Report: 'Fat Tax' Could Curb Nation's Obesity Problem
www.theindychannel.com - 05/18/12
INDIANAPOLIS -- Health experts have been trying to combat obesity in America for years and have recently suggested a new way to solve the growing problem.

Facebook Advances in Public Debut After $16 Billion IPO
www.bloomberg.com - 05/18/12
Facebook Inc. (FB) rose in its trading debut following a record initial public offering that made the social network more costly than almost every company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.

Is New China Stealth Fighter Rival to Troubled US F-22 Raptor?
abcnews.go.com - 05/18/12
Just as America’s latest breed of super jet fighters are being reigned in due to a mystery safety problem, a new Pentagon report released today notes that China’s own version of a next-generation fighter appears to be designed to have similar capabilities.

Greek chaos provides opening for far-right party
www.cbsnews.com - 05/18/12
(CBS News) ATHENS, Greece - The first time the leader of Greece's far-right political party Golden Dawn was given a platform and a microphone, his words shocked a continent.

Nearly 200 pages of documents released in Trayvon Martin shooting case
www.foxnews.com - 05/18/12
ORLANDO, Fla. – Trayvon Martin was shot through the heart at close range. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts on the back of his head.

Shocker! Obama was still 'Kenyan-born' in 2007
www.wnd.com - 05/18/12
While some quickly dismissed as an anomaly yesterday’s explosive revelation that Barack Obama’s former literary agency billed him...

Third Mexican general detained over alleged drugs links
www.bbc.co.uk - 05/18/12
A third Mexican general has been detained for alleged links with a drug trafficking cartel. Gen Ricardo Escorcia Vargas was detained as part of an investigation into organised crime.

Latest evidence in Trayvon Martin case: Does it help George Zimmerman? (+video)
www.csmonitor.com - 05/18/12
Newly released details about the night Florida teenager Trayvon Martin died at the hands of a volunteer watchman named George Zimmerman are largely consistent with Mr. Zimmerman’s self-defense claims, with one hitch: The shooter could have avoided the fight that led to the Feb. 26 killing in Sanford, Fla.

Georgia woman battling flesh-eating bacteria will lose hands and foot
www.foxnews.com - 05/18/12
Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting aggressive flesh-eating bacteria, was informed by her father Thursday that the doctors would have to amputate her hands and her remaining foot.

Afghanistan after the US: What's next?
www.csmonitor.com - 05/18/12
A major question at the NATO summit in Chicago this weekend: How will Afghanistan – and its government – fare after US troops leave?

California labor market stumbles in April; state loses 4,200 jobs
www.latimes.com - 05/18/2012
California’s jobs engine sputtered in April as employers trimmed their payrolls, breaking a streak of eight consecutive months of employment growth. Employers shed 4,200 jobs, according to figures released Friday from the state's Employment Development Department.