REUTERS World News, Mar 23, 2012

Stan Lee puts himself into his latest comic book Reuters By Alex Dobuzinskis | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stan Lee is barging into the pages of his own comic book as a character based on himself who rubs elbows with superheroes - call it a cameo for the reality TV age. His new series "Stan Lee's Mighty 7", ... See all stories on this topic »

EU slaps sanctions on Assad's family; mortars hit Homs Reuters * EU sanctions target Assad's female relatives * Envoy Kofi Annan to fly to Moscow, Beijing for talks * Violence continues, mortars plough into Homs By Crispian Balmer and Dominic Evans BEIRUT, March 23 (Reuters) - The European Union slapped sanctions ... See all stories on this topic »

Samsung: "fast executioner" seeks killer design Reuters By Miyoung Kim | SEOUL (Reuters) - When Samsung Electronics rushed its first smartphone to market in a panicky response to the smash-hit debut of the Apple iPhone, some customers burned the product on the streets or hammered it to bits in public ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama nominates Dartmouth head for World Bank president (but has he seen the ... Daily Mail By Beth Stebner and Reuters Reporter Today, President Obama named Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim as the White House's nominee to lead the World Bank, thought by some to be an unconventional pick. Mr Obama said Dr Kim, a Korean-born physician and ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Gunman dies in hail of bullets as French siege ends Reuters ... France, March 22 (Reuters) - A 23-year-old gunman who said al Qaeda inspired him to kill seven people in France died in a hail of bullets on Thursday as he scrambled out of a ground-floor window during a gunbattle with elite police commandos. See all stories on this topic »

Canaccord Genuity Reiterates Buy Recommendation on KIT digital (NASDAQ:KITD ... Reuters The company's cloud-based video platform enables companies to produce, manage and deliver multi-screen socially-enabled videos to a worldwide audience. The company services nearly 2500 clients in 50+ countries including some of the world's biggest ... See all stories on this topic »

EU slaps sanctions on Assad's wife; mortars hit Homs WAMC By Crispian Balmer and Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - The European Union slapped sanctions on the wife and mother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday, increasing pressure on his government to halt a bloody crackdown against an armed ... See all stories on this topic »

Size of Merah gun arsenal amazes French public Independent Online By Andrew Osborn An undated and non-datelined frame grab from a video broadcast by French national television station France 2 who they claim to show Mohamed Merah. By Andrew Osborn Paris, March 23 (Reuters) - As France asks itself whether it could... See all stories on this topic » Independent Online

As U.S. election looms, India IT seeks image makeover Reuters India For video on call centre boom, click r.reuters.com/fag66s For graphic on BPO data, click r.reuters.com/jeh96s Today, India's $100 billion IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) industry says it directly employs 107000 people in the United States, ... See all stories on this topic »

Chaos, Britannica, babies and bathwater Washington Post (blog) (HANDOUT - REUTERS) It's amazing how little nostalgia the old seem to have. “Things are better now,” they say, fondling their iPads. “Look. No icebox! Central air conditioning! And very few world wars, compared to my day!” Glimpsed through the eyes of ... See all stories on this topic »

Gunman dies in hail of bullets as French siege ends (video) The Province By John Irish and Nicholas Vinocur, Reuters March 22, 2012 Gunfire rings out and explosions were heard as police special forces stormed an apartment building in southern France in an attempt to capture an al Qaeda-inspired gunman who has killed seven ... See all stories on this topic »

Celebrity Icon, Pamela Anderson, Holds Press Conference to Showcase the ... Sacramento Bee By FrogAds, Inc. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 23, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- FrogAds, Inc. (OTCBB: FROG) announced today that, at 11:30 AM PDT yesterday, it held the world premier of its FrogAds.com Video News Campaign featuring Pamela Anderson via a live ... See all stories on this topic »

AfPak US soldier to be charged with murder of Afghan civilians Foreign Policy (blog) The Afghan Taliban pledged on Friday to take revenge for the murders, as they "don't trust such trials" (Reuters). US officials reportedly believe the Taliban's recent withdrawal from preliminary peace talks with the United States is just a tactical ... See all stories on this topic »

Syria troops bomb towns, EU grounds first lady Times LIVE REUTERS/Yves Herman/Files (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS PROFILE) Syrian forces bombed towns and clashed with rebels in several regions Friday as activists said thousands staged anti-regime protests and the European Union slapped sanctions on the country's ... See all stories on this topic » Times LIVE

Zynga steps up mobile presence with $200 million OMGPop purchase Vancouver Sun A source familiar with the matter told Reuters Zynga bought the New York-based company for $200 US million. The company declined to comment on the deal's financials. Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia said Zynga overpaid for OMGPOP, a company that does ... See all stories on this topic »

Europe's blind spot on anti-Semitism CNN International Editor's note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald andWorld Politics Review. A former CNN producer/correspondent, she is the author of "The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television. See all stories on this topic »

Kony Director suffered Brief Psychosis: Wife Says Enstarz (Reuters) - The director of a video calling for the arrest of fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony suffered from a brief psychosis when he was hospitalized last week in California, the filmmaker's wife said on Wednesday, the same day an anti-Kony ... See all stories on this topic » Enstarz

Column One: Mohamed Merah – Man of the West Jerusalem Post By REUTERS/France 2 Television The massacre of Jewish children at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school in Toulouse presents us with an appalling encapsulation of the depraved nature of our times – although at first glance, the opposite seems to be the ... See all stories on this topic »

Mali rebels advance in north, mutineers seek president Reuters AlertNet REUTERS/Mali TV via Reuters TV By David Lewis and Adama Diarra BAMAKO, March 23 (Reuters) - Tuareg rebels in northern Mali pushed south to occupy positions vacated by government forces, sources said, as mutinous soldiers in the distant capital sought ... See all stories on this topic »

A French Killer's Path to Jihadist Rampage Wall Street Journal REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the shootings in Toulouse were "the crimes of a monster and fanatic." Deborah Lutterbeck reports. (Video: Reuters/Photo: Getty Images) France's President Nicolas Sarkozy makes a ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Gunman dies in hail of bullets as French siege ends Malaysia Star By John Irish and Nicholas Vinocur TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A 23-year-old gunman who said al Qaeda inspired him to kill seven people in France died in a hail of bullets on Thursday as he scrambled out of a ground-floor window during a gun-battle... See all stories on this topic » Malaysia Star

JYJ Fans in South America: Airport Footage Captures Frenzy in Santiago, Lima ... International Business Times (PHOTO: REUTERS / Pilar Olivares). Nearly two weeks after JYJ wrapped their world tour in South America, the Korean pop group has released new footage capturing the fan frenzy that went on in Santiago, Chile and Lima, Peru. The videos, which debuted on ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

Hitler's Desert Fox was 'hopeless romantic' Times LIVE ADOLF Hitler's favourite commander, Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox" who relentlessly fought allied forces across North Africa in World War Two, was a hopeless romantic, extracts from love letters published in a German newspaper reveal. See all stories on this topic »

News Wrap: Anna is back; SL calls India a loser Firstpost Reuters The Sri Lankan media called India a 'loser' today, after Colombo faced censure at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on lack of accountability, with India voting against them. More detail and a clip in the bulletin. In world news, Mohammed ... See all stories on this topic » Firstpost

Flying bird man video, Jarno Smeets confirmed as one big hoax Digitaltrends.com During his interview with “De Wereld Draait Door” (“The WorldKeeps Turning”) today, Kaayk (aka Smeets) admitted that he actually “graduated cum laude at the animation department of the St. Joost Academy and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at ... See all stories on this topic » Digitaltrends.com

Sponsorship - LA Galaxy Set MLS Record; Barca Unveil Facebook App World Football Insider Reuters reports that Barca has the most Facebook fans of any sports team in the world – more than the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Yankees combined. Match action from the South Africa 2010 World Cup and 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany are showing ... See all stories on this topic » World Football Insider

Road ahead rocky for Tunisia's newly liberated media Canada.com By Lin Noueihed, Reuters March 22, 2012 3:45 PM Men look at newspapers displayed for sale at a booth in Tunis March 19, 2012. Tunisian journalists and secularists fear these incidents, and the roughing-up of reporters covering a protest outside the ... See all stories on this topic »

Video Games Tax Break Welcomed by Industry Experts IBTimes.co.uk The proposed tax break for video game developers has been welcomed, but will not be implemented until 2014. (Reuters) Osborne said the tax break was "part of a new ambition to make the UK the technology hub of Europe," adding that it will "support our ... See all stories on this topic » IBTimes.co.uk

Jim Kim! | Felix Salmon - Reuters By Felix Salmon technocrats | world bank. So that was unexpected: the next president of theWorld Bank is almost certain to be Jim Yong Kim, the co-founder of Partners in Health and the current president of Dartmouth University. The news of Kim's nomination ... Felix Salmon

World News - EU bans Assad's wife from traveling and shopping ... By Reuters By Reuters. The European Union banned the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad from traveling to the EU or shopping at European companies in a move to stop her from buying the Chanel dresses and Louboutin shoes she apparently ... Newsvine - World News - Articles

Obama picks Dartmouth's Kim to lead World Bank: official (Reuters ... By NewsDesk - Christer Örnestad Obama picks Dartmouth's Kim to lead World Bank: official (Reuters). On March 23, 2012 in News, by NewsDesk - Christer Örnestad. photo WASHINGTON, Mar. 23, 2012 (Reuters) — President Barack Obama will nominate Dartmouth College ... MyPress.SE - Universal News Agency

REUTERS PHOTOS ALL OVER THE WORLD PRESS | OIKOTIMES ... By MARKUS (GERMANY) Buranovskiye Babushki got a photo session by Reuters' Sergei Karpukhin which led to a new series of publications to international press like: Yahoo, The Guardian in UK, 1News in Azerbaijan, Blic in Serbia, Terra in Peru or Monteral Gazette ... OIKOTIMES.COM

Zawahri: Afghan corpse video shows U.S. depravity | World | Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) - The head of al Qaeda has called footage of U.S. Marines appearing to urinate on the corpses of Afghans proof of Western depravity that... af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFBRE82L0CL20120322

Iraq's Sadr stages Shi'ite show of force before summit | Reuters BASRA (Reuters) - Up to a million followers of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the ... Amateur video shows police assault on Toulouse suspect's home Wed, Mar 21 2012. Nigerian minister likely candidate for World Bank chief 1:40am EDT .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news agency, ... www.reuters.com/.../us-iraq-sadr-idUSBRE82I0D320120319

NATO failed to investigate Libya civilian deaths: Amnesty | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - NATO has failed to properly investigate or provide ...Amateur video shows police assault on Toulouse suspect's home Wed, Mar 21 2012 .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, ... www.reuters.com/.../us-libya-amnesty-nato-idUSBRE82I04Y2...

South Korea says North wants rocket for nuclear weapon | Reuters SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Monday condemned rival North Korea's planned ... Amateur video shows police assault on Toulouse suspect's home Wed, Mar 21 2012 ... involving some 50 world leaders including Barack Obama and Hu Jintao. .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largestinternational multimedia news ... www.reuters.com/.../us-korea-north-idUSBRE82I04C2012031...

Bomb explodes near Indonesia's Paris embassy: Indonesian - Reuters PARIS/JAKARTA (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, ... stock market, and mutual funds information available onReuters.com, video, ... www.reuters.com/.../us-france-indonesia-bomb-idUSBRE82K...

Three-way World Bank race seen as deadline looms | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States faces an unprecedented challenge to its grip on the World Bank presidency, with emerging ... Amateurvideo shows police assault on Toulouse suspect's home Wed, Mar 21 2012.... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, providing ... www.reuters.com/.../us-worldbank-idUSBRE82M05L2012032...

Afghan officials visit Guantanamo in peace bid | Reuters Apple rewards investors with dividend, share buyback | Video .... ThomsonReuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing ... www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-afghanistan-guantanamo-idUSBRE...

Freed British journalists leave Libya for home | Reuters TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Two British journalists detained by a Libyan militia a month ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, ... stock market, and mutual funds information available onReuters.com, video, ... www.reuters.com/.../us-libya-britain-journalists-idUSBRE82H...

Indian police say Delhi, Bangkok blasts linked | Reuters NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police have established a link between a bomb... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, ... stock market, and mutual funds information available onReuters.com, video, ... www.reuters.com/.../us-india-israel-blast-idUSBRE82F0N7201...

Greece presses charges over alleged '08 plot against PM | Reuters ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek prosecutor pressed charges of treason and trying to destabilize the ... Apple finally shares $98 billion cash hoard | Video ....Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia newsagency, providing ... www.reuters.com/.../us-greece-plot-idUSBRE82D18L2012031...

Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers sentenced in Haiti rape case | Reuters PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Two U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan have been ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews agency, ... stock market, and mutual funds information available onReuters.com, video, ... www.reuters.com/.../us-haiti-un-idUSBRE82C06C20120313

Majority of Japanese oppose nuclear plant restarts: poll | Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - A majority of Japanese oppose a restart of nuclear power plants ... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedianews ... stock market, and mutual funds information available onReuters.com, video, ... www.reuters.com/.../us-japan-nuclear-poll-idUSBRE82C02C2...

Boskalis has bid to refloat Italy cruise liner wreck | Reuters AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch maritime services company Boskalis has made a ... Amateur video shows police assault on Toulouse suspect's home Wed, Mar 21 2012 .... Thomson Reuters is the world's largest internationalmultimedia news ... www.reuters.com/.../us-italy-shipwreck-salvage-idUSBRE82E...

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