World News Desk

• Aftershocks Rattle New Zealand

• U.S. Wildfire Chars More Than 500,000 Acres

• Iran Flexes Military Muscle

• Syria-Israel Border Standoff Turns Deadly

• Deadly E. Coli Outbreak Strikes Europe

• Tornado Deaths Top 500 in 2011

• Arab Uprisings Increase Israeli-Palestinian Tensions

• More United States Tornadoes—117 Dead

• May 21, 2011—Countdown to “Judgment Day”?

• Delaware Legalizes Homosexual Unions

• Mississippi River Flooding Engulfs South

• Wheat Rust Epidemic Shrinks Grain Production

• U.S. Raid Kills Osama bin Laden

• U.S. Tornado Deaths Exceed 300

• More Than Two Million Australians in Poverty

• Europe: Far-right Political Groups Gaining Momentum

• Portugal: The Next EU Bailout?

• Libyan Revolt Causes Spike in Oil Prices

• Japan’s Earthquake Aftermath

• 8.9-magnitude Earthquake, Tsunami Strike Japan