AP - Chinese steel mills and mobile phone factories are being idled and thousands of homes in one area are doing without electricity as local governments order power cuts to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing. (full story...)

by Jonathan Hiskes. Michigan gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder is an unusual Republican. In a year when Tea Party fervor has propelled fire-breathing extremists onto ballots around the country, Snyder comes across as a moderate, sensible Republican with crossover appeal. He’s a high-tech venture capitalist and former president of the Gatewa....(more) (full story...)

Rafael Nadal beats Feliciano Lopez in straight sets to reach the US Open quarter-finals. (full story...)

The country's first female prime minster must leave small politics behind and show her true substance'So let's draw back the curtains and let the sunshine in," said Julia Gillard on hearing of her narrow victory in Australia's general election. "Let our parliament be more open than it was before."Australia's first....(more) (full story...)

Eighteen killed and 94 wounded as militants attack residential compound of officers' complex in PeshawarA car bomb ripped through a police compound in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing 18 people, including 14 women and children and four officers, the latest in a string of attacks proving that Islamist militants remain a pote....(more) (full story...)

Ampatuan clan members accused of killing 57 people including 30 journalists in convoy of election rival Esmael MangudadatuA servant of the politically power ful clan accused of last year's massacre of 57 people has told a Philippine court the family plotted the killings of rivals and journalists over dinner six days b....(more) (full story...)

The last thing Richard Brodsky's powerful enemies want is for the gadfly from Westchester County to be our state's new attorney general. (full story...)

A web-based game designed to provide rice to the developing world has a facelift on its way to integrating with social networks. (full story...)

AFP - A powerful Muslim clan carefully planned and carried out the killings of 57 people -- including 30 journalists -- in the Philippines' worst massacre, a witness said Wednesday as the landmark trial began. (full story...)

Reuters - Australia's fragile Labor government suggested on Wednesday it could adjust a planned profits-based tax on mining companies to bend to demands of the independent MPs giving it a slender grip on power. (full story...)