Posted By Sherri Lackey At 3:30 AM

Posted by Sherri Lackey at 3:30 AM by 2.bp.blogspot.com.

ROME — The full impact of Pope Francis' unexpected rise from little-known cardinal to heralded pontiff was hammered home Sunday, as a crushing capacity crowd jammed St. Peter's Square for a 10-minute prayer. "I'm pleased to greet you on Sunday, which is fitting as it is the day of the Lord NICOSIA, Cyprus — Europe’s surprising decision early Saturday to force bank depositors in Cyprus to share in the cost of the latest euro zone bailout set off increasing outrage and turmoil in Cyprus on Sunday and fueled fears that the trouble will spread to countries like Spain and Italy. Facing President Barack Obama is expected to announce Monday that Justice Department official Thomas Perez is his nominee to be the next secretary of labor, a White House official said. The president, during his first term, picked Mr. Perez to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, a position As the defendants sobbed and their attorneys fought back tears, an Ohio judge convicted two high school football stars of raping a 16-year-old girl and sentenced them to juvenile prison Sunday, but the case that cast an ugly light over a small town and its athletes is not over. Shortly after Judge LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant never even emerged from the Los Angeles Lakers' locker room, slowed by his sprained ankle and leveled by an apparent case of the flu. The Lakers didn't seem to miss him much while they rolled to another win in what's turning into an awfully interesting second half of the Widespread hopes that the outrage over last year’s infamous gang rape would spark lasting change in India receded further still this weekend, as the attack of a Swiss tourist in central India made headlines around the world. The victim, a woman from Lausanne, Switzerland, who is reportedly 39 .

The United States government’s inquiry into News Corporation broadened last year when the Justice Department investigated claims that employees in the China news bureau of The Wall Street Journal bribed local officials with gifts in exchange for information. The investigation, which was first K. Anji Reddy, the founder of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. (DRRD), India’s second-largest drugmaker, died Friday after “ailing for some time,” the company said. The cause of death wasn’t given in a statement released by Dr. Reddy’s late on March 15. Reddy, a billionaire, died of liver India’s finance minister said the nation may ease restrictions on foreign-direct investment and called on the central bank to cut interest rates, as he extends efforts to revive growth in Asia’s third-largest economy. “Many caps can be removed or certainly relaxed,” and a review of the Guess Elisabeth Hasselbeck will still be getting the heave-ho from The View, after all! Just not as quickly as Barbara Walters would have originally liked, apparently! According to sources close to the long-running talk series, the iconic journalist was LIVID when news leaked about her conservative A season of extraordinary upheaval in college basketball yielded an N.C.A.A. tournament field with few favorites, several more surprises and a landscape wide open for potential upsets. Louisville, winner of the Big East tournament, earned the top overall selection Sunday. But the Cardinals (29-5 In a season in which at least six teams had reasonable cases to receive No. 1 seeds, the committee did as well as could be expected deciding which four were most deserving. Rewarding Louisville and Indiana with No. 1 seeds was the easy part, which left Gonzaga, Kansas, Duke and Miami as the Trent Mays, 17, (l.), and 16-year-old Ma'lik Richmond have been found guilty, a judge announced Sunday. Two Ohio high school football players were found guilty in a rape case of a 16-year-old girl that has gained national attention and torn apart a small town. Judge Thomas Lipps ruled Sunday in TAIPEI, Taiwan – Responding to a hard-hitting attack from a former top U.S. diplomat, Taiwan's defense ministry has blamed "political factors" and "budgetary considerations" for the island's lack of military readiness to deal with a possible Chinese attack. The ministry also defended its Los Angeles (CNN)-- Rapper Lil Wayne's "just resting" two days after suffering a seizure that sent him to a Los Angeles hospital and triggered media reports that he was near death. Details about the Grammy-winning and multiplatinum-selling hip hop artist's medical problem have been few, but it I was wrong about the Galaxy S 4. Last week, I asserted that brand sentiments had changed enough here-- given Samsung's rising popularity, Apple's image problems and high-profile iPhone-to-Android switchers-- that the South Korean electronics giant could launch the S 4 in the United States. Nope NEW YORK - So the Dow Jones industrial average broke a record this month. Now what? It's impossible to predict how the Dow, that popular barometer of the stock market, will zig and zag from here. The only thing certain about the market is that there will be more peaks and valleys ahead, and that's Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, came in second Saturday to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul in the presidential straw poll at the big annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. But just barely. Senator Rubio got 23 percent to Senator Paul’s 25 – the only two people to score The deal is for four years, $36 million, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Long was placed on injured reserve by the Miami Dolphins in December because of a left triceps injury. Before that injury, the 27-year-old left tackle had missed only two games in five NFL seasons. He was chosen a Pro Public health agencies in five states are assessing the rabies risk for hundreds of people who may have had close contact with an infected organ donor and four transplant recipients, one of whom died, officials said Saturday. About 200 medical workers, relatives and others were assessed for .