Alibaba had long expressed a desire to buy back the 43 percent chunk of the company owned by Yahoo!Alibaba, China's top e-commerce player, will re-purchase a 20-percent state in itself from US portal Yahoo! for at least .1 billion, the companies announced.



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Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) dunks in front of Indiana Pacers' George Hill (3), Roy Hibbert (55) and Paul George (24) during the second half of Game 4 of their NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)Miami's season, the one that's supposed to end in an NBA championship and vindication, was slipping away.



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NATO protestors form a sit-in in response to a police barricade of bicycles, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Chicago. Security has been high throughout the city in preparation for the NATO summit, where delegations from about 60 countries will discuss the war in Afghanistan and European missile defense. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Thousands of demonstrators upset with the war in Afghanistan, climate change, the erosion of union rights — and dozens of other issues — have begun a two-mile protest march to the site of the NATO summit.



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The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people has died, his son told NBC News on Sunday. He was 59.
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Members of the Afghan army are forging secret alliances with the Taliban, threatening to undermine the ability of Afghan authorities to maintain control just as NATO troops prepare to hand over power to the country's security forces, Britain's Sunday Times reported.
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Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri said police were looking into Italian police hunted for clues Sunday after a school bombing that killed a 16-year-old girl and gravely injured five more teens, reviving memories of attacks by political militants and the mafia.



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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan walk near Fuxing Road in Shanghai(Reuters) – Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site. The 28-year-old billionaire's wedding took place a day after Facebook's historic initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday. More than 200,000 people "liked" Zuckerberg's status change, which was accompanied by a photo of the smiling couple in wedding attire in a small, verdant outdoor setting with a string of lights behind them. …



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Leaders walk out to attend the group photo for the G8 Summit at Camp David, Md., on Saturday.Leaders of the world’s richest countries banded together to press Germany to back more pro-growth policies to halt the deepening debt crisis in Europe, as President Obama for the first time gained widespread support for that strategy.



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Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng and his family left Beijing Saturday on a flight to the US.
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