70,000 protest Wisconsin's move to restrict rights of unions

Featuring in single of the biggest rallies by the side of the state Capitol since the Vietnam War, union members and their supporters braved frigid temperatures and a light flurry to illustrate their displeasure.

The mood was upbeat despite the hold up their cause suffered earlier this week as soon as the state Assembly agreed the Republican-backed restrictions on union collective bargaining constitutional rights completed fierce Democratic objections.

"I'm truly privileged to be at this point with you," assumed Peter Yarrow, a veteran of many social protests through his 50-year folk tune career and a founding affiliate of the set Peter, Paul and Mary. "If you persist, you will prevail."

Voters overwhelmingly bring in Ireland's opposition party

Fine Gael is poised to head the then government and secure its greatest choice answer considering the union parties in the outgoing government suffered an electoral meltdown.

Fine Gael has open 70 seats of the 153 seats overflowing so far.  Labour is on 35  Fianna Fáil 18, Sinn Féin 13, ULA four and  Independents 13. There are in the past few minutes 13 seats missing to be overflowing in four constituencies.

Fine Gael is likely to fall brief of an overall majority in the 166-seat Dáil.

For Fianna Fáil, the answer is its most terrible since the foundation of the individual, while  the Labour Party has enjoyed its greatest answer in a all-purpose choice to year. Sein Féin looks adjust to triple its quantity of TDs, while the Green Party has lost all six of its seats.

Turmoil in Libya sends Wall Street into sharp decline

Investors fearful of prolonged conflict in Libya dumped stocks, carriage hedge Street's three major indexes to their biggest decline since eminent. The sell-off gave the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and the American Stock Exchange their second-highest trading volume of the time. The CBOE Volatility Index proverb its biggest boost since May 20. Time magazine reported with the intention of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi prearranged his security forces to blow up pipelines transportation smear with oil to the Mediterranean