Status update: Mark Zuckerberg gets married
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday. (2012-05-20T03:04:11Z)
Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in U.S.
A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the U.S. on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. (2012-05-20T03:08:22Z)
Protesters' arrests raise Chicago tension
Defendants Are Self-Proclaimed Members of the 'Black Bloc' Group (2012-05-19T16:50:51Z)
Italy hunts for clues in deadly school bomb attack
Italian police hunted for clues Sunday after a school bombing that killed a 16-year-old girl and gravely injured five more teens, reviving memories of attacks by political militants and the mafia. (2012-05-20T03:18:43Z)
World leaders want Greece in euro zone
World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis. A summit of the G8 leading industrialized nations came down solidly in favor of a push to balance European austerity - an approach long driven by German Chancellor Angela Merkel - with a new dose of U.S.-style stimulus seen as vital to healing ailing euro-zone economies. But it was clear that divisions remained. ... (2012-05-19T23:00:41Z)
Tropical storm watch issued for South Carolina
Forecasters late Saturday issued a tropical storm watch for parts of the South Carolina coast after the first tropical storm of the 2012 hurricane season formed in the Atlantic. (2012-05-20T03:41:02Z)
Kennedy clan, celebs attend Mary Kennedy's funeral
Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who died in an apparent suicide earlier this week, was recalled Saturday as an "angel" who was ultimately overwhelmed by a lengthy fight with depression. Those remembrances came as members of the Kennedy clan, including Robert F. Kennedy's widow Ethel and late President John F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline, gathered for her funeral here at St. Patrick's, a small Catholic church in this wealthy Westchester County hamlet about 50 miles north of New York City. ... (2012-05-19T19:45:18Z)
Records: Joplin twister was costliest since 1950
The cost of 30 manhole covers that got sucked away: $5,800. A new concession stand at the destroyed high school: $228,600. Shelter and care for more than 1,300 homeless pets: $372,000. (2012-05-19T18:59:02Z)
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