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Spurned NZ man offers ring in treasure hunt (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 05:25 PM PDT

Reuters - A New Zealand man, spurned by the woman of his dreams, has come up with a novel way of disposing of the diamond engagement ring he bought her -- a treasure hunt.

Brazil finds Air France wreckage, all feared dead (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 05:15 PM PDT

Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobim holds up a drawing showing the area where the rescue and search operation for the Air France flight 447 crashed is being held at a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Brazilian military planes found a 3-mile (5-kilometer) path of wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, confirming that the Air France jet carrying 228 people crashed in the sea late Sunday local time, Jobim said Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Ricardo Moraes)Reuters - Brazilian military planes found wreckage on Tuesday from an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people aboard, the airline's worst disaster in its 75-year history.

Home Secretary to step down in cabinet reshuffle: reports (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 04:37 PM PDT

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith leaves No. 10 Downing Street. Smith is to stand down in a cabinet reshuffle by embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown, expected after the local and within days.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown was hit by a wave of resignations Tuesday led by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who media reports said will stand down in a cabinet reshuffle expected within days.

Polls close in Greenland election (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 04:27 PM PDT

In this picture take Monday, June 1, 2009, election posters are seen on a bus shelter in Nuuk, Greenland, where parliamentary elections are due to take place Tuesday June 2, 2009. Greenland could see a power shift in parliamentary elections Tuesday as the semiautonomous Danish territory prepares to take more control over its own affairs. The campaign has focused on corruption and political wrangling, and polls show the center-right Siumut Party might be ousted after 30 years in office. (AP Photo/Sermitsiaq/POLFOTO, Leiff Josefsen)AP - Early results Wednesday suggested a possible power shift in Greenland's last parliamentary election before the residents of the ice-capped island assume greater autonomy from Denmark.

Brazil confirms site where Air France flight went down (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 04:01 PM PDT

Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim in Rio de Janeiro, during a press conference to announce that the seat and other debris found belong to the missing Air France flight 447 which disappeared on June 1 over the Atlantic while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Jobim stated that there is AFP - Brazil confirmed Tuesday that a five-kilometer (three-mile) swath of debris floating in the Atlantic marked the spot where an Air France flight carrying 228 people came down in mysterious circumstances.

Air France flight flew well beyond range of radar (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 03:37 PM PDT

This photo taken Tuesday, June 2, provided by ECPAD, shows French army air crewman aboard an Atlantic Model 2 aircraft, which took off from a French air base in Dakar, Senegal, patroling the presumed site of the crash of a missing Air France flight. France has three military patrol aircrafts flying over the central Atlantic from their base in Senegal and it is sending an AWACS radar plane that should join the operation on Wednesday, said French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck. (AP Photo/ECPAD/French Defense Minister)AP - Before it vanished, Air France Flight 447 was flying hundreds of miles beyond the scope of the nearest radar station, just as scores of commercial flights do every day over the world's oceans.

Deli owner thwarts robbery but gives thief money (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:56 PM PDT

Reuters - An owner of a New York store thwarted a robbery only to take pity on the perpetrator, who claimed he could not feed his family, and gave the man $40 and a loaf of bread, a video of the incident showed.

Pietersen helps save England from Scots struggle (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:48 PM PDT

England's Kevin Pietersen hits the ball during the Twenty 20 world cup cricket warm up game against Scotland at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. England won by six-wickets with six balls remaining.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Kevin Pietersen hit an unbeaten 53 to steer England to an unconvincing six-wicket win over Scotland with six balls remaining at Trent Bridge here on Tuesday in a World Twenty20 warm-up.

Debris comes from Air France plane: Brazilian minister (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:30 PM PDT

A man reads the front pages of Brazilian newspapers reporting on the Air France passenger jet which disappeared on June 1 over the Atlantic while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, at a newsstand in Rio de Janeiro. There is AFP - Brazil's government confirmed late Tuesday that debris spotted by aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean came from an Air France flight carrying 228 people that disappeared the day before.

Air France crash leaves global trail of victims (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:28 PM PDT

AP - Three young Irish doctors — one a Riverdance performer — returning from a vacation to Brazil. An American geologist and his wife headed to Europe for work and some R&R. An 11-year-old boy traveling alone on his way back to an English boarding school.

Obama says Americans love all things French (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 02:08 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday the American people love all things French and acknowledged his own penchant for Gallic food and wines.

Obama says Iran's energy concerns legitimate (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 12:40 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama reiterated that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy — provided it takes steps to prove its aspirations are peaceful.

UK Home Secretary to quit in expenses scandal (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 11:44 AM PDT

Jacqui Smith, Britain's Home Secretary leaves following a cabinet meeting at Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown's official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, Tuesday June 2, 2009. There are rumours about a cabinet reshuffle in the following days after an expense scandal tarred not only government ministers but also members of the parliament from all three main political parties. Data leaked to a newspaper showed that lawmakers submitted expense claims for everything from pornography to chandeliers and moats at country estates all while people were losing jobs, homes or pensions. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - A scandal over lawmakers' expenses threatened to overwhelm Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government on Tuesday, as his minister for security and police prepared to quit and the future of several other senior figures was in doubt.

Attempt to smuggle 120 tortoises foiled in Poland (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 10:54 AM PDT

AP - Polish customs at the Ukrainian border Tuesday found 121 Central Asian tortoises, a threatened species, bound so tightly in black tape that their heads could barely squeeze out from their shells.

Protester who threw shoe at China PM cleared in UK (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 10:43 AM PDT

AP - A German student who threw his shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a lecture a Cambridge University earlier this year was cleared of any crime Tuesday.

Bitter rivals open coalition talks in Ukraine (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 09:58 AM PDT

FILE- Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko in this file picture taken Tokyo Wednesday, March 25, 2009 and Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Sept 10, 2007. The Party of Regions, led by former president Viktor Yanukovych, was talking about creating 'a grand coalition' with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's party, according to a lawmaker Tuesday June 2 2009 - even though those two leaders have sniped at each other for years. (AP Photos/Itsuo Inouye, Sergei Chuzavkov, files)AP - Ukraine's main opposition party is in coalition talks with its bitter rival, a lawmaker said Tuesday, a move that could isolate President Viktor Yushchenko ahead of the country's presidential elections.

Prince Charles to attend D-Day ceremony (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 08:58 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Charles watches a display during a visit to the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday June 2, 2009. The Prince will attend this week's 65th-anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings, in an attempt to defuse a cross-Channel spat over France's alleged failure to invite his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Charles' office announced he would attend, alongside President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, after days of outrage by British veterans and commentators over the omission of the queen, who is Britain's head of state and supreme commander of its armed forces.(AP Photo/Danny Lawson-pa)AP - Prince Charles will attend this week's 65th-anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings, royal officials said Tuesday, in an attempt to defuse a cross-Channel spat over France's alleged failure to invite his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

Cowell rep.: Susan Boyle recovers; career on track (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 08:49 AM PDT

Locals gather at Blackburn, Scotland, community center to watch Susan Boyle on TV during the final of 'Britain's Got Talent' on Saturday May 30, 2009. (AP Photo/PA, David Cheskin)AP - Susan Boyle is getting better after an anxiety attack caused by the pressures of her overnight fame and celebrity judge Simon Cowell plans to help her launch a professional career, Cowell's agent said Tuesday.

Sarkozy to get his Obama moment on D-Day (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 06:33 AM PDT

AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy is a big fan of the United States and makes no secret of his craving for the limelight. Enter Barack Obama, the perfect guest.

Europe braces for extremist gains in elections (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2009 04:07 AM PDT

British National Party chairman Nick Griffen is seen leaflet dropping as he campaigns ahead of this weeks European Elections, Manchester, England, Monday, June 1, 2009. Europe hasn't faced a scenario like it in years — extremist and fringe parties fueled with enough voter discontent to make real electoral gains and mire the European Union in even more confusion. (AP Photo/Paul Thomas).AP - In some of Manchester's bleakest neighborhoods where unemployment is rife and anxiety about an immigration influx is palpable, one of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's worst fears is unfolding before Thursday's European Union elections.

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