International

The head of Nasa has hailed a "new era" in exploration after the launch of the first cargo delivery to the space station by a private company.

A Russian court jails 10 people, four for life, for the November 2009 bombing of a high-speed train in which 27 people died.

A senior Olympic official was willing to sell thousands of pounds worth of tickets to the London 2012 Games for cash, an undercover BBC London investigation reveals.

A South African farm worker is convicted of murdering white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche in 2010, with a second man acquitted.

Two warplanes are scrambled to escort a US Airways transatlantic flight diverted because of a passenger's suspicious behaviour.

BBC News

A Federal Trade Commission judge says Lynda and Stewart Resnick and their company, Roll, failed to prove health benefits they asserted for pomegranate juice

How the Motorola deal went down, what it means, and where Google-Rola goes from here

General Motors's decision to stop buying Facebook ads confirms that converting Facebook 'likes' to sales takes work that few companies have mastered

Unemployment is making life hard for workers young and old. Which generation has it worse?

The lowest mortgage rates since at least 1971 are luring buyers to sample residential real estate

Business Week Online

Ryan C. Crocker will step down this summer, after helping to secure a strategic partnership deal with the Afghan government.

The agreement to give the Afghans the lead role in securing their country next summer begins the end of the United States’s involvement in the war.

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

Women's lives are improved in unexpected ways by mobile phones.

Rising water level in Brahmaputra River and its tributaries is destroying the rabi or secondary crop in Assam.

The International Herold Tribune - Asia & Pacific

“The Spear” appears to show President Jacob G. Zuma with his genitals exposed, and the African National Congress is trying to force a gallery to remove it.

In drought-racked Niger, the difficult search for water frequently falls to children as young as 10, and they often arrive late to school, or not at all.

The president, Dioncounda Traoré, was beaten unconscious by a pro-military crowd after a deal was reached for the leader of the ruling junta to step aside.

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was the only person convicted in the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people.

Abdullah al-Senussi, who ran Libya’s extensive spy network, was indicted Monday for “illegally entering Mauritania using false identity documents,” a judicial official said.

International Herold Tribune - Africa & Middle East

A spring growth spurt blooms in the housing market. Existing-home sales rose 3.4 percent in April with tight supplies in markets like Miami helping to seed the rejuvenation.

Shares of Facebook continued to slide Tuesday, even as the broader market managed a modest gain, as fallout from the company's IPO last week continued.

Americans make more money, on average, than people in other countries, but we live slightly shorter lives.

A day of reflection to mark the first anniversary of the twister that killed 161 people and destroyed a third of this city started with a sunrise service outside a hospital that survived.

MSNBC.com

The leader of the United Nations nuclear monitoring arm said Tuesday that he expects to sign a deal soon on an investigation into potential military uses of Tehran’s nuclear program.

Ryan C. Crocker will step down this summer, after helping to secure a strategic partnership deal with the Afghan government.

With robberies, kidnappings and other crimes rising, and the police appearing unwilling to go after criminals, some areas are seeing a rise in vigilante justice, with mobs sometimes killing suspects.

“Super PACs” and issue-advocacy groups supporting Mitt Romney have narrowed President Obama’s once-commanding advantage.

Using the story of a struggling family, a Crossroads GPS commercial seeks to appeal to swing voters who had supported President Obama, and may still like him, but are disappointed.

The New York Times

U.S. stocks gained after a better-than-expected housing data report and positive chatter about a coming European Union meeting.

Sales of previously owned homes in the U.S. grew 3.4% in April, adding to signs that the housing market is recovering gradually from a nearly six-year downturn.

Electronics retailer Best Buy posted a 25% drop in quarterly earnings that reflected restructuring costs and weak sales.

Fitch Ratings downgraded Japan's sovereign rating, citing the country's "leisurely" efforts to remedy its dire fiscal situation.

Google completed its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility and named a new executive to lead the handset maker.

The Wallstreet Journal