Muslim Brotherhood seeks unity ahead of Egypt runoff
Fri, 25 May 2012 21:06:53 -0400

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood is reaching out to rivals including politicians knocked out of the presidential race in an attempt to rally support around its own candidate who faces a runoff against Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq.

Europe slowdown adds more tension to Greek drama
Fri, 25 May 2012 15:10:13 -0400

(Reuters) - Europe's economic slowdown has hit the engine-room of the euro zone, including Germany, gloomy new indicators have revealed, adding urgency to the region's struggle to keep Greece's debt crisis from tearing the single currency apart.

Bankia, Catalonia pile on Spanish debt worries
Fri, 25 May 2012 16:29:18 -0400

MADRID (Reuters) - Financial troubles at a big Spanish bank and one of the country's richest regions, Catalonia, piled on problems on Friday for the Madrid government and for investors who question whether it can pay its debts without help from euro zone allies.

Lebanese Syria hostage release delayed, massacre claimed
Fri, 25 May 2012 21:10:18 -0400

BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanon said on Friday that a group of Lebanese Shi'ites kidnapped in Syria had been freed and were safe in Turkey, but produced no sign of the hostages at the centre of a kidnap drama heightening tensions over the conflict in neighboring Syria.

New Jersey man charged in Etan Patz death after 33 years
Fri, 25 May 2012 22:23:56 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man who police say confessed to strangling Etan Patz was charged with second-degree murder on Friday, 33 years after the 6-year-old boy vanished from his New York neighborhood and soon changed the way the nation responds to missing children.

U.N. inspectors find high-grade uranium traces in Iran
Fri, 25 May 2012 17:04:24 -0400

VIENNA (Reuters) - United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment centrifuges, a U.N. watchdog report said on Friday.

SpaceX capsule docks at space station, opens new era
Fri, 25 May 2012 19:12:03 -0400

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship and guided the privately owned craft into a docking berth on Friday, opening a new chapter in the U.S. space program.

May consumer sentiment highest in more than four years
Fri, 25 May 2012 18:54:22 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer sentiment rose to its highest level in more than four years in May as Americans stayed optimistic about the job market, while higher income households expected to see bigger wage increases, a survey released on Friday showed.

Exclusive: U.S. probes China's ZTE over tech sales to Iran
Fri, 25 May 2012 12:40:19 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Commerce is investigating Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp for allegedly selling embargoed U.S. computer products to Iran.

John Edwards' trial jury ends week with no verdict
Fri, 25 May 2012 18:42:00 -0400

GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The sixth day of jury deliberations in former U.S. Senator John Edwards' federal campaign finance trial ended without a verdict on Friday after the judge held a closed-court session about an undisclosed juror matter.