287-CHICAGO • A groom whose bride had sought to keep their impending wedding secret from most of her family is wanted on a murder charge after his new wife was found stabbed to death in a bathtub in her suburban Chicago home just hours after the ceremony, still dressed in silver sequins.

274-A groom whose bride had sought to keep their impending wedding secret from most of her family is wanted on a murder charge after his new wife was found stabbed to death in a bathtub in her suburban Chicago home just hours after the ceremony, still dressed in silver sequins.

408-The US has carried out regular tests of the NATO missile defense system for Europe in anticipation of the NATO summit in Chicago scheduled for the end of this week, which the Alliance considers to be very important. According to the official report of the US Missile Defense Agency, a modernized missile-interceptor Standard Missile 3-Block IB had successfully struck its target in the Hawaiian Islands area.

452-(Novum/AP) - MADRID - De Amerikaanse filosofe Martha Nussbaum krijgt de Spaanse Prins van Asturiasprijs voor haar bijdrage aan de sociale wetenschappen. De jury noemt haar woensdag in een verklaring een van de invloedrijkste en innovatiefste stemmen in de hedendaagse filosofie. Nussbaum pleit onder meer voor een grotere rol voor de geesteswetenschappen in het onderwijs. Ze doceert aan de universiteit van Chicago, maar is zelf geschoold aan Harvard.

415-La Maison Blanche cherche à devancer la polémique. Alors que les faits et gestes des principaux candidats à la présidentielle sont passés au crible, l'administration Obama a fait savoir que le président dispose de 500.000 à 1 million de dollars sur un compte de la banque JP Morgan. Des avoirs qui ont augmenté puisque le président détenait entre 250.000 et 500.000 de dollars sur ces comptes l'an passé.

475-De Chicago Bulls moeten het waarschijnlijk dit volledige kalenderjaar zonder vedette Derrick Rose stellen. De meest waardevolle speler van het NBA-seizoen 2010-2011 raakte vorige maand geblesseerd aan zijn knie en onderging zaterdag een operatie. "Een atleet van dit kaliber heeft meestal tussen de 8 en 12 maanden nodig om te herstellen", sprak de arts die de ingreep uitvoerde. In het meest gunstige scenario zou Rose enkele maanden van het 2012-2013-seizoen moeten missen.

459-CHICAGO -  De politie in het Amerikaanse Burbank is een klopjacht begonnen op de 30-jarige Arnoldo Jimenez die een aantal uur na hun huwelijk zijn kersverse echtgenote Estrella Carrera (26) gruwelijk om het leven zou hebben gebracht. De 26-jarige Estrella Carrera werd dood gevonden in haar appartement. Foto: AP Wat de mooiste dag van haar leven moest worden, werd haar laatste. Het lichaam van Carrera werd gevonden in een badkuip met diverse steekwonden.

193-Zodra de economische crisis voorbij is, moeten de Europese NAVO-landen meer gaan uitgeven aan defensie. Dat zegt de Amerikaanse ambassadeur bij de NAVO, Ivo Daalder, vandaag in NRC Handelsblad.

429-DUBLIN, Calif., May 16, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASTX), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics, today announced the acceptance of three abstracts for presentation at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Poster discussion and general poster presentations will occur on June 2 - 4 in Chicago, IL.

285-STOCKHOLM, May 15, 2012. Axelar AB, a Karolinska Development portfolio company, today announces that a poster will be presented at the ASCO meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA in June 2012, containing data from the clinical phase I/II trial in cancer patients that was completed in 2011.

493-ATLANTA, Ga., May 15, 2012 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Ryan Kocher has joined CMI, a full-service marketing research company, as vice president of analytics. Kocher will lead CMI's analytical sciences team, where he will oversee all of CMI's analytic service processes and offerings, and guides development of new solutions to help clients understand the decisions their customers make and why. We are excited to have Ryan leading our analytics team," said Chet Zalesky, president and CEO of CMI.

467-May 16, 2012McClatchy Newspapers|by Saeed Shah -- ISLAMABAD -- The cost of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan is about to rise by $365 million annually under an agreement that would reopen a key NATO supply route through Pakistan that's been closed for nearly six months. The accord, which the Pakistani government announced late Tuesday, would revive the transport of vital supplies of food and equipment from Pakistani ports overland to land-locked Afghanistan.

132-NATO forces will be in Afghanistan until 2014, but each day the demands on them lessen as Afghan forces take on more responsibility.

132-NATO forces will be in Afghanistan until 2014, but each day the demands on them lessen as Afghan forces take on more responsibility.

143-François Hollande promised a new approach to tackling the financial woes plaguing Europe as he was sworn in as president of France on Tuesday.

362-By Bruce Nichols and David Sheppard HOUSTON/NEW YORK | Wed May 16, 2012 8:21am EDT HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just ahead of the Seaway oil pipeline restarting in reverse to clear a bottleneck of crude in the U.S. Midwest, Wall Street analysts have rarely been more divided over the outlook for one of the hottest oil market bets in years triggered by the glut.

464-Continuing the promised series of open source conferences The Open Bastion comes to Chicago for its Open Django Central event starting Friday June 8. Steve Holden, in town to talk to the Chicago Django Community, said "We are delighted to reach out to a traditional center of Python and Django excellence, and to help try and broaden the community further. I hope that Django users and developers in and around Chicago will help us shape the event to their liking.