By DAMIAN PALETTA AP Rep. Paul Ryan speaks about his budget proposal during a town-hall meeting in April 2011 in Kenosha, Wis. The selection of Paul Ryan ensures that the campaign will be a battle of big ideas over the role of government in the 21st … Police: 3 dead after shooting near Texas A&M - Fox News
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - A gunman and a law enforcement officer were among three people killed Monday in a shooting near the Texas A&M University campus, police said. A male civilian also was killed, while two other officers and a woman were injured in … Rooftop farms flourish in space-starved Hong Kong
On the rooftop of a tower block above the hustle and bustle of teeming Hong Kong, dedicated growers tend to their organic crops in a vegetable garden. Surge in Tibetan self-immolations challenges Chinese rule-rights group
BEIJING (Reuters) – As many as five Tibetans set themselves ablaze in China in the past week to protest Chinese rule over Tibet, a U.S. broadcaster said, a surge highlighted by a rights group as a sustained campaign against Beijing’s grip on religious freedom. Two self-immolations on Monday in the Aba prefecture, a mountainous and mainly ethnic Tibetan part of Sichuan province, were followed by at least one clash between police and ethnic Tibetans that left one protester dead, Radio Free Asia said. …
Here it is: https://www.facebook.com/thomas.caffall COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Just after noon Monday, Brazos County Constable Brian Bachmann embarked on a seemingly routine chore -- serving an eviction notice in a pleasant neighborhood a few blocks from … 
DES MOINES -- Iowa contributes all of six electoral votes to the grand total of 538 up for grabs in November's election. But President Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are devoting plenty of time to the state, an indication that both campaigns … 
Now that Mitt Romney has selected Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), head of the House Budget Committee, as his running mate, he has insured that this campaign will feature arguments about the budget and deficits. Ryan jumped right in last weekend, … 
A top Taiwanese museum has been fined for preventing a woman from breastfeeding, the first such case since a law was enacted to protect the right to breastfeed in public, authorities said on Tuesday. 
Former Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova claimed her first title of 2012 as she won a battle of ex-grand slam champions, beating China's Li Na 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 at the Montreal Masters. 
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Deloitte LLP Chief Executive Joe Echevarria on Monday fought back against allegations that his firm helped Standard Chartered hide transactions with Iran, saying charges by the top New York state banking regulator were "distortions of the facts." Echevarria, CEO since June 2011, defended Deloitte in his first interview since the firm was dragged into the spotlight over its independent reviews of British bank Standard Chartered. The New York State Department of Financial Services, in a case involving U.S. … 
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador is likely to announce a decision on whether to grant political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before the end of the week in a case with diplomatic implications around the world, President Rafael Correa said on Monday. Assange has been taking refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June 19 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on sex crime allegations. The former computer hacker, who enraged Washington in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website published thousands of secret U.S. … 
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said he expects to respond to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum some time this week. 
Plans to transfer asylum-seekers who arrive in Australia by boat to Pacific states for processing won crucial support Tuesday, even as the opposition said it came too late to prevent lives being lost. 
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Brent futures held steady above $113 on Tuesday as investors awaited GDP data out of two of Europe's powerhouse economies to gauge the region's energy demand outlook, while tensions in the Middle East supported prices. A steeper than expected drop in growth numbers from France and Germany could boost the dollar, in turn weighing on commodities which are priced in the greenback. On the other hand, intensifying debate in Israel on whether to strike Iran's disputed nuclear programme stoked fears of a military conflict, providing a floor on oil. … 
A South Korean footballer will be excused military service as a reward for his Olympic performance despite controversially displaying a sign on a territorial dispute, an official said. 
Asian stock markets edged higher Tuesday, after a successful bond auction in Italy and signs that Greece's recession might be easing quelled fears that the eurozone debt crisis might spiral out of control. 
By YAAKOV LAPPIN Official: Egyptian army remains dependent on US aid; security officials see no sudden deterioration on the southern border. The sudden ouster of top defense chiefs by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy caught the Israeli defense … 
CAIRO -- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's firing of the nation's top generals was interpreted by analysts Monday as a politically engineered strategy to significantly broaden his powers as economic and political pressures mount in a country that still … 
BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhuanet) — Foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) proposed Monday at a meeting in Saudi Arabia to suspend Syria from the body for its violent crackdown on a 17-month revolt against President Bashar … 
Japan's Isuzu Motors will spend 30 billion yen ($382 million) to build new factories in China and India to tap rising demand for pickup trucks in the fast-growing markets, a report said on Tuesday. 
AUSTRALIA could be sending asylum seekers to Nauru and Papua New Guinea within a month, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says. The long-running asylum seeker policy deadlock appears likely to be broken after the government agreed to an expert panel's … 
Days after tightening the noose of international sanctions against Tehran, the Obama Administration has said there is still time and space left for diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear programme. "We regret that Iran has not yet made a strategic … 
The deadly double earthquakes in Iran over the weekend, the first natural disaster there since the United States imposed onerous financial sanctions on that country because of its disputed nuclear program, have raised worries among Iranian-Americans … 
STAVANGER, Norway -- An independent inquest into the mass killings in Norway last summer by a fanatical anti-Muslim extremist sharply rebuked the country's police and intelligence services Monday, saying they could have averted or at least disrupted his … 
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's uncle — the man seen as the power behind the young and untested dictator — went to Beijing on Monday in the latest signal that the reclusive state is looking seriously at ways to revive its broken economy. The official KCNA news agency said Jang Song-thaek was visiting China, the North's only major ally, to discuss setting up joint commercial projects. The news comes after leader Kim recently told Beijing that his priority is to develop his impoverished country's decaying economy. In Washington, a senior U.S. … 
Police on Tuesday shot dead an armed robber known as China's most dangerous man and suspected of killing nine people, the official Xinhua news agency reported. 
(Repeats with no changes to text) By Satarupa Bhattacharjya NEW DELHI Aug 13 (Reuters) – An Indian guru known to millions from a television show on Hinduism and yoga was arrested at a protest against corruption near the parliament on Monday, … 
By NICHOLAS BARIYO An injured crew member is strapped to a stretcher at the site of one copter's crash-landing near Mount Kenya. KAMPALA, Uganda--Rescue teams were searching Monday for at least 10 Ugandan air force officers after three of its … 
It will be some weeks before the dust settles and strong assessments of the significance of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's reshuffle of the country's military brass this weekend become possible. One point that was made over eight months ago by … 
By FARNAZ FASSIHI BEIRUT--Residents of the northwestern Iranian province struck by twin earthquakes over the weekend criticized the government on Monday for what they called an inadequate relief effort and said the number of casualties is much higher … 
By Jason Scott on August 13, 2012 Australia is poised to reopen an asylum-seeker processing center in Nauru after the opposition said it supports the policy backflip by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who's betting the move will help her boost flagging … 
(CNN) — A Tuesday summit in the Islamic holy city of Mecca will bring together the biggest ally of the Syrian government and its top regional antagonists, with the country's increasingly bloody civil war topping the agenda. The two-day Organization of … 
World Newsday > News Print Aa Flaws studied in Norway massacre response Published: August 13, 2012 9:12 PM By KARL RITTER AND BJOERN H. AMLAND. The Associated Press OSLO — A year after a far-right militant's bomb and gun attacks exposed flaws in … 
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The family of a gunman killed in a shootout near the Texas A&M campus that also left two other people dead Monday afternoon say they are "distraught by the havoc that he has caused." Police say Thomas Alton Caffall, 35, … 
When CNN's Candy Crowley got the news last week that she would be hosting the second of three presidential debates this fall, it was not a I-am-woman-hear-me-roar moment. Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, … 
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will try to unload its massive vacation home on the Ventnor, NJ, beachfront, assessed at $6.2 million, at a Sept. 15 auction, church and real estate officials said Monday. "They really want to get it sold," said Bob Dann … 
CAIRO -- In his purge of Egypt's top generals, President Mohamed Morsi leaned on the support of a junior officer corps that blamed the old guard for a litany of problems within the military and for involving the armed forces too deeply in the country's … 
Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate, has been described in the past few days as a combination of two congressional ideals. Tea Party activists say he is an uncompromising budget-cutter. Romney himself says Ryan is a deal-maker, … 
TAMPA, Fla. -- With Mitt Romney's selection of Representative Paul D. Ryan as his running mate, Florida quickly emerged on Monday as a critical test of the nationwide Republican gamble that concerns over the mounting federal debt can blunt potent … 
New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams said on Tuesday she was delighted to win Olympic gold after her rival was disqualified but felt cheated by not receiving the medal in front of the London crowds. 
An Afghan policeman wounded at least two foreign soldiers when he opened fire on troops from the US-led NATO mission on Monday, officials said, adding to a spike in such attacks. 
Britain's military will take two years to return to normal after it was called upon to provide 18,000 troops for the London Olympics, the chief planner warned in an interview published Tuesday. 
(CBS News) Paul Ryan's selection for the presumptive GOP ticket reset the presidential race and made Medicare one of the major issues in the campaign. There is no state in the country that relies as heavily on Medicare as Florida, and so you can be … 
(Reuters) – Jay V. Merchant, who has come under federal scrutiny in the Libor manipulation scandal related to his tenure at Barclays Plc, left his position as head of swap trading at UBS on Monday, a UBS spokeswoman confirmed. Merchant, who worked for Barclays in New York from 2006 to 2009, is being looked at by U.S. authorities over his activities while working at Barclays' swaps desk in New York. Merchant's lawyer, John Kenney, was not immediately available for comment. … 
A Taiwanese man who was detained in China for nearly two months on Monday said he had been forced to show remorse in exchange for his safe return to the island.