NEWS!!!!

SHANGHAI — President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting with university students in Shanghai on Monday afternoon

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, warning that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan that President Obama is preparing to approve

AUSTRALIA- The children were gathered up by the tens of thousands, some of them as young as 3, taken from single mothers and impoverished families in Britain, then sent abroad for what was supposed to be a better start in life. What they found was isolation, physical and sexual abuse, and what the prime minister of Australia said Monday was “the absolute tragedy of childhoods lost.”

SINGAPORE- While 21 national leaders gathered behind tight security this weekend to address the region’s problems, some Singaporeans were out in the rain-washed streets handing out yellow daisies in the latest government campaign to improve the national character.

SANA, Yemen — It has been almost 800 years since Saleh Qaid Othaim’s house in the heart of the Old City was built from hand-cut stones and traditional alabaster decorations.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — For more than a week, Saudi Arabia has been carrying out a highly unusual military operation on its remote southern border, to punish a band of rebels from neighboring Yemen who crossed over and attacked a Saudi patrol.

PARIS — 120^th anniversary .Ascending, and descending, the Eiffel Tower the other day, it seemed a fitting moment to reflect on what a nation’s soaring prestigious attractions say about the country itself and the people who live there.