Huge tornado touches down near Oklahoma City, more forecast

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TULSA, Oklahoma - A huge tornado flattened an area near Oklahoma City on Monday, leaving a wake of tangled wreckage, as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 states.  Live Coverage | Full Article 

A member of the Free Syrian Army smokes near weapons displayed for sale inside a shop in the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib

Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle

AMMAN/BEIRUT - President Barack Obama voiced concern at Hezbollah's growing role in the Syrian civil war after men from the Lebanese militia fought their biggest battle yet alongside President Bashar al-Assad's army.  Full Article 

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 25, 2013.                     REUTERS/Pascal Lauener

Yahoo vows not to screw up Tumblr

Yahoo's chief executive Marissa Mayer pledged to let Tumblr operate independently in an effort "not to screw it up." The struggling Internet media company plans to buy the popular blogging site for $1.1 billion.  Full Article | Video: Yahoo's Tumblr takeover 

A special nozzle and valve for fueling hydro-cell vehicles are seen at an alternative energy facility that converts solar and wind energy into hydrogen at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii July 19, 2012. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry

The road-kill along Hydrogen Highway

LOS ANGELES - The plan was that every Californian would have access to a hydrogen fueling station by the end of 2010. Today, California has just nine hydrogen stations open for the public, and only about 200 fuel cell cars that can use them.  Full Article 

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliya district in Baghdad, May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen

Bomb attacks kill more than 70 Shi'ites in Iraq

BAGHDAD - More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011.  Full Article 

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks with Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's ruling Congress party, before their meeting in New Delhi May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

A handshake across the Himalayas

NEW DELHI - India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in his first foreign trip since taking office, which follows a military stand-off between the Asian giants in the Himalayas.  Full Article 

A man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Lahore Inferno: Losing the battle with fire

Just after arriving in Lahore I received a text message saying that a fire had broke out in a government building and that there could be some people trapped inside. The scene around the building was as chaotic and mad as in your darkest nightmares.  Full Article 

Craig Shirley

Conservatives versus the GOP

The hoopla over the new George W. Bush Library in Dallas, as well as some gauzy looks back penned by former aides, shows we are in the middle of “The Great Bush Revisionism.” The former president is being lauded and congratulated. But for what?  Commentary 

Brenda Shaffer

For Russia, Syria is not in the Middle East

Moscow considers Syria different from its other allies in the Middle East because the outcome affects Russia's core strategic interests in the Mediterranean – including its global naval strategy and energy exports.  Commentary 

Hugo Dixon

UK should get on front foot with City

Britain has been playing a defensive game in response to the barrage of misguided financial rules from Brussels. It now needs to sell the City as part of the solution to Europe's problems. The opportunity is huge. It could even help keep Britain in the EU.  Commentary 

Nicholas Wapshott

Austerity is a moral issue

Europe’s economic turmoil is dragging the world economy down. Despite this destructive display of unnecessary masochism, many Americans still demand that the U.S. sequester be allowed to continue slashing at public spending.  Commentary 

Zachary Karabell

Massive, open, online disruption

Massive, open, online classes are transforming higher education and saving students money. So why are so many administrators and professors scared? Because tech is about to disrupt their industry like it's changed so many others.   Commentary 

Anatole Kaletsky

The radical force of 'Abenomics'

The financial arithmetic of Abenomics means that tolerable stagnation is no longer an option for Japan. Will the radical steps taken by the government be enough to fix the country's economy?  Commentary