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    Security personnel stands outside the hotel hosting the meeting of Group of Twenty finance ministers and central bankers in Mexico City

    G20 moves to line up huge rescue deal for April

    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The world's leading economies worked on Sunday to line up a deal in April on a second global rescue package worth nearly $2 trillion to stop the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis from spreading and putting at risk the tentative recovery. Germany said … More »G20 moves to line up huge rescue deal for April

    Afghan protesters move a dead man during clashes in Kabul

    Afghan policeman suspect in killing of U.S. officers: sources

    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities said on Sunday they believe an Afghan police intelligence … More »Afghan policeman suspect in killing of U.S. officers: sources

    Gingrich speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington

    Georgia on his mind, Gingrich fights in own backyard

    ATLANTA (Reuters) - Only a month ago, Newt Gingrich was atop the Republican presidential … More »Georgia on his mind, Gingrich fights in own backyard

    • Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett speaks at a news conference after the opening ceremony of Tungaloy Corp's new plant in Iwaki
      Berkshire identifies Buffett successor, not by name Reuters - 15 hrs ago

      (Reuters) - Warren Buffett told investors on Saturday the Berkshire Hathaway board has identified his successor, easing some shareholder concern about the future of the company once the famed 81-year-old investor steps down … More »Berkshire identifies Buffett successor, not by name

      Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett speaks at a news conference after the opening ceremony of Tungaloy Corp's new plant in Iwaki

      (Reuters) - Warren Buffett told investors on Saturday the Berkshire Hathaway board has identified his successor, easing some shareholder concern about the future of the company once the famed 81-year-old investor steps down as chief executive. Buffett did not disclose who the next CEO will be in his annual letter to Berkshire …

    • A boy holds the remain of a mortar in Karm Al Zaytoon, a neighbourhood of Homs
      Syria referendum goes ahead amid military onslaught Reuters - 30 mins ago

      BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 31 Syrian civilians and soldiers were killed on Sunday in bloodshed that coincided with a vote on a new constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2028. The Syrian Observatory … More »Syria referendum goes ahead amid military onslaught

      A boy holds the remain of a mortar in Karm Al Zaytoon, a neighbourhood of Homs

      BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 31 Syrian civilians and soldiers were killed on Sunday in bloodshed that coincided with a vote on a new constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2028. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a military bombardment of opposition districts in Homs, now in its fourth …

    • Goodyear recalls 41,000 Wrangler Silent Armor tires Reuters - 11 hrs ago

      (Reuters) - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co said Saturday it would recall about 41,000 of its Wrangler Silent Armor tires produced in 2009 over concerns that a small number could tear, leading to crashes. Two people died in one … More »Goodyear recalls 41,000 Wrangler Silent Armor tires

      (Reuters) - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co said Saturday it would recall about 41,000 of its Wrangler Silent Armor tires produced in 2009 over concerns that a small number could tear, leading to crashes. Two people died in one 2011 rollover crash in Texas involving a vehicle equipped with the tires, Goodyear spokesman Scott …

    • A combination photograph shows the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, posing for a photograph with the first edition of The Sun in 1969 and with the first edition of The Sun on Sunday as it comes off the presses at Broxbourne
      Shock, horror! Murdoch's Sun wants his readers back Reuters - 9 hrs ago

      LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch bid to grab back the huge audience his News Corp lost when it closed Britain's best-selling News of the World over a phone-hacking scandal with a new Sunday edition of his Sun tabloid filled … More »Shock, horror! Murdoch's Sun wants his readers back

      A combination photograph shows the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, posing for a photograph with the first edition of The Sun in 1969 and with the first edition of The Sun on Sunday as it comes off the presses at Broxbourne

      LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch bid to grab back the huge audience his News Corp lost when it closed Britain's best-selling News of the World over a phone-hacking scandal with a new Sunday edition of his Sun tabloid filled with gossip, girls and celebrities. With a front page splashing on a female TV presenter's birthing …

    • Nackaerts of the IAEA speaks to media at the airport in Vienna after arrival from Iran
      Iran uranium "discrepancy" still unresolved: IAEA Reuters - 16 hrs ago

      VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has yet to give an explanation over a small quantity of uranium metal missing from a research site, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a report that voiced concern over possible military links to Tehran's … More »Iran uranium "discrepancy" still unresolved: IAEA

      Nackaerts of the IAEA speaks to media at the airport in Vienna after arrival from Iran

      VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has yet to give an explanation over a small quantity of uranium metal missing from a research site, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a report that voiced concern over possible military links to Tehran's nuclear program. The discrepancy found at the research site in the Iranian capital came to light …

    • Pakistan begins demolishing bin Laden house: police Reuters - 15 hrs ago
      File photo of a boy playing in front of the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad

      PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces on Saturday began demolishing the house where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces in Abbottabad last May, a senior police official in the town said. The boundary wall and upper portion of the building had already been destroyed by midnight, …

    • U.S. democracy activists to go on trial in Egypt Reuters - 12 hrs ago
      An Egyptian human rights worker uses a laptop computer at the entrance of the office of an non-governmental organization in Cairo

      CAIRO (Reuters) - Dozens of democracy activists including 16 Americans go on trial in Egypt Sunday in a politically charged case which has set off a crisis in relations between Cairo and Washington and threatened $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid. Forty-three foreign and Egyptian non-profit workers - including the …

    • Afghan president renews call for calm AP - 52 mins ago

      Afghanistan's president renewed his calls for calm Sunday in a televised address to the nation after the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base sparked five days of deadly protests.

    • AP IMPACT: New light on drone war's death toll AP - 5 hrs ago
      FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 file photo, villagers look at the body of a man during his funeral in Bannu, Pakistan. He was reportedly killed by a Dec. 27, 2010 U.S. drone attack in the Pakistani tribal area of Mir Ali along the Afghanistan border. American drone strikes inside Pakistan are killing far fewer civilians than many in the country are led to believe, according to a rare on-the-ground investigation by The Associated Press of 10 of the deadliest attacks in the past 18 months. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)

      American drone strikes inside Pakistan are killing far fewer civilians than many in the country are led to believe, according to a rare on-the-ground investigation by The Associated Press of 10 of the deadliest attacks in the past 18 months.

    • Down to the wire in 2-man GOP race in Michigan AP - 9 hrs ago
      Campaign signs for Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, cover the frozen ground as the campaign bus carrying Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, passes by en route to a campaign stop at the San Marino Club, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, in Troy, Mich. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

      Republican Mitt Romney fought Saturday to prove he is the strongest challenger to President Barack Obama, an increasingly difficult task given the tight race in his native state of Michigan against surging conservative Rick Santorum.

    • Violence across Syria as constitution vote begins AP - 1 hr 37 mins ago
      A Syrian woman casts her ballot paper at a polling station during a referendum on the new constitution, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Feb. 26, 2012. Syrians began voting Sunday on a new draft constitution aimed at quelling the country's uprising by ending the ruling Baath Party's five-decade domination of power, but the opposition announced a boycott and clashes were reported across the country. In regions like the restive central city of Homs, where shelling by government forces has left hundreds dead, or the northwestern province of Idlib and the southern region of Daraa where rebels clash frequently with the security forces, turnout is likely to be minimal. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

      Syrians began voting Sunday on a new draft constitution aimed at quelling the country's uprising by ending the ruling Baath Party's five-decade domination of power, but the opposition announced a boycott and clashes were reported across the country.

    • NKorea's Kim issues threat before SKorea-US drills AP - 1 hr 52 mins ago
      U.S. Special Representative for North Korean Affairs Glyn Davies, left, answers reporters' questions as South Korean nuclear envoy Lim Sung-nam listens to him during a joint press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. Davies who just finished nuclear talks with North Korean officials said ties between the rival Koreas must improve before Pyongyang and Washington can have a "fundamental improvement" in their relationship. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

      North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to launch a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked, state media said Sunday, a day before the start of annual South Korean-U.S. military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal.

    • Minister: Mandela had minor surgery, doing well AP - 1 hr 12 mins ago
      FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2007 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela reacts as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, waves farewell after a meeting at the Nelson Mandela Foundation building in Johannesburg, South Africa. Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized with a stomach ailment, according to a government statement issued Saturday Feb. 25, 2012 about the 93-year-old anti-apartheid icon. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

      Former South African President Nelson Mandela underwent minor surgery to determine the cause of a stomach complaint and the 93-year-old "is as fine as can be at his age," South Africa's defense minister said Sunday.

    • Sometimes even Warren Buffett gets it wrong AP - 14 hrs ago
      FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2011 photo, Billionaire investor Warren Buffett speaks in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 at an event to raise money for the Girls Inc. charity organization. Buffett wants Berkshire Hathaway shareholders to know that the company has someone in mind to replace him eventually, but he's emphasizing that he has no plans to leave. Buffett offered a couple new details about Berkshire's succession planning in his annual shareholder letter Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. Investors have long worried about who will replace Berkshire's 81-year-old CEO. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

      The Oracle of Omaha earned his nickname — and more than a few billion dollars — by spotting investments that others overlooked, but Warren Buffett makes mistakes.

    • Nepalese man, 72, declared shortest person ever AP - 1 hr 17 mins ago
      Editor in Chief of Guinness World Records Craig Glanday, right, and Dr. Kashila Pradhan, left, officially measure Nepal's Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, who says he's only 22 inches (56 centimeters) tall, at the CIWEC clinic in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. Guinness World Records officials measured Dangi who hopes to be named the world's shortest man later Sunday. Dangi is hoping to snatch the title of the world's shortest man from Junrey Balawing of the Philippines, who is 23.5 inches (60 centimeters) tall. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

      A 72-year-old Nepalese man who is about the size of a toddler on Sunday became the world's shortest person ever recorded.

    • Sandler sets Razzie record: 11 worst-movie noms AP - 12 mins ago
      In this image released by Sony Pictures, Adam Sandler portrays both Jill, left, and Jack in a scene from "Jack & Jill." Sandler shattered the record for most nominations ever at the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that singling out the worst movies of the year. His 11 nominations Saturday included worst actor for both “Jack and Jill” and “Just Go with It” _ along with worst actress for “Jack and Jill,” in which he plays a family man and his own twin sister. (AP Photo/Sony - Columbia Pictures, Tracy Bennett)

      When Adam Sandler's bad, he's really bad, according to voters for the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that singles out the worst movies of the year.

    • Patrick wrecks early in Nationwide race at Daytona AP - 13 hrs ago
      Driver Danica Patrick, left, slides down the track after a crash as Casey Roderick (08) drives past during the NASCAR Drive4COPD 300 Nationwide series auto race in Daytona Beach, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Bill Friel)

      Danica Patrick's day started at the front of the pack. It ended with another frustrating wreck.

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