WORLD

The truth about Representative Anthony Weiner’s infamous lewd Twitter photo could probably be figured “out in 15 minutes.”

Federal prosecutors were looking to make a deal with former Senator John Edwards; they would accept his plea of guilty to three misdemeanor campaign finance violations allowing him to avoid a felony conviction and the ability to keep his law license.

Four people in the United States are suspected of having been exposed to an E. Coli outbreak in Germany after returning from travels to Hamburg, U.S. health officials said.

Bean sprouts grown in Germany have been identified as the most likely source of the E. coli outbreak which has mostly been restricted to northern Germany, state authorities said.

The majority of members that are part of the Los Angeles teachers unions voted for temporary salary reduction in order to spare over five thousand jobs.

Israeli troops fired at Palestinian demonstrators in Syria who rushed to the border fence on Sunday in what Israel called a challenge to its sovereignty. Syrian state-run media said 18 were killed.

Yemen's military blamed Al Qaeda for the rocket attack on the Presidential palace in Sanaa on Friday, which killed seven people and left President Ali Abdullah Saleh injured. The statement was made as an Internet posting on Sunday, reported Reuters.

The Syrian internet service was said to be restored on Saturday, a day after two-thirds of the Syrian network had been disconnected amidst the civil unrest in the country

China's Defense Minister sought to reassure Asia Pacific neighbors on Sunday that his country's growing economic and military power was not a threat, as long-running maritime disputes in the region flare up again, a Reuters report said.

Lisle Austin acting president of CONCACAF has been temporarily from office by the soccer body’s executive committee suspended for 'possible violations' of its statutes, Reuters reported.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is most likely to head International Monetary Fund (IMF), with backing of the United States and Japan, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday, citing unidentified global financial industry sources in Washington, reported Reuters.

Police detained India’s most famous yoga guru temporarily early on Sunday and used teargas to evict his supporters from a huge tent where they were on a mass fast against corruption in New Delhi.

Libyan capital Tripoli and its eastern suburbs were rocked by fresh NATO air-strikes at around 2:30 am local time on Sunday, an AFP report said

Iran backs all Islamic uprisings excluding those stirred up by Washington, said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday. Khamenei's statement means that Tehran has very less support for anti-government protesters in ally Syria.

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh left Yemen on Sunday to get medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.

Sarah Palin continued her One Nation bus tour of historical sites on Friday, visiting sites in Boston marking the eve of and early stages of the American Revolution in 1775, including the home of famous intelligence messenger Paul Revere, church-turned-signal house Christ Church, and Bunker Hill, site of an early battle won by the British at the cost of heavy losses.

The British Foreign Secretary William Hague has visited with Libyan rebel groups in the eastern part of the country in a bid to support and uphold the opposition movement seeking to remove Moammar Gaddafi from power.

A criminal court in Egypt has sentenced former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali to thirty years in prison for graft and corruption.

This Monday, June 6, will be the 67th anniversary of the most decisive battle of World War II which finally turned the tide against Nazi Germany and ultimately paved the way for an Allied Victory in the European Theatre.

Regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda operative,was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday.

A day after Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh got injured in an attack on his compound in Sanaa, local media reports state that he has left the country.

British citizens in Yemen must leave the country on commercial fights as soon as possible to avoid being stuck up amid escalating violence in the Gulf state, Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned, a report in The Telegraph stated on Saturday.

Internet connection has come to halt in Syria after government agencies blocked the internet services to quell the prodemocracy revolt in the nation.

Digital activist group Anonymous Operations has announced on Friday to hack Syrian Embassy all over the world in response to the internet crack down in the country to quell the pro-democracy demonstrations.

Al-Qaeda terrorist and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Ilyas Kashmiri were among nine militants killed in a US drone strike, BBC reported today, quoting residents of South Waziristan tribal region.

Swami Ramdev, India’s most famous and powerful yoga guru began a fast to the death in support of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare, on Saturday, in New Delhi.

The first ever helicopter attacks were employed by NATO to hit targets in Libya on Saturday, an alliance statement said.

Yukio Edano, Japan's chief government spokesman on Saturday told Reuters that detested Prime Minister Naoto Kan would not stay in office till 2012.

There is a possibility of political talks between the U.S. and the Afghan Taliban by the end of this year, if the U.S-led NATO alliance continued to make military advances on the ground, said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday.