10 Things to Know for Friday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT):
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 1:02 PM
FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public
It's Facebook's big day.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:58 PM
Larry King says talk show to resume this summer
Larry King said Thursday that his talk show will resume this summer on the new digital network Ora.TV, earlier than he or the network had anticipated.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:57 PM
Struggling CW network offers big schedule revamp
The young CW network is hoping to turn around a year of disappointing ratings by making changes this fall on each of the five nights it broadcasts.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:56 PM
Filipino Christian group protests Lady Gaga shows
Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:50 PM
Commercial rocket will fly to the space station
For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:48 PM
UK surveillance could yield window into lives
British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:46 PM
Top Israel court tightens enforcement of equal pay
Israeli feminists on Friday welcomed a Supreme Court ruling they say will help enforce equal pay laws for men and women.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:45 PM
Census shows whites lose US majority among babies
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:45 PM
US futures set to rebound as G-8 leaders gather
U.S. stock futures rebounded Friday as leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies began to gather outside of Washington to determine how best to limit damage from the debt crises rattling Europe.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 1:04 PM
Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right
Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:44 PM
U.S. firms eye Myanmar as sanctions suspended
WASHINGTON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The suspension of U.S. sanctions barring investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor Southeast Asian state opens the door to U.S. firms queuing to scout for business in one of the last frontier markets. U.S. firms are expected to join those from Asia and Europe that have already moved into a market of up to 60 million people in the former British colony. Analysts and experts have said there will be opportunities for foreign companies across the industrial landscape - from energy, mining and construction to agriculture, finance and ...
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:43 PM
U.N. chief calls for end to fighting in Myanmar
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called for an end to attacks by all parties in Myanmar on Thursday after receiving a letter from a rebel independence group in the country's Kachin State asking the United Nations to help end its conflict with the government. Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said the secretary-general had received a letter from the Kachin Independence Organization, the political wing of the Kachin Independence Army. The Kachin conflict resurfaced in June 2011, scuttling a 16-year truce and displacing an estimated 50,000 people. ...
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:43 PM
Kanye West to debut short film at Cannes festival
Kanye West will debut a short film titled "Cruel Summer" at the Cannes Film Festival.
Posted on Friday, 18th May 2012 @ 12:41 PM
In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.
The breakout performance of the Cannes Film Festival so far is Aniello Arena's turn as a Naples fishmonger who becomes obsessed with appearing on a "Big Brother"-style TV show in "Reality."
the Queen of Disco.
"American Idol" finalist Joshua Ledet won't be belting it out on this season's final showdown.
Van Halen is postponing some dates on its summer concert tour.
