A photo illustration shows the applications of Yahoo and Tumblr on the screen of an iPhone in Zagreb May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

Yahoo buys Tumblr, vows not to screw it up

Yahoo plans to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, a bold bet by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, who vowed "not to screw up" the wildly popular blogging site.  Full Article 

Car bombs target Shi'ites in Iraq, killing more than 60 11:11am EDT

BAGHDAD - More than 60 people were killed in a series of car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, part of the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops pulled out in December 2011. | Video

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 

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires back at Syrian Army's position during what activists say was clashes between the Free Syrian Army and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in Deir al-Zor May 19, 2013.  REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi

Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle

AMMAN - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said.  Full Article 

A tornadic thunderstorm passes over Clearwater, in Kansas May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Gene Blevins

Powerful tornadoes hit four central states

A massive storm front swept north through the central United States, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City.  Full Article | Video 

The U.S. national debt clock is displayed just after the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida August 27, 2012.  REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Shrinking deficit reduces budget deal pressure

WASHINGTON - A sudden improvement in the outlook for the government deficit over the next decade has alleviated some of the pressure on lawmakers to act, and a spate of scandals has distracted Congress and the White House.  Full Article 

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe poses inside the cockpit of a T-4 training jet plane of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's (JASDF) Blue Impulse flight team at the JASDF base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture May 12, 2013. REUTERS/Kyodo

Japan upgrades economic outlook

TOKYO - The Japanese government upgraded its assessment of the economy, as emerging signs of an upturn in exports and factory output added to growing evidence that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive polices are beginning to reignite growth.  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 

Protesters rally outside the Voice of America headquarters building before the arrival of Myanmar President Thein Sein during his visit to Washington May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Obama walks a fine line with Myanmar

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China's backyard and trying to defend human rights when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years.  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