Golden Gate celebrates 75th with help of engineers

The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937. It was the world's longest suspension span and had been built across a strait that critics said was too treacherous to be bridged.
Clemens trial resumes with more from ex-trainer

FILE - In this May 17, 2012 file photo, former Major League baseball pitcher Roger Clemens' former trainer Brian McNamee leaves federal court in Washington. McNamee testified Friday that some of the medical evidence he saved in a beer can was not used on former pitcher Roger Clemens. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)The Roger Clemens perjury trial resumes with the final day of testimony from Brian McNamee, the government's key witness.



US warns NKorea against another nuke test

U.S. envoy on North Korea, Glyn Davies answers reporter's questions after meeting with South Korea's chief nuclear envoy Lim Sung-nam and Lim's Japanese counterpart Shinsuke Sugiyama at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 21, 2012. The top U.S. envoy for North Korea is warning Pyongyang that any nuclear test will be met with The top U.S. envoy for North Korea is warning Pyongyang that any nuclear test will be met with "swift and sure" international punishment.



UN nuclear chief in Iran on key mission

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan and Herman Nackaerts, from left, of the IAEA the chief agency official in charge of the Iran file speak to the media before his flight to Iran at the Vienna International Airport near Schwechat, Austria, on Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)The head of the U.N. nuclear agency arrived Monday in Tehran on a key mission that could lead to the resumption of probes by the watchdog on whether Iran has secretly worked on an atomic weapon.



Beirut clashes kill 1 amid fear of Syria spillover

A Lebanese man steps out from a destroyed building that was damaged during clashes erupted between pro- and anti-Syrian Sunni groups, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday May 21, 2012. Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns early Monday in intense street battles in the Lebanese capital, wounding and killed several people as fears mounted that the conflict in neighboring Syria was bleeding across the border. The clashes erupted hours after an anti-Syrian cleric and his bodyguard were shot dead in northern Lebanon.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Overnight clashes in Beirut between Sunni Muslim groups that support and oppose the regime in Damascus left one person dead and 10 wounded as fears rose further of a spillover from the Syrian conflict, Lebanese security officials said Monday.





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