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Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Renren's audit committee chair quits ahead of IPO
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of the audit committee at Renren Inc has resigned to protect the Chinese social networking company from any possible fallout from accusations of accounting fraud at another company where he is an executive.
Air France plane crash: Black box recovery should provide clues in 2-year-old mystery
Here some voice apparatus is being fished out of of the water, just off the coast of Brazil, where the plane nosedived in June 2009, which led to 228 fatalities.
Uganda gay activist woman wins major rights award
GENEVA (Reuters) - Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, founder of a gay rights movement in Uganda where as in many African countries homosexuality is illegal, has won a major international award for her work, it was announced on Tuesday.
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Syria protests: Tanks shell Daraa as death toll hits 535
Daraa has been without water, fuel or electricity since Monday when government troops backed by tanks and snipers were sent in to crush anti-government protests.
Libyan refugees flee fighting by land and sea
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi is forcing thousands of refugees to flee western Libya on foot to the Tunisian border and by boat to Europe, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Manufacturing PMI hits seven-month low in April
LONDON (Reuters) - Manufacturing expanded at its slowest pace in 7 months in April and a slowdown in new orders dimmed hopes that the UK economy would pick up after a weak recovery at the start of the year.
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Rare Civil War photos document life between battles (The Newsroom)
The Newsroom - America's Civil War, whose 150th anniversary is marked on Tuesday, is so often described in battles - the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fort Sumter - that it may be easy to forget that the soldiers who fought in the four-year war had a lot of time between fighting.
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