Summer sale: Save 58%

News (page 2452)

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi at a speech in Milan, Italy on September 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar)

Associated Press
FILE - Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, prior to a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, unseen, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Egyptian state TV said Saturday Jan. 29, 2011 that the intelligence chief has been named vice president of Egypt. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File) (AP)

Maggie Michael
A suspected pro-government supporter, is carried away by anti-government protestors, in Cairo's main square, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Egyptian army tanks and soldiers moved to end violence between anti-government protesters and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo's central square on Thursday after standing by for nearly a day as the two sides battled with rocks, sticks, bottles and firebombs. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Portraits of violence: Visualizing Egypt collapse

Adam Clark Estes
French photojournalist from SIPA Press agency Alfred Yaghobzadeh is being treated by anti-government protestors after being wounded during clashes between pro-government supporters and anti-government protestors, in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian military has started Thursday Feb.3, 2011 rounding up journalists, possibly for their own protection, after they came under attack from supporters of President Hosni Mubarak who have been attacking anti-government protesters. (AP Photo) (AP)

Associated Press
FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords, left, is shown with her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. There are hints that astronaut Mark Kelly will take a shuttle into space in April. That would mean leaving his wounded wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, to continue her rehab work without him for at least a few weeks. Scott Kelly, also an astronaut, said his brother would decide “fairly soon” whether to fly the space shuttle mission in April. (AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File) (AP)

Marcia Dunn
Pro-government demonstrators, bottom, clash with anti-government demonstrators, top right, as a palm tree burns from a firebomb, in Tahrir Square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak battled in Cairo's main square all day Wednesday, raining stones, bottles and firebombs on each other in scenes of uncontrolled violence as soldiers stood by without intervening. Government backers galloped in on horses and camels, only to be dragged to the ground and beaten bloody. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Raphael G. Satter
A man works to repair damage to the roof of his house while his dogs inspect a fallen tree in Kamma, Australia, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph (300 kph). The massive cyclone struck northeastern Australia early Thursday, tearing off roofs, toppling trees and cutting electricity to more than 170,000 people, the most powerful storm to hit the area in nearly a century. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) (AP)

Kristen Gelineau
Sumo wrestler Yamamotoyama is surrounded by Japanese reporters after he was questioned by sumo elders in an emergency meeting at the Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena in Tokyo on Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. Fresh off a gambling scandal that deeply sullied its image, Japan's national sport of sumo wrestling is now grappling with allegations that senior wrestlers and coaches used cell phones to plan how to fix bouts. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA (AP)

Eric Talmadge
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and wife Cindy arrive at a memorial service for the victims of Saturday's shootings at McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) (AP)

Associated Press
An Egyptian Muslim cleric cries in front of on army tank in Tahrir, or Liberation square, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Several thousand supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, including some riding horses and camels and wielding whips, clashed with anti-government protesters Wednesday as Egypt's upheaval took a dangerous new turn. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Maggie Michael

Colbert compares Cairo to Jersey Shore

Adam Clark Estes

Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., accompanied by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2011, to respond to Republican critics on health care and the aviation bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

AP/Salon
An artist's rendition of the days when you could still smoke in New York City bars.

New York City bans smoking basically everywhere

Adam Clark Estes
This image provided by NASA shows Tropical Cyclone Yasi as it approaches Queensland, Australia, Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. This NEXSAT image captured this natural-color image at 04:32 GMT Wednesday Feb. 2, 2011. The Category 5 storm is expected to make landfall at approximately noon GMT Wednesday. Gusts up to 186 mph (300 kph) were expected when Cyclone Yasi strikes the Australian coast Wednesday after whipping across Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The storm front is more than 310 miles (500 kilometers) wide and Yasi is so strong, it could reach far inland before it significantly loses power. (AP Photo/NASA - Jeff Schmaltz) (AP)

Kristen Gelineau
This is an Jan. 2011 handout artist rendering provided by NASA. NASA’s Kepler telescope is finding that relatively smaller planets _ still larger than Earth, but tinier than Jupiter _ are proving more common outside our solar system than once thought. This drawing is of one of the smallest planets that Kepler has found, a rocky planet called Kepler-10b, that measures 1.4 times the size of Earth and where the temperature is more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital Inc., Kepler Mission, NASA Ames Research Center) (AP)

Seth Borenstein
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011. Israeli authorities said Sunday they are moving ahead with a new proposal to build 1,400 apartments in a contested part of Jerusalem, enraging Palestinians who denounced the plan as another settler land grab. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool) (AP)

Associated Press
President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Egypt in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Matthew Lee, Bradley Klapper
Effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak can be seen hanging from traffic lights, as Egyptian anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, watch U.S. President Barack Obama, not seen, live on a TV broadcast from Washington, speaking about the situation in Egypt, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he will not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately and leave the country, vowing to die on Egypt's soil, after a dramatic day in which a quarter-million Egyptians staged their biggest protest yet calling on him to go. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

From the Pundits: Egypt's explosive uncertainty

Peter Finocchiaro
General view of anti-government demonstrators gathered at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 2, 2011. Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, throwing petrol bombs, wielding sticks and charging on horses and camels, fiercely attacked demonstrators in Cairo on Wednesday after the army told protesters to clear the streets. Anti-Mubarak protesters hurled stones back and said the attackers were police in plain clothes, a charge the Interior Ministry denied; the Egyptian government rejected international calls for the leader to end his 30-year-rule now. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) (Reuters)

LIVEBLOG: America urges Mubarak to step down

Adam Clark Estes - Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Snow plows drive westbound along Interstate 70 Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 in Columbia, Mo. Earlier in the day, the Missouri Department of Transportation closed Interstate 70 between Kansas City and St. Louis because of the storm, which is expected to dump between 18 and 24 inches of snow across mid-Missouri. (AP Photo/The Columbia Daily Tribune, Joshua A. Bickel) (AP)

Michael Tarm
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's supporters scuffle with anti-government protesters near the Tahrir (Liberation) Square, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Mubarak announced he will not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately and leave the country, vowing to die on Egypt's soil, after a dramatic day in which a quarter-million Egyptians staged their biggest protest yet calling on him to go. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Battle in Tahrir: Could this become a civil war?

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Sarah El Deeb
An artist's rendition of Punxatawney Phil.

Lee Powell
Young girls wave Egyptian flags atop an armored vehicle just outside Tahrir or Liberation Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou) (AP)

Maggie Michael
« Previous
Page: 2452
Next »