Dead body of Bin Laden a Treasure?
Treasure Hunter claims to have found the body of
Osama bin Laden.
As a Professional Treasure Hunter I can understand the recovery of a body being deemed a Treasure.
A few examples would be, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Jesus the Christ, Moses and so on, but Osama bin Laden? Now I know bin Laden’s family might and so would a few of his country men, but an American Citizen considering bin Laden’s body a Treasure?
The Treasure Hunter is out of California and his name is Bill Warren. He announced back in July of 2011 that he was going to raise an expedition to find the body the US Military dumped overboard in a burial at sea. His reasoning? He believes that our Government has lied about terminating the life of Osama bin Laden and he is out to recover the body and do DNA tests to prove out his theory.
Warren is getting attention and he really only has an idea of where the body may be, whatever body it is, was dumped. He is trying to fund his expedition, which he states would take between $200,000 and $400,000 to execute. As for me, it costs more than $400,000 to mount one of our Treasure Expeditions and yes; our missions regularly find dead bodies, but $400,000 spent to recover $50,000,0000 or $700,000,000 is more my taste, not just to try to prove up some conspiracy theory.
Just my thoughts, but why don’t you read and listen for yourself? Below is the original article by By Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo.com ( Email Author May 2, 2012 | 3:25 pm | Categories: Bizarro )and the link is provided so you can listen to Bill Warren make his case. Enjoy- Commander
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The guy in the video above is Bill Warren, the Californian treasure hunter who claimed he was searching for Osama bin Laden’s dead body back in June 2011. He didn’t find him then, but now he swears that he has located the cadaver.
Talking to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Warren says he has no doubt about where Osama is:
I’ve located where they threw him away. I’m the only one with this information. He’s 200 miles to the west of the Indian city of Surat.
Warren — who claims to have discovered more than 200 shipwrecks during his career as a treasure-hunter — says that bin Laden’s body is still at that same location, deep under water. His thought is that, since the Navy weighted down the bag, the body hasn’t moved from where it was dropped. He is now trying to rent Russian deep diving equipment to locate his payload, and to conduct DNA tests once he finds him.
At least, that’s what he believes. He says he pinpointed the drop point from photos recently released by the U.S. Navy.
Warren is now in Azerbaijan, apparently working for their government in a contract to locate some old ships. But he is ready to start the diving for Osama’s body bag: he says he’s aiming at starting the mission on June 1, and that he may be able to find the body in “under a week.” He also claims that the search would last a maximum of three months. He declares that his only fear is that the US Government would kill him or sink his boat.
Warren is now searching for $200,000 to finance the whole operation (Bill, I suggest Kickstarter). He wouldn’t have needed that money had he located the Trinidad, the famous Spanish ship loaded with Aztec gold that sunk in the coast of California in 1540. Warren has repeatedly tried to locate that treasure, once in 1976 and then again in 1987. Back then he claimed he had located the Trinidad, but obviously he didn’t.
Conspiracy theories
The same could probably be true with bin Laden’s body. It’s highly unlikely that, even if Warren were right about the location — and again, there’s very little chance he is — he would be able to find a body bag in the bottom of the deep sea.
Warren says he is doing this because he doesn’t “believe the Obama administration” and he wants to have proof that it is really his body. But, if he doesn’t believe President Obama and the United States Navy, why would the body be down there at all? If he thinks that they are lying, the most logical thing is to believe that they never buried the body at sea. But who knows, maybe Bill will prove himself right this time. Or maybe the body will not be there because Osama bin Laden is alive and well, playing cards and drinking mai tais with Elvis and Marilyn, in that secret government paradise island in the middle of the Pacific.
Treasure does come in many forms. Gold, Diamonds, Ancient Artifacts, maps and documents and EVEN MODERN INFORMATION!
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“How did you become a Professional Treasure Hunter?”
“Can you become really rich being a Professional Treasure Hunter?”
Ask any member of our TreasureForce Teams, whether they be part of Team Research-Team Recon or Team Recovery, and you will find the three questions above are the most common questions asked when someone finds out what we do for a living.
Of course, it’s Team Recovery (the actual team that sets foot on the ground in the last stages of treasure hunting to actually take the final steps to pinpoint a treasure and start the recovery process), which gets all the glory. Especially since these are the team members who are there when the magic moment occurs. That MAGIC MOMENT is the first glimpse of that long awaited confirmation of the Treasure.
So, needless to say our Alpha Team, Bravo Team, Delta Team and Base Camp Team get the most glory. But, put 100 people in a room, or rush a Team Recon or Team Recovery member to a local emergency room and watch the whole hospital floors staff come visit the patient who is a Professional Treasure Hunter.
“WOW, You are a REAL Treasure Hunter?”
It just falls from every person’s lips. And you thought the Doctor was the most sought after person in the room. You know what I mean. Go to a party and when someone finds the Doctor in the room, everyone starts to probe and ask questions trying to find out IF they “have something”. Poor Doctor gets dragged to the corner, just so some bloke can whip out his…. well, “show” the Doctor his problem, oozing spot. Don’t believe me this happens, well just as any Doctor you know.
It’s different with a Professional Treasure Hunter. Once all the commotion stops, then every one and I mean EVERYONE, has a treasure story they have heard, that they want to retell and then they want YOU to confirm IT IS REAL. As for all of our TreasureForce Teams, we love collecting the stories and when you do tell us YOUR own stories, we really are listening and storing those bits of data in the back of our minds.
But, the key here is for us to NOT FLATTER ourselves that “we do cool work that other people couldn’t do.” That’s just not true. It’s a choice. As my saying goes:
“Life is like a Lottery. If you’re not IN, you can’t WIN!”
Being a Treasure Hunter is a CHOICE AND HUGE COMMITMENT! But, first you have to make the CHOICE to become one. If you want it, you can make it happen.
The rest, such as the skills, the techniques, the huge discoveries, the small discoveries and yes, the massive disappointments -ALL COME in time. But first is CHOSING to do something different. But, you want to know what the single biggest choice is? Here you go – I am able to reveal the HUGE SECRET to being a Treasure Hunter:
“Are YOU willing to sell and gamble EVERY SINGLE ASSET and thing of value and tradable for cash, to BET it on a DREAM of riches that at best, the only verifiable odds are 50/50 and most of that comes from gut and intuition?” Or maybe a little more closer to home put this way:
“Are you willing to take your life savings, retirement accounts, investments, child’s college tuition and every spec of cash you can muster to walk out in the jungle, mountains or desert and hope you find that long lost treasure in the 6 weeks you have allotted?
Oh, I almost forgot. You have to quit your job and lose your steady paycheck since your company is NOT going to let you off for six weeks and then you have to figure out a way to postpone all your bills and creditors and “hope” they will let you “pay them later”, of course, all this WHEN AND IF you make the HUGE FIND!
Does not sound so exciting when the reality is set out for all to see. How about this reality?
Our Team Research – that’s the TreasureForce Team Members who do all the behinds the scenes work in musty archives and libraries and such, for an average of THREE to FIVE YEARS before we ever set foot on a potential treasure location. That’s equal to waiting 5 years to get your REAL paycheck.
Our Team Recon – that’s the TreasureForce Team Members who are the first Team Members to set ground on the potential treasure site and have to pain staking search ground foot-by-foot, local records, courthouses and such for any FORENSIC SHRED of REAL PROOF that the people, places and things are REAL in any given treasure legend. Team Recon may make 2 to as many as 6 trips to a town, location or geographic area just to try to PROVE UP a treasure Legend and this can take from 1 to as many as 3 years to accomplish. Now, combine that with Team Research that means that Team Research has now been waiting up to 8 YEARS and Team Recon has up to 3 YEARS invested. That’s a long time for the BIG PAYDAY.
Team Recovery – THE ROCK STARS OF THE TREASURE BUSINESS. The people, who get all the attention, fan fair and glory. They ONLY go to the treasure site when Team Research and Team Recon have signed off on the Expeditions and proven up the treasure legend. Then, in most cases Team Recovery has 6 weeks to bring home the bacon, since we are usually fighting the elements and the seasons, not to mention dangerous elements and hostile environments.
Now comes the REAL test to being able to wait it out or beat the time and financial clock. What do I mean the “time and financial” clock. Well Team Recovery (Alpha Team, Bravo Team, Delta Team and Base Camp Team) has a FIXED time clock and fixed operational budget to pull off the score. It usually looks something like this: $750,000 operational expedition budget and 35 days (remember you are not hunting the actual travel days to and from a site). So, Team Recovery is clicking away at $ 21,428.57 dollars a day. That means if you go 25 of those 35 days with no results then $535,714.28 is GONE with NOTHING to show for it.
Doesn’t sound so sexy and sane now does it? I didn’t think so.
If you worry about your spouse when you are gone or your kids when you are incognito and incommunicado for 6 weeks – then being a Professional Treasure Hunter is NOT for you.
If you cannot walk away from that weekly “tit” called the “paycheck” then you can’t be a Treasure Hunter. You will flat go NUTS with a capital N. The worry and emotional burden is huge.
I always tell anyone who ask “ Can I go out with you one time on a Treasure Hunt?” the following, but unfortunate canned answer.
“ If you can eat beans and rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you can sleep without a shelter over your head. If you don’t mind rattlesnakes snuggling up to you to keep warm at night and if you can wipe your ass with cactus, THEN you make be able to make it and survive IN BASE CAMP.” Yep, that part only sums up base camp. The actual tactical and forensic work is dangerous and truly hazardous to one’s health.
(If we meet in person, look at my hands and arms and ask to see all the bits and pieces and tips I have left out in the field or had amputated off thanks to the working environment. Yes scars can be cool to show, but long before they are cool to show off to a younger crowd ———–reminds me of the Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw when they are getting drunk and comparing scars and war stories——they are horrible wounds and reminders of the dangers and they have to heal and you to survive to even be a scar in the first place.)
The point? Being a Professional Treasure Hunter is a lifestyle more than an actual vocation. You have to WANT all the things that just come along with being a Treasure Hunter. Like the wispy cactus that works it way into your genitals while in the field and then they BUST out UNANNOUNCED hurting like hell 6 months AFTER you have left the field and they have hardened up INSIDE your system. And that’s some of the more docile things that can get a hold of you in the field.
You have to be ready for anything, willing to take chances with everything from money and security to your very life. You always must be willing to stretch your limits and find new personal boundaries. You must have tremendous self discipline, but IF your PRIMARY motive is to get RICH FAST, then you are better off inventing something, starting a company or getting in somewhere with huge stock options. Treasure Hunting is not for you.
BUT HERE IS WHAT TREASURE HUNTING IS!
Great fun. Always exciting. History making. A total disaster waiting to happen. Exciting. Always unpredictable. Exciting. Never what you expected. Murphy’s and Moore’s Law SQUARED. Exasperating, exhilarating, blood curdling, pecker hardening (and unfortunately due to stress – pecker softening), test of abilities, test of agilities, test and act of faith and the most AWE INSPIRING environment you could ever work it. I mean, how did our forefathers hack they way across American with crude tools and no technology? I mean, just that alone is AWE INSPIRING.
Now I didn’t mean to dampen your spirits in any way or function. I just really want to set the record straight. The other day I watched a “treasure hunter” on TV and they were all excited over a civil war gun barrel they found deep in someone’s backyard. You bet is it exciting to find history in ones backyard. And sometimes finding history is the only payoff. Why? Well, as I counted it, there were 8 people on this Treasure Hunters Team and two homeowners who all get a share in the find of the civil war gun barrel. In the real world, that barrel will bring $10 on ebay in the current state it’s in and that means the individuals got $1.00 each for their efforts. Not to mention, $400 in fuel, $600 in expenses and $200 or so in equipment cost. In all, the real team members PAID OUT $1200 dollars or $150 each to go on this backyard treasure hunt. Net result – $149 lost per person BUT still exciting and still recovering history and that is some times the ONLY PAY OFF.
Now that I just wee-weed all over your dreams. How about this?
Work 3 years, spend a cool million and find $300 million. In any book that’s odds of 300 to 1 and in stock market terms it’s a 300% a year pay off. Or getting back paid $100 million for each year you put into it. Now there’s a pay off when the stock market has scraped by at the following rates of return:
2011 2.05
2010 14.87
2009 27.11
2008 -37.22
2007 5.46
2006 15.74
2005 4.79
2004 10.82
2003 28.72
2002 -22.27
2001 -11.98
2000 -9.11
Opps, I forgot – it is going to take you 10 years to get the total treasure out of the ground. There are those pesky numbers again and I will save that for another post.
Lets say decades ago you located a treasure worth billions? You go through the motions to get your permits and agreements in place and you do in fact, get them done. But what happens when one party does not want to honor the contract and gets greedy or uncooperative? Well, check out this story from Fox News:
A U.S. court ruled in favor of Colombia in a decades-long legal dispute over the ownership of pieces of a sunken galleon found in Colombian territorial waters 300 years ago.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled the Andean country does not have to pay $17 billion to Sea Search Armada, a U.S.-based salvage company. The company claimed the South American country breached a contract granting it the right to salvage Galleon San José, a British Navy ship that sank June 8, 1708, off the coast of Colombia.
The Spanish ship, which was trying to outrun a fleet of British warships, came loaded with more than 200 tons of gold, silver and emeralds when a mysterious explosion made it sink 700 feet below the surface, near the Rosario Islands. The treasure was owned by Peruvian and European merchants.
The Spanish galleon San José was trying to outrun a fleet of British warships off Colombia on June 8, 1708, when a mysterious explosion sent it to the bottom of the sea with gold, silver and emeralds owned by private Peruvian and European merchants, and lies about 700 feet below the water’s surface, a few miles from the historic Caribbean port of Cartagena, on the edge of the Continental Shelf.
Sea Search Armada said it found the shipwreck in the 1980s, and was given exclusive rights to claim 50 percent of what it found. Colombia later signed a decree – which eventually became law – giving the company a 5 percent “finders fee” – triggering Sea Search to sue Colombia for a larger share of its find.
The treasure is reportedly worth $4 billion to $17 billion.
“Without a doubt, the San José is the Holy Grail of treasure shipwrecks,” Robert Cembrola, director of the Naval War College Museum in Newport, R.I., said when the lawsuit was first filed.
The San José is known to have been part of Spain’s only royal convoy take colonial gold to King Philip V during the War of Spanish Succession (1701–1714).
The ruling could also affect other commercial salvage companies eager to dive for more than 1,000 galleons and merchant ships believed to have sunk along Colombia’s coral reefs during more than three centuries of colonial rule. Almost none has been recovered because of the legal limbo in the San Jose case.
The Colombian embassy in Washington said in a statement that “the decision is subject to appeal.”
Why do I “treasure hunt?” Short answer: Why the hell not? It is the coolest “job” in the world, and it is a hobby that a large number of people throughout the world engage in. That’s why we on the TreasureForce team combine the words “job” and “hobby” to form “JOBBY…” It’s like having a job that is a hobby… which makes it not seem like a job at all!
Let’s face it… many of us are enamored with treasure hunting in some way, shape or form. Whether you like to grab the metal detector and go look for old coins, go hunting around in your grandmother’s attic for cool, old relics from the past, or simply enjoy one of the numerous shows that deal with antiques, gold hunting, or even storage space auctions, you probably have some interest in looking for – and especially finding – things of value (monetary and sentimental).
So the thrill of the chase is what drives me, but I also have another odd characteristic that makes me perfect for the TF team… I love getting out in harsh conditions and traversing some of the most difficult terrain known to mankind. Some may call me a thrill seeker, but even when I was a boy, I thoroughly enjoyed going out on my family farm in Texas and tromping around the back woods – pistol on my side, and rifle in my hand – to explore what I could explore, and get into any kind of mischief I could possibly get into! This desire stayed with me throughout the years, followed me through my time in the Army (Infantry) during the Desert Shield/Desert Storm years, and is still a big part of who I am today!
It’s true that our team has some of the most sophisticated equipment known to date, and we employ that equipment to make our job a little easier, and a little safer. But, when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, we’ll always have to get out in the field and “hump it” to find what we are looking for! And THAT is what I live for… getting down and dirty, and finding the cache! I will admit that from time to time, that determination gets under Commander’s skin – he does think I am a bit too risky at times – but, I cannot help who I am: A rough and tumble smart- ass who is determined to accomplish missions, and have fun during the hunt!
So… Why do I do this? Short answer: “WHY THE HELL NOT!” In the immortal words of some person much smarter than me, written many years ago I am sure: “…for I am a scorpion, and that is my character!” And that ain’t no joke!
Steve Jobs dies at 56; Apple’s co-founder transformed computers and culture
“COMMANDER’S COMMENTS” – Steve Jobs and I shared the same Publicist for a few years. He was a great man, who left an AMAZING LEGACY. He will be missed, but more than just the mere man, the world has suffered a lost in losing his Being and Personal Vision!
His legacy of blockbuster products includes the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Meanwhile, Jobs’ other firm, Pixar, revolutionized computer animation.
Steven P. Jobs, the charismatic technology pioneer who co-founded Apple Inc. and transformed one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies, has died. He was 56.
Apple announced the death of Jobs — whose legacy included the Apple II, Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” Apple said. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”
He had resigned as chief executive of Apple in August, after struggling with illness for nearly a decade, including a bout with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and a liver transplant six years later.
Few public companies were as entwined with their leaders as Apple was with Jobs, who co-founded the computer maker in his parents’ Silicon Valley garage in 1976, and decades later — in a comeback as stunning as it seemed improbable — plucked it from near-bankruptcy and turned it into the world’s most valuable technology company.
Jobs spoke of his desire to make “a dent in the universe,” bringing a messianic intensity to his message that technology was a tool to improve human life and unleash creativity.
“His ability to always come around and figure out where that next bet should be has been phenomenal,” Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the high-tech mogul with whom Jobs was most closely compared, said in 2007.
In the annals of modern American entrepreneur-heroes, few careers traced a more mythic sweep. An adopted child in a working-class California home, Jobs dropped out of college and won the title “father of the computer revolution” by the age of 29. But by 30 he had been forced out of the company he had created, a bitter wound he nursed for years as his fortune shrank and he fought to regain his early eminence.
Once out of the wilderness of exile, however, he brought forth a series of innovations — unveiling them with matchless showmanship — that quickly became ubiquitous. He turned the release of a new gadget into a cultural event, with Apple acolytes lining up like pilgrims at Lourdes.
Jobs was born in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 1955, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian immigrant Abdulfattah Jandali, unmarried University of Wisconsin graduate students who put him up for adoption. He was adopted by Paul Jobs, a high school dropout who sold used cars and worked as a machinist, and his wife, Clara.
Jobs’ willfulness and chutzpah were evident early on. At 11, he decided he didn’t like his rowdy and chaotic middle school in Mountain View, Calif., and refused to go back. His family moved to a nearby town so he could attend another school.
When he was 12 or 13, Jobs would recall, he called the home of William Hewlett, one of the founders of Hewlett-Packard Co., to ask about parts he needed for a device he was building. For Jobs, it led to a humble summer job on a Hewlett-Packard assembly line, which he compared to being “in heaven.”
While attending Homestead High School in Cupertino, Calif., Jobs met Steve Wozniak, who was nearly five years older. A technical wizard who was in and out of college, Wozniak liked to make machines to show off to other tinkerers.
The two collaborated on a series of pranks and built and sold “blue boxes” — devices that enabled users to hijack phone lines and make free — and illegal — calls.
In 1972, Jobs dropped out of Reed College in Oregon after six months but lingered on campus, sleeping on friends’ dorm-room floors. He sat in on classes that interested him, such as calligraphy, which later inspired him to offer Macintosh users multiple fonts, a feature that would become a fixture of personal computing.
He worked sporadically as an electronics technician at video game maker Atari Inc., traveled to India on a quest for enlightenment and found guidance from a Zen Buddhist master.
Meanwhile, Wozniak had created a computer circuit board he was showing off to a group of Silicon Valley computer hobbyists. Jobs saw the device’s potential for broad appeal and persuaded Wozniak to leave his engineering job so they could design computers themselves.
In April 1976, the two launched Apple Computer out of Jobs’ parents’ garage, reproducing Wozniak’s circuit board as their first product.
That was a mantra that repeated often from 1990 to 1993 while serving in the Infantry. It was beat into our skulls in basic training, and was repeated – probably a thousand times – to me during my time in service. It was the Army’s way of saying “pay attention to what’s going on around you, because attentiveness might just save your life.”
Did it work? More times than you can imagine. While driving a tracked vehicle in the Persian Gulf, I noticed a large number of small mounds in the sand ahead of us. The sand had shifted over it, but you could still see the prominent mounds and depressions and I knew it didn’t look right. We called for combat engineers who promptly informed us that we were about 50 yards away from a sizeable mine field. It took them two days to clear the whole thing. Had I not been paying attention, I would have led my entire platoon into a mine field, and the consequences would have been dire!
Recognizing the out of the ordinary or the Signs and Symbols saved our lives!
Then there was the time a motorcycle pulled up next to the guard gate where thousands of service men and women were stationed outside of Kuwait City, and dropped off a large duffle bag near the front gate. Not only did we have U.S. forces there, but troops from numerous countries were sitting in the U.N. compound next to ours. It was dark, but I still noticed the cycle slowing and dropping something on the side of the road next to the compound. We followed the bike and stopped him while engineers handled the duffle bag. As it turns out, the bag was filled with civilian clothes, and the man we stopped was a Kuwaiti soldier dropping said clothes off to a comrade in his unit. But, it could have been a much worse situation, and we would have never seen it coming if we weren’t paying attention.
These are just a few examples of times where staying alert could have been the difference between life and death. And it’s not just the military where I found out that by being attentive to my surroundings, I was able to keep myself out of really bad situations…I was almost struck by a stop sign runner, was nearly hit by a flying baseball bat, have had several near misses in the air while flying…the list goes on and on.
By being observant, I was always able to stay out of trouble, taking the time to observe my surroundings, and anticipating the actions necessary to avoid disaster. In short, I stayed alert, and stayed alive!
It’s nothing new to any of us. We are taught at an early age to survey our environment, and react in a manner that most ensures our survival. Think about when you were a child, and your parents told you to “stay out of the street”, “don’t play with matches”, “don’t put metal objects in the power sockets” (I never could resist that one), and the other COUNTLESS things our parents pleaded with us not to do for the sake of preserving the family name by keeping us alive.
How about when you took driver’s education and had to watch those atrocious films about horrible car crashes that were caused by lazy or sloppy driving practices? Those were obviously designed to condition us all to watch out and anticipate every possible scenario so we could avoid the nasty wrecks displayed in the films (Either that or they were designed to make us sick to our stomachs…most likely the latter – don’t you think?).
The truth is that we spend our entire lives either looking out for the things that could potentially do us harm, or we ignore them and pay the price. Much like when we take those driver’s education classes and learn to read the signs, we are conditioned from a young age to read all kinds of “signs” – literal and figurative – throughout our lives.
Perhaps nowhere is “reading the signs” more important than in the endeavor of Cacheology or in lay terms, treasure and relic hunting. Not only can observing your surroundings potentially save your life, but it can be the difference in wandering around aimlessly for hours, days – even weeks or months – or actually finding the Cache that you set out to find. Sometimes those signs are as plain as the nose on your face, and sometimes they are obscured and quite difficult to recognize.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday with a resounding victory in Texas and now faces a five-month sprint to convince voters to trust him over Democratic President Barack Obama in the November 6 election.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers defending former corporate director Rajat Gupta on insider-trading charges sought on Wednesday to discredit a former hedge-fund trader who agreed to wear an FBI recording device and testify against others.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contracts to purchase previously owned U.S. homes unexpectedly fell in April to a four-month low, undermining some of the recent optimism that the housing sector was touching bottom.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels on Wednesday gave President Bashar al-Assad a 48-hour deadline to comply with an international peace plan otherwise they would renew their battle to overthrow him.
BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) - The European Commission threw Spain, the latest frontline in Europe's debt war, two potential lifelines on Wednesday, offering more time to reduce its budget deficit and direct aid from a euro zone rescue fund to recapitalize distressed banks.
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc plans to launch a campaign to replace the entire board of Human Genome Sciences Inc with its own nominees, stepping up its $2.6 billion hostile bid for the U.S. biotech company, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on Wednesday to congratulate him for wrapping up the Republican U.S. presidential nomination and wish him well in their battle for the White House, Obama's campaign said.
ADEN (Reuters) - At least 20 militants and seven soldiers were killed in Yemen on Wednesday when government troops fought off an ambush by Islamist militants on the edge of a southern town controlled by an al Qaeda-linked group, an army official said.
(Reuters) - More U.S. military veterans expect to look for work in coming months as they return to civilian life, many after being stationed in Afghanistan, but they are less confident about finding work that suits them, according to a new survey.
VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors displayed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that some small buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work undertaken at an Iranian military site they want to visit.
PARIS (Reuters) - After four days of play, the French Open was left without a Williams sister in the draw on Wednesday when former runner-up Venus joined 2002 champion Serena in making an early exit.
PARIS (Reuters) - Venus Williams refused to be downcast after losing to third seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday, saying she was still on a learning curve after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.
BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Attorneys for former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with sexually abusing 10 boys, urged a judge on Wednesday to toss out the charges for three of the alleged victims.
(Reuters) - A onetime teammate of Roger Clemens testified at the ex-star pitcher's federal perjury trial in Washington on Wednesday that vitamin B-12 shots were readily available to players, a claim key to Clemens' defense, according to media reports.
(Reuters) - With a promise to make the Pro Bowl more competitive, the National Football League (NFL) and union representing its players said on Wednesday the All-Star game will be played next year in Hawaii.
DUBLIN, Ohio (Reuters) - Energised by his successful title defense of the European Tour's PGA Championship on Sunday, Luke Donald believes he is close to recapturing the stellar form that swept him to four tournament wins worldwide last year.
DUBLIN, Ohio (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy has generally focused on quality rather than quantity when it comes to playing tournament golf but he has crammed his schedule with his U.S. Open title defense just over two weeks away.
(Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox blunted Detroit ace Justin Verlander on the way to a 6-3 home victory on Tuesday to enjoy a positive winning record for the first time this season.
PARIS (Reuters) - Ana Ivanovic, whose career went into freefall following her 2008 Roland Garros triumph, is now enjoying a tennis resurgence and is hungry for more success at this year's French Open.
