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U.S. News & World Report, L.P. ( Mortimer Zuckerman) Website. usnews .com. U.S. News & World Report ( US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis. The company was launched in 1948 as the merger of domestic-focused weekly newspaper U.S. News and international-focused weekly magazine World Report.
newsoftheworld.co.uk. (inactive, no longer updated) The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. [4]
The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking is an annual set of rankings of colleges and universities in the United States, first published in 1983. It has been described as the most influential institutional ranking in the country. The Best Colleges Rankings have raised significant controversy, and they have been widely denounced by ...
Battle of Mogadishu (2010) : At least 12 people are killed in fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia, between pro-government forces, African Union troops and the Islamist militant al-Shabaab group. (AFP) (Ennahar) Photographs, diaries and footage of Gyles Mackrell 's rescue of refugees from the Japanese invasion of Burma in World War II are made ...
Disasters The United States "loses track" of 119,000 private planes, with uncertainty over who has access to them. (Al Jazeera) (The Hindu) (CNN) A new archive of the genocide in Rwanda is unveiled in the capital Kigali. (Rwanda News Agency) (BBC) International relations A group of 26 ex-EU leaders has urged the union to impose sanctions on Israel for continuing to build settlements on ...
Portal. : Current events/2010 June 12. The death toll from the Arkansas floods reaches 18. (AP via Google News) The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) says the government of Ethiopia killed 71 civilians in a military operation last month. (Aljazeera) (AFP) (Reuters Africa) Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan 's interim president, asks Russia to ...
Business and economy American bank Wells Fargo admits it made mistakes in 55,000 real estate foreclosure cases. (AP via Today Online) Disasters and accidents One sailor drowns and 12 are missing after a freighter carrying Chinese crew capsized off Taiwan. (Focus Taiwan News Channel) (Straits Times) Floods in 18 Thai provinces kill 59 people. (Bangkok Post) (UPI) Fatalities caused by the ...
A painting in a Johannesburg shopping centre depicting an autopsy on the corpse of Nelson Mandela surrounded by nosy world leaders attracts controversy as the topic of Mandela's eventual death is taboo in South Africa. Australia celebrates indigenous culture in NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme "Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way".