Obama said about Egypt: What’s a billion dollars between friends

Obama said about Egypt: What’s a billion dollars between friends

What’s a billion dollars between friends? President Obama is expected to slash that amount from the tab owed the United States by Egypt in a highly anticipated speech on Mideast and North African relations Thursday. The speech is meant to provide tangible support to the new democracies in the region, and will be broadcast live around the world in Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew. “We see this as a critical window of time for the United States to take concrete action,” a top administration official said Wednesday. The $1 billion for Egypt will provide “cash flow relief,” the official said, and will be buttressed by another $1 billion loan to help boost infrastructure and jobs.

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Bin laden 'Was Not Armed' video speech

Bin laden 'Was Not Armed' video speech

The White House corrected reports that Osama bin Laden was armed at the time of his death—and that he used a woman as a human shield—at a press conference Tuesday, instead reporting that he "resisted" capture

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Sex scandal of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Sex scandal of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Officially Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned late Wednesday night as the head of the International Monetary Fund. Strauss-Kahn, who faces seven charges of sexual assault in New York after allegedly attacking a hotel maid, made a statement saying his resignation is with “infinite sadness,” but he needed to devote “all my energy into proving my innocence.” “To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all the allegations that have been made against me,” Strauss-Kahn said in a statement. It was not immediately clear who would replace Strauss-Kahn at the head of the head of the IMF, although earlier reports had put French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as the most likely successor

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Vladimir Putin and Kremlin race

Vladimir Putin and Kremlin race

10 months before Russia's next presidential elections, the general public and analysts are still in the dark about who will be running. Will incumbent leader Dmitry Medvedev seek a second term? Or is his predecessor and mentor Vladimir Putin planning a return? Might they even run against each other?

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The long escape trip of Gaddafi’s wife and his daughter

The long escape trip of Gaddafi’s wife and his daughter

Tunisian security forces say Muammar Gaddafi’s wife, Safiya, and his daughter Aisha have fled from Libya and are currently in a refugee camp on the island of Djerba. Gaddafi’s oldest son, Muhammed Muammar, was also reported to have gone to Tunisia for “medical treatment,” while a key oil minister, Shukri Ghanem, also defected Tuesday. Safiya Gaddafi was with her husband at his Tripoli compound when an airstrike killed their youngest son, Saif al-Arab.

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Facebook were responsible for the uprising in Egypt

Facebook were responsible for the uprising in Egypt

After Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power on Friday, activist Wael Ghonim spoke with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and credited Facebook with the success of the Egyptian people's uprising.

Ghonim, a marketing manager for Google, played a key role in organizing the January 25 protest by reaching out to Egyptian youths on Facebook. Shortly after that first protest, Ghonim was arrested in Cairo and imprisoned for 12 days.

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Whose behind the world's largest social network Facebook

Whose behind the world's largest social network Facebook

Facebook, the world's largest social network, announced in July 2010 that it had 500 million users around the world. The company has grown at a meteoric pace, doubling in size since 2009 and pushing international competitors aside. Its policies, more than those of any other company, are helping to define standards for privacy in the Internet age.

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The Life, Loves, and Letters of President Obama

The Life, Loves, and Letters of President Obama

What interested me almost as much as the exploration of the truth of Obama's life story is the way the media showed no interest in investigating any of it. They'd circled their wagons around Obama and not only didn't want to dig for the truth, they brushed off those who did by calling them kooks. As someone who works hard to get the fullest sense of the news, and both sides of issues, I am appalled (although not surprised) by the total lack of interest by the media.

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The CIA last operation against bin laden

The CIA last operation against bin laden

The CIA employed sophisticated new stealth drone aircraft to fly dozens of secret missions deep into Pakistani airspace and monitor the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, current and former U.S. officials said.

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Osama bin Laden killed now so what?

Osama bin Laden killed now so what?

Saif al-Adel is operating as the interim head of the terrorist organisation while a permanent replacement for bin Laden is found, according to Noman Benotman, an expert on the group.

Mr Benotman, a former associate of bin Laden who now works for Quilliam, the British anti-extremist think-tank, said information about the restructure had been passed to him by jihadist contacts.

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Lady Gaga from struggling as a performer in New York to a worldwide phenomenon

Lady Gaga from struggling as a performer in New York to a worldwide phenomenon

In little over a year Lady Gaga has rocketed from struggling as a performer in New York to the glamorous life of a worldwide phenomenon. From her outrageous outfits to elaborate live shows and out-spoken politics, her life is one grand performance. In Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame, Emily Herbert goes behind the costumes and the gossip to find out how Stefani Germanotta, the self-confessed "weird-girl" in school transformed herself into the most talked about pop figure of the new decade.

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FBI Ten Most Wanted 2011

FBI Ten Most Wanted 2011

Fox TV has announced it is cancelling the show and will replace it with reruns and make four, two-hour specials, but it will no longer be a regular fixture on the network.

The show is hosted by John Walsh. Mr. Walsh suffered a terrible personal tragedy, with the gruesome murder of his son Adam, more than 20 years ago. His killer was never brought to justice for the crime but instead of moping around Walsh used his story to connect to other victims of crime.Although it has long been suspected that serial killer Otis Toole was responsible.

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Michael Jackson From the fifties to his death

Michael Jackson From the fifties to his death

From the fifties to his death in 2009, it is a complete record of Michael's moves, grooves and music. Illustrated with hundreds of colour and black and white photographs, it includes all Michael's records, concerts, videos and awards, memorabilia and records you never knew existed. From Steeltown to Motown, from the Jackson 5 to his own man, from "The Wiz" to "Thriller", Michael Jackson was bad, smooth, dangerous and invincible. He made the most exciting videos, with the deffest moves, played the most spectacular concerts, and filled the world's largest arenas. He began performing at the age of five, broke records since he was 11 and was a star without equal from the age of 21.

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