about a range of topics. Lee recently began writing on the new blogging platform Svbtle, sharing wisdom from his vantage point as a leader of one of Silicon Valley's most successful early-stage funds. In this talk, Lee shares his motivations for blogging more, how he uses Foursquare as a search tool, and wh...

Egyptians will vote today for the first time to pick their president in a wide open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.

A comment by Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., that Mitt Romney was "raping companies" is rebuked by President Obama's campaign.

Le ras le bol s'est exprimé dans les urnes en Italie au profit des candidats anti-partis. Les élections locales ont vu une abstention massive et la…

The opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, accused of inciting protesters to break through barriers, says the prime minister is using the courts to intimidate him.

La Grèce restera dans l'euro si la gauche radicale Syriza gagne les prochaines élections législatives de juin, a affirmé mardi à Berlin le leader de ce parti, Alexis Tsipras, à la veille d'un sommet européen à Bruxelles consacré à la crise.histoires liéesLondon Stock Exchange: UniCredit et Intesa Sanpaolo cèdent leurs partsCrédit Agricole: AG sous haute tension avec la Grèce en toile de fondRoy...

MAYA Skippen, 11, met the Tibetan spiritual leader after her shoeshiner dad told a client of her brain tumour

Utl.: Lesser, Regional Leader for the Americas, Will Succeed Long-Standing Chief Executive Hans-Paul Bürkner, Who Will Become Chairman = Vienna/BOSTON (OTS) - The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's leading management consulting firms, announced today that Richard I. …

The economy gets affected when policies are framed with political and electoral gains in mind, BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi today said and demanded a debate in Parliament on the current economic situation of the country.

Robert Gesink of the Netherlands is first in grueling climb up Mt. Baldy and grabs overall lead in nation's biggest cycling stage race. The leader after penultimate stage has won all six previous Tours.When others were grimacing with the stress and effort of a daunting climb up Mt. Baldy, Robert Gesink seemed untroubled.

OPPOSITION leader Tony Abbott's political enforcer Bill Heffernan is accused of a homophobic attack on a senior Liberal staffer.

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi may visit Ireland next month during her first trip abroad in 24 years, the Irish Times has learned.

Alexis Tsipras, head of Greece's radical left party, said in an interview with the Journal that there is little chance Europe will cut off funding to the country and if it does, Greece will repudiate its debts.

LONDON (AP) -- Tanned and toned athletes in eye-popping outfits will compete for Olympic medals outside the British prime minister's famous Downing Street home, but it's government workers, not the U.K. leader, who will get the VIP view....

Unsafe conditions on Mount Everest forced a Nat Geo team to cancel plans to ascend via the West Ridge, the expedition leader says.

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:00 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY:  Before I take your questions, I have an announcement.  Tomorrow morning, the President will visit a small business in the D.C. area, where he will urge Congress to act on his "To-Do" list, specifically highlighting the need to invest in small businesses and jumpstart new hiring by passing legislation that gives a 10 percent inc...

Labour leader Ed Miliband called on NHS staff and patients today to hold the Government to account for difficulties resulting from its controversial reforms to the health service.

A UNION official is suing Opposition Leader Tony Abbott for calling him a thug and accusing him of intimidation and extortion during a nationally televised address.

China is beset by a moral crisis, widespread corruption and lawlessness, leading millions of Chinese to seek solace in Buddhism, Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday.

THE LEADER of the Republic’s largest union says he plans to abstain in the vote on the fiscal treaty unless the Government delivers a fiscal stimulus package to create thousands of jobs.

The future of the Eurozone (comprising 17 European countries using the euro as their currency) is in doubt after voters in Greece and France threw out incumbents struggling to save the euro through supposed austerity measures. Socialist leader Francois Hollande won in France by promising economic growth, not austerity. In Greece, the top two parties backing austerity to keep Greece within the...

Two weeks before Egypt's first presidential election since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, two leading candidates battled in the Arab world's first televised debate on Thursday night. Former Muslim Brotherhood leader, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, and former Arab League head and Mubarak foreign minister, Amr Moussa, headed off in front of millions of Egyptian viewers, attacking each other over poli...

Microsoft is revamping its search engine and exploiting the growth of social networking online. In an effort to make searching on the Web simpler, faster and more social—and further differentiate itself from market leader Google—Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a new look.

LAHORE - An English language newspaper had reported several months ago that President Zardari sacrifices one goat at the presidency every day to ward off threats to his rule.The practice has been going on since the day he was elected to the top constitutional office a few months after the 2008 elections, in which people had supported the PPP mainly because of their sympathy for the slain leader...

FOOTBALL - Auteur d'un match appliqué à Rennes (0-2), Montpellier a remporté trois points cruciaux dans l'optique du titre. Le club héraultais récupère sa première place aux dépens du PSG, relégué à trois points à deux journées de la fin.

KEANE says players like Evra and Nani need to show more leadership at Manchester Utd

However, the SyCo boss now deems Tulisa Contostavlos as leader of the pack for this year's series.

Le leader du Front de gauche, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a estimé vendredi qu'il...

The GOP chair of a House panel has circulated a proposal to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for refusing to cooperate in gun p ...

Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi has been sworn in as an MP -- signalling a new chapter in her near quarter-century struggle against oppression.

Coca-Cola (KO) is in talks to buy energy drink maker Monster Beverage (MNST), the Wall Street Journal just reported, sending shares of Monster sharply higher. Coca-Cola has tried to kill Monster before by rolling out its own energy drinks like Full Throttle, but hasn’t been able to significantly slow its growth, or catch up to [...]

By convention a US citizen has always led the World Bank since it was established in 1945. The appointment of Dr Jim Yong Kim as president on April 16 upholds this tradition.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission on an investigation that led to a $25,000 fine against the Internet search leader....

NEW YORK (AP) -- David Wright hit a two-run homer to become the Mets' career RBIs leader, R.A. Dickey outpitched Mark Buehrle in a crafty duel Wednesday night and New York beat the Miami Marlins 5-1....

Grimlock, leader of the dinobots, fights off a swarm of insecticons in the latest video for August's Transformers: Fall of Cybertron on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

A political saboteur for President Richard M. Nixon, Mr. Colson masterminded some of the dirty tricks that led to the president’s downfall.

Hong Kong's outgoing Chief Executive Donald Tsang survives a motion of no confidence in the city's Legislative Council

Under house arrest in Britain, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, unveiled a new talk show on Tuesday with his own version of a sensational get: the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

With a missile launch that defied the United States and the United Nations Security Council, North Korea’s new leader has failed his own first test.

David Cameron will become the first western leader in a generation to visit Burma tomorrow. Some guidance for tourists seeking to follow in his footsteps would be helpful, says Michael Kerr.

As he prepares to defend the crown, he's a man weighed down by the expectations and the leader of a battered team. Sanjjeev K Samyal reports.

Le chef du groupe radical salafiste Forsane Alizza ("Les cavaliers de la...

Schalkes Jermaine Jones lebt vor, dass Fußball viel mit Maloche zu tun hat. Dass der einst Ausgemusterte am Donnerstag (21.05 Uhr) gegen Bilbao in der Europa League als Leader aufläuft, hat er vor allem einem Mann zu verdanken.

David Cameron calls for an 'all-out fight back against dementia; one that cuts across society.'

(TheMIX) -- What leader today doesn't want more innovation? Yet, producing more (of anything) inside an organization generally leads to more process, which smothers individual creativity and all-too-often kills organizational innovation. Innovation isn't about structuring a process to lead to an outcome so much as it's about creating space -- both elbow room, the space to roam free of bureaucra...

BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A 400-pound adult male gorilla escaped his cage at the Buffalo Zoo on Monday, biting a female zookeeper before being tranquilized and captured in what a SWAT team leader called, "the scariest thing I've ever done."

(Reuters) - Youku.com , China's largest online video company, is to buy second-ranked Tudou Holdings Ltd in an all-stock deal valued at more than $1 billion to create an industry leader in the...

Activists affiliated with hacker groups reacted with anger and disdain at the man said to be the leader of Lulz Security almost as soon as the story of his cooperation with the F.B.I. emerged on Tuesday.

Probing the largely unexplored question of what characteristics make a leader among schooling fish, researchers have discovered that by mimicking nature, a robotic fish can transform into a leader of live ones. In early experiments aimed at understanding how a robot could potentially lead wildlife from danger, the researchers were intrigued to find that their biomimetic robotic fish could not o...

Their fearless leader, and co-creator of 'Yo Gabba Gabba!,' leads the charge beginning next weekend with a new series on The Hub.

VANCOUVER—Last fall, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab shut down for good. The long-running accelerator had been eclipsed by the vastly more powerful Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, which since 2010 has been generating data at an impressive rate. The move appeared to quash any hopes that Fermilab had of discovering the Higgs boson, the [...]

Chinese hacking group Evil Shadow Team claims credit, leader refers to himself as 'patriotic hacker'

Xherdan Shaqiri steht vor einem Wechsel zum FC Bayern. Der Schweizer, der einen anderen FCB bewundert, im Porträt.Foto: dpa/epa/Robert Ghement

Boston (ots/PRNewswire) - Das Buch mit dem Titel Digital Leader [http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.au/html/9780071792424.html ] verwendet Beispiele aus dem echten Leben sowie die umfangreichen Recherche-Ergebnisse Qualmans zu den fünf Schlüsselfaktoren für Erfolg und Einfluss mit dem Ziel ...

Reds fall to 3-0 defeat, remain 12 points behind leader Kiryat Shmona.

As a new brownie in 1990, Kate was a pale little girl with a shy smile. Just over a decade later, she has blossomed into a dazzling Duchess - and is preparing for her new role as scout leader.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Above the ballooning dress of Marilyn Monroe is the face of the late North Korean despot Kim Jong-il. A pigeon flies overhead and a feather lies nearby on the ground.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday strongly condemned the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership for criticising national institutions and said that for the first time in the history of Pakistan, a political leadership was targeting its own army.The PML-N leader said that it was unfortunate that the rulers of the country were talking enemy’s language and that they were busy in str...

Il dirigeait l'un des régimes les plus opaques de la planète. Le leader nord-coréen Kim Jong-Il est mort. Son décès survenu samedi a été annoncé ce…

Marka est un artiste caméléon. Après un passage par Cuba ou en leader d'un Big Band, le Belge monte un show de Noël. Qu'il emmène en tournée. C'est une premi&...lire la suite

Sport in Southern Africa needs strong leadership if its declining state is to be reversed, and Danny Jordaan wants to be the leader who ensures it.

Heavy D the former leader of the hip-hop group Heavy D and the Boyz has died at the age of 44 The rapper was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles earlier this afternoon and was pronounced dead at 1 pm PT Police are investigating his death but there are...