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Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: Nepal fails to adopt blueprint, braces for turmoil Exclusive: Marubeni nears $5 billion-plus Gavilon deal: sources APNewsBreak: FEMA trailer litigation nears end Dewey & Leboeuf files for chapter 11, seeks liquidation NKorean farmers cite grave drought; aid unlikely Exclusive: Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case called corrupt, womanizer Romney won't repudiate Trump on birther issue Tony Blair says he ducked fight with UK media Texas primary will be 'big day' for Romney Qatar says 13 children among dead in mall fire Franchitti earns nearly $2.5 million for Indy win Shares ease, Spanish debt costs curb risk appetite Arms up Bubbles! Russia condemns ally Syria over massacre of 108 Air Canada plane makes emergency landing Witness in Kenya blast blames bearded man New Zealand triplets, age 2, among Qatar mall dead Hibiscus Manager says boxer Williams paralyzed in Ga. crash Mickelson joins group trying to buy Padres Violence flares after Egypt election results Beach memorial Michigan wildfire destroys nearly 100 buildings Egyptians torch Shafiq headquarters as vote triggers violence Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face Sale has 15 strikeouts as White Sox beat Rays 2-1 New Zealand triplets likely among Qatar mall dead Ga. woman battling flesh-eating bacteria speaks Cubs end 12-game losing streak, beat Padres 11-7 Blair says feared fight with Britain's media barons UK politicians "bowed" before Murdoch: deputy PM Romney promises world's strongest military Trainer says boxer Williams paralyzed in US crash Va. girl is youngest ever in National Spelling Bee Assad faces new international pressure after massacre Trainer says boxer Williams paralyzed in Ga. crash Despite downgrade, Beryl still soaks Memorial Day New approach tested for hard-to-treat hypertension Timeline : Egypt since revolt against Hosni Mubarak Nepal fails to adopt blueprint, braces for turmoil Mon,28 May 2012 07:33 PM PDT Associated Press - Nepal sank into political turmoil after lawmakers failed to agree on a new constitution, leaving the country with no legal government. The premier called new elections, but critics said he lacked the power to do so. Full Story Top Exclusive: Marubeni nears $5 billion-plus Gavilon deal: sources Mon,28 May 2012 07:22 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp is nearing a deal to buy U.S. grains merchant Gavilon for more than $5 billion including debt and could announce the transaction as early as Tuesday afternoon in Tokyo, according to people familiar with the matter. Marubeni, Japan's fifth-largest trading company, has been in advanced talks to buy Gavilon since early May. The Japanese company has confirmed its interest in Gavilon but said no decision had been made. ... Full Story Top APNewsBreak: FEMA trailer litigation nears end Mon,28 May 2012 07:03 PM PDT Associated Press - A class-action settlement agreement has been reached to resolve nearly all the remaining court claims over allegations that government-issued trailers exposed Gulf Coast residents to hazardous fumes after Hurricane Katrina, a lead plaintiffs' attorney said Monday. Full Story Top Dewey & Leboeuf files for chapter 11, seeks liquidation Mon,28 May 2012 06:53 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Troubled law firm Dewey & Leboeuf LLP has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a U.S. court and has sought orderly wind-down of business. Dewey & Leboeuf said it did not anticipate a return to business and expected the winding down process to be completed in the next few months. It said it would ask about 90 employees to remain on staff to assist in the wind-down. (Reporting by Sakthi Prasad; Editing by Paul Tait) Full Story Top NKorean farmers cite grave drought; aid unlikely Mon,28 May 2012 06:50 PM PDT Associated Press - North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch. Full Story Top Exclusive: Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case called corrupt, womanizer Mon,28 May 2012 06:38 PM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then jailed for 33 years for treason. In interviews over the weekend, several current and former Pakistani officials described the doctor, Shakil Afridi, as a hard-drinking womanizer who had faced accusations of sexual assault, harassment and stealing. They said his main obsession was making easy money. ... Full Story Top Romney won't repudiate Trump on birther issue Mon,28 May 2012 06:12 PM PDT Associated Press - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney isn't taking a position on supporter Donald Trump's return to the controversy over where President Barack Obama was born. Full Story Top Tony Blair says he ducked fight with UK media Mon,28 May 2012 06:02 PM PDT Associated Press - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that he couldn't stand up to Britain's media tycoons while in power, telling an official media ethics inquiry that doing so could have dragged his administration into a political quagmire. Full Story Top Texas primary will be 'big day' for Romney Mon,28 May 2012 06:02 PM PDT Associated Press - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says he's looking forward to clinching the Republican nomination for president on Tuesday. Full Story Top Qatar says 13 children among dead in mall fire Mon,28 May 2012 05:53 PM PDT Associated Press - Qatar's Interior Ministry said 13 children were among 19 people killed in a fire that broke out in one of the country's fanciest shopping malls late Monday morning, raising questions about building safety in the booming Gulf state. Full Story Top Franchitti earns nearly $2.5 million for Indy win Mon,28 May 2012 05:51 PM PDT Associated Press - Dario Franchitti earned $2,474,280 from an overall purse of $13,285,815 for his victory in the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. Full Story Top Shares ease, Spanish debt costs curb risk appetite Mon,28 May 2012 05:43 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares and the euro eased on Tuesday, with a relief rally from last week's heavy selling faltering quickly as a surge in Spanish borrowing costs added to simmering worries about Europe's debt restructuring challenges. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched down 0.1 percent, hovering near its lowest level since late December touched on Friday. Japan's Nikkei average opened down 0.3 percent. ... Full Story Top Arms up Mon,28 May 2012 05:35 PM PDT AFP - Members of the US Navy's JROTC hold up a giant American flag during a Memorial Day parade along Constitution Avenue in Washington. Full Story Top Bubbles! Mon,28 May 2012 05:27 PM PDT AFP - People participate soap bubble gathering in Vilnius. Full Story Top Russia condemns ally Syria over massacre of 108 Mon,28 May 2012 05:25 PM PDT Associated Press - A weekend massacre of more than 100 people emerged as a potential turning point in the Syrian crisis Monday, galvanizing even staunch ally Russia to take an unusually hard line against President Bashar Assad's government. Full Story Top Air Canada plane makes emergency landing Mon,28 May 2012 05:22 PM PDT Associated Press - An Air Canada jet bound for Japan made an emergency landing in Toronto Monday afternoon after an engine shut down shortly after takeoff from Pearson International Airport. No injuries were reported. Full Story Top Witness in Kenya blast blames bearded man Mon,28 May 2012 05:21 PM PDT Associated Press - An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi, injuring at least 33 people, including a woman who blamed the blast on a "bearded man" who left behind a bag shortly before the detonation. Full Story Top New Zealand triplets, age 2, among Qatar mall dead Mon,28 May 2012 05:10 PM PDT Associated Press - Two-year-old New Zealand triplets are among the 13 children killed in a fire in a shopping mall in Qatar. Full Story Top Hibiscus Mon,28 May 2012 05:08 PM PDT AFP - A Hibiscus rosa-sinensis flower is pictured in Silver Spring, Maryland. Full Story Top Manager says boxer Williams paralyzed in Ga. crash Mon,28 May 2012 05:03 PM PDT Associated Press - Boxer Paul Williams was paralyzed Sunday after being involved in a motorcycle crash in the Atlanta suburbs and doctors said it is unlikely he will continue his career, his manager said Monday. Full Story Top Mickelson joins group trying to buy Padres Mon,28 May 2012 04:59 PM PDT Associated Press - Phil Mickelson has joined a group of investors who want to buy his hometown Major League Baseball team, San Diego Padres. Full Story Top Violence flares after Egypt election results Mon,28 May 2012 04:52 PM PDT Associated Press - A mob set fire late Monday to the campaign headquarters of one of the two Egyptian presidential politicians facing each other in a runoff that will decide a new leader after last year's popular uprising, the first sign of unrest after the voting yielded divisive candidates. Full Story Top Beach memorial Mon,28 May 2012 04:49 PM PDT AFP - A woman walks past Arlington West Memorial built on the beach next to Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California. Full Story Top Michigan wildfire destroys nearly 100 buildings Mon,28 May 2012 04:44 PM PDT Associated Press - Homes and cabins make up a third of the nearly 100 structures destroyed by a wildfire burning across more than 30 square miles of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, officials said Monday. Full Story Top Egyptians torch Shafiq headquarters as vote triggers violence Mon,28 May 2012 04:40 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO/ALEXANDRIA (Reuters) - Demonstrators furious that Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister made it into the run-off for the country's presidential election set ablaze his campaign headquarters on Monday, underscoring the divisive outcome of the nation's historic vote. The campaign offices of Ahmed Shafiq, viewed as a symbol of Mubarak's rule, were set on fire after a group of protesters broke into and vandalized the premises, the state news agency reported. An official in the fire service confirmed the blaze had been extinguished without causing any casualties. ... Full Story Top Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face Mon,28 May 2012 04:31 PM PDT Associated Press - A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop. Full Story Top Sale has 15 strikeouts as White Sox beat Rays 2-1 Mon,28 May 2012 04:24 PM PDT Associated Press - Chris Sale nearly made White Sox history in a dominating victory. Full Story Top New Zealand triplets likely among Qatar mall dead Mon,28 May 2012 04:19 PM PDT Associated Press - Young New Zealand triplets are believed to be among the 13 children killed in a fire in a shopping mall in Qatar. Full Story Top Ga. woman battling flesh-eating bacteria speaks Mon,28 May 2012 04:18 PM PDT Associated Press - A young Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating disease could hardly believe it when she was able to speak Sunday for the first time since she was taken to an Augusta hospital more than three weeks ago, her father said Monday. Full Story Top Cubs end 12-game losing streak, beat Padres 11-7 Mon,28 May 2012 04:16 PM PDT Associated Press - On a windy day at Wrigley Field, the fortunes finally blew in the Chicago Cubs' favor. Full Story Top Blair says feared fight with Britain's media barons Mon,28 May 2012 04:05 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British leaders have no choice but to court powerful media barons such as Rupert Murdoch or risk savage press attacks which are "full on, full frontal, day in, day out," former Prime Minister Tony Blair told an inquiry on Monday. Interrupted by a heckler who accused him of being a war criminal for supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Blair paused briefly before continuing calmly to justify his ties to Murdoch with whom he developed a close friendship. ... Full Story Top UK politicians "bowed" before Murdoch: deputy PM Mon,28 May 2012 04:05 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's political class competed to "bow and scrape" before media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Tuesday, in comments aimed at setting his Liberal Democrats apart from the country's two other main parties. The Lib Dems, Britain's third-largest party, has had relatively few dealings with Murdoch and his News Corp media empire, which paid them little attention until they came to power in 2010 as part of a coalition government. ... Full Story Top Romney promises world's strongest military Mon,28 May 2012 04:00 PM PDT Associated Press - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised Monday to maintain an American military "with no comparable power anywhere in the world." Full Story Top Trainer says boxer Williams paralyzed in US crash Mon,28 May 2012 03:56 PM PDT Associated Press - Boxer Paul Williams was paralyzed from the waist down Sunday after being involved in a motorcycle crash in the Atlanta suburbs and doctors said it is unlikely he will continue his career, his manager, George Peterson said Monday. Full Story Top Va. girl is youngest ever in National Spelling Bee Mon,28 May 2012 03:50 PM PDT Associated Press - The youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee was running around in a stream with a friend, hunting for rocks. Suddenly, she came charging up the bank and headed straight for her mother. Full Story Top Assad faces new international pressure after massacre Mon,28 May 2012 03:47 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad faces renewed international pressure to end the bloodshed in Syria but, with peace envoy Kofi Annan visiting Damascus, his government blamed Islamist militants for a massacre in which U.N. observers had implicated his army. Annan, on a mission from the United Nations and Arab League, is scheduled to meet Assad on Tuesday, when he can be expected to urge compliance with the tattered ceasefire deal which he brokered between government and rebels nearly seven weeks ago. ... Full Story Top Trainer says boxer Williams paralyzed in Ga. crash Mon,28 May 2012 03:41 PM PDT Associated Press - Boxer Paul Williams was paralyzed from the waist down Sunday after being involved in a motorcycle crash in the Atlanta suburbs and doctors said it is unlikely he will continue his career, his manager, George Peterson said Monday. Full Story Top Despite downgrade, Beryl still soaks Memorial Day Mon,28 May 2012 03:38 PM PDT Associated Press - Joyce Connolly and her daughters left their home in Hurricane, W.Va., to head south for a Memorial Day beach vacation — and ended up in the center of Tropical Storm Beryl. Full Story Top New approach tested for hard-to-treat hypertension Mon,28 May 2012 03:36 PM PDT Associated Press - "Maxed out on the medications," is how Bill Ezzell describes his struggle with blood pressure. It's dangerously high even though the North Carolina man swallows six different drugs a day. Full Story Top Timeline : Egypt since revolt against Hosni Mubarak Mon,28 May 2012 03:31 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of events in Egypt since protests against former President Hosni Mubarak began. January 25, 2011 - Anti-government protests begin across Egypt following the January 14 overthrow of Tunisia's president in the first of a series of Arab uprisings. January 28 - Mubarak orders troops and tanks into cities to quell demonstrations. Thousands cheer at news of intervention of the army, which is widely seen as a neutral force in politics, unlike police who are regularly deployed to stifle dissent. January 31 - New government is sworn in. ... Full Story Top

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