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| North Korea allegedly resumes work on nuclear reactor Thu, 17 May 2012 00:16:03 EDT Satellite imagery purports to show North Korea has kept building a nuclear site; won't be ready until 2014 at earliest |
| DEA admits to role in deadly Honduras helicopter shooting Wed, 16 May 2012 23:45:30 EDT Two men and two pregnant women were killed in Honduras by police in a helicopter with DEA agents on board; locals furious |
| Greece gets caretaker PM until June vote Wed, 16 May 2012 16:15:39 EDT Panagiotis Pikrammenos will head the government until a new election, expected June 17 |
| Video: Fugitive penguin sighting in Tokyo Bay Wed, 16 May 2012 15:33:14 EDT A fugitive penguin that escaped its enclosure at Japan's Tokyo Sea Life Park was filmed two months later, swimming in the Tokyo Bay. Felipe Maya reports. |
| Historic diamond sold for $9.7 million at auction Wed, 16 May 2012 14:16:09 EDT The Beau Sancy, a 34.98 carat diamond, had passed among the royal families in France, England, Prussia and the Netherlands |
| Assad: Syria is fighting foreign mercenaries Wed, 16 May 2012 13:26:42 EDT Syrian President gives first interview in almost six months; says captured foreigners fighting for opposition |
| Iran's tough nuke stance masks struggles at top Wed, 16 May 2012 11:53:50 EDT Tehran desperate to avoid any impression of caving under the Western economic squeeze |
| Human Rights Watch: Congo Gen. Bosco Ntaganda taking children again to be soldiers Wed, 16 May 2012 10:40:49 EDT Human Rights Watch investigation finds Gen. Bosco Ntaganda's troops forcibly recruiting hundreds of boys, young men as soldiers |
| Syria observers safe after attack, stranding Wed, 16 May 2012 08:16:27 EDT U.N. team evacuated from tense town after convoy was hit by roadside bomb |
| Chen applies for passport in bid to study in U.S. Wed, 16 May 2012 07:53:25 EDT Blind Chinese activist that sparked diplomatic standoff makes progress toward traveling to America |
| Ratko Mladic, accused of Srebrenica massacre, Yugoslav war crimes, gestures angrily at trial start Wed, 16 May 2012 04:33:47 EDT Mladic, 70, tribunal at Hague marks end of a long wait for survivors of 1992-95 war that left 100,000 dead |
| Black box from Indonesian jet crash found Wed, 16 May 2012 00:25:57 EDT A Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashed in the Indonesian jungle, killing 45 |
| Mali's junta appears to hedge on transition Tue, 15 May 2012 23:55:12 EDT ECOWAS threatens to reinstate sanctions after Mali junta leader hedges over agreements on transition |
| Video: Rebekah Brooks charges could mean life in prison Tue, 15 May 2012 20:09:08 EDT Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by hiding information from the police. If convicted, she could face a maximum penalty of life in prison, reports Elizabeth Palmer. |
| Hollande to Merkel: Everything "on the table" Tue, 15 May 2012 17:05:17 EDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel met French President Francois Hollande to discuss Europe's financial crisis |
| Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:15 EDT Fuentes played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom |
| Video: Rebekah Brooks faces criminal charges in phone hacking scandal Tue, 15 May 2012 15:05:25 EDT British prosecutors have filed criminal charges in the phone hacking scandal that rocked Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Former news executive Rebekah Brooks calls the allegations unjust. CBS' Tina Kraus reports. |
| Francois Hollande's inauguration Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:42 EDT Francois Hollande was sworn in as France's president on May 15, 2012, in Paris |
| Rebekah Brooks "baffled" by hacking charges Tue, 15 May 2012 13:51:06 EDT Ex-News of the World editor, husband and four others are charged in Britain's phone hacking scandal |
| Colombian president: Deadly Bogota blast targeted former interior minister; Driver, cop dead Tue, 15 May 2012 13:44:39 EDT Bogota blast in heart of city's commercial district intended for former interior minister who survived explosion; 31 injured |
| U.N. observers caught up in Syrian violence Tue, 15 May 2012 12:54:27 EDT Roadside bomb strikes car belonging to U.N. observer mission minutes after regime forces opened fired on funeral procession |
| Lightning strike delays Hollande trip to Germany Tue, 15 May 2012 12:25:25 EDT Newly inaugurated French president's plane struck by lighting en route to Berlin, prompting flight to turn back |
| Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic to face war-crimes tribunal for ethnic cleansing campaign in early '90s Tue, 15 May 2012 12:15:41 EDT Ratko Mladic finally going to trial on charges of masterminding brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in early '90s |
| Iran nuclear program talks show unexpected sign of progress; Negotiators agree to meet again Tue, 15 May 2012 11:42:58 EDT Negotiators set date to continue talking, indicating common ground found between both sides over controversial nuclear program |
| Report: Consumption of Earth's resources unsustainable Tue, 15 May 2012 11:16:23 EDT World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet report also says global biodiversity severely impacted in past four decades |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.