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For Queen Elizabeth, a Google doodle of diamonds and doggiesIn a crowning achievement, Queen Elizabeth gets a Diamond Jubilee Google doodle that honors key symbols of her reign – and offers just a glimpse of the vast amount of jubilee kitsch on tap.
Sly Google wields the knife in Chinese Internet censorship tussleGoogle has introduced a new feature for Chinese users that will pull back the curtain on Chinese Internet government censorship.
Aung San Suu Kyi's 'test run' outside of MyanmarOn her first international trip since 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi is in Thailand to attend a World Economic Forum summit on Friday. Next month she will travel to Europe, collecting while there the Nobel Peace Prize awarded her in 1991.
Why Zimbabwe's President Mugabe was named UN 'tourism envoy'Zimbabwe's President Mugabe, who signed an agreement to co-host a UN tourism conference, now has an honorary position as envoy, despite a long record of human rights abuses.
Russian security firm spots cyber supervirus that tops StuxnetRussian Internet security firm Kaspersky Labs says the complexity and targets of the virus – which is infecting computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East – imply its creator is a government.
- With a mouse click, an expat casts his French vote, from Beijing
France is only the second country in the world to allow Internet voting in a national election, allowing citizens like the Monitor's Peter Ford to exercise their democratic right in the heart of Beijing.
Whose Islands are they? South Korea tries branding in its dispute with JapanJapan and Korea have long sparred over the Takeshima/Dokdo islets. The latest bid to promote Korea's claim: Napa Valley wine labels.
Report: Russian intelligence suspects US hand in SuperJet crashAlthough aviation experts dismissed Russian intelligence's suspicions of a US hand in the May 9 plane crash in Indonesia, the many unanswered questions about the crash fuel conspiracy theories.
- Russia claims new missile can overcome missile defenses
Russia says it conducted a successful test of a new missile that is meant to outwit the NATO antimissile shield and has a maximum range of 10,000 miles.
Pakistan jails doctor who helped find bin Laden: why the US may not interveneThe doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in jail. But perhaps US-Pakistan relations have fallen so low that the US doesn't care anymore.
Amid eurozone turmoil, Germany borrows money for freeGermany sold $5.7 billion of debt today to yield 0 percent, a reflection of how much Europe's largest economy has diverged from its southern neighbors who are paying far more to borrow.
NATO: European missile shield 'provisionally operational'If there is any issue that threatens to derail relations with Russia, it's the issue of missile defense.
- NATO summit: The Taliban's view
The Taliban issued a statement ahead of today's NATO summit in Chicago, expressing frustration with the coalition's moves to 'prolong the occupation.'
Two propaganda flops in less than two weeks: Is Beijing losing its touch?The official Chinese media appear to have it in for US Ambassador Gary Locke. But their angry attacks against him are backfiring with Chinese Twitterati.
- Seattle skier falls 160 feet into Canadian crevasse, rescued unscathed
Nicolai Popov was back country skiing when he feel into a deep crevasses near Whistler, B.C. He survived the fall with no injuries.
Italian museum sets its art on fire to protest lack of government fundingContending that it would be 'destroyed anyway' because there is no money for preservation work, the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum is burning a piece of its contemporary art collection every day.
Russian plane goes missing in Indonesia, dealing blow to aviation industryThe late-model Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 was meant to revive Russia's aging and accident-prone airplane fleet. It disappeared on a demonstration flight.
Summit canceled as Ukraine isolation deepens over treatment of TymoshenkoUkraine was slated to host a summit this week, but with a dozen European leaders boycotting in protest of Kiev's treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine opted to cancel it instead.
Hollande's hometown says goodbye to François, hello to Monsieur le PrésidentFrench President-elect François Hollande spent election weekend in Tulle, where he got his political start and had a reputation as an approachable, hands-on local official.
Majority of Americans reject new US-Afghan security pact: pollA large majority of Americans disapprove of a new strategic partnership with Afghanistan that will keep US troops on Afghan soil beyond 2014, according to a Monitor/TIPP poll.
