Enlarge Nicholas Kamm /AFP/Getty Images Sunday’s news that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson was stepping down in the wake of questions about his credibility is being followed this morning with accounts about how this is a victory for an activist hedge fund that’s been pushing for changes at the Internet search giant. As the Mercury News

Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes. The bodies of 43 men and six women with their heads, hands and feet chopped off were

Enlarge Chandeshor Bastokoti/AFP/Getty Images Rescue workers and onlookers gathered near the wreckage of a plane that crashed near an army camp at Jomsom in northern Nepal. Chandeshor Bastokoti/AFP/Getty Images Rescue workers and onlookers gathered near the wreckage of a plane that crashed near an army camp at Jomsom in northern Nepal. A plane crashed into

Men wearing Afghan police uniforms shot dead two NATO service members Saturday in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks on international troops by Afghan security forces or militants disguised as police. Two other coalition service members also died Saturday in Afghanistan, one in an insurgent attack and another of non-battle

U.S. Military Mission: Pushing Afghans To Take Lead A gunman shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday in Kabul, police said. The assassination could strike another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war. Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban official turned Afghan peace negotiator, was in his

Enlarge Rich Pedroncelli/AP California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office said the latest proposal to build a $68.4 billion high-speed train system is still too vague and the Legislature should not approve funding it for it this year. Rich Pedroncelli/AP California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office said the latest proposal to build a $68.4 billion high-speed train system is still

A jury has found William Balfour guilty of killing three members of Grammy-award winning singer Jennifer Hudson’s family. Enlarge HO/AFP/Getty Images William Balfour. HO/AFP/Getty Images William Balfour. Balfour, Hudson’s ex-brother in law, was found guilty on all three counts of first-degree murder for the 2008 shooting deaths of Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. The

Call your mom. Buy her a present. Give her a big hug and kiss. (And don’t forget the mother of your children.) To all our mom readers, Happy Mother’s Day! We’ll leave you with a link to a great piece from Bloomberg, which takes us back to the somber beginnings of the holiday. Bloomberg writes